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Almshouse & Poorhouse Records
Milwaukee County Almshouse & Poor Farm Cemeteries Wisconsin List of Burials
The Milwaukee County Farm Cemetery (a.k.a. Potter's Field) was used during the years 1872-1974. This cemetery was used for the poorhouse inmates and also for burial of other indigent people and transients for whom no funds were available for burial. The cemetery may have been in use prior to 1872. However, there is no documentation of burials occurring before 1872. Due to the fact that there are nearly 6,400 names in the burial register book the names of the deceased have been separated into groups of years.
The original site (Jennifer Fleischmann's Poorhouse Files) that contained these transcriptions was last updated in 2001 and has been offline since February 2006. Rather than see these names lost, Olive Tree Genealogy has given them a permanent home in its Almshouse, Poorhouse & Insane Asylums Section.
Field of blood, field of the forgotten. The Potter's Field of Milwaukee County.
A recent discovery of a forgotten pauper cemetery at the Milwaukee County Medical Center has profound and far-reaching ramifications. More than 5,000 are buried in this graveyard, compelling an investigation into the circumstances surrounding its loss. That the cemetery lies beneath county buildings without official knowledge is a disgrace. The proper dignity of a marked and undisturbed grave was denied to these former county residents because of their poverty. How this discovery is managed will reflect our commitment to both high ideals and the law. This project endeavors to reconstruct the origins of the pauper cemetery, containing a brief history of the poor in Milwaukee County, and an examination of the Almshouse, Milwaukee County's first medical institution. Finally, a postscript offers a parallel between the writings of Charles Dickens and the pauper cemetery. [ National Library of Medicine]
| MILWAUKEE
COUNTY ALMSHOUSE AND POOR FARM CEMETERIES Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Burials |
| Burials 1872-1892 |
| Name |
Sex |
Age |
Date of Birth |
Date of Death |
Cause of Death |
Place of Death |
| Martin, Sran |
F |
38 |
|
1/1/1872 |
Confluent small pox |
MKE Hosp. 4th ward |
| Salter, Maria |
F |
21 |
|
1/13/1872 |
Peritonitis |
MKE Hosp. 2nd ward |
| Herold, Peter |
M |
28 |
|
2/6/1872 |
Variolae |
|
| Harp, D. C. |
M |
23 |
|
2/22/1872 |
Inflammation of brain |
St. Mary's Hospital |
| Belden, Frank |
M |
41 |
|
3/3/1872 |
Phthisis Pulmonalis |
MKE Hosp. 2nd ward |
| Nortan |
F |
4 mos |
. |
3/5/1872 |
Convulsion |
Police Stn. 7th ward |
| Sipperts, Carolina |
F |
2.5 |
10/17/1869 |
5/27/1872 |
|
|
| Flymann, (Infant) |
M |
|
5/7/1872 |
5/7/1872 |
Stillborn |
Wauwatosa |
| Sadler, ? |
M |
|
|
4/10/1872 |
Drowning |
Menomonee River 8th ward |
| Thompson, Amard |
M |
32 |
|
12/25/1873 |
Accidental Drowning |
|
| Murphy, Ellen |
F |
60 |
|
1/1/1874 |
Broken neck/accidental fall
from stairs |
|
| Cole, James |
M |
66 |
|
1/22/1874 |
Broken neck/accidental fall
from stairs |
|
| Bakriasan, Anna |
F |
1 |
|
1/28/1874 |
|
|
| Harvey, Peter |
M |
42 |
|
8/1/1874 |
Private disease |
|
| Schmidt, John |
M |
58 |
|
9/21/1974 |
Delirium Tremens |
Co. Jail 7th ward |
| Unknown |
M |
abt 35 |
|
10/27/1874 |
Accidentally drowned |
Milw. River 5th ward |
| Unknown |
M |
50-60 |
|
10/27/1874 |
accident by railroad |
U. West RR |
| Williams, Ellen |
F |
20 |
|
11/2/1874 |
Cramp disease |
Buffalo St. 3rd ward |
| Peterson, G. |
M |
30 |
|
11/27/1874 |
Congestive chills |
5th ward |
| Hoffmann, Wilhelm |
M |
17 |
|
12/4/1874 |
accident |
House of Correction 11th Ward |
| Nugent, Edward |
M |
30 |
|
1/8/1875 |
accident |
7th ward |
| Johnson, Annie |
F |
27 |
|
3/10/1875 |
Pyaemie |
|
| Unknown |
M |
infant |
|
3/15/1875 |
premature birth |
|
| Unknown |
F |
infant |
|
3/16/1875 |
premature birth |
|
| Hackbart, Gottfried |
M |
60 |
|
3/18/1875 |
Abcess of brain |
|
| child |
M |
? |
|
3/30/1875 |
strangled |
Miller Brewery |
| Christ, Dora |
F |
16 |
|
4/3/1875 |
|
|
| child |
M |
|
|
4/19/1875 |
stillborn |
10th ward |
| Flugge, Gottlieb |
M |
47 |
|
5/6/1875 |
Suicide |
6th ward |
| Matz, Christian |
M |
61 |
|
6/17/1875 |
Suicide |
2nd ward |
| Jenkins, George |
M |
15 |
|
7/5/1875 |
Accidentally drowned |
4th ward |
| Pilska, Francis |
F |
3 weeks |
|
7/22/1975 |
Convulsions |
3rd ward |
| Potts, Bridget |
F |
43 |
|
08/07/1875 |
Overdose of wiskey |
3rd ward |
| Baumann, Aug. |
M |
60 |
|
8/26/1975 |
Suicide |
Town of Franklin |
| Graham, Randolph |
M |
26 |
|
8/31/1875 |
Accidentally drowned |
5th ward |
| Bartsch, Friedrich |
M |
46 |
|
9/3/1875 |
Suicide |
11th ward |
| Infant |
M |
|
|
11/4/1875 |
Strangled |
2nd ward |
| Schwarting, Henry |
M |
62 |
|
12/03/1875 |
Exposure |
Wauwatosa |
| Arni, Adam |
M |
66 |
|
12/31/1875 |
Suicide |
Co. Poor House |
| Jordan, Alice |
F |
25 |
|
01/03/1876 |
excessive drinking |
7th ward |
| Trebert, Christina |
F |
75 |
|
2/3/1876 |
Chronic Bronchitis |
|
| Parker, Marie |
F |
62 |
|
2/20/1876 |
Murdered |
3rd ward |
| Liverlay, John |
M |
35 |
|
3/15/1876 |
Suicide |
Milwaukee |
| Buck, Andreas |
M |
27 |
|
4/20/1876 |
Accidentally drowned |
5th ward |
| Satorius, Peter |
M |
21 |
|
5/26/1876 |
Murdered |
|
| England, Johan |
M |
56 |
|
6/14/1876 |
Debility |
6th ward |
| Hoerner, John |
M |
40 |
|
7/10/1876 |
Struck by lightening |
11th ward |
| Cummerford, John |
M |
18 |
|
8/4/1876 |
Altmmiruree |
|
| Mitchell, James |
M |
26 |
|
8/8/1876 |
Accidentally drowned |
3rd ward |
| Riebe, Anna |
F |
22 |
|
2/10/1877 |
Confluent small pox |
|
| Stahl, Mina |
F |
19 |
|
7/21/1877 |
Variola |
|
| Montag, Carl |
M |
57 |
1820 |
9/13/1877 |
Variola |
|
| Scobez, Marie |
F |
42 |
5/1835 |
11/11/1877 |
Phthsis |
|
| Wiener, Anna |
F |
45 |
|
11/20/1877 |
Cancer of Uterus |
|
| Horner, Hettie |
F |
20 |
|
12/7/1877 |
Variola |
|
| Johnson, Nettie |
F |
24 |
|
12/7/1877 |
Variola |
|
| McCabe, J.W.A. |
M |
39 |
|
12/13/1877 |
Variola |
|
| Flowers, James |
M |
29 |
|
12/25/1877 |
Variola |
|
| Smith, Wm. |
M |
23 |
|
4/5/1878 |
Amyoid degeneration of
kidney |
|
| Oleson, Martin |
M |
3 |
7/1874 |
9/30/1878? |
Scarlatina |
|
| Vaughn, Edward |
M |
50 |
|
10/5/1878 |
Pyaemia |
|
| Kastner, Philomena |
F |
48 |
7/8/1830 |
12/6/1878 |
Chronic Rheumatism |
|
| Meyer, Emilie |
F |
3yr 5 mos |
1/3/1876 |
7/1/1879 |
Dypheric Croup |
|
| Diel, Jacob |
M |
74 |
10/4/1805 |
10/29/1879 |
Old Age |
|
| Stephan, Alexander |
M |
32 |
|
5/10/1880 |
Phthisis |
Milw. Insane Asylum |
| Hasley, Mary |
F |
32 |
|
5/31/1880 |
Phthysis Pulu. |
|
| Fisher, (Infant) |
M |
5 hrs |
6/8/1880 |
6/8/1880 |
Pre. Birth/Convulsions |
|
| Sommous, William |
M |
28 |
1852 |
6/10/1880 |
Ceretritis |
Co. Hosp. |
| Florence, Ivy |
F |
5 days |
|
6/10/1880 |
Convulsions |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Metz, Joseph |
M |
40 |
|
6/21/1880 |
Endocarditis |
Co. Hosp. |
| Lukas, Eva |
F |
2wks |
7/7/1880 |
7/21/1880 |
Tuterus |
|
| Pares, Mary |
F |
91 |
|
7/31/1880 |
Cirrhosis of liver |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| West, Jennie |
F |
3wks |
7/6/1880 |
7/28/1880 |
Infantile Convulsions |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Danson, Mary Amanda |
F |
21 |
|
8/20/1880 |
Pulmonary Phthisis |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Hatje, George |
M |
59 |
|
8/22/1880 |
Cirrhosis of liver |
Co. Farm |
| Rothber, (Infant) |
M |
17 days |
8/7/1880 |
8/24/1880 |
Inanition |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Dawson, Emma |
F |
20 |
10/14/1860 |
9/4/1880 |
Phthsis Pulmonalis |
|
| McCaffery, James |
M |
76 |
1804 |
9/5/1880 |
Bright's Disease |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Holtz, Henry |
M |
30 |
|
9/17/1880 |
|
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Jones, George |
M |
16 |
|
9/29/1880 |
Chronic Diarrhoea |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Herning, Adolf |
M |
30 |
|
10/28/188 |
0 Chronic Inflammation of liver |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Beyer, Ferdinand |
M |
41 |
|
11/2/1880 |
Chronic Pneumonia |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Grundler, Albert |
M |
28 |
|
11/7/1880 |
Epilepsy |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Preiser, Henry |
M |
60 |
|
11/12/188 |
0 Cirrhosis |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Johnson, Gustav |
M |
23 |
|
11/20/188 |
0 Typhoid Fever |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Holsted, Avton |
M |
34 |
|
11/23/188 |
0 Colloid Cancer of Abdomen |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Keating, Margaretha |
F |
3 days |
12/18/1880 |
12/21/1880 |
Cyanosis |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Sernnaudal, Franz |
M |
46 |
|
12/27/1880 |
Cancer of liver |
|
| Clarke, Patric |
M |
69 |
|
12/30/1880 |
Cerebritis |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Hayet, A. P. |
M |
21 |
|
12/31/1880 |
Typhoid Fever |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Keating, Emma D. |
F |
27 |
|
12/31/1880 |
Peritonitis |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Hermes, Adolf |
M |
34 |
|
1/16/1881 |
Pneumonia |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Fitzgerald, (Infant) |
F |
17 days |
1/14/1881 |
1/31/1881 |
Inanition |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Plumber, Frederick |
M |
19 |
|
2/5/1881 |
|
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Eckerkunst, Wilhemina |
F |
37 |
|
2/6/1881 |
Pulmonary Phthisis |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Justmann, Chas. |
M |
70 |
|
2/16/1881 |
Congestion of lungs |
Milw. Co. Hosp. |
| Schmidt, Jacob |
M |
|
|
11/4/1884 |
|
|
| Schmidt, (Son) |
M |
|
|
12/11/1884 |
|
|
| Johnson, Ruby |
F |
|
|
1/28/1885 |
|
|
| Unknown Child |
? |
|
|
5/27/1885 |
|
|
| Jacobson, Andrew |
M |
|
|
6/28/1885 |
|
|
| Reichert, (Child) |
? |
|
|
7/6/1885 |
|
|
| Hartmann, Joseph |
M |
|
|
7/15/1885 |
|
|
| Unknown Foetus |
? |
|
|
7/23/1885 |
|
|
| Unknown Male Babe |
M |
|
|
8/3/1885 |
|
|
| Perry, Frank Clinton |
M |
|
|
8/20/1885 |
|
|
| Unknown Female Babe |
F |
|
|
9/14/1885 |
|
|
| Unknown Female Babe |
F |
|
|
10/17/1885 |
|
|
| See, Michael |
M |
|
|
12/2/1885 |
|
|
| Anton, J. |
? |
|
|
1/2/1886 |
|
|
| Rosanski, Christoph |
M |
|
|
2/8/1886 |
|
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| Schwartz, Lilly |
F |
|
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2/26/1886 |
|
|
| Schumann, Arthur |
M |
|
|
4/30/1886 |
|
|
| Unknown Man |
M |
|
|
5/11/1886 |
Drowned |
|
| Daly, (Child) |
? |
|
|
6/3/1886 |
|
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