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Fond du Lac County
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Garden of the Cross Cemetery
Tombstone Photos


These photos were generously taken and contributed to these pages by Larry & Linda Kopet!   Please take a moment to thank them for this terrific resource!  Use your back browser button to return to this page. Please note that these generous contributions do not necessarily depict all tombstone photographs for a given cemetery.


Abe, Henry F. and Amanda B.
Barclay, male infant
Bates, Betsey
Benzel, Augusta Zank
Bilderback, Emmons L. and Lorraine
Blanchard, Lester L.
Boehlen, Jerome A. Jr. (Jerry)
Boese, Ervin O. and Mabel M.
Bonsen, August
Bonsen, Martha H.
Brown, Ellen Mason and Mason and Anna Wheeler
Cizek, Louis J.
Cizek, Robert E. and Madeline E.
Clark, Burton W.
Clausen, Chris W. and Helen J.
Conrad, Reinhold G. and Betsy M.
Cors, Wm. Henry and Beatrice Dilts
Cosgrove, Maureen C. OBrien
Costello, Michael J. and Judith A.
Cotton, George K. and Irene M.
Crook, Frank and Marian
Crook, Henry O. and Ida M.
Dallmann, Friedrich and Friedricke
Denis, James P. and Lucille M.
DeWitte, James L. (Jim)
Diekvoss, Benjamin J. Jr.
Diekvoss, Clair H.
Dudzinske, Tom and Leona
Foat, Grace E.
Foerster, Albert
Foerster, Minnie Pischke
Furstenau, Ferdinand
Gittens, David P. and Patricia A. Boese
Goodell, Emily C.
Goodell, Katie L.
Graff, Margaret R.
Graff, Sophia
Graham, Vergene A.
Grahn, Henry F. and Jennie
Gravelle, Susan E.
Hamburger, Ernest and Emma
Hamburger, Karl
Hitchcock, Lois
Hoey, John R. and Ruth A. Cotter
Hunger, Ernestine
Hunger, Ida
Hunger, Wm. F.
Hyde, James and Marion
Ingalls, Ebenezer F.
Irving, Mary
Jahns, Frederich
Jahns, Ottilie
Joas, Donald F. and Emerald Lee
Jozefowski, Kazimierz and Franciszka
Keehl, Elmer
Kentopp, Edwin A. and Marie A.
Kinas, Alma
Kosbab, William and Bertha
Krug, Eugene A. and Evelyn L.
Kuss, Adolph L. and Elsie B.
Larrabee, Sally
Lehman, Curtis L. and Patricia L.
Leu, Arthur F. and Grace M.
Leu, Larry A. and Cheryl L.
Limbach, John Philip and Esther French
Luchsinger, Peter and Margaret
Lucia, Louis and Ida G.
Lueck, Elmer G. and Evelyn M.
Marcoe, Clarence L.
Markevitch, Albin F. and Geraldine A.
Martell, James and family
Mason, Gertrude
Mason, Jessie E.
Mason, Robert
Mason, Robert D.
McKay, Agnes
McKeith, Alan David
McKeith, Arthur C. and Norma
Miller, Isabel and George
Miller, John
Morgan, Thomas Peter and Susan Kay Walkowiak
Morse, Matie
Mowers, Yvonne M.
Mueller, Emil A. Jr. and David R.
Mueller, Robert L. and Augusta P.
OLoughlin, Raymond A.
Page, William F. and Mathilda H.
Parmelee, Truman and family
Patch, Allen J. and unclear
Pease, E.O. and family
Pease, Stephen E. and Ida A.B.
Pellwitz, Ella L.
Pevonka, Delroy M. and Lavina H.
Pischke, John
Pischke, Karl J.
Poblitz, Herman E. and Frieda K.
Porter, Anna
Porter, Mathew
Rady, Ted O. and Kathleen M. Guldan
Rank, Jodi L.
Rayback, Alvina M.
Rick, Hugo F. and Lydia C.
Rimpler, Clarence H.
Ristau, Gustav
Ristau, Louise
Rock, Phyllis A.
Rohloff, Frank J. and Agnes M.
Rozek, Gilbert A. and Dolores I. Wendel
Ruddy, Alice
Sattler, Elsie M. Zimmerman
Sauerbrei, Anna
Sauerbrei, Ernest A. and Anna M.
Sauerbrei, Martin
Schaefer, William
Schoenrock, Edward A. and family
Schwan, Marie
Schwan, Paul
Sharp, Louis E. and Wilma E.
Shaw, Charles A.
Shaw, Mary J.
Siedschlag, Jean
Sonnenberg, Marvin P. and Lorraine M.
Soule, J. Sanford
Soule, Maria P.
Souzek, Caroline
Souzek, Mary
Steinberg, James Douglas
Steinberg, Wilhelm and family
Stollfuss, Edward J.
Stollfuss, Maud
Stollfuss, Theodore
Stroschein, Mollie
Sund, Omar W. and Thelma L.
Tautges, Armand J. and Jean D.
Tayloe, Ann
Tayloe, John Edward
Tayloe, Richard H.
Teela, Robert A. and Ellen L.
Thornburg, Ida R. Konow
Tibbals, Luther Spellman and Margie Moore
Tobott, Harold C.
Tornow, Otto F. and Margaret V.
Tullett, William S. and Wanda M.
Uebel, David H. and Laverne H.
Vogel, Wilhelm and Henriette
Vonrotz, John E. and Fay
Wahoske, Ann
Wedde, Ida
Wellcome, Charles M.
Wellcome, Dorothy
Wepner, Otto H. and Bertha S.
Westhause, Rev. Erwin
White, Frank A. and William J.
White, Geo. B.
Wichman, Nellie S.
Wichtman, Ezra
Wilson, George
Wilson, Samuel
Wiser, Albert H. and Mary E.
Wittchow, William and Emma
Woodruff, Penila E.
Workman, Margaret
Wright, Ann
Yerk, Edna M.
Youell, Gisela Louise Hinz
Zank, August and Mary Ann
Zanz, August and Auguste
Zarnott, Paul H. and Sylvia E.
Zasada, Herman A.
Zellmer, Johann A. and Dorothea S.
Zepp, Eugene J. and Nina Leu
Zick, Carl A. and Delia E.
Zick, Marvin D.
Zimmermann, Henriette
Zimmermann, Karl
Zimmermann, Wilhelm and Dorothea
Zwolski, Frank A. and Mabel L.

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WISCONSIN MUNICIPALITIES: Cities Towns, and Villages, often referred to as 'municipalities' in Wisconsin law, are the governmental units that relate most directly to citizens' everyday lives.

TOWNS, like counties, were created by the state to provide basic municipal services. Rooted in New England and New York tradition, town government came to Wisconsin with the settlers, but Wisconsin towns were not like their Eastern counterparts that reflected the existing patterns of local settlement. In Wisconsin, towns are geographical subdivisions of counties. Towns originally served (and for the most part they continue to serve) rural areas. Towns govern those areas of Wisconsin not included in the corporate boundaries of cities and villages.

The difference between "township" and "town" often confuses the public. In Wisconsin, "township' refers to the surveyor's township which was laid out to identify land parcels within a county. Theoretically. a township is a square tract of land, measuring six miles on a side for a total of 36 square miles in the unit. Each township is divided into 36 sections. "Town", as the word is used in Wisconsin, denotes a specific unit of government. It's boundaries may coincide with the surveyor's township or it may look quite different. A Town may include one, parts of or several townships.

CITIES and VILLAGES, often referred to as "incorportated areas", govern territory where population is more concentrated. In general, minimum population for incorporation as a village is 150 residents for an isolated village and 2,500 for a metropolitan village located in a more densely settled area. For cities, the minimums are 1,000 and 5,000 respectively. As cities and villages are incorporated, they are carved out of the town territory and become independent units no longer subject to the town's control. The remainder of the town may take on a 'Swiss cheese" configuration as its area is reduced.

[Information above taken from "State of Wisconsin Blue Book 1997-1998"]

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ProjectCopyright Notice: These generous contributions do not necessarily depict all tombstone photographs for a given cemetery. The source for many of the cemetery names and placenames on these pages come from Cemetery Locations in Wisconsin, 3rd edition, compiled by Linda M. Herrick and Wendy K. Uncapher. The book is published by Origins at 4327 Milton Ave. Janesville, WI 53546. All files on this site are copyrighted by their creator and/or contributor. They may be linked to but may not be reproduced on another site without specific permission from Tina Vickery [mailto:tsvickery@gmail.com] and/or their contributor. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which they are presented, the notes and comments, etc., are. It is however, quite permissable to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use ONLY.

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