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Grant County
(Smelser Township)
Big Patch
aka Kaysville
aka Primitive Methodist 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.


Addison, Mary Virginia
Aker, Sheridan P.
Altizer, Leonard S. and Catherine
Andrew, John
Andrew, Mary Ann
Arthur, Helen Mae
Baney, Audrey May
Big Patch Cemetery Sign,  
Bonson, Willie
Booth, Allen B.
Booth, James H. and family
Booth, Thomas
Booth, William
Brooks, Elizabeth
Carns, James F. and Nancy Ann
Carns, male infant
Clark, Robert and Eliza J.
Clark, Simon B. and family
Clayton, Robert C. and Mary
Coonrad, Frank and family
Coonrad, Lester R.
Coonrad, Mary
Corlett, Ronald T.
Corlett, Rosa K.
Corlett, Thomas A. and Elizabeth
Costello, Georgia Ann
Cullen, Amelia Johns
Cullen, John E. and Sarah Clayton
Cullen, Leland Allen
Dent, George and family
Dresser, W. Carlton and Alma H.
Eastman, Levi
Eastman, Margaret
Eastman, O.
Eastman, Orville
Edwards, Joseph and Louella
Eplett, John
Fortney, Baran Jane
Fortney, Effiah
Fortney, Elizabeth
Fortney, W.
Fortney, William
Fox, George and family
Gill, Isaiah and Jane
Gill, Jane E.
Gill, Margaret P.
Gill, Thomas W.
Graham, Mary E.
Harbican, Henry and Minnie Daum
Harker, Elizabeth and family
Harker, Simon and Mary
Harper, Abel Jr. and George
Harper, Abel
Harper, Ann
Harper, Herbert H. and Mary E.
Harper, John and Clarissa Wilson
Heil, Annet
Heil, John Albert
Hilton, Ann
Hilton, George and Henry
Jackson, John K. and Rosannah
Jackson, Mary
Jenamann, John and Josephine R.
Johns, Joseph
Jones, Henry and Sarah
Kay, Esther
Kay, Joseph and Caroline
Landschulz, William
Luce, Ella
Lyght, unclear
Lyght, William and family
Nichols, Earl D. and Lelia M.
Nordorft, Donald F. and Irma F.
Peacock, Abel Lincoln and Ellen H.
Peacock, Samuel and Sarah E.
Penberthy, C. Rachel
Penberthy, Isaac
Pinch, Fred and Flossie
Pinch, John
Pinch, Joseph
Quick, John M. and Pamelia A.
Rawson, James S. and Elizabeth R.
Rawson, Jonas
Rawson, Thos
Riege, George D. and Elizabeth
Riege, Lester H. and family
Rottler, Ben
Schrigley, George W. and Margaret E.
Schroeder, Michael D.
Sedgwick, Norman
Shepherd, Jacob and Emma
Shibley, William and Caroline
Slack, Job and Ann
Slack, Job and Annie F.
Slack, unclear and Sarah
Spink, August and Anna E.
Spink, children
Spink, Harold C.
Spink, Henry and Emily A.
Tarrell, Ann
Tarrell, Loyd W.
Tarrell, Samuel and Rosina
Tarrell, unclear and Elizabeth
Tarrell, unclear male
Thomas, Ina Lela
Thomas, Joseph and family
Thomas, Lester and Edyth
Vine, John and Elizabeth
Vine, Marena A. and family
Vine, Richard Elliot
Walker, Jane
Watson, Eliza
Watson, John M.
Whitaker, William J. and Verna C.
Wilkinson, Ann
Wilkinson, David
Wilkinson, George and Sophia
Wilkinson, George Carl and Nella E. Allen
Wilkinson, James
Wilkinson, John
Wilkinson, Wm.
Willey, Ina A.
Wineman, George

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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.

This page was last updated 20 November 2012