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Manitowoc County
(Cooperstown Township)
St Johns Lutheran 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.


Becker, Albert
Becker, Carl and Wilhelmine
Becker, Leroy
Becker, Lester
Bottger, Carolina J.A.
Brahl, Heinrich
Bruss, Herman A. and Emma
Buth, Alwina
Fischer, Johann
Forcey, Phillip Paul
Frenz, Friedrich
Frenz, Friedricka
Gaedtke, Herman and Ella
Gauger, Carl
Gauger, Charlotte S.
Gauger, Emma
Gauger, Jane
Gauger, Viola
Giese, Dorothea
Habeck, Alma
Habeck, female infant
Habeck, Friedrich A.W. and Henriette L.A.
Habeck, Maria
Habeck, Robert and Minnie
Habeck, unclear
Habeck, Wilhelmine
Haselow, Elsie
Haselow, Friedrich and Viola
Jaeger, Fredrich
Jaeger, Johann
Jager, Friedricka
Kasten, Beth
Kempfert, unclear male
Knuth, Gertrude (picture on stone)
Knuth, Gertrude
Knuth, Gustav J.F.
Knuth, Juliana O.
Knuth, Walter
Koher, Carl G.
Kohn, August F. and Caroline
Kouba, Nancy Ann
Ludtke, Emma
Ludtke, Maria
Mathies, Friedrich and Augusta
Mathies, George
Meyer, Laster
Nass, Ernestine F.G.
Nass, Gottfried
Olf, Carl T.W.
Olf, Willie J.F.
Otto, C.L. Friedrich
Otto, Johanna Wilhelmine
Pantzlaff, Lloyd
Pantzlaff, Paul
Pantzlaff, Ronald
Pautz, Hermann H.
Pautz, unclear
Pautz, William and Bertha
Rabenhorst, Albert Robert Ferdinand
Rabenhorst, Julia
Rabenhorst, Louis Gottlieb Karl
Rabenhorst, William and Ottilie
Radtke, Friederike
Radtke, Therese
Radu, August
Radu, Wilhelmine
Radue, female infant
Radue, Lorna Mae
Rasmussen, Kenneth J.
Schlegelmilch, Lesie
Schley, August and Emilie
Schley, Bertha
Schley, Charlotte Caroline Wilhelmine
Schley, Julius
Schley, Rheinhardt and Ella E.B.
Schley, Roland
Schley, unclear
Schley, Wilhelm and Wilhelmine
Schultz, Albert
Schultz, August
Schultz, Caroline
Sieker, Armin
Tome, Wilhelm
Treptow, Dorothea
Treptow, Johann
Umnus, Henry W. and Carl F.
Utech, Anna M.F.
Uttech, Carl F.W.
Wegner, Carl and Rosalina
Wegner, David
Wegner, Dorothea
Wegner, female infant
Wegner, unclear female
Wendt, Caroline
Wendt, Harry A.
Wendt, Herman
Zahn, Carl
Zahn, Florentina
Zahn, Friedericka
Zahn, Joachim F.

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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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