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Racine County
(Rochester Township)
Rochester Cemetery
Tombstone Photos

Adams, Robert - Ela, William


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Adams, Robert
Addington, Alvira C.
Addington, Anna
Aiken, Edward
Aiken, Lucinda S.
Airey, James
Airey, Mary
Airey, Nehemiah
Alaxson, female infant
Alaxson, Robert A. and Clarissa E.
Albrecht, August
Albrecht, Christian
Albrecht, Regena
Albrecht, Wilhelmine
Alby, Harriet
Alby, Hugh
Aspinall, James A.
Aspinall, Myrtie L. Frost
Babik, John E.
Ballack, Allie M. Cady
Ballack, Ernest Gilbert
Ballack, Gilbert
Ballack, Grace Edith
Ballack, James
Ballack, Margret Graham
Barnes, Adelia
Barnes, Curtis
Barnes, Hiram
Barnes, Levi and Lewey
Baumgart, August C.
Baumgart, Charles R.
Baumgart, Edith
Baumgart, Emma
Baumgart, Eugene
Baumgart, Ferdinand A.
Baumgart, Henrietta C.
Baumgart, Henry
Baumgart, Robert K. and Emily J.
Baumgart, unclear and Florence
Beguhl, Alvin H.
Beguhl, Amiel A.
Beguhl, Christian and Caroline
Belden, Albert
Belden, Georgann S.
Belden, Louisa
Belden, Mary F.
Belden, Philo
Belden, Robert
Belden, Robert A.
Benjamin, Ambrose S.
Benjamin, Charles L.
Benjamin, Mrs.
Berger, Addie
Berger, Bertha
Berger, Christian
Berger, Harry
Berry, Orrin and Margarette
Black, George
Blackburn, Jesse
Blake, Elsie
Blake, George H.
Blake, John
Blake, Margaret
Blake, Martha
Bosselmann, Carl
Branch, Rosaline Hulburd
Brown, Aurella Farr
Brown, Frank Mortimer
Brown, Richard
Bruinsma, Cornelis and Anne
Bucholtz, Forrest L. and Dorothy M.
Burgess, Maria L. and family
Butler, Nathaniel
Cady, Henry and Sarah Whitman
Cady, Luella
Cady, Mertia H.
Cahoon, Mary A.
Cahoon, unclear
Cahoon, William H. and infant
Caldecott, Robert and children
Campbell, Peter
Campbell, William H.
Carpenter, Sarah
Chase, Elizabeth Airey
Chowther, unclear T. and family
Christenson, Warren H.
Clemmens, William J.
Codman, Anna Jackson
Codman, Louis A.
Codman, Mary Jackson
Codman, Medora S. and M. Adelphia
Coffin, Henry and Hannah
Coffin, Henry R.
Coffman, Addie M.
Coombs, A. Norton
Coombs, Peter Holland and Gwendolyn M.
Cooper, E. Grant
Cooper, Ellen I.
Cooper, Ellen M.
Cooper, John M.
Cooper, Sylvia Markham
Crompton, Ralph
Crovagna, Mildred Hunt North (Grandma Cheryl)
Culp, Ted and Elsie
Daniels, Margaret
Daniels, Mehitable
Darling, Augustine
Darling, Elin Grace
Darling, Emmy Miriam
Darling, George J.
Darling, Nelson Jr.
Darling, Nelson Sr.
Dean, Harold Edward
Dean, Martha Elizabeth
Dexter, Alice J.
Dexter, Evelyn S.
Dexter, Jacob
Dexter, Rennie J.
Dexter, Winnefred
Dietzel, Richard and Garnet A.
Dobson, John C. and Thomas
Dobson, William E.
Doubler, Fred
Doubler, Mrs. Fred
Drake, John
Drake, Joseph
Drake, Susanna
Dummann, William P. and Bernice A.
Duncan, Florence Ethel
Earle, Lyman D.
Earle, Martha
Earle, Warren C.
Eastman, Mary Helen and Sarah Anna
Eastman, Octavius
Eastman, Rev. Samuel and Mary Pell
Edwards, Marie
Edwards, not clear
Edwards, Thomas
Edwards, unclear
Edwards, William
Edwards, William C.
Ela, Alice Cheney
Ela, Benjamin and Kathleen Willey Aspinall
Ela, C. Burgess
Ela, Edith C.
Ela, Edwin Stanton
Ela, Emily Jane
Ela, Emma Cecilia Eastman
Ela, George
Ela, Ida Louisa
Ela, John H.
Ela, Louise B.
Ela, Mary
Ela, Mary F.
Ela, Mary L.
Ela, Nancy
Ela, Nancy Jane Roys
Ela, Richard Emerson
Ela, Robin
Ela, William

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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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