Louis Wallrabenstein & Decendants


Louis Wallrabenstein (son of Gottlieb and Johanetta) was born October 26, 1840 in Germany and came to the U.S. with his parents and siblings (including half brother Jacob C. Wallrabenstein) in July 1849. He died April 4, 1913 in Hartford, WI.
He married:
Ernestine Wilhelmine Steinke (daughter of August Steinke and Wilhelmine Menke) on June 10, 1870 in St. Paul's Church in Ackerville. Witnesses were Gottlieb Wallrabenstein and Rudolf Steinke (possibly Magdalena Wallrabenstein's future husband).

Notes for Ernestine Steinke: Ernestine Steinke came to this country with her mother when she was 16 years old and settled in Milwaukee.

Children of Gottlieb and Ernestine:

i. August Rudolf, born August 10, 1872, Town of Polk. Baptized Sept. 1, 1872 with sponsors: August & Magdalena Steinke. He died at the age of one.

ii. William (Wilhelm), born 1873 in Ackerville, Town of Polk. and died in 1956 in Hartford, WI.
He married:
Margaret Basler on Sept. 4, 1902.

Children of William and Margaret:
1. Erma Ernestine, born July 19, 1903 in Ackerville, Town of Polk and died July 12, 1987 at the Hartford Care Center. She married: Henry Krueger on May 14, 1927 in Waukegan, IL. They are buried at Pleasant Hill in Hartford.
2. Oscar George, born May 24, 1906; died June 1, 1992 in Kankakee, IL. He married Estelle.
3. Frieda Elisabeth, born July 13, 1908 in Hartford; died after July 12, 1987, possibly in Houston, TX. She married Marvin Fleming.
4. Rosella Else, born February 24, 1911 in Hartford, WI; died March 1985 in Horicon, Dodge County. She married Delmar Wagener.

iii. Emma, born 1875 in Ackerville, WI; died 1942 in Hartford, WI. She married:
Gottlieb Greener on October 27, 1900 at St. Paul's Church in Ackerville.

Children of Gottlieb and Emma:
1. Benjamin Wilhelm Peter Greener, born July 20 ,1902; died August 6, 1922 in MIlwaukee.
2. Erwin Louis Greener (or Edwin or twins?), born July 17, 1904, Town of Hartford, WI; died June 1973, Hartford, WI.
3. Harry Greener, born 1906; died 1988 in Hartford.
4. Charley Walter Greener, born June 28, 1909.
5. Frank Greener, born 1911; died 1931 in Hartford.

iv. Katherina Magdalena Wallrabenstein, born September 23, 1879 in Ackerville, Town of Polk; died October 10, 1970, Samaritan Home in Hartford.
She married first:
Peter Greener, on November 25, 1899 at St. Paul's Church in Ackerville and who died December 1912. He is buried in Mayfield Cemetery.

Children of Peter and Katherina:

1. Gilbert Greener
2. Esther Greener, who married an Unknown Tenoglia (Milwaukee)
3. Arthur Emil Gottlieb Greener, born March 2, 1901 in Ackerville, Town of Polk.

She married second: Charles Zeiske

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