Lucius Botsford, akaBottsford, Family Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly Last Revised 03/11/2005 Lucius Botsford was one of the first settlersin the Town of Lisbon. He very well have been one of the first to stake hisclaim on the northeast quarter section of Section 36 and later the southeastquarter section, a total of 320 acres. According to Melinda Weaver… Read more »
Robert M. Brown Family Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly Last Revised 01/05/2006 Descendants of Samuel Brown Generation No. 1 1. SAMUEL1BROWNHe married MARY?. Notes for S AMUELBROWN: Father named in Retrospect, Brown Family on Lake Five Road were VIPS, page10, Wednesday, January 4, 2006 Child of S AMUELBROWNand MARY?is: 2. i. ROBERT M. 2 BROWN, b. 22 Feb 1821,… Read more »
David Bonham’s Life Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly Last Revised 09/03/2012 Also read the “David Bonham – murder trial and more” Editor’s Note: Much of what has already been published about David Bonham’s life comes from the “History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, 1880”; but, after reading the newspaper entries below about his life and the accounts of the murder… Read more »
David Bonham – murder trial and more Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 05/18/2006 First Murder In Waukesha County Return to David Bonham’s Life page There are many different versions of this first murder in WaukeshaCounty by David Bonham. As Editor, I don’t deny that David Bonham killed Henry Keene; but the circumstances surrounding the murder, the… Read more »
Former Lisbon chairman writes poem before scheduled hanging By Fred Keller Sussex Sun, Posted: July 16, 2008 One great piece of local pioneer literature was written by Lisbons David Bonham as he faced the hangmans noose the following morning. It was March 1847, and he was the featured guest at a necktie party in Racine for his killing of Henry… Read more »
Norbert and Karl Berschdorf Family 1866 LISBON, WWII, SIBERIA, GERMAN ARMY TOUCH SUSSEX By Fred H. Keller Some multi-different situations are tied up in a doctors office in downtown Sussex. The cream brick Sussex Wheaton Franciscan Medical office on Main Street, Sussex has been the domain of Drs. James Davis and Terrace Hughs since 1988. They acquired the former 1866… Read more »
Herb and Jeanette Beier Photos from the collection of Sussex Village Historian Fred H. Keller Posted: Aug. 4, 2009 Living Sussex Sun, Retrospect. Recently Bruce Johns, grandson of Herbert Ray Beier and Jeanette Muria Brown and resident of the Partridge Hills subdivision of Lisbon, gave the Sussex Lisbon Area Historical Society a set of three Beier family photos, including the… Read more »
Landholding Beaumont brothers owned showcase farms in Merton, Lisbon Posted: Apr. 28, 2009, Living Sussex Sun By Fred Keller, Sussex Village Historian Multiple generations of Beamonts have descended from the brothers who moved the family en masse to Merton-Lisbon in the middle of the 19th Century: Esau and the Honorable Ephraim Beaumont. The family began its American journey in a… Read more »
Rev. James Augustus Baynton aka Boynton and Family Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly Last Revised 01/18/2011 Descendants of James Augustus Baynton Generation No. 1 1. REV. JAMES AUGUSTUS1 BAYNTON was born 28 Feb 1863, and died 1925 in Centralia, Illinois. He married HARRIET “ALLIE” ELIZABETH WEAVER 19 Jul 1889 in St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, Sussex, Lisbon Township, Waukesha… Read more »
Arter Family Researched and Compiled by BrianHunt Edited by Mike Reilly Last Revised 10/23/2010 Descendants of Edward Arthur Generation No. 1 1. EDWARD1 ARTHUR was born Abt. 1686. He married JANE PEPPER 03 Apr 1711 in St Mary, Dover, Kent. More About EDWARD ARTHUR: Burial: 25 Jun 1753, Charlton, Dover, Kent More About JANE PEPPER: Burial: 22 Dec 1736 Children… Read more »
