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I am attaching some old photos of Suring. These were found in an old camera of my fathers (Eugene Detert) after he passed away. My nephew was able to have them developed. They are from the early 1940's.

Sincerely Jean

Please click on each image below for a larger view.

L to R Minnie Dieck Detert, Bernice Detert Nelson, Arland Detert, William Detert, Otto Nelson and Eugene Detert	Arland Detert, Loraine Dieck, Bernice Detert Nelson, Mrs.Norman Dieck, Norman Dieck, Norman Dieck, Minnie Dieck Detert, William Detert, Howard Dieck	Owners of the Grocery Store next to Detert's Restaurant
Grocery Store next to Detert's Restaurant	Ben Dieck	Cousins Arland Detert and Lorraine and Howard Dieck
The original restaurant and store buildings. The Detert building was formerly Dieck Hardware Store.	The restaurant after the adjacent buildings were joined, refaced, and half of the original Suring home was moved and attached on the right side of the photo.	Bernice Detert Nelson, and parents Minnie Dieck Detert and William Detert in front of the restaurant
	Arland Detert, Unknown, Howard Dieck, Otto Nelson, Bernice Detert Nelson, Eugene Detert , Minnie Dieck Detert and William Detert

Frederick Detert and Carolina Schultz who came to Waupaca County, Wisconsin about 1883. Fred Detert was born 1819 in the County of Saatzig in Pommern, now part of Germany. He married Carolina, born 1824, in 1850 in Kreis Saatzig and had 7 children. Their adult children, Herman, Karl Friedrich, William D and Friedricka W. had immigrated to the U.S. in 1880 and 1882, initially settling in Waupaca County. All four married within two years of immigration.

Frederick Detert died in Waupaca County between 1895 and 1900. He is found as Head of Household on the 1895 Wisconsin State Census in Marion. Carolina was a widow on the 1900 Federal Census. A record of his death has not yet been found and he is assumbed to be buried near his wife Carolina in Greenleaf Cemetery in Marion where they lived.Wife Caroline Schultz Detert died in Marion on in 1905.

Their married children started families, worked in the lumber, various industry, cheese making, farming, food service, moving to Shawano and Oconto Counties in Wisconsin where descendants continue to live. There is more about the family in DeGraff's type-written manuscript, only a few pages, which is on film at the Family History Library. The film number is: FHL Film 1674177 item 5.

The Detert Family opened the Detert Restaurant and Cafe in Suring after aquiring the Dieck Hardware Store building in 1924. They eventually incorporated the building next door by enclosing the space between, and added half of the old, original Suring Home to one end by moving it.

For photographs of the Kreis Saatzig, Pommern please click: Kreis Saatzig, Pommern Towns and Countryside

Detert Family Tree

Pommern in Germany

Bruesewitz, Kreis (County) Saatzig in Pommern

Friedrich Detert
b: 1819 County of Saatzig in Pommern
immigration: 1882 from Saatzig to Waupaca County, Wisconsin, USA
d: between 1895 to 1900 in Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
(notes on Friederich Detret: He is in 1895 found as head of Household on the Wisconsin State Census in Marion, Waupaca County, there are 3 adults and 5 children, also 3 born in the US and 5 born in Germany. His household is living next to Wm. Detert. Only the name of Head of Household is used in that census. No burial/site record was found but it is assumbed that he is buried at the same cemetery as his wife in 1905)
+ Carolina Schultz - wife of Frederich Detert
b: June 12, 1824 in Pommern, Prussia
marriage: 1850 in Pommern
d: November 22, 1905
burial: Greenleaf Cemetery, Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
children of Friederich and Caroline: 1900 7 births, 4 living
1. Herman Detert
b. November 17, 1851
immigrated 1880 (1900 census)
    naturalization: Letter of Intent, September 25, 1906 in Waupaca County, Wisconsin
d: 1927 in Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
burial: Roseland Cemetery, Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
  + Wilhelmina Grepentrog
b: 1848 in Germany (cemetery records)
immigration: 1882 (1900 census)
marriage: 1882 (1900 census) in town of Dupont, Wisconsin
d: 1911 in Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
burial: Roseland Cemetery, Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
children of Herman and Wilhelmina: 1900 3 births, 3 living; Augusta (married ? Prochnon) she was born in Germany to mother's first marriage and adopted by Herman, Bertha A. Detert, Emil Detert.
  2. Unknown
   b. 1853
  3. Unknown
   b. 1854

Obituary of
Karl (Carl) Friederich Detert
find a grave

  4. Karl (Frederich) Friedrich Detert
b. November 8, 1855 in Pommern (censuses and cemetery 1860)
immigrated 1880 (1900 census)
occupation: 1900 laborer in Oshkosh veneer mill; 1920 laborer in lumber camp in Merrill, Lincoln County, Wisconsin
d: May 1927 in Shawano County, Wisconsin, Shawano County Home, Wisconsin - suicide due to mental illness
burial: Sunnyhill Cemetery, Shawano County Home, Wisconsin
  + Louisa Kumber
b. November 1858 in Pommern
immigration: 1882 (1900 census)
marriage: 1882 in Wisconsin (1910 census) - divorced by 1920 (1920 census under Karl Detert)
d: after 1940 (1940 Oshkosh census)
children of Karl and Louisa: 7 births, 5 living, (In Wisconsin) Edward Detert b: February 1888, Elmer Detert b:1889; Emma Detert b: January 1890, Otto Detert b: September 1893, Clara Detert b; July 1895
(notes on Louisa Kumber: 1900 lived Dupont, Waupaca Co; 1910 lived in Oshkosh with husband and 3 children, 1920 lived in Oshkosh alone, listed as widowed but divorced; 1930, 1940 living in Oshkosh with married daughter Clara's family; )
  5. Unknown
   b. 1856-1857
  6. Wilhelm (William) D. Detert

Obituary of
Friedriche Hartwig Detert
find a grave

   b. August 23, 1859 in Pommern (cemetery records)
  immigration:July 28, 1880 arrived at Port of New York from Pommern
naturalization: Letter of Intent November 3, 1892 in Waupaca County, Wisconsin
occupation: Stone Mason
d: June 19, 1950 (cemetery records) in Grant Township, Shawano County, Wisconsin
burial: Graceland Cemetery, Clintonville, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
  + Friedriche Hartwig
b: April 8, 1862 in Germany immigration: 1882 (1900 census, obituary)
marriage: September13, 1882 (1900 census) in Clintonville, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
d: April 1927 in a Green Bay hospital
burial: Graceland Cemetery, Clintonville, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
children of William and Friederiche: Herman Detert, William Robert Detert (Minnie Dieck - see below), Elmer Detert, Martha Louise Detert (Julius W.G. Malueg), Anna Detert, Leola Detert (Ward Solberg), Elsie, and 1 Detert child's death (1900 census)
  7. Friedriche Wilhelmine Detert
   b. October 31, 1861 in Pommern
immigration: 1882 (1900 census)
d: 1944 in Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
burial: Greenleaf Cemetery, Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
  + Carl Herman Zillmer
   b. 1860 in Pommern (cemetery)
immigration: 1868 (1900 census)
marriage: 1884 (1900 census)
occupation: 1900 Dairyman in Marion, Wapaca County; 1910 laborer at grain elevator in Marion;
d: 1933 in Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
burial: Greenleaf Cemetery, Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
children of Friederiche and Carl Herman: 1900 5 biths, 3 living; John Zillmer, Emi Zillmer, Clara Zillmer, George Zillmer (1886 - 1887), Wilhelm Zillmer (1884 - 1889)

William (Bill) Robert Detert
    b: January 20, 1890 in Du Pont Township, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
    d: October 2, 1972 in Oconto Falls, Oconto, Wisconsin
    occupation: 1917, 1920 Cheesemaker in Fairbanks, Shawano County, Wisconsin (WWI Draft Registration); 1924 Suring Restaurant Opened; 1930 Restaurant Owner, Suring, Oconto, County
    burial: Mount Olive Lutheran Cemetery, Town of How, Oconto County, Wisconsin
(notes on William Detert: "In 1924 Bill Detert opened the "Dew Drop Inn" dining room". - Suring School District Local History 1979; 1917 Living in Split Rock, Shawano County, Wisconsin married with 3 children and working for William R. Detert Cheese Manufacting; )

Minnie Hulda Augusta Dieck
1911

+ Wilhelmina (Minnie) Hulda Augusta Dieck - wife of William R. Detert
    b: August 10, 1891 in Grant Township, Shawano County, Wisconsin
    marriage: November 2, 1911 in Grant Township, Shawano County, Wisconsin
    d: November 28, 1979 in Gillett, Oconto County, Wisconsin
    burial: Mount Olive Lutheran Cemetery, Town of How, Oconto County, Wisconsin
(notes on Minnie Dieck: Father - Julius Dieck b: 1856 in Selchow, Greifenhagen, Pommern, Prussia d: 1906 in Shawano County, Wisconsin; Mother Wilhelmina "Minnie" Quade b: 1863 in Prussia, married 1887 in Shawano County, d 1922 in Snawano County, Wisconsin
    children of William and Minnie:
        1. Arland William Detert
            b: July 27, 1912 Du Pont Township, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
            d: November 7, 1985 in Oconto Falls, Oconto County, Wisconsin
            burial: Mount Olive Lutheran Cemetery, Town of How, Oconto County, Wisconsin
        + Genevieve Archer - wife of Arland Detert
            b: December 23, 1917
            d: February 26, 1990
          burial: Mount Olive Lutheran Cemetery, Town of How, Oconto County, Wisconsin
        2. Bernice E. Detert
            b: November 27, 1914 in Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
            d: September 15, 1979 in Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin
            burial: Wanderers Rest Cemetery, Oconto County, Wisconsin
        + Otto Nelson - husband of Bernice Detert
            b: October 10, 1907 (cemetery records) in Suring, Oconto County, Wisconsin
            marriage: September 5, 1934 in Gillett, Oconto County, Wisconsin
            d: June 30, 1973 (cemetery records) in Oconto Falls, Oconto County, Wisconsin
            burial: Wanderers Rest Cemetery, Oconto County, Wisconsin
(notes on Otto H. Nelson: Father - Nels Peter Nelson 1872 - 1954; Mother - Anna Pautz 1874 - 1968 )
        Milton Detert
            b: March 16, 1917 in Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
            d: January 4, 1986 in Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin (obituary)
            burial: Fort Howard Memorial Park, Brown County, Wisconsin
        + Fern L. Weyckor - wife of Milton Detert
            b: November 13, 1916 in Pembine, Wisconsin (obituary)
            marriage: April 19, 1941 (obituary)
            d: October 18, 2011 in Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin (obituary)
            burial: Fort Howard Memorial Park, Brown County, Wisconsin (obituary)
        Eugene Byron Detert
            b: January 15, 1927 (cemetery records) in Suring, Oconto County, Wisconsin
            d: March 2, 1989 (cemetery records) in Suring, Oconto County, Wisconsin
            burial: Frostville Cemetery, Maple Valley Township, Oconto County, Wisconsin
(notes on Eugene Detert: Tech 5, US Army WWII. Quarter Master Battalion, Mechanic )
        + Lois M. Ehlinger
            b: October 13, 1932 (cemetery records) in Lake Geneva, Walworth County, Wisconsin (Wisconsin Death Index, 1959-1997)
            marriage: January 13, 1951 in Suring, Oconto County, Wisconsin
            d: May 29, 1977 (cemetery records) in Oconto Falls, Oconto County, Wisconsin
            burial: Frostville Cemetery, Maple Valley Township, Oconto County, Wisconsin
(notes on Louis M. Ehlinger: Father - Lawrence N. Ehlinger b: 1906 in town of How, Oconto County d: 1993 in Suring, Oconto County, Wisconsin; Mother - Cleo May Sorenson 1910 - 2000)

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