Henry Drees |
Louise Keil Nelding Drees |
Photographs by: Pat Drees
Mrs. Louise Keil Nelding was 7 months pregnant with daughter Lillian at the time of the 1871 Peshtigo Fire. Her first husband died sometime after the birth of their second child Emil in 1875. In 1877 she became the second wife of Henry Drees.
Henry Drees and first wife Mary M. were also survivors of the fire along with daughters Jennie and Hattie.
Generation 1
Thomas Drees
born 1800 in Preussen
(Prussia, now Germany)
immigrated between 1852 and 1860
died before 1870 in
Peshtigo, Oconto, Wisconsin
+ Catherine - wife of Thomas
born 1807 in Preussen
(Prussia, now Germany)
married in Prussia
died after 1870 in
Peshtigo, Oconto, Wisc
Note on Catherine Drees - widowed head of household at the time she survived the 1871 Peshtigo Fire.
Children of Thomas and Katherine Drees: (all
living in Peshtigo, Wisconsin in 1860)
1. John Drees
b. 1833, in Prussia; Married
Mary Iickman March 3, 1863 in Oconto County, saloon keeper in Peshtigo in 1870
and both
age 38 with no
children .
2. Henry Drees
b. 1836, in Prussia Married
Mary M. Kratz and had 5 children; married Louisa (nee: Keil) Nelding and had 5
children, adopted 2 Nelding children.
3. Joseph T.
Drees b. 1838 in Prussia
- Laborer
married # 1 Elizabeth ? who died in the 1871 Peshtigo Fire with sons John age 5
and Edward age 2; married # 2 Augusta ? born in Germany May
1838 in 1872; seven children all born in Wisconsin were: Edward born April 1872 married
LuLu Eliot October 15, 1890 in Marinette County, Edwin married May 20, 1889,
Charles born October 1875, Bertha born September 1877, Gusta born September
1879, Ida born September 3,1881 died January 9, 1877 in Los Angeles, California,
married Homer Kintrea Flitton
4. Edward Drees b. 1840, in
Prussia; blacksmith in
Peshtigo; married Mary
? December 1869 but this wife died before 1880. Children
of E. & M. Drees buried in Peshtigo Cemetery
William E. Died
June 9. 1879 Aged 7 yrs 3m 25 dys
Odiliah H. Died
June 9. 1879 Aged 5 yre 5m 29 ds
Married
Rose E. age 19 no children on 1880 census
5. Eugene Joseph Drees b. 1846, in Prussia married
Adolina Martin August 14, 1877 in Oconto County ; Children Adolf 1881 (married
Alvina? 1891 - 1963 and had 5 children in Grover, Marinette County, Wisconsin),
Henry 1884 (married Mary; son Harold Feb 8, 1909 - July 18, 1989 Peshtigo
married Ethel England born July 13, 1910), Arthur 1891
6. Emily (Mary) Drees b. 1852 in Prussia..
Generation 2
Peshtigo Cemetery
Mary M. (nee: Kratz) wife of Henry Drees Died March 1, 1877 age 31 years ~ Hillary son of H. & M M Drees Born April 12, 1872 Died April 29, 1872 |