Halbur Family Pictures

Sidonie’s baby picture

Sidonie’s First Communion

Sidonie at age 19

Sidonie, possibly as a bridesmaid

Anna Maria Ullrich (Sidonie’s mother), as a single woman.

Louie & Arnold Ertz as children. (Sidonie’s brothers)

Anni and Sidonie as children (Sidonie seated)

Anna Maria Ullrich Ertz and her 4 children. Back row: Anni, Sidonie, Louis Front: Anna Maria Ullrich Ertz, Arnold (The father, John Adam Ertz, had died of TB on his 40th birthday, in 1896.)

Family of John Adam Ertz & Anna Maria Ullrich: Anna Maria with Anni, Arnold, and Sidonie Both the father, John Adam Ertz, and the younger son, Louie, were dead by the time this picture was taken.

Sidonie (seated) and her sister Anni

Annie Ertz, First Communion

Louis Ertz (brother of Sidonie) as a baby

Arnold & Louis Ertz

Arnold, Sidonie’s brother

Arnold Ertz with his bride. I believe this was his first marriage. His wife in that marriage died in childbirth, as did the child.

Wedding picture, John Adam Ertz and Anna Maria Ullrich, parents of Sidonie, Nov. 25, 1884. They were married at Campbellsport.

Grave marker for Sidonie’s father, in the Schneider family plot, St. Matthew Cemetery, Campbellsport. There is a large obelisk in the center of the plot which lists all who are buried there, with birth and death dates. However, it is weather-worn, and very difficult to read. The little markers show the exact spot for each one.

Sidonie’s maternal grandfather, Anton Ullrich

Sidonie’s maternal grandmother, Anna Maria Kinschner Ullrich

John Adam Ertz and Anna Maria Ullrich, Sidonie’s parents

John Adam Ertz, father of Sidonie

Maria Ullrich Ertz (Sidonie’s mother) and baby Anni

One of our patriarch families. The family of Anton Ullrich (1807-1855) and Theresia __________ (1810-1857). This couple were Sidonie’s great-grandparents. This picture was taken in Reichenberg, Austria, before the family emigrated to the US. In the lower right hand corner of the frame the word Reichenberg can clearly be seen on another photocopy of the same original. When that part of Austria became part of Czechoslovakia after World War II, the name Reichenberg was changed to Liberec. The family actually lived in Ober Hannichen, a town very close to the city. The persons on the picture were not identified on the copy I have, but someone wrote on the side her attempts at identification. According to her, the upper left is Theresia (married Ben Ott). There were 4 sons in the family (John, Anton, Ignatz, & Adolph), so one must be missing. I believe it is Adolph. We do not know which of the men is which. I think the man to the left of Theresia maybe Anton (the great-grandfather of Connie & sibs). Obviously, he was named after his father. The girl on the upper right is Anna (marr. Ernst Pfeiffer). The bottom row, l to r: Augusta (marr. _________ Pierce), Anton, senior, and Theresia. Anton, senior and Theresia are buried in Calvary Cemetery, Milwaukee. Theresia & Ben Ott lived in LaCrosse, WI.. Anna and Ernst Pfeiffer lived in Milwaukee. Augusta and _______ Pierce lived in New Orleans, LA. We do not know where John & family settled. Anton settled first in Milwaukee, then Fussville (now Menomonee Falls), and then in the late 1860s in Campbellsport. Ignatz & family stayed in Milwaukee. Adolph & family settled in The Dalles, Oregon.

Christina Klein Ertz Schneider, Sidonie’s paternal grandmother She married Stephan Ertz in Milwaukee in January, 1856. Their first child was John Adam, who would be the father of Sidonie. Shortly after John Adam’s birth, they moved to Chicago, and shortly after that, in 1862, Stephan enlisted in the Union Army, at Buffalo, NY, where he had family. He was in the army a few months when he was either wounded or suffered “stroke”, which was probably sunstroke. This occurred in July, 1862, at Harrison Landing, Virginia. He was hospitalized for a while. Whatever happened, he was reported to have died as a result of wounds. That seems to be all that Christina was ever told. When it was possible to file for widow’s pension, she did so, in December, 1862, but after the government agency which dealt with widow’s pension had researched the matter, they determined that Stephan had not died, and that he was back on duty with his regiment. (His military record shows that he deserted shortly after he went back on duty. He did not, of course, return to his wife and family.) Christina waited the required 5 years (it was 5 years then), at which time she could declare Stephan dead, and was free to remarry. She married John Schneider at Dotyville. He was one of the Schneiders who worked as coopers in Campbellsport. The Schneiders were Michael, Stephan, John, and Casper. Casper was a prominent businessman in Campbellsport. His wife was Clara Klein, the sister of Christina Klein Ertz Schneider.

Casper Schneider. His wife was Clara Klein, sister of Christina

Michael Schneider. Brother or cousin of Casper. The Schneiders My have originated around Dotyville.

Ertz origins in Germany. This picture shows the high wall around the church and churchyard at Machtolsheim, the town in Germany where Stephan Ertz, Sidonie’s paternal grandfather was born. (This is a Lutheran church; the Ertz line was Lutheran.) In the Middle Ages, when a town was being attacked, the townspeople went inside those walls for protection. However, note the part of the wall that protrudes out toward the street. Note the small building which is part of the wall. The light pole is next to it. For hundreds of years that was used as the town jail! (Now it is used for storage, but there are still bars on the window!) Now to backtrack. In the mid-1600’s the Lutheran Church in Württemberg decreed that since decadent behavior had become too common, each parish/town had to have a court, headed by the pastor. Anyone who had been accused of some act of decadence or an actual crime had to be tried in the court. The offences could be something as simple as two teenagers walking down the street holding hands! One of our ancestors, Johann Ludwig Wagner, who was pastor at Machtolsheim from 1662-1703, was the one who implemented this decree to have a court. He was so conscientious about it that he would sometimes go up in the steeple of the church and watch from a window for any possible offenders on the street! (Reported by Bärbel Erz Schneider, one of his descendants, and the caretaker of the town archives. The court proceedings from the 1600’s are still in the town archives!) Little did he know that about 200 years later, one of his descendants, Stephan Ertz (Sidonie’s grandfather), would spend 6 days in that jail for signing the logbook indicating that he had done some required community service, when he hadn’t.

Johann Ludwig Wagner and his wife, Rosina Seiz, and the 12 of their 17 children who survived childhood. Johann and his wife Rosina were our great-great, great… grandparents. He was pastor at Machtolsheim 1662-1703. It is a custom in many Lutheran churches in Germany to have portraits of all pastors lining the walls. This one was particularly large.

Teresa Ullrich TempleMyer, sister of Anna Maria Ullrich.

Anni Ertz (sister of Sidonie) and her husband, Valentine Miller

Sidonie, Arnold, the mother Anna Maria Ullrich Ertz, and Anni (Arnold was a member of the Campbellsport Fire Department for many years.)

A note on the back of the photo says, “Family reunion, 1961”. It May have been an Ullrich Family Reunion. Sidonie with her sister and her cousins. L to R: Emmie Ullrich Petersik (1st Cousin), Dorie Ullrich Westerman (1st Cousin), Norma Ullrich (wife of Tony or John), Anni Ertz Miller (Sidonie’s sister), Anna Ullrich (1st Cousin, single, did a lot of genealogy), Sidonie

Wedding day, July 17, 1922. Arnold Ertz (brother of Sidonie) and his second wife, Anne Johnson. Arnold’s first wife had died in childbirth. The child also died.

The 3 girls in the family of Anton Ullrich senior and Theresia: Theresia (Ott), Augusta (Pierce), and Anna (Pfeiffer). The little girl is not identified. The extended family tended to refer to the women by their married name; Theresia was Auntie Ott, and Augusta was Auntie Pfeiffer. I remember my mother referring to them that way.

A hand-written identification below this picture says “cousin Joe Ulrich, LaGrande, Oregon”. They sometimes spelled Ullrich with one L.

Augusta Ullrich Pierce. Note that picture was taken in Milwaukee, not New Orleans.

This picture is merely labeled “Uncle Pierce”. He was the husband of Augusta Ullrich, but we do not know his first name.

The family of Adolph Ullrich (this is an uncle of the Adolph we knew who lived Campbellsport). This family lived in Oregon, and made a living making cigars. Top row, l to r: Julius, age 14, Ben, age 16, Adolph, age 39. Front row: Winnie age 13, Willie age 4, Lizette age 34, Clara age 6, and Emma age 8. Many of the Ullrichs played musical instruments.

The Ullrich cigar factory in The Dalles, Oregon (Bernard Ullrich, son of Anton, also operated a cigar factory in Campbellsport for many years.)

Wedding picture for Elizabeth Ullrich and Frank Gremminger. Elizabeth Ullrich was a sister of Anna Maria Ullrich Ertz, the grandmother of Connie & sibs.

The family of Frank Gremminger & Elizabeth Ullrich

The Miller family of Campbellsport. Picture taken about 1945. Back row: Benno, George, Rita, Julia, & Florence. Front row: Eleanor, Agnes, and John.

Machtolsheim, Württemberg, Germany is the town from which Stephan Ertz came. Front and back views of the house in Machtolsheim, Germany, where Christian Ertz was born (Stephan’s grandfather). He was the paternal great-great-grandfather of Sidonie.

The house is no longer standing. (Note: In Germany the name Ertz is usually spelled Erz. In German, the z is pronounced like “ts”, so the t would not be necessary.)

Aerial view of Machtolsheim. Taken from a 4-seat airplane by S. Connie in 1995.

Machtolsheim from the town water tower. Georg Schmidt, the former Myor of the town, whose wife is a distant cousin of ours, gave me a tour of the village water tower, which was built while he was Myor. We took the elevator to the observation deck of the tower, which goes all around the tower. One can see many small towns, including a few where our Ertz ancestors lived.

Machtolsheim. The Erb houses (An Erz married an Erb.) The newish looking one is a renovation. Most families had two houses, one for the retired parents, and one for the young family. Barbara Erb was born in the now renovated house, in 1777. Bärbel Schneider and the family dog, Waschtl, are standing off to the side. Bärbel is an Erz, and is a 5th cousin to me, and I stayed at their house when I was there. (S. Connie)

The last night of my (S. Connie) visit to Machtolsheim, in 1995. The man at the left is the man of the house, Mathias Schneider, husband of Bärbel. Next is Hans Burkhardt, whose mother was an Erz, and who is related to me just as closely as Bärbel. Next is Bärbel. We enjoyed many a good conversation (in German!), late into the night: the history of the area, how people made a living, theology, the wars, the occupation forces after WWII, etc. They were in the American zone, but Laichingen, about 1 ½ miles away, where they did their shopping, was in the French zone. This amounted to quite an inconvenience, especially when the French were being French. Next to Bärbel is Eva, Hans Burhkardt’s wife. And finally there is Hans’ sister, Sister Lydia (she is a Lutheran nun)

This is a marriage record for two of our ancestors: Hans Dick & Dorothea Heinler, dated 22 April, 1572. It is from the Lutheran church in Temmenhausen, which is near Machtolsheim. (Our Ertz line was Lutheran.) The farther back one goes, the more different the writing becomes. There are 2 entries on this page. The top one is our ancestor.

Our Ullrich and Kinschner ancestors stemmed from Reichenberg, which was in Austria at that time. This is the first page of a letter Maria Tutzauer in Reichenberg, Austria (later Liberec, Czechoslovakia) wrote to her sister Anna Maria Kinschner Ullrich in Campbellsport, WI, USA, dated Oct. 14, 1888. I have scanned the front page because of the pictures of local places that form the border, and the extraordinary stationery. (It is an oversize sheet, to make 4 pages.) The old German script writing is exceptionally good, and easy to read. In it Maria Tutzauer updates Anna Maria on the well-being of herself and the 2 siblings who remained in Reichenberg. She speaks of a flood in the area. She also gave what little news she had about the 4 sibs who had emigrated to Brazil. As far as I know at this time, there were 9 children in her family. Two (Anna Maria and Barbara) emigrated to the US and settled in the Milwaukee area. Anna Maria married Anton Ullrich, and Barbara married Conrad Botzen. Added notes: there is a large population of people in Brazil who are descended from Germans who settled in the area in the 19th century. The area in Austria (later Czechoslovakia) from which this family came was part of the Sudetenland. It had been settled by Germans many centuries before. However, the people of German descent were expelled from the area after WWII.

This map shows the area from which Christina Klein and her family came. It is in the Rhineland, east of Trier. It is a bit easier to find Bengel on the next picture, where we zoom in close to Bengel. Bengel is in the very center. Our ancestors lived in a number of the other area towns as well. It is wine growing territory.

Pictures of the History of Sidonie Ertz