Caroline "Lena" Christine Alwin

Caroline "Lena" Christine Alwin[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23]

Female 1895 - 1987  (91 years)


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  • Name Caroline "Lena" Christine Alwin  [3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 23
    Birth Dec 1894  Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Birth 9 Dec 1895  Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 14, 23
    Gender Female 
    Residence Sumpter Find all individuals with events at this location  [21
    Residence 1900  Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    • Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head: Daughter
    Residence 1 Jun 1905  Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
    Residence 1910  Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    • Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
    Residence 1920  West Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    • Relation to Head: Daughter; Residence Marital Status: Single
    Residence 1930  Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    • Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Wife
    Residence 1935  Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Residence 2 Jun 1937  Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [13
    Residence 1 Apr 1940  Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife
    Residence 1950  Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [23
    Death 8 Apr 1987  Reedsburg, Sauk, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 12, 14
    Burial Bluffview, Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States of America Find all individuals with events at this location  [14
    Person ID I290156003158  Alwin2025
    Last Modified 23 Apr 2025 

    Father William August Rudolph Alwin, *,   b. 4 Jul 1861, Honey Creek Township, Sauk, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Apr 1937, Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States of America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years) 
    Mother Bertha Marie Graf, *,   b. 22 Oct 1871, Sumpter Township, Sauk, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Feb 1926, Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years) 
    Marriage 22 Oct 1890  Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10, 24, 25
    Family ID F5766  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Earl Ralph McGilvra,   b. 22 Jun 1897, Sumpter, Sauk County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Nov 1977, Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Marriage 1 Jun 1921  Baraboo, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Laverne Russel McGilvra,   b. 30 May 1922, Sumpter, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Apr 1997, Reedsburg, Sauk, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
     2. Lillian Phyllis McGilvra,   b. 27 Jan 1924, Baraboo, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Nov 2002, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
     3. Marjorie Jeanne McGilvra,   b. 11 Sep 1926, Baraboo, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Jun 2000, Austin, Mower County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
    Family ID F12720  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Apr 2025 

  • Sources 
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    25. [S975323565] 1918, Biography of William Alwin.
      WILLIAM ALWIN is one of the native sons of Sauk County, and has ordered his life along the pleasant and not unprofitable lines of agricul- ture and owns one of the notable farms of Baraboo Township. He was born in Honey Creek Township of Sauk County July 4, 1861, a son of Martin and Caroline (Radel) Alwin. His parents were born in Germany, were married there, and in 1856 crossed the Atlantic and came to Sauk County, Wisconsin. In Honey Creek Township they acquired a tract of land and developed it into a farm which has been in the family possession ever since. It is now owned by their son, Herman Alwin. They also acquired another farm about a mile away, and on that second place Martin Alwin spent his last years. He died in 1896, at the age of sixty-nine, and his widow passed away in 1903, aged sixty-nine. Martin Alwin began voting as a republican but sub- sequently became affiliated with the democratic party. He and his family were active* members of the German Lutheran Church at Leland in Honey Creek Township. Their children were nine in number: Fred, Julious, Augusta, William, Herman, Martin, Amelia, Louisa and August, the last three being deceased. HISTORY OF SAUK COUNTY Mr. William Alwin grew up on the old homestead farm. He at- tended the local public schools and also the Sauk City High School. For over thirty years he has been prosperously and -actively engaged in farming on his own account and is now the owner of a place of 260 acres in Baraboo Township. He has thrifty and well tended fields and does considerable stock raising. He also owns a block of stock in the Excelsior Cooperative Creamery Company of Baraboo. Politically Mr. Alwin is a republican, but active merely as a voter and never an aspirant for office. He is a member of the Lutheran Church at Baraboo. On October 22, 1890, he married Miss Bertha Graf, who was born in Sumpter Township of Sauk County August 30, 1871, a daughter of Christian and Louisa (Diebel) Graf. Both her parents were born in Germany but came to this country and to Wisconsin when young and were married in Sumpter Township. Her mother was thirteen years of age when she came to Sauk County with her parents, Martin and Christiana (Hansen) Diebel. That was in 1848. Martin Diebel and wife spent their last years in Sumpter Township on their farm. Christian Graf was a carpenter by trade and located in Sumpter Township in 1855. Mrs. Alwin's mother had first married Carl Schied, and by that marriage there were two children: Christina, wife of Frank Eschenbeck, and Fred, now deceased. Mrs. Alwin was one of six chil- dren: Henry, Louisa, Charles, Herman, Bertha and William, Charles and William being deceased. Mrs. Alwin's father died at Prairie du Sac in 1908, at the age of eighty-three, and her mother passed away October 29, 1910, at the age of seventy-five. Mr. and Mrs. Alwin have six children, William C., Selma, Caroline, Martin, Esther and Rodger. Selma married Fred Kuntzelnan and their two children are Lasetta and Harold. Caroline graduated from the Sauk County Normal and for the past four years has taught at Baraboo Township. The youngest child, Rodger, though only fourteen years of age, is now in the third year of the Baraboo High School.
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