Verlena Kowalke b. 21 Apr 1924 Leland, Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA d. 12 Sep 2018: Our Family History

Verlena Kowalke

1924 - 2018 (94 years)

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Name	Verlena Kowalke [2, 3, 4, 5]
Birth	21 Apr 1924	Leland, Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA [2, 3, 4, 5]
Baptism	24 Apr 1924	Leland, Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA [5]
Gender	Female
Residence	1930	Sumpter, Sauk, Wisconsin, USA [4]
Residence	Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head: Daughter
Residence	1935	Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin [3]
Residence	1940	Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, USA [3]
Residence	Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head: Daughter
Residence	1986	Baraboo, WI [2]
Death	12 Sep 2018
Person ID	I292088338011	Alwin2025
Last Modified	23 Apr 2025

Father	Albert Whilhelm Kowalke, b. 4 Mar 1893, Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA d. 23 May 1966, Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA (Age 73 years)
Mother	Stella Anna Esther Mueller, b. 27 Feb 1903, Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin, USA d. 15 Dec 1971, Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, USA (Age 68 years)
Family ID	F3204	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Charles Edgar Fortune, Jr, b. 1925, Texas d. 1984 (Age 59 years)

Children

1. John Fortune

Family ID F6666 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 23 Apr 2025

[S965666108] Ancestry Family Tree.
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[S965665967] Year: 1940; Census Place: Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin; Roll: m-t0627-04523; Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 56-6.
[S965666717] Year: 1930; Census Place: Sumpter, Sauk, Wisconsin; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 0036; FHL microfilm: 2342343.
[S982236748] Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Archives; Elk Grove Village, Illinois; Congregational Records.

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My earliest European ancestors in North America were probably Nicolas Marsolet and Louis Hébert. However, one of my 8th great-grandmothers, the wife of Philippe Mius d'Entremont, was a Native North American of the Mi'kmaq tribe. Unfortunately, there is uncertainty about her name. She may have been called Kjipuktuk. In modern times, the name Marie Coyote Blanc has been assigned to her, but there is no evidence that this was actually her name. Her ancestors would obviously been in North America long before Europeans arrived.

The French-Canadian lines of my family tree can be confirmed by literaly thousands of DNA links that support the family tree as mapped out. And, due to a couple of lucky DNA links to 3rd cousins in Sweden, with well-documented family trees of their own, I can extend my Swedish roots back several centuries. The German links have proved much more difficult, and in most cases, I have been unable to trace my German ancestors much further back in time than their arrival in North America.