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Almshouse & Poorhouse Records -Almshouse children (orphans) sent to New Netherland (New York) from Amsterdam Holland on the ship De Waegh (The Weigh-House), August 1655 -Almshouse Records New York 1819-1840 -List of those who died while in Staten Island Quarantine May 1849-Dec. 1850 -Almshouse Records New York City 1855-1858 -Society for Relief of Half-Orphans & Destitute Children 1900, Manhattan New York -Milwaukee County Almshouse & Poor Farm Cemeteries Wisconsin List of Burials 1872-1892 -Milwaukee County Almshouse & Poor Farm Cemeteries Wisconsin List of Burials 1914-1934 -Milwaukee County Almshouse & Poor Farm Cemeteries Wisconsin List of Burials 1935-1955 -Milwaukee County Almshouse & Poor Farm Cemeteries Wisconsin List of Burials 1956-1974 Milwaukee County Almshouse & Poor Farm Cemeteries Wisconsin List of Burials The Milwaukee County Farm Cemetery (a.k.a. Potter's Field) was used during the years 1872-1974. This cemetery was used for the poorhouse inmates and also for burial of other indigent people and transients for whom no funds were available for burial. The cemetery may have been in use prior to 1872. However, there is no documentation of burials occurring before 1872. Due to the fact that there are nearly 6,400 names in the burial register book the names of the deceased have been separated into groups of years. The original site (Jennifer Fleischmann's Poorhouse Files) that contained these transcriptions was last updated in 2001 and has been offline since February 2006. Rather than see these names lost, Olive Tree Genealogy has given them a permanent home in its Almshouse, Poorhouse & Insane Asylums Section. Field of blood, field of the forgotten. The Potter's Field of Milwaukee County. A recent discovery of a forgotten pauper cemetery at the Milwaukee County Medical Center has profound and far-reaching ramifications. More than 5,000 are buried in this graveyard, compelling an investigation into the circumstances surrounding its loss. That the cemetery lies beneath county buildings without official knowledge is a disgrace. The proper dignity of a marked and undisturbed grave was denied to these former county residents because of their poverty. How this discovery is managed will reflect our commitment to both high ideals and the law. This project endeavors to reconstruct the origins of the pauper cemetery, containing a brief history of the poor in Milwaukee County, and an examination of the Almshouse, Milwaukee County's first medical institution. Finally, a postscript offers a parallel between the writings of Charles Dickens and the pauper cemetery. [ National Library of Medicine] MILWAUKEE COUNTY ALMSHOUSE AND POOR FARM CEMETERIES Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Burials Burials 1872-1892 Name Sex Age Date of Birth Date of Death Cause of Death Place of Death Martin, Sran F 38 1/1/1872 Confluent small pox MKE Hosp. 4th ward Salter, Maria F 21 1/13/1872 Peritonitis MKE Hosp. 2nd ward Herold, Peter M 28 2/6/1872 Variolae Harp, D. C. M 23 2/22/1872 Inflammation of brain St. Mary's Hospital Belden, Frank M 41 3/3/1872 Phthisis Pulmonalis MKE Hosp. 2nd ward Nortan F 4 mos . 3/5/1872 Convulsion Police Stn. 7th ward Sipperts, Carolina F 2.5 10/17/1869 5/27/1872 Flymann, (Infant) M 5/7/1872 5/7/1872 Stillborn Wauwatosa Sadler, ? M 4/10/1872 Drowning Menomonee River 8th ward Thompson, Amard M 32 12/25/1873  Accidental Drowning Murphy, Ellen F 60 1/1/1874 Broken neck/accidental fall from stairs Cole, James M 66 1/22/1874 Broken neck/accidental fall from stairs Bakriasan, Anna F 1 1/28/1874 Harvey, Peter M 42 8/1/1874 Private disease Schmidt, John M 58 9/21/1974 Delirium Tremens Co. Jail 7th ward Unknown M abt 35 10/27/1874 Accidentally drowned Milw. River 5th ward Unknown M 50-60 10/27/1874  accident by railroad U. West RR Williams, Ellen F 20 11/2/1874 Cramp disease Buffalo St. 3rd ward Peterson, G. M 30 11/27/1874 Congestive chills 5th ward Hoffmann, Wilhelm M 17 12/4/1874 accident House of Correction 11th Ward Nugent, Edward M 30 1/8/1875 accident 7th ward Johnson, Annie F 27 3/10/1875 Pyaemie Unknown M infant 3/15/1875 premature birth Unknown F infant 3/16/1875 premature birth Hackbart, Gottfried M 60 3/18/1875 Abcess of brain child M ? 3/30/1875 strangled Miller Brewery Christ, Dora F 16 4/3/1875 child M 4/19/1875 stillborn 10th ward Flugge, Gottlieb M 47 5/6/1875 Suicide 6th ward Matz, Christian M 61 6/17/1875 Suicide 2nd ward Jenkins, George M 15 7/5/1875 Accidentally drowned 4th ward Pilska, Francis F 3 weeks 7/22/1975 Convulsions 3rd ward Potts, Bridget F 43 08/07/1875 Overdose of wiskey 3rd ward Baumann, Aug. M 60 8/26/1975 Suicide Town of Franklin Graham, Randolph M 26 8/31/1875 Accidentally drowned 5th ward Bartsch, Friedrich M 46 9/3/1875 Suicide 11th ward Infant M 11/4/1875 Strangled 2nd ward Schwarting, Henry M 62 12/03/1875 Exposure Wauwatosa Arni, Adam M 66 12/31/1875 Suicide Co. Poor House Jordan, Alice F 25 01/03/1876 excessive drinking 7th ward Trebert, Christina F 75 2/3/1876 Chronic Bronchitis Parker, Marie F 62 2/20/1876 Murdered 3rd ward Liverlay, John M 35 3/15/1876 Suicide Milwaukee Buck, Andreas M 27 4/20/1876 Accidentally drowned 5th ward Satorius, Peter M 21 5/26/1876 Murdered England, Johan M 56 6/14/1876 Debility 6th ward Hoerner, John M 40 7/10/1876 Struck by lightening 11th ward Cummerford, John M 18 8/4/1876 Altmmiruree Mitchell, James M 26 8/8/1876 Accidentally drowned 3rd ward Riebe, Anna F 22 2/10/1877 Confluent small pox Stahl, Mina F 19 7/21/1877 Variola Montag, Carl M 57 1820 9/13/1877 Variola Scobez, Marie F 42 5/1835 11/11/1877 Phthsis Wiener, Anna F 45 11/20/1877 Cancer of Uterus Horner, Hettie F 20 12/7/1877 Variola Johnson, Nettie F 24 12/7/1877 Variola McCabe, J.W.A. M 39 12/13/1877 Variola Flowers, James M 29 12/25/1877 Variola Smith, Wm. M 23 4/5/1878 Amyoid degeneration of kidney Oleson, Martin M 3 7/1874 9/30/1878?  Scarlatina Vaughn, Edward M 50 10/5/1878 Pyaemia Kastner, Philomena F 48 7/8/1830 12/6/1878 Chronic Rheumatism Meyer, Emilie F 3yr 5 mos 1/3/1876 7/1/1879 Dypheric Croup Diel, Jacob M 74 10/4/1805 10/29/1879  Old Age Stephan, Alexander M 32 5/10/1880 Phthisis Milw. Insane Asylum Hasley, Mary F 32 5/31/1880 Phthysis Pulu. Fisher, (Infant) M 5 hrs 6/8/1880 6/8/1880 Pre. Birth/Convulsions Sommous, William M 28 1852 6/10/1880 Ceretritis Co. Hosp. Florence, Ivy F 5 days 6/10/1880 Convulsions Milw. Co. Hosp. Metz, Joseph M 40 6/21/1880 Endocarditis Co. Hosp. Lukas, Eva F 2wks 7/7/1880 7/21/1880 Tuterus Pares, Mary F 91 7/31/1880 Cirrhosis of liver Milw. Co. Hosp. West, Jennie F 3wks 7/6/1880 7/28/1880 Infantile Convulsions Milw. Co. Hosp. Danson, Mary Amanda F 21 8/20/1880 Pulmonary Phthisis Milw. Co. Hosp. Hatje, George M 59 8/22/1880 Cirrhosis of liver Co. Farm Rothber, (Infant) M 17 days 8/7/1880 8/24/1880 Inanition Milw. Co. Hosp. Dawson, Emma F 20 10/14/1860  9/4/1880 Phthsis Pulmonalis McCaffery, James M 76 1804 9/5/1880 Bright's Disease Milw. Co. Hosp. Holtz, Henry M 30 9/17/1880 Milw. Co. Hosp. Jones, George M 16 9/29/1880 Chronic Diarrhoea Milw. Co. Hosp. Herning, Adolf M 30 10/28/188 0  Chronic Inflammation of liver Milw. Co. Hosp. Beyer, Ferdinand M 41 11/2/1880 Chronic Pneumonia Milw. Co. Hosp. Grundler, Albert M 28 11/7/1880 Epilepsy Milw. Co. Hosp. Preiser, Henry M 60 11/12/188 0  Cirrhosis Milw. Co. Hosp. Johnson, Gustav M 23 11/20/188 0  Typhoid Fever Milw. Co. Hosp. Holsted, Avton M 34 11/23/188 0  Colloid Cancer of Abdomen Milw. Co. Hosp. Keating, Margaretha F 3 days 12/18/1880 12/21/1880 Cyanosis Milw. Co. Hosp. Sernnaudal, Franz M 46 12/27/1880 Cancer of liver Clarke, Patric M 69 12/30/1880 Cerebritis Milw. Co. Hosp. Hayet, A. P. M 21 12/31/1880 Typhoid Fever Milw. Co. Hosp. Keating, Emma D. F 27 12/31/1880 Peritonitis Milw. Co. Hosp. Hermes, Adolf M 34 1/16/1881 Pneumonia Milw. Co. Hosp. Fitzgerald, (Infant) F 17 days  1/14/1881 1/31/1881 Inanition Milw. Co. Hosp. Plumber, Frederick M 19 2/5/1881 Milw. Co. Hosp. Eckerkunst, Wilhemina F 37 2/6/1881 Pulmonary Phthisis Milw. Co. Hosp. Justmann, Chas. M 70 2/16/1881 Congestion of lungs Milw. Co. Hosp. Schmidt, Jacob M 11/4/1884 Schmidt, (Son) M 12/11/1884 Johnson, Ruby F 1/28/1885 Unknown Child ? 5/27/1885 Jacobson, Andrew M 6/28/1885 Reichert, (Child) ? 7/6/1885 Hartmann, Joseph M 7/15/1885 Unknown Foetus ? 7/23/1885 Unknown Male Babe M 8/3/1885 Perry, Frank Clinton M 8/20/1885 Unknown Female Babe F 9/14/1885 Unknown Female Babe F 10/17/1885 See, Michael M 12/2/1885 Anton, J. ? 1/2/1886 Rosanski, Christoph M 2/8/1886 Schwartz, Lilly F 2/26/1886 Schumann, Arthur M 4/30/1886 Unknown Man M 5/11/1886 Drowned Daly, (Child) ? 6/3/1886

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