Detail: Mary Skroch
Maria (Mary) Skroch b.9-2-1858
in Poppelau, Opole, Poland
m.2-2-1874 in Arcadia, Trempealeau Co.,
WI d.8-13-1932 in Independence,
Trempealeau Co., WI (immigrated 5-18-1868 on
"Bavaria" to New York)
Maried: Jacob Kulig
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Jacob & Mary
(Skroch) Kulig
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Adults: Jacob
& Mary (Skroch) Kulig
Children:
Louis Kulig (back row)
Joseph, Agatha, William, Rose Mary
From Joan Murphy:
"The photo taken in Independence, Wisconsin with
the family of 5 children. My mother (Verna
Kulig Halama - daughter of William, the baby in
this picture) claims she also saw this same photo
about a year ago at her brother's house. My mother
knew all the people. It is the Jacob and Mary
(Skroch) Kulig family. Boy behind is Louis Kulig,
little boy on left is Joseph Kulig, little girl on
Jacob's lap is Agatha Kulig (she later married a
Maule), the baby in the mother's arms is William
Kulig (my grandfather), and the girl standing on
the right is Rose who became a nun. (Her name is
either Rose or Mary, I need to check that).
William Kulig was born in June of 1894 so that
dates that photo definitely in 1894 because of the
age of the baby." |
Jacob and
Mary Kulig's 58th Wedding Anniversary
Friday February 19th, 1932
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Subject: Jacob Kulig
article
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010
11:53:20 +0000
From: Joan Murphy
Attached is the article of Jacob
and Mary Kulig's 58th anniversary. My
mother had the entire Independence paper from
1932. Quite yellowed by now. I was
hesitant to send it before because I saw
descrepencies in the article. There were
really 11 children but the article says
10. They had lost 4 at very early ages
so maybe Jacob just didn't think of them all
as he was telling the story. Also I
can't figure out why Mary would have been
staying by Trempealeau when the farms were
east of Independence. She could have
been helping out other families as she got
older.
Joan
On February 2, 1932, Mr.
and Mrs.. Jaco'b Kulig celebrated their
58th wedding anniversary in a very Quiet
way at their home near SS.Peter &
Paul's church in Independence.
On July 22, 1853, Mr, Kulig was born in
Shalkowitz, Silesia, and in the spring of
1868, in, company with his brother
Hyacinth, and sister Agatha, he started
for the United States, where, they had
been told, was the land of freedom and
opportunity.
Many new and strange experiences were felt
by this boy of fifteen in the trip to
Hamburg, thence to Quebec, by rail to
Chicago, and across to La Crosse and up
the river to Trempealeau. Perhaps the most
thrilling was the sight of miles and miles
of rich farm land at that time only about
half settled, to this Polish boy who had
come from the crowded farming section of
central Europe.
He lived with his sister at North Creek,
near Arcadia, or the first few years,
learning the new methods and broadening
his experience to meet the many hardships
that tested the mettle of the Pioneers in
this country. Arcadia consisted of a
general store and a mill, and Independence
was located at New City and was merely a
crossroad junction.
When yet a boy, he worked for various of
the more settled farmers and before he was
twenty had gathered enough to homestead a
farm in Maule Coulee, marry, and begin his
real life's work.
About two weeks' before Jaeob Kullig
started to America in 1868, another party
left from Poppeleau, a town four miles
from Shalkowitz, and came through New York
to Trempealeau. In this party was a little
girl of ten, Mary Skroch, who was born in
Poppeleau September 2, 1858. She lived
with, relatives in Trempealeau until
February 2, 1874 when she married Jacob
Kulig and went with him to Maule Coulee.
Here they worked diligently, and through
unceasing toil and perseverance managed to
make a home for ten children, and as the
boys grew to manhood, bought them farms,
so that each would have a fair .start on
the rough road of life.
Pioneers with the fire and ambition of Mr.
and Mrs. Kulig are the sort of pioneers
that have helped to make Trempealeau
County the garden spot of Wisconsin.
Frugil , hardworking men that love the
land and help to build it up and keep it
in shape to produce year after year are
the backbone of the metoeric rise of the
United States from a series of colonies to
the place it holds today. The debt we owe
these people can never be repaid and only
words of commendation and praise can be
given which they richly deserve.
A few days ago, when asked for information
about the anniversary celebration, Mr.
Kulig was in the midst of a huge woodpile
that he was chopping up and handling an
axe in a manner to make anyone envious.
The thermometer was around zero, yet he
was rather reluctant to stop long enough
to give the information we asked. His wife
was also buisily engaged in housework and
both seemed to be enjoying the best of
health.
Their children are: Louis Kulig,
Independence; Joseph, Maule Coulee; Agatha
Maule, Whitehall; William, Maule Coulee;
Simon, Maule Coulee; and Bert, on farm
east of Independence. Those whom death has
claimed are Mary, a sister who died after
seventeen years of service; Thomas, who
lived only a week; Jacob, living a day;
Annie, three and a half years, and Frank,
one and a half years.
On May 29, l923, Hyacinth; a brother of
Jacob, celebrated his Golden wedding
anniversary, and on May of next year will
have been married 60 years. This is truly
a wonderful record of health and service
for any family. It is hoped that they will
enjoy their good health for some years to
come and enjoy the blessings of so rich a
life.
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Children:
Luis Kulig, DOB: 1881, DOD: 1955
Married ANNA SLABY, born 1897, died 1977
Children:
Layola, 1908
Mary, 1911, m. Dorsey Shemewerk, b. 1906; d.
1974.
Sandra Skenewerk, ?
Mary Low, ?
Aloizy, 1913, m. Eleanore Waldera
Children:
James, ?, m. Donna
Jerry, ?. m. Sue Reuter
Theresa, 1917, m. Benedict Bautch
Barbara, ?
Richard, ?
Bernard, 1921, m. Delores Walders, b. 1930.
Michael, ?
Debra, ?
Karen, ?
Fay, ?
Alphonse, b 1923, m. Virginia Wright
Kevin, ?
Kristine, ?
Brian, ?
Shawn, ?
Kimary, ?
Dominic, ? (died as infant)
Lewis, ? (died as infant)
Adolph, 1919; d. 1919 (died as infant)
Sister Rose Mary Kulig, 1888, DOD: 1920
Joseph P. Kulig, 1890, DOD: 1949
Married Patronella Bautch, b 1893.
Children:
Helen, ?, m. Aloizy
Sylla
Harry, 1916, m Eleanore Halama, b. 1921
Caroline, ?, m. Frank Prohop
Ralph, 1919, m. Vcitoria Rossa
Arthur, ?, m. Irene Marsolch
Patricia, ?, m. Joseph J. Gojmarec
Margaret, ?, m. Albert Woychick
Joe, ?, m. Bernice Smik
Jacob, ? (never married)
Agatha Kulig, 1892, DOD: 1948
Married Ignatz Maule, b. 1887, d. 1969.
Children:
Aloizy, 1913, d. 1930
(never married)
Celia, 1915 (never married)
Anna, 1917, m. Joseph Knusalla
Jerome, ?
Theresa, ?, m. Ralph Shumway
Tricia, ?
Ronald, ?, m. Donna Penderson
Jeffrey, ?
James, ?
Frank, 1919, d. 1972 (never married)
Clarance, 1923 (never married)
Genevieve, 1921, m. Kenneth Johnson
Dennis, ?
Dawn, ?
Dustin, ?
Roman, 1926, m. Joan Drahe
Judy, ?, m. Patuch
Carlson
Mary, ?, m. Gary Nudd
Michelle, ?
Roman Jr., ?
Velentine, 1929, d. 1961 (never married)
Ignatz (Henry), 1931, m. Barbara Peloroski
Charles, ?
Nancy, ?
David, ?
Agatha, 1933, m.
Married (1) Jacobs
Patricia, ?
Kathleen, ?
Gordon, ?
David, ?
Jeffrey, ?
Daniel, ?
Married (2) Clayton Arenson
William Kulig, 1894, DOD: 1964
Married (1) Elizabeth Wiench, b.1898, d. 1930
Children:
Verna, 1916, m. Aloizy
Halama, b. 1916
Bernice, 1920, m. Ruth Suchla, b. 1927
Adalph, 1921 (never married)
Eleanore, 1922, m. Art. Drangstueit, b. 1921
Clifford, 1923 (never married)
Clarance, 1924, m. Theresa Klink, b. 1929
Anton, 1926, m. Doris Gruntzel, b 1929
Adeline, 1927, m. Jospeh Puccini, b 1924
Edward, 1928, m. Arlene Killian, b 1937, d. 1977
Amy, ?
William, ?
William, 1930, d. 1935
Married (2) Julia Kwosek, b. 1913
Children:
Rosmary, 1935, m.
Bernice Sosalla, b. 1924
Rolland, 1937, m. Doris
Renetta, 1939, m. Ray Maule
Richard, 1941 (killed)
Robert, 1940, d. 1940
Ruth, ?, m. Martin Marsolek
Simon (Sam) Kulig, 1896, DOD: 1972
Married Elizabeth Kuka
Children:
Dorthy, ?, m. Rudy
Divorschach
Clara, ?, m. Lavern Schepard
Rudy, ?, m. Lucelle Klundby
Charles, ?
Clifford, 1919, d. 1919
Bert Kulig, 1898, DOD: 1966
Married Clara Rombalski, b.1901, d. 1958
Children:
Marcel, ?, m. Madeline
Peter, ?, m. Modesta Susa (no children)
Phillip, ?, d. 1933 (killed)
Thomas Kulig, ? (died as infant)
Jacob Kulig, ? (died as infant)
Frank Kulig, ? (died as infant)
Anna Kulig, ? (died as infant)
Separate data from Martin Pool's records:
Children:
- Jacob Kulig
b.bef.1880 d.bef.1880
- Thomas Kulig
b.bef.1880 d.bef.1880
- Frank Kulig
b.bef.1880 d.bef.1880
- Anna Kulig
b.bef.1880 d.bef.1880
- Ludwig "Louis" Kulig b.3-25-1881
in Trempealeau Co., WI d.abt.1955,
married nna Slaby
b.abt.1897 d.abt.1977
- Rose Mary Kulig b.abt.1888 in
Trempealeau Co., WI (became a
nun) d.abt.1920
- Joseph P. Kulig b.abt.1890 in
Trempealeau Co., WI d.1-5-1949 in
Independence, Trempealeau Co., WI, married Petronella
Bautch b.abt.1893
- Agatha Kulig b.abt.1892 in
Trempealeau Co., WI d.5-8-1948 in
Independence, Trempealeau Co., WI, married Ignatz
Maule b.abt.1887
d.abt.1969
- William (Willhelm) Kulig
b.6-24-1894 in Trempealeau Co., WI
m.10-16-1917 d.9-11-1964 in
Independence, Trempealeau Co., WI, married
Elizabeth Wiench b.11-17-1898 in
WI m.10-16-1917
d.9-10-1930
Children:
- Verna Kulig b.3-28-1919 in
Trempealeau Co., WI, married Aloizy
Halama b.abt.1916
From Joan Murphy, email 15 Apr 2010: "...I just
talked to my mother in Independence. I wanted
to confirm when she said she met Frank Skroch,
brother to her grandmother Mary (Mrs. Jacob
Kulig). My mother was working at the Roman
Skroch house and helping out. Roman was a
nephew to Frank. Roman raised pheasants and my
mother helped with the pheasants. She thought
she was about 17 or 18 and this would have been
around 1937 or 1938. She said Frank was short,
dressed in a suit, had a gold watch on a chain in
his pocket and looked just like her
grandmother. She said he came over there for
dinner. She later told her father (William
Kulig) about it and he said when he was little he
went with his mother (Mrs. Jacob Kulig) to North
Dakota on a train for a visit. He said how he
got sick on the train and that is what stuck in his
mind about the trip."
Children:
- Joan (Halama) Murphy (family genealogist)
Married: ? Murphy
- Bernice Kulig b.abt.1920
- Adolph Kulig b.abt.1921
- Eleanore Kulig b.abt.1922
- Clifford Kulig b.abt.1923
- Clarence Kulig b.abt.1924
- Anton Kulig b.abt.1926
- Adeline Kulig b.abt.1927
- Edward Kulig b.abt.1928
- William Kulig
b.abt.1930 d.abt.1935
- Simon "Sam" Kulig b.abt.1896 in
Trempealeau Co., WI d.abt.1972
- Bartek "Bert" Kulig b.abt.1898 in
Trempealeau Co., WI d.abt.1966
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