Laurina Hildagard Siegl, daughter of Ulrich Siegl and Anna Zipperer, was * born on Tuesday, 11 March 1902 in Sheboygan, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, USA.^1,2 On Thursday, 28 June 1923, Laurina Hildagard, age 21, oo married Robert (nmn) Ristenpadt, age 25, in Sheboygan, Sheboygan County.¹ She was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Sheboygan.¹

     Luanne Siegel, daughter of Frank J. Siegel and Hedwig E. Hertel, was * born on Tuesday, 20 April 1943.^1,2

     Margaret Siegl, daughter of Anton Siegl and Margarethe Mühlbauer, was * born on Saturday, 20 October 1883 at Hüllbauerin Hausnummer 7 (59), Obervollmau, District of Taus, Bohemia, Austria.¹ In 1905, Margaret oo married Karl Semmelbauer in Vollmau (Folmava, Eisenstein, Boehmen Koenigreich, Austria.^2,3
     The residence of Karl and Margaret in 1905 was in Hausnummer 8, Obervollmau, District of Taus.

     Margaretha Siegl, daughter of Alois Siegl and Margaret Rieß, was * born on Monday, 03 December 1849 at Hüllbauerin Hausnummer 7 (59), Obervollmau, Eisenstein, Boehmen Koenigreich, Austria.¹ On Wednesday, 03 February 1875, Margaretha, age 25, oo married Anton Hartl, age 33, at St. Antonius Parish, Vollmau (Folmava.¹ She is ± buried in Vollmau (Folmava).¹

     Maria Siegl, daughter of Anton Siegl and Margarethe Mühlbauer, was * born on Tuesday, 28 April 1874 at Hüllbauerin Hausnummer 7 (59), Obervollmau, District of Taus, Bohemia, Austria.^1,2 Maria oo married Johann Evangelist Kachelmeier.^3,4

     Maria Siegl, daughter of Franz Josef Siegl and Anna Lochner, was * born on Sunday, 12 December 1909 in Mühlbach, Bavaria, Germany.³ Say 1934, Maria oo married Arthur Kühl.

     Maria Siegl, daughter of Alois Siegl and Margaret Rieß, was * born on Saturday, 17 May 1845 at Hüllbauerin Hausnummer 7 (59), Obervollmau, Eisenstein, Boehmen Koenigreich, Austria.¹ On Monday, 27 June 1864, Maria, age 19, oo married Johann Michael Seidl, age 33, at St. Antonius Parish, Vollmau (Folmava.

     Maria Magdalena Sigel, daughter of Joachim Bernhard Sigel and Juliana Semmelbauer, was * born on Wednesday, 22 July 1818 at Hüllbauer Hausnummer 7 (59), Kameral Vollmau, Eisenstein, Boehmen Koenigreich, Austria.^1,2

     Maria Ursula Sigl, daughter of Georg Adam Sigl and Barbara Müllbauer, was ~ baptized on Friday, 17 April 1778 at Maria Himmelfahrt Catholic Church, Furth im Wald, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germanic Lands.¹ In 1803, Maria Ursula oo married Anton Silberhorn at Maria Himmelfahrt Catholic Church, Furth im Wald, Bavaria, Germanic Lands.²

     Marie Theresa Siegl, daughter of Ulrich Siegl and Anna Zipperer, was born on Monday, 09 January 1899 in Sheboygan, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, USA.^1,2,3 Marie Theresa oo married John Sheets.¹ Marie + died, at the age of 83 years, in February 1982.³

     Mary Siegel, daughter of Joseph Tirschl Siegel and Magdalena Tuschl, was * born on Monday, 22 May 1911 in Valders, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, USA.^1,2 [obituary identifies death on 23 May] On Friday, 12 June 1931, Mary, age 20, oo married Arthur J. Waniger, age 21, at Holy Family Convent, Silver Lake, Wisconsin, USA.^3,2

     Max Siegl, son of Franz Josef Siegl and Anna Lochner, was * born on Wednesday, 13 January 1915 in Mühlbach, Bavaria, Germany.^2,1 He was buried in Bad Neustadt.³

     Raymond Siegel, son of Joseph Tirschl Siegel and Magdalena Tuschl, was * born on Sunday, 09 April 1905.^1,2 On Thursday, 20 November 1930, Raymond, age 25, oo married Esther Wetzlaff, age 26.¹

     Robert Siegl, son of Johann Siegl and Theresia Seidl, was * born on Wednesday, 18 February 1920 at Hüllbauer hausnummer 7 (59), Vollmau (Folmava), District of Taus, Bohemia.¹
      His picture can be found on page 39 in the book Erinnerungen an Vollmau.

     Brother Robert James Siegel C.S.C., son of George John Siegel and Erma Marie Lutz, was * born on Sunday, 04 November 1928 in Sheboygan, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, USA.^1,2,3

     Terrence Carlos Siegl, son of Anthony Joseph Siegl and Leona Elizabeth Weusauer, was born on Sunday, 05 November 1939 in Sheboygan, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, USA.¹ He was buried in the Luthern Cemetery, Sheboygan.¹

     Theresia Siegl, daughter of Joachim Bernhard Sigel and Juliana Semmelbauer, was * born on Thursday, 15 September 1808 at Hausnummer 7 (59), Vollmau (Folmava), Eisenstein, Boehmen Koenigreich, Austria.¹ On Monday, 06 February 1832, Theresia, age 23, oo married Franz Macht, age 27, at St. Antonius Parish, Vollmau (Folmava), District of Taus, Bohemia.² She is ± buried in Vollmau (Folmava), District of Taus, Bohemia, Austria.³

     Theresia Siegl, daughter of Frantz Siegl and Maria Kral, was * born on Wednesday, 09 November 1859.¹

     Theresia Siegl, daughter of Alois Siegl and Margaret Rieß, was * born on Friday, 13 June 1851 at Hüllbauerin Hausnummer 7 (59), Obervollmau, District of Eisenstein, Boehmen Koenigreich, Austria.¹

     Ulrich Siegl, son of Frantz Siegl and Anna Maria Tirschl, was born on Saturday, 14 March 1868 in Maxberg, Bohemia, Austria.¹ On Saturday, 07 September 1895, Ulrich, age 27, oo married Anna Zipperer, age 19, in Sheboygan, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, USA.² He was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Sheboygan, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, USA.²
     He emigrated at age 19 from Maxberg departing in April 1887 along with brother Karl (Charles). For 30 years Ulrich worked at the family run Siegl Dairy, Sheboygan, retiring in 1936.

Passed along to the family by his grandson Thomas, son of Anthony.

Produce:

In the months of April - May, many different kinds of fruit and vegetables were grown; the usual beans, corn, potatoes; strawberries and raspberries; cherries, apples, pears, plums and the not so common gooseberries, chock cherries and crab apples. Much of the food was eaten only minutes after harvesting- picking, fresh! Most was canned and preserved for the coming winter and early spring; tomatoes, pickles and pears.

While some cabbage was eaten fresh for cabbage slaw and cooked with the pork from the hogs they raised, most was cut and placed in layers of salt in the basement fruit cellar to ferment - making sauerkraut for the entire year. Carrots kept like brussels sprouts into late fall in the garden and pulled out fresh into December for both vegetables can withstand hard frosts! Leftover carrots were placed in clean dry sand and kept for all winter use.

Raspberries, blueberries, apples and cherries were eaten fresh but also were used much for making delicious home made pies from scratch. The apples were sliced thinly and put on the side of the porch to dry in the fall season. The dried apple slices were then stored and used to make great tasting pies all winter long and even into the up coming spring and summer seasons! --- and what does any person do with chock cherries, this story teller knows nothing about.

At my dad Anthony Siegl's home I planted ground cherries and adding simple sugar and boiling them ten minutes or so to make very delicious jam.

Siegl Dairy From About 1900 To 1935:

Grandfather Ulrich (1868-1946) and his oldest son Anthony, my father, brought wild horses from Wyoming and Montana to be trained and used to pull the milk wagons for their dairy. Ulrich's younger son, my uncle, and hired hands also were employed at the dairy. After being rounded up out West, the horses were shipped here. Father rode them bareback to gradually tame them. After several weeks of that training, the horses were calm enough to be hitched alongside a much calmer trained veteran wagon-pulling horse and taken on the milk route until the wild horse learned the "start" - "stop" signal and how to maneuver through motor vehicle traffic - comparatively few vehicles were on the roads then.

One had to be very careful when feeding the horses, however. On occasion, a horse would be fed two quarts of oats in a day's time instead of only the allowable one quart per day. The horse then became very wild, much like over feeding children today.

One of grandfather's milk wagons was struck by a speeding Chicago and Northwestern train on 24 April 1913. The occupant and driver of the wagon, twenty year old Erwin Zschetzaske was killed instantly, along with the horse. Because the train was running late, it was thundering along at a speed estimated at 55 miles per hour within the city of Sheboygan.

Because there was no refrigeration to cool and store the milk in those days, dairy employees had to work seven days a week processing and delivering milk and the other numerous dairy products small dairies produced. None of the small dairies in those days were unionized, so none of the employees and owner/managers had even a single Saturday or Sunday off.

While some of the incoming milk was used for fresh milk, most was processed to make other milk derived products: many kinds of cheese like American, brick, cheddar, cottage cheese, hand cheese - small cheese formed by manual hand squeezing and aged one year or more, Koch Kalse or in English - cook cheese, a very soft spreadable cheese for sandwiches etc., and of course, butter and ice cream. From the milk fat and whey the watery, thin mostly liquid left over after making cheese, this was fed to the pigs. Today most whey is used to make human food - processed cheese - we humans now eat.

As the family of eleven - grandparents, Uncle Charlie - grandpa's older brother (Karl Siegl), eight children, neighbors, etc. ate the fresh veggies, fruit etc. from the garden all summer and autumn. The left overs were either fed to the fast growing pigs, chickens, geese or put into the compost pile for the next summer mulch; these included the tougher outer cabbage leaves, celery and carrot stalks, corn husks and stocks. Nothing was wasted.

Grandma raised the chickens and geese herself so the family had fresh eggs, chicken and goose meat all year long with, of course, fresh milk each day from the lone dairy cow she milked - and yes - by hand.

By about November the pigs grew from around ten pounds piglets, when bought in spring, to about one hundred pounds or more! By January - February many toped off at one hundred and fifty pounds. Grandpa and grandma would then butcher and process about one pig a month thru about April of the coming year. Both would then cut the meat into delicious pork chops, pork steaks, hams, spare-ribs etc. The ham meat was immediately salted and kept cured and stored in cool sheds; about one hog was butchered each month after about November thru spring. They made sultz from the pork meat, its bone marrow and natural gelatin remaining from cooking the pork and ham and adding vinegar and natural spices, simply delicious!

Grandma used much of the pig fat to make soup and used the lard for cooking and frying. She also made and canned pork hocks and pickled pig feet. Used and eaten as an appetizer which is made from the pork from the pig feet, vinegar, sugar and bone marrow liquids. She made blood sausage from bleeding the pig. She would then churn the blood by hand until it cooled and coagulated; salt, pork fat was added. Even though the very sound of blood sausage turns many people off from eating it, it is very nutritious for it is high in protein, vitamins and minerals - although big in cholesterol if to much fat is added.

Even though my grandparents made "head cheese" who wants to eat it? "Head" cheese does come from just that.

Back in years and history of humans and even in the 1900-1940 era, very little beef was bought and eaten - including almost unknown "hamburger" - except in the bigger eastern cities.

Only food bought in quantity elsewhere was sugar, coffee, salt, flower and a few spices. Almost all other food they either grew or raised themselves or traded surpluses with neighboring gardeners. Very independent small food producers and growers, these farmers.

Clothing, Shelter:

Every fall season, Grandma would gather all eight children around the big kitchen table and strip the wider, large feathers from the gooses sides and upper body; the smaller, thinner and much better insulating feathers from the gooses belly didn't require stripping. Then by hand she would make home made feather "bed" blankets stuffed with many goose feathers and they were very very warm.

Prior to about 1940, almost all houses used only two iron wood or coal stoves for heating. A small one in the kitchen and the larger one in the living room. The evidence of that can be seen by any person driving around the older areas of a city and noticing the two chimneys jutting from the roof. Some of the bigger houses had more than two stoves - never more than two chimneys but that is the exception. The old Siegl house was like most. To keep warm or to try and keep warm in Wisconsin's very cold winters, the Siegl children warmed bricks up on the stove and placed them at their feet in bed nights. Along with Grandma's very warm home made goose feather blankets, and four children sleeping in each bed, it must have been reasonably comfortable. What with the eleven residents in one house, the one big negative was acute lack of individual privacy and space!³

     Ulrich Aloysius Siegl Jr., son of Ulrich Siegl and Anna Zipperer, was born on Saturday, 24 December 1904 in Sheboygan, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, USA.^1,2,3 On Saturday, 04 April 1942, Ulrich Aloysius, age 37, oo married Gladys Emgard Hoffmann, age 20, in Kiel, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. He was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Sheboygan, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.¹ [Ballhorn Funeral Chapel, Sheboygan]

     Walburga Sigel, daughter of Joachim Bernhard Sigel and Juliana Semmelbauer, was * born on Friday, 28 September 1810 in Vollmau (Folmava, Eisenstein, Boehmen Koenigreich, Austria.¹ On Tuesday, 24 November 1840, Walburga, age 30, oo married Michael Kolbeck, age 39, at St. Antonius Catholic Church, Vollmau (Folmava).^2,3

     Wolfgang Sigl was * born say 1625. Before 1664, Wolfgang oo married Catharina (maiden name unknown).
      Note: The earliest generations of the Sigl family (Wolfgang married Katharina before 1664, Johann married Margarethe Barbara say 1693, and Johann Adam married Katharina say 1721) had their origins in Furth im Wald, Bavaria, Germanic Lands. Suspect Johann Adam moved the family two km east from Furth im Wald to Vollmau, Bohemia, Austria between 1730 and 1735. The grandson of Johann Adam, Joachim Bernhard, came into possession of Hüllbauer Hausnummer 7, now known to the family as the "Siegl homestead," in say 1805.

The “Siegl homestead" ceased to exist after the Sudetenland expulsion in 1945. First the barn and connecting building were removed. By the 1980s, the house building had deteriorated to a great degree and in the 1990s it was removed. In 2006, no vestiges of the buildings nor their foundations, and the surrounding trees could not be found. In that year a bulldozer had cleared the area.

Research Note: If the early families are to be filled out, research concentration will need to be made in Furth im Wald, the Catholic church records of Maria Himmelfahrt, and more importantly, the civil vital records.

Maria Himmelfahrt Catholic Church of Furth im Wald, Bavaria was established in 1664. Any records identifying family members before 1664 will need to be obtained from civil records.

What we can say is the Sigl family arrived in the Furth im Wald, Bavaria probably before 1664 and in Vollmau, Bohemia around 1730. In 1945, family members were expelled from the Sudetenland and by 1990 the homestead buildings in Vollmau (Folmava, Czech Republic) no longer existed.

     Wolfgang Sigl, son of Georg Adam Sigl and Barbara Müllbauer, was ~ baptized on Tuesday, 16 July 1765 at Furth im Wald, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germanic Lands.¹

     Anton Silberhorn, son of Anton Wolfgang Silberhorn and Margaretha Codelin, was * born on Saturday, 28 July 1781 in Furth im Wald No. 162, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germanic Lands.^2,3 In 1803, Anton oo married Maria Ursula Sigl at Maria Himmelfahrt Catholic Church, Furth im Wald, Bavaria, Germanic Lands.⁴

     Anton Wolfgang Silberhorn was * born say 1752. Say 1777, Anton Wolfgang oo married Margaretha Codelin.

     Josephine Simmon was * born say 1865 in Norway.¹ Say 1890, Josephine oo married John Osborne.¹

     Dorothy Simon was * born on Thursday, 29 May 1924.² Dorothy + died, at the age of 68 years, in July 1992.²

     Maria Simons was * born say 1862. Say 1887, Maria oo married Peter Kircher.