Clemann Family

Wilhelm Clemann, my great grandfather, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark about 1848 and died about 1928.  Wilhelm married Ellen Nora Liebcher on February 18, 1871 in Chicago, Illinois.  Ellen was born in Germany abt 1850 and died on February 18, 1901 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.   Wilhelm and Ellen lost all their belongings the same year they were married in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.  William was a "cooper", a barrel maker by trade.

Together, Wilhelm and Ellen had nine children:

William Clemann, my great uncle, was the son of Wilhelm Clemann and Ellen Nora Liebcher.  He was born in Louisville, KY. on January 3, 1877 and died in Los Angeles, CA. on July 22, 1941.  William married Ethel Harriet Bartlett in September of 1908 in Benzie County, MI..  Ethel born November 22, 1889 in Marshall County, Indiana, died on December 28, 1987 in Los Angeles. 

William's father, Wilhelm, was a "cooper" (a barrel maker), and when William was young, he would help his father by using the bellows to keep the fires just right.  William and Ethel were not wealthy by any means, but William told a fellow worker that he was eight times a millionaire.  When asked what he meant, he said that each of his children made him a millionaire.

William's Gravesite
Ethel's Gravesite

Together, William and Ethel had eight children:

Edward Clemann was the brother of my grandmother Emily.  It is said that his birth name was Adie but he didn't like it and changed it to Eddie.  As far as any information I have, he and his wife Maud lived in Oshkosh, Wisconsin  all their lives and, they are both buried there.  After Maud's death, abt 1965, Eddie spent the winters in Bradenton, Florida with his sister Emily.  Eddie was born on April 9, 1885 and died in May of 1968. 

Nora Clemann, the daughter of William and Ellen Clemann, was born on December 17, 1878, in Louisville, Kentucky.  She died on April 7, 1916 in Oshkosh, WI of an illness.  The Family Bible lists her name in the deaths as Nora Clemann Voelkel. 

Emily (aka Mildred) was born on October 5, 1889 in Ripon, Wisconsin to Wilhelm Clemann and Ellen Liebcher, and died in 1976 in Warren, Michigan.  Emily's first husband was  Milton Rose, the father of Milton E. Rose who died at 6 months in 1916 and Elberta Rose Caswell, my mother.  Her second husband was Hal Brown McClelland born April 11, 1880 in Ohio and died January 8, 1961 in Florida.  Hal was a farmer and carpenter by trade, and they had no children.   Hal and Emily are buried in the Manasota Cemetery in Oneco, Fl.

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Thanks to Harriet Sharples for providing some of the information on the Clemann family and the pictures of Ethel and William Clemann and Nora Clemann.
Photo of William Clemann holding grand daughters courtesy of LeOna Oxford.

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