The following family photographs and biographies were provided by Charles F. Widger

STOLZENBURG:

Wilhelm (1839 - 1921) and Friederike nee STREECK (1845 - 1922) were married in 1865 in Anklam, Germany (Vorpommern), where they were both born.  There, they had three children, Herman (1868 - 1955), Emma (1870 - 1063), and Anna (1872 - 1919). Wilhelm, being a younger brother, immigrated about 1880, after the death of his father, with his family to the USA. A second brother, Karl, immigrated about the same time to England, where he married; there Karl and his wife had 8 offspring.

After a short time in Hoboken, NJ, Wilhelm moved his family to Danville, IL, where a fourth child, William (1881 - 1900), was born. In March of 1883, the family arrived at Blunt, SD. In June, 1883, they settled on land as a timber culture in Potter County, Lowell Township (T 120N, R 76W), Sec 27, SW quarter. The family farmed this land until 1892, when all but Anna moved to a homestead and timber culture on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, Clallam County. Herman was naturalized in Gettysburg in 1891

In October 1891, Anna married William CARTWRIGHT of Lowell Township, Sec 1. (attachment [Anna 1889] is a photo of Anna, taken in 1889 in Gettysburg). Wilhelm and Friederike sold their former Potter County holding to Anna in 1894. Anna and William remained in Walworth and Potter Counties until her death in 1919. They had two children, (William) Kenneth (b. 1892) and Hazel L. (b. 1893)

CARTWRIGHT:

William (1866 - 1937) was born in Birmingham, England, to Thomas (b. 1838) and Sarah nee MURCH? (b. 1837). He was the third of six siblings, Harriet, Fanny, Thomas, Louisa, and Horace Greeley. Louisa and Horace were born in Chicago, the others in Birmingham. The Cartwrights immigrated to the USA in 1868.

Although he had a land patent in Lowell Township, William Cartwright also held land in Walworth County, BB Township (T121N, R75W), Sec 7, SE quarter. Horace also had a homestead in this township, Sec 32, NW quarter. Adjacent to this propery, Thomas Cartwright held propery in Sec 31, NE quarter.

William and Anna (who became known as Annie) lived on the Thomas Cartwright homestead in 1900 and 1905. They moved their family to Gettysburg in April, 1908. Their house at the SW corner of Garfield Avenue and Potter Street still stands, today

Annie was active in the Methodist Church. William became active politically, serving both as a councilman and as mayor of Gettysburg. After a period of retirement from farming, he became agent for Farmers Elevator Company, in which capacity he is listed in the 1916 - 1917 Gettysburg city directory.

Annie died in her house in Gettysburg on her 47th birthday, 22 December 1919, after a period of deteriorating health over a span of several months. Following her death, William moved to Long Beach, California, where he subsequently remarried. William died there in November 1937; earlier that year, he had visited Gettysburg where he appeared in very good health. His body was returned through arrangements by Kenneth to Gettysburg for services. Both William and Annie are interred in Gettysburg cemetery.

By 1937, Kenneth was living in Grand Island, NE, and Hazel had married S. A. Hanson, of Meridian, TX. At that time, she had one child, William Oliver. William was survived by his two older sisters, Harriet and Fanny, and his younger brother, Horace.

Horace Greeley Cartwright (b. 1872) married Mabel Rosetta nee TANNER (b. 1872). They had three children, William S (b. 1890), Evva (b. 1894) and Thomas M. (b. 1898). Horace began a dray business in Selby, SD in 1905. By 1937, he was living in Seattle, WA.