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Note: Translation of August Gustav Zippel's birth certificate: On the basis of the Churchbook which is herewith officially certified, that to the fisherman August Zippel at Zutzer from his wife Wilhelmina, born Zochom, on two and twenty, twenty-second, January 1854 a son was born, who in the holy baptism on 12th February was given the name, August Gustav. Signed and sealed in Schloppe on 13th August 1872. Church seal in the Parish Schloppe. (The present day Polish town of Czlopa is about 4 kilometers from the present day Polish village of Czczuczarz, Prussian Zutzer. The old Prussian cemetery in Zutzer has been desecrated, the stones used for building and names defaced. The current residents told us that the communists made them do it. But I think they probably had much to hate the Germans for on their own after the second world war. In Czlopa there was still the foundation of the Lutheran Church where this birth was recorded but that is all. The Churchbook may have been in the town clerks records, but we got there on a Friday afternoon and he had gone home and would not come back.) Household Record 1880 United States Census ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------ Household: Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace August ZIPPLE Self M Male W 32 PRUS Fisherman PRUS PRUS Mary ZIPPLE Wife M Female W 23 WI Keeping House PRUS PRUS Charles ZIPPLE Brother S Male W 30 PRUS Fisherman PRUS PR US ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------ Source Information: Census Place Oconto, Oconto, Wisconsin Family History Library Film 1255440 NA Film Number T9-1440 Page Number 281D _________________________________________ (note: this is probably Mary Lenora.) Oconto County Reporter March 14, 1885 Died Mr. and Mrs. August Zipple lost their only child by death, Monday. The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon. The bereaved parents have the sympathy of all in their affliction. ____________________________________________________________ Oconto County Reporter May 7, 1908 Mr. and Mrs. Zipple will leave shortly for a trip to Germany. Note: this was the trip my Grandfather August told me about. He talked of the linden trees in Berlin, the new stores and fancy clothes. He had brought back many pictures for a stereoscope, fascinating to a four or five year old child in the 1930's. The pictures included Unter Den Linden, the Charlottenberg palace and the palace, Sans Souci, at Potsdam. He also explained to me that to go to his home village you go out of Berlin through the Brandenberg Gate and just keep going in a straight line for 90 miles. And that is exactly what you do. The elms line the road leading to his village for 10-15 miles, which is Highway 22 just as ours was in Wisconsin. He recreated this along his road, 22, for 5 miles in his new home in America by a large work group he got together and paid. The elms lived until the elm beetle came.
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