Anna (Wingrove) Wege 1884 - 1968

Born: February 15, 1884 in England

Died: January, 1968 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Neenah, Wisconsin.

Spouse: William O. Wege b. June 11, 1881, d. December 5, 1950. Married after 1900.

(Anna was still single as of the 1900 Census, but is married and has her first child in 1903.)

Children: Frank C. Wege, b. September 7, 1903, d. November 5, 1974, also buried in Neenah, WI. Married Viola Vetter and had four children.

Ethel Wege, b. December 7, 1912 or 1915, m. Ralph Stiegler, probably in Connecticut, d. October, 1985 in Florida.

Occupation: Servant (More below)

Father’s name: William Henry Wingrove (b. December 29, 1854 d. June 5, 1894 in Neenah, Wisconsin)

Birth Place: Birmingham, England

Mother’s name: Fanny (Joyner or Joiner) Wingrove (b. September 15, 1862, d. January 19, 1939 in Neenah. Wisconsin.) (Fanny married a second time to Gustaff Dordel.)

Birth Place: Hall Green, Birmingham, England

Siblings: Florence Wingrove

Albert F. Wingrove

Walter Henry Wingrove

William J. Wingrove (?) d. May 17, 1948

George Wingrove

In the 1900 US Census, we find Anna working as a servant in Neenah, Wisconsin. (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wingrove/1900-WI-WENGROVE-ANNA-17.gif) Servant could mean many things, including assisting with health care or nursing for the elderly. And indeed there was a 71 year old mother in the household. She was in the employ of William Gilbert and his family. They were the founders of a large paper mill known as Gilbert papers. The census states that she was born in Wisconsin and that her father was English. The mother’s info and much of the rest of the page is illegible. Here is some information about the Gilbert family:

Term: Gilbert, William 1827 - 1900

Definition: paper manufacturer, b. Philadelphia, Pa. He moved to Chicago in 1860, where he engaged in the wholesale paper business until his firm was destroyed by the fire of 1871. He then turned his interests to the Fox River valley in Wisconsin, and in 1881 built the first paper mill in Menasha in partnership with George A. Whiting (q.v.). In 1886 he sold his interest to Whiting, and in 1887 moved to Neenah. In the same year he founded the Gilbert Paper Co. of Menasha in partnership with his sons, George, Albert, Theodore, and William M. He was president of this firm from 1887 to 1900. On the death of his father WILLIAM MARKLEY GILBERT was elected president of the company, serving in this capacity from 1900 to 1926. He was also chairman of the board of the National Manufacturers' Bank of Neenah. Menasha Evening Breeze, Feb. 7, 9, 1900; Neenah Daily News-Times, Jan. 12, 1926; W. A. Titus, Hist. of the Fox River Valley ... (3 vols., Chicago, 1930); Columbian Biog. Dict. ... Wis. (Chicago, 1895).

[Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin biography]

Her permanent late residence in Neenah, Wisconsin was 214 Tyler Street.

Husband William O. Wege was also referred to as Carl. He was born in Labes, Germany on June 11, 1881. While his wife Anna did housework at the William Gilbert home, William was a Machine Tender and Shift Foreman at the Gilbert Paper Company in Neenah, Wisconsin. Apparently he had the nickname “Pork Chop” because he would bring a pork chop in for lunch each Friday, being sure to share the aroma of his cooking with his meatless-Catholic co-workers. He died of diabetes December 5, 1950 and is also buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Neenah, WI. He is a descendant of Carl Frederick Ferdinand Wege.

Anna, it is said, was normally a quiet woman who was prone to pacing the floor and raisinge holy hell with husband William if he made the mistake of staying out too late with his buddies. After William’s passing, she moved in with daughter Ethel. Anna likely died in 1968 in Florida and is buried by her husband in Oak Hill Cemetery in Neenah, Wisconsin.

Details regarding William and Anna are from the Wingrove World genealogy website by Michael Wingrove

I’m noticing that an August Wege, born in 1861, filed a Declaration of Intent for citizenship in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. August arrived in New York in April of 1879. The Declaration is dated October 21, 1884. I’m not certain if he is related or not. Found on Manitowoc Genealogy at: http://www.2manitowoc.com/DIw.html

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