Grunert, Moritz F.

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• Biography: found online at Find a Grave
• Immigration: 25 Aug 1852, New York, New York, New York, USA; on the ship "Agmes" from Bremen
• Moved: Abt 1854, Ellington, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; moved from Chicago
• Military Service: 13 Aug 1862; Civil War Corporal, Company D, Wisconsin 21st Infantry
• Biography: 1911; History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin Page 0847

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Biography:
Was in Co D 21st Reg.,Wis Vol. Inf. in the Great Civil War.Was in the battle of Look Out Moutain etc,wounded and sent to the hospital in Nashvill,TN.Because of his very leadgable penmanship he was keapt on as a transcriber for the hospital.
Moritz was a man of many talents from a Weaver,Farmer,Town Clerk and Justice of the Peace for the village of Ellington (Stephensville).
He married Cynthia Jane Heath in the home of her parents; Haratio H. Heath and Sarah Ann Winn, on 15 Sep 1862 and within a few days went off to the Great War for his new country.
After his return,he and Cnythia had seven children:

Estelle Emily Grunert-11 Jul 1866-May 1936
Carolyn May Grunert-Tabor-7 Feb 1868-11 Jan 1947
Horatio Russell Grunert-10 Oct 1869-11 Jan 1949
Ann Elizabeth Grunert-Apel-15 Mar 1873-22 May 1947
Norman Hugo Grunert-1 Nov 1875-21 Feb 1935
Sarah Mathilda Grunert-Breitrick-15 Apr 1878-11 Sep 1915
Chauncey Maurice Grunert-15 Jul 1886-17 Oct 1966

Military Service:
Maurice F Grunert
Corporal, Company D, Wisconsin 21st Infantry
Enlisted 13 Aug 1862
Mustered out 16 May 1865
Wisconsin
Survived the War - Yes
Enlisted in Company D, Wisconsin 21st Infantry Regiment on 13 Aug 1862. Mustered out on 16 May 1865.
Ellington, Wisconsin

Biography:
MORITZ F. GRUNERT, who during a long period of years was engaged in agricultural pursuits in Ellington township, was one of his section's most highly esteemed citizens, and in his death, which occurred in January, 1907, Outagamie county lost a good citizen and a public official of the highest integrity. Mr. Grunert was a son of Johann Grunert, who came to this country from Germany with his wife and family during the '50s, and Moritz F. Grunert emigrated to the United States in 1850, when he was twenty years of age. He first settled in New York, from whence he went to Chicago, working by the day for a short time. In 1854 he came to Ellington township and bought land near the present village of Stephensville. In 1862 he was married to Cynthia J. Heath, born in New York State, daughter of Horatio Heath, who was one of the very first settlers of Stephensville, being connected with the lumber mill. The day following his marriage Mr. Grunert joined his company, Company D, of the Twenty-first Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, he having enlisted for service in the Civil War, and after three years of brave and meritorious service received his honorable discharge and returned to the farm. His health having been seriously impaired by the hardships of army life, Mr. Grunert at this time sold his property and moved to the village of Stephensville, where he remained for several years, then buying a property just east of the village, where he was engaged in farming up to the time of his death. For fifteen years he held the office of township clerk and he was also a member of the township board for many years, bringing to his official positions those traits of character that make for honest and efficient public service. He was a member of the German Lutheran Church, while his wife, who died in 1905, held membership with the Methodist denomination. They had a family of seven children, all of whom are living: Estella, Carrie, Horatio, Anna, Norman, Sarah and Chauncey.

Moritz married Heath, Cynthia 23 Aug 1862. Cynthia (daughter of Heath, Horatio and Unknown, UnknownF) was born 11 Aug 1845, Rossie, St. Lawrence, New York, USA; died 16 Feb 1905, Ellington, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; was buried , Ellington Union Cemetery, Stephensville, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Biography:
From relative (a genealogist) Lawrence Grunert;
Estelle was a School teacher of the highest quality.Estelle was honest,truthful in everything and highly respected by everyone that knew her or knew of her.She is my great aunt and it is a loss that I never knew her for she had a knowledge of information to give had that special "something" to make you feel wonderful and of great worth.
Estelle never married but her teaching was her family even when she raised her nephew, Moritz after his mother Daisy passed on.She adored little Moritz and raised him right and instilled in him the proper tools to suceed in life. He used them but in a different way then what she intended...

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• Obituary: 12 Jan 1949; APC

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Horatio had a special love for his Daisy and was never the same after her death as a result of a child birth problem.Her death came a short time after my father,Moritz Horitz.Horatio didn't raise Moritz as that was left to Estelle Emily,whom did a splended job until the brown bottle caught up with dear ole dad. Although he wasn't the only one with that problem.
The family became much closer as the years went on as they all lived closer to each other in the ruel area in Monico,Wi.
Grandpa Grunert died doing what he loved to do and that was to be working in the woods and his trusted dog by his side. Fact is it was his trusted dog that was the one to go get help from Delbert,although it was too late.

Obituary:
Former Appleton Man Found Dead In The North Woods.
Horatio Grunert,70,formerly of Stephensville and Appleton,was found dead in the woods near his home,three miles east of Monico,last night when his son,Delbert,with whom he was living,investigated the return of his horse unattended.
The son said the elder Grunert had gone into the woods during the afternoon to cut firewood.
Survivors are two sons,Delbert of Monico and Moritz of Prentice,and one brother,Chauncey of Appleton.
Grunert was born in Stephensville on Oct 10,1879,and went to Antigo in 1911 to farm. He lived in Appleton for about three years in the early 1920's and during the war worked in a printing plant in Milwaukee. Two years ago he moved to Monico to stay with his son.
Taken from the Appleton Post Crescent on Wed,12 Jan,1949.

Horatio — Blackwood, Daisy Estelle. Daisy (daughter of Blackwood, Joel Scott and Packard, Gertude Estelle) was born 10 Oct 1877, Stephensville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; died 26 Jun 1915, Stephensville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; was buried , Ellington Union Cemetery, Stephensville, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Obituary: 18 Oct 1966; Appleton Post Crescent

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Obituary:
Chauncey Grunert 7/15/1886 10/17/1966 Post Crescent 10/18/1966 B 8