Anna Broege Brecklin (1888-1918)

Anna Broege Brecklin circa 1911

Anna Broege was born 4 April 1888 to August Broege and Magdalena Schliem Broege in Wayne Township, Lafayette County, Wisconsin. [1]  Irving Berlin,  T.E. Lawrence, and T.S. Eliot were born the same year.  Benjamin Harrison was President of the United States. Anna's father, August, was a native of Germany who had been in America since 1883. [2] Her  mother, Magdalena was born in Wisconsin to German immigrant parents who arrived in America in 1863. [3]

Ancestry.com.. Wisconsin, State Censuses, 1895 and 1905 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.

Anna was the oldest of thirteen children.  Her siblings included brothers Carl, William, Frank, George, Fred and August and sisters Jessie and Ida. Her youngest sibling, Ethel, would be born in 1913.  

The Broege farm was southeast of South Wayne, Wisconsin. The Wayne Township map below shows the Aug. Broge farm consisting of forty acres on what is today Meier Road. On the northside is A. Mau. This land was owned by August Mau and Augusta Schliem Mau.  They were Anna Broege's aunt and uncle. To the south was L. Schliem. Ludwig Schliem and Wilhelmine Helmer Schliem were Anna's grandparents.

Map of Wayne Township circa 1895 . Source Citation:Collection Number: G&M_68; Roll Number: 68 Source Information:Ancestry.com. U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

In 1911, at the age of twenty-three, Anna married Henry Brecklin in Browntown, Wisconsin.  [4].  Henry's parents, August Brecklin and Ernestine Mau Brecklin, were both German immigrants who came America in 1872.  Henry was born in Wayne Township in 1883.  

Anna and Henry farmed in Wayne Township. Two children Bessie, my grandmother, born in 1912 and Orville born in 1916

In 1917 Anna's mother Magdalena Broege died of liver cancer at 49. The South Wayne Homestead newspaper reported:

"Mrs. August F. Broege, residing south of South Wayne, passed away Saturday at home due cancer of liver.  Born 14 December 1868, married A.F. Broege in 1886.  49 years 8 months old.  Services at German Lutheran Church" [5]

In 1918 the youngest child Harold was born in August.  The flu epidemic hit the area hard.  This was part of the world-wide flu epidemic.  Schools and churches in the area closed.  Anna contracted the flu.  She died 5 December 1918.  Her son Harold would have been four months old.  The South Wayne Homestead reported her death:

"Mrs. Henry Brecklin died this morning at her home south of town with influenza.  She leaves a husband and three small children." [6]

She was buried at La Due Cemetery.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/La+Due+Cemetery,+South+Wayne,+WI+53587/@42.5579555,-89.8867498,13z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x880808072c76e319:0xaa3176714a00d098 Accessed 4/13/2016

Anna’s daughter, Bessie, would marry Art Haeft.  Bessie’s uncle, Frank Broege, married Mae Haeft and Bessie’s aunt, Ida Broege,  married Dewey Haeft. 
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[1] Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.  
[2]  The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Records of the US Customs Service, RG36; NAI Number: 2655153; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Record Group Number: 85
[3] http://castlegarden.org/quick_search_detail.php?p_id=4133292 [database on-line]. Ship: America; Arrival:  28 Sep 1863 Accessed 4/12/2016.
[4] Marriage Record, Lafayette County, Wisconsin. Volume 8, page 815
[5]  South Wayne Homestead microfilm PA-92-4677 Wisconsin State Historical Society 29 December 1917
[6]  South Wayne Homestead microfilm PA-92-4677 Wisconsin State Historical Society  5 December 1918.