Wausaukee
Subtitle: The Story of the Slaets and Debot Families
Publisher: .
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Introduction; title: Acknowledgements; title: Editorial Comments; title: Family Tree; title: My Memories; title: Twelfth-night 1944; title: Family; title: School; title: Happiness and sorrow; title: Our Lady of Scherpenhcuvel; title: Military lottery; title: Aunt Fien Peeters; title: Red Star Line; title: "Fien would also like another Flemish woman here"; title: My Brother Fons Slaets; title: My Wife Jenny Wuyts; title: Jenny's family; title: Take the floor; title: We are going to America; title: SS Illinois; title: Philadelphia; title: Bad news drives out the good news; title: Wausaukee; title: Saw mill history; title: Lumber camps; title: The Wausaukee train station and traffic; title: Hotels and boarding houses; title: Our children; title: The depression of 1893; title: The Wisconsin fire of 1894; title: 1894 local election; title: My Sister Roos married on a Friday; title: The Antwerp World's Fair of 1894; title: Back-payment; title: Life in Wausaukee; title: Visitors; title: Unpleasant discomfort and New Year's Day 1896; title: Secret societies; title: Our prayer houses and schools; title: Miscellaneous businesses; title: The fourth of July; title: The Wausaukee Evergreen Cemetery; title: Doctors and Dentists in the Area; title: The Wausaukee Independent; title: My Sister Jos married Peter De Coster in 1896; title: Father died in 1897; title: We bought us a Cow and a calf; title: The Debot's in 1897; title: I was their best man; title: My Cousin Josepha Debot married Fons DeRoeck; title: Norway, Michigan; title: Father Joannes Franciscus Cautereels; title: My Cousin Ed Debot married Julia DeRoeck in 1898; title: The Spanish-American War; title: Jenny came through it well; title: My Sister Murie got hitched; title: The founder of Wausaukee died in 1900; title: The Louis Slaets Carpenter and Contractor Company; title: The Second War of Freedom; title: She certainly looked like a lovely Native American maiden; title: The Wausaukee State Bank; title: Mother went to Heaven; title: The Wausaukee Telephone Company; title: This picture was taken in 1903; title: Joseph Simon Edlebeek died in 1903; title: Love is in the air; title: John Hoff was a jack-of-all-trades; title: A three-continental wedding ceremony in Bergen op Zoom; title: It was especially worse in the big cities; title: King Leopold II of Belgium; title: Our Son married Lilianne M. Farrell; title: Harlan Page Bird died in 1912; title: The last saw-mill was demolished in 1912; title: 1914-1918; title: They joined the countless fugitives; title: Rose died in young womanhood; title: The Laun Brothers stopped their activities in 1915; title: Our Son George; title: Our Daughter Stella married Bill Bowring; title: Anti-Saloon League (ASL); title: Recreation; title: We were living in a warzone; title: They were married fifty years ago; title: The president of the Bird-Wells Lumber Company died; title: My Cousin Agnes was married; title: The Payant brothers opened their store; title: The Stock Market Crash of 1929; title: Our Daughter Mary left us; title: The Antwerp World Fair of 1930; title: Friends of my Sister Marie; title: Automobiles and filling stations; title: My Wife Jenny went heavenward; title: My Grandchildren Dean and Dorothy married in 1937; title: An electrical shock was fatal to Jerry DeGroot; title: A new world war; title: Emile Everix died at 4:30 in the afternoon; title: One day I'm going back to Belgium; title: Lord grant me this gift; title: -Families; title: 1 - The Adrianus & Catherina Verbruggen-Peeters family; title: 1.6 - The Joannes & Joanna Verhoeven-Peeters family; title: 2 - The Jacobus & Angelina Peeters-Slaets family; title: 2.1 - The Ludovicus & Joanna Wuyts-Slaets family; title: 2.1.1 - The Jacobus & Lilianne LeMere-Slaets family; title: 2.2a - The Ludovicus & Rosalia Slaets-Mees family; title: 2.2b - The Augustus & Rosalia Slaets-Hagendorens family; title: 2.3 - The Petrus & Josephina Slaets-De Coster family; title: 2.43 - The Adrianus & Maria Slaets-Bossyns family; title: 2-4b - The Cyrille & Maria Slaets-Van Brussel family; title: 2.5 - The Alphonse & Comelia van Loon-Slaets family; title: 3 - The Victor & Sophia Peeters-Debot family; title: 3.1 - The Petrus & Anna Debot-Everix family; title: 3.2a - The Charles & Josephine Debot-Sandstone family; title: 3.2b - The Alphonse & Josephine Debot-DeRoeck family; title: 3.3 - The Josephus & Catherine Bourdeau-Debot family; title: 3-4 -The Edmund & Julia DeRoeck-Debot family; title: 3.7 - The John & Justina Debot-DeGroot family; title: 3.9 - The Clarence & Agnes Debot-Lindstrum family; title: 4 - The Franciscus & Maria Roes-Slaets family; title: 5a - The Franciscus & Joanna Neefs-Wuyts family; title: 5b - The Franciscus & Joanna Govaerts-Wuyts family; title: 6 - The Johannes & Anna Kennckens-Slaets family; title: 7- Thc Nicolaus & Anna Van Elsacker-Debot family; title: 8 - The Philippus & Maria Poppe-Everix family; title: 9a - The Desiderius & Delphina Van Landeghem-De Roeck family; title: 9b - The Desiderius & Anna Stacs-De Roeck family; title: 10 - The Hendrikus & Petronella Verstraeten-De Groot family; title: Sources