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Descendants of Veronica Frances Bibelhausen
                           
        Veronica Frances Bibelhausen
            b: 27 Mar 1846 in Pine Grove, Brown County, WI
            d: 21 Sep 1927 in Tomahawk, WI       
    +  Joseph Mathias Schraa
            b: 26 Jan 1832 in Staffel, Adenau, Germany
            marriage: May 5, 1868 in Brown County, Wisconsin (pre-1907 Wisconsin Marriage Index)
            d: 06 September 1884 in Green Bay, WI (pre-1907 Wisconsin Death Index)
            Father: Matthias Schraa: born 1796 in Staffel, Adenau; now Germany (Grandparents: Johann Joseph Schraa and Elizabeth Fasbender)
            Mother: Anna Schumacher: born 1802 in Staffel, Adenau; now Germany (Grandparents Peter Schumaker and Catharina Schlick)

Children of Veronica and Mathias are: (7 births, 6 living in 1900)
                     
........    1      Anna Ursula  Schraa   
                        b: January 17, 1869 in Brown County, Wisconsin  
                        d: between 1872 and 1880 in Brown County, Wisconsin
........    2      Peter J Schraa   
                        b: 09 Jun 1870 in Green Bay, WI
                        occupation: 1910 Store in Oshkosh, 1930 Merchant in Tomahawk, Wisconsin, 1940 living in Oshkosh with sister, Anna Schmitt
                        marriage: single
                        d: February, 1944 ( Oshkosh Daily Northwestern)                 
........    3      Anton (Anthony) Schraa
                        b: 03 Mar 1872 in Green Bay, WI
                        occupation: 1910 Store in Oshkosh, 1930 Merchant in Tomahawk, Wisconsin, 
                        marriage: single
                        d: March, 1938 ( Oshkosh Daily Northwestern)              
........    4      John William Schraa
                        b: 1 Jul 1873 in Green Bay, WI.
                        occupation: building painter
                        d: 27 Jan 1941 in Oshkosh, WI  ( Oshkosh Daily Northwestern)  ............     + Mary Martha May Dougherty (4 children in 1920, 2 daughters, 2 sons in Oshkosh)
                        b: 6 Sep 1878
                        marriage: November 6, 1901 in Brown County, Wisconsin (pre-1907 Wisconsin Marriage Index)
                        d: Jul 1957 ( Oshkosh Daily Northwestern)      
........    5      Elisabeth Anna (Anna M.) Schraa  1910 with 2 children, living in Oshkosh with mother and brothers ; 1930 living in Tomahawk with brothers, , 1940 living in Oshkosh with brother Peter Schraa
                        b: 21 Apr 1877 (1875) in Green Bay, WI.
                        d: December 30, 1966 Winnebago County, WI (Wisconsin Death Index 1959 - 1997)
...........      + Michael Schmitt
                        b: in Germany
                        marriage: July 8, 1903 in Oshkosh Wisconsin
                        divorced: 1906 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
                        d: 1951
                        children of Elizabeth and Michael:
                           1. Gregory Schmitt b:1905 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
                           2. Norbert Schmitt  b:1906 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
 ........    6      Maria Anne Schraa ( 5 children; 4 daughters, 1 son)
                        b: 23 Dec 1878 in Green Bay, WI.
                              marriage: November 11, 1903 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
                        d: June 13, 1966 ( Oshkosh Daily Northwestern) 

Oshkosh Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wis.) 7 September 1935

Mrs. Mary Kempinger, wife of Alois Kempinger, 1102 Fourth street, died at Mercy hospital this morning at 5:50 o'clock after a lingering illness. Mrs. Kempinger was born Dec. 23, 1879, at Green Bay. She was a member of the Sacred Heart Altar society and of the Third Order of St. Francis.

Survivors are her husband; four daughters, the Misses Marie and Cecelia Kempinger, Mrs. R. Richter and Mrs. S. Young; and a son, Richard Kempinger; and two granddaughters, Mary and Louise Young, all of Oshkosh. A daughter, Miss Rose Kempinger, died July 5, 1933. Also surviving are a sister, Mrs. Anna Schmitt, West Bend; and four brothers, Peter and Anton Schraa, West Bend, and John and Nick Schraa of this city.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 8:30 o'clock at the home and at 9 o'clock at Sacred Heart Catholic church. A solemn requiem high mass will be held. Burial will be at Sacred Heart cemetery.       
...........        + Alois L. Kempinger - husband of Maria Anne Schraa
                        b: 1879 in Wisconsin
                        occupation: undertaker in Oshkosh, WI
                              marriage: November 11, 1903 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
                        d: November 8, 1967 (Oshkosh Daily Northwestern)        
........    7      Nicholas Charles Schraa
                         b: November 1880  in Green Bay, WI.
                         occupation: saleman
                         d: February 13, 1958 ( Oshkosh Daily Western)        
  .............     + Thekla K. Schaa (5 children in 1930, 2 sons, 3 daughters in Oshkosh)
                         born: 1886 in Wisconsin
                         marriage: 1913 (1920 Fed. Census)
                         d: February 20, 1960 ( Oshkosh Daily Northwestern)

Children of Joseph and Veronica Bibelhausen Schraa

Henry Kurz Collection c: 1872 Left to Right: Anna Ursila (died before 1900),  Mother Veronica, Peter, Father Joseph Schraa Veronica is pregnant with Anton.

Henry Kurz Collection From the 1880's, until well into the 1900's, for formal photographs, small boys of proper fashion wore dresses and had their hair in long ringlets. When just bit older they graduated to "Lord   Fauntleroy" attire with wide ruffled and laced white colors on their dress shirts, velvet jackets and short pants, and black hose. One step older and they wore tailor, jackets, short matching pants and vest, and white shirts with a large bow tie.

Henry Kurz Collection  This same Schraa group, plus one, was photographed  only a short time later.  The oldest is now in long pants with a string tie, the baby of the previous photo has inherited the Lord Fauntleroy  and standing to the far right we see the latest fashion showing up, the military look. Oldest photos of the family were taken in Green Bay, where the children were born. Later, the widow Veronica Bibelhausen Schraa moved to Oshkosh, where more recent photos were taken.

Henry Kurz Collection Peter Schraa

Henry Kurz Collection Peter Schraa

Henry Kurz Collection Anton (Anthony) Schraa

Henry Kurz Collection Anton (Anthony) Schraa

Henry Kurz Collection Anton (Anthony) Schraa photo of an ocean storm.

Henry Kurz Collection Anton (Anthony) Schraa

Henry Kurz Collection John William Schraa

Henry Kurz Collection John William Schraa

John William Schraa

Henry Kurz Collection (Elizabeth) Anna Schraa

Henry Kurz Collection (Elizabeth) Anna Schraa and Michael Schmitt Wedding 1903

Henry Kurz Collection (Elizabeth) Anna Schraa and Michael Schmitt children, Norbert (left) Gregory (right).

Henry Kurz Collection Maria Anna (Mary Ann) Schraa	Henry Kurz Collection Maria Anna (Mary Ann) Schraa
Henry Kurz Collection Maria Anna (Mary Ann) Schraa	Henry Kurz Collection Maria Anna (Mary Ann) Schraa Kempinger

Henry Kurz Collection 1913 Nicholas and Teckla Schraa Wedding

Henry Kurz Collection Nicholas Schraa and volunteer fire department team mates pose with fire hose equipment that represented their form of athletic competition.

Henry Kurz Collection Nicholas Schraa Volunteer departments formed teams that competed in Olympic style athletic competitions from all over Wisconsin.

Henry Kurz Collection Nicholas Schraa and close friend

Grave of 

Veronica Bibelhausen Schraa

Calvary Cemetery,

Tomahawk, Lincoln County, Wisconsin