To my relatives who immigrated into the States I can count the family of my Great Great Granduncle Karl Masch. However Karl himself didn’t emigrate from Mecklenburg as he died already 1910 in Bartenshagen. His oldest son Heinrich moved to Milwaukee in Wisconsin a year after his father’s death. 1912 Karl’s widow Lydia and the other 3 children followed. The family lived almost 10 years in Milwaukee till the youngest brothers Otto and William Masch took a farm near Kellner in the Portage County of Wisconsin. And as can be seen in the article of the Daily Tribune, they did it pretty successful and effective.

It is known that Lydia Masch was a born Stenzel and was related to the family of Henry and Amanda Stenzel of Milwaukee. I could follow some tracks of the Masch family in the ship lists and the censuses of 1920 and 1930. Until around 1932 the family was sometimes mentioned in the Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune. However I couldn’t find anything after.

Trusting that the search engines don’t forget, I herewith start a request: Everybody who knows something or someone of the Masch family of Kellner, Wisconsin, or is even related to them, can get in touch with me.