Press family in Janesville & Beloit Wisconsin
Searching for descendants and other information regarding the PRESS family.Below is what I know about them.
CHARLES PRESS was born in Michigan.He married ANNA RICKNER.She was born in Shooksburg, Michigan.It is believed that CHARLES PRESS’s father was born in New York or Pennsylvania and later moved to Michigan.
Child of CHARLES PRESS and ANNA RICKNER is:
WILLIAM IRWIN PRESS b. December 02, 1870, Vicksburg, Michigan; d. August 25, 1928 and is buried in Rock County, Wisconsin at Oakhill Cemetary, Cause of Death: Fracture of skull due to auto accident.
He married ANNA MARIE JOHNSON, born April 26, 1882 in Harvard, Illinois.The story says her father sold or gave her to William Irwin Press when she was 12 or 13.She was too young to be a mother and wife so when her children were young she left her husband and children behind.She remarried Bill Staygert and last lived in Arlington Heights, IL.Her sons did not see her again until they were both over 25 years old.They only visit her a few times before she died.
Children of WILLIAM PRESS and ANNA JOHNSON are:
CHARLES (CHAS) LOUIS3 PRESS, b. November 02, 1900, Janesville, Wisconsin; d. January 21, 1995, Janesville, Wisconsin in Janesville Health Care Center.
WILLIAM JAMES PRESS, b. January 19, 1902, Janesville, Wisconsin; d. June 11, 1983, Town of Rock,Beloit, Wisconsin; m. BERTHA THEIDER; b. July 16, 1894; d. February 1985, Beloit, Wisconsin.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.