Memories of Clark County, Wisconsin

Compiled by Judy Hansen

I'm sorry to say this project has become inactive because Judy Hansen has passed on and we no longer have a volunteer to continue it.

Many of us regret not listening more carefully to, and then recording, the wonderful treasure of information that our parents, grandparents and others, gave us when they reminisced about what life was like in early Clark County, Wisconsin. Sadly, many of these people are no longer with us, their voices have been stilled and many of their stories lost.

This is a collection of memories and/or history, in a sort of reunion or internet village, of people of a wide range of ages and geographic locations who once lived, or have/had immediate family who live/lived in Clark County. Our conversations are very much like those that occur when people gather, one memory/thought leading to another. We have attempted to preserve the language of a conversation with editing only where it eases reading. This is an ongoing project, so there will be new things added frequently.

We hope you and future generations will enjoy this trip down Clark County’s memory lane and will visit often to see what’s new!

Among the many contributors are: Gina Bower, Elaine (Wood) Greene-Jensen, Shari (Volovsek) Hahn, Judy (Marden) Hansen, Duane Horn, Marilyn Horn, Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon, Diane (Volovsek) Klinke, Steve Leavey, Robert Lipprandt, George Plautz, Darlene Poppe, Dolly Qualls, Jean (Wessel) Rolstad, Ethan Scearce, Janet Schwarze, Stan Schwarze, Mary (Artac) Urban, and Allan Wire.

We are eager for any comments and/or pictures that can be posted on this site.

Bicentennial Memories

• Bicentennial Memories

Cheese Factories & Dairy Products

• Personal Memories of Cheese Factories

• Personal Memories of Dairy Products & Oleo

• Clark Co., WI Dairy Businesses

Churches and Sunday Schools

• Personal Memories

Farm Life

Farmers

• Farmers Hauling Milk (1940)

• Milk Strikes

• Paris Green

• Silo Filling-Putting Corn Into the Silo;

• Threshing

Farm Wives

• Daily Lives

• Housekeeping--Laundry Chores

• Clothing

Food

• Preparing Casings for Sausage

• "Frost Boils"

• Ice Houses

Miscellaneous

Krueger Affair

First Airplanes

Locations

Moonshine Bars

Music/Dances

Schools

Telephones

 1905 Telephone Service

Transportation

• Autos

• Horse and Buggy

• Trains

• Trucks

Traveling Salesmen--Coming soon!

Weather

• Snow

• Ice

• Tornados

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 Township Memories

Beaver

Klein, Robert C. ; Klein; Robert C.--Memories of the WWI Draft (1917-18).

Butler

Colby

Dewhurst

Eaton

1895

·        Miller, Smith (Christmas Cake); Miller, Smith (Summer Work Sequel)

1897

·        Miller, Smith (Working Vacation); Smith Miller's Farm (plus Stan Schwarze's memories of living there).

1901

·        Schofield, Hugh (Paris)

1905

·        Justice, Dave (Death in the Family)

1915

·        Abel, Elsie's Poem #1; Abel, Elsie's Poem #2; Abel, Elsie's Poem #3; Abel, Elsie's Autumn Poem; Abel, Elsie's Christmas Poem #1; Abel, Elsie's Christmas Poem #2

1917

·        Awe, Arthur Henry (12 OCT 1917) (WWI)

1928

·        Varney, Charles (Historical Sketch)

1937

·        Memories of Elaine (Wood) Greene/Jenson

·        Varney, Charles (Old Timers)

1938

·        Andrews, Kin's Letter to the people of Greenwood

1941

·        Carmen Fresenborg's Memories

Foster

Fremont

Grant

·         Remembering Clara Dore

Green Grove

Hendren

Hewett

Hixon

Thanksgiving Memories by Grace Spaeth Schneider

Hoard

1909

·        Memories of Lucy Green Johnson (1896-1982)

1982

·        Johnson, Dorothy (Horn) Remembers Curtiss (1914-2003)

Levis

Longwood

·        Horn, Anna's Diary; Bower Memories of Longwood Township;

Loyal

1880

·        A Letter from Shupe, Margaret Ellen "Ella"

Lynn

Mayville

·        Dorchester, Winter Days (1917)

·        Randi Pedersdatter Holtseteren (Curtiss, Wis. mentions many of her neighbors).

Mead

Mentor

Pine Valley

Growing up in the Historic Lloyd-Meier Home

Reseburg

Seif

School Day Memories

Sherman

Sherwood

1935

·        "Three Friends Motorcycle West in 1935"

Thorp

Memories of Clara Nelson Lee

Unity

1879-1881

·        Autograph Album #1 of Annie Petrie Olson.

Warner

Horn, Anna's Diary;

Washburn

Weston

Withee

Worden

York