Outagamie County, WI - "Jacquots Were Pioneering Greenville Family" ************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************* Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives Subject: newspaper article "Jacquots Were Pioneering Greenville Family" Submitted by: county coordinator EMAIL: jmmarasch@aol.com Date Submitted: 15 March 2000 Source: New London Press newspaper article from Bicentennial issue, undated. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jacquots Were Pioneering Greenville Family by Delores Miller The farm Ralph Jacquot owns and farms with his son Ken has been in the Jaquot family name since 1851 when his grandfather John B. Jacquot bought 160 acres from a soldier. The 125 years of ownership, with continuous farming operation, will be observed in our bicentennial year- 1976. John B. Jacquot, Sr. was born in Rosiers, France on February 2,1820 and after he came to the United States, he worked in sawmills in Manistee, Michigan coming to Greenville when he was 31 years old. He married Miss Mary Linton in 1849. The land was solid heavy timber and had to be cleared. One method was cutting logs, hauling them to large piles and burning them. In those days, they had to walk to Oshkosh to get groceries, an overnight stopping place was the Basswood House, a log house where settlers stayed overnight. He traded two barrels of maple sugar for his first cow. Imagine how many gallons of maple syrup he had to cook down to get the sugar after carrying the sap. No one can remember what happened to the cow. Mary and John B. Jacquot had six children, Alex, Cornelia, Helen, Seraphine, Martin and John B. Jacquot, Jr. When John B. Jacquot, Jr. was 12 years old, having been born on March 8, 1869 his father went to Appleton with horse and sleigh with a neighbor by the name of Murphy (who lived on the farm where Harold Strey now lives) and on the way home, a runaway horse and sleigh rammed into the sleigh driven by John B. Jacquot Sr. throwing him overboard and striking his head on a rock, killing him. This occurred Dec. 28,1882. A guardian was appointed overseer to the young family and when Martin and John reached legal age, the property was divided, Martin's farm was on the west, now owned by Ronald Dorschner. Mary Jacquot continued to live on the home farm until her death on Aug. 30, 1891 of dropsy. The town of Greenville post office was then located on the Jamison farm, near Harry Schoettlers on School Rd. On Dec. 22, 1898 John B. Jacquot, Jr. married Miss Amanda Diestler of Milwaukee (who was born Feb. 11, 1874) when he was 29 years old, and she was 24. By then most of the farmland had been cleared, they gained more cows, and raised feed and grain. In 1899, shortly after they were married, a new house was built, which is the present home of Ralph and Mrs. Jacquot. In 1900 a new frame barn was built and was doubled in size in 1938. All the Jacquot children, including John Jr., Ralph, Earl and Ken attended Cedar Grove school, which is now the sight of the home of Fred and Janice Baerwald. It was first a log building, and after that two frame schoolhouses were built. Lots of Indians roamed through the area at the time. They were friendly nomads. The big boys attended school in the fall after the crops were in, and quit again in the spring, when field work began. At some times, there were as many as 54 students at Cedar Grove school, located at what is now known as School Road. Amanda and John B. Jacquot Jr. had 7 children, Raymond, and John who died in infancy, Irene, Ralph, born August 15, 1902, Lucille who died at 2 years, Loraine and another child born after that. Both John Jr. and Amanda died in 1933 within several months of each other and are buried with their other relatives in the Greenville Township Cemetery. Ralph Jacquot married Miss Tank of Lebanon township of Waupaca County in 1932 and they had two sons and a daughter. Social activities in the days when Ralph was a young fellow included ice cream socials at the Evangelical United Brethern Church, up the road 1-1/2 miles east of his farm. All the young people gathered for miles around. Another event, was box socials held at the schools and all the neighboring school districts were invited. The 4th generation Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Jacquot now farms this 125 year old farm, located in Section 18, T. 21 N.-R. 16 E. Greenville township.