Obituary: Ozaukee County, Wisconsin: Mathilda Francisca ANNEKE ************************************************************************ Submitted by Mary Saggio, August 2007 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ The Cedarburg Weekly News December 3, 1884 Cedarburg, Ozaukee, Wisconsin Mrs. Mathilda Francisca ANNEKE, the widow of our deceased first cousin, Fritz ANNEKE, died at her residence in Milwaukee on the morning of November 25th. In noticing her decease the Milwaukee papers contain several errors concerning the early history of our relatives and of their coming to this country. Col. ANNEKE was never imprisoned, but escaped in time from Rastadt to Switzerland with his wife. He was afterwards tried and condemned to death in contumaciam as a leader in the rebellion. Carl SCHURZ acted at one time as his adjutant. Arriving in New York in the fall of 1849, the couple stayed there but a few days and came at once by way of Milwaukee to Cedarburg, where they found a home with us and stayed here some eight or nine months. They removed from here to Milwaukee and through the recommendations of Dr. HUEBSCHMAN and our own, Governor DEWEY appointed Col. ANNEKE as Librarian with a salary of $600, a very nice sum in those days. At the change of administration, he was removed by Governor FARWELL and the family soon after went east and settled in Newark, N.J. from whence they returned to Wisconsin and Gov. SALOMON appointed ANNEKE Colonel of the 34th Wisconsin Regiment, after he had served in the Illinois Artillery under Gen. McCLERNAND. The oldest son, born here in 1850 died of small-pox in Newark together with two other fine children, and when we asked the father afterwards, why he did not get his children inoculated, replied sternly, "out of principle" that were right and proper perhaps, but ended in his ruin as an impracticably man who might have done very well in this country but for his sticking to principles when there was no need of, but that were in his way of getting along in life far better than he did. He was one of the noblest and most honest of men, and so was his widow, no deceased, one of the best educated, gifted and noblest of women, although the world will always, we hope, take exceptions to her impracticable principles regarding the position of women to be placed on an equally with men, politically. She has played in former years an important part as a leader among the so-called "strong-minded women." The wife of S.M. BOOTH was a great friend of the deceased, so that when Mrs. ANNECKE left Milwaukee and visited Germany, Mrs. BOOTH went in her company where the latter fairly captivated our relatives and their friends to judge from letters received from them at the time. The history of the deceased is an eventful one, from her infancy almost and in her prime she was one of the most beautiful of women. Her sufferings are now ended and she has gone "where the weary are at rest."