Obituary: Ozaukee County, Wisconsin: Martin PIERSON ************************************************************************ Submitted by Mary Saggio, September 2007 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ The Cedarburg Weekly News September 23, 1885 Cedarburg, Ozaukee, Wisconsin WASHED ASHORE Last Sunday morning, Mr. Michael GROFF brought word to this city that two more bodies of the crew of the wrecked schooner, Advance, had washed ashore near his place, some seven or eight miles north of here. Jacob RAMM, the sole survivor, was summoned as a witness and recognized one of the bodies as that of Martin PIERSON, the mate, and the other as that of a sailor named Charlie. Monday afternoon the bodies were placed in coffins and buried in the cemetery.