Johann Ringelstetter and Frances Huber
Johann Ringelstetter and his wife, Frances Huber, and their children immigrated to America in July 1870. They settled in Sauk County, Wisconsin.
Pictured above are Frances Huber and John Ringelstetter
His real name was Johann Baptist Ringelstetter. When he went to America, his friends and family still called him Johann but others called him John. He didn't care what they called him, so long as he was not called late to Mittagessen. *ka-ching!* He was married to Frances Huber, a cute girl with Bohemian roots.
John Ringelstetter
Intention to Become a Citizen - November 1, 1880 - John Ringelstetter
S.C.T.
State of Wisconsin
Municipal Court,
City of Madison and County of Dane
I, John Ringelstedder an Alien, being a free white person, do hereby declare on oath, in open Court, that I emigrated to the United States on or about themonth of July in the year eighteen hundred and sixty nine, and that it is, bona fide, my intention to become a citizen of the United States of America, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to the King & Kingdom of Bavaria & Emperer & Empire of Germany whereof I am now a subject.
[signature] John Ringelstetter
Subscribed and sworn to before me, in open Court, in the City of Madison, this 1st day of November A.D. 1880
[signature] A E Pettingill Clerk.
S.C.T.
State of Wisconsin
Municipal Court
City of Madison and County of Dane,
I, A. E. Pettingill Clerk of said Court, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that on the 1st day of the month of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty personally appeared John Ringelstedder an Alien, being a free white person, declared on oath before said Court, in open Court, that it was, bona fide, his intention to become a citizen of the United States of America, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to the King & Kingdom of Bavaria & Empire & Emperer of Germany wereof he was then a subject.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, in open Court, at the Clerk's Office, in the City of Madison, this 1st day of November A. D. 1880.
A E Pettengill Clerk
Alien Registration Card - April 27, 1918 - John Ringelstetter
United States of America
Department of Justice
Alien Registration Card
Issued to John Ringelstetter
Address Springreen, Wisconsin
The finder of this card shall immediately restore it, if possible, to the person to whom it was issued; otherwise forward it to the Unites States Marshal.
Madison, Wis.
Date: April 27, 1918
This certifies That John Ringelstetter (name of registrant) residing at Wisconsin (State) Sauk (County) Springreen (City, town) (street and number) whose photograph and signature, and / or other mark of identification, appear hereon, has registered at Wisconsin (State) Dane (County) Madison (City, town) (Precinct) as a person required by law to register under the Proclamation of the President of the United States, dated November 16, 1917.
[Signature of John Ringelstetter written in German script] (Signature of mark of registered person)
Frank O'Connor (Registration officer)
United States Marshal (Official title, police or post office).
[Signature of John Ringelstetter written in German script, and photo of John Ringelstetter with white beard and mustache, wearing a dark coat; he is seated in a chair.]
Left-hand thumb print of registered person.
Note - The issuance of this registration card does not relieve the registrant from full compliance with any and all laws and regulations now existing or hereafter made concerning the conduct of alien enemies.
This registration card must be carried on the person.
(Penalty)
An alien enemy required to register shall not, after the date fixed for his registration and the issuance to him of a registration card, be found within the limits of the United States, its territories or possessions, without having his registration card on his person under liability, among other penalties, to arrest and detention for the period of the war.
Death of Frances Huber Ringelstetter
No record has been found of her death. Sources checked were court house records, newspapers (English and German) in Spring Green and area towns, and St. Luke's Catholic Church records.
Possible death date is 1895 or May 2, 1896.
Johann Ringelstetter's obit from 1924 says that Frances died on May 2, 1896.
Frances' tombstone at St. Luke's Catholic Old Cemetery gives only the year: 1895. A grave next to her, for Johan Wachter, is dated 1895 (he died Dec. 5, 1895 and has an obituary).
From Dr. Bossard records, there is an entry for a visitation on Nov. 18, 1895 by Dr. Bossard to a Mrs. Ringelstetter for a bad tooth. Maybe it was Mrs. John Ringelstetter or their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Catherine (Andrew) Ringelstetter.
1895 Census enumerated June 20 lists 1 female born in Germany. The female is presumed to be Frances Huber Ringelstetter.
In 2010, a worker in the town hall (Rathaus) at Tiefenbach, Bavaria, said there would be no record of France's death in their birth records. It was not common that a German town was notified of a death of an emigrant to America.
Newspapers looked at, and nothing found:
Republican Observer (Richland Center)
Richland Rustic (Richland Center)
Sauk City Pioneer Press (German)
Pioneer Am Wisc. Sauk City (German)
Baraboo News Republic
Baraboo Republic
Sauk Co. Democrat (Baraboo)
Weekly Home News
(There is no Lone Rock paper for this time period)
Death of Johann Baptist (John) Ringelstetter
February 11, 1924, Bear Creek Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin