Winifred (De Groff) Cole (1869 - 1942)

Born 9 Feb 1869 in Wisconsin, United States

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Died 1942 at about age 72 in Marshfield, Wood County, Wisconsin, United States

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Biography

Winifred De Groff was born on the 9th February 1869, in Wisconsin, United States, the daughter of John W De Groff and Frances H Newman.

On the 1st June 1870, the 1-year-old Winifred was living with her family in the village of Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin. Home at the time were her father: John (27), the County Clerk; her mother: Frances (29), keeping house; her maternal grandfather: Alfred Newman (69), a farmer; and Switzerland-born Margreth Mang (18), house servant.^[1]

She married David Isaac Cole on the 20th June 1900, in Wood County, Wisconsin.^[2] Their son Frederic was born in 1908.

Winifred Cole née De Groff passed away in 1942, in Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States, and was interred in Hillside Cemetery, Marshfield, alongside her husband.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN93-JXW : 29 May 2021), Winfried Degroff in entry for John Degroff, 1870.
2. ↑ Marriage Registration — "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRTD-S96 : 11 January 2022), Winnifred Degroff in entry for David Cole, 1900.
3. ↑ Burial — Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/115176555/winifred-cole : accessed 22 January 2022), memorial page for Winifred DeGroff Cole (9 Feb 1869–1942), Find A Grave: Memorial #115176555, citing Hillside Cemetery, Marshfield, Wood County, Wisconsin, USA ; Maintained by Jonelle (contributor 46903714).

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN4Q-YV3 : 15 January 2022), Winifred De Groff in household of W. John De Groff, Alma, Buffalo, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPKZ-75V : accessed 21 January 2022), Winifred Cole in household of Francis M De Groff, Marshfield Ward 4, Wood, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 198, sheet 6A, family 110, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1742; FHL microfilm 1,375,755.
• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFLZ-QB4 : 4 February 2021), Winifred Cole in entry for David I Cole, 1920.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X93D-MR7 : accessed 22 January 2022), Winifried Cole in household of D I Cole, Marshfield, Wood, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 18, sheet 13A, line 13, family 273, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2619; FHL microfilm 2,342,353.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7JT-LNP : 10 January 2021), David Cole in household of Diane Cole, Shorewood, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 40-48, sheet 61A, line 25, family 535, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 4501.