Prof. Frank Thacker's band Date: 12/30/2007 This photo with caption was clipped from a Watertown newspaper, date unknown. My second cousin Wilbert Krueger saved the clipping because it shows our relative Theodore Sonnemann. I don't know anything more about the photo than what appears in the caption.
Site of Sonnemann and Amann cigar factory, Watertown, WI (2) Date: 01/05/2008
Site of Sonnemann and Amann cigar factory, Watertown, WI Date: 01/05/2008
William Sonnemann Date: 09/22/2008
William Henry Sonnemann Date: 01/05/2008
Emma Korn Sonnemann, Eugene Sonnemann, William Sonnemann Date: 09/22/2008
Eugene Sonnemann, 4 months old, 1903 Date: 01/05/2008
Tintype with baby Eugene Date: 09/22/2008 Mary and I thought these were Emma Sonnemann, Eugene Sonnemann, and Friederike Korn. Amy has them as Anna Korn, Eugene Sonnemann, and Emma Sonnemann. Unless her copy of the picture is marked with their names, I still think Mary and I are right.
Tintype with baby Eugene Date: 09/22/2008
Anna Korn, Eugene Sonnemann, Emma Sonnemann, at Wonderland, 28 Aug 1908 Date: 01/05/2008
Anna Korn, Eugene Sonnemann, Emma Korn Sonnemann Date: 09/22/2008
Eugene Sonnemann, Jun 1905 Date: 09/22/2008 "Eugene Sonnemann, 1 year & 9 months"
Eugene Sonnemann, Feb 1907 Date: 01/05/2008
Eugene Sonnemann, postcard sent 17 Sep 1908, back Date: 01/05/2008
Eugene Sonnemann, postcard sent 17 Sep 1908 Date: 01/05/2008
Eugene Sonnemann, 1914 Date: 01/05/2008
Eugene Sonnemann, Dec 1914 Date: 09/22/2008
Emma Sonnemann, 17 Aug 1915 Date: 01/05/2008
Emma Korn Sonnemann, 15 Aug 1915 Date: 09/22/2008
Eugene, William, and Emma Sonnemann, Aug 1915 Date: 01/05/2008
Sonnemann family group, 10 Aug 1915 Date: 09/22/2008 Back row: Henry Krueger, unknown, Henry Sonnemann.
Middle row: Emilie Sonnemann Krueger, Johanna Buending Sonnemann, Leona Sonnemann (?), Otillie Schuenke Sonnemann.
Front row: Anita Krueger, Alford Krueger, unknown.
Postcard of the Sonnemann clan, 1917 (?) Date: 01/05/2008 My mother wrote a note with her best guesses about who is who on this picture; see the next scan in this album. Unfortunately, I don't think they were all correct, as the relative ages don't match up. Assuming that the children shown in the photo all belong to the parents shown, it seems like the photo was probably taken in 1917 and that the people were as follows.
Back row: Nora Steinacker Sonnemann and Theodore E. Sonnemann, Emilie Sonnemann Krueger and Henry Krueger, Otillie (Tillie) Schuenke Sonnemann and Henry Sonnemann.
Sitting on bench: Alford T. Krueger (age 10), Johanna Buending Sonnemann, Theodore W. Sonnemann (baby), Mary Schaller Steinacker Beck Yauman (Nora's mother).
Sitting below: Anita E. Krueger (age 13), Lucile E. Sonnemann (age 4).
Postcard explanatory letter from Ruth Mann Date: 01/05/2008
Eugene Sonnemann's grave Date: 09/22/2008 Wanderer's Rest Cemetery (now called Lincoln Memorial Cemetery), Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
William and Emma Sonnemann home, 36th St., Milwaukee Date: 11/18/2007 Home of
William Henry Sonnemann
Emma Bertha Louise (Korn) Sonnemann
Ruth Anna Sonnemann (Mann)

Back of picture reads:
2937 N. 36th St. Milw.
Ruth's Home
From 4 Months to Twenty-one yrs
William Sonnemann family home Date: 09/22/2008 2937 N. 36th St. (after the 1931 renumbering), Milwaukee, WI
Ruth Sonnemann's sponsors, 1 Sep 1918 Date: 09/22/2008 Anna Korn, Paul Kunath, Emilie Krueger
Ruth Sonnemann's sponsors, 1 Sep 1918 Date: 09/22/2008 Paul Kunath, Emilie Krueger, Anna Korn
Ruth Sonnemann, 19 Dec 1919 Date: 01/05/2008
Ruth Sonnemann, 14 Aug 1920 Date: 09/22/2008 The day after her 2nd birthday.
Ruth and Buddy, Sep 1920 Date: 09/22/2008 "Sept. 1920, Ruth & Buddy in sandbox". Ruth's parents spoke German at home. She learned her first words of English from her friend Buddy.
Ruth Sonnemann Date: 09/22/2008 At the grave of her brother Eugene Sonnemann, Wanderer's Rest Cemetery (now Lincoln Memorial Cemetery), Milwaukee.
Ruth Anna Sonnemann 'On the farm', 10 Oct 1920, Reeseville, Wis Date: 01/05/2008
Sonnemann, Krueger, and Valaskey relatives, about 1920 Date: 01/07/2008 Rear - Fred Valaskey, Emma Sonnemann, Emilie Krueger, Henry Krueger, Tina Valaskey; Front - Alford Krueger, Ruth Sonnemann, Meta Valaskey.
Meta Valaskey, Ruth Sonnemann, Alford Krueger Date: 01/05/2008
Ruth Sonnemann 4th birthday, 13 Aug 1922 Date: 01/05/2008
Ruth Sonnemann, 4 Feb 1924 Date: 01/05/2008
Ruth Sonnemann toddler 1 Date: 01/05/2008
Ruth Sonnemann toddler 2 Date: 01/05/2008
Ruth Sonnemann toddler 3 Date: 01/05/2008
Ruth Sonnemann toddler 4 Date: 12/19/2007
Ruth Sonnemann & Friederike Baumann Korn Date: 09/22/2008
Ruth Sonnemann Date: 09/22/2008
Ruth Sonnemann and cat Date: 01/05/2008
Ruth Sonnemann and Emma Sonnemann, with Grandma's spinning wheel, at Schrank's cabin, Aug 1934 Date: 01/05/2008
Emma Korn Sonnemann, William Sonnemann, Ruth Sonnemann, 5 Sep 1932 Date: 09/22/2008
Ruth Sonnemann confirmation, 1 May 1932 Date: 12/19/2007
Ruth Sonnemann, 1 May 1932 Date: 09/22/2008 Ruth Sonnemann, Confirmation May 1, 1932
Sonnemann Family Reunion, Riverside Park, Watertown, Wisconsin Date: 09/22/2008 I can identify only a few of these people.
Sonnemann Family Reunion Date: 09/22/2008 Appears later than the Riverside Park reunion.
William Sonnemann family, 1934 Date: 09/22/2008 Emma Korn Sonnemann, Ruth Sonnemann, William Sonnemann 1934 backyard 2937 N 36th St, Milwaukee, WI
Ruth Sonnemann high school graduation, June 1936 Date: 01/05/2008
Ruth Sonnemann high school graduation, June 1936 Date: 09/22/2008
Chip off the old block; Theodore W. and Theodore E. Sonnemann (2) Date: 01/05/2008
Theodore W. Sonnemann and friend Date: 01/05/2008 In the album below this photo was written "Romeo and Juliet -- but where is the balcony?" I'm guessing the woman in the picture is Ted's (then future?) wife, Eleanora Sokoloski. Comparing the photo of Ted's daughter Suellen at her confirmation, I see a resemblance.
Theodore W. Sonnemann Date: 01/05/2008
Bob and Ted Sonnemann Date: 01/05/2008
Ruth Sonnemann, St. Joseph's nursing school, 1937 Date: 01/05/2008
William Sonnemann, Roland Mann, 9 May 1937 Date: 01/05/2008
William Sonnemann, Edmund Seifert, Emma Sonnemann, 1 Oct 1938 Date: 01/05/2008
Ruth Sonnemann Mann, 19 Aug 1939 Date: 09/22/2008
Ruth Sonnemann Mann and Roland Mann, 19 Aug 1939 Date: 09/22/2008 With Ruth's sponsors: Paul Kunath, Emilie Sonnemann Krueger, and Anna Korn.
Nora and Theodore Sonnemann, Karen Kaddatz Date: 01/05/2008
Grandpa Sonnemann and Bill Mann, 1944 Date: 11/18/2007 William Henry Sonnemann
William Frederick Mann

Back of picture reads:
Jan 22, 1944
Grandpa & Billy 3 1/2 Mo
William Sonnemann, Emma Sonnemann holding William Mann, Ruth Mann, 14 May 1944 Date: 01/05/2008
Bill and Emma Sonnemann; Mary and Bill Mann - Sep 1948 Date: 01/05/2008
William and Emma Sonnemann, 18 Sep 1950 Date: 01/05/2008
Emma Korn Sonnemann & William Sonnemann, 18 Sep 1950 Date: 09/22/2008
Bob Sonneman, Lorraine Guerndt, Easter 1946 Date: 01/05/2008
Emma and William Sonnemann, 18 Sep 1950 Date: 01/05/2008
Ed Seifert, Emma Sonnemann, William Sonnemann, Anna Korn, 18 Sep 1951, Sonnemann 50th wedding anniversary Date: 01/05/2008
Emma Korn Sonnemann & William Sonnemann Date: 09/22/2008
Ruth Sonnemann, Emma Sonnemann, Aug 1958 Date: 01/05/2008
Sonnemann family reunion, 1961 Date: 09/22/2008 Leona Sonnemann Schumacher, Nora Steinacker Sonnemann, Otillie Schuenke Sonnemann (?), Jacobus Park Reunion 1961.
Ted, Nora, and Robert Sonnemann, May 1962 Date: 01/05/2008
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