DESCENDANCY of JOHANN CARL GOTTLIEB KEIL (b 1812 ... - Edler

“All-People”- Section 9b
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Page 9b-2
The 1865 Real Estate Assessment Roll for the Town of Scott shows Carl Kile, with 40 acres valued at
$289.00. The various taxes, for state, county, town, county school district, school district, "RR", harbor
improvement, and "CF", total $7.48. His personal property was valued at $60.00, with total tax $1.59. In
1875, he was assessed for 80 acres valued at $900.00. His personal property is shown as 3 horses ($75),
8 cattle ($60), 15 sheep ($15), 4 swine ($10), merchants stock ($50), and 3 wagons ($35), total $245.00.
WHERE THEY LIVED -- Carl and Christiane later acquired an additional 40 acres. The location of the
farm, in the southeast corner of the section, on the dividing line between Scott and Sherman twps, made it
easy for us to drive by it. No buildings were visible, but the fields were being worked. It is bottom land,
slightly rolling, and looks to us like good land. (Incidentally, Sherman Twp was originally Abbot Twp. Its
name was changed sometime after the 1862 date of the plat mat, because the Abbot family, for whom it had
been named, were Southern sympathizers.)
On 28 Feb 1876 Carl and Christiane purchased about 120 acres in Barton Twp, Washington Co WI,
from Gerhard and Peter Ney Jr (brothers, both unmarried) for the sum of $1400. (Gerhard and Peter had
purchased the land from their parents in Mar 1874 for $1400.) It is described as “N half of SW qtr (80 ac);
also SW qtr of the SE qtr (abt 40 ac); excepting from the last described piece of land, so much as was deeded
to the Northwestern Union Railway Company for their right of way; all situated in Section 27 in Twp 12 N
of Range 19 East.” 20 On 21 Aug 1885 Carl and Christiane sold the property for $2600 to Charles Techtmann,
who married their daughter Caroline Marie Amalie, page 9b-13. The family moved again, this time to
Wrightstown Twp, Brown Co WI.
We obtained photocopies of some deeds in the Sheboygan Co courthouse, and now know there were a
good many land transactions among family members during the period. The deeds for the 1876 purchase
and 1885 sale were found in 2000 by Linda Martin in Washington Co land records. 20
WHERE THEY CAME FROM -- To our delight, the Research Center had transcriptions of many old records
of St John Lutheran Church in tiny present day Sherman Center, Sheboygan Co WI, and provided information
we hadn't had previously. We had spent much time fruitlessly trying to find our Keils in various churches in
other parts of Scott Township and even in nearby counties. Earlier there just wasn't any reason to look in
Sherman Twp, but now it's obvious St John was the nearest or most convenient church. 15
According to these records, Carl was born in Putitcsh, Christiane in "Rücks", and the first three children
in Pühlau. These are tantalizing clues, and have led to tentative identification of villages or landed estates
near present-day Legniĉa and Wrocław, Poland. We hope that finding more about their birthdates and
birthplaces may lead us to more about their parents and/or other family members.
CHRISTIANE'S FAMILY -- We believe her parents were Carl “Charles” Hiller and Christiane Janisch.
They had at least five children besides Christiane, and Carl later married again and had five more children.
See Section 9a for more about this family and our search for them.
DOROTHEA -- Until just recently, we didn't know anything about her except for her name (pronounced
"Dora-taya") on the list of passengers. We thought perhaps she died before any other record was made, or
perhaps she was a child of Carl's from an earlier marriage not known to us, or perhaps she was the child of
another relative who had arranged for Carl and Christiane to bring her to America.
Then we found "Dorothea Hiller" among the sponsors of Carl's and Christiane's fifth child, and thought
this might be our Dorothea but were concerned that she might have been too young, if her age on the
passenger list was correct. Later, after examining land deeds, we found "Dorothea Voelksen, formerly Hiller"
as an heir of Carl Hiller, and now believe she was indeed a younger sister of Christiane's. We would like to
know more about her.
A. Anna Susanne Emilie 2 Keil, born 3 Jan 1856 Pühlau, 15 near Breslau, Schlesien
(now Wrocław, Poland), married Gustav Emil Priebe -- see page 9b-4.
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