Ignatz (Wrycza) Writz

892 Franklin. Relocated to Marathon County.

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Writz Family Farm - Ignatz and Josephine Writz landed in New York, from Europe, in 1876. While here a son, Frank, was born to them. About a year later they moved to Milwaukee. It was here in 1878 that daughter Mary (Slagoski) and in 1880 son Thomas were born. Ignatz and Josephine soon tired of metropolitan life. Yearning for property and a farm of their own, they decided to ome to the Poniatowski area and settled on a forty-acre tract of land on the NW Section 9, now the property of Robert Drewek.

The forty was all woods at the time of their arrival, but Ignatz and Josephine tried to make the best of it all. It was here that Angeline (Literski), Frances (Myszka), and Julia (Lake) were born. Again the couple did not find the land suitable for farming, because it was stoney. This time they purchased an eighty-acre tract of land-SE Section 16, now owned and operated by Edward Mroczenski. It was a wooded area and they again cleared land, to be able to build a log house and a log barn. It was here that Stan was born, in 1892, and later Josephine (Glasel) and Vincent.

The family remembers that Indians and gypsies frequently traveled through the area and would peddle medicines to them and their neighbors.

In 1904, Ignatz and Josephine built a brick home and a barn in 1915. The home is still there, but the barn was destroyed by fire a few years ago. After son Stan came back from serving in World War II, he took over the homestead. It was then that Stan, Frank and Tom did their threshing and also that of neighbors.

In 1920, Stan married Eleonora Myszka. They farmed the homestead with their children: Florian, Bernice, Raymond, Stanley, Daniel, Benjamin, Leona, Regina, Jerome and Margaret. Later, their son Jerome farmed when Stan gave up farming.

Besides farming Stan worked for the Rietbrock Lumber Company, Braun Lumber Company, and The Town of Rietbrock. He became well-known to the townspeople while he operated the road grader for twenty years.

His wife Eleonora passed away in 1958, and Stan is presently living with his granddaughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Robert (Kathy) Franz, at Edgar, Wisconsin. [from Rietbrock centennial (1880-1980) Pioneer farms, pp. 41-58]