Mary Fastner and Conrad Mohelnitzky - Married on August 22, 1899, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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As told by Conrad's daughter, Merie, during an interview on February 23, 1975: 

(DB = Dean Blau; MB = Merie Blau; AB = Anton Blau) 

DB:         What do you know about your father, Conrad Mohelnitzky?

MB:        Well, really not much, only what I've heard, because I wasn't even two years old.  I was 22 months or so when he died.  He died of ruptured appendix.

DB:         Do you know where he was born? 

MB:        Yes, he was born in Milwaukee. 

DB:         When? 

MB:        September 21st, 1875.

DB:         What did he do for a living?

MB:        He worked for, he was messenger boy, for I forget the name of the company, for awhile, and then he and his brother John went into partnership in a jewel, not jewel, in a coffee and tea business. They somehow would buy the coffee and tea from exporters and then they'd resell it to the stores. (The business later filed for bankruptcy.)

DB:         Can you tell me how he came to live in "Caz” or Germantown as they say? 

MB:        Well he was pretty down in the dumps after he’d lost all of his money, and then his uncle wrote him from  Germantown and asked him if wouldn't he like to come and rent the store from him.  And Mom said he agreed real well to go out there cuz he was kinda shook up about everything in Milwaukee.  So they went out there and...

DB:         Was he married then?

MB:        Oh, sure, the girls, my sisters were all born in Milwaukee and received their first communion, were confirmed in St. Joseph's Church.

DB:         So then he came and he rented the store? 

MB:        Rented the store, right.  He had to buy all the groceries, you know, he had enough money to pay for that.  There was no money to be had then. 

DB :        He rented the store from who? 

MB:        George Ruskauff, his uncle.  Ruskauff.

DB:         How many children did he have then? 

MB:        Four of us, four sisters.

DB:         When, where, and how did your father die?

MB:        My father?  He died in 1914, March 17th, 1914.  He died of a ruptured appendix.  LaCrosse

DB:         Where?

MB:        Hospital

DB:         In LaCrosse?  

MB:        St. Joseph's Hospital in LaCrosse. 

DB:         Wasn't LaCrosse a quite a ways to go? 

MB:        Yes.  It sure was.

AB:         With the train.

MB:        With the train, I don't know why they didn't go to a closer hospital, but years ago, you know …

AB:         There was none then. 

MB:        … there maybe wasn't any, I don't know, but.

AB:         None in Reedsburg, there wasn't any.

MB:        They thought he had obstruction of the bowel they were doctoring him for, and he was a very head-strong man, and he wouldn't give in for anything.  The doctor said had he gone in time, he could have been saved, but he just thought it was bowel trouble.  So much pain while he was on the train, my mother said he said, "Now I feel better." And the doctors think that's when it bursted, and of course, in those days they couldn't do anything for a ruptured appendix either.  He just had to suffer it out for 18 days, he suffered til he died.

DB:         Where was the funeral? 

MB:        At St. Anthony's Church in Cazenovia. 

DB:         Is that where he's buried too? 

MB:        Right.  He's buried aside of my sister, Irene, they're both buried side by side. 

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 St. Anthony Catholic Cemetery, Germantown, 

Richland County, Wisconsin.