Bellman Family Documents

Photocopies and scanned images of documents related to Friedrich August Bellmann; originals were discovered inside a suitcase in a basement.From an obituary from the Viola [Wisconsin] News: "August, as he was familiarly known by all, was one of the most universally well liked men in Viola. . . Frederick August Bellman was born in Dresden, Saxony, Germany, August 21, 1885 and died at his home in Viola, Wisconsin, January 23, 1919 in his thirty-fourth year. . . . [A]t the age of seventeen [he] came to America, making his home in New York, where he worked at his trade as baker. Later he came west and worked in the Seybold bakery in Richland Center. While at the latter place he met Miss Myrtle Johnson to whom he was married on December 25, 1911. . . . In 1912 he came to Viola and opened a bakery in partnership with his brother-in-law. The business prospered from the beginning and later he bought out his partner, then bought the Waggoner block and made a success in our midst."
Also includes: Frachbrief [bill of lading] for materials sent on the Nord-Brabant Deutsche Eisenbahn to the Graf Waldersee, dated 13 September 1909 -- English translation of birth certificate (signed 22 August 1885 in Radeburg) -- photographs of F. A. Bellmann, the Bellmann family in Bautzen (1909), the exterior and interior of the Viola (Bellman) Bakery, Friedrich and his brother Ernest -- a postcard from Adolf Bellmann in Bautzen to August Bellmann in New York (1909) -- Certificate of Naturalization for Friedrich August Bellmann dated 5 August 1909 from the New York City, New York -- postcard (in English) from Paul Hoffmann, a friend in Chicago, showing him riding a motorcycle (1914) --death certificate for Frederic August Bellman (Jan. 23, 1919) -- death certificate for Anna Minnie Bellman (Mar. 5, 1921), wife of Ernest Bellman -- listing of Bellmans buried in Richland County (Wisconsin) cemeteries: Anna Minnie Koller Bellman, August Frederick Bellman, Ernest P. Bellman, Frederick Johnson Bellman, N. Doris Annear Bellman, Otto Earl Bellman.