Source - St. Mary's, Burlington, WI, Vol 1 - Baptism Records; 1846-1873; Image 563/852

Joseph Schwer Line 31

Anna Uhlenhacke Line 40

(Anna's mother listed as Catherine even though I'm pretty certain it's Gertrude)

Source - Year: 1860; Census Place: Burlington, Racine, Wisconsin; Roll: M653_1427; Page: 603; Image: 218.

Anna Uhlenhake - Line 24

(w/family)

Joseph Schwer - Line 26

Source - Year: 1870; Census Place: Burlington, Racine, Wisconsin; Roll: M593_1733; Page: 222; Image: 58.

Ferdinand Ellerbrock - line 18

Source - Year: 1880; Census Place: Coon Valley, Sac, Iowa; Roll: 363; Page: 193C; Enumeration District: 188

Ferdinand Ellerbrock - line 5

Source - Year: 1895; Iowa, State Census, 1895; Census Place: Coon Valley, Sac, Iowa; Page 144;

Ferdinand Ellerbrock - line 34

Source - Year: 1900; Census Place: Coon Valley, Sac, Iowa; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0116; FHL microfilm: 1240457

Anna Schwer - line 95

Source - Year: 1910; Census Place: Coon Valley, Sac, Iowa; Roll: T624_422; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 0127; FHL microfilm: 1374435

Anna Schwer - line 61

Source - Year: 1920; Census Place: Sac City Ward 3-4, Sac, Iowa; Roll: T625_511; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 154

Anna Schwer - line 81

Source - Year: 1925; Iowa State Census Collection, 1836-1925; Census Place: Auburn, Sac, Iowa; Image: 8

Anna Schwer - line 81

Source - Year: 1925; Iowa State Census Collection, 1836-1925; Census Place: Auburn, Sac, Iowa; Image: 9

John Portman - line 65

Millie Ellerbrock - line 92

Source - Year: 1930; Census Place: Auburn, Sac, Iowa; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 0020; FHL microfilm: 2340415

Following an illness of nearly twelve years, Mrs. Anna Ellerbrock, eighty-five, died at 5:30 Tuesday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Portman, in Auburn.

Since Thanksgiving Day, 1926, when she suffered a paralytic stroke, Mrs. Ellerbrock has been confined to her bed. The first year of her long illness she was cared for at her home in Auburn by her daughter, Miss Millie Ellerbrock. During the remainder of the time she was at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Portman, where she passed away.

The body will be taken this afternoon from the Gregory Funeral Home to the Portman home at Auburn, where it will rest until the time of the funeral services.
FUNERAL FRIDAY

Rites will be held at 9 o'clock Friday morning at St. Mary's Church in Auburn, with the Rev. Father John McAuliffe reading the requiem mass. Burial will be in the family lot in St. Mary's Cemetery, and pallbearers will be six nephews of the deceased, Albert, Frank and Fred Ellerbrock and Frank, Joe and Paul Smith.

Mrs. Ellerbrock was born Anna Schwerr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schwerr, at Burlington, Wis., June 1, 1853. At the age of eighteen she came to Carroll county and became the bride of Ferdinand Ellerbrock, the ceremony taking place at Mt. Carmel on Jan. 26, 1871.
HUSBAND DIED IN 1909.

Mr. and Mrs. Ellerbrock established their home on a farm four miles north of Auburn, where Mrs. Ellerbrock lived until the year, 1915, when moved from the old homestead to the town of Auburn. Mr. Ellerbrock passed away in 1909, when the family was still living on the farm.

Mrs. Ellerbrock was a member of St. Mary's Church of Auburn and the Rosary Society of the parish.
LEAVES 7 CHILDREN

Surviving are five daughters and two sons: Mrs. John Portman, Auburn; Mrs. Herbert Herke, Fonda; W. J. Ellerbrock, Yetter; F. W. Ellerbrock, Ottumwa; Sister Mary Edith, St. Louis, Mo.; Sister Mary Thaddea, Gilmore City, and Millie Ellerbrock, Auburn.

There are also fourteen grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

Mrs. Ellerbrock was the last member of a family of five children. Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by a son, Charles, who died in 1935.

Source - Carroll Daily Herald - Oct 5, 1938

Source - Photo courtesy of marletasmith.