Blinn Family

Philopena Blinn purchased 80 acres of good agricultural land in the Town of Washington [La Crosse County Register of Deeds, volume 18 page 489] on June 16, 1860, from Julius & Wilhelmina Keil.

Philopena and her husband Theobold farmed this area throughout their adult lives. The small family plot is situated just south of Hwy. 33 on Hass Road. The Town of Washington now takes responsibility for the maintenance of the cemetery.

Theobald was a signer of the incorporation papers of the First (German) Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Town of Washington on March 16, 1866 [La Crosse County Register of Deeds, Church Incorporation, volume 1 page 33], and was active in town politics holding several offices.

Disease was often a killer of young children, and touched almost every family during the pioneer era. While it is not known if an epidemic hit the Blinn family as it did their neighbors the Steins, the gravestone in the cemetery sadly tells of the early deaths of five of the Blinn's children. One central stone recounts dates and names of the family, and separate small stones mark each individual. Theobold lived to be 63 years old, dying in 1888, while his wife outlived him another eight years. Written in English is the the following information from the monument:

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