It looks like there may be some matches to your Paape family posting in Milwaukee's German papers, even though your family group also lived outside of Milwaukee - like family death notices for Flora Paape Hensch in 1920? Multiple clippings for the names Franz and Frank Paape in 1897 and 1902?
"Milwaukee's German Newspapers; an index of death notices and related items" (1844-1950).
Gary Rebholz, compiler/editor
Milwaukee Wis.
gary.rebholz@gmail.comIndexing Milwaukee's German newspapers continuously since 2007 ... it's about German-American culture, not data.