Does anyone have information about these families who once lived in the Schleswig area?
Also does anyone have more information about the Centennial?
I have pictures of the Theodore Rohwer family and even have a 1912 High School graduation announcement, when Theodore Rohwer was President and his son was in the class. Other members were Clara Ehlers, John Rusch, John Boll, Adolphus Frahm, and Walter Schroeder.
Would like to know if anyone has more info.

Schleswig will celebrate one hundred years of history in 1999. Our Centennial celebration falls on July 22, 23, 24, and 25 at the edge of a new century.

All families in the Schleswig area are invited to file their family histories in your Schleswig Public Library. To insure remembrance, your library encourages and urges Schleswig families to prepare family histories for inclusion in your library's annals.

There are many local families who have been and are instrumental in contributing to our city's beginnings and/or its continuation and or its survival. The imprint of these countless people will contribute to a permanent record that has already begun by the offerings of local citizenry to your library. A special, permanent area has been designed for these valuable and very welcome bestowals for your town.

These accounts do not have to be formally compiled. They may be lists of the present generation, of parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and great, great relatives on both sides if their names are known--and beyond. Exact birth and death dates are important but not mandatory. Include what your relatives did for a living if that is known. Did they Immigrate from Europe? You may want to include family stories that have been passed down through the generations - somber or humorous. There are no maximums or minimums in the length of these family histories. Feel free to study existing family histories now in your library to help you get started if need be.

This will be a record of your family far into the future. In the next 9 months, your library welcomes and encourages receiving this information from every family in the area. You are invited to include black and white and/or colored prints of family members or events.

Your efforts will be bound and labeled by your library. You need not be concerned about a cover or page-punching; your library will supply both--a fine binder for your history and a permanent family label. Your history may be either typewritten or handwritten leaving a 1 1/2 inch left-side margin and preferably, but not mandatory, using one side of each sheet of 8 1/2 inch by 11 inch paper.

Your library eagerly awaits this historically valuable contribution from. your family. Start your history today. Winter in our area is perfect for this project.

Jerry, Just read abt Schleswig Centennial.I have compiled a book abt my gr-gr-grandparents who came from Schleswig-Henry and Anna Winter of Carroll Co. IA. Will contribute a copy to your library if you will send me an address. I have Anna's genealogy back several generations but nothing beyond Henry. He was a runaway and did not contact or record his parents or give his place of birth that I can find.Lived in Kankakee Co, IL when he was naturalized, then to Jo Daviess Co., IL, then to Carroll Co.IA where both are buried. F.Barrus

Flora.

If you just address it to the Schleswig Library, Schleswig, Iowa 51461

It should get there with no problem.

I'm afraid I don't have any info on the Centennial, but I am looking for information about Jetta Rohwer, born in Allens Grove Twp, Iowa. I'm not sure who her parents were, but she married Charles Thodt between 1870 - 1887 in Iowa. If anyone can help me out, that'd be great!

Thanks.

Linda

I have a scan of the newspaper article when Theodore Rohwer of Schleswig committed suicide. I would love to get copies of the Rohwer pictures that you have.

Rick Rohwer