“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


CHRISTOPH SCHROEDER, retired undertaker; born in Vorbruck 
Walsrode, Hanover, Feb. 18, 1817; came to America in 1844; located in 
Cleveland, Ohio, for about one year and half; then he came to 
Watertown; for a number of years, he worked at the carpenter and joiner 
business; then he was engaged in business as undertaker for twenty-five 
years; three years ago, he retired from that business.  Mr. Schroeder laid 
out and started Oak Hill Cemetery, and now has charge of it.  He 
deserves great credit for the judgment displayed in the location and 
arrangement of this cemetery.  He has one  of the best-constructed 
family vaults in the country, in which rest the remains of his children, of 
his mother, Mary Schroeder, and Mary Arntz, his wife’s mother.  In 
1843, Mr. S. married Mary Arntz; she was born in Altenboetzen, 
Hanover, Dec. 15, 1820; they have seven children living - Teresa (now 
Mrs. John K_____, of Fond du Lac), Henry, Mena (now Mrs. Frederick 
Wilkopsky), Sophia (now Mrs. Hermann Rapp), Mary, Ernst and Lena.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)