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Finding Three Family Branches

Kevin Griffin with his wife Rose recently visited the graves of three branches of his family: Volz, Vollmer and Biebel buried in WC.

Schinde….First Burial 1856

The first known burial in Woodland was recorded on August 23, 1856, a child named August Schinde, though there could have been another youngster buried there a day before, according to Mary Lish, who keeps records of Woodland’s burials. The first adult burial was recorded a couple of months later in October 1856. Mary Lish is comfortable with there being…