carl bartz 1842-1918
Great grandfather Carl W Bartz was born in Zitzmin, Pommern Germany and immigrated to Fond du Lac Wisconsin in 1869 where he and his future wife Hannah Fredericka Juhnke (Jhunke) worked on a dairy farm. They married in 1871 and moved to Eastern Township, Knox County Nebraska where they worked on the Charles Mischke Ranch as farm hands before buying their own land in 1885.
Carl paid passage to the US for two nephews Carl Juhnke and Herman Zart who the family believes were nephews. Carl Juhnke married Frances Kaufman in Yankton SD on November 21, 1876 in Yankton, SD. Carl Juhnke and his sister Fredericka were orphans. They had at least one other brother that stayed in Germany.
Hannah Juhnke was the daughter of Michael and Maria R. Coske Juhnke and was born in Friedensdorf, Schlawe Pommern Germany in 1847 and she died in Cedar Falls, IA in 1933.
I have hit a dead end with Carl and Hannah Bartz. Anyone that help me with checking for family in Germany and where or other help would be very appreciated.