Augusta Link Platt

Photo of Augusta Link Platt as a young woman


Purchased
Antique Store
Montavilla Neighborhood
Portland, Oregon

Type
Cabinet Card
(circa 1866 - 1906)

Studio
Baer, K
Baraboo, Wisconsin

Notations
Mrs. Augusta Link Platt
A cousin of your mother and my mother. Died July 1935

Research
Augusta (Link/Linke) Platt b. Mar 1865 Wisconsin, d. 1935 buried Walnut Hill Cemetery, Baraboo, Sauk Co., Wisconisin

Parents
John Linke, a watchmaker, b. abt 1840 Germany and Frederica b. about 1840 Germany

Siblings
All born in Wisconsin
Charles Linke b. abt 1877
John Linke b. abt 1868
William Linke b. abt 1870
Lena Linke b. abt 1872
Frank Linke b. abt 1873

Spouse
August Gustav Platt b. 5 Mar 1864 Wisconsin, d. 4 Nov 1938 buried Walnut Hill Cem., Baraboo, Sauk Co., Wisconsin

According to a descendant of August and Augusta, they ran an ice delivery business. They cut the ice out of the Baraboo River above the old woolen mill back when the river was damned up. In the Sauk County Historical Society there is a thermometer showing their advertising logo.

Children
All born in Baraboo, Sauk, WI
Lydia Platt b. Aug 1890
Fern N. Platt b. May 1896
Harold Platt b. Nov 1897
Viva/Vera E. Platt b. Apr 1900
Cecil Irene Platt b. 8 Aug 1901

Sources
John Linke household, 1880 U.S. census, Sauk County, Wisconsin, population schedule, town of Baraboo, enumeration district [ED] 245, supervisor's district [SD] 2, sheet 34B, dwelling 298, family 337; National Archives micropublication T9, roll 1446.

August G. Platt household, 1900 U.S. census, Sauk County, Wisconsin, population schedule, town of Baraboo, enumeration district [ED] 126, supervisor's district [SD] 2, sheet 20A, dwelling 421, family 428; National Archives micropublication T623, roll 1816.

Cemetery Transcription Library, online <www.interment.net>, Steve Johnson, web master, <stevepjohnson@mchsi.com>, Platt data downloaded 25 May 2004.

Contact
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