Divided back, used Real Photo Postcard. Postmarked date and city unreadable. Circa 1909 – 1914.
Price: $12.00
Here’s a another RPPC with a little boy, this time standing on a wrought iron “ice cream parlor” chair, and with a nice fake backdrop of foliage and sky. (So dramatic! Imagine him at the prow of a ship!)
The sender wrote: “If not called for return to William Krantz, Clinton, R-R-33, Wis.” The card is addressed to: “Mrs. John Wuhrman, Whitewater, Wis. R-R-2.”
The WWI Draft Registration shows William Krantz, born March 15, 1876 in Germany, with an address of 34 Clinton, Rock County, Wisconsin, and “nearest relative” his wife, Etta Krantz. So, this address is almost an exact match to the postcard address given for the sender. The 1910 Federal Census was not found, but the 1920 census for Sharon, Wisconsin, shows William and Cora E. Krantz and family. (The town of Sharon is about 10 miles southeast of Clinton.) Their children on the 1920 are Ruby, Roy, Donald and Wesley, ages 15 – 10. Also living with the family is William’s brother Otto. The postmarked date on this card is unreadable but we’re probably safe to assume it’s pre-1920. The boys’ ages are so close together, so this is likely a photo of either Roy, Donald or Wesley, at about age three, though it’s always possible that it’s none of them.
Sources: Year: 1920; Census Place: Sharon, Walworth, Wisconsin; Roll: T625_2019; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 154; Image: 1095. (Ancestry.com)
Registration State: Wisconsin; Registration County: Rock; Roll: 1674978; Draft Board: 2. Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
would you happen to know the address in Sharon where they lived. I am from Sharon and I am compiling a short history of the town.
There were no house numbers but apparently the street was Martin, and probably near Baldwin St. The 1920 census shows the census taker wrote Baldwin St., crossed it off, then wrote “Marten” St. The 1930 census also shows the Krantz family on Martin St. close to Baldwin. The census taker wrote, “houses not numbered.” On the 1930 a short list of families including Krantz are: Charles E. Wolcott and family, then David Hotchkiss and niece Huldah Stam?, then William Krantz and family, then Philip Nehlig and family, then Carl Fryer and wife, then starts Baldwin St. and Daniel E. Johnson and family are listed starting there on Baldwin. I don’t see any of the same neighbors on the 1920. Immediate neighbors on each side of the Krantz family on the 1920 were Henry Smith and his sister Edith Smith, and Mary Bird and her sister Eva Bird. Hope this is helpful!