Edwin Wemple

Last of the pioneer Wemple family, associated for so many years with Robinson prairie, Edwin Wemple died at his home in Oneida County, Wisconsin Thursday. His ge was 90.

(Robinson prairie embraced extensive farmlands north of the present Road 2 and West of the southern extremity of Road 55.)

With his brother-in-law, Charles Dillabaugh, he had a blacksmith shop near the Pennsylvania depot in the early 1890's and, after farming in this locality, went in 1911 to Oneida County.

Survivors are two daughters, Clare Boehm of Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and Lucy Hough of Hebron; seven grandchildren and nine great grandchildren; a half-brother, Fred Ewer of Lowell, and a half-sister, Lillian Brown of Detroit, Michigan.

Burial was made at Rhineland beside his wife, who died in 1915.