Paternal Grandmother Julia Yana

Julia Yana was born 20 March 1894, the youngest daughter of Wenzel Jana (later spelled Yanna) and Anna Panoch, both emigrants of Bohemia. A younger brother, Adolph, was born four years later to rescue her from being the baby of the family.
Julia was very close to her sisters, especially Emma who was three years older. They grew up in Kellnersville, Wisconsin and remained close friends throughout their lives.
By 1905, Julia was employed as a servant as was the custom of the time. She worked and lived with a family in Gibson, a small town detached from Mishicot. She was 11 years old at the time.
At the age of . . . well, Julia was not fond of revealing her true age and soon it became obscured in the records. She did, at an early age, meet Archie Baugniet who was living in Mishicott and helping on the family farm. Julia and Archie were married on 07 September 1914 and raised two sons and a daughter in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.

Paternal Grandfather Archie Baugniet

My dad's father was baptized Thomas Arthur Baugniet, or Bongier if you go by the actual record from the Holy Cross Church document archived at the Diocese of Green Bay. His parents are listed as Frederic Bongier and Caecilia Bongier. His godparents were Georgino Peltier and Harriet Peltier (alias Pelkey.) He was born on 06 January 1893 in the town of Mishicott in Wisconsin. Because his sister Jennie was unable to say the name "Arthur" she said "Archie", and the name stuck.
The picture at right was taken when Archie was about 17.
Archie was the son of Frederick Baugniet of Belgium and Macila LaPlante whose paternal ancestors emigrated from France to Canada and maternal ancestors who emigrated from Ireland to Canada. Archie's parents were among the earliest settlers in the area. The memorial obituary for Archie states that after he graduated from Mishicot High School in 1909, he attended the Manitowoc County Normal School at Manitowoc. In 1913, he went to Oshkosh where he took a course at a telegraphy school after which he took a position at the Chicago & North Western Railway Co. station at Wabeno. After a year he returned to assist his father on the farm.
Around that time, he met a young lady from Kellnersville, Julia Yana.