Welcome to the Witt Cummings Hillman Family Reunion
- MEMENTO UNDE VENISTIS -
REMEMBER WHERE YOU CAME FROM
- MEMENTO UNDE VENISTIS -
REMEMBER WHERE YOU CAME FROM
Good morning Sun!
1:00 pm until Dusk
Saturday, June 26, 2027
Menomonie, WI
This year we are asking all those that can, to bring a dish to pass for the
1:00 pm LUNCH BUFFET
Feel free to bring whatever you would like to share - a main dish, side or dessert - We appreciate it all!
Some basic drinks will be provided but feel free to bring your own drinks of choice, which includes alcoholic drinks, as long as no glass containers.
Back in September 2023, I took a trip to visit my mother in Sarasota, Florida. While there, we did and got much accomplished. One thing was to go through some of my mother's photos. Many but the first one I'd like to share is a beautiful portrait of our wounderful
Phebe Louise Cummings Witt
More to follow.
Tom Redlin
April 30, 2024, is recognized as being the 133rd Anniversary of the union in matrimony of our most wonderful August "Fred" and Phebe L Witt which occurred April 30, 1891. This is the union that we celebrate and brings us all together every three years.
Thank You and Take Care
On the talent level of Terry Redlin and Thomas Kinkade, Trevor Knapp is truly a touched artist who continues to soar!
Trevor was Texas-born, a graduate of UW-Stout and is currently Wisconsin based living in Milwaukee.
Please take a minute to check out his website which contains some of his many great creations.
Our Cummings History page has some great information.
Our ICFA National Family Reunion was a great success.
Held July 11-14, 2019 in
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS
Please click below to check it out!
Thankful for all they do for those in need.
Follow the links if interested in voluntering.
Pictures April 7th, 2018
We would like to share with you Eva Sipple Brink, a very special person, who passed December 05, 2021 at the age of 97. Eva was born in Spring Brook, Dunn County, Wisconsin on April 07, 1924 making this picture taken on her 94th birthday. Eva was our eldest matriarch from A. Fred and Phebe Witt. Her mother, Olive Witt Sipple, was their eldest daughter and thus Eva is mentioned by name in the HISTORY OF DUNN COUNTY WISCONSIN by F. Curtiss-Wedge, PH. D., published 1925, page 357-358.
Both of these pictures were taken on April 7, 2018.
This one is part of five generations of Eva's family.
From left to right:
Eva Sipple Brink with Chloe Morse on her lap, Naomi Brink Lloyd, Jana Lloyd Schloesser, Katie Schloesser Morse.
Our now current matriarch is Leona Martell Metzger, born June 07, 1929 in Menomonie, Wisconsin to Eldon and Norma Martell nee Witt.
More on this to follow soon.
Our family roots and history go way back to the beginning of time!
On a much closer basis, for more then the past 180 years, we've had a deep history in Dunn County, Wisconsin. Much of this taking place in rural Menomonie, Wisconsin especially the Forest Center, Falls City area in the Township of Spring Brook.
The Forest Center Cemetery is where August Fred and Phebe Witt are buried. They are within William F. Witt Sr.'s, August Fred's father's plot, who served in many wars for Prussia, Germany in the 1860's. Both William Fred and his son August Fred were born in Pomerania, Prussia, Germany. They are also along side Phebe's parents, Sanford (Civil War) and Martha Cummings as well as her grand father Jeremiah Cummings (War of 1812). Jeremiah was born in 1776 in Massachusetts, the same year our country was born. Also where Jeremiah's father, Thomas Cummings III, his grand father, Thomas Cummings Jr., and his great grand father, Thomas Cummings Sr., are all credited with serving in the American Revolutionary War - Three Generations!
There are many other siblings, family members and kin also laid to rest here.
The old Forest Center schoolhouse, where many have gone for class, is still next to the cemetery but is now a private residence owned by the Forest Center Church of the Nazarene. August Fred Witt served as clerk and director on the Forest Center School Board for twelve years.
Even though the Forest Center Church and the Forest Center Cemetery are not affiliated, the history of both go hand and hand. Relatives in the past have donated the lands for the cemetery and the church.
We encourage everyone to swing on by to pay a visit to some of our ancestors and their history, our history.
Tom Redlin's mother, Virginia, vividly remembers attending class at the Forest Center School and guest services at the Forest Center Church of the Nazarene at it's original location.
Forest Center Church is significant not only by it's location but by the fact that the original land to start the church
was donated by Phebe's cousin, Eugene O. Cummings, who was a carpenter by trade.
Forest Center is also the first ever Church of the Nazarene in the state of Wisconsin.
It now sits on land that Sanford and Martha Cummings, Phebe's parents, once owned in the 1800's.
The fact that the church still uses the banks and waters of the Chippewa River
for their ceremonies and rituals, just as was Jesus Christ in the River Jordan,
is definitely marvelous.
To see more, check out their new and refreshed website...
Pastor Steve Crites
offers an invitation to any and all interested in attending their
10:00 am Sunday School or their
11:00 am Sunday Service
ALL ARE WELCOME
We would like to thank all the great folks at The City of Menomonie, Parks and Recreation Department for all their help and service with our upcoming reunion.
Wakanda Park and the Parks Department includes WAKANDA WATERPARK. Wakanda Waterpark is right across the street from our reunion site all within the park.
We are happy to announce our partnership with the
DUNN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
which is also right there within Wakanda Park.