Editing Case File: Mailahn Family

==Overview==
[[File:Willie Mailahn 2.png|thumb|161x161px]]
From 1905 to 1912, in a rural farmhouse in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, the Mailahn family had been decimated by consumption, having taken seven members of the family in as many years.  With additional members of the family falling ill, and with the second eldest son already having a morose disposition prior to receiving a head injury - the 23 year old Willie Mailahn tried to convince his remaining family that it would be better for them to all commit suicide rather than proceed through the harsh slow deaths from tuberculosis. The family did not take him seriously, and Willie decided to take matters into his own hands.

On the cold winter day of 2 Feb 1912, with drifts of snow covering portions of the roads, eldest brother Edward took the family sleigh to deliver wood to the school where his two younger brothers were studying.  On the way, he began to realize some of the things his father and brother had told him in the preceeding days, William wishing the family would commit suicide, his father cryptically telling him to take care of the family if anything happened to him.  Arriving to the school, just as his brothers were coming out, he had the forboading feeling that something terrible was happening back at the farm.  He rushed back home as quickly as he could - but it was to late.  William had killed their father, teenage sister Dora, and young brother John, before taking his own life.  Lilsten to the fulls tory at one of the platforms listed above.

==Episodes==
* [[Ep. 1 - The Mailahn Family Massacre|S1E1 - The Mailahn Family Massacre]]

==Locations==
* [[Mailahn Farm]]: 20 acres in Black Creek, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA

==The People==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! style="width: 20%" |Name
! style="width: 10%" |(Born-Died)
!Description
|-
|Danielsen, Abe
|
|Clerk of the Court
|-
|Hoerning, Herbert
|
|member of the coroner's jury, also likely the Mr. Hoerning that was a neighbor
|-
|Holz, Charles
|
|member of the coroner's jury, also a neighbor
|-
|Johnson, Thomas E.
|
|Coroner
|-
|Kirschenlore, George
|
|Deputy Sheriff
|-
|Kluender, Charles
|
|possible family friend, in the newspaper as having attended the funeral
|-
|Kreiss, Henry
|
|Judge in Edward Mailahn's probate case
|-
|[[Augusta Schmidt Mailahn|Mailahn, Augusta Schmidt]]
|1859-1908
|Mother of the family, believed to have died of tuberculosis
|-
|[[Alvina Mailahn|Mailahn, Alvina]]
|1884-1907
|4th daughter
|-
|[[Anna Mailahn|Mailahn, Anna]]
|1880-1906
|twin of Bertha, eldest daughters.  Died of "Phthsis Pulmonalis (Consumption), heart failure"
|-
|Mailahn, Carolina Kefferman
|1813-1909
|Grandmother
|-
|[[Carrie Mailahn|Mailahn, Carrie]]
|1882-1909
|3rd daughter
|-
|Mailahn, Cecelia
|
|cousin who Eddie left his entire estate too.
|-
|[[Dora Mailahn|Mailahn, Dora]]
|1896-1912
|6th daughter, killed by her brother in 1912
|-
|[[Edward Mailahn|Mailahn, Edward]]
|1887-1914
|Eldest son, discovered the bodies of his father and two brothers, died of tuberculosis.
|-
|[[George Mailahn|Mailahn, George]]
|1898-1970
|4th son, discovered the body of his sister, the only family member to live a full life.
|-
|[[John Mailahn|Mailahn, John L.]]
|1903-1912
|5th son and youngest child, killed by his brother in 1912
|-
|[[Lizzie Mailahn|Mailahn, Lizzie]]
|1892-1907
|5th daughter
|-
|[[Louis Mailahn|Mailahn, Louis]] 
|1846-1912
|The father, killed by his son in 1912
|-
|Mailahn, Ludwig
|1811-1895
|Grandfather, moved his family to Outagamie County in about 1872
|-
|[[Walter Mailahn|Mailahn, Walter]] 
|1897-1932
|The 3rd son, lived slightly longer than the rest of his siblings, died of tuberculosis
|-
|[[William Mailahn|Mailahn, William]]
|1889-1912
|The 2nd son, killed his father, brother, and sister before taking his own life in 1912
|-
|Riehl, W. B. 
|
|member of the coroner's jury
|-
|McCarty, Margaret
|
|Witness to the will of Edward Mailahn, and resident with him at Riverview Sanitorium, likely an employee
|-
|Rooney, F. J.
|
|District Attorney
|-
|Schultz, William
|
|neighbor, on whose farm William was kicked int he head by a horse.
|-
|Seefelt, Otto
|
|possible family friend, in the newspaper as having attended the funeral
|-
|Smith, Charles
|
|member of the coroner's jury
|-
|Smith, George
|
|member of the coroner's jury
|-
|Verhagen, Martin
|
|Under Sheriff
|-
|[[Bertha Mailahn|Welch, Bertha Mailahn]]
|1880-1905
|twin of Anna, eldest daughters.  Died of "Tubercular abcess, tuberculosis of lungs"
|-
|Welch, Grant
|1905-1906
|infant son of Bertha Mailahn Welch, died of "lung fever"
|-
|Welch, Jessie
|1871-1950
|husband of eldest daughter Bertha Mailahn, married in 1904, also a member of the coroner's jury for the deaths of previous inlaws in 1912.
|-
|Zuehlke, J. B.
|
|Attorney for Edward Mailahn for his estate and probate
|}

==Documentation==
=== Cemetery Records ===
* [[Black Creek Cemetery Burials]]

=== Census Records ===
* [[1880 Census - ED117 - Page 1|1880]] : Black Creek, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
* [[1900 Census - ED75 - Page 11B|1900]] : Black Creek, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
* [[1900 Census - ED84 - Page 10B|1900]] : Grand Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ([[Alvina Mailahn|Alvina]] & [[Anna Mailahn|Anna]])
* [[1905 Census - Center, Outagamie - Page 1|1905]] : Center, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
* [[1910 Census - ED130 - Page 12A|1910]] : Center, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
* [[1920 Census - ED 3 - Page 9B|1920]] : Brillion Village, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA ([[Walter Mailahn]])
* [[1930 Census - ED 55-25 - Page 13B|1930]] : Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, USA ([[George Mailahn]])
* [[1940 Census - ED 60-381 - Page 63B|1940]] : Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA ([[George Mailahn]])
* [[1950 Census - ED 66-2371 - Sheet 80|1950]] : Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA ([[George Mailahn]])

=== Military Records ===
* [[WW1 Draft Card, Walter Mailahn|WW1 Draft Card]]: Walter Mailahn, 1918
* [[WW2 Draft Card, George Lawrence Mailahn|WW2 Draft Card]]: George Lawrence Mailahn, 1942

=== Newspapers ===
* [[10 Nov 1904 - The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin)]] : Marriage of daughter Bertha
* [[3 Feb 1912 - The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin)]] : Kills Father, Sister, Brother and Himself
* [[5 Feb 1912 - The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin)]] : Father Has Presentiment
* [[8 Feb 1912 - Appleton Weekly Post (Appleton, Wisconsin)]] : Fiend Kills Father, Sister, Brother and Ends Own Life
* [[14 Feb 1912 - The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin)]] : Brother Tells of the Tragedy
* [[2 Sep 1913 - The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin)]] : Driven West By the White Plague
* [[5 Sep 1913 - The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin)]] : Auction
* [[28 Nov 1913 - The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin)]] : Part of Both Lungs Are Removed
* [[16 Oct 1915 - The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin)]] : Probate
* [[17 Jul 1957 - Chula Vista Star-News (Chula Vista, California)]] : hubcaps stolen
* [[21 Jun 1970 - Chula Vista Star-News (Chula Vista, California)]] : George Mailahn obituary

=== Probate Records ===
* [[Probate of Edward Mailahn]] : Outagamie County, Wisconsin (1914/15)

=== Real Estate Records ===
* [[Deed: Charles Kollath to Louis Mailahn]] : (1890)

=== Vital Records ===
* 1904 : [[Marriage Certificate of Bertha Mailahn & Jesse Welch]] 
* 1905 : [[Death Certificate of Mrs. Bertha Welch]] 
* 1906 : [[Death Certificate of Annie Mailahn]] 
* 1907 : [[Death Certificate of Alvina Mailahn]] 
* 1907 : [[Death Certificate of Lizzie Mailahn]]