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I have recently been researching the "Helz" family. While searching in a 'Family Book' on the Helz family, I found the following information: "In 1865, when buying a lot on which to build his home, the clerk writing the deed spelled his name "Helz" instead of "Hoelz", which was used forever thereafter.I also found this story about Johann Martin Hoelz: In the spring of 1843, Johann Martin Hoelz left Dichtelbach, Germany for the United States with his six children which aged from four to twenty-two years. The two eldest sons were iron molders and wanted to continue this profession in Pittsburgh, PA. After six weeks on the turblant ocean waters, they decided to go directly to the German settlement of Milwaukee, in the territory Wisconsin to farm. From NY they traveled by horse-drawn-barge through the Erie canal to the Great Lakes and then by sail boat to Milwaukee, arriving 93 days after leaving his homeland. He then bought 40acres of land for $50.00 in Washington County on July 10, 1843. He is buried at his home here, in a plot marked by native White Oaks.

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