On 11 October 1868, the marriage of Jeremiah Bullman (farmer) and Margaret Meyers [sic] was registered. The husband was a resident of Brookfield where the civil marriage was contracted on 8 October 1868. A James Watson of Brookfield pronounced the marriage which was witnessed by Valentine Meyers and Betsey Felton. The parents of neither the husband nor the wife are mentioned.
Valentine is either the uncle or the brother of Margaret. I suspect the latter. Betsey is Jeremiah's eldest sister, the first born of Sarah and Patrick. She will have her own rather interesting story told soon.
But, there is an end to the story of Margaret Bulman. In the Waukesha Freeman of February 7, 1940 her death is announced. She was 93. Born in Germany, she died as the second war with German was beginning. Here is the notice:
MRS. BULMAN IS DEAD AT HOME
Mrs. Margaret Bulman, 93, died Monday morning at the home of her sister, Mrs. Louise Buchem, 834 Oakland ave. [sic]. Born in Germany, Mrs. Bulman came to Waukesha at the age of six, and lived on a farm east of here until 1874. Then the family moved to Eau Claire.
In 1908 they moved from there and took up a homestead in Montana. They went to Puyallup, Wash. in 1929 and returned in August, 1939, to Waukesha.
She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Katherine Miller of Wolfford, N. Dak.; two sons Fred A. Bulman of Waukesha and Walter Bulman of Wibaux, Mt.; two sisters, Mrs. Louise Buchem of Waukesha and Miss Elizabeth Mayer of Milwaukee, also 18 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, Feb 8. at 2 p.m. at the Erling Larsen Funeral Home, 419 E. Broadway. Rev. Dwight M. Bahr will officiate, and burial will be in Prairie Home Cemetery.
Mrs. Bulman was a member of the G.A.R. [Grand Army of the Republic] Custer Circle No. 25 of Puyallup and the Spanish War Veterans' ausilliary. The local Spanish War Veterans will have a part in the funeral service. Friends may call at funeral home after 5 p.m. Tuesday.
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