John Baptist MELOTTE

  Noted events in his life were:

• Immigration, Abt 1876, , , , Belgium. ²⁵

• Occupation. ²⁵ Wholesale cabbage business

• Occupation. ²⁵ Ice business

• Retirement, 1930. ²⁵ Retired from the ice businees in 1930

• Residence, 2 Feb 1948, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin. ²⁵ John was living at 1454 Velp at the time of his death.

• Census, 1920, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin. ²⁶

• Immigration, 1887. ²⁶

• Naturalization, 1890. ²⁶

• Obituary: Green Bay Press Gazette, 3 Feb 1948, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin. ²⁵

Melotte - Funeral services for John B. Melotte, who died in a local hospital Monday, will be held at 9 o'clock Friday morning in hte Annunciation church. The Rev. Williams Kiernan will offer the reqiem mass and burial will be in Fort Howard demetery. The body is at the Mohr funeral home, where the rosary will be read at 7:30 tonight. The deceased is survived by 20 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren, instead of the number previously reported. He was born in Belgium and came to this country at the age of 17, and married the former Adelle Vandenbush 54 years ago. He was fromerly in the wholesale cabbage business, and later in the ice business until his retirement in 1930. The deceased was a member of the Holy Name society of the Annunciation church.

John married Adell D. VAN DEN BUSCH, daughter of Peter VAN DEN BUSCH and Fannie COPPERSMITH, on 28 Oct 1893 in , Brown, Wisconsin. (Adell D. VAN DEN BUSCH was born on 27 Sep 1871, died on 7 Aug 1966 in Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin ²⁷ and was buried on 11 Aug 1966 in Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, , Fort Howard Cemetery ²⁷.)