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Wadsack - Johanna lived to be 100 years old (2005) - Horst
Waisman - Waisman Center - Harry became director of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Memorial Laboratories for research in developmental disabilities (1963) - Ethel
Wagner - George, Isabel, Jane, Karl, Newton
Wagner - Barbara, John, Mathias
Wagner - Esther, Louis
Wald - Max passed at 99 years old (2005) - Gerda
Waldon - 16yo Phyllis was in an auto accident in Beloit (1953)

Walker - Shane
Walker - Leola
Walker - Ruth
Walker - Eliza, George, Margaret, William
Walker - Eugene attacked a Sheriff's deputy and was fatally shot (2010)
Walker - Margaret passed at 99 years old (1998) - William
Walker - Anna, Samuel
Walker - Richard

Wallace - James's car crashed into Wingra Creek due to a medical condition (1992)
Wallace - Cleo
Wallestad - Arthur froze when he slipped on stairs and hit his head knocking him out (1969)
Wallestad - Ethel lived to be 106 years old (2014)
Wallsch - Doris
Wanamaker - Charles, Eliza

Ward - John lived to be 100 years old (1982) - Mildred
Ward - Andrew was a surgeon for the Iron Brigade during the Civil War - Eleanor, Jessie
Ward - Norman suffocated from a fire he set trying to escape from the Dane County Jail (1948)
Wardle - Henry
Wardle - Harry & Ruth, one day apart in their 90s (2010)

Ware - Clarissa
Warner - Lucy
Warner - Warner Park - Ernest's car blew a tire and he crashed (1930) - Lillian
Warner - John died from a skull fracture (2013) - Elizabeth, Jane
Warner - Eugene was in a car accident near Verona (1971) - Emily, Harvey
Warner - Achsah

Warnes - Mary
Warnes - Ishmael
Warren - Charles fell from a tree he was pruning (1913) - Catherine, Frank, Jessie, Laura, William
Warren - Catherine
Warren - Curtis perished along with forty six others in an airplane crash in Michigan (1958) - Judy
Warren - Lucinda
Washington - Asa fell thirty feet when he slipped from his roof (1921) - Estella, R.W.

Waterhouse - Fidelia, Henry, Walter
Waterman - Alice restored the Confederate Cemetery at Forest Hill, when she died she was buried there with "Her Boys" (1897)
Waters - Clara died from Poisoning (1977) - George
Waters - Viola was hit by a car crossing Regent Street at Brooks Street (1968) - John
Watkins - Myron, Ruth
Watkins - Elbert had a heart attack while being interviewed on camera at WHA TV (1970)
Watrous - James, Margaret
Watrous - Jane

Watson - Alice, Nancy, William, Willie
Watson - Roth
Watters - Timothy was in a motorcycle accident on Hwy HH in Juneau County (2011)
Wear - John was killed in the crash of American Airlines Flight 191, still known as America's worst air disaster (1979)
Weary - Lester's car hit a tree on Monona Drive (1948) - Edna, Lester Sr.
Weaver - Albert was killed in action in WWII, buried at Forest Hill almost four years later (1945/1949) - Fannie, William
Weaver - Andrew & Cornelia were in a car accident on the Ohio Turnpike when they hit a concrete abutment (1965)
Webb - Joyce, Robert

Webster - Shirleigh
Webster - George, James, Mary
Wedell - Carl was in a head-on automobile accident near Green Bay (1950) - Elizabeth
Wedig - Brandon was born with half of a heart (2002)
Wegener - Charles, Elizabeth
Weger - Nora was in a motorcycle/car crash on Sherman Avenue (1969)
Weger - Louis was in an auto accident in Indianapolis (1967)
Wegner - Jonathan was hit by a car and a motorcycle crossing a highway near Honolulu (1988)

Wehner - Carl was killed in action in France during WWI, buried in Forest Hill three years later (1918/1921)
Wehrmann - Charles, Fannie
Weidenkopf - Alice, Vane
Weidenkopf - Vane was poisoned from working with a exterminator firm (1970)
Weinberg - Dora
Weiner - August
Weinfeld - Amelie

Weingartner - Harry, Rhoda
Weinman - 6yo Billy was hit by a car on his way to school (1918) - Earl, Elizabeth, Fred, Mabel, William
Weinzerl - Georgia
Weiss - Nelle lived to be 103 years old (1991) - Howard
Weiss - Emma
Welch - William died from an accidental gunshot wound while in Minneapolis (1886)

Wellingham - Mildred
Wellman - 17yo Walter hit his head as the boat he was in passed under a springboard on Lake Mendota (1928) - Margaret
Wellman - Roscoe
Wells - Douglas died two days after a tree pinned him in the car that his cousin, who had .24 blood alcohol, drove off Muir Field Road (2002)
Welsch - Anna, Charles
Welsher - Harry, Katherine, Margaret, Willard

Wendt - Lamb Marker - Fred died of injuries two weeks after an auto accident at Springfield Corners (1936) - Alice, Fred Jr., Margaret
Wermuth - F. Joseph fell from a train in Missouri (1897)
Werndli - Alan died of battle wounds in North Korea (1952) - Carol, Kathryn, Samuel, Thomas
Werner - Tahani was in a car accident at the intersection of Hillcrest Drive and Franklin Avenue (1978)
Werner - John shot himself while riding in a taxi (1924) - Martha
Wesselle - Rudolph was one of three young men drown when their iceboat sailed into open water on Lake Monona (1916)
Wessels - Erwin was hit by a train at the railroad yards at 1900 E. Johnson Street (1970) - Dawn

Westerlund - 1yo LaRue was strangled from a sleeping bag (1944)
Wetherby - Fannie
Wharmby - Thomas succumbed two weeks after being injured in the Civil War (1864) - Ann, John
Wheeler - Earl, Josephine
Wheeler - Margaret
Whelan - Charles Sr. was mayor of Madison (1898) - Charles Jr. was hit by a car at E. Gorham and N. Hamilton streets (1934) - Bertie
Whitaker - Bessie, Henry

White - 17yo Sean was one of three teens killed in a car accident on I94 near Oconomowoc (2010)
White - 14yo Rhena died in the 1918 flu pandemic - Benjamin, Sadie
White - Margaret, Oscar, Wilson
White - Samuel took his own life in jail after being arrested for forgery (1909)
White - John was stabbed to death in Milwaukee (1931) - Elizabeth, Joseph
White - Adalin
White - Charles died from a fall while fighting, ruled accidental (1940)
White - Joseph fell three stories from a window at Madison General Hospital (1962)

Whitefield - Florence lived to be 105 years old (2004) - George, Hallie
Whitesitt - 13yo Dennis was hit by a car running into Spaight Street in front of his house (1956) - Ralph
Whitesitt - 13yo Clarence was hit by a car on his bike on W. Gilman Street (1914)
Whitney - Thomas
Whitt - Jane was found in a wooded area near her home with severe burns (1981)
Whitt - Esther
Whittlesey - Thomas was U.S. Representative from Connecticut (1836-39) - Unknowns

Widen - Martha was in an auto accident on Hwy 12 between Fort Atkinson and Whitewater (1933) - Frederick
Widmann - Caroline, Fred
Widmann - Emma lived to be 101 years old (1983) - Ernest
Wiedner - Clifford Gunshot to Head in West Bend (1986) - Clara, William
Wiese - Christian got tetanus from a cut working as a well driller (1919) - Alma, Elizabeth, Elsie, Helen, Hilda
Wiese - 11yo Glenn was hit by a car on Atwood Avenue (1922) - Neal, Sophia, William
Wiese - 3yo Ruth was hit by a motorcycle running across Williamson Street (1914) - August, Carl, Dorothy, Infant, Ruth, Walter

Wiedenbeck - Emilie, Theodore
Wigglesworth - Hazel lived to be 101 years old (1997) - Alfred
Wigglesworth - Frederick was hunting when a shotgun discharged into his chest (1928) - Fred, Irene
Wild - Jessie drown in the cistern behind her house when she slipped in and hit her head (1914)
Wiley - Steven careened off Airport Road and crashed into a tree (1978) - Craig was thrown from a pickup truck as it flipped over (1977) - Rex
Wilke - Clara died in a car accident on Hwy 151 near Waupun (1938) - Otto

Williams - Mary accidently lit her clothes on fire with a match (1937)
Williams - Pearl lived to be 100 years old (1989) - Frank
Williams - Amandia was in an auto accident when the car she was a passenger in drove the wrong way on I90 (1987)
Williams - Hazel was stabbed to death at her home on Center Avenue (1960)
Williams -

Williams - Albert, Nellie
Williams - Daniel, Harriet, Infant, James, Mary, Matilda, Phyllis, Roger, Sarah, Sylvester, Unknown
Williams - Diana, Flora, Henry, Jennie
Williams - Lorraine died of a pistol wound to the head in Dubuque, Iowa (1956)
Williams - Chauncey, Joanna, Mellie

Williams - Hazel
Williams - Elisha was a former slave
Williams - DeaKarr was one of four young men killed in a car crash at Northport Drive and Packers Avenue (2020)
Williams - Thelma lived to be 100 years (1998) - Ralph
Williams - Charles, accidental Oil-of-Wintergreen (1931)

Williamson - James was killed by a train (1912)
Willoughby - George was killed by cars in Missouri (1906) - Charlotte, Louise
Wills - Richard was in a head-on car accident on Hwy 51 near Edgerton (1958) - Amy, Harris
Wills - Mary
Wills - Theresa
Willy - Albert, Katherine

Wilson - Jane passed at 99 years old (1920) - Estes
Wilson - Leroy was shot outside an apartment on Wright Street while trying to break up a fight (1987)
Wilson - Robert "Red" was a major league baseball player for ten seasons (1951-60), UW Athletic HOF (1991) - Daniel died of a fall at work (2004) - Vera
Wilson - Gertrude lived to be 101 years old (1999)
Wilson - Helen, Wallace
Wilson - Newlyweds Robert & Margaret were in an auto accident in Wyoming (1952)
Wilson - William died of a fractured skull (1911) - Edward

Wilson - Jeffrey was in a US Air Force plane crash in Greenland (1976) - Bonnie, Richard
Wilson - Alice, Chester, Rodifer
Wilson - Alexander
Wilson - Jason was one of four Madison West High School teens who died in a car accident (1988)
Wilson - Virginia lived to be 100 years old (2016) - Robert
Wilson - Samuel fell between two cars on a moving train (1904)

Willson - Eliza lived to be 100 years old (1935) - Daniel, Dwight, Fred
Winer - Martin
Winn - Joanna was hit by a delivery wagon with a runaway horse at Pinckney Street and E. Washington Avenue (1893) - Henry, John, Mary, Sarah
Winn - Ruth passed at 99 years old (2016) and wanted the remainder of grave spaces on her lot to be used for indigent people
Winrich - Oscar
Winslow - Agnes, Clarinda, Emily, John, Mary
Winston - Jason

Winterbotham - Charlotte, Florence, Frederick, Lydia, Ralph, Roland, Thomas
Winters - William fell down an open hatchway from a hayloft (1896)
Wipson - May lived to be 107 years old and lived in three centuries (1893/2001) - Carl
Wirth - Russell drown in Monona Bay (1958)
Wirth - Flora, Harvey
Wise - Norman was flying a plane that lost power and crashed near the Wisconsin Dells on a Civil Air Patrol training mission (1961)
Wiser - John

Wiswall - Zilla was the principal at Central Jr. High School when it first opened in 1930 - Anna, E., Ella, Elvin, Viola
Witte - Witte Hall - Edwin was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is know as one of the 'fathers of Social Security' - Florence
Woldenberg - Bench & Vases Monument - Anna, Charles, Edna, Esther, Haskell, Jacob, Minette, Murial, Rose, Samuel, Sara
Wolf - Irene, John
Wolfe - William was hit by a train, he was sleeping near the tracks (1912)
Wolff - Ida, Rudolph
Wolff - Abigail was in a car accident in Michigan (1973)

Wolman - Jane was in an auto accident in Nebraska (1967) - Anne, Jonathan, Joseph
Wolpert - 1yo Ellen died of a broken neck (1912)
Wong - Suey ran the Golden Dragon restaurant off the Capitol Square - Bon, Chan
Wood - Frances
Wood - Alice, Elizabeth, Kent
Wood - Algernon was a stone cutter & marble dealer, his name is on many of the older tombstones in Forest Hill - Sarah

Woodburn - Delma lived to be 102 years old and lived in three centuries (1899/2001) - James
Woodbury - Almira, Orsen
Woodbury - Gordon, Josephine
Woods - 5yo Frances died at the Union Orphans Hospital (1866)
Woodward - Josephine, Margaret, William
Woodward - 7yo Rachel was in a train accident in Italy (1978) - David
Woodward - Vernon was coach of the UW boxing team - Kathleen, Marlys
Woodward - Louisa

Woody - Donald was found in his car at the bottom of a lagoon in California seven months after he disappeared (1956-57) - Carroll, Roy
Wootton - Addie, Frank, Lillian, Robert
Workman - Yvonne, her husband and a friend were murdered (1983), unsolved for Thirty one years, moved to Forest Hill (1994)
Wornson - Hannah drown in Lake Monona (1925)
Worth - Amy's body was found in a burning apartment, but she was likely already dead before the fire (1988) - Allen, Kathleen
Worth - 15yo Edward drown in Lake Wingra (1909) - Agnes, Edward

Worthington - Julia
Wright - David ran the village school in 1844-45, teaching one hundred pupils in one room - Bezaleel, Catharine, Hannah, Kate, Olive, Sarah
Wright - Minnie became confused and walked in front of a train (1902)
Wright - David, Edythe, Grace, Olive
Wright - Edna was in a car accident where oncoming cars sideswiped near Watertown (1939) - William
Wright - Alma, James
Wright - Darlene, John

Wurth - Anna, William
Wyman - Caroline, David, Emeline, Freddie, Isabel, Lorenzo, Louise, Mary, William
Wys - William took his own life by train fourteen months after his daughter, Florence, did the same thing (1943 & 1945) - Hattie
Wysocki - Marcelle, Theodore