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From: Jeffrey
Wedding [mailto:boneman @ unlv.edu] [note spaces added]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 2:48 AM
To: admin @ riehle.net [note spaces added]
Subject: Descendant of Kunrad Riehle and Christina
Digelen
I recently came across your
website, and thought I'd drop a line. I'm a descendant of
Kunrad Riehle and Christina Digelen, listed among "More Lost
Riehles" submitted by Ruediger Kemmler. The following is part
of the info I have on my Riehle roots, much of it compiled by a
distant cousin named Walter Zwick who journeyed to Germany and
gathered records in 1979, and from information compiled by my
late Grandmother Virgina Emma (Ploor) Wedding.
My Riehle ancestors lived in the
rural area of Mahringen, south of Tubingen, which is on the
Necker River, approximately fifty miles south of the city of
Stuttgart. Kunrad Riehle was born January 27, 1774, and grew
to be a local citizen and farmer. On November 28, 1797, Kunrad
married Christina Digelen (born January 16, 1779). They had
seven children, all born in Mahringen. Kunrad and Christina
both died in Mahringen in 1860, he on May 12, she on February
20. Many of their children, including my direct ancestor,
emigrated to the rural counties around Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
In the Tubingen church records
examined by Walter Zwick in 1979, the surname was spelled RIELE
instead of RIEHLE.
The seven children born in
Mahringen of Kunrad and Christina were:
1. Kunrad Riehle born (b.) March
17, 1798; Confirmed (c.) 1812; Emigrated (e.) 1866; Died (d.)
March 22, 1868
2. Waldburga Riehle b. December
11, 1799, c. 1813; d. November 30, 1830 (I believe in Germany,
never emigrated)
3. Anna Margaret Riehle b. March
15, 1802; d. March 19, 1802
4. Christina Riehle b. September
26, 1803; c. 1817; e. ??, d. 1879 in Bluffton, Indiana.
5. Anna Margaret Riehle b.
October 16, 1805; e. 1866; d. October 13, 1806
6. Sebastion Christian Riehle
(My Ancestor) b. August 19, 1807; c. 1821; e. 1860; d. October
3, 1883 in Yoder, Indiana, buried in St. Mark's Lutheran Church
Cemetary.
7. Anna Margaret Riehle b.
September 25, 1809; c. 1823; e. 1860
More info on my ancestor
Sebastion Christian Riehle (6th child of Kunrad and Christina)
Sebastion Christian Riehle was
born August 19, 1807 near Mahringen in the Kingdom of
Wurtemberg. He married Christiana Oberreuter who was born
March 10, 1816, also near Mahringen. They were married in
Tubingen on January 19, 1837. They had ten children born in
Germany. In 1866, they emigrated to the rural area known as
Yoder, Indiana, about nine miles from Ft. Wayne. Sebastion
died October 3, 1873, and Christiana died October 24, 1871,
both in Yoder. They were buried in St. Mark's Luthern Church
Cemetary.
Of Sebastion's and Christiana's
children, five emigrated to the U.S. in 1866 along with their
parents, Sebastion's oldest brother Kunrad and youngest sister
Anna Margaret. No records have been found to suggest that
Sebastion's oldest son Kunrad (b. February 2, 1838; c. 1855),
nor his son Christian Kaspar (b. February 8, 1841; c. 1855),
nor his daughter Christiana (b. October 1, 1846; c. 1860)
emigrated to the U.S. Sebastion's third child Johann Michael,
did emigrate, but not until 1870 (arriving from Hamburg June
15, 1870 - naturalized October 11, 1870).
The Ten children of Sebastion
and Christiana:
1. Kunrad Riehle b. 1838
2. Chrsitian Kaspar Riehle b.
1841
3. Johann Michael Riehle b. 1843
(married Mary Yearling, I have more info on this line)
4. Christiana Riehle b. 1846
5. Anna Marie Riehle b. 1849
(married a Mr. Franke, I have limited info on this line)
6. Chritiana Rosina Katherine
Riehle b. 1852 (married Mathias Witzeman, I have more info on
this line)
7. Louisa (Louise) Rosina Riehle
b. 1855; d. 1941 (married John Schmierer, I have more info on
this line)
8. Margaretha (Margaret) Riehle
b. 1857 My Ancestor married Christian Frederick Ploor
9. Christian Kaspar Riehle b.
1859 (married Anna Marie Facks, I have more info on this line)
10. Maria Katherine (Katherine)
Riehle b. 1861; d. 1889 (married Carl Heinrich [Henry]
Schamerloh, I have more on this line, these were the ancestors
of Walter Zwick)
Margaret Riehle married
Christian Frederick Ploor and lived in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
They had three sons: Frederick Carl (Fred) Ploor, Oscar Ernst
Ploor, and Cark Frederick Ploor. Only Carl married. Christian
Frederick Ploor died, and Margaret remarried to William Ersig,
who was very close to Margaret's three sons. Carl Ploor married Emma Charlotte Leucht. Their first
child, Robert, died in infancy. The second child Virgina Emma
Ploor, was my paternal grandmother.
I'm attaching individual
photos of Sebastion and three of his daughters Anna (fifth
child), Margaret (eighth child), and Katherine (tenth
child). Also photos of Margaret with Louise (seventh child)
The photos attached are low
res versions to make for smaller file sizes:
Sebastion Riehle
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Katherine Riehle Schamerloh |
Anna Riehle Franke |
Margaret Riehle Ploor Ersig |
Margaret (seated left) and Louise Riehle Schmierer
(seated right). The girl standing is unknown, but
according to my Grandmother she believed her to be
a family friend and not one of the other sisters. |
Louise, Carl F. Ploor (Margaret's
youngest son, my great grandfather), and Margaret (my
great-great grandmother) on a visit to Louise's
California home August 14, 1924.
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I have much more info and many
more photos of Margaret's family and descendants. I also have
photos of Louise and Margaret during a vacation at Louise's
home in California in the 1920s. As I get some of this
information and photos into the computer, I'll send updates.
Sincerely,
Jeff
Jeffrey Wedding
a lost Riehle descendant.....
boneman @ unlv.nevada.edu
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