Although she was a prominent figure in Louisville for decades, Henriette's life story includes many unknowns. She was born to an unmarried mother, Anna Elisabeth Schmidt, in Hessen (Hesse) Germany in 1831. She had at least one sibling, Marie Anne Schmidt (called Mary Smith in the U.S.) and the two emigrated to America as teenagers in the mid to late 1840s. Mary remained in Ohio, to which they evidently first migrated, and married Patrick Waters there in 1847 and Charles Buell in 1854. Henriette, however, was in Louisville, KY, by the time she married Daniel Eichert (1818-1857), also an emigrant from Germany., about 1848.
Henriette and Daniel had three children, all born in Louisville: Louise W. (1849-1914; she married George Floether); Theodore (1854-1876); and Emma (1856-1882). Daniel, a wagon-maker, died of tetanus in 1857. Although the 1861 City Directory of Louisville lists her as the widow of Daniel Eichert, Henriette remarried, on 25 September 1860, at Saint Johns Evangelical Church in Louisville, to widower Christian Biehl (1829-1867). Phillipine Seher (sister of Christian's first wife) was a witness. The couple had three daughters: Jeanette (Nettie; 1861-1943) and twins sabelle (called Mary Agnes, 1865-1880) and Arabelle (1865-aft. 1880).
Henriette led an active life. With her second husband, she ran a business in leather goods on East Market Street in Louisville. Henriette became a widow again in 1867. But she was an industrious and resourceful person and sustained her family with enterprise. By 1870, she first ran a grocery store at 170 Grayson, corner of 10th Street in the city. She had conducted other businesses earlier - as a confectioner, a leather dealer, and a grocer - but by 1875, she was proprietor of the Globe. Hotel at 321 Broadway where she ran a boarding house and saloon. The federal census of 1880 finds Henriette keeping the boarding house that includes three of her daughters (Emma, Isabelle and Arabelle) and also her niece Clara Buell. Her address changes several times in the 1880s: 255 Broadway, near 9th.; 925 West Broadway; 1246 12th. - until her name disappears from the City Directory after 1884.
Henriette died after 1884, which is the last year she can be found in the Louisville City Directory. That year, she lived at 1246 12th Street, no longer at the Globe. The St.Louis, MO, Public Library Obituary Index, 1880-2011, lists a "Henrietta Biel" who died, in. 1909, with this note: "St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1909 Burial permit 3/5." But this is not the right woman but, rather, is Henrietta Pfoert, wife of William Biehl. She is also not the Henrietta Biehl (Findagrave #134274285 ) who died in Illinois in 1911.
Note: Henriette had at least one sibling, sister Marie Anne Schmidt Waters Buell ("Mary Smith," 1826=1872); see Findagrave Memorial 16473636.
Henriette and Daniel had three children, all born in Louisville: Louise W. (1849-1914; she married George Floether); Theodore (1854-1876); and Emma (1856-1882). Daniel, a wagon-maker, died of tetanus in 1857. Although the 1861 City Directory of Louisville lists her as the widow of Daniel Eichert, Henriette remarried, on 25 September 1860, at Saint Johns Evangelical Church in Louisville, to widower Christian Biehl (1829-1867). Phillipine Seher (sister of Christian's first wife) was a witness. The couple had three daughters: Jeanette (Nettie; 1861-1943) and twins sabelle (called Mary Agnes, 1865-1880) and Arabelle (1865-aft. 1880).
Henriette led an active life. With her second husband, she ran a business in leather goods on East Market Street in Louisville. Henriette became a widow again in 1867. But she was an industrious and resourceful person and sustained her family with enterprise. By 1870, she first ran a grocery store at 170 Grayson, corner of 10th Street in the city. She had conducted other businesses earlier - as a confectioner, a leather dealer, and a grocer - but by 1875, she was proprietor of the Globe. Hotel at 321 Broadway where she ran a boarding house and saloon. The federal census of 1880 finds Henriette keeping the boarding house that includes three of her daughters (Emma, Isabelle and Arabelle) and also her niece Clara Buell. Her address changes several times in the 1880s: 255 Broadway, near 9th.; 925 West Broadway; 1246 12th. - until her name disappears from the City Directory after 1884.
Henriette died after 1884, which is the last year she can be found in the Louisville City Directory. That year, she lived at 1246 12th Street, no longer at the Globe. The St.Louis, MO, Public Library Obituary Index, 1880-2011, lists a "Henrietta Biel" who died, in. 1909, with this note: "St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1909 Burial permit 3/5." But this is not the right woman but, rather, is Henrietta Pfoert, wife of William Biehl. She is also not the Henrietta Biehl (Findagrave #134274285 ) who died in Illinois in 1911.
Note: Henriette had at least one sibling, sister Marie Anne Schmidt Waters Buell ("Mary Smith," 1826=1872); see Findagrave Memorial 16473636.
Although she was a prominent figure in Louisville for decades, Henriette's life story includes many unknowns. She was born to an unmarried mother, Anna Elisabeth Schmidt, in Hessen (Hesse) Germany in 1831. She had at least one sibling, Marie Anne Schmidt (called Mary Smith in the U.S.) and the two emigrated to America as teenagers in the mid to late 1840s. Mary remained in Ohio, to which they evidently first migrated, and married Patrick Waters there in 1847 and Charles Buell in 1854. Henriette, however, was in Louisville, KY, by the time she married Daniel Eichert (1818-1857), also an emigrant from Germany., about 1848.
Henriette and Daniel had three children, all born in Louisville: Louise W. (1849-1914; she married George Floether); Theodore (1854-1876); and Emma (1856-1882). Daniel, a wagon-maker, died of tetanus in 1857. Although the 1861 City Directory of Louisville lists her as the widow of Daniel Eichert, Henriette remarried, on 25 September 1860, at Saint Johns Evangelical Church in Louisville, to widower Christian Biehl (1829-1867). Phillipine Seher (sister of Christian's first wife) was a witness. The couple had three daughters: Jeanette (Nettie; 1861-1943) and twins sabelle (called Mary Agnes, 1865-1880) and Arabelle (1865-aft. 1880).
Henriette led an active life. With her second husband, she ran a business in leather goods on East Market Street in Louisville. Henriette became a widow again in 1867. But she was an industrious and resourceful person and sustained her family with enterprise. By 1870, she first ran a grocery store at 170 Grayson, corner of 10th Street in the city. She had conducted other businesses earlier - as a confectioner, a leather dealer, and a grocer - but by 1875, she was proprietor of the Globe. Hotel at 321 Broadway where she ran a boarding house and saloon. The federal census of 1880 finds Henriette keeping the boarding house that includes three of her daughters (Emma, Isabelle and Arabelle) and also her niece Clara Buell. Her address changes several times in the 1880s: 255 Broadway, near 9th.; 925 West Broadway; 1246 12th. - until her name disappears from the City Directory after 1884.
Henriette died after 1884, which is the last year she can be found in the Louisville City Directory. That year, she lived at 1246 12th Street, no longer at the Globe. The St.Louis, MO, Public Library Obituary Index, 1880-2011, lists a "Henrietta Biel" who died, in. 1909, with this note: "St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1909 Burial permit 3/5." But this is not the right woman but, rather, is Henrietta Pfoert, wife of William Biehl. She is also not the Henrietta Biehl (Findagrave #134274285 ) who died in Illinois in 1911.
Note: Henriette had at least one sibling, sister Marie Anne Schmidt Waters Buell ("Mary Smith," 1826=1872); see Findagrave Memorial 16473636.
Henriette and Daniel had three children, all born in Louisville: Louise W. (1849-1914; she married George Floether); Theodore (1854-1876); and Emma (1856-1882). Daniel, a wagon-maker, died of tetanus in 1857. Although the 1861 City Directory of Louisville lists her as the widow of Daniel Eichert, Henriette remarried, on 25 September 1860, at Saint Johns Evangelical Church in Louisville, to widower Christian Biehl (1829-1867). Phillipine Seher (sister of Christian's first wife) was a witness. The couple had three daughters: Jeanette (Nettie; 1861-1943) and twins sabelle (called Mary Agnes, 1865-1880) and Arabelle (1865-aft. 1880).
Henriette led an active life. With her second husband, she ran a business in leather goods on East Market Street in Louisville. Henriette became a widow again in 1867. But she was an industrious and resourceful person and sustained her family with enterprise. By 1870, she first ran a grocery store at 170 Grayson, corner of 10th Street in the city. She had conducted other businesses earlier - as a confectioner, a leather dealer, and a grocer - but by 1875, she was proprietor of the Globe. Hotel at 321 Broadway where she ran a boarding house and saloon. The federal census of 1880 finds Henriette keeping the boarding house that includes three of her daughters (Emma, Isabelle and Arabelle) and also her niece Clara Buell. Her address changes several times in the 1880s: 255 Broadway, near 9th.; 925 West Broadway; 1246 12th. - until her name disappears from the City Directory after 1884.
Henriette died after 1884, which is the last year she can be found in the Louisville City Directory. That year, she lived at 1246 12th Street, no longer at the Globe. The St.Louis, MO, Public Library Obituary Index, 1880-2011, lists a "Henrietta Biel" who died, in. 1909, with this note: "St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1909 Burial permit 3/5." But this is not the right woman but, rather, is Henrietta Pfoert, wife of William Biehl. She is also not the Henrietta Biehl (Findagrave #134274285 ) who died in Illinois in 1911.
Note: Henriette had at least one sibling, sister Marie Anne Schmidt Waters Buell ("Mary Smith," 1826=1872); see Findagrave Memorial 16473636.
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