Friedrich was the oldest son and 3rd child of Johann Peter Rechel & Elisabetha Catharina Merkel who brought their family to America February 1831 and located in Adamsville, Muskingum, Ohio.

Friedrich Rahel's Birth Record:
Deutschland, Geburten und Taufen 1558-1898 Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898
Name:Johann Friedrich Rechel
Gender:Male
Birth Date:26 Apr 1823
Baptism Date:30 Apr 1823
Baptism Place:Evangelisch OR Juden, Bickenbach, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt
Father:Johann Peter Rechel
Mother:Elisabetha Catharina Merkel
FHL Film Number: 1340366
Reference ID:2:2BNFKXB
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
Description:
This collection includes birth and baptism records from Germany.

This Record shows their Emigration:
Title Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt
Rechel, Peter, origin: Bickenbach. - emigration date: 1831-02 / target: America, United States. Comments: family
Life span 1831-02
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Friedrich Rahel came to Clark county, Illinois in 1849 with his wife Rebecca Corbin & step-son James William McClarey. They had nine children, all born in Douglas, Clark County, Illinois. Sadly, most of them died as teenagers or young adults.

Evangelisch Kirche, Bickenbach, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany is the picture of the church to the right, and is the church where Johann Friedrich Rechel and his family for several generations were baptized, married and buried. The below birth record shows this church. The owner of the photo is Rudolf Stricker, who has released Public Domain so that it can be used anywhere in the world.