Margaret (Hammes) Biebel was born May 3, 1850 in Germany. She came to America from Germany in 1852. She and Frank Biebel were married on November 4, 1868, by Father Faller at the St. Francis Xavier Cathedral in Green Bay.

Margaret and Frank Biebel had 15 children. Three children died of childhood illnesses, all at age three. The names of two of these children were given to children born later. Twelve of their fifteen children lived to adulthood.

Children, birth/death dates, age at death:

Frank, Jr.: 1870-1873, age 3
John: 1871-1949, age 77
Joseph: 1873-1940, age 67
Catherine: 1875-1963, age 87
Mary: 1877-1880, age 3
Frank: 1879-1933, age 54
Mary: 1880-1967, age 86
Peter: 1882-1931, age 48
Rose: 1884-1973, age 88
Michael: 1886-1962, age 76
Edward: 1888-1982, age 94
Antone: 1890-1893, age 3
George: 1892-1969, age 76
Christine: 1894-1980, age 86
Anna: 1896-1983, age 87

During their lifetime, Frank and Margaret Biebel operated a saloon and dance hall on the northwest corner of east Mason Street and Lime Kiln Road in Green Bay. Their home was also on this corner.

The tavern and dance hall became known for miles around as "Biebel's Corner." On the property was a livery stable, and "Biebel's Corner" was the first place everyone traveling to or through Green Bay would stop to refresh their horses and themselves.

All fifteen of Margaret and Frank Biebel's children were born in the home at "Biebel's Corner." The bedrooms upstairs were unheated, and everyone slept beneath feather ticks. The mattresses were stuffed with corn husks and were about one foot thick. The daytime living quarters and the business areas of the property were heated with wood burning stoves. Frank Biebel owned a wood lot on Finger Road where he cut fire wood in summer and early fall.

In 1897 Frank and Margaret relocated to an 80 acre farm on Lime Kiln Road in Bellevue. A windmill ran the feed cutter, and when there was a shortage of feed, the children had to be awakened in the middle of the night - if that was when the wind was blowing - to help cut feed.

The Frank Biebel family is now in its ninth generation with over 9,000 descendants.