The Daily Republican
Friday August 10, 1888
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Catherine, wife of Michael Theobald, of Union township, died at 6 o'clock this morning, aged sixty years and will be buried at the German settlement graveyard on Sunday at 1:30, the Rev. Winter officiating. D. B. Wilson, funeral director.
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Eric Cookman states:
I have that she was born in Billigheim, Pfalz, Bavaria..
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Julie (Gahimer) Phillips adds:
The story of Catherine Haehl and George Michael Theobald
Catherine, the first daughter of George Michael and Eva Deprez was born at Billigheim, in the Rheinpfalz, Bavaria of August 28, I828 and was brought to America by her parents at the age of four years in 1832. The family lived in Cincinnati for two years, and then she was taken with them to their new home on the farm in Union Township, Shelby County, Indiana.
At the age of 17, Catherine married George Michael Theobald, whose father had come to America from the same town in the same district of Bavaria around the same time as her father and who also had become a farmer in Indiana. Catherine's husband was born in Moerzheiln on March 19, 1820. At 20 years of age he emigrated to America after learning the butcher business in the homeland. His father had also been a butcher there.
The Theobald's route to America was not the same as the Haehls'. As steamboats were not making regular trips then, they crossed the ocean in a slow sailing vessel as their neighbors had done, but they landed at New Orleans. From there they made their way north, traveling by Mississippi River to Vicksburg and then on to Memphis, Tennessee where George stopped temporarily. There his father's brother had a slaughtering establishment and he worked with him for a while at his trade. Then he continued his way up the Mississippi and the Ohio rivers and stopped at Cincinnati.
In Cincinnati he made a business connection with George Alexander in the pork trade. As his father was by this time fairly well established on his farm in Indiana, visits between father and son led to his making the acquaintance of Catherine Haehl.
Their marriage took place in the Haehl homestead and was the occasion of a three-day celebration. The ceremony was on November 11, 1845, when he was 25 years old. They made their home in a log cabin located on hi s father' s farm and remained there two years and a little more. During this time their first two children were born, Jacob and Mary, the latter dying in infancy. After this, they returned to Cincinnati where he was again engaged at his trade of butcher in the Alexander establishment, and lived in the Alexander home, in Camp Washington.
Here their daughter Julia was born and a boy whom they named John George or 'Hansjerg'. (All these George Michaels we are telling about were called 'Yerg Michel' in the vernacular.) Then a tragedy occurred that changed the course of all the Theobalds' lives. From the Miami Canal, which ran back of the house on an embankment 20 or 30 feet higher than the street level, water for washing clothes had to be brought down to the house in tubs as there was then no City water to be had. Drinking water was supplied by a well.
Grandfather Haehl and his younger daughters were also living there at the time and Little John's Aunt Caroline, then about thirteen years old, noticing a tub of water standing in the yard beside the house, thought that the tub ought to be emptied, but knowing how much a task it was to bring water down from the canal, she said nothing, much to her later great regret. By such narrow margins are destinies changed. Some time later, the cry went up 'Where is my Hansyerg?' Nobody knew. After some fruitless search Caroline thought of the tub, and there they found the little lad, only a year and a half old, submerged and dead.
Shortly after this bereavement, George Michael Theobald, took his oldest boy Julius, then about seven years of age, out of school and went to his father's Indiana home. The rest of family followed and so it came about that the Theobald boys were raised as farmers instead of becoming butchers as all the Alexander boys did.
The next child after Johnny was another boy (Charles) and his sister Julia when told that she had another little brother, took the doctor to task about it, as she was the only girl so far. She said to the doctor 'Couldn't you bring us a little girl for a change?' The doctor humored her and said 'Well, I have to take whatever is on top'. Julia countered, ‘So, and if there was a nigger boy on top you'd bring us a nigger boy, wouldn't you'. But after that there came three sisters in a row and later four more brothers, making twelve children in all, of whom ten were raised to maturity.
Catherine Haehl Theobald died at the farm in 1888 when 60 old, in the same year as her mother, Eva Deprez Haehl. husband, George Michael Theobald, survived her only about a dying in 1889.
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Friday August 10, 1888
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Catherine, wife of Michael Theobald, of Union township, died at 6 o'clock this morning, aged sixty years and will be buried at the German settlement graveyard on Sunday at 1:30, the Rev. Winter officiating. D. B. Wilson, funeral director.
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Eric Cookman states:
I have that she was born in Billigheim, Pfalz, Bavaria..
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Julie (Gahimer) Phillips adds:
The story of Catherine Haehl and George Michael Theobald
Catherine, the first daughter of George Michael and Eva Deprez was born at Billigheim, in the Rheinpfalz, Bavaria of August 28, I828 and was brought to America by her parents at the age of four years in 1832. The family lived in Cincinnati for two years, and then she was taken with them to their new home on the farm in Union Township, Shelby County, Indiana.
At the age of 17, Catherine married George Michael Theobald, whose father had come to America from the same town in the same district of Bavaria around the same time as her father and who also had become a farmer in Indiana. Catherine's husband was born in Moerzheiln on March 19, 1820. At 20 years of age he emigrated to America after learning the butcher business in the homeland. His father had also been a butcher there.
The Theobald's route to America was not the same as the Haehls'. As steamboats were not making regular trips then, they crossed the ocean in a slow sailing vessel as their neighbors had done, but they landed at New Orleans. From there they made their way north, traveling by Mississippi River to Vicksburg and then on to Memphis, Tennessee where George stopped temporarily. There his father's brother had a slaughtering establishment and he worked with him for a while at his trade. Then he continued his way up the Mississippi and the Ohio rivers and stopped at Cincinnati.
In Cincinnati he made a business connection with George Alexander in the pork trade. As his father was by this time fairly well established on his farm in Indiana, visits between father and son led to his making the acquaintance of Catherine Haehl.
Their marriage took place in the Haehl homestead and was the occasion of a three-day celebration. The ceremony was on November 11, 1845, when he was 25 years old. They made their home in a log cabin located on hi s father' s farm and remained there two years and a little more. During this time their first two children were born, Jacob and Mary, the latter dying in infancy. After this, they returned to Cincinnati where he was again engaged at his trade of butcher in the Alexander establishment, and lived in the Alexander home, in Camp Washington.
Here their daughter Julia was born and a boy whom they named John George or 'Hansjerg'. (All these George Michaels we are telling about were called 'Yerg Michel' in the vernacular.) Then a tragedy occurred that changed the course of all the Theobalds' lives. From the Miami Canal, which ran back of the house on an embankment 20 or 30 feet higher than the street level, water for washing clothes had to be brought down to the house in tubs as there was then no City water to be had. Drinking water was supplied by a well.
Grandfather Haehl and his younger daughters were also living there at the time and Little John's Aunt Caroline, then about thirteen years old, noticing a tub of water standing in the yard beside the house, thought that the tub ought to be emptied, but knowing how much a task it was to bring water down from the canal, she said nothing, much to her later great regret. By such narrow margins are destinies changed. Some time later, the cry went up 'Where is my Hansyerg?' Nobody knew. After some fruitless search Caroline thought of the tub, and there they found the little lad, only a year and a half old, submerged and dead.
Shortly after this bereavement, George Michael Theobald, took his oldest boy Julius, then about seven years of age, out of school and went to his father's Indiana home. The rest of family followed and so it came about that the Theobald boys were raised as farmers instead of becoming butchers as all the Alexander boys did.
The next child after Johnny was another boy (Charles) and his sister Julia when told that she had another little brother, took the doctor to task about it, as she was the only girl so far. She said to the doctor 'Couldn't you bring us a little girl for a change?' The doctor humored her and said 'Well, I have to take whatever is on top'. Julia countered, ‘So, and if there was a nigger boy on top you'd bring us a nigger boy, wouldn't you'. But after that there came three sisters in a row and later four more brothers, making twelve children in all, of whom ten were raised to maturity.
Catherine Haehl Theobald died at the farm in 1888 when 60 old, in the same year as her mother, Eva Deprez Haehl. husband, George Michael Theobald, survived her only about a dying in 1889.
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The Daily Republican
Friday August 10, 1888
Page 4 column 2
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Catherine, wife of Michael Theobald, of Union township, died at 6 o'clock this morning, aged sixty years and will be buried at the German settlement graveyard on Sunday at 1:30, the Rev. Winter officiating. D. B. Wilson, funeral director.
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Eric Cookman states:
I have that she was born in Billigheim, Pfalz, Bavaria..
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Julie (Gahimer) Phillips adds:
The story of Catherine Haehl and George Michael Theobald
Catherine, the first daughter of George Michael and Eva Deprez was born at Billigheim, in the Rheinpfalz, Bavaria of August 28, I828 and was brought to America by her parents at the age of four years in 1832. The family lived in Cincinnati for two years, and then she was taken with them to their new home on the farm in Union Township, Shelby County, Indiana.
At the age of 17, Catherine married George Michael Theobald, whose father had come to America from the same town in the same district of Bavaria around the same time as her father and who also had become a farmer in Indiana. Catherine's husband was born in Moerzheiln on March 19, 1820. At 20 years of age he emigrated to America after learning the butcher business in the homeland. His father had also been a butcher there.
The Theobald's route to America was not the same as the Haehls'. As steamboats were not making regular trips then, they crossed the ocean in a slow sailing vessel as their neighbors had done, but they landed at New Orleans. From there they made their way north, traveling by Mississippi River to Vicksburg and then on to Memphis, Tennessee where George stopped temporarily. There his father's brother had a slaughtering establishment and he worked with him for a while at his trade. Then he continued his way up the Mississippi and the Ohio rivers and stopped at Cincinnati.
In Cincinnati he made a business connection with George Alexander in the pork trade. As his father was by this time fairly well established on his farm in Indiana, visits between father and son led to his making the acquaintance of Catherine Haehl.
Their marriage took place in the Haehl homestead and was the occasion of a three-day celebration. The ceremony was on November 11, 1845, when he was 25 years old. They made their home in a log cabin located on hi s father' s farm and remained there two years and a little more. During this time their first two children were born, Jacob and Mary, the latter dying in infancy. After this, they returned to Cincinnati where he was again engaged at his trade of butcher in the Alexander establishment, and lived in the Alexander home, in Camp Washington.
Here their daughter Julia was born and a boy whom they named John George or 'Hansjerg'. (All these George Michaels we are telling about were called 'Yerg Michel' in the vernacular.) Then a tragedy occurred that changed the course of all the Theobalds' lives. From the Miami Canal, which ran back of the house on an embankment 20 or 30 feet higher than the street level, water for washing clothes had to be brought down to the house in tubs as there was then no City water to be had. Drinking water was supplied by a well.
Grandfather Haehl and his younger daughters were also living there at the time and Little John's Aunt Caroline, then about thirteen years old, noticing a tub of water standing in the yard beside the house, thought that the tub ought to be emptied, but knowing how much a task it was to bring water down from the canal, she said nothing, much to her later great regret. By such narrow margins are destinies changed. Some time later, the cry went up 'Where is my Hansyerg?' Nobody knew. After some fruitless search Caroline thought of the tub, and there they found the little lad, only a year and a half old, submerged and dead.
Shortly after this bereavement, George Michael Theobald, took his oldest boy Julius, then about seven years of age, out of school and went to his father's Indiana home. The rest of family followed and so it came about that the Theobald boys were raised as farmers instead of becoming butchers as all the Alexander boys did.
The next child after Johnny was another boy (Charles) and his sister Julia when told that she had another little brother, took the doctor to task about it, as she was the only girl so far. She said to the doctor 'Couldn't you bring us a little girl for a change?' The doctor humored her and said 'Well, I have to take whatever is on top'. Julia countered, ‘So, and if there was a nigger boy on top you'd bring us a nigger boy, wouldn't you'. But after that there came three sisters in a row and later four more brothers, making twelve children in all, of whom ten were raised to maturity.
Catherine Haehl Theobald died at the farm in 1888 when 60 old, in the same year as her mother, Eva Deprez Haehl. husband, George Michael Theobald, survived her only about a dying in 1889.
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Friday August 10, 1888
Page 4 column 2
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Catherine, wife of Michael Theobald, of Union township, died at 6 o'clock this morning, aged sixty years and will be buried at the German settlement graveyard on Sunday at 1:30, the Rev. Winter officiating. D. B. Wilson, funeral director.
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Eric Cookman states:
I have that she was born in Billigheim, Pfalz, Bavaria..
-----
Julie (Gahimer) Phillips adds:
The story of Catherine Haehl and George Michael Theobald
Catherine, the first daughter of George Michael and Eva Deprez was born at Billigheim, in the Rheinpfalz, Bavaria of August 28, I828 and was brought to America by her parents at the age of four years in 1832. The family lived in Cincinnati for two years, and then she was taken with them to their new home on the farm in Union Township, Shelby County, Indiana.
At the age of 17, Catherine married George Michael Theobald, whose father had come to America from the same town in the same district of Bavaria around the same time as her father and who also had become a farmer in Indiana. Catherine's husband was born in Moerzheiln on March 19, 1820. At 20 years of age he emigrated to America after learning the butcher business in the homeland. His father had also been a butcher there.
The Theobald's route to America was not the same as the Haehls'. As steamboats were not making regular trips then, they crossed the ocean in a slow sailing vessel as their neighbors had done, but they landed at New Orleans. From there they made their way north, traveling by Mississippi River to Vicksburg and then on to Memphis, Tennessee where George stopped temporarily. There his father's brother had a slaughtering establishment and he worked with him for a while at his trade. Then he continued his way up the Mississippi and the Ohio rivers and stopped at Cincinnati.
In Cincinnati he made a business connection with George Alexander in the pork trade. As his father was by this time fairly well established on his farm in Indiana, visits between father and son led to his making the acquaintance of Catherine Haehl.
Their marriage took place in the Haehl homestead and was the occasion of a three-day celebration. The ceremony was on November 11, 1845, when he was 25 years old. They made their home in a log cabin located on hi s father' s farm and remained there two years and a little more. During this time their first two children were born, Jacob and Mary, the latter dying in infancy. After this, they returned to Cincinnati where he was again engaged at his trade of butcher in the Alexander establishment, and lived in the Alexander home, in Camp Washington.
Here their daughter Julia was born and a boy whom they named John George or 'Hansjerg'. (All these George Michaels we are telling about were called 'Yerg Michel' in the vernacular.) Then a tragedy occurred that changed the course of all the Theobalds' lives. From the Miami Canal, which ran back of the house on an embankment 20 or 30 feet higher than the street level, water for washing clothes had to be brought down to the house in tubs as there was then no City water to be had. Drinking water was supplied by a well.
Grandfather Haehl and his younger daughters were also living there at the time and Little John's Aunt Caroline, then about thirteen years old, noticing a tub of water standing in the yard beside the house, thought that the tub ought to be emptied, but knowing how much a task it was to bring water down from the canal, she said nothing, much to her later great regret. By such narrow margins are destinies changed. Some time later, the cry went up 'Where is my Hansyerg?' Nobody knew. After some fruitless search Caroline thought of the tub, and there they found the little lad, only a year and a half old, submerged and dead.
Shortly after this bereavement, George Michael Theobald, took his oldest boy Julius, then about seven years of age, out of school and went to his father's Indiana home. The rest of family followed and so it came about that the Theobald boys were raised as farmers instead of becoming butchers as all the Alexander boys did.
The next child after Johnny was another boy (Charles) and his sister Julia when told that she had another little brother, took the doctor to task about it, as she was the only girl so far. She said to the doctor 'Couldn't you bring us a little girl for a change?' The doctor humored her and said 'Well, I have to take whatever is on top'. Julia countered, ‘So, and if there was a nigger boy on top you'd bring us a nigger boy, wouldn't you'. But after that there came three sisters in a row and later four more brothers, making twelve children in all, of whom ten were raised to maturity.
Catherine Haehl Theobald died at the farm in 1888 when 60 old, in the same year as her mother, Eva Deprez Haehl. husband, George Michael Theobald, survived her only about a dying in 1889.
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Julia Elizabeth Theobald Weingarth
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