Jacob PFANDER

Notes:

                   ??Ida kenchel Age in 1870: 16 Estimated Birth Year: 1853 Birthplace: Deutschland Home in 1870: Nodaway, Page, Iowa Race: White Gender: Female  Post Office: Clarinda Roll: M593_414 Page: 479 Image: 220 Year: 1870
August kenchel 30  1839 Deutschland  White  Nodaway, Page, IA Male
Ida kenchel 16  1853 Deutschland  White  Nodaway, Page, IA Female
next door to Abram  Fendar family

IGI
Ida Wilimena Ruechel    Female
   Birth:  24 SEP 1853   Strausberg, Brandenburg, Preussen
   Death:  17 MAY 1932
LDS Ordinances:
     Baptism:  06 MAR 1999   SLOUI
     Endowment:  CLEARED


Original Message -----
From: Rosanne Simmons 
To: lpjgen6@houston.rr.com 
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 8:24 PM
Subject: Pfander/Ruechel in Pierson/Porter
Hi Laurie,
I need to ask where the birthplace below came from. Ida Ruechel was my great grandmother and I've searched for years and can't get beyond Cedarburg, Wisconsin with any certainty. They obviously came from Prussia in late 1853 or early 1854 but my own family can't even agree beyond that point.
My grandmother said Hennigsdorf, "close to Berlin" and my aunt insisted it was actually Berlin. Ida apparently didn't talk a lot about her family because my search has turned up a sister and a brother, as well as a half brother that nobody knew anything about. If you have something concrete saying Strausberg I could really use the help. I've been stuck for way too long.
Thanks
Rosanne Simmons
Marriage 1 Ida Wilimena RUECHEL  b: 24 Sep 1853 in Strausberg, Brandenburg, Preussen
Married: 1873 in Clarinda, Page, Iowa
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Hi Laurie,
Thanks for your reply.
Yes, I have all the censuses including the Ruechels in 1860 and 1870 in Wisconsin, and CW pension records for two of Ida's brothers. In 1870 the father had remarried and Ida was living with her brother August in Iowa. The story is that she was out working for other people from the time her mother died and she had a stepmother when she was 12, in 1866. That much is probably true, as I have found the second marriage of her father in 1866. His parents were Hans and Maria, but the location given lost something in the translation.
The German experts in Salt Lake City could find nothing, even when I showed them the papers I have and suggestions from a genealogist I contacted in Germany. They all seem to think I should be looking at East Germany, and I'm not even sure it wouldn't be Poland. Meanwhile, family tradition suggests West Berlin , though mentions nothing about Strausberg and try as I might, I can't find anyone who knows who put it on the web that way to start with. I strongly suspect it is wrong. I'll contact the submitter from Family Search and see what he has to say. Since no one is actually researching Ruechel, I have to suspect there will be no documentation.
All the pension records as well as later records say is "Prussia" and this has been so frustrating, as Jacob Pfander's genealogy clear back to the early 1600s was all done in Germany at the time of WW II (to prove they weren't Jewish). All we had to do was find where in Germany his father came from and go visit a Pfander cousin still living there.
I doubt that Ida personally was naturalized as she was only weeks old when they came to this country, and her brothers would have gained citizenship by virtue of serving in the Army. It is possible that her father was naturalized, but so far I have found no proof of that. I need to do more checking though, as I have just discovered that his name was usually spelled Reuchel instead of Ruechel.
Thanks for your help. I do appreciate every bit.
Speaking of the Marches, do you know what happened to Minnie and Jessie Pfander? The story is that after Jessie died Tom wanted to marry the next sister, Rosetta, but she said, "Forget that" or words to that effect.
They were my grandmother's sisters and I have a beautiful tear jerker of an obituary for Minnie. Grandma wasn't able to describe exactly what she died of in 1904, but Jessie was killed in 1911 in a train wreck of sorts. I have the newspaper clippings on it.
Tom March survived the accident but two years later was run over by his own car. Seems he had a habit of cranking the car to get it started, then climbing over the hood to get in. The last time, he didn't climb fast enough. His third wife reached over and got it stopped but didn't switch it off and he was pinned underneath it inhaling the exhaust. According to my dad's cousin there was a lot of hard feeling against the surviving wife for that reason. I last saw Terry (March) in 2001 when I was in Rapid City. She was nearly blind from macular degeneration, but in good health otherwise and still very active with the help of her husband. They are quite social in Rapid City.
Rosanne

History of Washington and Ozaukee Counties, Wisconsin : containing an account of its settlement, growth, development and resources, an extensive and minute sketch of its cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories, churches, schools and societies, its war record, biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers, the whole preceded by a history of Wisconsin, statistics of the state, and an abstract of its laws and constitution and of the constitution of the United States.Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881, 644 pgs
no Ruechel's listed.


1870 census:  Henry guchel Age in 1870: 28 Estimated Birth Year: 1841 Birthplace: Deutschland Home in 1870: Harlan, Page, Iowa Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Clarinda Roll: M593_414 Page: 440 Image: 141 Year: 1870
Henry guchel 28  1841 Deutschland  White  Harlan, Page, IA Male
Anna guchel 17  1852 Deutschland  White  Harlan, Page, IA Female
Matilda guchel 1  1868 Wisconsin  White  Harlan, Page, IA Female
   Adolph guchel 8.12   Iowa  White  Harlan, Page, IA Male   (Dec.)





1880 census:Henrie RUECHEL Age: 35 Estimated birth year: <1845> Birthplace: PRUSSIA Occupation: Shoemaker Relation: Self Home in 1880: Clarinda, Page, Iowa Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Head of household: Henrie RUECHEL Father's birthplace: PRUSSIA Mother's birthplace: PRUSSIA  Year: 1880; Census Place: Clarinda, Page, Iowa; Roll: T9_359; Family History Film: 1254359; Page: 423B; Enumeration District: 154; Image: 0027.
Henrie RUECHEL35 <1845> PRUSSIA Self Married White Male Clarinda, Page, IA
Annie RUECHEL  29 <1851> PRUSSIA Wife Married White Female Clarinda, Page, IA
Mattie RUECHEL 12 <1868> Wisconsin Dau Single White Female Clarinda, Page, IA
Adolphf RUECHEL 10 <1870> Iowa Son Single White Male Clarinda, Page, IA
Luie RUECHEL 8 <1872> Iowa Dau Single White Female Clarinda, Page, IA
Minnie RUECHEL 5 <1875> Iowa Dau Single White Female Clarinda, Page, IA
John RUECHEL 22 <1858> Wisconsin Other Single White Male Douglas, Page, IA
Baby RUECHEL  1M <1880> Iowa Dau Single White Female Clarinda, Page, IA