1858 or 1861 Ernst L. (Ludwig - one source says Louis) ERTEL was a short man, not much taller than 5 feet, originally thought to be from Alsace-Loraine, Germany, which since World War II has been part of France. Rather than coming from Alsace-Loraine, later information indicates that Ernst and Wilhelmine Ertel were from Brombach, Loerrach, Baden, Germany - where they were married - in southwestern Germany. From Baden, Ernst spoke low German Badish. Ernst was born in July 1861 (or 1858). Ernst Ertel and Mina Kuebler were married in Brombach, Loerrach, Baden in the southwest part of Germany in 1881. According to their marriage license, from Family Search-Record Search, Ernst's parents were Martin and Maria Katharina Brunner Ertel. Ernst was a carpenter by trade, a cabinet maker on Pulman railroad cars. At various times, Ernst also worked at an ice plant and repaired wagons. One granddaughter recalled that he didn't like cats! 1881 |
Married 11 AUGUST 1881: Groom name: Ernst Ludwig Ertel Groom birth date: Groom age: 23y Bride name: Wilhelmine Kuebler Bride birth date: Bride age: 22y Residence: Brombach, Loerrach, Baden Event place: Evangelisch, Brombach, Loerrach, Baden Event date: 11 Aug 1881 Father of groom name: Martin Ertel Mother of groom name: Maria Katharina Brunner Father of bride name: Johann Jakob Kuebler Mother of bride name: Jakoba Weber Groom prev wife name note: Groom previous wife name: Bride previous husband name note: Bride previous husband name: UDE batch number: M93486-2 Date range: 1870 - 1901 Record group: Germany-VR Film number: 1189314 Collection: GERMANY MARRIAGES 1700-1900 | ||||
1882-1889 Soon after the wedding, Ernst and Wilhelmine started their family in Baden. (1) Mina (Wilhelmina?) was born in 22 November 1881. The 1900 census, while a servant at the home of Charles Daniels, and the SSDI age at death agreed with this date. (2) Ernst who died young (still in Germany?) was born 20 March 1884 (3) Carl was born 3 April 1885 (4) Frieda was born 20 November 1886. Frieda told her children that her family came to the United States when she was still two in 1889. She almost fell overboard into the Atlantic Ocean during the two week or longer voyage. A sailor grabbed her and saved her life. No one remembers which ship they came on. Although Wilhelmina Ertel had two sisters in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Ernst brought his wife and children to Dayton, Ohio in 1888 or 1889, because his half-brother, Fred BRUNNER was living there. Apparently Ernst and Fred had the same mother. Fred came to Dayton, Ohio first doing carpentry work on Barney and Smith railway cars. Later he worked for Muth Brother's Moving, and moved to Belmont, Ohio. He had a son, Paul BRUNNER, and two or three daughters. In Dayton, they lived on Nassau Street, the east end. |
Ernst and Wilhelmina Ertel's son, Ernst Name: Ernst Residence: Brombach, Loerrach, Baden Christening date: 20 Apr 1884 Christening place: EVANGELISCH, BROMBACH, LOERRACH, BADEN Birth date: 20 Mar 1884 Birth place: Father name: Ernst Ertel Father name note: Mother name: Mina Kuebler Mother name note: Gender: Male Death date: Name note: UDE batch number: C93486-2 Date range: 1870 - 1901 Record group: Germany-VR Film number: 1189314 Collection: Germany Baptisms 1700-1900 | ||||
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1903
The eldest daughter, Mina, was a cook for a HARBINE family before her marriage, when she was nearly 20. The first of the children to marry, her wedding was September 1903. Mina's husband, Edward STEILN, was born in 1877 so he was about 26. He worked in Dayton at the City Water Works. They had no children, but her obituary indicated that they had adopted two STEILN children: Mrs. Ed HUNE and Margaret STEILN. In their later years, after "Minnie" had a goiter removed, she gained quite a lot of weight. Eventually she became bedfast with paralysis. Ed cared for her at home. He liked to exercise and boasted about his good health and stamina. He and Minnie had a huge German Bible, which may have been the Ertel family Bible. Ed had a nephew, Dudley DORSEY, born around the end of 1942 in Dayton.
In 1903 Eddie went to Schiller School in Dayton, Ohio (where Lincoln School was in the 1980s). He got a 6th grade education until about 1910, then educated himself thereafter.
In 1903, Eddie was 6 when he found a horse grazing in a field. He took it home to his mother, but she made him take it back.
Ernst built a house to live in on Nassau Steet, Dayton, OH. The Fred Brunner family lived on Nassau Street as well. About 1913 Ernst traded his house on Nassau for a farm near Lewisburg, OH After the farm house burned (Nov 1915), Ernst traded the farm for a house on McReynolds Street, Dayton, OH 1918: 44 Bolton Street in Dayton, OH. They also at some time lived on Xenia Avenue in Dayton, and later at 1225 Waterfliet Avenue, at the corner with Hazel Street, where Wilhelmina was living in 1926 when she died. |
21-26 Mar 1913 - During the 1913 flood of the Great Miami River, Eddie (aged 15) was living with his mother on the farm near Lewisburg OH. Ernst aka "Pop" was in Dayton working at (I think) the Beckel Hotel during the flood.
During this time on the farm near Lewisburg OH, Eddie drove the horse and buggy to West Alexandria every Saturday afternoon to meet his Dad who came from Dayton on the interurban. Eddie took "Pop" back to West Alexandria every Sunday evening.
SUMMER - Eddie went swimming in a creek nearby their house when a sudden electical storm passed through the area. For a while he sheltered himself under the exposed roots of a huge tree, then decided his mother should not be alone at home, so took off for the house. When he had gone a very short distance, following a bolt of lightning and a crash of thunder, the tree under which he had waited collapsed into the creek.
1915
Jan 1915 - Carl ERTEL married his wife Lillie BERGER on January 15 1915. Lillie had been born November 22 1892, so Carl was 29 and Lillie was 22. They met when Carl had broken his leg and was hospitalized at Bethesda Hospital (Cincinnati?) but there was only room in the Maternity ward where Lillie was a nurse.
Nov 1915 - Ernst and Wilhelmina had their neighbers, the William SWANKs, send a telegram to Ed STEILN on St. Nicholas Avenue in Dayton on November 25th 1915 to tell them that the ERTEL house in Lewisburg, OH had burned. Eddie (about age 18) tried to find the money hidden in the bed mattress in an upstairs room. He slept in the barn the night after the house burned down, trying to keep warm close to the horse.
Bertha may have lived there with Herm and Eddie, too, or she may have been living with Minnie and Ed STEILN.
For a time, Herm and Eddie both worked at National Cash Register (NCR) in Dayton.
World War 1 In 1917, the United States declared war on Germany. One of the effects of first World War on German Americans was to make other Americans question their loyalties. Apparently there were many who, like Wilhelmina, continued to speak German and not English. Also, if Ernst's family was typical, German Americans married other German Americans and went to German speaking churches. Carl began his ministry preaching in German. Because of the war, it became necessary for him to learn to preach in English. When America entered the war, Carl was already 32 with 2 children, and was not drafted. But his younger brothers Herm was 22 and Ed was 20. Herm was registered on June 5 1917. Ed was registered on August 24 1918. On November 11, 1918, Ed wrote his mother at 44 Bolton Street, Dayton, from Cincinnati: "Ge filleuft zum Carl schen. |
Early in 1919, twelve year old Emma ZIMMERMAN was very ill with Bright's disease of the kidneys. Her sister Charlotte said that "in those days, there was no thought of mother allowing Emma to be sent or taken to the hospital." Emma's Aunt Bertha, who was 25, was in nurse's training at Bethesda Hospital at the time, and took a 6 month leave of absence to stay with Emma at nights. Carl's wife, Lillie, was also a nurse, and Charlotte, who was almost 11 when her sister Emma died (13 July, 1919), became a nurse when she grew up, as did Carl's daughter Dorothy Ertel STEINBACH, who was 2 in 1919. [By 2008, Dorothy's granddaughters Molly and Heather also were nurses.]
16 Aug 1927 - Hermon and Betty's first child, Betty Lois ERTEL, was born August 16 1927 in Dayton. Herm owned land on Springboro Road, in Morain Township of Montgomery County, west of the road and south of Holes Creek. With a house, barn, and several acres of land, he raised chickens and horses at various times. Herm was a machinist at the National Cash Register (NCR) in Dayton. Betty was talented at decorating and keeping house.
(to be continued on individual family pages.... see Carl and Lillie Ertel)