Three Kuebler sisters:
Mary|Louise|Minnie
Moser|Boehler|Ertel
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I was born almost 20 years after my grandmother, Wilhelmina (Minnie) Kibler Ertel, died on December 29 1926, so I knew very little about her Kubler/Kibler relatives.
With the advent of the internet, on-line searches, and email, eventually William Westby Kenney ("Bill") and I met.
We discovered we are cousins - his great-grandmother Luise (Louise) and my grandmother Wilhelmina (Minnie) were sisters.
Bill introduced me to another cousin,
We began piecing together the facts we knew and the mutual family history puzzles we hoped to solve.
The following is what we currently know (2005) with some changes when our Rootsweb Freepages site came back online (2018), and needed revisions.
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Photographer might
have been Walt Doench,
Walter and Bertha's son |
I remembered being in a family picture taken about 1948, with some of the Ertels and a lady from New Bedford, Massachusetts (second from left, seated) who was related to my Grandma Wilhelmina, who had died in 1926. Bill identified her as Louise Kubler Boehler's daughter, Louise Boehler Westby.
My mother had corresponded with Molly Boehler in New Bedford in the 1950s and kept some of Molly's letters. After my parents died, I found Wilhelmina's address book plus several pictures and letters.
Back: Ed Ertel, Walter Doench, Herm Ertel
Seated middle: Bertha Ertel Doench, Louise Boehler Westby, Frances George Ertel, Betty Lois Ertel, Harmon Ertel, Elizabeth Ertel
Seated front: Nancy Ertel, George Ertel
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We think this is
Wilhelmina's mother
aka
"Yachabina" Kuebler
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Bill Kenney remembers that years ago his mother would talk of Jakobina (phonetically "Yachabina") Kubler. We think his mother was talking of her great-grandmother, back in Brombach Germany.
The collection called "GERMANY MARRIAGES 1700-1900" (see right) shows Wilhelmine KUEBLER's parents were Johann Jakob and Jakoba (WEBER) KUEBLER.
We still don't know much more about our Kuebler ancestors than that they still had some relatives in Brombach, including "Tante Emilie" and her grandchildren. Through the 1990s, Bill and Emilie exchanged cards at Christmas, with her grandchildren translating his English into her German.
Johann Jakob and Jakobine's known children were:
* Mary KUEBLER (m MOSER) b 1854
* Louise KUEBLER (m BOEHLER) b 1855 - d 1926
* Wilhelmina KUEBLER (m Ernst ERTEL) b August 23, 1859 or 1863
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Ernst Ludwig
ERTEL
1858-1927
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Wilhelmina
(KUEBLER)
ERTEL
1859-1926
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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 |
Jakobina (WEBER) KUEBLER
Could this be the three KUEBLER sisters' mother? |
Jokobina WEBER
1831-? |
A Jakobina Weber was christened 07 MAR 1831 at Katholisch, Adelhausen, Loerrach, Baden, born to
Josef and Klara (HOTTINGER) Weber. As "our" Jakobina had a child in 1854, the 1820-1830s would be a reasonable time for her birth, and Brombach is also in the Loerrach, Baden area. But so far there is no proof that this is "our" Jakobina, born in 1831. And this Jakobina was christened in the Loerrach Catholic church, unlike most of the Ertel family.
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Kuebler
Ottinger
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Kuebler GED: Perhaps a related Kuebler family?
Jacob Kuebler
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Maria "Mary" (KUEBLER) MOSER |
Maria (Mary) Kuebler
"Tante Moser"
1854-?
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All Bill Kenney remembered about his great-grandmother's sister who lived with his grandmother Louise Boehler Westby was that she was called "Tante Moser".
Wilhelmina had a picture of a tombstone for Mary Moser with the inscription "Aunt Mary". According to the picture, Mary was born in 1854.
FamilySearch.org shows
Maria Kuebler married Wilhelm Moser on 16 November 1893 at Evangelisch, Brombach, Loerrach, Baden. This would have been several years after Minnie Kuebler Ertel and family had moved to the Dayton Ohio area in the USA.
I didn't find the date of her birth yet. There was a Maria Christina Kuebler christened 26 March 1843 at Evangelisch, Steinen, Loerrach, Baden,
born to Johann Jakob and Barbara (Scheer) Kuebler, but she died 18 October 1855, long before the 1893 marriage.
There was a Maria Kuebler christened 29 December 1857 in Steinen, Loerrach, Baden, born to
Johannes and Maria Elisabetha Schaubhut.
There was a Maria Kuebler christened 6 May 1860 in Steinen, Loerrach, Baden
born to Christof Wilhelm and Anna Maria (Broegin) Kuebler who died 19 October 1890, and thus wasn't the Maria who married Wilhelm Moser in 1893.
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Luise (KUEBLER) BOEHLER |
Luise Kuebler Boehler
1855-1926 |
Luise Kuebler was born March 14 1855 in Brombach, Germany to a Herr Kubler and Yachabina Kubler.
She seems to have been the middle child of three girls.
FamilySearch.org shows Luise, born to Johann Jakob and Jakobina (Weber) Kuebler,
was christened on 08 APR 1855 at Steinen, Loerrach, Baden. It also shows that Luise Kuebler married Johann Friedrich Boehler on 22 May 1877 at
Evangelisch, Brombach, Loerrach, Baden, verifying Bill Kenney's record that she married Friedrich BOEHLER.
They lived at 95 Tallman Street, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Luise (aka Louise) died October 5, 1926, on her nephew Ed Ertel's 29th birthday.
Luise and Friedrich had a daughter, Louise Boehler Westby.
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Max Boehler
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Max and Mary BOEHLER
children: |
Freiedrich "Fred" BOEHLER
deceased
3 sons:
Frederick (deceased)
Donald
Leonard (deceased)
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Walter BOEHLER
deceased
1 son:
Stanley
married Barbara
2 daughters |
Lawrence BOEHLER
deceased
1 daughter:
Janice (BOEHLER) MORRIS |
Charles BOEHLER
no children |
Mary (BOEHLER) BEALE
deceased
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Wilhelmina (KUEBLER) ERTEL |
Wilhelmina Kubler ERTEL:
1860?-1926
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Wilhelmina Kubler Ertel was born on August 23, about 1860, perhaps in Brombach, Germany.
Having worked in a cotten mill in Switzerland, Wilhelmina was also an excellent bread baker. She married Ernst Ertel of Baden, Germany sometime in the early 1880s.
CHILDREN born in Germany:
* First daughter, Mina was born November 7 1881
* First son Ernst Jr. born 1884, died young (1884-1888).
* Son Carl was born April 3 1885
* Daughter Frieda was born November 20 1886.
Ernst and Wilhelmina lived around Alsace Lorraine - sometimes part of France, sometimes part of Germany - until they left Germany about 1888 with their older children, Mina, Carl, Frieda. I think their eldest son Ernst had already died in Germany between 1884-88.
CHILDREN born in the USA:
* Bertha born 1891
* Herman born 1894?
* Edward born 1897
In the group picture to the right, Wilhelmina is seated in the middle row (click on picture to enlarge), in a white blouse, and in front of the tallest man in the back row. Ernst Ertel is the 7th person from the right in the back row. Who the group is, I don't know. Kuebler family reunion? Church group? I don't recognize any of the children as Ertels.
In 2006 I found at the FamilySearch.org site
that Wilhelmine Kuebler married
Ernst Ludwig Ertel on 11 Aug 1881 at Evangelisch, Brombach, Loerrach, Baden. So far I haven't found verification of either of their birth dates on that site, nor of the birthdates of their children born in Germany.
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