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+Schanette "Jeanette" Bettmann(abt. 1810-1855)
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You, Samuel Stiebel, are my great-great grandfather. I have looked at and cherished your photograph on my family gallery wall for years and years. This is all I knew of you. I never dreamed in my wildest imagination that I would be able to "visit" you. But I am, and soon. I am coming to
According to the Jewish records archived in "Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden", Germany, where Herr Hans-Joachim Ruppel, the local archivist in Burghaun County, obtained copies, you were born September 16, 1804 and died August 29, 1878. You married Schanette in Langenschwarz, Germany, June 10, 1834. That would have made you 30 years of age when you married Schanette and she 24 years old. I would think you both would have been considered old to be married in those days.
Twenty one years after marriage and after ten children, your wife, Schanette (Jeanette), died. A photo of the stone of your wife, Schanette, is below. It has endured for over 150 years in this place.
"Jeannette Stiebel, geborene (nee) Bettmann,
Frau des Federhändlers (wife of feather-salesman) Samuel Stiebel,
45 Jahre (years), gestorben(died): 14.08.1855 morgens 5:00 Uhr (o'clock a.m.),
Beerdigt (buried) 15.08.1855"
Notes:" nächste beerdigte Person laut Synagogenregister (next buried person in synagoge-registry) , Tochter des Abraham und der Gütel Bettmann"
(Note: Does this mean that another Bettman was buried next to her?)
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"Samuel Stiebel, born 16.09.1804 in Langenschwarz,
Married to Schanette / Jeanette Bettman on 10.06.1834 (had together 9 children),
After death of Schanette on 14.08.1855, he married again on 16.03.1858 in Langenschwarz,
His second wife: Regine Strauß, born on 15.01.1818 in Rothenkirchen, died on 14.02.1868 in Langenschwarz (no children).
Samuel died on 29.08.1878"
In her book, Ruth wrote that you, Samuel, and your wife, Jeanette, had agreed to let your eldest son Herz leave Germany and go to America in 1856 to join your brother, Mendel who had emigrated to Baltimore, Maryland. She believed that you felt that Herz should go because "Germany was the land of conscription, and the United States had proclaimed itself the land of the free." (Authors note: Schanette (Jeanette) died in 1855, however the decision that Herz could go to America may have already been made before Jeanette, died. Ruth actually wrote that Samuel's oldest "child" went to America, she probably meant oldest "son" who was Herz. Herz had two older sisters.)
Great-great grandfather Samuel, the German records indicate that after Schanette (Jeanette) died, you remarried to Regina Straub, from Rothenkirchen, on March 16, 1858. Certainly three years was a most appropriate time for you to mourn. You were 54 years old and
I am looking forward to "visiting" you and your parents, my great-great-great grandparents Isaac (Yitzchak bar Baruch Stiefel) and Roshen Goldschmidt Stiebel. I understand your homeland,
4 comments:
I am indeed honored and privileged that Donna saw fit to put my biography of my GGGF Samuel Stiebel on our HCGS Blog.
I hope you will all take the "Biography Challenge" and support her in her efforts to teach us and encourage us to tell our family stories.
I am very proud and appreciative to be a part of our group.
Harriet "Hart"
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Here is my comment:"nächste beerdigte Person laut Synagogenregister (next buried person in synagogue registry") means that she was the next one who died. However, it basically also says that the graves of the two women were next to each other since burials sites were chosen in a chronological order. Heinrich Nuhn, Rotenburg an der Fulda, Germany (35 km from Langenschwarz)
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Maybe I should comment why I wrote "next buried person in synagogue registry"... On the tombstone there isn't written a concrete name, just to see it was a woman and comparing the infos of stone and registry they are most similar... So this stone no. 39 seems to be the stone of Schanette - add on in the chronical followings of the registry she was the next who died compared with the stone beneath her grave... So we can be sure that this stone belongs to her... :) sorry, if I confused you... Love, Doro
We will also be in Langenschwarz next month. We enjoyed your story and look forward to meeting you.
Frederick (Ted) and Barbara Hecht
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