Karl Dressel Family Bible
| This Bible transcription was given to this website so the information would not be lost. FLYLEAF INSCRIPTION [in German, never translated] This Bible was given on the 17th June. 1869 in the ____ Kirche in Lichtenau to Karl Dressel and Magdalena Dressel. ================================================== === TITLE PAGE Not translated. Only recognizable words are Die Bibel----Dr. Martin Luthers. Printers??-Karlsruhe. bei Christian Theodor Gross. 1867. = = = = = = = = = = = = = HAUSVATER Karl Dressel. b Nov 5, 1843, in Buehterthal HAUSMUTTER Magdalena Schwarz. b April 22, l842 in Grauelsbaum married Jun 17, 1869 in Lichtenau ANCESTORS: Parents of father Joseph Dressel, b in Bue_terthal Josepha nee Mains Parents of mother Friederich Schwarz, a farmer of the land of Grauelsbaum [illegible] nee Hausler KINDER Magdalena Dressel b Aug 7, 1865 at Grauelsbaum. Baptized at Lichtenau. Godfather, Friederich Zingfer, from Memgv'?tz. : H?f'? Georg; Ludwig von Grauelsbaum [means Ludwig from Grauelsbaum] and Magdalena Welther. Karolina Dressel b Jun 14, 1868 in Baden Baden. Baptized in Church in Baden Baden. Godparents: Wilhelm Mosmar and church caretaker from Baden and Joseph Baumert, from Achern and Baber? and Ludwig von Grauelsbaum. Elisebete Dressel, b Jul 14, 1870 in Grauelsbaum. Baptized in church in Lichtenau. Godparents: Mathias Korn and Georg Stengel, Barbara Korn and Dorothea Welter b?ite from Grauelsbaum. Karolina Dressel, b Oct, 31, 1874 in Schiltigheim. Josephine Dressel, b Oct 15, 1876 in Schiltigheim. Emma Dressel, b July 30, 1878 in Schiltigheim [ my grandmother] Karl Dressel, b Aug 2, 1881 in Schiltigheim DEATHS: Karolina Dressel, died Sept 26, 1870, 7 a.m. Buried Sept 28, 1870, 10 a.m. in Lichtenau Psalm l6:V 6 "This is her fate. My Sweetest." Father died May 29, 1872, 6 a.m. Buried June 7, 1872 Psalm 69: "God help me, the water is reaching my soul; I am choking in deep mud. In deep water and the flood is drowning me." Friederich Schwarz El isabete Dressel, died Feb 12, 1874, 3 years, 6 months, 5 days. Buried Feb 14, 1874 in Schiltigheim. Infection of the brain. Brother died Oct. 10, 1880/6 Hohnheim, 59 yrs .5 mon . Father died, Nov 5, 1887 Schiltigheim by Strassburg, age 43 [Karl Dressel of Bue_tertha] [All the above is in German and has been translated as well as possible, the Print having faded with age and the old writing hard to decipher. The following is in English and was recorded after Magdalena came to America with Karoline, Josephine, Emma and Karl in approx . 1888. Original entries were by Magdalena Schwarz Dressel. Entries after Magdalena's death are by her daughter Emma Dressel Markwith, after Emma's death, by her daughter Lillian Dressel Paterson and after Lillian's death by Dorothy Markwith Borne. All words in parentheses are added by Dorothy Borne.] The Bible Is In The Possession of Dorothy Borne, Spring Hill, Florida 34609 |
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