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Mary Marie Stremmel-Kuechler and Charles Edward Kuechler.
Maternal grandparents of
Robert C. Kuhmann
Wedding photo 17 Oct 1893 |
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Mary Marie Stremmel-Kuechler
& Charles Edward Kuechler
Christmas Day
1936.
Former Rushville residents
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| The Kuechler home
in Rushville, IL |
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(from right) Mary
Marie Stremmel-Kuechler, Amy Adelaide Kuechler-Hollowell, Edith Marie
Kuechler-Orr,
Charles Edward Kuechler, (in buggy) Ernest Charles Kuechler - in Rushville,
Illinois.
My mother, Emme
Louise Kuechler-Kuhmann, now 90 - circa Feb 2001, states that this home
burned. I only knew my Aunt Amy. Both grandparents died before my birth.
Aunt Edith died in 1952 (when I was a baby), and although Ernest lived
until 1972, I never had an opportunity to meet him (he and his wife, Louise
Long lived in Columbia, Missouri).
Robert Charles Kuhmann
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Edward (Eduard)
Ernest Kuecheler - from an 1850's vintage, "tin-type" photo.
The image was
computer enhanced by great-grandson Robert C. Kuhmann
The original (which measures
about 2.5" x 3") was virtually black!
After the end
of the Civil War, Edward (who fought in the battle of Vicksburg, MS) resided
in Beardstown and Rushville, Illinois where he worked as a tin-smith. He
is buried in Rushville community cemetery along side of his wife, Emma
Katherina Wankel. (His son, Charles Edward Kuechler was father to my mother,
Emma Louise Kuechler-Kuhmann.
In addition, Robert has a handwritten Civil War-era letter from Edward
to his brother written in German and translated into English.
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