Jacob Leuenberger and Margareth Streich are Ritchey’s great-great-grandparents. Jacob was born in Durrenroth, Bern, Switzerland, in 1829. Margareth was born in Switzerland August 7, 1845. They married May 27, 1869, in Johnson County, Iowa. Jacob died in 1895, and Margareth was his administratrix. According to these papers filed […]
Margareth Streich and Jacob Leuenberger were married 143 years ago – May 27, 1869 – in Johnson County, Iowa. Both were born in Germany. Margareth and Jacob had 9 children: Rosa, Mary, Ellen, John, Maggie, Lavina, Will, Delvie and Jacob Leuenberger. They are buried in Oakland Cemetery, Solon, […]
Jacob and Margareth Streich Leuenberger Jacob Leuenberger and Margareth Streich are Ritchey’s great-great-grandparents. Both were born in Germany and came to the United States before their marriage in Johnson County, Iowa, on May 27, 1869. They had 9 children. Rosa, born March 31, 1876, married George Edwin Hertz […]
Jolly – Hertz – Leuenberger Oakland Cemetery in Solon, Iowa, is the final resting place for Ritchey’s paternal grandmother and her ancestors. In a previous blog about the George Hertz family there are photos for the gravestones of George Hertz, his first wife Rosa Leuenberger, second wife Ethel […]
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