Daughter of Andreas Landgraf & Catherina Mauer, Theresia was born near the small town of Saulheim, Hesse-Darmstadt, in what was then Prussia.
She was baptized on 19 April 1847 at St. Bartholomew Church in Saulheim, the same Roman Catholic church where her parents were married and all her siblings baptized.
She crossed the ocean on the 'Rising Sun', coming to America with her family in 1856, landing in New York and then settling in rural Washington County, Wisconsin where her father farmed. She lost her mother and sister, Elizabeth, within two days of one another in September of 1858--a hard start in a new land.
Her father moved their family into Milwaukee afterwards, and there she eventually met and married William Bichel (pronounced like 'pickle' and hence the alternative spelling of the surname)around 1867. They raised a large family, and also cared for her father after he became a widower.
Their children:
Andreas 'Andrew' b: 16 Dec 1880/d: 1881
Anna b: 11 Dec 1885; m: Jay Purdy 25 May 1909
Fred m: Hilda Knebel 21 Oct 1899
George J. b: abt 1873/d: 02 May 1908
Kate b: abt 1875
Theresa L. b: May 1878
Caroline b: abt 1884; m: Jos. Van Beek 14 Sep 1909
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She was baptized on 19 April 1847 at St. Bartholomew Church in Saulheim, the same Roman Catholic church where her parents were married and all her siblings baptized.
She crossed the ocean on the 'Rising Sun', coming to America with her family in 1856, landing in New York and then settling in rural Washington County, Wisconsin where her father farmed. She lost her mother and sister, Elizabeth, within two days of one another in September of 1858--a hard start in a new land.
Her father moved their family into Milwaukee afterwards, and there she eventually met and married William Bichel (pronounced like 'pickle' and hence the alternative spelling of the surname)around 1867. They raised a large family, and also cared for her father after he became a widower.
Their children:
Andreas 'Andrew' b: 16 Dec 1880/d: 1881
Anna b: 11 Dec 1885; m: Jay Purdy 25 May 1909
Fred m: Hilda Knebel 21 Oct 1899
George J. b: abt 1873/d: 02 May 1908
Kate b: abt 1875
Theresa L. b: May 1878
Caroline b: abt 1884; m: Jos. Van Beek 14 Sep 1909
Click on the family links below to find her husband, parents, siblings and children:
Daughter of Andreas Landgraf & Catherina Mauer, Theresia was born near the small town of Saulheim, Hesse-Darmstadt, in what was then Prussia.
She was baptized on 19 April 1847 at St. Bartholomew Church in Saulheim, the same Roman Catholic church where her parents were married and all her siblings baptized.
She crossed the ocean on the 'Rising Sun', coming to America with her family in 1856, landing in New York and then settling in rural Washington County, Wisconsin where her father farmed. She lost her mother and sister, Elizabeth, within two days of one another in September of 1858--a hard start in a new land.
Her father moved their family into Milwaukee afterwards, and there she eventually met and married William Bichel (pronounced like 'pickle' and hence the alternative spelling of the surname)around 1867. They raised a large family, and also cared for her father after he became a widower.
Their children:
Andreas 'Andrew' b: 16 Dec 1880/d: 1881
Anna b: 11 Dec 1885; m: Jay Purdy 25 May 1909
Fred m: Hilda Knebel 21 Oct 1899
George J. b: abt 1873/d: 02 May 1908
Kate b: abt 1875
Theresa L. b: May 1878
Caroline b: abt 1884; m: Jos. Van Beek 14 Sep 1909
Click on the family links below to find her husband, parents, siblings and children:
She was baptized on 19 April 1847 at St. Bartholomew Church in Saulheim, the same Roman Catholic church where her parents were married and all her siblings baptized.
She crossed the ocean on the 'Rising Sun', coming to America with her family in 1856, landing in New York and then settling in rural Washington County, Wisconsin where her father farmed. She lost her mother and sister, Elizabeth, within two days of one another in September of 1858--a hard start in a new land.
Her father moved their family into Milwaukee afterwards, and there she eventually met and married William Bichel (pronounced like 'pickle' and hence the alternative spelling of the surname)around 1867. They raised a large family, and also cared for her father after he became a widower.
Their children:
Andreas 'Andrew' b: 16 Dec 1880/d: 1881
Anna b: 11 Dec 1885; m: Jay Purdy 25 May 1909
Fred m: Hilda Knebel 21 Oct 1899
George J. b: abt 1873/d: 02 May 1908
Kate b: abt 1875
Theresa L. b: May 1878
Caroline b: abt 1884; m: Jos. Van Beek 14 Sep 1909
Click on the family links below to find her husband, parents, siblings and children:
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