Doctor Grandma

from AL’s grandparents, Albert Graul and Elvira (Ohlendorf) Graul:

The roots are all back in Germany, except for one. Elvira’s parents were Louisa Stahl and Victor Ohlendorf.

LOUISA’s and VICTOR’s parents were all German-born.

Louisa’s parents were: Phillip Stahl and Margaretha Yoekel. Phillip and Margaretha have 4 children: George, Mary Eliza, Mary “Lisetta”, and Louisa.

Phillip dies in 1874. Margaretha remarries Charles Grossman. It is her 2nd marriage & his 3rd. He has a number of children & they seem to live with Margaretha and himself.

Plus, of course, Margaretha and Charles have 3 more children of THEIR OWN: Frederich, Mary, and John Henry.

Margaretha outlives both husbands. She dies late in 1920, living at the time with daughter “Lisetta”. She has quite the large headstone (the stand up monument-type), so Mr. Grossman evidently had money.

**Interesting realization of the day: Louisa, Margaretha’s daughter, who you already have photos of with her husband Victor, gets married at age 33. Victor is 27.

Louisa and Victor then proceed to have 6 kids in 9 years, one of whom is Elvira (AL’s Grandma Graul). their kids are: Clarence, Edna, Roy, Elvira, Margrette, Victor Jr.

Louisa is 42 years old when she gives birth to Victor Jr.

Clarence dies in 1935 at the age of 30. Edna dies in 1936 at the age of 30. Then mama LOUISA dies in 1936 ALSO. (disease?? don’t know)

(VICTOR, Louisa’s husband, lives to a very old age and dies in 1970.)

VICTOR’S PARENTS were Heinrich Christoph Ohlendorf and Margaret Sander Diemert. Both German immigrants.

on Grandpa Graul’s side: ALBERT GRAUL’S PARENTS WERE: Henry Graul and Mary Schneider. HENRY’s PARENTS were: JOHANN GRAUL (German immigrant) and Dorothea Ruschert Graul (German). They reportedly both die on a wagon train trip of disease — They both die in 1854. (The kids are young & given to another family to raise.)

ALBERT GRAUL’s mother’s parents were JOHANN SCHNEIDER (German immigrant), and ANN ELIZABETH BARBER. This Ann Elizabeth is the only NON-GERMAN and I do not have her roots traced yet.