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George I. Amrhein

Generation 6 back

Descent: Benjamin James Weber ← Virginia Anne Kelble ← James Richard Kelble ← Margaret Mary Amrhein ← George E Amrhein ← Simon Amrhein ← George I. Amrhein

In brief

Born about 1794, in Rottenberg, Aschaffenburg, Electorate of Mainz, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany). He married April 27, 1818, in Sailauf near Rottenberg, Bavaria.

Family

Spouse
Anna Eva Hufgard
m. 1818

Children

  • Simon Amrhein · in this line
    b. March 10, 1819, in Rottenburg, Aschaffenburg, Bavaria (now Germany)
    m. Anna Margaretha “Margaret” Rosenberger, June 20, 1848, in Franklin County, Indiana
    d. May 9, 1897, in Oldenburg, Franklin County, Indiana
  • Anna Mary Amrhein
    b. May 17, 1821, in Rottenburg, Bavaria (now Germany)
    m. Anton Hartmann
    d. May 25, 1900, in Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana due to heart failure caused by “nervous prostration”
  • Wilhelmina “Minnie” Amrhein
    b. Aug 12, 1823, in Rottenburg, Bavaria
    m. Michael Kuhn
    d. February 25, 1898, in Wolf Creek, Franklin County, Indiana
  • Conrad Amrhein
    b. March 20, 1823, in Rottenburg, Aschaffenburg, Bavaria
    m. Margaret Hornung, October 6, 1851
    d. December 5, 1915, in Batesville, Ripley County, Indiana, USA due to Arteriosclerosis
  • George Michael Amrhein
    b. May 7, 1826, in Rottenburg, Bavaria (now Germany)
    m. Margaret Williams
    d. December 14, 1897, in Oak Forest, Franklin County, Indiana

Life story

A Debt and a Disappearance

George I. Amrhein was born around 1794 in Rottenberg, near Aschaffenburg in Bavaria, and married there on April 27, 1818. In June 1843 he sold his home at auction for 200 florins. According to a story remembered by a fellow villager, Georg had run a small grocery store that fell deeply into debt to a creditor in nearby Goldbach; rather than repay it, he sold his house and fled to America, prompting the creditor to post a 1,000-florin bounty for information leading to his arrest.

Sources (5)
  1. Carolyn AmRhein, The AMRHEIN Genealogy (Cincinnati, Ohio: Abt. 1991); privately held by a family member.
  2. Dwain C. Rosenberger, Ancestors of Wendel Amrhein; privately held by a family member.
  3. Peter Hufgard, BAVARIAN-ANCESTORS-L Archive: AmRheinFamily-Rottenberg, 28 June 2003; privately held by a family member.
  4. Peter Hufgard to Bud Kelble, email, 21 May 2003, “I have found Anna Eva Hufgard. Cheers”; privately held by a family member.
  5. Peter Hufgard to Margaret Amrhein, email, 17 June 2003, “RE: Data”; privately held by a family member.
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