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Anna Margaretha “Margaret” Rosenberger

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Descent: Benjamin James Weber ← Virginia Anne Kelble ← James Richard Kelble ← Margaret Mary Amrhein ← George E Amrhein ← Anna Margaretha Rosenberger

In brief

1820s–1840s

Born 10 April 1827 in Schimborn, in Bavaria's Mömbris district, to Johan Adam Rosenberger and Margaretha Hartmann. Reached Baltimore with her parents and sisters aboard the Clementine on 28 July 1840. Married Simon Amrhein in Franklin County, Indiana, on 20 June 1848.

1850s–1860s

Raised about ten children on farms in Franklin and Dearborn Counties, and worked as a midwife.

1870s–1900s

Inherited forty acres from her father in 1871. Widowed in 1897, she lived with her son Frank in Ray Township. Died there on 19 December 1909.

Family

Father

Johan Adam Rosenberger

Mother

Margaretha Hartmann

Spouse

Simon Amrhein

m. 1848

Children

Anthony Wendelin “Wendel” “Winfield” Amrhein
b. July 5, 1849, in St. Leon, Dearborn County, Indiana
m. Catherine “Kate” Hahn, February 2, 1875, in St. Mary’s Church in Greensburg, Indiana
d. October 20, 1920, in Washington Township, Greensburg, Decatur County, Indiana due to uremia caused by bladder cancer
Mary Magdalena/Magdalene “Helen” “Lena” Amrhein
b. December 13, 1850, in St. Leon, Dearborn County, Indiana
m. Joseph Clements, June 27, 1872, in Greensburg, Indiana
d. August 22, 1932, Oldenburg near Enochsburg, Franklin County, Indiana due to Senility
George E Amrhein · in this line
b. April 1852 · Indiana; baptized at St. Joseph’s Church, St. Leon
m. Barbara Ann Hahn, September 12, 1880, in Oldenburg, Franklin County, Indiana
d. October 17, 1906 · Washington Township, Decatur County, Indiana
Adam Amrhein
b. September 7/9, 1853, in Indiana
d. July 31, 1925, due to accidental dynamite explosion while clearing timber for farming in Missouri
Adam Joseph Amrhein
b. December 10, 1854, in St. Leon, Dearborn County, Indiana
m. Theresa Heinz, March 4, 1889
d. August 27, 1927, in Kickapoo, Peoria County, Illinois
Mary Margaret/Maria Margaretha “Maggie” Amrhein
b. January 1857, in St. Leon, Dearborn County, Indiana
m. Joseph Kramer
d. October 19, 1931, in Oldenburg, Franklin County, Indiana
Anna Marie/Maria Amrhein
b. February 6/April 5, 1860, in St. Leon, Dearborn County, Indiana
d. Abt. September 1860, in St. Leon, Dearborn County, Indiana
Francis “Frank” X. Amrhein
b. December 10, 1861, in St. Leon, Dearborn County, Indiana
m. Regina Wuestern, June 23, 1920, in Hamilton County, Ohio
d. April 8, 1948
Anthony Amrhein
b. October/December 6, 1862, in St. Leon, Dearborn County, Indiana
Mary/Maria Appolonia Amrhein
b. February 3, 1867, in Oldenburg, Franklin County, Indiana

Siblings

Half-siblings — children of Paul Rosenberger and Margaretha Hartmann

Margaretha Rosenberger
b. April 15, 1815, in Bavaria
m. Wendeline Weidenbach
Mary/Maria Rosenberger
b. October 2, 1817, in Bavaria
m. John Eckel
Magdalena Rosenberger
b. December 3, 1824, in Bavaria
m. Jacob Wilhelm
George Adam Rosenberger

Life story

A Bavarian Midwife in Indiana

Anna Margaretha Rosenberger, called Margaret, was born on April 10, 1827, in Schimborn, in the Mömbris district of Bavaria. Her mother, Margaretha Hartmann, had older children, Margaretha, Maria, Magdalena, and George Adam, by an earlier husband, Paul Rosenberger; Anna Margaretha's own father was Johan Adam Rosenberger. The family sailed from Bremen on the Clementine and landed at Baltimore on July 28, 1840, when she was thirteen, and settled in southeastern Indiana.

On June 20, 1848, in Franklin County, she married Simon Amrhein, a Bavarian farmer. They farmed in Highland Township, then in Kelso Township, Dearborn County, where they belonged to St. Joseph's Church at St. Leon, and from 1867 in Ray Township, Franklin County. She had ten children between 1849 and 1867, among them George (Ben's 2x-great-grandfather), and lost a baby daughter, Anna Marie, in 1860. Alongside all that, she was a midwife who delivered babies for many women in the area. In 1871 she inherited forty acres in Ray Township from her father.

Simon died in 1897, and by 1900 Margaret was living with her son Frank in Ray Township. In April 1909, living near Enochsburg, she was very ill and her daughter Maggie (Mrs. Kramer) came to see her. She died in Ray Township on December 19, 1909, at eighty-two, and was buried at Holy Family Church in Oldenburg.

Gallery

Sources (13)

Carolyn AmRhein, The AMRHEIN Genealogy (Cincinnati, Ohio: Abt. 1991); privately held by a family member.
1860 United States Census, Kelso Township, Dearborn County, Indiana, population schedule, page 23, dwelling 180, family 176, Family of Simon Ameraen; NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 252; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7667/images/4215019_00559 : accessed 20 October 2023).
1870 United States Federal Census, Ray Township, Franklin County, Indiana, population schedule, page 26, Family of Simon Amrhein; NARA microfilm publication T132; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7163/images/4263371_00398 : accessed 20 October 2023).
1880 U.S. census, Ray Township, Franklin County, Indiana, population schedule, enumeration district 87, page 7, dwelling 58, family 63, Simon Amrhein family; NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 278; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6742/images/4240586-00418 : accessed 20 October 2023).
1850 United States Census, Highland Township, Franklin County, Indiana, population schedule, page 13, dwelling 94, family 94, Family of Simon Emerine; NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 146; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8054/images/4191992_00368 : accessed 20 October 2023).
“Indiana, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1798-1999,” (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9045/images/007665183_00061 : accessed 21 October 2023), digital image, “Will Book, Vol 2-4, 1870-1898,” p. 61-62; crediting Franklin County, Iowa, Will Book 2:65-66, August 1871.
Dwain C. Rosenberger, Ancestors of Wendel Amrhein; privately held by a family member.
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32984299/anna_margaretha-amrhein: accessed 14 April 2025), memorial page for Anna Margaretha “Margaret” Rosenberger Amrhein (10 Apr 1827–19 Dec 1909), Find a Grave Memorial ID 32984299, citing Holy Family Cemetery, Oldenburg, Franklin County, Indiana, USA; Maintained by Pat Smith Petty (contributor 47335501).
“Mrs. Joseph Kramer and her little…,” The Batesville Tribune (Batesville, IN), 14 April 1909, page 1, col 5; web archives (https://newspaperarchive.com/batesville-tribune-apr-14-1909-p-1/ : accessed 14 April 2025).
Sister Weikert (Mömbris Katholisches Pfarramt) to Sister Carloyn Amrhein, letter, 2 February 1978; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/162906400/person/342123203131/media/4b7d915e-456c-4e9d-be02-95c867e46000 : accessed 20 April 2025), uploaded by Margaret Amrhein (mmamrhein).
1900 United States Federal Census, Franklin County, Indiana, population schedule, Ray, Enochsburg Election Precinct, enumeration district 30, sheet 4-A, dwelling 65, family 66, Frank X Amrhine family; NARA microfilm publication T623; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7602/images/4118606_00287 : accessed 20 April 2025).
“Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., Passenger Lists, 1820-1964,” Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8679/images/mdm255_2-0797 : accessed 20 April 2025), image, Roll 02: Apr 7, 1837-Jul 31, 1840, image 800.
“Indiana, U.S., Death Certificates, 1899-2017,” images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/60716/images/45232_356103-00076 : accessed 20 April 2025), Death Certificate for Anna Margaretha Amrhein, File Number 304, 19 December 1909, Franklin County, Indiana.