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Anna Margaretha “Margaret” Rosenberger

Generation 5 back

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

Born

April 10, 1827, in Schimborn, Mömbris, Bavaria (now Germany)

Died

December 19, 1909, in Ray Township, Franklin County, Indiana, USA

Married

June 20, 1848, in Franklin County, Indiana

Also known as

Margaretta Rosenberger

Migration

July 28, 1840: Anna Margaretha and her parents and sisters arrived in Baltimore Maryland, USA aboard the ship Clementine which had departed from Bremen

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Family

Father

Johan Adam Rosenberger

Mother

Margaretha Hartmann

Child in this line

George E Amrhein

Spouse

Simon Amrhein

Children

Mary Magdalena/Magdalene “Helen” “Lena” Amrhein
b. December 13, 1850, in St. Leon, Dearborn County, Indiana · d. August 22, 1932, Oldenburg near Enochsburg, Franklin County, Indiana due to Senility
m. Joseph Clements, June 27, 1872, in Greensburg, Indiana
Adam Amrhein
b. September 727/9, 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 · d. August 27, 1927, in Kickapoo, Peoria County, Illinois
m. Theresa Heinz, March 4, 1889
Mary Margaret/Maria Margaretha “Maggie” Amrhein
b. January 20, 185717/185827, in St. Leon, Dearborn County, Indiana · d. October 19, 1931, in Oldenburg, Franklin County, Indiana
m. Joseph Kramer
Anna Marie/Maria Amrhein
b. February 617/April 526, 27, 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 · d. April 8, 1948
m. Regina Wuestern, June 23, 1920, in Hamilton County, Ohio
Anthony Amrhein
b. October26/December 6, 1862, in St. Leon, Dearborn County, Indiana
Mary/Maria Appolonia Amrhein
b. February 3, 1867, in Oldenburg, Franklin County, Indiana
Adopted Siblings:
Anna Eisenhart
b. Abt. 1868 in Indiana

Siblings

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

In brief

Born April 10, 1827, in Schimborn, Mömbris, Bavaria (now Germany). July 28, 1840: Anna Margaretha and her parents and sisters arrived in Baltimore Maryland, USA aboard the ship Clementine which had departed from Bremen. She married June 20, 1848, in Franklin County, Indiana. She died December 19, 1909, in Ray Township, Franklin County, Indiana, USA.

Life story

A Bavarian Midwife in Indiana

Anna Margaretha “Margaret” Rosenberger was born on April 10, 1827, in Schimborn, in Bavaria's Mömbris district, and crossed the Atlantic with her parents and sisters in 1840, arriving in Baltimore aboard the ship Clementine. She married Simon Amrhein in Franklin County, Indiana, on June 20, 1848, and worked as a midwife to numerous women in the area over the following decades. Anna Margaretha died in Ray Township, Franklin County, Indiana, on December 19, 1909.

At a glance

Lived

Highland Township, Franklin County, Indiana · Kelso Township, Dearborn County, Indiana · Ray, Franklin County, Indiana · Near Enochsburg, Indiana

Sources (13)

Carolyn AmRhein, The AMRHEIN Genealogy (Cincinnati, Ohio: Abt. 1991); privately held by Benjamin Weber, Woodbridge, Virginia, 2023.
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 in Bud Kelble’s Amrhein binder by Dolores Perkins, Canandaigua, New York, 2024.
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.