Michael Oehl

"MICHAEL OEHL, Born September 3, 1823, baptized September 8, 1823 in Mutterschied, died December 17,1885 in the Town of Mosel, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. Married in 1848 in Altenweidelbach to Maria Eva Gutenberger, born March 31, 1824 in Laubach, died August 22, 1894. She was the daughter of Johann Georg Gutenberger and Anna Catharina, nee Gumm. They immigrated to the United States in the early 1850's and lived in the log house on my grandfather Jacob Bast's forty-acre farm near Germantown, Wisconsin. During the spring of 1858, the family moved to Orihula on the Wolf River in Winnebago County, Wisconsin. In a letter written in the Hünsruck German to my grandfather and dated 16 Juni 1858, Michael Oehl told of the trip to Fond du Lac, where they stayed one night, and also one night in Oshkosh. The entire trip cost twenty-seven dollars and some cents and included travel by boat up the Wolf River to Orihula, where they were met by "Schan" (John) Sieger, a neighbor, who had hired a team of oxen to take them to their land. John Sieger and his brother, Michael, were carpenters, who also had first settled in the Town of Germantown. They helped clear trees and built a one and a half story log house, 16 x 20 feet, with a four foot porch, in four weeks, slowed by some rain each day. For seven dollars, more help was hired to clear three-quarters of an acre on which he planted "welschkorn," 10 bushel kartoffeln (krumbera), and "garden geblens" (vegetables) that grew as nice as one could find anywhere. A cow with calf, bought for $28 from John Sieger two weeks after their arrival, produced more than a pail of milk each evening and a little less in the morning, as well as a pound of butter each day. They also bought "ein hund," a strict watch dog as big as Hieronimus Bast's, for $3. He sent regards "to the whole Bast Familie, my dear and true Freindschaft and neighbors in Daun (Town) 9," and in signing the letter included "die adres: P.O. Fremund (Fremont), Winnebaka Kaunde (County), Wiskonsin." In another letter, dated "Oreiholle, 20 Oktober 1860," he told of his farming success and of the children's progress in school. In April, 1864 the family moved to the Town of Mosel in Sheboygan County, where other families from the Hunsrück region had settled previously. They purchased a total of eighty acres of land on which they had constructed a number of farm buildings. The property eventually was sold to Max Wolters in 1896." – The Bast Genealogy and Related Families, Sila Lydia Bast, 1971.

GEDCOM Note

"MICHAEL OEHL, Born September 3, 1823, baptized September 8, 1823 in Mutterschied, died December 17,1885 in the Town of Mosel, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. Married in 1848 in Altenweidelbach to Maria Eva Gutenberger, born March 31, 1824 in Laubach, died August 22, 1894. She was the daughter of Johann Georg Gutenberger and Anna Catharina, nee Gumm. They immigrated to the United States in the early 1850's and lived in the log house on my grandfather Jacob Bast's forty-acre farm near Germantown, Wisconsin. During the spring of 1858, the family moved to Orihula on the Wolf River in Winnebago County, Wisconsin. In a letter written in the Hünsruck German to my grandfather and dated 16 Juni 1858, Michael Oehl told of the trip to Fond du Lac, where they stayed one night, and also one night in Oshkosh. The entire trip cost twenty-seven dollars and some cents and included travel by boat up the Wolf River to Orihula, where they were met by "Schan" (John) Sieger, a neighbor, who had hired a team of oxen to take them to their land. John Sieger and his brother, Michael, were carpenters, who also had first settled in the Town of Germantown. They helped clear trees and built a one and a half story log house, 16 x 20 feet, with a four foot porch, in four weeks, slowed by some rain each day. For seven dollars, more help was hired to clear three-quarters of an acre on which he planted "welschkorn," 10 bushel kartoffeln (krumbera), and "garden geblens" (vegetables) that grew as nice as one could find anywhere. A cow with calf, bought for $28 from John Sieger two weeks after their arrival, produced more than a pail of milk each evening and a little less in the morning, as well as a pound of butter each day. They also bought "ein hund," a strict watch dog as big as Hieronimus Bast's, for $3. He sent regards "to the whole Bast Familie, my dear and true Freindschaft and neighbors in Daun (Town) 9," and in signing the letter included "die adres: P.O. Fremund (Fremont), Winnebaka Kaunde (County), Wiskonsin." In another letter, dated "Oreiholle, 20 Oktober 1860," he told of his farming success and of the children's progress in school. In April, 1864 the family moved to the Town of Mosel in Sheboygan County, where other families from the Hunsrück region had settled previously. They purchased a total of eighty acres of land on which they had constructed a number of farm buildings. Theproperty eventually was sold to Max Wolters in 1896." – The Bast Genealogy and Related Families, Sila Lydia Bast, 1971.