Gerhman-McEachran

Hugh Patrick McEachran (1887-1918)
and Bertha Catherine Gehrmann (1890-
1971) were married in 1910 in
St. Paul,Mn. Hugh left school at St.
Johns University in Mn to marry Bertha.
After their marriage Hugh went to work
for the city as a conductor
on the street car lines in the city.

Pictured below are their two daughters, Mary Leone McEachran
born in (1912-1984)and Anna Elvera McEachran born (1914-1984).

In 1918 the family all came down with a lethal flu bug that sweep
the country. First the children got sick and Bertha nursed them
back to health. Then Hugh got sick and went to bed. Then Bertha
became ill.

Meanwhile the neighbors dropped off foods, for the children then
ages 4 and 6 years old, who were milling around the house.


When Bertha awoke from her illness three days
later, she discovered Hugh laying
beside her. Her husband had died
while she slept. She was a widow
at age twenty seven.

German-Irish side of family

To the right is a wedding
picture of Carl Deifel
(1905-1951) and Anna
Elvera McEachran (1914-
1984) taken in 1936. Anna
brings in the Irish-Scot
side of the family.

Anna saw Carl for the
first time when she was
14 years old. She was
in the back yard with a
girlfriend when he came
to her home to visit her
Mom and step-father Paul
Scharfenberg. At the time
the two girls laughed because Carl was wearing Knickers.
Something fashionable in Europe but not the USA.

Eight years after she first meet him, they were married.
She was 22 years old and he was 31 years. The marriage
lasted 15 years when Carl died of a heart attack. Anna
Elvera raised their two daughters alone and then Anna
died at the age of 70 of Non Hodgkins Lymphoma.

Maria Margaretta Steurner

Pictured to the left is Carl Deifels
little sister Emma (1910)and his
mother was Marie Margarette Stuerner,
(Mar 1883) in Aidlingen, Germany.

Marias parents were Johann Michael
Stuerner (Jan 1851-Jun 1887) and
Christina Katherine Entenmann (Mar
1857-Mar 1918.

John Michael had been married prior to
Christina to Maria Katherine Loeffler.
Together they had six children all who
died shortly after birth. Loefflers
last birth resulted in her death.

John Michael then married Christina in 1881 and they had
two daughters, Maria Margaretta in 1883 and Louise Frederika
in 1886. Unfortunately Louise died in 1886 and then Johann Michael
died in 1887.

In 1889 Christina married a second time to Christopher Fredrick
Hoehing. They had two sons named Karl Angus b Dec 1889 to May
1916, and Gottlieb Hoehing b. Dec 1895 to Feb 1918. Then
Christina died in 1918.

Mathias Deifel

The father of Fritz Deifel was Mathias Deifel b.in
Feb 1855 in Bronnen, Wurtenberg, Germany. He was
the father of ten children, most who lived to old age.
Mathias's wife was Elizabeth Ann Heizelmann b. Mar
1853 in Bezingen, Germany.Elizabeth died in 1904, but
Mathias lived until 1924.

The picture includes Fritz and his siblings as well as
their children. Picture taken about 1924.



Childrens names were; Fritz, Maria Magdalene died in
infancy, Emil married Agnes, Maria Magdalene married
Franz Jackl, Heinrich married Anna Worm, Karl b. 1887
in Bronnen died in Lily France during WWI, Pauline
remained single, Adolf married Maria, Albert married
Rosa, Julius remained single.

The Deifel Family

Pictured are the Karl Deifel's family in Germany. Taken at the Deifel
family homestead in Bronnon Germany in about 1925. From left to
right is Fritz Deifel b.Jun 1881 and died in Stuttgart in Mar 1931.
Fritz was the son of Mathias Deifel and Elizabeth Henzelman.

Fritz married Marie Margarette Stuerner b.Mar 1883 in Aidlingen,
Germany. She passed away in Aug 1945. They were married in
Feb 1907. She was the daughter of Johann Michael Stuerner
and Christine Kathrina Entenmann.

Carl Deifel who was baptised as Richael Carl Stuerner in Apr 1905,
d.Aug 1951 in Minnesota. Carl left his family in Germany in 1928
and traveled by ship to the US due to conditions in Germany.

Emma Marie Deifel, in the front of the picture was b.Mar 1911.
She died from cancer at the age of 18 in Stuttgart.

Within three short years, Maria Margaretta lost he son who went
to America, her daughter who died in 1929 and her husband who
died in 1931. She survived WW 2 and in 1945, while living
in Stuttgart, the building in which she was living was bombed
by the Americans. She fell three stories and recovered from her
injuries died died of a heart attack 3 months later.

Who Are We?

It is difficult to define exactly who we are. We could describle physical attributes or what type of work we do, or those thing that we enjoy doing in our spare time. All the descriptions are just superficial descriptions.

To find who we really are, we have to look at where we came from, the cultures, their lifestyle, those events that shaped the live of those who came before us. . For it is what the generations before us experieced that make up what we are and who we become.

In this blog I will be connecting with several culture and some of the major life
events for these ancestors.

Lookiing for Ancestors

Pictured are Carl Richard
Stuerner Deifel. (17-4-1905).
Shown with his young family
in America, his wife Anna
Elvera McEachran (Feb 1914)
and two daughters, Diane Marie
(Mar 1940 and Judy (Mar 1943).

Carl was born in Aidllingen
Germany to Maria Margaretta
Stuerner. The Stuerner
family records can be traced
back 250 years in Aidlingen,
Germany