Say Hello to Great Grandma

Attractive, isn't she?

Today I found an internet site that includes photos of headstones in the Matanza Cemetery near Bath, Mason County, Illinois. In that site I found a stone for "Margareth, wife of John Maisenbacher, died Mar 12, 1885 aged 48yrs 12 d" It is next to the stone for Frank and Augusta Markert. For the Mehl sisters (J. J.s kids) this was "Uncle Frank", with whom Anna is said to have lived while growing up in Bath.

Margaret Maisenbacher was Anna Maisenbacher Mehl's mother. Anna Mehl was J.J. Mehls' wife.

I cannot go back and put everything I know in a single post - I have to start somewhere, and I think the best way for me to start is to capture what I find. So as I go along, I'll try to fill in the backlog of information I already know, and bring you up to date.

So here is the background: John Mehl, our ancestor, lived in Sharpsville with his wife and four children. One of those children was John J. Mehl, who married Anna Maisenbacher and had five children including Charles, Mary, Louise, Frances and Clarice. If you are here, you are probably descended from one of them.

Say hello to Grandma.