Em Blessing
George Blessing
GEORGE BODENSTAB
George Bodenstab
ANNA (KUEHLING) BODENSTAB
Anna (Kuehling) Bodenstab
From Sheboygan county marriage records: (Sheb. v.5 p.83) Oct. 4, 1874 in civil ceremony, Town of Herman, Sheboygan County George Bodenstab Son of Henry Bodenstab and Annette [cannot read last name] Born Hanover, Germany Manufacturer of sash doors in Sheboygan County Anna Kuehling Daughter of Fred and Mary Kuehling Person pronouncing wedding is Henry Bodenstab ********* Dr. Henry Bodenstab came to Sheboygan Co. in October of 1847 from Diedersen, near Hanover, Germany. He purchased a farm in section 26 of the Town of Herman. His family consisted of three girls and four boys, one of whom died in infancy. Years later, one of his sons, Julius, married Frederica Schutte and assumed ownership of the farm. In ensuing years, they had a famly of one girl and three boys. One of the boys died at the age of 8 of diptheria. Three of his cousins, children of Julius' brother Frederick, also died of diptheria within one and a half months of the date. After selling the farm in 1875, Julius Bodenstab was active in real estate transactions, including building the Howards Grove Cheese Factory in 1878 and the purchase and sale of several lots in the Village of Franklin in the 1880s. Later, he moved to Milwaukee and was involved in real estate there. Frederick Bodenstab purchased the farm immediately to the west of the home farm and later built his own cheese factory on it which was operated up to the 1920s. Some of his descendants remain in the area. George Bodenstab, another brother, moved to Sheboygan and became a merchant. Augusta, a sister, married C.H.M. Peterson of Plymouth, and Mathilda, another sister, married John T. Hertel.