Person:Barbara Geibel (3)

BARBARA migrated to America in 1845 (to Ohio). It is not known if she migrated alone, but that is unlikely. William Dillon's book, Full Circle, is an interesting account of the Schenkel, Urschel, Zinsmeister, and Gemmer families. Unfortunately, when Dillon was commissioned to write the book, it does not seem he was given much of the history of Barbara, as he writes about her as almost existing alone before her marriage to Adam Keafabber. However, readers of WeRelate.org know better!

Barbara migrated on to Wabash County, Indiana in 1850, with her husband, where they lived with her sister Christina Maurer, and her husband for an unknown period of time.

--White Creek 12:48, 30 October 2012 (EDT)

BARBARA KEAFFABER stone at the Urbana Cemetery

URBANA CEMETERY in circa 1963

1. ↑ Full Circle, by William Dillon.

   The book says that as a very young girl, Barbara was a domestic servant in the home of a wealthy family.

2. ↑ St. Peter's CHURCH Records.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 "Forty North" by Howard Hurtig Metcalfe of Hollywood, California.

   Howard has her birth in WALDGREHWEILER, as do other sources, but Howard places the village in Prussia. It is NOT thought that the village was ever ruled by Prussia, even though other parts of the PALATINATE were.

4. ↑ "Gemeinde Waldgrehweiler".

   1976 Letter

5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Obituary.

   Copy sent by Jackie Miller of Wabash

6. ↑ She probably migrated to Tuscarawas County, Ohio. Shortly after, she must have moved on to Wabash County, Indiana.