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JOHANN GEORG (GEORGE) SCHEPPERLE, weaver and farmer, tenth of ten children born to Jakob and Anna Margaretha Blaus Schepperle, born Plieningen, Wuerttemberg, March 15, 1807; died Millbrook, Missouri, September 18, 1878. Married November 26, 1835 at Plieningen to Anna (Katharina) Koenig, daughter of Johannes Koenig, a weaver, and Barbara Bahnmüller. She was born
Plieningen, Wuerttemberg, April 4, 1808; died Millbrook, Missouri, on September 1, 1883. both are buried in St. John's Cemetery, (Stringtown),
Lohman, Missouri.
He was a great grandson of Johannes Martin (1677-1731), and according to family tradition he was the fourth generation in the line of the weavers profession. He was not yet 30 years of age when the weavery was industrialized. In the mid 1840's of the last century, harvests turned out to be very bad during some years; and many people who could make their living before could no longer do so. Professions were broken; there was no income, there was no food, and what there was, was too expensive for the common man. In those years George, as he was known, must have decided to go to America to start new in the new world. In June, 1847, George and his wife,
Katharina Koenig, left Plieningen with their children: Anna, Catherine, George, John, and Barbara. Also, from family tradition, we know that Barbara was a sickly child, and relatives of her parents, fearing for her life, wanted them to leave Barbara back in Plieningen; but her parents wanted to leave as a family and took Barbara with them. She died on board ship at around a year old and was buried at sea.
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After arriving in America, they came as far West as Cleveland, Ohio, and soon after to a farm in Wayne County, near Smithville, Ohio. There, two more children were born, Joseph on December 5, 1849, and Maria Regina (Mary as she was known) on February 4, 1851. Sometime later (exact date not known), they moved to Springville, Wayne County, Ohio, which is just a few miles southwest of Wooster and approximately 12 miles southwest of Smithville. Their oldest son, George, at the age of 22, enlisted in the 102nd Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry on August 8, 1862. After the Civil War young George was on his way home when he perished in the Sultana disaster on the Mississippi River (see Sultana story in Appendix). Soon thereafter the family heard of land grants in Missouri and decided to move to Cole County, Missouri, along with their daughters Anna, her husband Israel Froeschle (later spelled Freshley), Mary, and sons John and Joseph. The second oldest daughter, Catherine, married Henry Michel and did not come to Missouri with the family. The family migrated to Missouri in a covered wagon. We also know from family tradition that the mother Katharina did not want to leave Ohio, and she looked back from the wagon with tears as long as they could see her. (Source: Carl Snyder, Sr., Conneaut, Ohio, grandson of Catherine Michel). The first land purchase in Missouri was made on April 2, 1867, on West Brazito Road about 2½ miles west of Brazito in Section 27, containing 160 acres for $1,050.
From:
Palmer William Nicholas Scheperle
History of the Scheperle (Schepperle) Family of America
Jefferson City, Missouri, 1982 |
