Freeh, Maggie of Brown Co. Ohio

Maggie Freeh

Maggie Freeh was born Margaretha FRUEH, 19 Jan 1872 in Brown County Ohio to John Freeh and Eva Meyer. When she was born, her parents had been settled in America 15 years and had four other children.
  Her family attended a small German Protestant church the Arnheim Lutheran Church in Arnheim, Ohio.  The church services were conducted in German because nearly all of the families came from the same area of Germany known as the Palatinate (located in the south of the modern German state of Rheinland-Pfalz, just north of the French border).  Most of the families came from one of the many tiny villages surrounding the city of Pirmasens.  So although they were far from their ancestral home, their community was made up of many uncles and aunts, cousins and second cousins who immigrated to the same area of Brown County Ohio.
   Maggie married  John Jacob Kiesewetter on 3 Aug 1890. 

John Jacob had also been born in Brown County and attended the same church as Maggie.  He was the eldest son and his father's heir.
   Maggie and John had a wonderful family of children.
Franz Johann              October 28, 1890-1918  Dec.13
 Charles Edward          June 18, 1892- 1982
 Florence Eugene        October 24,1894-Jan 6, 1895
Clarence Earl              Jan. 28,1896-1968 Aug. 16
Vera Loretta                March 17,1898-1980
Eva Anna                     August 17, 1900-1902 Oct. 29

She did lovely handiwork and made pillow cases with hand crocheted lace and embroidery.  She had a spinning wheel. She liked beautiful things. But her time was cut short when Maggie died of tuberculosis November 21, 1904 at the age of 32

-biography written and researched by Linda Rawles
with details as told to Linda by her mother and grandmother.

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