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Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] New Germany gravesites - Wilhelm
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:11:00 -0400
References: <cd4.18e47d20.34197732@aol.com>


I have been trying to find death record and burial place for my great great
grandmother. From all I can learn, she was Phebe Wilhelm Casteel. She
married Nathaniel Casteel - not the one that married Jane - but another one
in Garrett County Maryland and Preston County West Virginia, son of Shadrack
Casteel. She was born about1818 in Virginia. The last I have on her - real
proof - was 1900 census she was living with her son William in Kingwood WV.
Her sister Elizabeth Wilhelm was living with them, as Elizabeth was living
with Phebe and husband Nathaniel in 1880 census in Preston County. Family
lore has she died in Jan. 1902. I cannot find a death record in West
Virginia or in Maryland. Her husband Nathaniel Casteel was buried in
Albright WV. As Route 26 goes accross the bridge from Kingwood, in that
turn is a cemetery next to a Baptist Church. We were told the Church knew
nothing about the cemetery. There had been a stone for Nathaniel Casteel,
but the flood of 1986 washed it away. We had previously found in Kingwood
library listings from the CCC of cemeteries and it lists Nathaniel, but not
Phebe. I believe they just "read" the stones, and maybe since he had died
19 years before her that there wasn't a stone. Have you any info on her?
We have heard but no proof that she may have been related to Peter or
Solomon Wilhelm. But again - no proof.
Nathaniel and Phebe Wilhelm Casteel had 5 children - Solomon Wesley, William
Harrison, Sarah Elizabeth, Mary M. and Margaret (Maggie). Any help
you can give will be greatly appreciated.
Jo in PA
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Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] New Germany gravesites - Wilhelm


>
> I too have Wilhelms in my ancestry . . . I have a Hetrick cousin that
> lives
> in his wife's grandfather Otto's ancestral log house. I will speak to him
> in
> the near future and will ask him if he knows anything about the cemetery
> and
> if he knows anything of Wilhelm's buried there. I have several Hetricks
> in
> Bittinger, Swanton, and New Germany (in their 70's and 80's that have so
> much
> of the history in their memory . . . however, none have computers). I've
> been
> rooting out the Hetrick family history since 1992 and four trips from
> California--5th trip coming up next July if I can arrange it.
>
> Sorry the sites were of no help. My great-grandfather Conrad Hetrick is
> buried in the Grantsville cemetery although he lived in Bittinger at the
> time of
> his drowning. His wife is buried in Accident as she was a member of the
> Zion
> Lutheran Church there. Conrad's mother Anna Catharina Schmidt
> Hederich/Hetrick Joefeller apparently lived in Grantsville in the
> 1870's--maybe she was
> buried there also. The trail ran cold on Conrad's parents (father Johann
> Conrad,
> b. 1800) after they arrived in Baltimore in Jan 1847). Not sure what
> determines where a person was buried. Some had large farms with places far
> removed
> from the farmhouse--my g-grandparents didn't appear to have enough
> property to
> bury anyone on their property. No death records were kept of individuals
> before 1892 as I understand it. However I found that funeral homes kept
> logs.
> I've yet to check that out.
>
> Do you have the names of other members of your Nelson Wilhelm family,
> maybe
> we can connect them that way. Charlie Wilhelm was Anna Mary Hetrick
> Schneider's grandson and was living with her in the 1880 census I
> believe. There were
> two Wilhelm brothers Peter and Bert who willed 300 acre farm to the
> Franklin
> and Marshall College in Savage, PA (now Maple Glen)--Peter and Bert built
> the
> barn on the property in 1860 but there is no information on when or by
> whom
> the house was built. My g-grandfather's nephew Jonas (son of Martin
> Hetrick &
> Dianna Musser/Mosser) and his wife Annie Speicher purchased that
> property.
> The property was purchased by Clarence ( 3rd son of Jonas) and he in turn
> sold
> it to his youngest son Ralph. As of 1995 Ralph still owned the property
> and
> farmed it with the help of the Orner brothers.
>
> Lois Hetrick Stewart
>
> In a message dated 9/12/2007 5:57:15 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
> Thank you for these sites. Unfortunately, not much by way of history
> here!
> We keep digging! -- carolyn
>
>
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