Rosina Wahl

1857 - 1886  (28 years)

• Name	Rosina Wahl  [1, 2]
  Born	5 Nov 1857	B?rtlingen, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Died	3 May 1886	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan   [3, 4]
  Buried	Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Notes	Per the MEMOIRS OF JOHN A. BENKELMAN by Hilda Jane Stickley Benkelman, Rosina was a German girl who came over to the United States when she was 13. She was the niece of John Schwegler's wife. She met John Benkelman in New York state, when he was visiting relatives. They married and returned to Michigan, and spent the first winter of their married live with Adam and Catherine Benkelman. John built a house in town for he and Rosina. Adam suggested that he and Catherine move to the house in town and John and Rosina stay on the farm. He offered to sell his farm to John and Rosina for $5,000, less the cost of the house in town. John at first declined, but Rosina spoke up, offering to help John with the farmwork so they could quickly pay off the debt. She worked side by side with her husband, like a man, often in her bare feet to save her shoes. They raised wheat and corn. They shocked up the corn in large loose shocks so they could sit inside and husk it after winter set in. Rosina caught a bad cold one winter, which developed into T.B. She was sick all winter and died in the spring. She and John had been married about 8 years. In Art Peck's book, he notes that she was probably a member of the Wahl family of Zell, a village near Bortlingen. Catherine, first wife of John Schwegler, was her aunt. A transcription of her tombstone reads: Benkleman, Rosina,d. 3 May 1886, 28y 5m 28d, w/o JA ?b? ?/b?Source: <http://www.interment.net/data/us/mi/tuscola/casscity/index.htm>
  Person ID	I847	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Johann Michael Wahl,   b. 3 Feb 1814, Zell unter Aichelberg, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany ,   d. 11 Feb 1884, B?rtlingen, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany  (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Anna Maria Nagel,   b. 28 Sep 1823, Breech, B?rtlingen Parish, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany ,   d. 5 Aug 1920, B?rtlingen, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany  (Age 96 years)
  Married	23 Nov 1846	B?rtlingen, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany   [5]
  Family ID	F621	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Adam Benkelman,   b. 26 Apr 1856, Bowmansville, Town of Lancaster, Erie County, New York ,   d. 8 Aug 1952, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan  (Age 96 years)
  Married	Abt 1879	Lancaster, Erie County, New York   [1, 2]
  Last Modified	3 Jul 2013
  Family ID	F616	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 5 Nov 1857 - B?rtlingen, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany Married - Abt 1879 - Lancaster, Erie County, New York Died - 3 May 1886 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Buried - - Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Headstones		Benkelman, Rosina (Wahl) Rosina, wife of Adam and Catherine's son John, died in 1886. Her name was engraved same marker later used by her parents-in-law, along with her sister-in-law, Lydia Striffler Benkelman
  		Benkelman, Adam and Catherine Family Plot This marker was engraved on all four sides, with trees planted eight to ten feet out on either side of the marker. The engraving on the granite is very difficult to read, however, the four names engraved upon it are still legible, and are for Adam Benkelman, his wife, Catherine, and two of their daughters-in-law who died shortly after marriage, Lydia Striffler, the wife of Samuel Benkelman and Rosina Wahl, the wife of John Adam Benkelman. This marker was likely erected in 1886, when Rosina died.

  
  

• Sources

  [S337] Benkelman, Hilda Jane Stickley THE MEMOIRS OF JOHN A. BENKELMAN (Privately Published, 1966). [S1610] Jacobs, BonnieMargaret McDonald "The Family Benkelman" Unpublished Manuscript, 276 pages, October 1981 Version, (Copy owned by Barney Benkelman, Helena, Montana; which he xeroxed and sent to Melinda McLemore Strong in San Antonio, Texas), p. 133 (Reliability: 3). [S337] Benkelman, Hilda Jane Stickley THE MEMOIRS OF JOHN A. BENKELMAN (Privately Published, 1966), Shows the DOD as 18 May 1886 (Reliability: 3). [S1610] Jacobs, BonnieMargaret McDonald "The Family Benkelman" Unpublished Manuscript, 276 pages, October 1981 Version, (Copy owned by Barney Benkelman, Helena, Montana; which he xeroxed and sent to Melinda McLemore Strong in San Antonio, Texas), p. 133, shows DOD as 18 May 1886 (Reliability: 3). [S311] Bonnell, Kathy Brandt (kbonnell@byu.edu) "G?ppingen, W?rttemberg, Germany and surrounding villages" http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=kbonnell, (RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: G?ppingen, W?rttemberg, Germany and surrounding villages. This database is one large family tree; everyone is connected by birth or marriage. Many of the families were inputted from the family books which were compiled by the pastors of each village beginning in 1808. Villages include Heiningen, Bartenbach, Gruibingen, Faurdau, Schlat, Hattenhofen, Eislingen, Holzheim, Auendorf , D?rnau, Bezgenriet, Ebersbach , Maitis, Gammelshausen, B?rtlingen, Boll, and others. Kathy Brandt Bonnell work directly from German records to the computer.).