Ancestors of William FAHNSTOCK and Wilhelmina DE STEIGUER

Living and Wilhelmina De Steiguer

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Husband Living (details have been suppressed)

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Wife Wilhelmina DE STEIGUER

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         Born: 1802 - Switzerland
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         Died: 1853 - Harmer, Washington, Ohio
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       Father: Baron John Rodolph DE STEIGUER (1778-1834)
       Mother: Wilhelmina MULLER (      -1835) 1

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 Other Spouse: David (Junior) UHL (1768-Abt 1846) - 20 May 1823 - , Athens, Ohio 2

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General Notes (Wife)

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BIOGRAPHICAL:
Source for following information from "The Family of David Uhl II and Wilhelmina de Steiguer Uhl" by Mary Jean Johnson Lehman, pg. 136-137

"...she was a daughter of a Swiss baron who forced her into an arranged marriage in this country. She was then in her teens, a beautiful, accomplished girl, who had been reared in the courts of nineteenth century Europe. He married her to a rough, illiterate German widower over fifty years of age. David Uhl was for his time and place well-to-do...."

"I have not been able to find a will or record of her death, either in Marietta or Parkersburg. [However, others give 1862 Harmer, Washington, Ohio - HHH]
The 1850 Census of Wood County, reads:
Fanestock, William 60 Pennsylvania
Wilhelmina 45 Germany
Heber 9 Virginia
I looked at this on microfilm. William spelled his name Fahnstock. Wilhelmina wrote it Fanestock. Heber must have been Heber Uhl, her son by David Uhl."

"Caroline Schmidt, grandaughter of Caroline Foreman (Margaret Uhl's sister), as a child listened to many stories her grandmother told her. Susana Sisler, Margaret's mother, helped "lay out" Wilhelmina after her death. In those days bodies were not embalmed. She told the family that it was plain to see that Wilhelmina had been choked to death. Large blue indentations were on her throat. It was said in the family that William Fahnstock had murdered her. If that is so one wonders if he married her for her money, since David Uhl, her husband, was a wealthy man."


BURIAL:
Wilhelmina de Steiguer Uhl is buried in the Uhl cemetery next to David. The stones say simply Wilhelmina and David, and are in excellent condition.
-- Source: "The Family of David Uhl II and Wilhelmina de Steiguer Uhl" by Mary Jean
Johnson Lehman, pg. 8

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Sources

1 de Steiguer, John R., compiler, Family Records: deSteiguer, John R.

2 State of Ohio: Marriage.