Samuel Schwegler

1875 - 1886  (10 years)

• Name	Samuel Schwegler  [1]
  Birth	26 Apr 1875	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	3 Feb 1886	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan   [1]
  Notes	Maggie Battel Bethel writes that her "Mother and Grandma always told the sad story of Sam and Louisa. He died of a horse kick to the head, and Louisa was pregnant with Ben at the time and about to deliver. She took the death of Samuel very, very hard and grieved the little boy. When she had the new baby boy, she felt guilty and could not look him in the face without bursting into tears, so when they would bring the baby to her to nurse, she would cover him with a blanket. This obviously was eventually resolved, but was a family story shared between the mothers in the family."
  Person ID	I11997	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Andreas "Andrew" Schwegler,   b. 9 Jan 1849, Breech, B?rtlingen Parish, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany d. 25 Dec 1899, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan (Age 50 years)
  Mother	Louisa Benkelman,   b. 9 Apr 1853, Bowmansville, Town of Lancaster, Erie County, New York d. 11 Sep 1924, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	12 Apr 1874	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Headstones		Schwegler, Andrew and Louisia (Benkelman), and son Andrew Schwegler Andrew and Louisa's son, Samuel, predeceased them at age 11; his parents later sharing his marker
  Family ID	F615	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 26 Apr 1875 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Death - 3 Feb 1886 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos		Schwegler, Andrew ca 1883 and Family Andrew Schwegler and wife Louisa Benkelman, with children William (b. 1879), Laura (b. 1878), Sam (b. 1875) and Mary (b. 1881), Cass City, Michigan. Marjory Schwegler Battel verified both the identity and order the children were standing in.
  		Schwegler, Samuel ca 1886 Samuel died as a young boy, after being kicked by a horse

  
  

  Documents

  Schwegler, Samuel, Funeral Memorium Funeral memorium for Samuel Schwegler, the ten year old son of Andrew and Louisa (Benkelman) Schwegler

  
  

  Headstones

  Schwegler, Andrew and Louisia (Benkelman), and son Andrew Schwegler Andrew and Louisa's son, Samuel, predeceased them at age 11; his parents later sharing his marker

  
  

• Sources

  [S492] Peck, Edward Arthur THE TEN BENKELMANS WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA Ca. 1850s AND CERTAIN OF THEIR DESCENDANTS, 1982. [S577] Dibean, Jack & Marianne "Michigan Marriage Index" http://www.mifamilyhistory.org/dibeanindex/. [S653] Cass City Chronicle, P.O. Box 115, Cass City, Michigan 48726, Published continously since 1899, archived from 1899 through 2005 at http://newspapers.rawson.lib.mi.us/chronicle/, Friday, September 19, 1924 (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 (Reliability: 3).