> >HALL - BERG - MAUEL - SCHMELZER > >A translation of the notes, in the prayer book, of Mathias Wilhelm Hall. >Excerpt of the original...translated into English. > >"This book I received from my daughter-in-law, Rosa Hall for a Christmas >and New Years present in the year 1888 to 1889. Best thanks for it from >her loyal Father-in-Law, Mathias Wilhelm Hall. Praise be to Jesus Christ >for all eternity, Amen. > >I Mathias Wilhelm Hall, was born March 19, 1819 in Sinzenich, Euskirchen, >Colonge Germany. I married Anna Maria Mauel on October 18, 1846. She was >born on Feb., 2, 1819, in the same place as I was. > >On the 22nd of May 1847 I left my wife with her parents in Germany and came >to North America with my brother-in-law, John Mauel on a sailing ship that >took 42 days to reach Quebec. From there we journeyed to Milwaukee, >Wisconsin and each of us took up a claim for 160 acres for our families in >town 13, about 60 miles north from Milwaukee, or 16 miles from Fond du Lac, >in Ashford. > >One year later my wife came with our first son and her brothers and sister >and her parents, and my own brothers and sisters to Ashford. Two years >after I came, I was followed by my Father Wilhelm Hall, born in 1784, who >died in Ashford, Wisconsin, on May 27, 1865, 81 years old. My mother, Anna >Catherine Hall nee Schmelzer was born March 10, 1787 and died in Ashford >June 10, 1858, 71 years old. My wife Anna Maria, died November 10, 1881, >in LaBette City, Kansas and is buried in Lador, Kansas beside our eldest >daughter, Anna and her two children by her husband Michael Berg." > >Signed: Mathias Wilhelm Hall > >A small note is made by John W. Hall, son of M.W. Hall, he has written next >tot he information about Anna M. (Mauel) Hall, died at the age of 49 years >of Typhoid. > >