from Sween's Genealogy page * Kubler Family Chart (may also be spelled "Kibler" or "Kuebler")


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Kubler
Kibler
Kuebler
Kibler sisters:
Mary|Louise|Minnie
Moser, Boehler, Ertel

Kubler (Kibler), Mary, Louise, and Wilhelmina
Born almost 20 years after my grandmother Wilhelmina (Minnie) Kibler Ertel had died on December 29 1926, I knew very little about her Kubler/Kibler relatives.

I remembered being in a family picture taken in the mid 1940s, with some of the Ertels and a lady from New Bedford, Massachusetts (second from left, seated) who was related to Grandma Wilhelmina. Bill identified her as Louise Kubler Boehler's daughter, Louise Boehler Westby. My mother had corresponded with Molly Boehler in New Bedford in the 1950s and kept some of Molly's letters. After my parents died, I found Wilhelmina's address book plus several pictures and letters.

With the advent of the internet, on-line searches, and email, eventually William Westby Kenney ("Bill") and I met. We discovered we are cousins - his great-grandmother Luise (Louise) and my grandmother Wilhelmina (aka Minnie) were sisters. And we began piecing together the facts we knew and the mutual family history puzzles we hoped to solve. The following is what we currently know.

Wilhelmina's mother

might be
"Yachabina" Kubler

 Bill Kenney remembers that years ago his mother would talk of "Yachabina" (phonetic spelling) Kubler. As yet, we don't know who this is. Perhaps his mother was talking of her great-aunt Wilhelmina who lived in Ohio. Perhaps she was talking of her great-grandmother, back in Brombach Germany.

We still don't know much more about our Kubler ancestors than that they still had some relatives in Brombach, including "Tante Emilie" and her grandchildren. Through the 1990s, Bill and Emilie exchanged cards at Christmas, with her grandchildren translating his English into her German.

"Tante Moser":
 All Bill Kenney remembered about his great-grandmother's sister who lived with his grandmother Louise Boehler Westby was that she was called "Tante Moser". Wilhelmina had a picture of a tombstone for Mary Moser with the inscription "Aunt Mary". According to the picture, Mary was born in 1854. (more to come...)

Luise Kubler Boehler:
 Luise Kubler was born March 14 1855 in Brombach, Germany to a Herr Kubler and Yachabina Kubler. She seems to have been the middle child of three girls. She married Friedrich BOEHLER. They lived at 95 Tallman Street, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Luise died October 5, 1926.

Luise and Friedrich had a daughter, Louise Boehler Westby.

(more to come...)

Max and Mary BOEHLER
children:
Freiedrich "Fred" BOEHLER
deceased
3 sons:
    Frederick (deceased)
    Donald
    Leonard (deceased)
 Walter BOEHLER
deceased
1 son:
    Stanley
    married Barbara
    2 daughters		 Lawrence BOEHLER
deceased
1 daughter:
    Janice (BOEHLER) MORRIS		 Charles BOEHLER

no children		 Mary (BOEHLER) BEALE
deceased

Wilhelmina Kubler ERTEL:

Wilhelmina Kibler Ertel
1860?-1926

 Wilhelmina Kubler Ertel was born on August 23, about 1860, perhaps in Brombach, Germany. Having worked in a cotten mill in Switzerland, Wilhelmina was also an excellent bread baker. She married Ernst Ertel of Baden, Germany sometime in the early 1880s. Their first daughter, Mina was born November 7 1881, and a son Ernst who died young. Son Carl was born April 3 1885, and daughter Frieda was born November 20 1886.
Ernst and Wilhelmina left the Alsace Lorraine section of sometimes France, sometimes Germany about 1888 with their older children, Mina, Carl, Frieda. Possibly their son Ernst had already died in Germany.

In the top right picture, Wilhelmina is seated in the middle row (click on picture to enlarge), in a white blouse, and in front of the tallest man in the back row. Ernst Ertel is the 7th person from the right in the back row.
(more to come...)

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