Friedrich
Krebill, the common Ancestor of the many direct blood-line descendants of this Genealogy,
was one of the younger sons of the Samuel Grehbiel family who lived in a mill near
Altleiningen in the Palatinate or Pfalz area in southwestern Germany.
Early in the year of
1834 Friedrich and Anna Risser Krebill with their six sons and one daughter arrived at the
Hayesville cross-roads area in Richland County of Ohio.
In 1842, Samuel, their
second son died at an age of not quite 23 years. In 1849, not more than fifteen years
after their arrival from Germany, the father Friedrich passed away at the age of 61 years.
During these years he was able to see his sons Johannes, Abraham and Jacob as well as the
daughter Agnes marry and see three of his grandsons. Eight years later mother Anna joined
her Husband.
Johannes and his
brother Abraham had changed the spelling of their family names from Krebill to Grabill. By
the middle of the Sumner of 1857 all of Johannes' brothers and his sister had left their
Ohio cormsunity and moved Westward. All that was left of the once so large a family was
Johannes and Nancy Harper Grabill and their eleven year old son Samuel.
In 1857 Abraham and
Margaret Grabill lived on a farm near Bedford in Bureau County in Illinois. After Margaret
died in 1888, Abraham moved to Kensington, Kansas to live with his daughter and her family.
Jacob and Eliza
Strickland Krebill and their family went to Iowa in the fall of 1856 and settled on a farm
in the vicinity that was then known as the Franklin Prairie in Lee County.
Heinrich Krebill was
traveling from town to town working at his trade as a shoemaker and leather merchant.
Christian and Agnes
Krebill Eymann also went to Iowa in the fall of 1856.
Peter and Magdalena
Fuchs Krebill went to Lee County in Iowa in the spring of 1857. Peter Krebill's farm as
well as Agnes Eymann's farm were both adjacent to their brother Jacob's place. All their
homes stood within walking distance of the Zion Mennonite church and school. This meeting
house stood at the cross-roads about three and a half miles due west from the town of
Franklin Center.
The book was created
in 1966 and contains 250 pages. It contains descendants of:
- FRIEDERICK
KREBILL - Farmer, Born February 3, 1788 at Altleiningen, near Grunstadt/Gemany. Deceased
May 3, 1849 near Hayesville, Ohio. U.S.A.; Married Anna Risser December 16, 1816 at
Friedelsheim, near Dbkheim. Born November 15, 1794 at Friedelsheim. Deceased January 17,
1857 near Hayesville, Ohio. U.S.A.
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