More Deierlings to Muse About....

No new breakthroughs on the Wisconsin, Ohio and Missouri Deierlings. However, I did receive a note from a "distant cousin" concerning what I have always called the Washington State Deierlings. In my frustration, some years ago, I set up a separate database on ancestry.com to collect information on any Deierlings I found on ancestry.com - thinking, right or wrong, that there is likely a connection of some sort between them all. And, maybe by finding an origin on one of them, solve my own problem. Namely, Gottleib Deierling. Most of them, like Gottleib, show an origin in Bavaria but a couple of others show Hannover, Germany which isn't that far from Bavaria and there is no reason to think they stayed put. A lot of them, after all, made it to America.

In Washington we find Henry Deierling, born in 1862 in Hannover, Germany. Henry emmigrated in 1886 and in 1887 in New York City he married Christina Paulina Bauer. They moved west to Vancouver, Washington where they had four children, Fredericka, Pauline, Alma and Lloyd. Henry made his living as a tailor and died in Portland Oregon in 1936.

Henry has been sitting on my database for years and it wasn't until I received a nice inquiry from one of his descendants did I take a good look at him. And then, I looked at some others that have just been sitting there.....neglected.

So, then, there is Carl Charles Bartholomew Deierling. Let's take a look at him. Born about 1844 in Germany, he arrived on 6/23/1870 and I believe it is he I found in the 1880 Census listed as Charles, occupation cabinet maker. He was living in Walla Walla, Washington. I have been unable to find him in 1900, but in 1910 he is in Falls, Polk County, Oregon. He has a wife, Louisa Marie Dubrashimski and three children, Irene Emma, Walter Herman and Erich Alexander Carl - all born in Douglas County, South Dakota. His occupation is shown as carpenter. By 1920 he was back in Washington and he died while living with his son Erich, in 1931, Snohomish, Washington.

There is no proof these two are connected, other than the unusual name, origin and the fact they both end up in Washington.

So, let's consider one John Deierling, born in 1836 in Bayreuth, Bayern and living in Nebraska with his wife Elizabeth and his four daughters, Maggie, Anna C, Jane and Johanna. John has been sitting in my database for awhile so I checked him out and found he might be connected to either of the above Deierlings Why? Because when he first came to America in 1883 the family settled in Douglas County, South Dakota. He was there before Carl - or perhaps at the same time as Carl because I have no idea where Carl was between 1880 and the birth of his first child in Douglas County, SD in 1892.  

Douglas County, SD did not work out for either family. John's daughter Johanna Deierling wrote "Reminiscences of our Pioneering Days in Boyd County, Nebraska" in which she explains how the family removed from SD and homesteaded in Nebraska about 1891. John died in 1906 and is buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Lynch Co, Nebraska alongside his wife, Elizabeth, who died in 1935.  When you click on Johanna's story, you will have to scroll down a bit to find it - it really explains what homesteading was all about.

So, now, a really interesting bit - of John's 4 daughters, 3 of them died in Skagit County, Washington.  I haven't been able to track the 4th one.

Some time after 1935 when Elizabeth died and 1944 (the year Maggie died) all three families pulled up roots and headed West.  Why?  They are all buried in Green Hills Memorial Cemetery, Burlington, Wa.  I found a very interesting essay describing Rev Paul Mayerhoff's life that indicated that the move to Washington was a retirement.  Rev Paul was Johanna's husband and had a very interesting life.  Paul Mayerhoff in Apacheland.
Another interesting thing is that Rev Paul was born not far from my Wisconsin Deierling group - in West Bend, Wisconsin.

I believe, Carl Arrived first and looked around the Pacific Northwest.  John arrived in 1883 and went directly to Douglas County, South Dakota where a) he joined his relative (brother) or b)  his relative (brother) joined him.  It obviously (from Johanna's story) was not a pleasant place and Carl went back to Washington while John ended up homesteading in Nebraska.  Henry, if related, probably would be a nephew as he is younger.  They are the only Deierlings I have been able to find in this part of the country.