Friday, September 4, 2009

Contacts and more family information

I have been in email and telephone contact with several Staeheli's.  In addition to Therese I have communicated with John and Pat.  Wednesday I spoke with Pat who provided family history and told me about himself. 

Information to be added to family lore is that Albert Jr. died in a logging accident in his early twenties in Western Washington, possibly Sedro Wooley area.  The youngest Staheli child, Louie, lived in Coeur D' Alene, Idaho and may be buried there.  Caspar, known as Cap, lived in the Colville area. 

Caspar Albert and Maria had a farm in Addy, Washington and their house burned around 1910.  Albert left the U.S. for Switzerland and returned to the U.S. to start a dairy farm in Addy with a creamery in Colville.  Albert died in the Colville/Addy area during the 1920's. 

Two Staheli children died in Switzerland before the family emigrated.  One was kicked by a horse and died as a result while the other died of a childhood disease. 

George W. Staeheli, father of Therese, Pat and John, died in a military plane crash in 1958.  Their grandfather, Joseph, was born in 1884 and died in 1954.  Joseph was a brother of my grandfather, Carl.

This is a draft of what I understood from our conversation and will be checked for correctness.

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