Ratay-Johnstone Ancestors - Person Sheet
Ratay-Johnstone Ancestors - Person Sheet
NameWendelin MIEHLE
Birth8 Oct 1825, Wurtemburg9100,9101
Memo1900 census says born Oct 1825, married for 36 years
Death24 Dec 1904, Lewis And Clark County, Montana9100
MemoMontana Death gives year as 1921
BurialResurrection Cemetery, Helena, Montana9100
OccupationCarpenter, farmer
Alias/AKAMeeley
Spouses
Birth13 Sep 1841, Pennsylvania9102
Death12 Mar 1902, Helena, Lewis And Clark County, Montana9103,9104
Memoage 60 yrs, 5 mo., 27 days; pneumonia
Burial15 Mar 1902, Resurrection Cemetery9044,9105
FatherPeter KIRSCHER (1814-~1897)
MotherCaroline HARMON (~1821-1896)
Marriage9 May 1864, Des Moines, Iowa
Divorcebef 1900
ChildrenJosephine (~1866-)
 Elizabeth Catherine (1868-1954)
 Emma M. (~1869-)
 George Francis (~1871-)
 Mary Anna (~1875-1948)
 Joseph Wendelin (1877-1956)
 Leone (~1881-)
Notes for Wendelin MIEHLE
Immigrated in 1854, naturalized
Census notes for Wendelin MIEHLE
1870 Montana, Lewis & Clark County, Helena, first district, p. 19 (taken 25 July 1870)
dwelling 347, family 234
Meeley, Wenderlin [sic], age 35, male, white, carpenter, personal estate $100, born Wirtemberg, parents of foreign birth
———, Caroline, age 28, female, white, keeping house, born Pennsylvania
———, Josephine, age 4, female, white, at home, born Montana, father foreign born
———, Elizabeth, age 2, female, white, at home, born Montana, father foreign born
———, Ami, age 1, female, white, at home, born Montana, father foreign born

1880 Montana, Lewis & Clark County, Prickly Pear Valley, E.D. 19, page 20B, stamped page 317 (taken 14 June 1880)
[heavy write-overs]
dwelling 208, family 211
Miehle, W., white, male, age 54, head, farming, born Germany, parents born Germany
———, Caroline, white, female, age 37, wife, married, keeping house, born Pennsylvania, father born France, mother born Baden
———, Josephine, white, female, age 13, daughter, single, at home, attended school, born Montana, father born Germany, mother born Pennsylvania
———, Elizabeth, white, female, age 11, daughter, single, attended school, born Montana, father born Germany, mother born Pennsylvania
———, Emma, white, female, age 10, daughter, single, attended school, born Montana, father born Germany, mother born Pennsylvania
———, Frank, white, male, age 9, son, single, attended school, born Montana, father born Germany, mother born Pennsylvania
———, Mary A., white, female, age 5, daughter, single, born Montana, father born Germany, mother born Pennsylvania
———, Joseph, white, male, age 2, son, single, born Montana, father born Germany, mother born Pennsylvania
illegible boarder, not same surname

1900 Montana, Lewis & Clark County, Helena Township, Helena, E.D. 169, sheet 4A, stamped page 133 (taken 4 Jun 1900)
348 Clancy, dwelling 84, family 89
Miehle, Wendelin, head, white, male, Oct 1825, age 74, married for 36 years, born Germany, parents born Germany, immigrated 1854, naturalized, laborer
—————deceased
Obituary notes for Wendelin MIEHLE
Another Pioneer Gone
Wendell Miehle, Stockman and Rancher, Dies After Forty Years’ Activity
Wendelin Miehle, who came to Helena from Virginia City in 1864 died yesterday at noon in his home in this city of a complication of ailments intensified by old age. He was born in Germany 79[?] years ago, but came to this country in his youth and moved westward in the old days of the prairie schooner and the gold mining excitement of ’49.
Domestic in his tastes and habits he never mixed with the hurried affairs of western growth, but he was well known of all the old-time cattlemen, miners and setters of Helena. His wife died seven years ago, and he left six children. The are Joseph Miehle, of Helena; Mrs. J. R. Dieterich of Kalispell; Mrs. C.J. Brier of Lewiston, Idaho; Mrs. Edward Walker, of Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. Joseph Prill of Spokane, Wash.; and Frank Miehle, of Townsend, Wash.
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