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What appears to be a nightmare for Florence and Leona becomes an unexpected life-changing adventure. The fragile health of both elderly ladies require them to take up residence at a nursing home in Southern California with one consolation-at least they have each other. Florence and Leona are life-long friends, the kind who would do anything to help each other. The past catches up with Florence when she learns that her close friend, Bishop Gabriel, is being threatened by a scandal involving the two of them in 1941. Florence possesses the key to resolving the problem, but feels compelled to keep it to herself. Her friends, Father Carl and Leona, attempt to solve the dilemma, while trying to ho...
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Over 30,000 emigrant records appear in this volume featuring emigrants who left the areas of Rhine-Palatinate, Saarland, and Baden-Wurtemberg bound for America. Name, birth year (when known), place of origin, emigration date, profession, destination, and source are included. This collection was a retired judge over a 24-year period using immigration data, tax records, bondage release papers, bills,... (516pp. hardcover. Closson Press, 1994.)
Johann Michael Dörsch (ca. 1795-1885) was born in Bavaria, Germany. He married Margaretha Barbara Bössnecker (1824-1908), born in Wülfersreuth, Bavaria. They immigrated to Iowa in 1857. Many family members changed name to "Dersch". George Michael Riess (1824-1884) was also born in Bavaria. He married Anna Margaretha Bössnecker and they also immigrated to Iowa.