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 Husband: Johann Peter Pohl (1)
    Name: Joannem Petrum Poll (2)
    Born: About 08 JAN 1802 in Antweiler, Germany (3)
 Married: 03 March 1829 in Antweiler, Germany (39)
    Died: 22 April 1872 in Westphalia, Michigan (4)
  Buried: in St. Mary's Cemetery, Westphalia, Michigan (8)
  Father: Johann Joseph Poll
  Mother: Anna Margaretha Marx
 Spouses: 
    Wife: Maria Catharina Hellenthal
    Born: 11 March 1805 in Antweiler, Germany (10)
    Died: 24 December 1865 (12)
  Buried: in St. Mary's Cemetery, Westphalia, Michigan (14)
  Father: Johann Maximinus Hellenthal
  Mother: Maria Eva Ludwig
 Spouses:
Children
01   (F): Maria Anna Pohl (biography) (15)
    Born: About 17 JAN 1830 in Antweiler, Germany (16)
    Died: 15 January 1901 (17)
 Spouses: Johann Joseph Fuchs
02   (M): Nikolaus Pohl (18)
    Born: About 18 MAY 1831 in Antweiler, Germany (19)
    Died: 22 September 1910 (20)
 Spouses: Maria Anna Herr
03   (F): Anna Gertrude Pohl (21)
    Born: 24 July 1833 in Antweiler, Germany (22)
    Died: 19 November 1836 in Antweiler, Germany (23)
 Spouses: 
04   (F): Anna Katharina Pohl (24)
    Born: 23 August 1835 in Antweiler, Germany (25)
    Died: About 1901 in Detroit, Michigan (26)
 Spouses: John George Brutsche
05   (F): Anna Gertrude Pohl (27)
    Born: 29 January 1838 (28)
    Died: 28 March 1839 in Antweiler, Germany (29)
 Spouses: 
06   (M): Johann Michael Pohl (30)
    Born: About 27 DEC 1839 in Antweiler, Germany (31)
    Died: 12 February 1895 in Missouri
 Spouses: Parthenia V. Schiffers
07   (M): Peter Joseph Pohl (32)
    Born: 04 December 1842 in Westphalia Township, Clinton County, Michigan (33)
    Died: 19 October 1916 (34)
 Spouses: Anna Maria Hanses
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08   (F): Anna Christina Pohl (35)
    Born: 05 June 1847 in Westphalia Township, Clinton County, Michigan (36)
    Died: 08 April 1869 (37)
 Spouses: Andrew Huck

"Johann Peter Pohl and his family emigrated to America in 1841. Following his older brother Nicholaus [Pohl] (who had emigrated to America one year earlier and settled in Section 5 of Westphalia Township on May 29, 1841), the Family's journey began in the Eifel village of Antweiler/Ahr where Johann and Maria Hellenthal Pohl were living since their marriage on March 3, 1829. ...[They] sailed from Le Havre, France aboard the Ship Louis Phillippe arriving in New York on August 9, 1841. With their remaining savings the family purchased 26.3 acres in Section 9. ... Platte Bach (Kloechner Creek) is on the south side of this parcel and divides the original lot from a subsequent purchase of 54 acres in 1847.

--Pohl, Allan Robert, "Pohl: From One Small Acorn Grows a Large Oak," 1992, p. 1.

Mr. Pohl also provides a photocopy of Johann Peter Pohl's passport, and its translation:

"Royal Prussian States

"Travel passport to a foreign country. Valid for four months, for farmer Johann Peter Pohl, born in Müsch, living in Antweiler with his wife Maria Catharina Hellenthal 35, with his children Maria Anna 11, Nicholaus 9, Anna Catharina 4 and Johann Michael Pohl 1 year old, in order to immigrate to North America and to be naturalized there, from Antweiler to Neuweid, Rotterdam, Le Havre, etc. to New York. With a proposal to the mayor of Aremburg, He (Johann Peter Pohl) is proven un-suspiciously of his identity and there for has received this passport, and all the civil and military authorities are duly asked to give him and his family free and un-restricted travel guidance and if needed he should be given protection and help.

"This passport has to be shown and stamped by each police office of each place where the passport holder is staying longer than 24 hours, without a difference whether it is a city or village.

"Issued in Koblenz, Royal Administration...

"Description of the passport-holder:

"1. Religion: Catholic
2. Age: 40 years old
3. Height: 5 feet, 5 inches
4. Hair: Grey
5. Forehead: Free
6. Eye-Brows: Grey
7: Eyes: Blue
8. Nose: Pointed
9. Mouth: Normal
10. Beard: Grey
11. Chin: Rounded
12. Face: Oval
13. Face Color: Healthy
14. Stature: Slender
15. Special Features: None

"Written and delivered at the order of the Royal Administration in Koblenz, 13th of May 1800 Royal Administration...Le Havre, June 28, 1841."

--Pohl, Allan Robert, "Pohl: From One Small Acorn Grows a Large Oak," 1992, p. 6.

Additional Information

Johann Peter Pohl:
Cause of Death: Heart disease, or old age 5 6
Died: 22 APR 1871, Westphalia, Michigan 7
Confirmation: 06 NOV 1816, Müsch, Germany 9

Maria Catharina Hellenthal:
Born: 1806, Antweiler, Germany 11
Cause of Death: Typhoid Fever 13

Footnotes

  1. Antweiler Ahr Kirchenbuch, 1533-1929 [22], Müsch register, 1810.
    "J. Petrus."
  2. Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, International Genealogical Index [27], Batch: J997171; Dates: 1718-1852; Call: 0572082.
  3. Ibid., Batch: J997171; Call: 0572082.
    "Joannem Petrum POLL; Christening: 8 Jan 1802; Father: Joannes Jos. POLL; Mother: Annae Margarethae MARX."
  4. Pohl, Allan Robert, Pohl: From One Small Acorn Grows a Large Oak [101] (1992), 13.
  5. Ibid., 13.
    "heart disease."
  6. Michigan Department of Community Health, GENDIS Genealogical Death Indexing System [58], p. 128, #823.
    "old age."
  7. Ibid., p. 128, #823.
  8. Pohl, Allan Robert, Pohl: From One Small Acorn Grows a Large Oak [101] (1992), 13.
  9. Antweiler Ahr Kirchenbuch, 1533-1929 [22], Confirmations in Müsch.
  10. Pohl, Allan Robert, Pohl: From One Small Acorn Grows a Large Oak [101] (1992), 13.
  11. Weiland, Evelyn A. (ed.), Of Pilgrimage, Prayer and Promise [169] (Westpahlia Historical Society, 1986), 41.
  12. Pohl, Allan Robert, Pohl: From One Small Acorn Grows a Large Oak [101] (1992), 13.
  13. Ibid., 13.
  14. Ibid.
  15. Antweiler Ahr Kirchenbuch, 1533-1929 [22].
  16. Ibid.
  17. Pohl, Allan Robert, Pohl: From One Small Acorn Grows a Large Oak [101] (1992), 15.
  18. Antweiler Ahr Kirchenbuch, 1533-1929 [22], Baptisms, 1831.
  19. Ibid., Baptisms, 1831.
  20. Pohl, Allan Robert, Pohl: From One Small Acorn Grows a Large Oak [101] (1992), 13.
  21. Antweiler Ahr Kirchenbuch, 1533-1929 [22], Deaths in Antweiler.
  22. Pohl, Allan Robert, Pohl: From One Small Acorn Grows a Large Oak [101] (1992), 13.
  23. Antweiler Ahr Kirchenbuch, 1533-1929 [22], Deaths in Antweiler.
  24. Pohl, Allan Robert, Pohl: From One Small Acorn Grows a Large Oak [101] (1992), 13.
  25. Ibid., 13.
  26. Ibid., 13.
  27. Antweiler Ahr Kirchenbuch, 1533-1929 [22], Deaths in Antweiler.
    Anna Gertrude died in 1836 and her name was reused for this infant who died in 1839.
  28. Pohl, Allan Robert, Pohl: From One Small Acorn Grows a Large Oak [101] (1992), 13.
  29. Antweiler Ahr Kirchenbuch, 1533-1929 [22], Deaths in Antweiler.
  30. Pohl, Allan Robert, Pohl: From One Small Acorn Grows a Large Oak [101] (1992), 13.
  31. Antweiler Ahr Kirchenbuch, 1533-1929 [22], Baptisms, 1839.
  32. Pohl, Allan Robert, Pohl: From One Small Acorn Grows a Large Oak [101] (1992), 13.
  33. Ibid., 13.
  34. Ibid., 13.
  35. Ibid., 13.
  36. Ibid., 13.
  37. Ibid., 13.
  38. Ibid., 167.
  39. Ibid., 13.

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