Wilhemina Grimmer

12/6/06

Wilhemina Grimmer

"In the middle of the 19th Century, my German ancestors came to America from Frankfurt, Germany. I do not know if they brought my grandfather with them - or if they married and bore him later. Anyway, Theodore Emil von Fleischbein was in America, and there he found Minnie Klein* who became his wife.

They had three children - all girls - Myrtle Ella, Verena, and my mother, Ruth Anna. They lived in a nice home on the outskirts of Atchison, Kansas. Grandpa had a large lot with a windmill and an out-door toilet. He had a big garden where he grew many kinds of vegetables. He also had some decorative cacti in the front lawn which I pushed him into when I was about four years old! He didn't like that much but it took my mother and Grandmother to chastise me!

Grandpa Fleischbein's work was in printing papers and magazines with illustrations in color. He continued in this work when they moved to Springfield, Ohio and he worked for a big publishing company." - Myrtelle, 1999
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* Note:
Theodore Emil von Fleischbein actually married Wilhemina Grimmer who was from a town north of Stuttgart but not so far as Frankfurt met and married Theodore Emil von Fleischbein. I believe that Minnie was actually the family maid. it was really Wilhemina - and I have her picture, not Minnie's. Minnie was the one Maboo used to tell the story of when parade went through town, she declined to come down to the front porch by saying she'd just stay upstairs and "look the window out".
- Connie, 2/16/05

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