LIEDEL FAMILIES OF BADEN AND AMERICA

My father was born in Maybee, a samll farm village 10 miles or so northwest of Monroe, Michigan. He was the offspring of Clarence Wehrung and Rose Liedel, who married April 26, 1904, on what was much later to become my birthday. They lived there the rest of their lives (my grandmother 40 years as a widow) and I don't think my father ever got over growing up in this small town setting. Maybee is becoming a suburb of Monroe now, with houses on streets that were un-built-upon when my father was alive, but it still preserves some of the character of the classic American farm village that it was in the first decades of this century.

My grandmother was proud of being a Liedel, and she often talked about various members of her immediate family, as close-knot groups of relatives are apt to do. As a group they had much to be proud of, from the immigrant beginning of Sebastian Liedel, his wife and four offspring in 1847, who came directly to Monroe County after crossing the Atlantic on the ship "Argo." They hailed from the village of Oestringen, Baden, Germany. which, if your map is good enough, will be found about 30 miles south of Heidelberg. Philipp Jacob, Sebastian's brother, followed in 1853 and both brothers' children were fruitful, so much so that a Monroe newspaper once called Maybee "the town of the Liedels" because 80 of its approximately 300 residents bore that name or were somehow related. The purpose of this page is to introduce you to the Liedel family and what is known of its origins in Germany. I have compiled detailed genealogical data on a separate page, which I invite you to view.

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