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Koeshlich Family of Germany
Tradition holds that Emma Marianna Koeshlich was born in Mecklenberg, Schwerin, Germany to Robert and Sofia Koeshlich. We have a copy of a German document granting her full citizenship rights (recognizing her as an adult?) when she was 16 years old. She emigrated to the United States on the ship Normannia from Hamburg, Germany on 6 May 1892. Otto Grell, her fiancé, also emigrated on that ship; they were married 22 Oct 1892 in New York City.
They lived in NYC and had two sons and 4 daughters, including my grandmother, Anna Emma Grell.
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What we know about the Koeshlich family in Germany comes mainly from a 1927 letter
from Josef Koeshlich to his American relatives. He states that Robert Koeshlich
(Emma's father) was a furrier who died in Schwerin. He lists Robert's siblings —
4 sisters and a brother — named Francisca, Bertha, Rosalie, Josefa, and Johann.
Other than the information gleaned from the letter, we do not have further information on the Koeshlich family.
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Follow this link to see a translated copy of the 1927 letter from Josef Koeshlich, To see the Grell family on the 1900 Census, go to Smith Family Census Extracts.
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"Anything can happen to anybody. In the last movie I did, "Above Suspicion," I played a paraplegic. I went to a rehab center and I worked with the people there so I could simulate being a paraplegic. And every day I would get in my car and drive away and go, "Thank God that's not me." I remember the smugness of that, as if I were privileged in a way. And seven months later, I was in this condition. The point is, we are all one great big family, and any one of us can get hurt at any moment. We should never walk by somebody who's in a wheelchair and be afraid of them or think of them as a stranger. It could be us - in fact, it is us!"
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