Documenting 16 Staeheli Children

Among documents held by Pauline Staeheli which Paul Staeheli provided to me is a copy of a birth record listing all sixteen of the children born to Caspar Albert and Maria. This document was issued by the Zivilstandsamt Egnach on May 10, 1984.

Two daughters born to the Staeheli's did not survive to make the trip to the United States. Their first child was Maria Johanna born May 26, 1878 in Gübsen.  She died April 1, 1881 in Altenwegen.

Another daughter, Theresia, was born April 23, 1885 in Straubenzell and died in Gübsen on September 26, 1887.

A handwritten note on the back of the copy states that Kaspar Albert Stäheli and Maria Rimml were married in Straubenzell (St. Gallen or Thurgau) on August 9, 1877.

Also written on the back are the names Jeff Moos and Rosalie Bray.  (see note below).

I have read family lore describing the deaths of these two daughters.  Given that Maria was not yet 3 years old and Theresia was not quite 2 ½ at passing I have questions about the reliability of those accounts. 

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Note: On February 24, 2013, John Staeheli commented about Jeff Moos that "He is a relative - I met him in Spokane several years ago when he was working as a nurse anesthetist at Sacred Heart and doing a case for me and of course he knew the Staeheli name and connection. His family I believed was in Cd'A. I do not know where he is now."

This document provided by Paul Staeheli, son of Glenn Staeheli.