Born on this date in 1856: Mary Eleanor Mohler (m. Beechel), Thiel’s great-grandmother. She died at age 37, from complications of childbirth, and was buried in Carroll, Iowa.
Mary is one of Thiel’s two connections with the German Baptist Brethren. Mohler Church of the Brethren, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, was founded by Mary Eleanor’s great-grandfather Daniel Mohler, around the year 1800. The congregation worships still in the building of 1849, built by an uncle of Mary Eleanor Mohler. Read more …
