Lena Piehl was born in Oak Harbor, Ottawa County, Ohio in 1881, to Gotthold Ferdinand Piehl and his wife, the former Augusta Jaensch. Both Gotthold Ferdinand Piehl and Augusta Jaensch were born in Bnin, Posen, Germany which is now Bnin, Poznań, Poland. They eventually settled on a farm near Oak Harbor, Ohio.
A relative told me that Grandma Lena Yeager and her sisters used to take the interurban railway from Oak Harbor to Sandusky, where they worked as domestics for rich people of German descent in Sandusky. Somewhere along the way, Lena met Andrew Yeager, and they were married in 1903, and lived most of their adult lives in Erie County, Ohio.
Below is map courtesy Google Maps, which shows the route from Bnin, Posen, Germany, the birthplace of Gotthold Ferdinand Piehl and Augusta Jaensch, to Muenchhof, Germany, the birthplace of Grandpa Andrew Yeager.
All my great great grandparents, as well as their children, traveled many miles. Had they not traveled, then all the descendants of Andrew and Lena Yeager would not be here! It is interesting to determine where some of my roots originated!
While the area where Grandma Lena Yeager's parents were born is now a part of Poland, I have only heard of that branch of the family as being German in culture. Maybe today I still have cousins in Poland and Germany.
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