Schoepfle.com: a family history

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• Jacob Schoepfle (1736 - 1795) and Dorothea Heydt (died 1799)
  

  Jacob was a shoe maker.
  According to the Evangelical Church in Groetzingen, Germany, they had the following children:

  1. Jacob Schoepfle (1766 - 1841)
  2. Margarete Schoepfle (1768 - 1834) [married Nikolaus Krieger in 1793]
  3. Johannes Schoepfle (1773 - 1831)



• Jacob Schoepfle (1766 - 1841) and Maria Barbara Krieger
  

  Jacob and Maria married in 1794.
  According to the Evangelical Church in Groetzingen, Germany, they had the following children:

  1. Johann Jacob Schoepfle (1795 - 1848)
  2. Martin Schoepfle (1798 - 1803)
  3. Magdalene Schoepfle (1800 - 1892)
  4. Christoph Schoepfle (1803 - 1831) [died in a stone quarry accident]
  5. Heinrich Schoepfle (1806 - 1831) [married Sybilla Barbara Voltz in 1831]

• Johannes Schoepfle (1773 - 1831) and Catharina Barbara Fieszler (died 1809)
  

  Johannes was a stone cutter. He and Catharina married in 1795.
  According to the Evangelical Church in Groetzingen, Germany, they had the following children:

  1. Catharina Barbara Schoepfle (1796 - 1815)
  2. Magdalene Schoepfle (born 1797) [married Philip Krieger in 1819]
  3. Johann Jacob Schoepfle (1800 - 1803)
  4. Johann Martin Schoepfle (1803 - 1834) [married Dorothea Stutz in 1823]
  5. Elisabeth Schoepfle (1805 - 1838) [married Christoph Kurz]
  6. Dorothea Schoepfle (1807 - 1810)

• Johannes Schoepfle (1773 - 1831) and Salomes Heim
  

  Johannes remarried to Salomes in 1810
  According to the Evangelical Church in Groetzingen, Germany, they had the following children:

  1. Johann Jacob Schoepfle (1810 - 1811)
  2. Christian Schoepfle (born 1812) [married 1835 to Dorothea Stutz (widow of Johann Martin Schoepfle (1803 - 1834)]
  3. Jacob Schoepfle (1813 - 1813)
  4. Catherina Schoepfle (born 1817) [married in 1837 to Friedrich Walther]



• Johann Jacob Schoepfle (1795 - March 15, 1848) and Anna Maria Walther (born 1801)
  

  Johan and Anna were married in 1821. We believe that they immigrated to the United States in 1836 from Groetzingen.
  According to the Evangelical Church in Groetzingen, Germany, they had the following children:

  1. Johann Martin Schoepfle(1822 - 1901)
  2. Jacob Friedrich (1825 - 1852)
  3. Katharina Schoepfle (1827 - April 11, 1887 in Sandusky, Ohio, USA)
  4. Ernst Christoph Schoepfle (1830 - 1903 in Sandusky, Ohio, USA)
  5. Dorothea Schoepfle (1832 - 1832)
  6. Carl Schoepfle (born 1832)
  7. Magdalene Schoepfle (born 1836)
  8. Christian Heinrich Schoepfle (1840 - 1924 in Dayton, Ohio, USA)



• Ernest Christoph Schoepfle (1830 - 1903 in Sandusky, Ohio, USA)
      OR
      Carl Schoepfle (born 1832)
  

  Logical deduction based on information given by Becky Anne Schoepfle (1952 - present), had the following children:

  1. Carl Kristian Schoepfle (born 1889 in Sandusky, Ohio, USA)
  2. William Schoepfle (born in Sandusky, Ohio, USA)

• Christian Heinrich Schoepfle (1840 - 1924) and Rosa Waltermeyer (born in Germany - married 1856)
  

  According to page 632 of "History of Erie County" they had the following children:

  1. Libbie Schoepfle (???-???)
  2. John Schoepfle (???-???)
  3. Frank Schoepfle (???-???)
  4. Edward Schoepfle (???-???)
  5. Clara Schoepfle (???-???)
  6. Lena Schoepfle (???-???)

• Christian Heinrich Schoepfle (1840 - 1924) and Maria Elizabeth Imig (1842 - 1918)
  

  Christian was a Reverend, he died in Dayton, Ohio, USA.
  According to note from Otto Benjamin Schoepfle (1882 - June 27, 1956) they had the following children:

  1. Solomon Christian Schoepfle (born 1879)
  2. Louisa Schoepfle (1875 - 1961)
  3. Anna Schoepfle (1870 - 1954)
  4. Lydia Schoepfle (1868 - 1953)
  5. Marcus Phillip Schoepfle (1880 - 1965)
  6. Otto Benjamin Schoepfle (1882 - June 27, 1956)



• Carl Kristian Schoepfle (born 1889) and Bessie Till
  

  Carl and Bessie had the following children:

  1. Carl William Schoepfle (born 1920)

• Otto Benjamin Schoepfle (1882 - 1956) and Elizabeth Hancock
  

  According to Gertrude Ester Schoultheis (c.1925 - present), they had the following children:

  1. Otto Benjamin Schoepfle Jr. [Springfield, Ohio news paper editor]
  2. Alice Schoepfle

• Marcus Phillip Schoepfle (c.1880 - 1965) and Martha Emily Huber (died 1963)
  

  According to Gertrude Ester Schoultheis (c.1925 - present), they had the following children:

  1. Gordon Marcus Schoepfle (1915 - 1996)
  2. Theodore David Schoepfle (1918 - 2000)



• Carl William Schoepfle (born 1920) and Marjorie Louise Roberts
  

  Carl and Marjorie had the following children:

  1. Susan Lynn Schoepfle(1944 - present)
  2. David Edward Schoepfle (1946 - present)
  3. Becky Anne (1952 - present)
  4. Gordon Karl (1953 - present)

• Theodore David Schoepfle (1918 - 2000) and Virginia (Ginny)
  

  According to Gertrude Ester Schoultheis (c.1925 - present), they had the following children:
  

  1. David Schoepfle
  2. Deborah Schoepfle
  3. Patricia Ann Schoepfle

• Gordon Marcus Schoepfle (1915 - 1996) and Gertrude Ester Schoultheis (c.1925 - present)
  

  Personal knowledge of Carla Marie Schoepfle (1976 - present), they had the following children:

  1. Gordon Marcus Schoepfle Jr.(1946 - present) [married to Elizabeth Marie Metz]
  2. Walter John Schoepfle (1949 - present) [married to Cynthia Coleman]
  3. Otto Benjamin Schoepfle (1952 - present) [married to Diane Benda]
  4. Marta Schoepfle (1953 - present) [married to Marc Levine]



• Gordon Marcus Schoepfle Jr.(1946 - present) and Elizabeth Marie Metz (1946 - present)
  

  Personal knowledge of Carla Marie Schoepfle (1976 - present), they had the following children:

  1. Carla Marie Schoepfle (1976 - present)

• Walter John Schoepfle (1949 - present) and Cynthia Coleman
  

  Personal knowledge of Carla Marie Schoepfle (1976 - present), they had the following children:

  1. Scott Schoepfle (1977 - present)

• Marta Elizabeth Schoepfle (1953 - present) and Marc Levine
  

  Personal knowledge of Carla Marie Schoepfle (1976 - present), they had the following children:

  1. Katherine Levine (1985 - present)
  2. James Levine (1989 - present)