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- [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #5006, Date of Import: Apr 26, 1997]
"All the Schnellers ancestors live in America because of those who
left their homes in Felsberg, Switzerland and came to America in 1848.
There were various groups who came at different times of the year.
Because of destructive rock slides down the mountain sides of Calanda,
on the outskirts of Felsberg, as early as the 1834, which destroyed
much property, seventy of the citizens of Felsberg came to America in
1848.
Hans Schneller (b.1809), came with his family of four boys -Peter,
Leonard, Jacob, and George, together with relatives of his wife - the
Buehlers. After a sixty day ocean trip in a sail boat, they landed in
New York, and came west in horse drawn Canal Boats and sail boats on
the Great Lakes. They landed in Milwaukee, and after spending some
days with cousins there, they came to Sauk County by ox drawn
wagons, arriving Oct. 1848. The seventeen people in the party lived
in a one room log cabin during the winter whole other homes were
built.
John Jacob, (b.1808), came to this country with their four
children, Paul, Lutzio, Margaret, and John Jacob, together with his
brother Johannas (b.1811), and his family and three sons - Moritz,
Nicholas, and Ulrich. They landed in New York, and up the Hudson
River and waterways to Buffalo, New York, where they purchased a
team of oxen and trekked through the wilderness to Sauk County.
Nicholas died enroute of injuries from falling out of the wagon. He was
five years of age. John Jacob and his family later moved to Buffalo
County to a farm which is still a family possession."
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1811 - 1895 (84 years)
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