Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Wilhelmina Anna Herrling ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Wilhelmina Anna Herrling
LAST NAME: Herrling FIRST NAME: Wilhelmina MIDDLE NAME: Anna NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Schlegel AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 14 Nov 1819 DIED: 9 Sep 1895 BURIED: Sep 1895
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Zeitz, Saxony, Germany
DEATH PLACE: STayton, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
1880 OR CENSUS - Wilhelmina Herrling, divorced, age 61, b. Saxony, is enumerated with son Franklin Herrling, age 19, farmer, b. Saxony, along with Henry E. Schmidt (identified as son-in-law), age 36, b. Saxony, occupation farm worker, and his wife Anna W. Schmidt, age 28, b. Saxony, with their children Alfred F. W., age 7, b. Wisconsin, Alena, age 4, b. Oregon, and Ina, age 2, b. Oregon

BIOBRAPHICAL (Source - Franklin Herrling, 2009):
Wilhelmina was born 14 Nov 1819 in Zietz, Germany, her father Johann Karl Schlegel was a Barron in Germany. She married Theodore Herrling in Leipzig Saxony, Germany in 1839.
Wilhelmina came to America in 1854 on the ship "Heimathochin" with her husband and three sons, Theodore, Gustovus [Richard], and Rudolph, and daughter Anna, they also had a baby boy who got sick and died on the voyage, they broght his body with them and buried him at their first home in America, at Friendship, Wisconsin.  
The voyage took three weeks.
The Herrling's moved to Greenbush, Wisconsin in 1855 where Theodore purchased a sawmill.
In 1874 taking her two youngest daughters Lousia and Aldina and her son Franklin, who was 14, she came  train to Oregon. She lived with Franklin and died 9 Sep 1895 in Stayton, Oregon.
OBITUARY: 
INSCRIPTION: 
Wilhelmina H. Herrling 
1819 - 1895
SOURCES: 
LR
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Stayton Pct., pg 164B, FA #136)
CONTACTS: 
Curtis Herrling, 30595 Driver Road, Shedd, OR 97337
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