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- My lineage (all on the paternal side):
1. Gottleib Steinbrenner + Caroline Walz were my great great grandparents; their eldest daugter, Karoline, was my great grandmother.
2. Karoline Steinbrenner settled in the Bronx and first married Karl Assenheimer (quite older than she, e.g., he died in 1900 at 68; she was about 36 then). They had three children, William, Karoline, and Carl Gottleib (who later became Charles G.). Charles, b. 1901, two months after his father's death, was my grandfather. William became William Essenheimer (and married Iris); Karoline married Yeadt and had one daughter, Carol (this family moved to the Scottsdale, AZ area circa the 1950's); and Charles married Margaret Mary Fitzpatrick.
3. Around 1907 (I am recalling this off the top of my head), Karoline Assenheimer married Wilhelm Friedrich Kuebler, a widower, and from Germany, with five children (mostly older than her own) of his own. "Old Man Kuebler," as he always was affectionately referred to, was a quite well-to-do owner of a pretzel factory on Staten Island, so the newly blended family moved there circa 1907 and settled in a quite large house on Tompkins Avenue (it was located right behind the old USPS campus on S.I., which was there until Reagan had it closed in 1980).
Wilhelm F. Kuebler adopted my grandfather, Carl Assenheimer, circa 1907, as well, and, hence, my grandfather became Charles G. Kuebler. He married Margaret Mary Fitzpatrick in January of 1919; my father, Charles William Kuebler, was born on 11/17/19. Other children: Margaret Elizabeth Kuebler b. 11/25/23 and Bernard D. Kuebler b. 09/27/34, d. 08/87.
4. Charles William Kuebler, my father, married Emilie Standford Smythe (a native of Batesville, MS) in January of 1943 -- yes, the day after the wedding anniversary of his own parents. Charles William Kuebler Jr. was born on 01/04/44 and died on 02/09/75 (Destin, FL). He was a gynecologist. Richard Smythe Kuebler was born on 04/29/48
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