children of FRIEDERICH SCHEUERLE and MARIA GERTRAUD ANNA KAROLINA HAIER
(1) Carl Friedrich Scheuerlen
b. 5/26/1831 Metzingen, Reutlingen, Württemberg
chr. 5/29 Calw, Schwarzwaldkreis
married to Sophie Rebekka Weiss (Calw, July 1858)
children: Luise, Roberta, Arthur, Paul
(2) August Scheuerle
b. 7/9/1832
chr. 7/15 Calw, Schwarzwaldkreis
(3) Margaretha Friederike Scheuerle
b. 7/17/1834
chr. 7/20 Calw, Schwarzwaldkreis
(4) Carl Jacob Scheuerlen
b. 6/7/1836 Metzingen
d. 1/31/1898 ?
married to Christiane Ruehle (Calw, Sept. 1861)
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Stadtkirche in Calw (Protestant), where the children of Friederich
Scheuerle, and later the novelist Hermann Hesse, were baptized.
The church was reconstructed to its present form in the 1880's. |
children: Karl (married Veit), Gottlieb (~Haas)
(5) Friedrich Julius Scheuerlen
b. 4/11/1838 Metzingen
married to Johanne Theo. Elis. Springer (Stuttgart, May 1864)
children: Friedrich Julius, August Theodor, August Immanuel
(6) PAUL HEINRICH SCHEUERLE
b. 3/1/1839 Metzingen
d. 7/17/1927 Cincinnati, OH
married to SOPHIA M. HEHL (Ravensburg, Jan. 28, 1867)
married to Rosa Reyher {Ehrenfels} (Cincinnati, July 23, 1895)
children: Maria {Haering}, FREDERICK T. SCHEUERLE (~Wohlfelder), Elise {Zolleis/Martin/Walter}, Paul Jr. (~Hamel), Charles (~Woelfle), Barbara {Stammler/Baier}
buried at Walnut Hills Cemetery, Cincinnati
(Sect. 16, Lot 94NH, Grave B)
Paul Scheuerle's parents (the named was often spelled Scheuerlen) settled in Metzingen, south of Stuttgart, but the children were baptized in the Black Forest village of Calw (most famous as the birthplace of novelist Hermann Hesse). Paul Scheuerle's mother, Marie Haier/Heyer, was probably from Calw; Friederich had cousins there, as his uncle Daniel had married a woman from Calw.
In the winter of 1867, Paul Scheuerle married Sophia Hehl in Ravensburg, about a dozen miles from the shores of Lake Constance and thus near the Swiss and Austrian borders. They settled in the vicinity of the old monastery town of Schussenried, where daughter Marie was born six months later and son Frederick the following summer. Paul worked as a farmer for some years, until he sailed for America with his wife and six children, aboard the Hapsburg, in March of 1884.
The Scheuerles settled in the "Over-the-Rhine" district of Cincinnati, and Paul and his son Fred both found work in a tannery. They lived first at 22 Browne St., then by 1887 at 114 Mohawk St., and at 2 Browne St. by 1890.
In the winter of 1891, Sophia contracted typhoid fever and died. Despite having at least two school-age children at home, Paul waited four and a half years before remarrying. His new wife, Rosa (Reyher) Ehrenfels, was a native of Stuttgart who had emigrated as a girl in the 1850's; she was recently divorced. She brought to the marriage her 12 year-old daughter Bertha {Schaedler/Faul}. Paul and Rosa moved to a rural part of Franklin Township, about 30 miles southeast of Cincinnati, on the Ohio River, and Paul took up farming again. Rosa died around 1903, and Paul moved back to Cincinnati, where he died, at the age of 88, in 1927.
(7?) Theodore Herman Scheuerle
b. 6/24/1845 Württemberg
d. 8/27/1928 Cincinnati, OH
married to Josefine Hofer (abt 1867)
children: Theodore Jr. (~Willy), Rudolph, Maximilian (~Klonig), Joseph (~Lohrey), Maria T. {Dhonau}, Ernst (~Pittmann, ~Hanlon)
buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati
The case for Theodore H. Scheuerle being the brother of Paul Scheuerle is compelling, but not airtight. Between 1885 and 1930, at least, their families were the only Scheuerles in Cincinnati, and they lived within a stone's throw of each other in the Over-the-Rhine district, working in the same industries. Theodore's death certificate identifies his father as "Frederick Scheuerle;" Paul named his firstborn son "Theodor Friedrich" (i.e., Fred T. Scheuerle, Sr.). Theodore was born in Württemberg about six years after Paul, and emigrated at the same time. The Scheuerle name, too, seems to have been limited to a single family, originating in Hausen an der Zaber near Heilbronn and branching out from there; if Theodore and Paul were not brothers, they were certainly cousins.
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Joe Scheuerle's painting of Wolf Eagle,
1913. |
Theodore Scheuerle and Josefine Hofer were married in 1867, and several of their children were born in Württemberg, probably around Stuttgart. Joe Scheuerle, their famous painter son, is said to have been born in Vienna, however; it may be that the Scheuerles lived in Vienna for a few years during the early 1870's. Son Ernst, at least, later a Cincinnati policeman, was born in Stuttgart in 1880.
At any rate, Theodore arrived in Baltimore in July of 1883, and his wife and children followed in February, 1885. They settled in Over-the-Rhine, and Theodore worked in clothing manufacturing for many years. He died of myocarditis in the summer of 1928, a year after his brother Paul.
Joseph George Scheuerle, Theodore's son and probably Fred Scheuerle's first cousin, was a renowned painter, lithographer, and poster artist. He attended the Cincinnati Art Academy before moving to Chicago, around 1900, to work for the Strobridge Lithographing Company. Scheuerle created posters for Barnum & Bailey and the Ringling Bros., but it was his posters for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show that he was known for in his day. He befriended many of the survivors of the Indian Wars, and travelled around the West sketching, photographing, and painting them, particularly the Sioux/Lakota and the Blackfeet. He was also a personal friend of the Western painters Charles M. Russell and Joseph Henry Sharp (a fellow Cincinnatian), as well as the silent film star William Hart and Hollywood legend Will Rogers.
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Joe Scheuerle with his wife Carolyn and only child
Margaret, in 1914. The shirt he's wearing was originally
that of his friend White Powder, a Cheyenne who had
fought against Custer in the Battle of Little Big Horn. |
During WWI, Joe moved back to Cincinnati, but by 1930 had settled in South Orange, New Jersey, where he died in 1948. His work is still exhibited in Cincinnati and at the Hockaday Museum in Montana, among other places, and still demands respectable sums at auction, although he is not as well known now as he was in the early twentieth century.
