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Emil Kiesel Family
Germany, Hawaii & Washington |
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Emil Kiesel Family
Germany, Hawaii & Washington |
| Children | |||
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| Fred "Fritz" T. C. Kiesel | b. Sep 1891 Tacoma, WA | d. 4 Jun 1947 Tacoma, WA | m. Myrtle ? |
| Rudolph "Rudy" Johann Emil Kiesel | b. 14 Sep 1893 Tacoma, WA | d. 4 Aug 1942 Seattle, WA | m. 1915 Maude Ella "Shirley"
Marshall (they had 3 children) |
| William Kiesel | b. May 1895 Honolulu, Hawaii | d . 1903 Tacoma, WA | m. |
| Edward August Kiesel | b. 12 Oct 1896 Tacoma, WA | d. 14 Nov 1953 Tacoma, WA | m. 1923 Jennie Roller (they had 11 children) |
| Else "Elsie" Mathilde Johanna Kiesel | b. 9 Jun 1899 Tacoma, WA | d. 12 Dec 1992 Tacoma, WA | m. Clayton Edison Marshall
7 Dec 1915 Tacoma, WA 2m: Robert "Bob" Gillen 23 Apr 1974 |
| Lillian Rosella Kiesel | b. 10 Nov 1903 Tacoma, WA | d .2 Oct 1970 Tacoma, WA | m. William Buechler (two children) |
| Erlene Clara Kiesel | b. 7 Apr 1911 Tacoma, WA | d. ? |
m. Kenneth "Bus" Bennington (b. 16 Jan 1908 Tacoma, WA d. 11 Sep 1991 Richland, WA) 3 children |
Emil Albert Franz-received a foregoing document will be herewith
under the Churches Seal Pastorically Attested Brandenburg A.D.H.
(river) 28th Sept 1880 (Church Files) from St Katharinen. Wertzer. City
Brandenburg.
[church records of St. Katharinen Church, Brandenburg, Germany]
We don't know why the Kiesels decided to go the Hawaii of all places
but they had to be very determined even to attempt such as arduous
voyage. H.H. Hackfield was the Hawaiian agent was sent to Germany to
recruit help for the plantations. He must have been quite a salesman
with his two foot long white beard. The bark ship "Cedar" must have
also instilled a great deal of faith with its painted sides and brass
fittings. 
It left Bremen, Germany in January of 1881 for the long
voyage around Cape Magellan to Hawaii. The voyage through the straits
was most ardous with several weeks encountering severe storms which
kept most of the ship's passengers confined below decks for a month and
a half with extreme sea sickness. They lost a mast and several sails.
Jensen Blackstad doesn't confirm if they stopped and refitted the ship
for a broken mast and take on new supplies in Valparaiso, Chili but it
was the route. The ship's captain, G. ? Rohlfe, apparently nearly
starved the ship in order to sell the saved 15 barrels of meat, 15 hams
and 1.5 barrels of crackers to support a German mistress in Hawaii. The
families arrived in Honolulu on June 18, 1881 but the Germans were not
allowed to disembark because of a smallpox epidemic on Oahu. They were
instead transferred to the vessel "James Makee" which journeyed on to
Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii. The entire voyage taking six months. [immigration
records of Bremen, Germany and immigration records to Hawaii after
1860] [letter of Jensen Blackstad]
1887 Emil claims to have immigrated to the United States. [1900 Census, Tacoma WA and immigation application papers]
after Jan 1889 - Emil meets Emma Schock who had immigrated in 1889 from Danzig, Germany. [1910 census, Tacoma, WA]
1891- They marry in Tacoma Washington. Emil and Emma lived in Hawaii for about three years between late 1893 and late 1897 at which time their son William was born.
Emil eventually finds a steady job working for the Northern Pacific railroad Here he found a job as a hostler at the Northern Pacific shops at 23rd and Bay St. in Tacoma. In the round-house he helped to refit and send out the locomotives.
They apparently made several trips back to Hawaii perhaps to see their relatives and perhaps to make plans for the immigration of other family members. They eventually bring his whole family, including his father and mother to Tacoma. Although we have less information on the Schock family it seems that they also had first immigrated to Hawaii but came in a couple of years afterward. [interview with Elsie Kiesel Marshall by Marlene Marshall Grubb and census records 1900]
1899, Oct. 6. - Else Mathilde Johanna Kiesel, their daughter, is
baptised in Tacoma, Washington in an evangelical German Lutheran church
by F. N. Wolf, pastor. In witness to the baptism is Johanna Augustin
Mathilde Shock. She is apparently the wife of Gustave Shock, previously
Mathilda Gubbe, the sister-in-law of Emma (Shock) Kiesel. [photocopy in
possession of Cheryl Grubb]
1900 Pierce Co, WA Census lists Emil's birthplace as Brandenburg,
Germany and shows he immigrated from Hawaii in 1887; This means he
would have been 19 years old. Emma states her immigration date as 1889
from Danzig, Germany
Census records show them living at 222 1/2 E. 25th Street, in Tacoma,
WA. [US census, Pierce Co., WA]
1910- Census shows them renting a home at 901 South "J" Street,
Tacoma, WA. Emil Kiesel is head of the family (age 41, GER, immigrated
in 1887, a hostler in the roundhouse), Emma is wife (41, GER,
immigrated in 1889). The children here are Fred (son, 18 yrs, WA,
steamfitter), Rudolph (son, 16, WA, painter in bed factory), Eddie
(son, 13, WA), Elsie (dau, 10, WA), and Lily (dau, 7, WA). William
doesn't show up in the family and has apparently moved out on his own.
[US Census T624 roll 1665, enum. 20 p. 8]
US Census, Washington, Pierce Co., Tacoma.
Series: T624 Roll: 1665
Page: 99
1920- US Census, Washington, Pierce Co., Tacoma. Series: T625 Roll: 1937 Page: 23 shows them owning a home at 9238 South Park St. in Tacoma, WA. They are living next to the Clayton Edison Marshall family. "Aimel" is (51 yrs, Ger.,) He lists the place of birth of his mother and father as Berlin, Germany, his occupation is a Hostler for the railroad. His wife, Emma, is here (50 yrs, Ger) and the children, Eddie (23 yrs, a lumber grader) and Erline ( 8 yrs ).
US Census, Washington, ,
Tacoma. Series: T625
Roll: 1937
Page: 62
US Census, Washington, Pierce Co., Tacoma. Series: T625
Roll: 1937
Page: 23
US Census, Washington, Pierce Co., Tacoma. Series: T625
Roll: 1937
Page: 118
1923, 5 Dec - Emma Schock Kiesel, Emil's wife, dies in Tacoma, Washington of chronic nephritis (kidney disease). She is cremated and buried in the Old Tacoma Cem. Tacoma, WA in 1B8#141 [death certificate Pierce Co., WA]
c Sep 1939 - He retired from his job with the Northern Pacific Railroad when he was 70 years old.
1942, 7 Oct. - Obituary probably from the Tacoma Herald
Tribune.
Mr. Kiesel passed away suddenly Sunday,
Oct. 4 Suviving are his wife, Sirley Daughters, Virginia Kiesel
and Dorthy Lang, and son, Kenneth and granddaughter, Particia
Lang. He also leaves two sisters and two brothers in Tacoma, Mrs.
Elsie Marshall and Mrs. Lilliam Buechler; Fred Kiesel and Edward
Kiesel, and a sister and father in Portland, Mrs. Erlene Bennington and
Emil Kiesel. Mr. Kiesel was a member of the Painters Union Local
300. "
1943, 19 Jan - Emil Kiesel dies at age 74 in Portland, Oregon where he may have been living with a daughter. He was cremated and his ashes buried in the Old Tacoma Cem., Tacoma, WA next to his wife, Emma. [church records of Old Tacoma Cem. , Tacoma, WA]
From the Diary of Emil Kiesel JR.:
"Mother was 19 Luther was 21. They lived in Hawaie for 3 years where brother Fred & Rudy were born they then moved to Tacoma WA where my father found a job as hostler at NP shops at 23rd and Bay St. He worked there until he was 70 years old when he retired passed away in 1941 at age 74. Mother passed away at age 54 in 1923. "
Marriage Certificate of Elsie Kiesel and Clayton Edison Marshall,
Tacoma WA also shows witness to be Augusta Gubbe or Grubbe and T.
Kiesel. Could be Theodore Kiesel (Emil's brother)
1947, 4 Jun - Tacoma News Tribune, Obituary
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