From the collection of the late Amelia Ruf Strauss, Marietta OH and then her granddaughter, the late Betty Jean Gephart Frey of Tucson AZ. The photo simply is labeled "Grandmother Froeschle" which leads me to believe it is the mother of Caroline Froeschle Ruf.Her mother was Caroline Friederike Merkle Froeschle. From the research of Martin Koepple of Plochingen, Germany he found that she was born 8 January 1808 in Uhlbach, Germany a daughter of Johannes Merkle and Christina Margaretha Zerweck Merkle. She married Andreas Froeschle, 18 May 1830 in Rotenberg, Wuerttemberg (Germany). She was his third wife. By 1870 the family had emigrated to Switzerland and she apparently died there.
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