"Atlas & Directory of Trumbull County, 1899" page 201 is the following.

"Jacob H. Kibler, farmer of Warren township, was born July 15, 1841. He is of German descent, his parents, Jacob and Louisa Hoefflinger Kibler, coming to this country from Wuerttemberg, Germany, in the early thirties. They were married in 1839 and moved to their present home where they have lived ever since, and where our subject was brought up. He was married 01 October 1867 to Mary C. Heller whose birth occured 16 April 1850, in Chester County, PA. Her parents, John G and Dorothy Paperin Heller, were both natives of Germany."

With this info, I guess we should put Dorothy Louisa Paperin as mother of Mary Catherine Heller. Makes sense to have a dual name as Germans often used 2 first names back in those times. Also, I have just found the name Dorothea quite often in the Wuerttemberg records so I guess Dorothy as the translation is just what it should be.. We can guess, for now at least, that she went by the Louisa name as that is the one she uses in the census records.


born in Germany bu tin 1870 census said Prussia
1880 census, shown as a widow

Change: 23 Jan 2010