The Schoen(en)thal Family from Sielen
To find the origin of the Schoenthal Family further researches will be neccessary. The fiist one we know is:
FIRST GENERATION :
1. Heinemann Schoen(en)thal, merchant in Sielen. He married Hendel, née Beerenstein. (Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden, Bestand 365, no. 92 wedding records Breuna)
Heinemann and Hendel Schoen(en)thal had three children:
+ 2. Levi Schoen(en)thal, born 08. November 1812 in Sielen.
+ 2a. Fradchen Schoen(en)thal, born about 1807 in Sielen
+ 2b. Minna Schoenthal, born 03.05.1818 in Sielen
SECOND GENERATION :
2. Levi Schoen(en)thal, born 08.11.1812 in Sielen, shoemaker, he married on 24.07.1839 in Breuna at the age of 26 years, 9 months and 16 days Jette / Henriette Hamberg, twenty and two years old, born in 1817 in Breuna, daughter of Moses Hamberg and his wife Guetchen, née Rosenberg. (HHStAWI, 365, no.92 wedding records Breuna) Levi and Jette Schoenthal had twelve children, 9 sons, 3 daughters, two sons died in infancy.
+ 3. Hannchen / Hannah Schoenthal, born 20.10.1841 or 29.12.1844 in Sielen
+ 4. Henry Schoenthal, born 20.05.1843 in Sielen
+ 5. Julius Schoenthal, born 30.01.1845 in Sielen
+ 6. Malchen / Amalie Schoenthal, born 03.01.1847 in Sielen
+ 7. Simon Schoenthal, born 14.02.1849 in Sielen
+ 8. Jacob Schoenthal, born 22.12.1850 in Sielen
9. Marcus Schoenthal, born 26.01.1853 in Sielen, he died 05.02.1853.
10. Nathan Schoenthal, born 06.08.1854 in Sielen
+ 11. Seligman / Felix Schoenthal, born 15.12.1856 in Sielen
+ 12. Isaak / Isidore Schoenthal, born 22.11.1858 in Sielen
+ 13. Rosalchen / Rosalie Schoenthal, born 02.09.1861 in Sielen.
(HHStAWI, 365, no. 772, birth records Sielen, http://www.chartiers.com/beers-project/articles/schoenthal-
1057.html)
Levi Schoenthal died 28.03.1874 at the age of 61 years and five months in Sielen, Henriette Schoenthal moved into the USA in 1881 and died on 15.12.1882 in Amerika (Washington PA.).
(HHStAWI, 365, no. 773, death records Sielen, Beers-project, a.a.O., p.1057)
2a. Fradchen Schoen(en)thal, born baout 1807 in Sielen. She was married at the age of 37 years on 10.09.1844 in Oberlistingen to Simon Goldschmidt, tailor in Oberlistingen, 42 years old, born about 1802, son of Jacob Goldschmidt and his wife Hewa née Seligmann. Fradchen Schoenenthal was the second wife of Simon Goldschmidt. He married first on 16.12.1822 in Grebenstein Edeline / Ella Katzenstein, born 05.10.1798 in Grebenstein, daughter of Jesajas Hacohen Katzenstein and his wife Edel / Eveline née Gans. Edeline Goldschmidt died 19.08.1840 in Oberlistingen. (HHStAWI 365, no.669, wedding records Oberlistingen) Fradchen and Simon Goldschmidt moved into the USA. They had two children:
13a. Henry Goldmith, born 10.06.1847
13b. Hannah Goldsmith, born 05.06.1848.
Fradchen / Fanny Goldsmith died in 1850 in Pittsburgh PA, Simon Goldsmith mariied a third time Lena Rosenberg. He died on 17.03.1883 in Pittsburgh PA.
2b. Minna Schoenthal, born on 03.05.1818 in Sielen. She was married at the age of 28 years on 10.06.1846 in Breuna to Noah Braunsberg, 34 years old, born 05.04.1812 in Breuna, son of Mathias Braunsberg. Minna and Noah Braunsberg lived in Breuna, they had a daughter:
13c. Hendel Braunsberg, born 26.08.1847 in Breuna
Noah Braunsberg died on 28.12.1847 in Breuna at the age of 35 years, 8 months and 23 days.
(HHStAWI 365, no. 90 birth records Breuna, no. 92 wedding record Breuna, no. 94 death records Breuna)
Minna Braunsberg Schoenthal was married a second time at the age of 31 years, 4 months and 10 days on 13.09.1849 in Breuna to Markus Rosenberg, 25 years, 10 months and 20 days old, born 19.10.1823 in Niedermeiser, son of Seligmann Rosenberg and his wife Hannchen, née Muller. Minna and Markus Rosenberg lived in Niedermeiser, they had a daughter:
13d. Madchen Rosenberg, born 11.01.1850 in Niedermeiser, she died 19.03.1850.
THIRD GENERATION :
3. Hannchen / Hannah Schoenthal, born 20.10.1841 or 29.12.1844 in Sielen. She had a illegitimate daughter:
14. Sara Schoenthal, born 08.01.1865 in Sielen (HHStAWI, 365, no. 772 birth records Sielen).
Hannah Schoenthal was married on 19.08.1874 in Sielen to Salomon Moses Stern, born 03.07.1823 in Volkmarsen, son of Moses Stern and his wife Lea, nèe Callmann. Hannah Schoenthal was the third wife of Simon Moses Stern. He married first on 21.12.1851 Jeanette Katz from Wabern. Jeanette Stern died on 17.11.1852. He married a second time Caroline Schloss from Eschwege. Caroline Stern died on 23.08.1868 at the age of 41 in Volkmarsen. (HHStAWI, 365, no. 839 wedding records Volkmarsen)
Hannah and Salomon Moses Stern had three children:
15. Jennie Stern, born 20.06.1875
16. Edith Stern, born 07.09.1877
17. Louis Wolf Stern, born 17.05.1879.
Salomon Stern died on 20.02.1888 in Volkmarsen.
(HHStAWI, 365, no. 842 lists of the graves Volkmarsen)
Hannah Simon came as widow into the USA and lived in Allegheny, PA. (Beers-project, a.a.O., p.1057) She died on 20.05.1915 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA.
4. Henry Schoenthal, born 20.05.1843 in Sielen, merchant in Washington. After he had finished school in Sielen and learned shoemaking, he was admitted into the Jewish Seminary in Kassel in 1859. He taught school for three years, before he moved into the USA in 1866. In 1872 he came back to Germany and married on 08.05.1872 in Gudensberg Hewa / Helene Lilienfeld, born 13.11.1847 in Gudensberg, daughter of Meyer Lilienfeld and his first wife Malchen née Engelbert.
(HHStAWI, 365, no.386, wedding records Gudensberg, Beers-project., a.a.O., p.1057).
Henry and Helene Schoenthal had four children:
18. Madalina Schoenthal, born 16.03.1873 n Washington Pennsylvania, USA, she
died in infancy in 1873.
19. Hilda Schoenthal, born 25.06.1875 in Pennsylvania, USA
+ 20. Lionel /Lee Schoenthal, born 14.04.1877 in Pennsylvania, USA
+ 21. Meyer Lilienfeld Schoenthal, born 12.08.1883 in Washington.
(Roger Lustig (USA), Descendants of Manus Levi, Genealogy from 24.04.2012,
www.judeninnordhessen.de.vu Genealogie der Familie Lilienfeld aus Gudensberg,
Beers-project, a.a.O., p.1057)
5. Julius Schoenthal, born 30.01.845 in Sielen. He married on 15.03.1874 in District of Columbia Minnie Dahl, born 10.12.1837 in Schornsheim/Rheinhessen. Julius and Minnie Schoenthal had four children:
22. Leo Samuels Schoenthal, born 22.05.1875 in District of Columbia
23. Rosalie Schoenthal, born 01.10.1876 in Washington D.C.
24. Sylvester Morgan Schoenthal, born 08.04.1878 in Washington
25. Moretto Arthur Schoenthal, born 04.06.1879 in Washington.
Minnie Schoenthal died on 21.06.1899 in Distrct of Columbia, Julius Schoenthal died on 02.03.1919 in Uniontown, Perry, Alabama at the age of 74.
6. Malchen / Amalie Schoenthal, born 03.01.1847 in Sielen. She was married on 18.02.1867 to Elias Wolfe, born 18.02.1838 i Germany. Amalie and Elias Wolf lived in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. They had six children:
26. Maurice Edward Wolfe, born 13.01.1873 in Pittsburgh
27. Florence Wolfe, born 16.04.1875 in Washington
28. Lee Arthur Wolfe, born 22.10.1877 in pennsylvania
29. Ira J. Wolfe, born in June 1880 in Pennsylvania
30. Henrietta Wolfe, born 24.02.1883 in Pennsylvania
31. Herbert Bertrum Wolfe, born 10.10.1885 in Pennsylvania.
Elias Wolfe died on 27.12.1913 in Pittsburgh, Amalie Wolfe died on 10.02.1924 in Middletown, Butler, Ohio.
7. Simon Schoenthal, born 14.02.1949 in Sielen. He married in 1872 Rose / Roeschen Mansbach, born 24.05.1851 in Maden / Gudensberg, daughter of Lippmann Mansbach and his wife Friederike, née Kaufmann. Simon and Rose Schoenthal had ten children:
32. Ida Schoenthal, born 17.07.1873 in Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania, she died
on 26.12.1887 in Philadelphia.
33. Harry Schoenthal, born 17.07.1873 in Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania
34. Getrude Schoenthal, born about 1875 in Pennsylvania
35. Louis Mansbach Schoenthal, born 05.05.1878 in Pittsburgh
36. Maurice Schoenthal, born 15.06.1879 in Pittsburgh
37. Martin Schoenthal, born 12.07.1881 in Philadelphia
38. Jacob Schoenthal, born 13.10.1883 in Philadelphia
39. Hettie R. Schoenthal, born 24.04.1886 in Philadelphia
40. Estelle Schoenthal, born 01.08.1889 in Pennsylvania
41. Sidney R. Schoenthal, born 18.09.1891 in Pennsylvania.
Simon Schoenthal died on 26.03.1904 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Rose Schoenthal died on 16.05.1929.
8. Jacob Schoenthal, born 22.12.1850 in Sielen, merchant in Cologne. He married on 01.09.1879 in Gudensberg Lottchen / Charlotte Lilienfeld, born 06.04.1855 in Gudensberg, daughter of Meyer Lilienfeld and his second wife Hannchen, née Meiberg. Jacob and Charlotte Schoenthal lived in Cologne, they had two sons:
42. Lee Schoenthal, born 02.12.1881 in Cologne, he moved into the USA and lived in
Washington. He died in Washington on11.05.1957.
43. Meyer Schoenthal, born 07.02.1883 in Cologne. He emigrated into the USA and
died on 10.01.1960 in Derry, Westmoreland, Pennsylania.
(HHStAWI, 365, no.386, wedding records Gudensberg, Standesamt Gudensberg, wedding records 1879,
no.5, Roger Lustig, a.a.O.)
11. Seligman / Felix Schoenthal, born 15.12.1856 in Sielen. He married in 1878 Margaret E. Schoenthal, born 20.06.1859 in Pennsylvania. Felix and Margaret Schoenthal had two children:
44. Rachel Schoenthal, born in march 1881 in Pennsylvania
45. Yetta E. Schoenthal, born in June 1884 in Pennsylvania.
Felix Schoenthal died on 26.08.1926.
12. Isaak / Isidore Schoenthal, born 22.11.1858 in Sielen. He moved into the USA in 1881 and married on 04.03.1888 in Philadelphia Hilda Katzenstein, born 17.08.1863 in Philadelphia, daughter of Gerson Katzenstein from Jesberg and his wife Eva, née Goldschmidt from Oberlistingen. Gerson and Eva Katzenstein emigrated with three children about 1855 into the USA and lived in Washington. Isidore and Hilda Schoenthal had four children:
+ 46. Lester Henry Schoenthal, born 03.12.1888 in Pittsburgh
+ 47. Gerson K. Schoenthal, born 20.01.1892 in Washington
+ 48. Harold G. Schoenthal, born 28.08.1901 in Philadelphia
+ 49. Eva Schoenthal, born 04.03.1904 in Washington.
Hilda Schoenthal died 17.08.1941 in Philadelphia, Isidore Schoenthal died 10.07.1942 in Philadelphia.
(Barbara Greve: Nachkommen desScholum Katzenstein aus Jesberg, in: www.judeninnordhessen.de.vu
Forschungen Barbara Greve,
Roger Cibella's Family Tree, in: http://www.geocities.ws/rcibella/html/fam/fam00279.html
13. Rosalchen / Rosalie Schoenthal, born 02.09.1861 in Sielen, she moved in 1881 with her mother and her brother Isidore into the USA and returned to Germany after a few years. She was married on 08.12.1884 in Geldern to Willy Heymann, horse dealer born 04.02.1857 in Geldern, son of Levi Heymann. Rosalie and Willy Heymann had six children, four of them were:
50. Lionel Heymann, born 03.02.1887 in Geldern. He emigrated into the USA and
died in November 1966 in Chicago.
+ 51. Helene Heymann, born 09.11.1891 in Geldern (third child)
52. Max Heymann, born 06.09.1893 in Geldern, He emigrated with his wife Frieda
into the USA and died on 31.05.1943 in Chicago.
+ 53. Hilde Heymann, born 24.01.1898 in Geldern (youngest child).
Rosalie Heymann died 07.08.1937 in Geldern, Willy Heymann died 15.01.1939 in Geldern.
(http://hv-geldern,de/images/juden/juden-in-geldern.html)
FOURTH GENERATION :
20. Lionel / Lee Schoenthal, born 14.04.1877 in Pennsylania, he married Irma Silverman, born about 1881. Lionel and Irma Schoenthal lived in Washington, later about 1910 in Manhattan, NY. They had a daughter:
54. Florence M. Schoenthal, born 22.03.1905 in Washington.
Lee Schoenthal died on 05.12.1925 in Manhattan, N.Y. Irma Schoenthal died on 13.01.1935 in Pennsylvania.
21. Meyer Lilienfeld Schoenthal, born 12.08.1883 in Washington. He married Carolyn S. Holgate. Meyer Lilienfeld and Carolyn S. Schoenthal lived in Riverdale, California. Meyer Lilienfeld Schoenthal died in February 1963 in Columbia, USA.
46. Lester H. Schoenthal, born 03.12.1888 in Pittsburgh, he married on 30.06.1917 in Lawrence, South Dakota Julia Grace Beck, born 09.09.1888 in Indiana, USA, daughter of Charles Benton beck and his wife Inez Louisa, née Cockayne. Lester Henry Schoenthal died on 10.08.1959 in Dade, Florida, Julia Grace Schoenthal died on 26.02.1983 in Howell, Livingston, Michigan.
47. Gerson K. Schoenthal, born 20.01.1892 in Washington. He married in Denver Colorado Maude Sheridan. He died 27.01.1954 in California. He died on 27.06.1954 in Riverside, California.
48. Harold G. Schoenthal, born 28.08.1901 in Philadelphia. He married May Guenther. Harold and May Schoenthal had a daughter:
55. June Marie Schoenthal.
49. Eva Schoenthal, born 04.03.1904 in Washington. She was married first in 1922 to John Cohen. Eva and John Cohen had two children:
56. John Jr. Cohen
57. Eva Hilda Cohen.
Eva Cohen was married a second time to Frank Crocker. She died 10.01.1963 in Philadelphia.
51. Helene Heymann, born 09.11.1891 in Geldern, she was married to Julius Mosbach, born 14.12.1891 in Hohenlimburg. Helene and Julius Mosbach lived in Iserlohn. Julius Mosbach was arrested in Sachsenhausen till 16.12.1938. He was murdered in the mental hospital in Warstein on 14.01.1941. Helene Mosbach was deported on 30.04.1942 from Dortmund into the ghetto of Zamosc/Poland.
53. Hilde Heymann, born 24.01.1898 in Geldern, she was deported in 1942 to Majdanek.
Compiled by Hans-Peter K l e i n Melsungen, September 2015
Green – from the genealogy „Descendants of Levi Schoenthal“ from Amy B. Cohen