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Surnames: Ziegler/Banscher/Buncher/Hippler
Classification: Query
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Dear Bev,
I don't have any information on Ziegler for you, but the Banscher/Buncher line I am
VERY much interested in. My GGGrandfather, Charles A. Hippler, married a Theresa
Banscher/Buncher in 1858, in Cleveland, Ohio, and then took his new bride to Rock Island,
IL., where he ran a grocery business. After several years he moved his family to Geneseo,
Henry County, IL. and remained there until his death around 1912. At his funeral there
was a Mathis (Matthias?) Banscher from Rock Island. In my research on that name, I found
that there was a Buncher Brothers Butcher shop in Rock Island around the 1880's and
1890's. Do you know more about the Banscher line? I've read somewhere that the
Hippler brothers who came over from Baden in the 1840's lived for several years in the
Germantown section of Philadelphia, and knew the Banschers from there. Then they all moved
to Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, and then Charles and Theresa on to Rock Island, IL. I
haven't been able to find much of !
anything else. Do you know anything about the Banscher/Hippler connection? Thanks,
Kathy Waller