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| The J. H. Bastian family and "Joe" Smith |
We wondered about the family connection between the Bastians and the Smiths. The German church records show that brothers Johann Heinrich Schmidt and Johann Jost Schmidt from Langenaubach married sisters Catherina Elisabeth Schmitt and Anna Margretha Schmitt from Breitscheid.
One of Johann Jost Schmidt's daughters, Maria Johannetta, married Johann Heinrich Bastian from the nearby village of Steinbach, Nassau, Germany in May 1862. Their first three children were born in Germany between 1863 and 1866. Maria's mother had died in 1850 and her father joined the family in Waupaca sometime before 1870, when this picture would have been taken. Their fifth child was born in May 1869. The photo seems to show the Bastian family with "Grandfather Joe," as he was called in the newspaper article.
Maria Bastian and John Henry Smith, Jr. were cousins.
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