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"Jost Krehbiel is the beginning of the known family line. He was born in Switzerland about 1670 and as a young man migrated to the Palatinate. He and his wife Magdalena had six children ..."--Page 24. Descendant John Carl Krehbiel, son of Jacob and Marie Jotter Krehbiel of Lohmuehl, was born 9 June 1811. John Carl and his brother Christian emigrated to America in 1833 sailing from Havre on May 1 and arriving in New York on June 20th. They went on to Ohio and Missouri. "In 1835 John Carl went again to Germany, married Anna Wohlgemuth of Albisheim on the Primm, April 12, 1837, went at once the same year to America."--Page 24. They located first in Rossville, Butler County, Ohio, then in 1839 moved to Fort Madison, Iowa Territory and later settling " ... on Sugar creek in West Point township of Lee County in the Territory of Iowa."--P. 52. Anna Wohlgemuth Krehbiel died 1 April 1840 in Lee County, Iowa Territory. Six years after his wife Anna died, John Carl married Katherina Raeber the daughter of an early Lee County Amish preacher, Christian Raeber. "She was born April 18, 1826, at Hagenau, Near Maersburg on the sea in Baden, Germany. John Carl Krehbiel died " ... at the age of 75 and was laid to rest in the West Point cemetery on Feb. 26, 1886. Descendants and relatives lived in Iowa, Ohio, Kansas, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, Colorado, California and elsewhere