Christian Boeshar

Christian Boeshar was born 27 October 1810 in Breitenbach, a village in the Kusel district of the Rhineland-Palatinate — the region the family called the Pfalz — and he lived and died there. He was a miner by trade, the occupation named in the German-script birth certificate that Robert Earl Wildermuth eventually had translated (through Marlis Smith’s roundabout chain of France-and-Germany contacts) for his “Little Histories” sketch of his great-grandmother.

He married Maria Margaretha Jung — of nearby Frohnhofen — on 8 December 1836 in Breitenbach. They had two children:

• Jacob Boeshar (b. 29 September 1837, Breitenbach) — Catharina’s older brother; no further record in this archive yet.
• Catharina Boeshar (b. 15 June 1840, Breitenbach) — who would emigrate to America and marry Johann Michael Wildermuth in Marietta, Ohio, becoming Chuck’s great-great-great-grandmother.

A father his daughter barely knew

Christian died on 5 May 1843, and was buried two days later at Breitenbach. He was only 32. Catharina was not yet three years old — old enough that she may have carried a faint memory of him, but young enough that she grew up effectively fatherless in 1840s Bavaria. That early loss sits behind the emigration story: a young Pfälzerin from a widowed household, who left for Ohio before her 1862 marriage. Whether she crossed the Atlantic with her mother, her brother Jacob, or on her own is one of the open questions on her page.

His own parents in the tree are Abraham Boeshar and Maria Lehman of Breitenbach — Chuck’s five-times-great-grandparents, documented so far only by name.

He is Chuck’s four-times-great-grandfather on the maternal Wildermuth side, through Catharina → William Clifford Wildermuth → Earl Adam → Robert Earl → Terrie → Chuck.

Source: Dale Eesley / FamilySearch — Christian Boeshar (KCFH-43F); the German birth certificate reproduced in Robert Earl Wildermuth’s “Little Histories”, which confirmed both his miner’s trade and the name Margaretha Jung.