{"id":1576,"date":"2026-10-31T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1576"},"modified":"2026-10-31T18:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T18:00:59","slug":"shared-evidence-american","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1576","title":{"rendered":"American family places"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>.family-topic-breadcrumb{font-size:.95rem;margin:0 0 22px}.family-topic-intro{max-width:68ch;line-height:1.7}.family-topic-menu{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(2,minmax(0,1fr));gap:14px;margin:26px 0}.family-topic-menu a{display:block;padding:18px;border:1px solid #c9cec8;border-radius:4px;background:#f5f2e9;text-decoration:none;color:#293d30;min-height:52px}.family-topic-menu strong{display:block;font-size:1.1rem}.family-topic-menu span{display:block;margin-top:6px;color:#4f574e;line-height:1.55;font-size:.95rem}.family-topic-related{border-top:1px solid #d8d2c5;margin-top:32px;padding-top:18px}.family-topic-related a{display:inline-block;margin:6px 22px 6px 0}.family-topic-breadcrumb a:focus-visible,.family-topic-menu a:focus-visible,.family-topic-related a:focus-visible{outline:3px solid #98513b;outline-offset:4px}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb){max-width:960px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb)>p{line-height:1.7}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb) :is(h2,h3){scroll-margin-top:24px}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb) a{overflow-wrap:anywhere}@media(max-width:600px){.family-topic-menu{grid-template-columns:1fr}.family-topic-menu a{padding:16px}}<\/style>\n<nav class=\"family-topic-breadcrumb\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/\">Home<\/a> \u203a <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=8\">Family branches<\/a> \u203a American family places<\/nav>\n<p class=\"family-topic-intro\">Ten American places and the records connecting them to the family. Pins identify towns or townships, not exact homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"alignwide\" id=\"four-branch-world-map\" aria-label=\"Four family branches on one world map\">\n<style>#four-branch-world-map{background:#f6f0e5;padding:clamp(12px,3vw,28px);color:#253d35}#four-branch-world-map h3{margin:28px 0 10px;font-size:1.35em}#four-branch-world-map .family-region{display:block;width:100%;height:auto;overflow:hidden;border:1px solid #adbdb3}#four-branch-world-map .family-tip{visibility:hidden}#four-branch-world-map .family-pin:hover .family-tip,#four-branch-world-map .family-pin:focus .family-tip{visibility:visible}#four-branch-world-map .family-pin:focus{outline:3px solid #253d35}#four-branch-world-map .family-card{padding:16px;margin:12px 0;background:#fffdf8;border-left:4px solid #a5b3a5;scroll-margin-top:40px}#four-branch-world-map .family-card:target{outline:3px solid #98513b;background:#fff4d9}#four-branch-world-map .family-legend{display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px 24px}#four-branch-world-map{box-sizing:border-box;max-width:1340px;width:100%}#four-branch-world-map .family-zoom{margin:12px 0 24px}#four-branch-world-map .family-zoom>input{width:20px;height:20px;vertical-align:middle;margin:12px 5px 12px 16px;accent-color:#354d3f}#four-branch-world-map .family-zoom>label{display:inline-block;padding:10px 8px;cursor:pointer;font-weight:bold}#four-branch-world-map .family-zoom>input:focus-visible+label{outline:3px solid #98513b}#four-branch-world-map .family-map-viewport{width:100%;overflow:auto;border:1px solid #adbdb3;background:#e5eff0;scrollbar-gutter:stable;overscroll-behavior-x:contain}#four-branch-world-map .family-map-viewport:focus-visible{outline:3px solid #98513b}#four-branch-world-map .family-map-viewport .family-region{max-width:none;width:100%;border:0}#family-zoom-150:checked~.family-map-viewport .family-region{width:150%}#family-zoom-200:checked~.family-map-viewport .family-region{width:200%}#four-branch-world-map .family-card{max-width:860px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}@media print{#four-branch-world-map .family-map-viewport .family-region{width:100%!important}#four-branch-world-map .family-zoom>input,#four-branch-world-map .family-zoom>label{display:none}}#four-branch-world-map .swiss-lead-links{padding:14px 16px;border:1px dashed #354d3f;background:#fffdf8}#four-branch-world-map .swiss-lead-links ul{margin:8px 0;padding-left:24px}#four-branch-world-map .swiss-lead-links a{display:inline-block;min-height:24px;padding:6px 0}#four-branch-world-map .swiss-lead-card{border-left:4px dashed #354d3f;overflow-wrap:anywhere}#four-branch-world-map .swiss-lead-card h4{margin:0 0 8px;font-size:1.15em}#four-branch-world-map .swiss-lead-card p{margin:10px 0}#four-branch-world-map .swiss-source{font-size:.94em}#four-branch-world-map .swiss-marker:focus-visible{outline:3px solid #98513b}#family-route-ottilie:hover~.family-route-popups #family-tip-ottilie,#family-route-ottilie:focus~.family-route-popups #family-tip-ottilie,#family-route-agnes:hover~.family-route-popups #family-tip-agnes,#family-route-agnes:focus~.family-route-popups #family-tip-agnes,#family-route-john-curtis:hover~.family-route-popups #family-tip-john-curtis,#family-route-john-curtis:focus~.family-route-popups #family-tip-john-curtis{visibility:visible}<\/style>\n<div class=\"family-card\" id=\"family-place-quincy\"><strong>1. Quincy, Illinois<\/strong><br><strong style=\"color:#98513b\">Roling<\/strong><br><em>Confirmed<\/em>. Henry Bickel and Anna Budde married in Adams County in 1860; their household is recorded in Quincy in 1870. The Roling family also appears in Quincy records. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=7\">Read the evidence<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1586\">Back to maps<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"family-card\" id=\"family-place-salisbury\"><strong>2. Salisbury, Missouri<\/strong><br><strong style=\"color:#98513b\">Roling<\/strong> \u00b7 <strong style=\"color:#354d3f\">Bange<\/strong> \u00b7 <strong style=\"color:#5f667c\">Morrison<\/strong> \u00b7 <strong style=\"color:#785e44\">Kunkel<\/strong><br><em>Confirmed<\/em>. Shared Missouri setting: Roling family and business; Bange family households; Michael Morrison burial reported in 1968 death certificate; Ernest Kunkel residence reported in 1950 newspaper. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=8\">Read the evidence<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1586\">Back to maps<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"family-card\" id=\"family-place-moberly\"><strong>4. Moberly, Missouri<\/strong><br><strong style=\"color:#98513b\">Roling<\/strong> \u00b7 <strong style=\"color:#5f667c\">Morrison<\/strong> \u00b7 <strong style=\"color:#785e44\">Kunkel<\/strong><br><em>Confirmed<\/em>. Bob was born at Woodland Hospital in Moberly on July 21, 1932. The pin marks the town, not the hospital site. Barbara Kunkel Morrison\u2019s obituary also reports her death in Moberly in 1969. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=36#bob-roling-birth-record\">Read the evidence<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1586\">Back to maps<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"family-card\" id=\"family-place-highland\"><strong>6. Highland, Illinois<\/strong><br><strong style=\"color:#354d3f\">Bange<\/strong><br><em>Confirmed record location<\/em>. Wilhelmina Widmer\u2019s 1870 baptism and Jacob Widmer\u2019s 1869 marriage to Elisa Reber are recorded at Highland. The separate 1871 marriage to Rosa Strobel, born Walter, remains an identity-qualified lead. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1592#jacob-widmer-parents\">Read the evidence<\/a>. A 1932 funeral notice also identifies Jacob of Salisbury as a brother of the late Joseph Widmer. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1592#joseph-widmer-florist-1926\">Read about the Highland family connection<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1586\">Back to maps<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"family-card\" id=\"family-place-wien\"><strong>12. Wien, Missouri<\/strong><br><strong style=\"color:#5f667c\">Morrison<\/strong> \u00b7 <strong style=\"color:#785e44\">Kunkel<\/strong><br><em>Confirmed record location<\/em>. Michael James Morrison and Barbara Kunkel married here on January 7, 1920. Later Kunkel newspaper accounts also place family events in Wien. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=12\">Read the evidence<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1586\">Back to maps<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"family-card\" id=\"family-place-new-cambria\"><strong>13. New Cambria, Missouri<\/strong><br><strong style=\"color:#5f667c\">Morrison<\/strong> \u00b7 <strong style=\"color:#785e44\">Kunkel<\/strong><br><em>Confirmed record location<\/em>. The January 1920 county marriage license records Michael Morrison and Barbara Kunkel as residents of New Cambria. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=12\">Read the evidence<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1586\">Back to maps<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"family-card\" id=\"family-place-jackson-township\"><strong>14. Jackson Township, Dubois County, Indiana<\/strong><br><strong style=\"color:#785e44\">Kunkel<\/strong><br><em>Confirmed record location<\/em>. The 1880 census records John and Rosa with John\u2019s parents Michael and Catharine, and uncle Adam. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=13\">Read the evidence<\/a>. <strong>Township reference point, not a home or town.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1586\">Back to maps<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"family-card\" id=\"family-place-san-francisco\"><strong>15. San Francisco, California<\/strong><br><strong style=\"color:#5f667c\">Morrison<\/strong><br><em>Newspaper-reported location<\/em>. The January 9, 1920 wedding notice describes Michael Morrison as a San Francisco resident employed in a steel plant. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=12\">Read the evidence<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1586\">Back to maps<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"family-card\" id=\"family-place-edwardsville\"><strong>16. Edwardsville, Illinois<\/strong><br><strong style=\"color:#354d3f\">Bange<\/strong><br><em>Confirmed record location<\/em>. Joseph Henry Bange\u2019s death certificate reports his birth here in 1864; Henry Bange\u2019s 1919 death record also places him here. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=11\">Read the evidence<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1586\">Back to maps<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"family-card\" id=\"family-place-st-louis\"><strong>17. St. Louis, Missouri<\/strong><br><strong style=\"color:#354d3f\">Bange<\/strong><br><em>Confirmed record location<\/em>. Bernhard Heinrich Bange and Helena Angela Bruggen married at Holy Trinity in St. Louis on March 1, 1859. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=11\">Read the evidence<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1586\">Back to maps<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<nav class=\"family-topic-related\" aria-label=\"Related pages\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=8\">\u2190 Family branches<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1586\">All family maps<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1587\">Place evidence<\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home \u203a Family branches \u203a American family places Ten American places and the records connecting them to the family. Pins identify towns or townships, not exact homes. 1. Quincy, IllinoisRolingConfirmed. Henry Bickel and Anna Budde married in Adams County in 1860; their household is recorded in Quincy in 1870. 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