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1.   Florian Franz Rasch I
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Birth Date:     June 17, 1793
Birth Place:    Olbersdorf, Silesia, Prussia (now part of Poland)
Christen Date:  June 17, 1793
Christen Place: Protzan, Silesia, Prussia
Death Date:     September 14, 1855
Death Place:    Centerline, Michigan
Burial Place:   St. Clement's Church Cemetery, Centerline, Michigan
Father:         Joseph Rasch
Mother:         Anna Maria Padelt

Notes:
Born in the Southern, Catholic part of Silesia, in what was then Prussia, is now part of Poland.
Records show that he was a farmer in Olbersdorf, near Frankenstein (present day Zabkowice Šlaskie)
from 1825-1842. He arrived in the US with family on May 19, 1852. According to records the family did
not come to America together.  The Mt.Clemens Courthouse, MI, shows Florian II purchasing land in 1851.

According to family tradition he was a member of Napoleon's Army who survived the retreat from
Moscow in 1812. Another tradition has him as being a Quatrtermaster Captain in Napoleon's Army,
and he was able to retreat from Russia without losing a single member of his unit.

Buried in St. Clements Parish.

Spouse:         Johanna Josepha Carolina Schindler
Birth Date:     June 11, 1794
Birth Place:    Protzan, near Frankenstein, Silesia, Prussia
Christen Date:  June 12, 1794
Christen Place: Protzan, Silesia, Prussia
aka:            Carolina
Death Place:	Prussia
Father:         Johann Casper Schindler 
Mother:         Anna Theresa Mary Elizabeth

Spouse Notes:
There is no record of her death.

Marriage Date:	November 7, 1815

Children:       Florian      (R/S 1.1)
                Joseph       (R/S 1.2)
                Franz        (R/S 1.3)
                (son)
                (daughter)
                (stillborn daughter)

Other spouses:	Barbara Gutkorn

References:     1  20  48  65a