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They lived long and hard

admin August 6, 2016November 7, 2017 Dreiling Family Stories/Ancestry No Comments

Just a little info on the ages of these hard working people: The Father of this group; Michael M Dreiling   Born November 27, 1873 @ Herzog, Russia Died August 11, 1920 @ Emmeran, Kansas: age 47 (His father Michael Dreiling, born…

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List of Kilian’s 16 siblings

admin August 6, 2016November 7, 2017 Dreiling Family Stories/Ancestry No Comments

“Here is a list of the 17 children in order of birth from “The Dinkels, A Geneology” by Florian Scheck, 1982.”  We never referred to our aunts as “Aunt” or “Uncle.”  We used their names or nicknames.  We did however,…

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Disrupting Mass “Not Good”

admin August 6, 2016November 7, 2017 Dreiling Family Stories/Ancestry No Comments

In 1955 my brother Paul and I worked for Father Kilian at the Sorrowful Mother Shrine in Ohio. One morning, while Kilian was saying mass, we were all waiting for mass to end and breakfast to begin. Looking out our second story…

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Kilian’s pot

admin August 6, 2016November 7, 2017 Dreiling Family Stories/Ancestry No Comments

Still cooking! Another story about Fr. Kilian you many not have heard.  Right after I graduated from college, I was home visiting the family and my mom gave me an old battered soup pot with a small wooden-handled lid.  She…

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“French Blood”

admin August 6, 2016November 7, 2017 Dreiling Family Stories/Ancestry No Comments

Napoleonic influence in Dreiling family Fr. Kilian’s grandmother on his father’s side was Barbara (Prevo) Dreiling and of French ancestry.  One story has it that a soldier was left behind during Napoleon’s ill-fated attack on Moscow.  I have also heard that…

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Faith that will wash

admin August 6, 2016November 7, 2017 Kilian's Childhood No Comments

A Father’s prayer When Kilian Dreiling was born, his father Michael prayed that God would give young Kilian “faith that would wash.”  By this, Michael was asking Our Lord to grant him faith that wouldn’t “wash out” like most of…

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