Mom family history — Virginia Lillian Bichmiller Thompson
Author: Jack R "Skip" Thompson (Virginia's son)
Source file: Mom family history.doc (Microsoft Word, 30,208 bytes)
Provenance: emailed from Jack R Thompson <jack@ecentral.com> to Benjamin Thompson on July 27, 2005, 10:59 PM ET; subject "Updated family info"; one-line cover note: "While I'm thinking about it."

This document represents Skip's earliest known compiled genealogy notes on his mother Virginia (Bichmiller) Howell's family — predating the 2012 family-history meeting and the inheritance of the Bichmiller archive by seven years.

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VIRGINIA LILLIAN BICHMILLER THOMPSON

LIPPS LINE (mother's side)

Great-grandparents: Anthony & Stockmiller Lipps

John Frederick Lipps (9/8/1862 – 1/15/51)
    Born: Cincinnati
    Died: Indiana State Hospital

Great-grandparents (Weld side): George Kunkel & Margaret Stermer Weld (1847–1916)
    Weld's from Alsace Lorraine

Josephine Margaret Kunkle Lipps (1/30/1866 – 12/5/32)

Children of John & Josephine Lipps:

  • Lillian (8/20/01 – 11/10/61) married Willard Bichmiller on 8/16/22
        — Virginia (the subject)

  • Josephine married Gustav Thumann
        — Ervin Thumann married Lillian → John & Steve (Virginia's godchild)
        — Margaret Thumann married Robert Parry (no children)
        — John Thumann married Jeanne Armstrong → James, Joseph, John, Jennifer

  • Fred (12/8/1885 – 8/30/61) married Elsie Pund (5/16/1892 – 7/5/57)
        — Lloyd
        — Calvin

  • George married Laura Greueninger
        — Bertha (Betty) married Don Roney → Donnie
        — Robert married Ruth → Robyn & Scott

  • John married Elizabeth
        — Hilda, Walter, LeRoy, LaVerne (?)

  • Frank married Martha
        — Willard, Mary, Charles, Milton, Franklin, Delores, Evelyn

  • Molly married Jacob Alstaetter
        — June

  • Albert married Louise
        — Ruth & Jerome (Jerry)

  • Milton (6/20/05 – 7/13/12)


BICHMILLER LINE (father's side)

Willard Frank Bichmiller (5/28/03 – 12/24/50)

    Frank Bichmiller (mom's grandfather — came from Austria as a baby — died 1903)

    Frank's siblings (all born in the USA):
        — Mary Bichmiller Rapp
        — Charles Bichmiller (or Bichlmiller, Bichelmiller or Bichelmueller)
        — Edward Bichmiller

    Willard's sibling — Harold (a half-brother) — had no children

Susan Kissinger Bichmiller (mom's grandmother)
    Susan kept chickens in her basement in Cincinnati. When Frank died, she
    married someone named Spohn (they had Harold). When Spohn died, she
    married someone named Lockridge. Story goes that when she died, she had
    to have her hair shaved off because it was so filthy, they couldn't comb
    it for the funeral.


RESIDENCES

    State Street
    East University in Clifton
    West University in Clifton
    Rohs Street (Clifton)
    near Flora and Ada in Clifton
    Montana
    DeWitt Street in Greenhills (beginning 1938)
    After married: Farragut in Greenhills
    Moved to 1805 East Drive in Richmond in early 1947