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    From Mary Smart, daughter of Tusanelda Nusbickel: "Christina Nusbickel came over to this country from their village of Wöllstein, in the fertile wine-producing region of Rheinhassen, Germany with her brother Frederick Nusbickel in 1839. They came up the Hudson River from the port at New York and traveled along the Erie canal by packet-boat. 

    After thirteen weeks on a sailing vessel, Friederick was understandably impatient and eager to reach his destination port, Lyons, NY. So much so that he couldn't sit still on the packet-boat. Friederick got off and walked along side the boat on the tow-path between the locks. When they arrived in Lyons, NY, a young man by the name of Adam Frey was nearby the dock and spotted Christina. It is possible that Christina was to be 'in service', as that was what the young girls did in those days, possibly as a maid to Mrs. Hotchkiss, but that is speculation."  

    Christina Nusbickel Frey is buried in the North Main Street Cemetery in Newark, NY, lot #100.

Newark Courier Gazette, January 1883

Another sudden death was that of Mrs. Christina Frey, widow of the late Adam Frey, on Thursday last, near East Palmyra.  She got up apparently as well as usual in the morning, but after breakfast she complained of not feeling well.  She grew rapidly worse, and in two hours she had ceased to breathe.  The disease was apoplexy.  Her age was 62.  She leaves a large family of grown up children to mourn her loss.

Christina Nusbickel Frey

1821 - 1883