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From :EARLY WAYNE COUNTY SETTLERS AND THEIR RHINELAND ORIGINS By Lloyd
Espenschied, Originally published in The Lyons Republican and Clyde Times, 1958:
From A family that came also from Sieversheim, in 1836, is that of Henry Wagner (1793-1867). He and his wife Mary are buried in
Ferguson's Corners. They are progenitors of Tusanelda Nusbickel, wife of Dr. Reuben Spencer Simpson of 65 Broad Street, Lyons. Her
Nusbickel immigrant ancestor, Frederick (1818-1897) emigrated in 1839 from Dorsheimers native village of
Woellstein, and lived in Sodus, Rose and Lyons.
From Mary Smart, daughter of Tusanelda Nusbickel:
"After World War II, Tusanelda received a letter from Germany, sent from relatives who were literally starving as a result of the devastation of war. So she and a cousin sent CARE boxes over there, filled with all kinds of supplies; flour, sugar.....and it kept them alive. And as a result, was able to get Christina Nusbickel's birth certificate, all the birth and death certificates from the church at
Wöllstein. So they are all authenticated."
The name Tusanelda means "Thousand Fires" in German. - Mary Smart
Tusanelda was the first NUSBICKEL historian whose papers are in possession of her daughter, Mary Simpson Smart. Tusanelda's DAR No. is 333573.
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