A great-grandmother (neé Mohl) wrote down that this and that were so. Too vaguely colorful a story to have much merit. Documents were scant. The only von Mohls to be found, which took some doing, were minor notables of the early 19th century. But then came a book compiled by one Dr. Eberhard von Georgii-Georgenau in Stuttgart in 1879. The notables, sons of a renowned Württemburg statesman, turn out to be cousins: Hugo the botanist, Robert the jurist, Julius the Oriental scholar, and young Moritz the politician. Their erstwhile elder cousin-once-removed Christian set off for America in 1832, possibly on a ship named the Baron von der Cappellan, was robbed, practiced law, lost a seal ring, traveled to Florida, and died in New York in the first half of 1850. His daughter married a Court the same year in the same city but moved on to Texas.
Sources: von Georgii-Georgenau, Biographisch-Genealogische Blaetter, pp. 589-97; Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed., vol. 18, p. 648; family accounts; Tepper, Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Baltimore 1820-1834, p. 253; ADB/NDB Deutsche Biographie onliine
generation no. 1
Johannes Mohl, the exile, dates unknown, attested in 1879 account to be cited in archival family account of Austrian branch as the one who espoused Lutheranism, forfeited his estate, left Vienna, and emigrated to Stuttgart.
generation no. 2
Jacob Mohl, bürgermeister in Neuffen. Died 16 July 1608.
generation no. 3
Jacob Mohl, born 1576 in Neuffen, died 1643. Sovereign counsel, baliff in Balinger, Lustnau, Tübingen, and Dole (Burgundy), at which university he studied and graduated.
generation no. 4
Johann Ludwig Mohl, born 1612 in Balingen, died 1676. Baliff in Backnang, Married Anna Margaretha Doerner.
generation no. 5
Ludwig Jacob Mohl, born 1642 in Tübingen, died 1708. Vaihingen abbey administrator in 1675, Winnenden castle steward 1688, sovereign counsel 1692, baliff in Murrhardt 1698, Stiftsverwalter in Backnang 1705. Married 18 November 1684 Joanna Agathe Endris.
generation no. 6
Wilhelm Ludwig Mohl, born 1685 in Marlbraun, died 1743. Diaconus in Wildbad 1710, from 1716 a Lutheran minister in Beinstein. Married Barbara Justina Hirshmann, daughter Johann Friedrich Hirschmann.
Johann Jacob Mohl [collateral line], born 1687 in Marlbraun. Church warden in Adelberg, died 1738. Married 24 October 1719 Justina Charlotte Martini.
generation no. 7
Ludwig Friedrich Mohl, born 1716 in Stuttgart, died 1767. Lutheran minister in Wangen, O.A. Göppingen.
Carl Gottlieb Mohl [collateral line], born 1727 in Adelberg, Geh. Hofrath zu Stuttgart, died 1802. Married Christiana Beata Moser.
generation no. 8
Johann Wilhelm Mohl, born 1751. Lutheran minister in Weissach, O.A. Vaihingen. Married Friederike Christiana Kapff.
generation no. 9
Christian Friederich Mohl, born 22 October 1795, died 1850 in New York City. Umgelds Commissar. Married, her second husband, in 1820 Friederike Christiane Lutz, born 20 March 1790 in Nüremberg, daughter of Sophia Fredericka Philipena Christiana Lutz (neé Kiefer, of the Netherlands).
Benjamin Ferdinand Mohl [collateral line], born 4 January 1766 in Stuttgart, died 5 August 1845. Statesman. Württembergischer Innenminister; Regierungspräsident in Ellwangen. Married 8 July 1798 Louisa Friederica Autenrieth, who died 7 November 1843.
generation no. 10
Christiane Fredricke Louisa Mohl, born mid-1829 in Hemmingen, Baden-Württemberg, died 1910 in Houston TX. Married 6 October 1850 Carl Court in New York.
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