Logan County IL Archives Biographies.....Apel, George & Elizabeth Bock 
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Author: History of Logan Co IL 1982

Biography of the George Gustave Apel and Family
transcription with additions by William L. Stephenson, Jr. – Historian, Bock 
Family Association

History of Logan County, Illinois, 1982
by Catherine Apel

George and Elizabeth Bock Apel
George Apel was born in Brlersdorff by Braefenthal, Germany (death certificate 
records Gebersdorf by Graefenthal Thuerigen, Germany), Thursday, April 29, 
1850, and came to this country in 1867 (immigration records record 
Philadelphia in 1868).  Elizabeth Bock was born in Germany, February 4, 1853 
and came to this county about 1874 (immigration records indicate June 1869 
arrival in the US via Baltimore).  They met here in Illinois and were married 
March 13, 1875 in Springfield, Illinois.

(Family oral tradition holds that George came to America at age 14, which was 
under the legal age limit.  On the ship it was learned that he would not be 
permitted into the US as an immigrant unless he had a certain amount of 
money.  His shipmates took up a collection for him so he would be permitted 
into the country.  He traveled from New York City, NY to Chicago, IL.  He 
hopped a freight train going south out of Chicago and got off when the train 
stopped at a grain elevator at Mt. Fulscher, IL (which was between Elkhart, IL 
and Williamsville, IL).  He walked to the nearest farm house and asked for a 
job.  The house was a farm in Elkhart, where he met, and later married, 
Elizabeth Bock, who worked there at the time.)

The Apel’s started farming near Williamsville, Illinois.  From Williamsville 
they moved to a farm near Lawndale.  Later they moved to a farm south of 
Lincoln near Broadwell, where they farmed for 27 years.  In 1900 they moved to 
a farm in Oran Township which they purchased in 1892 and where he died in 1916.

They were the parents of nine children.  Mary Apel, deceased, married John 
Warrick, deceased, who where the parents of four children and lived most of 
their married lives in Girard.  Carrie Apel, deceased, married Leslie Read, 
deceased, and they were the parents of three children: Irene and Emmett reside 
in Lincoln.  Charles Apel, deceased, married Bertha Seefeldt, and they had two 
children – Leona who lives in Lincoln and Carl who lives R.R. 2 Lincoln.  
Minnie Apel died at the age of sixteen.  Henry Apel died at the age of 
fifteen.  George Apel, deceased, married Alma Struening, deceased, and they 
had one daughter, Hilda Apel Keist, of R. R. Lincoln.  Louise Apel, deceased, 
married Charles Schafer, deceased, and they had one son, Raymond Schafer, who 
resides in Lincoln.  Albert Apel married Anna Schrauf, deceased,, and they 
resided on the home place until 1949, when they retired and moved to Lincoln.  
They had two sons, Harold, of R.R.  Lincoln and Vernon of R.R. Atlanta.  
Albert later married Leah Allen in 1972, and they reside in Lincoln.  Lillie 
Apel, the youngest, is now living in Lincoln

George Apel had a sister, Margaret Miller, and a brother, Anton Apel living in 
Germany.

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