The daughter of John George and Elizabeth Genevieve Faust Bickert, Monica Bickert was born on June 18, 1841, in Germany. She married Blassius Riester on March 24, 1867, in Ohio County, West Virginia. They had six children in 19 years, including William, George Leonard, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, and John. She died on March 27, 1922, in Wheeling, West Virginia, at the age of 80, and was buried there. Her older brother, Ambrose Bickert, who fought as a private in the Civil War, immigrated in 1860 and died as a prosperous farmer in Nebraska in 1915.
The daughter of John George and Elizabeth Genevieve Faust Bickert, Monica Bickert was born on June 18, 1841, in Germany. She married Blassius Riester on March 24, 1867, in Ohio County, West Virginia. They had six children in 19 years, including William, George Leonard, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, and John. She died on March 27, 1922, in Wheeling, West Virginia, at the age of 80, and was buried there. Her older brother, Ambrose Bickert, who fought as a private in the Civil War, immigrated in 1860 and died as a prosperous farmer in Nebraska in 1915.
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