To show the connection between the MIELKE and JAMES families
beginning near Bloomingville, Oxford Township, Erie County,
Ohio. This data was gathered from sources in Ohio and from a
variety of US census and Ohio reports. Note: Bloomingville was
originally located in Huron County, Ohio, prior to the 1838
change, at which time Bloomingville became part of the new Eire
County. August MIELKE married Sophronia JAMES on July 16, 1876,
in bloomingville, Ohio. Sophronia JAMES was born in 1851 or 1852
in Bloomingville. She is the daughter of Henry JAMES and Abigail
DAVIS JAMES, of Bloomingville, Erie County, Ohio. Sophronia's
father died in 1878, her mother in 1887, with both buried in
Bloomingville Cememtery. Henry JAMES had traveled from Ireland
to the USA in 1807. Sophronia and August Mielke were married
July 16, 1876, in Erie Co, Ohio. The marriage license of August
MIELKE & Sophronia JAMES is recorded in the Erie County
Courthouse. In 1880 August & Sophronia and their childred were
living in Sophronia's mother's