Saturday, December 14, 2019

Othmar Sidler 1691 - 1746


Othmar Sidler married Elsbeth Sidler and they had 10 children. Four of their children married. Othmar died 10 Feb 1746. His death was recorded by Ottenbach Pastor Balthasar Zwingli as follows:


Translation: Wurd (was) begraben (buried), Seckelmeiester (treasurer) and Adjuntant (military warrant officer). Cause of death: very hot temperature and constipation.

Seckelmeister
Othmar was a Seckelmeister, and Adjudant in Ottenbach. (Julius Billeter)A Seckelmeister is a Treasurer or administration of the confessional financial budgets. Both parties appointed a special Treasurer for a period of six years.. (Patrick A. Wild)

In Switzerland since the late Middle Ages it was a designation for "manager or managers of takings of public funds or goods", be it in the state administration or in an association or a political party.

Adjutant
Adjutant is a military appointment given to an officer who assists the commanding officer with unit administration, mostly the management of human resources in army unit. The term adjudant is used in French-speaking armed forces as a non-commissioned officer rank similar to a staff sergeant or warrant officer but is not equivalent to the role or appointment of an adjutant. (Wikipedia)

The Swiss Army an aide, often in the rank of a corporal, (Peter Bertschinger). Adjutant is also an aide-de-camp

Emma Scholl:

The winter of 1936-37 was the hardest winter in St. George’s history, 13 degrees below zero one night, froze our water pipes. Rosena Blake gave us buttermilk and canned fruit. Helen Palmer gave us canned fruit. We sent to Loma Linda for fruit crackers, large boxes of them and other Loma Linda foods, soy butter etc. I never met so many kind generous people before in my life as I met in St. George. I went to the temple when I was well. Elaine encouraged me to go. We went on Saturdays and she did baptisms. One day she did 106 all at one time. Harold S. Snow, her history teacher, confirmed her. He later became President of Temple after George Whitehead. Martin Mc Allister was recorder. I told him about Julius Billeter and he sent for his Lensi and Herzog records from Switzerland. I met Rosena Blake at the temple, visited her often and saw her Swiss records. One day I told her my dream. She said she had a granary on back of her house, had it made into a room and rented it. I went back to see it and it was the place I saw in my dream. I wondered why I saw it. I asked her to let me make pedigree charts from her Swiss records. I soon found out why I saw her room in the dream. She had a Sidler and Hegetschweiler line from Ottenbach on her father's side and I found her father and my mother were cousins, which makes her the only relative of mother's we have ever known on earth. Three nephews went on missions to Switzerland, found father's relatives, but not mother's. (Emma Scholl History)

Documents related to Othmar Sidler:


Othmar Sidler b1691 Film 2060954


Othmar Sidler and  Elisabetha Sidler married 1712

Othmar Sidler Family 1733 Haushaltungsrodel (household family register)
Film 2060954 page 479


Sidler Hegetschweiler Temple Record by Julius Billeter page 31

Sidler Hegetschweiler Temple Record by Julius Billeter page 25


Sidler Hegetschweiler Temple Record by Julius Billeter page 165
Sidler Hegetschweiler Temple Record by Julius Billeter - 166
Sidler Hegetschweiler Temple Record by Julius Billeter Page 42


Sidler Hegetschweiler Temple Record by Julius Billeter - 168


Othmar Sidler death 10 Feb 1746 film 8014328 page 622 fourth down
Translation: Wurd (was) begraben (buried), Seckelmeiester (treasurer)
and Adjuntant (military warrant officer). Cause of death: very hot
temperature and constipation.