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Family Origins — How Oehler became Oler

The Oler line began in Botenheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, recorded as Öhler / Oehler back to Joerg Oeler (b. 1492, Heilbronn). The first to come to America was Georg Heinrich "Henry" Öhler, b. 31 Oct 1718 in Botenheim; he immigrated to colonial Virginia in the early 1740s (married c. 1744) and settled in Madison County, VA, dying 28 Aug 1806.

Öhler Germany Ayler / Aylor Virginia · c. 1740s Oler Virginia → Ohio/IN · by c. 1768

The spelling change: Öhler → Ayler on arrival in Virginia (c. 1740s, anglicization); Ayer → Oler settled by the 3rd generation — Henry Oler Sr. (b. 1768, Virginia).

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