I don’t have much time to research for a post today with grandchildren in town, but here is a short article. Maybe you have noticed a lot of names which are mentioned in this blog that have the letters GOTT in them. Gott is the German word for God. Our German ancestors’ faith is evident … More God in a Name
Here is a bonus post for today, especially since we don’t plan to post a story tomorrow on Memorial Day. Are they twins? They certainly look like it. The man on the right would be celebrating his 171st birthday today if he was still alive. His name was Heinrich Theodore Hemmann. The man on the … More Twins??? Nope.
Memorial Day is a day for remembering and honoring those men and women who gave their lives to preserve the liberties that we enjoy in this country. Today’s post will be a tribute to a family from Perry County who lost two young men as a result of World War II. I would like to … More Memorial Day Tribute
We have a Bliss Manufacturing Company lithographed wooden dollhouse from c.1913 in our collection. Bliss Manufacturing conducted business in Pawtucket, Rhode Island for about a century beginning in the last half of the 19th Century. They began as producers of wooden screws and clamps for piano cabinet makers. They also created highly prized wooden toys covered in … More A Blissful Buenger Artifact
Right as the Civil War was coming to an end, a boy was being born in Altenburg by the name of Traugott Ernst Heinrich Schuessler. He was born on this day, May 28th in 1864. He was baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church on June 8th. He may have been baptized by Rev. J.F. Koestering who … More Farmer Becomes Pastor after Marrying His Pastor’s Daughter
May 27, 1873, was the wedding date for a couple whose parents spent some of their early time after the immigration in Perry County. Both of the groom’s parents and both of the bride’s parents spent those early years in and around Altenburg. The groom was Ferdinand Gerhard Walther and the bride was Bertha Emilie … More A Special Wedding with Perry County Roots
This blog post begins as we notice that today is the 126th anniversary of the day that Valentine Otto Hoehn married Maria Margaretha Fassold. They were married in 1890 at Peace Lutheran Church in Friedenberg. That is where we begin, but this event takes us on several side trips. First of all, we see on … More Let’s Go to America to Get Married
Today’s story begins with Carolina Christiana Bergt being born on May 25 in 1857. She was born in the little village of Archbold in northern Ohio. Her father, William Adolph Bergt was the Lutheran pastor there. Later, her father would become the pastor in Uniontown, Missouri. Her father had come to Missouri in the 1839 … More A Family Moves to the Prairie
The Jahn family certainly seemed to love to have their weddings in the month of May. We may have another one today, although the date of the wedding is a topic for debate. The first of the Jahn weddings took place in 1846 in St. Louis, with Justine Jahn marrying Carl Eduard Roschke, but a … More Tailor to Teacher
It was a Tuesday. May 23, 1848 was going to be a special day in Altenburg. Their pastor’s daughter was going to get married. Not only that, she was going to marry another child of a pastor who had become a Lutheran teacher. The groom was Theodore Ernst Buenger. The bride was Martha Loeber. ***If … More A Loeber-Buenger Wedding
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