In the 1850’s, three Austrian brothers came to America. One of them, Carl Mirly, settled in the New Wells area just south of the Apple Creek in Cape Girardeau County. The other two brothers, Matthias and Joseph, went elsewhere first, but by the 1860’s, they joined their brother in New Wells. Joseph Mirly and his … More Another Irresistible Name…..Schimmelpfennig
Today’s discussion will be about solving a genealogical problem. We noticed this issue when one of our sources indicated that the marriage of Justine Hopfer and Johann George Hesse took place on this day, July 12, in 1843. Then we noticed that a birth was recorded to this couple at the end of September. This … More Translator’s Blunder
Today, instead of looking at people, we are going to discuss their occupations. Many of the original immigrants became farmers, but if you look at the immigration records, you can see that not really that many of them came over here as farmers. The statistics indicate that most of the immigrants were either craftsmen or … More Too Many Shoemakers…..Not Enough Feet
Heinrich Jacob Schlimpert would have been celebrating his 158th birthday today. He was born on July 10, 1858 in Seelitz, Missouri. His parents were August Julius and Bertha (Boehme) Schlimpert. When Jacob was five years old, he went through a very traumatic experience. Two events took place that impacted his life. I cannot tell for … More The Lonely Porch
Today, July 9, would be the 173rd anniversary of Hartmann and Justine (Göthe) Grebing. According to Grebing family history accounts, Hartmann came to America in 1837, arriving in New York. People in the Grebing family talk about him coming aboard the Grand Turk, but I was unable to find his name on a passenger list … More Grebing/Göthe
When I was a boy growing up in Jennings, Missouri in the St. Louis area, the principal at St. Jacobi Lutheran School was Kenneth Markworth. It turns out that today’s blog starts in the Markworth family, and Kenneth Markworth also came from this family. Heinrich Gottfried Markworth came to America aboard the Copernicus in 1839. … More Mrs. Rosenwinkel? Or Is It Mrs. Jahn?
On this day, July 6th, Linna (Schubarth) Bergt died in 1849. At that time, a major cholera epidemic was taking place in St. Louis. That disease reared its ugly head in Perry County also, because the cause of Linna’s death in Frohna, Missouri, was cholera. Linna Schubarth came to America in 1839 aboard the Johann … More Weaver’s Wife
Albert Buenger died on July 5, 1969 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Albert has connections to two of the original immigrants to Perry County, Missouri. First of all, we can trace his ancestry back to Theodore Ernst Buenger and Martha Loeber. Their marriage was described in a previous post: A Loeber-Buenger Wedding. This puts Albert in the … More A Deep Mind
I am away from the wonderful resources that we have in our museum’s research library, so I cannot do the normal research I do to come up with our blog posts. So today, I am going to merely throw out a few names of interest to see if any of our readers may have any … More Fourth of July Quiz
When I was much younger, there was a cartoon titled Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales. Today we have the tale of Tennessee Telle. Josephine Tennessee Telle was born in Uniontown, Missouri on July 11, 1869. The Telle family had arrived in America in 1849 and settled in Perry County. Ten days before her 29th birthday, … More Tennessee Telle and Her Tale
