Henry and Martha (Fischer) Palisch were blessed with a new son on October 12, 1891. They named this new boy Rudolph Martin Palisch. Because he never married, he has no descendants, but his story is a fascinating one. Rudolph’s father operated the Palisch General Store in Frohna, and by 1910, according to that year’s census, … More From Frohna to France – A WWI Wagoner
Christoph Heinrich Loeber was born on October 11, 1828 in Germany. During those really formative years before becoming a teenager, the times around his birthday were times of great transition. In 1838, when Christoph was turning ten years old, his family was about to go through the most drastic change to occur in his lifetime. … More Growing Up in the Midst of Change
Yesterday, our blog post was about Nora Schmidt. In that article, it was noted that Nora was born on October 9, 1901. Nora is shown in the above photograph standing between her mother and father. Several months ago, there was another blog post about a pair of Lorenz twins….Together in Birth and Death. They were … More Where is Nora?
Today would have been the 115th birthday of Nora Schmidt who was born on October 9, 1901. Unfortunately, Nora lived only a short 24 years. Cause of death: pulmonary tuberculosis. For a while, this disease was called White Death. Nora was the daughter of Martin Wilhelm and Elisabeth (Roth) Schmidt. This Schmidt family had seven … More Cause of Death – Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Today, October 8, 2016, the Saxon Lutheran Memorial in Frohna is conducting their annual Fall Festival. If you happen to be in the neighborhood of East Perry County, Missouri, it is well worth your trip to attend this event. On the property of the Saxon Lutheran Memorial you can find a cabin once used by … More Memorial Cabin
Johann Christoph Friedrich Feig was born on this day, October 7, in 1821 in Germany. While still in Germany, he married Christiane Aloe. In 1850, Christoph brought his wife and infant daughter, Johanne, to America. They arrived in New Orleans aboard the Queen on June 10, 1850. Christoph’s family is already recorded in the … More The $15 Wedding
Many, many people drive past this tree on a daily basis around here. It is a tree that has obviously been around here for a very long time. If it had eyes, it would have seen many interesting events over the years. If it had ears, it would have heard countless stories. It stand on … More If a Tree Could Talk
Most of the writing that I have done on this blog has been about people who have had numerous children, especially when in comparison with families today. In the last few days though, the families that I have researched have had very few children. That is the case with Caroline Sophia Anna Grote, who was … More Very Few Children
Pastor Loeber’s sister, Christiane, came to America with the Loeber family in 1839 at the age of 43. Like so many other German families, she was the Tante for the Loeber family. Often there was a single female in a family that ended up with the task of helping her siblings raise their children. Nowadays, … More Tante’s Cemetery
Not every day is successful. Today was one where, despite quite a few efforts, we were unable to come up with a good story for this blog. We spent a lot of time looking for information about a girl by the name of Hattie Franklin. She was a foster child of Otto and Juliana Palisch … More Genealogy Bummer
