Martha Marie Telle was born on June 30, 1870. When she later married Gottfried Heinrich Mueller, she became Martha Marie Mueller. Thus, the reason for the reference to 3M in the title. Today’s story is about this Martha’s family. I say “this” Martha because she is not the only Martha Telle who lived in the … More The 3M Company
Today’s title is a mouthful in the German language. Auswanderungs-Gesellschaft is a German term that gets translated as “emigration society” in English. I have often used the scaled-down version of this term, Gesellschaft, in several posts when describing the basic group that consisted of the immigrants, their leadership, and the way they were governed and … More Auswanderungs-Gesellschaft
I usually find a topic for this blog which is associated with the date. That is once again the case today. June 28th was the birthday of a man in 1869 who happened to end up doing the same thing I did during my career. He became a Lutheran school teacher. However, this man, contrary … More Detroit’s Teacher Estel
The author of today’s post is once again Fred Eggers. He is an outstanding researcher and has written this story with connections to his own family. It is a fascinating tale of a man’s survival during the calamity of a steamboat burning on the Mississippi River. This account also contains information that is important in … More The Perilous Journey of Some Early Lamstedt Immigrants
Otto Oswald was born on June 26, 1865 in Chester, Illinois. Anna Kaempfe was also born in Illinois. When she was born in 1875, her family was living in Millstadt, Illinois. However, when these two were married in 1893, their marriage took place in Frohna, Missouri because both of these families had moved to Perry … More An O-K Couple
There were ten children born into the Edward Fischer family between 1893 and 1913. Nine of them were boys. Sadly, the mother of this family, Katie (Kuennel) Fischer, witnessed the funerals of seven of her children before her own death. The reason this story hit my radar today is that one of those sons, Rudolph … More Fischer Heartbreak
June 24th was the birthday of Max Rauh. His given name was Martin Friedrich Rauh and he was born in 1906. His parents were Ernst and Emma (Wirth) Rauh. Early in his life, Max was a member of Peace Lutheran in Friedenberg where his parents had been married. Somewhere along the line, Martin started carrying … More Market Mates
We have an unusual artifact in our museum that really ought to be somewhere else. It is a tombstone. I choose to mention this tombstone today because it includes the death date of June 23, 1864. It is the tombstone of a person whom I have described as one of the prolific fathers of Perry … More A Misplaced Tombstone
Occasionally, I run across a man or woman who had two spouses who just so happened to have the same first name. That, in itself, is a pretty unusual thing. Today’s story takes this circumstance up another level. Joseph Henry Lorenz had two wives during his lifetime, and both of them were named Frieda Bachmann. … More Did Joe Really Marry Two Frieda Bachmanns?
We are entertaining two grandchildren at the Schmidt house these days, and today we have planned little trip to a place called Elephant Rocks which is located just outside the city of Pilot Knob, Missouri. Since I will not have much time to do research today, I choose to tell the story of a little … More Immanuel Lutheran Church, Pilot Knob
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