Emma Rosa Lungwitz was born on September 12, 1893. Her parents were Herman and Mathilda (Meyr) Lungwitz of Altenburg, and Emma was baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church. I’ll skip right ahead to her marriage in 1912. She married Robert Oehlert who had been born in Kansas. We see this fact on this 1900 census for … More A-Lert in Kansas
Jokes are often made about husbands and wives who may forget each other’s birthdays. Today’s story tells about a couple that never had that problem. That is because they had the same birthday, September 11th. One of them was George Fleiss who was born on that day in 1889, and the other was Lena Angerman … More Unforgettable Birthdays
A marriage took place between two prominent German Lutheran families in St. Louis on this date in 1854. One has to be careful to identify the correct individuals participating in this wedding because this was not the first marriage between members of these two families. In this case, the groom was Johann Fuerchtegott Schuricht and … More Saxony Mills
I was attracted to today’s story because of the names involved. One is very short; the other is not. The short name is Ude, a surname that could be found in the New Wells area for a short time in the late 1800’s. The name that is not so short is Schaumloeffel. This name also … More A Bucket of Beer with Minnie, Music, and Math
A pattern we have seen before is repeated again today. It goes something like this. A member of a large family cannot find either land, employment, or both in East Perry County, so a decision is made to leave. The direction to move is most often to the west where land is cheap and available, … More New Wife, No Job, Go West
In our museum, we have this wonderful account of the family history of John Christian Mueller, a tiler who brought his family to America as part of the Gesellschaft in 1838-1839. Much of the information in today’s post comes from this binder. On Saturday, September 7, 1839, during the first year that the German Lutheran … More Tailor, Tiler, Teacher, Preachers
Today’s story tells of a family that went back and forth between Perry County and St. Louis. When I hear the term “back and forth”, I cannot but smile as I remember how our granddaughter, Kylie, once put on Grandma’s boots as shown in this photo. She than looked at my wife and said, “Grandma, … More Forth and Back
The Lutheran Heritage Center & Museum now has a Twitter account. We have configured it so that whenever we post something on our website, it will also be posted on Twitter. It will provide our readers another way to keep up with what is being added to our site, especially on our blog. We know … More We Are Now on Twitter
Karl Adolph Vogel was born on September 5, 1888 in Frohna, Missouri. Today, I will use his birthday as a springboard for going backwards to discover how his name managed to get into our German Family Tree. The name Vogel has been around Perry County for a long time, and the number of Vogels in … More The Vogels Arrive
The first pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg was Rev. Gotthold Heinrich Löber. Like so many other German names that included the umlaut, the spelling of this name was changed by removing the umlaut and putting an “e” behind the letter that had the umlaut, thus making this name, Loeber. Most folks who live … More A Löber Day Story *** Updated
