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Month: July 2018

Harry Abandoned on the Prairie – Updated

July 31, 2018

Today, I am going to re-publish an old post and add some new information and some new photographs to it.  Yesterday, our museum had a few visitors who happened to be descendants of the Harry mentioned in the title of this post who way back in 1885 was left in a basket out in the … More Harry Abandoned on the Prairie – Updated

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A Traveling Salesman Story

July 30, 2018

Ernst Rudolph Estel would have turned 147 years old today.  He was born on July 30, 1871.  He was baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church, but he was probably born in Wittenberg.  His parents were shown running a store in Wittenberg in the 1870 census.  Here is his baptism record. Rudolph went by the name Rudi … More A Traveling Salesman Story

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The Wichern’s Home on the Hill

July 29, 2018

One might think that a story about a man who spends all his life being a farmer might not be worthy for telling.  First of all, if that was true, I would have to eliminate an awful lot of people from our list of East Perry County residents when I’m looking for subjects for this … More The Wichern’s Home on the Hill

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Go Find the West, Young Man

July 27, 2018

We have a birthday boy coming from Farrar, Missouri today.  His name was Gerth August Stueve.  He was born on July 27, 1884.  His parents were Claus Henry and Margaretha (von Glahn) Stueve.  You have to be really careful with the name Claus Stueve.  First of all, there are numerous Claus Stueves to be found … More Go Find the West, Young Man

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Perusing Some Paitzdorf Papers

July 26, 2018

I am not going to tell the story of an individual person today.  First of all, I was having trouble finding a story to write that had to do with today’s date.  Secondly, I knew that we were having a few special guests coming to our museum today.  Those guests were coming because they know … More Perusing Some Paitzdorf Papers

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California is Calling

July 23, 2018

July 23, 1859 was the day a set of twins, one boy and one girl, were born in St. Louis, Missouri.  The parents of this set of twins were both part of the 1839 German Lutheran immigration, so that is how their story makes this blog.  Both of the parents came to America aboard the … More California is Calling

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Kleiner the Schlächter

July 22, 2018

Our story today includes two topics that show up much more in today’s day and age than they did back in the days gone by.  Those two topics are divorce and cremation.  As I write stories for this blog, I do not find many occurrences of divorce.  Cremation, on the other hand, was a process … More Kleiner the Schlächter

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Florida – Born Beautiful

July 20, 2018

Our German Family Tree records that Flora Schoenborn (“schoen” means beautiful in German) was born on July 20, 1897, so today would have been her 121st birthday.  However, there is no baptism record for Flora in any church records from Perry County.  Yet we do know from all the census records that include her that … More Florida – Born Beautiful

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How the Hoeck, He Met the Militzer

July 19, 2018

A name, Frederick Hoeck, sneaks into our German Family Tree in just two official records, one a church record and the other a civil record.  No other Hoecks can be found in any records.  First, there is a marriage record which is found in the church books of Concordia Lutheran Church in Frohna, Missouri.  Here … More How the Hoeck, He Met the Militzer

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First Buck; Last Buck

July 17, 2018

The story I have to write today will give me the opportunity to share with you a new resource that we have available in our research library.  I hope to also tie two people found in our German Family Tree together by looking at some of these German records.  First let me show you what … More First Buck; Last Buck

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