Two wonderful additions to our 2018 Immigration History Conference are the artist for this year’s conference, Dave Carter; and the conference will be dedicated in memory of Carol Lamm, longtime museum patron and friend. Dave is a renowned painter of Missouri mills, and Carol is the multi-great granddaughter of our first Altenburg pastor, G.H. Loeber and … More A Painter and a Friend
All right. I admit it. I always have trouble keeping the Kasten family and the Kassel family straight in my mind, so today’s story about a Kasten marrying a Kassel is a real challenge for me. I hope I get through this story without writing Kassel when I meant Kasten, or vice versa. At least … More The Kasten-Kassel Kouple
My Aunt Clara Schilling would have been 116 years old today. She was born on August 7, 1902 and baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church. She was the daughter of Henry and Bertha (Mueller) Loebs who had a farm in Wittenberg. Bertha Mueller was my grandmother, only I come by way of second husband, Emanuel Schmidt. … More Aunt Clara
Prior to the 20th century, childbirth, especially in rural areas, was not so much an issue dealt with by medical doctors, but by midwives. The story today is about one of those midwives that served the Altenburg area during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. This woman hit my radar today because it would have … More Magdalena Mueller – Midwife
Rosina (Kluegel) Krahmer came to the United States as a divorced woman with a young baby along with the Gruber Group in the 1839 immigration to Perry County. She divorced her husband in Germany because he refused to make the trip to America. In 1843, she married again, this time to Julius Nitzschke, a merchant … More Windy City Wife
Today’s birthday boy has just one record in our German Family Tree. That one record will end up taking us to so many locations by the time this post is finished. George Albert Dede was born on August 4, 1887 and baptized at Salem Lutheran Church in Farrar, Missouri. Here is his baptism record. Albert … More Learning Latin from a Blacksmith’s Son
When I am doing research for this blog, I sometimes refer to what I do as “going down rabbit holes”. I spend way too much time going down these rabbit holes just to see where they lead. Today, I started with the birth of a set of Guetersloh twins born in Jacob, Illinois, but as … More The Guetersloh Twins’ Spouses
The title for today’s post is also the theme for our upcoming Immigration History Conference which will take place this fall in Altenburg. The dates for the conference are October 25-27, 2018. Instead of doing my normal sketch of some historical person or place from Perry County, I am going to tease you a little … More Tales of Tears Turned to Triumph
The post today will be more of a memorial than it will be a story. The boy born on August 1, 1890 only lived 28 years, and he died for his country in World War I. This post will also be the story of this boy’s grieving mother. Theodore Arbeiter was born on this day … More An Angel’s Sad Pilgrimage
