The birthday of a girl in St. Louis is the starting point for today’s tale. Emilie Christiane Happel was born on July 30, 1858, the 8th child of William and Christiane (Kuehn) Happel. Her parents were both original members of the Gesellschaft in 1839. The marriage of Emilie’s parents took place on the day when … More Theodore and His Two St. Louis Wives
Time to stop and count blessings again today. It’s only Wednesday and we have 1/2 of a floor on the new wing of the Lutheran Heritage Center, we had another awesome Bible Study on our journey with the Psalms, and progress in the archives is becoming measurable (what a relief.) In the lower level archives, … More Hungry for Autumn Color and a “Warren” of School Kids!
Today would have been the 125th anniversary of the marriage involving a Lutheran and a Baptist. The Lutheran groom was a man by the name of William Schroeder, and the Baptist bride was a girl by the name of Elizabeth Emma Cashion. The marriage license for this couple is shown below. The above marriage license … More A Lutheran/Baptist Couple
Emma Caroline Weber would be celebrating her 130th birthday today. She was born on July 28, 1890, the daughter of Herman and Wilhelmine (Hoffmann) Weber. That makes her one the members of the “Ridge Webers”. Emma was baptized at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Altenburg. Below is her baptism record in two images. A civil birth … More Yet Another “Cross the Creek” Wedding
The summer of 1849 in St. Louis, Missouri, especially the month of July, bears a certain resemblance to the present-day coronavirus pandemic. A previous post on this blog described what was happening during the Cholera Epidemic that devastated that city and especially the Lutheran church located there, Old Trinity Lutheran Church. That post was titled, … More An Epidemic Survivor
I must admit that every time I recall a post that I wrote several years ago titled, The $15 Wedding, I begin giggling. That post told the story about the stipulations in a will that stated when a single daughter would get married, her brother, the executor of that will, would be required to pay … More The $15 Bride’s First Child
Earlier this month, I wrote a story about a Schuppan that married a Vogel in the Shawnee Township of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. Today, I will tell the tale of another Schuppan/Vogel marriage that took place a few generations earlier. In the course of looking into today’s couple, I discovered that the Schuppan and Vogel … More Vogel and Schuppan Connections
I did notice one of the main characters in today’s story in a document I looked at yesterday. However, it was not until I started searching for a person to write about for today that I decided to use that same document for this post. Let’s start by looking at that document. It was shared … More Cousin Baptism Twins
Jesus was a carpenter’s son. He went on to carry out the mission of his Heavenly Father. Although I begin with the birthday of a girl in Perry County today, I will use that event to kick off the story of one of her sons. That son was also the son of a carpenter, and … More A Carpenter’s Son
I wish to stop and share my day at the Lutheran Heritage Center with you. It started with our Wednesday morning Summer Bible Study of the Psalms. Each of the sessions has been great. You can watch them on our Facebook page. Today was Psalm 77. I’m a historian, but not a Bible scholar, so … More The Treasures in a Day
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