The birthday boy for today is rather unusual. It is not often that I write about a character that arrived in America and Perry County, Missouri before the 1839 German Lutheran immigration. Today’s main character arrived on the ship, Bolivar, in 1837. The 22 year-old Leonard Fath is found on this passenger list for that … More Fath – Bergmann – Lang
Today’s birthday boy is John Charles Boxdorfer, who was born on April 29, 1871. I have seen him called John C., J.C., and John Charles in documents. His gravestone calls him J. Charles. I choose to call him Charles, partly because I have already written a post about a John Boxdorfer. I think in his … More Tombstone Trader
Today is the 130th anniversary of the wedding of Jacob and Louisa Grebing. This couple spent almost their entire married lives in East Perry County, but late in their lives were in St. Louis at the time of their deaths. During those last years, Jacob was an instrumental character involved in the construction of a … More Jacob and the St. Louis Replica Cabin
I definitely do not have time to write a new story today, but I simply cannot ignore the fact that today is the 175th anniversary of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. I am posting this short article from 6 years ago on the occasion of this church body’s birthday. Someday I should write more on this … More Keepers and Tellers
It is not often that I base a story on a baptism date, but when 3 young siblings are baptized on the same day, it gets my attention. Not only that, but that baptismal date occurred 125 years ago, making it a special anniversary today. The year was 1897. The village of Wittenberg had become … More Triple Boyse Baptisms
Esther Agnes Dede is today’s birthday girl. She was born on April 24, 1899, the daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Winter) Dede. She was the 9th of 10 Dede children. Esther, as well as all her siblings, was baptized at Salem Lutheran Church in Farrar. We can take a look at her baptism record. Esther … More Bill and Esther – The Aurich’s
You will read another story today that has its beginnings in Perry County, Missouri, but certainly does not end there. Otto Alwin Theophilus Frentzel was born on April 23, 1886, making today his 136th birthday. Otto was the 4th of 11 children born to Alvin and Elizabeth (Ruhkopf) Frentzel. Since the first 3 children were … More Otto Frentzel – Nebraska Banker
Today is even busier for me. We have a large school group visiting our museum today. Exactly six years ago, the same school, St. Paul’s Lutheran School in Des Peres, Missouri visited our museum, and we wrote about it on this blog. I am reposting that story today. We will be hosting several Lutheran school … More Log Cabin College Connections
I hadn’t planned to make our 2000th blog post a mere re-blog of a previous post, but that is what this is. There is too much on my plate today, and I figured you might enjoy this early story from 2016 which is incredibly short compared to more recent posts.
We keep making corrections to our German Family Tree. That may have to happen again today. This time, I think the Friedenberg Remembrances book has an omission. That book was produced long after the church books of Peace Lutheran Church in Friedenberg were destroyed in a fire many years ago. That book is an effort … More A Botched Bergmann/Bergmann Baby Blurb
