I get to add a brand new name to the multitude of surnames that have been highlighted on this blog. I did a search on our blog for the name, Zelsman, and got no results. A new folder for Zelsman had to be added to our digital collection of images that continues to grow in … More An Oehlert Finds a Zelsman Mate in Hillsboro
The starting point for our story is the birth of a baby girl on July 30, 1898. If she was still alive today, she would be celebrating her 125th birthday. Her name was Clara Louise Bergmann, the daughter of Heinrich and Maria Anna (Fassold) Bergmann. Clara was baptized at Peace Lutheran Church in Friedenberg, so … More Martin and Clara – Longtown Hacker’s
Herman Carl Heinrich Feig was born on July 29, 1857, qualifying him to be today’s birthday boy. He would be 166 years old today if he was still alive. Like so many others with the name, Carl, he would later mostly be called Charles. He was the 6th of 7 children born to Christoph and … More Charles Feig – Cabinet Maker
Yesterday’s post began with a baby girl, Ella Schroeder, being born in Altenburg on July 27, 1898. Ella married a man from St. John’s Lutheran Church in Pocahontas, which resulted in Ella living in Pocahontas the rest of her life. Today’s post begins with a baby girl being born on the next day, July 28, … More Arthur and Anna – Perryville Guth’s
Ella Emma Schroeder is the one who would be celebrating a special birthday today. Ella was born on July 27, 1898, so if she was still alive, she would be blowing out 125 candles on her birthday cake. Ella was the daughter of Friedrich and Maria (Luedemann) Schroeder. She was the 7th and last child … More Pocahontas Schattauer/Schroeder Pair
The posts, Migrating Miesner’s and May the Fourth Fred Miesner tell the tales of two men named Fred Miesner. You will read yet another account about a Fred Miesner today. I came upon this story because the woman Fred Miesner would marry was born on this day. We will begin with her. Anna Susannah Lungwitz was … More Yet Another Fred Miesner
The photo below has been displayed before in a post, Tales from a Palisch Picture. It shows the Ernst and Cora Palisch family. Today, I will finally get around to telling the story of Ernst and Cora Palisch, the parents in this photo. Cora, pictured on the right side, is today’s birthday girl. Cora Johanna Mueller … More Ernst and Cora – The Palisch’s
I am a day late with this story, but I could not ignore it. It’s a bicentennial birthday story. Rev. Martin Stephan is rather famous (and infamous) for leading the German Lutheran immigration to America in 1839 known as the Gesellschaft. When Rev. Stephan came to this country, he left most of his family in … More The Junior Martin Stephan’s 200th
It is another travel day for us today, so I have no time to research. I shared a post about John Traugott Schuricht, who was celebrating his 200th birthday yesterday. He and his wife had a set of twins who had a birthday the day after their father’s birthday. Only one of the twins survived. … More California is Calling
I just could not resist re-publishing an old post today. This story was written in 2017 about Johann Fuerchtegott Schuricht. Today marks his bicentennial birthday. I did not even mention his birthday, July 22, 1823, in that previous post. Even though it seems that he was called John in many documents, I called him Fuerchtegott … More Saxony Mills
