Once again, today’s post will involve a surname that goes through some spelling changes. There is also some misspelling to be found on Ancestry.com family trees with today’s surname. Some folks out there get today’s name confused with the Kassel name, which is a familiar one around here. Today’s birthday boy is Edwin Matthias Kössl, … More Pinckneyville’s Koessel Kar Kare
In a previous post, Double Stepmother – Never a Birth Mother, the story was told of a woman who was the stepmother of William Schuessler. William was briefly mentioned in that post. Today, I will spend some time focusing on William, who is today’s birthday boy. William is the grandfather of one of our museum’s docents, … More William and Mathilda – The Schuessler’s
I will eventually bring this story around to a birth that took place on this day 150 years ago, but I choose to go back a bit farther in this family’s history to show a trend. I have discussed this family to a certain extent in previous blogs. The family highlighted in this post is … More Grass Migrations
The man and woman who will be highlighted in today’s story were each part of rather large families living near Farrar, Missouri. This couple would also end up being one of those who each spent almost their entire lives from cradle to grave as members of the same congregation. In this case, that congregation was … More Farrar Rauss-Koenig Couple
A Schmidt baby girl was born on this day, but this Schmidt is not related to any of the Schmidt clans that arrived on the ships that were part of the Gesellschaft in 1839. This girl only shows up for a short time in Perry County and spends most of her life in Granite City, … More Schmidt-Grizzle-Daniel-Pinkerton
I located a bicentennial birthday for today’s post. Since that takes us back to 1823, when I find such a birthday boy or girl, they almost certainly were born in Germany or Austria. In today’s case, our bicentennial birthday girl was born in Austria. You will discover that this story will detail a couple made … More A Pioneer Meyr Matriarch Celebrates 200th
The 2023 East Perry Community Fair is now one for the history books. It should go down as a very successful one. Two of our older granddaughters did not attend this year because they had their high school Homecoming in Memphis. I understand that, but I also like to think of the annual fair in … More Huge Homecoming
Fred Eggers, who has been a guest blogger for us and also serves as one of our docents, also has a seat on the Fair Board. After last year’s fair, he claimed that it had the largest attendance of all time. He said there were over 30,000 people who attended, although I think it is … More A Potential Record-Breaking Fair
An annual phenomenon takes place anuualy in East Perry County, Missouri. It is Fair Week. Almost every resident of this area becomes involved in some way in prepping for the East Perry Community Fair. This event has been happening around here for a lot of years, and it would not be the glorious event that … More Fair Preview – 2023 Edition
Today’s birthday girl gets into our German Family Tree, not because she was baptized in a local Lutheran church, but because she married a Lutheran man who was. You will eventually learn about her, but I am going to begin this post by looking at the man who became her husband. Joseph Emanuel Brunkhorst was … More Joseph Brunkhorst – Storyteller and Historian
