For this post, I will refer you to an old one that was written back in 2017, Two of a Kind….Later a Full House. That post told the story of the Schmidt twins that got married on the same day. What makes that story even more fascinating is that after the wedding, both of these twins brought … More Full House’s Three Queens
Many lifelong Missourians are familiar with the name, Kit Bond, who was a two-time governor of our state and a 4-term U.S. Senator. Today, you will be reading the story of Kit Bond’s grandparents because today would be a special wedding anniversary for that couple. I will begin by discussing his grandpa. Samuel Bond was born on … More Governor Bond’s Grandparents
The information shown below from our German Family Tree is the starting point for today’s story. It is what we find for a woman named Carolina Lix. As you can see, there is not much to work with. The birth date for Caroline Lix is quite debatable. Her gravestone is engraved with the birthday of November 5, 1866. Her … More Lixville Klemp’s
Dr. Theodore Fischer is one of the most familiar names in the history of Altenburg. He was a medical doctor in Altenburg throughout his entire career after being born and raised here. I have written his story in the post, Hometown Doc. I also discovered another man by that name and wrote his story, Yet Another Theodore Fischer. Today, I … More Another Doc Fischer in Carlinville
First of all, I have a confession to make. I made a mistake. I was not careful enough in confirming a marriage date. Our German Family Tree says a marriage took place on January 27th, but after investing a lot of my time in gathering information about the couple that got married, I found that the marriage actually … More Lohmann Marries Schumer – A Catholic Couple
Today marks the 200th birthday of Jacob Gottlob Dietrich. I decided to share a the attached post written about the Dietrich family back in 2021. Gottlob was the father of a rather fascinating family made up of 9 children, all of which lived past childhood, and all of them boys. A family binder that we have for the … More Bicentennial Birthday of the Altenburg Giants Manager
When I began researching today’s main character, I discovered that all of the images I wanted to save to put in this post were already in our files. I eventually realized that I had begun writing this story on this date exactly a year ago. I must have made the decision to not finish the story, and instead … More Hilda and Fritz – A Hoehn Marries a Yount Yamnitz
When I moved to Perry County, I started hearing about a well-known local character by the name of Johnny Fable. It was quite a while before I discovered that “Fable” is the local pronunciation for the name Voepel. I will be writing about two men called John Voepel today. One of them, the father, was born and baptized … More Voepel from Palmyra Enters Perry County
This past Sunday, I had the opportunity to talk with Chuck (Charles) Groh at our church. The name, Charles Groh is a fairly common one to be found in the Groh family tree. The first Charles Groh in Altenburg was instrumental in the building of our present-day sanctuary at Trinity Lutheran Church. That Charles Groh had a son … More More Alva, Oklahoma Groh’s
In recent months, I have been mentioning in a few blog posts that Ancestry.com now has a collection of records that is described as Missouri Synod, U.S., Lutheran Church records, 1851-1972. I am still discovering that this collection contains documents that I can use for this blog. Just yesterday, I was able to display a marriage record … More Arnsberg Records Discovery
