About a week ago, I wrote the story of Martin Bracher, who was born on December 14th and baptized on December 26th in Altenburg. Today, you will read the story of Martin’s half-cousin, Margarethe Christina Bracher, who was born on December 21st and baptized on December 27th. Both of these births took place in 1864, … More Altenburg to Prairie City to St. Louis
The staff at our museum has a very busy day today because it is Day 2 of the annual Christmas Country Church Tour and hundreds of visitors will likely walk through our doors today between 10 o’clock this morning until 9 o’clock tonight. Therefore, I will post this story that was published back in 2017. … More The Tree Stories Continue
Today’s couple was briefly mentioned in a previous blog about the Markworth family titled, Tailor, Tiler, Teacher, Preachers. Today, I will go into more detail about this couple. It just so happens that the bride is today’s birthday girl. Maria Wilhelmine Markworth was born on December 18, 1844, so today would be her 180th birthday. … More Pastor Damm and His Altenburg Bride
The town of Farrar once had a baseball team called the Farrar Reds, and that team included 5 Lorenz brothers. The photo below has appeared on this blog before. The captions helps identify the players. Today’s highlighted character is Ernst Lorenz, who has “3B” on his sleeve indicating that he played thrid base. Before we … More Ernst Lorenz – Farrar Reds Third Baseman
The story for today begins in Germany. A baby named Rosina Barbara Furch was born on December 16, 1810, the daughter of Johann Georg and Anna Maria (Grockenberger) Furth. That means Rosina would be celebrating her 214th birthday today. I found the parents’ names on Family Search, and for some unknown reason, the parents are … More Conrad Kalbfleisch – Collinsville Tailor
I am not presently in Altenburg and have a busy Sunday schedule with a granddaughter, so you are once again getting a post from the past. In fact, the attached story is the very first one that I published on December 15th after our new website was established in early 2016. For a long time, … More A Christmas Tradition from Days Gone By
I will return to a surname that was part of the Gesellschaft that is found living in Altenburg during the early years of its existence, but it is a name that left this area shortly after the Civil War. That surname is Bracher, and that name, along with folks named, Braeuner and Fleischer, migrated to … More Martin Bracher – Altenburg to Rockville to Fawn Creek
Today’s post is different from others I have done. Today I am looking for information, not giving it. At our Christmas Hymn Sing last Sunday, Warren posed a question about the history and tradition of giving children fruit and/or bags of treats after the children’s Christmas program. Evidently that was not done at the church … More Museum Musings for Friday, December 13
There was a period of time during my teaching career when I was teaching science to my students, that I would put on a white labcoat with a name on it that said, “Dr. Frankenschmidt”. I would take on the character of a “mad scientist” from Transylvania who happened to dislike Mr. Schmidt very much. … More Fred Finds a Frickenschmidt
Today’s story was inspired by a baptism record for a girl who spent just a short time in Perry County. Like quite a few other posts that have been published on this blog, the move away from Perry County by this girl was made to St. Louis. It was there that most of this story … More Clara Ludwig – Brewer’s Daughter
