I know it may be a stretch, but today’s tale has an unusual connection to the one I wrote yesterday. The story, Three Ochs – No Acorns, highlighted three lifelong singles who had no children. Today, you will be reading the story of a man who was married three time, which does not seem similar, … More William End – Perryville Photographer
Most of the posts on this blog tell the story of a highlighted pair of individuals who manage to find each other and get married. Today’s tale is not about a pair, but a trio. I will start where I usually end. Below is a photo of the gravestone of today’s main characters with the … More Three Ochs – No Acorns
About three years ago, I wrote a story about a man named George Kaufmann. He was part of the tale about the bicentennial birthday of his wife and titled, Regina’s Bicentennial Jubilee. That George Kaufmann came to Perry County as part of the New York Group when he was a boy. Well, I found a … More The George Kaufmann from Jackson
I really do not understand why Lynn Degenhardt included several pages of a Kurre family in our German Family Tree. There are not many local church records to be found among these Kurre’s. Yet, the beginning of this Kurre family in the GFT goes all the way back to the 1600’s. It is among these … More August and Mary – Cape Girardeau Kurre’s
I will tell the story of a baby boy who was born in Uniontown on today’s date 150 years ago. You will discover (or rediscover) that the circumstances of this baby’s birth were rather unusual. If you rediscover it, you would have read a previous post about this infant’s older brother who celebrated his 150th … More Theodore Harmening – Chicago Grocer
I don’t know about you, but I often have songs running through my head. This time of year, I would expect them to be Christmas songs—and usually they are. This year, however, has been different in many ways, so it seems fitting that the song stuck in my head is also different. Different, yet common. … More Museum Musings for Friday, December 19
Today’s tale will eventually get around to our birthday girl. I am going to begin with the man who is highlighted in this story because he ended up getting married twice, and it was his second wife who is the birthday girl. This man is yet another one of those characters that can be described … More Gross-Gerichs Gordonville Group
We at the Lutheran Heritage Center & Museum have some busy days ahead of us. It begins today with 3 different school groups from United in Christ Lutheran School in Frohna and Altenburg Public School coming to our museum to view our Christmas exhibit. I always like to be hanging around the museum on such … More A Controversial Christmas Tree
Just one lonely confirmation record in the Trinity, Friedheim books leads me to tell today’s tale. I must admit, though, that one of the facts that attracted me to this man’s story is the fact that he was the half-brother of a character I wrote about a few days ago, Eva Rehkopf. Her story was … More Rehkop and Reutzel – Friedheim to Fredericktown to Flat River
I am going to start today’s post by displaying a 1910 census entry from near Wittenberg, Missouri. It shows a Heins couple, John and Hulda (Richter) Heins, along with two teenagers, Irene and Edwin, who are called adopted children. You can also see that they were the same age, indicating that they were twins. In … More The McCourt Twins – Or the Heins Twins?
