A search for today’s date in our German Family Tree led me to a woman who was born on March 30, 1876. If that is correct, she would be celebrating her 150th birthday today. However, the image below shows everything that is found there about Eleonora Angermann.

That entry says that Eleonora was born on March 30, 1876, but it also says that an Immanuel, Perryville record says she was baptized at the Seminary (Catholic) in Perryville. Ancestry.com has a collection of records from Immanuel, Perryville, and I searched those records for the one that our GFT mentions. I was unable to locate a record of such a baptism record. The only record of Eleonora Angermann I found in those books was this list of 1889 confirmands that includes Eleonora. This confirmation record does not include her date of birth.

Almost all the family trees found on Ancestry.com just say that Eleonora was born in March of 1876 without an exact date. Only one family tree gives March 30th as the date of birth, but that tree gives no documentation for that date of birth. Eleonora’s entry on Family Search also does not give an exact date of birth. However, our GFT gives this date of birth, and that’s good enough for me to write this story today.

Eleonora is mostly called Nora during her life, so I am going to use that name in this blog. Family Search says that Nora was the daughter of Johann Michael and Lydia (Thomas) Angermann. Johann Michael Angermann is found in our German Family Tree, but it says his first marriage took place in 1881, and his first wife was Maria Bergmann. Family Search says Lydia (Thomas) Angermann died in 1879, so I think it is possible that Johann Michael Angermann may have been married prior to 1881, and since there were no records of that marriage found in local Lutheran churches, it did not make it into our GFT. Here is another possibility. I found Lydia Thomas in the 1876 Missouri state census living in the Cinque Hommes Township at the age of 16. Perhaps Eleanora could have been a child out of wedlock.

We find Nora in the 1880 census at the age of 4. She was not living with her father. She was in the household of John Thomas and called a granddaughter.

We will now look at the man who would become Nora’s husband. His name was Edgar G. Farrar, the son of John and Martha (Venable) Farrar. Edgar has a similar situation on Ancestry.com and Family Search. Almost all of the records on those sites just give him a date of birth as February of 1872. I did find one family tree that says he was born on Leap Year Day, February 29, 1872. Edgar is found in the 1880 census at the age of 8. His father was a farmer in the Salem Township.

Edgar Farrar married Nora Angermann on May 31, 1892. The Missouri marriage license shown here says that this couple was married by a Justice of the Peace. Nora was just 16 years old at the time and likely needed the consent of a parent of both the bride and the groom.

Based on the information I looked at, I think this couple had 7 children. In the 1900 census, there were 2 children in the Farrar family. Edgar was a farmer in the Salem Township.

The Farrar family made a move during the next decade. In the 1910 census, the Farrar household is found living in Advance, Missouri. Edgar and his 16 year-old son, Oscar, were each called laborers at a poultry house in Advance.

The Farrar couple did not remain at that location for very long. By the time of the 1920 census, we find them living in Junction City, Kansas. I have written several stories about Perry County natives who ended up living in Junction City, including several members of the Dietrich family. In this entry, it uses the words, laborer and “all work”, to describe Edgar’s occupation. There were 7 children in their household, and 4 of them were part of the work force.

Next, we find the Farrar’s in the 1930 census. Edgar was a carpenter for “public works”.

Edgar Farrar died in 1937 at the age of 65. Nora is found as a widow in the 1940 census. Her son, Oscar, was called the head of the household which included two more of Nora’s children.

Nora Farrar died in 1946 at the age of 70. Both Edgar and Nora Farrar are buried in the Highland Cemetery in Junction City.

I did a search on our blog for the term, “Junction City” and got 10 results. I guess that once I publish this story, there will be 11 results, and perhaps more will show up on this blog in the future.