Right as the Civil War was coming to an end, a boy was being born in Altenburg by the name of Traugott Ernst Heinrich Schuessler. He was born on this day, May 28th in 1864. He was baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church on June 8th. He may have been baptized by Rev. J.F. Koestering who … More Farmer Becomes Pastor after Marrying His Pastor’s Daughter
This blog post begins as we notice that today is the 126th anniversary of the day that Valentine Otto Hoehn married Maria Margaretha Fassold. They were married in 1890 at Peace Lutheran Church in Friedenberg. That is where we begin, but this event takes us on several side trips. First of all, we see on … More Let’s Go to America to Get Married
The Jahn family certainly seemed to love to have their weddings in the month of May. We may have another one today, although the date of the wedding is a topic for debate. The first of the Jahn weddings took place in 1846 in St. Louis, with Justine Jahn marrying Carl Eduard Roschke, but a … More Tailor to Teacher
It was a Tuesday. May 23, 1848 was going to be a special day in Altenburg. Their pastor’s daughter was going to get married. Not only that, she was going to marry another child of a pastor who had become a Lutheran teacher. The groom was Theodore Ernst Buenger. The bride was Martha Loeber. ***If … More A Loeber-Buenger Wedding
May 20th was the day that Michael Hopfer died in 1877. Michael Hopfer came to America as part of the Gruber group at the end of 1839 and settled in the area designated as Paitzdorf (later changed to Uniontown). The passenger list from the Johann Georg and census records list him as being a cooper, … More Cooper Hopfer
Yesterday, our blog post mentioned that Maria Jahn married Johann Gottfried Schuessler on May 19, 1859. Maria was not the only Jahn to be married on that day. Her brother, Friedrich Jahn married Magdalena Kaufmann on the same day. It was a double wedding, and it might have occurred in the 1845 church. Back in … More Another Multiple Wedding in Altenburg
Maria Jahn was one of the first children to be baptized after the immigrants arrived in Perry County. She was born on this day, May 18, 1840. It is possible that this baptism may have taken place in the upper room of the Loeber parsonage which was where the Altenburg congregation held their services for … More When Did Jahn Schuessler Die?
May 11th was the birthday of twins in Farrar, Missouri. There was a baby boy and and baby girl born on this day in 1886. The boy’s name was Claus Heinrich Mangels. The girl’s name was Maria Margaret Mangels. Their parents were Herman and Katharina (Katt) Mangels. What makes this set of twins more interesting … More Twins and Cousins
The photo above shows the World War II draft registration for Harry Flach, a clerk for a seed and hardware company in Peoria, Illinois who was born in Minden, Nebraska. This document does not give any clue to Harry’s connection to the Saxon immigration, but there is one. Here is how Harry’s story begins (and … More Harry Abandoned on the Prairie
Once again, we are going to meander into the Mueller Maze. May 9, 1825 was the birthday of Zacharias Mueller, one of the original immigrants who came to America with the Gruber group. Zacharias was one of the sons of Gottfried and Maria (Rothe) Mueller of Paitzdorf, Germany. When he came to the United … More A to Z – Amalia to Zacharias
