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
May 8, 2009 was a day that looked bad for Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg, Missouri. What was described as an “inland hurricane” caused much destruction in around town, including blowing the church steeple onto the church roof. Numerous tree limbs and several entire trees ended up on the ground. The children of Concordia/Trinity Lutheran … More What Looked Bad….
One of the tragic stories of the 1839 immigration was the recording of numerous deaths that took place in the Schlimpert family during and not long after the journey to America. There were two Schlimpert families that traveled aboard the Copernicus, and the fathers of these two families are believed to have been brothers. They … More Early Schlimpert Deaths
Today, we will try something new. Around here we sometimes refer to some names as being “Frohna names”, some as “Farrar names”, etc. We ran across the confirmation which took place at Grace Lutheran Church in Uniontown, Missouri on May 6, 1883. Many of these names are ones that we call “Uniontown names”. Arthur Höh … More Uniontown Names
May 5, 1858 was the birthday of Martha Mathilda Buenger in Altenburg, Missouri. Her parents were Dr. Ernst Eduard Buenger and Amalie (Weber) Buenger. Because Rev. C.F.W. Walther’s wife was Ernst’s sister, this makes Mathilda his niece. In 1879, Mathilda married Joseph Samuel Mueller, also from Altenburg. However, their marriage took place in Ft. Wayne, … More Yet Another Mueller Question
Today’s story begins in the church records of Historic Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Louis. On May 3, 1849, we find that there was a marriage performed. Herman Brandes was the groom, and Wilhelmina Giesselmann was the bride. This brings to mind how busy the Lutheran pastors must have been in St. Louis during that … More 1849 – A Busy Year for Pastors in St. Louis
We had a school group at our museum today from St. John’s Lutheran Church in Arnold, Missouri. Accompanying them was their pastor, Rev. Jeremy Schultz. We just had to do a little research into that church. St. John’s Lutheran Church was started in 1848 when a group of men met with Rev. C.F.W. Walther, President … More From Johannes to Schultz
Theodore Heinrich Carl Buenger was born on April 29, 1860 in Chicago, Illinois. His parents, Theodore Ernst and Martha (Loeber) Buenger, were married twelve years earlier in Altenburg, with Martha’s father, Rev. Gotthold Loeber, officiating the wedding. Theodore Ernst was a teacher and principal at Immanuel First Lutheran School in Chicago. Young Theodore became a … More President Buenger (1893-1927)
Today’s story is one that is personal for the Research Crew. The couple shown above is connected to both the family of Warren Schmidt and the family of Gerard Fiehler. On this day in 1868, the couple shown in the photo above was married. George Loebs had recently become co-owner of a brewery in St. … More So Close, Yet So Far
