This story starts with the death of Emilie (Schuppan) Mueller on April 27, 1891 and backtracks to her birth in Frohna, Missouri in 1853. Emilie was born on September 26, 1853 to Adolph and Emilie Schuppan. The Schuppan family had actually been in America prior to the Saxon immigration to Perry County, but they found … More Building a Church and a Baby
Yesterday we had a post about Engel Sophia Mangels who was born on April 24, 1881. Today, the subject of the blog is Johanna Marie Eggers, who was born one day later and was baptized on the same day in the same place (Salem, Farrar) as Engel Mangels. Johanna was the oldest child in the … More Baptized with an Angel, Married to a Doctor
Our Research Crew had no idea what to write about today. And then Ted Mueller walked in the door. Ted was here from Chester, Illinois to do the job of touching up the paint job on the interior of Trinity Lutheran Church here in Altenburg. Ted had painted the entire interior of the church about … More Another Mueller Mystery Solved
An extremely unusual event occurred at Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg on this day, April 14, in 1864, one hundred fifty-two years ago. Since the new church in Altenburg was not built until 1867, this event took place in the 1845 church which still serves as a gallery in our museum. The event was a … More Three in One at Trinity
A few days ago, we posted a photo of Trinity, Altenburg’s Kleine Schule. Today our topic will be the Kleine Schule located at Concordia, Frohna. The building shown in the above photo was built in 1898. One of the interesting stories associated with this school was the teacher shown in the picture. His name was … More Another Kleine Schule
In October of 1866, Johann Stueve was traveling back to America after picking up Rebecka von Glahn who he planned to marry in America. They were both from the Hanover area of Germany. As you can see in the passenger list above, Rebecka is listed as a 26 year old passenger (along with a Margaretha … More Bringing Back a Bride
April 9, 1817 was the birthday of Johanna Rosine Poppitz. She was born in the town of Seelitz in Germany. She and her family sailed to America aboard the Copernicus in 1838, arriving in New Orleans on New Year’s Eve. Her husband-to-be, Gottfried Noennig, traveled on the same ship. Their towns in Germany were 36 … More A Seelitz Wedding
While going through our “picture morgue” in the family research library, we ran across this collage of pictures honoring Bertha Doering for her 20 years of service cleaning the Little School (Kleine Schule) at Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg. Bertha was born as Bertha Kuntze in 1909, married Hugo Doering in 1934, and died in … More Faithful Servant in a Little School
Right after the Civil War, Caroline (Franke) Mueller gave birth to a son, Gottfried Adolph, on April 7, 1866 in Uniontown, Missouri. The father was Christoph Mueller. Twenty-two years later, Adolph married Martha Koenig at Salem Lutheran Church in Farrar, Missouri. The marriage license is shown above. Two items of note: Adolph’s grandfather, Gottfried Mueller, … More Mueller-Koenig (with a Kunegunda connection)
April 6 was the birthday of Kunigunda Wirth in 1849. Her name can be found in both the Friedenberg and Longtown, Missouri church records. After seeing this name, we became curious about the name Kunigunda’s origin. The name appears to have roots in Germanic tribes in Europe, and the name means “brave warrior”. This also … More Brave Warrior?
