I do not often express my opinions on this blog, but today I am going to start with one. I think there is too little attention given to the remembrance of the fact that World War I was fought 100 years ago. I would have thought more would have been said in our media about … More The Harnagel Doughboys
Yesterday’s story was about some Fischers and Palisches. Today, I found two different Fischers who were born on July 11th. One of them was the character mentioned in yesterday’s story, Friedrich Ferdinand Fischer. He was born on July 11, 1832. He was only six years old when he arrived in America aboard the Republik in … More Fischer Follow-up
April nineteenth was the birthday of Albert Mueller. He was one of the many sons of Anton Mueller. Another post told the story of one of these sons who served in the military titled, One of Anton’s Army. Being born in 1891, Albert had the distinction of being the oldest of Anton’s children. As was … More Mueller and the Mail
Today, our story begins with the birth of Arthur Kuehnert on January 7, 1888, but we will take that story back farther. Arthur was the great grandson of the Johann Christlieb Kuehnert, who brought his family to America in the 1839 immigration. Johann’s son, Johann Christian Kuehnert, is shown in the middle of the front … More Church Builders
Albert Buenger died on July 5, 1969 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Albert has connections to two of the original immigrants to Perry County, Missouri. First of all, we can trace his ancestry back to Theodore Ernst Buenger and Martha Loeber. Their marriage was described in a previous post: A Loeber-Buenger Wedding. This puts Albert in the … More A Deep Mind
