If I have it figured correctly, Teacher J.F.F. Winter, was the first person in the Winter family I will discuss today to arrive in Perry County. Teacher Winter is famous for being the first teacher at Trinity Lutheran School in Altenburg, and he never married, so there were no Winter descendants coming from him. However, … More Wittenberg Winter
A marriage took place on May 4, 1865 in East Perry County. The groom was August Gottfried Winter; the bride was Maria Christiane Mangelsdorf. We will discuss the characters involved in that marriage that took place 155 years ago. August Winter was born on September 8, 1833. When he was listed on a passenger list … More Winter the Wagon Maker
Today, I will discuss the marriage of a Jahn (pronounced yon) and a Winter whose marriage took place on May 12, 1858. When I said “Yon Winter” out loud, it sounded like something that could come out of a Shakespearean play, so I threw in a few more words that sounded Shakespearean to come up … More Hark! Jahn-Winter Dost Woo
I really debated whether to tell today’s story. There indeed are some events that I decide not to include in posts. Suicides are a type of occurrence that I choose on occasion to leave out of stories. There are no suicides in today’s story, but it does include circumstances that must have been hard for … More Escape to Eden
When we wrote about a triple wedding in the blog post, Three in One at Trinity, one of the couples married on that day was Johannes Kramer and Magdalena Christiana Bergt. One of their children, Theodore, married Mathilde Burfeind in 1891. That couple went on to have eight children. The first six were boys, and … More Kramers Cross the Equator
