You have come to expect a Friday blog post written by our museum director, Denise Hellwege, called Museum Musings. Today, she is not able to make her normal Friday contribution to our blog because her father-in-law has died, and she is attending to family business. So, I am filling in for her today. In the … More Museum Musings: Magnified Mueller Millers
I happen to know that my church, Trinity Lutheran in Altenburg, is presently examining ways to correct some problems we have in our cemetery. There are broken or fallen gravestones, grave markers that are leaning, plus there are quite a few empty spots for graves that were never marked with a gravestone. Today’s story will … More Unmarked Graves
Quite a while ago, a post was published on this blog titled, One of Anton’s Army. When one looks at the family of Anton Mueller, you cannot help but notice how many males were in his family. Anton was married twice and had only one daughter from each of his wives. The other 13 children … More A Girl in the Army
Theodore Mueller would have been 143 years old today. He was born on December 23, 1874 and baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg. Theodore’s parents were Christian and Magdalena (Buenger) Mueller. That made Theodore a grandson of Dr. Ernst Eduard Buenger, the longtime doctor in Altenburg. His father was the owner of the Altenburg … More Drummer Boy
We have a Mueller wedding to talk about today. This one took place on April 10, 1904 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg. The groom was Henry Mueller and the bride was Wilhelmina Kuennell. Here is their Missouri marriage license. Rev. Dr. A. Schorman performed the ceremony. Here is their wedding photo. Henry was the … More Mueller Millers
