Today, I will tell the tale of a baby girl who was born a day after yesterday’s birthday girl. Yesterday, a man ended up having 2 wives. Today’s birthday girl would end up having 2 husbands. We begin with the birthday girl. Emma Barbara Boxdorfer was born on June 15, 1874, thus making today her … More Emma Boxdorfer’s Two Friedenberg Grooms
A German Lutheran surname appeared in Perry County in the 1840’s and became a rather prominent one. That surname is Wirth. I will attempt to tell the story of the Wirth man who I believe was the first one to show up here, and will also discuss his two wives. I have already written several … More The Original Wirth’s
I have already written a bunch of stories about Perry County natives who moved to St. Louis to spend most of their remaining lives there. In some cases, a man or a woman leaves for St. Louis prior to their marriage and finds their spouse in St. Louis. My father was such a person. There … More August Ross – St. Louis Street Car Man
The birthday boy for today would be celebrating his 130th birthday if he was still alive. Gustav Friedrich Ferdinand Ochs was born on May 28, 1894, the 4th of 9 children of Henry and Josephine (Rauh) Ochs. His father was a prominent figure in Perry County history, who was a local judge as well as … More Gustav Ochs – Farming, Community, and Church Leader
Once again, today’s story will highlight a wedding anniversary. As with the story written yesterday, today’s pair does not remain in Perry County after their marriage, but today’s couple never moves out of Missouri. I will begin with the bride because she is the one who first shows up in our German Family Tree. Magdalena … More Adolph Keehn – Physician, Merchant, Farmer
Every once in a while, I run across a person who never married when I am searching for a story to write. I have discovered that, when I do, I sometimes find a sibling of that person who also remained unmarried for a lifetime. I find it interesting that so often these unmarried siblings end … More Bachelor/Bachelorette Bergmann’s
Today’s birthday girl does not have much of a presence in our German Family Tree. At least not yet. Below is an image of the items included in that document for Bertha Wilhelmine Scholl. If you look closely, her baptism and first marriage record are not indexed in the GFT. The only church record listed … More Scholl – Seabaugh – Bergmann – Ochs
Seven years ago, I wrote the story of a little baby who was blown out of her mother’s arms during the 1925 Tri-State Tornado. It was included in the post, A Baby Flies. That baby was my Aunt Dorothy. That story was also written on March 21st, but I didn’t go into much detail about … More Aunt Dorothy’s Mom and Dad
On February 15, 1872, a baby boy was born to Heinrich and Margaretha (Bergmann) Weinrich. They named this baby, Wilhelm Gotthold Weinrich, but he mostly went by the name William. He was baptized at Peace Lutheran Church in Friedenberg, so I am unable to display an image of his baptism record. William shows up in the 1880 census … More Longtown’s William Weinrich and His Wife
I will be driving back to Altenburg today, so I will share an old post again. The attached story told of a pair of Bergmann siblings who married a pair of Hoehn siblings on the same day, February 12,1861. Plenty of other events were taking place at about this time in American history. You likely know that … More Double Wedding + A Bit of Civil War History
