Yesterday, I was going to write a blog post even though I knew I had two museum meetings in the afternoon. Then, yesterday morning, Altenburg and its surrounding area lost power, making it impossible to write that post. Long story, short…you are going to read yesterday’s story today. Here we go. A young woman and … More A Voelker-Biltz-Lindner Trio – Add a Boehme
Today’s post begins behind my barn and ends in Los Angeles. Back when I retired from teaching and moved to Altenburg, I was asked to look into what happened to the 11 members of the first class of the Log Cabin College that was built behind my barn. That research resulted in the publication of … More So Much Romance Behind My Barn
A birthday took place on this day 175 years ago that I consider very special. Perhaps it is because there is a chapter in my book Mama Buenger: Mother of a Synod that tells the tale of this child’s baptism. Perhaps it is because this child was likely named after one of the Buenger children … More Liddy’s Namesake
I rarely do a story that originates with the date of a baptism, but that will be the case today. This baptism was one of the first to occur in the German Lutheran settlement in East Perry County, Missouri. This baptism piqued my interest for a couple of reasons, one being the fact that this … More A Baptism on Paar in Perry
Today’s post was written by our great friend, Fred Eggers. I know he has been working on this research for a long time, and I’m excited to see his results. ================================ Joseph Immanuel Gruber, the youngest of Pastor Carl Friedrich Theodore Gruber’s eight children, was born on November 19, 1838, but until I started searching … More In Search of the Lost Gruber
Our story for today has its beginnings outside of East Perry County and never does get to East Perry County, but the tale certainly has connections here. It involves a couple that would be celebrating their 126th wedding anniversary if they were still alive today. If you want some background on this story, especially for … More First Baptism in New Church
According to my reckoning, a budding romance between two schoolkids began behind my barn back in the early days of settlement in East Perry County. That may sound a little risqué, but these two youngsters had plenty of chaperones. You see, this romance had its beginnings in the Log Cabin College. The two characters were … More A Budding Romance Behind the Barn
The name Oetting has shown up in my own life on several occasions. When I attended St. Jacobi Lutheran School in St. Louis, there was a Mr. Oetting that was a teacher there. When I got to Concordia Teachers College in Seward, Nebraska, a few more Oettings were professors and coaches on that staff. Not … More The Emmas from Emma
Concordia Historical Institute has a site called Today in History at which you can find significant events that happened on a certain date throughout church history. That site can be found here: http://lutheranhistory.org/history/todayinhist.asp Here is what that site looks like. I have put a box around today’s date, March 12. If you were to click … More A Trio of Pioneer Pastors
Rev. Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther was one of the original immigrants who was part of the Gesellschaft. In fact, after the removal of Rev. Martin Stephan, Rev. Walther became probably the most prominent leader of this group. He went on to become the first President of what would later be called the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. … More Maybe They Should Have Been Named Law and Gospel
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