Arthur Heinrich Buck was born on March 5, 1893, and if I have it figured correctly, he was a next door neighbor to my great grandfather, Gottwerth Schmidt. Arthur was the youngest child born into the family of Gottfried and Pauline (Oehlert) Buck. We can take a look at a Perry County birth record for … More These Bucks Stop Here
The surname, Schweizer, pokes its head into East Perry County a few times over the years, but eventually it disappears from this area. One of the Schweizer’s has a birthday today, and I will attempt to tell his story in this post. His name was Lorenz Schweizer, who was born on February 27, 1872 in … More Lorenz and Ida – The Schweizer’s
Amalia Maria Augusta Boehme, if still alive, would be celebrating her 200th birthday today. She was born in Dresden, Germany on November 13, 1820. In case you’re interested, it was a Monday in 1820, so she was not born on Friday the 13th. Amalia was the daughter of Carl Gottlieb and Johanna Christina (Pistorius) Boehme. … More Happy Bicentennial Birthday, Mrs. Grosse
This will not be a post that follows the same blueprint that is used in most of the stories that I write. Instead of just taking you from cradle to grave of a featured character or couple, I will be leading you to a scenario that took place in a graveyard in Wittenberg in 1904. … More 3 Infants, 3 Graves, 10 Days
I do not have an easy story to tell today. In fact, I would call it brutal. There is a very horrific event that I have to share. In fact, I really debated whether I should tell this story. In the end, I am telling this tale because this story led me to understand a … More The Perry-Dubuque Connection
If you are a fairly regular reader of this blog, you should already be aware that there was what I call a Perry County suburb that developed in the Potter/Sidney, Nebraska area. Quite a few folks who were born and raised in the Lutheran churches around here migrated to that area in the early 1900’s. … More A Pair of Perry Pioneers in Potter
I have several errands to run today, and I had no plans to write a blog post. However, I just had to take a quick look to see if any special event might catch my eye that occurred on November 1st. I found one. It also happens to be one of those occurrences that our … More Charlie Boehme Meets Charlie Boehme
A while back, a post was written titled, Stories from a Wedding Photo – Part 2. In that story, the wedding tradition involving men called hochzeitsladers (or wedding inviters) was described. The paragraph below was included in that post. I found a photo showing what a present-day hochzeitslader might look like. The wedding photo which … More One of the Hochzeitsladers
A birthday girl led me to tell the story of two married couples today. I discovered that two brothers from one family married two sisters from another family. It is their stories that I tell today. The two families involved are the Kaufmann’s and the Boehme’s. First, let’s talk about the parents of the brothers … More A Pair of Kaufmann/Boehme Couples
I wrote yesterday that I do not often use an early death as the starting point for a blog post. Now I am about to write my second post in a row that starts that way. What attracted me to an early death today is the likelihood that this death led to the first burial … More First Burial
