I located a baby who was born on Christmas Eve for today’s post. Her name was Anna Amalia Sittner, who was born on December 24, 1864. That means today would be her 160th birthday. Amalia was the daughter of Charles August and Wilhelmine (Mehner) Sittner. She was baptized at Peace Lutheran Church in Friedenberg, so … More Born on Christmas Eve, Died on Thanksgiving Eve
Today’s story was inspired by a baptism record for a girl who spent just a short time in Perry County. Like quite a few other posts that have been published on this blog, the move away from Perry County by this girl was made to St. Louis. It was there that most of this story … More Clara Ludwig – Brewer’s Daughter
Julius Martin Tanz was born on August 27, 1885, making today his 137th birthday. Tanz is the German word for “dance”. Some descendants from the Perry County branch of the Tanz family even changed their surname to Danz which makes it look even more like “dance”. Julius was the 7th child out of 11 listed … More Julius Jitterbugs with Josephine
I will be telling the story of a person with Perry County roots today, but I will also promote a few events and a business. First of all, today would have been the 137th birthday of Edward Gaebler, who was born on October 6, 1881. He was the second child of Samuel and Magdalena (Schilling) … More Brew in the Lou – And in Perry County Too
I rely pretty heavily upon Google Translate to help me with my German. Today, I had to look up the translation for the word schoen or schön. Google Translate gave me many options. The main one was the word “beautiful”. There were quite a few others. One of the others was “good”. That’s the one … More The Good Doctors from Pocahontas
Sometime later this month, Earthbound Brewing will begin operating their business in the old stock house that used to be part of the Cherokee Brewery in St. Louis, Missouri. The Cherokee Brewery began in 1867 under the leadership of Ferdinand Herold and George Loebs. George Loebs has very distinct connections to East Perry County. By … More Cherokee Uprising
Today’s title is intended to mislead you. To understand why, you must once again understand some more East Perry County pronunciation. Although the name Schade looks like it ought to be a one syllable word that sounds like shades, it is not. This name is pronounced with two syllables and is called Shaw-dee. However, today’s … More Cool Schades
I haven’t often written about deaths recently, but I couldn’t resist one today. It is another story that is connected to the production and distribution of beer, and when I get a whiff of beer, my radar goes up, and I start researching. I cannot help myself. Walter Deer (yes, that rhymes with beer) died … More Green Tree Brewery
I confess. When I see a reference to a brewery in someone’s family history, my research radar becomes very active. Today is one of those days. It starts with a baby girl being born on February 3rd in 1868 in Uniontown and ends with her husband working in a brewery across the river in Illinois. … More Enjoying a Red Seal
We don’t have much of a blog today. The reason. Gerard Fiehler and I got sidetracked. We started by looking at some more Wagner info that we got thanks to our friend, Kathy Berkbigler, then found a Dr. Schulz, which led us to a Busch, and we ended looking at the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Corporation, including … More Sidetracked
