Today’s birthday girl begins her life in Germany, comes to America and settles for a while in Perry County, but ends up spending most of her life in Prairie City, Missouri. Before I get to the actual story, let me tell you that, if you want some great background information about how and why Perry … More One of the Bracher/Stueve Couples in Prairie City
As we proceed through the year 2022, I find it difficult to ignore a birthday that occurred in 1822. Since that year was well before the Gesellschaft arrived in Perry County, such a birth had to take place back in the German homeland. I discovered such a story for today’s post. Margaretha Buck was born … More 200 Years for a Buck
If you would tromp through the Concordia Lutheran Cemetery, you could find the five the gravestones shown in the gallery below. Those five individuals will all be part of today’s post. The story begins with the only gravestone above that does not have the surname, Stueve, engraved on it. It is also the person who … More Five Funerals in Frohna
Robert Cullen Penny was born on this day. His birth and baptism record are not included in our German Family Tree. In the case of Robert Penny, we find his birth documented in a Penny Family Bible. His name is indicated by the white arrow in the image below. As you can see, Robert Cullen … More Marshal Penny
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
I am going to look at the story of the person who I think is the first one with the surname Schlichting that settled in East Perry County. His name was Johann Ludwig Schlichting. He was mostly called John, so I will use that name. However, before I look at his story, I will go … More The Pioneer Schlichting
It seems like Dollar Stores are popping up everywhere across America. Today I will tell the story of what quite possibly was the first “Dollar Store” to exist in Murphysboro, Illinois. It was called Buck’s Grocery, and the couple involved in that store come right out of our German Family Tree. It all starts with … More The Buck Store
The story I have to write today will give me the opportunity to share with you a new resource that we have available in our research library. I hope to also tie two people found in our German Family Tree together by looking at some of these German records. First let me show you what … More First Buck; Last Buck
Today, I will tell you another story that takes place on both sides of the Mississippi River. The highlighted event for today will be a marriage between a young man from Fountain Bluff Township in Jackson County, Illinois and a young girl from Altenburg, Missouri in Perry County. It was the wedding of Henry Arbeiter … More The Eldest Worker
November 17th was the birthday of a set of twins. The parents of these twins was the couple that has been mentioned in several previous posts as the Schmidt-Schmidt couple. Jacob and Wilhelmina (Schmidt) Schmidt were married in 1864, and then began having a bunch of little Schmidts. Fourteen years after their marriage, with six … More Two of a Kind….Later a Full House
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