In a recent post, Single Schroeder Siblings, it was pointed out that a Schroeder couple was made up of a German Lutheran husband and a French Catholic wife. Each of them retained their religious denomination until their death and were buried in different cemeteries, one a Lutheran cemetery and one a Catholic cemetery. I will … More Another Protestant-Catholic Pair
A main character in today’s post is mentioned in our German Family Tree but has no documents attached to his name. That is because he was a Roman Catholic and remained so his entire life. His name is Francis Xavier Sutterer. The names Francis and Xavier even imply that he was Catholic. Frank, as he … More Frank and Barb – A Catholic-Lutheran Couple
The birthday of Mary Klemp led me to some names that have never shown up on this blog before. It’s one thing that we have a new surname that causes me to create a new folder in our digital file of surnames. It is even less likely that we run across a first name that … More New Names – Isadore and Weinkein
A Fassel family moved into Perry County after the Civil War and, although they seemed to have their beginnings in the Roman Catholic Church, some of them became tied to Lutherans through marriage. That is how the Fassel’s get into our German Family Tree. Today’s birthday girl was a local Lutheran who married one of … More Winter and Her Wittenberg Worker
I have previously written stories that have told the tale of Lutherans marrying Catholics in Perry County. Today’s story will be another similar story, but it goes one step farther. I think every story in the past has been about a German Lutheran marrying a German Catholic. Today, you will hear the story of a … More The Bugler’s Daughter
I discovered in our German Family Tree a person with a birthday today who had the surname Unterreiner. I must admit that the first thing that came to my mind was that this surname was a “Catholic name”. The cemetery for our nearest Catholic church, St. Joseph Cemetery, has 44 entries on Findagrave.com that include … More Lutherans and Catholics
The surnames Armbruster, Litsch, Behrle, and Killian show up in our German Family Tree in a very limited way. When they do show up, they are always included in marriage records, but you never find any of them being baptized in one of the Lutheran churches around here. That is because these surnames are what … More Catholic Wedding – Lutheran Pastor
