I had some pancakes for breakfast this morning. Considering how hungry I was at the time, those pancakes quickly disappeared. This post tells the story of some other “pancakes” that quickly disappeared in East Perry County. On March 9, 1876, 140 years ago today, Julius Ernst Pfannkuchen was born. Pfannkuchen is German for pancake. Julius … More The Pancakes Disappear
In the course of my research on the members of the first students at the Log Cabin College, I sometimes refer to the children of those first students as their second generation. On March 8, 1984, the last of the second generation, Marie Brackman, died in Puyallup, Washington. Her story is an amazing one. Here … More Last of the Second Generation: A Story of Two Maries
The research team at the Lutheran Heritage Center & Museum was experiencing some difficulty searching for the death records of a Carl Wunderlich who apparently died sometime in 1849. He had married in August of 1848 and his “widow” remarried in February of 1850. We finally had a “Eureka” moment when we realized that Rev. … More More Holes…and Some Handwriting
