I do not have much time for writing today, but I am going to attempt to complete a quick post. I will tell the story of some of the first Fischers who arrived in Perry County in 1839. Normally, I focus on a more joyful event like a birth or a wedding, but today, it … More A Few of the First Fischers
Because of the title of this post, I decided to do an internet search on “fisherman struck by lightning” and found this link: NOAA study finds fishing tops U.S. lightning death activities It really does not have much to do with this post, but it is a reminder about lightning safety. However, lightning is part … More Fischer Man Struck by Lightning
I have another sad story to tell today. It is one that illustrates the very difficult times that were so often experienced in the early days of the settlements in Perry County. The year was 1842. Dr. Ernst Eduard Buenger was about the only person living in the German Lutheran communities in East Perry County … More Urgent Trip with Deadly Consequences
Today, I must embellish a story that has already been told….a couple times…on this blog. However, I simply cannot resist discussing a record that I found in the church books of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Wittenberg. Here is that record: On this day in 1920, Maria Weinhold died, and yes, it does say that … More She Died of a Broken Heart
A Schuricht family history book includes the following paragraph which includes an account of the death of Johann Gottlob Schuricht on January 8, 1839. Based on evidence that we have at our museum, here is what I think happened. Johann Gottlob Schuricht (who appears to already be a Junior in the Schuricht family history) brought … More Buried on the Bank
The Republik was getting very near to its destination. It was now in the Gulf of Mexico headed for the port city of New Orleans. The ship had already been at sea for a little over two months. Then, six days before the end of the voyage, the first and only death on the Republik … More Buried at Sea
The story I tell today is almost too sad to tell, but sometimes I guess you just have to tell it like it is. The story comes out of the family of the Johann Martin Traugott Fiehler family that lived in Uniontown, Missouri. Traugott was part of the Fiehler family about which we wrote in … More 26 Days Together
Today’s story is another one about a pair of East Perry County twins. Maybe stories about twins attract my attention more than others because I am the grandfather of a pair of twin girls. We have already done several posts about twins. One of those was titled, Together in Birth and Death. Today’s story could … More The Palisch Twins
On July 16, 1852, Sophie Henriette Wilhelmine (Zahn) Loeber died in St. Louis, Missouri. I have discovered that there are several similarities between this Mama Loeber and the Mama Buenger who is the main character in my book. Wilhelmine was the wife of Rev. Gotthold Loeber, who was the first pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church … More Mama Loeber
The above record in the Trinity Lutheran Church books in Altenburg documents the first two deaths that occurred in the immigration after they arrived in Perry County, Missouri. Both of them occurred within about two weeks after Rev. Martin Stephan was removed from the community and rowed across the Mississippi River to Illinois. The first … More Death Begins in Perry County
