Today’s story begins with twin daughters being born on June 2, 1848, but we have to backtrack a little to set the scene. Below is the marriage record of Juliane Kuehnert and Johann Christian Friedrich Saalfeld on August 5, 1845 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg. As near as I can tell, this was the … More Twins…..Only One Survives
Memorial Day is a day for remembering and honoring those men and women who gave their lives to preserve the liberties that we enjoy in this country. Today’s post will be a tribute to a family from Perry County who lost two young men as a result of World War II. I would like to … More Memorial Day Tribute
One of the tragic stories of the 1839 immigration was the recording of numerous deaths that took place in the Schlimpert family during and not long after the journey to America. There were two Schlimpert families that traveled aboard the Copernicus, and the fathers of these two families are believed to have been brothers. They … More Early Schlimpert Deaths
The name, Benjamin Gottfried Schuessler, caught my eye today. I noticed that he was listed as having the same date of birth as his day of death….April 23. Then I ran into a problem. As you can see in his baptismal record in the Concordia, Frohna books, it says he was born on April 23, … More Which Record Is More Reliable
Pictured above is a portion of the Trinity Lutheran Church records. It is from a section in the records which documented the deaths which occurred in St. Louis in 1839 before the majority of the immigrants traveled to their new home in Perry County. In the middle of the photo is the last of these … More Martin Stephan Never Made It to Perry County
In October of 1866, Johann Stueve was traveling back to America after picking up Rebecka von Glahn who he planned to marry in America. They were both from the Hanover area of Germany. As you can see in the passenger list above, Rebecka is listed as a 26 year old passenger (along with a Margaretha … More Bringing Back a Bride
On March 29, 1839, Johann Christoph Weber died at the young age of 44 and was buried in St. Louis, Missouri. He had brought his wife and six children to America as part of the 1838-1839 immigration. They had traveled aboard the Republic to New Orleans and then were transported up the Mississippi River on … More He Almost Made It
Put yourself in the shoes of Pauline Poppitz who is looking forward to seeing seven candles burning on her birthday cake on March 23, 1884. She has been looking forward to this day for a long time. It is even a Sunday, so there should be plenty of time for the family to give her … More An Un-Happy Birthday
Yesterday, I posted a photo of Teacher Hemmann’s class at Trinity Lutheran School in Altenburg, Missouri. In that photo was a pair of twins. Those twins have now been identified. They are Marie and Martha Lorenz (like Mary and Martha in the Bible story). Their parents were Christian F. and Ida (Schlimpert) Lorenz. The twins … More Together in Birth and Death
As usual, I began today by looking for events which took place in Perry County on this day. I happened upon the birth of Alma Marie Ella Schuessler on March 14, 1890. She was baptized one week later on March 21. That was the end of the good news. As is shown in the photo … More So Many Causes of Death
