Quiet often, when I am searching for another story to write, I will check to see if I can find a bicentennial birthday. Today, I found two. And how appropriate is that? Finding two bicentennial birthdays on the date that can be written as 2/2/22. I cannot resist telling the stories of both of these … More 2 “2/2/22” 2 Century Birthdays
Maria Sarah Koenig was born on this date 146 years ago. Apparently, she went by the name Sarah during her lifetime. There was no “h” at the end of her first name when she was baptized, but on almost all documents in her lifetime, her name was spelled Sarah. Her mate for life was a … More The Detjen-Koenig Duo
Engel Detjen, Claus Detjen’s wife, had a baby on November 28, 1882. It happened to be her eighth and last baby. I am going to tell her story today for some reasons above and beyond the fact that today would have been her 136th birthday. For one thing, telling her story will offer me an … More Claus’s Angel Had a Baby
Since today is exactly one month away from Christmas Day, you might look at today’s title and think that this will be some sort of post with a Christmas theme, but that is not the case. What we have today is a young German Lutheran woman whose first name was Engel, which gets translated as … More Claus’s Angel
September 29, 1935 was the day that Hilda Detjen married Walter Luehrs at Salem Lutheran Church in Farrar, Missouri. This marriage drew my attention because when I attended Concordia Teachers College in Seward, Nebraska, there were two young men attending there from Perry County, one of them named Gerald Luehrs, and the other named Dean … More Farrar Fastballs
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