Our German Family Tree has just a few records for the surname, Kaeding. You can see what is included in the GFT below. What you do see in the above image is the fact that Rev. Christian Kaeding came to Altenburg in 1864 and found himself a bride by the name of Jacobine Seibel. The … More Rev. Christian Kaeding Finds Altenburg Bride
I am going to begin today’s post by once again showing the photo including several members of the August Ude family. The members of this family that will be the subject of today’s post are the ones indicated by the red arrows. The 3 brothers highlighted yesterday were all involved in running grocery stores. The … More Postlude to Ude’s Food
I rarely write a blog post that is the result of a request. That is mainly because I do not get many requests. I will attempt to satisfy a request today. Contrary to most days, I do not have a special event for today’s main character that took place on today’s date. I chose to … More Hometown Doc
The person whose story will be told today did not spend much of his life in Perry County. In fact, he did not spend most of his life in Missouri. Heinrich (Henry) Schuessler became a Lutheran pastor and spent almost all his life in the state of Michigan. We tell his story today because he … More Rev. Schuessler from Michigan
After writing these posts for a while now, I keep wondering if I will run out of stories to tell. It has not happened yet. In fact, I am amazed at how many stories that I run across that simply fascinate me. One of my favorite hymns is “I Love to Tell the Story”. During … More Gottseidank ist es Freitag
I usually find a topic for this blog which is associated with the date. That is once again the case today. June 28th was the birthday of a man in 1869 who happened to end up doing the same thing I did during my career. He became a Lutheran school teacher. However, this man, contrary … More Detroit’s Teacher Estel
June 29th was the day that Rudolph Johannes Meyr married Hedwig “Hattie” Josephine Schmidt at Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg. The marriage took place in 1920. By 1921, Rudolph and Hattie were living in Detroit, Michigan where Rudolph was teaching at Concordia Lutheran School. While in Detroit, this couple had their only child, Vernon Meyr. … More A Teacher’s Kid
We hear much about Obamacare in our country. There was a long time in Altenburg when you could say the people experienced Fischercare. Theodore Fischer was the doctor for this area from 1933 to 1979. He graduated from Washington University School of Medicine in 1927, finishing at the top of his class. That is about … More Fischercare
