You will be reading the story today of a couple that would be celebrating a wedding anniversary. The couple was married at Trinity Lutheran Church in Friedheim. I am going to begin by looking at today’s groom. Friedrich Schuette was born on August 30, 1828 in Germany, the son of Johann Heinrich and Anna Maria … More Fritz and Lottie – Kurreville Schuette’s
A Sewing family arrived in America in 1843…a father, mother, and 3 children. Now, our museum has a family book called the Sewing Circle documenting this family and their descendants. That book is more than an inch thick. Today, you will read about those original Sewing’s. The story begins in Kleekamp, Germany. Friedrich Wilhelm Sewing … More Starting with the Sewing’s
Today’s post was written by a new guest blogger. Her name is Sue Sewing. I have met Sue a few times over the years when she visited our museum and was doing research on her Sewing family. I am told that she lives in Tennessee. Without me asking, Sue sent me everything I needed for … More Piecing Together the Sewing Family Quilt
I recently mentioned that our German Family Tree now includes the records of Trinity Lutheran Church in Friedheim. Today’s story will include some families that showed up in that congregation’s books during their early years. After the German Lutherans arrived in Perry County in 1839, one of the first pastors, Rev. Carl Gruber, who was … More Dissen to Friedheim – Sudheim to Lixville
The information shown below from our German Family Tree is the starting point for today’s post. As you can see, there is not much there. It contains only a baptism record and a marriage record from Grace Lutheran Church. As of the time of this writing, the German Family Tree does not contain records for … More Kurreville Store
The main character in today’s story will enable me to share a little history about a historic, but extinct, Lutheran church in this area. Before writing this story, I knew very little about this church. The research going into this post has enabled me to become much more familiar with it. Heinrich Lowes was born … More Trip to the Lowes in Arnsberg
Concordia Historical Institute has a site called Today in History at which you can find significant events that happened on a certain date throughout church history. That site can be found here: http://lutheranhistory.org/history/todayinhist.asp Here is what that site looks like. I have put a box around today’s date, March 12. If you were to click … More A Trio of Pioneer Pastors
The Grubers of Uniontown managed to marry off two of their daughters on two different May fifths……even though the date of these weddings is up for debate. Not only that, but they both married men who were pastors. To add to that, there was a third daughter who also married a pastor, and two of … More Dos Cinco de Mayos
Our research library has copies of church records from many local Lutheran churches which are often used by our visitors to study their family histories. We are excited that we will soon also have the church records of Trinity Lutheran Church in Friedheim, Missouri, about twenty miles away from Altenburg. The majority of the work … More Friedheim Records
May 27, 1873, was the wedding date for a couple whose parents spent some of their early time after the immigration in Perry County. Both of the groom’s parents and both of the bride’s parents spent those early years in and around Altenburg. The groom was Ferdinand Gerhard Walther and the bride was Bertha Emilie … More A Special Wedding with Perry County Roots
