The birthday boy for today is George Friedrich Doering, who was born on September 3, 1889. That makes today his 137th birthday. George was the son of Henry and Emilie (Petzoldt) Doering. Before I move on, as far as I can tell, George’s mother was not related to the Petzoldt’s that are normally highlighted on … More Pastor Lehr’s Daughter Marries Altenberg Doering
The birthday boy for today’s post is Gustav Ferdinand Heimbecher, who was born on June 6, 1861. That means today would be his 165th birthday. Gustav was the son of Johann and Maria Heimbecher. Family trees on Ancestry say that Gustav’s mother’s maiden name was Doering, but Family Search says her maiden name was Scheuer. … More Hemmann Happens Upon Heimbecher Husband
Not long ago, I wrote the story titled, Rudolph Roth and the Cigar Dealer’s Daughter. In that post, it was noted that Rudolph’s brother, Leo Roth, a man from Wittenberg, had married a girl, Linna Mueller, from Uniontown. Today, you will read about yet another brother in that Roth family, and he was another Wittenberg … More Another Wittenberg Man Finds Uniontown Bride
I will be entertaining out of town guests (who are also family) today, so I am once again sharing an old story. The attached post was first written back in 2017. For those of you who know German or who have read posts about people in the Vogel family on this blog, you may already … More The Birds Arrive in Perry County
Yesterday, I told the story of a man born in 1894 who married a woman born in 1896. It just so happens that I will tell another tale today that follows that same plot. Another similarity can be found in the fact that today’s birthday boy only shows up in our German Family Tree because … More Bartering Bueckmann and His Bay Bride
Folks around here pronounce the surname, Doering, as Daring. So today’s post title should be read as, A Daring Pi Day Birthday. After reading today’s story, perhaps you might say that today’s main character could be called a daring man because he was bold enough to go where others “dared not go” in order to … More A Doering Pi Day Birthday
I invented a new term for today’s post. I hereby declare that bi-bicentennial means a set of two bicentennial birthdays. Let me say that I come across only a few folks in our German Family Tree who would be celebrating their 200th birthdays, so when I locate a case when there are two people on … More Bi-Bicentennial Birthdays
Ferdinand and Amalia (Theiss) Mueller had seven children before 1898, and all of them were girls. One of those girls, Bertha Mueller, was my grandmother. I can display this photograph of the parents of these girls. On February 7, 1898, a baby boy was finally born to this family. He would be the last child … More The Baby Brother of the Mueller Sisters
Today’s pair was first mentioned at the end of a post titled, Meyr or Meyer?. That post stated that Ernst Meyr and his wife, Magdalena, must have decided to change the spelling of their surname from the Austrian spelling, Meyr, to the more common spelling of Meyer. So, today, when we focus on one of … More Ted and Bertha – The Meyr’s (or Meyer’s)
I did not get married until I was 39 years old. Many thought I would never get married, including myself. As it turns out, it was the best thing that ever happened in my life, other than my baptism. I will tell the story of a woman today that also did not get married until … More Getting Married Later in Life
