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
I was attracted to today’s story because it involves a Metzner, and that surname is fresh in my mind because I published a story a few days ago, Destination Wedding – 150 Years Ago, that included a Metzner. In that post, I questioned whether Friedrich Metzner was correctly included in a family with several other Metzner … More The First Wedding at Immanuel, Altenburg
You will read another story that takes place in Frohna today. It involves a marriage that took place on this day back in 1875, making today the 146th anniversary of the two that were married. I thought that this couple might qualify as one of those in which both the bride and groom were born, … More Salomo and Schmidt
Today’s main character was mentioned in a previous blog that was written about his brothers titled, Two of a Kind….Later a Full House. Those brothers were a set of twins born on September 17th. What was not said in that post was that this set of twins had an older brother who was also born on … More Three Brothers – Same Birthday – Not Triplets
On this day after Father’s Day, I happened to find a very special date involving a significant local mother, the matriarch of a large family. Today is the bicentennial birthday of Catherine Elizabeth Doering, who was born on June 21, 1821. Even though a previous post told the story of Catherine and her husband, I … More Vogel Matriarch Bicentennial
Friedrich Joseph Arthur Preusser is today’s birthday boy. He was born on January 25, 1882, the son of Gustav and Anna (Jahn) Preusser. Today would have been his 139th birthday. He went by the name of Arthur during his lifetime. Arthur was baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg, Missouri. Below is an image of … More Arthur, Anna, and Albert Preusser
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