The Christmas season is the time of year when we hear of angels most often. That’s one of the reasons that I could not resist today’s story. You will read about a couple in which both the bride and groom were the children of angels. Of course, you must understand that in German, the word … More Angels’ Children
We are going to be celebrating a special wedding anniversary today. On March 3, 1870, Johann Peter Mangels married Engel Mahnken at Salem Lutheran Church in Farrar, Missouri. That makes today their 150th wedding anniversary. Their church marriage record is shown below. It is just the 2nd marriage in the Salem church records on this … More Angel Becomes Mangels
Two Engels (the German word for “angel”) were highlighted in yesterday’s story. I just so happened to run across another one for April 27th. I have become convinced that the name, Engel, was a very common one given to girls born in the Scheeβel area of Germany in the 1800’s. It’s not a name I … More The Birth of Another Angel
I wrote a post about one of today’s characters three years ago, titled The Birth of an Angel, that was 123 words long. I was in the first year of this blog-writing passion of mine, and I was still very much in the learning process. I checked this year’s stats for these posts, and my … More J.C. and His Angels
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
The post today will be more of a memorial than it will be a story. The boy born on August 1, 1890 only lived 28 years, and he died for his country in World War I. This post will also be the story of this boy’s grieving mother. Theodore Arbeiter was born on this day … More An Angel’s Sad Pilgrimage
I trust that if I get anything wrong in this post, our research partner who is the authority on the Miesner family, Lori Adams, will set me straight. I start this story in the middle. Here is a passenger list from the ship, Braunschweig, which arrived in Baltimore, Maryland, in June of 1892. There are … More Brought by an Angel
I am going to attempt to tell a story unlike most of the stories I write on this blog. I am the first person to admit that I am not an expert on places in Germany where our ancestors lived or events that took place there before they voyaged to America. This story is certainly … More The Schubert Orphans
Meyer, Meier, and Meyr are three different family names common in East Perry County’s history. Today we discuss the marriage between two of these familiies….a marriage of a Meyer and a Meier. Joachim Meyer was the groom. His birthday occurred on this day, July 17 in 1863. At that time, America was in the midst … More Meyer-Meier Marriage
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