The father in this photograph, Frank Burroughs, was one of four Burroughs children who were “let out” by their mother around 1864. After her husband died as a result of an injury while fighting in the Civil War, Sara Jane Burroughs remarried a man by the name of Donald. However, this man also died by … More A Band of Burroughs…..And Burroughs in the Band
I had to change boats in midstream today. I was leaning toward doing a story on a girl who was born on this day whose surname was Dietzfeldinger. Now how can you resist a story about a name like that? But I am going to. Instead, other local events have caused me to do a … More Charles Weber x 2
Because of the title of this post, I decided to do an internet search on “fisherman struck by lightning” and found this link: NOAA study finds fishing tops U.S. lightning death activities It really does not have much to do with this post, but it is a reminder about lightning safety. However, lightning is part … More Fischer Man Struck by Lightning
One of the reasons I decided to write today’s story is because I found a baptism record for today’s character from the church where this event took place in Germany. Here is an image of that record. I find this kind of record fascinating. The handwriting is beautiful, despite the fact that there is very … More Estel in a China Shop
Yesterday’s story was about some Fischers and Palisches. Today, I found two different Fischers who were born on July 11th. One of them was the character mentioned in yesterday’s story, Friedrich Ferdinand Fischer. He was born on July 11, 1832. He was only six years old when he arrived in America aboard the Republik in … More Fischer Follow-up
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
In 1895, a publication called A Modern Eden included this advertisement for the Neubeck Store in Altenburg. Today I tell the story of George Neubeck who was born on April 29, 1836 in Bavaria and is now buried in the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery in Altenburg. According to his biography in Goodspeed’s History of Southeast Missouri, … More Dealer and Healer in Downtown Altenburg
It is an Election Day in Perry County today, and I am an election judge. It’s going to be a slow day here today, so I should be able to get this story posted. However, I am working at a slight disadvantage. I do not have access to all the resources in our family research … More Perry County Politics
I start today by showing the 1930 Altenburg census listing the family of Leo and Maria Lottes. Leo and Maria, according to this census, have no children of their own, but they have three children living with them who are part of their extended family. If we backtrack ten years to the 1920 census, we … More Let the Children Come to Us
I’m going to start today’s story toward the end, and then go back in time. Here are some photos that were taken at a 50th wedding anniversary celebration. I’ll show both sides of the next photo. The back side identifies the people in the photo and can actually be used to identify the people in … More The Estels Go East
