Oscar Emanuel Rauh is today’s birthday boy, being born on September 28, 1895. If Oscar was alive today, he would have to blow out 130 birthday candles. Oscar was the son of Charles and Louisa (Bergmann) Rauh. He was baptized at Peace Lutheran Church in Friedenberg, so we are not able to view his baptism … More Oscar Rauh – Pocahontas Miller
A baby girl was born on today’s date in Wittenberg, Missouri 150 years ago, and her story will be told in this post. The birthday girl is Bertha Rosina Josephine Lehner. She was the daughter of Peter and Hanna (Birner) Lehner. Bertha was baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg. We can take a look … More Fred and Bertha – Pocahontas Gerler’s
I happen to know that my church, Trinity Lutheran in Altenburg, is presently examining ways to correct some problems we have in our cemetery. There are broken or fallen gravestones, grave markers that are leaning, plus there are quite a few empty spots for graves that were never marked with a gravestone. Today’s story will … More Unmarked Graves
Emma Concordia Estel was born on July 22, 1895, so today would have been her 125th birthday. Emma was the daughter of Martin and Emilie (Weinhold) Estel and her baptism record can be found in the books of Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg. However, she is yet another one of those children who likely would … More From Flour to Flowers
I have often written about people who were in a clan that we refer to as the “Frohna Muellers”. There was another family that lived in Frohna that had three sons who became millers. This trio spent their lives operating flour mills in East Perry County. Two of them ran a large mill in Frohna, … More One of the Frohna Millers
Although you do not find their names in the Bible, church tradition says that the names of the Wise Men were Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar. Today, we tell the story of Balthasar. Balthasar Schmidt, that is. Today was date that Balthasar Schmidt married Friedericke Schade. They were married on June 19, 1861 at Immanuel Lutheran … More Wise Man Schmidt
Emma Lorenz is today’s birthday girl. Because she was born on May 14, 1882, she would have been 137 years old today. She was the daughter of John and Carolina (Mueller) Lorenz. Her family descends from the Lorenz family that settled around Altenburg. There is a whole different Lorenz family that settled in Farrar. Emma … More Carl and Emma
Last year, on this date, I wrote a post titled, Unraveling the Palisch/Fischer Connections. That post focused mostly on the marriage of Henry Palisch and Martha Fischer that took place on July 10th in 1887. Today, I will focus on the other marriage that was just briefly mentioned in that article. It was another marriage … More Frohna Fischers
If he was alive today, we would be celebrating the 127th birthday of Walther Theodosius Weinhold. Walther is shown on many documents as being named Walter, and my guess is that most people called him Walter during his lifetime. However, his given name was Walther. One may wonder if he was named after the famous … More Named After His Grandmother?
A marriage took place on this day, May 9th, in 1882. I suppose it could be argued that the wedding took place in either Altenburg or Wittenberg, but my best guess would be Wittenberg. A new school/church building had been constructed in Wittenberg on property which is said to have been donated by Joseph Weinhold … More Estel Marries the Eldest
