Today, I will begin by looking at a man named Albert Winkler. Eventually, I will get around to discussing today’s birthday girl. Albert Louis Charles Winkler was born on March 14, 1881, the son of William and Marie (Schmidt) Winkler. Albert was baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church in Friedheim. His baptism record from that congregation’s … More Friedheim Winkler’s
I will eventually bring this story around to a birth that took place on this day 150 years ago, but I choose to go back a bit farther in this family’s history to show a trend. I have discussed this family to a certain extent in previous blogs. The family highlighted in this post is … More Grass Migrations
Charley Grass would be celebrating his 150th birthday today. I find his story fascinating because, as you will discover while reading this article, he spent almost his entire life in the company of Anna Grass. However, you will be told that there were two women who carried the name, Anna Grass. One was Charley’s sister; … More Charley and Two Women Named Anna Grass
I am writing this story on Good Friday. It will be a story that has some similarities to the events that took place on the original Good Friday, but also some distinct differences. This story has an only son. Also, because of a death, a woman becomes a grieving mother. Yet, the surrounding details in … More Married for 11 Months – Widowed for 69 Years
Someday, I might have to look into when the first person with the surname Popp appeared in the books of Concordia Lutheran Church in Frohna. There certainly were several Popp families to be found in Frohna over the years. I will be telling the story of a Popp who moved to Frohna around the turn … More Popp Goes Back to Frohna
I rarely do a story that originates with the date of a baptism, but that will be the case today. This baptism was one of the first to occur in the German Lutheran settlement in East Perry County, Missouri. This baptism piqued my interest for a couple of reasons, one being the fact that this … More A Baptism on Paar in Perry
I will drift away from my normal story strategy today. Instead of telling the tale of one family, I am going to give brief attention to three people that are not related to each other in any family way. What they do have in common is a connection to Reformation Day, October 31st. Two of … More Reformation Roundup
Friedrich Carl Gottwerth Seibel was born on June 22, 1869, making today his 151st birthday. He was the oldest child in his parents’ family, and he went on to follow in his father’s footsteps to become a blacksmith. In a previous post that I wrote about Frederick’s parents, Emanuel Seibel’s Grass Roots, it was stated … More Marie and the Frohna Blacksmith
Sophia Grass, if she were alive today, would be celebrating her 172nd birthday. She was born in 1846 in St. Louis, Missouri. Here is her baptism record from the Old Trinity Lutheran Church books. We do not have the originals of these records at our museum, but we do have an Excel spreadsheet that shows … More Emanuel Seibel’s Grass Roots
Normally when I see that a child was born to an original immigrant in December of 1838, I think that the baby must have been born aboard one of the ships coming across the Atlantic Ocean. Today’s birthday girl is an exception. She was born in New York City and her parents were already in … More A Lot of Grass Died
