The name of Justine Grebing has appeared in quite a few posts on this blog. In fact, back in 2016, the first year of this blog’s existence, I wrote a post titled, Grebing/Göthe, which highlighted Justine’s marriage. That post was written back in the days when I was a rookie in the blog game, and … More Justine’s Bicentennial Jubilee
Whenever the Perry County Lutheran Historical Society welcomes new members to its organization, the old book shown below is brought out so that they can add their names to the historical list of people who have been members of that organization over the years. If you open this book to the beginning, you will find … More The Original Members of the Perry County Lutheran Historical Society
I ran across a marriage that took place on this day back in 1901 that involved two characters that show up occasionally in my Wittenberg ’03 book, so I decided to tell the story of that couple in today’s post. The marriage was between Theodore Militzer and Theodora Lueders. I am still away from Altenburg … More Theodore and Theodora
One hundred forty-six years ago today, two weddings took place at Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg. That event included a brother and a sister in the Grebing family. One sibling married a Rabold; the other married a Militzer. Back in those days, you didn’t always find weddings taking place on weekends like most of them … More Double Wedding in the Hole
Exactly one week ago, I published the post, Wittenberg Mail Carrier, which told the tale of the marriage of Martin Grebing and Emma Richter. Three years after that wedding, Martin’s only sibling, Ida Grebing, married one of Emma’s brothers, Martin Richter. I tell that story today because Martin Richter was born on April 3, 1869. … More The Other Richter/Grebing Couple
Because he was born on March 27, 1872, Martin Grebing would have been 147 years old today. It is his life story that I will attempt to tell today. Martin’s parents were John and Anna (Noennig) Grebing. Martin was the oldest child in his family. He ended up having just one sister because his father … More Wittenberg Mail Carrier
I guess you could make the argument that the first famous Lutheran braumeister (brewmaster) was Katharina “Katie” (von Bora) Luther, Martin’s wife. Martin Luther loved to have a good beer to drink, but he was much too busy with his profession to brew his own. However, his wife was quite good at producing a good … More Our Newest Braumeister
I actually started writing this post, thinking I had this family figured out, but I had to restart after I found all kinds of confusing records. So I have decided begin with a different starting point and disregard the previous generation, and this led me to do a restart of this post. Suffice it to … More Perry County Waser Women
Aline Klara Stemmerman was born on this day, June 25th, in 1887. She was baptized at Salem Lutheran Church in Farrar, Missouri. Here is the baptism record from the Salem church books. We also have this Perry County birth record for her. It is two images. Aline was the daughter of Herman and Anna Maria … More Militzer in the Middle
Although the title of this post might sound like a basketball score with Frohna coming out as the winner, it is not what it seems. It actually describes the ages of two rather seasoned citizens of East Perry County when they were married in 1978. The 85 year old hailed from Frohna, and the 68 … More Frohna 85 – Altenburg 68
