A baby girl was born on this day 140 years ago in Illinois. This baby got off to an inauspicious start. Our German Family Tree says that Bertha Seidel was the illegitimate daughter of August Siedel and a woman with the surname, Alhard. She was born on February 9, 1884, but she was not baptized until October 29, … More John and Bertha – Farrar Sticht’s
Paul Jacob Kuehnert is today’s birthday boy. He was born on October 21, 1893, so today, he would have been blowing out 128 candles on his birthday cake. Paul was the son of Julius and Emma (Schmidt) Kuehnert. The Kuehnert family grew up in the Seelitz area of East Perry County, and Paul was baptized … More Caring for Soles and Souls
Heinrich Hans Vogt is said to have been born on January 26, 1846 in Germany. Some documents also indicate that Henry came to America in 1872. Henry settled in the Fountain Bluff Township in Jackson County, Illinois. The time he arrived was not long before the official formation of Christ Lutheran Church in Jacob, Illinois, … More Schroeder and Vogt
In Scripture, we find this passage in James 1:27: 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. You are going to be reading another story about how people in this … More Look After Widows and Orphans in Their Distress
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
