Quite a few posts on this blog have been written about people who had the surname, Kassel. You will read another one today. It will tell the tale of one of the Kassel’s who originally entered the United States back in 1845. This Kassel man is also today’s birthday boy. George Kassel was born on … More One of the Original Kassel’s – George
I really do not understand why Lynn Degenhardt included several pages of a Kurre family in our German Family Tree. There are not many local church records to be found among these Kurre’s. Yet, the beginning of this Kurre family in the GFT goes all the way back to the 1600’s. It is among these … More August and Mary – Cape Girardeau Kurre’s
Yesterday’s tale took us to Kansas. We aren’t in Kansas anymore today. Instead, we will be headed to Texas. It all begins in Friedheim. Eva Charlotte Rehkopf was born on October 12, 1857, although we find some conflicting evidence about the year in which she was born. Eva was the daughter of Henry and Wilhelmina … More Friedheim to Advance to Waco
Freida Emma Klaus was born on September 4, 1895, so that makes today her 130th birthday. Frieda was the daughter of Louis and Fredericke (Oehl) Klaus. I do not know when or where Frieda was baptized. I do know that she had a younger brother who was baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church in Friedheim in … More Oscar Finds Friedheim Frieda
April 28th must have been a very special day in the Lowe’s family. Both the mother and her firstborn son shared this day as their birthday. These two were born exactly 23 years apart. I will attempt to tell their stories today. One story takes us to Arnsberg Lutheran Church and the other to Hanover … More Mom and Son Celebrate Birthday
