The story you will read today has several people who died rather early in life. It is actually today’s birthday girl who outlives them all. However, the story does not begin with her. William Struewe was born on December 10, 1839, the day after the Log Cabin College opened for its first day of classes … More William Struewe and His Dambach and Maintz Wives
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
Timm’s Trilogy comes to an end today. I would like to give him a big “shout-out” for giving me a few days off. ======================================= Yesterday, we met Augusta’s second Christian Haupt and began looking at their family. We’ll continue now with her last known child, Carolina ‘Emma’ Haupt, who was born 21 May 1874 and … More Hauptidentitätsverschmelzung, Part 3
Timm Yamnitz is once again the author today’s post, which is a continuation of the one that was published yesterday. ====================================== We left off yesterday with the death of Augusta’s first husband, Christian Haupt. Like him, her second husband was also named Christian Haupt and he was also born in Sudheim, Kingdom of Hanover, where … More Hauptidentitätsverschmelzung, Part 2
Today’s post, along with the next two, are authored by Timm Yamnitz. Timm is a young man who was born and raised in Perry County but now resides in Germany. He is a resource that our museum has used on several occasions to translate German writings and find German records that we request. Timm volunteered … More Hauptidentitätsverschmelzung
A wedding took place in or near Friedheim on this date 175 years ago, and I will attempt to tell the story of that bride and groom today. The marriage record for this couple is found in the books of Trinity Lutheran Church in Friedheim. Since that congregation’s first called pastor, Rev. Franz Julius Biltz, … More Minnie Haupt Finds Her Braunschweiger Maintz
I will be writing a story today that introduces some brand new names to this blog. Even though I found evidence that the surnames of the bride and groom have been around in this area for a very long time and also members of a local Lutheran church, I have not run across their names … More Mary and Joseph – Friedheim Kester’s
I recently mentioned that our German Family Tree now includes the records of Trinity Lutheran Church in Friedheim. Today’s story will include some families that showed up in that congregation’s books during their early years. After the German Lutherans arrived in Perry County in 1839, one of the first pastors, Rev. Carl Gruber, who was … More Dissen to Friedheim – Sudheim to Lixville
Yesterday, I wrote a post about a bride and groom who both had surnames that began with a “K”. Today, I ran across the story of a pair that each had names starting with an “H”. The birthday girl for today’s post is Anna Sophie Hilpert, who was born on May 31, 1878, so she … More A Double-H Wedding – Haupt-Hilpert
I begin today with a portion of the passenger list of the ship, Olbers. the last ship that was part of the Gesellschaft to arrive in New Orleans in January of 1839. On the above list, you will see two families…the Sterzel’s and the Schnabel’s. Included are also two physicians. One was Johann August Sterzel, … More Disgruntled Doctors Depart
