Today’s tale begins with a birthday boy who leads us to a previous post about another character. It is one in which a widow and a widower marry later in life. Today, I will display more documentation for this tale. Theobald Carl George Kaufmann was born on June 8, 1891, so today would be his … More A Kaufmann/Kuehnert Marriage Intersects with a Hoehne/Ahner Pair
Today’s tale will be about a couple who would be celebrating their wedding anniversary. It is another story in which there are missing pieces. I will share the aspects of this pair’s story that I was able to find. I will begin with the bride, who was born in Perry County. Elizabeth Hecht was born … More Charles and Elizabeth – Rockwood, IL Fricke’s
On my schedule yesterday was working at the museum on the day our friends in Frohna, Saxon Lutheran Memorial, had their annual Fall Festival. That occasion brings lots of Lutheran visitors to East Perry County, and each year, several of those visitors also come over to Altenburg to visit our museum. It was a truly … More Clara’s Two Husbands on Both Sides of the River
I am sharing two old posts today (actually four) because I have some driving to do. The two posts involve a pair of sisters, Ernestine and Maria Stueve, who were both married on August 14, 1890. That means today would be the 134th wedding anniversary for each of these sisters. Attached to this post is … More Stueve Girls’ Double Wedding
Today’s married couple is made up of a bride and groom who were members of two prominent families In the congregation of Grace Lutheran Church in Uniontown. Their parents were passengers aboard the same ship, the Johann Georg, which arrived in November of 1839 as part of the Gruber Group. The bride and groom were … More Hemmann/Hecht – Early Uniontown Babies Get Married
I will share one of those stories today in which both the bride and the groom not only were baptized at the same congregation, but these two also went all the way to that congregation’s cemetery together. That type of tale was certainly more common back in the horse and buggy days. I will begin … More Hecht/Kassel – Lifelong Union in Uniontown
I will describe the life of a girl with a Reformation Day birthday today. Sarah Hedwig Frentzel was born on October 31, 1893, so today would be the 130th birthday for Hedwig, often called Hattie. She was the daughter of Victor and Pauline (Telle) Frentzel. The Frentzel and Telle surnames are common ones found in … More Hedwig’s Herbert and Hecht Husbands
On June 12, 1845, Carl Friedrich Gruenwald was born in Germany, so today would be his 178th birthday. We have evidence that his father was Friedrich George Gruenwald, but all we know about his mother is that she died in 1854 and has a grave marker in the Concordia Lutheran Cemetery in Frohna. She is … More Charles and Hanna – The Gruenwald’s
cording to our German Family Tree, eleven children were born to Oswald and Augusta (Pfeiffer) Haertling, and the first 10 of them were boys. It is reminiscent of the 9 boys that were born into a Dietrich family in Altenburg that were called the Altenburg Giants in a previous post. You will be reading about … More One of the Haertling Boys
Wilhelmine Weber will be the focus of today’s tale. During her lifetime, she was married twice. The first marriage took place on today’s date. Wilhelmine Weber was born on July 25, 1835 in Ossig, Germany. Wilhelmine was the daughter of Gottfried and Christiane (Seidel) Weber. Her baptism record from the parish in Ossig is displayed … More Weber – Hecht- Winter
