The bride and groom in today’s tale both have their beginnings in Southern Illinois, not far from Perry County. However, each of them have a bit of connection to Perry County as well. However, most of their lives were spent in St. Louis. We begin with the birthday girl. Anna Sophia Mathilda Stueven was born … More William Hartenberger – St. Louis Ice & Coal Man
You are getting another old post today. Our family will not only be celebrating Thanksgiving Day, but our daughter’s birthday, so I am preoccupied. Back in 2021, I wrote the attached post about a couple who were married on November 28th. This year, since that couple was married in 1894, they would be celebrating their … More St. Louis Ice and Coal Man
Back in 2021, a post was published on this blog titled, Widowed in Winter – Joined during June in Jacob. One of the characters in that post was a man named Henry Hollmann. The birthday boy in today’s story is another Henry Hollmann. The previous Henry Hollmann was born in Germany in 1870. Today’s main … More Another Henry Hollmann
I have written a bunch of stories involving people with the name, Stueve. The number of posts written about a surname that has a slightly different name, Stueven, is considerably smaller. I did a search on this blog for posts that included the name, Stueve, and stopped counting the number of results after getting to … More Stueven’s in Jacob
In several previous posts about characters from New Wells, I have mentioned a “neighborhood” made up of residents with the names of Koch, Koenig, and Haertling. You are about to read another one. It is a story that begins with a different surname, one that appeared in a recent post about Johann Meinz. The birthday … More A Wienberg Joins the Koch-Koenig-Haertling New Wells Neighborhood
Today, I will tell the story of Johann Heinrich Meinz, who, as near as I can tell, was the first person to settle in East Perry County with that surname. John arrived in America in 1881, traveling to this country aboard the ship, Habsburg. A passenger list for that ship includes a person named Heinrich … More Pioneer Perry County Meinz
You will read the story today of a young couple that got married in 1897, so they would be celebrating a special 125th anniversary on this day. Both the bride and the groom were born and raised in Farrar, and then they raised their family in Farrar as well. Martha Marie Katherine Mangels was born … More Gottfried, Martha, and Their Farrar Females
The birthday girl for today is one of those persons who hops back and forth across the Mississippi on several occasions during her life. As I write this post, the Mississippi River is so low that people are able to walk out to Tower Rock, and it’s drawing quite a crowd to this area. However, … More Hopping Across the Mississippi River
Martin Pfau took a roundabout way to find his bride in Jacob, Illinois. And even then, I have no idea how these two managed to meet one another. His bride is today’s birthday girl, but the only documentation for her being born on this day is found in the books of Christ Lutheran Church in … More Pfau from Frohna to Wentzville to Murphysboro
You will read another one of those stories today in which the husband and wife were each born, baptized, confirmed, married, raised their family, died, and buried while attending the same church. It’s a story that takes place entirely at Salem Lutheran Church in Farrar. The sad part of the story is that the husband … More Herman and Maria – A Versemann/Koenig Pair
