I certainly had some struggles with today’s post. Even when I’m finished with this story, there will be unanswered questions. However, the story has some interesting characteristics, including the fact that there is a chance today’s main character spent time living on the property that I now own. So, here we go. Emilie Wilhelmine Neumueller … More Emilie and the Unattached
I am calling Georg Gottlob Seibel today’s birthday boy, but there is a little confusion about his date of birth. There are conflicting church records. Based on Gottlob’s baptism record at Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg, Missouri, he was born on February 28, 1865 and baptized on March 3rd. Gottlob was the son of Jacob … More G.G. and A.A. Seibel
Yesterday’s post was about Henry Oetjen’s life story. As Paul Harvey often said, “This is the rest of the story.” Today, you get the story of Henry’s Oetjen cousins. I am going to start with Friedrich (Fred) Oetjen today. Friedrich Oetjen was born on April 7, 1887, one year after the birth of Henry. Fred … More Oregon’s Oetjen Cousins – Part 2
I began looking at a February 24th birthday today, thinking it might be worth a post. For a while, I was not convinced I could find enough for a story. However, as time went by, I eventually decided it was not worth a story; it was worth two stories. So today you will get the … More Oregon’s Oetjen Cousins – Part 1
I was attracted to today’s story by a first name. Buelah. To be more complete, her name was Beulah Blanche Childs (or Chiles). What were my first thoughts? First, Beulah is not a German name. Second, it is not a Lutheran name. I was right on both counts. So, how did Beulah make it into … More Beulah’s Beauties
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
The original Kaempfe family arrived aboard the Johann Georg as part of the Gesellschaft in 1839. I wrote a post about the early years in Perry County for the Kaempfe’s that was titled, Prof. Godfather. These Kaempfe’s eventually had a farm in Millstadt, Illinois, and one of their sons, Traugott, moved back to Perry County, … More Kaempfe’s Carriage
Yesterday’s story about a bride and groom from each side of the river, along with today’s story about a family that spent part of their lives on the Missouri side and part of their lives on the Illinois side, have gotten me wondering. I look back in the history of this area and see so … More From Frohna to Fountain Bluff
I have written several stories now which include a marriage that takes place involving a bride and groom in which one participant grew up on this side of the Mississippi River, and the other was born and raised on the other side of the river in Illinois. Today will be another example of one of … More Rudy and Maria – Another Altenburg/Jacob Couple
If you want to be qualified to celebrate your 150th birthday in 2020, you must have been born in 1870. We are going to look today at two people who formed a couple in which both the bride and the groom were born in 1870. One of them, the bride, was born on this day, … More Katharina’s 150th Birthday
