The birthday boy today is Rev. George Albert Schieferdecker. He was born on March 12, 1815 in Germany and was one of the original members of the Gesellschaft. He came to America aboard the Copernicus. On the passenger list, he is called a Candidate of Theology. In the early years, George served in teaching … More Schieferdecker Splits – Then Returns
One of the great sources that we have for the stories that we tell on this blog can be found on Ancestry.com. On that site, you can find a family history with the title, “Fritsche-Miesner Family Tree”. The author of that tree is Lori Adams. I have never met Lori, but I do know that … More A Fritsche-Miesner Connection
While walls were rising on a new building at Trinity Lutheran Church, just down the road at Immanuel Lutheran Church, a marriage was taking place on this day, January 29, 1867. Eighteen year old Bertha Engert, whose parents had arrived in 1839 with the Gruber group, was united in marriage with August Degenhardt, a thirty … More The Original Degenhardt Duo
Today would have been the 130th anniversary of two orphans from Altenburg. On November 21, 1886, Henry Voerster married Katherine Roenn at Trinity Lutheran. Henry was the son of Friedrich and Anna Maria (Kaufmann) Voerster. This couple had been married at Immanuel Lutheran Church in St. Louis in 1848. The pastor who performed the ceremony … More Orphan Marries Orphan
Anna Grother was born on this day, November 14th, in 1844. Her future husband, Conrad Seibel was born seven months earlier on April 27th. According to the church records of Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg, Rev. Gotthold Loeber was a busy man that year, baptizing 18 infants during 1844. This was one year before the … More Married to a Mail Carrier
On October 30, 1924, a baby girl was born in Vincennes, Indiana by the name of Rosalie Antonia Kutscher. Here is a photo of her birth certificate. As you can see, the parents of Rosalie were Paul and Helen (Reisenbichler) Kutscher. It can also be noted that Paul was a parochial school teacher. Paul Gerhard … More Black Jack Teacher
We have this shipping trunk on display at the Lutheran Heritage Center & Museum. The caption that goes with this trunk says the following: Here we see the passenger list that includes these two brothers aboard the George Washington in 1849. Carl and Theodore were both merchants and likely did much of their work … More A Shipping Trunk with a Story
Today’s story is another one about a pair of East Perry County twins. Maybe stories about twins attract my attention more than others because I am the grandfather of a pair of twin girls. We have already done several posts about twins. One of those was titled, Together in Birth and Death. Today’s story could … More The Palisch Twins
Today’s blog is about another name that we don’t find anymore in the East Perry County area…….Grother. Today would have been the 145th anniversary of Johann Heinrich Ludwig Grother and Emilie Christiane Palisch. Their anniversary was September 7, 1871. The Grother name became part of the settlement in Perry County by joining the immigrant group … More Another Vanished Name
Yesterday, Gerard Fiehler and I solved a mystery. Last week in a blog post, it was said that we did not know where two Wagner men were buried. Now we at least know where one of those two ended up. We were at the museum yesterday talking to one of our more seasoned docents, Caroline … More A Lonesome Tombstone
