Yesterday we wrote about the birthday of Josephine Strubinger on September 2, 1891 in Sacramento, California. One day after Josephine’s second birthday, her great grandfather, Johann Gottlieb Palisch died back in Missouri. The gravestone above can be found in the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Altenburg, Missouri. It shows his death date as September 3 1893. … More The Palisch Patriarch
A while back, we posted a story about some Hemmanns from Uniontown who later settled in Amherst, Nebraska….A Family Moves to the Prairie. Today’s story is a continuation of that one. Today is the birthday of Frieda Karoline Czenkusch. At first, I thought Czenkusch may have been a name from a country other than Germany, … More Another Story Ending in California
This will be another story of some Perry County characters who made the decision to move away from here. This became a fairly common occurrence in a time when families were rather large, and the prospect of getting land in this area was getting harder. The story starts with the birth of Friedrich Wilhelm Gerler … More Same Birthday–Same Anniversary
The story today begins with the birth of Adolph Gustav Gaebler on June 20, 1881. That certainly sounds like a typical German name, but what attracted me even more to this story is his mother’s maiden name…..Zwickelhuber. How can you not write a story about a Zwickelhuber? The Zwickelhuber story is not without its scandal, … More Zwickelhuber
On June 19, 1866, Richard Petzoldt and Johanna Lindner were united in marriage at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Altenburg. Rev. Theo. Koeberle performed the ceremony. Today would have been their 150th wedding anniversary. It appears to be only the second marriage performed by Rev. Koeberle after he replaced Rev. Schieferdecker in 1866. Richard arrived in … More 150th Wedding Anniversary
Yesterday, our blog post mentioned that Maria Jahn married Johann Gottfried Schuessler on May 19, 1859. Maria was not the only Jahn to be married on that day. Her brother, Friedrich Jahn married Magdalena Kaufmann on the same day. It was a double wedding, and it might have occurred in the 1845 church. Back in … More Another Multiple Wedding in Altenburg
Not long ago, we did a few blog posts concerning J.G. Hemman who fathered so many children. J.G. came to America with the Gruber group in December of 1839. There was another fertile father in the Gruber group. His name was August Friedrich Wilhelm Engert. I ran across his name today because his first wife, … More Another Fertile Father
The photo above shows the World War II draft registration for Harry Flach, a clerk for a seed and hardware company in Peoria, Illinois who was born in Minden, Nebraska. This document does not give any clue to Harry’s connection to the Saxon immigration, but there is one. Here is how Harry’s story begins (and … More Harry Abandoned on the Prairie
I am posting this blog under my own name today, not the Research Crew, because I will be stating some of my opinions, not just the facts. Today’s story begins with the fact that Friedrich Immanuel Estel was born on this day, April 30, in 1832, before he came to America as part of the … More Tell It Like It Was
The March 7, 1848 issue of Der Lutheraner contained this article: “This past Sexagesima Sunday and the day after [February 27-28] the local German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession had the pleasure of being able to dedicate its newly constructed second church in the northern part of the city. The church has … More The Second St. Louis Lutheran Church (LCMS)
