Today, we return to the Shawnee Township for our story. Yesterday, the post highlighted a man living in the Shawnee Township with a surname that began with a “K”…Koenig. Today, we double the amount of characters whose names begin with “K”. I will begin with our birthday boy. Richard Heinrich Kutscher was born on May … More A Double-K Wedding – Kutscher/Kasten
The beginning place for this post is a birthday that took place on this day 150 years ago. Normally, such a starting point leads to that person finding a spouse, discussing a wedding, which is usually followed by the birth of several children, and ending with a husband and wife dying and being buried. This … More Kasten Caretakers
We begin today’s tale by looking at a wedding which took place not long after World War I. I suppose you could say that it is another one of those couples about which you could ask that question, “How did those two get together?” The groom was Arthur Kasten from Jackson, Missouri, and the bride … More The Kasten Ziegelbrenners
