Julius Martin Tanz was born on August 27, 1885, making today his 137th birthday. Tanz is the German word for “dance”. Some descendants from the Perry County branch of the Tanz family even changed their surname to Danz which makes it look even more like “dance”. Julius was the 7th child out of 11 listed … More Julius Jitterbugs with Josephine
I believe that if you look at the family trees of folks that live in this area, you will eventually discover a Schmidt amongst the branches. We will be looking at the Fiedler family tree today, and, lo and behold, one of the Fiedler’s married a Schmidt. However, the Schmidt bride in today’s story did … More If You’re Gonna Be a Fiedler, You Gotta Have a Schmidt in the Band
Edwin Oswald Engert was born on April 13, 1896, making today his 126th birthday. Edwin did not have a normal childhood, which will be evident as I tell his story. His parents were August and Liberta (Palisch) Engert. That makes Edwin a grandchild and great grandchild of two very prolific patriarchs that were part of … More The Edwin Engert Post
The information shown below from our German Family Tree is the starting point for today’s post. As you can see, there is not much there. It contains only a baptism record and a marriage record from Grace Lutheran Church. As of the time of this writing, the German Family Tree does not contain records for … More Kurreville Store
I happen to know that my church, Trinity Lutheran in Altenburg, is presently examining ways to correct some problems we have in our cemetery. There are broken or fallen gravestones, grave markers that are leaning, plus there are quite a few empty spots for graves that were never marked with a gravestone. Today’s story will … More Unmarked Graves
Yesterday, the story was told of a couple made up of two people who were born, baptized, confirmed, married, and buried while members of the same church. I will tell another one of those stories today. It just takes place a a different congregation. This time, the setting for the entire post will be in … More The Hopfer Store
Heinrich Ferdinand Wunderlich was born on January 21, 1886, so if he was still alive today, he would have to blow out 136 candles on his birthday cake. Ferdinand was the firstborn child of Bernhard and Julia (Kasten) Wunderlich. He was by no means the only child in that family. Our German Family Tree shows … More Family That Stays Together Gets Buried Together
Today’s post is a contribution by our friend, Clayton Erdmann. I contacted him last night for a little help with this story, and he ended up writing most of it. Clayton is the expert on this tale because he is writing about a special person in his family tree. I have added a few extra … More Elsa: Promise of God
I did a search on this blog for the term “Twin Falls” and got 4 results, so today’s story that begins in Perry County and ends up in Twin Falls, Idaho is not the first such post on this blog fitting that pattern. The story begins with the birthday of Martin Peter Johann Meier which … More Another Twin Falls, Idaho Resident
If you read yesterday’s blog post, you know that one of the major characters was named Theodore Ernst. Today, I happened to run across a birthday boy who was also named Theodore Ernst. In fact, I had better call him Theodore Ernst Wachter because I have already written a post about another Theodore Wachter that … More Another Theodore Ernst
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