A baby girl was born on March 26, 1887 in the Shawnee Township. It is her story and the story of her husband that will be shared with you today. Louise Emma Lehner was the daughter of Peter and Christina (Wachter) Lehner. Louise’s father was first married to Hannah Birner, and that couple had two … More Louise and the Pocahontas Butter Man
A marriage took place on this date 150 years ago. Just yesterday, I composed a post that had connections to a recently-published story titled, Pocahontas Mueller’s. The couple celebrating a special anniversary today once again is connected to that story…from two different directions. It is another story which links together a couple in which the … More From Shawnee Township, MO to Shawnee County, KS
A Mueller couple would be celebrating their 143rd anniversary today if they were still alive. The couple was made up of a German descendant of an original immigrant from the Gesellschaft and a later Austrian immigrant. I will begin with the German groom. Heinrich Furchtegott Mueller was born on May 7, 1855, the son of … More Pocahontas Mueller’s
This past week, our museum’s printed copy of the German Family Tree was updated as a result of constant work being done by Lynn Degenhardt to make improvements to it. This document is now over 4000 pages long. I have not yet loaded the digital version of that document on my personal laptop, so I … More Engelbert and Eva Erlbacher
One and a half centuries ago, Carl Rudolph Landgraf was born. He ended up living almost a century. You will be reading his story today. If you already did your calculations, you know that Rudolph was born on September 2, 1872. He was the son of Herman and Mathilda (Naeser) Landgraf. Rudolph was one of … More Lumberman Landgraf Linked with Lina and Lena
In a few other previous posts, I have discussed that there are two groups of Gerler’s, the Ridge Gerler’s and the Lake Gerler’s. Actually, both of these groups of Gerler’s are connected to each other if you go back far enough, and you don’t even have to go back to Germany to find the connection. … More Martin, the Lake Gerler
You are about to take a trip back in time, starting in St. Louis, and proceeding to New Wells, Frohna, and Seelitz in Missouri and Horse Prairie in Illinois. The Missouri and Illinois settings have the common thread of Rev. Martin Stephan. All of those places are connected to Diane Guelzow, whose husband’s family roots … More Acts of God – Part 3
I have stated in a previous post that if I find a bicentennial birthday for an ancestor from this area, it must mean that birthday took place in Germany. Not always so. I did not think about the folks who once settled the Shawnee Township of northern Cape Girardeau County. That vicinity was a place … More An Austrian Bicentennial Birthday
Esther Kieninger would have been 134 years old today. She was born as Esther Mueller on November 8, 1885. She was the daughter of Joseph and Mathilda (Buenger) Mueller and her baptism record can be found in the church books of Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg. However, she may have been baptized in the church/school … More Mama Kieninger
Yesterday’s story was about a butcher, so when I found a birthday boy who was a butcher today, I figured it was a story I had to tell. As it turns out, this story led me all over the place. Before you get to the end of this story, you will see Lutheran church records … More Butcher to Billiards
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