The main character in today’s post was one of 13 children in his family, and then he and his wife had 11 children of their own. It sounds similar to the story of Mama Wunderlich that I republished yesterday. I find it interesting that today’s tale includes a couple named Mary and Joseph. Joseph and … More Perr Persons Pervade New Wells
Two days ago, I published the post, A Pair of Perr’s, and in it, I said that folks around here pronounce the name, Perr, as “pair”. I will be telling the story of another Perr today, and, believe it or not, I found evidence that this name was pronounced as “pair” in this area a long … More An Older Pair of Perr’s
Around these here parts, the surname, Perr, is pronouced “pair”. So the title of this post would be pronounced “A Pair of Pairs”. Or, perhaps the title could be illustrated by the photo below. However, today’s tale does not begin with a Perr. It begins with a Tiedemann who became a Perr. Margaretha Marie Tiedemann … More A Pair of Perr’s
William Josef Hoffmann, if he was still alive today, would be celebrating a very special birthday. Since he was born on May 29, 1897, he would be 125 years old today. William was the son of Julius and Wilhelmine (Mirly) Hoffmann. He was baptized at Immanuel Lutheran Church in New Wells. We can view an … More William and Nora – The Hoffmann’s
The starting point for today’s story is a wedding that took place 105 years ago. Otto Weber married Ida Perr on May 24, 1915 at Immanuel Lutheran Church in New Wells, Missouri. I am relieved because I will not have to type out surnames like Zwickelhuber or Haberfellner. I actually have fairly short names to … More Otto and Ida – Ridge Webers
The entry for Gustav Adolph Meyr takes up six pages in our German Family Tree. If you find a relative of yours on one of those six pages, you are a descendant. I figure there must be plenty of such descendants from Gustav out there. I hope some of them will be reading this story. … More A Meyr Multitude
If you took the letters, A,K,L,M, and R, would you be able to make up a surname that would be easily identifiable? Maybe you saw it today’s title, but I doubt that you could have predicted a spelling like Kraml. I did a search on Ancestry.com and found that the surname could only be found … More A Beautiful Kraml
