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
We have another wedding to talk about today. It is another marriage that has connections to Pocahontas, Missouri, just like yesterday’s story, but in this story, the characters were members of the other Lutheran church in that little town, St. John’s Lutheran Church. Here is a photo of that church. The marriage that took place … More A Palisch Moves to Pocahontas
Yesterday’s story about the Jolley Boys Band was a pretty uplifting type of post. Today’s is not. However, there is something similar about yesterday’s blog and today’s. In both cases, the story started with a photograph. Yesterday, a photograph showing a bunch of young men in a band clowning around just had to be used. … More Not Such a Jolly Band
As I usually do, I did start today by finding an event that occurred on this date, but in the process, I ran across the following photo. It shows the Jolley Boys Band of Pocahontas, Missouri. To me, this picture was just irresistible. I just had to do this story just so I could post … More The Jolley Boys
According to church records, there is some debate about whether Louis Gerler and Anna Lichtenegger were married on March 31st or April 1st. I lean toward the April date, but I choose to do their story today. I also choose to use this event in order to highlight two other characteristics that are part of … More One of the Ridge Gerlers
