Not long ago, I wrote the story titled, Rudolph Roth and the Cigar Dealer’s Daughter. In that post, it was noted that Rudolph’s brother, Leo Roth, a man from Wittenberg, had married a girl, Linna Mueller, from Uniontown. Today, you will read about yet another brother in that Roth family, and he was another Wittenberg … More Another Wittenberg Man Finds Uniontown Bride
The Lutheran Heritage Center & Museum recently received a wonderful donation. We now have a magnificent square grand piano which is on display. I am going to call it the Loebs/Schmidt piano. I will attempt to describe this piano’s provenance today. For museum’s, it is especially important to know history of an artifact. At our … More Pretty Piano’s Provenance
I am going to be a little bit selfish today because I feel obligated to recognize the 150th birthday of Henry Loebs. He was born in St. Louis on December 12, 1873. Henry is connected to my Schmidt family in two ways. First of all, he was the first husband of my grandmother, Bertha (Mueller)(Loebs) … More Happy 150th Birthday to Grandma’s First Husband
Ferdinand and Amalia (Theiss) Mueller had seven children before 1898, and all of them were girls. One of those girls, Bertha Mueller, was my grandmother. I can display this photograph of the parents of these girls. On February 7, 1898, a baby boy was finally born to this family. He would be the last child … More The Baby Brother of the Mueller Sisters
I am sure that I am not the only one who has roots in Perry County who can call today’s birthday boy as one of their ancestors. I know there are 5 pages of his descendants in our German Family Tree. As for me, I can call him my great great grandfather. The way I … More Happy Birthday, Great Great Grandpa Theiss
I mention Gerard Fiehler quite often in my blog posts. He is such an important asset for our museum and assists me so much when I am researching for these posts. Today, you will read the story of one set of his great grandparents. We might describe them as the Schilling great grandparents. Also, from … More Gerard’s Great Grandparents
Today would have been my Grandma Schmidt’s 142nd birthday. On June 7th three years ago, I wrote a post about my grandmother titled, The Loebs-Schmidt Connection. I will try to avoid repeating a lot of the information that was found in that story, but I have located a few more photos and documents relating to … More Happy Birthday, Grandma Schmidt
In my own personal family tree, you will find a set of my great-grandparents who were made up of a Mueller man and a Theiss woman. One of their daughters, Bertha Mueller, went on to marry a Schmidt, and the rest is my history. In that same generation, there was yet another combination of one … More One of Those Theiss-Mueller Pairs
I can describe George Loebs in two different ways. First, he could be called the husband of my 2nd great aunt (great great aunt). Secondly, he could also be called the father-in-law of my paternal grandmother. A few other posts have already been written about George Loebs. So Close, Yet So Far The Loebs-Schmidt Connection … More Three Generations of George Loebs
I guess you could make the argument that the first famous Lutheran braumeister (brewmaster) was Katharina “Katie” (von Bora) Luther, Martin’s wife. Martin Luther loved to have a good beer to drink, but he was much too busy with his profession to brew his own. However, his wife was quite good at producing a good … More Our Newest Braumeister
