Yes, we have a birthday girl for today’s post. It’s even a very special birthday. In the last post that I wrote two days ago, that story told about a man who married 2 women who were named Louise. Just by chance, today’s birthday girl is also named Louise. However, I think the real interesting … More Louise Roth – Lady Lux
This post will highlight a couple that united two early families that settled in the Shawnee Township in the 1860’s and 1970’s. Yesterday’s post’s main male character was named Gustav. You will read about another Gustav today. We will begin with him, and eventually get around to our birthday girl. Gustav Adolph Koenig was born … More Gustav Koenig – Pocahontas Harness Maker
Lydia Bertha Meyer was born on November 11, 1898, so today would be her 125th birthday. Lydia was the daughter of Joachim and Engel (Meier) Meyer. Her parents were a couple made up of two different spellings of names pronounced the same way. Lydia was baptized at Salem Lutheran Church in Farrar. We can take … More Oscar, Lydia, and Ella – Farrar Mueller’s
Heinrich Herman Luehrs was born on April 6, 1870, along with his twin brother, Johann. Herman, however, was the only one who survived infancy. According to our German Family Tree, these twins were the 6th and 7th of 9 children born to Heinrich and Katharina (Blanken) Luehrs. Heinrich and Katharina arrived in America in 1866 … More A Luehrs-Stueve Link – Herman and Sophia
Today’s post was written by our friend, Cal Eggers, who has previously written posts on this blog. He and his brother, Fred, because they grew up in Farrar, are very familiar with families from that area. This post will highlight two such Farrar residents. ====================================== When you see “Man and Woman” as the title of … More Claus and Adelheid
One hundred fifty-two years ago, Johann Martin Stelling was the firstborn child of Johann and Anna (Popp) Stelling. This child would go by the name of Martin throughout his life. Before I move on to tell Martin’s story, I feel the need to discuss the name of Anna Popp. Just a few days ago, I … More Martin and Margaret
Johann Stueve has actually been one of the main characters in two previous posts. One of Johann’s three wedding anniversaries led me to this story once again today. Even though his story has been told before, some new information has been found, so I decided to revisit his story again today. I also wanted to … More Revisiting Johann Stueve
The groom in the highlighted twosome today was Wilhelm Heinrich Christian Mueller, who was born on June 17, 1857. That means next Thursday, he would be celebrating his 164th birthday if he was still alive. What makes William interesting is the fact that both his parents had the same surname before they were married, just … More A Mueller from Mueller-Mueller Mates
A few of today’s characters arrived in America about a year before the Stephanites arrived in 1839. Two of the family names that were part of what we call the “St. Louis Additions” were Holschen and Grother. The arrival of Johann Holschen and Margaretha Grother present us with a mystery right away in this post. … More Holschen-Grother-Beckmann-Luehrs
Herman Tiedemann and his wife, Margaretha brought their family to America in 1874. At that time, their family consisted of 3 daughters. They traveled to America aboard the ship, General Wender. Here is the passenger list showing this family. I have to display it in two images. I have photographs of Herman and Margaretha Tiedemann. … More Keeping the Tiedemann Name Going
