Right as the Civil War was coming to an end, a boy was being born in Altenburg by the name of Traugott Ernst Heinrich Schuessler. He was born on this day, May 28th in 1864. He was baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church on June 8th. He may have been baptized by Rev. J.F. Koestering who … More Farmer Becomes Pastor after Marrying His Pastor’s Daughter
This blog post begins as we notice that today is the 126th anniversary of the day that Valentine Otto Hoehn married Maria Margaretha Fassold. They were married in 1890 at Peace Lutheran Church in Friedenberg. That is where we begin, but this event takes us on several side trips. First of all, we see on … More Let’s Go to America to Get Married
Today’s story begins with Carolina Christiana Bergt being born on May 25 in 1857. She was born in the little village of Archbold in northern Ohio. Her father, William Adolph Bergt was the Lutheran pastor there. Later, her father would become the pastor in Uniontown, Missouri. Her father had come to Missouri in the 1839 … More A Family Moves to the Prairie
The Jahn family certainly seemed to love to have their weddings in the month of May. We may have another one today, although the date of the wedding is a topic for debate. The first of the Jahn weddings took place in 1846 in St. Louis, with Justine Jahn marrying Carl Eduard Roschke, but a … More Tailor to Teacher
It was a Tuesday. May 23, 1848 was going to be a special day in Altenburg. Their pastor’s daughter was going to get married. Not only that, she was going to marry another child of a pastor who had become a Lutheran teacher. The groom was Theodore Ernst Buenger. The bride was Martha Loeber. ***If … More A Loeber-Buenger Wedding
For the congregation at Trinity Lutheran Church and its pastor, Rev. C.F.W. Walther, the cholera epidemic of 1849 first hit home when 15 year old Margaretha Vitter died of that disease on May 9th. That disease would bring much death and mourning to the city of St. Louis for the next several months. And if … More The Great St. Louis Fire of 1849
My research journey began today with the fact that George Doering and Amalia Theresa Schlimpert were married in Perry County on May 16, 1849. Here I must interject that this marriage is not recorded in the church books in Altenburg. This was that time period right before Rev. Gotthold Loeber’s death and the church records … More What’s A Doering Doing in Nebraska?
June of 1849 was a tragic month in the life of Jacob Kalbfleisch, who lived in St. Louis and was a member of Rev. C.F.W. Walther’s congregation. This is how this tragedy is described from a family tree on Ancestry.com. “Tragically, very shortly after their arrival in St. Louis the cholera epidemic swept through St. … More Maria Boettcher – An Answer to Jacob’s Prayers
May 8, 2009 was a day that looked bad for Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg, Missouri. What was described as an “inland hurricane” caused much destruction in around town, including blowing the church steeple onto the church roof. Numerous tree limbs and several entire trees ended up on the ground. The children of Concordia/Trinity Lutheran … More What Looked Bad….
Today, we will try something new. Around here we sometimes refer to some names as being “Frohna names”, some as “Farrar names”, etc. We ran across the confirmation which took place at Grace Lutheran Church in Uniontown, Missouri on May 6, 1883. Many of these names are ones that we call “Uniontown names”. Arthur Höh … More Uniontown Names
