Let me set the scene for today’s post. I began my search with a different approach. I knew that I would likely not be able to make the trip to the museum after our recent snowstorm. So, I looked for a story that would not require any records from our research library. I admit that … More Rev. Carl Bretscher – Wausau, Wisconsin Pastor
You will be reading the story of Pastor Gotthilf Loeber today. When the Gesellschaft arrived in the United States in 1839, one of the pastors who brought his family was Rev. Gotthold Heinrich Loeber, who originated from Eichenberg, Germany. Pastor Loeber brought along his wife, three children, and a sister. They traveled across the Atlantic … More Gotthilf – The Youngest Loeber
Rev. J.F. Koestering often gets mentioned in this blog because of the missing marriage and death records in the church books of Trinity, Altenburg and Concordia, Frohna that we call the “Koestering Hole”. Here’s just a little background information about what was happening at the time when Rev. Koestering arrived on the scene in East … More Pastor’s Daughter Marries Teacher Wachholz
You will be reading the story of a pair of sisters who were born and raised in Altenburg and would go on to live pretty much the rest of their lives together. Unlike other stories that I have written about siblings that lived together all during their lives, this story does include a marriage. I … More Sarah and Dora – Altenburg Winter Sisters
It has become a habit of mine to use Labor Day to highlight someone in the Loeber family. I will remind you that around these here parts, the Loeber name is pronounced very much like the word, Labor, and certainly not Low-ber. So, recognizing someone from the Loeber family on Labor Day seems like the … More Anna Marie Loeber’s First Labor Day
There are several reasons that I wanted to write this story today, one of them being that today’s birthday girl was not born in or near Perry County, Missouri. Not even close. She was born in South Africa. Quite often a birth or wedding in Perry County leads us to faraway places in these blog … More Out of Africa
The first thing I must do today is discuss the pronunciation of the surname Hoeh that you see in the title. Folks around here would pronounce this name as “hay”. We will be looking at the “ride” made by Carl Edward Hoeh as he made his journey through life. The homes he had throughout his … More The Hoeh Ride
I am going to describe today’s post as a short story. It may not necessarily turn out to be so short in terms of words, but it does involve the lives of several individuals whose life stories were tragically short. It all begins with a birth that took place on this day back in 1883. … More A Demetrio Short Story
The saga you will be told today begins with a girl’s birthday on this date in St. Louis, Missouri, but it certainly does not end there. The girl’s name was Anna Marie Schuricht. She was born on June 15, 1856, the daughter of Johann Fuerchtegott and Anna Susanna (Tirmenstein) Schuricht. The story of Anna Marie’s … More Kinder’s Freund (Children’s Friend)
The surnames, Lochner and Loeber, have found their place in several posts on this blog in the past. Notably, a recent post told the story of a painting done by Rev. Friedrich Lochner on the occasion of the marriage of Theodore Ernst Buenger and Martha Loeber. That post was titled, Stories in a Painting. Today, … More Lochner-Loeber
