On November 12, 1889, Ernest Friedrich Karl Groh was born in Altenburg, Missouri. I have learned that you have to be careful when looking at the Groh family. There are plenty of men named Ernest and Friedrich and Karl (Carl) in that family. This one had all those names, but he would later mostly be … More Groh West, Young Man
We are having a very busy weekend here at the Lutheran Heritage Center & Museum, so I put out a call for help. Clayton Erdmann has answered that call, stepped up to the plate, and submitted a blog post for us to use today. Clayton has written several articles for us in the past. He … More From Tragedy to Ministry
You normally would not think that a Perry County native would spend much of her lifetime in Minnesota and end up in Mexico, but that is what happened with the main character of today’s story. The story starts on August 3rd in 1889 when Agnes Tabia Albrecht was born in Farrar, Missouri. She is what … More Missouri to Minnesota to Mexico
While looking for an event that took place on July 1 in our German Family Tree, I ran across a simple phrase that led me to an event that took place on a different day. It turned out to be one of those stories that I just felt I had to tell. It is a … More Just Waiting for a Streetcar
We hear plenty in the news these days about hackers. There are hackers in America. There are hackers in foreign countries. They make the news when they have succeeded in their hacking. Hackers are a relatively new phenomenon. The advent of hackers only occurred with the advent of computers and the internet. However, you may … More Longtown’s Hair Hacker
Not long after the beginning of the twentieth century, a future pastor was baptized at Grace Lutheran Church in Uniontown, Missouri. Heinrich Herman Schaefer was born on June 12, 1902. His parents were Heinrich Carl and Josephine Tennessee (Telle) Schaefer who lived in the town of Old Appleton, just south of Uniontown. Here are photos … More Pastor Schaefer – Tennessee’s Spirit-maker’s Son
I was attracted to this story because of the name Gothard Pfennighausen. As near as I can tell, this name means something like “penny house” in German. He married Emma Hooss on June 9th at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Perryville in 1890. Gotthard’s trail led to many different places…..and several changes in names. Plus, there … More Name Changing
On June 2, 1864, Johann Jacob Seibel married Matilda McCauley. Our German Family Tree says that this marriage is in the Perry County Marriage Records, but it’s a record I could not find on Ancestry.com. I am not in Altenburg today, so I cannot research this further, but this is a story I really want … More Captain J.J. Seibel
May 28th was the birthday of a tall Oklahoman by the name of Newton Amos Bodenschatz. He was not born in Oklahoma though. He was born into the family of a farmer from north Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. Newton was born in 1922 as the tenth child out of eleven to Herman and Rosa (Landgraf) … More Oklahoma Ground Sweethearts
When you study the early years of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, you cannot help but notice that many of the personalities involved in that history have names which are given with initials. The first president of the Synod, Rev. C.F.W. Walther is a prime example. The second president of the Synod was Rev. F.C.D. Wyneken. … More Another Initial Pastor
