I will attempt to tell yet another story about a Lutheran pastor who came out of a Grosse family. Since grosse means “large”, I guess you could say it was a large family. And it was. This Grosse family had a whole bunch of children. This pastor I will highlight today was a half-brother … More Another Grosse Preacher
Today, I am going to re-publish an old post and add some new information and some new photographs to it. Yesterday, our museum had a few visitors who happened to be descendants of the Harry mentioned in the title of this post who way back in 1885 was left in a basket out in the … More Harry Abandoned on the Prairie – Updated
Johann Gottlieb and Johanna Christiana Palisch came to America with six children in 1839. In addition, Johanna was quite pregnant with her seventh child when she sailed on the Johann Georg. That child, Martin Stephan Palisch, who was named after the leader of the immigration, was born on April 3, 1839 in St. Louis, only … More Palisch #10
Moritz Petzoldt married Emilie Schwindt on May 21, 1871. This marriage record is not to be found in any church records in Perry County. That is because by the time Moritz was getting married, he had moved away from here to live in Madison County, Illinois near Collinsville. He was probably married at St. Paul’s … More A Petzoldt Harnesses Los Angeles
The photo above shows the World War II draft registration for Harry Flach, a clerk for a seed and hardware company in Peoria, Illinois who was born in Minden, Nebraska. This document does not give any clue to Harry’s connection to the Saxon immigration, but there is one. Here is how Harry’s story begins (and … More Harry Abandoned on the Prairie
