I am going to start today’s post by displaying a 1910 census entry from near Wittenberg, Missouri. It shows a Heins couple, John and Hulda (Richter) Heins, along with two teenagers, Irene and Edwin, who are called adopted children. You can also see that they were the same age, indicating that they were twins. In … More The McCourt Twins – Or the Heins Twins?
Rev. Albert Burroughs spent over 80 years serving the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in a variety of places and positions. That probably sounds impossible, except for the fact that there were two people named Rev. Albert Burroughs, a father and a son, and together they served this many years. The first Albert Burroughs was born on … More Rev. Albert Burroughs x 2
I am going to attempt to tell a story unlike most of the stories I write on this blog. I am the first person to admit that I am not an expert on places in Germany where our ancestors lived or events that took place there before they voyaged to America. This story is certainly … More The Schubert Orphans
The Lutheran Heritage Center & Museum played host today to a group of students from St. Paul’s Lutheran School in Des Peres, Missouri. It was a unique opportunity for us to inform these students that there are plenty of connections between the Log Cabin College here in Perry County and their school in the St. … More Log Cabin College Connections
