We are celebrating a 175th birthday today. Sarah Noennig was born on December 16, 1843 in Altenburg, Missouri. She was the daughter of Gottfried and Johanna (Poppitz) Noennig. Both of her parents made the voyage to America aboard the Copernicus. They were married not long after arriving. One previous child had been born to the … More Sarah’s Paitzdorf Partner
A rather interesting marriage took place on November 26, 1845 in Altenburg, Missouri. The circumstances that make this story interesting are the ones that occurred before this wedding took place. However, at this point, I will quickly mention that the wedding we will discuss today was the fourth wedding that took place in the new … More Piano Man
In the early days of this blog, I wrote a post titled, The Beginning of the Hemmann Herd. As was the case with many of those early posts, it was very short. I have gotten “wordier” as time has gone by, and now WordPress tells me a typical post is over 800 words long. Today, … More The Beginning of the Hemmann Herd -Part 2
A wedding occurred on this date in 1865 at Grace Lutheran Church in Uniontown, Missouri. This marriage united two very prolific Uniontown names, Hopfer and Kasten. The groom was Gotthold Hopfer; the bride was Amalia Kasten. There is a little debate about the date of this marriage. Here is the Perry County record of this … More Hopfer-Kasten Wedding
I am not going to tell the story of an individual person today. First of all, I was having trouble finding a story to write that had to do with today’s date. Secondly, I knew that we were having a few special guests coming to our museum today. Those guests were coming because they know … More Perusing Some Paitzdorf Papers
The story I have to write today will give me the opportunity to share with you a new resource that we have available in our research library. I hope to also tie two people found in our German Family Tree together by looking at some of these German records. First let me show you what … More First Buck; Last Buck
A marriage took place in Paitzdorf, Germany on this day in 1820 that had a huge impact on the history of East Perry County, Missouri. It was the marriage of Gottfried Mueller and Maria Rothe. When Gottfried and Maria came to America as part of the Gruber Group in 1839 aboard the Johann Georg, they … More The Genesis of a Mueller Multitude
Wayne Schuessler is the author of today’s blog post. Wayne has contributed to our blog in the past, and his writing and research have been very well received. He is an amazing researcher. As is evidenced in this post, he has been to Germany to delve into his family’s history. Wayne lives in St. Louis … More Life on the Creek
Some may look at this date, February 2nd, as being Groundhog Day. Well, forty-seven years before the first Groundhog Day was celebrated in 1887, another memorable event occurred here in Perry County, Missouri. In 1840, February 2nd was a Sunday, and on that day, the very first official worship service was conducted for the congregation … More Happy Birthday to the Old Lutherans in Paitzdorf!
The Johann Gottfried Kramer family in Paitzdorf, Germany must have been going through preparations for a dramatic move from their homeland to America during that year of 1838. Johann Gottfried was a cartwright….a wagon maker…..and must have had to sell his business and many of his tools before their anticipated trip. They must have had … More Just One Kramer Left
