I found something that was similar to me in today’s highlighted husband. He did not get married until he was 39 years old. I know that in my case, I do not wish that I would have gotten married sooner. I found the right wife. It just took me longer to find her…or have her … More Doberenz and Grosse – Getting Married Later in Life
Yesterday’s post about William Timmermann could be referred to as an “outsider” entering the realm of our German Family Tree. Some surnames in that document take up pages and pages. And there are other surnames that show up as pretty lonely entries. You will be reading the story of another one of those “outsiders”. For this post, I had … More Another “Outsider” Enters Perry County
You will be heading back to the Shawnee Township again today. We have to go back a little farther into the past for this one. It begins with the birth of the first child in what ended up as a couple having 15 children listed in our German Family Tree. Louise Auguste Margaretha Kasten was … More Another Alvin and Alvina?
Today’s post may be one of those that presents just as many questions to the readers as there are answers. In the midst of it all, I will also share some of my speculations. I will begin with a birthday girl. This woman would be celebrating one of those special birthdays today. Her name was … More Doberenz’s Two Brides
Whenever considering doing a story on Holschen’s, I automatically think that the story will focus on Immanuel Lutheran Church in Altenburg. I think almost all the local Holschen stories I have told have been ones in which the characters were born, baptized, and buried there. That will not be the case today, even though the … More Wittenberg Holschen’s
I just cannot think of a better term for today’s type of post than “soap opera”. This tale has so many plot twists. Some of the behaviors of the people involved in the story are quite commendable. Others I would describe as quite inappropriate. I will begin by referring back to a previous post that … More Days of Their Lives
Schoen is a word that means “beautiful” in German. On several previous occasions, I have written stories about people with the surname, Schoen. Today, I am going to attempt to relate what I have found about how that name arrived in this area. The story of the Schoen beginnings takes place in the Apple Creek … More Some Beautiful Beginnings
Our blog post today was authored by Fred Eggers, one of the members of our Research Crew at the Lutheran Heritage Center & Museum. On January 13, 1912 Carl Christian Peter Bracher died in Bates County, Missouri and was buried at the Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery in Prairie City. He had immigrated to the United … More An Early Out-Migration of Original Immigrants
