Today is Maundy Thursday, a day to remember the institution of the Lord’s Supper. We thought it would be a good day to highlight a very precious artifact which was part of the 1838-1839 immigration. That artifact would be the Communion Chalice that is property of Trinity Lutheran Church here in Altenburg. Following are some … More A Sacramental Artifact
You’ve heard of “Where is Waldo?” Today we ask the question, “Where is Theodore?” We are looking for Theodore Fischer. One source that we have indicates the in the photo on the left above, that Theodore Fischer is the boy on the left. This is a segment of the photo we posted a few days … More Where is Theodore?
Yesterday, I posted a photo of Teacher Hemmann’s class at Trinity Lutheran School in Altenburg, Missouri. In that photo was a pair of twins. Those twins have now been identified. They are Marie and Martha Lorenz (like Mary and Martha in the Bible story). Their parents were Christian F. and Ida (Schlimpert) Lorenz. The twins … More Together in Birth and Death
On March 10, I posted about the beginning of the Hemmann Herd. Today I switch to the last child born to Gottfried Hemmann. On March 16, 1864, Michael Benjamin Hemmann was born in Uniontown, Missouri. About three months after his birth, Gottfried died at the age of 72. One must sit back in amazement at … More The Last of the Hemmann Herd….Teacher Hemmann
As usual, I began today by looking for events which took place in Perry County on this day. I happened upon the birth of Alma Marie Ella Schuessler on March 14, 1890. She was baptized one week later on March 21. That was the end of the good news. As is shown in the photo … More So Many Causes of Death
March 11, 1856 was the birthday of Pauline Auguste Palisch. She was the third of nine children born to Carl Gottlieb and Augusta Emilie (Engert) Palisch. Sadly, Pauline’s time on earth was quite short. She died on October 30, 1857, living only one year, seven months, and nineteen days. She was buried one day later … More The Perils of Pauline (Palisch)
On March 10, 1820, Wilhelm Hemmann was born in Paitzdorf, Germany. He was the first child born to Johann Gottfried and Marie (Bachmann) Hemmann. He would not be the last child born to this man. When the German immigrants sailed to the United States in the fall of 1839 as part of the Gruber group, … More The Beginning of the Hemmann Herd
It is difficult to find historical events that took place on February 29th. So today, I am going to relate an event that took place on February 28 and go from there. Wilhelm Boehme had brought his family, including a wife and four children, to America in the immigration of 1838-1839. They traveled across the … More Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death
The research team at the Lutheran Heritage Center & Museum was experiencing some difficulty searching for the death records of a Carl Wunderlich who apparently died sometime in 1849. He had married in August of 1848 and his “widow” remarried in February of 1850. We finally had a “Eureka” moment when we realized that Rev. … More More Holes…and Some Handwriting
Pictured clockwise are Lynn Degenhardt, Carolyn Schirmer, Charles Rauh, and Gerard Fiehler. (photo by Warren Schmidt) Who was married to Magdelina Buenger Mueller? Well, we know it was Christian Mueller, but not the Christian Mueller that we had documented in our library. Lutheran Heritage Center research teamers: Lynn, Carolyn, and Gerard got to the bottom … More Reading Room Mysteries
