Yesterday, I was wondering if another Bertha would show up for today’s story. That did not happen. However, like yesterday, one of today’s characters is a Schuessler. Ida Josephine Schuessler was born on March 19, 1881, so today would be her 141st birthday. Ida was the daughter of Gotthilf and Sarah (Saalfeld) Schuessler. A previous … More Ida and Anton in Somerset
I am going to revisit a story told several years ago. In that previous post, A Perry County Suburb in Oklahoma, the highlighted character was Walter Schuessler, who spent much of his life in Alva, Oklahoma. Today, I will delve further into the stories of Walter’s parents. For them, they had very short stories. I will … More 1909 – Not a Good Year for the Schuessler’s
Eight children were born to the couple, Christian and Juliane (Kuehnert) Saalfeld. Of those eight, there were 3 sets of twins. There was one set of twin boys that died not long after birth. The other two sets of twins were girls, and only two of those 4 girls lived to adulthood. The remaining 2 … More Answers in Death Certificates
Maria Magdalena Schuessler is today’s birthday girl. If she was alive today, she would be celebrating a very special birthday. There would have been 150 candles on her cake. I am once again not in Altenburg, so I will not be able to display any church records for this story. I am out of town … More Mary and Simon
This post will have four major themes: A character would have been 200 years old today. A mother gives birth to three different sets of twins. All but one of the girls in this family who lived to adulthood never married. A name disappears. Johann Christian Friedrich Saalfeld was born on September 28, 1819. That … More Trios of Twins and Spinsters
I think today is the birthday of my great great grandmother, Maria (Saalfeld) Schmidt. Why would I just think it is her birthday? It is because there is just one record that I can find that indicates when she was born, and ironically, that is on her death record in the books of Trinity Lutheran … More Great Great Grandma Maria and Her Friends
There are 31 pages in our German Family Tree dedicated to the surname Schuessler. Just last month, Wayne Schuessler contributed a post to this blog that told the story of the original Schesslers who came to Perry County. It was titled, The Bowl Makers of Perry County. Today’s story will focus on just one of … More Just One of the Schuessler Swarm
In the German language, the word kühn means “bold” or “daring”. There were two surnames in the Gesellschaft that contained kühn, Kühn and Kühnert. As time went by, many German names containing an umlaut had that umlaut eliminated and replaced by putting an “e” after the vowel with the umlaut. So these two surnames became … More The Bold Immigrants
Today I will share the story of W.W……..Wilhelm Wachter. His story is not without its puzzles. I hope I get it right. I tell his story today because December 29th was the date of his second marriage in 1870. But before I get to that, let me go back. Wilhelm came to America when he … More Double Double-U
Today’s birthday boy did not even have to wait for his baptism to be called a Christian. That’s because his name was Christian Kassel. He was born on September 29, 1861. Christian was the son of Philip and Fredericka (Bueltman) Kassel. Although I cannot find any documentation, I believe that Christian was born in Egypt … More Kids from a Kassel
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