This blog has included stories about Gottfried Schmidt, Gotthilf Schmidt, and Gottwerth Schmidt (my great grandfather). So, when I saw the name Gottlob Schmidt pop up as a potential character for a blog post, I thought that I had likely already told his story. However, that is not the case. I will attempt to tell … More A Member of the Paitzdorf Kramer/Schmidt Bunch
The Lutheran Heritage Center & Museum recently received a wonderful donation. We now have a magnificent square grand piano which is on display. I am going to call it the Loebs/Schmidt piano. I will attempt to describe this piano’s provenance today. For museum’s, it is especially important to know history of an artifact. At our … More Pretty Piano’s Provenance
Seven years ago, I wrote the story of a little baby who was blown out of her mother’s arms during the 1925 Tri-State Tornado. It was included in the post, A Baby Flies. That baby was my Aunt Dorothy. That story was also written on March 21st, but I didn’t go into much detail about … More Aunt Dorothy’s Mom and Dad
It has already been almost 6 years since a post was written on this blog about Delbert Schmidt turning 90 years old. Delbert and his wife, Dolores still are very active at our museum, serving faithfully as docents. They are an incredible pair. Today, you will read a post that tells the story of Delbert’s … More Delbert’s Mom and Dad
You will read your second consecutive story about a Dora today. Yesterday, Dora was short for Theodora. Today it is short for Dorothea. Yesterday’s tale was one in which a person hopped over the Mississippi River and resided there. Today, a character hops over the Apple Creek. Dorothea Magdalene Starzinger was born on March 11, … More Shawneetown Schlimpert/Starzinger Spouses
It is not often that I run across a wedding that took place 200 years ago, but that is the case with today’s post. Since the German Lutherans in this area did not arrive in the United States until 1839, that means that such a wedding must have happened in Germany before the immigration. Although this couple’s … More A Poppitz-Schlimpert Wedding 200 Years Ago
For this post, I will refer you to an old one that was written back in 2017, Two of a Kind….Later a Full House. That post told the story of the Schmidt twins that got married on the same day. What makes that story even more fascinating is that after the wedding, both of these twins brought … More Full House’s Three Queens
The starting point for today’s post is the birthday of one of the numerous “Miller Weinhold’s” that lived in Frohna. At least, that’s how I located this story. However, I am going to begin by looking at his older Weinhold brother first. Heinrich Gotthilf Weinhold was born on February 26, 1879, the son of Gotthilf and Bertha (Thomas) … More Teacher and Merchant Weinhold and the Kanke Sisters from Carrollton
I am going to be a little bit selfish today because I feel obligated to recognize the 150th birthday of Henry Loebs. He was born in St. Louis on December 12, 1873. Henry is connected to my Schmidt family in two ways. First of all, he was the first husband of my grandmother, Bertha (Mueller)(Loebs) … More Happy 150th Birthday to Grandma’s First Husband
I have a few other projects to work on today, so I am just going to share an old story. This post was published back in 2016 when I was a rookie at the blogging game, and my posts were much shorter. This story has personal significance because the ship, Republik, that left Germany on … More My Schmidt’s Leave Germany
