East Perry County, Missouri is the home of several lumber companies. They are the largest employers in this area. Having said that, today’s story has nothing to do with those businesses. I chose today’s title because of the surnames of the man and woman whose stories I tell today. First, according to Google Translate, the … More Businessperson and the Green Forest
If my cousin, Myrtle Kuehnert, could see the title of this post, it would certainly pique her interest. However, she is not likely to have anything to do with a computer or the internet, so the likelihood of her seeing it is rather slim. I know that Cousin Myrtle is moving past her 9th decade … More Kuehnert & Schmidt
Although you do not find their names in the Bible, church tradition says that the names of the Wise Men were Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar. Today, we tell the story of Balthasar. Balthasar Schmidt, that is. Today was date that Balthasar Schmidt married Friedericke Schade. They were married on June 19, 1861 at Immanuel Lutheran … More Wise Man Schmidt
You will discover that today’s post is not normal. Normally, I find an event, such as a birthday or wedding, that took place on the date when the post is written. You might expect an article today about some occasion which took place on June 12th. That is not the case today. This post is … More Uncle Herb & My Granddaughter
I took a different approach today. Instead of looking for a story that corresponds with today’s date, I chose to highlight a donation that our museum recently received. And yet, despite that approach, I still managed to find a trivial connection to today’s date. The donations we received are photographs from a Boehme family, so … More Boehme’s in Frames
There were two Clara Schmidt’s that were born in East Perry County in the 1880’s. One of them was my Great Aunt Clara, the sister of my grandfather, Emanuel. She was born in 1882. I call her the Altenburg Clara Schmidt. There was also a Frohna Clara Schmidt. She was born on March 9, 1886. … More Butch and His Sister Move to Altenburg
A baby was born on this day in the Seelitz community in 1860. This baby’s birth will enable me to tell the tale of several very interesting couples that managed to find each other during the early days of East Perry County history. First of all, some of the details of this story have already … More Seelitz Sweethearts
I find the story I will share with you today very difficult to write. In fact, I had previously discovered some of the facts I will share in this post, but chose to not write the story at the time. Today, I decided that despite being a topic that is troubling, the situations which are … More A Troubling Topic
Today, I am going to return to a story that has already been written on this blog. I wrote the story two years ago on January 27, 2017. It was titled, Intersecting Exoduses. The story was told about how the steamboat, Knickerbocker, had to stop for repairs at the small Illinois village of Hamburg to … More First Sighting of Perry County
It is not often that I do a story that begins in the twentieth century. That is mainly because I cannot get at many records for people that lived past 1940. Today is an exception, mainly because today’s character is a member of my family, and I have enough information and photos to tell a … More Mousie
