Today is the 150th birthday of one of Friedrich Florian (“The Face”) Petzoldt’s grandsons. In this case, we find a branch of his family ending up in the northern part of Cape Girardeau County near the town of Pocahontas. The birthday boy is Herman Petzoldt, Jr. He was born on May 27, 1870, the son … More Some Pocahontas Petzoldts
The entry for Gustav Adolph Meyr takes up six pages in our German Family Tree. If you find a relative of yours on one of those six pages, you are a descendant. I figure there must be plenty of such descendants from Gustav out there. I hope some of them will be reading this story. … More A Meyr Multitude
I cannot even begin to tell you how many times I have mis-typed the word “school” over the years and ended up with “scholl”. However, that is not what happened when I wrote the title to this post. It really is spelled Scholl, and it a rather well-known surname in these here parts. I hear … More Shawneetown Scholl
