A baby girl was born on this day 140 years ago in Illinois. This baby got off to an inauspicious start. Our German Family Tree says that Bertha Seidel was the illegitimate daughter of August Siedel and a woman with the surname, Alhard. She was born on February 9, 1884, but she was not baptized until October 29, … More John and Bertha – Farrar Sticht’s
Wilhelmine Weber will be the focus of today’s tale. During her lifetime, she was married twice. The first marriage took place on today’s date. Wilhelmine Weber was born on July 25, 1835 in Ossig, Germany. Wilhelmine was the daughter of Gottfried and Christiane (Seidel) Weber. Her baptism record from the parish in Ossig is displayed … More Weber – Hecht- Winter
If you follow this blog regularly, you likely know already that the surname, Loeber, is pronounced the same as the word, labor, by people around here. You may also know that I have a tendency to look for a story from the Loeber family when we in America are celebrating Labor Day. And, if you … More A Schmidt Loeber Day
Another common East Perry County name is Weber. And like several other common names, such as Schmidt or Mueller, there are several clans of Weber’s. Today’s story comes from the group of Weber’s that are called “The Ridge Weber’s”. I guess you could argue that the marriage record from Ossig, Germany shown below marks the … More Adopted on The Ridge
In Scripture, we find this passage in James 1:27: 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. You are going to be reading another story about how people in this … More Look After Widows and Orphans in Their Distress
My search for a story started this morning by noticing that Johann Christian Poppitz died on this day, May 12, in 1855. One of the places this led me was to the first page of the passenger list of the Copernicus that landed in New Orleans on December 31, 1838. Once I discovered this page, … More A Page Full of Stories
