In 2022, a post was written about a Schaefer couple that began in Old Appleton but made their way out west titled, From Old Appleton to San Francisco – With Stops in Kansas and Idaho. I will revisit that family today to tell the tale of a pair of daughters of that couple. One of … More Single Schaefer Sisters in San Francisco
Most of the posts on this blog tell the story of a highlighted pair of individuals who manage to find each other and get married. Today’s tale is not about a pair, but a trio. I will start where I usually end. Below is a photo of the gravestone of today’s main characters with the … More Three Ochs – No Acorns
I will begin by giving some credit to Dana Farrow, the president of the Perry County Historical Society for providing some guidance to me that assisted in telling today’s tale. If you happen to see or talk to Dana, I think you should suggest that she become a guest blogger for us. She could tell … More Butzie Hoehn – Footloose Friedenberg Female
Today, you will be reading the story of another person who was part of the large Engelhart family that lived in the Pocahontas area. That surname is made up of two words, engel and hart. Engel is the German word for “angel”. The word, hart, from what I could determine, could have two different meanings. … More Bertha Engelhart – A Single Hardy Angel Among Many
For a variety of reasons, today’s post may end up to be a relatively short one. The biggest reason is that today’s main character was a life-long single person. Most posts have two main characters, a husband and a wife, so there are automatically two sets of documents like baptism and census records and usually … More Tante Sarah Maria Martha Mueller
On a couple occasions in the past, instead of writing the story of a man and a woman who get married and raise a family, I have written one about two siblings who spent most of their lives together without ever getting married. In some situations, the two unwed siblings were brothers; in others they were sisters. Today’s … More A Pair of Unwed Wachter’s
The 11th of 13 children in her family was born on this date back in 1892, making her today’s birthday girl. There were two Weinhold families found in Frohna living next to the Frohna Mill which the fathers of those two families operated. Both of these families had numbers of children in the double digits. … More Single Sarah – Daughter of Frohna Miller
We will be honoring a girl who would be celebrating her 125th birthday today. Because she was a female, you will not be seeing any military forms, at least not hers. Because she never married, you will not be seeing a marriage record. However, it seems like stories such as this one about a woman … More Lenchen Hilpert
You will see no marriage licenses in today’s post. You will see no military records either. That is because this will primarily be the story of 3 females who never were married. They also happened to be sisters. I found this story as a result of the birth date of Clara Carolina Young. She was … More The Old Young Singles
One of my boyhood friends was named Joel. Someone pinned him with the nickname “Jolly Joel” which appropriately described his character. As time went by, that nickname was shortened to “J.J.”. Today, you will read the story of another man who could have been called “J.J.”. I don’t know if he was, but I cannot … More J.J. the Accountant
