The photo below has been shown in a few previous posts. It shows a town band that called themselves the Jolley Boys. The band was made up of men who lived in the vicinity of Pocahontas, Missouri. The gentleman kneeling in the front on the right is today’s birthday boy. His name was Henry Lichtenegger, … More One of the Jolley Boys
The wedding day for August Theodore Lichtenegger and Ottilie Meyr was March 28, 1910. Their wedding photo is shown here. Before I get any farther, let me describe the beginnings of the bride and the groom. Ottilie Meyr was the first to be born. She was born on March 7, 1888 in the New Wells … More Lichtenegger Market
Today would have been the 169th birthday of the first person with the surname, Lichtenegger, to settle in the Cape Girardeau/Perry County area. Joseph Lichtenegger was born on March 2, 1850 in Goisern, Austria. At the age of 16, he boarded a ship all by himself to come to America in 1866. He may have … More The Pioneer Lichtenegger
When I got in our car this morning and turned on the radio, the lyrics of the old Beatles song came on that said, “They say it’s your birthday. It’s my birthday too, yeah.” Those lyrics fit today’s story pretty well. You will discover the reason as you read on. Richard Schade was born on … More Schade’s Short-lived Schöne
Yesterday’s story was about Anton G. Meister. Today, we start with his father, Anton F. Meister. Anton arrived in America in December of 1860. We find him coming to this country all by himself aboard the Anna Delius. He was 20 years old at the time. He was born on October 22, 1840 in Germany. … More The Senior Meister and His Angel
If you took the letters, A,K,L,M, and R, would you be able to make up a surname that would be easily identifiable? Maybe you saw it today’s title, but I doubt that you could have predicted a spelling like Kraml. I did a search on Ancestry.com and found that the surname could only be found … More A Beautiful Kraml
I have seen some pieces of art which were produced by a man by the name of Rev. George Heinrich Hilmer over the years. I have even included a few of them in posts on this blog. Here are two of them. Both of these paintings were made for the centennial celebration of the Saxon … More Painter Pastor
I rely pretty heavily upon Google Translate to help me with my German. Today, I had to look up the translation for the word schoen or schön. Google Translate gave me many options. The main one was the word “beautiful”. There were quite a few others. One of the others was “good”. That’s the one … More The Good Doctors from Pocahontas
In February of 1856, Johann Christian Militzer married Caroline Wachter at Concordia Lutheran Church in Frohna. They were married when Rev. Christoph Loeber was the pastor at that church. This is an image of their marriage record in the Concordia books. After they were married, this couple began having children. Their firstborn was Emma Militzer, … More Mr. Martin Militzer
We have another wedding to talk about today. It is another marriage that has connections to Pocahontas, Missouri, just like yesterday’s story, but in this story, the characters were members of the other Lutheran church in that little town, St. John’s Lutheran Church. Here is a photo of that church. The marriage that took place … More A Palisch Moves to Pocahontas
