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
As I usually do, I did start today by finding an event that occurred on this date, but in the process, I ran across the following photo. It shows the Jolley Boys Band of Pocahontas, Missouri. To me, this picture was just irresistible. I just had to do this story just so I could post … More The Jolley Boys
You normally would not think that a Perry County native would spend much of her lifetime in Minnesota and end up in Mexico, but that is what happened with the main character of today’s story. The story starts on August 3rd in 1889 when Agnes Tabia Albrecht was born in Farrar, Missouri. She is what … More Missouri to Minnesota to Mexico
We had a wonderful morning with our new friends from St. John’s Lutheran School, Arnold. What an impressive group of young people, faculty, parents, and pastor. It always gives me hope about the future of our country when I meet these great groups of young people. The students were “present,” engaged, and enjoyed a little … More St. John’s Lutheran School, Arnold
