Before I begin today’s story, I want you to know that Altenburg is in the midst of a winter storm, complete with ice, sleet, and snow. As a result, I choose to stay hunkered down in my home rather than attempt to get to the museum for further research and documents. Today’s story would not … More Another One of the Altenburg Giants
I have the privilege today to write the real story of a couple of individuals that are main characters in my two books, Wittenberg ’03: Coming of a Church and Wittenberg ’04: Coming of a Railroad. These two are Laura Gemeinhardt and Teacher Richard Kalbfleisch. The story of this couple is one that inspired me … More Wittenberg Characters
Back in 2017, I published a post titled, Cheyenne Schubarths. That post told the story of Adolph Schubarth spending the last few years of his life in Cheyenne County, Nebraska in a place near the city of Potter. We at the museum sometimes refer to this area of Nebraska as a Perry County suburb because … More More Cheyenne Schubarths
Yesterday, I told a story in which much of the information was found in the Arnsberg binder. Today, our story begins with a girl whose surname was Arensburg, which was sometimes spelled Arnsburg. Today’s birthday girl ends up marrying a Heise, and we are going to discover that the Heise name hops back and forth … More Heise Hopping
Maria Wilhelmine Schilling is today’s birthday girl. She was born on December 5, 1863, making today her 158th birthday. Maria was the daughter of Friedrich and Theresia (Schuessler) Schilling. She was probably baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg, although there is no record included in that congregation’s books. An older sibling, as well as … More Baptized in Altenburg; Died in Wittenberg; Buried in Frohna
If I have it figured correctly, Teacher J.F.F. Winter, was the first person in the Winter family I will discuss today to arrive in Perry County. Teacher Winter is famous for being the first teacher at Trinity Lutheran School in Altenburg, and he never married, so there were no Winter descendants coming from him. However, … More Wittenberg Winter
You will be reading the story of a Schmidt/Scholl marriage today. First of all, let me say that there are so many names in our German Family Tree with the Sch- spelling at the beginning of the surname that it is not that unusual to find a marriage between two individuals that fit that category. … More Schmidt and Scholl – Another “Sch-” Couple
Andreas and Anna were married on this date 143 years ago. You will read their story today. I will begin with the groom. Georg Andreas Dietrich Hilpert was born on December 7, 1852, the son of George and Anna (Popp) Hilpert. He was the 6th child in a family of 7. He was baptized at … More Andreas and Anna – The Hilpert’s
Today’s main character was mentioned in a previous blog that was written about his brothers titled, Two of a Kind….Later a Full House. Those brothers were a set of twins born on September 17th. What was not said in that post was that this set of twins had an older brother who was also born on … More Three Brothers – Same Birthday – Not Triplets
Maria Sophia Heise is today’s birthday girl. She would have been 132 years old if she was alive today. Marie would eventually take on the nickname, Mamie. She was born on September 9, 1889, the daughter of Andrew and Louise (Schamburg) Heise. Mamie was baptized at Concordia Lutheran Church in Frohna. Her baptism record is … More More Potter Mueller’s – Oscar and Mamie
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