Here is our birthday girl for today. Her name was Louise Wilhelmina Kaempfe, and she was born on February 8, 1866. She is just a starting point for a story that involves several other members of the Kaempfe family. In 1885, she married Claus Stueve, Jr. We will get back to her. Louise’s younger brother, … More Kaempfe Tragedy….and a Tornado Too
The story I tell today is almost too sad to tell, but sometimes I guess you just have to tell it like it is. The story comes out of the family of the Johann Martin Traugott Fiehler family that lived in Uniontown, Missouri. Traugott was part of the Fiehler family about which we wrote in … More 26 Days Together
Yesterday, Gerard Fiehler and I solved a mystery. Last week in a blog post, it was said that we did not know where two Wagner men were buried. Now we at least know where one of those two ended up. We were at the museum yesterday talking to one of our more seasoned docents, Caroline … More A Lonesome Tombstone
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