Not long after the beginning of the twentieth century, a future pastor was baptized at Grace Lutheran Church in Uniontown, Missouri. Heinrich Herman Schaefer was born on June 12, 1902. His parents were Heinrich Carl and Josephine Tennessee (Telle) Schaefer who lived in the town of Old Appleton, just south of Uniontown. Here are photos … More Pastor Schaefer – Tennessee’s Spirit-maker’s Son
Today we say, “Happy Birthday” to Theodore Heinrich Kassel who was born on June 5th 128 years ago in 1889. His most notable accomplishment in Perry County was as the owner and operator of the Frohna Machine Shop. I wish I was at home to get some local input for this story because there are … More Frohna Machine Shop
We will focus on another wedding anniversary today. On May 15, 1883, Victor Frentzel married Pauline Telle at Grace Lutheran Church in Uniontown. After getting married, this couple had six straight daughters before they had their first son. All in all, Pauline gave birth to eleven children, eight of them girls. One unusual thing about … More A Flock of Female Frentzels
January 11th was both a day of joy and a day of grief in the Telle and Bultmann families from Uniontown, Missouri. First, this date was the birthday of Martha Telle in 1862. Later, this date would also become the day when her husband, Ernst Bultmann, died in 1897. However, by that time, Martha had … More From Tragedy Comes Blessing
Today we are publishing our first article done by a guest blogger. His name is Clayton Erdmann. Clayton is the 5th grade teacher at Immanuel Lutheran School in Olivette, Missouri. He has several ancestral connections to Perry County and is also an avid genealogist. We are honored to have him contribute to this blog. ==================== … More Two Huge Families Unite
When I was much younger, there was a cartoon titled Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales. Today we have the tale of Tennessee Telle. Josephine Tennessee Telle was born in Uniontown, Missouri on July 11, 1869. The Telle family had arrived in America in 1849 and settled in Perry County. Ten days before her 29th birthday, … More Tennessee Telle and Her Tale
Today, we will try something new. Around here we sometimes refer to some names as being “Frohna names”, some as “Farrar names”, etc. We ran across the confirmation which took place at Grace Lutheran Church in Uniontown, Missouri on May 6, 1883. Many of these names are ones that we call “Uniontown names”. Arthur Höh … More Uniontown Names
