Today’s post is another contribution made by Fred Eggers. I now think that we should have Fred write a blog post every June 27th. ====================================== Lynn Degenhardt, our resident genius who compiled and maintains the German Family Tree, asked me recently to document the available information for the Eggers and Hellwege families in 1842 so … More The Tangled Web of June 27 Blogs
I am sure that many of our readers are in the same position as me these days. You may be traveling to visit family or friends and may not be able to keep up your normal routine. It is Thanksgiving week, and I will be heading to Memphis for a few days. I will attempt … More Tower Rock – 1803 Visitors
Today’s post was written by our local guest blogger, Fred Eggers. I consider him an outstanding researcher and a great blessing to our museum. ======================================= In 1968, Jess E. Thilenius and Felix F. Snider published the booklet Tower Rock (la Roche de la Croix) in Cape Girardeau. At that time, it was likely the first … More The Three Pilots Revisited
The tale today has little documentation to be found in the German Lutheran records from area churches. Those few documents are the starting point for this story that takes us off into some interesting directions, but I think it’s a few photographs that I located on Ancestry that convinced me to compose this article. Benjamin … More Benjamin’s Spanish-American War Band
I will be traveling today, so I do not have time to research and write a new post. So I will give you two options. First, you could go back to yesterday’s post if you haven’t read it yet. It actually was a story that deserved to be posted on November 26th. Second, I am … More Lewis & Clark Visit the Rock
Today, I am going to return to a story that has already been written on this blog. I wrote the story two years ago on January 27, 2017. It was titled, Intersecting Exoduses. The story was told about how the steamboat, Knickerbocker, had to stop for repairs at the small Illinois village of Hamburg to … More First Sighting of Perry County
A fascinating story took place on April 9th in East Perry County, and the characters in the story had absolutely nothing to do with the Lutheran immigration. However, its timing came awfully close to corresponding with the arrival of the German Lutherans into Perry County. It took place in 1839. According to Zion on the … More Mississippi Marriage Misfortune: Tragedy at Tower Rock
