In less than a week, I will have to remember that it is Valentine’s Day, and I’ll have the privilege of giving my sweetheart some extra special attention. So when I ran across a birthday boy named Valentine, and I discovered that I hadn’t written his story yet, I knew I had to write this post. … More Maria’s Valentine and Fiddler
The story I will tell you today is somewhat puzzling. The following questions still bother me. Was Charles Popp a baker, or did he work in the steel industry? Or did he do both? Karl Benjamin Popp was born on March 17, 1892…St. Patrick’s Day. My experience has given evidence that German Lutherans do not … More Popp’s Pastries
I decided to follow through on a statement I made in a post two days ago. In that February 12th post, I told the story of one of the two couples that were married on that day back in 1861. Since the groom in the other wedding that took place on that day was named … More Valentine’s Wedding
Mathilda Magdalena Lorenz was one of those girls who was always going to be celebrating Valentine’s Day on the same day as her birthday. Mathilda was born on February 14, 1891 and baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg. She was the daughter of Johann and Caroline (Mueller) Lorenz. Below is her baptism record. There … More Mathilda – Henry’s Valentine
Today’s post will be a simple one, but I assure you it is from the heart. I took the time to find all the Valentines that show up in the German Family Tree, and I will list them here. The German Family Tree is a large document that we have here at our museum which … More Sending You Valentines from Perry County
While I was looking for a birthday, a death or an anniversary that happened on this day in the past, I really had several stories from which to choose. However, one of them is a story that I just cannot resist, even though it may be the one with which I am the least familiar. … More 2 Bergmanns + 2 Hoehns = Valentine’s Anniversary
This blog post begins as we notice that today is the 126th anniversary of the day that Valentine Otto Hoehn married Maria Margaretha Fassold. They were married in 1890 at Peace Lutheran Church in Friedenberg. That is where we begin, but this event takes us on several side trips. First of all, we see on … More Let’s Go to America to Get Married
On Valentine’s Day, 1886, Rev. C.F.W. Walther united Rev. John Jacob Trinklein and Sarah Buenger in marriage in St. Louis, Missouri. In doing so, Rev. Walther was officiating at the wedding of his niece, the daughter of his wife’s brother, Herman Buenger, a druggist in St. Louis. Rev. Walther was getting up there in years … More Valentine Wedding
