I have a hard time resisting the story of a person celebrating their 200th birthday, especially when I locate a baptism record for the individual. Since most of the German Lutherans first came to Perry County in 1839, we can be sure that the birth of a person celebrating a bicentennial birthday must have been … More 200 Year-Old Wolff
Today, I will add to the list of stories I have written about brides and grooms who had the same surname. Today, the double surname happens to be Hoehn. The result of this Hoehn/Hoehn marriage was 10 pages of descendants listed in our German Family Tree. The two Hoehn families appear to have arrived at … More A Hoehn-Hoehn Duo
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
On this day four years ago, I wrote a post about two Hoehn siblings getting married to two Bergmann siblings back in 1861. By today’s standards, it was a rather short post. Today, I choose to focus on just one of those couples and present more details and documents. The highlighted couple for today will … More Return to a Double Wedding
