Today’s birthday girl is Theresia J. Wunderlich, who was born on February 11, 1890. That means if Theresia was still alive today, she would have to blow out 133 candles on her birthday cake. I found it somewhat surprising that she was not born in either Perry County or Cape Girardeau County in Missouri. She … More A Kornthal Wunderlich + A Gordonville Gross
Today’s birthday girl has a very interesting name, and she would be celebrating a special birthday if she was still alive today. Her name was Lydia Seraphina Adolphine Frentzel, who was born on July 23, 1898. That makes today her 125th birthday. In the early years of her life, she was called Adolphine. She was … More Adeline’s Stagehand at the Granada
Theodore Immanuel Conrad Steffens was born on January 8, 1897, making today his 126th birthday. Theodore was the son of Henry and Martha (Hesse) Steffens. He was the last of 6 children in his family. Theodore was baptized at Salem Lutheran Church in Farrar. We can take a look at an image of his baptism … More Theodore Steffens – To Kansas and Back for a Bride
At Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg, we have many members who call a woman, Granny. Kathy Schlimpert and her husband, Oliver, had 4 children, and all of them were girls. Those 4 are all married with children (and even some grandchildren), and they are all still members of Trinity. Therefore, we have plenty of Ponder’s, … More Granny’s Granny
Back in 2018, we published a story about a man named Walther Theodosius Weinhold titled, Named After His Grandmother? Walther was the son of one of the Weinhold brothers who operated the Frohna Mill, so he qualified to be called a “Miller Weinhold”. Walther was born in 1891. Today you will be reading about a man … More A Dirt Farmer Takes in a Local Katt
Maybe in English communities, you can talk about “Keeping Up with the Jones’s”, but from our German community comes a story of “Kipping Up with the Meyer’s and the Lohmann’s”. We begin with a birthday girl. Augusta Maria Magdalena Meyer was born on October 2, 1897, so she would be celebrating a special 125th birthday … More Kipping Up with the Meyer’s and the Lohmann’s
I have discovered that several natives of this area migrated to settle in the vicinity of Coffeyville, Kansas, which is right on the border between Kansas and Oklahoma. Many of those folks had connections to Christ Lutheran Church in Jacob, Illinois. I will be writing another one of those stories today. We begin with a … More Brunkhorst and Dietrich in Coffeyville
Back in 2019, I wrote a story about Otto Leimbach titled, Otto’s Hemmann Twin. That Otto Leimbach was born and raised in the Shawnee Township of Cape Girardeau near the towns of New Wells and Pocahontas. In that post, I mentioned that there was another group of Leimbach’s that lived on The Ridge north of … More The Otto Leimbach’s from the Ridge
After writing a post about a Koenig family that lived in the Farrar area yesterday, I found another Koenig story for today. This tale will focus on a Koenig family that lived in the New Wells vicinity. This is also another one in which there is some debate about a date of birth. Our German … More Martin and Ella – The New Wells Koenig’s
Ernest Rudolph Mueller was born on May 25, 1891, making today his 131st birthday. Ernest (or Ernst) was the son of Theodore and Emma (Thomas) Mueller, making him a member of what we call the “Frohna Mueller’s”. And, as you would expect, he was baptized at Concordia Lutheran Church in Frohna. Below is an image … More Mueller’s in Willow Springs
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