Today’s birthday girl spent only 3 years in Perry County, so she probably had no memories from her time in Altenburg. Most of her life was spent in another location known for its German Lutheran heritage. Get ready to take a trip to the vicinity of Stuttgart, Arkansas, a place that has also become famous … More Bertha’s Stuttgart Rice Farmer
My inspiration for writing this post comes from one of Warren’s recent posts. Most mornings when I’m at the museum I ask Warren what the day’s post is about. Most of the time I don’t know the name of the person the post is about, but I am curious about the story he found, and … More The Leimbach Mystery
Last October, I wrote a post about R.E. Mueller, who operated a hardware store in Altenburg, Missouri. It was titled, Hardware Rudy’s. In that post, it was said that there were two R.E. Muellers, and both of them were born in 1894. Today’s post will focus on the other R.E. Mueller because today would have … More The Other R.E. Mueller
August John Oberndorfer was born on March 15, 1880. March 15th has gone down in history as the Ides of March, the day on which Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC. That tragedy was supposedly predicted by a soothsayer who proclaimed, “Beware the Ides of March.” It is now remembered as being an “ominous” … More Born and Died on Ides of March
This story started very simply. Find a February 16th birthday and start looking for information that may be interesting to our readers. I found a girl by the name of Lydia Hadler who had that birthday, so I started looking. One of the first things I look for is photographs. Stories are always better with … More Tracking the Elusive Hadlers
Today would have been the 116th wedding anniversary for the main characters in today’s story. Their wedding took place at Zion Lutheran Church in Pocahontas on October 6, 1901. That wedding would have taken place in the church building shown on the left in this photo. The groom for the 1901 wedding was Johannes Gottfried … More Blacksmith to the End
I have already posted several stories about Lutheran teachers who served the school in Wittenberg, Missouri or who had been born and raised in Wittenberg and later became Lutheran teachers. You guessed it. Today is another one of those stories. In fact, today’s story is of both varieties. It’s about a young man born and … More Another Teacher Mueller
Yesterday’s story about the Jolley Boys Band was a pretty uplifting type of post. Today’s is not. However, there is something similar about yesterday’s blog and today’s. In both cases, the story started with a photograph. Yesterday, a photograph showing a bunch of young men in a band clowning around just had to be used. … More Not Such a Jolly Band
Jokes are often made about husbands and wives who may forget each other’s birthdays. Today’s story tells about a couple that never had that problem. That is because they had the same birthday, September 11th. One of them was George Fleiss who was born on that day in 1889, and the other was Lena Angerman … More Unforgettable Birthdays
A pattern we have seen before is repeated again today. It goes something like this. A member of a large family cannot find either land, employment, or both in East Perry County, so a decision is made to leave. The direction to move is most often to the west where land is cheap and available, … More New Wife, No Job, Go West
