Category: Genealogy and Family Life

My great grandfather Parker L. Zimmerman married three times. After a couple of months marriage to Victoria Harris during 1897 in Franklin County, Missouri, Parker moved to Bollinger County, Missouri to be closer to his family. His parents, Samuel and Sarah Zimmerman, lived in Dongola, Bollinger, Missouri. On March 31, 1902, 27-year-old Parker married his second wife, 22-year-old Mellie Bollinger.

The Mosblechs have very large families as a rule.  My great grandfather Eduard Mosblech was one of twelve children.  Eduard had fourteen children and his brothers had twelve and thirteen children respectively.  While I have not yet been able to verify the size of the other two families, both Mom and I remember it the same way.  Grandma Ellis had

Frederick William Johannpeter (1839 – 1915) was my second great grandfather on my mother’s side.  He died 4 months before the birth of his grandson, Gilbert P. Ellis, who was my grandfather. Since he died before my grandfather was born, I had very limited information on him, when I started researching the family history.  Grandpa didn’t have any verbal history

My grandfather’s first cousin, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, was one of St. Louis’ airplane pioneers.  Julius, who was known in the family as “Punks”, joined the Air National Guard in the mid-1920s.  He would be commissioned as a Lieutenant.  Julius flew planes for both the military and civilian air corps. Most of the men in his unit, which included Charles

The Missouri record for issuing marriage licenses in one day was broken on Wednesday, November 23, 1904 by 151 couples in St. Louis, who wanted to tie the knot on Thanksgiving Day 1904.  The previous one day record was 117 couples set in St. Louis prior to Thanksgiving 1903. The Justice of the Peace, R.J. Carroll, set up shop in

Rosa or Rose Elker was born in St. Louis on February 5, 1890.  Aunt Rose was my great-grandmother, Magdalena Elker’s, youngest sister.  On Saturday, September 22, 1906, the 16-year-old Rose was walking to her job at the Plows Candy Factory in St. Louis. Aunt Rose was walking about 8 am in the morning, when she started to cross the 18th

1909 was probably the worst year of Parker Lonzo Bator Zimmerman’s life.  He lost both his ten month old daughter Ida May Zimmerman and his second wife Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman.  Before Parker’s death in the Cape Giraurdeau Tornado of 1949, he would bury two more of his children.  Both of them were adults.  I can only imagine how hard 1909

Recently, I was searching for information about my Great Uncle Francis’ marriage to my Great Aunt Rosemary Kalt.  What I discovered was an unexpected genealogy treasure, a picture in the July 5 edition of the St. Louis Star-Times of my great grandparents and 12 of the 14 Mosblech children. I had never seen a picture of my great grandparents, Eduard

Ollie J. Zimmerman was the third son born to my great-grandfather Parker L. Zimmerman and his second wife Mollie Bollinger.  Ollie and his twin sister Dollie were born on either April 27, 1906 or April 27, 1907.  Since Ollie’s headstone says “1906”, I’m going with April 27, 1906 as his birthdate. In 1909, Ollie would lose his mother, when Mellie