John Riley Collects Poll Tax

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My second great-grandfather John Riley Deweese served as Welch Township Republican Committee Chairman in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri for most of his adult life. Besides holding party caucuses in his home, John Riley served as Road Commissioner in the 1910s. Residents mostly traversed the roads by horse and buggy. One of the mechanisms governments used to collect fees for road

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Marie H. “Babe” Johannpeter Kimker

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Marie H. “Babe” Johannpeter was born in St. 路易, Missouri on June 17, 1903. “Babe” was the second child and first daughter born to my second great-uncle Julius “Uncle Jules” Johannpeter and his wife Bertha Johannpeter nee Horst. My grandfather Gilbert Ellis spent a lot of his time with Uncle Jules family, while he was growing up. 爷爷埃利斯’ father

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爱德华Mosblech (1884 – 1956)

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Eduard Mosblech is my maternal great-grandfather. Eduard was born in St. 路易, Missouri on October 24, 1884, to German immigrants Gustave Mosblech and Bertha Mosblech nee Monse. Often written as Edward but pronounced like putting together aid and ward, Eduard was as unique as his name. I struggled with writing much about him because the stories I heard about him

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Herman Johannpeter (1878 – 1921)

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When I started researching the family history, I only knew about two of my great-grandmother Caroline “背风处” 埃利斯’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “Jules”, Julius Johannpeter. Grandpa lived with Uncle Jules from the time he left Missouri Military Academy in 1932 until he married my grandmother, Alvina Ellis nee Mosblech in 1938. 爷爷

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Oscar and Dorothy Von Burg

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Uncle Oscar Von Burg and Aunt Dorothy Von Burg nee Mosblech were my grandparents’ closest friends. 奶奶埃利斯和姑姑多萝西是姐妹了大约一年半分开年龄. 爷爷埃利斯和奥斯卡叔叔成了亲密的朋友,当他们约会的姐妹. Neither Uncle Oscar nor Grandpa danced, so they would escort Grandma and Aunt

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阿瑟·C·. Clemmings (1913 – 1992)

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阿瑟·C·. Clemmings出生于周四, 四月 3, 1913 在圣. 路易, MO. At the start of World War II, Uncle Art enlisted in the United States Army as a private. 他被指定为半熟练金属工人. 他的服役期限, 它始于九月 2, 1942, was for the duration of the war plus six months.

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