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Post about my maternal family lineage, the Ellis and Mosblech families.
O sábado, Xullo 15, 1911, Eduard e Magdalena Mosblech acolleu seu terceiro fillo, Gertrude Henrietta Mosblech, no mundo. “Tía Gert” naceu en St. Louis, Missouri, a terceira máis antiga de catorce nenos. “Tía Gert” ocupa un lugar especial na historia da familia Mosblech para o seu calor, joy and affection for her many nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews.
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
Os Mosblechs teñen familias moi grandes, como regra. Meu bisavô Eduard Mosblech foi un dos doce fillos. Eduard tivo catorce fillos e os seus irmáns tiñan doce e trece fillos, respectivamente. Mentres que aínda non foron capaces de comprobar o tamaño das outras dúas familias, both Mom and I remember it the same way. Grandma Ellis had
The Missouri record for issuing marriage licenses in one day was broken on Wednesday, Novembro 23, 1904 por 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
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
Rosa or Rose Elker was born in St. Louis on February 5, 1890. Aunt Rose was my great-grandmother, Magdalena Elker’s, youngest sister. O sábado, Setembro 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
A finais de 1990, meu avó, Gilbert Ellis, estaba vivindo coa miña tía Maureen e tío Dale. Eles habían decidido a ter unha gran garaxe / galpón instalado, tan Vovô e meu tío tería un taller. Eles tiveron o barracão montado e axustado a compañía eléctrica local para realizar electricidade para o taller. Uncle Dale had to run some errands on
En novembro 1908, three bishops and an abbot dedicated St. Francis de Sales Church, “the Cathedral of South St. Louis”. Built to serve the growing German Catholic population in St. Louis, the huge church would become the home to many families including my great grandparents, Eduard and Magdalena Mosblech, and their 14 nenos. O St. Louis Archdiocese dedicated the church
Recentemente, 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 edición do St. Louis Star-Times of my great grandparents and 12 do 14 Mosblech children. I had never seen a picture of my great grandparents, Eduard
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, my grandparents used to host a monthly card party with three of Grandma Ellis’ sisters and their husbands. Uncle Tony and Aunt Agnes Giraudo, Uncle Oscar and Aunt Dorothy Von Berg along with Uncle Art and Aunt Betty Clemmings would join Grandma and Grandpa to play Pinochle. Each family would host one