Gertrude Henrietta “Gert” Mosblech (1911-1993)

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Vào ngày thứ bảy, Tháng Bảy 15, 1911, Eduard and Magdalena Mosblech welcomed their third child, Gertrude Henrietta Mosblech, into the world. “Aunt Gert” được sinh ra ở St. Louis, Missouri, the third oldest of fourteen children. “Aunt Gert” holds a special place in the Mosblech family history for her warmth, joy and affection for her many nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews.

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Julius W. Johannpeter, Air Pioneer

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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

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St. Louis Holidays With The Mosblechs

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Các Mosblechs có gia đình rất lớn như một quy luật. Ông nội lớn của tôi Eduard Mosblech là một trong mười hai con. Eduard có mười bốn đứa con và anh em của mình có mười hai và mười ba trẻ em tương ứng. Trong khi tôi chưa thể xác minh kích thước của hai gia đình khác, both Mom and I remember it the same way. Grandma Ellis had

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151 St. Louisians Wed on Thanksgiving

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Các kỷ lục Missouri cấp giấy phép kết hôn trong một ngày đã bị phá vỡ vào thứ Tư, Tháng Mười Một 23, 1904 qua 151 cặp vợ chồng ở St. Louis, những người muốn kết hôn vào ngày Lễ Tạ Ơn 1904. Các kỷ lục một ngày trước đó 117 cặp vợ chồng đặt tại St. Louis trước Lễ Tạ Ơn 1903. The Justice of the Peace, R.J. Carroll, set up shop in

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F.W. Johannpeter and 1883 Bar Incident

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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

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Rose Elker Slaps a Masher

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Rosa or Rose Elker was born in St. Louis on February 5, 1890. Aunt Rose was my great-grandmother, Magdalena Elker’s, youngest sister. Vào ngày thứ bảy, Tháng Chín 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

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Customer Service Lessons from Grandpa

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In the late 1990s, my grandfather, Gilbert Ellis, was living with my Aunt Maureen and Uncle Dale. They had decided to have a large garage/shed installed, so Grandpa and my uncle would have a workshop. They had the shed assembled and engaged a local electrical company to run electricity to the workshop. Uncle Dale had to run some errands on

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St. Francis de Sales Dedicated in 1908

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Vào ngày 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 trẻ em. St. Louis Archdiocese dedicated the church

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Các 14 Mosblechs

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Gần đây, 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 phiên bản của 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

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