Posts about the Ellis, Johannpeter, Mosblech, and Elker families.
I thought this article would be the right way to conclude the Ellis Family history. I will continue to add information to the family history as I get it but often, when I think of my family, it is about the holidays. I do not remember much before the 1980s and we did not celebrate the holidays the same way […]
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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 […]
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Growing up I heard lots of stories about my Great Grandmother Caroline “Lee” Ellis from my mother. She spent time with her grandmother who lived in St. Louis. Grandpa Ellis moved to Illinois a couple of times during the 1940s and 1950s. Mom would come back to St. Louis frequently to see Great Grandma Ellis. Grandma and Grandpa Ellis would […]
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The Ellis Family history would be incomplete without a chapter on Lake Tishomingo. My grandparents, Gilbert and Alvina Ellis, owned a lake lot on Lake Tishomingo. We spent every Sunday, Saturdays, and any other day that we could find an excuse to go during the Spring, Summer and Fall between 1976 and 1990. Lake Tishomingo was a large, manufactured lake […]
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Uncle Oscar Von Burg and Aunt Dorothy Von Burg nee Mosblech were my grandparents’ closest friends. Grandma Ellis and Aunt Dorothy were sisters separated in age by about a year and a half. Grandpa Ellis and Uncle Oscar became close friends when they were dating the sisters. Neither Uncle Oscar nor Grandpa danced, so they would escort Grandma and Aunt […]
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Arthur C. Clemmings was born on Thursday, April 3, 1913 in St. Louis, MO. At the start of World War II, Uncle Art enlisted in the United States Army as a private. He was assigned as a semi-skilled metal worker. His term of enlistment, which began on September 2, 1942, was for the duration of the war plus six months. […]
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Prior to Thanksgiving last year, I wrote a St. Louis history post about 151 couple who broke the one day marriage license record in 1904. 1904 was the year St. Louis hosted the World’s Fair. What I did not realize until a few weeks ago was that my great grand-uncle, Frank O. Mosblech, was one of the grooms that day. […]
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When I was growing up, I often heard Grandma Ellis, Alvina M. Mosblech Ellis, talk about her two lost sisters. She lost her oldest sister Margaret and her little sister Loretta before her 40th birthday. Margaret B. Mosblech was the first of fourteen children born to Eduard and Magdalena Mosblech. Great Aunt Margaret was born on June 10, 1908. As […]
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In St. Louis, MO, the garment industry played a key role in the local economy from the early 1900s to the 1970s. In the 1970s, overseas factories began to take the work once performed Downtown. During the 1920s, the garment district encompassed fifteen blocks of Washington Avenue. Buyers used to walk the fifteen blocks during certain times of the year […]
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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 […]
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