Một gia đình hiện Treasure

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Tuần trước, Tôi đang tìm bản sao cuốn Ivanhoe của Ngài Walter Scott từ thư viện cũ của ông tôi. Ông nội Gilbert P. Ellis có một thư viện mà anh ấy đã tặng tôi vào đầu những năm 1990. These books and his desk are treasures that will stay with me until the day I die. As a kid, Tôi đã từng ngồi trong chỗ của anh ấy

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George Washington Story (1843 – 1903)

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My second great-grandfather George Washington Story was born in August 1843 to Gilford Dudley Story and his second wife Nancy Jane Story nee Womack. George was born in Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Illinois, USA. He was the fourth of Dudley’s and Nancy’s nine children. George Washington Story married his first wife and my second great-grandmother Malinda Davis on November 26, 1863,

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Amanda Isabelle “Mandy” Story

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Many Zimmermans always believed my great-grandfather Parker L. Zimmerman was married five times. Tuy nhiên, Parker was married three times to Victoria Harris, Mellie Bollinger and Lydia Margaret “Dollie” Story. It was actually Parker’ sister-in-law Amanda Isabelle “Mandy” Story, who was married five times. Mandy was born in Illinois on July 16, 1877 to George Washington Story and Malinda Davis although

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Marie H. “Babe” Johannpeter Kimker

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Marie H. “Babe” Johannpeter was born in St. Louis, Missouri on June 17, 1903. “Babe” was the second child and first daughter born to my second great-uncle Julius “Bác 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. Grandpa Ellis’ father

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Robert Harold “Harry” Zimmerman (1911-1936)

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Ông nội của tôi Frank O. Zimmerman’s oldest brother was Robert Harold “Harry” Zimmerman. They had a four older half-brothers and sisters and a deceased half-sister but Harry was the first child of Parker L. Zimmerman và người vợ thứ ba của ông Dolly. Ông nội sẽ được sinh ra tháng 28, 1913. Harry is a bit of a mystery as he died around the

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Julius Johannpeter (1875-1961)

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Julius “Bác Jules” Johannpeter was born in St. Charles, MO on March 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “Bác Jules” was seven years older than his sister Caroline Leah “Lee” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee had the challenge of raising her two-year-old son Gilbert as a single

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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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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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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 “Lee” Ellis’ 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. Ông nội

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