Card Night at the Ellis Home

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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

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Julius Johannpeter (1875-1961)

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जूलियस “Uncle Jules” Johannpeter was born in St. चार्ल्स, MO on March 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “Uncle Jules” was seven years older than his sister Caroline Leah “ली” 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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दादाजी से ग्राहक सेवा सबक

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1990 के दशक में, मेरे दादा, गिल्बर्ट एलिस, मेरी चाची मॉरीन और चाचा डेल के साथ रह रहा था. वे एक बड़े गेराज / शेड स्थापित करने का निर्णय लिया था, इसलिए दादा और मेरे चाचा एक कार्यशाला होगा. वे बहाने जमा हुए थे और कार्यशाला के लिए बिजली को चलाने के लिए एक स्थानीय बिजली कंपनी लगी हुई. Uncle Dale had to run some errands on

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सेंट. Louis Holidays With The Mosblechs

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Mosblechs एक नियम के रूप में बहुत बड़े परिवारों की है. मेरे परदादा एडवर्ड Mosblech बारह बच्चों में से एक था. एडवर्ड चौदह बच्चे थे और अपने भाइयों क्रमशः बारह और तेरह बच्चों की थी. मैं अभी तक अन्य दो परिवारों का आकार सत्यापित करने में सक्षम नहीं किया गया है, 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 “ली” एलिस’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “घुड़साल”, 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. दादा

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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. 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 (1913 – 1992)

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Arthur C. Clemmings was born on Thursday, अप्रैल 3, 1913 सेंट में. लुइस, एमओ. 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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खोया Mosblech बहनों

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मैं बड़ा हो रहा था, मैं अक्सर दादी एलिस सुना, Alvina एम. Mosblech एलिस, उसके दो खो बहनों के बारे में बात. वह अपने 40 वें जन्मदिन से पहले उसे सबसे पुराना बहन मार्गरेट और उसकी छोटी बहन लोरेटा खो दिया. मार्गरेट बी. Mosblech एडवर्ड और मागदालेना Mosblech के लिए पैदा हुए चौदह बच्चों की पहली था. Great Aunt Margaret was born on June 10, 1908. As

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151 सेंट. Louisians Wed on Thanksgiving

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The Missouri record for issuing marriage licenses in one day was broken on Wednesday, नवंबर 23, 1904 द्वारा 151 couples in St. लुइस, 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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