Julius Johannpeter (1875-1961)

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Julius “C. avunculi” Johannpeter was born in St. Cornelius, MO on March 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “C. avunculi” was seven years older than his sister Caroline Leah “Lee” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee provocationem habuit Gilbertum filium duos annos ut unum

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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. Una machinarum imperia ad colligendas mercedes pro via

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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 “Etiam placerat”, 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. Grandpa

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C Cornelius. Clemmings (1913 – 1992)

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C Cornelius. Clemmings nata Iovis, April 3, 1913 in S.. Ludovicus, MO. Initio Belli Orbis Terrarum II, Avunculus Ars in Civitatibus Foederatis Americae Exercitus quasi privatus conscriptus est. Et datus est a semi-peritus artifex metalli. Ejus munus ad bella instauranda totiens usos, quod coepit in Septembris, 2, 1942, was for the duration of the war plus six months.

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