Julius Johannpeter (1875-1961)

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Julius “Uncle Jules” Johannpeter was born in St. Charles, 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 “Sotavento” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee teve o desafio de criar seu filho Gilbert, de dois anos, como solteiro

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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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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 “Sotavento” Ellis’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “Viga”, 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. Avô

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151 St. Louisians Wed on Thanksgiving

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O registro de Missouri para a emissão de licenças de casamento em um dia foi quebrado nesta quarta-feira, Novembro 23, 1904 por 151 casais em St. Louis, que queria dar o nó no Dia de Ação de Graças 1904. O recorde anterior um dia foi 117 casais estabelecidos em St. Louis antes da Ação de Graças 1903. The Justice of the Peace, R.J. Carroll, set up shop in

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