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Genealogy posts about the Deweese, Diaz, Ellis, Mosblech, and Zimmerman families.
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
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 “Taguan mula sa hangin” 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
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. Isa sa mga mekanismong ginamit ng mga pamahalaan upang mangolekta ng mga bayarin para sa kalsada
Sa huli 1990s, ang aking lolo, Gilbert Ellis, ay nakatira ang aking tiyahin Maureen at Uncle Dale. Sila ay nagpasya na magkaroon ng na naka-install sa isang malaking garahe / malaglag, kaya Grandpa at ang aking tiyuhin ay magkaroon ng isang talyer. Sila ay nagkaroon ng malaglag binuo at nakikipag-ugnayan sa isang lokal na kompanya ng mga de-koryenteng upang patakbuhin ang kuryente sa pagawaan. Uncle Dale had to run some errands on
Ang Mosblechs mayroon napakalaking pamilya bilang isang panuntunan. Aking mga mahusay na lolo Eduard Mosblech ay isa sa labindalawang anak. Eduard ay nagkaroon ng labing-apat na mga bata at ang kanyang kapatid na lalaki ay nagkaroon ng labindalawang at labintatlo mga bata ayon sa pagkakabanggit. Habang ako ay hindi pa nagawang i-verify ang sukat ng iba pang dalawang mga pamilya, both Mom and I remember it the same way. Grandma Ellis had
When I started researching the family history, I only knew about two of my great-grandmother Caroline “Taguan mula sa hangin” Ellis’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “Palahing kabayo”, 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
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
Arthur C. Clemmings ay ipinanganak sa Huwebes, Abril 3, 1913 sa St. Louis, MO. At the start of World War II, Uncle Art enlisted in the United States Army as a private. Siya ay itinalaga bilang isang semi-bihasang manggagawa metal. Ang kanyang termino ng pagpapatala, na nagsimula noong Setyembre 2, 1942, was for the duration of the war plus six months.
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
Ang Missouri record para sa nag-isyu ng mga lisensya ng kasal sa isang araw ay pinaghiwa sa Miyerkules, Nobyembre 23, 1904 sa pamamagitan ng 151 mag-asawa sa St. Louis, na nais upang itali ang nat sa Araw ng Pagpapasalamat 1904. Ang nakaraang isang araw record ay 117 -asawa nakatakda sa St. Louis bago ang Thanksgiving 1903. Ang katwiran ng kapayapaan, R.J. Carroll, set up shop in