Mellie Zimmerman’s Wash Day Accident

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My great grandfather Parker L. Zimmerman married three times. After a couple of months marriage to Victoria Harris during 1897 in Franklin County, Missouri, Parker moved to Bollinger County, Missouri to be closer to his family. His parents, Samuel and Sarah Zimmerman, lived in Dongola, Bollinger, Missouri. Sur Mars 31, 1902, 27-year-old Parker married his second wife, 22-year-old Mellie Bollinger.

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St. Louis Holidays With The Mosblechs

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Les Mosblechs ont de très grandes familles comme une règle. Mon arrière grand-père Eduard Mosblech était l'un des douze enfants. Eduard eu quatorze enfants et ses frères avait douze et treize enfants respectivement. Bien que je n'ai pas encore été en mesure de vérifier la taille des deux autres familles, both Mom and I remember it the same way. Grandma Ellis had

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F.W. Johannpeter et 1883 Incident du bar

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Frederick William Johannpeter (1839 – 1915) était mon deuxième arrière-grand-père du côté de ma mère. Il est mort 4 mois avant la naissance de son petit-fils, Gilbert P. Ellis, who was my grandfather. Depuis qu'il est mort avant la naissance de mon grand-père, J'avais des informations très limitées sur lui, quand j'ai commencé à faire des recherches sur l'histoire de la famille. Grandpa didn’t have any verbal history

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Julius W. Johannpeter, Air Pioneer

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My grandfather’s first cousin, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, was one of St. Louis’ airplane pioneers. Julius, who was known in the family as “Punks”, joined the Air National Guard in the mid-1920s. He would be commissioned as a Lieutenant. Julius flew planes for both the military and civilian air corps. Most of the men in his unit, which included Charles

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1909 – Une mauvaise année pour Parker Zimmerman

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1909 était probablement la pire année de la vie de Parker Lonzo Bator Zimmerman. Il a perdu à la fois son vieux dix mois fille Ida May Zimmerman et sa seconde épouse Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman. Avant la mort de Parker dans le Giraurdeau Tornado cap de 1949, he would bury two more of his children. Both of them were adults. I can only imagine how hard 1909

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St. Francis de Sales Dedicated in 1908

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Sur Novembre 1908, three bishops and an abbot dedicated St. Francis de Sales Church, “the Cathedral of South St. Louis”. Built to serve the growing German Catholic population in St. Louis, the huge church would become the home to many families including my great grandparents, Eduard and Magdalena Mosblech, and their 14 children. Le St. Louis Archdiocese dedicated the church

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