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. მარტს 31, 1902, 27-year-old Parker married his second wife, 22-year-old Mellie Bollinger.

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წმინდა. Louis Holidays With The Mosblechs

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The Mosblechs have very large families as a rule. My great grandfather Eduard Mosblech was one of twelve children. Eduard had fourteen children and his brothers had twelve and thirteen children respectively. While I have not yet been able to verify the size of the other two families, both Mom and I remember it the same way. Grandma Ellis had

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F.W. იოჰანპეტერი და 1883 ბარის ინციდენტი

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Frederick William Johannpeter (1839 – 1915) იყო ჩემი მეორე დიდი ბაბუა დედის მხრიდან. Ის მოკვდა 4 შვილიშვილის დაბადებამდე რამდენიმე თვით ადრე, Gilbert P. Ellis, who was my grandfather. ვინაიდან ის გარდაიცვალა ბაბუაჩემის დაბადებამდე, მე მასზე ძალიან შეზღუდული ინფორმაცია მქონდა, როდესაც დავიწყე ოჯახის ისტორიის შესწავლა. ბაბუას არ ჰქონდა სიტყვიერი ისტორია

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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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151 წმინდა. Louisians Wed on Thanksgiving

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Missouri ჩანაწერი გაცემის ქორწინების ლიცენზიების ერთ დღეში დაირღვა ოთხშაბათი, ნოემბერი 23, 1904 მიერ 151 წყვილი St. Louis, ვისაც სურდა გვაკავშირებს კვანძი მადლიერების დღე 1904. წინა დღის ჩანაწერი იყო 117 წყვილი მითითებული St. Louis ადრე მადლიერების 1903. The Justice of the Peace, R.J. Carroll, set up shop in

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Rose Elker Slaps a Masher

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Rosa or Rose Elker was born in St. Louis on February 5, 1890. Aunt Rose was my great-grandmother, Magdalena Elker’s, youngest sister. შაბათი, September 22, 1906, the 16-year-old Rose was walking to her job at the Plows Candy Factory in St. Louis. Aunt Rose was walking about 8 am in the morning, when she started to cross the 18th

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1909 – Bad წელი Parker Zimmerman

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1909 იყო ალბათ ყველაზე უარესი წელი Parker Lonzo ბატორი Zimmerman ცხოვრება. მან დაკარგა როგორც მისი ათი თვის გოგონა Ida მაისი Zimmerman და მისი მეორე მეუღლე Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman. ადრე Parker გარდაცვალების Cape Giraurdeau Tornado of 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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წმინდა. Francis de Sales Dedicated in 1908

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წლის 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. წმინდა. Louis Archdiocese dedicated the church

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The 14 Mosblechs

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Recently, I was searching for information about my Great Uncle Francis’ marriage to my Great Aunt Rosemary Kalt. What I discovered was an unexpected genealogy treasure, a picture in the July 5 გამოცემა წმინდა. Louis Star-Times of my great grandparents and 12 of the 14 Mosblech children. I had never seen a picture of my great grandparents, Eduard

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Ollie J. Zimmerman (1906 – 1977)

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Ollie J. Zimmerman was the third son born to my great-grandfather Parker L. Zimmerman and his second wife Mollie Bollinger. Ollie and his twin sister Dollie were born on either April 27, 1906 or April 27, 1907. Since Ollie’s headstone says “1906”, I’m going with April 27, 1906 as his birthdate. In 1909, Ollie would lose his mother, როდესაც მელი

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