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

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F.W. Johannpeter and 1883 Bar Incident

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Frederick William Johannpeter (1839 – 1915) was my second great grandfather on my mother’s side. He died 4 months before the birth of his grandson, Gilbert P. Ellis, care a fost bunicul meu. Since he died before my grandfather was born, I had very limited information on him, when I started researching the family history. 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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151 St. Louisians Wed on Thanksgiving

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Recordul Missouri de eliberare a licențelor de căsătorie într-o singură zi a fost spart miercuri, Noiembrie 23, 1904 de 151 cupluri din St. Louis, care a vrut sa se casatoreasca pe Ziua Recunostintei 1904. Recordul anterior a fost o zi 117 cupluri stabilite în St. Louis înainte de Ziua Recunostintei 1903. The Justice of the Peace, R.J. Carroll, set up shop in

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1909 – Un an prost pentru Parker Zimmerman

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1909 a fost, probabil, cel mai rău an din viața Parker Lonzo Bator Zimmerman. El a pierdut atât de zece luni vechi fiica lui Ida mai Zimmerman și a doua lui soție Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman. Înainte de moartea lui Parker în Cape Giraurdeau Tornado a 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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Noiembrie 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. St. Arhiepiscopia Louis a dedicat biserica

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