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, Мисури, Parker moved to Bollinger County, Missouri to be closer to his family. His parents, Samuel and Sarah Zimmerman, lived in Dongola, Bollinger, Мисури. На марта 31, 1902, 27-year-old Parker married his second wife, 22-year-old Mellie Bollinger.

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Свети. Louis Holidays With The Mosblechs

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У Мосблецхс имају веома велике породице по правилу. Мој прадеда Едуард Мосблецх био један од дванаесторо деце. Едуард је имао четрнаест деце и његова браћа имао дванаест и тринаест децу редом. Док још нисам био у могућности да провери величину друге две породице, both Mom and I remember it the same way. Grandma Ellis had

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Ф.В. Johannpeter and 1883 Bar Incident

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Фредерик Вилијам Јоханнпетер (1839 – 1915) was my second great grandfather on my mother’s side. He died 4 months before the birth of his grandson, Гилберт П. Елис, who was my grandfather. 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. Лоуис’ airplane pioneers. Јулије, who was known in the family as “Пункс”, 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 Свети. Louisians Wed on Thanksgiving

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The Missouri record for issuing marriage licenses in one day was broken on Wednesday, Новембар 23, 1904 по 151 couples in St. Лоуис, who wanted to tie the knot on Thanksgiving Day 1904. The previous one day record was 117 couples set in St. Louis prior to Thanksgiving 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. У суботу, Септембар 22, 1906, the 16-year-old Rose was walking to her job at the Plows Candy Factory in St. Лоуис. Aunt Rose was walking about 8 am in the morning, when she started to cross the 18th

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1909 – Лоша година за Паркер Зиммерман

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1909 је вероватно најгора година Паркер Лонзо Батор Зиммерман животу. Он је изгубио свој оба десет месеци стару ћерку Ида мај Зиммерман и своју другу супругу Мели Боллингер Зиммерман. Пре Паркера смрти у Кејп Гираурдеау Торнадо у 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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Свети. Francis de Sales Dedicated in 1908

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

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The 14 Mosblechs

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Недавно, 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 издање Ст. 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. Цимерман (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. У 1909, Ollie would lose his mother, when Mellie

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