Tus 14 Mosblechs

Nyuam qhuav, Kuv yog searching kev qhia txog kuv tus txiv ntxawm Great Francis’ neej rau kuv phauj Great Rosemary Kalt. Cas kuv pheej nrhiav tau lwm yog ib qho kev npaj txhij txog genealogy cov khoom muaj nqis, ib daim duab nyob rau hauv lub Xya hli ntuj 5 ib tsab ntawm tus St. Louis Star-zaug of my great grandparents and 12 ntawm lub 14 Cov me nyuam Mosblech.

I had never seen a picture of my great grandparents, Eduard thiab Magdalena Mosblech. In this photo, Eduard is 49 and Magdalena is 48. They were married in 1907 and had 14 children between 1907 thiab 1929. 12 ntawm lub 14 children were in this picture.

The oldest daughter Margaret did not live at home, so she was not in the picture. Both she and Aunt Agnes would be married in 1936. The other missing child was little Loretta, who died at only 4 hnub nyoog rau xyoo 1930. She was confined to the Isolation Hospital, where she was being treated for diptheria. The dread disease took her life.

At the time of the picture, tus 12 children still lived at home with their parents at 2324 Texas Avenue. 2324 Texas Avenue is a two-story brick home two blocks from St. Frances De Sales Church, the Catholic Church they attended since childhood. 2324 Texas was about three blocks from their first home on Sidney Street, which was sold to allow a bank to be built at the corner of Gravois Avenue and Sidney Street.

My grandmother Alvina was 18 not 19 as it said in the newspaper. She is sixth from the left. She married my grandfather Gilbert Ellis four years later in 1938.

If not for such a large family, the local newspaper would not have been interested in them. I would not have this picture nor would I know what my great grandparents looked like. Finding this picture was hitting the genealogy lottery.

What precious family heirlooms do you have? How do they make you feel? Koj yuav tawm ib saib los nug cov lus nug txog qhov no los yog tej tsev xa rau kuv Facebook phab thiab Twitter profile.

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