Bier Und Brot

Bier und Brot
The Wehners of Southeast Missouri
Robert E. Tapscott
Copyright © 2013
Albuquerque, New Mexico
All Rights Reserved
First Printing, August 2013
Published by Robert E. Tapscott

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United States of America
Unsourced photographs, maps, and drawings are by the author. The cover
photograph was supplied by Instantpublisher.com.
Dedicated to John Edward (“Eddie”) Wehner

In memory of Eloise Marie (Wehner) and Dale Winston Summers
For Mary Frances,

the love of my life
and for Cody and Corina

GGGGG grandchildren of Johann and Flora Wehner of Hesse, Germany
Other books authored or co-authored by R. E. Tapscott
The Never Failing Brook

The Glenn and Mary Imle Tapscott Family, 2004
Henry the Immigrant

The First Tapscotts of Virginia, 2006, 2013
Bier und Brot Foreword i
Contents
Foreword ................................................................................................................................. vii
Johann and Flora (Müller) Wehner .............................................................................................. xi
The Immigrants ..........................................................................................................................1
Fulda ...................................................................................................................................1
Dietershan and Dietershausen.............................................................................................2
Passage to America .............................................................................................................4
Gateway to the West ...........................................................................................................7
Louisville ............................................................................................................................9
Cape Girardeau .................................................................................................................10
Pilot Knob ................................................................................................................................13
Iron County .......................................................................................................................13
Mining...............................................................................................................................13
The Battle of Pilot Knob ...................................................................................................15
Lorenz and Flora Wehner ........................................................................................................20
By Any Other Name .........................................................................................................20
Marriage ............................................................................................................................22
Private Lorenz Wehner .....................................................................................................23
At the Base of the Knob....................................................................................................26
Old Landmarks .................................................................................................................28
Clara Christina Wehner............................................................................................................30
Albert L. Schilling ............................................................................................................34
Robert Jacob Schilling ...............................................................................................34
Edward W. Schilling .........................................................................................................34
Evelyn C. Schilling ....................................................................................................35
Edward A. Schilling ..................................................................................................35
Nellie F. Schilling .............................................................................................................35
Arthur William (Timmerman) West ..........................................................................36
Arthur Peter Schilling .......................................................................................................36
Harriet Schilling ........................................................................................................37
Walter Leo Schilling .........................................................................................................37
Clara Jeanette Schilling .............................................................................................41
William Oscar Schilling ...................................................................................................41
Millie Schilling ..........................................................................................................41
Robert Schilling Jr. ...........................................................................................................42
Clara H. Schilling ......................................................................................................42
Vernon R. Schilling ...................................................................................................43
Robert A. Schilling ....................................................................................................43
Maria Wehner ..........................................................................................................................45
William Wehner .......................................................................................................................46
William Robert Wehner ....................................................................................................49
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William Edwin Wehner .............................................................................................50

Bernard E. Wehner ....................................................................................................51
Kathleen R. Wehner ..................................................................................................51
Imogene Henrietta Wehner........................................................................................52
Albert Frank Wehner ........................................................................................................52
Louise H. Wehner .............................................................................................................52
Frederick Lawrence Wehner.............................................................................................52
Durward Albert Wehner ............................................................................................53
Frederick R. Wehner .................................................................................................55
Arthur Julius Wehner ........................................................................................................55
Arthur Ward Wehner .................................................................................................57
Normalee Annabelle Wehner ....................................................................................57
Maxine V. Wehner ....................................................................................................57
Gary L. Wehner .........................................................................................................57
Emma Edith Wehner.........................................................................................................58
Joseph Hill White III .................................................................................................59
Edith M. White ..........................................................................................................59
Frank Joseph Wehner .......................................................................................................60
Elinore Lorraine Wehner ...........................................................................................61
Lucille Frances Wehner .............................................................................................61
Frank Leon and Robert Wehner ................................................................................62
Dora Ann Wehner .............................................................................................................63
Virginia L. Hoeckele .................................................................................................64
Dorothy Elizabeth Hoeckele......................................................................................65
Frances M. Hoeckele .................................................................................................66
Catherine Irene Hoeckele ..........................................................................................66
Mary Wehner ...........................................................................................................................67
Theresa Wehner .......................................................................................................................68
Grace Phoebe Cooney.......................................................................................................69
Robert Vincent Dyckman ..........................................................................................74
Arthur Russell Cooney .....................................................................................................74
Harold Gregg Cooney Sr. ..........................................................................................75
Arthur Russell Cooney Jr. .........................................................................................76
Allen Richard Cooney Sr...........................................................................................76
Robert Gray Cooney ..................................................................................................76
Alyce Jane Cooney ....................................................................................................78
Ruth Virginia Cooney................................................................................................78
Howard Raymond Cooney ........................................................................................79
Frank Bernard Cooney Sr. ................................................................................................79
Mary Agnes Cooney ..................................................................................................79
Eileen Frances Cooney ..............................................................................................80
Virginia Catherine Cooney ........................................................................................82
Frank Bernard Cooney Jr...........................................................................................83
Geraldine Theresa Cooney ........................................................................................85
Alice L. Cooney ................................................................................................................87
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Charles Howard Jr. ....................................................................................................87

Harriet Alice Howard ................................................................................................87
Amalia M. Wehner...................................................................................................................89
Elmer Bernard Becker ......................................................................................................90
Frederick William Becker Sr. ...........................................................................................90
Bernard Frederick Becker..........................................................................................95
Clarence E. Becker ....................................................................................................96
James Herbert Becker ................................................................................................97
Frederick William Becker Jr. ....................................................................................97
Mildred Becker ..........................................................................................................98
Melvin L. Becker Sr. .................................................................................................98
Edwin Becker ............................................................................................................98
William Becker ..........................................................................................................98
Doris Becker ............................................................................................................101
Rosella Becker .........................................................................................................101
Donald Becker .........................................................................................................101
Patricia Becker.........................................................................................................101
Anna Wehner .........................................................................................................................102
Louis L. Siebert ..............................................................................................................104
Edward Anthony Siebert.................................................................................................106
George W. Siebert ...................................................................................................107
Edward Elmer Siebert..............................................................................................107
Raymond Siebert .....................................................................................................107
Joseph Paul Siebert ..................................................................................................108
Mary A. Siebert .......................................................................................................108
Frank Peter Siebert Jr......................................................................................................108
Frank P. Siebert III ..................................................................................................109
Nellie Louise Siebert ......................................................................................................109
Katherine Ann Golfinopulos ...................................................................................112
Anna Marie Golfinopulos ........................................................................................112
Frances T. Golfinopulos ..........................................................................................112
Theodora Golfinopulos ............................................................................................112
Clarence Valentine Siebert .............................................................................................112
William C. Siebert Sr. .....................................................................................................112
Dorothy Elizabeth Siebert .......................................................................................113
William Franklin Siebert Jr. ....................................................................................113
Matilda Wehner .....................................................................................................................114
Louisa Wehner .......................................................................................................................119
The Road to Sainte Gen .........................................................................................................120
The Plank Road...............................................................................................................120
Hostelries and Sawmills .................................................................................................122
On the Banks of the Gabouri .................................................................................................129
Le Village et La Ville .....................................................................................................129
Der Deutschen ................................................................................................................131
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Church of Ste. Genevieve ...............................................................................................132

News and Politics ...........................................................................................................133
The Brothers’ War ..........................................................................................................134
Nicholas and Clara .................................................................................................................138
A New Start ....................................................................................................................138
Business ..........................................................................................................................141
Grocer ......................................................................................................................141
Investor ....................................................................................................................143
Hotelier and Landlord..............................................................................................144
Saloon Keeper .........................................................................................................144
Lumberman..............................................................................................................147
Old Man River ................................................................................................................149
Clara ................................................................................................................................152
Familienleben .................................................................................................................154
Das Ende .........................................................................................................................156
Postscript.........................................................................................................................158
John George Wehner..............................................................................................................160
Clara Wehner ..................................................................................................................166
James George Blaine ...............................................................................................167
Josephine Flora Wehner .................................................................................................168
Frank C. Hartmann Jr. .............................................................................................169
Anna Margaret Wehner ..................................................................................................169
Helen Richards ........................................................................................................170
Arthur Julius Richards .............................................................................................171
Russell George Richards .........................................................................................172
Marie Theresa Richards ...........................................................................................173
James V. Richards ...................................................................................................173
Epilogue ...................................................................................................................173
Mary Theresa Wehner ....................................................................................................174
Marie Kathyrn Wetteroff .........................................................................................177
Ralph Waldo Wetteroff ...........................................................................................179
Martha Catherine Wehner...............................................................................................180
Ida Bertha Ursula Wehner ..............................................................................................180
Ralph Robert Bachle................................................................................................185
Carl George Bachle .................................................................................................185
Loretto M. Bachle ....................................................................................................186
Leonard Lawrence Bachle .......................................................................................186
Herman J. Bachle.....................................................................................................187
George Nicholas Wehner ................................................................................................187
Alita Wehner ...........................................................................................................188
Wanda G. Wehner ...................................................................................................188
John Joseph Wehner .......................................................................................................188
James Henry Wehner Sr. .........................................................................................190
Marian L. Wehner ...................................................................................................192
Theckla Regina Wehner .................................................................................................194
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Carl G. Hilbert .........................................................................................................196

Emil Joseph Hilbert .................................................................................................196
Paul Hilbert ..............................................................................................................197
August Peter Wehner ......................................................................................................197
August George Wehner ...........................................................................................198
Gilbert Louis Wehner ..............................................................................................199
Joseph Robert Wehner .............................................................................................199
William John Wehner ..............................................................................................200
Lawrence Leonard Wehner .....................................................................................201
Marguerite Wehner ..................................................................................................201
Genevieve Wehner..........................................................................................................201
Rosine Pauline Wehner...................................................................................................202
Rose Marie Wolken .................................................................................................203
Joseph and John Wehner ........................................................................................................205
Mary Wehner .........................................................................................................................206
Clara Eleanora Meyer .....................................................................................................212
August Guye Meyer ........................................................................................................212
John Martin Meyer ..................................................................................................215
Mary Martha Theresa Meyer ..........................................................................................215
Rosemary M. Naumann ...........................................................................................218
Martha Anita Wilder................................................................................................218
Augusta Mary Theresa Baumstark .................................................................................219
Antoinette Marie Baumstark...........................................................................................219
Wilma Antoinette Miller .........................................................................................220
Illma Olivia Theresa Baumstark .....................................................................................220
Cletus B. Huck.........................................................................................................220
Georgia Maria Huck ................................................................................................220
Linus Edward Huck .................................................................................................221
Anna Helen Baumstark ...................................................................................................221
John William Birsner Sr. .........................................................................................222
Marguerite Mary Birsner .........................................................................................222
Eulalia Margaret Baumstark ...........................................................................................223
Theresa Wehner .....................................................................................................................225
George Wehner Bolle .....................................................................................................227
Flora Eleonora Bolle .......................................................................................................227
Frederick Nicholas Bolle ................................................................................................229
Frederick Felix Bolle ......................................................................................................229
Bertha Alvina Alma Bolle ..............................................................................................229
Herman Thomas Bolle ....................................................................................................230
Arline Louise Bolle .................................................................................................231
Augusta Elisabeth Bolle .................................................................................................232
Peter Wehner ..........................................................................................................................234
John Edward Wehner ......................................................................................................239
Eloise Marie Wehner ...............................................................................................245
Francis Edward Wehner ..........................................................................................252
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Julia Elvina Wehner ........................................................................................................253

Louise Alice Wehner ......................................................................................................254
Ella Agnes Wehner .........................................................................................................254
Mary C. Wehner ......................................................................................................256
Mary Leona Wehner .......................................................................................................257
Octavia Clara Wehner.....................................................................................................258
Albert Joseph Wehner.....................................................................................................258
Albert A. Wehner ....................................................................................................259
Henry Charles Wehner ...................................................................................................260
Julius Martin Wehner .....................................................................................................261
Martha Ervine Wehner ...................................................................................................263
Allen C. Wood Sr. ...................................................................................................264
Earl Daniel Wood Sr. ..............................................................................................264
Walter William Wehner ..................................................................................................265
Carl Joseph Wehner .................................................................................................267
Paul Julius Wehner ..................................................................................................267
Neil William Wehner ..............................................................................................267
Postlude ..................................................................................................................................269
Abbreviations .........................................................................................................................271
Endnotes.................................................................................................................................272
Index ......................................................................................................................................363
Descendants of Johann Georg and Flora Müller Wehner ......................................................400
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Foreword
Between 1840 and 1870 nearly seven million immigrants landed on American shores,
over two million from the kingdoms, duchies, principalities, and cities that would one day be
Germany—Prussia, Hesse, Saxony, Württemberg, Baden, Bavaria, Mecklenburg. On
Monday, 31 May 1847, one ship carrying German immigrants unloaded its human cargo at
Henderson’s Wharf on Fell’s Point in Baltimore. Among those striding ashore was Nicholas
(at the time, “Nikolaus”) Wehner with a gun, two chests, and his bride-to-be, Clara. In a year
or so, the couple would be joined by Nicholas’s older brother Lorenz and his future wife,
Flora. This is the story of the two brothers, sons of Johann Georg and Flora (Müller) Wehner,
and their descendants, one of them my wife, Mary Frances, great great granddaughter of
Nicholas.
Wehners are the book’s warp threads. But interwoven are other German immigrant
families—Baechle, Bauman, Baumstark, Bolle, Eisenmann, Hauck, Hoeckele, Hoog,
Jockerst, Kern, Meyer, Naumann, Oberle, Rottler, Seitze, Siebert, and a host of others—
many the progenitors of the merchants, hotel keepers, bartenders, brewers, and bakers who
made, sold, and served the German staples Bier und Brot. Also entwined are abbreviated
overviews of the culture and history of Southeast Missouri and its villages, towns, and
cities—Pilot Knob, Ste. Genevieve, Wittenberg, Cape Girardeau, Festus, Crystal City, St.
Louis.
To a large extent this is history, but genealogy was used to build the skeleton to be
fleshed out with biography, tale, and anecdote. And to get a dependable skeleton, attempts,
probably to a fault, have been made to cite data sources, reflecting a distaste for
undocumented “facts” and figures. Every effort has been made to use original records or
photocopies, microfilms, or digital images of such records, and to avoid use of secondary
sources, although all too often the attempt has failed. To the extent practicable, transcriptions
of documents maintain the spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar (or lack
thereof) of the original.
Much of the history is biographical, running the risk of vignettes “that start you at the
cradle and drive you straight to the grave” (per Samuel Clemens). I have tried to avoid this
pitfall—going so far as to relate some biographies starting with the grave and ending with the
cradle (can you find them?)—but have met with failure more often than not. Attempts to
provide factual genealogy and interesting history simultaneously may accomplish neither.
Though a single name appears as author, this book had dozens, perhaps hundreds of
contributors. The staffs of the Ste. Genevieve, Crystal City, and Ironton Ozark Regional
Libraries; Iron County Historical Society Museum; Fort Davidson State Historic Site; Ste.
Genevieve Catholic Church; St. Vincent’s Church in Cape Girardeau; and Ste. Marie du Lac
Church in Ironton helped make family history research trips successful. Wilma Cofer and the
Iron County, Missouri, Genealogy Society graciously allowed the use of photographs of Pilot
Knob and its mines. Dr. Mark C. Stauter, Associate Director for Rolla Western Historical
Manuscript Collection, Missouri University of Science & Technology, was a wellspring of
information on the Ste. Genevieve and Iron Mountain Plank Road. Karen K. Reagan,
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Recorder of Deeds for Iron County; Peggy Yamnitz, Recorder of Deeds for Ste. Genevieve
County; and their staffs greatly aided searches for land records and wills. Dusty Reese and
Terry Garrett of the Archives Department, Recorder of Deeds, City of St. Louis, who led me
through St. Louis marriage records, went far beyond their responsibilities or my expectations.
Margaret Smith, granddaughter-in-law of Orison Smith, led me in the right direction on the
interments of Ella Wehner and her first husband, Peter Svelich, and Michael Kallio, caretaker
of Round Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, looked up burial records for the couple. Belinda
Metzger was generous with both information and photographs for Grace Dietrich, first wife
of Carlyle Marshall Terry.
Wehner relatives and spouses—Carl and Marilyn Wehner, Neal and Rowena Wehner,
Paul (who has since passed away) and Earlyn Wehner, Marguerite (Wehner, “Babe”) and
Fred Bauman, Francis (“Bud”) Wehner, Michael Wehner, Brian Wehner, Kathy (Wehner)
Schuyler, Edward Hoffman, Patricia (Siebert) Veninga, and Clarence Siebert among many
others—were unsparing with materials, photographs, and histories. Penney (Wood) Longley,
granddaughter of Martha Ervine (Wehner) Wood, corrected errors, supplied missing
information on the Wood family, and provided a history of her father’s bakery business. I am
particularly grateful to Lila Nieman Garner, a descendant of Herman Schilling, brother-in-
law of Clara (Wehner) Schilling. Lila not only provided a photograph of Clara Christina
Wehner’s certificate of marriage, she helped me with the Old German Script (OGS) in
Lorenz Wehner’s marriage record and put me in contact with Barbara Mary (Packard)
Fitzgerald, Lorenz’s great great granddaughter. Barbara in turn shared with me stories of her
predecessors, stories she allowed me to include in this book.
Thanks are also due Craig P. Sanders, Barbara (Levart) Matchett (who did some splendid
detective work), and Rita (Becker) Clark. Without their help I would never have been able
trace the descendants and family of William F. and Amalia (Wehner) Becker. Rita and
Barbara also provided documents and photos. Dennis Dyckman, a descendant of Theresa
(Wehner) Cooney, helped unravel some of Theresa’s confusing progeny. allowed me to read
his fascinating account of the relatives of Theresa’s granddaughter Grace (Cooney)
Dyckman, and contributed photos and documents. Marcine (Amelung) Lohman, first cousin
once removed of Louisa Watters (wife of William Robert Wehner), was a resource on not
only the Watters and Amelungs, but on two of her areas of expertise, Iron County and Pilot
Knob. Barbara (Albert) Ragsdale, a descendant of Fred and Theresa (Wehner) Bolle,
provided both family history and photos. Clara W. Thompson of St. Charles, Missouri,
supplied information and photos for the Mund family of Iron County, Missouri. Joan
(Siebert) Cozis (“Joanie”), Judith M. (Siebert) Coyman (“Judy”), and John Siebert, great
grandchildren of Anna (Wehner) Siebert, were generous with Siebert family information and
photos, and, equally important to an author, took great interest in this book. James H. Wehner
provided information on descendants of his grandfather John Joseph Wehner and reviewed
the portions of the book dealing with the family. He also put me in touch with his cousin,
Janet (Palmer) Lukes, who provided facts, photos, and insight on John Joseph’s family.
As I was finishing this book, I ran across Penny McDonald, Mary Ridgeway, and Eileen
Seiter/Cooney who broadened (and corrected) my information on the Frank Bernard Cooney
Sr. family and supplied numerous photographs and documents. Owing to their contributions
and interest, this book was expanded by several pages (and its writing by several weeks),
much to the consternation of my wife, who was already concerned by the book’s long
gestation period.
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Dan Black, Travis Vasconcelos, Mary Charlton, Dave Adams, and Penny Fields were
founts of enlightenment on steamboats and river towns during a 2007 trip Mary Frances and I
took on a modern steam-driven sternwheeler, the American Queen, duplicating part of the
journey taken 160 years earlier by Nicholas and Clara Wehner, who steamed down the Ohio
and up the Mississippi to Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Mary Frances and I were fortunate to
travel with Travis a second time in 2012, when he was the “Riverlorian” and “Calliopist,”
again on the American Queen, but this time on the upper Mississippi.
Several people in Germany made significant contributions. Martin Surmann and
Christine Bub provided photos of Dietershan. The staff at St. Bartholomäus Church in
Dietershausen sent me a copy of Stephan Grünkorn’s book commemorating the 700th
anniversary of the church. Edith Müßig of Fulda, an outstanding genealogist, identified the
Wehner links to the town of Dietershan and discovered the names and birthdates of siblings
of Lorenz and Nicholas.
Spelling of German family names often changed after arrival in America. Frequently “G”
became “K,” an “n” in the suffix “mann” was dropped, “eis” became “ise,” “ä” was changed
to “au” (and sometimes back to “a” without the umlaut), “ö” was made “oe,” “Müller”
became “Mueller” and “Miller.” Given names also changed. “Maria” often became “Mary”;
“Lorenz,” “Lawrence”; “Karl,” “Carl”; “Nikolaus,” “Nicholas.” Different family branches
used different spellings, and some individuals switched back and forth, on whim or perhaps
the phase of the moon. The spellings used here are generally those most commonly used at
the time by the people named.
And the names themselves also changed, for both Germans and others. Middle names
became first names, nicknames were made accepted names, and names of unknown origin
were adopted without explanation. If known, the name recorded at birth or on a cemetery
marker is often used here, though these can disagree. Many given names were seen once
only, on birth certificates or church records, the latter often providing a saint’s name that
disagrees with other records and sometimes conflicted with the parents’ wishes.
Birth date ranges calculated from ages given only in years are conservatively presented in
this book as a year range. For example, a birth date range of 2 June 1850 to 1 June 1851
calculated from an age in a census or a death record is reported as 1850 to 1851. Census ages
are notoriously unreliable (increasingly so with increasing longevity), and ages at death were
often provided by uninformed parties, even strangers. Marriage date ranges calculated from
years of marriage are also conservatively reported. When an age is given in days, months,
and years, as is often the case with cemetery markers and sometimes with death certificates
and obituaries, the exact calculated birth date is reported herein, although this may also be
untrustworthy.
Unless otherwise noted, all census citations are for population schedules, and all census
data are from images of the original documents on Ancestry.com as read by the author.
Census citations give the accepted names of the heads of household with the name as written
on the census form given in parentheses with quotation marks when it differs. Where more
than one page number is found on censuses taken prior to 1860, sufficient information is
provided to show the numbers used (whether stamped or penned and location on sheet, as
required for identification). For 1860 and later censuses, the entry in the designated space on
the form for a page or sheet number is used. Where the entered page number has been
changed, this is noted.
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That we can choose our friends but not our relatives posed no problem when I wrote the
book Henry the Immigrant, most of whose characters had been dead for centuries. But one
treads a perilous path when writing of protagonists with still living close relatives and
descendants, as in Bier und Brot. One slip—an ill-chosen phrase, an acceptance of biased
stories, a disclosure of sensitive tales—and a plunge into acrimony or a family imbroglio can
ensue. One person asked that I remove a first husband from this book, even though the
marriage ended with the husband’s death (not divorce) and children bore his name. Years
ago, when contributing to The Never Ending Brook, another family history, I removed a
boyfriend from a family photo by overlaying his image with that of a tree branch, an action
of dubious propriety. Here, I did my best to avoid familial conflicts and embarrassments
without resorting to arboreal adjustments, but only time will tell if I have been successful. In
any event, paraphrasing physicist Max Planck, “an offensive [he said “scientific”] truth does
not triumph by convincing its opponents…but rather because its opponents eventually die.”
The book covers the first six generations of the American descendants of Johann and Flora
(Müller) Wehner; however, personal details, information other than names, have been
avoided for living people without their review or approval. Names in bold in the text are for
sixth-generation descendants, for whom (in most cases) few details are given.
No history can be error-free, and this one is certainly not. But I did my best. Numerous
unknowns might have been cleared up with additional research, but I have other ventures to
pursue. Historical research can become Sisyphean—never ending and, eventually, without
meaning. As Mary Frances has repeatedly noted, I have spent far too much time on this work
and must now pass future investigations to others with fresher viewpoints and clearer minds.
Finally, I have to acknowledge the enormous contributions of Mary Frances, who spent
many vacations tramping through cemeteries (which she claims to enjoy); working long
hours in libraries, courthouses, and churches recording data; passing on her knowledge of
Ste. Genevieve and relatives; and putting up with my avoiding household chores while
writing this book, admittedly a much more pleasurable task. But, after all, this is her family.
Robert E. Tapscott
August 2013
The state of Hesse in Germany, where it all started (2011).

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Johann and Flora (Müller)

Wehner
Clara Christina Wehner
Johann Glisner? m Robert Schilling Sr.
Maria Wehner
Flora Glisner
(died as a child)
b 20 Sep 1828
d 18 Feb 1908 William Wehner
Margareta Müller m Henrietta Burgsmüller
Mary Wehner
m 14 Sep 1848 (never married)
Theresa Wehner
Johann Georg Wehner Lorenz Wehner m John Richard Cooney
b 2 Jan 1823
d 27 Feb 1907 Amalia M. Wehner
m William F. Becker
Maria Catharina Wehner Anna Wehner
b 4 Aug 1811 m Frank P. Siebert Sr.
Matilda Wehner
Caspar Franziscus Wehner
m Tallent, Cooney, Shelton
b 1 Aug 1813
d 11May 1829 Louisa Wehner
(died as a child)
Anna Maria Wehner
m abt 1810 John George Wehner
b 7 Jan 1818
m Theresa Vaeth
Joseph Wehner
Valentin Wehner
(died as a child)
b 18 Nov 1820
John Wehner
Nicholas Wehner (died as a child)
b 3 May 1825
d 27 Feb 1897 Mary Wehner
m M. Meyer,W. Baumstark
m 26 Dec 1847 Theresa Wehner
m Frederick G. Bolle
Clara Schneider
Flora Müller b 18 Aug 1825 Peter Wehner
d 27 Mar 1905 m Catherine Rottler
Bier und Brot The Immigrants 1
The Immigrants
A few of the better class of foreigners are scattered
here and there; but not enough to be objectionable.
Herald of Freedom
Lawrence Kansas, 12 Apr 1856
Fulda
On the east bank of the Fulda
River, in the administrative region of
Kassel, in the state of Hesse, lies the
German city of Fulda. A Calvinistic
center and a source of Hessian
soldiers in the 17th and 18th centuries,
the “Landgraviate of Hesse-Cassel,”
as it was once named, supplied most
of the British-hired mercenaries
fighting in the American Revolution.
Fulda, a Catholic enclave in a
largely Protestant state, dates from
744 AD, when the Benedictine abbey
was constructed. The twin spires of
Fulda Dom (Fulda Cathedral), rebuilt Fulda c1850, about the time of Nicholas and Lawrence’s
in 1704 and housing the tomb of St. passage to America. (Julius Lange and Johann Gabriel
Friedrich Poppel, Ansicht des Bonifatiusplatzes mit
Bonifatiusdenkmal und Hauptwache in Fulda, 1850, Wikipedia.)
Boniface, apostle to the Germans, dominate the
city’s skyline. The Fulda Gap, even today a
militarily important route between the Rhön
mountains to the east and the Vogelsberg
mountains to the west, was the route of
Napoleon’s retreating forces following his 1813
Fulda
defeat at Leipzig.
Bad Kissingen Landkreis Fulda (“District of Fulda”) in
Hesse and the adjacent Landkreis Bad
Kissingen in Bavaria are the homelands of the
Wehners, whose name is a variant of “Wagner,”
from Middle High German “wegener,” meaning
“cartwright.” In (or near) the small village of
Present-day distribution of the “Wehner” Dietershan, now in the municipality of Fulda,
name in Germany. (Geogen ©, 2005-2011,
Christoph Stöpel, by permission.) about four miles north of the city center, in the
first half of the nineteenth century, lived Johann
Georg (“John George” in U.S. documents)1 Wehner and his wife, Flora Müller (“Miller” in
the U.S.).2 Two sons were Lorenz (often called “Lawrence” by English speakers) and
Nikolaus (later “Nicholas”).3,4 This is the tale of the brothers and their descendants.
Dietershan and Dietershausen
The site where Dietershan now lies
was first mentioned by one Thiderich
(variant of “Dietrich”) in 1165 as an
enclosed plot of land near Fulda. From
his name it got its first designation,
“Thidericheshagen” (“Thiderich’s
hedged field”), as it was called in
1227, when the site, which had Horas
become a village, was the location of a s
5
hospital of the Fulda Monastery. Over
the years, the name changed to
“Dietricheshagen” (1250), “Ditershan”
(1540), “Diedershahn” (1796), and
finally “Dietershan.”6 Beginning in the
fourteenth century, the town was
repeatedly attacked and looted—first
by the forces of what is today
Bukovina, then during the Peasants’
War, and finally during the Thirty
Years’ War. The plague of 1632, Fulda, Dietershan, Horas, Dietershausen with modern routes.
leaving but seven families, decimated what the wars had left.7
The village grew back: 180 people in 1811, 256 in 1939, 570 in 1988.7 A church, St.
Anna, finished in 1888, was built on the site of an earlier chapel, St. James the Elder. And the
town became part of metropolitan Fulda.
Dietershan around 1930. (Photo courtesy of Christine Bub.)

The archives of Fulda Cathedral Parish record four children for Johann Georg and Flora,
who were married around 1810: Maria Catharina, born 4 August 1811; Caspar Franziscus,
born 1 August 1813, died 11 May 1829; Anna Maria, born 7 January 1818; and Valentin,
born 18 November 1820.2 No birth record is found for Lorenz or Nikolaus, but their
parentage, shown in other documents, is certain.
Caspar Franz Müller, Flora’s brother, was

Caspar Wehner’s sponsor. Flora’s sister Maria
Müller sponsored Anna Maria. Valentin is
said to have married a Eva Regina
Pfeffermann, born 17 August 1823 in
Dietershan, and to have died 20 February
1900 in Frankfurt, Germany; however, no
sources are cited.8
Although no birth records are found, a
birthplace of Dietershan for Lorenz and
Nicholas is indicated by U.S. records. A
notarized declaration for Lorenz’s Civil War
pension application gives a birthplace of
“Diterson,”9 and a passenger list for the boat
that Nikolaus took to the U.S. gives his origin
as “Dietersheim.”10 These names of
nonexistent Hessian towns are likely errors
for “Dietershan,” though one cannot totally
rule out “Dietershausen” (see below) and
there is a Dietersheim in Bavaria.
The Johann Wehner family was rooted in
Dietershan, but an obituary for Nicholas’s Church of St. Anna, Dietershan, with homes and
wife claims that Nicholas emigrated to the village well. (Photo courtesy of Martin Surnamm.)
U.S. from Dietershausen, a town ten miles
southeast of Dietershan.11 It may be that the
family, or at least Nicholas, moved there,
but no Wehners appear in church records
for the middle 1800s (though many
Wehners are found there today).
Dietershausen’s site is first mentioned
in the Fulda Catholic Church archives, in a
Latin document dated the third day of
August in the forty-second year of the reign
of Charlemagne (i.e., 810 AD), recording a
gift of land to the Abbot of the Fulda
Monastery by the brothers Theothart and
Alphart, sons of Theotriches.12 The land,
alongside the stream Huna (today, the
“Haun”), was called “Theotricheshus”
(“house of Theotriches”), then
“Dietrichshusen” (house of Dietrich),13
“Dietershausen an der Haun,”14 and finally
just “Dietershausen”15 (along with other
names at various times, probably due as
St. Bartholomäus Church, Dietershausen (2011).
much to poor spelling as to deliberate
changes).6
The Haun provided waterpower, and

Dietershausen became a Dorfmuhle (mill
village) serving surrounding hamlets. By
1829 the village had 64 houses, 588
residents, a school, a church, and a
midwife.16
The village church was, and still is,
St. Bartholomäus, a centuries-old white
Romanesque Catholic Church, encircled
(actually encapsulated) by houses in the
center of town. Archeological and
structural evidence indicates that the
church dates from around 1150, though
it was not mentioned by name until
1300, when a document was issued in
Rome granting forty-days indulgence for
attending St. Bartholomäus during
certain feast days.13 A side chapel
contains wall murals of saints,
martyrdoms, and holy scenes dating
from the late Gothic period, around 1350
to 1450.
Over the centuries, changes were
Gothic murals embellish the walls of St.
made to the church.13,17 A Gothic aisle
Bartholomäus Church in Dietershausen (2011). was added in 1473. The present organ
was installed in 1761. In the late 1800s
the flat wooden ceiling was replaced by a barrel vault ceiling, and a round turret allowing
gallery access was added. But the basic building has lasted over eight hundred years.
In 1901 Dietershausen’s population was just six hundred. During the preceding eighty
years, sixty-five residents emigrated to America seeking wealth and security.17 One of these
may have been Nikolaus Wehner.
Passage to America
The patchwork of independent kingdoms,
duchies, principalities, and towns, known today as
“Germany,” which formed around the start of the
twelfth century, remained a disjointed, often war-
torn mélange for nearly nine hundred years, until
the German Empire was formed in 1871.18 Over
the centuries Germans wanted order and individual
freedom, but attempting to achieve both, achieved
neither. Faced with unrest, disorder, and autocracy,
Germans in large numbers began emigrating to
America in the 1800s to be “free from the oppression
of despotism, free from privileged orders and
monopolies, free from the pressure of intolerable Dietershausen (2011).
taxes, free from constraint in matters of belief and conscience,” as stated in a nineteenth-
century pamphlet, Advice and Instruction for German Emigrants.19
Hesse-Cassel, hilly and forested with subsistence agriculture, was the origin of many of
the immigrants. A major point of embarkation was Bremen, a port city situated about thirty-
seven miles inland from where the Weser River, formed from the confluence of the Fulda
and Werra rivers, flowed into the North Sea. At the mouth of the Weser stood the towns of
Bremerhaven and Geestemünde, which formed a single seaport with docks, quays, and
warehouses and from which emigrants got their final view of German soil.
Weser River
Fulda River
Werra River
The riiver Fulda flows past the Hessian towns of Fulda and Kassel (the
latter the old capital of Hesse-Cassal) before meeting the Weser. (Wikipedia.)
In the 1830s and 1840s, Baltimore, Maryland, surpassed even New York as a destination
for ships from Bremen—only sailing ships. as the first steamship line between Bremen and
America was not established until 1858.20 In Baltimore the vessels docked at Henderson’s
Wharf on Fells Point.
On Monday, 31 May 1847, the Barque Virginia, filled with 153 German passengers
seeking relief from protests, rebellions, and disgruntlement, landed at Henderson’s Wharf.21
Though thankful for the end of an arduous sea voyage, the immigrants were likely disgusted
by what they saw—coffles of men and women shackled together. Fells Point was a major
disembarkation site for transatlantic packets carrying slaves destined for the deep South,
ironical since the point was named after William Fell, a Quaker.
Upon docking, the captain of the Virginia declared,21
I, J E Jansen, Master of the Bark Virginia of Bremen, do
solemnly swear that the annexed list contains the names of all
the passengers, to the best of my knowledge and belief, who
have been taken aboard the said Barq at Bremen or any other
foreign port or at sea and brought in the said vessel into any
District of the United States since its departure from Bremen. Barque. (Clipart
courtesy FCIT.)
Joh E Jansen Sworn to this 31 May 1847
Among Jansen’s passengers were 22-
year-old “Nicolaus Wehner,” farmer and
“bridegroom” of “Clara Schneider,” who
arrived with a gun, two chests, and a
comrade, “Joseph Harting.”10 The
Virginia’s passenger list gave the
couple’s origin as “Dietersheim,” though
no such town is found in the Kreis
(district) of Fulda. The entry was
apparently a clerical error for
“Dietershan” (or possibly
“Dietershausen”).
“Joseph Harting” was almost
certainly Josef Hartung, “Josef” being the
German form of “Joseph” and “Hartung,”
unlike “Harting,” being a common
Baltimore slave trade marker. (Maryland Historical
Trust, Department of Planning.) surname in the Fulda area.22 In fact, there
are Hartungs (and Wehners) living
around Fulda today. And a “Joseph Hartung,” probably the traveling companion, witnessed
17
the 1848 U.S. marriage of Nikolaus’s brother Lorenz.23 In 1847 a Henrich Josef Hartung,
possibly Joseph of the Barque Virginia, emigrated to the U.S. from Hesse-Kassel.24 And the
Wehners and Hartungs were connected. A 1769 marriage reportedly occurred in
Oberaschenbach, District of Fulda, between a Johannea Hartung and an Eva Elizabeth
Wehner, producing a child, Georg Josef Hartung!25
Born 18 August 1825,11 Clara was just a few months younger than her traveling
companion, Nikolaus, who was born 3 May 1825.3,26 She was one of at least three children—
others were Joseph and Theresia (“Therese”)11—of the Schneider family of Horas, a village
large enough to have had its own Catholic Church and now part of the city of Fulda (see
map, p. 2). Though they traveled together, Nicholas and Clara were not married until they
reached Missouri.11 The term “bridegroom” can designate “soon to be married.”
Gateway to the West

Only say that you’ll be mine
And in our home we’ll happy be
Down beside where the waters flow
Down on the banks of the Ohio
author unknown, 19th century
Originating in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny River from
the north and the Monongahela River from the south, the Ohio River, “Gateway to the West,”
runs 981 miles westward to the Mississippi. Along the river are municipalities whose very
existence once depended on the river—cities like Cincinnati, population 115,000 in 1850,
that vied with Louisville as the major Ohio River marketplace, and villages like Madison,
Indiana, with only eight thousand inhabitants, whose fourteen pork processing plants shipped
products by river.
Before 1811 Ohio River travelers could journey only by flatboat or keelboat. Except for
very short upstream stretches, moving the boat at great effort by cordelling, warping, rowing,
or poling, these craft were practical only for downstream travel at the speed of the current
and were broken up for lumber at trip’s end. But on 20 October 1811 the quiet of the river
was broken by a chugging, puffing, paddling sound as the steamboat New Orleans left
Pittsburgh for a 2000-mile trip to the port of New Orleans, and all was changed.27 Within
thirty years, western steamboats—nearly all of which were side-wheelers until after the Civil
War—became abundant, 557 operating in 1845.28 Steam navigation, not the Hawken Rifle,
settled the West.
But steamboat travel had its dangers and disruptions. On its maiden trip the New Orleans
was swamped and almost sunk by the backwash from the New Madrid earthquakes of
1811/1812. And other things were of much greater concern. Sandbar strandings, frequent at
low water, caused delays. Steamboats striking snags (“planters,” tree trunks anchored
vertically, or “sawyers,” slanted branches, which the current moved with a sawing motion),
common hazards, could sink in minutes. Worst of all were boiler explosions and fires, whose
survivors were few. More passengers died from the relatively rare explosions and fires than
from all other hazards combined. Between accidents and rough use, western steamboats
averaged but four or five years of life.29 The New Orleans was in service less than three years
before striking a stump and sinking.
It was to Pittsburgh that Baltimore immigrants headed for
river travel. In 1842 the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad
reached Cumberland, Maryland, and by 1845, to Fells Point in
Baltimore.30 In 1844, the Monongahela Navigation Company
completed a “slack water system,” locks and dams allowing
small paddlewheels to travel the Monongahela from Brownsville,
Pennsylvania, to Pittsburgh in all seasons. Travelers could leave
Baltimore by railroad, transfer to a stage at Cumberland for a 75-
mile trip on the National Road to Brownsville, and there transfer
to a small steamer for the final fifty miles to the start of the Ohio.
In 1847 the Monongahela Navigation Company transported
45,826 passengers from Brownsville to Pittsburgh.31 Two were Monongahela River. (Pfly,
undoubtedly Clara and Nicholas.32 Wikimedia.)
Nicholas and Clara traveled at an opportune time. Though not without risk, the Ohio was
no longer infested with river pirates or “half horse, half alligator” keelboat men, always ready
for a fight, and steamboat fares were at an all-time low. Around 1850 one could travel
between major destinations on an Ohio River sidewheeler out of Pittsburgh in cabin class
(berths and, later, staterooms) with all meals included, for as little as one cent per mile.28 A
cabin-class trip of just a little over a thousand miles from Pittsburgh to Cape Girardeau,
Missouri, could be had for ten dollars per person, perhaps five dollars to Louisville and
another five dollars for the last leg to Cape Girardeau, about two weeks’ wages for a
common laborer in 1850.33 But even with these low rates, most immigrants booked deck
passage, which cost only a quarter as much as cabin.34 By 1850 a deck passenger could travel
from Pittsburgh to St. Louis for only two dollars, and the fare could be further reduced by
helping load the vessel with wood (“wooding”), a twice-a-day event, mornings and evenings,
though this required much labor for little return. But deck passage meant residing among
caged chickens, barrels of lard, bags of coffee, bales of cotton, crates of cabbages, hogsheads
of tobacco, even oxen and wagons, in dirty, noisy, and crowded surroundings, with few if
any bunks, which, in any case, were often lice-ridden. Deck passengers usually acquired
fresh food ashore, cooking it over the single stove provided by the steamboat company and
shared with perhaps a hundred or more other frugal travelers.
Although deck passage was
uncomfortable, trips were short.
In the absence of low water,
broken paddles, sandbar
strandings, collisions with snags,
and engine breakdowns (a
common problem with early
steamboats), a downstream
vessel could average well over
one hundred miles a day. Under
the best of circumstances
(admittedly rare), and with stops
only for wood, a journey from
Pittsburgh to Cape Girardeau
could take just a little over a
week.
Nevertheless, long hours were
spent aboard with little to do.
Male travelers, a majority in the
early days of steamboats, passed
the hours smoking, drinking, and Steamboat landings attracted a jumble of passengers,
laborers, peddlers, slaves, gamblers, and loafers. (Edward
playing cards. Women talked, King, The Great South; A Record of Journeys, American
read, and wrote letters, at least Publishing Co., Hartford Connecticut, 1875, p. 220.)
those in cabin class. Those in
deck class, many of whom could neither read nor write, filled their hours caring for children
and husbands. At wood stops, locals hawked food, beverages, and souvenirs. At embarkation
points were peddlers of prints, newspapers, and bric-a-brac; sightseers and loafers; and
shysters looking for easy marks, particularly among naive, unapprised immigrants.
At times a dead flatness could make the river indistinguishable from the sky were it not
for a line of trees marking the horizon. Smudging the mirror of the river’s surface would be
only the wake of the boat and spreading rings from fish rising for insects. Then a breeze or a
squall or a log would come along to muddle the water and destroy the illusion. At night in the
countryside, a light from an isolated cabin or farmhouse could sometimes be seen, but with
the expense of lamp oil and early bedtimes for farmers, these were rare, usually indicative of
a sick child. Skiffs, rafts, keelboats, and flatboats, with fires to alert other craft, sometimes
passed in the dark.
Fellow passengers could include a mixture of bankers and bakers, scholars and farmers,
lawyers and laborers, preachers and scalawags, and, of course, the fabled riverboat gamblers,
“sharpers,” whose occupation was publicly prohibited but surreptitiously permitted aboard
most vessels. But the blend of travelers was decidedly different for deck and cabin
passengers, who seldom mixed. Cabin travelers were not keen to dirty their hands by
associating with the lower classes on deck, particularly with the heavily bearded, disheveled,
immigrant Germans, who spoke an unpleasant guttural language. Even deckhands shunned
deck passengers because they interfered with loading and unloading and took up space used
for crew accommodations.
Louisville
As one heads downstream from Pittsburgh, the land on either bank becomes increasingly
flat, from the mountains of West Virginia, to the hills of Ohio and Indiana, to the flatlands
below Louisville, the great way station for early boating on the Ohio. At Louisville a series
of rapids announce a drop of twenty-two feet over two miles, and it was precisely because of
these rapids that Louisville was the major Ohio River city (excluding, of course, Pittsburgh),
surpassing even Cincinnati. In the early days of steamboat travel, boats often stopped to wait,
sometimes for weeks, for
water to rise sufficiently
to traverse the “Falls of
the Ohio,” and even then
pilots were required for
larger boats. Passengers
often portaged around the
rapids, changing to a
different vessel on the
other side. Even after the
Louisville and Portland
Canal, bypassing the
The Louisville Levee. (Edward King, The Great South; A Record of rapids, was dug in 1830,
Journeys, American Publishing Co., Hartford Connecticut, 1875, p. 693.) Louisville remained a
major terminus and embarkation point for steamboat trips, a persisting role because the canal
was too small for larger boats, because the locks were often closed to clean out mud and
debris, and because many steamboat owners were unwilling to pay what they felt was an
exorbitant fee for canal passage.
Louisville was a stopping point for Nicholas and Clara before continuing on to Cape
Girardeau.4 Though this break could have been for a portage around the falls or to await a
river rise, Louisville appears to have been an actual destination or, at least, a planned break.
Nicholas may have been looking for work. And he may have had relatives there.
On 10 July 1840, seven years before Nicholas and Clara interrupted their steamboat
journey at the “Falls of the Ohio,” an Albert Wehner (born 4 November 1817 in Germany;
died 4 May 1862 in Louisville, Kentucky) and a Sarah Rosalia (or “Rosella”) Hinkle (born
29 December 1815; died 24 February 1896 in Louisville) were married in Louisville.35 A
daughter, Elizabeth, was born 11 June 1847 (during Nicholas and Clara’s stopover) in
Shippingport, Kentucky, a settlement, eventually incorporated into Louisville, on the canal.36
Albert’s family is shown in the 1850 census for Louisville Ward 8 (where Albert’s name is
given as “Rupert Weiner”)37 and in the 1860 census for District 1 of Jefferson County,
Kentucky (where Albert is recorded as “Abert Winner”).38,39 Albert and Sarah’s children,
John, Elizabeth (misnamed “Greisbach” in the 1850 census), Ferdinand, and Valentine, all
born in Kentucky, are also shown in one or both of these censuses. The 1880 census for
Johnsontown Magisterial District of Jefferson County gives the birthplaces of the now-
widowed “Rosalla” Wehner and of John and Valentine’s deceased father as “Hessen,”40
Nicholas and Clara’s native region. Could Nicholas and Albert, who was eight years older,
have been related? It was unlikely that they were brothers since Dietershan records show a
daughter of Johann and Flora Wehner born 7 January 1818, just two months after Albert was
born.2 Related or not to the local Wehners, Nicholas and Clara stayed in Louisville only a
few months. In the fall of 1847 they continued on to Cape Girardeau.4
Downstream from Louisville on the
north side of the Ohio, the mouth of the
Wabash River marks the Indiana/Illinois
boundary. Below this is Old
Shawneetown (originally, just
“Shawneetown”), the principal Illinois
entry before Chicago made its debut. A
little further down is Cave-in-Rock,
where river pirates preyed on flatboats
around the end of the 1700s. At
Paducah, Kentucky, the Tennessee
River makes its entrance from the south,
and a few miles further, the town of
Cairo, Illinois, lying on a swampy plain,
Confluence of the Wabash and Ohio Rivers (2007). marks the southern-most point of
Illinois and the joining of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Just fifty miles up the Mississippi,
less than a day’s travel, is Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the terminus of Nicholas and Clara’s
river trip.
Cape Girardeau
Named after Jean Baptiste de Girardot, a French soldier who established a nearby trading
post, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, was founded in 1793 and incorporated in 1808. Although it
is the largest town in Cape Girardeau County, it is not the county seat. That honor falls to
much smaller Jackson. Nevertheless, Cape Girardeau was the largest steamboat landing
between Memphis and St. Louis. There Nicholas and Clara first stepped on Missouri soil,
and there they were married on 26 December 1847, at least according to both their
obituaries.3,11 But their obituaries are likely wrong. A Cape Girardeau wedding would have
probably occurred at St.
Vincent’s Church, the town’s
only Catholic church at the
time and the site of Lorenz
Wehner’s wedding nine
23
months later. But the
church’s marriage book lists
nothing between 16 July 1847
and 25 February 1848.41 As
we shall see, the wedding
probably occurred in
neighboring Scott County.
In 1846 the Catholic
Diocese of St. Louis,
concerned about serving the Mississippi River steamers arriving at Cape
German immigrants arriving Girardeau. (Penny Postcards, US GenWeb Archives.)
in droves, sent Father Joseph
Melchor to Europe to locate German-speaking priests.42 On 5 July 1847 Father Melchor
returned to St. Louis with ten students and four priests, one of the latter being Cajetan
Zoppoth of the Diocese of Linz, Austria. Zoppoth was assigned to the parish at Benton, a tiny
village just twenty miles south of the town of Cape Girardeau and the seat of Scott County.
The new priest had, as one of his first duties, officiating at the 26 December 1847 wedding of
“Nicholaus Wehner, and Klara Schneider.”43 In a county marriage record, he appears as
“Cayitan Zoppoth,” with witnesses “Casper Eisner and Maximilian Eissner,” of whom we
hear no more. Although the record is found in the Scott County Marriage Record Book, it is
just possible that the wedding occurred elsewhere. Some weddings that seem to have
occurred in Cape Girardeau are found in the book. Nevertheless it is likely that Nicholas and
Clara were married in Benton, where Zoppoth was sent, possibly at St. Denis Parish, founded
in 1840 (though the present building dates from much later).44
Why Clara and Nicholas waited until reaching Missouri to be married remains a mystery.
An American wedding, were that the intent, could have been accomplished in Louisville.
Many years later their obituaries would disguise the fact that the couple had traveled together
unmarried to America (though Joseph Hartung may have been a chaperone). It seems,
however, that such travel was not uncommon among German immigrants. Lorenz Wehner
and his bride-to-be did not marry until they arrived. Moreover, the passenger list for the
Barque Virginia, Nicholas and Clara’s ship, shows ten other couples linked with the
designation “bridegroom of,” most giving what appears to be the woman’s maiden name.
And another German couple mentioned in this book, Nicholas and Catherine Barbara (Heck)
Hauck, arrived on the same boat, apparently together, before marrying in the United States.45
The following year, 1848, Nicholas and Clara Wehner (presumably with Lorenz and
Flora) headed to Pilot Knob, Missouri,3,11 seventy-five miles from Cape Girardeau. The
overland trip had to be by horseback, wagon, or stagecoach over dusty, bumpy, rutted
backwoods roads. In 1848 not a single mile of railroad track was to be found in the entire
state.46
Cajetan Zoppoth
Father Zoppoth left Benton in 1848, traveling to Cincinnati, where he was made the
first Pastor of St. Michael’s Parish:47,48 and then to Chicago, where he was in 1849.42
He disappears from U.S. church records after 1849, and in 1855 he was a pastor in
Cologne, Germany.49 The reason for his travels is hinted at in a 7 September 1849
letter from Bishop James Vandevelde of Chicago to Bishop John Baptist Purcell of
Cincinnati:50
“There is a priest named Father (Cajetan) Zoppoth:51 waiting to be admitted to this
Diocese. He seems to have rambled about a good deal; he wrote to Vandevelde from
Buffalo, his exeat is dated Cincinnati and was sent after him to New York. He has a
letter from the Bishop of Milwaukee. Vandevelde needs German priests but knows
nothing about Zoppoth. He has no papers from Europe. His exeat bears a clause which
gives reason to suppose that he had done something for which he deserved dismissal.
Zoppoth states that at an assembly of the Trustees of St. Michael’s Church he
exceeded in drink and that there is nothing else against him. Vandevelde is allowing
him to remain at St. Joseph’s Church with Father Anthony Kopp until he learns the
truth about him. Vandevelde asks Purcell to send him an account of Zoppoth’s general
conduct and character and advise him whether he should receive him.”
The Mississippi River near Cape Girardeau (2007).

Bier und Brot Pilot Knob 13
Pilot Knob
Iron County
In the rolling, forested Ozark
Plateau of southeastern Missouri
lies Iron County, an inverted L-
shaped district formed on 17
February 1857 from parts of
Wayne, Madison, Washington,
Reynolds, and St. Francois
(pronounced “Francis” by locals)
counties. In the heart of Iron
County, lying between Shepherd
Mountain and the mount of Pilot
Knob, is the Arcadia Valley,
containing from southeast to
northwest the towns of Arcadia,
Ironton, and Pilot Knob.
Too hilly and forested for
The counties of southeastern Missouri. (U. S. Census Bureau.)
productive farming, Iron County
was, for many years, an area of mines and sawmills. Today it is a destination for Ozark
vacationers, for hiking, fishing, and camping, and for history buffs.
Mining
The St. Francois Mountains of southeast
Missouri are rich in lead, silver, zinc,
manganese, cobalt, and iron ores. In 1838
Augustus Pease and J. Livingston Van Doren
were sent into the Arcadia Valley by the
Missouri Iron Company to develop the rich
iron deposits at Iron Mountain and the mount
of Pilot Knob, the latter a burled promontory
on the northeastern edge of the Arcadia Town and mount of Pilot Knob. (Firmin A. Rozier,
Valley. An 1843 St. Louis Newspaper Rozier's History of the Early Settlement of the Mississippi
described the features:52 Valley, G. A. Pierrot & Son, St. Louis, 1890.)
[Iron Mountain] is about a mile broad at the base, four hundred feet high and
three miles long; and has the appearance of being composed of masses of iron
ore. It is literally a mountain of ore, so pure that it yields from seventy to
eighty per cent under the ordinary process of converting it into malleable iron.
At the base the ore lies in pieces from a pound weight upward, which increase
in size as you ascend, until they

assume the appearance of huge
rocks, which would remind the
beholder of those “fragments of
an earlier world” of which the
Titans made use. Six miles
southeast is another mountain
called Pilot Knob, composed of a
macaceous oxide of iron lying in
huge masses. This ore will yield
about eighty per cent of metal.
Pilot Knob mining began in 1835;53
but major operations and construction of
a blast furnace were not initiated until
1847, the year before the Wehners
arrived at the site.3,11 Initially named the
“Madison Iron and Mining Company,”
the firm was reorganized as “Pilot Knob
A tram carries ore at the Pilot Knob mine. (Edward Iron Company” in 1855. Advertisements
King, The Great South; A Record of Journeys, American in German, perhaps reaching Nicholas in
Publishing Co., Hartford Connecticut, 1875, p. 244.) Louisville, drew immigrant workers to
the town of Pilot Knob, a scattering of
houses originally in Madison County and
becoming part of newly created Iron
County in 1857. The company town was
laid out with “tree streets” (Cedar, Pine,
Mulberry, Elm, Walnut, Maple) running
(primarily) east and west and “family name
streets” (Peck, Tilden, Valle, McCune,
Lucas, Bogy) running north and south.
Eventually the St. Louis and Iron Mountain
Railroad would run along the east side,
with a station on Bogey Street.
Nicholas and Clara ended up in Pilot
Knob along with Nicholas’s older brother
and wife, Lorenz and Flora, who had
immigrated in 184854 and had stopped off
to be married in Cape Girardeau (with
Nicholas as a witness).23 At the time of the
1850 Madison County census, Nicholas,
Clara, and their 4-month-old son, George,55
were living next door to Lorenz, Flora
(“Laura”), and their 1-year-old daughter, Remains of one of the Pilot Knob Iron Company
Clara Christina (listed by the census taker furnaces stoked by Nicholas and Lawrence. (Iron
as “Justine,” probably due to her father’s County Historical Society Museum, Arcadia, Missouri.)
German accent).56
Mining on Pilot Knob mount was crude and laborious. Miners dug, drilled, blasted, and
pried chunks of ore-bearing rock, which were allowed to fall into a pit, where other workers
broke them up with sledge hammers. The fragments were hauled out by tram; converted to
ingots, bars, and blooms of pig iron; and carted to Ste. Genevieve for shipment by steamboat.
In 1850 Nicholas and Lorenz, were furnace men,55,56 suffering the heat of both the smelters
and the oppressive Missouri summers.
The Battle of Pilot Knob
Missouri! Missouri! bright land of the west!
Where the way worn emigrant always found rest,
Who gave to the farmer reward for his toil,
Expended in turning and breaking the soil
Awake to the notes of the bugle and drum,
Awake from your slumber the tyrant hath come!
...
And swear by your honor your chains shall be riven,
And add your bright star to our flag of eleven.
“Missouri,” a Southern song, Harry McCarthy, 1861
A star was placed for the divided state of Missouri in both the Union and (eventually)
Confederate flags. Emotions ran deep, atrocities were rampant, hatred, unchecked. Guerilla
warfare crippled the Missouri countryside, leading Union Major-General Henry Wagner
Halleck, on 13 March 1862, to issue General Order Number 2, part of which read57
Evidence has been received at these headquarters that [Confederate officer]
Maj. Gen. Sterling Price has issued commissions or licenses to certain bandits
in this State authorizing them to raise guerrilla forces for the purpose of
plunder and marauding. General Price ought to know that such a course is
contrary to the rules of civilized warfare and that every man who enlists in
such an organization forfeits his life and becomes an outlaw. All persons are
hereby warned that if they join any guerrilla band they will not if captured be
treated as ordinary prisoners of war but will be hung as robbers and murderers.
Their lives shall atone for the barbarity of their general.
But being in regular military units did not necessarily save prisoners of war. Major James
Wilson and six enlisted men captured at the Battle of Pilot Knob were shot by the
Confederates. In retaliation, six Confederate prisoners of war were shot by Union soldiers.58
The shooting of prisoners was common practice, at least in Missouri. “Butternuts” or
“Pukes,” what some today would have called “white trash” or “hillbillies,” rural, primarily
Ozark, Missourians, were preyed on by both sides. Often one could not distinguish friend
from foe, and many of those armed did not care.
On 2 September 1864 the South suffered its greatest loss to that time: Atlanta fell to
William T. Sherman’s troops. The Confederacy saw in Missouri a last desperate hope. If the
allegiance of this border state was as badly split as the bloody guerrilla warfare indicated, a
raid could awaken a rebellion, capture St. Louis supplies, and, above all, cost Lincoln the
November election. In September 1864 war came to the Arcadia Valley.
On 19 September Confederate
General Sterling Price, who had
made an ill-fated attempt at the
beginning of the war to secure
Missouri for the Confederacy,
entered Missouri from Pocahontas,
Arkansas, with twelve thousand
cavalry troops.59 Price’s mounted
“Army of Missouri” could
outdistance any foot soldiers, and
his force, though insufficiently
armed, was almost equal in number
to the 14,860 active Union troops
for the entire state of Missouri.60
And the Confederates were
Camp Herron (“Camp Blood”), a Union Army camp in the
fields of Arcadia Valley below Shepherd Mountain. At the concentrated, while the Federals
back right rises the mount of Pilot Knob, with a smoking were widely scattered. But on the
smelter at the base. The town of Pilot Knob lies to the left of way to St. Louis, Price made a
the mount. (Harper’s Weekly, Saturday, 21 Sep 1861, p. 596.) tactical blunder. Instead of
bypassing strategically unimportant
Fort Davidson, an earthwork at the base of Pilot Knob built the year before to protect the iron
mines and the terminus of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad, he deviated from his
march to attack the fort. It was a bad decision.
The first clashes occurred the afternoon of Monday, 26 September, when Price’s men,
traveling the Fredericktown Road
(today, Route 72), reached Arcadia and
met Northern troops, under the Catholic St.Louis & Iron
command of Brigadier General Thomas Cemetery Mountain RR
Ewing Jr. (William T. Sherman’s
brother-in-law). After several Pilot
Knob
Town Fort
skirmishes, the Northerners retreated to
Ironton’s brick courthouse, where they
spent the night. The “Battle of Pilot
Knob” took place the next day.
On 27 September 1864, Ironton and
Pilot Knob were taken by Rebels, who
pillaged food, clothing, livestock, and
valuables. Confederate looting Ironton
supposedly cost the Pilot Knob Iron
Company about 150 mules, branded
Arcadia
with the company’s initials,
“P.K.I.Co.”61 It is claimed that at war’s end, an attempt to retrieve the mules taken south
proved futile when an Arkansas attorney refuted the assertion that “P.K.” in the brand stood
for “Pilot Knob,” arguing “Gentlemen do you see any N on them mules for NOB? I’ll tell
you what them letters stand for – they stand for ‘Price’s Kavalry, I Company’.”
The primary battle occurred within

blocks of Lorenz’s house located at the
southwest corner of Mulberry and Zeigler
Streets. (Nicholas had moved from the
town a decade earlier.) The fort was just
over three blocks south; a guardhouse
was a block away near McCune and
Mulberry Streets;62 and Immanuel
Lutheran Church, used as a field hospital,
was a block north (see map, p. 27). The
Wehner church, St. Mary’s, was just
across the street from the fort.
Descendants claim that Lorenz’s family
buried valuables in the front yard and hid
food in a cabinet facing the wall to
frustrate Rebels seeking money and
provisions. The family was confronted by
Confederates who threatened to burn a
A rebel cannon ball scar is still visible above a center, bed on which a baby was sleeping.63 A
upper window of the Iron County Courthouse (2007). Confederate officer is said to have ridden
up, reprimanded his men, and apologized
to the family. The youngest Wehner at the time, apparently the “baby,” was 4½-year-old
Amalia.
Some residents fled to the fort; others took up arms.64 Many women, children, infirm, and
elderly were evacuated by railroad and wagon train.65 Two of those fleeing were Lorenz’s
daughters Clara, who had just turned fifteen, and 9-year-old Mary.63 Thrown into separate
wagons in a maelstrom of soldiers, civilians, horses, carts, and buggies, the girls were jostled
over rutted, fractured roads (or what passed for roads) before being reunited with their family two
days later.
That afternoon the Confederates made foot
assaults on Fort Davidson from the south, east, and
west. But the Rebel charges were uncoordinated. The
defenders’ guns and rifles, trained on each assailing
group in turn, raked and decimated the attackers. Two
Confederate cannons on Shepherd Mountain,
intended to support the assaults, were disabled by
Federal fire. The other two cannons were moved
higher, where they were ineffective. The fort’s fifteen
hundred Union soldiers, supplemented by a hundred
white and fifty black civilian volunteers,66 were
protected by a 10-foot-deep dry moat and a 9-foot-
high, 10-foot-thick hexagonal wall, too tall to scale
and too massive to breach.
Recognizing the futility of continued resistance
against a superior force, the defenders, led by Ewing, Pilot Knob mount overlooks the remains
abandoned the fort that night, somehow passing of Fort Davidson’s moat and wall (2007).
undetected through enemy lines and leaving behind volunteers to blow up the powder
magazine (forming a still-visible crater). Price, wasting more valuable time, sent Generals
John S. Marmaduke (who twenty years later would be elected governor of Missouri) and
Joseph O. Shelby to pursue the fort’s defenders and accompanying noncombatants on their
retreat to Leasburg, Missouri. The creeks were swollen and the ground wet and muddy from
rains, but Union forces covered the sixty-six miles in just thirty-nine hours, arriving in
Leasburg exhausted and hungry, having forded streams (Courtois, Huzzah, and Meramec),
scrambled through brush, and traversed forests, fighting a rear action all the while. Captain
W. V. Lucas described the scene, “We blundered along over stumps and stones and against
trees, plunging into the stream, which was rapidly rising from the heavy downpour, and the
waters of which were often so deep as to strike the shorter men about their armpits.”67 The
next day, after Ewing’s forces refused to surrender, the Confederates turned and rejoined
Price at Union, Missouri.
General Sterling Price, CSA. Brig. Gen. Thomas Ewing Jr., Union Army.
(Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.)
Lorenz Wehner’s name is missing from an incomplete list of civilians involved in the
fight,68 “citizens who took arms and fought with us like veterans” according to Col. Thomas
C. Fletcher.69 But Lorenz’s 12 July 1890 Civil War pension application claims disability due
to his actions “during General Prices raid in 1864 marching throw [sic] Creeks & Rivers
causing Swelling of legs and Rheumatism.”9 In a 30 December 1891 deposition before
Ironton Judge Franz Dinger, Lorenz stated that “he helped to defend the Fort at Pilot Knob
Mo during the Battle of Pilot Knob Mo September 27th 1864 [and] that he contracted varicose
veins of leg on the march and retreat from pilot Knob to Leasburg Missouri after said
Battle.”9 With the battle on his doorstep and his family in flight, Lorenz’s claim that he
fought in the Battle of Pilot Knob is undoubtedly true. Being a hated “Dutch” and a Union
veteran, subject to capture or much worse, Lorenz had little choice but to stick with Ewing,
or at least with Capt. Patrick F. Lonergan, First Missouri State Militia Infantry, who
commanded the Pilot Knob and Ironton civilians defending Fort Davidson.70
The Confederate win at Pilot Knob was a Pyrrhic victory. Price lost between five hundred
and fifteen hundred men killed and wounded,71 six days, and the element of surprise or at
least celerity. Given time to reinforce, St. Louis was no longer vulnerable. Ewing’s small
force suffered only seventy-three casualties,72 and only two hundred killed, wounded, or
missing over the entire engagement and retreat.73 Around 400BC, the Chinese military
strategist Sun Tzu wrote “There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must
not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged….”74 His words envisaged the road to
Leasburg, the defenders of Fort Davidson, the town of Pilot Knob.
Missouri stayed in Union hands, St. Louis storehouses remained intact, and Lincoln
easily defeated McClellan in the 1864 election. In later years, Thomas Caute Reynolds,
Missouri’s rebel governor in exile after the 1862 death of Claiborne Jackson, called Price’s
1864 incursion into Missouri “a weak and disgraceful plundering raid.”75 Reynolds’s words
were bitter since the Pilot Knob fiasco ensured that he remained a governor without a state.
After the war, Confederate General Shelby stated that he had opposed attacking Pilot Knob:76
I could see nothing as an inducement; they had nothing we required. It would
only cripple and retard our movements, and I knew too well that good
infantry, well intrenched, would give us hell and hell we did get. ... What we
wanted was men, and to reach St. Louis. We could have done it.
Even had the Confederates bypassed Pilot Knob and pushed on to St. Louis, their need
for men would have likely remained unmet. In Missouri, southern sympathies were not as
strong nor sympathizers, as numerous as the South hoped. Shelby, however, was probably
accurate in saying “We could have done it” when it came to taking St. Louis. Union troops
were scattered throughout Missouri; Rebel forces were concentrated. But whether the
Confederates could have held a captured St. Louis is another matter.
On 11 January 1865 a gubernatorial proclamation ended Missouri slavery.77 Three
months later, on 9 April 1865, just three days shy of four years from the war’s start, Lee
surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia, at Appomattox Court House, ending Confederate
resistance. Six days later, Lincoln died of an assassin’s bullet, an act that only did the South
further harm. A month later, on 10 May, the new president, Andrew Johnson, notified of
Jefferson Davis’s capture, declared the war over.
The Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in American history, due in large part to 18th-
century military tactics meeting 19th-century weaponry. Direct assault was practical against
inaccurate smooth-bore muskets, but not against rifled arms, although few generals, North or
South, recognized this. Despite extensive training with bayonets, sabers, and swords, few
Civil War soldiers had need or opportunity to use bladed weapons. In the face of withering
rifle and cannon fire, face-to-face combat was rare. But there was an even more formidable
threat than modern weapons and outmoded strategies. For every victim of combat, two died
of illness—typhoid, dysentery, pneumonia, malaria, measles, chickenpox, mumps, whooping
cough. Far more deaths are attributed to the Civil War than to any other American military
conflict. Between disease and shells, eight percent of all white males aged 13 to 43 in the
United States died in the war.78 Of these, twenty-seven thousand were Missourians. Missouri
was exceeded by only Virginia and Tennessee in the number of battles and engagements, and
by no other state, in partisan warfare, guerilla carnage, and bushwhacker violence.
Bier und Brot Lorenz and Flora Wehner 20
Lorenz and Flora Wehner

“Lorenz” was the name he used himself, but the English equivalent “Lawrence” was
usually applied by others—census takers,56,79 a daughter,80 his brother.81 And he was
sometimes “Lorenzo“9,82 and (rarely) “Lorenze”83 or “Laurenz.”84
Like Nicholas and Clara, Lorenz Wehner and his wife Flora were born in Hesse-Cassel—
Lorenz on 2 January 1823 (in “Diterson,” almost certainly Dietershan, according to a
notarized pension application document)9 and Flora on 20 September 1828. The dates are
given on their cemetery markers,85 although Flora’s birth date is shown as December 1828 in
the 1900 census54 and Lorenz’s as 1822 in his pension application.9
By Any Other Name
Flora’s surname at birth is uncertain. In handwritten, often unclear, documents her family
name appears to be “Glisner” (baptismal record for her daughter Louisa),86 “Clysner”
(marriage record for her daughter Amalia),80 and “Glisaner” (death certificate for her
daughter Amalia Becker, Amalia’s son Elmer B. Becker, informant).87 The name is clearly
typed as “Glimmer” in the death certificate for her daughter Anna Siebert; however, that the
informant, Clarence Siebert, was Flora’s grandchild, two generations removed, makes the
source suspect.88
Documents in the combined Civil War pension application file for Lorenz and Flora give
Flora four different birth names.9
“Glisner” is found in a 2 May 1898 response by Lorenz and Flora to questions from the
Bureau of Pensions. Medical records in the pension file show that by that date Lorenz was
nearly totally blind and was suffering from physical and possibly mental senility. (The 1900
census, the last in which he appears, states that he could neither read nor write, presumably
due to his disabilities.54) The document is signed with Lorenz’s mark, but with what seems to
be Flora’s actual signature. Flora may have completed the questionnaire herself, specifically
giving her maiden name as “Glisner.” Despite misspellings and grammatical lapses, the
document is surprisingly well written considering that Flora may have been only marginally
literate (at least in English). The 1870 census89 states that she could read, but could not write.
Three Civil War widow’s pension records9 and a 1875 warranty deed were signed with her
mark.90
“Chrissener” is given as Flora’s birth name in a pension questionnaire completed 3
August 1898 and signed only by Lorenz, with his mark. The clear handwriting differs from
that of the earlier questionnaire and appears to be that of a third party (neither Lorenz nor
Flora). “Glistner” is found in a 12 April 1907 deposition before a notary public, and
“Grisner,” in a 25 May 1907 declaration and appointment of attorney, both documents signed
by Flora with her mark.
The marriage record for Lorenz and Flora clearly shows her name as “Grisner,” however,
the name was recorded by Nicholas Stehle, a German priest from Lorraine, France,91 who
may have been accustomed to a Franconian dialect and may have had difficulty
understanding newly arrived Hessians.23 Moreover, Flora’s extremely shaky and unclear
signature in Old German Script (OGS) on the marriage record appears to be “Floren
Klisiner.”
Questionnaire of 2 May 1898 from Civil War pension file.

Not only are the names given inconsistent, they are rare or unknown German surnames.
Nevertheless, despite questionable sources and often blurred handwriting, these records show
Flora’s name to be “Glisner” or “Grisner” or something similar. Note that handwritten
“Glisner” can resemble “Glimmer,” and the German “G” can sound like “Ch” or “K.”
But a record, handwritten in German, for the 1867 marriage at Saint John Nepomuk
Church, St. Louis, Missouri, of Clara Christina Wehner, Lorenz’s daughter, states “ihr
Mutter Floritha geborne Steinhauser von Hesse” (“her mother Floritha née Steinhauser of
Hesse”).92 “Flora” could easily be short for “Floritha”; however, the name “Steinhauser” is
exceedingly unlikely to have been misunderstood for a name resembling “Glisner” or
“Grisner.” That the probable source of the information was Clara, only one generation
removed from Flora, raises the possibility of a different mother for Clara, the eldest child.
Several documents in the Civil War pension application file for Lorenz and Flora, however,
clearly state that each was married only once.9 A simple clerical error in the John Nepomuk
record is possible. And Clara may not have known her mother’s maiden name, perhaps
giving a name she thought she had heard.
Lorenz’s wife’s given name appears in a number of records as “Flora” or, less often,
“Laura.” The handwritten marriage record for her daughter Amalia (“Mollie”) Wehner lists
Amalia’s mother as “La.... Florence,” with the “La” trailing off in an unreadable ending, an
apparent attempt to insert a word (possibly “Laura”) in the inadequate space before
“Florence.”80 (One cannot, however, exclude the possibility that the name “Lawrence” had
started to be entered into the wrong space.) Her given name may have been “Laura Florence”
or “Laura Flora,” although the latter rhymes absurdly. “Laura,” “Flora,” and “Florence” are
all popular German names. “Flora,” however, may have been misunderstood as “Laura,”
particularly when spoken with a German accent.
In this book, the name of Lorenz’s wife is taken as “Flora Glisner,” though “Flora
Grisner” is almost as likely (as are other, similar names). Though extremely rare, both
“Glisner” and “Grisner” are known names. The name “Steinhauser” is assumed to be an
error.
Marriage
Traveling separately to the United States, Lorenz and Nicholas met up in Cape Girardeau,
where or near which both were married (Nicholas, on 26 December 1847, nine months before
Lorenz)3,11 before proceeding to Pilot Knob.
A photocopy of the Latin record of the marriage of “Laurentius Wehner et Flora Grisner”
at Old St. Vincent’s Catholic Church, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, preserved in the archives of
the new St. Vincent de Paul Parish, is shown on the following page.23 A transcription dated
17 May 1907 by Rev. F. X. Feeley of St. Vincent’s Church is contained in Flora Wehner’s
application for a pension as a Civil War widow and is accompanied by a translation to
English by “Jno Adrian, assistant priest of Arcadia.”9 The original marriage record reads
Die 14 7bris 1848
Laurentius Ego infrascriptus in matrimonia conjuxi Laurentium filium Georgii
Wehner Wehner et Floræ Müller ex una parte, et Floram filiam leg. Joannis
Et Grisner et Marguerita Müller ex altera parte - testes fuere
Flora Lorenz Wehner Joseph Hartung
Grisner Flora Klisiner [unclear] Nikolaus Wehner
N. Stehle
Lorenz and Flora were married by Rev. Nicholas Stehle, a Lazarist stationed at St.
Mary’s of the Barrens Seminary, Perryville, Missouri on 14 September 1848,91 a date lying
in the range June 1847 to June 1848 calculated from years married (52) in the 1900 census.54
Flora’s parents are clearly given in Latin as “Joannis [probably, ‘Johann’ in German]
Grisner” and “Marguarita [in German, ‘Margareta,’ or possibly ‘Margaretha,’ ‘Margarethe,’
‘Margarete’] Müller,” and Lorenz’s parents as “Georgii [‘Georg’] Wehner” and “Floræ
[“Flora”] Müller.” Murkier are signatures of the bride (“Flora Klisiner”?), groom (“Lorenz
Wehner”), and witnesses (“Nikolaus Wehner” and “Joseph Hartung“), all in classic OGS.23
The Müller mothers may have been related, possibly sisters (in which case, Flora and Lorenz
would have been cousins). That the record is one of only two known documents where Flora
appears to have signed her name rather than using a mark may explain the shaky signature.
Marriage record for Lorenz and Flora, Old St. Vincent’s Church, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 14
September 1848. In English, “I the undersigned joined in matrimony Lawrence son of Georg
Wehner and Flora Müller on the one part and Flora daughter of Johann Grisner and Margareta
Müller on the other part.” (Archives, St. Vincent de Paul Parish Church, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.)
Private Lorenz Wehner

Come all you jolly Union boys, the truth to you I´ll tell,
About old Governor Jackson, of whom you know so well.
He undertook a project and he didn´t quite succeed,
In forcing of Missouri from the Union to secede.
“The War in Missouri in ‘61’,” attributed to B. F. Lock
In 1861 Nicholas and Clara were settling into new surroundings in the town of Ste.
Genevieve, where they had moved, and where they were running a grocery and saloon. In
1861 Lorenz and Flora were in Pilot Knob raising their increasing family, now six children.
And in 1861, on the 12th of April, at exactly 4:30 in the morning, a mortar shell arched over
the harbor of Charleston, South Caroline, exploding over an island fortification, Fort Sumter,
changing America forever. The result of the shelling was variously known as “The War of
the Rebellion,” “The War of Northern Aggression,” “Mr. Lincoln’s War,” “The Brothers’
War” and even though it started eight hundred miles away, it tore Missouri apart.
Missouri, officially a slave state, was divided. Missourians of southern ancestry (a
majority) were usually proslavery though not necessarily secessionist. German immigrants
were mainly antislavery and Unionist. Eduard Mühl, an editor and publisher of the German-
language newspaper Hermanner Wochenblatt in Hermann, Missouri, declared “We hold
ourselves as free men, who did not escape slavery in our old home lands to support it here in
America.”93 German settlers gave Lincoln most of his Missouri votes in the 1860 presidential
election. (But he was still dead last in the state among the four candidates.) In the American
Civil War nearly all German combatants were Union soldiers.94 Lorenz and Nicholas Wehner
were no exceptions.
With the start of the war in the
spring of 1861, Missouri’s newly
elected governor Claiborne Fox
Jackson, an ardent Southern
supporter, declared Missouri a
neutral state while working secretly
to promote Missouri secession.
Following a series of armed
confrontations, Jackson and other
pro-Confederate politicians fled
south, eventually establishing a
government in exile in Texas.
Missouri Supreme Court Justice
Hamilton Rowan Gamble was
appointed to the governor’s
“vacated” office.
Owing to divided allegiances, an
unreliable populace, and two
different state governments (albeit,
one in exile), the raising of Civil 1847 St. Louis,Missouri, flyer for escaped slaves.
(Library of Congress, Printed Ephemera Collection.)
War military units in Missouri was
haphazard, with many irregular and
independent components. At least seventeen different classes of troops were created within
the state, not including the various Home and Civilian Guards.95 Even the Federal
government had difficulty keeping track of all the units. On 11 June 1861 Secretary of War
Simon Cameron sent a letter to Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon, Commander, Department
of the West, with the following instructions:
You are authorized to enlist in the service of the United States such loyal
citizens of the State of Missouri as you think proper, who shall not receive pay
except when called into active service by this Department. Five thousand
additional stand of arms have been ordered to be forwarded to you for
distribution among
them.96
With this letter, the
Missouri Home Guards, who
were armed but received no
rations, clothing, or regular
pay, were born.97 On 28 June
1861, just eleven weeks after
the first hostilities at Fort
Sumter, Lorenz Wehner joined
the Pilot Knob Home Guard, an
independent company Claiborne Fox Jackson. Thomas Caute Reynolds.
Missouri governors in exile. (Courtesy of Wikipedia.)
organized by Ferdinand Schmitz and eventually attached to the 6th Missouri Volunteer
Infantry.98,99 Assigned to guard Iron Mountain Railroad bridges, the unit saw no action and
was disbanded 13 October 1861.100 On 11 May 1864, Lorenz was paid $55.21 for three
months and fifteen days of service, as determined by the Hawkins Taylor Commission,
established by Congress to determine discharge dates and to adjudicate claims by Union
soldiers.99
A year after his Home Guard service, on 26 September 1862, Lorenz joined Company C
of the 68th Regiment, Enrolled Missouri Militia (EMM),101 for an even shorter enlistment.98
He was mustered out 4 October 1862. The EMM service was required by Order 19 issued 22
July 1862 by Brigadier General John A. Schofield:102
An immediate organization of all the militia in Missouri is hereby ordered for
the purpose of exterminating the guerrillas that infest our State. Every able-
bodied man capable of bearing arms and subject to military duty is hereby
ordered to repair without delay to the nearest military post and report for duty
with the commanding officer. Each man will bring with him any arms he has
and a good horse.
Unforeseen, Schofield’s
“Mandatory Enlistment
Order” resulted in many
Missourians heading for the
woods to avoid conscription
or joining the Rebels in anger.
A document showing that
Lorenz’s military service was
considerably longer than his
three and a half months in the
Home Guard and his eight
days in the EMM is almost
certainly incorrect. A
Hawkins Taylor Commission
card in Lorenz’s compiled
service record gives a
discharge date of “Oct. 13,
1861 1863.”99 The change
from “1861” to “1863” is
footnoted “Corrected Jan 2,
1895, GEJ.” Service to 1863,
if true, could not have all
been in the Missouri Home
Guard, the last units of which
were disbanded in December
1861. Moreover, in his 12
July 1890 Civil War pension
application Lorenz states that
Lorenz signed his name in his initial Civil War pension
application on 12 July 1890, but in later pension records, as
he had no military service
his vision and health deteriorated, he often used only his mark.
after 13 October 1861 “except at the fort at Pilot Knob Mo during Prices Raid.”9 (He
disregarded his eight days in the EMM, probably because the 68th Regiment was never
federalized.) Attempting to get a pension, Lorenz would have certainly claimed additional
time in the military had it been true. The Hawkins Taylor Commission “correction” to
“1863” appears to be a clerical error.
The 1890 Veteran’s census for Pilot Knob reports only Lorenz’s service between 28 June
1861 and 13 October 1861, and gives his rank as “Sarg,” although records show only a rank
of private.103 On 14 July 1890 Lorenz Wehner of the Home Guard applied as an invalid for a
Civil War pension (Application 908064).9 After considerable legal debate (a 27 May 1892
note from the War Department in his pension file states “It does not appear from records at
this office that such an organization as Pilot Knob Home Guards attached to 6 Mo Inf was in
the US service”), a rejection or two, and payment of $10 to a Washington attorney (Henry D.
Phillips), Lorenz (“Lorenzo” in many of the pension file documents) was awarded Certificate
No. 946633 for $8 per month from 14 July 1890, increasing to $12 per month starting 17
October 1894 and continuing to his death. His records showed “Partial increasing to total
inability to earn a support by manual labor.”
At the Base of the Knob
Lorenz’s family appears in the Madison County 1850 federal census56 and in the Iron
County 1860, 1870, 1880, and 1900 federal censuses54,89,79,82 and 1876 county census.83 In
the 1850 census, the occupation of both Lorenz and Nicholas is “Furnace Man,” manning
Pilot Knob Iron Company smelters. Later censuses show Lorenz as a laborer (1860) and a
carpenter (1870, 1880), occupations needed by both the iron company and the military,
which erected a fort, guardhouses, barracks, stores, stables, and a telegraph office at Pilot
Knob during the war.104 Lorenz’s Civil War pension application file gives his occupation as
carpenter.9
In Lorenz’s time, Pilot Knob was an isolated, rustic, undistignuished backwoods town,
much removed from the culture and commerce of nearby Ste. Genevieve. One Wehner
relative relates that as a child she was fearful of visiting the village, where the “people had no
teeth.” The 1890 Iron County Personal Assessment shows medium assets of just $125, and
“Laurenz” Wehner didn’t even reach that.84 He had one horse valued at $30, one head of
cattle ($10), two hogs ($5), and personal property ($65), for a total of $110. But, unlike
many, he owned some real estate.
Despite a paucity of personal property, Lorenz exhibited much of his brother’s
entrepreneurial spirit, though without his degree of success. Following Lorenz’s death, a
county court record made part of his Civil War pension file showed possession of Pilot Knob
real estate worth $400—Lots 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26, Block 14 (east side of Zeigler between
Mulberry and Pine, middle of the block); and Lots 1 and 2, Block 18 (southwest corner of
Zeigler and Mulberry streets),9 although no structures today (2011) on these holdings appear
to date from Lorenz’s time. Pension file documents state that the property had been
purchased with Civil War pension money; however, one of the lots was purchased before the
war, and four lots actually belonged to Flora.
Lot 1, Block 18 was bought from the Pilot Knob Iron Company with a deed of trust dated
13 May 1858,105 over thirty years before Lorenz’s pension application. This was probably the
site of Lorenz’s original house in the company town. In the margin of the deed is a note dated
15 April 1872: “I F. [Ferdinand] Immer Agent for the Pilot Knob Iron Company hereby
acknowledge satisfaction in full of the debt secured by this deed of trust.” Strange about this
property is that on 1 November 1889 Lorenz signed a warranty deed granting Flora Lots 1
and 2, Block 18 “together with all buildings and improvements thereon” for “One hundred
dollars and other valuable Considerations.” The origin of Lot 2 is unknown though it may
have come from a split of Lot 1 in a new plat. More confusing is the reason for the sale. Was
it to avoid a debt? Why had he not sold the property for a nominal sum, say $1, as is usually
done for transfers within a family? And what were the “other valuable Considerations”? On
12 March 1900 Flora purchased lots 25 and 26, Block 14 from Catharina Beck and others for
$80.106 The Block 14 property lies diagonally across the intersection from still-standing
Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church on the northwest corner of Zeigler and Pine. In the
town of Ste. Genevieve, Flora’s sister-in-law Clara had also made land purchases (p. 143).
Clara and Flora may have had money of their own.
Lots 22, 23,

24, 25, 26
Lots 31,32
Lots 1, 2
21
221
Fort
Davidson
Pilot Knob with Lorenz’s properties at the time of his death (red) and
those of his son William (blue). Lot and block locations are from the plat
map of 25 October 1872 in the Office of Iron County Recorder, Ironton.
Lorenz joined with two members of his family in trust deeds for land in Pilot Knob,
serving as the beneficiary (lender) in one and the trustee (holder of the deed) in the other.
On 3 November 1883 Lorenz became trustee for Lots 28, 30, 31, and 32, Block 12 in
Pilot Knob covering a debt of $40 at eight percent interest owed by Elias Mund to Lorenz’s
daughter Anna.107 (Elias’s granddaughter Clara Mund would one day marry Anna’s son
Louis.)108 On 1 October 1885, after receiving the $40 from Caroline Boss, Elias’s daughter,
Anna signed a quit claim, deeding the property to Caroline, who had received it in a
conveyance (probably on the death of Elias).109
On 12 April 1884 Phillip and Laura Staab signed a deed of trust for Lots 11 and 12,
Block 20, Pilot Knob, to “Mathilda” Wehner, trustee, to cover a debt of $150 at seven
percent interest owed to Lorenz Wehner.110 The Staabs defaulted on the debt and when
Matilda, Lorenz’s daughter, “refused to act as Trustee,” Sheriff Simeon E. Buford assumed
the trusteeship, selling the property at auction on 7 November 1885.111 On 2 March 1905
Lorenz and Flora sold the property to Wilhelm Just and his wife for $55, less than the
original loan made to the Staabs.112
Lorenz and Flora also invested in property outside of Pilot Knob. On 12 December 1868
Lorenz Wehner and Henry Richter (also of Pilot Knob) signed a deed of trust to purchase
43.31 acres in Section 23 T34N R3E from Peter R. Kenrick, Archbishop of St. Louis, with
$65 remaining to be paid.113 Two miles northwest of Pilot Knob, the land may have been sold
to help with the staggering debt Kenrick acquired in 1843 when he became bishop of the
diocese (later archdiocese), replacing Joseph Rosati, though much of the debt had already
been relieved by the sale of major St. Louis church properties during the 1850s.114 A few
years later, on 26 January 1875, Lorenz purchased parts of Lots 12, 13 and 16, Block 11, in
the city of Ironton from Modest and Malinda Rapp for a whopping $450,115 selling the
property to Precilla Cayse later that same year for $485.90 On 12 February 1883 Peter Allgier
signed a deed of trust to Lorenz Wehner for approximately 140 acres of land in Sections 23
and 26, T33N R4E, southeast of Ironton, for $500 at seven percent interest to be paid to Flora
Wehner, who held the note. Lorenz was also a trustee on a 31 October 1885 deed from
Ludwig and Frances Reighert for 40 acres of land in Section 23, in the same township, for
$300, with Flora as the beneficiary.116
Old Landmarks
Iron Mountain and Pilot
Knob ore, rich but limited, was
depleted around 1890.117 Jobs
were more abundant elsewhere,
particularly in Festus, Crystal
City, and St. Louis, Missouri,
and in East St. Louis and Granite
City, Illinois. Most of Lorenz’s
descendants moved on, but
Lorenz and Flora lived out their
lives in Pilot Knob.
Lorenz died 27 February Wehner Plot, Catholic Cemetery, Pilot Knob, Missouri (2007). The
1907.86 The death was attributed large stone on the right is for Lorenz and Flora, that on the left is for
to pneumonia, but he also daughter Louis, the flag marks Lorenz’s (“Lorenzo”) military marker.
suffered from rheumatism, hernias, heart ailments, blindness, and general infirmity.9 His last
years were sad. A Civil War pension medical examination dated 29 September 1897, almost
a decade before his death, stated “This claimant is so totally and permanently disabled from
senility and blindness that he requires the regular personal aid and attendance of another
person (presumably, Flora).”9
On 12 April 1907 Flora applied for a widow’s pension (Application 867701), noting that
the pension money earlier received by Lorenz had been used to purchase a house and
property in Pilot Knob.118,9 She was awarded $8 per month starting 15 April 1907
(Certificate 630721), a pension that only lasted a short time. Flora died ten months later, 18
February 1908, not quite one year after Lorenz’s death.86 They share a single stone in the
Catholic Cemetery, north of Pilot Knob, on the Old Middlebrook Road.85 Two sides of the
marker are inscribed
FATHER MOTHER
L. WEHNER F. WEHNER
BORN JAN. 2, 1823 BORN SEP. 20, 1828
DIED FEB. 27, 1907 DIED FEB. 18, 1908
Adjacent is a military stone, bearing a federal shield and inscribed “LORENZO WEHNER
6 MO. INF,” showing only the unit to which the Pilot Knob Home Guard was attached.. Some
have mistaken “Father L. Wehner” as an inscription for a priest, and the military stone as the
marker for a 6-month-old infant.
Flora’s brief death notice in the Iron County Register reads, “The old landmarks of Pilot
Knob will soon be all gone. So many of our old residents have passed away during the last
year.”119
Lorenz and Flora had nine children—eight girls, Clara, Maria, Mary, Theresa, Amalia,
Anna, Matilda, and Louisa, but only one boy, William, to carry on the Wehner name.54
Pilot Knob, looking southeast down the Arcadia Valley from Cedar Mountain (c1925). The
fourth house south of the church occupies the lot where Lorenz Wehner’s house stood. Pilot
Knob mount is to the left; Shepherd Mountain, to the right. South of town are the fort’s barely
visible remains. Far down the valley is Ironton. (Collection of Marcine (Amelung) Lohman.)
Bier und Brot Clara Christina Wehner 30
Clara Christina Wehner

Lorenz and Flora’s eldest child, Clara Christina (usually just “Clara”), was born 20
September 1849,120 presumably in Pilot Knob, where she appears in the Lorenz Wehner
household in the 1860 census.82 She is also found with her parents in the 1850 census for
Madison County, where the village at the time was located.56 At age fifteen, to escape
Confederate troops, Clara fled from Pilot Knob with her sister Mary.63 By age eighteen she
had abandoned altogether the backwoods hamlet for the busy metropolis of St. Louis, where
she went to work as a servant.92
On 1 October 1867 in St. Louis
“Christine” Wehner married Robert
Schilling.92 Rev. Joseph Hessoun,
Pastor of St. John Nepomuk, a
Bohemian church, conducted the
service. The wooden church, built in
1854 at the corner of Eleventh Street
and Lafayette Avenue and standing at
the time of the wedding, no longer
exists. In 1870 it was replaced by a
larger brick building, built for an
increasing congregation. Today, even
that is gone, most of it leveled by a 27
May 1896 tornado that ravaged Saint
Louis and the Bohemian Hill area.
Starting with the still-standing façade,
parishioners constructed an even
larger brick edifice, present-day Saint
John Nepomuk Church.121
The German-language marriage
record92 states that Clara was a
“handmagd” (a handmaiden, a maid or
servant). The wedding may have
occurred at the church, but probably
not in the sanctuary. Special
dispensation was required by the Vicar
A wall plaque at present-day St. John Nepomuk Church General because Robert was “of the
honors Monsignor Josef Hessoun, who conducted the Evangelical Religion” and banns had
marriage of Clara Wehner and Robert Schilling Sr. (2007). not been published. It might appear
strange that Clara and Robert chose a
Bohemian priest for the wedding, but Czechs were often proficient in German, Robert’s
native tongue and the first language of Clara’s parents.
Robert was born 17 October 1843,122 probably in Osterburg, Saxony (today, Saxony-
Anhalt), Germany,123 to Gottfried and Johanna (Schulz) Schilling92 and had emigrated with
his family from Bremen to the United States on the Bark Johann Kepler, arriving in New
Orleans 18 November 1847.124 The Schillings are not found in the 1850 census; however,
Robert does appear in the 1860 federal census for St. Louis, Missouri, living with his
widowed mother, Johanna, and his 23-year-old sister, Ottielie, whose name is shown here as
she signed it,125 but which had a host of spellings by others.126 In 1860, mother and daughter
were employed in “Comm. Sewing.” By 1870 Johanna was living in Quincy, Illinois, with
Ottielie and son-in-law Adam Christ,127 and there she lived out her life.
On 17 June 1865 Robert was appointed a 1st lieutenant in Company K of the 2nd Ward
Regiment of St. Louis City, Missouri Militia, effective 6 April 1865,128 but saw no action.
Lee was defeated 9 April and the Confederacy ended before Robert’s appointment was made
official.
Over the years Robert Schilling had a variety of careers. Censuses show him as a St.
Louis brickyard laborer (1860),126 a St. Louis cooper (1870),129 a Salem, Ohio, journalist
(1880),130 and a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, newspaper publisher (1900).131.When he got to
Milwaukee around 1880, the first thing Robert did was form Schilling & Co., publishers, on
482 Market Street, eventually publishing four weekly Populist Party newspapers: the
Milwaukee Advance, National Advance, Milwaukee Reformer, and National Reformer, the
last two in German.132,133
But Robert’s interests were far wider. His obituary described him as a “labor leader,
newspaper publisher, a man whose hand was felt in political affairs of the nation, state and
city, yet who never held political office, and a national figure in spiritualist circles.”134 The
tribute continued
The coopers trade led him to the public light. At 20 he was president of St.
Louis Coopers union. Later he was elected deputy president of the
International Coopers union for the Mississippi Valley and then he headed the
national order of the most powerful of all labor unions in the country. He
moved to Cleveland and was twice reelected but resigned on account of
business. In 1873 he was elected president of the Industrial Congress, a new
organization, and served in that capacity for two years.
In 1874 he entered national politics as a delegate to the conference at
Indianapolis which met to organize the independent or Greenback party which
nominated Peter Cooper for president in 1876. In the meantime he organized a
paper in Cleveland which later merged with the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
His ability as an orator directed attention to him and in 1877 he came to
Wisconsin to deliver a series of speeches in favor of the candidacy of a
Greenback advocate for governor. He liked Milwaukee so well that he settled
here in 1880.
He then became identified with the Knights of Labor, forerunner of the
American Federation of Labor and served as grand master workman for
Wisconsin. He was instrumental in forming the first brewers union. During
the next twelve years he established and conducted the National Reformer, a
German daily newspaper and the Daily Advance published in English.
As an active worker for the Peoples or Populist party in the early nineties, he
soon rose to national chairman. It was while in this post on that the party was
merged with the Democratic party over the free silver campaign of which he
was an early advocate and it was his influence which swung the support of the
party to William Jennings Bryan in 1896. He was even then a candidate for
congress on the free silver platform but was defeated. His activity in politics
did not cease, however, and in later years denied belonging to any party.
“I am a Bryan Republican and a La Follette Democrat” was his favorite
expression in later years mixing his parties purposely.
For another ten years he remained active in local and state politics particularly
in municipal and state affairs, proving himself an ardent supporter of and
championing the causes of the working man. He retired from business about
ten years ago.
He had always been interested in spiritualism and upon retirement took up its
study, seriously devoting all his time to it. He soon advanced in spiritualist
gatherings and was an outstanding figure in national conferences and meetings
of the religious sect.
Without outside aid, he built Benton hall
in the rear of his home at 1419 Sixth street
several years ago as a meeting place for
spiritualists. He was never a medium but a
lecturer in which capacity he served the
little congregation of his neighborhood.
At the forefront of Milwaukee’s labor
movement, Robert was directly involved in the
riots of 1886.135,136 On 1 May 1886 labor leaders
across the county called for a general strike to
force an eight-hour workday. In Milwaukee most
factories without an eight-hour day were shut
down, but the Milwaukee Iron Company’s rolling
mill in Bay View, a Milwaukee neighborhood,
was an exception. Workers, primarily Polish, but
also German, and their supporters gathered for
several days at the mill to force the issue. On 5
May seven people, including a 13-year-old boy,
were killed when National Guardsmen fired into
the crowd surrounding the mill. Robert Schilling,
a leader of the Catholic Church’s Knights of
Labor in Milwaukee, which supported the strike,
had unsuccessfully attempted to calm down the Robert Schilling, “Geld. Eine statistische und
Bay View crowd two days earlier. Some say that wissenschaftliche Abhandlung über Geldfrage,
vom fortschrittlichen Standpunkt” (Money: a
his efforts were misinterpreted since he spoke to Statistical and Scientific Treatise on Money
the strikers in German, which reporters did not from an Advanced Standpoint), National
understand, concluding that he was inciting a riot. Reformer, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1891.
Robert was arrested and brought to trial. But the jury was hung and he was later acquitted by
a new district attorney elected by the Populace Party, which Robert had founded.
Milwaukee’s Bay View Massacre had occurred just two days after the more infamous 3 May
1886 Haymarket Riot in Chicago.
The Milwaukee Iron Company rolling mill, the site of the 1886 Bay View Massacre. (Courtesy of Wikipedia.)
During their married lives, Robert and Clara lived in Missouri (1867-1871), Ohio (1871-
1880), and Wisconsin (1880 on).137 The marriage was stressful. For Clara, living with a
political firebrand, labor agitator, and fervent spiritualist was difficult. In their final years,
husband and wife lived apart, Robert with his son and daughter-in-law Walter and Emma,
Clara with her sister Mary Wehner. And they each had “special friends,” the widowed Ida
Frederick for Robert, Fred Meckelburg for Clara.138 Clara died in Milwaukee 2 June 1906,
and Robert, 26 December 1922. Though separated at the end of their married life, they were
united in death, buried next to each otheri n Milwaukee’s Forest Home Cemetery, their
stones marked “Father” and “Mother.”122,139
The Schillings had seven children: Albert, Edward, Nellie, Arthur, William, Walter L.,
and Robert Jr., all boys save one.129,130,134
Milwaukee Addresses
On 1 October 1888, the Milwaukee Sentinel published a lengthy article, “Is Very
Clumsy, Milwaukee’s Street Numbering System,” which begins “Only a long
endurance of accustomed ills makes the street number system of Milwaukee tolerable
to a native. To a stranger or a new resident this system or so-called system is a
nightmare, a nuisance and an abominable bore. The wretched ‘street guide’ which
disgraces the front pages of the city directory but adds to the confusion.”
Numerous plans were proposed, but not until 1931 did the city finally solve the
problem by overhauling the address system. Street names were changed to include
“East,” “West,” “North,” “South,” and new numbers were assigned. Thus Milwaukee
addresses from censuses and other documents before 1931 usually bear no
resemblance to addresses for the same sites after that year. This book makes a stab at
addressing this difficulty by describing locations before 1931 without reference to
street addresses or by giving present-day addresses. But Reader, beware!
Albert L. Schilling
Albert L. Schilling was born in St. Louis, in
November 1867 or 1868,140 but lived most of his
adult life in Milwaukee working as a
printer,141,142,143,144 first for his dad at Schilling &
Co.,145 and then on his own at “The Print Shop”
on N. Water Street, which he owned and
operated for at least thirty years.146,147
On 23 November 1892 Albert married
Amalia C. Zimmermann,148 born in May 1870,149
one of eleven children of German immigrants
Jacob and Catherine Zimmermann.149,150 Amalia,
who always went by “Mollie,” grew up in
Watertown, Wisconsin, where her father was first
a liquor dealer149,151 and later a cooper.150
Starting with the Panic of 1857, it was a
troublesome era for Watertown. The town had
defaulted on bonds to build two railroads into the
community, and the local government had been
dissolved in hopes of avoiding creditors’ suits.
Mollie, who died at the family home in
Milwaukee 11 July 1934,152 and Albert, who died
21 June 1938,153 are buried in Calvary Albert Schilling’s funeral was held 21 June 1938
Cemetery,154 Milwaukee’s oldest existing Roman at St. Mary’s, built 1846-1846, rebuilt 1866,
Catholic Cemetery. The couple had only one Milwaukee’s second oldest church. (Library of
known child, Robert Jacob.153,155 Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey.)
Robert Jacob Schilling

In 1921 or 1922,156 Robert (born 2 July 1895, died 5 January 1973)157 married Lauretta
(sometimes “Loretta”) J. Kohl (born 11 June 1897, died 17 July 1984),158,159 daughter of Fritz
and Anna (Heim)160 Kohl.161,162 In 1917 Robert was repairing automobiles for the Milwaukee
Telephone Company155 and, after serving in WW I, began running a garage.163 By 1930 he
was managing his father’s business, The Print Shop,156,147 which Robert took over following
Albert’s death.164 Buried in Milwaukee’s Calvary Cemetery,153 the couple had two children,
Mary Ann Schilling (born 15 June 1924 in Wisconsin, died 22 June 1996)165 and Robert
William Schilling.156
Edward W. Schilling
Born in Missouri in 1871,166,167 Edward accompanied his parents to Ohio130 and then to
Milwaukee. There, on 6 October 1898, he married Elizabeth (“Lizzie”) M. Schiller,168 born
in Wisconsin, March 1876.169 Over the years he worked as a Milwaukee shipping clerk,
shipping manager, and cooking utensils manager.169,170,171,172 Edward and Elizabeth died
within a month of each other, Elizabeth on 11 August 1945 and Edward on 10 September
1945, and are buried in Milwaukee’s Forest Home Cemetery.173,174 The couple had two
children, Evelyn and Edward,170,171 both born in Milwaukee.175
Evelyn C. Schilling
Born 20 October 1899,176 Evelyn worked as a filing clerk in a soap factory171 before
marrying, in 1920 or 1921,177 Raymond J. Wagner, born 23 October 1899.178 In 1930 and
1940, the family lived in Wauwatosa, Raymond working as a foundry manager,177 then as a
sales manager for George J. Meyer Manufacturing Co. in Milwaukee.179 The Wagner family
included two children, James Edward (“Jack”) Wagner (born 1924)154,177 and Raymond
Jene (“Gene”) Wagner.173 James Edward, a veteran of WW II, died 17 September 1947 at
age 23 from an automobile accident at Two Rivers, Wisconsin, while vacationing with a
friend.180 Evelyn, who died 3 September 1977,176 and Raymond (Sr.), who died 28 February
1986,178 are interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.154 They rest alongside
their son James Edward.
Edward A. Schilling
Born 4 March 1907,181 Edward was, by 1930, married to Dorothea (sometimes
“Dorothy”)182 C. Utech,183 living in Milwaukee, and working as a traveling refrigerator
salesman.184 By 1935, he and Dorothea had moved to Wauwatosa, where in 1940, he was
living only a few blocks from his sister and brother-in-law, Evelyn and Raymond, and was
working as a supervisor for an electric controls manufacturer.185 Dorothea, who was born 23
February186 or 23 March175 1907 to Albert J. and Anna (Westphal) Utech,187 died 25
November 1983.188 Edward lived almost a decade more, passing away in Milwaukee County
on 25 April 1993.181,189 Edward and Dorothea left two children, E. Thomas Schilling, a
Milwaukee attorney,190 and Caroline Schilling.183
Nellie F. Schilling
Nellie F. Schilling, born August 1874 in Ohio191 and Clara and Robert’s only daughter,
was twice married.
Nellie wedded William Timmerman (also “Timmermann“) in either Portage or Racine
County, Wisconsin, on 8 October 1894.192 Wisconsin-born in August 1867,191 William was
one of seven children of the Milwaukee family of Walter and Marie Timmerman,
respectively immigrants from Holland and Austria.193 William worked for the fire
department, primarily as a driver of a “chemical wagon” carrying soda and ash, which, when
activated by acid, was used to put out smaller fires.194 After their marriage William and
Nellie moved to 752 Jefferson Street (today, N. Jefferson), just a few houses away from 770
Jefferson, where Nellie’s father, Robert Schilling, and his family were living. 195 The couple
were married just a little more than two months before the birth of Nellie’s only known child,
Arthur (“Art”) William Timmerman,196 on 12 December 1894.175 The proximity of the birth
and marriage dates may indicate an unplanned wedding (possibly the reason the ceremony
was not performed in Milwaukee County, where the Timmerman and Schilling families
lived), and the marriage ended within ten years, whether due to death or divorce is unknown.
William is found in the 1900 Milwaukee City directory still at 752 Jefferson and working as
a driver for fire department “chemical No. 1,”197 but the 1900 census, shows that the family
had moved to 540 Eighth Street (today, near N. Eighth and W. Cherry). From that point on,
no record is found of anyone reliably identifiable as William. Nellie appears as Mrs. Nellie
“Timmermann” in the 1902 and 1903 Milwaukee City directories living at 702 Walnut
(today near W. Walnut and N. 7th),198,199 her parents’ home at the time,131 but she is not
listed as a widow, as would have usually been the case were William deceased.
In 1903 or 1904,200 Nellie married George Henry West, who was born 3 October 1875 in
Michigan201,202 and was previously married, around 1896 according to his age at first
marriage in the 1930 census.203 The marriage with Nellie produced no surviving children.
That William Timmerman worked for the fire department and George West was, in 1905, a
fireman204 indicates that the two men may have been acquainted. Following his stint in fire
protection, George was a manufacturing foreman (1910),200 press hand for A. O. Smith
(1918, at the time a manufacturer of automobile and bicycle components and war items),201
machinist (1920),201 watchman in a steel plant (1930),203 and a brass works “tester” (1940).205
Nellie died at her home, 533 W. Vine Street, Milwaukee, on 16 January 1932 and was
laid to rest in Forest Lawn Cemetery.206 George died well over a decade later, on 3 July 1944,
his last years spent as a lodger,205 and was buried at Wanderer’s Rest,207 a cemetery with both
an unusual name and an unusual history.208 Established in 1894, the cemetery was bought by
embezzlers who collected money for never-built crypts, absconding with the funds. Lacking
finances, the cemetery deteriorated until many graves were hidden by weeds and rubble. The
cemetery was eventually restored and today operates under the name “Lincoln Memorial
Cemetery.”
Arthur William (Timmerman) West
Arthur eventually took the name of his stepfather, “West,”196,206 and around 1914 married
Helen Jaraczewski.209,210 Helen, born 23 February 1894 in Milwaukee,175 was one of eleven
children of Jacob (“Jack”) and Mary (Gepluch) Jaraczewski,211 immigrants from the German-
speaking area of Poland.212,213 Jacob was a laborer and was not doing well, having spent over
half the 1910 census year out of work.213 But Helen, and her sister Amelia (“Emily“), helped
out by working in a glove factory.213
Arthur Timmerman/West was initially a bartender for his stepfather, George,196 but later
went to work as a foreman for the city of Milwaukee, though his actual job is unknown.209
Arthur died 4 May 1960 and is interred at Wood National Cemetery in Milwaukee, a location
he earned by having served in the United States Naval Reserve Force during World War I.214
Helen lived two more decades, dying 6 December 1981.215 Following a funeral at the rather
opulent Basilica of St. Josaphat,215 Helen was laid to rest in Milwaukee’s St. Adalbert
Cemetery,154 alongside her sister and brother-in-law, Charlotte and Peter Forecki.154
Arthur and Helen had but one child,210,215 George A. West (born 16 November 1914,
died 9 September 1986),214,216 who married Adeline C. Smendzik (born 8 October 1924, died
27 September 2007).217
Arthur Peter Schilling
Arthur Peter218 was born 30 August 1876 in Ohio,130,219 but spent nearly all of his life in
Milwaukee. There on 7 September 1899 he married a Wisconsin native, Kathryn A.
Murphy,220 born in May 1876.221 Kathryn, whose name until she reached middle age was
always spelled “Catherine” or “Catharine,” came from a very large, very Irish family. Her
Catholic parents, James Joseph and Harriet (Phelan) Murphy,222 had thirteen children, one of
whom died young, born at roughly two-year intervals.223,224 Three of Kathryn’s four
grandparents were born in Ireland.223
Arthur spent his married life in sales. In 1900 his occupation was “coml [commercial]
traveler” (a traveling salesman);221 in 1910, wholesale salesman;225 in 1918 and 1920, shoe
salesman for T. Mayer Boot & Shoe Co., Milwaukee;218,226 and in 1930, real estate broker.227
Kathryn died 18 November

1950,228 twenty years earlier than
Arthur, who passed away 25 May
1970 at the age of 93.154 The
couple are buried in Milwaukee’s
Holy Cross Cemetery, where
Kathryn’s parents, James (born
January 1851, died 23 July 1920)
and Harriet (born January 1853,
died 14 November 1936) are also
interred.154,224 In contrast to
Kathryn’s parents, Arthur and
Kathryn had but one child,
Harriet.225,226,229
Arthur Schilling was a traveling salesman for F. Mayer
Harriet Schilling Boot & Shoe Co., Milwaukee. (Courtesy of Wikipedia.)
In 1926 Harriett, born 9 August 1903,230 married attorney William G. Cavanaugh,231 born
22 February 1903 in Minnesota232 to William and Caroline C. Cavanaugh of Duluth.233,234
Harriet and William lived for a while in Milwaukee, but by 1935 they had moved a few miles
north to the town of Shorewood and by
1940, having successfully survived the
Great Depression, moved a mile or two
further to the upscale village of
Whitefish Bay.235 There, on bluffs
overlooking Lake Michigan, in a
$12,000 house, suitable at the time for
an accomplished lawyer, they were
joined by Harriet’s parents, Arthur and
Kathryn, who lived out their lives in
In the early 1900s, Whitefish Bay was a resort area
founded by brewer Frederick Pabst. (Ancestry.com.) that community.235
Following the deaths of her parents
and William’s passing on 30 March 1973, Harriett moved from Whitefish Bay to Alexian
232
Village, a retirement community on the north side of Milwaukee near Mequon.229 She was
living there when she died 10 July 1981.229 William and Harriet are buried in Milwaukee’s
Holy Cross Cemetery, where Harriett’s parents and maternal grandparents are also
interred.154
Harriet (Schilling) and William Cavanaugh had two daughters, Harriet C. Cavanaugh
and Mary Cavanaugh.228 Harriet Cavanaugh married Robert Arnold and settled in Mequon,
Wisconsin.229 Mary (born 12 or 13 April 1934)236,237 and her husband, John A. Kestelik238 (a
management analyst born in Wisconsin 2 July 1933),239 lived out their lives in Ohio, where
John died 31 August 1991240 and Mary died 14 July 1992.237
Walter Leo Schilling
Walter Leo Schilling was born in Ohio on 2 January 1879,241,242 but lived all but his first
year of life in Milwaukee, where his parents moved in 1880.137 On 9 June 1901 in Berrien
County, Michigan, Walter married Emma J. Weiss,243 born January 1881 in Michigan, the
oldest of five children of Herman, a Milwaukee butcher, and Bertha Weiss.244 Around this
time Walter changed jobs from railroad clerk242 to milk dealer245,246 in a joint venture with
his father, eventually establishing Schilling Milk Laboratories, which produced baby
formula.247,248 Walter’s granddaughter Barbara Mary (Packard) Fitzgerald has written an
entertaining and enlightening article about Walter, Emma, and the milk business (and also
about her great grandfather Robert),138 and has allowed it to be printed here in its entirety.
Thanks Barbara!
My great-grandfather, Robert Schilling, and his son Walter operated a milk
business in Milwaukee for many years. Around 1900, Robert bought a milk
company from Schmidt and Company located on North Avenue in
Milwaukee. That company was a large dairy which had bought out, in 1893,
another dairy from Karl Kron, who had originally started the Milwaukee
Nursing Milk Establishment on Oakland Avenue in Milwaukee in 1882.
For a time the North Avenue location was used. Walter Schilling and his wife,
Emma Weiss Schilling, whom he had married in 1901, (my grandparents)
lived there above the dairy.
Then, in 1905, Robert built a large duplex on the corner of 6th Street and
Concordia Avenue in Milwaukee. The location was in a fine area of the city
called Williamsburg. The land, one of the highest points in the city, was a
former farm and orchard with the original farm house next door. Robert and
his housekeeper, Mrs. Frederick, lived upstairs and Walter and Emma lived in
the downstairs part of the duplex.
Other buildings, such as an ice-house, were constructed, and a barn was built
to house the horses. By 1910 the thriving business had fourteen horses, twelve
wagons and sleighs, and employed several men. Equipment for the dairy was
located in the lower level and to the rear of the house.
The business offered formula milk for babies as well as “table milk,”
“pasteurized milk,” and “sterilized milk.” The milk would arrive early in the
morning from the farms, and it was then placed in bottles, sterilized, cooled,
and delivered the next day. Perhaps Robert, who had always wanted to be a
doctor, enjoyed the challenge of making the formula for the babies.
In approximately 1913, the milk business, with the important exception of the
baby formulas, was sold to Luick Dairy. Walter, his wife Emma, who was
also the bookkeeper, and two employees, Bertha Miller and Art Rochel,
continued to make individual formulas for babies. They would mix whole
milk, cream, and a sugar solution, (in varying amounts), into eight or nine
bottles of a few ounces each to be fed every few hours to newborns. Gradually
the number of bottles would decrease as the ounces increased. The formulas
would change according to the needs of the child. Art, the driver, would
deliver the milk to the homes.
My mother, Clara Schilling Packard, was born in 1906 to Walter and Emma
Schilling. At the time of her birth, her grandfather, Robert, still lived upstairs
with his housekeeper and “friend” Mrs. Ida Frederick, an attractive widow.
His wife, my great-grandmother, Clara Wehner Schilling, had died a few

months after my mother’s birth, but she and Robert had been separated for
some time. She lived with her sister, Mary Wehner, and a roomer and “friend”
Fred Meckelburg, a kind and devoted man who continued to bring chocolates
to Mary every Christmas for many years. After her sister’s death, Mary went
to live with Walter and Emma and helped to care for their child, Clara, just as
she had helped her sister Clara to care for her and Robert’s children many
years before.
My mother, Clara, tells me that as a young child she was sometime allowed to
go to the barn to see the horses. However, she was allowed to pet only one
gentle horse, Dolly. As she became older, she often helped in the milk
business. At first she would wash bottles, but as she became older, she took on
more difficult tasks. She also remembers her grandfather, who still lived
upstairs, going on trips. He sometimes went to Quincy, Illinois, perhaps to
visit his sister Ottielie and her family or his brother Herman’s several
children. One of his daughters, Alice, appears to have been quite close to her
Uncle Robert and sent several postcards from Illinois signed, “Your loving
niece, Alice.” Whether he ever visited his mother, Johanna Schultz Schilling,
who also lived in Quincy, is not known. He was involved in labor unions,
politics, and Spiritualism, and often spoke on those subjects. He also visited
Herman’s widow, Conradine, in Seward, Nebraska, shortly after a tornado in
1913 or 1914.
In 1913, when a large portions of the milk business was sold, the barn was no
longer needed, so it turned into a stucco covered flat. In 1915, Robert built
Benton Hall on the land between the house and the former barn.
Benton Hall was a center for Spiritualists. Robert, although not a medium,
was an ardent Spiritualist, and often gave lectures on the subject in the hall.
Séances were often conducted there, and a leading medium was Mrs. Augusta
Messer, who lived with her husband in a simple home in Milwaukee. Robert
was very involved with her, although through religion and/or a personal
relationship is not known. In any case, he built a large home for her and also
purchased lake property for her.
When Robert died in 1922, his funeral was held at Benton Hall. He provided
well for Mrs. Frederick in his will – she was allowed by Robert to continue to
live in the stucco flat for a few dollars a year. She lived there for some time,
until she married again. My mother said she was always kind to her.
Newspaper articles quote Spiritualists as wondering if Robert would contract
them from “the other side.” My mother reports that a medium named Mrs.
Schaefer gave the family a message sometime after Robert’s death. He was
supposed to have told them not to worry about anything, that it would all work
out. He also wondered why they didn’t go to any services in Benton Hall. He
ended by saying, “God bless you all.” My mother and her parents didn’t
believe any of it.
After Robert’s death, my grandparents and my mother continued to run the

milk business. However, when I was born, in 1939, to Clara Schilling Packard
(Tootie), and Theodore Edward (Ted) Packard, my grandfather, Walter, had
already died. After his death, in 1938, my grandmother, Emma Schilling,
(Nana), and my parents and my great-great aunt Mary Wehner, continued to
live in the downstairs portion of the house on 6th and Concordia. They also
continued to run the baby milk business which was located in the lower level.
So I grew up in the same house my great-grandfather had built. As a child I
remember washing and rinsing baby bottles, carrying racks of glass bottles to
the cooling tanks, and watching my mother and grandmother fill the formulas.
Sometimes I would ride with my father in the truck on his Saturday deliveries.
At times, I would wander into old Benton Hall. I would go through the rooms
of the lower level, through the garage, and open a door in the hall’s kitchen,
all empty and deserted. Through the windows I could see the small garden
with its peonies, bleeding heart, and lilies of the valley where my turtle
Smokey was buried. Then, down a few steps, and I would be in the hall itself.
The front portion was taken up by a print shop, but the stage was still there. In
the dim light and cobwebs, may chairs and lecterns could be seen. I was
scared and fascinated and used to
wonder about all the things that had
gone on during the séances
conducted there.
Later, when I was twelve, my
parents decided to move to
Wauwatosa, a nice suburb of
Milwaukee. The milk business was
discontinued. The house and other
rental units were kept for many
years as income property, but
finally they were sold as the area
became part of the central city. The
buildings were all torn down many
years ago and only a grassy area
remains.
There is no trace of the fine house,
the barn, the baby milk business, or
Benton Hall, but perhaps Robert,
Mrs. Augusta Messer (“whose ‘Spirit with his dedication to Spiritualism,
Phenomena Are Believed Genuine by Many
Milwaukeeans”) and Robert Schilling (“Who
would have been pleased. After all,
Champions the Cause of Spiritualism, and Who material things are only fleeting and
Sponsors Mrs. Messer”). (The Milwaukee of temporary value, but the spiritual
Sentinel, Sunday, 9 May 1920, p. 26.) will remain forever.
Walter died 21 February 1938, and was buried in Wanderer’s Rest Cemetery.249 His
widow, Emma, lived almost 20 years more, a dozen or so of those with her daughter Clara’s
family in the Schilling family home and dairy business at 6th and Concordia, along with
Walter’s aunt Mary Wehner.250 Emma, who died 20 January 1957, is buried with Walter.248
Clara Jeanette Schilling
Walter and Emma had but one child, Clara Jeanette (“Tootie”),251 born 19 February 1906
and raised in the house her grandfather Robert had built at 6th and Concordia.252 As a young
girl Clara worked in the family dairy business but by 1930 she was clerking for an electric
supply company,247 and that is probably how she met her husband to be, Theodore (“Ted”)
Edward Packard,253 an electric supply company messenger.254 Ted, who was born 26 March
1911, one of six children of James and Elizabeth (Brandel) Packard,255 and Clara were
wedded, between 1933, when Clara was listed under her maiden name in the Milwaukee City
Directory,147 and 1934, when Theodore was listed in the directory with Clara as his wife.256
The couple moved in with Clara’s widowed mother, raised one child, Barbara Mary
Packard,138and helped run the dairy business for a dozen or so years,250 before moving to
Wauwatosa. Ted died 21 October 1990;257 “Tootie,” 26 July 2009, at age 103. From her
obituary,
“Remember me with the good and happy times...there were many.”251
William Oscar Schilling
William Oscar, born 2 January 1879 in Ohio, and his brother Walter were twins.130,258 On
17 June 1903, William married Emily (“Millie”) L. Manegold,259 born January 1878, one of
six children (though two died young) of Henrietta (Bast)260 Manegold and her husband
August, an 1854 German immigrant and owner and operator of a stone quarry.261,262
For his entire life, William worked as a collector, cashier, and commercial representative
for the Wisconsin Telephone Company, a company founded in 1882 as part of the Bell
system,131,263,264,265,266 and was with the embryonic organization during a particularly
unsettled time. Following the expiration of patents held by Bell in 1893, fierce competition
with startup companies continued for years.267 Wisconsin Telephone, the largest telephone
company in the state, survived, even making it through the Great Depression (though a large
number of people were laid off in the early 1930s).
From at least 1918, William and Emily Schilling lived at 2909 N. Stowell Ave. (new
address numbering system) in Milwaukee258 It was there that they were living when they
died—William (who was still working for Wisconsin Telephone in 1940 at age 61) on 18
April 1942 and Emily on 8 March 1947.268,269 The couple, who are buried in Union Cemetery
in Milwaukee,268,269 left a single child, Millie.263
Millie Schilling
Around 1928 (from years married in the 1930 census), Millie, who was born 23
September 1904,270 wedded Harold J. Bruce, an investments broker and real estate
agent.271,272 Harold, born 19 March 1902,273 was one of two children of Fred R. and Ida M.
Bruce.274 Harold did well in his careers, moving into an expensive (for the time) $9000
home, where he and his family were living in 1940, with a live-in maid.272 Millie, who died
21 March 1987, and Harold, who died 15 May 1989, are buried alongside Harold’s parents in
Milwaukee’s Holy Cross Cemetery.154
The couple had two children, Harold William Bruce and James F. Bruce.271,275 Born 21
June 1929 in Milwaukee, Harold William, a retired chemical engineer, died 9 June 2004
when his experimental airplane crashed in Cloverdale, California.276 Despite 1700 hours
flight experience in the home-built plane, with trips to Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, the
Arctic Circle, Alaska, and the East Coast,277 Harold attempted to land the plane with a strong
tailwind, choosing the wrong runway and inadequately compensating for the wind.278 The
plane stalled and crashed. He left a wife and four children.
Robert Schilling Jr.
Robert Jr. was Robert Sr. and Clara’s youngest and only Wisconsin-born child. The 1900
census gives him a birth date of February 1883;131 however, his WW I draft registration,
considered more reliable, gives 28 February 1884.279 In 1903 or 1904,280 Robert married
Elizabeth A. Wirth,281 daughter of Katherine (or “Cathleen”)282 C. Wirth.280 Ages reported in
censuses and a burial record indicate that Elizabeth, who often went by “Lizzie,” was born in
Wisconsin in 1884.154,280,283 Over the years, Robert Jr. held several positions—millwright
(1905, 1918, 1920, 1940, at least part of the time for Interstate Milling),282,279,283,284 deputy
sheriff (1910),280 and maintenance man at a malt factory (1930),285 all in Milwaukee.
Robert, who died 31 May 1956,286 and Elizabeth, who died 9 January 1964, are buried in
Holy Cross Cemetery in Milwaukee.154 The couple left three children: Clara H., Vernon R.,
and Robert A. Schilling.283,285 A fourth child died young.280
Clara H. Schilling
Given her grandmother’s name, Clara, Robert and Elizabeth’s oldest surviving child,287
born 6 December 1910,288 married Henry Van Willigen281 sometime between 1930, when she
was shown as single in the federal census, and 1933, the year prior to the February birth of
their son James.289 Henry was born 8 May 1906290 in Holland, a child of Sander Sr. and
Marie Van Willigen, who immigrated to the United States in 1910.291 Sander Sr. was
president and founder of West Town Coal & Ice Co., Milwaukee,292 and in 1930 two of his
sons, Henry and Gilbert, were driving a truck for their father.291 The Van Willigen family
lived on North Thirty-first Street in Milwaukee,291 only three houses away from the
Schillings,285 making the unmarried Clara and Henry neighbors.
Once married, Henry went into the cartage business for himself, though his father may
well have been a client.293 Many of the Van Willigens were truck drivers, but whether all
were suitable for the job is questionable. On 9 August 1927, 8-year-old Raymond Striebel
was killed when he was run down in Milwaukee by an ice truck driven by Henry’s brother,
Sanders Van Willigen, Jr.294 On 4 November 1955, Herman L. Samuels died from injuries
received when Henry’s son, James, lost control of his truck in Wauwatosa, striking
Samuels’s car.295
In 1968 Henry and Clara purchased a lot at Lake Bernice Shores, in Fond du Lac County,
Wisconsin, and settled there.296 They both died in 1980, Henry on 12 August in Fond du Lac
County,297 and Clara on 6 December in Milwaukee.287 Clara and Henry are interred in
Milwaukee’s Resurrection Cemetery.154
Clara and Henry had two children, James H. Van Willigen and Mary Claire Van
Willigen.298 Born 26 February 1934, James Van Willigen died 17 February 2008 in
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, and is buried there in Forest Hill Cemetery.299
Vernon R. Schilling
In 1938 or 1939300 Vernon, born 15 October 1914,301 married Ruth Isleb, born 21 January
1918302 to Arthur W. and Anna K. Isleb of Milwaukee.303,304 Like his brother-in-law Henry
Van Willigen, Vernon was a Milwaukee truck driver.305 The couple eventually moved to
Germantown, Wisconsin, where they were living when Vernon died on 6 March 2001300 and
Ruth died 22 June 2011.306 The couple, who are interred in Wisconsin Memorial Park,
Brookfield, left one child, Suzanne.300,306
Robert A. Schilling
Robert and Elizabeth’s youngest child, Robert (“Bobby”),284,285 named after his father
and grandfather and born 24 April 1922, joined the U.S. Army Infantry on 4 February 1944,
four months before D-Day.307 His service was brief, well short of a year. He died in action on
16 (or 18)307 November 1944, while serving as a sergeant in Germany with the 115th Infantry
Regiment.281,308 It was on 16 November that the 115th and 175th Regiments of the 29th
Infantry Division began the drive to the Roer (German, “Rur”) River, and that action may
have cost Robert his life. Although a smoke screen was laid down before launching the
offensive, the 115th Regiment almost immediately came under withering fire. The German
defense was later said by a platoon leader to have been "the most intense and accurate small
arms fire ... I have ever encountered."309
Four years later, following a funeral at St. Anne Church on 8 November 1948,281
Robert’s body was reinterred in Milwaukee’s Holy Cross Cemetery, next to where his
parents would one day rest.154 He died unmarried.154
Smoke Pots along the Roer where Robert A. Schilling may have died during WW II. (Charles B.
MacDonald, The Last Offensive, Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, Washington,
DC, 1973, p. 149.)
Albert L. Schilling Robert Jacob Schilling

m Amalia C. Zimmermann m Lauretta J. Kohl
Evelyn C. Schilling
m Raymond J. Wagner
Edward W. Schilling
m Elizabeth M. Schiller
Edward A. Schilling
m Dorothea C. Utech
Nellie F. Schilling
Arthur William Timmerman
m William Timmerman
m Helen Jaraczewski
Clara Christine Wehner m George Henry West
1849-1906
Arthur Peter Schilling Harriet Schilling
m Kathryn A. Murphy m William G. Cavanaugh
Walter Leo Schilling Clara Jeanette Schilling

m Emma J. Weiss m Theodore Edward Packard
Robert Schilling Sr.
1843-1922
William Oscar Schilling Millie Schilling
m Emily L. Manegold m Harold J. Bruce
Clara H. Schilling
m Henry Van Willigen
Robert Schilling Jr. Vernon R. Schilling

m Elizabeth A. Wirth m Ruth Isleb
Robert A. Schilling
Bier und Brot Maria Wehner 45
Maria Wehner
Maria, Lorenz and Flora’s second child, is named in only one record, a list of children
given to the Bureau of Pensions as part of Lorenz’s pension application and dated 3 August
1898.9 Born 2 April 1851, Maria was likely deceased by 6 September 1855, when another of
Lorenz’s children was given the name “Maria” (later changed to “Mary”).
Questionnaire of 23 July 1898 from Lorenz’s Civil War pension file is our only record of an earlier Maria.
The Wehner story, like those of other families, contains tales of success and happiness, of
failure and despair, and of simply living, simply being. We find lives of adventure and
achievement—Lorenz and Nicholas crossing the Atlantic to an unknown land, Robert
Schilling driving the forces of labor and spirits, 9-year-old Mary Wehner (Lorenz's daughter)
escaping Confederates in a jolting horse-drawn wagon, George Wehner erecting his flour
mill, and Mary Wehner (daughter of Nicholas) creating her hotel. And lives ending in quiet
desperation—Bill Becker dying alone in a Waukegan motel room, Louis Naumann slashing
his wrist in an elegant Sainte Genevieve house, Frederick Nicholas Bolle drinking carbolic
acid in a St. Louis bar. But most poignant are the stories of those that never had a chance for
success or failure, for adventure, or for just a tranquil existence, those who passed from this
world too soon—Louisa Wehner resting in the Pilot Knob Catholic Cemetery alongside her
parents; the twins Joseph and John Wehner struck down as youngsters; Julia Elvina Wehner
riding her tricycle and then gone; and Maria Wehner, whose life is summed up by a single
sentence in a single document, “Maria born Aprill 2th 1851.”
Bier und Brot William Wehner 46
William Wehner
William., Lorenz’s only son, was born in February 1853, probably in Pilot Knob,310
where he was a miner and later a blacksmith.79,311 On 23 April 1881 (according to the
contemporary but unreliable Iron County Register)312 or 21 April 1881 (according to a
marriage certificate filed two months later),313 he married Henrietta Burgsmüller in Ironton.
The latter date is probably correct since 21 April (but with the wrong year, 1880) is given in
William’s obituary.314
Iron County Register

The Iron County Register newspaper is said above to be “unreliable” for good reason.
Hungry for news to fill blank pages, the editor, Eli D. Ake, copied multitudinous
articles from other Missouri newspapers, relegating local news, which he would have
had to write himself, to one or two columns. Local items seldom included anything of
interest, consisting of puzzling reports (“If Mike Dodson had been standing in front of
the REGISTER office, or opposite the courthouse, last Friday, he would have seen a
fruitful theme for discourse.”), trivialities (There is a crossing just north of Hughes’
store which sadly needs repairing. Will the proper person see to it?”), and
advertisements ($2.00 REWARD—for return of my cow.”).315 When they occurred,
reports of births, deaths, and marriages were incomplete, uninformative, and often
nameless: “There have been one birth, two marriages and one funeral in Ironton
during the past week. We also hear of another wedding, which, if the rumor prove
true, may be properly accredited to Arcadia—which is one of the suburbs of
Ironton.”315 Eli would promise to publish an obituary in a future edition and never do
so. He would partially typeset an article, forgetting to return to fill in the blanks:
“MARRIED — Wednesday morning, 19th inst., by Rev. — —, at — street, St. Louis,
our highly esteemed fellow-townsman, —, Esq., to Miss — — for some time a
resident of the city.”316 An increase from four to eight pages for the Register gave no
increase in local news. Legal notices were used to occupy the extra space. No
improvement was seen when Eli died and his son, with the same name, took over.
Henrietta was born 17 April 1859 in Germany,317 probably as “Henriette Burgsmüller,” a

name anglicized to “Henrietta Burgsmueller”318 and then to “Burgsmiller.”312 The
misspellings “Burgemuller”319 and “Burgemueller”313 are also seen.
According to the 1920 Census Henrietta immigrated in 1861;320 however, no name
resembling “Henrietta Burgsmüller” can be found in the 1870 federal census. In April 1879,
however, a 20-year-old “Henriette Burgsmuller” arrived in Philadelphia from Antwerp
aboard the S.S. Belgenland.321 Henriette, occupation “Laborer,” is listed as being an Italian
citizen (though her name is German), but her age is exactly that expected. The name is
sufficiently rare, that Henrietta and Henriette are probably the same person. Henrietta could
have immigrated in 1861 (presumably with her parents), returned to Europe, and re-entered
the U.S. in 1879. Or the 1861 date could simply be incorrect.
Main Street, Pilot Knob, early 1900s. The tall building at the right, “Rheinhart’s,” was once owned by
Frederick Kaths, uncle of Henrietta Burgsmüller. (Photograph courtesy of Iron County Genealogy Society.)
In 1880 Henrietta was boarding in Pilot Knob with her aunt and uncle, Dorothea and
Frederick Kaths, merchant, flour miller, and veteran of the Battle of Pilot Knob.322,323 Justice
of the Peace Franz Dinger married William and Henrietta at the Kaths residence in Pilot
Knob, according to the Iron County Register,312 or in Ironton, according to the marriage
certificate.313
The 1890 Iron County Personal Assessment shows 47-year-old William Wehner with one
head of cattle worth $10 and personal property valued at $30, for a total of only $40, well
below the Iron County median.84 But he is shown with real estate. On 10 June 1886 he had
purchased Lots 31 and 32, Block 3, for $275.324 There, at Lucas and Mulberry, he made his
Pilot Knob home.
Half way between St. Louis and
Ste. Genevieve, in Jefferson County,
where Plattin Creek flows into the
Mississippi River, sand ideal for
glass making is found, and there, in
1872, the American Plate Glass
Company began production.325 Due
to investment problems, off-color
glass, and employee sickness, this
first company failed, but a second
firm, the Crystal Plate Glass
Sand found at the mouth of Plattin Creek gave rise to Company, was soon started. In 1895,
Jefferson County’s booming glass industry (2012). the property, town, buildings, and
railroad right of way were sold to Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, PPG. In 1908, in Crystal
City, as the company town originally called “New Detroit” was now known, PPG built the
largest plate glass plant in the world.326 The early Missouri French Colonials had to import
their window glass at great expense from Europe; now Missouri was a major supplier.
To keep employees in line, the glass companies made Crystal City dry—no ardent spirits,
no wine, and, horrifying to Germans, no beer. But outside of town there developed a
collection of dram shops to
satisfy thirsty Crystal City
workers. Separating the
two communities was a
field of rocks and vines,
easily traversed when
sober, difficult when
stewed. Many a returning
inebriate found himself
(and it was, in those days,
solely “himself”) entangled
in the vines, and the
congregation of gin joints
became known as
“Tanglefoot.” Eventually,
searching for a more Postcard, PPG plant, Crystal City, Missouri, c1920. (Ancestry.com.)
acceptable designation, a finger blindly inserted into a Bible landed on “Portcius Festus,” the
name of a Judean procurator, and “Tanglefoot” became “Festus.”
The burgeoning PPG facility was a draw for workers, not only as PPG employees but as
service providers for the expanding twin communities of Crystal City and Festus. Many came
from Pilot Knob and Ste. Genevieve. Crystal City and Festus cemeteries are filled with Ste.
Genevieve names—Isenman, Jokerst, Naumann, Bauman, Donze, Grass, Oberle, and
Wehner, for William Wehner was one of those attracted. On 19 March 1909 he and Henrietta
sold their home at Lucas and Mulberry streets327 and made the 55-mile trip to Festus, where
William continued working as a blacksmith.328
William died 12 November 1916 of polycythemia and lobar pneumonia at Lutheran
Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.329 Henrietta lived another twenty-one years, residing with her
unmarried children320 until only Albert and Louise, neither of whom ever married,
remained330 and passing away on 20 November 1933 in Festus of chronic myocarditis and
arteriosclerosis.317 William
and Henrietta rest in
Presbyterian (also called
“Gamel”) Cemetery in
Festus, along with most
of their children.331,332
The couple had five
sons and three daughters,
most of whom, or their
spouses, worked for PPG.
Many of their
descendants still live in
the Crystal City and
Festus area.
Sand and rock are still mined along Plattin Creek (2012).
In 1991, on 1 June, the doors of the glass works were closed and locked, and on 30
December power was turned off. All vestiges of the Crystal City PPG facility, once the
world’s largest plate glass plant, have
vanished. Only a 250-acre field William Robert Wehner
enclosed by a chain link fence and a m Louisa A. H. A. Watters
multitude of memories remain.
Albert Frank Wehner
William Robert Wehner
On 26 July 1905,333 William
Louise H. Wehner
Robert, born 4 May 1882 in Pilot
334
Knob and the eldest of William and
Henrietta’s children, wedded an Iron Frederick Lawrence Wehner
m Grace Minnie Noce
County girl with the prodigious name William Wehner
“Louisa Anna Henriette Albertina Henrietta Burgsmüller Arthur Julius Wehner
Watters” (though she always went by m Sylvia Jane Cashion
“Mary”), a daughter of Edwin O. and
Johanna Eleanor Maria (Amelung) Emma Edith Wehner
Watters. 319
H. W. Schlesselmann, m Joseph Hill White Jr.
minister of the Pilot Knob German
Frank Joseph Wehner
Evangelical Lutheran Church,
m Cora Josephine Kiefer
“Immanuel,” conducted the ceremony.
Pilot Knob’s Immanuel Lutheran
Dora Ann Wehner
Church, which had served as a m Franklin Charles Hoeckele
makeshift hospital and possibly a m Clytus V. Davis
Union Army meeting place during the
Battle of Pilot Knob, was Louisa’s family’s church. On 1 May 1887 Louisa was baptized at
Immanuel, as had been her mother, Johanna, on 25 December 1863 (before the building was
completed in 1864).319 Her grandparents Christian and Johanna (Bodenstein) Amelung were
members from the congregation’s beginning.335,336
Born 5 January 1887,337 Louisa was probably named, in part, after her mother’s sister
Louisa Justine Amelung, who, just two months earlier, had died sorely grieved at the tender
age of 16:338
“She was fair amongst the fairest
With a heart so kind and true
And the brightest smile and whereas
is a diamond kissed with dew.
Radiant with grace and beauty
with sweet heaven in her soft eyes
like a prayer of love and duty
she has ascended to the skies.”
A salesman’s position311 failed to keep William Robert in Pilot Knob. Around 1908 he
and Louisa, along with his in-laws and (possibly a little later) parents, moved to Festus.339
There William first worked as a store clerk340 and then joined PPG,341 the area’s principal
employer.
In May 1913 Octavia, Mary

Leona, and Albert Wehner,
grandchildren of Lorenz’s brother
Nicholas, traveled from Ste.
Genevieve to visit “at Mr. William
Wehner’s,” but whether “William”
was their second cousin William
Robert or his father is uncertain.342
Nevertheless, the trip shows that, at
the time, descendants of Lorenz were
still in touch with descendants of
Nicholas. Today, few Jefferson
County Wehners and few Ste.
Genevieve Wehners know how they
Immanuel (German) Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pilot are connected.
Knob, the Watters and Amelung family church. Here In 1928 William was diagnosed
combatants died and, it is claimed, Union soldiers plotted with coronary thrombosis,343 possibly
during the Civil War. (Immanuel, Lutherans OnLine.) the reason he was not working at the
time of the 1930 census.344 The heart
problem ended William’s life on 9 January 1934, at age fifty-one.343
Continuing to live with her unmarried children,345 the young widow Louisa waited
nineteen years before marrying again, wedding Benjamin C. Rutherford of Granite City,
Illinois, in Festus on 31 July 1953.346
Benjamin’s first wife had been Louisa’s
cousin, Edith Amelung (daughter of William
Amelung and Granddaughter of Christian
Amelung of Pilot Knob).347 Benjamin died in
October 1962348 and Louisa, 5 August 1971.339
Louisa and William are buried in Festus’s
Presbyterian (Gamel) Cemetery.349,350 Both
her cemetery marker and obituary339 give
Louisa’s name as “Wehner,” rather than
“Rutherford.”
William and Louisa left four children339
who lived to adulthood—William Edwin
(baptized “Wilhelm Edwin”),319 Bernard E.,344 Marker for infant sons of William and Louisa,
Presbyterian Cemetery, Festus (Find a Grave.)
Kathleen R. (also called “Katherine” and
351 341
Catharine”344), and Imogene Henrietta.344,352 A simple stone in the Presbyterian Cemetery

tells of at least two more unnamed sons, probably twins, who died as infants.353
William Edwin Wehner
William Edwin, William Robert and Louisa’s oldest surviving child, born 8 October 1906
in Pilot Knob and baptized 4 November 1906 at Immanuel (German) Evangelical Lutheran
Church,319 was married twice. Sometime between 1927 and 1929 (calculated from ages at
first marriage in the 1930 census, when the couple was living with William’s parents)344 in
Jefferson County, he married Georgia Pauline Harris,354 one of seven children of Bertha
Edna (Williams)355 and Henry Walter Harris,356 a printer for the Jefferson County
Republican, De Soto, Missouri.357
Born 15 August 1909, Georgia died very young, on 14 April 1934 in De Soto, of
pernicious anemia,354 a condition easily treatable today, leaving two children, Billie Jeanne
Wehner (sometimes “Billy Jean”)358,359 and William Robert Wehner.360,361 Following
Georgia’s death, Billy Jeanne (and her widowed father) continue living at Louisa’s home in
Festus,345 but William Robert went to live with his grandparents Henry and Bertha Harris in
De Soto.362
William Edwin Wehner died in Shreveport, Louisiana, on 19 November 1972, after
living over eleven years in Many, Louisiana, with his second wife Laura J.360 The widowed
Laura lived out her life in Shreveport, where she died 11 July 2005.363
Bernard E. Wehner
Bernard E. (middle name “Elmer”
according to an unreferenced claim in a
secondary source)364 was born 2 May
1912,365 after his parents had moved to
Festus. He worked for PPG in Crystal
City366,345 and, on 1 December 1942,
enlisted in the U.S. Army at Jefferson
Barracks, Missouri. Bernard served as a
corporal in the 754th Tank Battalion in
World War II,367 a unit that fought in
Two light tanks, 754th Battalion, Bernard Wehner’s outfit, the Pacific. Bernard, who died 4 June
Bougainville, 9 March 1944. (John Miller, Jr., Cartwheel: 1971, is buried in Festus’s Presbyterian
The Reduction of Rabaul, Office of the Chief of Military (Gamel) Cemetery.367 There is no
History, Dept. of the Army, Washington, DC, 1959, p. 362.) indication that he ever married.
Kathleen R. Wehner
On 22 February 1936 in St. Louis, Kathleen, born 21 October 1915,368 married Orville
Ferguson, born 23 February 1913,369 of Herculaneum, Missouri.370 The ceremony was
conducted by F. W. Grampp, Pastor, Kingdom House, Methodist Episcopal Church South,
St. Louis. Kingdom House was a Methodist settlement house started in 1902 and has now
developed into a major social services agency. Whether the couple was actually married at
Kingdom House is uncertain. That Kingdom House was founded by William Sloan, a shoe
company executive concerned for the well-being of his employees and that Orville worked in
a shoe factory in Festus (probably Milius Shoe Factory) for low pay (only $800 during
1939)371 may indicate a connection between Orville and Kingdom House.
Orville was one of five children372,373 of Lawrence Monroe and Margaret Ann (Cook)
Ferguson,374 who were married 23 October 1906 at Bonne Terre, St. Francois County,
Missouri.375 Margaret, usually called “Maggie,” was Lawrence’s second wife. His first
marriage took place at a young age. Both he and his first bride, Florence Harris, required
parental approval before being married on Christmas day in 1901 at Florence’s home.376 Less
than six years elapsed before Lawrence married Margaret. And by 1930 he married a third
time giving Orville a stepmother, Emma, and three new siblings from Emma’s earlier
marriage.373
Kathleen, who died 6 November 1995, and Orville, who died 21 November 1986, rest in
Presbyterian (Gamel) Cemetery, Festus, Missouri.377 The couple had three children: Orville
Clark Ferguson;378,371 Paul Robert Ferguson,371,379 born 2 March 1940, died 11 February
2001;380 and Glenn Lee Ferguson, born 14 May 1943, died of pneumonia as an infant 4
August 1944.381
Imogene Henrietta Wehner
On 2 October 1946, Imogene married Edgar Franklin Oldham in Festus, Missouri.382
Edgar, born 27 September 1925,383 was one of eight children384,385 of John R. Oldham, a 33-
year employee of Pittsburg Plate Glass Company,386 and Virgie (sometimes “Vergie”) Ann
Williams.387 Edgar, while a resident of Festus, died 23 February 2004.383
Albert Frank Wehner
Albert Frank was born 7 September
1883388 in Pilot Knob, where, in 1900 at
age 17, he was already working as a
blacksmith, his father’s occupation.311
After arriving in Festus with his parents,
he was first employed as a machinist by
PPG328,320 and then as a superintendent of
the Festus city water works.330
Following the death of his parents,
Albert continued living in the family
Postcard, Festus, Missouri, c1920. (Ancestry.com.)
home at 730 Warne Street (originally
numbered “830”) with his sister Louise while maintaining his position of water works
superintendent.389 In 1940 Albert and Louise were renting part of the house to their niece
Dorothy (Hoeckele) Biehle and her husband, Raymond.390
Always a bachelor, Albert, who died 25 February 1962 while still living at the Warne
Street address,391 rests alongside his parents and his sister Louise in Festus’s Presbyterian
Cemetery. The markers are labeled “FATHER,” “MOTHER,” “DAUGHTER,” “SON.”392
Louise H. Wehner
Although she was baptized as “Louisa” at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Pilot Knob,86
William and Henrietta’s oldest daughter used the name “Louise” throughout her life. Born in
Pilot Knob on 14 March 1885318 (her SSDI gives an incorrect birth year of 1886),393 Louise
lived with her parents until their deaths, working for a while as a saleslady for retail
goods.328,320,330 After her parents died, Louise continued living in the family home at 730
Warne Street with her bachelor brother Albert, having given up her position in sales to serve
as the family housekeeper.389 Louise, who appears in all documents under her maiden name,
never married. She died 15 August 1966393 and is buried with her parents in Festus’s
Presbyterian (Gamel) Cemetery.394
Frederick Lawrence Wehner
Frederick (“Fred”)328,320 Lawrence’s birth date is 11 August 1886 in his WW I draft
registration,395 death certificate,396 and obituary,397 but 12 August 1886 in records of St.
Mary’s Catholic Church, Pilot Knob.86 The latter date is slightly less reliable since Fred was
present at the draft registration, and church records were often completed days after an event.
After arriving in Festus, Fred worked at PPG from 1906 to 1908397 and returned there in
1912, after a short stint as a railroad agent.398 He worked at PPG the rest of his life, usually as
a machinist.397
On 20 November 1909 Frederick married Grace Minnie Noce,399 born 17 May 1888400 in
Festus to Charles David and Sarah Jane (McKee) Noce.401,402 The family name, Italian for
“walnut,” was pronounced “Nōchā,” though the pronunciation was sometimes anglicized to
“Nōsā” or even “Nōs.” Sarah Jane had been married once before. Born 19 March 1848,403
she was not quite 16 on 6 March 1864, when she married James M. Porter in Jefferson
County, Missouri.404 By 1870, however, she was back living with her parents, Seth G. and
Anza Melvina (Jones) McKee,405 under her maiden name.406 Though listed as single in the
1870 census,406 Sarah is shown as widowed or divorced in the 1880 census, again with her
maiden name.407
Sarah married her second husband, Charles Noce, a Jefferson County farmer,408,409 on 18
February 1881 in that county.410 Charles was the son of Rolando and Pesquina (Zerga) Noce,
Italian immigrants (1847),411 whose full names are given in the death certificate of Charles’s
sister, Mary Ann (Noce) Barsotti.412 On 15 April 1853 Rolando purchased a total of 320
acres in Plattin Township, just south of Festus, Missouri,413 but farmed his new property only
four years. He died on 17 May 1857 and was laid to rest in his own land, the first burial in
the Noce Family Cemetery.414 Until his marriage, Charles lived with his widowed mother,
farming the Plattin Township land.408,409 When Pasquina died on 25 May 1907, she was laid
alongside her husband in the family cemetery.414
Like her first marriage, which may have ended in divorce, Sarah’s second marriage was
brief. Grace Noce was just six when her father, Charles, died in 1894,415 leaving her mother
with five children, the oldest only twelve.401
Grace and Fred Wehner lived out their lives in Festus, the later years at 616 N. Mill
Street, only a couple of blocks from 730 Warne Street, where Fred’s brother Frank and sister
Louise lived.416 Frederick died suddenly on 9 September 1940417,418 of cardiac arrest while
mowing his lawn.396,397 Grace lived another thirty-two years, supporting herself by working
at the PPG Industries Restaurant, dying 17 August 1972 at the Jefferson Memorial Hospital
in Festus.401 She and Fred are buried in the local Presbyterian (Gamel) Cemetery. The couple
had two children, Durward Albert and Frederick R.417,418
Durward Albert Wehner
Born 23 January 1911 in Festus,419,420 Durward was a grocery store salesman418 before
joining PPG.397,416 From 1942 to 1945 he served in the U.S. Naval Reserve, part of the time
on the Wasp Aircraft Carrier.421,422 On 19 November 1943 Durward wedded Mary Chmela
(pronounced “ka-mela,” from “chmel,” Czech for hops),423 another PPG employee.424 Mary’s
parents, Hermina Debeli and Ladislav Chmela immigrated from Czechoslovakia, but their
immigration dates are both confused and confusing. A synopsis of Ladislav’s early days
appears in his obituary in the PPG employees’ magazine, Glass Rays:424
He was born in Czecho-Slovakia on June 27, 1880, and came to America
in 1902. He first made his home in Kittanning, Pa., and worked in the Ford
City factory of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company.
In 1905 he was married to Miss Hermine Debeli of Kittanning, who had
recently come to America from Czecho-Slovakia.
In 1909 he was transferred by the company to Crystal City, where he

worked in the Grinding and Polishing department until he was compelled to
quit work because of the recent illness, which resulted in his death.
Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Chmela. Three daughters and one
son were born in America, and one daughter, Mary in Czecho-Slovakia, while
they were visiting their native land.
In 1912 Mr. Chmela also returned to Czecho-Slovakia for a visit of eleven
months.
Though the Glass Ray account seems
straight forward, it conflicts with other
records. The 1910 U.S. census shows a 29-
year-old “Ladasluf” Chmela from
Slovakia, working for Federal Glass and
living as a boarder in LaSalle County,
Illinois.425 Correct are the name (even if
misspelled), age, birthplace, and
occupation (although Federal Glass made The passenger manifest for a 1920 trip by Hermina
high quality bottles and glasses rather than Chmela and her children on this ship, the SS
plate glass). But there are two serious Lapland, raises several questions. (Ancestry.com.)
problems—the census gives an
immigration date of 1909 and Ladislav is listed as single. Since the household census was
taken on 15 April 1910, a Friday and a work day, and since no members of Ladislav’s family
were present (they are missing from the 1910 census), the information was likely supplied by
an unreliable informant. Ladislav’s wife and children may have been in Slovakia, where
family members seem to have spent a lot of time, despite travel expenses. The passenger
manifest for the SS Lapland arriving in New York 17 July 1920 from Antwerp, Belgium,
lists Hermina “Chnnelia” and four children, Anna, Julia, Hermina, and Mary. There is no
doubt that this is Hermina the wife of Ladislav since “Ladislaw” of Crystal City, Missouri, is
named as Hermina’s husband and Adam “Debely” is given as her father.426 But the manifest
states that all four children were born in Slovakia and that this is the first trip to the United
States by all members of the party. Finally, the 1930 Crystal City census, which shows
Ladislav and Hermina and three children still at home—Julia, Mary, and Edward (who was
born in Missouri)427—gives the birthplace of Ladislav, Hermina, Julia, and Mary as
Czechoslovakia (though “Pennsylvania” appears to have been overwritten for Julia) and the
year of immigration as 1920 for Hermina, Julia, and Mary and 1913 for Ladislav. The 1920
census for Anna, the oldest of the five children and by 1920 the wife of Frank Patek, gives
Pennsylvania as her birthplace.428 All in all, it appears that Ladislav’s Glass Ray obituary
gives the most correct version of immigrations and birthplaces, but the conflicts are
unsettling.
Following their marriage, Durward and Mary lived in Crystal City, with the first few
years interrupted by Durward’s military service. Durward worked for PPG until his death on
5 November 1957 of lobar pneumonia and coronary disease at the very young age of forty-
six.420 Mary, who had been born 30 December 1912, lived almost forty-five years as a
widow, passing away on 6 February 2002.429 The couple are buried in Sacred Heart
Cemetery in Crystal City, although only Durward’s grave is marked.430 They had one child,
Timothy D. Wehner.431
Frederick R. Wehner
Fred Jr., the younger son, born 6 December 1915 in Festus, Missouri,432,433 worked for
Dorsey’s drugstore in Festus for about two years before joining his father and brother at PPG
in 1937.433 It was at PPG that he spent the rest of his working life except for a hiatus in 1938
employed by a clothing store.431 On 5 January 1941 at Festus, Fred Jr. married Glenda A.
Krodinger, born 20 October 1915 to John B. and Minnie Krodinger.434,435 The marriage was
Glenda’s second. On 22 June 1935 she had married Lloyd Joseph Hubbard at Bonne Terre in
St. Francois County, a marriage that apparently ended in divorce, since Lloyd lived until
1998.436 Fred passed away in Festus on 6 November 1998;431 Glenda, on 18 June 2001.437
Their obituaries mention no children.431,437
Arthur Julius Wehner
Arthur Julius (“Art”)438 was born 27 March 1888 in Pilot Knob439 and baptized there at
St. Mary’s Our Lady of Help Mission Church seven weeks later on 13 May 1888.86 Like
most of his family, he worked for PPG, joining the company on 1 June 1904 and working in
a variety of jobs until his retirement.328,320,438,439 During World War I Arthur served in the
U.S. Army, fighting in the Battle of Argonne Forest. The story of his service was related in
the November 1937 issue of the PPG employee’s magazine, Glass Rays.438
On September 17, 1917, Mr. Wehner enlisted in the army at Camp
Funston, Kansas. From there he went to Camp Doniphan, Okla., where he was
assigned to Battery C of the 129th Field Artillery. On May 10, he and the rest
of “the boys” entrained for Camp Mills, N. Y., and arrived there May 14. On
May 20 when they received orders to sail, they marched to Conard Piers and
there embarked on the “Saxony” for the trip to France. On May 23 they
viewed the ruins of the … city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. This city had been the
scene of the worst explosion of ammunition during the entire war.
After leaving Halifax, they landed at Tilbury Docks, London, England. On
the same day, June 5th, they crossed the English channel, which was at that
time so dangerous that the officers stood guard during their journey across it.
They were the first American troops to arrive at Andard where they received
their guns for the warfare that was to follow. After having their colors blessed
at a cathedral in a small town near Andard, they proceeded to Camp
Coctquidan, the largest Artillery camp in France, to qualify before going to
the front.
On August 17, they started their first march to the front. They arrived at
Kruth, Alsace-Lorraine, August 24. After spending the night in barns there,
they proceeded to the Vosges Mountains where they went into position. That
night the Germans sent over a heavy barrage of shrapnel and other shells and
the American soldiers found themselves engaged in their first battle of the
war.
On August 29, they got orders to leave and as they passed the town of
Haas, they were halted by a sentry who, discovering their mission, informed
them that they were heading into German lines. Had it not been for the heavy
fog which was widespread that night, the American soldiers would
undoubtedly have encountered difficulty with the enemy.
After this adventure, the column of soldiers went back to Kruth and then
to Vagney where they rested three days before going to Remiremont. From
there their journey took them through Bayou, Coyvillers, Nancy, the second
largest city in France, and St. Mihiel, where they witnessed the greatest
artillery duels the world has ever known.
On September 15,
they left St. Mihiel
and rested in a
nearby forest. After
leaving the forest
they went to Gery,
from which place
they started their
march for the greatest
American battle of
the war the battle of
Argonne forest. The American gunners battle through the Argonne
American troops Forest. (National Archives.)
stationed themselves
on Hill 290 for the battle. On September 26 at 1:00 a. m. the firing began, with
the German guns continuing their fire until 4:00 a. m. Twenty minutes later
the American guns were started, and at 7:20 a. m., when the guns ceased, two
thousand, five hundred rounds of ammunition had been fired.
The American troops then thought it wise to advanced. They went as far as
Bourcilles where their advance was stopped by the unparalleled destruction of
roads and bridges encountered here. The next morning, however, they were
able to advance to Charpentry, an underground city which the Germans had
held for four years. In six hours the Americans captured the Germans’
valuable possessions and made good use of the supplies found therein.
On the night of September 27 the Germans fired heavily on U.S. troops,
and Mr. Wehner from his position in the dugout narrowly escaped being
blown to bits by a German bomb which, lucky for him, turned out to be a “dud.”
When a German shell accidentally set off the American fuses, causing a
gigantic explosion, Mr. Wehner and his comrades abandoned their dugout and
made their way to the kitchen not far away. In this short distance, however,
Mr. Wehner fell into a shell hole and after finally making his way out of it,
had some difficulty in finding the kitchen. He encountered other hazardous
experiences during this battle.
The next morning they left their position and retired to a hill until nightfall
when they were again ordered to their guns. The orders were to “stand by your
guns if you have to use your pistols.” This command so frightened Mr.
Wehner that he claims his hair stood on end, raising the helmet off his head.
On October 15, the members of the American army left Charpentry for the
Woevre sector of the famous Verdun front. They pitched camp at Fort
Rozellier until November 9. They then advanced to a position from which
they fired on the city of Ettain until the end of the war.
After parades and celebrations of all sorts the troops embarked from Brest, France,
for their native America. They were discharged May 6, 1919, at Camp Funston.
Camp Funston, 1917, where Arthur started and ended his WW I Army service. (Library of Congress.)
On 2 August 1922 in St. Louis, Arthur Wehner of Festus and Sylvia J. Cashion of Cape
Girardeau were married before a justice of the peace.440 Sylvia, born 20 April 1904,441 was
one of seven children of Charles R. and Violet M. (Blaylock) Cashion.442
Arthur, who died 27 May 1967,443 and Sylvia, who died 8 February 1998,444 are interred
in Rose Lawn Memorial Gardens in Crystal City.445 The couple had four children, Arthur,
Normalee, Maxine, and Gary,438,446,447,448 all but Arthur drawn to jobs in Georgia.
Arthur Ward Wehner
Arthur, born 9 July 1923,449 enlisted in the U.S. Army on 19 January 1943 at Jefferson
Barracks, Missouri.450 He then served in the U.S. Air Force, reaching the rank of Lieutenant
Colonel before retiring.451 On 7 May 1945,452 he married Nadine Laverne Abernathy, born 9
January 1924 to Adolph William (a PPG employee)453 and Louise Mary (Boyer)
Abernathy.454 While a resident of Festus, Arthur died 17 June 2001,448 and Nadine, 16
December 2010.455 They rest in Crystal City’s Sacred Heart Cemetery under a single marker
formed of joined red stone hearts, with engraved, entwined wedding rings.452 They had a
single child, Brian.448,454
Normalee Annabelle Wehner
Born 30 October 1927,456 Normalee married Ernest J. Siracusa, a WW II veteran,457 in a
1951 wedding in Randolph County, Arkansas.458 Although the record of his WW II
enlistment on 15 December 1942 at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, states that he was from
Phelps County, Missouri,457 Ernest was, in fact, raised in Crystal City, a son of Italian-born,
PPG worker Stefano Siracusa459 (who always went by “Sam”) and Romania-born Sylvia
(Martin)460 Siracusa (“Silvia Martinie” before the name was Americanized).461,462
Normalee passed away as this book was being written, on 9 January 2012, while she and
Ernest were residents of Marietta, Georgia, leaving four children, Jim, Gregory, Susan, and
Lori.463 Normalee is interred in Georgia National Cemetery, Canton, Georgia.456
Maxine V. Wehner
Born in 1930,464 Maxine, wife of Gene Anderson,465 passed away 9 July 1977466 and rests
in Kennesaw Memorial Park, Marietta, Georgia.464 She had one son, Doug.465
Gary L. Wehner
The last born of Arthur and Sylvia’s children,467 Gary lives (2013) in the town of Smyrna
in Cobb County, Georgia.465 His wife, Sandra J. (Annon) Wehner, passed away on 26 March
2003.465,468
Emma Edith Wehner

Emma Edith Wehner,469 born 25
November 1889 in Pilot Knob,470 was
the only child of William and Henrietta
who did not end up in Jefferson
County, Missouri. If she accompanied
her parents to Festus, she did not stay
long. She had more exciting things in
mind. In 1908 and 1909 Emma taught
school in Iron County, receiving thirty
dollars for five months’ service.471 She
then headed to St. Louis, where in 1910
she was a governess, boarding with
teachers Allison and Sarah Gaines.472
By 1918 Emma was following her true
calling. In that year, as a Reserve Nurse
in the Army Nurse Corps, she was
assigned to the camp hospital in Emma worked at the Fort Stanton Merchant Marine
Douglas, Arizona.473 tuberculosis hospital. (2011 photo by Keith Krejci.)
By 1920, following war’s end, Emma was
working at the Fort Stanton, New Mexico, Marine
Hospital, a facility operated by the Public Health
Service (PHS) to care for Merchant Marines
suffering from tuberculosis. This position likely
allowed her to meet her husband to be, Joseph
Hill White Jr., to whom she was married 1
December 1921.474
Joseph Jr.’s biography has been published in
History of Arizona.474 He was born 20 December
1894 in New York City to Emily Hurt
(Humber)475 and Joseph White Sr. In 1884 Joseph
Sr. had entered the Marine Hospital Service, later
known as the PHS, and was appointed Assistant
Surgeon General, a position he held until 1923.
This gave cause to visit the Fort Stanton facility,
with his son likely in tow. The elder Joseph
traveled throughout the world, giving his address
in a 1918 passport application as “[at] large” and
the purpose of his trip to “Eradicate yellow fever”
in Guatemala.476
Joseph Jr. was educated at Bingham Military
Academy, Asheville, North Carolina, and at the
Joseph Hill White Sr., 1925. (History University of Virginia, afterwards serving as Vice
of Medicine, National Library of
Counsel in the United States Consulate Service in
Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.)
Brazil. He enlisted for military service in 1917,
but was honorably discharged the same year due to a health problem. Following his marriage,
Joseph Jr. obtained a law degree from the University of Denver in 1925 and, thereafter,
served as a lawyer in both general practice and public service.
Emma and Joseph lived in New Mexico (possibly at Fort Stanton); Denver, Colorado
(where Joseph Jr. got his law degree); Holbrook, Arizona (where Joseph served as Assistant
District Attorney for Navajo County);474 Douglas, Arizona;479 and in the Cleveland Park
neighborhood, District of Columbia.482 Preceding his father in death by a year (Joseph White
Sr. died 28 February 1953),477 Joseph Jr. died 20 January 1952 and Emma, 15 June 1983.469
The couple share a single stone in Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.469 Both
the marker and Emma’s SSDI give a birth year of 1891, rather than 1889. Over the years
Emma tended to subtract years from her age, possibly because she was five years older than
her husband. The largest subtraction was in the 1940 census, where her age gave a birth year
of 1898 or 1899.478
The couple had two children, Joseph Hill White III and Edith M. White.
Joseph Hill White III
Joseph III was born in New Mexico in 1922 or 1923.479 He eventually went east with his
parents, where on 24 April 1954, in Charleston, West Virginia, he married a Charleston girl,
Wilma Joan Greenleaf, daughter of Virgil Eugene Greenleaf.480,481
Edith M. White
Edith was born in Denver on 14 May
1924,482 but spent much of her childhood
and her teenage years in Cleveland Park area
of Washington, DC, where her family had
moved in 1933.483 She and her parents
attended the Church of the Pilgrims, a
Washington DC Southern Presbyterian
Church, which Edith’s grandfather Joseph
Hill White Sr. had helped found. It was there
that she met her future husband, Lester E.
Hoblin, a native of Yonkers, New York,
born 10 July 1920,484 to Lester G. and Hazel
B. Hoblin.485 When they met, Lester Jr. was
in Washington working for the U.S. Naval
Ordnance Laboratory.486
After graduating from George “Mrs. Edith M. Hoblin, chief illustrator for a unit of
Washington University and University of the Dept. of Agriculture, holds real apple beside one
Missouri,483 Edith became an artist and of the painted models she makes for use as standards
sculptor for the Department of Agriculture, to be used by Federal graders.” (“Food for Thought,”
The Pittsburgh Press, Sunday, 10 Apr 1960, p. 83.)
creating replicas of fruits and vegetables for
use by inspectors in grading produce.487 Her father’s position as an attorney for the
Department of Agriculture may have given her the connection needed to land the job.478
Lester died 31 March 1982;488 Edith passed away 8 November 2004.482 The couple, who
are buried under a single stone in Columbia Gardens Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia,488 left
two children, Mark S. Hoblin and Andrea Hoblin.483
Frank Joseph Wehner

Frank Joseph Wehner was
born 18 August 1891 in the
town of De Soto, Jefferson
County, Missouri,489,490 where
his family lived for a short
time before returning to Pilot
Knob.438 Following a final
move to Festus, Frank first
worked as a laborer.328 On 29
November 1917, at Sacred
Heart Church, Crystal City, he
married Cora Josephine
491,492
Kiefer.
Cora493 was one of three
children of Joseph and Anna
(often “Annie”) Katie (Stoll)
Kiefer, who were married 29 Strung along a railroad track, Frank Wehner’s birthplace, De
July 1890 in the village of Soto, Missouri, has always been a railroad town. In 1859 the
River aux Vases, Ste. St. Louis Iron Mountain Railroad built a depot there and
Genevieve County.494 The later, renamed “Missouri Pacific,” had a railcar repair center.
marriage was exceedingly Today Union Pacific is the primary employer (2011).
brief. Joseph’s youngest child,
Cora, was born 14 December 1899 in Festus,495,496 where Joseph and Anna had established
their home, but in the 1900 census Anna appears as a widow and “Wash woman” with three
children—“John” (John William), “Liccie” (Lizzie M), and “Cora” (Cora Josephine).497
About 1906498 Anna married John Keevins, who also appears as a widower in the 1900
Festus census.499 His previous marriage (the 1910 census indicates that he had an even earlier
marriage)498 on 1 October 1894 to Eveline Luther500 had been even shorter than Anna’s. Cora
eventually ended up with three new siblings—Thomas E. Keevins, a son of John Keevin’s
marriage with Eveline, and Ella and William (“Willie”) Keevins, offspring of John’s
marriage with Anna.498,501
Cora’s mother, Anna, was illiterate,497,498,501 as were Anna’s parents,502 Michael (“Mike”)
Stoll (sometimes “Stohl”), born in Germany,503 and Philomina (Staab) Stoll, born in Ste.
Genevieve.504 Coupled with her father’s accent, illiteracy accounts for Philomina being
named in various documents as “Philomenia,” “Philopena,” “Philomen,” “Philomena,”
“Philomine,” “Philippine,” “Philobina,” and “Philomene.” The name used here, “Philomina,”
is found on her grave marker.505
Like most of his siblings, Frank ended up working for PPG, starting in 1918506 and
advancing from laborer to machinist helper to electrician.507,508,509 But the PPG employees’
magazine, Glass Rays reported a number of absences due to sickness. In the 27 April 1939
issue we read, “Frank Wehner is taking his vacation this week. Frank has been unable to
work for the past two months, but we expect him to be back on the job next week.”510 The
absences were likely unpaid. In the 1930s businesses were not known for their largesse.
Frank’s work breaks may have

been emptying the family coffers. At
the time Cora was working at the local
shoe factory,511 and daughter Lucille
was working for PPG as a
“trademarker,” for a rather miserable
income, $440 for forty weeks work in
1939, though the work may have been
part time.511
Despite a weak constitution, Frank
lived to age sixty-four, dying of
bronchogenic carcinoma (lung cancer),
7 March 1956 at his home on 19 Ryan
Street in Festus,506,512 the family home
On 29 July 1890, Cora’s parents were married at Saints for over twenty years.511 Cora lived
Philip and James Church, River Aux Vases (2006). another three decades, dying 20
November 1987.513 The couple are
buried in Rose Lawn Memorial Gardens, Crystal City.445
Frank and Cora Wehner had five children—Elinore Lorraine, Lucille Frances, Frank
Leon, Paul J., and Robert.507,492,511 All but Paul are now deceased.
Elinore Lorraine Wehner
Elinore (at times, mistakenly, “Eleanor”) Lorraine was born
20 May 1918 in Festus492 and there on 23 October 1937 was
wedded to Phillip (sometimes “Philip”) Edward Miller by
Catholic priest J. B. Roetger.514 Born 1 November 1914,515 Phillip
was one of at least six children of Edward S. (a Festus
confectionary operator) and Rachel L. (Lilly) Miller.516,517
Elinore and Phillip began married life renting part of a house
from Elinore’s grandmother Anna (Stoll) Keevins,518 while
Phillip worked for PPG, though the work appears at times to have
been irregular.519 Phillip died 30 November 1993515 and Elinore
passed away 6 September 2011, while this book was being
written.520 The couple had three children, Robert C. Miller, Elinore L. Wehner. (Vinyard
Joseph E. Miller, and Vincent P. Miller.492 Fu n era l Ho m e, Fe s tu s .)
Lucille Frances Wehner

Lucille Frances, born 1 April 1920,521 worked for a while at PPG511 before marrying
Jesse Howard LaRose on 6 August 1949 in Festus, Missouri.522 Jesse, born 17 May 1918,523
was one of two sons of Mort Harrison and Gertrude Mary (Moon) LaRose,524,525,526 a tragic
family.
The evening of 5 August 1922, at Sulphur Springs, Missouri, about ten miles north of
Crystal City, a local Missouri Pacific train stopped to take on water. Around the curve came a
second Missouri Pacific, a fast express running from Texas to St. Louis. Ignoring signals, the
express engineer drove into the standing local on the Glaize Creek bridge. The rear coach
was hurled down the embankment. The next two cars were crushed and splintered. The
fourth tumbled down the incline north of the creek. The locomotive plowed through more
than half the length of the
halted train and came to rest
across the trestle, steel girders
bent around its forward end and
splinters of what had once been
a car compressed into a 10-foot
space before it.527 The worst
train accident in Missouri
history caused thirty-four
deaths, 150 people injured. One
of those killed was Irene
Josephine Moon,528 Gertrude’s
sister, and that is said to have
also resulted in Gertrude’s
Irene Moon died in the Sulphur Springs Train Wreck, death. From the Festus Tri-City
7 August 1922. (St. Louis Today, 25 February 2007.) Independent:529
The community was moved to grief as, on Tuesday morning the funeral of the
two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Moon of Crystal City was held,
services being conducted at Sacred Heart Church. Father Holtschneider
officiating. Miss Irene Moon lost her life in the Railroad wreck at Sulphur
Springs, Saturday night, and upon learning that her sister had met such a
terrible fate, Mrs. Gertrude LaRose, stricken with heart failure, passing away
suddenly on Sunday morning. 56 automobiles were counted in the funeral
cortege, as it wended its way from the sacred edifice, to Gamel's Cemetery,
where the sisters were tenderly laid to rest, conclusive proof of the high
esteem of the family in this community and bespeaking mutability of sorrow
that encompassed everyone's heart, at such a tragic fate to a home that but a
few hours ere sunset on this fated day was aglow with life and love. May the
family find solace in their trust in the Almighty, who comforts even when the
day is darkest. Mrs. LaRose leaves a husband and two sons and Miss Irene
Moon, her sister.
At age four Jesse was orphaned. His distraught father sent him to live with his
grandparents, Edward Lee and Anna Mary (Luebbers) Moon.530 But tragedy did not end
there, though it took a long break. Thirty years later, Jesse’s father, Mort (sometimes
“Martin” or “Mart”), a PPG employee living in Crystal City, shot himself with a 410 gauge
shotgun.531 He died almost immediately.
Jesse, a WW II PFC from 17 November 1942 to 15 February 1946,445 passed away 18
May 1978;532 Lucille died ten years later, in October 1988.521 The couple are buried in Rose
Lawn Memorial Gardens, Crystal City.445
Frank Leon and Robert Wehner
Two of Frank and Cora’s children, Frank and Robert, died young. Frank, born 4 July
1922, died 22 January 1924 of gastroenteritis.533 Robert, born prematurely 22 December
1926, lived only two days.534 Both are buried in Rose Lawn Cemetery.445
Dora Ann Wehner

Dora, the youngest of
William and Henrietta’s
children, born 17
December 1900 in Pilot
Knob and baptized there
at the Immanuel
Evangelical Lutheran
Church on 27 January
1901,319 would have had
few memories of the town
that she left at age three
with her family.438 Dora
grew up in Festus,
Missouri, and on 4 March
1919, in the nearby city of
Hillsboro, the seat of Festus in the 1920s. (Postcard, Ancestry.com.)
Jefferson County, married
Franklin Charles Hoeckele,535 son of German immigrant Charles and Sarah (Masterson)
Hoeckele.536 Though he claimed to be twenty-one, Frank (as he was usually called) was only
twenty at the time.
Born 8 August 1852537 in Renchen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Charles Hoeckele
(“Hoeckle” in early Missouri documents and “Höckle” in Germany) came to America in
1867538,539 and hit the ground running, starting as a clerk and ending up managing his own
store in Jackson, Missouri.540,541 On 24 November 1881 in Cape Girardeau County, he
married Ida Mogler,542 and following Ida’s death, married Sarah Masterson on 19 April 1897
in Jackson.543 Charles and Sarah’s first born was Franklin
Charles, born 5 May 1898 in Jackson.536,538
The Hoeckele family was business-driven. Frank’s two
brothers, Paul and Joseph (“Joe”), worked at Wagner’s Bakery in
Jackson539,544 and in 1937 started Hoeckele’s Bakery in
Perryville, Perry County, Missouri, where a third generation of
Hoeckeles runs the greatly expanded bakery today (2011),545
with inviting internet reviews:
“This has to be the best bakery/deli between St. Louis and Memphis”
“I haven't had baked goods that quality and taste since I lived in Michigan as a
little girl and there were a few German bakeries around.”
Frank, like his father, started out as a clerk, first for the Wagner Store in Festus, joining
the company in 1918,546,547 and later for Festus Mercantile Co. 536 (with a hiatus in between
with PPG).548 But he had no chance for advancement. On Saturday, 10 March 1928, Frank
was found lying in a Festus street with a bullet wound in his neck.549 He died two hours later.
At age 29, Frank was a homicide victim.536 Relatives say that he was shot through a closed
door, but there agreement ends. One states that he was making a delivery to a house and
being deaf did not hear a request by a nervous resident to identify himself. Another that he
was shot through the door by a jealous husband. Whatever the reason, the matter seems to
have been hushed up. Other than the death certificate, only one source, a somewhat
uninformative Cape Girardeau newspaper article, has been found.549 The Festus Police
Department claims to have no files from that era.*
Left a 28-year-old widow with four daughters, the oldest not yet 10, and soon facing an
economic depression, Dora went to work first as a drugstore sales clerk,550 then as a dry
goods saleslady, the latter with irregular hours.551 Fourteen years would elapse before she
married again, wedding Clytus V. Davis, a Festus pool hall operator,552 on 22 July 1942.553
Dora Ann passed away on 15 March 1967554 and shares a common stone with her first love,
Frank, in Festus’s Methodist Cemetery.555 Clytus lived a few years longer, dying in January
1972556 and resting in the same cemetery.555 Dora Ann and Frank had four girls: Virginia,
Dorothy, Frances, and Catherine.
Virginia L. Hoeckele
Born 9 September 1919, Virginia
was the oldest of Dora and Franklin’s
four girls.557,552 On 2 April 1938, she
wedded Wayne E. Trask,558 born 9
August 1918559 to Joseph Spain
Trask560 and Eura Ethel (Eaton)561
Trask of Bonne Terre, St. Francois
County, Missouri.562
Joseph and Eura originated in
Missouri’s back country, in
Crawford County, Missouri, where
they were married on 31 December
1908 in Steelville, the county’s seat
and second largest town, a booming
megalopolis of 1600 people in
Old Huzzah Store, Crawford County, Missouri.
1910563 and only a handful more than (Courtesy of Esther M. Ziock Carroll.)
that today. At the time, Joseph was
living in Huzzah, along Huzzah Creek, deep in the woods (today’s Mark Twain National
Forest), and Eura, in Cherryville, communities too small to be given even the designation
“hamlet.”558
After farming for several years in Courtois Township near Huzzah and producing four
kids,564 Joseph and Eura headed for Bonne Terre, St. Francois County, where they were
living in 1930, with Joseph working in the lead mines.565 It was in Bonne Terre, 26 miles
south of Festus, that Virginia married Wayne, Joseph and Eura’s only son.558
Following their marriage, Wayne and Virginia headed to Ashley, Illinois, in Washington
County, where Wayne was a ticket agent for Greyhound Bus lines. 566 The couple had four
children—Jerry Wayne (born 14 April 1938, he passed away 11 July 2010 at Fort Branch,
Indiana),567 Charles S. , Albert L. , and Mona E. Trask,568,569 the last named after Wayne’s
*
In October 2012 I made a trip to Festus in hopes of finding something substantial about Frank’s death. I was
told that the Festus Police files did not go back that far. Moreover, visits and communications with libraries in
the area revealed no extant copies of any Festus newspapers from around the death date. Other attempts have
also proven futile.
sister Mona, who died at the very young age of nineteen years, nine months, and two days,
from meningitis coupled with
childbirth.570 (The child, also
named “Mona,” died as well.)571
Despite four offspring, Wayne and
Virginia’s marriage was apparently
dissolved, for both parties married
a second time.
In Festus, on 17 February 1963
Wayne married Loreen M.
Button,572 daughter of Hubert A.
Harris and Nina Mae (Cherry)
Harris.573 The couple went on to
have three children—David, Kerri,
and Kate.574
St. Francois County lead miners with a mining Virginia wedded Edwin A.
mule. (Courtesy of Sandy Mackley.) Harris in Crystal City on 28 March
1964,575 acquiring two step
children from Edwin’s first marriage, Patricia Ann and Ronald L. , in the process.577
576
Edwin was born 21 July 1916 in St. Louis, Missouri,577 to Abraham A. Harris, a
descendant of Russian Jews,578 and Edna (Chartrand)579 Harris, a Catholic.580 Both parents
died when Edwin was a young child—Abe (the name he used almost exclusively), on 21
January 1922, of Bright’s disease,581 and Edna, on 25 September 1922, by accidental
poisoning with bichloride of mercury.579 Abe was buried in Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery,
built by Jews who had fled the murderous pogroms in Russia, and Edith, in Mt. Olive
Catholic Cemetery.582 Seven-year-old Edwin went to live with his grandparents William and
Elizabeth Chartrand.583
Following their marriage, Virginia and Edwin moved to Bloomsdale, where they were
living when Virginia died 24 December 1994.557 Edwin resided in Bloomsdale until his death
in Richmond Heights, Missouri, on 3 January 2000.577,584 Virginia and Edwin Harris are
buried with a common marker in Festus’s Presbyterian (Gamel) Cemetery.585
Dorothy Elizabeth Hoeckele
Dorothy Elizabeth was born 8 July 1921 and raised in Festus,586 but her future husband
lived in Crystal City, on the other side of Highway 61-67, now called “Truman Boulevard,”
which (more or less) separates the two towns. On Lindsay Avenue,587 a half mile or so from
the Hoeckeles, lived Louis J. Biehle, a PPG worker, and Barbara M. (Bauman)588 Biehl. The
Biehles had a huge family, seven boys and three girls—Gilbert, Sylvester, Walter, Isabelle,
Louis (“Perlie”),589 Raymond, Anton (“Anthony”),590 Edna, Herbert, and Margaret—the
older boys working for PPG, just like their father.591,587 A middle child, Raymond J. Biehle,
born 1 January 1920,592 wedded Dorothy.586
In 1940, Raymond, who was working at PPG, and Dorothy were renting part of the
Festus house at 730 Warne Street belonging to Dorothy’s aunt Louise Wehner and uncle
Albert Wehner.390 On 17 April 1944, Raymond joined the U.S. Army as a private,593 working
his way up to Sergeant.445 (His brother, Walter Carl Biehle, died in action during WW II.)594
Raymond died 18 August 1990;592 Dorothy died twenty years later, 6 August 2010.586 The
couple, interred in Rose Lawn Memorial Gardens in Crystal City,445 had two daughters,
Linda and Sue Biehl.586
Frances M. Hoeckele
In 1944, in Randolph County,
Arkansas, just across the Missouri state
line,595 Dora and Franklin’s third
daughter, Frances, born 10 July
1923,596 married Frank B. Clark, born 3
December 1917.597 Frank, son of Frank
Sr. and Julia Clark, grew up in
Jefferson County, where his father
worked as a grocery store salesman.598
One might think that his father’s job
allowed Frank Clark Jr. to meet
Frances, whose father, Franklin
Charles, was a grocery clerk, but
Frances was not yet five when Franklin
died. The 1944 marriage may have
taken place in Arkansas as a result of
Frank Clark Jr.’s WW II service. A
major Army facility, Walnut Ridge
Army Airfield, was located in
Lawrence County, Arkansas, next door
to Randolph County. Frank, whose
Frank and Frances Clark are buried at Zion United Methodist
birth year is given as 1918 in his Church, Mapaville, Missouri. (Zion Church website.)
enlistment records, rather than 1917,
joined as a private (later making corporal)599 on 18 February 1941 at Jefferson Barracks,
Missouri.600 Frank B. Clark died 16 June 1984;597 Frances died 12 May 1986.596 The couple
are interred in Zion United Methodist Church Cemetery, Mapaville, Missouri.599
Catherine Irene Hoeckele
The youngest Hoeckele daughter, Catherine,601 born 20 June 1925,602 appears at age four
in the 1930 census with the name “June K.”550 The “K.” probably comes from “Katherine,”
believed by a Hoeckele family member to be the original spelling of her first name. The
origin of “June” is unknown; however, that handwritten “June” can resemble “Irene” may
indicate an error by the census enumerator in reading her name off a paper. The name “June”
appears in no other document. On 23 March 1945, in St. Louis, Catherine married Elmer
Vernon Janssen, born 10 May 1923 in St. Louis to John and Sarah (Truman) Janssen.601,603
Catherine and Elmer were married in the final weeks of World War II, in which Elmer served
in the Air Force.601 The couple spent their final years in the tiny village of Iberia, Missouri,
their home at the time of Catherine’s death on 2 June 1998.602 Elmer lived another two years,
dying at home in Iberia on 29 May 2000.604,601 Elmer and Catherine are buried in Lake
Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Osage Beach, Missouri, with a son Ronald, who died in 1994
at the relatively young age of 46.605 They left four other children, two sons, Larry and John,
and two daughters, Randa and Tracy.601,606
Bier und Brot Mary Wehner 67
Mary Wehner
Though much has been related about
her,63,77,607 Mary, named after her deceased
sister “Maria” and born 6 September 1855
in Pilot Knob,9 is an enigmatic figure. She
never married and was never self
supporting, though she did care for nieces,
nephews, and a grandniece in the
households in which she lived. She appears
in the Pilot Knob 1860 and 1870 federal
censuses82,89 and in the 1876 Iron County
census83 living with her parents. After her
sister Clara had twins Walter and William
in 1879, Mary went to live with Clara and
Robert in Salem, Ohio.130 In 1880 she
moved with the Schillings to Milwaukee
and, following Clara’s death in 1906,
moved in with her nephew Walter Schilling Following the fall of Fort Davidson, Mary Wehner
(son of Clara and Robert) and his wife and her sister Clara escaped, possibly to Leasburg, the
Emma in Milwaukee.245,246,247,250 There, destination of Union Soldiers and of many Pilot Knob
Mary cared for their daughter Clara.138 civilians., including her father. (Mural at Cuba,
Mary, who was blind in her later years,608 Missouri, Missouri Division of Tourism, 2011.)
died 9 January 1950 at her Milwaukee home.607 Her obituary, “Miss Wehner Dies;
Childhood Spent Amid Civil War Scenes,” relates some tales of the Civil War in Pilot Knob,
which she told three generations of children under her care:607
Roving bands of marauders raided the village Miss Wehner often related. She
recalled the day when she saw a neighbor, an old man, shot to death. The
Wehner household was entered by rebels, who threatened to burn the bed on
which lay the baby of the family unless Mrs. Wehner turned over her valuables.
Other memories included a time when residents had been told to flee in front
of a Confederate advance. Mary and a sister were hidden in a hay wagon. It
was two days before they were reunited with the rest of the family.
In another frequently told story, Miss Wehner recalled the case of smallpox
which quarantined the entire Wehner family. A large red flag flew in front of
the cabin, scaring off the Confederates.
Some family members say that the sisters Mary and Clara actually rode in separate
wagons to escape the Confederates. Reunited, the two girls remained close. Mary is buried
next to her sister and brother-in-law Clara and Robert Schilling in Milwaukee’s Forest Home
Cemetery.609,610
Bier und Brot Theresa Wehner 68
Theresa Wehner
Theresa (also “Theresia,” “Theressa,” “Thresia,” “Tresa,” “Tressa” in various
documents) was born 2 January 1858 in Pilot Knob.9 She appears in the Lorenz Wehner
household in the 1860 and 1870 Pilot Knob federal censuses89,82 and in the 1876 Iron County
census.611 In 1880 a 20-year-old “Theresa Wiener” is found working as a servant in a St.
Louis boarding house.612 Although the age (should be twenty-two) and name are both off,
this is the only 1880 census record found that could possibly be for Theresa Wehner. On the
other hand, “Theresia” Wehner was listed as a resident of, not St. Louis, but Iron County on
6 June 1881, when she purchased part of Lot 4, Block 6 in an Ironton addition from Bernard
Zwart and his wife, Cornelia, for $186.35.613 The following year on 30 May, Theresa sold
Carrie Collier the same property.614 Unfortunately Deed Book “7,” cited in Iron County’s
Index to Deeds as containing the original record, which would have given Theresa’s actual
residence in 1882, when she sold the land, does not exist.
If Theresa was working in a St. Louis boarding house in 1880, it could be where she met
John Richard Cooney, to whom she was wedded by a justice of the peace in St. Louis 24
November 1886.615
John first appears at age eight in the 1870 federal census for Fort Madison, Iowa.616 He
and his parents, John and Sarah Cooney, and brothers, Arthur E. and Bernard, had just
arrived from Canada, the birthplace of all three boys. Since Bernard was only a year old in
1870, the family must have immigrated in 1869 or 1870. John’s father, born in Ireland in
1843 or 1844, was a lead and silver mining engineer, though the small town of Fort Madison
was hardly a major center for mining or engineering. The town’s inadequacies explain the
move to St. Louis, where the family (without John Sr. for some reason) appears in the 1880
census living at 1701 Biddle Street.617
John Sr. appears only twice more with any certainty—in a St. Louis city directory for
1880, where he is shown living at 1701 Biddle and working as a civil engineer,618 and in an
1882 directory, where he is an engineer working for the Citizens Railway Company,619 St.
Louis’s first street rail firm (organized by Benjamin Gratz Brown in 1859).620 What became
of John Sr. we do not know, but on 5 February 1884 his wife, Sarah, who had been born in
Ireland around 1834,616,617 died in the St. Louis Smallpox Hospital.621
The younger John, who sometimes went by his middle name, “Richard,” had multiple
occupations. At various times, he was a nut factory worker (1880),617 laborer (1883,
1889),622,623 “stock” (livestock?) worker (1888),624 machinist (1890, 1892),625,626 engineer
(1899),627 and a “street railroad” employee (1900).628 In 1900 the St. Louis street railroad
was in its heyday.629 When the first St. Louis rail system opened in 1859, the trackless horse-
drawn omnibuses dating from 1843 were doomed. The new rail lines went from horse cars,
to cable cars, to trolleys. In 1896 the last horse car disappeared (greatly improving
sanitation), and in 1899 the final cable car was converted to electric power. The trolleys
required heavier rails than the horse-drawn vehicles, and this meant lots of new track and lots
of work for street railroad laborers. In 1900 St. Louis streetcars carried 127 million
passengers; just ten years later they carried 336 million.629
Before and after his marriage, John usually

lived with or near his brothers. In 1883 he boarded
at 1543 N. Main, where his brother Arthur was
also living.622 At the time of his marriage, he was
living at 3228 Olive Street630 with both Arthur and
Bernard.631 In 1888 John, Bernard, and Arthur
were all residing at 1131 N. Compton Avenue,
presumably with John’s wife and kid(s).624 When
the brothers were not living together, they often
had houses in the same neighborhood. By 1900,
Theresa’s widowed sister Matilda (“Tillie”)
Tallent had joined Theresa and John’s St. Louis
household, which now included four children.628
John Jr., born in March 1862,628 died very
young, on 9 April 1901,632 having just reached his
39th birthday, and was laid to rest in the Catholic
cemetery of Saints Peter and Paul in St. Louis.
Though she lived another seven years, Theresa
also died rather young, at age fifty on 28 February
1908633,634 and was interred separate from her
husband, in St. Louis’s Friedens Cemetery,
established by Friedens Church, German
St. Louis street railroad, 1880. (St. Louis,
Evangelical Synod of North America.635 The Fourth City, 1764-1911, pp 320-321.)
(“Frieden” means “peace” in German.) Perhaps
Theresa was not Roman Catholic at the time of her death and could not be buried with her
husband. The couple had been married by a justice of the peace, rather than by a priest.
Theresa and John Richard Cooney left behind four children—Grace, Arthur, Frank, and
Alice,636 who ended up lodging separately with families following their parents’ deaths.
Grace Phoebe Cooney
Among family members, Grace had a reputation of being a “wild woman.” One family
story has it that Grace once dated an Italian man who jilted her. She was so upset that she got
a pistol and went to a bar where her ex-lover hung out. When he came outside with her she
shot him and then went home to wait for the police. The officer who came to her home said
that everything was okay, that the man was not going to press charges. The Irish cop also
stated that it wouldn't have mattered if she had killed him, it would just be one less “dago.”637
Grace’s life is a mélange of mysteries. She is given the name “Phoebe” in her mother’s
obituary636 and a middle name “Thelma” in a marriage certificate,638 names seen neither
before nor afterward. In 1910, following the deaths of her parents, she was lodging in a St.
Louis rooming house at 3328 Washington Avenue.639 By 1911 she had moved into a
multifamily dwelling at 3425 Pine with her sister Alice and aunt Tillie (Matilda) and was
working as a telephone operator.640 Then on 19 March 1912 “Grace Thelma Cooney”
married “L. C. Boillot” of Little Rock, Arkansas, in Clayton, Missouri, a St. Louis suburb
and seat of St. Louis County.638 Despite the middle name “Thelma,” there is no doubt that the
bride was our Grace, who is shown with the last name “Boillot” both in the 1920 Census641
and in a record for a later marriage.642 The chance that two different Grace Cooneys in the St.
Louis area married someone with the highly uncommon name “Boillot” around the same
time is infinitesimal.
The marriage was performed by Justice of the Peace A. H. Werremeyer, who was known
for his quick marriages. Werremeyer, operating out of the Clayton courthouse, advertised
prompt aid in emergency cases and posted streetcar placards showing two hearts tied with
love knots, with the following touching lines:643
“ As these two hearts are intertwined,
So may our lives be bound.
And when you've set the wedding day,
At Clayton I'll be found.”
Another gem was644
Go choose the one you love the best
Then come to Clayton for the rest
JUDGE A. H. WERREMEYER
L. C. Boillot appears to have been Lucian Clifford Boillot,645 born in March 1885 to Paul
Charles646 and Sarah E. (Bunch) Boillot, a couple who ended up farming in Jasper County,
Missouri,647 but had started their married lives in Osage County.648 Although often spelled
“Lucien,” his given name is clearly signed “Lucian” on his WW I draft registration card645
and has that spelling in St. Louis city directories.649,650 The French name “Boillot” is rare in
the United States and was found at the time largely in Missouri, primarily in Osage County
(with a small contingent in Ste. Genevieve County). No record of an L. C. (or similar) Boillot
has been found in Arkansas, given as L. C.’s residence on his 1912 marriage license;
however, between 1900 and 1910 Paul and Sarah Boillot, Lucian’s parents, moved from
Missouri to Birta, a wide spot in the road in Yell County, Arkansas, about seventy miles
northwest of Little Rock.651 It was in Yell County that Lucian’s father, Paul, died and was
buried in 1912, the year of L. C.’s marriage to Grace.652
Lucian’s mother, the widowed Sarah, moved back to Missouri to live with her brother
John Bunch in Audrain County653 and then with her son William (who, like his brother
Lucian, was a piano tuner, among other occupations, including teacher647 and lawyer646) and
his wife Eula.654 Sarah passed away in Callaway County, Missouri, in December 1942.655
In 1913 and 1915, Lucian was working in St. Louis as a “tuner” at 1111 Olive, the
location of Baldwin Piano, and was residing at 3132 Washington Avenue, just two blocks
away from Grace’s 1910 rooming house.649,650 (Another Boillot, John, also a piano tuner, was
living at 3412 Washington about the same time.)656 Lucian then disappears from St. Louis
city directories, only to appear in Tennessee with a new wife, Anna Elizabeth but still
working as a piano tuner, in Dyersburg in 1918645 and in Memphis from at least 1917 to
1924.657,658 (For a while, he may have been living in Dyersburg and boarding in Memphis.)
Lucian appears in no Memphis city directory after 1924. In the 1930 census, Anna Boillot and
her three children (William Clifford, Paul Thomas, and Bobby Gene) were living with her
sister Martha, Martha’s husband, C. E. Johnson, and Martha’s daughter Bettie R. in Dallas,
Texas, where Anna is listed as a widow.659 Despite the term “widow,” a $5.00 charge for
“tuning piano” by an L. C. Boillot was approved for payment in 1936 by the city of Oxford,
Mississippi, just eighty miles from Memphis, Tennessee.660 This is the last we hear of L. C.
By 1933,661 Anna had moved back to Memphis, where in 1940 the city directory specifically
lists her as “Boillot Anna (wid Lucien C).” At the time Anna was living in Memphis with her
three children, sister Martha (minus husband and daughter Bettie), and Anna’s (and,
presumably, Martha’s) stepfather, Fred C. Anderson.662 After living for a while with her son
Paul in Monroe Louisiana,663 Anna died in July 1968, while a resident of Bastrop, Louisiana,
twenty-five miles away from Monroe.664
In the 1920 census, living in St. Louis with her aunt and uncle Tillie and David Shelton
and her cousin Nellie Siebert, “Grace Boillot” claimed to be a widow, a declaration often
made by divorcees of the era.641 At the time, she was working as a hotel clerk,641 a job that
may have brought her into contact with Robert Barney Dyckman (or may have resulted from
an earlier relationship with Robert, as we will see).
Dennis Vincent Dyckman, a grandson of Robert Barney, has worked extensively
researching the Dyckman saga, of which only a small portion is presented here.665 Robert
Barney was a scion of a distinguished family. His grandfather Barney Hicks Dyckman Sr.
was a well-known miller, postmaster, and veteran of the Civil War, in which he served as
captain in the 3rd Michigan Cavalry.666 Born in New York state around 1824, Barney Sr.
appears in the 1860, 1870, and 1880 censuses for the town of South Haven in Van Buren
County, Michigan, with three different wives. In the 1860 census667 he is living with Asenath
A. Wallace (whom he wedded 28 June 1849 in Van Buren County) and children Aaron
Smith, Ida, and Barney Hicks Jr.668 In the 1870 census669 his wife is Mary A. Chase, to whom
he was married 24 February 1864 in Cook County, Illinois.670 And in the 1880 census671
Barney Sr.’s wife is Julia Ann Robinson, whom he married 14 January 1879.666
About the time of Barney Sr.’s third marriage, Barney Jr. traveled from Michigan to St.
Louis. In 1880 Barney Jr. was boarding with Christopher Kirchner in a house in the alley
behind 1211 Chestnut Street and (presumably) searching for steady work.672 By 1882 he was
clerking for Charles M. Elleard, a florist,673 and in 1883 he was working at a billiard
parlor.674 By 1884 he had found the career that he would follow the next thirteen years,
running restaurants.675
Barney Jr.’s father was also drawn to St. Louis. There the two Barney’s started
“Dyckman & Son,” a restaurant at 203 N. Twelfth Street, which they operated jointly from
1884 to 1888,676 when the restaurant began running under only Barney Jr.’s name, continuing
until at least 1890.677 By 1888 Barney Jr.’s brother, Aaron Smith Dyckman, had also arrived
in St. Louis, where he married Annie O’Brien at the old Cathedral of St. Louis.678
On 18 September 1885 in St. Louis, Justice of the Peace Jeremiah Ryan united Barney Jr.
and Maggie (Price) McClellan,679 widow of George B. McClellan (a Missouri stone
mason,680 not the Civil War general).681 In 1892 Barney Jr. joined his mother-in-law, Martha
J. Price in a restaurant enterprise at 1211 Pine that lasted until at least 1894.682 (Martha died 3
April 1899.)683 He then ran a restaurant at 1903½ Franklin avenue from 1895 to 1897.684 In
1897 Barney Jr. entered his true profession, running lodging houses and hotels, at first
partnering with William R. Etzler. Among these were establishments at 615 Franklin
Avenue, 510 Lucas Avenue (Illinois Hotel), 3 N Twentieth, 4 S Fourteenth, 417 Morgan,
1915 Market, and 1141 Market (New St. Clair Hotel) in St. Louis.685 He was also proprietor
of the Hotel Enterprise in San Francisco in 1916 and 1917.686,687
On 20 May 1896 in St. Louis, just days before the tornado that ravaged the city, Barney
Jr. was married a second time, to Tillie I. (Camp) Mathews,688 who had earlier married, on 3
June 1883, Lewis H. Mathews in Montgomery County, Illinois.689 Tillie died 26 September
1927 in Crawford County, Missouri;690 Barney Jr. died 12 December 1935 in St. Louis.691
We could expand Barney’s history. Barney Hicks Dyckman Jr. was a fascinating man
and appears in numerous documents. But our tale is not about the Dyckman family; it is
about the Wehners. Dyckman chronicles are left to others.
Barney Jr. and Maggie (Price) Dyckman had two children,692 Harry Chase Dyckman,
born 2 November 1886,693 and
Robert Barney Dyckman, born 13
September 1887.694 Robert worked
with his father clerking in St. Louis
hotels,695,696 with two exceptions. In
1908 he was in Kansas City,
Missouri, working at the Hotel
Kupper,697 and in 1910, in
Aberdeen, South Dakota, also
working as a hotel clerk.698 From 25
June 1918 to 28 February 1920
Robert Barney was a private in the
U.S. Marines, spending most of
1919 in the Philippines, and the
remainder of his tour at Mare Island Robert Barney Dyckman served the last of his WW I
Naval Shipyard in California. 699 military service at Mare Island, California. (Ancestry.com.)
Following his military service,
Barney returned to South Dakota, specifically Mobridge, his residence when he married
“Mrs. Grace Boillot” in St. Louis on 15 October 1921.642 (What Robert was doing in
Mobridge is unknown; however, the town was the site of a rather grand hotel, the Brown
Palace, constructed in 1918.) The wedding is described in a clipping from an unknown
newspaper of unknown date:
Married in St. Louis, Saturday, Oct 15, 1921, by Rev. Dillon, R. B. Dyckman,
from Mobridge, S. Dakota, to Miss Grace Boillot, of St. Louis. After a
reception at the brides sister’s, 1223 Prairie Ave., the happy couple went to
their new home in their hotel presented by the groom’s father, B. H.
Dyckman. We must not forget to mention that the bride’s sister, Mrs. Alice
Howard, deserves great credit for the elegant supper and grand reception she gave
in honor of the bride, her only sister.
Despite the term “Miss Grace Boillot” in the clipping, Grace was not a “Miss.” Not only
was it not her first marriage, it may not have been Robert’s first marriage either. According
to Robert Barney Dyckman’s own notes, he “married the same girl three times, 1906, 1921,
1925.”665 Despite a careful search, an official record has been found only for a 1921
marriage. Furthermore, were there a 1906 marriage one might expect the marriage certificate
for Grace’s marriage to L. C. Boillot to give her name as “Dyckman” rather than “Cooney.”
The hotel given to Robert Barney and Grace as a wedding gift is said to have been the
Holland Hotel at 802 N. Ninth Street;665 however, in 1922 and 1923, just after the marriage,
Robert was running the Pines Hotel at 1009a Pine, where the couple lived.700,701
In 1923 a hit song about a comic strip character swept the nation:
Barney Google—with the goo-goo-googly eyes,
Barney Google—had a wife three times his size;
She sued Barney for divorce,

Now he’s sleeping with his horse!
Barney Google—with the goo-goo-googly eyes!
Billy Rose and Con Conrad
The song matched Robert
Barney in both name and visage,
for Robert had “goo-goo-googly
eyes,” perhaps the result of
hyperthyroidism, perhaps simply
genetic. This makes it easy to
recognize Robert Barney
Dyckman as the groom in a
wedding photo said to be for him
and Grace. The problem is that
the photo shows hair and
clothing styles expected for a
1906 wedding and not for a 1921
or later marriage. So perhaps
they were first married in 1906
after all.
This wedding photo believed to be for Grace Cooney (veiled) It is the 1921 marriage where
and Robert Barney Dyckman (seated near right) shows styles our biggest problem is found, for
indicative of the first decade of the 20 th century. (Collection of
Dennis Vincent Dyckman.) the marriage was conducted by
John L. Dillon, a Catholic priest,
despite the fact that Lucian Clifford Boillot (Grace’s previous husband) was still living and
the Catholic Church would not have recognized a civil divorce. Perhaps the Church had
annulled the 1912 marriage (particularly likely had there been an earlier marriage to Robert
Barney). Perhaps the
couple had been
dishonest in their
marriage applications. Or
perhaps the L. C. Boillot
on the 1912 marriage
certificate was not Lucian
Clifford Boillot, though
that seems very unlikely.
Robert Barney and
Grace lived most of their
lives in St. Louis, though
there is said to have been
a short stint in Texarkana,
Texas, where Grace’s
brother, Arthur Russell
Cooney lived, and where Robert Vincent, Grace, and Robert Barney Dyckman at Coney Island,
Robert Barney ran (of 1932. The man at far right, “George,” may be George O. Walker, later
637
course) a hotel. Grace owner of the Holland Hotel. (Collection of Dennis Vincent Dyckman.)
Phoebe Thelma Cooney Boillot Dyckman died 10 November 1951;702 Robert Barney
Dyckman died seven years later on 13 January 1959,703 both in St. Louis. The couple are
interred in St. Louis’s Resurrection Cemetery.704
Robert Vincent Dyckman
Grace’s705 and Robert Barney’s706 obituaries and the 1940 St. Louis census707 all show
the existence of a single child, Robert V. (Vincent) Dyckman, and therein lies our final issue.
Robert Vincent was born 21 June 1916,708 when Grace was presumably married to L. C.
Boillot. A photograph of Robert Vincent taken around age four is labeled with the name
“Richard Boillot,” and his marriage certificate gives the name “Robert Richard Dyckman.”709
Robert was likely a child of L. C. and Grace (Cooney) Boillot and given the name “Richard
Boillot,” which was changed to “Robert Richard Dyckman” and, finally, to “Robert Vincent
Dyckman” after Grace’s (second?) marriage to Robert Barney Dyckman. But he could, of
course, have been an illegitimate child of Grace and Robert, which would account for the
short marriage with L. C. Boillot.
Robert “Richard” Dyckman married Agnes F. Groesch in St. Louis 27 May 1944.709
Agnes, who always went by “Patricia,” was born in Illinois on 6 March 1910,710 to Carl T.
and Elizabeth (Stegmeyer) Groesch,711 and passed away in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where
a son lived, on 16 August 1994.712 Robert Vincent had died thirteen years earlier, in St.
Louis, Missouri, on 18 September 1981.713 The couple, interred in St. Louis’s Resurrection
Cemetery,704 left two children, Dennis Vincent Dyckman and Duane R. Dyckman.712,713
Arthur Russell Cooney
Born 8 March 1888 in St. Louis,714 Arthur Russell715
spent his working life in banking. Starting as a messenger
at St. Louis’s National
Bank of Commerce
(today’s Mercantile
Bank) in 1902, at age
fourteen,716 he worked
his way to clerk and
bookkeeper,717 and
finally to assistant
manager of the Savings
Department.718 On 15
June 1911, Rev. Harris
H. Gregg of
Washington Avenue
Presbyterian Church in
St. Louis, joined in
marriage Arthur and Postcard, National Bank of Commerce,
719 St. Louis, c1900.
Alice Elizabeth Gray.
Alice was a child of Alexander and (Ancestry.com.)
Elizabeth Gray, Scottish
Postcard, Texarkana National immigrants who had boarded Alice Cooney, Arthur Russell’s
Bank, c1925. (Ancestry.com.) sister, in 1910 following the death of their parents.720
Around 1920, Arthur and his family moved to Texarkana, a town on the Texas/Arkansas
border, with two police departments, two fire departments, two city halls. Part of the
residents live in Bowie County, Texas, and part live in Miller County, Arkansas.721,722 There,
for the next twenty years, Arthur traveled between Arkansas and Texas almost daily, for he
was vice president of the National Bank of Texarkana, on the Arkansas side,718 but lived at
2702 Magnolia,721,722,723 on the Texas side. In fact, his house was just a block off State Line
Avenue, the city’s dividing line.
In poor health (though he worked full time at the bank up to the move),723 in 1940 Arthur,
his wife, Alice Elizabeth, and daughters Alyce Jane and Ruth Virginia, moved to Tucson,
Arizona.718 If the move was for health reasons, it was not very successful. On 6 March 1942
Arthur, aged 54, died at his Tucson home of myocarditis.714,724 He was interred in Valhalla
Cemetery in St. Louis, his birthplace.718
Alice returned to Texarkana, where several of her children were living. It was there that
she was married again, to a “Mosby,” her last name in death and cemetery records.725,726 Her
new husband may have been Earl Wesley Mosby, whose first wife, Nora Arnold, had died 30
May 1950.727 When Earl died 19 July 1971, he was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Bowie
County, Texas alongside Nora.727 Following her death on 17 December 1983, “Alice Cooney
Mosby” was buried in nearby East Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Miller County, Arkansas.725
Arthur Russell and Alice Elizabeth (Gray) Cooney had seven children, two of whom died
young.
Texarkana, c1888. The diagonal street is State Line Avenue. (Library of

Congress, Geography and Map Division)
Harold Gregg Cooney Sr.

Harold Gregg Cooney Sr., whose middle name was the surname of the minister who
married his parents, was born 17 February 1913 in St. Louis.727,728 At age seven he traveled
with his family to Texarkana, where he lived out his life.729 On 12 October 1938, Harold took
out a license in Nevada County, Arkansas, to marry Helen Nix,730 one of five children of
salesman and grocer Isaac L. and Neva J. (Gantt) Nix,727 of Lewisville, Lafayette County,
Arkansas.731,732
After his marriage, Harold first worked as a service station attendant in Texarkana, 733 but
was later employed at the Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant, a government-owned
contractor-operated (Day & Zimmerman) facility about 12 miles west of Texarkana.728 The
plant, which closed in 2009, produced artillery shells, bombs, and fuses for almost seventy
years—for World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
Harold died 29 November 1997,734 Helen died 9 January 1999,735 both in Texarkana. The
couple, who are buried in Hillcrest Cemetery,727 had but one child, Harold Gregg Cooney
Jr. , born 26 August 1946, in Bowie County, Texas.736
Arthur Russell Cooney Jr.
Born in St. Louis 31 December 1914, Arthur Russell Jr. lived less than seven months,
dying 21 July 1915 of intussusception (telescoping of the bowel), a condition seldom causing
serious consequences today with rapid treatment.737 He is buried in Valhalla Cemetery, St.
Louis, where his father also lies.738
Allen Richard Cooney Sr.
Allen Richard Cooney Sr., born 24 August 1916 in Missouri,739,721 lived most of his life
in Texarkana. It was there, on the Miller County side, in Arkansas, that he married Lillie Mae
Monroe, around 21 September 1937 (the date of the marriage license).740 The only daughter
of William Henry and Willie B. Monroe of Little Rock and later Texarkana, Arkansas,741,742
Lillie Mae was born 27 July 1914743 in Nashville, Tennessee.744 Following their marriage,
Allen, who owned his own automobile garage, and Lillie, who was working as a bookkeeper,
moved in with Lillie’s parents.745 Lillie’s father, William, who owned a dry goods store745
and had many years in the clothing business,741,742 could afford the extra expense.
Lillie died 4 April 1991 in Texarkana, Texas.744 Allen Richard Cooney died two years
later on 5 April 1993, in Bowie County, Texas.746 The couple, interred in East Memorial
Gardens Cemetery, Miller County, Arkansas,725 left two children, Elizabeth Anne
Cooney747 and Allen Richard Cooney Jr.744 (born 22 May 1944, died 1 June 1996, in
Texarkana).725,748
Robert Gray Cooney
Robert Gray Cooney, the last of Arthur Russell and Alice Cooney’s children to be born in
St. Louis, has written his own biography:749
ROBERT G. COONEY, born March 29, 1920 in St. Louis, Mo. Parents
moved to Texas where I graduated from high school in Texarkana, Texas. I
enlisted and was called to active duty 22 Feb. 1943 to start training as an
aviation cadet.
Was classified for pilot training in Nashville, Tenn. and continued in the pilot
training program in the Eastern Flying Training Command. Graduated at
Napier Field in Dothan, Ala. in class of 44-E flying the old T-6.
After 10 hours in the old P-40 I was assigned to fighter aircraft training in the
(choice of my dreams) P-47 at Seymour-Johnson Field in Goldsboro, N.C.
Building time there in the ‘Jug’ with every type of training and then on to
Bluethenthal Field at Wilmington, S.C. for very long training missions.
With the advent of the new P-47 N, the last model built and especially for
very long range missions in the Pacific.
On 15 Oct. 1944 I was assigned to the 1st Ftr. Sqdn. of the 413th Ftr. Gp. of
the 301 Ftr. Wing when it was activated on that date at the Army Air Base,
Seymour-Johnson Field. After several more months of extensive training the
413th Ftr. GP- was ordered on 7 April 1945 to Ft. Lawton, Seattle, Wash. On
our departure from the west coast we made stops at Honolulu, Ford Island,
Guam, Eniwetok, Tinian and then on to Ie Shima, just off the coast of
Okinawa.
From here we continued our fighter missions by carrying the war to the Japan
and China mainlands. We were the first to use napalm against the Japanese
and the first to go on the longest fighter flight deep in to Honshu. The new
‘Jug’ proved to be a tough long range fighter and a ‘cut’ above any other
fighter in the Pacific.
Though our stay in the Pacific was short-lived, we feel our efforts and record
was of major importance in bringing about the rapid conclusion of the
Japanese war. The last official date given us was 15 Aug. 1945. Since I didn’t
get ‘clobbered’ nor became an ace I had to stick around to get enough points
before returning to the States. In May 1946 I returned to Ft. Sam for discharge and
then on to Texarkana.
I continued my flying career in the reserves and as a flight instructor for the
Air Force in Greenville, Miss. and Marianna, Fla. Later as a rotor wing
instructor for the Army at Ft. Wolters, Texas until 1973. Later that year I
departed for Iran with Bell Helicopter Inti. This assignment I turned out to be
worse than living in a two-man tent on Ie Shima in the rain, so I returned to
the States and then on to Ft. Rucker, Ala.
I am presently employed as a Civil Service Evaluation Pilot. I married my
present wife in 1960, to Lavonne Bennett of Florida and we have two
beautiful girls in their late teens and we are living happily ever after.
Although designated “Lavonne Bennett” in the autobiography (Editorial error? Another
marriage?), Robert Cooney’s wife was actually Lavonne Dasinger,750 one of seven children
of Thomas E. (almost always “Tommy”) and Myrtle Irene751 Dasinger.752,753,754 The children,
several of whom had distinctive diminutive or doubled southern names—”Jimmie Ray,”
“Billy W. ,” “Myrtle Dean,” “Tommy Gene,” “Mina Sue”—were born some in Alabama,
where Tommy Sr. and Myrtle first lived, and some in Florida, where the family finally settled
and where Lavonne was born on 20 May 1931.755 The family lived in the small Florida town
of Cottondale in Jackson County, where Tommy Sr. first farmed752 and then managed a
furniture store while driving a school bus (not simultaneously of course).753 Myrtle and
Tommy were still living in Jackson County when they split up, divorcing in August 1957.756
While living in Marianna, Florida, just a few miles east of Cottondale, Lavonne
(Dasinger) Cooney died 2 August 2002757 and Robert Gray Cooney died just a little over
three months later, on 11 November 2002.758 Robert and Lavonne are interred in Pinecrest
Memorial Gardens in Marianna.755,759 They had two daughters, Bobbie Jo Cooney and
Robbie Jean Cooney.750
Alyce Jane Cooney

Born 21 November 1920 in Bowie County, she is shown with the name “Alice” in the
Texas Birth Index760 and 1940 census,723 but always went by “Alyce.”728 On 22 August 1942
Alyce and Clifford Coleman Burrows, son of Clifford H. and Pauline C. Burrows,761 were
married at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Arizona.762 The couple were working at
Mountain States Telephone Company at the time.763 Clifford passed away, a resident of
Tucson, on 28 April 1999.764 Alyce passed away 16 June 2011, while living in Sandy, Utah,
a suburb of Salt Lake City.765 The couple had four children—Leslie Jane, John, Roy, and
Margaret Burrows.766,767
Ruth Virginia Cooney
Ruth was born 29 September 1922 in
Texarkana, Texas,768 and moved with her parents
to Tucson, Arizona.724 After her father’s death, she
returned to Texarkana, where she married William
Leon Singleton,769 son of Emmett F. and Sarah
Ethel (Walraven) Singleton.770,771,772 Ruth and
William were married sometime after 13 January
1942, when a still single William enlisted as a
private in the U.S. Army Air Corps—for the
duration.773
William’s father, E. F. Singleton (as he
preferred to be known), headed a Texarkana,
Texas, family of three girls and four boys,769,770,774
and was a locomotive fireman for the St. Louis
Southwestern Railway of Texas, part of the
“Cotton Belt Route.”775 Born 4 September 1890,772
just a few months before the St. Louis
Southwestern was organized, Emmett worked
during the transition from steam to diesel
locomotives, dying 10 April 1959,772 just as
decisions were being made to eliminate firemen
from locomotives used for freight and yard
service.776 He and Sarah Ethel (born 10 November
1892, died 13 January 1968) are buried in Rose
Hill, nowadays a somewhat disheveled Texarkana
cemetery.772
Like his father, William Singleton worked for
the “Cotton Belt” (as a switchman),769,773 whereas
Ruth worked for the competition, not for another railroad, but as an airline stewardess.777 She
was also employed by the Red River Army Depot, located about ten miles to the west of
Texarkana.777
Ruth and William died in Texarkana, Texas, just months apart (Ruth on 24 February
1993 and William on 12 July 1993)777,769 and were interred in East Memorial Gardens
Cemetery, Miller County, Arkansas.725 The couple left two sons, Arthur William Singleton
and Bruce Lee Singleton.778,779
Howard Raymond Cooney

Howard, the youngest of the Arthur and Alice Cooney children, was born 7 January 1927
in Texarkana, Texas,780 and died there, at his home, just a year and a half later, on 10 July
1928 of “Whoop Cough.”781 A highly contagious bacterial infection, pertussis still causes
almost 300,000 deaths each year.782 Howard’s body was brought to St. Louis, his parents’
home town, for burial.
Frank Bernard Cooney Sr.
A marriage certificate783 and two city directories,627,784
show the name “Francis” (for some reason “Francis W.”
in the directories), but otherwise he was “Frank,” and to
avoid offending familial offense, we will also use this
name. Frank lived his entire life in St. Louis. He was born
there 16 December 1889,785 with immediate concerns
about his survival. A note on his marriage certificate reads
“Francis Cooney was baptized in St. Alphonsus Church on
the 16th day of December, 1889 - the day of his birth
Emergency baptism.”783 It is likely that the “Emergency
baptism” on the day he was born was performed at home
or hospital, not at church. In St. Louis Frank first worked
as a driver and trucker,786 and later as a clerk at the Rob
Roy Hotel,787,788 a fireman,789 and a watchman for
Frank Sr. and Arthur Cooney, c1891. McDonald Aircraft Corporation.790
(Collection of Penny McDonald.) On 1 August 1912 at St. Louis’s Church of St. Ann,
Frank married Mary A. Bahan,783 born 22 February 1889
in St. Louis to Patrick and Theresa (Fox)
Bahan.791 At the time, Patrick, like his son-in-
law, was a teamster and this may have been how
Frank and Mary met.792,793
Frank passed away 1 April 1951, dying at
home of a sudden heart attack.790 Mary lived just
a year and a half longer, dying on 26 October
1952, also in St. Louis.791 The couple, who rest in
Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, had five children, a
boy, Frank Jr., and four girls, Mary, Eileen,
Virginia, and Geraldine.794,795
Mary Agnes Cooney
Her Florida death record provides much
about Mary, including her middle name. She died
on 1 November 1983 in Marion County, Florida,
as Mary Agnes Waters796 and is buried alongside
her husband Vernon Kenneth Waters in Good
Shepherd Memorial Gardens, Ocala, Florida.797 Mary Agnes (standing), Geraldine (L), Frank Jr.
A little over a year after Mary’s death, on 18 (R), 1926. (Collection of Mary F. Ridgeway.)
January 1985, Vernon was married once more, to Naomi Louise Gibson (maiden name,
“Ash”), in Marion County, Florida, and the record of that marriage gives us Vernon’s middle
name, “Kenneth.”798 The marriage lasted less than
eight months. A divorce was granted in Marion
County on 3 September 1985.799
Vernon died 29 February 1996 in Levy County,
Florida.800 We will find out more about Vernon
Kenneth later, for he was first married to Mary
Agnes Cooney’s sister Eileen.
At the time of Mary’s death, Vernon and Mary
were living in Dunellon, a small town in Marion
County, in North Central Florida. Vernon continued
living there until his own passing.801 We don’t know
when Mary and Vernon moved to Dunellon, or even
when they were married, but in 1944, at age 31,
Mary, still single, was living with her parents in St.
Louis and working as a bookkeeper.789 Prior to that,
in the early 1930s she had been employed as a typist
and cashier for Union-May-Stern, a large St. Louis
furniture company,788,794 in 1940 as a bookkeeper
Mary and Vernon share a marker at Good for a retail clothing company,787 and in 1941 as a
Shepherd Memorial Gardens, Ocala, Florida. clerk for Commercial Rating Company.802 Born 13
(Marion County Genealogical Society.)
June
1913 and the oldest of Frank and Mary
Cooney’s five children,803 Mary, with
Vernon, had but one child, a daughter, Patty
Waters.804
Eileen Frances Cooney
While residing in Jacksonville Florida,
Eileen Frances Cooney Waters Beine Stetson
passed away the first day of a new
millennium, or at least the first day as
popularly accepted, 1 January 2000,
according to her SSDI.805 But 26 January
2000 according to the printed memorial for
her funeral service,806 a date considered
marginally more reliable. She was buried in
Jacksonville’s Riverside Memorial Park.806
Eileen’s middle name, Frances, is found
only in the record of her third, and last
marriage, to Clarence Jacob Stetson in Clay
County, Florida, on 5 October 1978, a record
that also gives her married name from her
second marriage, “Beine,” and her maiden
name, “Cooney.”807 Clarence Jacob Stetson, Eileen (left), Barbara (back), Geraldine (front), Mary
who was born 3 December 1908 and died (right), c1935. (Collection of Mary F. Ridgeway.)
October 1984, was the widower of Katherine Adeline Whitwell.808,809 Eileen moved back to
St. Louis with Clarence, hoping that in their old age she and he could travel and enjoy each
other’s company, but her plans fell through. After just two weeks, Eileen reportedly returned
to Jacksonville and filed for divorce.804
Before Clarence, there was Albert August810 Beine, Eileen’s second husband, a child of
Anthony A.811 and Anna Marie (Giese)812 Beine.813 Anthony, who was born in Berlin,
Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1880, worked as a painter and in paint
manufacturing.814 It was a small family, just two sons, Albert and Edward. Albert lived to
age 67, working his adult life as an electrician and lineman.814,815,816,817,818 He passed away 4
July 1973,813,819 over a quarter of a century before Eileen, but long after his brother, Edward,
who died at age six of bowel obstruction following surgery for gangrenous appendicitis.812
Albert and Edward are buried with their parents in St. Louis’s Calvary Cemetery. A single
stone is inscribed with four names—Albert, Edward, “Tony,” and Anna.820
Before marrying Eileen, Albert had had an earlier spouse, Helen Karen Masters,810 to
whom he was married sometime between 1930, when he is shown as single in the federal
census,814 and about 1934, the approximate birth date of his first child Ruth Ann.815 The
marriage, which produced three children, Ruth Ann, Edward Anthony (named after his short-
lived uncle and his grandfather), and Mary Eileen,810,815 did not last. In 1952 Helen and
Albert were living together at 5801a Wabada Avenue in St. Louis,816 but by 1955 a Gilbert
George Biehl821 had married Helen and had moved in with her at the Wabada Avenue
house,822 and Albert was living with his parents.817 By 1960 Albert and Eileen (Cooney)
Beine were united in marriage.818
Like Albert, Eileen also had had an earlier spouse, her first husband, Vernon Kenneth
Waters, whom she married sometime between 1933, when she had her maiden name in a city
directory,788 and 1935, when their daughter, Barbara, was born.815 Vernon was a child of
Theodore and Rena (Clint) Waters, who were married 21 June 1913 in Cole County,
Missouri,823 and who then moved to St. Louis, where they raised Vernon and his brother
Floyd.824,825
But Eileen’s first marriage was seriously disturbed, and Vernon, as noted earlier, ended
up leaving Eileen and marrying her sister Mary Agnes.
Before marrying Vernon, Eileen Cooney had grown up in St. Louis, first employed by
Well Kalter Company (a St. Louis manufacturer of women’s underwear) in 1933,788 and by a
“ten cent store” as a teenager.794 It was in that city that she had been born, on 7 December
1915.805
Eileen had but one known child, Barbara Frances Waters, by her first marriage.815
Barbara, who was born around 1935, was married twice. Her first marriage was to Gale
Eugene Crowell Sr., born 9 December 1934 to Leon and Marie (Steffen) Crowell of St.
Louis.826,827 The marriage ended in divorce on 17 November 1971 in Duval County, Florida,
but not before producing three children,804 Gale Eugene Crowell Jr.,828 Helen Mary
Crowell,829 and David Eugene Crowell.830 Gale Sr., who served in the U.S. Navy from 7
November 1956 to 29 September 1975, was married twice more831 before passing away 29
December 1989 in Temple, Texas, where he is buried in Belleview Memorial Park.827
Barbara’s second marriage was to Harold Leroy Meeks on 24 January 1983 in Clay
County, Florida .832 Harold, who was born 13 September 1931, died 9 February 2000833 and
is buried in Sea Pines Memorial Gardens, Edgewater, Florida.834 Barbara passed away 30
May 2012, while a resident of Edgewater, Florida.835
Virginia Catherine Cooney

“Young and ambitious,” according to her
1936 high school year book;836 “the finest
woman I have ever known. Beautiful, loving,
smart and generous,” according to her
daughter-in-law,837 Virginia Catherine
Cooney, Frank and Mary’s middle child, was
born 28 April 1918.838 It was in St. Louis that
Virginia grew up, attending Blewett High
School836 and becoming a typist.837 And it was
in the tiny village of St. George, Kansas, 350
miles to the west, that her future husband,
Harold Edward McDonald Sr., was born and
spent his childhood.839
Harold was born 28 October 1911,840 one
of four children (Bruce, Harold, Frances, and
Bernard) of Mark and Frances A.
McDonald.841 Mark, a native of Antigonish,
Nova Scotia, Canada, had been a railroad
telegrapher, and had been sent to the United
States by his company in 1905.842 There he
met and married Frances (“Fanny”) Thomas, a
St. George girl843 and a school teacher.837 And Virginia Catherine (Cooney) McDonald, 1944.
he changed jobs, becoming a lumber yard (Collection of Penny McDonald.)
844
manager and salesman, a career he would
follow the rest of his life.845 Sometime after 1920, Mark, Frances, and their four children
moved first to Boston, Massachusetts, then to Leavenworth, Kansas, and finally to Ferguson,
Missouri, in St. Louis County, where they were living in 1930.841
Harold became an engineer for Curtiss Wright aircraft manufacturer in St. Louis, and in
1936 was sent to China, where he worked for a year helping the Chinese government build
airplanes (and where he met General and Madame Chiang Kai-shek).837 When China was
invaded at the start of the Second Sino-
Japanese War in July 1937, Harold left the
country, arriving back in the United States
15 September 1937.839 It was after
returning that he met Virginia, while both
were vacationing.837 The couple were
married in St. Louis, on 25 July 1939, with
a world-wide economic depression drawing
to a close and a world-wide conflagration,
WW II, lurking around the corner.837
Following their marriage, Virginia and
Harold briefly set up housekeeping in a St.
Louis suburb, Pasadena Hills,846 before
Virginia and Harold McDonald on their building a house in Ferguson.837 Two years
honeymoon, 1939. (Collection of Penny McDonald.)
later, his job took the family to Buffalo,
New York, where Harold also served

on the war production board. After the
war, encountering financial problems
due to insufficient research and
development and the loss of important
contracts, Curtiss Wright shut down
the entire Aeroplane Division. Harold
and Virginia returned to Ferguson,
where Harold started the McDonald
and Wilson Sales Co., working as a
manufacturers' representative.847,848
St. George, Kansas, birthplace of Harold McDonald
Sr., remains a tiny village in 2012. (Wikipedia.) Harold Sr., who passed away 23
December 1987,849 and Virginia, who
died 11 February 1994,850 are buried in Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis.851 The couple had
seven children—Michael, Harold Jr., Karen, Joseph, Mary,837 Virginia, and
Patricia.849,850
Frank Bernard Cooney Jr.
He idolized Frank Sinatra, whom he
resembled in stature if not in face, had a very
good voice, and loved to sing. He also loved to
dance, in his later years going to the Casa Loma
Ballroom in St. Louis weekly or more often.
Following the war, he played on a baseball team
sponsored by Harry L. Yawitz Realty Co. of St.
Louis. In spite of all the socializing, Frank was
distant towards most of his family. He claimed
to have been a cook in the U.S. Navy, but there
is no record showing this. One family member
says that he couldn’t use a coffee maker or cook
his own meals, but another, that he was very
interested in cooking and “quite the chef.” All
in all, Frank was a very complex person.
Born 30 October 1924,852 Frank Bernard Frank Bernard Cooney Jr.
Cooney Jr. first served in WW II as a Merchant (Collection of Mary F. Ridgeway.)
Marine, transferring to the U.S. Navy, which he
thought a more authentic service. In the Navy he was a seaman first class and spent at least
part of his WW II tour aboard the USS Kalinin Bay (CVE-68), a Casablanca class escort
carrier.853 The ship was in the Gilbert and Marshall islands Campaign (23 April to 6 August
1944), the Mariana and Palau Islands Campaign (14 to 25 September 1944), the Philippines
Campaign (17 to 24 October 1944), and the Battle off Samar (25 October 1944). During the
latter battle, the Kalinin Bay was damaged by a Japanese suicide plane. On 4 December 1945
Frank joined the USS Gosper (APA) 170, which did cleanup duty transporting troops
following WW II, and it is muster rolls for the Gosper that provide Frank’s (and, thus, his
dad’s) middle name.854,855,856
Following his military service, Frank became a clerk in the 1950s for the Missouri,
Kansas, and Texas Railroad in St. Louis.858,857
Frank had a web like matrimonial history. He
was married three times to spouses who were
married more than once, often to husbands who also
had multiple marriages. And, unfortunately, the
dates of the various marriages, dissolved by death or
law, have proven difficult to find.
Frank’s first marriage occurred sometime
between 1940, when he was still single,787 and 1952,
when a St. Louis city directory shows him married
to “Wilma L.”858 Wilma was Wilma L. Burgess,859
born 7 January 1927860 to Garrett Hobert and
Gertrude B. (Carmack) Burgess,861,862,863 of Pulaski
County, Missouri.864 Frank’s first marriage did not
Japanese battleship during Battle off last. In 1961 Wilma L. Cooney and Glennon E.
Samar, 25 October 1944. (Naval History Meinberg, residents of the respective St. Louis
and Heritage Command.)
suburbs of Bel-Ridge and Mehlville, Missouri,
obtained a marriage license in Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois.865 (Nine years earlier,
in 1952, Glennon had wed Barbara J. Overman in Randolph County Missouri.866) Wilma L.
(Burgess) Meinberg died 23 September 1998, while a resident of Fenton, St. Louis County,
Missouri.867 Glennon had died six years earlier, 7 November 1992.868
By 1967, when Mrs. Etha Cooney
of Belle, Missouri, appears in a
Jefferson City newspaper, Frank had
married again,869 on 5 September
1962 in Belle according to an
unreferenced, secondary source.870
Frank’s bride, Etha M. Ridenhour,
one of four children of William A.
and Jane (Griffith) Ridenhour of
Osage County, Missouri,871 was the
widow of Paul J. Jett (born 28 July
1885, died 11 December 1959).872,873
Frank had met Etha at a dance in
Jefferson City, Missouri. She, her Harry L. Yawitz Realty Co. baseball team. Frank Jr.
sister, and her brother had inherited is second from right, back row. c1946. (Collection of
farms from their dad. Etha’s place was Mary F. Ridgeway.)
a lovely location, about twenty-seven
acres with a barn, three ponds, and a small house. Frank and Etha settled down in Belle,
Missouri, near Etha’s relatives. He spent the years with Etha living on the farm in Belle while
continuing to work for the railroad. Frank retired at about age sixty to take care of his Etha,
who was almost twenty years older and was hospitalized off and on.869,874,875,876 Etha died 26
June 1986 while a resident of Belle.877 Her name is found in two cemetery marker
inscriptions—”JETT, ETHA M., 1905-1986” on a monument shared with her first husband
in Liberty Cemetery, Belle, Missouri,878 and “COONEY, ETHA M., 1905-1986” on a plaque
shared with Frank at the Resurrection Cemetery Mausoleum, Jefferson City, Missouri, her
probable actual resting site.879 To the likely disquiet of Etha’s first family, the farm was
willed to Frank, who sold it in 2005.804
Following Etha’s death, Frank was wed a final time, to Eileen Ida Patrick, daughter of
Walter Charles Sr.880 and Ida Gladys (Greer) Patrick.881,882 Eileen had earlier been married to
William A. Seiter Sr. 883 (born 2 March 1932, died 14 November 2007).884
Frank and Eileen met at Casa Loma Ballroom in 1989, but they did not marry until much
later, when it became evident that Frank had serious medical problems and needed Eileen’s
care. Frank had developed bladder cancer, and had suffered from the surgery, spending
weeks in the hospital. On 23 May 2005 Frank and Eileen were wed. Frank continued to go
downhill, began showing signs of early Alzheimer’s, and in 2007 entered the Missouri
Veteran’s Home in St. Louis, where he died 5 April 2010.852 His obituary mentions no
children;885 however, the obituaries of his sister Geraldine886 and first wife, Wilma,859
provide the names of four offspring: Margaret Ann “Maggie”, Edward Thomas “Butch,”
John M., and Robert F.
Geraldine Theresa Cooney
She is named “Geraldine Theresa” in her birth record,887 but “Teresa Geraldine” in her
baptismal record.888 The names were probably reversed by S. L. Cassidy, the priest at the
Church of St. Leo, where the 27 June 1926 baptism occurred, who would have considered
“Geraldine” inappropriate since no saint has that name (although there is a St. Gerald). Name
switches and changes at Catholic baptisms were not uncommon. Eloise Marie Wehner (about
whom we will hear more), a great granddaughter of Nicholas Wehner, was named “Marie
Eloise” at her baptism because “Eloise” was unacceptable. Geraldine, who outlived her
baptismal site, St. Leo’s Church (which was closed and razed in 1978), always went by her
birth name or, more often, “Gerry.”
Geraldine was born in St. Louis 16 June 1926, and attended Blessed Sacrament Grade
School and Blewett High School in that city.886 In 1944 she was working as a “filler” with
Benjamin Ansehl, a manufacturer of perfumes, cosmetics, and toiletries,789 and in 1952 as a
business machine operator for Rice, Stix, & Co., a dry-goods wholesale and manufacturing
company, at one time the largest business in St. Louis.858
Only 18 months apart, she and her brother Frank were close as children. She was a
devoted aunt to Frank’s four children, helping to raise them in their younger years. Like her
brother Frank, Gerry also loved to sing and had a wonderful voice. Unbeknownst to her
parents, she learned to drive at a driving school at about 18 and surprised everyone when she
came home with her license.804
In or after 1955, when she was still single, and a clerk working in St. Louis,857 Geraldine
married Thomas Benton Ridgeway,886 also a St. Louis native. Twenty-one years older than
Gerry, Thomas had been born 28 December 1904, one of seven children (Edward, Ethel,
Herbert, Edith, Thomas, Bessie, and Robert)889 of Charles Frank and Mary (Carruthers)
Ridgeway,890 and had been married twice before. The St. Louis City Directory did not show
him with a spouse in 1929,891 but did so in 1930, when it identified his first wife, Julia.892
Since Julia and Thomas’s oldest child, James, was born around 1929,893 the couple were
probably married in that year. The marriage also produced a daughter, Georgia L.
Ridgeway.893 In 30 August 1941 Thomas applied for a marriage license in Clayton, St. Louis
County, Missouri, to marry his second wife, Lucille Weller.894
Thomas’s second marriage came at a

demanding time, and perhaps that is what
set the marriage in motion. Two months
earlier, on 26 June 1941, Thomas had
enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve at St.
Louis.895 By that time, not quite two
years after World War II began with the
German invasion of Poland, virtually all
members of the Navy Reserve were
serving on active duty, their numbers
destined to swell with the Japanese
invasion of Pearl Harbor on 7 December
1941 (at which time Navy Reservists Hvalfjordur, Iceland, where Thomas Benton
began to be drafted rather than being Ridgeway served in WW II. (Wikipedia.)
allowed to enlist). On 1 December 1941, just six days before Pearl Harbor, Thomas was
assigned to the Iceland Patrol Plane Base Detachment at the Naval Air Station at Quonset
Point, Rhode Island, as a seaman 2nd class.896 On 30 December 1941 he and others from the
Naval Air Station boarded the USS. Albemarle for transport to Hvalfjordur, Iceland, where a
British and American naval base was located in the fjord.897,898 Now on her own, Lucille
moved in with Thomas’s widowed
mother, Mary, in Wellston, a St. Louis
suburb.899
On 29 February 1944, by which time
he had been promoted to Machinist's Mate
First Class, Thomas joined the crew of the
USS. Franklin, an aircraft carrier just
commissioned the previous month.900 As a
machinist mate, he was responsible for the
continuous operation of the ship's engines,
gears, compressors, refrigeration, and
deck equipment. Two months later,
however, on 27 April, before the Franklin
sailed to the Pacific to support the
Thomas boarded the USS Franklin, 29 February 1944, Mariana Islands assault, Thomas was
eight days after this photo was taken. (Ancestry.com.)
transferred to the U.S. Naval Hospital at
Portsmouth, Virginia, “for treatment.”895 The cause of the hospitalization is unknown. Japan
surrendered 15 August 1945. Thomas was discharged 9 October 1945, having served the
entire time that the U.S. had been officially at war, and then some.901
Thomas had started out as a chauffeur,891 but became a bus driver, his lifelong work,
except for the years spent in the Navy.902,903 Thomas Benton Ridgeway died 17 November
1970 and was laid to rest in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis.904
Over the years Geraldine worked in secretarial and clerical jobs in St. Louis and in the St.
Louis area for companies and agencies that included Roadrunner Express, Meco Tools, and
the court and police department of the City of Charlack, Missouri.886 She died 22 February
2012 in Jefferson City, Missouri, and was interred in Resurrection Cemetery there.886,905
Gerry and Thomas had one child, a daughter, Mary F. Ridgeway.886
Alice L. Cooney
Following her parents’ deaths, Alice, Theresa’s youngest child, born 16 September
1892,906 boarded in St. Louis with Alexander and Elizabeth Gray, future parents-in-law of
her brother Arthur.720 In 1910 she was working as a filing clerk for a magazine company720
and later worked as a bookkeeper or clerk while moving from place to place, often living
with her siblings.907 Around 1916908 she married Charles Ridgley Howard,909 born 5
February 1889 in St. Louis to Charles and Hattie (Ridgley) Howard.910 Charles worked all his
life as a mechanic (automobile and factory maintenance),910,911,912,913,914 but was idled by the
economic depression by the end of the 1930s.914 He died in St. Louis of cancer at the
relatively young age of 58 on 28 March 1947.910 Alice lived three decades longer, passing
away 24 December 1979, described in her obituary as “A lady of class.”906,915 Charles and
Alice are interred in St. Louis’s Resurrection Cemetery.704
Four children—Charles Jr. (the eldest), Harriet Alice, James (born 1925 or 1926), and
Alice (about December 1928)—are shown in the 1930 census;916 however, James and Alice,
the two youngest, are found nowhere else, show up in no death records, and are unmentioned
in the obituaries for Charles Sr. and Alice (Cooney) Howard.909,915 Moreover, the 1940
census shows that Alice gave birth to only two children.914 Unlike the two older children,
James and Alice are listed below the name of a boarder in the 1930 census, and almost
certainly were erroneously designated as children of Charles Sr. and Alice Howard by a
sloppy census enumerator or an uninformed neighbor.
Charles Howard Jr.
Charles Jr., born about April 1917,912 was living with his parents in St. Louis in 1940,
working as a YMCA life guard.914 At that point we lose all track of him.
Harriet Alice Howard
Born 22 July 1923, Harriet Alice, lived
much of her life in her family home at 3507
Shenandoah Avenue in St. Louis, first with
her parents,912 then with her widowed
mother,917 and finally with both her husband
and her mother.918 Harriet married William
Frank Cole904 sometime between 1955, when
she still had her maiden name in the St.
Louis City Directory,919 and 1960, when she
was listed as William’s wife.918 She may
have met Frank while working at Western
Union, Harriet’s employer before she was
married917,919,920 and Frank’s, afterward.918
Harriet, who died 12 May 2008, is
interred in Jefferson Barracks National
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery (2011). Cemetery in St. Louis921 a burial site allowed
owing to Frank’s service as a corporal in the
U.S. Army.904 She left two children, William Howard Cole and A. Joan Cole.921,922 A third
child, Kathleen Anne Cole, who died as a baby, is buried with her grandparents, Alice and
Charles, in Resurrection Cemetery.704
Grace Phoebe Cooney Robert Vincent Dyckman

m Lucian Clifford Boillot
m Robert Barney Dyckman m Agnes F. Groesch
Harold Gregg Cooney Sr.

m Helen Nix
Arthur Russell Cooney Jr.
Allen Richard Cooney Sr.

m Lillie Mae Monroe
Arthur Russell Cooney Robert Gray Cooney

m Alice Elizabeth Gray m Lavonne Dassinger
Alyce Jane Cooney

m Clifford Coleman Burrows
Theresa Wehner
1858-1908 Ruth Virginia Cooney
m William Leon Singleton
Howard Raymond Cooney
John Richard Cooney Mary Agnes Cooney

1862-1901 m Vernon Kenneth Waters
Eileen Frances Cooney

m. Waters, Beine, Stetson
Frank Bernard Cooney Sr. Virginia Catherine Cooney

m Mary A. Bahan m Harold Edward McDonald
Frank Bernard Cooney Jr.

m Burgess, Ridenhour, Patrick
Geraldine T. Cooney
m Thomas Benton Ridgeway
Charles Howard Jr.

Alice L. Cooney
m Charles Ridgley Howard
Harriet Alice Howard
m William Frank Cole
Children and Grandchildren of John Richard Cooney and Theresa Wehner

Bier und Brot Amalia M. Wehner 89
Amalia M. Wehner
An 1898 questionnaire prepared by her father for his Civil War pension application,9
states that Amalia Wehner (anglicized “Amelia,”89 but most often “Mollie”) was born in Pilot
Knob87 on 28 March 1860, a date that agrees with March 1860 given in the 1900 census,54
and thus slightly more reliable than the 3 April 1860 date given in her death certificate.87 She
is shown with her parents in the 1860 and 1870 federal censuses89,82 and in the 1876 Iron
County census.611 In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on 24 November 1886, she married William F.
Becker, an “artist & decorator” and son of Henry and Julia A. (Eller) Becker.80 William may
well have met and wed Amalia while she was visiting or staying with her sister Clara
Schilling.
The Beckers and Ellers, both families of German descent, lived in Erie County,
Pennsylvania, a district in the northwest corner of the state and bounded on the west by Ohio,
on the northeast by New York, and on the north by Lake Erie. Many earlier records from this
region give the name “Becker” as “Backer” or “Baker.” Julia (also “Juliana,”923
“Julyann”924), a daughter of Jacob and Julia (Becker) Eller,925 was born in Hesse-Darmstadt,
Germany; Henry Becker was born in Hanover, Germany.926 William F. Becker, born 7
March 1852 in Pennsylvania (probably in Erie County),927 was the oldest of five children—
John, Nicholas, Henry, and Mary—in a financially distressed family.924,926 The 1860 federal
census for Erie, Pennsylvania, shows Henry, a painter, with a personal estate of only $10.924
The 1880 census shows Henry as disabled with rheumatism.926 Henry and Julia cannot be
located in the 1870 census, but appear to have left the town of Erie.
Amalia’s first child, Elmer Bernard
Becker, was born 9 July 1887 in
Milwaukee,928 but by 26 December of the
following year Amalia was back in
Missouri, where her only other child,
Frederick William (usually just “Fred
W.”), was born in St. Louis.929 Whether
she was accompanied by her husband is
uncertain since “Mollie Baker,” divorced
and working as a washerwoman, appears
in her father’s household with Elmer and
Frederick in the 1900 federal census for
Pilot Knob.54 She is also found in Pilot
Knob censuses for 1910 (“Mallie Wehner sisters Amalia (“Mollie”) Becker (left) and
930 931 Anna Siebert (right) with Elmer Bernard Becker
Becker”), 1920 (“Mollie Becker”),
932
and 1930 (“Mollie M. Becker”), where, and his nephew, Bernard Frederick Becker, Pilot
Knob, c1925. The mount of Pilot Knob is visible in
in all three, she is shown as widowed the background. (Collection of Rita Becker Clark.)
rather than divorced. It is tempting to
ascribe Amalia’s designation as a widow in the later censuses as an attempt at propriety in an
era when divorce was still unacceptable (particularly for Roman Catholics), but as it turns
out, she was in fact a widow. Her ex-husband, William, who had been working in the
machine shop of Nagle Engine and Boiler Works and staying with a sister (presumably,
Mary) in Erie, Pennsylvania, died of a stroke in that city on 19 January 1908.933 He was
buried in Erie Cemetery with his parents and brothers John and Henry.927
“Amalia Becker” died of catarrhal pneumonia 21 January 1932 in Pilot Knob and is
reported in her death certificate as being buried in the Catholic Cemetery, where her parents
also lie, though no marker is found.87 Her son Elmer, who was living in St. Louis, Missouri,
was the informant.
Elmer Bernard Becker
Born 9 July 1887 in Milwaukee,928 Elmer spent his childhood in Pilot Knob, Missouri,
but by 1910 had moved to St. Louis, where he worked as a bank clerk and
bookkeeper.934,935,936,937 On 9 June 1913 at Saints Teresa and Bridget Church in St. Louis,938
he married Gertrude M. Judlin, daughter of Charles Jamarr and Mathilda E. (Benning)
Judlin.935,939 Charles, born 18 June 1857 in Maryland (his death certificate incorrectly gives
St. Louis as his birthplace),940 was a bricklayer and later a night watchman for Famous-Barr
Company,941 where his wife, Mathilda (“Tillie”),935,939 also worked.942
When Charles Judlin died on 26 October 1916,940 just three years after Elmer and
Gertrude had married, Tillie moved in with the couple and remained with them the rest of her
life.935,937,942 Elmer’s nephew Frederick William Jr. also lived with them for a time.936 Elmer
worked for the Mercantile National Bank for over forty years, at least from 1910934 to
1952,943 but by 1955, when the St. Louis City Directory no longer listed his bank
employment,944 Elmer had retired.
Elmer, who died 22 October 1961,945 is buried in Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery in St.
Louis.946 No children appear in Elmer’s obituary;945 however, buried in Bethany Cemetery in
the same plot as Gertrude’s father, Charles Jamarr Judlin, and her brother, Charles W. Judlin
(buried 20 May 1902), is an “Infant Becker,” buried 1 April 1914, just a little less than ten
months after Elmer and Gertrude’s marriage.947 Mathilda Judlin, born 10 October 1865, died
8 February 1955, is also interred in Bethany, but in a different plot.942,947,948
Born 4 September 1887, Gertrude (Judlin) Becker died in September 1986 while residing
in Las Vegas, New Mexico, where she had gone with her nephew Melvin Becker.949,950
Frederick William Becker Sr.
Frederick, usually just “Fred,” was born 26 December 1888 in St. Louis,951 but spent his
youth in Pilot Knob, where he was a machinist.930 On 19 October 1912, in Flat River, St.
Francois County, Missouri, he married Rosella “Kelly”952 in a ceremony performed by
Robert G. Ramsey, “minister of the Gospel.”
Rosella (sometimes “Rose”) was one of eight children953 of James Harlow Kelley and
Sarah (also “Sallie”)954 C. Anderson,955,956 a couple married 6 November 1875 in Iron
County.957 James and Sarah’s comedic marriage record, with original spellings maintained,
reads
November 5th 1875. Article of agreement between Mr. James H Kelley of the
first part and Sarah C Anderson of the 2nd part Witness the said James H.
Kelley of the first part offerd his servises to Sarah C. Anderson of the second
part. To hold a confab together as often as circumstances would admit or a
little oftener on the subject of matrimony After the subject was fully discussd
to the satisfaction of both parties the said James H Kelley propounded an
adhamment [adamant?] question to Sarah C. Anderson which was favorably
entertained by her. The said parties then in Conjunction appointed a day for
the consummation of marriage one with the other. Thereupon the 6th day of
November 1875 was agreed as the day. And Mr. James H. Kelley of the 1st
part kindly requested me to perform the marriage cerimony. Therefore I J.
[John] Donaldson of the 3rd part a Presbyterian Minister proceeded to the
residence of the brides parents on the day above named and solemnized the
rite of marriage between James H. Kelley of the 1st part, and Sarah C.
Anderson of the 2nd part. Thus end the Chapter. and may fortune shed benign
rays upon them through life
Sarah died 28 March 1912, just
months before Rosella’s marriage, and
was buried “on Tom Sauk.”954 Tom Sauk
(also “Taum Sauk”), southwest of
Ironton, is the name of Missouri’s highest
mountain, but it is also the name of a
cemetery a few miles north of Lesterville
in Reynolds County, at the mountain’s
base. That no marker is found for Sarah
in the cemetery and that she was reported
as being buried “on” not “in” Tom
Sauk954 may indicate that she was buried
on the mountain itself.
James Harlow Kelley passed away 3
June 1933 and rests in Minimum
(“Collins”) Cemetery, located about one-
half mile west of the nearly deserted
community of Minimum in Iron
County,958 a collection of scattered
houses, named with an appropriate twist
for Minnie Farr, wife of Napoleon A.
Farr, an early postmaster,959 and lying on
State Highway C about twenty miles
south of Pilot Knob. Buried near James
Kelley are his parents John Marion
Kelley Sr. and Louisa Jane (Winchel)
Kelley.958,960
Flat River (today part of the
composite town of Park Hills), where
Fred and Rosella were married, was
situated about 20 miles north of Pilot
Left to right, Bernard Frederick Becker, his son Gerald, Knob in the Old Lead Belt mining region.
and his father, Frederick William Becker Sr., September There, for a few years following his
1939. (Becker Archives, courtesy of Rita Becker Clark.) marriage, Fred was a miner for Federal
Lead Company.961 The Flat River District was composed of unincorporated, company-owned
towns, controlled by the employers.962 Miners worked 48 hours a week, in dangerous jobs,
for low pay. In much of the rest of the country, the postwar economy was booming,
particularly in the automotive industry, where wages were high and job security was good.
Around 1919, following the birth of the fourth child, the family moved to the town of
Hamtramck in Wayne County, Michigan. There, in 1914, the Dodge Brothers automobile
plant had been established and there, in 1920, lived Fred W. “Beker,” an automobile factory
polisher, his wife “Rosela,” and their four Missouri-born sons—Bernard, “Clarance,” Herbert
(James Herbert), and Fred W. Jr.963
Sometime after 1923 or 1924, when their fifth son, Melvin, was born in Michigan,964
Rosella and Fred moved to Chicago, where Fred worked as a laborer and where sons six and
seven, Edwin and William (“Billy,” later “Bill”), were born in 1924965 and 1926.966 But the
marriage did not go well. By 1930 Fred was divorced, living with his mother, Amalia, and
his 15-year-old son, Clarence, in Pilot Knob, and working as a carpenter.932 Another son, 10-
year-old Fred Jr., was living with his Uncle Elmer and Aunt Gertrude in St. Louis.936 The
remaining boys were in Chicago with their mother, her second husband, Edward, a furniture
company driver, and a new sibling, Doris, born about June 1928 in Illinois.964 The family
was living at 845 N. Elizabeth St., just across Eckhart Park from 826 N. Noble St., where
Rosella and Fred were supposedly living in 1926.966
Surprising is that Rosella’s second husband was also a Becker, Edward Fred Becker,967
born in 1890 or 1891, according to the 1930 census, and having an age at first marriage
indicative of a previous marriage (both attributes likely not factual, as we will see).964
Despite the identical family name, a relationship between husband one and husband two has
not been found, probably because the latter’s name was not originally “Becker.”
Bernard Becker, Rosella and Fred’s oldest child, told family members that Edward
changed his name, possibly from “Ingstrom” (more likely, the more common “Engstrom”).968
Edward may have also changed his birthplace from Ashland, Wisconsin, given on the death
certificate for his stepson Edwin,969 to Missouri, given in the 1930 census and on the birth
certificate for his daughter Rosella Becker.967 To be less disruptive to his new family, to hide
a non-formalized union, or to escape a disagreeable past, Edward appears to have mimicked
husband one, Fred, in birthplace, surname (and middle name?), and, as it turns out, age.
By 1935, Rosella and Edward, had moved to Detroit, Michigan.970 It was a return to
Wayne County for Rosella, though not necessarily for Edward. The 1940 census shows
Rosella and Edward, now working as a millwright in an automobile plant, with four
children—two who appear in the 1930 census, “Billy” (William) and “Dorris” (Doris), and
two new offspring, “Rose” (Rosella) and Donald.970 Of particular interest is that Edward in
1940 claims Wisconsin, once more, as his birthplace and has lopped years off his age. His
claimed age of 36, clearly written in the 1940 census, corresponds to a birth year of 1902 or
1903, making him significantly younger than his wife. Did Edward make himself older when
he and Rosella first joined up so that he would look more like a husband to Rosella and a
father to her children?
If Edward’s age was 36 in 1940, and if he were first married at age 23, as stated in the
1930 census, he and Rosella were married around 1927 and thus there is no evidence of an
earlier wife. And this fits nicely with the birthdates of those children more or less
unambiguously assigned to Edward (see below). Censuses and city directories show no
Edward Becker (or Edward Ingstrom) in the city of Ashland, Wisconsin, or in the
surrounding county. But there is an Edward C. Engstrom, born around 1903 to Andrew and
Anna Engstrom, who appears in the 1910 and 1920 censuses for the city of Ashland971,972 and
in the 1924 and 1926 Ashland City Directories,973,974 and, unlike his parents and numerous
siblings, is never seen again in Ashland County. Are Edward C. Engstrom and Edward
“Fred” Becker one and the same? It is certainly quite possible.
Back in Missouri, sometime between
1930 and 1940, Frederick Becker Sr. took
as a second wife Julia E. Miller,951
daughter of George Washington975 and
Mary Elizabeth (Shrum)976 Miller, who
had farmed in nearby Reynolds County.977
Born 15 February 1897,978 Julia was the
widow of William Emanuel Brooks979
(usually, “Manuel”),980 whom she wedded
in Iron County on 24 October 1915.981
Manuel, who had worked as a day
laborer,982 a “fireman” (probably, a furnace
man) in the lead mines at Flat River,980 and
a Pilot Knob teamster,983 had earlier been
married, with a wife Nora980 and two Pilot Knob Cemetery (2010).
983
daughters, Nalena L. and Dessie E. Manuel’s second marriage lasted just a little over five
years. He died 24 January 1921 of tuberculosis,979 leaving a widowed Julia and a third child
(Julia’s), James W. Brooks.984
Thus, in 1930, supporting herself doing institutional laundry, the widow Julia and her son
James ended up living in Pilot Knob,984 very near to where Fred Becker Sr. and his son
Clarence were residing with Amalia,932 and the neighbors married. The couple appear in the
1940 census without other household members, and with Fred still working as a carpenter.985
Fred Sr. died of lung cancer 5 April
1955 in Pilot Knob.951 Julia passed away
14 May 1989, a resident of Middlebrook,
just north of Pilot Knob.978 Fred, Julia, and
Julia’s first husband, Manuel, rest in
untidy Pilot Knob Cemetery, Julia’s
marker only a weathered wooden cross.
And what of Rosella, Fred Becker Sr.’s
first wife? Today she lies near her father in
Minimum Cemetery. The marker’s dates of 22
August 1897 and 23 March 1959 are identical
to those found for “Rose Ella Wismiller” who
died in Los Angeles, California.986 Rose Ella’s
death record gives her mother’s maiden name
as “Anderson” and her father’s name as
“Kelly.” Rose Ella and Rosella are one and the
same. In 1959 a Charles Wismiller married
A crude, wooden cross in Pilot Knob Cemetery marks the “Rose Becker” in Randolph County,
final resting place of Julia Miller Brooks Becker (2010).
Arkansas.987 The Minimum Cemetery marker
reads, however, not “Rose Ella Wismiller,” but “Rosella Becker,” “Precious Mother of Bernard
Clarence Herbert Frederick Mildred Melvin Edwin William Doris Rosella Donald Patricia”—twelve
children!960
Can we assign the children appearing on the cemetery marker, our Rosetta Stone, to the
two fathers with identical surnames? The diagram on the following page may help as we try
to disentangle the multiple unions and multitudinous descendants.
The first four children listed
on Rosella’s marker—Bernard
(Bernard Frederick), Clarence,
Herbert (James Herbert), and
Frederick (Frederick William
Jr.)—are sons of Fred Sr. since
they appear in the 1920 census
with Fred and Rosella.963 Born in
Michigan, Melvin was also a child
of Frederick,964 and, as shown by
his birth certificate, so was
Edwin.965
When Edwin died on 7
December 1925, Edward Becker,
the informant for the death
certificate, was living with
Rosella at 1429 W. Erie Street and
Rosella Becker’s marker, a Rosetta Stone, in Iron County’s
was listed falsely as Edwin’s
Minimum (Collins) Cemetery names twelve children (2010). father.969 Thus, it would appear
that Edward and Rosella were
living together by 7 December 1925. But then things get “sticky.” When William was born
11 July 1926, his birth certificate gives “Frederick W. Becker” as the father!966 And Fred and
Rosella are shown as living together at 826 Noble St. Perhaps Fred and Rosella had reunited.
Perhaps Fred was declared the father for propriety’s sake. Perhaps William was the son of
Fred even though he and Rosella were not living together. (The 9-month gestation period
makes this work.) Perhaps Rosella, Fred, and Edward were living together in a bohemian life.
Perhaps…perhaps…perhaps…. In fact we cannot tell who William’s father was.
As for the remaining children: Doris, born in Illinois964 well after Edward had entered the
picture, was probably his daughter. Rosella, Donald, and Patricia are also presumed offspring
of Edward. (Rosella is known to be.)967 For Mildred, as we will see, some doubt exists.
In addition to William’s parentage, other problems remain. First, where data exist, the
birth order is the same as the order of children on Rosella’s cemetery marker, with one
exception. Mildred should have been born between Frederick Jr. and Melvin, where there is
(barely) temporal room for her birth. But she cannot be located in the 1930 census. Was she
staying with relatives? Did the enumerator miss her? Is the birth order premise wrong? A
second problem is that the birth certificates of Edwin, William, and Rosella (the daughter)
report numbers of children born by Rosella (the mother) that cannot be correct no matter
what reasonable assumptions are made. This may be due to clerical error, but it is more likely
due to poor reporting by Edward and Rosella, who often played loosely with facts and who
had other things on their minds.
Lawrence
Gertrude M.
Wehner
Amelia M Judlin
Wehner Bernard
Elmer Bernard Frederick Becker
Flora Glisner
Becker
Clarence E.
Becker
Nora L. ?
Henry Becker
James Herbert
William F. Becker William Becker
Emmanuel Brooks
Julia A. Eller Frederick William
Becker Jr.
Julia E. Miller
Melvin Becker
Frederick William
John Marion Becker Sr.
Kelley Sr. Edwin Becker
James Harlow
Kelley
Louisa Jane
Rosella Kelley William Becker
Winchel
Sarah C.
Anderson
Doris Becker
Edward Becker
Mildred Becker
Charles Wismiller Rosella Becker

Descendants
Marriages Donald Becker
Female
Male Patricia Becker
Now, let’s take a look at what we do know about Rosella’s children, in order of their
appearance on her cemetery marker.
Bernard Frederick Becker
Born 21 September 1913,988 Bernard moved with his parents from Iron County, Missouri,
to Wayne County, Michigan,963 and then to Chicago.964 It was there that he married Ruby
Croney on 10 October 1932.989
Ruby was born 29 January 1915990 to George Washington Croney of Reynolds County,
Missouri,991 just next door to Iron County, where Bernard was born (though he left at a very
young age). George Washington Croney was married three times. His first marriage was in
the tiny town of Ellington in Reynolds County, on 5 June 1909, to a very young Mary
Rains.992 Born in December 1893993 to Jeff F. and Adeline (Bone) Rains,994 Mary was just 15
and had to have approval of her father, Jeff, to get a marriage license.992 By 5 September
1913, when George Croney obtained a license in Centerville, Reynolds County, Missouri, to
marry Nora Whitchurch,995 the first marriage had ended. Mary is said to have died young and
tragically, though no grave or death record has been found.950
Nora C. Whitchurch and George were married 21 September 1913.995 Nora, born in
December 1892, was the youngest child of James A. D. and Sarah Angeline (Morrison)
Whitchurch of Marion County, Illinois.996,997 She was born after her parents had moved to
Missouri, sometime between 1883, when her brother Solomon was born in Illinois, and 1885,
when her sister Rosa was born in Missouri.997,998 Like his first marriage, George’s second
was also very short. He married again on 6 December 1918, just five years after marrying
Nora.999 Nora Croney, who died around 1918, possibly from pneumonia,950 is buried in the
cemetery at Farmington State Hospital
No. 4,1000 which was established in
1889 and began operations in 1903.1001
Though short, the marriage with
Nora produced two children, Ruby and
Lyman Arthur.991,1002,1003 Ruby may
have felt neglected when her father
brought his third wife, Bertha S.
(Vinson) Dinkins, widow of Weldon
Dinkins,1004,1005 and her two children,
Stella and Paul, into the household,991
for she lived much of the time
afterward with her uncle George Kyle Kyle family, 1923. Left to right: Elmer Kyle (son of George
and aunt Nellie (Croney) Kyle.1006 In and Nellie), Ruby Croney, Archie Kyle (son of Elmer and
fact, the 1920 census for Reynolds Datie), Nellie and George Kyle, Datie (Lewis) Kyle (wife of
County, Missouri, put Ruby in both Elmer). (Photograph used with permission of Kent Forest.)
991,1007
households.
In 1940 Bernard Frederick and Ruby (Croney) Becker, and their first-born, Gerald, were
living in Chicago, where Bernard was working as a lamp assembler.1008 The couple moved
back to Missouri, but their marriage did not last. They divorced in 1954.968 Ruby married a
second time, to Roy Wilbur Phillips, in Ironton, Missouri, on 18 January 1966.1009 Ruby
Croney Becker Phillips passed away 28 March 1988, while residing in Ironton.990 Bernard
Frederick Becker, who ended up in Festus, Missouri, working as a carpenter, died 25 April
2002 in Crystal City, where he rests in Sacred Heart Cemetery.1010 Bernard and Ruby had
two children, Gerald Bernard Becker and Rita Becker.1008,1011
Clarence E. Becker
Clarence, born in Michigan 1 February 1915,1012 lived with his father and grandmother
Amalia in Pilot Knob following his father’s divorce.932 He resided for a while in Michigan,
where he enlisted in the U.S. Army on 17 April 1941, a few months before the U.S. entered
WW II.1013 His enlistment papers show that he was married at the time (his wife is believed
to have been named “Dorothy.”)968 Clarence died in June 1966, while a resident of Pilot
Knob.1012
James Herbert Becker

James was born in Missouri963 on 1 February 1917, died 25 October 1957, and is buried
with his mother, grandparents, and great grandparents in Minimum Cemetery.960 James, who
often used his middle name, “Herbert,” appears with his parents in the 1920 Hamtramck,
Michigan, census963 and with his mother and her second husband in the 1930 Chicago
census.964 He served in the U.S. Naval Reserve in the latter days of WW II, 26 April 1945 to
21 September 1945,1014 and was on the U.S.S. Hobby, a Naval destroyer, in Seattle drydock,
when the Japanese surrendered on 2 September 1945.1015,1016 Several secondary, non-
sourced, and questionable references (probably copied from each other) state that he married
Alice Belle Davis in Kentucky on 7 January 1939 and had four children: James R., Richard
Herbert, Edward Paul, and Judith Layne.1017
Frederick William Becker Jr.
Frederick (usually “Fred”) William Becker Jr. was born to Frederick Sr. and Rosella
Becker on 3 May 1919 in Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri.963,1018,1019 Following his
parents’ divorce, he lived with his aunt and uncle Elmer and Gertrude Becker in St. Louis.936
On 10 Mar 1937 in Clayton, Missouri, Fred and Grace Santa Natoli, daughter of Joseph
and Frieda M. Moser,1020 were wed.1021 Though the marriage produced three children, it did
not last. Born 11 Jul 1919 in St. Louis, Grace died 19 Jan 1997 in Broward County, Florida,
with the married name “Thomas,”1022,1023 a name she acquired around August 1951.1020
On 4 August 1950 Fred W. Becker married “Hortense Hull.”1024 Although both gave their
residences as East St. Louis, Illinois, they were married in neither Illinois nor close-by
Missouri, possibly because both states, at the time, had waiting periods. Fred and Hortense
received their license and gave their vows the same day, in Randolph County, Arkansas,
which was 200 miles south of East St. Louis and had neither a waiting period nor a residency
requirement.
Born 19 September 19101025 as Hortense M. Brown to Harold E. and Ary (Leaman)
Brown of Carterville in Williamson County, Illinois,1026 Hortense was shipped off to her
maternal grandparents, George Franklin1027 and Mary A. (Phillips)1028 Leaman in
Carbondale, Illinois, when her parents divorced around 1911 or 1912.1029,1030 By 1930, she
was living in East St. Louis with her mother (who now called herself “Mary A.”) and her
stepfather, Thomas J. Ryan, a locomotive engineer for the Illinois Central RR.1031,1032 There,
Hortense worked as a saleslady for a dry goods store and in 1948, apparently after marrying
and separating from a “Hull,” was working as a cashier for Sears and living with her mom
and stepdad.1033 That Fred, who was (at least eventually) a salesman for J. C. Penny,1034 and
Hortense were both involved in dry-goods sales may explain how they first met in East St.
Louis.
Fred and Hortense ended up in Pasco County, Florida, where Hortense passed away 28
December 1986.1035 Fred lived another fifteen years, dying on 22 February 2002 in Winston
Salem, North Carolina, following a stay in a nursing home in Lexington, North Carolina,
where one of his children lived.1034 Fred and Hortense, who are interred at East Elfers
Cemetery, New Port Richey, Florida,1036 left three offspring, products of Fred’s first
marriage: Rose Marie, Shirley Ann, and Fred W. III.1019,1034
Mildred Becker
We are uncertain of Mildred’s parentage. She is found in neither the 1930 nor 1940
census, though there is reason to believe that she was born before 1930. Obituaries of two of
her brothers (or stepbrothers), Bernard Frederick and Frederick William, show that Mildred
was Rosella’s last surviving child and was living with the last name “Becker” in Oklahoma
City in 2002.1010,1019,1034 On 7 February 2010, a Mildred Becker residing in Oklahoma City
died. Her birth date of 26 August 1921 would place her between Frederick Jr. and Melvin as
indicated by the ordering of names on Rosella’s cemetery marker, were she our Mildred.1037
Melvin L. Becker Sr.
In 1923 or 1924, Melvin was born to Rosella and Fred Becker in Michigan.964 He moved
with his parents to Chicago and continued living there with his mother following her divorce.
On 13 March 1942, Melvin wed Clara Lumpp in a civil service in Chicago.1038
Clara was one of at least ten children of Joseph John1039 and Meta Marie (Hofsaes)1040
Lumpp.1041 Joseph and Meta were wed in Chicago 18 September 1909,1042 and Clara, one of
the later children, was born in 1924 or 1925.1041
In 1961, when he applied for a military veteran headstone for his brother James Herbert,
Melvin was living in Baldwin Park, California.1014 When or where Clara and Melvin died is
unknown, but they are known to have passed away by 29 November 2010, when their son
Melvin Jr. died.1043 Clara and Melvin had four children: Melvin Louis Jr., Timothy,
Charlotte, and Meta, the latter named after her grandmother.1043 The two boys, Timothy and
Melvin Jr., are deceased.1044,1043
Edwin Becker
Edwin was born at home, 1467 W. Erie St., in Chicago on 17 November 1924,965 and
died (as “Baby Edwin Becker”) at 1429 Erie, not quite 13 months later on 7 December
1925.969 His parents are given as “Fred Becker” and “Rosalia Kelley” on his birth certificate and as
“Edward Becker” and “Rose Kelley” on his death certificate. It appears that for a time Fred and Edward
were living just a few houses apart. Edwin was buried at Chicago’s Mt. Auburn Cemetery.969
William Becker
Born as “Billey Becker” on 11 July 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, to Frederick W. Becker and
Rosella Kelley (according to his birth certificate),966 William appears with his mother and her
second husband, Edward, as “Billy” in the 1930 Chicago census.964 and as “Billie” in the
1940 Detroit census.970 When William died on 10 March 1994, his death certificate stated
that he was born 11 July 1925 in Erie, Pennsylvania, to Edward and Rosella “Kelly.”1045 One
must not be too quick to blame the death certificate informant for what appear to be
numerous errors. Joseph Vogler, Lake County Public Administrator, who provided the
information, probably never knew William personally. Moreover, as discussed earlier,
William may have, in fact, been Edward’s child and, in any case, would have known only
Edward as his father. And, as we will see, the death record’s birth date and birthplace were
those actually claimed by William. William’s death certificate states that he was a truck
driver, was living in Waukegan, and had never married. The “never married” may or may not
be true.
William was buried at Wood National Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.1046 His

marker, with the erroneous 1925 birth year, shows that William was a seaman first class in
the U.S. Navy during WW II.1047
At one time, this was all we knew about William—a birth, a death, a large gap in between
containing some military service, and a lot of inconsistencies. A “second” William Becker—
who had four children with Mildred Louise Nickens, lived for a time in Madison County,
Illinois, and ended his days in Chicago—was thought by some to be the same William.1048
That Christina Rose Becker, one of Mildred’s four children, was told her middle name came
from a grandmother and an aunt lent credibility. Our William Becker, Amalia’s grandson,
had both a mother and a sister (or half sister) named “Rosella.” But there was never proof—
never, that is, until 3 March 2012, when Barbara (Levart) Matchett, a descendant of William,
sent me an email proclaiming
“Believe it or not, I just received a copy via email of his Drivers license from
my Aunt. I am just freaking out. Please see attached with his social and home
address on it. ITS HIM!!!! … ITS REALLY HIM!!!”
Barbara found that the driver’s license belonging to William No. 2, kept by his daughter
Gladys, had the same social security number as did the death certificate of William No. 1.
And she provided records of William’s Navy service. Like radiocaster Paul Harvey, we can
now tell “The Rest of the Story” (though not without puzzles and gaps).
On 13 July 1942, just two days after his
sixteenth birthday, William began active duty
with the U.S. Navy at the Great Lakes Naval
Training Station in North Chicago.1049 But he
had to change his birth year to 1925 to achieve
the minimum enlistment age of 17, and from
then on he gave his birth date as 11 July 1925.
That the address in William’s military file is
249 W. Twenty-third Street, Erie,
The license that solved the mystery. Pennsylvania, indicates that his family may
have moved there from Chicago.1049 But Erie is
also listed as his birthplace in Naval records—due to a clerical error, due to William’s belief
that Erie was his birthplace (he may have gone there as a child), or due to deliberate
falsification. Deliberate or not, Erie as his birthplace stuck, appearing not only in William’s
Navy file, but on his death certificate.1045,1050
As a seaman first class on the Navy attack
transport U.S.S. President Adams, William
Becker was at many of the big battles of WW
II—Iwo Jima, Guam, the Solomon Islands,
Luzon.1051 He and his shipmates received
citations from their commanding officer,
Capt. M. C. Erwin.1051 On 14 July 1946,
William was honorably discharged at Great
Lakes, Illinois, where he had joined the Navy,
four years earlier.1052
U.S.S. President Adams, 4 August 1942. (Wikipedia)
Separated from the Navy, William needed work, and he traveled to Granite City, Illinois,
to get it—at Granite City Steel Company.1053 Many years before some of his more distant
relatives, the Sieberts, descendants of his great aunt or great step-aunt Anna Wehner, had
worked as steel and iron workers in that city, but that probably had nothing to do with
William’s deciding to move there. While in Granite City, he had ample opportunity to meet
Mildred.
Mildred Louise Nickens1054,1055 was born on 1 November 1923 in Leeper, Missouri, to
Harlan Sander and Gladys (Roberts) Nickens.1056 She had three husbands, but had no
children by the first or the last.
Mildred’s first husband was James Albert Harvey,1057 with whom she was married on two
different dates: 4 May 1942 in St. Louis1058 and 2 July 1944 in Laredo, Texas.1059 The first
marriage is found only in a secondary source;1058 however, a St. Louis marriage license was
dated application just three days earlier1060 and a record of James’s U.S. Army enlistment on
3 October 1942, five months later, shows him as married.1061 At the time of the second
ceremony, reported in a Laredo newspaper, both Mildred and James were residents of the St.
Louis area. Why two marriages? Perhaps the first marriage was annulled or dissolved and
then renewed. More likely, the second marriage, in the Laredo Gunnery School chapel, was
held to have a church wedding. On 14 July 1945, in St. Charles, Missouri, James and Mildred
Louise Harvey witnessed the marriage of Mildred’s widowed mother, Gladys, to Gladys’s
second husband, Bird Justeson.1062
Even with two weddings, Mildred and James’s
marriage did not last. On 31 August 1961 James
Harvey married Gloria Jean Berry, in Freeburg,
St. Clair County, Illinois.1057 James (born 30
January 1922, died 27 April 1934)1063 and his
second wife, Gloria (born 22 February 1922, died
24 September 2007),1064 are buried in the Dallas-
Fort Worth National Cemetery.1065,1066
Around 19451067 Mildred’s mother, Gladys
married a third time, to Fred Hyman, a Granite
City resident.1068 When Mildred’s marriage to
James Harvey broke up, she likely moved to
Granite City, to be with her mother, and there met
William Becker.
No marriage record has yet been found for
William Becker and Mildred; however, between
1948 and 1958, the couple had four children—
Christina Rose Becker, William Sanders
Becker (23 June 1951 to 3 June 1966),1069 Gladys
Jean Becker, and Jeffrey L. Becker.1053,1070 But
William was not a family man and abandoned his
William Sr. and Mildred Louise wife and children about the time his last child was
(Nickens) Becker. (Collection born. In 1955 William had suffered a compound
of Barbara Levart Matchett.)
fracture of the skull, and was unconscious for a
month.1071 One wonders whether this had anything to do with his paternal failings. In 1960 a
doctor declared William permanently disabled.1071
Around 1967 Mildred moved with her kids to Fort Worth, Texas, where some of her
siblings had moved earlier (and, interestingly, where James Harvey and his second wife are
buried). On 8 January 1976 Mildred married her third husband, twice-widowed Dorman
Elmer Cox.1054 Dorman died 20 November 1988.1072 Mildred passed away 17 July 2006,1073
and her ashes were spread on Dorman’s grave at Azleland Memorial Park and Mausoleum in
Azle, Texas, near Fort Worth.1055
After leaving Illinois, Bill lived for a time in El Monte, California, part of Los
Angeles.1071 He probably went there to see his mother, Rosella, who died in Los Angeles in
1959.986 Bill Becker ended up in the Chicago area, writing his family and asking for forgiveness.
He even sent a bible. His last days were spent in a Waukegan, Illinois, motel, the Stardust, at
3109 Belvidere Road, where he died of heart disease coupled with chronic alcoholism.1045
Doris Becker
Her age in the 1930 Chicago census, indicates that Doris, probably a child of Edward,
was born June 1928.964 After appearing in the 1940 Detroit census.970 she disappears.
Rosella Becker
Daughter Rosella was born on 24 February 1931 in Chicago to “Edward Fred Becker”
and “Rose Kelly.”967 At the time Edward was working as a laborer and the family was living
at 1608 West Huron, today an empty lot. “Rose” Becker is also seen with her parents in the
1940 Detroit census.970 A “Rose W. Becker” born the same day found for our Rosella, 24
February 1931, died in Citrus County, Florida, on 26 December 1997.1074,1075 We have no
proof that the two Beckers are the same, but it does seem likely.
Donald Becker
Donald appears in the 1940 Detroit census with Edward and Rosella Becker, with an age
corresponding to a birth year of 1936 or 1937, and with a birthplace of Michigan.970
Patricia Becker
We know nothing of Patricia, the last child listed on Rosella’s stone. She does not appear
with Edward and Rosella in the 1940 census,970 and was probably born sometime after 1
April 1940, the official census date.
Minimum (Collins) Cemetery (2010).

Bier und Brot Anna Wehner 102
Anna Wehner
Anna was born 4 April 1865 in Pilot Knob,1076 just five days before Lee’s surrender of
the Army of Northern Virginia presaged the end of the Civil War. She appears with her
parents in the Pilot Knob 1870 and 1880 federal censuses89,79 and in the 1876 Iron County
census.83 On 24 June 1886 in Arcadia, just south of Ironton, she married Frank Peter
Siebert,1077 one of seven children of Louis (‘Ludwig’)1078 Lawrence Siebert and Caroline
(Richard) Siebert.1079 Frank’s name is shown as “Francis” in the baptismal record for his son
Frank Jr.,62 but nowhere else. In fact, his descendants refuse to believe that he was ever
“Francis,” and perhaps they are right, or nearly so. “Francis,” a good Catholic baptismal
name, could have been recorded by a zealous priest and never used again.
Rev. L. C. (Lawrence Charles) Wernert, conducted Frank and Anna’s marriage. The
“Memorial of Marriage” which today hangs on the dining room wall of Clarence Siebert,
Frank Sr.’s grandson, states that the wedding was held “in the church in honor of St. Joseph.
Arcadia College. Arcadia. Iron Co. Mo.” with “Witnesses Charles Backoff & Justina
Siebert.”1080 Justina was Frank’s sister. L. C. Wernert was pastor of St. Joseph’s, the church
of the extravagantly named Arcadia College and Academy of the Ursuline Sisters for Young
Ladies.
Frank Siebert’s mother,
Caroline, was born about
1839 to Francis (“Frank”)
and Mary Savina Richard of
Ste. Genevieve and Madison
counties, Missouri.1081,1082,1083
Frank and Savina (the name
“Mary” was seldom used)
were natives of Germany—
Frank from Baden and Savina
from Darmstadt in Hesse.1083
There the name may have
been “Reichert,” the maiden
name listed for their daughter
Caroline in a birth record for
Caroline’s daughter Emma at
St. Mary’s Catholic Church,
Pilot Knob.86 But “Richard”
(“Richards” once)1084 is Louis and Caroline (Richard) Siebert family c1871. Left to right, the
six children (identified from ages in the 1880 census) are Justina,
found as the only surname in
Henry, Bernard, Francis (Frank), baby Savina, and Caroline. A
numerous other records— seventh, Emma, was not yet born. (Collection of Allen L. Yoder.)
census, marriage, death—for
the Frank and Savina Richard
family.
Louis Siebert served

with Anna’s father, Lorenz
Wehner, in the Pilot Knob
Home Guard during the
Civil War.1085 And like
Lorenz, Louis (and sons
Bernard and Frank) worked
in the iron mines.1079 Louis,
a “Furnace Hand” in
1860,1086 may have worked
alongside Lorenz, a
“Furnace Man” in 1850.
Like Anna Wehner’s
parents, Anna and Frank
were members of St.
Mary’s Our Lady of Help
Mission Church in Pilot
This c1890 photo appears to have been taken in Ironton, possibly Knob. Two of their
at a July 4 celebration. Standing, presumably in the center, is children, Edward and
Frank Siebert Sr. Others in the photo are his brother Bernard Nellie, were baptized
(“Ben”) and Edwin Watters (“Ed Waters”), future father-in-law of there.86 The church,
William Robert Wehner. (Collection of Patricia Siebert Veninga.) 1087
founded in 1851, was
destroyed by a tornado in 1957, and the congregation merged with St. Marie du Lac Catholic
Church in Ironton.1088
Frank and Anna had six children, five boys and a girl (Louis, Edward, Frank, Nellie,
Clarence, and William),1089 but the couple was together less than two decades. Frank died 27
June 1902 at the young age of 41.86 Anna continued to live in Pilot Knob for the next 28
years, working for a while as a gardener1090,1091,1092
Anna also speculated in real estate. To aid travel to the U.S. west by immigrants with
limited resources, colonization societies and land companies, often associated with railroads,
were established.1093 One of these was the
Louis L. Siebert
South Hungarian Colonization and Land Clara E. Mund
Company, which in the early 1900s
purchased land from the Big Muddy Coal Edward A. Siebert
and Iron Company, successor to Pilot Knob Amanda R. Scherer
Iron Company, for $30,000.1094 South
Hungarian then sold the land in pieces. Anna Frank P. Siebert Jr.
Siebert purchased Lots 5 through 9 in Block Anna Wehner Bertha E. Eichelberger
13 (property between Mulberry and Elm, Frank P. Siebert Sr. Helen Nellie Louise Siebert
facing Lucas Street) on 29 September 1905 Theodore Golfinopulos
for $85.1095 Just two weeks later, 12 October
1905, Anna sold the land to Moses Edmonds Clarence V. Siebert
for $901096 plus a deed of trust on the Mary L. Eichelberger
property to cover a debt of $50 at six percent
William C. Siebert Sr.
interest.1097 Estella M. Roehrs
Faced with advancing years,

Anna moved in with her son
Clarence on North Adams Street
in Festus, Missouri. There she died
at age 65 on 5 November 1930 of
uterine cancer.1098
Frank and Anna are buried in
the Catholic Cemetery near Pilot
Knob.86 The Siebert section is
large; the couple expected to be
joined by children and
grandchildren. But the plot is
mostly vacant, just two
headstones, for Frank and Anna,
isolated and separated. With the
waning of the Pilot Knob mines,
most of Anna’s children left for Anna (Wehner) Siebert and her six children. Left to Right,
Back: Frank Jr, Nellie, Edward, Clarence; Front: Louis, Anna
Granite City (Illinois), St. Louis, (Wehner) Siebert, William. (Collection of Edward Hoffman;
and Festus/Crystal City, where identification provided by Patricia Siebert Veninga, confirmed
jobs were abundant. Only the by Marjorie Stretch Siebert.)
youngest, William, stayed
(although Louis left and then returned). And William and Louis are buried elsewhere.
Seibert Plot, Frank (left), Anna (“Annie,” right), Pilot Knob Catholic Cemetery, Iron County, Missouri (2007).
Louis L. Siebert
Born 9 April 1887 in Pilot Knob,1099 Louis, the oldest of Anna’s children, first sought his
fortune in Granite City, an Illinois town just north of East St. Louis. Founded in 1896 by the
Niedringhaus brothers for their popular Granite Ware enameled-iron kitchen utensils, Granite
City included several iron and steel companies, both Niedringhaus-owned and others.1100 By
1910 Louis was working there in a steel mill and boarding in a private home.1101 But putting
down no real roots, Louis gave Pilot Knob as his home on his 1917 WW I draft registration
card while still working in Granite City, as a roller mill machinist.1099 By 1919 he was living
forty miles south of Granite City and across the river, in Crystal City, Missouri.108
On 30 October 1919, in Arcadia, just south of Ironton, Louis wedded a home-town girl,
Clara E. Mund of Pilot Knob.108 Clara’s father, Ludwig Theodor Mund (“Louis” or
“Lewis”),1102 born 15 November 1842 in Braunschweig, Germany,1103,1104 had arrived in
New Orleans on 26 October
1852 as a 10-year-old child
with his parents and four
siblings1105 and had grown up
in Cape Girardeau, Missouri,
where his father, Elias, married
a second time in 1860.1106
Father and son served with the
Union Army—Elias in
nd
Company A, 2 Regiment,
Missouri Light Artillery, and
Lewis in Company I, 1st
Regiment, Missouri Engineers.1107
Clara’s father had at least
twelve children, by two
different wives. Johanne
Louis and Julia Mund with three of their children—L to R, Idell, Schatte, whom he wedded 15
John, who was crippled, and possibly Clara. (Clara W. Thompson.) June 1865 in Cape Girardeau,
gave him seven—Emma,
Amena (“Minnie”) , William, Frederick, Julius, Bertholda (“Bertha”) , and Ida, before dying
between 1877 (the earliest year for the birth of her youngest child) and 1880 (when her
widowed husband appears in a census).1103,1108 Julia Anna Hampton (earlier married to a
Young), with whom Louis was wedded in Cape Girardeau 29 August 1881,1109 produced five
more—Idell, Joseph, Lizzie, John Louis, and Clara.1110,1111 Clara, the youngest,1112 was born
5 October 18921113 in Iron County,1114 where her family was living by 1900.1110 Several years
earlier, on 6 May 1886, Louis Mund’s oldest child, Emma, Clara’s half sister, had married
Bernard Siebert,1115 Louis Siebert’s uncle.1079,1116
During WW I Louis was a PFC with the 129th Field Artillery, Battery C, composed of
volunteers from the Missouri National Guard.1117 Departing for France in April 1918, the
129th took part in the Battle of the Argonne Forest in the fall of 1918, returning to acolades in
April and May of 1919. Commanding a sister battery, “D,” was Captain Harry S. Truman of
Independence, Missouri.1118
Clara and Louis Siebert first settled in Crystal City, where Louis was a machinist for
PPG,1119 but by 1930 they were back in Pilot Knob, where Louis gave his occupation as
machinist in a glass factory.1120 But no glass factory is known to have existed in or near Pilot
Knob, and he would have had to commute over 100 miles round trip to Crystal City, daunting
travel with the automobiles and roads in existence at the time. Of course, he could have had
dual residences. Whatever his work, the Depression ended it. In 1940, Louis was jobless.1121
Louis and Clara had no children, but did attempt to adopt. There is a Siebert family story
that the couple went to an orphanage and brought a child home. But the infant was returned
the next day when it developed a severe case of diaper rash, a malady that neither Clara or
Louis had faced before.
In place of a child, the couple cared for Clara’s brother, John Lewis Mund, born a
cripple.1122 Unlike his siblings, John had no schooling and was illiterate (as was his mother,
Julia).1110 When his father died 30 March 1915,1103 John continued to live with his widowed
mother1123 and when she passed away 13 March 19291124 moved in with Louis and
Clara.1120,1121 Eventually John ended up in State Hospital No. 4 in Farmington, where, after
eleven months, on 22 March 1947, he expired at age 57 of pneumonia, a relatively common
occurrence among State Hospital patients.1125
Louis and Clara lived out their lives in Pilot Knob, dying within a few weeks of each
other, Louis on 21 November 19701126 and Clara on 14 December 1970.1114 They are buried
in Parkview Cemetery, Farmington, Missouri, Clara beneath a stone that has clearly errored
on her birth year, inscribed as “1872” rather than “1892.”1127
Edward Anthony Siebert
Edward Anthony,1128 born 16
December 1888 in Pilot Knob
and baptized there on 13 January
1889 at St. Mary’s Our Lady of
Help Mission Church,86 followed
his brother Louis to Granite City,
where he was living by 1917.1129
There Edward worked as a
machinist in the enameling and
steel industries.1129,1130,1131,1132 At
first he boarded with Joseph
Scherer, who was foreman for a
roller mill, where Edward
worked.1130 Edward got more
than room and board; he got a
wife. Around 1920 Edward was
wed to Amanda R. Scherer,1131
oldest child (born in September
1892)1133 of Joseph and Mary
(Zahmer) Scherer.1134
Edward and Amanda lived
out their lives in Granite City,
Illinois, Edward passing away 3
November 1960, and Amanda,
five years later in 1965.1135 They
rest in Calvary Catholic Wedding photo, Edward A. Siebert and Amanda
Cemetery, Edwardsville, Madison Scherer. Frank Siebert is at the far right; Amanda’s sister
County. 1135
A transcription of is at far left, c1920. (Collection of Joan Siebert Cozis.)
Edward’s marker shows WW I
service as a private in Battery D, 102nd Field Artillery; however, the marker or its
transcription may be in error. The 102nd was composed of National Guard troops from New
England, and did not include Illinois volunteers.
Edward and Amanda had five children, George, Edward, Raymond, Joseph, and
Mary.1131 George and Edward moved to St. Louis, where they spent their adult lives; the
others remained in Granite City.
Sons of Edward A. and Amanda Siebert, c1934. Left to Edward, Joseph, Mary, George Siebert during
right, back, Edward, George; front, Raymond, Joseph. WW II.
(Collection of Joan Siebert Cozis.)
George W. Siebert
Born 25 April 1921,1136 George was in the U.S. Navy during WW II, 13 August 1942 to
May 1946,1137,1138 Following his Navy service, he married Bernice T. Ahrens1139 on 5 May
1956.1137 George, who spent his life in St. Louis working as a sales engineer for General
Electric, died 26 December 19821139 and is interred in Resurrection Cemetery, St. Louis.704
He and Bernice had two sons, John G. and James J. Siebert.1139
Edward Elmer Siebert
Born 6 September 1922,1140 Edward Elmer served in the U.S. Army during WW II from
11 June 1943 to 1 February 1946,1141 fighting at the Battle of the Bulge and awarded the
Purple Heart.1142 Educated at Washington University in St. Louis, and working as a civil
engineer,1142 Edward married Marjorie Stretch, daughter of Patrick Joseph and Mary A.
(O’Shea) Stretch, both born in Ireland (where Patrick’s name had been “Stritch”).1143 The
couple had three daughters, Jean, Jane, and Joan.1144 Edward died 9 April 1998, while a
resident of St. Louis, Missouri,1140 and is interred in Resurrection Cemetery, St. Louis.704
Raymond Siebert
Raymond, born 16 December 1923,1145 married Cleola Becherer, daughter of Oswald and
Bertha Becherer,1146 sometime between 1948, when Cleola was shown as single,1147 and
1952, when one of the children was born.1148 Raymond and Cleola had four children—
Patricia Anna, Cathy, Michael, and Marie.1148 Raymond, who served in the military during
WW II, 30 April 1943 to 14 March 1946, died 22 November 1984, while residing in Granite
City, Illinois.1149
Joseph Paul Siebert
On 28 April 1955, Joseph, born 14 June 1927 in Granite City, Illinois,1150 married Mary
Patricia (“Pat”) Dunne in St. Louis, Missouri, at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis.1128 Mary
Patricia, who always went by “Pat,” was born 28 April 19281151 to Patrick Joseph and Anne
Josephine (Smyth) Dunne.1152 The couple lived for 25 years in Granite City, where Joseph
worked as a master carpenter and construction supervisor.1128 Around 1980 they retired to
Collinsville, Illinois, about 14 miles east of Granite City.1128 (They actually lived where
Collinsville bordered the small town of Maryville, which some consider the Siebert’s place
of residence.)1152 Pat died in October 1992.1151 Joseph, who remarried, passed away 13
November 2007 in Collinsville.1153,1154 Joe and Pat, who rest in Calvary Catholic Cemetery,
Edwardsville, Illinois, left two children, Judith M. Siebert and Daniel G. Siebert.1128
Mary A. Siebert
Born 29 May 1930, Mary never married.1155 She worked forty years as a secretary,
starting her career at the Granite City Army Depot and ending it at Scott Air Force Base
(which, interestingly, is located on “Siebert Road,” near Belleville, Illinois).1156 Mary, who
lived her entire life in Granite City,1128 died at a St. Louis hospital 7 April 2009 and is buried
at Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Edwardsville, Illinois.1156
Frank Peter Siebert Jr.
Born 21 December 1890 in Pilot Knob,1157 Frank Siebert, like his father, is “Francis” in
his 25 January 1891 baptismal record from St. Mary’s Church, but nowhere else.86 His
middle name, “Peter,” is given by his marker in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Crystal City,
Missouri.421
Frank accompanied his brother
Edward to Granite City, where the
two boarded with Joseph
1130
Scherer. In 1917 Frank was
working for Commonwealth
1157
Steel, a business established in
Granite City following its founding
by the Niedringhaus brothers, and
continued working with steel and
iron when he moved to St. Louis
sometime before 1930.1158
Commonwealth Steel, Granite City, 1904. (Wikipedia.) Around 19231158 Frank married
Bertha Elizabeth Eichelberger,1159
1160
born 23 January 1899 to Gardner and Jennie (Marshall)1161 Eichelberger. In 1900 Gardner
was a stationary engineer (not someone inactive, but someone who operates stationary
engines) in St. Louis,1162,1163 but by 1910 the Eichelbergers moved to Graniteville in Iron
County, where Gardner worked as a locomotive engineer, probably for the Iron Mountain
and Southern Railroad.1164 Graniteville is less than four miles northwest of Pilot Knob, and it
was likely at this time that the sisters Bertha and Mary Louise Eichelberger met the Seibert
brothers Frank Jr. and Clarence, though the four were children or teenagers for at least part of
the time. The Eichelberger family moved back to St. Louis, where Gardner (“Gard”) died 4
March 19181163 and Jennie died 25 October 1919.1165 For a while six of the children,
including Bertha and Mary Louise, continued living in the family home, with brothers
Harvey (a patrolmen), Sylvester (an electrician), and Albert (a stock clerk) supporting the
group.1166
By 1935 Frank and Bertha had moved to Festus, Frank going to work as a PPG
millwright.1167 Frank Jr. died in February 1963,1168 and Bertha, in August 1978.1160 The
couple, who are buried in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Crystal City, Missouri,421 left two
children, Margaret Elizabeth and Frank III.1167
Frank P. Siebert III
The third Frank, was born 2 April 19311169 and on 20 November 1954 married Shirley
Fay Billings.1170 For many years Frank was a barber in Festus.1171 On 24 August 2009, he
passed away leaving three children, Frank J., David, and Patricia.1171
Nellie Louise Siebert
Baptized “Helen Nellie Louise,” on 16
April 1893 at St. Mary’s in Pilot Knob,86
Frank and Anna’s only daughter, born in
March 1893,1089 went solely by “Nellie.”
Sometime before 1920, Nellie moved to St.
Louis, where she lived for a while with her
aunt Matilda (“Tillie”) and uncle David
Shelton while working as a packer for a
chemical company.641 It was there that she
met Theodore Golfinopulos, a Greece-born
restaurant owner,1172 and the two were
married around 1926.1173
Thirteen years older than Nellie,
Theodore (“Theodoros” in Greece) has been
given two birth dates, 18 January 1880 in his
Theodore Golfinopulos naturalization photo.
death certificate1174 and 10 February 1880 in
his WW I draft registration,1172 neither lying in the range 2 April 1882 to 1 April 1883,
calculated from his age in the 1930 census.1173 The draft registration date, which was
reported in his presence, is believed to be the most reliable.
Theodore had an earlier, and much shorter marriage to one Melissa Higgins, and therein
lies a fascinating tale outlined in the proceedings of a 1921 St. Louis court case over a
will.1175 Melissa was born around 1850 in New York state, one of six children of John W.
and Almira Higgins, a farm family living in Cazenovia, Madison County.1176 The family
fragmented when Melissa was in her teens, probably due to the death of her parents, and
Melissa went to live as a domestic servant for Harvey and Susan Snow of nearby Pompey,
New York, where she was working in 1870.1177 Upon traveling to St. Louis, Melissa met
Charles Simeon Dunford, a well-to-do British widower, and the two were married on 17
August 1873.1178
Charles was born 16 August 18261179 into a respected family of weavers in Trowbridge,
Wiltshire, England, where he worked in a textile factory.1180 Seeing a brighter future
elsewhere, he immigrated to America, arriving in New Orleans on 29 May 18541181 and
travelling upriver to St. Louis, where he met and married Mary Davis on 3 April 1856.1182 In
St. Louis Charles went to work for William H. Keevil,1183 “fashionable hatter,” and then set
himself up as a hat and cap merchant, a business in which he did very, very well. By 1870 he
had real estate valued at $10,000 and a personal estate valued at $15,000.1184 When he retired
in 1880, the Dunfords were able to live off the income from rents of three pieces of real
estate, believed to have “had considerable value.”1175
Charles had two children, William and Alice, by Mary,1175 but the marriage proved short.
Mary died 27 September 1867,1185 leaving behind a well-to-do widower ripe for harvest and
Melissa Higgins to do the picking. That Melissa was a quarter century younger than her
husband may have raised some eyebrows, and it was certainly noticed by her step
children.1175
What the marriage was like is uncertain, but Charles gave two pieces of real estate to a
trustee for his wife, which eventually came back to Charles and Melissa as “tenancy by
entireties” (survivor gets all, no probate required). When Charles died 3 February 1903,
Melissa got these two pieces of real estate (Franklin Avenue and Dickson Street
properties),1186 and by a will written six years earlier, all remaining property, personal and
real, except for $10 to each of the two children.1175 Shortly after Charles’s death, Melissa
married a “man named Ford,” who was “about the place at the time of Dunford’s death.”1175
This was probably William “Forde,” a laborer who was living in 1903 at the Dickson Street
property, where Charles died.1187 In a very short time, just long enough for Melissa to use the
name “Melissa Ford” in the 1908 City Directory,1188 the union ended in divorce, and in 1914
Melissa was wedded a third time, to Theodore Golfinopolis.1175 No children are known to
have resulted from any of these unions.
Towards the end of her first marriage, Melissa began fiddling with her identity. In 1880,
when there were two censuses for St. Louis (the first one being rejected due to errors and
suspicions of padding), Melissa was identified as “Mary” in one1189 and “Elizabeth” in the
other,1190 with parents born in England rather than New York. Other particulars appear to be
correct. In the 1900 census,1191 she went back to Melissa (actually, “Mellisa,” a common
misspelling), but knocked twenty years off her age, as she did again in the 1910 census. 1192 In
the 1910 census her birthplace was given as Ireland with a fabricated immigration date of
1896. Addresses and other indicators leave no doubt that these data are all for the same
person. Of course some errors may be due to mistakes by the census enumerators, but
certainly not all of them. Moreover, the misstated age carries through to her death
certificate,1193 which gives a birth date of 15 February 1869, when 15 February 1849 (or
1850) is more likely by far. Melissa’s third husband, Theodore Golfinopulos, as informant on
the death certificate, was apparently unaware that Melissa was thirty years his elder—until
court proceedings showed otherwise.1175
When Melissa died 19 July 1917 at the Franklin Street apartment house,1193 all her
inheritance from her first husband, Charles, went to Theodore, her husband of only three or
so years. But Charles’s daughter, Alice, had had enough. Upon her mother’s death in 1917,
twenty-nine years after marriage allowed Alice to escape from what she said was a miserable
family situation, twenty years after the will was made, and fourteen years after it was
probated, Alice sued to overturn the will that left her and her brother just $10 each. She won.
Of course Theodore still had the two pieces of real estate not subject to probate, but the rest
of the real and personal property descended from Charles was no longer his. Theodore went
to court in 1921 to challenge the ruling and failed, owing in part, to a number of legal errors
made by him.
The record of the 1921 proceedings1175 lambasts Melissa, who was, of course, dead and
incapable of defending herself (were a defense possible). The proceedings first noted that at
the time of the marriage “he [Charles] was 48 years of age, and she was 22,” a statement with
obvious implications. The record goes on to state that “Melissa from the first assumed
absolute control of Dunford, who was a little, feeble, inoffensive, easily controlled man,” a
man “about 5 feet high; [who] always wore a plug hat and a Prince Albert Coat,” and was
“feeble-minded.” That the “treatment of her stepchildren was … harsh and cruel.” That she
“often beat the children; whipped the plaintiff [Alice] unmercifully when she was a girl;
openly endeavored to prejudice the mind of Dunford against his children.” That “Melissa was
with him [Charles] at all times … she never let him get out of her sight.” With declarations
such as these, from both witnesses and court opinion, Theodore never had a chance, even
though one must wonder how a “feeble-minded” man could have made a small fortune as a
St. Louis hatter.
There is little evidence that the loss of Melissa’s inheritance significantly affected
Theodore’s career. From 1916 to 1918, while living at the Franklin Avenue apartments
inherited from his Melissa, Theodore ran a pool hall and saloon.1194,1195,1196 Then, in 1918,
even without his first wife’s money (but perhaps with the sale of her property), he started a
restaurant at 1936 Franklin Avenue in St. Louis.1172 By 1929 he had married Nellie, and had
moved the restaurant to 903 N. 18th, with an adjacent candy store.1197 Later on he was only a
confectioner.1173,1174,1198 Theodore was naturalized in St. Louis on 3 December 1942.1199
Theodore and Nellie lived out their married lives in St. Louis, where Theodore died on 17
October 1950. He was interred in St. Matthew Cemetery (German Evangelical Church),1174
where Melissa was reportedly also buried,1193 though no marker is found for her. His stone,
surrounded by ornate
monuments (many inset with
photographs), lies in a section
set aside for Assumption
Greek Orthodox Church
1200
burials. Nellie, who passed
away 25 April 1966, was
interred in St. Louis’s Catholic
Calvary Cemetery.851,1201 One
might ask “why different
burial sites?,” particularly
since Theodore is buried in the
cemetery believed to be
Melissa’s resting place.
Differing religious affiliations
was the likely cause. Nellie
and Theodore left four girls, The Golfinopulos sisters—Anna Marie, Katherine,
Theodora, Frances. (Collection of Edward Hoffman.)
Katherine, Anna Marie, Frances,
1173,1198,1202
and Theodora.
Katherine Ann Golfinopulos

Born 30 June 1927, Katherine, who married Robert L. Barnes, died 25 March 2004,
while living in Chesterfield, Missouri, a St. Louis suburb, leaving four children, Mary Kay,
Robert G., Susan M., and Julie A.1203,1204
Anna Marie Golfinopulos
Anna, born 11 December 1928,1205 married Leo Clements Schonhoff at All Saints
Church, University City, St. Louis County, Missouri, on 5 July 1949.1206 Anna died 10
February 19931205 and is interred in Sacred Heart Cemetery in St. Louis.1207 Leo, born 6 June
1928, lived another sixteen years, passing away 27 June 2009, and is interred in Jefferson
Barracks National Cemetery.1208,1209 Anna and Leo had one child, Leo J. Schonhoff.1209
Frances T. Golfinopulos
Frances, born 16 March 1930,1210 married Edward William Hoffman on 31 March 1951
at St. Cronan Church in St. Louis.1211 She died 2 November 2007 in Peoria, Illinois.1212 and is
buried in Resurrection Cemetery, St. Louis.704,1213 Frances and Edward had four children:
Edward G., Thomas G., Michael G., and Theresa M.1213
Theodora Golfinopulos
Born 3 February 1935,1214 Theodora, the youngest of the Golfinopulos sisters, never
married. She passed away on 11 April 2005 and is interred in Calvary Cemetery alongside her
mother.851,1202,1215
Clarence Valentine Siebert
Clarence Valentine Siebert,1159 who was born 14 February 1896, tried both farming and
mining while living with his widowed mother, before leaving Pilot Knob sometime after
1920.1216,1091 At the time of the 1930 census, he was living in Festus with his wife of two
years, Mary Louise (“Mamie”)1217 Eichelberger, and was working as a barber in the Crystal
City Hotel1218 (Mary Louise was sister to Bertha Elizabeth, who had married Frank Siebert
Jr.)1164 One wonders whether Clarence, who became proprietor of his own shop,1219 ever
worked with his nephew Frank P. Siebert III, who was also a barber in Festus,1171 but who
was only in his early thirties when Clarence died. It is said that Clarence was the most
successful of the Siebert kids as judged by his siblings. His rosy financial picture resulted
from hard work, saving money, having but one child after 13 years of marriage, investing in
Pilot Knob real estate, and owning and selling the hotel where he was a barber for 42 years.
Clarence’s family said, “He could fall in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.”1080
Clarence’s mother, Anna, lived with him before her death on 5 November 1930.1098
Clarence passed away 10 October 19631217,1220 and Mary, who continued residing in Festus, in
November 1984.1221 The couple had one child, Clarence J. Siebert.1217
William C. Siebert Sr.
William, the youngest of Anna (Wehner) and Frank Siebert’s children, was by far the
most prominent, at least in Iron County. Born 12 February 1900,1222 William spent his entire
67-year life in Pilot Knob.1078 He started out as a miner, a job he held in 1920 and
1930.1091,1092 During the Depression he was a WPA worker.1223 When the economy
improved, he had a dairy herd and reportedly grew great strawberries.1078 Around 1947 he
took on his most notable job, mayor of Pilot Knob, a position he held the rest of his life.1078
In November 1927, William married Estella M. Roehrs, daughter of Martin
Christopher1224 and Maria (Field) Roehrs.1225 Born and raised in St. Louis,1224 Martin was a
streetcar conductor there when Estella was a small girl,1226 but he moved to Iron County and
took up farming in the Belleview area northwest of Pilot Knob.1227 Born 17 July 1908,1228
Estella, who almost always went by “Stella,” served as Pilot Knob’s postmistress for 31
years.1225
On a Sunday morning, 29 October 1967, William died suddenly, apparently of a heart
attack, while peeling potatoes in the home in which he had been born, a pre-Civil War house
built by his grandfather, Ludwig Lawrence Siebert.1078 Pilot Knob was shaken. William,
mayor for more than twenty years, was the first and only mayor the town had known. The 2
November 1967 edition of the Ironton Mountain Echo recounted his achievements:1078
Only four days before his death, Mayor Siebert had officiated at a ceremony
during which he turned a valve sending natural gas coursing along the mains
of the city streets.
It was the most recent improvement to be made in the town during Siebert’s
more than 20 years as its mayor. During those two decades, the town had
installed its own running water; planned a sewer system, which is about to be
constructed; paved the town streets; erected street signs; built one of the finest
volunteer fire departments in southeastern Missouri. Mayor Siebert negotiated
for months in paving the way for the erection of the giant Pilot Knob Pellet
Company on the town’s eastern border.
…
For 20 years he operated a dairy herd in 1958. He was probably Iron County's
largest strawberry grower and his strawberry stand was a landmark in Pilot
Knob during the season.
In the late 1950s Siebert worked to incorporate Pilot Knob and had served as
its mayor almost from the start. Earlier, in 1932, he served a term in the
Missouri legislature as representative from Iron County after serving as
sergeant at arms of the House in 1930.
Stella lived for well over a quarter century as a widow, dying in Ironton on 10 January
1999.1225 William and Stella are interred in Arcadia Valley Memorial Park, Arcadia, just
south of Ironton. They left five children, Dorothy Elizabeth, Carolyn, Jeanette, William
Franklin Jr., and Mary Ann.1078,1092,1223,1225,1229 Two have passed on:
Dorothy Elizabeth Siebert
Dorothy Elizabeth, born 22 October 1928 and wedded to Paul Norman Anderson on 22
October 1948 in Pilot Knob,1230 passed away 18 December 2009.1231
William Franklin Siebert Jr.
Born 22 April 1933 in Pilot Knob, “Bill” Siebert served in the U.S. Army during the
Korean War and on 6 July 1957 married Ann Faris.1229 William lived out his life in Pilot
Knob, dying 6 January 2006.1232 He was interred in Arcadia Valley Memorial Park near
Ironton.1229 Ann and William had two sons, Scot and Tim.1229
Bier und Brot Matilda Wehner 114
Matilda Wehner
Matilda led a complex, obscure life. Be ready, dear Reader, to use all your grey matter.
Matilda, who went only by “Tillie,” was born 24 May 18671233 and appears with her
parents in the 1870 and 1880 Pilot Knob censuses.89,79 On 11 July 1892 she and John B.
Tallent (sometimes “Tallant”) applied for a marriage license in St. Louis, where both were
living—John at 1424 Morgan Street (now named “Convention Plaza”) and Tillie at 1116
Carr Street, just blocks apart.1234 The application shows John’s age as twenty-one and birth
date as 25 December 1870, but his age in the St. Louis Registry of Deaths a few years later
corresponds to a birth year of 1872.1235 Tillie’s age of twenty-two on the application indicates
a birth year of 1869 or 1870. Tillie and John “fudged” a bit on their ages to approach societal
expectations that the groom be older than the bride. The couple received the license and the
same day were married in St. Louis by Justice of the Peace James McCaffery.1236
Tracing the life of John Tallent has been a difficult, time-consuming, frustrating task.
Three pieces of evidence indicate that he was a son of Thomas A. and Lavina Elizabeth
(Eaves) Tallent. First, around the time of his marriage to Tillie, he was living with the widow
Mary (Tallent) Gunn, believed to be a daughter of Thomas and Lavina and, thus, John’s
sister. Second, at life’s end, John was aided by a Hugh McFarland, said to be his brother-in-
law. A daughter of Thomas and Lavina married Enoch McFarland, who would have been
John’s brother-in-law. Third, John was buried in the same community, and presumably the
same cemetery, where Thomas Tallent, his daughter Mary (Tallant) McFarland, and her
husband Enoch were also interred. These clues, and their many inconsistencies, are discussed
below, along with the most likely story of John Tallent’s life. But beware! Much of our tale
remains uncertain.
Thomas A. Tallent first appears in the 1850 census for Hamilton County, Tennessee, a
17-year-old boy living and farming with J. S. Elder Arms and Amana Arms, in a household
that included a Mary Tallent, who, at age 74, seems too old to have been his mother.1237 On
25 November 1853, in Dent County, Missouri, Thomas is said, in many dubious secondary
sources, to have married Lavina Elizabeth Eaves, although a transcribed marriage record
gives his bride as a Sarah Melinda Eaves.1238 The 1850 census for Missouri’s Crawford
County (part of which was included in the newly-formed Dent County in 1851), which gives
initials in place of full given names and which has a number of errors or at least
inconsistencies for the Eaves family, lists the name of Lavina (or the person thought to be
Lavina) as “A. P. E. Eaves.”1239 But through most of her life she was just “Elizabeth.” A
major book on the Eaves family1240 shows her parents as William Bartlett Eaves and Caroline
Lavina Wofford, who had eleven other children, but says almost nothing of daughter Lavina.
Thomas and his wife, whatever her name may have been, had six children listed in the
1860 census for St. Francois County, Missouri1241 and/or in the 1870 census for the town of
Lebanon in Laclede County, Missouri:1242 William Henry, Julia A., Mary, Elisha, Lucinda,
and Thomas Jr. Unfortunately, Thomas Sr. and his family cannot be found with any certainty
in the 1880 census and the 1890 census is no longer extant. Some unconfirmed secondary
sources indicate that Elizabeth died in 1879 with the family fragmenting.
Thus, censuses cannot be used to show that John B. Tallent, who was born around 1872,
was a member of the Thomas Tallent family. On the other hand, a Birdie Tallent, who
married Oscar Kortkamp around 18931243,1244 and George G. Ward in 1913,1245 is known to
be a family member even though she was born in 1876 and, like John, appears in no census
with Thomas Tallent. An obituary for Julia A. (“Pearl”) (Tallent) McFarland states that she
was a “dear sister of Mrs. George Ward.”1246)
Thomas Tallent appears in the St. Louis 1900 census with a new, younger (born May
1863) wife, Hattie A., whom he married around 1888.1247 Hattie claimed to be the mother of
eight children, though only one (not shown) was reported as still living at the time of the
census. Given Hattie’s age and the marriage date, some of these were certainly Thomas’s.
On 2 December 1907, in Clayton, St. Louis County, Missouri, Thomas A. Tallent, at age
78, was married a third time, to 62-year-old Nettie Gum.1248 Both the marriage and Nettie
were short-lived. By the time of the 1910 census, Thomas was a widower living in the St.
Louis Infirmary, formerly the “St. Louis Poor House,”1249 a not totally unexpected final
residence. Thomas Tallent was never well off. As a farmer, in 1860, with a wife and two
children, he had no real estate and his personal property was valued at only $20. In 1870, still
farming, his real property was valued at $150, which was at best a slight improvement given
that he had three more children.
It was at the St. Louis Sanitarium, known until the previous year as the “The St. Louis
City Insane Asylum,” at 5400 Arsenal Street, next door to the Infirmary, that Thomas passed
away on 25 February 1911.1250 He was buried in Allenton, Missouri, where John B. Tallent
had been interred seventeen years earlier.1235 (In 1985 the small railroad town of Allenton
was annexed by the Eureka, a village adjacent to St. Louis.) The only cemeteries in what was
Allenton are Allen Cemetery and McClure Cemetery, the latter actually included in the
former. (A Christophor E. Tallent, son of Allenton residents Charles C. and Josephine
Tallent, who bear no known relation to our Tallents, was reportedly buried in a Kolb
Cemetery in Allenton, but no such cemetery can be found.1251) Allen Cemetery contains no
stones inscribed “Tallent.” Considering Thomas’s finances and his final residences, he was
probably buried in an unmarked grave at city expense.
Although he was living at 1424 Morgan at the time of his marriage,1234 the city directory,
published later that year, shows John Tallent (and presumably Tillie) living at 1022 N.
Seventeenth Street, where “Tallent Mary, wid. Gunn” also resided.1252 In the directory’s
abbreviated format this should have meant that Mary was the widow of a “Gunn Tallent”;
however, on 12 August 1879 in Springfield, Missouri, a Mary Tallent had married an Ed
Gunn, with Henry Tallent as one of the witnesses.1253 Thomas and Elizabeth had children
named “Mary” and “William Henry” and some unreferenced sources state that the Thomas
Tallent family lived for a while in Springfield. Thus, it is not unlikely that John’s widowed
sister was living with him.
It must be noted that a Mary Gunn of the correct age to be Mary Tallent appears in the
Springfield, Missouri, census for 1880 with a widowed father named “Thomas”; however,
there all similarity disappears. The father’s last name is given as “Stoutt,” with an age
corresponding to a birth year of 1836 and the husband is William Gunn. Of course, censuses
are often incorrect and Ed Gunn could have also had the name “William.”
St. Louis city directories show that John Tallent was a tinsmith.1252,1254 and moved around
a lot. In 1894 he was living at 826 S. Fourteenth Street;1255 by 1895 he had moved to 2230
Biddle.1254 His last St. Louis address, not necessarily his own home, was 2026½ Washington
Street, where on 29 January 1896, he died of “Septic Myelitis (Gunshot of spinal cord).”1256
John had been shot in the back! First attempts to find information on his shooting in St. Louis
met with failure; records eventually found of a court trial showed why.1257 John may have
died in St. Louis, but he was not shot there. He was shot in Jacksonville, Florida! And here is
the rest of the story.1258
On Christmas night, 1895, John and three friends, all employed as mechanics in nearby
St. Augustine, had come to Jacksonville to celebrate Christmas. Whether John was planning
to make Florida his permanent home and whether he had brought Tillie along we do not
know, but we do know that outside of Bettelini’s Bicycle Agency on Bridge Street, John B.
Tallent and James M. Kelly got into a brawl. James, an off-duty policeman, claimed that
John and his friends were blocking the sidewalk and that when he tried to move them, a fight
ensued. James struck John over the head with his pistol, John retaliated by knocking James
off the sidewalk, and when John walked away, the policeman shot him in the back with his
38-caliber pistol. James then stood over the fallen man and fired three more shots, at least
two striking home.
His spinal cord severed and paralyzed from the waist down, John was mortally wounded.
Hugh McFarland, said in court records to be John’s brother-in-law, came to Florida and
received permission from John’s physician, Dr. Miller, to return the critically injured man to
St. Louis where “he could die among his people, as they were too poor to come to
Jacksonville,” a certainly correct assessment given Thomas Tallent’s penury. The doctor
“considered that the trip to St. Louis could have no possible effect on the ultimate result of
the wound, as Tallant was bound to die from it.” Medical practices were considerably
different in 1896. In today’s litigious society no doctor with an ounce of common sense
would allow a dying patient to travel. On 25 January Hugh took John back to St. Louis,
where he died a four days later, at age twenty-three.
An all-male Jacksonville jury took only twelve minutes to convict James Kelly of
murder, and on 8 June 1896 Judge Rhydon M. Call sentenced him to hang. But there was an
uproar for leniency and on 8 June 1897 Kelly’s death sentence was commuted to life
imprisonment. Three days later he was transferred to a convict lease camp for hard labor in a
phosphate mine. On 17 April 1901 James Kelly was granted a conditional pardon.
And who was Hugh McFarland, John’s caretaker? Around 1888,1259 a Pearl Tallent1260
married an Enoch McFarland, son of Walter McFarland Sr. and Harriet (Matson)1261
McFarland,1262 a well-to-do farm couple from Ralls County, Missouri.1263,1264 Pearl’s death
certificate states that she was the daughter of “Thos Tallant” and “Vina Eaves,”1260 “Vina”
being Lavina’s nickname.1265 Although no daughter with the name of “Pearl” appears in the
1860 and 1870 censuses for the family of Thomas and Lavina Elizabeth (Eaves)
Tallent,1241,1242 Pearl’s birthdate of 26 June 18591260 lies very close to that calculated from
census data for daughter Julia A. Tallent. It seems likely that “Pearl” was another name used
by Julia. If Pearl was John B. Tallent’s sister, then Enoch McFarland would be John’s
brother-in-law. But then we have another difficulty. Why was the name “Hugh McFarland”
used in the court records? Was it an error by the court clerk? A nickname or additional name
for Enoch? Or are we simply wrong about the relationship? The latter seems unlikely since
Enoch and Pearl McFarland were interred in Allen Cemetery, in Allenton, Missouri,1266,1267
the same community in which Thomas Tallent and John B. Tallent were buried.
A 28-year-old widow and alone in St. Louis (her only child had died),628 Tillie Tallent
moved in with her sister and brother-in-law Theresa and John Richard Cooney,1268 where she
was living in 1900 while working as a milliner for a hat manufacturer.628 We next see her in a
1906 St. Louis city directory as Tillie Cooney, “wid Arthur,” living at 3318 Franklin Avenue
with her sister Theresa Cooney, “wid John R,” and Theresa’s sons (Tillie’s nephews), Arthur
and Frank Cooney.1269 Between 1900 and 1906 Tillie was married and widowed once more.
Her second husband was Theresa’s brother-in-law Arthur, though a thorough search shows
no record for the marriage in the City of St. Louis or the rest of Missouri. Sisters Tillie and
Theresa had married brothers Arthur and Richard.
Arthur E. Cooney, Tillie’s second husband and John and Sarah’s middle son, was born in
Canada 3 September 1865.1270 His first known job was blacksmithing;622 he then spent
several years carrying St. Louis mail;1271 and in 1897 he was a traveling salesman for the St.
Louis Screw Company.1272 Around 1901 Arthur moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he
appears as a salesman, possibly still working for the St. Louis Screw Company, in city
directories for 1901, 1902, and 1903.1273,1274,1275 Perhaps he and Matilda were married in
Cincinnati and that is the reason that records of a Missouri marriage cannot be found. In any
case, the marriage was short, three years or less. On 5 August 1903, Arthur E. Cooney died at
the Cincinnati City Hospital of erysipelas, a serious streptococcal skin infection, which could
cause death in the days before antibiotics.1270 England’s Queen Anne, died of it, as did John
Stuart Mill and Pope Gregory XVI. On 7 August 1903 Arthur was interred in Cincinnati’s
Spring Grove Cemetery. The record of his burial is correct in all respects, except that his
father is said to be “Joshua,” rather than “John,”1270 But, of course, the informant may not
have known the name of Arthur’s father.
Arthur M. Cooney interment record, Spring Grove Cemetery.

The twice-widowed Tillie was in Pilot Knob when her father, Lorenz, died. On 25 May
1907 “Fred A. Becker” (probably Fred W. Becker, Flora Wehner’s grandson) and “Tillie
Cooney” witnessed a declaration by Flora in support of her application for a Civil War
widow’s pension.9 The two witnesses stated “That they were at the residence on the day of
the death of Lorenzo Wehner, also at the funeral the following day.” By 1911 Tillie was back
in St. Louis, living at 3425 Pine with her nieces Alice and Grace Cooney and working as a
seamstress.640 In 1916, still unmarried, she was a clerk in St. Louis.1276
In 1916 or later, Tillie married a third time, to a David Shelton. In 1920, the couple was
running a rooming house at 3698 Ninth Street, St. Louis.641 Two of the seven lodgers were
nieces Nellie Siebert, daughter of Frank and Anna (Wehner) Siebert, and the widowed (or at
least claimed so) Grace (Cooney) Boillot, daughter of Theresa (Wehner) and John Cooney.
David C. Shelton was born 21 August 1857 in Scotland1277 and immigrated to the United
States in 1864, 1871, 1872, or 1873, depending on which census response one chooses to
accept. On 6 December 1878 David Colburn Shelton married Lizzie Bell Hassell in Will
County, Illinois.1278 The couple settled in Joliet, Illinois, where, in the 1880 census (in which
Lizzie Bell is given the similar sounding name “Isabela,” possibly by a distracted census
taker) David is shown working in a roller mill, the line of work he would follow most of his
life. Lizzie Bell (or Isabela) apparently died for on 24 August 1892, in St. Clair County,
Illinois, David married Emma Hildebrandt.1279 In 1900 Dave, again working in a roller mill,
and wife Emma were living in Belleville, Illinois, the seat of St. Clair County, with a 6-year-
old daughter, Emma Shelton.1280 By 1910, David, marital status “Wd,” was lodging in
Granite City, Illinois, again working in a roller mill, but with no sign of his daughter.1281
There he may have met Tillie; three of
her nephews—Louis, Edward, and
Frank Siebert—were working in
Granite City about the same time.
In the 1930 St. Louis census, Tillie
and David, now of retirement age,
were no longer managing a rooming
house.1282 Their ages and ages at first
marriage in that census indicate that
the date of David’s first marriage was
around 1880, close to that of his
marriage with Lizzie Bell Hassell,
while that for Tillie was about 1914,
presumably to David though the year
cannot be correct. Tillie had two
earlier marriages, which she ignored in
giving her age at first marriage.
“Tillie Shelton” died in St. Louis
14 February 1933 at the age of 65 of
chronic myocarditis and senility.1233
Her death certificate names no parents,
but does give her birthplace as Pilot
Knob. David Shelton died in St. Louis
the following year on 29 June.1277 The
death certificates give St. Louis’s
Friedens Cemetery, burial site of
Theresa (Wehner) Cooney, as the
couple’s final resting spot; however,
their names are missing from a list of
headstones read in 1997.635
Despite three marriages, Matilda
St. Louis, old and new. The 1834 Old Cathedral and 1968
had no surviving offspring. Gateway Arch (2012).
Bier und Brot Louisa Wehner 119
Louisa Wehner
At St. Mary’s Our Lady of Help Mission Church in

Pilot Knob, the Wehner family church, Louisa Wehner
was baptized 8 October 1871. Founded in 1851, the
church was destroyed by a tornado in 1957. (Photo
courtesy of Iron County Historical Society Museum,
Arcadia, Missouri)
Louisa (also “Louise”) Wehner, Lorenz and

Flora’s last known child, was born 13
September 1871 in Iron County and was
baptized a few weeks later on 8 October at St.
Mary’s Our Lady of Help Mission Church.86
She appears in the 1876 Iron County census611
and the 1880 federal census for Pilot Knob.79
Louisa died on 29 October 1882 at age eleven,
and is buried near her father and mother in Pilot
Knob’s Catholic Cemetery.86
Louisa’s marker, Pilot Knob (2007).

Bier und Brot The Road to Sainte Gen 120
The Road to Sainte Gen

The Plank Road
To say that the roads, for thirty or forty miles around, are bad, expresses no
meaning whatever. They are a continuous, agonizing collocation of all the
rocks, stumps, roots, and mud, which could be brought together for miles and
miles. You come down from a pile of paving-stones, only to plunge into a hub-
deep gully of mud. Your wheels mount a big log lying across the road, only to
become fast between a stump and a ledge of outcropping rocks.
“Visit to the Iron Mountains of
Missouri,” Putnam’s Monthly,
March 1854, pp. 296-302.
Beginning in the late 1840s, forty- to fifty-
pound pig iron ingots, bars, and blooms from
the Pilot Knob and Iron Mountain furnaces
were carried by mule- or oxen-drawn wagons
to the town of Ste. Genevieve and loaded on
steamboats for transport upriver to St. Louis or
downriver (and then up the Ohio) to
Cincinnati, Louisville, and Pittsburgh. The 40-
mile (one-way) journey from the furnaces to
the river landings was over rocky, muddy,
hilly roads that became ever-deepening sets of
ruts with each passing of the heavily-laden
wagons. Bone-jarring corduroy roads were no
solution. Logs laid across swampy areas
floated and rolled in mud, the resulting gaps
trapping hooves and breaking wheels and
axles. The time, cost, and difficulty of
transporting iron over the dreadful Missouri
roads were unacceptable.
In the middle 1800s, however, America was introduced to what was touted as the
technological advance of the nineteenth century, the final solution to all transportation
problems—plank roads. Roadways were constructed of planed boards laid across split logs
(stringers) parallel to the road. Staggered ends provided places for wagon wheels that had
gone off the road—deliberately to allow another wagon to pass or accidentally—to roll back
onto the roadway. Ditches on either side drained runoff.
Plank roads, easily and cheaply constructed with local materials and labor and providing
incredibly smooth surfaces, were built everywhere, and investors, hoping to make a killing,
clamored for a piece of the action. Between 1851 and 1853, the Ste. Genevieve, Iron
Mountain, and Pilot Knob Plank Road, the longest plank road in Missouri, was built.1283 The
42-mile-long route ran from Iron Mountain in St. Francois County to Farmington, where
State Highway W now runs, then through the hamlets of Weingarten and New Offenburg in
Ste. Genevieve County, near or along the path of modern Highway 32, and finally to Ste.
Genevieve, coming in on what is now Lime Kiln Road and proceeding east on Market Street
to City Landing. A separate toll road up present-day North Main Street allowed wagons to
reach Little Rock, just north of Ste. Genevieve, an “all-weather” steamboat landing. City
Landing, unusable during high and low water, became totally useless around 1860, when a
cut-off moved the river away from town.1284
Despite its name, the “Ste.
Genevieve, Iron Mountain,
and Pilot Knob Plank Road,”
never reached Pilot Knob.
Madison County officials
refused to purchase stock
without assurance that all
funds would be spent within
their county. Without this
contribution, resources were
lacking for an extension.
Wagons from Pilot Knob
followed what is now
Missouri Highway V, meeting
Modern-day Little Rock Ferry Landing. the Plank Road six miles from
Iron Mountain.1285
At first the Plank Road was all investors and users hoped for. Providing a smooth,
trouble-free trip, the road required only two days to reach Ste. Genevieve,1286 which became
a major Mississippi River port. But eventually planks warped, wood rotted, and stringers
broke. Heavily loaded wagons and iron-banded wheel rims kept the road in disrepair. And
maintaining and manning tollbooths increased overhead. Income never met even the initial
cost, let alone wages and upkeep. But a much more serious problem faced the Ste. Genevieve
Plank Road—a railway.
On 3 March 1851 the St.
Louis and Iron Mountain Ste. Genevieve
Railroad was incorporated Nicholas Wehner Land New Offenburg
and in 1857 tracks reached Weingarten Midway Station
Pilot Knob. Steel rails in
place of wooden planks
allowed dependable shipping
Farmington
of pig iron and ore to St. Iron
Louis and doomed the Plank Mountain
Road Company (and Ste.
Genevieve’s importance as a
riverboat landing). Eventually Pilot Knob
the Ste. Genevieve County Ironton
portion of the road ended up The Plank Road passed through Farmington, Weingarten, and New
in the hands of the county, Offenburg and near Midway Station and Nicholas Wehner’s timberland.
which closed it. A private company kept the St. Francois portion open until 1903.1287 The
Plank Road financiers, who had hoped to make a fortune, lost their shirts.
Hostelries and Sawmills
Before its demise, the
Plank Road created a need for
services to teamsters and other
travelers. In 1853, the year the
road was completed, Iron
Mountain Company sent
Nicholas Wehner to Ste.
Genevieve County to supervise
Midway Station,1288 “near
Capt. And. Miller’s place.”11
Andrew Miller’s patent land,
Section 24, on the southeast
side of today’s Highway 32,
the Plank Road route, was half
way between Weingarten
(where one of the Plank
Road’s seven tollgates
stood)1283 and New
1289
Offenburg. There Nicholas Pilot Knob, Ste. Genevieve, Cape Girardeau with the St. Louis and
managed stables,3,4 supplied Iron Mountain Railroad. (Edward S. Hall, H. H. Lloyd & Co., New
feed,1288 kept a tavern,3 and York c1861, courtesy of Library of Congress, Geography and Map
ran a hostelry.11 Drivers could Division)
feed and water mules, oxen, and horses; have a bite to eat; get some shuteye; and toss down a
lager from nearby Seitz & Co. Brewery.
As station manager, Nicholas sometimes purchased supplies in the town of Ste.
Genevieve, usually at the Janis and Valle Store. Founded by Jules F. Janis and Louis Bert
(“L. B.”) Vallé, members of old and respected French families, the store was little patronized
by Ste. Genevieve’s Germans. Most customers were Roziers, Vallés, and Janises, though
Nicholas Hauck (whose granddaughter Leona Naumann would one day marry Nicholas
Wehner’s grandson John Edward Wehner) did a little shopping there.1290 But the “French”
store was used for purchases by the Ste. Genevieve, Iron Mountain, and Pilot Knob Plank
Road Company (which bought mostly shovels); by the Pilot Knob Iron Company; and by the
Iron Mountain Company. Nicholas’s position with the last firm made him a patron. In 1856,
Nicholas “Wenner,” “Werner,” and “Whener” appears in the store’s “Day Book” buying
sledge hammers, corn (probably for feed), flour, and jeans.1290,1291
While working for Iron Mountain Company, Nicholas began developing his own
business. Sawmills were erected along the Plank Road to replace damaged and rotted
boards,1292 and Nicholas acquired both timberland and a sawmill near the road, in Township
37N Range 7E (Union civil township), Ste. Genevieve County. The various properties are
shown in the map on p. 125.
The Seitz Brothers1293,1294,1295

Around 1851, at the
beginnings of the U.S. birth of
German breweries and their
light, sparkling lagers, Joseph
Sr., Thomas, and Michael Seitz
arrived from Baden-
Württemberg.1296 Within a year
or so, with Joseph Gegg as a
partner, the brothers started
Seitz & Co. Brewery near New
Offenburg, probably on the 40
acres patented by Joseph Seitz
on 1 December 1853,1297 land in
Section 24, where Nicholas
Wehner ran Midway Station
hostelry and saloon. On 29
January 1852, in nearby Zell,
Joseph married Elizabeth
Rottler,1298 another new arrival
from Germany, and the brothers
took on Elizabeth’s brother
Valentine Rottler as a partner.
Joseph Seitz Sr. died by 30
November 1854, when his
widow Elizabeth married
1299
Vincent Bayer and, in that Middlebrook Cemetery marker (center) for Michael and
year, Joseph’s brothers sold Marian (Naeger) Seitz. Nearby Graniteville provided the
their brewery interest to red granite and stone masonry for the remote cemetery’s
Valentine Rottler and Adam elegant monuments (2011).
1300
Ruebsam. By 1860, Thomas and Michael had moved to Middlebrook in Iron
County and had started a new brewery.1301 Following the 1872 burning of his New
Offenburg brewery, Valentine moved to Ste. Genevieve, where he established a
major brewery business. In later years, Michael Seitz ran a general store in
Middlebrook, and following the death of his first wife, Marian Naeger, married
Valentine Rottler’s twice-widowed sister Mary Ann in Pilot Knob on 7 March
1892.1302
On 18 April 1853 Nicholas purchased 40 acres of woodland from John Patterson for
$300.1303 The large price indicates that the land, bisected by Hickory Creek, included
buildings. On 20 March 1855 Nicholas purchased 40 acres for $50 from Caspar and Johanna
Karl,1304 and a few months later, on 8 September 1855, bought 80 acres from Amos and
Rachel Lunsford for $150.1305 On 8 August 1856 he bought two tracts of land of 20 and 57.3
acres from Dominick Becktold for the low price of $9.65,1306 and the following day,
purchased 50 more acres from Philip and Catherine Wolk for $17.50.1307 The tracts of land
lay about six miles west of Weingarten, near or along what is today Missouri State Highway
C. Sawmill Road leads from Highway C to near where Midway Station stood. On 13 August
1856 Nicholas and Clara sold all the Union civil township land they bought to that time, 207
acres total, to Meinrad Donze for $570.1308 The profit was small for the work involved; the
original cost was $527.15.
Civil and survey townships in Ste. Genevieve County. (University of Missouri Digital Library.)
Tower Road
NE
Sec8
N½SE
Sec8
8 SESE
Sec8
17
E½NE
Sec17
SE
Sec17
W½SW
SR-C Sec17
E½NENE N½NW U.S. Survey

Sec19 2059 (half
Sec20
SENE
to Nicholas)
SENW
Sec19
1853 Sec20
NENE
Sec30
Sawmill
Road
Sprott Road
Nicholas Wehner tracts, T37N R7E, Union civil township (USGS). Patent land in red; Survey 2059 in blue.
On 30 October 1857 Nicholas “Wehnar” received a U.S. land patent certificate for five
tracts of hilly, forested land totaling 306.99 acres in Sections 8 and 17 in Union
Township.1309 The actual purchase date was earlier, since on 22 December 1856, before the
certificate was received, Nicholas and Clara had already sold the Section 8 portion (160
acres) of the patent land to John Lee for $20.1310 Nicholas was still holding the Section 17
portions in 1873 and 1874.1311,1312
In a final acquisition, on 9 February 1858, Nicholas purchased a whopping 1361 acres for
$750 from Antoin and Barbara Figge. Although the exact boundaries, defined by metes and
bounds, are difficult to determine, the property was half of U.S. Survey No. 2059, a
diamond-shaped tract in Union Township near properties that Nicholas had earlier owned.
Nicholas needed money for his new sawmill business, and was running up some debts.
John Cobb, a circuit court clerk and well-to-do
farmer in St. Francois County,1313,1314 was
Nicholas’s “banker.” After selling off part of his
1361-acre Survey 2059 land to Meinrad Donze
(83 acres),1315 Philip Wolk (80 acres), and Adam
Rauenzahn (100 acres) on 4 August 1858,
Nicholas and Clara mortgaged the rest to John
Cobb to cover a note for $300 and earlier notes for
$100 (25 December 1857) and $200 (19
December 1856), all at 10 percent interest.1316 The
Section 17 U.S. patent land was also included in
the mortgage. Written in the margin of the deed is
a note dated 25 August 1860 stating “full
satisfaction of the debt thereby secured.”1316
On 12 August 1859, Nicholas sold two-thirds
of his Survey 2059 land to Franz Killian Jacob
and John Hook for a hefty $2000.1317 That the
land is listed as “undivided” indicates that the
three men had gone into business together.
The 1860 census shows Nicholas, occupation
Water in ponds, like this one on Establishment
Creek along Sawmill road, powered mills. “Milling” (i.e., sawmilling), and Clara living in
Union Township with their six children (George,
Joseph, John, Mary, Theresa (“Therese”), and Peter) and three workers, Joseph Larbick (a
“Sawyer” whose name was probably “Lawick”), John Leonard (“Teamster”), and Joseph
Leonard (“Laborer”).1318 The census also shows Franz Jacob (“Francis K. Jacobs”),
occupation “Milling,” and John Hook (“Hoylt”), “Carpenter,” living alongside the Wehners.
The values of real and personal estates for Nicholas, Franz, and John are identical, $3400 and
$635. The three men were partners in a sawmill. Nicholas had changed his primary
occupation from hostelry, saloon keeping, and stabling to the lumber trade.
Union civil township lay in west Ste. Genevieve County and included the towns of
Chestnut Ridge, Jonca, Mill, Millers, Rocky Ridge, Sprott, and Thurman, several of which
are now gone. The post offices were Chestnut Ridge (Nicholas’s post office), located on the
Plank Road about five miles out of Farmington and ten miles from Weingarten, and Punjaub,
today known as “Lawrenceton.”
Exactly where the Nicholas and Clara Wehner family was residing at the time of the 1860
census is unknown. They were not living in Weingarten, New Offenburg, or at the inn
Nicholas had operated, all of
which were in Ste. Genevieve
Township. The family was
probably living at the sawmill,
presumably on the Survey
2059 land, quite likely on
Chestnut Creek, which could
have powered a mill.
On 17 August 1860,
Ste. Genevieve Nicholas and Clara (“Klara”)
Wehner, Franz (“Frank”) and
N. Wehner Lands New Offenburg Margaret Jacob, and John and
Weingarten Phillipina Hook signed a deed
Sprott of trust for their 1361 acres of
Survey 2059 property to Felix
Chestnut Rozier, trustee, for a note of
Ridge $3000 held by Francis
Rozier.1319 A 29 December
1863 memo on the record
shows that the debt was
satisfied. The deed of trust
says nothing about the 163
acres of Survey 2059 property
earlier sold to Meinrad Donze,
Townships of Ste. Genevieve County. Philip Wolk, and Adam
Rauenzahn.1316
Nicholas and his partners were probably providing stringers and planks for the Plank
Road, and were certainly selling milled lumber in Ste. Genevieve. A receipt dated November
1859 shows Nicholas selling 1600 feet of oak plank at 1½ cents/ft ($24.00), 400 feet pine
plank at 1 7/10 cents/ft ($6.80), and 16 axle trees ($8.70) to Louis Cassel,1320 a Ste.
Genevieve wagon maker.1321 But Nicholas had to sue to get his money. On 13 February 1860
the witnesses of the original bill of sale, Joseph Lawick and Sebastian Lister, a local
sawmiller,1322 were served with a summons to appear at a court of 20 February as witnesses
for the plaintiff, Nicholas Wehner, in the suit against Cassel.1323 Nicholas may have lost the
suit, which was still going on in June. A brief, undated record for “N. Wehner vs Louis
Cassel” states “Judgment against Plaintiff.”1324
The approaching demise of the plank road following the 1857 completion of the St. Louis
and Iron Mountain Railroad meant not only a diminishing market for road repair materials,
but eventual loss of rapid, convenient transport from rural Union County, where Nicholas
had his mill, to Ste. Genevieve, Pilot Knob, and Iron Mountain, though the final curtain
would not fall for many years.
On 10 September 1860 Nicholas and Clara signed a deed selling their portion of the
encumbered 1361 acres of Survey 2059 land and all of the 306.99 acres of patent land to
Nicholas’s partners, Franz Jacob and John Hook for $1795.35.1325 The land included the 160
acres of patent land earlier sold to John Lee, apparently reacquired by Nicholas.1310 Upon
divestiture of all their Union Township land, Nicholas and his family pulled up stakes and
headed for the town of Ste. Genevieve, where there was already a market for Wehner lumber
and which was a promising locale for German merchants.
1880 map of Ste. Genevieve County. (R. A. Campbell, St. Louis.)

Bier und Brot On the Banks of the Gabouri 129
On the Banks of the Gabouri

On 19 through 22 August 1935 the town of Ste.
Genevieve, Missouri, celebrated its bicentennial with
four days of pageantry. The year chosen was a little
off (1949 would have been closer to the actual
bicentennial year), but the celebration, “Ste
Genevieve, Mother of the West,” was enthusiastic.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the
celebrants at the pageant grounds (Valle Spring) by
amplified telephone. Among those involved in
planning, funding, or performing were members of
many of the families appearing in this book.
During the middle decades of the nineteenth
century, the influx of German immigrants changed the
face of southeastern Missouri. In the town of Ste.
Genevieve, the predominantly French culture became
largely Germanic, with a German-language
newspaper, German butchers, and a German brewery
brewing beers to German tastes. Founded by the
French around 1750 or a year or two earlier, 100 years
later Ste. Genevieve had fewer French than Germans,
though the latter were never even mentioned in the Ste. Genevieve Bicentennial Pageant.1326
Le Village et La Ville
The Sauk and Kickapoo called it “Meche-Sepe”; the Menomonee, “Mecha Sepua”; the
Chippewa, “Meze-Zebe”; the Ottowa, “Missis-Sepi.” Meche, mecha, meze, missis, all meant
“big”; sepe, sepua, zebe, sepi, “river.” Equally appropriate would have been the “Muddy
River,” thick with soil and slate grey. Or the “Crooked River,” twisting like an apple peel
(Samuel Clemens’s description). Or the “Irresolute River,” islands becoming mainland,
bluffs converting to islands, bends developing cut-offs, new bends appearing, and periodic
flooding changing all. But the Anishinaabeg peoples called it the “Big River,” and so it was,
2320 miles long today (subject to change due to cut-offs) and a mile or so wide, but at places
only a few feet deep.1327
In 1541 Hernando deSoto was the first European to see the “Big River,” but then nothing
happened (or at least nothing European) along the Mississippi for over a century. Joliet and
Marquette arrived in 1672, followed by La Salle (actually, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La
Salle), who, near the river’s mouth in 1682, informed the world that “Louis le Grand, Roi de
France et de Navarre,” was claiming the country of Louisiana with all its people, provinces,
cities, hamlets, villages, fisheries, rivers, and streams, the entire Mississippi River drainage.
It’s not recorded how the inhabitants who first named the river took all this, but likely not
well.
Mural in Missouri State Capitol. The 1735 date is now known to be too early. (Courtesy of Wikipedia.)
In 1723 Phillip de Renault, Director of Mining Operations for the Company of the West,
arrived at Fort Chartres in present-day Illinois with a dozen miners and 22 black slaves to
search for gold and silver.1328 The areas explored included was what is now Ste. Genevieve
County, where Renault found, not gold or silver, but lead. The rich ore attracted other French
entrepreneurs to the western bank of the Mississippi, and around 17501329 the village of
Sainte Genevieve (known also as “Misère” [“Misery”] in the first two decades for no clear
reason) was built in Le Grand Champ (the Big Field). By 1752 the village had 22 white adults
and children and 2 blacks.1330
But Ste. Genevieve, the first permanent European settlement in what is now Missouri,
was founded neither as a shipping point for lead, nor as lodging for miners. Only later would
lead become truly profitable, for labor and transportation costs ate up the return. The raison
d’être for Ste. Genevieve was farming of the rich Mississippi bottomland to feed the town of
Kaskaskia, across the river, where the soil had been depleted by intensive farming. Later
many French farmers (all Catholic and mostly Canadian French) moved permanently from
Kaskaskia to Ste. Genevieve after the 1763 Treaty of Paris ceded land east of the Mississippi
to England.
Periodic flooding made the seven thousand acres of Le Grand Champ fertile, but it
wreaked havoc on the inhabitants of the alluvial plain. As early as the 1770s some villagers
fearful of the river had moved north to higher ground or west to the bluffs. In 1778 Joseph
Coulture moved his family north to the little hills, les petit côtes, between the forks of
Gabouri Creek, sometimes called “Gabori” in early documents and named for Laurent
Gaboury (or “Gabouri,” or “Gabourie”), an early settler. This was the start of the new town,
la ville nouvelle, present-day Ste. Genevieve. The final straw for old Ste. Genevieve was the
great flood of 1785, although several years would pass before émigrés began leaving le vieux
village in earnest. By 1794, when the church was moved to the new site, the old town was
dead. A 1797-1798 map by Nicolas de Finiels shows the site as “Ancien village de Ste
genevieve abandonné.”
In 1762 Louis XV ceded all French territory west of the Mississippi to Carlos III of
Spain, although the citizenry of the Illinois Country were initially unaware of this. The only
noticeable change in the little village of Ste. Genevieve was the eventual flying of a Spanish
flag over the house of the “Commandant,” François Vallé (“Papa Vallé”). Despite being
French, Vallé, whose title was given him by later generations, continued as the village’s
political leader. With Napoleon’s secret Treaty of Ildefonso in 1800, the land reverted to
France, but for only three years, during which the territory remained under the Spanish flag.
In 1803 Napoleon sold the land outright to the United States for $15 million. For over 50
years, under four governments—French Bourbon, Spanish, Napoleonic, American—Ste.
Genevieve’s customs, dress, language, festivals, and religion remained remarkably
invariant—invariant, that is, until nearly half of the nineteenth century had passed.
Panoramic view of Ste. Genevieve, F. J. Milfeld, De Soto, Missouri, 1913. The steeple of the Church of Ste.
Genevieve dominates the horizon. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC.)
Der Deutschen
The town and neighboring county are fast filling up with the lower order of
Germans, a hard working and hard drinking people, who seem to be about to
take complete possession of the best portions of Illinois and Missouri.
“Visit to the Iron Mountains of Missouri,”
Putnam’s Monthly, March 1854, pp. 296-302.
The 1840s and 1850s saw a flood of immigrants, primarily German, into the Missouri
counties of the Ozark borders.1331 In St. Louis, to the north, 60 percent were foreign-born, a
greater percentage than any other U.S. city, and most were German. In Ste. Genevieve
County were founded the German Catholic towns of Weingarten, New Offenburg, New
Bremen, Zell (the “German Settlement”),1332 and Coffman. In Perry County, were the “Old-
Lutheran” German communities of Wittenberg, Altenburg, and Frohna. And German
immigrants moved into the village of Ste. Genevieve, mostly north of Market Street—in the
downtown area, where their businesses were located, and near the north branch of the
Gabouri, where their homes were built. The south branch of the creek was left largely to the
French. Many German families came by ship to New Orleans and then by steamer up the
Mississippi. Others came from the East Coast by way of the Ohio River. And perhaps a few,
very few before the railroad, traveled cross county.
What started as a trickle became a torrent. For 100 years, Ste. Genevieve society had
been ruled by the French, with the descendants of François Vallé at the very top of the social
ladder. Now those upstart Germans, with their guttural language, beer, sausages (which
would, one day, become the town treat, “Oberle Dog”), and, above all, mercantilism, were
pushing in—a flood of shopkeepers, butchers, bakers, millers, and brewers (though most new
arrivals were initially farmers). By 1860 Ste. Genevieve was mainly German. In 1880, six of
the town’s seven saloon keepers had German names, as did all six butchers, the three
brewers, both bakers, and four of the six millers.1333 La ville nouvelle had become die
deutsche Village, and the French, who felt superior in every way, resented it.
But there was ample opportunity for all. Much of Ste. Genevieve’s wealth laid below
ground, where there were rich lime deposits.1334 Limestone quarries at the Jules Boyer farms
(two miles from town) were started in 1849. The adjoining Ferd Moser quarries were started
in 1854. In 1894 brothers Charles and Jules Petrequin started a large lime works just north of
Ste. Genevieve. Eventually, four lime companies were covering the town with a white mantle
of dust, and lime
processing became Ste.
Genevieve’s largest
industry.1335
Church of Ste.
Genevieve
Under the French, the
center of Ste. Genevieve
life was the Parish Catholic
Church, and it remained so
after the Germans arrived.
The Catholic Germans Mississippi Lime Co., Ste. Genevieve (2006).
worshipped, though they
may not have resided, alongside the Catholic French. Three church buildings—log, stone,
and brick—have occupied the site where the Catholic Church stands today.1336 A log church
built in 1752 or 1753 stood in le vieux
village until 1794, when it was
dismantled, moved to the la ville
nouvell, reconstructed, and enlarged.1337
A stone church, started in 1831, was
consecrated 12 November 1837.
In 1858, around the time that
Nicholas Wehner was thinking about
moving to Ste. Genevieve, Sisters of St.
Joseph of Carondolet, Missouri,
arriving to replace the Sisters of Loretto
in the local convent school, found the
town’s centerpiece to be the church:
“Grouped about the old stone church as
a center were the low white houses with
gabled roofs, broad verandas, and
outside chimneys built from the ground.
The gardens were bright with late
summer flowers, and elm and pecan
trees shaded the gravel roads.”1338
In 1876 work started on a brick
structure erected around the stone
church, thus allowing services to
continue. When finished, the stone
church was dismantled and the
fragments were removed. The present
brick building was dedicated on 29
Church of Ste. Genevieve (2006).
September 1880.
News and Politics

On 6 May 1882, Ste. Genevieve citizens awoke to a “Salutatory.” The Ste. Genevieve
Herald, a weekly newspaper founded by Joseph A. Ernst and published in both English and
German, had its beginning, and the Fair Play, at the time the county’s only newspaper
(established by Henry Smith, first edition, 7 June 1872),1339 had a competitor.1340,1341
SALUTATORY
Since the suspension of the Ste. Genevieve Beobachter, in consequence of the
untimely death of the late lamented J. G. Rudolph, there has been a general
unwillingness on the part of the citizens of Ste. Genevieve county to be
without a German paper. Besides there was a strong demand for an
independent journal in which the claims and opinions of all parties could find
utterance, which was controlled by neither party nor clique, independent of
even the personal associations of politics, a free, frank and fearless herald of
news.
After so many earnest solicitations and with the generous assistance of a few
personal friends, the the [sic] STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD was called into being.
As has been intimated, the HERALD will be independent, will acknowledge the
good and censure the wrong wherever it is found, will give, week by week,
the latest and most interesting news procurable, and will strive to be as
complete a periodical as can be reasonably expected under the circumstances.
That the Herald should appear in both the German and English languages was
deemed a necessity, for the great majority of the German people speak and
read the English language, the young generation having received almost none
but an English education. Besides, the American population of this country is
as much in need of an independent paper as the German.
Initially, the Fair Play’s masthead had proclaimed “Politically Independent—Open to all
Parties—Controlled by None,” but it soon changed to “Democratic to the Hub!.1342 Within
years of its start, the newspaper proclaimed itself “the only Democratic and best newspaper
in the county.”1343 It was also the newspaper of the French and of the descendants of
Southerners.
The Herald also proclaimed independence, but the editor’s politics, like those of most
Ste. Genevieve Germans, were decidedly Republican. The Herald became the Wehner
newspaper and the Fair Play’s foe. This is not to say, however, that Nicholas ignored the
Fair Play. Except for a brief hiatus during a bout with the publisher, Vallee Harold (p. 146),
he advertised in the paper and usually maintained a subscription.
The two newspapers engaged in what was termed a “war of words,”1344 a battle oftimes
barbaric. The Fair Play commented on the “editorial inanity of the disreputable Herald.”1345
“Our friend Nic. Wehner” made the second edition of the Herald, though the brief note
that he was to be fined “for selling a plug of tobacco on Sunday” was not exactly laudatory.
But the Herald, like Nicholas, did not support bans on Sunday sales. Moreover, like
Nicholas, the newspaper was decidedly “wet.” The second edition reported that
“The temperance agitators of Ste. Genevieve were brought to a sudden stand-
still by a whole-souled gentleman who had the moral courage to tear the
subscription sheet, presented to him for his signature, to pieces. Glory to you,
John. If everybody would do like you, there would be no more smirking

temperance apostles who take their own glass but would prevent others from
enjoying the same privilege.”1346
Ed Wehner
DuRocher’s
Peter Wehner
Addition
Ste Gen Brewery
Cone Wehner lumber yard

City Mill Nicholas Wehner home,
Mills saloon, grocery, beer garden
Meyer’s Hotel
North Gabouri
Creek
South Gabouri
Creek
Sainte Genevieve.
The Brothers’ War

We are at war with those who were brothers,
friends, neighbors. They are now our enemies.
General Orders 30, St. Louis, 22 April 1863
Nicholas and Clara arrived in Ste.
Genevieve during a tumultuous era. The Civil
War in Missouri, a nominally Union state, had
become a battle between marauding guerillas
and disorderly Union soldiers bent on revenge,
with civilians caught in the middle. Friends and
enemies were often impossible to distinguish,
and the bloody results often drove allies into
enemy camps.
From its very beginning, the French of Ste.
Genevieve had used slaves to grow wheat,
maize, and tobacco in Le Grand Champ. Most
Slave quarters, Ste. Genevieve Hotel. (Library of the colonial buildings were constructed with
of Congress, Historic Buildings Survey.) slave labor. Throughout the French Colonial
period about 40 percent of the population was
1347
black and mixed-race slaves. Many of the local elite owned large numbers of slaves.
François Vallé had a hundred.1348 And slavery continued under United States administration.
Because the French and Spanish were less racist than Anglo-Americans and the German
immigrants did not generally support slavery, it was widely believed that slavery in Ste.
Genevieve was less brutal than elsewhere (questionable), perhaps even tolerable (certainly
false). This attitude, unjustified and unjustifying, is seen in the 1935 Ste. Genevieve
Bicentennial Pageant narration (written at the time in present tense for dramatic effect):1326
Many of the people in Ste. Genevieve are slave owners and feel conscientious
duty toward their slaves. As a consequence of this care the darkies are happy
and loyal to their masters.
Civil War battles occurred at nearby Cape Girardeau
(26 April 1863) and Pilot Knob (27 September 1864), but
the war mostly bypassed Ste. Genevieve, though feelings
ran strong. On 6 May 1861, just a little over three weeks
after Fort Sumter, Ste. Genevieve County citizens, led by
Conrad C. Ziegler, state senator and one of the founders of
both the Iron Mountain Company and the Pilot Knob Iron
Company, met to vote on secession.1349 One of Ste.
Genevieve’s few German Democrats, Ziegler delivered an
oration supporting secession. But it became evident that
secessionists and states rightists were in the minority. The
uproarious meeting was adjourned, the opposing faction
Conrad C. Ziegler c1854. (Courtesy
calling their own meeting and adopting a resolution of of Patrick D. McAnany.)
Union support:1350
Resolved: That we most cordially endorse and approve of the action of our
delegates to the State Convention in opposing any measures having in view
the secession of Missouri from the Federal Union; that our State as a child of
the Union will never assail its Constitution, never trample on its glorious
banner, and though we regret the present fratricidal war, yet we are for the
Union and the flag of our country as our fathers made it.
Also adopted, however, were neutrality resolutions offered by the State government in
Jefferson City, even though the county was decidedly Unionist. A St. Louis newspaper
summarized Ste. Genevieve’s position with “Secession is dead here; only some twenty
leaders make up the party.”1349 Actually, secession was pretty much dead throughout
Missouri, where it was opposed by eighty percent of the populace. But many who opposed
Missouri secession were also pro-slavers of southern origins, resentful of out-of-state Yankee
troops, and hostile toward the “nigger-loving Dutch [Germans]”1351. Missouri sentiments
were a mixed bag.
Despite Ste. Genevieve’s Union accord, Major General John C. Fremont ordered Major
John McDonald to remove area bank funds that might fall into the hands of Southern
sympathizers. On 15 August 1861 a battalion of 8th Regiment Missouri Volunteers led by
McDonald occupied Ste. Genevieve and confiscated more than $58,000 from the local
branch of the Merchants Bank of St. Louis.1352,1353 Protesting, bank president Fermin A.
Rozier accompanied the money to St. Louis, where the funds were deposited in the main
bank. Years later, on 27 May 1873, the same Ste. Genevieve bank was robbed of $3600 by
men believed to be ex-Rebels, some say Frank and Jesse James, though proof is lacking.1354
Displeased with what he saw in Ste.

Genevieve, McDonald issued a proclamation
warning Rebel sympathizers to harm neither
lives nor properties of Unionists.1355 But the
town’s secessionists had more to fear than did
Northern sympathizers. Bitterness was
widespread and accusations were used to settle
quarrels. In 1863 the “secesh” (secessionist)
Conrad Ziegler claimed that his house near Ste.
Genevieve had been plundered by Union recruits
who then seized friends coming to his aid.1356 In
Major John McDonald’s proclamation November 1864 thirty-four arrests of accused
warning Southern sympathizers in Ste. non-Loyalists were made in Ste. Genevieve.1357
Genevieve. (Missouri History Museum.) In 1863, Peter Wilder, future father-in-law of
Mary Martha Theresa Meyer (daughter of Martin and Mary (Wehner) Meyer),1358 had
accused Ste. Genevieve citizen Franklin Leavenworth of disloyalty:1359
I, Peter Wilder, being duly sworn, do state, that sometime in the month of Feb,
1863, I met Franklin Leavenworth in the beer saloon of W. Obermiller, in the
city of Ste. Genevieve, Mo., and while there the conversation turned on
President Lincoln’s proclamation of the first of January 1863, emancipating
from that date, the slaves in the rebellious states; myself and Mr. W.
Obermiller were speaking in favor, and approving said Proclamation, and said
Franklin Leavenworth, since appointed Colonel, by Governor Gamble, of the
7th [sic] EMM., spoke strongly against and opposed said Proclamation; and
among other words said, that he “would sooner fight for Jeff Davis than
Abraham Lincoln”. I further know that said Leavenworth bears a disloyal
character; that he associates with none but violent secessionists, and seems to
be communicative only with secessionists in his official acts, and has been
supporting the secession candidates at both our State and County Election.
Peter Wilder
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of Nov, 1863, L.C. Menard, J.P.
Leavenworth, of highly doubtful sympathies,1360 was apparently cleared. He not only
continued as colonel in the 78th EMM,1361 he organized the Ste. Genevieve militia in
1864,1362 and, after the war, was a candidate for Ste. Genevieve sheriff (in 1872, but lost).1363
Many citizens of the town served in the military, but few saw action. Company K of the
47th Missouri Infantry was composed primarily of men from Ste. Genevieve County,1364 as
was the 78th EMM. Many EMM men served in the Autumn of 1864 in response to Price’s
raid, including Nicholas Wehner, who was a private in Company G, 78th Regiment, between
16 October and 25 November 1864.1365 A year earlier, Capt. Gustavus St. Gem, mustering
officer for the 78th and former Assistant Provost Martial for Ste. Genevieve County,
complained that the 78th EMM was “wretchedly disorganized, not being armed nor equipped
… thus leaving this county at the mercy of bushwhackers and guerillas.”1366 But Rebel
activity near Ste. Genevieve was insignificant, although guerilla bands were claimed to have
made several raids near Rozier’s Mills just over the county line in Perry County and to have
used Ste. Genevieve as a meeting place.1367
Towards the end of the war, a party of

Radical Republicans, strongly abolitionist,
eager to suppress and punish the South, and
supported by many Germans, took over the
Missouri Republican party and threw out the
conservatives, who, like Lincoln, looked for
moderation. Like most Ste. Genevieve
Germans, Nicholas was a staunch Republican,
a Unionist, and an opponent of slavery, but not
a known radical. Many years after the war, in
June 1884, Nicholas used his “Summer
Garden” to host a meeting ratifying the Broadside for a 24 October 1864 meeting in
nomination of James G. Blaine (a strong St. Louis supporting Radical Republicanism.
proponent of black suffrage and of the (Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis.)
Fourteenth Amendment, declaring all persons born or naturalized in the United States to be
citizens whose rights could not be abridged) and John A. Logan as Republican candidates for
U.S. president and vice president.1368 The Fair Play called it a meeting of “Our radical
friends,” although Blaine was actually rather moderate and, in any case, Radical
Republicanism had ended with the end of Reconstruction. (The Fair Play article about the
meeting was decidedly negative, describing it as a “glorious love feast, at which crow was
the principal dish,” a viewpoint expected from the staunchly Democratic newspaper.) Two
months later Nicholas hosted Black supporters of Blaine and Logan:
The colored club organized at Wehner’s garden last Saturday, goes by the
name of ‘Blaine and Logan reliables.’ They number twenty-one.1369
Despite his Republicanism and his service to the
“colored club,” there is little indication that during the
war Nicholas had held strongly abolitionist views, and
his forty days of service in a “wretchedly
disorganized” regiment played no significant part in
the war’s outcome.
That the town of Ste. Genevieve was by the 1880s
predominately German1346 does not indicate a
Republican majority in the county, which was (and
still is) Democratic.1370 Nor does it indicate
benevolence toward freed slaves. Like most Missouri
towns, Ste. Genevieve had a separate school for
Blacks, who were segregated even in the newspapers.
The Democratic Fair Play always carefully noted
Fair Play, 21 Jun 1884. “colored” where appropriate in birth, death, and
marriage announcements. In 1897 the newspaper in nearby Perryville stated “There are a
number of desperate negros in Ste. Genevieve county and quite a few of them may be found
in the vicinity of St. Mary’s. We think if a few of them were treated to a sea-grass necktie the
county would be better off.”1371 (Seagrass can be used to make rope.) Many years later, on
two occasions in the 1930s, state troopers were needed to prevent lynching of Blacks in Ste.
Genevieve. As a result, most Blacks moved out.1372
Bier und Brot Nicholas and Clara 138
Nicholas and Clara
Nicholas and Clara (Schneider) Wehner. (Collection of Marguerite (Wehner) and Fred Bauman.)
A New Start
During the 1860s the Nicholas Wehner family established itself in Ste. Genevieve with
little interference from Missouri’s fratricidal war. For the most part, the really tragic
upheavals were in rural areas, not towns, and Ste. Genevieve was far from the guerilla
violence along the Kansas border. In fact, the boom times at war’s end would have helped the
family’s business ventures. But there was a family burden, a personal tragedy. Twin sons
John and Joseph, who appear in no written records after the 1860 census,1318 died.
Nicholas and Clara claimed 1860 as the year they moved to Ste. Genevieve,4 but it was at
least another year or two before they put down real roots in the town. His businesses were
still located outside Ste. Genevieve. In 1860 Nicholas continued selling wood products from
his Union Township properties and running his saloon near the Plank Road. On 5 November
1860, he paid taxes of $15.71 to operate a dram shop, possibly the Plank Road tavern.1373 (In
later years, dram shop license costs went up. In 1874, Nicholas paid a total of $119.89 for his
Ste. Genevieve saloon,1374 and in 1883, the tax for a dram shop license in Ste. Genevieve
County was set at $250.1375) The 1861 Ste. Genevieve tax book lists Nicholas as owning no
city property, either personal or real, and owing only a poll tax of $0.25.1376 His appearance
in the 1861 tax roll shows that even without property, he was claimed as a Ste. Genevieve
citizen, possibly because his family
was living in rented quarters.
On 10 April 1865 Clara
purchased the Main Street property
where the Wehner home, saloon,
and grocery would stand. The land
was “in Block No. one … bounded
South by Boyer and Lawrence,
North by Gaborie [sic] Creek, West
by a Street and East by Henry
Lawrence.”1377 The “Street” on the
west was First Street, also known
as “Gabouri Street,” later becoming
Main Street. The property, part of
Nicholas and Clara Wehner house, 268 N. Main, during a flood, the estate of Conrad C. Ziegler, the
before 1942. The building on the left stands where the Eagle former state senator and
Saloon was located. (Collection of Kathy (Wehner) Schuyler.) secessionist, was sold to Clara by
Ziegler’s administrator and widow, Elvina C. Ziegler. In his will Nicholas acknowledged
Clara’s major contribution to their holdings: “Having lived for so many years happily with
my beloved wife Clara Wehner, and having largely through her efforts accumulated the
property that I now own, and a portion of our joint labor and savings being invested in the
real estate whereon we
reside and whereon a
greater portion of my
business enterprises are
located, which said real
estate is in my wife’s
name….”1378 On 1
January 1866 Nicholas
and Clara signed a deed
of trust for the Block 1
property to L. [Louis]
Bert Vallé to cover a
loan of $1000 from John
Betten.1379 The loan was
repaid.
On the Block 1 land, Nicholas Wehner house and grocery, 268 N. Main (2010). The
house was later owned by Nicholas’s grandson August Peter Wehner.
Nicholas and Clara built
a house, still standing at 268 N. Main Street, which included a grocery; the Eagle Saloon
with attached billiard hall; and a beer/summer garden, stables, and outbuildings (maps, pp.
134, 142). The house had two front doors, the larger one, on the right, for grocery deliveries
and customers, the other, on the left, for family. (Some claim that the larger door was for
caskets to be brought in for wakes, but wakes would have been held in the family side.)
Much of the Block 1 land was reclaimed by Nicholas from North Gabouri Creek. Many years
later the creek would claim it back.
Portion of an early plat map, unknown date, Town of Ste. Genevieve, Office of Recorder, Ste. Genevieve
County. Block 1 was the location of Nicholas’s
268 N. Main home, garden, saloon, and grocery.
A small frame house, marked with a
plaque “Nicholas Wehner 1872,” is located
at 124 Valle Street, one block east and one
block south of the 268 N. Main residence.
Proof that this house was built by Nicholas
has yet to be found; however, in 1871
Nicholas owed a $4.37 tax on a lot with the
cryptic location “bd s Vellette n st w
hollow” (probably, “bounded south by
Vellette, north by a street, west by a
hollow”).1380 Today Ste. Genevieve has no
The small house at 124 Valle bears a plaque Vellette Street, but perhaps this was an early
inscribed “Nicholas Wehner, 1872” (2011). name (or a misprint) for what became Valle.
On the other hand, running north and south,
Valle could not be a southern boundary. The Sanborn Fire Insurance map for 1894 shows a
structure near or at the location of the 124 Valle house.
Business
Designated a
“farmer” when he
immigrated,10 in
America Nicholas
never held a plow
(except to sell one),
but he seemed to do
everything else.
“Workaholic” is an
inadequate adjective.
Before coming to Ste.
Genevieve, he had
been a furnace man,
stable manager, inn Nicholas began his diverse working life at a Pilot Knob furnace, one of which
is shown in this 1800s photo. (Iron County, Missouri Genealogy Society.)
and tavern keeper,
and sawmiller. He would now add grocer, investor, and hotelier/landlord to the list. He
established himself in town in the 1860s, expanded his ventures in the 1870s, and by the
1880s, “The Gilded Age” boom times that followed the Civil War, he had founded a business
empire, at least by Ste. Genevieve standards. In an short article in 1876 about Nicholas’s
construction of an ice house, the Fair Play noted that “Mr. Wehner has an eye for
business.”1381
R. L. Polk and Co.’s Missouri State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1881-82 lists
“Wehner Nicholas, lumber, grocery and saloon.” In a December 1883 Herald article on a
Christmas stroll about town, one stop was “‘Uncle Nick’ Wehner — Family, Groceries,
Saloon and Lumber-yard; the Cone Mills right opposite.”1382 A single-page Ste. Genevieve
Business Directory printed around 1890 advertised “N. WEHNER & SON, DEALER in
LUMBER, FARM MACHINERY of all kinds, Wagons, Buggies &c. Near City Mills North
Main Street.” That the advertisement gave the location as being near City Mills, when Cone
Mills was much closer seems a little strange until one realizes that Nicholas’s son George
was an owner of City Mills, a competitor of Cone Mills. Until his death Nicholas continued
to sell buggies, carts and plows.1383 He also kept some livestock. An 1881 tax assessment
shows him with two head of cattle, valued at $20 for both, and nine hogs, at $18 (in addition
to two clocks, at $2).1384 And, with his son Peter, he cut and sold ice from the river “sloo,”
behind his saloon,1385 storing away 70 loads in 1889 (compared with 308 loads by Valentine
Rottler and 135 loads by Louis Naumann).1386 On 18 May 1894 Ste. Genevieve Brewery
started producing ice mechanically, ending the need for river ice.1387
Grocer
In 1863 Nicholas initiated his first business venture actually headquartered in the town of
Ste. Genevieve. On 3 November of that year, Mathew Kern (operator of a Ste. Genevieve
saloon and hotel1388) and Henry (“H.”) Knieriem (a local barber)1389,1390 cosigned with
Nicholas a bond required to obtain a business license guaranteeing payment of future taxes
that might become owed by Nicholas as a “Vendor of Goods, Wares and Merchandise.”1391
Though unspecified, the business was probably the grocery said to be the first of Nicholas’s
businesses after his arrival in
the town of Ste.
Genevieve.1392 At the time
the bond was signed, the
business had been in
existence for only a short
time. Fees tabulated at the
bottom of the 1863 Merchant
Statement (which claimed
$80 worth of goods on hand
for sale) accompanying the
bond included past taxes for
only two months, an
astoundingly small $0.10.1391
The following year, “The
highest amount of goods
wares & merchandise which
Nicholas Wehner had in his
possession or under his
control whether owned by
him or consigned to him for
sale at any time between the Eagle
first Monday of March and Saloon
the first Monday of June AD Billiards Stables
1864 was one Hundred &

forty Seven Dollars.” The Residence
1864 taxes and fees were
$1.88 total.1393 Where
Nicholas’s first store was
Grocery
located is unknown. His
Block 1, Main Street
property, the primary site for
his later business ventures,
was not purchased until Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, 1894 (with error in lumber yard name). Added
labels show the Eagle Saloon, billiard hall, grocery, and Wehner residence.
1865, although he could have
been renting on that property.)
The 1870 census lists Nicholas’s occupation as “Ret [retail] grocer.”1394 The grocery was
located in the south part of his 268 North Main residence, which was ideal given its two
entrances, and Clara may have been the principal operator. There the couple sold more than
groceries. The 5 December 1872 edition of the Fair Play has the first newspaper
advertisement of any type run by Nicholas: “The highest market price in Cash paid for Green
and Dry Hides by NICHOLAS WEHNER.” The ad ran for six months. The 14 July 1883
edition of the Ste. Genevieve Herald announced “Nicholas Wehner has an ingenious patent
lamp wick trimmer for sale. It is a new design and really a good thing. Try it.”
Investor
Nicholas, with Clara, was heavily involved in loans, mortgages, and real estate
investments. His name appears on a number of Ste. Genevieve deeds of trust, usually as
beneficiary (the lender), sometimes as trustee (the “neutral” party holding the deed). Interest
ranged from 8% to 10%. Though most loans were for real estate, some were for personal
property. On 19 July 1873 he loaned Peter and Rosalie Feser $900 at 8% interest with the
Feser farm crops, equipment, and animals used for collateral.1395 That the deed of trust has no
memo showing repayment of the loan may account for the livestock listed on Nicholas’s 1881
tax assessment.1384
On 9 August 1869 Clara purchased a half-acre lot in the “West part of the Town of Ste.
Genevieve” from James Sims, an illiterate laborer from Tennessee,1396 for $350.1397 The
reason for the purchase and why it was made in Clara’s name are unknown. The property
was not for Nicholas’s primary business or house, which were on Ste Genevieve’s east side.
In 1850 Berthelemi (also “Berth,” “Berthel”) DuRocher, “Sole proprietor,” platted an
addition to the town of Ste. Genevieve, north of La Haye and east of La Porte (p. 134).1398
Following Berthelemi’s death, a suit among his descendants resulted in a division and sale of
DuRocher’s Addition. On 8 May 1872 Nicholas Wehner was the high bidder for three 60-
foot lots auctioned off by Sheriff Robert G. Madison.1399 The lots, 4, 5, and 6 in Block 6
(unrelated to Block 6 in the Town of Ste. Genevieve), which Nicholas acquired for a high bid
of $32, lay just north of Division Street and east of Little Rock Road (today, “Main Street”).
A couple of years later, in 1874, Nicholas bought Lot 3, Block 3 in DuRocher’s Addition for
$75 and sold it just a little over two weeks later, for $125, a profit of $50. But he did take a
loss of $5 when he sold Lot 4, Block 6, DuRocher’s Addition in 1874 for a mere $10.1400 In
1880, Nicholas bought Lot 1, Block 3 in the Addition for $400 at a trustee’s auction resulting
from a defaulted loan.1401 The large amount paid indicates that there was a structure on the
lot. In early 1882 Nicholas and Clara sold Lot 1 (with a small part of Lot 2) for $750, a tidy
profit of $350.1402
Nicholas also invested in Ziegler’s Addition of 1852, just west of DuRocher’s Addition,
buying two lots and parts of six others for $200 in 18821403 and lots from Magdalena Panter,
a resident of Oberkirchen, Germany, for $800 in 1883.1404 The latter property would become
the site for City Mills.
Nicholas and Clara made one of their largest real estate transactions on 30 October 1877
when they sold 206.17 acres in Survey 2103, 3½ miles WSW of the town of Ste. Genevieve
for $2100.1405 Nicholas had obtained the land just 7½ months earlier.
A deed of trust dated 2 September 1878 for a $200 loan to Peter and Rosine Schneider by
Nicholas bears no release showing that the loan was repaid.1406 The trust property was in the
town of New Bourbon, just south of Ste. Genevieve. Nicholas’s son-in-law Martin Meyer
was the trustee. A number of other deeds of trust bear Nicholas’s name as beneficiary.
Some transactions are not easily explained. Nicholas bought 173.07 acres of farmland
southwest of Ste. Genevieve on 30 July 1879 for $3001407 and then sold it just a little over
three months later for $210.1408 There was apparently more to this business deal than meets
the eye.
Nicholas was also an investor in City Mills, started by his son George and son-in-law
Frederick Bolle. In his will Nicholas requested that his two daughters, Mary and Theresa,
“share and share alike all sums of money that I may have in the firm of Wehner & Bolle, or
that may be due me from said firm on account of the building of what is known as the ‘City
Mills’ or in the running thereof.”1378 A story on the newly constructed mill in the Ste.
Genevieve Herald refers to “… Mr. Nicholas Wehner, whose project this is….”1409
Nicholas may have also helped his widowed daughter Mary build her hotel (more on that
later), as implied in Ste. Genevieve Herald articles about the Meyer’s Hotel (see p. 209);
however, there is no hint of this in Nicholas’s will.1378
Hotelier and Landlord
In the 31 October 1872 edition, the Fair Play asked “Why don’t somebody open a good
hotel in Ste. Genevieve?” On 19 June 1873 the newspaper was able to report “We understand
that Mr. Wehner is soon to commence the construction of a new building to be used and
furnished for a hotel.” In most parts of the country, this would have been a poor time to start
a new enterprise. On 18 September 1873 Jay Cooke & Company, a Philadelphia banking
firm invested heavily in railroads, failed. Stocks plummeted and on the following Monday,
the New York Stock Exchange closed and remained closed for ten days. The “Panic of
1873,” which resulted in the failure of one-fourth of U.S. railroads, 14 percent
unemployment, and the failure of over 18,000 businesses, lasted until 1879, but the effects
were felt strongest in the East, where investors congregated, and in the West, where silver
mines were located. Missouri and, in particular, Ste. Genevieve were not hard hit.
Nevertheless, borrowing money for new business ventures was difficult.
Where Nicholas had his hotel is uncertain, but it may have been on one of the lots that he
purchased in DuRocher’s Addition in 1872.1399 The time period is correct, and the land lay
near the Little Rock landing, where steamboat passengers disembarked. And Nicholas may
not have actually constructed a new building. He roomed guests in his own home at 268
North Main, although fitting family, roomers, and grocery into a single house must have been
difficult. In 1880 his home housed four boarders: Peter Pastion, born in France and working
as a cooper, Charles Kilian, a shoe shop worker born in Illinois; and Phillip and Jacob Honig,
laborers from Bavaria.1410 Nevertheless, in 1882 Nicholas was managing a hotel, in his home
or otherwise, with the help of his widowed daughter Mary (before she opened her own
“Meyer’s Hotel”).1411
Nicholas also rented out houses and property: “For Rent:-House and lot formerly owned
by John Basler, and lately purchased by Nicholas Wehner.”1412 This may be the house and lot
on Third Street at North Gabouri Creek owned by John Basler in 1861.1413 Nicholas also
“used and rented for dwelling” lots at the north end of his lumber yard.1378
Saloon Keeper
The melancholy days have come–the saddest of the year–
when it is too hot for whiskey and too cold for lager
beer.1414
The 1880 census gives Nicholas’s occupation as “Saloon Keeper.”1410 By 1895 Ste.
Genevieve County had fourteen saloons, nine of which were in the town of Ste.
Genevieve.1415 Nicholas’s Eagle Saloon and attached billiard room (with but a single pool
table) was one of them. Located just north of his house and grocery on North Main Street,1378
the Eagle was “completed and in full blast” in September 1873.1416 But patrons and hanger-
ons were sometimes questionable.
“In a short, but effective fisticuff encounter, which occurred between two
citizens in Wehner’s barroom, last Monday, one had an already blind eye
knocked clear out of his head.”1417
We hear that a colored fellow was shot dead in Mr. Nicholas Wehner’s back yard last
Wednesday and never moved afterward.1418
Nicholas also had an outdoor area
termed by some, a “beer garden” (virtually
mandatory for German saloons of the era),
by Nicholas, a “Summer Garden,” and by
many, just a “Garden.” Depending on the
clientele and the function, Nicholas’s
Garden provided beer or served lemonade
and ice cream, and it became a popular
venue for political meetings. The day
before the 7 November 1882 local
elections, a “Grand Democratic-
Republican-Independent Mass Meeting!”
was held in “Nicholas Wehner’s Garden”
with “two bands of music, Chinese lights
&c.”1419 Though, the meeting was
advertised to include Democrats and Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, 28 Jun 1884.
Independents, Nicholas was a Republican,
and the month before he had been designated an alternative delegate to the Republican State
Convention.1420
Unfortunately for Nicholas, Vallee (or “Valle”) Harold, a Democrat, was reelected as
Prosecuting Attorney in the November 1882 elections. Ste. Genevieve Democrats tended to
be dry, and Republicans, wet, though it is better said that the Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve’s
Democratic newspaper, was a blue laws proponent, and the Ste. Genevieve Herald, a
Republican newspaper, was a foe of Sunday sales limits. As the 9 December 1882 Herald put
it
A dog that has to be carried to the chase will catch no rabbits, and the man
that must be taught the holiness of the Sabbath by a policeman, will never be a
christian.
The days that followed the 1882 election saw 134 indictments against bar owners selling
liquor on Sundays. Nicholas Wehner was one of those receiving a $5 fine.1421 Like Many in
Ste. Genevieve, Nicholas found that profits from selling Sunday liquor sales exceeded the
small fines, and ignored the law. (Larger fines were possible. At an unknown date, Nicholas
had to pay the State of Missouri $46.40 for selling without a license.) 1422 Nicholas continued
a scofflaw. A year later, on 6 November 1883, both he and his son Peter, a business partner
in the Eagle Saloon,1423 were found guilty of Sunday sales.1424 Never one to call it quits,
Nicholas, in 1892, was once again tried for Sunday liquor sales, along with several of his
competitors.1425 All pled guilty and were fined $5 each, a pittance even then.1426
Vallee Harold
Vallee was the St. Mary’s editor for the Fair Play newspaper before leaving in
November of 1876 to study law under Carter and Clardy, 1427 a leading law firm in
Farmington. As the Fair Play put it, “Doubtless in the next congressional contest,
Valle will be a ‘Clardy man.’” In 1878 Martin Linn Clardy, a Democrat, was elected
to the U.S. Congress as a Representative from the State of Missouri,1428 and
undoubtedly had the strong support of Vallee, a staunch Democrat. Vallee eventually
returned to Ste. Genevieve as the Fair Play editor before moving on in 1884 to be
editor and publisher of the Greenville, Illinois, Sun.1429,1430
The skirmish between the Republican Herald and the Democratic Fair Play was
widely known. In 1883, the Fredericktown [Missouri] Plaindealer noted “Vallee
Harold, of the Ste. Genevieve Fair Play, arrived in town yesterday morning and was
the recipient of many warm greetings. Vallee’s ability and good nature make him
many warm friends. We trust the editor of the Ste. Genevieve Herald will take no
exception to the above, for we assure him that if we thought he had sense enough to
travel from the City of the Saints to Frederictown [sic], and wasn’t run out of town as
a suspicious character before we had the opportunity of seeing him, we would be glad
to form his acquaintance, and speak of him as we thought he deserved.”1431
Nicholas’s battles with Vallee Harold, who was also editor and publisher of the Fair
Play, continued. When Nicholas’s son George and son-in-law Fred Bolle quit their jobs at the
Cone Mills in 1883 to run their own mill, the Fair Play implied that they had not left
willingly.1432
—Misfortunes never come single handed, so a great poet has said and so we
surely believe. Week before last Mr. Nicholas Wehner, saloon keeper, was so
unfortunate as to have us discontinue his paper, thus depriving him of a highly
moral instructor and advocate of the due observance of the law, even by dram
shop keepers, and immediately on the heels of this, a son and a son-in-law of
his lost lucrative positions in the Cone Mills. John, pass us our red bandanna! We
weep.
On 2 June 1883, Nicholas wrote the Herald disputing the accusation:1433
Mr. Editor: Permit me to reply, through your valuable columns, to an article
that appeared in the Fair Play about me and my children. The fool introduces
his article with the words of the poet that “Misfortunes never come single-
handed.” In answer I would state: it is no misfortune whatever that my son
quit his place in the mill, as it has been, for some time, his intention to build
up a business of his own. Neither is it a misfortune to have him discontinue
my paper, as I paid for the paper and have a perfect right to do as I please,
though I do lose, as he says, a highly-moral instructor and advocate of the due
observance of the law. Poor man! ask yourself who is most in need of learning
morality. Christ said: “weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your
children.” So take your red bandanna and dry the tears that you weep for
yourself.
I have frequently been asked why I kept such a piece of waste paper in the
house as the F.P. [Fair Play] and my invariable reply was that the paper
always does come in handy, even in the back yard.
If Vallee Harold has any business to transact with me, he ought to let my
children alone. I am man enough to take care of my own affair.
Nicholas Wehner
Nicholas relented and the following year once more added his name to the Fair Play’s
subscription list.1434 He may have merely wished to obtain a paper for use in his “back yard,”
but that Vallee Harold had served as editor and publisher for the last time the preceding week
was more likely the reason. Nicholas once again began advertising his lumber yard in the
Fair Play.
Lumberman
Today, Nicholas is best
known for his lumber business,
which he ran with his son Peter.
At an unknown date, Nicholas
sued Florentine Schirman and
his wife Therese for an $85.27
debt “for lumber and materials
furnished and used in the
construction of a dwelling house
and frame dancing house.” The
defendants were ordered to pay,
and a lien was put against their
property.1435
The term “dancing house” is Northeast of the North Gabouri Creek bridge and Cone Mills,
intriguing. Florentine Schirman an empty lot on Main Street is all that remains of the Wehner
started as a Ste. Genevieve Lumber Yard. To the left, across the creek were Nicholas’s
1436 home (still standing), saloon, and grocery (2006).
County farmer, became a
saloon keeper,1437 and ended up as the proprietor of a boarding house in Quarrytown (now
“Quarry Town”),1438 a small community about five miles south of the town of Ste.
Genevieve. It may have been the Quarrytown establishment for which Nicholas Wehner
supplied lumber for a “dancing house,” for Florentine loved to host dances. In 1882 the local
newspaper announced1439
On Tuesday, August 15th, 1882, Florentine Schirman will give a grand picnic
at the cave near Quarrytown, to be followed in the evening by a ball at the
Quarrytown House. Good care has been take to procure good music, the best
of refreshments and first-class drinks. Dancing and other amusements are a
matter of course. This will be a good opportunity for candidates to make
themselves popular. Everybody is respectfully invited.
The “candidates” were office seekers in the election of 1882, one of whom, running for
Ste. Genevieve Sheriff, was Louis Joseph Naumann, whose daughter Leona Mary would one
day marry John Edward Wehner, Nicholas Wehner’s grandson. Louis was elected.1440
In 1883, Florentine announced another picnic and ball:1441

Florentine Schirman says that, as the rain ruined his last picnic, he will “try
again” and give another picnic on Monday, Sept. 10th, but this time certainly
at the River aux Vases Bridge, where the last was to have been held. He is
making great preparations to make the festival a success. In conclusion a
Grand Ball will be given at the Quarrytown House in the evening. Everybody is
most cordially invited.
Schirman’s events may not have always attracted the right crowd. An article in the 18
August 1883 Ste. Genevieve Herald reports that at least one guest was armed:
Thursday morning a vehicle carrying a party from Schirman’s ball passed by
Mr. Peterson’s residence, when one of the company spied a dog on the
sidewalk and, probably thinking that the poor animal had no rights and his
master no business to pay 75 cts. dog tax for him, he whipped out his shooting
iron and fired away at Towser, hitting him in the leg. Leaving the right of any
man to possess personal property altogether out of consideration, we would
like to know why a young man going to a ball carries a revolver.
“N. Wehner and Son’s Lumber Yard”
or, as advertised in the German edition of
the Herald, “Die LUMBER YARD von N.
Wehner und Sohn,” was Nicholas’s focus.
There were other saloons, groceries, and
farm machinery distributors, but the 1881-
1882 Missouri Gazetteer shows only one
lumber dealer in Ste. Genevieve—Nicholas.
But competition soon increased. Within a
few years lumber was being advertised in
Ste. Genevieve by Mrs. J. Falk and Son and
by (Robert and Henry) Robinson and (Phil)
Sherlock.959,1442
The son in “N. Wehner and Son” was
Peter, Nicholas’s youngest child. Nicholas
Fair Play, Saturday, 22 Mar 1884, p. 3. was a “Dealer in White and Yellow Pine
Fair Play, Saturday, 22 Mar 1884, p. 3. Lumber, Flooring, Joists, Shingles, Laths,
&c.”1443 Nicholas is claimed to have started the lumber yard in 1876;1444 however, the first
advertisement appears in the 4 November 1875 issue of the Fair Play: “LUMBER YARD, N.
WEHNER Pro’r. Lumber of Every Description always on Hand.” At first the products was
sold from his property south of the North Gabouri Creek, where Nicholas and Clara’s house,
where the Wehner grocery stood, and where the Eagle Saloon served beer and spirits to
parched Cone Mills workers and other Ste. Genevieve citizens—German, French, and
“English.” In 1881, however, Nicholas purchased a large expanse of land north of the creek,
along the east side of Little Rock Road (today, Main Street). There the Wehner & Son’s
Lumber Yard stood for almost a century (maps, pp. 134, 142).1445,1446 Frederick C. Festner,
who sold Nicholas the property for $1,033, was listed as a sawmiller in the 1870 census for
Ste. Genevieve and may have already had a lumber business on the land.1447
For a while following Nicholas’s death, the firm continued operating as “N. Wehner and
Sons.”1383 The land on which the lumber yard stood passed to Nicholas’s son Peter and then
to his grandson John Edward (“Edward J.”).1448 By that time, Peter and Edward owned only a
portion of the business, but all the land. The 1973 flood, cresting at 43.3 feet on 28 April1449
(30 April according to the flood marker on North Gabouri Creek), doomed the lumber yard.
Today, only an empty lot remain.
Old Man River
The Mississippi River defined Ste. Genevieve. Beginning
with the 1 August 1816 landing of the steamboat General Pike,
Ste. Genevieve was a stop for steamers bearing passenger and
freight. Before the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad
diverted cargos to St. Louis, Ste. Genevieve was the major
shipping point for pig iron and ore. At Little Rock landing,
1993
increasingly used as City Landing became inaccessible, were
built government-owned boarding houses, warehouses, and an
office (the federal government had quarries there); a flour mill;
and private homes. In the 1860s the St. Louis, Ste. Genevieve,
and Chester Packet made three runs a week. Ste. Genevieve is
said to have been the site of at least eighteen steamboat
accidents.1450 Following the 22 August 1852 explosion on the
Doctor Franklin II just north of town, the boat was rowed to Ste.
Genevieve, where as many as forty victims were buried en masse 1973
1450,1451,1452
in Memorial Cemetery.
In the 1850s the Mississippi ran along the eastern edge of 1944
what would become Nicholas’s properties and steamboats tied
up at the east end of city streets. When the river started moving
away, landings were made at the north or south edge of town.
The 5 August 1882 Ste. Genevieve Herald noted “On Sunday
the Fannie Tatum took in 600 barrels of flour and 500 sacks of
bran from the Cone Mills, at Wehner’s Landing” (probably at
the northeast edge of the lumber yard). The Fannie Tatum, a
177-foot sidewheeler built at Madison, Indiana, and completed
in St. Louis in 1873,1453 had sunk two years earlier with a
$35,000 cargo, but had been raised.1454 A pole on the Gabouri Creek
Rafts, not steamboats, were the primary conveyances bridge just south of the
bringing timber downriver to market. By 1876 large raftloads of lumber yard site documents
Mississippi flood crests (2006).
wood products were floated down the Mississippi to the Wehner
lumber yard.1455 In May 1882, Nicholas “received by raft about 350,000 feet of lumber,
300,000 shingles, 50,000 laths, and 15,000 palings.”1456 N. Wehner and Son continued
receiving rafts of lumber into the 1890s.1387
Around 1860 the Mississippi River began moving farther east, away from Ste. Genevieve
and Nicholas Wehner’s future holdings. In his 1883 book Life on the Mississippi, Mark
Twain (Samuel Clemens) noted that the shift in the river meant that steamboat passengers
had to arrange for transportation or trudge into town:
Observe what this eccentric river had been about: it had built up this huge
useless tow-head directly in front of this town, cut off its river
communications, fenced it away completely, and made a ‘country’ town of it. It
is a fine old place, too, and deserved a better fate.
Steamers were increasingly forced to use Little Rock Landing, two miles north of town,
or Stanton’s Landing, two miles south. In the autumn of 1889, “N. Wehner & Son” and
“Wehner & Bolle” were among those signing a petition presented to the Ste. Genevieve City
Council requesting that bonds be issued to build a road across the bar that now separated the
town from the Mississippi so that river landings would be more accessible.1457 But the golden
age of river steamers was ending. Steamboats were being replaced by other steam-driven
conveyances, railroads.
Until the arrival of railways, Ste. Genevieve was at the mercy of the river. Business
suffered when ice or low water closed the river to navigation. The discontinuance of
operations at Cone Mills during the winter was only partly due to the limitted availability of
wheat.1458 When steamers were unavailable, travelers used “hacks,” horse-drawn carriages, to
reach trains elsewhere. In 1899 a tourist wanting to reach Ste. Genevieve and not wishing to
wait for a steamer was given directions by the Eagle Packet Company’s office:1459
He was directed to go to Chester, Ill., via Percy, cross the river by ferry to
Clearyville, take a train for St. Mary’s, then by a stage ride of ten miles he
could reach his destination. By another route he could go to Farmington by
rail, then to Ste. Genevieve by a stage ride of twenty-eight miles. By the
former route the distance would be 102 miles, and by the latter 115. the
distance to Ste. Genevieve by river is sixty miles. The stranger said that he
would wait a day or two for a boat.
Railroads finally ended Ste. Genevieve’s
total dependence on boats and horse power,
but it happened much later than expected. John
J. Tlapek Sr. (who would become a partner in
the lumber yard) was the major railroad
proponent. For years Ste. Genevieve wanted a
railroad. The 21 June 1872 Fair Play wrote
“All Ste. Genevieve wants now is a railroad,
and every effort in this direction is being put
forth to bring the ‘iron horse’ through our
copper iron and lead mines, and we will soon
have furnaces and manufacturies of all kinds
in abundance, bring life and prosperity to our
now rather dull town.” The newspaper even
Frisco timetable for Ste. Genevieve, c 1920. published a front-page poem “The
Locomotive,”1460 but admitted that the project
was unlikely to be accomplished soon: “Of course, we would rather have a railroad for Ste.
Genevieve county than a state office, but as the latter is nearest in sight by far we propose
going for it.”1461 An 1897 letter to the Ste. Genevieve Herald declared “Without a railroad,
Ste. Genevieve must pass into history, a relic of the past.”1462
Ste. Genevieve steamboats brought not only drummers, itinerate dentists, and out-of-town
relatives, but also human volcanoes and blood sucking vampires. (Fair Play, Saturday, 1 Jun 1889.)
In 1886, Nicholas Wehner was appointed to a committee of Ste. Genevieve County

citizens to “visit St. Louis and lay before the Merchants’ Exchange of that city the
advantages and necessity to its trade of the proposed extension of the Texas and St. Louis
Railroad into that city.”1463 Local newspapers ran high with railroad optimism, week after
week, year after year. But the first train did not arrive in Ste. Genevieve until 11 June 1899,
forty-two years after rails were run to Pilot Knob and two years after Nicholas’s death.1464
Ste. Genevieve’s first train, an excursion carrying “about seventy” passengers from
Perryville, was met by the Ste. Genevieve Brass Band. Among the travelers was the
Perryville baseball team, who played Ste. Genevieve, losing 13 to 4 when the game was
called because of rain. Within a couple of weeks two trains a day were being scheduled to St.
Mary, Chester, and Perryville, where there were connections with major railways with
returns.1465 In years to come, larger lines would replace the small (only 19.6 miles of track)
Chester, Perryville & Ste. Genevieve Railway Company. Eventually, the Illinois Southern
and the St. Louis and San Francisco (“Frisco”) railroads would pass between the Wehner
lumber yard and the old bed of the Mississippi.
Clara
Nicholas’s wife was known by both the
Americanized “Clara” and the Germanic
“Klara,” the latter used less often as time went
by. She may have had some English literacy
problems though this also cleared up with
time. Early real estate transaction documents
were sometimes signed with her mark.
Clara had a sister, Theresia Schneider,
who lived relatively close. Theresia (also
“Therese,” “Teresa,” “Theresse,” “Teresia,”
but never the most common, “Theresa”)
Schneider was born 5 May 1836 in Fulda,
Germany (probably in the area known as
Horas, where Clara was born) and grew up in
the vicinity of that city.1466,1467 Theresia had
just turned 32 when she boarded the steamship
S.S. Hansa, of the North German Lloyd Line,
rriving in New York 18 May 1868.1468 Having
traveled unaccompanied in steerage class, she
headed first to Ste. Genevieve and her sister
Clara for acclimation and a much needed rest,
and then traveled on to St. Louis.1467 The S.S. Hansa, which brought Clara’s sister,
In 1877 Theresia married Bardo Weinerth, Theresia, to the U.S., was in service from 1861 to
and the couple settled down in St. Charles 1883, when it was listed as missing after being
County, Missouri, northwest of St. Louis, sold and renamed the Ludwig. (Ancestry.com.)
where they lived out their lives.1467
Bardo’s last name is given in records as both “Weinert” and “Weinerth”; however,
loyalty oaths1469 with his original signatures and legal documents1470 clearly show the latter
spelling. Both spellings, the latter less common, are found in Germany.
Bardo was born 17 November 1829 in Wörth am Main, Bavaria, Germany (or in Wörth
am Rhein according to his cemetery marker),1471 and had come to the United States as a
stowaway around 1848, arriving with not
more than $5 in his pocket.1472 From then
on his life sounds like a Horatio Alger
“rags-to-riches” plot. Bardo started his
business life in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he
was an itinerant merchant, carrying his
wares in large baskets. He continued
drifting westward, making his final stop at
St. Peters, Missouri, where he opened and
successfully operated a country store,
selling anything that anyone might wish to
buy. Bardo became highly respected
citizen and a well-to-do merchant. He
served as a Justice of the Peace,1469,1473
and in the 1870 census claimed $18,000 in
real estate and $6,000 in personal
property.1474
Following the war, Radical
Republicans ran Missouri, denying former
Confederate sympathizers certain
professions, the right to vote, and
government office. Among the oaths
required was the “Ironclad Oath” of 1865,
required for government officials and
“Mrs. Teresa Weinert” (Theresia Weinerth), signed by Bardo, as a justice of the peace
c1923 (1823-1923 Centennial History of All for St. Charles County (he signed another
Saints Church, St. Peter's, Missouri, 1923, p. 53.) oath in 18661475):1469
“I do solemnly swear that I am well acquainted with the terms of the third
section of the second article of the Constitution of the State of Missouri,
adopted in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five and have carefully
considered the same; that I have never, directly or indirectly, done any of the
acts in said section specified; that I have always been truly and loyally on the
side of the United States against all enemies thereof, foreign and domestic;
that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, and will support
the Constitution and laws thereof as the supreme law of the land, any law or
ordinance of any State to the contrary notwithstanding; that I will, to the best
of my ability, protect and defend the Union of the United States, and not allow
the same to be broken up and dissolved, or the government thereof to be
destroyed or overthrown …”
Bardo’s signature on the 1865 loyalty oath

clearly shows his spelling of the family name.
Before marrying Theresia, Bardo had been married three times previously—to Margarita
Vogel on 4 March 1856,1476 to a Sophia,1477 and to Josepha Schlueter1478—and had two
daughters, Kunigunda and Emelia, one each from his first and third marriages.1479
Kunigunda, a life-long epileptic, spent much of her life in St. Josephs hospital in St.
Louis.1480 Never married, she died 5 May 1921 due to a cerebral hemorrhage from a fall
during an epileptic seizure.1480 Emelia, who married Aloys Schneider (no known relation to
Theresia and Clara Schneider) in St. Charles County sometime between 30 March 1891,
when the license was issued, and 9 May 1891, when it was returned,1481 died relatively young
on 3 March 1911.1482 Kunigunda (with the name “Weinert”), Emelia, and Aloys are buried in
All Saints Church Cemetery, St. Peters.1483,1484
Bardo was an important contributor to
Catholic religious organizations, giving $2,000
in cash and over 200 acres of land to All Saints
Church in St. Peters and $5,000 to the
Josephinum Roman Catholic Seminary in
Columbus, Ohio.1472 After Bardo’s death, 8
July 1897,1471 Theresia continued to make large
donations, over $25,000 to various church
projects.1467 In the 1900 census, the widowed
Theresia reported that she had had a single
child, no longer living, and no other
offspring.1485 Whether the deceased child was
from her marriage with Bardo or from some
earlier marriage is unknown. Theresia died 11
March 1925 and was buried in All Saints
Church Cemetery, St. Peters, Missouri, Markers for Bardo and Theresia, All Saints
1466,1471 Church Cemetery, St. Peters. (Find a Grave.)
alongside Bardo. Aloys Schneider,
husband of her stepdaughter Emelia, was the death certificate informant.
Clara also had a brother, Joseph Schneider, who also came to the United States and lived,
at least for a while, in Kansas.11 Joseph, about whom we know little, may have spent some
time in Ste. Genevieve. On 22 March 1867 a Joseph Schneider purchased land just east of
Nicholas Wehner’s Block 1 property from Henry and Caroline Lawrence for $60.1486 A year
later, on 26 June 1868, he sold the land to Clara Wehner for the same amount. 1487 This
property likely provided the space needed for Nicholas’s beer garden. No other records for a
Joseph Schneider in Ste. Genevieve are known.
Familienleben
In Ste. Genevieve Nicholas Wehner, long known as “Nic,” became “Uncle Nick”:
“Uncle Nick” Wehner, one of our old and respected citizens, in company with
Mrs. George Wehner, Mrs. Peter Vath and Michael Siebert, took quite an
extensive pleasure trip through Missouri, visiting Iron Mountain, Pilot Knob
and Middlebrook. They returned on Wednesday last, in good health and
spirits, speaking highly of the pleasure they enjoyed during their trip.1488
Accompanying Nicholas on this journey were his daughter-in-law, Theresa (Vaeth)
Wehner (Mrs. George Wehner); the mother-in-law of his son George, Ursula Charlotte
(Isenman) Vaeth (Mrs. Peter “Vath”); and Ursula’s son-in-law, Michael Siebert, husband of
Mary Vaeth.1489 Ever since Nicholas and Clara had lived near the Vaeth (or “Vaith” or
“Vath,” originally German Väth) family near New Offenburg, the Wehners and the Vaeths
had been close. The Wehner’s first born, George, had married one of Peter and Ursula’s
seven daughters, Theresa. Ursula went on the trip with Nicholas, but Peter could not, for he
had died four years earlier, on 11 September 1880.1490 And where was Michael Siebert’s
wife, Mary, or Theresa’s husband, George, or Clara Wehner? Perhaps other duties (George
was running his newly constructed City Mills) or concerns about the rigors of a long and
difficult trip put off some family members. An article written a week later in the Herald
makes it apparent that Nicholas enjoyed the chance to renew old friendships:
Nicholas Wehner tells us that he enjoyed his trip to St. Francois and Iron Cos.
very much, and that it did him a great deal of good. He visited his relative and
friends in the iron region and found them all hearty and well. Among others,
he saw his brother, Lawrence Wehner, Val. Efling and Ferd. Immer, of Pilot
Knob, Michael Seitz of Middlebrook, and Judge Dinger of Ironton. The
convent church at Arcadia he pronounces the most beautiful he ever saw, and
speaks highly of the place altogether, the splendid convent gardens, etc. What
struck Mr. Wehner as most remarkable in his visit was that as soon as he left
Ste. Genevieve county, he found better roads everywhere, and the old story of
Rip VanWinkle involuntarily came to his mind. It must strike the intelligent
observer as rather peculiar that Ste. Genevieve county cannot muster public
spirit enough to keep her roads in decent condition and it is small wonder
when Mr. Wehner came to the conclusion that this county is in a state of
lethargy, which is fatal to its interests.81
Who were the people that
Nicholas visited? Lorenz
(“Lawrence”) Wehner and
Michael Seitz we already
know. Nicholas was
acquainted with Valentine
Effinger (“Val. Efling”), a
veteran of the Battle of Pilot
Knob at age 16,1491,1492 because
Valentine had once worked at
Michael and Thomas Seitz’s
Middlebrook brewery,1493
though he had since become a
Pilot Knob saloon keeper.1494
Franz (“Judge”) Dinger, a
native of Hesse-Darmstadt Franz Dinger house, Ironton. Street fighting during
who had arrived in Iron Price’s raid occurred in front of this pre-Civil War house,
no longer standing. (Photo, 1957, Iron County courthouse.)
County in 1854 and had been
captured by the Confederates at the Battle of Pilot Knob, was an attorney, probate judge, and
mayor of Ironton for over 24 years.1495 He was also a notary public, a real estate agent, and
an insurance agent (for Mutual Life, Home Fire, and Aetna).1496 Ferdinand (“Ferd.”) Immer
was the primary reason that the Ursula and

her daughter Theresa had come on the trip.
Ferdinand, a merchant, had married Ursula
and Peter’s oldest child, Rosina (in St.
Louis on 14 December 1865),1497 and
Ursula had grandchildren in Pilot Knob,
eight by the time of the trip (with a ninth,
Louis, born two years later).1498,1499
The church Nicholas visited was the
chapel at the Ursuline Convent and
Academy (later renamed “Arcadia College
and Academy of the Ursuline Sisters for
Young Ladies” and then “Ursuline
Academy for Young Ladies”). Rosina and
Ferdinand’s oldest child, Mary Ursula,
would become Mother Mary Ursula, an
No Academy building now dates from the time
Ursuline, and would teach for 59 years at
of Nicholas’s trip. This 1908 chapel is based on the Ursuline Convent in Oakland, a
the architecture of St. Louis’s Ursuline convent, separate town within the City of St.
where Mother Mary Immer taught (2007). Louis.1500
Das Ende
On 13 September 1893 Nicholas and
Clara Wehner made and signed their
wills.1378,1501 Nicholas, who published his
will “realizing the uncertainty of this frail
and transitory existence,” appeared to be
in his prime, but just a little over three
years later, on 27 February 1897,1392 he
died rapidly and unexpectedly from a
“combination of thoracic and intestinal
troubles.”3 The same year saw the deaths
of three other prominent Ste. Genevieve
citizens—”General” Fermin A. Rozier
(state senator, state representative,
banker, attorney), Mayor Charles Rozier
(the “General’s” brother), and Emilie
(“Mammy”) Shaw (widow of Dr.
Benjamin Shaw). Dying at age 71,
Nicholas may have outlived by only a
few years his father, who was said to
have lived to 93.3 His brother Lorenz, in
Pilot Knob, would live another ten years
to the exact day, dying 27 February
1907.86 Nicholas Wehner’s Funeral Card. The death date is
incorrect and is actually the date of the funeral.
Following a requiem high mass at the Church of Ste. Genevieve, conducted by Rev.
Father Charles L. Van Tourenhout, Nicholas was buried in Valle Spring Cemetery, the
Catholic cemetery formed from a tract of land given to the town by Odile Vallé, wife of Felix
Vallé, son of the last commandant, Jean Baptiste Vallé. “Mama” Vallé gave the land in return
for permission to be buried alongside her husband in Memorial Cemetery, which had been
closed to additional burials. She lies there now, the last person to be laid to rest in the old
cemetery.
Nicholas left the
lumber yard and associated
property north of the
Gabouri and the saloon
business to Peter. Although
the business was Peter’s,
the saloon building and the
land on which it stood
would go to him only on
the death of his mother,
Clara, at which time
Nicholas’s daughters Mary
Baumstark and Theresa
Bolle would become
tenants in common of the
remaining Block 1
property. George Wehner
was to receive forgiveness
of all debts owed Nicholas
and was to divide the
money owed Nicholas by
the firm of Wehner and
Bolle (City Mills) between
himself and his two
sisters.1378 In his parceling,
Nicholas sought equity
among his children.
Nicholas also required
that Peter provide Clara
with an income for her
For years Msgr. Charles L. van Tourenhout was the Church “maintenance with all the
of Ste. Genevieve, officiating at Nicholas’s funeral and the comforts and luxuries of
funerals and weddings of innumerable Wehners. (Historic life that a person at her age
American Engineering Record, National Park Service.)
of life should have” not to
exceed $25 per month. This sounds like a paltry amount for “comforts and luxuries,” even in
those times, but one must remember that Clara had all of the Block 1 real estate in her name
to do with as she wished along with a working grocery and all of Nicholas’s personal
property except for what was part of the Eagle Saloon. And Clara was more than able to
wisely conduct business dealings.
Clara lived another eight years at her old home on North Main (in 1900 accompanied by
her granddaughter Josephine Flora Wehner),1502 passing away 27 March 1905. At the time of
her death, Clara’s sister Theresia Weinert and brother Joseph were still living, Theresia in St.
Peters, Missouri, and Joseph in Kansas.11 In her final years, Clara had continued keeping the
family grocery store, “more to occupy her time than for profit’s sake.”11 Her obituary
avoided divulging that she and Nicholas had traveled to America together, while unmarried:
Mrs. Wehner was born at Horas near Fulda in Hesse-Kassel Germany, on the
18th of August, 1825, and came to this country in the early part of 1847. On
the 26th of December of that year she was married at Cape Girardeau to Nicholas
Wehner, who had in the same year come to the United States from Dietershausen,
also near Fulda.11
Not only had Nicholas come “in
the same year,” he had come in the
same boat, indeed in the same party.
Clara’s will accorded with her
and Nicholas’s agreement.1501 Peter
got the saloon building and the land
on which it stood, plus some
additional property for access. Mary
and Theresa were given the
remaining Block 1 land. And to
ensure equity among the children,
George received $250 from Peter’s
bequest. Clara’s grandson August
Peter moved into the 268 N. Main
house, where he and his wife appear
in the 1920, 1930, and 1940
censuses.
Clara and Nicholas, who share a
common stone in Valle Spring
Cemetery,1503 left four living
offspring. (Two others, Joseph and
John, died young.) Their oldest
child, John George (always called
just “George”) was born in Pilot
Knob. Mary, Theresa, and Peter
were all born in Ste. Genevieve
County. Only George and Peter
would carry on the Wehner name.
Postscript
Arriving in the New World, with
a new culture, new threats, and new
Clara Schneider Wehner with granddaughter Julia Elvina opportunities, the immigrants Clara
(daughter of Peter), about 1889. (Wehner Family Collection.) and Nicholas, like most Germans,
became Americans in the best sense of the word. They had important roles in Missouri’s
development—the Plank Road, the iron works, the establishment of businesses—and they
helped define Ste. Genevieve.
Their Eagle Saloon was the place to gather, to talk politics, to discuss business deals, or
to just sit down after work for a beer. It was the neighborhood hangout to kid Charley Jokerst
about purchasing an old horse hide thinking it was a green steer hide. 1504 And the Eagle’s
business depended on word of mouth alone. Unlike the Union Hall, Main Street, Gambrinus
Hall, and Anvil saloons, the Eagle appears in not a single newspaper advertisement (nor does
Clara’s grocery for that matter).
Nicholas’s Summer Garden, which was advertised, served lemonade, ice cream, and soda
water to “young and old,” sometimes attracting large crowds with fireworks and brass
bands.1505 In 1881, Nicholas and George Sexauer set up a “Fourth of July” gala with a street
procession, brass band, and ice cream and drinks for all at the Fair Grounds.1506
Clara and Nicholas left an economic and family dynasty. For the most part, the former
did not last. The saloon soon went out of business. The grocery expired with Clara. City
Mills eventually burned to the ground, the ruins washing away in a flood. The lumber yard
remained partially in Wehner hands until 1973 when it was sold and then destroyed by a
flood. Only Meyer’s Hotel lasted, although it did not stay in family hands and went through
dismal times in the 1930s and 1940s.
Buildings came and went, but the family thrived, and that is really the subject of this
book. Nicholas and Clara left 344 documented direct descendants (and 214 known spouses of
those descendants). And to that progeny they left a sense of citizenship, industry,
responsibility, and family.
Wehner Street, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri (2006).

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John George Wehner

John George,1507 who was named after his grandfather but went solely by his middle
name,* was born 28 April 1850 in Pilot Knob, just a couple of years after his parents had
arrived from Germany.4 George’s earliest memories would have been his childhood in or
near Weingarten and New Offenburg, where his father ran Midway Station on the Ste.
Genevieve and Iron Mountain Plank Road, and in Union Township, where Nicholas had his
timberland and sawmill. But before continuing with George, let’s discuss the Vaeth family,
for reasons that will soon be obvious.
Living near the Wehners were Peter Andrew Vaeth Jr., and his wife, Ursula Charlotte
(Isenman) Vaeth, who farmed land on both sides of the Plank Road between Weingarten and
New Offenburg.1508 Peter was born 14 November 18191490 in Freudenberg am Main (the “am
Main” distinguishing the town from two other German Freudenbergs), a small village on the
Main River in Baden-Württemberg. The Vaeths were in the New Offenburg area by 10 April
1843, when Peter Vaeth, either Jr. or Sr., received a certificate for the family’s first parcel of
federal land, 40 acres, about half way between Weingarten and New Offenburg, a parcel that
would, one day, be traversed by the Plank Road.1509 Over 33 years, Peter Vaeth (sometimes
“Vath”) acquired eight land patents totaling 521.55 acres in that area.
Ursula, believed to be the daughter of John Joseph Isenman and Mary Anna
Littennecher,1510 was born 13 or 15 September 1825,1490,1511 also in Baden-Württemberg.1512
John (also “Johannes”) Isenman (sometimes, “Iseman”) appears on certificates, the earliest
dated 1 August 1833,1513 for federal lands about two mile east of the Vaeth holdings. Though
separated by two miles, Peter and Ursula managed to get together, probably by attending
Catholic services held in private homes (St. Joseph’s Church in Zell would not be completed
until 1847 and Our Lady Help of Christians Church in Weingarten was not even founded
until 1873).1514 The couple was married 19 February 1844 in the town of Ste. Genevieve.1515
Peter died of a broken neck on 11 September 1880 when a fence on which he was sitting
collapsed.1516 His daughter Anna (“Annie”) died 28 September 1886 after being thrown in a
cistern by person or persons unknown.1490,1517 Another daughter Rosina, wife of Ferdinand
Immer of Pilot Knob, died 15 January 18911518 of burns received when her dress caught fire
while making soap,1519 a great danger in those days of loose, flammable, muslim dresses.
Nineteenth century Ste. Genevieve newspapers were filled with stories of deaths from
burning clothing: in 1874 a St. Louis County girl playing with a child’s stove;1520 in 1875 a
French Creek girl standing near a fire for warmth (the clothing of two other women also
ignited);1521 in 1884 a Scott County woman standing near a fireplace.1522 Bertie Baldwin of
Poplar Bluff was disfigured when her clothing caught fire from a lighted candle.1523
Ursula died just three months after Rosina, on 13 April 1891, after being kicked by a
mule, and was buried alongside Peter in Our Lady Help of Christians Cemetery in
Weingarten.1490 The rigor of Weingarten life in is shown in Ursula’s obituary (with a
marriage date error):1511
*
A practice generally continued in this book. If you see “George Wehner,” think “John George Wehner.”
Mrs. Vaeth, relict of Mr. Peter Vaeth, was born at Hofweier, Baden, on the
15th day of September, 1825, and came to America with her parents when but
six years old. She married Mr. Peter Vaeth in October, 1843, and became the
happy mother of twelve children, seven of whom survive her, namely: Mrs.
Mary Siebert, Mrs. Theresa Wehner, Mrs. Regina Jokerst, Mrs. Josephine
Baechle and her three sons, Andrew, Joseph and Anton. Although God had
blessed her with worldly goods, she had the sorrow of seeing her husband, her
eldest son and two of her daughters die of a sudden and unexpected death. It
grieved her sorely to see her beloved daughter, Annie, thrown by unknown
persons in a cistern and the untimely death of her eldest daughter, Mrs.
Immer, of Pilot Knob, filled the cup of bitterness for her. Since that time Mrs.
Vaeth made up her mind that something would happen to her and on Sunday
last, while all the members of the family were at Church, hearing the cries of
distress of a calf assailed by a mule in the yard, she ran to the rescue of the
poor animal and was kicked in the stomach with such a force that she had to
retire to bed and died from the effects thereof on Monday morning at 6
o’clock. The priest, the doctor, her three sons and two grand children and two
intimate friends were the only witnesses of the passage of her soul from this
world to a better one.
Theresa Vaeth, born 13 January 1852 in or near Weingarten, was one of Peter and
Ursula’s twelve children. (Others were Rosina, Mary, Bernard, Regina Agnes, Pauline,
Josephine, Peter Andrew, Anna Barbara, John Joseph, and Anton Dominic.)1512,1524,1525,1526
When Nicholas Wehner was living near Weingarten and New Offenburg in the 1850s,
Theresa Vaeth and George Wehner were “neighbors.” The childhood friendship continued.
Years later, on 25 November 1873 in Ste. Genevieve, George and Theresa were married by
Father Francis Xavier Weiss. Following the 1880 death of his father-in-law, George was
made guardian for his minor brother-in-law Peter Vaeth and sister-in-law Anna Vaeth
(called, for some reason, “Rebecca” in a newspaper report of the guardianship).1527
Francis Xavier Weiss

Following his immigration from Alsace, Father Weiss, who conducted the wedding of
George Wehner and Theresa Vaeth, was pastor at St. Joseph’s in Zell from 1848 to
1862. He then went from the “German Settlement” to the “French Village,” River aux
Vases, where he pastored the new church from 1863 to 1867, when he was replaced by
Father H. Grosse. Father Weiss lived the rest of his life as a priest at the Church of Ste.
Genevieve, where he oversaw the construction of new church buildings, including the
new brick church, and the renovation of old buildings. In 1890 he resigned as pastor,
turning over the reins to Charles L. Van Tourenhout.1528 In the church is a plaque:1529
Sacred to the memory of Rev. Francis X. Weiss
born-July 25, 1821 at Schleltstadt, Alsace
Ordained a priest-April 29, 1848
died-March 3, 1901
R.I.P.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings,
and that preacheth peace. Of him that showeth forth good, that preacheth salvation.
In 1865 15-year-old George

Wehner began working for Cone
Mills, just across the street from
his father’s house, and there
learned the technology, art, and
language (“stive,” “semolina,”
“middlings,” “scourer,” “sharps,”
“grist”) of milling grains, a trade
he followed throughout his life.4
George did well. His miller’s
income eventually allowed him to
make loans: $500 at 9% over five
years to Joseph and Victoria Gegg
for a collateral of 195 acres;1530
$1200 at 8% to Joseph and Juliana
Arnold for 165 arpents (140.37
acres) in the Grant Park Common
Field of Ste. Genevieve;1531 $400
at 8% to George and Mary
Beckermann for three lots in
Ziegler’s Addition (just west of
DuRocher’s Addition);1532 and a
loan to Bertha Doerge, which had
been only partially repaid when
soft-hearted George asked that a
quit claim be issued.1533 George’s
brother, Peter, was trustee on the
deeds.
This faded flour bag reads “SOLD CITY MILLS A successful merchant
1534
WEHNER & BOLLE 1898, STE GENEVIEVE miller had to evaluate the type,
MO.” (Collection of Kathy (Wehner) Schuyler.) grade, and flour yield of purchased
grain and determine the fair
market price. He had to know how best to store, clean, wash, and condition the grist. He had
to be familiar with the technologies for breaking the grain to form flour, whether by stones or
rollers. And, if working for himself, he had to know how to turn a profit. George spent
eighteen years at Cone Mills, from 1865 to 1883, learning the art. In 1878 he was joined
there by his brother-in-law Frederick (“Fred”) G. Bolle, husband of George’s sister
Theresa.1535 In 1883, George, by then head miller, and Fred left Cone Mills to start their own
business.1433 At the time, a rumor circulated that George had been fired (see p. 146), a rumor
challenged by the Ste. Genevieve Herald:1536
A false report is being circulated to the effect that Mr. George Wehner, until
recently the head miller at the Cone Mills, was discharged from his position.
The fact is, Mr. Wehner quit the mill of his own free will, and not at the
instance of his employers. We can substantiate this by the most impeachable
authority and make the statement in justice to Mr. Wehner, who, it is well
known, was both faithful and efficient during his long stay at the mills.
During the first week of July

1883, the brothers-in-law (with
financial support from Nicholas)1378
Cooper
began constructing their roller
s mill and an attached flour and
grain warehouse and power
City Mills house, just north of North
Gabouri Creek on the east side of
George
Wehner Third Street.1537 The land had
House been purchased by Nicholas
Wehner earlier that year, on 27
January.1404 The three-story main
building was huge, 40 ft x 32 ft
At the time City Mills was built, North Gabouri Creek made a
and 49 ft high with a 9 ft deep
huge loop, flowing both east and west of the mill. Today it rock basement. Following the 23
passes between the sites of the George Wehner house and City October 1883 opening of City Mills
Mills. (Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, 1894, with added labels.) for business, the Ste. Genevieve
Herald ran the story:1409
New Enterprise
The new and handsome mill owned and run by Messrs Wehner and Bolle,
commenced operations on Tuesday, 23 Inst. It is a four-floored frame
building, solidly, and skillfully constructed , and sufficiently commodious for
a custom flouring mill, the purpose for which it is intended. The structure is
erected on the East side of Third Street, and is really an architectural ornament
to our city. Having inspected it carefully, we are prepared to say that neither
money nor skill has been spared in making it complete. It is fitted with the
latest and most improved machinery, and is superintended by one of the best
millers in the state, Mr. George Wehner, who has been 17 years in the
business. Water is pumped into the large boiler by “The Doctor,” a small
engine, worked by the larger one which supplies power to the whole building.
A few more energetic and enterprising citizens like Mr. Nicholas Wehner,
whose project this is, are exactly the men needed to arouse Ste. Genevieve
from her lethargy. We need factories, such as they have in other places. When
we get them, it is our duty to sustain them by giving them our patronage. In
cases like this, when an industry is started by one of our citizens, we would be
lacking in that public spirit which every true citizen should display if we did
not feel a pride in supporting it. Let us rally then to sustain this industrial
enterprise. Let the farmers bring in their wheat to this new mill, and let our
citizens purchase their flour there. Thus will capital be encouraged to further
investments among us, and employment be given to our idle artisans and
laborers.
By 1891 Cone Mills, City Mills’ biggest competitor, was operating sporadically,1538 but
in 1892, Cone was bought out by Fischer Flour Company of St. Louis1539 and soon had a
capacity of 300 barrels per day compared with City Mills’ 80 barrels.1334 With St. Mary Mill
also a strong competitor,1538 Nicholas had to put money into struggling City Mills from time
to time.1378 When Fred Bolle died in 1900,1540 others joined the firm. In 1913, George
Wehner bought out all the partners, but ran the mill for only four more years.1541
On 18 February 1917, George suffered sudden paralysis of his left side (probably a
stroke).1542 Concerned sons and daughters traveled from St. Louis and East St. Louis to be
with their father, and he was thought to be improving. But his disability eventually forced
George to turn the mill over to his son George Nicholas Wehner.1541 For the next twelve
years, until his death, George Sr. was an invalid.
George and Theresa, who lived at 360 N. Third Street, just south of the mill1543 (the
house is no longer standing), celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1923, with all
eleven of their living children present. On 7 February 1929 George signed his will with his
mark,1544 too ill to do otherwise, and six days later, on 13 February 1929, died of
arteriosclerosis and myocarditis in Ste. Genevieve.1545 He was laid to rest in Valle Spring
Cemetery alongside his wife, Theresa, who had died 10 January 1926, three years earlier.
George left the City Mills property to his son George Nicholas Wehner with the
understanding that George Nicholas would give $100 to each of his living siblings and to the
only child of his deceased sister Clara, James G. Blaine.
City Mills. George Wehner and Fred Bolle are believed to be among the men shown. (Collection of Fred and
Marguerite Wehner Bauman.)
George and Theresa had twelve children,

nine girls and three boys, all born in Ste.
Genevieve and all but one, Martha Catherine,
living to adulthood. Most of their offspring
eventually left Ste. Genevieve, with St. Louis
being a primary destination. Only George
Nicholas and August Peter stayed put, and
even August spent a few years in St. Louis.
But distance did not keep the family apart.
Local newspapers reported frequent trips to
Ste. Genevieve, mostly by train, for family
Fair Play, 12 Jul 1884, p. 2. visits. From St. Louis came John Joseph
Wehner and John’s family, and the Blaines,
Hartmanns, Wetteroffs, Hilberts, and Wolkens; from East St. Louis, the Richards family;
from Oklahoma City, the Baechles—innumerable trips by children and grandchildren to visit
George and Theresa and by
siblings, nieces, and nephews
to visit George Nicholas and
August Peter and their
families. And before George
became ill, he and Theresa
would occasionally travel to
St. Louis.
The attraction of George
and Theresa’s offspring by St.
Louis is not at all surprising.
At the turn of the century the
city was in its heyday. All the
trolleys were finally electric
and the Wainwright Building,
one of the world’s first
skyscrapers, had been built. A
bustling metropolis, America’s
fourth largest at the time, the
city was the site of the 1904
Louisiana Purchase Exposition
(the “World’s Fair”) and the
1904 Summer Olympics. St.
Louis offered opportunities
that Ste. Genevieve could not
even approach.
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis,
Meet me at the fair,
Don’t tell me the lights are shining
any place but there
George and Theresa (Vaeth) Wehner, 50th wedding anniversary, 1923. Left to right. Back row:
Rosine Paula (Wehner) Wolken, George Nicholas Wehner, August Peter Wehner, John Joseph
Wehner, Theckla Regina (Wehner) Hilbert, Genevieve Wehner. Front row: Ida Bertha Ursula
(Wehner) Baechle, Clara (Wehner) Blaine, John George Wehner, Theresa (Vaeth) Wehner,
Josephine Flora (Wehner) Hartmann, Anna Margaret (Wehner) Richards, Mary Theresa (Wehner)
Wetteroff. (Collection of Marguerite (Wehner) and Fred Bauman.)
Clara Wehner
George and Theresa Wehner’s oldest child, Clara, was born 10 September 18741546 and
attended Ste. Genevieve’s Girl’s Parochial School. There she demonstrated the drive of her
grandfather, when, in 1883, she was selected as one of the “most distinguished pupils” in the
Junior Department.1547 On 22 April 1897 Clara and Charles Darwin Blaine,1548 a house and
sign painter and paper hanger,1549,1550,1551 were married at St. Kevin’s Church in St. Louis by
Father J. T. Foley.1552 (Built in 1876 at Park and Cardinal Avenue, the church was eventually
replaced by a larger building and was converted to a parish school in 1904.
Born 26 February 1873 in St. Louis1553 and apparently named for the naturalist whose
book On the Origin of Species had been published a little over a decade earlier, Charles
Blaine had grown up in Phelps County, Missouri, one of five children (Bertha, Gertrude,
Joseph, Charles, and Bruce) of John Blaine (sometimes “Blain”), a physician born 8 February
1830 in what is now West Virginia, and Ruth Sauter (sometimes “Salter”) born in England
between 1845 and 1846.1554,1555 The 16 February 1867 Phelps County marriage with Ruth
was John’s second.1556 His first, to an Elizabeth born 1834 or 1835 in Tennessee, had
produced six other children—Mary Jane, Hannibal, Ruth Ann, John E., Lucinda, and
Cornelia.1554 Charles Darwin Blaine’s childhood was filled with siblings and half-siblings,
ten in all.
Charles is first found in St.

Louis in the 1897 city directory, John Blaine Ruth Sauter
working as a salesman for Henry c1831-c1885 c1845-1891
G. Vreeland & Son
manufacturers’ representatives
and rooming at 5321 Patton Clara Wehner Charles Darwin Blaine
Avenue, where Henry Vreeland 1874-1925 1873-1847
1557
Jr. was also staying. Charles
was also living there when he
married.1558 From then on, until at James George Blaine Katherine Kolkmeyer
least 1923, Charles Blaine appears 1897-1955 1897-1966
in St. Louis city directories only
as a painter or a painter contractor
(at one point in partnership with James B. Blaine
Gustav A. Horton, another 1925-1986
1559
painter) and living at various
addresses on S. Jefferson.
Clara and Charles lived out their married lives in St. Louis. Clara died of uremia and
chronic nephritis on 5 February 1925 at the young age of 50, preceding both of her
parents.1560 Following a funeral at the Church of Ste. Genevieve, she was laid to rest in Valle
Spring Cemetery.1561 Charles spent the next 22 years, most of them in or near Ste.
Genevieve,1562,1563 as a widower, dying of brain disease on 24 January 1947 at age 73.1553 His
last year was spent in the St. Louis City Infirmary, where mental patients were often housed.
He was cremated in St. Louis.
James George Blaine
Clara and Charles had but one child, James George Blaine, born 15 September 1897 in
St. Louis.1564 James started out working for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas (MK&T)
Railroad in St. Louis as a stenographer1565 and later as a clerk,1566 but by 1930, at the start of
the Depression, he had become an attorney and counsel for the railroad.1567,1564 Railroad law
was a prestigious field, one that had been practiced by Abraham Lincoln some eighty years
earlier for the Illinois Central. On 16 June 1920, at St. Francis DeSales Catholic Church in St.
Louis, James married Marie L. Wolfram, born 3 August 18971568 in Missouri1567 to Adam
Casper1569 and Anna Helena (Buhr)1570 Wolfram.1571 By 1935 the family was living in an up-
scale neighborhood of two-story homes on Delor Street, and by 1940, James was pulling
down a salary of $15,000 per year, equivalent to $300,000 or so today.1572 By 1944, James
and Marie had moved to an apartment at 5833 Devonshire Avenue.1573
The union, which was apparently dissolved, produced a single known child, James B.
Blaine, born 18 October 1925, died September 1986.1574 Marie died in 1966,1568 well after
James’s second marriage, to Katherine Kolkmeyer (about 1949).1575 The story of Katherine
(sometime “Catherine”) is a Horatio Algier tale.
Katherine, born 31 March 1916,1576 was the oldest of four children (Katherine, Virginia,
Edward, and Vincent Jr.) of Vincent Herman Sr. and May (Glesius) Kolkmeyer of Jefferson
City, Missouri,1577 a family with problems. Katherine’s grandparents, Frederick and Cecelia
Katherine (Ruck)1578 Kolkmeyer, had divorced, and the children had been raised by Cecelia.
Much more unsettling was the committing of Katherine’s father, Vincent Sr., born 19
December 1893, to State Hospital No. 1, the “Missouri State Lunatic Asylum” at Fulton,
Missouri,1579 in 1922, when Katherine was only six years old. Vincent Sr. entered the facility
just seven years after his 20 October 1915 marriage to May Glesius1580 and remained there
the rest of his life, dying on 10 July 1961. He is buried in Jefferson City’s Resurrection
Cemetery, alongside May, who died 11 July 1975.1581,1582
With her family fragmented, Katherine sought her fortune in Washington, D.C., where
she landed work as a secretary in the Pentagon's Transportation Division.1575 She was 33
when she married the divorced St. Louis railroad lawyer James George Blaine and settled
down in Chesterfield, a St. Louis subdivision, to raise a family.1583 The union lasted only six
years or so. James died 10 December 1955 in a Kirkwood, Missouri, hospital of a coronary
occlusion.1564 But there were two children, Virginia Mae Blaine1584 and John Gregory
Blaine.1585
On 20 April 1961, the widowed Katherine married Eugene Hundley in San Juan, Puerto
Rico.1586 Eugene, who had also been previously married and had two children, was the
founder of Seattle-based Continental Van Lines.1575 By the time of Eugene’s death on 4
September 1987,1587 Katherine was heavily involved in the operation of the company, which
today are owned by her two children, Virginia and John.1588
Marie (Wolfram) Blaine died 14 February 1966 and is buried in Oakhill Cemetery,1589
Kirkwood, Missouri, where her father, Casper, and brother, Theodore J., are also interred.
Katherine died 17 November 1996.1576 James George Blaine is buried unaccompanied by
family in Resurrection Cemetery, St. Louis.1590
Josephine Flora Wehner
Josephine Flora (“Josie”),1546 born 13 October 1875,1591 attended the Girls Parochial
School in Ste. Genevieve and like her sister Clara, was selected as a distinguished pupil in
the Junior Department.1547 After working for a while in Ste. Genevieve doing housework for
wages,1592 she moved to St. Louis, where in 1912 she was living with her brother John (along
with her brother August and her sister Theckla), and was working as a clerk (possibly in
John’s bakery).1593 On 27 June 1916 Josephine, now working as a St. Louis seamstress,1594
married Frank Hartmann, in a ceremony performed by a justice of the peace.1595 Like many
of her siblings, she had gone to St. Louis seeking wealth and had found romance.
Frank was born 1 January 1887 in Austin, Texas,1596 the middle child of Charles and
Mary Hartmann, with an older sister Anna, born in July 1885 in Texas, and a younger
brother, Henry (sometimes “Harry”1597), born January 1896 in Missouri.1598 Charles, who
emigrated from Germany in 1883, worked as a car inspector and later as an
electrician.1597,1598 Born in August 1860,1598 Charles was dead by 1920, when his wife, Mary,
appeared as a widow with two boarders.1599
Frank Hartmann worked his entire life as a bricklayer, specializing in tuck pointing
(mortaring joints or replacing mortar).1597,1600,1601 He appears as “Frederick” in a 1910 census.
and this might be the name he was given at birth, but he appears as “Frank” in all other
records. Although his last name is spelled “Hartman,” in nearly all documents, he signed his
name “Frank Hartmann” on two different WW I draft registrations (registrations duplicated
because in 1917 he was working in Kansas City, Missouri, while living in St. Louis).1596,1602
This is also the spelling used by the Social Security Administration1603 and on his wife’s
death certificate, for which he was the informant.1604
Frank and Josephine

lived out their lives in St. Josephine Wehner
1875-1958
Louis, where, on 3 April
1958, Josephine died of Frank C. Hartmann
arteriosclerosis.1604 1874-1925
Following Josephine’s Frank Hartmann
death, Frank continued 1887-1966
Charles Hartmann
living in St. Louis, dying in 1860-
December 1966.1603 The Anna Hartmann
couple are interred in St. 1885-
Louis’s Valhalla Cemetery Mary ?
mausoleum.1605 1870-
Henry Hartmann
Frank C. Hartmann Jr. 1896-
Frank and Josephine had
but one child, Frank C. Hartmann Jr.,1600,1601 born 20 June 1918 in Missouri (presumably
in St. Louis) and dying 13 February 1991.1606 Living with Frank and Josephine until he was
in this thirties, Frank worked as a clerk at Glasco Electric Company in St. Louis.1607,1608,1609
He apparently never married and is interred near his parents in the Valhalla Cemetery
Mausoleum.1605
Anna Margaret Wehner
Anna (“Annie,” “Ann,” “Anne”) was born 10 May 18771546 and grew up in Ste.
Genevieve. Her middle name is
“Margaret” in a transcribed Church of
Ste. Genevieve record;1546 but it is
“Miltida” (not “Matilda”), an unusual,
but not unknown, woman’s name, on her
husband’s WW I draft registration
card.1610 We will take the transcribed
church record as marginally more
reliable. On 12 June 1900 in Ste.
Genevieve1611 “Annie” Wehner married
George Osmond Richards, born in
Illinois on 13 January 1876 to Lucian
Osmond and Julia E. (Racine)
Richards.1610,1612,1613
George’s father, Lucian, was born
around 1851 in Ohio to Sarah and John
V. Richards, a Pennsylvania couple who
had lived for a while in Ohio before
traveling to Illinois.1614 In Illinois John
farmed in Fulton County1614 and later
became a mill clerk in Madison
County.1615 living in the latter county put St. Elizabeth Church, East St. Louis, is today Christ
Lucian close to St. Louis, where Julia E. Redeemer Missionary Baptist Church (2010).
Racine lived with her French Canadian parents, Toussaint and Julia (Grigné) Racine1616 and
where, in the 1850s and 1860s, Toussaint ran a coffee house, a saloon, and a boarding
house.1617,1616,1618,1619 Lucian and Julia, George’s parents, were married at St. Vincent’s
Church in St. Louis on 16 March 1875 by Rev. Thomas Burke.1620
Anna and George established their home at 557 N. 27th Street in East St. Louis,
Illinois.1621 At nearby St. Elizabeth, the
extremely Roman Catholic (all records were
in Latin) family church, George, apparently
not raised Catholic, was confirmed as an
adult on 28 June 1914.1622 And in that city
George worked as a foreman at Elliot Frog
and Switch Company.1610,1613,1621,1623 At that
time East St. Louis, Illinois, was second
only to Chicago as a railroad freight center,
and Elliot made crossing track sections
(“frogs”) and switches for those railways.
(The crossing sections had the appearance
of a stretched out frog.) In the early 1900s
the city was an industrial giant, but white
workers were competing with Black job
seekers moving north, and business, union,
and political leaders felt threatened by the
influx. Elliot Frog and Switch was the site
of a failed strike, one of several labor
conflicts that preceded the race riot of the
summer of 1917, when dozens of Black
citizens were killed.1624
A railroad “frog,” in East St. Louis, near the
By 1940, George was no longer able to
site of Elliot Frog and Switch Company (2010).
work;1625 and on 7 July 1948 he died in East
St. Louis.1626 Anna Margaret had died in the
city two years earlier, on 13 March 1946.1627 The couple share a common stone in Holy
Cross Cemetery, Fairview Heights, Illinois.1628
Anna and George had five children, all born in Illinois (presumably in East St. Louis):
Helen, Arthur Julius, Russell George, Marie Theresa, and James V.1613,1621,1623
Helen Richards
Anna and George’s youngest, Helen, was born 2 January 19021629 and was confirmed at
St. Elizabeth 28 June 1914 (when she was given the confirmation name “Elizabeth”).1630
About 1924 she married Raymond F. McCoy, and the couple made their home at 2611a
Ridge Avenue, just a little over a block from where Helen's parents, George and Anna, were
living.1631
Raymond (usually simply “Ray”) was one of five children of Mary A. Wuertz and Frank
O. and Mary A. (Wuertz) McCoy.1632,1633 Frank and all his known children were born in
Illinois; however, in 1900 he and Mary were living in Howell, Indiana, with Mary’s brother
Henry Wuertz.1632 Howell was a small Ohio River town settled by Louisville and Nashville
(“L&N”) Railroad employees in the late 1800s, and both Henry and Frank were railroad
brakemen. Frank’s job didn’t last long and neither did his marriage. Sometime before 1902,
when Raymond was born1634 (followed in 1904 by his sister Margrette), the family returned
to Illinois.1633 In 1910 we find a divorced Mary (with the “scarlet letter” “D” for “divorced”
entered and then crossed out in the census) living in St. Clair County, Illinois, with her five
children (a sixth child is said to have died).1633 By 1920, Mary was living in East St. Louis
with her new husband, Raymond T. Whiteside, three children from her first marriage
(including her son Raymond), and two more children from her second.1635 The home, at 518
Seventh Street, was just south of National City, a separate autonomous industrial area, where
the stock yards and meat processing plants were located, and where both Raymonds,
stepfather and stepson, worked.
Sitting at the Mississippi
River, the boundary between the
West, where cattle were raised,
and the East, where cattle were
bought, East St. Louis with access
to both train and riverboat
transportation was an ideal
location for stockyards. In 1872
National Stock Yards, located
north of East St. Louis, and not
officially part of the city, were
established. With the building of
the Eads Bridge two years later,
the expensive riverboat ferries National Stockyards, East St. Louis. (Ancestry.com.)
needed to bring animals across
the Mississippi River were eliminated, and the cattle industry took off. By the turn of the last
century the yards directly employed 1200 workers, with the surrounding meat processing
plants employing many more.1636 In 1920 the younger Raymond was a cattle counter1635 and
by 1930 he had been promoted to weighmaster,1631 weighing sold livestock, recording the
purchaser and price on each scale ticket, and stamping the weights on the ticket,1637 a
position he still held ten years later.1638
Helen lived the latter part of her life in Belleville, Illinois, a city 13 miles southeast of
East St. Louis.1639 She was residing there when she died in June 1986.1629 She is buried next
to her husband, who died in 1961, in Holy Cross Cemetery, Fairview Heights, Illinois.1634
Helen and Raymond are not known to have had any children.
Arthur Julius Richards
At St. Elizabeth Church in East St. Louis, Arthur Julius Richards,1640 born 23 October
19041641 and baptized 27 November 1904,1640 was confirmed 4 November 1917.1642 His aunt
and uncle William Wetteroff and Theresa Wehner (“Gulielmus” and “Theresia” in the Latin
record, with Theresa, for some reason, listed with her maiden name) were named as
godparents (“sponsores”).
About 19261643 Arthur married Ruth Juanita Evans, born in Indiana 16 January 19081644
(or 16 January 1909)1645 to Frank Orville1646 and Jane A. (Wardlow) Evans.1645
Frank and Jane, married 15 September 1908 in Daviess County, Indiana,1647 had two
children, Ruth and Charles J. (“Chester”),1648 before Jane died in her twenties, sometime
between 1910, when she appears in the Washington city, Daviess County, census,1649 and
1915, by which time her widowed husband had a child, Floyd Orville Evans, from a second
marriage.1650 Shortly after Frank was remarried, to Alice Lula Potts,1651 widow of Henry A.
Greenwell,1652 the couple moved from Daviess County, Indiana, to St. Clair County, Illinois.
There, in Centreville, where Frank continued as a railroad worker (he worked in a car shop in
Daviess County and as a machine hand for Southern Railroad in St. Clair County),1646,1649 he
and Alice raised five children (including Ruth), one from Alice’s first marriage, two from
Frank’s first marriage, and two more from his second marriage.1653
Arthur and Ruth had but one child, Paul V. Richards,1643 born 29 January 1928,1654
probably in Collinsville, Illinois, where the family was living in 1930.1643 Paul continued to
live with his parents when they moved sometime before 1948 to East St. Louis,1655 where
Arthur had spent his childhood. While living in East St. Louis, Paul married another resident
of the city, Helen P. Misemer, on 20 August 1949 in the state of Arkansas, which had less
stringent waiting periods.1656,1657 In 1950 both Arthur, a baker, and his son, Paul, were
working for Flavorite Products of St. Louis, while living in East St. Louis (at 2623 Renshaw
Avenue).1658
Ruth and Arthur lived out their lives in East St. Louis, Ruth dying 8 September 19701659
and Arthur, 17 May 1976.1639 The couple are interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, Fairview
Heights, Illinois.1660 By 1970, Paul Richards, had returned to Collinsville,1659,1639 where he
was residing at the time of his death on 19 August 1992.1654 His wife, Helen, born 8 March
1924, had passed away earlier, in May 1986.1661 Paul and Helen lie alongside Paul’s parents
in Holy Cross Cemetery.1660
Russell George Richards
Russell G. Richards, born 11 February 1910,1662 was confirmed at St. Elizabeth Church
on 18 June 1922 with the confirmation name “Robert.” The name “Russell” is absent from
generally accepted (but incomplete) lists of saints recognized by the Catholic Church. In
1930 Russell, still living with his parents in East St. Louis, was working in Central Shoe
Company in St. Louis.1623,1663,1664 About 1932 Russell married Nora M. Coughlin.1665
Born 27 March 1910,1666 Nora was the daughter of Irish immigrants Thomas and Hannah
(Fleming)1667 Coughlin, of St. Louis.1668 Thomas, who was born 26 May 1862 in Ireland, was
a teamster for Columbia Transfer Company.1669 Hannah, also Ireland-born, on 3 February
1871,1667 probably married Thomas in the United States since she traveled to this country
considerably later than he did.1670 Thomas, who died 6 April 1935,1669 and Hanna, who died
12 January 1950,1667 are interred in the same Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, plot in which rest
Nora and Russell’s stillborn infant (who died 18 August 1936),1671 Nora’s brother John M.
Coughlin, her sister Mary E. Coughlin, and several Fleming relatives.851
By 1935, Russell and Nora were living in St. Louis where Russell continued in the shoe
business,1672 eventually becoming a store manager for Stanley-Melvin Bootery, a shoe dealer
at 2864 Union Blvd., now only an empty lot.1673
Nora passed away 7 November 1996 in St. Louis.1666 Russell died 16 July 1999, a
resident of Florissant, Missouri, a St. Louis suburb.1662 The couple are laid to rest in Calvary
Cemetery, in the same plot occupied by Russell’s great grandparents Toussaint and Julia
(Grigné) Racine.851 Russell and Nora had three sons who survived childhood—Gerald G.
(“Jerry”), Thomas, and Michael Richards.1665,1672,1674
Marie Theresa Richards

Marie Theresa, born 20 April 1914,1675 was confirmed 14 November 1926 at St.
Elizabeth Church.1676 A baptism registry index, which gives no date, provides her full
name,1677 which unlike that of her brother Russell, was a splendid saint’s name, in fact the
name of many saints, requiring no change at baptism or confirmation. Marie appears with her
parents in the East St. Louis 1920 and 1930 censuses.1613,1623 By 19401678 she was married to
Edwin B. Jones, who was working for Monsanto Chemical while living in East St.
Louis.1679,1680 Born 17 April 1907 in Illinois,1678 Edwin passed away relatively young, in
December 1968.1681 At some point Marie moved to Belleville, Illinois, where she was living
in 1976.1639 She died 17 December 1988, a resident of Fairview Heights, St. Clair County,
Illinois.1675,1682 Marie and Edwin are buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Fairview Heights,
next to Marie’s sister and brother-in-law Helen and Ray McCoy.1634
James V. Richards
Born 4 April 1916,1683 James V. Richards was confirmed at St. Elizabeth Church on 18
November 1928.1684 In 1935 he married Georgia F. Green, born 7 March 1918 in Rockview,
Missouri, an unincorporated hamlet a few miles southwest of Cape Girardeau, to Adam and
Sarah Green.1685,1686
Married 21 November 1901 in Phelps County, Missouri,1687 Adam Clark and Sarah May
(Young) Green headed a very large family—ten well-documented children,1686,1688 plus five
more who died young according to secondary sources.1689,1690,1691 Fifteen offspring, born in
Rockview, Scott County, Missouri, and, to a lesser extent, East St. Louis, Illinois, over
twenty-two years! Even with one set of twins, that’s one birth every year and a half! And
Sarah worked part of the time, in her husband’s restaurant when the family was living in
Rockview!1686 Worn and probably weary, Sarah died in East St. Louis on 6 April 1935, at the
young age of 47.1692 Adam lived a decade longer, dying 16 September 1945.1693
With the death of her mother, Georgia and her new husband, James Richards, took in
Georgia’s youngest sibling, Charles E. Green.1694 Georgia and James, a packing house clerk,
were living at the time in Washington Park, a community just east of East St. Louis. By
1948, following the death of James’s mother, the couple was living in the old family home at
557 N. Twenty-seventh Street in East St. Louis.1655,1658 By 1950 they had moved to Holy
Cross Road, in the countryside between East St. Louis and Fairview Heights, Illinois.1658
James, who later worked as a shoe store clerk,1655,1658 and Georgia had four children—Carol
Jean, Ronald, Roger, and Marcia Richards.1685 James V. Richards died 7 March 1999
while living in Fairview Heights, Illinois.1683 Georgia died ten years later on 21 June 2009 in
Belleville, Illinois.1685 Their eldest child, Carol Jean, born 2 March 1936, died quite young,
on 12 March 1943, at age 7.1695 James, Georgia, and Carol Jean are buried in Valhalla
Gardens of Memory Cemetery, Belleville, Illinois.1695
Epilogue
Its economy gravely depressed, East St. Louis is no longer an industrial center.1696 Most
trains pass through the once-major railroad hub, now a collection of abandoned buildings and
dilapidated houses, without stopping. A littered field marks the site of Elliot Frog and Switch
Company, where George Richards worked. St. Elizabeth, the Richards family parish, has
been dissolved, its records moved to the Diocese of Belleville, and the building now used by
Missionary Baptists.
Raymond F. McCoy
1902-1961
Helen Richards
1902-1986
Arthur Julius Richards

1904-1976
Anna Margaret Wehner
Paul V. Richards
1877-1946
1928-1992
Lucien Osmond Ruth Juanita Evans
Richards 1909-1970
George O. Richards
1876-1948
Russell George Richards
Julia E. Racine 1910-1999
Gerald G. Richards
Thomas Richards
Michael Richards
Nora M. Coughlins
1910-1996
Marie Theresa Richards

1914-1988
Edwin B. Jones
1907-1968
James V. Richards
1916-1999 Carol Jean Richards
Ronald Richards
Roger Richards
Georgia F. Green Marcia Richards
1918-2009
Mary Theresa Wehner

In 1848 a New Orleans steamboat docked at St. Louis and discharged its passengers,
among whom were the first Czechs to arrive in the city, travelers who found affordable
lodging in “French Town,” not too far from the river. The area soon became known as
“Bohemian Hill,” a neighborhood bounded by, what are today, Lafayette Avenue and Russell
Boulevard on the north and south and Seventh Boulevard and Eighteenth Street on the east
and west. It was there, in 1855 at the corner of Rosatti and Soulard (now, Eleventh and
Lafayette), that the first Czech Catholic parish church, St. John Nepomuk, was dedicated.
The original small wooden structure was replaced by a brick Gothic Revival building
completed in 1872, and then enlarged and mostly rebuilt after near total destruction by the 27
May 1896 tornado that devastated St. Louis and destroyed much of East St. Louis. Only the
façade, incorporated into the new building, had remained from the church. St. John Nepomuk
is still used today, although it is no longer a parish church, and Czech descendants still gather
there for family events.
According to the 1880 census, at 1706 Rosatti Street (today, Eleventh Street), across from
St. John Nepomuk, lived John and Catherine (Koberich)1697 “Wetrovsky,” immigrants from
Bohemia, with their five children—John Jr., Lizzie, Frank J., Wenzel, and Charles.1698 The
Czech alphabet has no “W,” and the family surname was almost certainly “Vetrovsky,” a
known Czech name. John Hertwig, the 1880 census enumerator, had a good German name,
and a German could easily replace a “V” with a “W.” John “Wetrovsky” worked in the
nearby hemp factory, as did his 14-year-old daughter, Lizzie.
Just three years later, on
9 June 1883, John
“Wetteroffske” died at home
of a tetanus infection and
was buried in St. Paul’s
Cemetery.1699 The family
surname was now a step
closer to “Wetteroff,” the
name adopted by most of
John’s descendants.
In the 1900 St. Louis
census, widow Catherine
Wetteroff appears with her
son Wenzel, now called
“William,” living at 3825
Fairview Avenue, three
miles southwest of the
1700
Today, the Soulard (“Bohemian Hill”) area of St. Louis, with its French Bohemian Hill area. The
and Czech influences, is a tourist attraction. (2010) conversion from “Wenzel” to
“William” is not at all
surprising and, in fact, is expected. According to Thomas Capek, a historian writing of the
Czechs, William was probably first named “Vaclav”:1701
No name has caused its bearers greater discomfiture than Vaclav. Vaclav, be it
remembered, is one of the patron saints of Bohemia. An ancient hymn which
is still sung in the Catholic churches invokes ‘Holy Vaclav, Duke of
Bohemian Land,’ to save his countrymen from extermination. St. Vaclav has a
host of namesakes on both sides of the ocean. Somehow or other the
American Vaclavs are not content with the name. A number of the milder
malcontents have given it a German or a Latin form: Wenzel, Venceslas,
Venceslaus; the majority, though, figuratively speaking, have thrown Vaclav
overboard, assuming in lieu of it William, Wesley, Wendel, James, according
to the fancy of the bearer.
From the 1900 census on, the family name was “Wetteroff”—with one exception. John
Jr., the oldest of John and Catherine’s five children, went further, eventually changing his
name to “Wetroff,” a spelling continued by his descendants.1702 The name is sufficiently rare
that Wetteroffs and Wetroffs, world-wide, are traceable to John and Catherine of St. Louis.
Born 15 November 1879, Mary Theresa (sometimes “Mamie”1703 or “Mary Thresia”1704)

Wehner, in a ceremony officiated by Rev. Charles L. Van Tourenhout, married William W.
Wetteroff in Ste. Genevieve on 12 August 1903.1697 How the two met is unknown, but
Czechs and Germans shared customs, life styles, and, often, language, and in America this
brought the two communities together, particularly when the Germans were Catholic, the
predominant religion in Bohemia. The Wetteroffs, however, may not have been Catholics, or
at least practicing Catholics.
Catherine (Koberich) Wetteroff died 25 March 1907 of “senile disability,” three and a
half years after William and Mary Theresa had married, and was buried at Bethany
Cemetery, a non-Catholic cemetery.947,1705
Just a block from the Fairview Avenue house where William and his mother, Catherine,
had lived in 1900, William and his bride, Mary, established their home at 3828 McDonald
Avenue,1706,1707,1708 a still-standing two-story brick house. In St. Louis, William made a
career of bricklaying, as did his brothers Frank and Charles1709,1710 (though Frank started out
working in a hemp factory,
like his father, John).1698 By
1940 the couple had moved
to Lemay Township, just
south of St. Louis, next door
to their daughter and son-in-
law, Marie and Edward
Bakula.1711 There, at age 68,
William was still doing
some work as a bricklayer.
William died at Alexian
Brothers Hospital in St.
Louis on 16 December 1958
and was interred in Sunset
Burial Park, St. Louis,
Missouri.1712 (Though of no
import here, it was at
Alexian Brothers Hospital
that, in 1949, a series of
exorcisms were performed
on a boy from Washington,
DC, exorcisms on which
were based the book and
film The Exorcist.)
William’s widow Mary
Theresa moved to Cape
Coral, Florida, to live with
Marie and Edward
Bakula.1713 It was there on St. John Neopuk Church, St. Louis, Missouri. (2010)
February 1968, a decade
after her husband’s death, that Mary Theresa passed away.1714 The Wetteroffs left behind two
children, Marie Kathryn and Ralph Waldo.1706,1707,1708
Bohemian Hill area, Pictorial St. Louis, Compton, 1875 (Library of Congress, Geography
and Map Division). St. John Nepomuk is at the corner of Rosatti and Soulard Streets.
Marie Kathyrn Wetteroff
Marie Kathryn Wetteroff, born 20 December 1904, was listed as “Florence K.,” a name
never seen again, in the St. Louis Birth Registry.1715 She worked as a school teacher1708,1716
before marrying Edward Joseph Bakula on 2
September 1939 in the large, multicolored brick St.
George Catholic Church in Affton, a St. Louis
suburb.1717
Edward’s paternal grandparents, William (a house
and ship carpenter) and Josephine Bakula (yes, her
maiden name is given as “Bakula” in her death
certificate, though this may be an error), were born in
Bohemia (William, July 1830; Josephine, November
St. George, Affton. (St. George website.) 1834) and emigrated to the United States in 1847.1718
William and Josephine lived in St. Louis from 1860,1719,1720,1721 or before, spending their final
years together at 2018 Twelfth Street in the south part of the Bohemian Hill area.1718 William
(originally “Vaclav,” the name shown on his death certificate1722 and burial record946) died 28
April 1903 and Josephine, 30 March 1929. The couple are buried alongside each other in
Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery in St. Louis.946 William and Josephine had eleven children,
several dying young.1718 One of those was Vaclav Bakula, born 17 January 1866 and
variously known as “Vaclav,”946 “William,”1723 and “Wenzel”1720 (the first, on his burial
record, is used here)—Edward’s father.
Edward, born 20 March 1895,1724 barely knew his father, who died of pulmonary
tuberculosis on 4 November 1899, when Edward was not yet five.1723 Vaclav, only 33, was
outlived by both of his parents.
Edward’s mother, born Anna J. Blaha,
daughter of Joseph Blaha, on 12 May
1869 in Missouri,1725 lived for another
half century. Anna and Vaclav had
had two children, but only one,
Edward, survived past childhood.1726
The widow Anna and her son Edward
are found in the 1900 St. Louis census
living at 1708 Allen Avenue in the
southern part of Bohemian Hill,1726
just across the street from the
Bohemian National Hall, built a
decade earlier at 1701 Allen Avenue
by the Czech-Slavonic Benevolent
Association (Česko-Slovanksý
Podporující Spolek, Č.S.P.S). Anna
remarried, around 1901,1727 though
Edward remained her sole descendant.
Her new spouse, Anthony (“Tony”)
Cizek, who had lived at 1300 Allen
Avenue,1728 just four blocks away
from Anna, was also widowed. He
had earlier, around 1872, married
Mary Stuckel, who bore him eight
children, before dying on 1 August
1900.1729
Working as a draftsman (and an
inventor, having patented a
phonograph record brush 11 July As a draftsman, Edward J. Bakula did his own
1730 drawing for his 1922 phonograph brush invention.
1922), Edward lived with his
1727,1731
mother and her new husband
until Anthony’s death on 16 September 19241732 and continued living with his widowed
mother after that.1733 Anna J. (Blaha) Bakula Cizek died 4 April 1951 in St. Louis1725 and
was buried alongside her first husband at Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery.946 Anthony was
interred in St. Louis’s New Picker’s cemetery (an Independent Evangelical Protestant
Cemetery named for Rev. Frederick Picker),1734 with his first wife.1729,1732
We know little of the lives of Marie Kathryn and Edward J. Bakula following their
marriage. In 1940, immediately after their marriage, they were living in Lemay Township,
just south of the city of St. Louis, next door to Marie’s parents.1735 They later moved to Cape
Coral, Florida, where they were living with Marie’s mother, Mary Theresa (Wehner)
Wetteroff, in 1961.1713 Edward Joseph died there 20 August 1974,1736 as did Marie Kathryn
30 July 1992.1737 Marie and Edward are interred in the Fort Myers Florida Memorial
Gardens.1738 There is no evidence of descendants.
Ralph Waldo Wetteroff

Ralph Waldo Wetteroff,1739 born 27 March 19101740 and initially a St. Louis automobile
mechanic1708 and Willcockson Motors (a Buick dealer-distributorship) employee,1716 was
married three times. On 24 June 1939, Ralph W. Wetteroff and Mildred “Sue” (Susan)1741
Stanton applied for a marriage license in St. Louis County.1742 Mildred, born in 1911, was the
daughter of Edward P. Stanton, a sales manager for a coal company, and Ruth (Gannett)
Stanton, of St. Louis Missouri.1741 Mildred’s parents divorced, and her father died young, on
23 February 1929, of complications following surgery at the U.S. Veterans Hospital in St.
Louis.1743 He is buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery.
Mildred and Ralph moved to
Pittsburgh, where Ralph was a service
representative for Fisher Body Division,
General Motors.1744,1745 Mildred
reportedly died young in Pittsburgh 30
August 1963,1746 and is buried in
Jefferson Memorial Park in Pleasant
Hills, Pennsylvania, a borough of
Pittsburgh.1747
Ralph’s second marriage was to Sarah Charlotte County
Leah Gregory of South Carolina, the
widow of Simeon Doyle Lowe,1748 who
died in September 1962.1749 The marriage
did not last. On 3 August 1979, in
Charlotte County, Florida, where Ralph
had moved in 1970,1745 the couple were
divorced.1750 Sarah went on to marry
twice more, to Glenn W. Bayless, who
was living in Punta Gorda, Charlotte County Florida, in 19931751 and who died 21 December
1995, while a resident of Florence, South Carolina,1752 and to William Austin Lewis of
Redlands, California, in April 2004 (at the respective ages of 93 and 95!).1753 When she died
2 July 2007 in Florence, South Carolina, her obituary gave her name as “Sarah Leah Gregory
Lowe Lewis” but mentioned only her first husband, Simeon Lowe.1754 Her last husband,
William Lewis, was noted only in her name; husbands Glenn Bayless and Ralph Wetteroff,
not at all.
Ralph Wetteroff’s last wife was Martha Elisabeth Reline, who he wedded on 30
December 1983 in Charlotte County, Florida.1755 Martha was born 13 December 19131756 to
Edward A. and Grace M. (Anderson) Reline of Union Township, Belmont County, Ohio.1757
Martha Elisabeth’s first marriage, which ended in divorce,1758 was to Donald Hamilton
McMillen, whom she married 13 December 1913.1759 Ralph and Martha lived in Punta
Gorda, Florida, from at least 19931760 until Ralph’s death on 3 July 1997.1740 Ralph had lived
his last twenty-seven years in Charlotte County.1745
Martha continued to live in Punta Gordo until at least 2006,1761 but then moved to Tiffin
Ohio, where her daughter was living.1745 There she died, on 13 April 2010.1762 She left
behind two daughters from her first marriage, Margaret Ann and Lois Kay McMillen.1759
Ralph Wetteroff had two children, by his first wife, Marjorie Sue and Robert R.1745,1763
On 31 March 2010, Marjorie Sue Wetteroff, wife of Gary Hinzman, died in Columbus,
Ohio.1763
Martha Catherine Wehner
Martha, born 26 July 1880,1546 died of
diphtheria at the age of three .1764 Death dates Darling Little Martha
of 19 October 1883 (courthouse death
record)1764 and 18 November 1883 (Ste. This little lilly[sic], a budding lilly,
Genevieve Herald)1765 have been given. Blasted before its bloom,
Normally, the courthouse date would be taken Whose innocence did sweets disclose
as correct; however, that the Ste. Genevieve Beyond that flower’s perfume.
Herald was published on 24 November, a week To those who for her loss are grieved,
after the death date reported by the newspaper This consolation’s given:
lends that report some credence. Also, the age She’s from a world of woe relieved
at death and the death date given in the Herald and blooms a lilly in heaven.
correspond to the known birth date. The Ste. Genevieve Herald
courthouse record gives no exact age; however, 24 Nov 1883
the courthouse record death date combined with
the newspaper age does not give the correct
birth date. Though burial at Valle Spring Cemetery is shown in the death record, no marker
has been located.
Ida Bertha Ursula Wehner
Oklahoma,
Where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain,
And the wavin’ wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain.
Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers
Ida Bertha Ursula Wehner, George and Theresa’s sixth
child, was born 21 November 1884.1546,1766 The name “Ida”
appears only on the Ste. Genevieve birth record;1766 “Ursula” was the name she usually used.
On 27 November 1906 Rev. Charles L. Van Tourenhout, Ste. Genevieve’s industrious priest,
united Ursula and Lawrence A. [Alexander]1767 Baechle at the Church of Ste. Genevieve.1768
Lawrence, born 25 February 1874,1769,1770 presumably in Ste. Genevieve, was the
youngest of five children (Louise, Anton [A.],1771 Bernhart, [Regina]1772 Rachel, and
Lawrence Alexander)1773,1774 of August and Marie (Fallert) Baechle (German, “Bächle”),
immigrants from Baden-Württemberg, Germany. August, born 31 July 18281775 and arriving
to the United States in 1841,1776 had worked at times as a cooper,1777 farmer,1773,1774 and, in
his last years, landlord.1776 Maria, born 6 January 1831,1775 had immigrated as a very young
child around 1832.1778
The 12 February 1866 Ste. Genevieve County marriage of August and Marie was the
second for both.1779 August had had three boys—Francis Joseph, Augustin, and
Conrad1773,1777,1780—from an earlier marriage to Francisca Mueller, who was buried in St.
Joseph’s Cemetery, Zell, Missouri, following her death on 11 October 1865.1781 Marie Fallert
had seven children—Philip, Clara, Joseph, Charles, Peter, Henry, and Veronica1782,1773—
from her first marriage to George Falk, a German immigrant blacksmith and a Union soldier
who died 23 May 1863 in the Battle of Vicksburg.1783
On 22 April 1889 an estimated 50,000 people gathered at the boundaries of the
“unassigned lands” of Oklahoma in preparation for the opening to homesteaders, who could
claim 160 acres. Among those present were two sons of Marie (Fallert) Falk Baechle—half
brothers Anton Baechle and Peter Falk. At 12 noon, the Land Run (often called the “Land
Rush”) of 1889 was underway. The June 1890 Oklahoma Territorial census taken the
following year shows Anton living next to Peter Falk and Peter’s siblings Henry and
Veronica in Mustang Township (T11N R4W, Indian Meridian) just southwest of Oklahoma
City.1784 The census shows a 14-month residence for Anton and Peter, who had arrived in
time for the run. Henry and Veronica Falk, with 9-month territorial residences,1784 had come
later and would be eventually joined by their brother Joseph.1775
Oklahoma City, 1889, year of the Land Run. (American West, National Archives and Records Administration).
By 1900 August and Marie
(Fallert) Baechle had traveled
from Ste. Genevieve to Oklahoma
with their son Lawrence, and had
settled in Mustang Township.1776
There Lawrence worked as a
blacksmith, an occupation that
would be the foundation for a
future enterprise—Oklahoma
Wire and Iron Works. Family
members claim that Lawrence Portion of Plat Map of Mustang Township, 1905 U. S. Government
Survey Lot Report.
first lived a troglodytic existance
in a dugout,1785 a primitive, often subsurface dwelling found in primal Great Plains
communities. Lawrence’s sister Regina Rachel Baechle (shown with the name “Rachel” in
the 1880 census,1774 but otherwise going by “Regina R.”) had apparently accompanied her
parents. Around 1897 she had married Charles E. Brandt, son of Adam and Mary Brandt,1786
and the couple had also settled in Mustang Township.1787,1788
A 1905 plat shows 160 acres in Section 22 of Mustang Township owned by “L. Falk,”
probably Louise Falk, wife of Henry.1789 Why, in that sexist era, the land was in her name is
uncertain. In Section 21 was Mary Brandt, mother-in-law of Regina Rachel (Baechle)
Brandt. The map’s railway line was the Santa Fe, the transport of choice for “89ers”.
George Falk Philip Falk Within a few years of

abt 1825-1863 1848/1849— the 1889 land run, Anton
Baechle (by then,
Clara Falk
1851/1852—
“Bachle”), had become
financially successful,
Joseph Falk Mary Braun first as a saloon
1853/1854— 1891—1973 keeper. 1771
And then as
Charles Falk Mathilda Braun the owner and operator of
1855/1856— 1893—1970 Oklahoma City’s Saratoga
Hotel,1790 a three-story
Peter Falk Henry Braun
1857/1858— 1894—1960 brick building with terra
cotta trim,1791 which he
Henry Falk George Braun built in 1902 at 15-17 S.
1859/1860—1931 1897—
Broadway, just south of
Veronica Falk August Braun Grand Avenue (today’s
1862—1943 1899—1981 Sheridan Avenue).1792,1793
m 1891 Where did Anton get
Elizabeth Braun
Charles B. Braun money for a hotel and
1903—1978
1863—1946
saloon? Quite likely in
Laurence Braun
1905—1959
land speculation. In 1901,
the year prior to building
the Saratoga, Anton had
Marie Fallert sold a lot in Block 6 for
1831-1900 Louise Baechle an impressive $3500.1794
1865/1866— Edward Bachle The local newspaper
1903—1990 praised “Tony Bachle’s
Anton Baechle
1868—1904 handsome row of three
Virginia Goyne
m 1902 1910—1991
story brick business
Mary Cimijotti buildings.”1795 Anton
1870-1957 August Bachle continued his saloon
Bernhart Baechle 1904—1979 business, applying for
m 1866 1870—by 1880 licenses at establishments
on Blocks 5 (on Grand
Regina Baechle
Avenue)1796 and 24.1797
1871/1872—1959
m abt 1897 Ralph Bachle One of the locations may
Charles Brandt 1907—2000 have been at the
1873—1924 Anton Bachle
Saratoga, possibly for his
1908—1980 Budweiser Bar, “The
Lawrence Baechle
1874—1951
Swellest Saloon in the
August Baechle Loretto Bachle South.”1798
1828-1905 m 1902 1911—1981
Ursula Wehner In 1902, the year the
1884—1936 Leonard Bachle Saratoga was built, Anton
1918—2009 married Mary Cimijotti
Francesca Mueller Herman Bachle (whose last name was
1828-1865 1921—1961 given as “Smithe” in an
announcement of the
marriage permit,1799 but in no other place), born 8 February 18701775 in North Washington,
Iowa1790 to German
immigrants Frank
and Anna
Block 35 Block 22 Block 7
Cimijotti.1800 Both
Anton’s success and
his marriage were
fleeting. On 15
August 1904, “Tony”
Bachle, “one of the Block 34 Block 23 Block 6
well to do men of the
city” died,1801
leaving behind a
widow, who lived
over a half century Block
Block 24 Block 5
more, passing away 33
RR Station
22 December 1957,
and two children,
Edward L. and
August A.
Block
Bachle.1790 Block 25 Block 4
32
“Anthony” and Mary
are buried in
Oklahoma City’s
Fairlawn Cemetery
as are Mary’s Downtown Oklahoma City, c 1890.
parents, Frank (26
January 1831 to 28
January 1916) and Anna
(12 February 1849 to 16
November 1911).1775
Years later, Edward
Bachle, Anton and Mary’s
son, and his wife Virginia
A. (Goyne)1802 would be
buried in Resurrection
Memorial Cemetery
alongside Edward’s brother
August. Unusual for a
Catholic cemetery (or any
burial ground for that
matter), Edward’s marker is
inscribed “SOME WHERE
OVER THE RAINBOW.”
Responding, Virginia’s
Saratoga Hotel, c1903 (Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, 1903). marker proclaims “I WILL
BE THERE.”1803
Seeing Anton’s success, his brother, Lawrence, also tried the saloon business. On 15 July
1905, Lawrence applied for a license to sell liquor at 55 South Broadway, near the Saratoga.
The following year, he traveled to Ste. Genevieve to marry Ursula Wehner, whom he had
apparently met during his youth there. Lawrence returned with his bride to Oklahoma, where
the couple appear in the 1910 census for Oklahoma City.1804 By the time of the marriage,
both of Lawrence’s parents had died, Marie on 30 August 1900 and August on 20 July
1905.1775 Marie and August are buried in Fairlawn Cemetery under the name “Bachle,” the
name adopted by Lawrence, Ursula, and their descendants. (Ste. Genevieve newspapers
continued to use “Baechle” when mentioning the Oklahoma family.)
Following a short stint as a saloon keeper (until Oklahoma went dry in 1907), Lawrence
(whose middle name, “Alexander,” is given in an obituary for one of his children)1767 was the
founder of Oklahoma Wire and Iron Works.1785 Not only did his sons eventually take over
the business, but Ursula’s first cousin Felix Vaeth Sr. (son of John Joseph Vaeth)1805 also
worked there after Felix and his brother George moved in next door to Lawrence and
Ursula.1806
A huge success, Oklahoma Wire and Iron Works first operated out of a wooden building
at 208 E. Main Street in what is now Bricktown, the original site of Oklahoma City.1807 In the
1950s, Lawrence and Ursula’s sons moved the business to 5219 N. Western Ave., where in
addition to selling ornamental wrought-iron and wire products, they began selling chain link
fences, gas and charcoal grills, and other items. In 1973, the business moved once more to
2838 W. Wilshire Blvd. in the swanky Nichols
Hills area, and became known as “Bachle’s
By The Fire.” In 2003, the business, by then a
high-class enterprise, was sold by the
family.1785
Ursula died 18 February 1936, fifteen
years before Lawrence, who passed away 20
August 1951.1769 In Oklahoma City’s Rose
Hill Burial Park, a large “Bachle” main stone
marks the graves of Lawrence, Ursula, and
their only daughter Loretto M. Bachle.1769 A
plot immediately adjacent contains a main
stone marked “Braun,” at the base of which lie
markers for Veronica (Falk) Braun, half-sister
of Lawrence, her husband, Charles B. Braun
(a Ste. Genevieve native who she married in
Zell, Missouri, 3 February 1891, on a return
visit),1808 four of their seven children (Mary
R., Mathilda H., Henry, and Laurence, all of
whom appear to have died unmarried, in
Bachle’s By The Fire. (2010) addition to George G., August B., and
Elizabeth Braun, who are buried
1809 1769
elsewhere), and a grandson, Donald Fried, Elizabeth Braun’s son.
In addition to Loretto, Ursula and Lawrence left behind four boys—Ralph Robert, Carl
George, Leonard Lawrence, and Herman J.
Bachle—all born in Oklahoma, most likely in
Oklahoma City.1810
Ralph Robert Bachle
Ralph Robert Bachle,1769 was born 1
September 1907,1811 just six weeks before
Oklahoma Territory achieved statehood.
Ralph, like all his siblings, attended Oklahoma
City’s Central High School, graduating in
1926.1812 He served in the U.S. Army during
WW II, enlisting at Fort Sill as a private 11
March 1942.1813 After the war, on 21
September 1946, Ralph married Lucille Emma
Richards,1769 daughter of Joseph and Mary
Eleanor1769 (Becotte) Richards.1814
Born 9 August 1911,1815 Lucille had
worked as a stenographer in Oklahoma City
before her marriage.1816 Her parents, Joseph
and Mary, were born in a French-speaking
area of Canada, but spent most of their lives in
the United States.1816 Joseph had immigrated Lawrence Bachle plot, Rose Hill Cemetery (2010).
in 1877 and Mary, in 1879.1816 All their
children were born in Oklahoma.
Ralph and Lucille lived their entire married lives in Oklahoma City, where Ralph was
heavily involved in the family business, Oklahoma Wire and Iron Works. With his brothers
he served as an owner and manager.1817
Following the deaths of Lucille on 22 August 1996 and Ralph on 4 November 2000,
funerals were held at Oklahoma City’s Corpus Christi Catholic Church, where the two had
been long-time members.1814,1817 The couple, who are interred in Oklahoma City’s Rose Hill
Burial Park alongside Lucille’s mother,1769 left four children—Charles T., Juanita, Anne
Marie, and Karen Jeanne.1814,1817,1818,1819,1820
Carl George Bachle
Carl, born 9 December 1908,1821 graduated from Central High School in 19271822 and
immediately went to work for his father at the iron works, becoming one of the owners.1810
On 10 April 1939, he married Jean K. Perry.1823
Jean was born 16 April 1912 in Louisville, Kentucky,1823,1824 to Eugene Ayers1825 and
Hannah Teresa (Ahern) Perry.1826 Except for the 1910 census, where she is listed as “Hannah
T.,”1827 Jean’s mother always went by “Teresa” (or “Theresa”). Her family name of “Ahern”
is seen in her brother Hugh’s1826 WW I draft registration (which he clearly signed “H.
Ahern”)1828 and his SSDI.1829 Jean’s family was heavily involved in telegraphy. Her father
Eugene and uncles John J. and Hugh (on her mother’s side) were all telegraph operators (for
newspapers and Western Union).1825,1828,1830 Jean attended Nazareth Academy (later known
as Spalding University) in Louisville and after her marriage worked for Kathryn Lipe’s
children’s store in Oklahoma City.1823
Carl George Bachle died in Oklahoma City 10 November 1980.1831 Jean, who lived
another 14 years, passed away 17 November 1994, also in Oklahoma City.1823 Carl and Jean,
who are interred in Resurrection Memorial Cemetery in Oklahoma City,1803 left three
children1823—John Perry,1832 William Carl (“Bill”),1833 and Bonnie.1831
Loretto M. Bachle
The only daughter of Lawrence and Ursula, Loretto M. Bachle, was born 13 August
1911,1834 and like her brothers, graduated from Central High School, in 1929.1835 Little is
known of the life of Loretto, who apparently was never involved in the family business.
Never married, she died 20 June 1981.1836 Following a funeral at St. Joseph Old Cathedral,
she was interred alongside her parents in Rose Hill Burial Park.1769
Leonard Lawrence Bachle
Leonard, born 30 January 1918,1837 lived a long and active life.
He graduated from Central High School in 19361838 and married
Rosemary Eckroat around 19411767 Despite his position as a
precision inspector for Douglas Aircraft near Tinker Field, Midwest
City, Oklahoma, once classified as essential for the war effort,1839
Leonard was called to service, joining the U.S. Army as a private on
28 June 1945.1840 Rosemary has described that day:1841
I remember how frightened I was when I drove my husband
to the induction station at the Shrine Temple in Oklahoma
City in June 1945. In the back seat of our Rio Flying Cloud
our two-week old baby girl, Elaine, was in a wicker bassinet,
and our three-year old daughter, Rosellen, snoozed on my
husband’s lap in the front seat. The war in Europe was about Leonard Lawrence
over, but men with two or more children were still drafted. I Bachle. (Find-a-Grave.)
wondered what was in store for all of us in the coming months. I would soon
be both mother and father for two little girls.
Following service in the Counter Intelligence Corps at Sparrows Point in Baltimore,1842
Leonard and his brothers inherited the family business. In the 1950s, the Bachles decided to
change the focus of the Oklahoma Wire and Iron Works to grills and fireplace accessories
and changed the name to “Bachle’s Fireplace Equipment Co.,” which later became “Bachle’s
By The Fire.” In the late 1970s, Leonard took over the business when his brothers decided to
retire. He and his wife, Rosemary, operated the firm until around 2001, when they passed the
operation on to their daughter Barbara.1785 In addition to running the family business, over
the years Leonard was a member of the downtown Optimist Club, the Revelers Dance Club,
and the Young Men’s Social Club.1767
Leonard’s wife, Rosemary, has been at least as active as he was. Rosemary was born in
1922 or 1923 the daughter of William Michael and Mary Alice (Hall) Eckroat.1843,1844
Following work in ranching, farming, and real estate1843 (the latter carried on by his wife),
William founded Eckroat Seed Company, a family business since passed down to his sons
Arthur and William Jr..1845 Rosemary continued her mother’s real estate interests, managing
Bachle Realty Company while helping at the same time to run the family fireplace
business.1807 She is now an artist, poet, and author. Her book, Women’s War Memoirs, an
historical composition of stories of women who have served during wartime, has had a wide
readership.1846
Leonard died 3 July 2009, leaving behind his wife and six children (Rosellen, Elaine
Marie, Barbara Lynn, Mary Alice, Lawrence L., and Laura Denise)1847 and is interred in
Resurrection Cemetery.1767 Though no longer owned by the family, Bachle’s By The Fire
still operates on North May Avenue, and Rosemary often stops by. A stack of Women’s War
Memoirs, inscribed in a delicate hand “Memories are forever, Rosemary Eckroat Bachle,”
rests on a counter inside.
Herman J. Bachle
As did his brothers before him, Herman, born 20 April 1921, graduated from Central
High School, in 1939,1848 and like his brothers except Carl, joined the U.S. Army, enlisting
12 August 1942.1849 On 6 July 1957, he married Laurene F. Heitman,1850 born 15 March 1914
in Guttenberg, Iowa, to John and Della Heitman.1851 The marriage lasted less than five years.
Herman, the last born of his siblings, was the first to die, passing away on 23 December
1961, just forty years old.1850 Laurene lived nearly four decades as a widow, dying in 23
February 2001.1851 Herman and Laurene are buried in Resurrection Memorial Cemetery in
Oklahoma City.1850,1851 The couple had no children.
George Nicholas Wehner
Born 15 September 1886, George,
named for both his father and
grandfather, was the family’s odd man
out, living his entire life in Ste.
Genevieve.1546 (Brother August spent
most, but not all, his life there.) George’s
1917 WW I draft card shows him
working for his father at the flour
mill.1852 That same year, when his father
became ill, George took over
1541
proprietorship. and, when his father
died in 1929, he inherited the mill and the George Nicholas Wehner house, 290 La Haye Street,
land on which it stood. 1544 Ste. Genevieve, Missouri (2010).
On 14 September 1922, at St. Frances de Sales Church in St. Louis, George Nicholas
married Magdelin C. Sucher, a Ste. Genevieve girl who was living in St. Louis at the
time.1853 Magdalin, who nearly always went by “Lena,” was born 9 July 1891 in Bloomsdale,
Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri.1854,1855 She was one of eleven children of Peter Paul1856
and Catherine (Fallert)1856 Sucher—Joseph, Mary T. (dying of pneumonia at age sixteen, her
name, “Mary,” was used again),1857 Julia, Elizabeth, Theresa R., Nora Louisa, John F., Peter
Leon, Magdalen C., Anton, and Mary R.1858,1859 Peter and Catherine were married in New
Offenburg, Ste. Genevieve County, on 8 February 1875.1860 But Catherine, who bore eleven
children over twenty years, died young, between 1896, the birth year of her youngest child,
Mary R. Sucher, and the 1900 census showing Peter as a widower,1859 leaving young Lena
motherless. As a young girl, Lena lived with her widowed father in Ste. Genevieve,1861 but
by 1920 she was living with her brother John F. Sucher and working as a bookkeeper at the
bank.1862 On 1 March 1937 Peter Paul Sucher passed away1863 after living for a while with
his now-married daughter Lena, and her husband, George Nicholas.1864,1864
Profitability at City Mills was difficult. In 1921, under George’s watch, the company lost
(to St. Mary’s Mill Company) the lucrative contract to supply the County Farm (the “Poor
Farm”) with milled products.1865 By 1940, George was no longer a miller, but a laborer.1866
George Nicholas Wehner died 12 June 1977;1867 Lena, 23 February 1985.1855 Both are
buried in Valle Spring Cemetery in Ste. Genevieve.1503 The couple had a small family, two
girls, Alita and Wanda G. Wehner.1864 City Mills was destroyed by fire around 1962 and the
ruins swept away in the 1993 flood.1868
Alita Wehner
Alita married Floyd Donald Davenport in 1955.1869 Floyd Jr., who generally went by
“Don,” was born 20 May 1926 in Winnipeg, Missouri, the son of Floyd and Ruby (Myers)
Davenport, served in the U.S. Army in the Philippines during WW II, and worked as a body
shop superintendent for Chrysler Corporation in St. Louis, Missouri.1869 The family had two
residences, a home in Labadie, Missouri, and a farm in Laquey, Missouri.1869 It was at the
farm that Floyd Donald Davenport passed away on 30 November 2000, leaving a widow and
five children—Richard, Theresa, George, Mary, and Patrick.1869
Wanda G. Wehner
Wanda was married 7 October 1950 in Ste. Genevieve to William R. Schmitz,1870 the
youngest of five children (Gladys V., Evelyn Lucille, Mary Lee, Margaret A., and William
R.) of William John and Blanche G. (Tipton) Schmitz of Cole County, Missouri.1871,1872,1873
William served with the U.S. Navy in 1947 and 1948 and was employed for many years in
the rubber, chemical and adhesives industries, serving for part of this time as general
manager of the Ashland Chemical Inc. adhesives plant in Ashland, Ohio.1874 William passed
away 2 June 2012 while he and Wanda were
living in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, leaving
three children-William Mark, Eric M., and
Amy Ann.1874
John Joseph Wehner
A transcribed record of the Church of Ste.
Genevieve shows a birth date of 8 December
1887 for John,1546 but 7 December is claimed in
his WW I draft registration1875 and is also
inscribed on his cemetery marker.1876 As a young
man John lived for a while with his sister Ursula
and her husband Lawrence Baechle/Bachle in
Oklahoma City while working as a baker. He
was there in 1910,1804 but by 1911 was living in
St. Louis,1877 where he continued baking, his
lifelong trade.1878,1879 By 1912 John Joseph was
running a bakery out of his house at 4201
Pleasant Street and was lodging his brother
John Joseph Wehner, c1912 (Jan (Palmer)

Lukes Collection.)
August and sisters Josephine and Theckla, who had come up from Ste. Genevieve to seek
their fortunes.1593
On 4 June 1912 John was married by a St. Louis justice of the peace to Alma D.
Kieninger,1880 one of five children of Henry C. and Martha T. (Litzelfelner)
Kieninger.1881,1882 Born 14 September 1889, Alma was raised in Pocahontas, Missouri, in
Cape Girardeau County.1881,1882 In that tiny hamlet, her father, Henry, served at various times
as a wagon and carriage manufacturer, furniture store proprietor, and undertaker,1882,1883
before moving to St. Louis where he died at home of a brain hemorrhage on 10 August
1942.1884 Alma’s mother, Martha, who had been a milliner in Pocahontas,1883 had died in St.
Louis seven years earlier, on 23 May 1935.1885
Jan Lukes, one of Alma’s grandchildren, tells the following story about the photo shown
below of her grandmother in a large hat:1886
At our old house I had a bunch of old family photos framed and hanging on
the wall along the stairway. When our son was around 3 or 4, he came down
the stairs one day and pointed at Alma's photo and announced, “That lady
takes dogs!” I told him that it was a photo of his great-grandmother and asked
why he would say that, but couldn't get an answer. A few days later, he went
by the photo again and said, “That lady takes dogs and puts them in the basket
on her bicycle!” Then it dawned on us that he had just seen the Wizard of Oz
and thought that Alma looked
like Margaret Hamilton as the
wicked witch (they both had big
hats and dressed in old fashioned
clothes).
In 1916 John started managing a
bakery at 4220 Easton Avenue, while his
brother August ran the 4201 Pleasant
Street bakery.1594 Sometime before 1920,
John started his final enterprise, Wehner
Bake Shop, at 770 Lemay Ferry Road
(where it meets Largo Avenue) in St.
Louis County, with family quarters above
the shop.1879 Helping run the shop were
John’s wife, Alma; son and daughter,
James and Marian (often incorrectly,
“Marion”); and nephew Nelson Harlan
Kieninger,1887,1888,1889 son of Alma’s
brother William.1890 Nelson and his wife,
Helen, had moved from Chester, Illinois,
to St. Louis in 1939 and lived at 778
Lemay Ferry Road, just two doors down
from the bakery.1888
Working 48 hours a week, the four
Wehners—John (“Baker”), Alma
(“Clerk”), James (“Apprentice Baker”),
Alma D. Kieninger, c1912. (Jan
(Palmer) Lukes Collection.)
and Marian (“Clerk”)—were paid no salary,

but received income from the bakery
profits.1887 Nelson Kieninger was a paid
employee.1888 Hard work and cheap family
labor made the bakery a success even during
the Depression, when the Wehners handed
out day-old baked goods to others not as
lucky. In 1956 Wehner Bake Shop was sold
to Nelson who renamed it “Nelson’s Bake
Shop.”1889
Christmas, 1954, was a sad holiday for
John Joseph and his children. At 7:50 pm on
Christmas Eve, as Alma was returning from
Gethsemane Lutheran Church, immediately
across the street from the bakery, she was
struck by a car.1891 She died at Lutheran
“Wehner Bake Shop,” 770 Lemay Ferry Road, Hospital two hours later. The driver, James
c1940. (Jan (Palmer) Lukes Collection.) Tower, was suspected to have been
criminally negligent.1891
The tragedy left John a widower and his two children, James and Marian,
motherless.1878,1879 (A third child, born 15 April 1915, had died a four-day-old infant.)1892
John Joseph lived another six years, passing away 15 January 1961.1876 John and Alma are
buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, where Alma’s mother and father, brother William, and
sisters Lula Trower and Ella O. Kieninger also rest.1876 The Lemay Ferry Road building still
stands, but an empty lot is all that remains of the Pleasant Street bakery.
James Henry Wehner Sr.
John and Alma’s son James, born 6
October 1916,1893 lived out his life in
the St. Louis area. There, on 15
January 1941, he and Kathryn [L.]1894
Harper obtained a license to marry.1895
Kathryn was the only surviving
child1896 of Daniel A. Harper and
Genevieve Hart of St. Louis.1897 On 23
November 1890 a very young Daniel
(born 3 November 1887),1898 and his
three brothers, Millard Augustus (3
September 1886),1899 Edwin Orren (31
December 1888),1900 and Claiborne A.
(19 August 1890),1901 all born in the St.
Louis suburb of Webster Groves, lost
their father, Millard F. Harper.1902
Their widowed mother, Nellie C. Hart
(given the name “Cornelia”—used
only as a child—when she was born of John Joseph in “Wehner Bake Shop,” Lemay Ferry Road,
St. Louis. (Collection of Kathy (Wehner) Schuyler.)
Aloysius and Frances (Voelkner)1903 Hart in April 1868),1904,1905 moved in with her by-then
widowed mother.1905 Then, about 1905, Nellie married again, to Thomas W. Corley.1906,1907
Kathryn Harper’s mother,
Millard A. Harper
1886 - 1912
Genevieve, was one of seven
surviving children1908 of
Millard F. Harper Edwin O. Harper Henry Edward and Katherine
1850 - 1890 1888 - 1961 A. (Bennett)1909 Hart.1910
Katherine, who went by a
Nellie C. Hart Claiborne A. Harper variety of given names,
1868 - 1926 1890 - 1967
usually “Kate” or “Katie,”
Daniel A. Harper
had four additional children
1887 - 1932 who died young.1908 Henry
Kathryn L. Harper Edward, whose full name is
1919 - 1983 given in his cemetery
Genevieve Hart
1892 - 1938 record,851 held many jobs—
James H. Wehner Sr.
1916 - 1995
saloon keeper,1908 producer
Katheryn J. Hart of stencil ink,1911 Union
1878 - Fiber Company salesman.1912
Genevieve’s mother,
John Hart Katherine, died 4 August
1883 -
Henry Edward Hart 1913;1913 Daniel’s stepfather,
1868 - 1926 Thomas Corley died 11
Henry Hart Jr.
1887 - December 1911.1907
Katherine A. Bennett Genevieve’s now-widowed
1856 - 1913
Thomas Hart father, Henry Hart, and
1889 - Daniel’s now-widowed
mother, Nellie Hart, did not
Agnes Hart
1881 -
look far to find new spouses;
they found each other.
Marie Hart Sometime between 1913,
1891 - when Katherine died,851 and
the 1920 census, when their
1911 1903
relationship is shown, Henry and Nellie were married. Genevieve and Daniel were
now both husband and wife and step siblings! The strange marriage was perfectly legal.
Neither Nellie and Henry nor Genevieve and Daniel were related by blood. Moreover,
despite the same surname, the two Hart families, Genevieve’s and Daniel’s predecessors,
were unconnected. Daniel’s mother, Nellie Hart, was the child of German immigrants;1914
Genevieve’s father, Henry Hart, was born in Ireland.1912
While living with his stepfather, Thomas Corley, Daniel began clerking for Edgar Zinc
Company of St. Louis.1915 After he married and shortly after the birth of his daughter
Kathryn, his family moved to Cherryvale, Kansas, where, in 1920, Daniel was a
superintendent at the Edgar Company smelter, once the world’s largest zinc smelter.1916,1917
The job was short-lived. During WW I, the once ebbing U.S. zinc industry began expanding
rapidly as the U.S. was cut off from many outside suppliers of zinc, a war material, but at
war’s end, the bubble burst. By 1930 Daniel, Genevieve, and Kathryn were back in St. Louis,
where Daniel was working for the Snipen Motor Company, selling Studebakers.1918
Like his father, Millard, Daniel

died young, at age 44, on 15 May
1932, in Chicago, Illinois, while
residing (on business?) in Evanston,
Illinois.1919 Genevieve died six years
later, on 23 March 1938 in St.
Louis.1909
In 1947 James Wehner left his
father’s business to establish the
“Kirkwood Bakery” in Kirkwood,
Missouri, working there until his
retirement in 1970.1920 The circa-1890
building at 113 North Kirkwood road,
which still houses a bakery
James Wehner’s bakery, 113 North Kirkwood Road,
(“McArthur’s”), has been registered
Kirkwood. (Collection of Kathy (Wehner) Schuyler.)
with the National Registry of Historic Places as part of the Downtown Kirkwood Historic
District.1921
Born 20 February 1919, Kathryn died
November 1983.1922 James died several years
later, on 22 February 1995 in Kirkwood.1893 The
couple are buried in Calvary Cemetery in St.
Louis in the same lot as Kathryn's father and
mother, Daniel and Genevieve Harper; her
grandmother Nellie; and her grandfather
Henry.851,1923 Kathryn and James Wehner left four
children, James Henry Jr.,1924 Ann B., Susan
K., and Daniel G.1925
Marian L. Wehner
Marian’s daughter, Jan, has been generous in
providing information on her parents and
grandparents. Unreferenced information on the
Palmers shown here comes from her.
Marian L. Wehner was born above her
parents’ bakery at 770 Lemay Ferry Road on
New Year’s day, 1921. Her aunt, Lula Kieninger,
who was in nursing school at the time, helped
with the delivery. Marian, who appears in the
1930 and 1940 censuses with her parents,1879,1887
worked in her parent’s bakery as a “clerk”1887 and Alex and Marian Palmer, c1945. (Jan
“helper,”1894 although she was often unhappy (Palmer) Lukes Collection.)
about having to work when she could have been
out with her friends. Perhaps as an escape from the drudgery of donuts and cakes, Marian
became a rather accomplished pianist, sufficiently accomplished that her father bought her a
grand piano, a difficult purchase in the late thirties. Through music Marian met her future
husband, Alexander Drobnak Palmer. Marian’s piano teacher, who also taught art classes,
introduced Marian to Alexander, who had come to St. Louis to study art. On 12 December
1945, the two were married.
Alex, the name usually used, was born 9 October 1920 in Detroit, Michigan, to John and
Catherine (Filimon) Palmer. John had changed his family name from “Drobjak” to “Palmer”
when he arrived in the United States from what is today Yugoslavia as a young man. Alex’s
mother, a Romanian immigrant, died of pneumonia when Alex was only seven, leaving
behind three children, Alex and two younger siblings, Daniel and Eleanore.1926 Following the
death of their mother, the two boys were placed for a while in an orphanage—The Protestant
Orphan Asylum of Detroit—a common practice at the time when a mother died.1927
During WW II, Alex, a
U.S. Army Air Force gunner
on a B-24, flew at least twenty
missions before being shot
down and captured by the
Germans in 1944. He was kept
as a POW for six months in
Stalag Luft IV, a German
World War II prisoner-of-war
camp in what is now
Tychowo, Poland.1928 The
facility, which housed about
8000 prisoners, mostly
American Air Force NCOs,
was, like most camps, brutal in
its treatment of prisoners, with
inadequate food, shelter, and
An Alex Palmer Stalag Luft IV sketch. (Courtesy of Palmer Family.) medical treatment. The POWs
suffered from pneumonia,
diphtheria, pellagra, typhus, trench foot, tuberculosis, and,
extensively, lice. Alex provided some relief through
humorous drawings of the camp, on cigarette wrappers.
When the Soviet Army advanced from the east, the
prisoners were sent to another camp, Stalag 357, in a bloody
3-month “Black March,” 500 miles in blizzard conditions
during which hundreds died, both from the elements and
their captors. The POWs were in Stalag 357 only a week
before a second shorter march, which ended at the River
Elbe, where they were liberated by the Allies on 2 May 1945.
Alex and Marian lived most of their married lives in the
Chicago area. On 2 November 2012, Marian passed
away,1929 followed by Alex on 1 April 2013.1930 Marian, who
“approached life with creativity, imagination, and
compassion”1929 and Alex, “an inventor, illustrator, Marian L. (Wehner) Palmer. (Jan
cartoonist, author, poet, puzzle designer, humorist and (Palmer) Lukes Collection.)
original thinker,”,1930 left two children, Kelvin Marc Palmer
and Janet Jean.1924
Theckla Regina Wehner

Theckla’s uncommon first name (of Greek origin) also appears as “Thecla,” “Teckla,” or
“Thekla,” the last, the least uncommon, found in a Church of Ste. Genevieve birth record.1546
Here we use the spelling in her social security record1931 and on her cemetery marker.851
Theckla was born “Thekla Regina” on 8 June 1889 in Ste. Genevieve1546 and appears
with her parents in the 1900 and 1910 censuses for the town.1932,1592 By 1912 Theckla had
moved to St. Louis, like most of her siblings, and was working as a clerk, prbably in her
brother John Joseph’s bakery. She, her sister Josephine, and her brother August were living
at the time with John at 4201 Pleasant.1593 In 1913 she was still clerking in St. Louis but had
moved to 4368 St. Louis Avenue, where Herman Baumeister had his bakery and where Karl
Hilbert was a baker.1933
Karl (often “Carl”) was born Christmas day 1888 in Hollerbach, Baden-Württemberg,
Germany,1936 and came to the United States in 1905 as a 16-year-old, apparently alone.1934
On 31 January 1914 Theckla and Karl were married by Rev. F. J. Mispagel, a St. Louis priest
at Holy Ghost Church, 1901 North Taylor.1935 (The church closed its doors in the 1970s; the
building was razed in 1975.) In 1917 the couple was living at 3502 Cass Avenue, where Karl
ran a bakery1936 and where today (2011) stands the Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church.
Karl’s mother, Laura Krause, daughter of Valentine Krause and Anna Marie Heck,1937
did not follow Karl to the U.S. until well after he was married and established in business.
She arrived on the S.S. Noordam on 13 August 1921 under the name “Laura Throm.”1938
Karl’s father had died in Germany, and his mother had been remarried, to a Michael Throm,
who also died before Laura left Germany.1937 Accompanying twice-widowed Laura on the
voyage were two daughters from her second marriage, Anna and Maria Throm, Karl’s half
sisters. The passenger manifest shows that the Throm family planned to stay with Laura’s
son Karl.1938
Laura may have lived for a while with Karl, but she eventually moved in with her
daughter Rose (anglicized from “Rosa”), a child of her first marriage. Rosa and her husband
Alois Kling (an electrician) had immigrated to America in 1922, as a married couple.1939 At
the time of the 1930 census, Laura was still living with Rose, Alois (now a baker), and their
three children, William, Rudolph, and
Rosemarie.1940
In 1928 Karl, Theckla, their three
boys (Carl, Emil, and Paul), and Laura
headed to Germany for an ill-fated
visit. The family returned on the S.S.
Munchen, arriving in New York on 5
November 1928.1941 But before they
could leave New York to return home,
Karl Hilbert had died, on 8 November
1928.1942 Karl’s remains were returned
to St. Louise, where he was buried in
Calvary Cemetery on 12 November
The Hilbert family returned from Germany on the 1928.851 The cause of Karl’s death is
S.S. Munchen just before Karl’s death. (Ancestry.com.) unknown.
Following her husband’s death,

Theckla and her three sons moved
back to Ste. Genevieve, to be with her
father in his final days. John George
Wehner died 13 February 1929, just
three months after Karl.1545 In the
space of three years, Theckla lost her
husband and both parents. She and her
three boys remained for a while in Ste.
Genevieve, staying with her unmarried
sister, Genevieve, in the family home
at 360 N. Third.1943 But with little to
hold the sisters to the town, they rented
the house to Harold and Elsie Godfrey
(for $14/month)1944 and headed to St.
Louis, where they were living in
1935.1945 In 1940 Theckla, her son
Carl, and Genevieve were occupying
Hilbert’s Bakery, 4017 Jennings Station Road.
and running what had been Alois (Collection of Kathy (Wehner) Schuyler.)
Kling’s combination residence and
bakery at 4017 Jennings Station Road (often simply “Jennings Road”) in Pine Lawn, then an
unincorporated community in St. Louis County.1945 When Carl married in 1940, the two sisters
and the two younger boys, moved to the attached building at 4019 Jennings Station Road.1946
With an inheritance from her father, Theckla bought out Alois,1945 and she, Carl, Emil,
Paul, and Genevieve, became owners and operators of the Jennings Road bakery, which they
named “Hilbert’s Bakery”1947 Older St. Louis residents still exalt the enterprise:1948
Every Saturday we would buy Cheese cake at Hilberts Bakery on Jennings
road and it was totally different then todays Cheese Cake. It was in sheets
about 1/4 inch high and cut on a rectangle.
We went to the Little Playhouse Dancing School on Jennings Road and there
was a wonderful little bakery - Hilberts - where you could buy little squares of
coffee cake - peanut, cheese and crumb for only 15c a square. Wonderful.
This was in the forties and fifties, of course.
Theckla died 20 April 1976, almost a half century after her husband’s untimely death.1931
She is buried with Karl in St. Louis’s Calvary Cemetery, in the same plot as John C. Hilbert
(an infant grandson), Laura (Krause) Throm, Genevieve Wehner, and Anna Buchmueller
(Anna Throm’s married name).851 Inseparable in death, as they often were in life, Theckla
and Genevieve share a marker.1923
Despite its popularity, the bakery met the fate of many small businesses, closing its doors
in 1982, after roughly 42 years as Hilbert’s Bakery.1949 Today, the building houses a child
care facility. The adjacent parking lot is a playground. The white letters proclaiming
“HILBERT’S BAKERY” have disappeared beneath a layer of paint. The aroma of yeast and
dough have drifted away. The clatter of baking pans and whoosh of mixers have been
replaced by the shouts and laugher of children.
Carl G. Hilbert
The oldest of the three boys, Carl G., born 16
September 1915 in St. Louis,1950 probably met
his wife-to-be, Edna E. Figge, a Ste. Genevieve
girl (born 5 June 1916),1951 when Theckla
returned to her childhood home following the
death of her husband, Karl. In 1930, Carl appears
in the Ste. Genevieve census with his mother,
siblings, and aunt Genevieve.1943 The same year
Edna was living on a farm just outside of town
with her parents, George A. and Mary A.
(Otte)1952 Figge.1953 Carl and Edna were married
in Ste. Genevieve on 7 October 19401954 and
began married life living at the 4017 Jennings
Station Road bakery.1955
Carl served in the U.S. Navy during WW II
Emil, Carl, and Paul Hilbert at their bakery. as (of course) a baker, “BKR3,” (Baker 3rd
(Collection of Kathy (Wehner) Schuyler.)
Class),904 returning to civilian baking at war’s
end. Carl and Edna eventually moved to 1716 Muriel Drive, allowing Emil to move into the
4017 Jennings building.1947 Carl died 24 September 1999;1950 Edna, 25 April 2009.1951 The
couple are buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery.904
Carl and Edna had four children, John C. Hilbert (who died as an infant1955 and is buried
with his grandparents Karl and Theckla851), Michael, Thomas, and Ann.1956
Emil Joseph Hilbert
Born 28 November 1921 in St. Louis,1941
and living for a while in Ste. Genevieve with
his mother and Aunt Genevieve, Emil joined
in the family bakery business with his brothers
and mother.1703 In 1965 in Florissant,
Missouri, he married Dolores Mary
Hubecky,1957 a St. Louis girl born 4 April
19291958 to William F. and Mary Anna
(Zykan) Hubecky.1959,1960
During WW II Emil served as a SeaBee,
seaman 2nd class.1957,1961 In 1982, after retiring
from baking, Emil and Dolores moved to
Cherokee Village, a resort and retirement
community in Sharp County, Arkansas, in the
Ozarks.1957 On 18 October 2004, Emil passed
away at the St. Bernards Regional Medical
Center in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Dolores
survived him by just two months, dying 24
December 2004.1958 The couple left two Emil and Dolores (Hubecky) Hilbert.
children, Steven Hilbert and Amy M. (Collection of Kathy (Wehner) Schuyler.)
Hilbert.1957
Paul Hilbert
The youngest brother, Paul was born in St. Louis.1941 Like his brothers, he lived for a
short time with his aunt and mother in Ste. Genevieve before moving back to St. Louis to
finish his schooling and then to join his mother and brothers in operating Hilbert’s
Bakery.1943 Paul married (Mildred) and moved to 6208 Sexton Place, just a block from the
bakery.1947
August Peter Wehner
August Peter Wehner, born 18 July 1891,1546 the youngest boy in the family, spent most
of his life in Ste. Genevieve. But he did venture a while in St. Louis, where he was living in
1910 with his sister Clara and her husband, working as a grocery clerk.1550 In 1912 and 1913,
still in St. Louis, he resided with his brother John (in 1912, joined by his sisters Josephine
and Theckla), continuing to work as a clerk.1593,1962 In 1916 and 1917 August managed his
brother John’s bakery at 4201 Pleasant Street in St. Louis.1594,1963 John is said by family
members to have taught August the bakery business: mixing, proofing, caramelizing, fluting,
blanching; the sound of a mixer near completion; and, most important, how to make a buck.
It was in St. Louis that
August met his wife to be,
Marguerite Katherine Wilhelm.
Marguerite was born in St.
Louis on 26 August 1893 to
John P. and Caroline
(Fischer)1964 Wilhelm,1965 the
latter nearly always going by
“Lena.” John Wilhelm was a St.
Louis baker,1966,1967,1968 as were
his three brothers,1969 Lorenz
Wilhelm Brothers vans, c 1900. (Kathy (Wehner) Schuyler.)
(“Lawrence,” “Laurence”),1970
Christian,1971 and Francis
(“Frank”),1972 and his father Lawrence (“Laurence,” “Lorenz,” “Lorence”),1973 and as would
be his son Robert.1974 The brothers had started their bakery, at 1855 O’Fallon Street in St. Louis in
1891.1975
Marguerite and August were wed by Father Vincent Schrempp at St. Anthony Catholic
Church in St. Louis, on 24 August
1915,1976,1977,1978 and resided there long
enough for the birth of their first child
in 1916,1979 but by 1918, when their
second was born, the couple were back
in August’s home town, Ste.
Genevieve, where they owned and
occupied the old Nicholas Wehner
house, at 268 N. Main
Street.1980,1981,1982
“Augie” (sometimes “Big Augie”
Fair Play, 27 Aug 1921, p. 8. to distinguish him from his son) was a
multifaceted businessman. In 1920 he was working as an engineer for his brother George at
City Mills.1980 In 1921 he bought the G. H. Arthur bakery on Main Street,1983 converting it to
“Wehner’s Bakery,” where he baked for many years.1981 By 1940 he was a contracting
carpenter.1982 August served as a director and secretary of the Ste. Genevieve Savings and
Loan Association, represented the Second Ward as City Alderman for several terms, and was
a member of the Public School Board and the Ste. Genevieve Fire Department.1984 For a
couple of years during WW II he had a most unusual job. He was a fireman at the
Weingarten internment camp for Italian POWs.1985
Augie died at the Jefferson County Hospital on 31 July 1966;1984 Marguerite, in Ste.
Genevieve, on 22 May 1980.1976 The couple are interred with a single marker in Ste.
Genevieve’s Valle Spring Cemetery.1503 Augie and Marguerite left six children, five boys
and a girl: August George, Gilbert Louis, Joseph Robert, William John, Lawrence Leonard,
and Marguerite.1980,1981
August Peter Wehner Family, 1938. L to R: Lawrence Leonard, William John, August Peter, Joseph Robert,
Marguerite, Marguerite (Wilhelm), Gilbert Louis, August George. (Collection of Kathy (Wehner) Schuyler.)
August George Wehner
Augie (“little Augie”) was born 20 September 1916 in St. Louis1979 but within a year or
two he was in Ste. Genevieve, where he lived the rest of his life. On 3 January 1942, August
and Katherine (“Catherine”) R. Yeager were married at the Church of Ste. Genevieve.1986
Katherine, born 28 July 1918, was one of three children of John P. Yeager, a St. Louis
brewery worker, and Mary Ann (“Mamie”) Yeager.1987,1988 Little Augie became an
electrician,1982 a job that now seems ominous. Two of his brothers, William and Lawrence,
pursuing similar careers, would die in work-related accidents.
Katherine passed away on 6 January 1990, and George, the following year, on 7 July
1991, both in Ste. Genevieve.1979,1988 They are interred at Valle Spring Cemetery.1503 The
couple left two children, George A. Wehner and Nicholas V. Wehner.1979,1988
Gilbert Louis Wehner
The life of Gilbert Louis Wehner is detailed in his obituary.1989 Gilbert was born on April
1, 1918 in Ste. Genevieve and graduated as valedictorian from Ste Genevieve High School in
1935. In 1939 he graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a bachelor’s
degree in electrical engineering. He then moved to Dayton, Ohio, to work as an engineer at
Wright Field, and there he met his future wife, Jean Sundgaard.
Jean, a Minnesota girl was working at Wright
Field in 1946.1990 Her mother, Ida W. Anderson,1991
was of Swedish descent; her father, Amos O.
Sundgaard, a farmer, was second-generation
Norwegian.1992
Gilbert served in the Army Air Force from 1943
to 1946. It was at the end of this term that he married
Jean. He then enlisted in the newly formed U.S. Air
Force, serving 1951 to 1953 and rising to the rank of
Captain. He worked as a civilian for the Air Force at
Wright Patterson Air Force Base, helping develop
electronic applications including aircraft navigation
and communications systems. In 1962 he and his
family moved to Orange County, California, where
Gilbert Louis Wehner
Gilbert worked at North American Rockwell in
Downey, California, on the Apollo project. In the 1970s he returned to work for the Air
Force in Bedford, Massachusetts. He completed his aerospace career at Northrop in
Inglewood, California.
In 1986, Gilbert retired in Oxnard, California, with his wife, Jean. It was there that he
died on 21 April 2010 and is interred at the Santa Clara Cemetery. He left a wife and six
children, Stephen, Michael, Teresa, Mary, Loretta, and Joan Wehner.
Joseph Robert Wehner
Born 17 December 1919 in Ste. Genevieve, Joseph Wehner, like his brothers Gilbert and
William, served in WW II. On 13 August 1942 he enlisted at Jefferson Barracks as a private
in the U.S. Army.1993 During the height of the war, on 12 September 1944 at Sacred Heart
Church in Ozora, he married Argena R. Palmer, one of twelve children living to
adulthood1994 of William M. and Mary Magdalena (Schweigert)1995 Palmer, a farm couple in
Beauvais Township, Ste. Genevieve County.1996 Following the war Joseph started a bakery in
Festus, Missouri, with the help of his dad, August Peter, but owing to illness sold the
business to his brother-in-law “Fred” (Wilfred) Bauman (husband of Marguerite Wehner).1997
When Joseph got better he founded a bakery in Mexico, Missouri, but moved to Lebanon in
1962 because Mexico had no Catholic School. In Lebanon he started Wehner’s Bakery,
which is still operated by his
descendants today.*
Joseph passed away on 18
November 1986 and rests in Calvary
Catholic Cemetery, Lebanon,
1998
Missouri. Joseph and Argena had
10 children: Robert J., Thomas,
John, JoAnn, Kathy, Charles F.,
Ronald R., Patrick, Mark, and
Nancy. With the exception of
Charles, who died as a child, all are
living today (2011).1999
William John Wehner
William, born 17 September 1921
in Ste. Genevieve,2000 served with the
U.S. Marines in WW II, participating
in the recapture of Guam, for which
he received a Silver Star for
extraordinary gallantry and for taking Wehner’s Bakery, Lebanon, Missouri (2010).
part in several other Pacific island
invasions.2001 Following the war,
on 2 October 1948 at St. Joseph’s
Catholic Church, Zell, Missouri,
he married Elizabeth R. (“Betty”)
Kettinger.2002 Elizabeth was the
youngest of eight children of
Meinrad J. and Catherine V.
(Roth) Kettinger,2003 who farmed
in Ste. Genevieve County.2004
William went to work as a lineman
for Citizens Electrical Company of
Ste. Genevieve, a regrettable
choice of careers. On 5 April 1958
while repairing a storm-damaged
electrical line near Brewer in Perry
County, Missouri, he was
electrocuted, dying in the Perry
County Memorial Hospital.2000,2001
Elizabeth, a widow for almost
Gilbert, Joseph, and William Wehner.
(Collection of Kathy (Wehner) Schuyler.) forty years, passed away on 26
March 1995.2005 The couple, who
*
In 2010, Kathy (Wehner) Schuyler, Joseph and Argena’s daughter, invited me to a Wehner reunion in
Lebanon, Missouri. I jumped at the chance. Not only did I meet the Lorenz Wehner side of the family, I was
inundated by Kathy with information and copies of documents and photos. R.E.T
left two children, Paul William and David,2001 are interred in Valle Spring Cemetery.1503
Paul William, who like his father was an electrician, passed away in Perry County,
Missouri, on 13 October 2012, leaving a wife and five children.2006
Lawrence Leonard Wehner
Born 20 December 1923 in Ste. Genevieve,2007 Lawrence Leonard1989 became a Merchant
Marine,2008 giving the Air Force, Army, Marines, and Merchant Marines each a son of
August and Marguerite Wehner. On 12 June 1948 at the Church of Ste. Genevieve, Lawrence
wed Theola A. (“Tootie”) Rottler,2009 daughter of August H. and Rose C. (Kuehn) Rottler.2010
(August was a great nephew of Valentine Rottler, Ste. Genevieve’s exalted biermeister.) The
couple lived out their lives in Ste. Genevieve.2007
Like his brother William, Lawrence became an electrician, working for Sachs Electric
Company in St. Louis,2007 and like William, Lawrence’s life was cut short by a work-related
accident. But electricity was not the assassin; it was a train. In a freak accident (as most
accidents are) Lawrence was killed when his ladder was struck by a train while he was
installing conduit on a St. Louis overpass.2007 Lawrence left a widow who lived another
thirty-two years, passing away in Ste. Genevieve on 24 April 2010. Lawrence and “Tootie,”
laid to rest in Valle Spring Cemetery, had a large family of nine children—Leonard
Lawrence (born 19 June 1949, electrician for Anheuser-Busch, passed away 30 June
2004),904,2011 Margaret Rose, Barbara, Jean Marie, Richard G., Ann Louise, Frank A.,
Annette Marie, and William J. Wehner.2007,2010,2012
Marguerite Wehner
Marguerite (“Babe”) Wehner, born 3 August 1929,2013 the last-born of August and
Marguerite’s children, married Wilfred N. (“Fred”) Bauman Jr. on 10 July 1950 at the
Church of Ste. Genevieve.2014 Fred, born 11 September 1927,2013 was the son of Wilfred Sr.
and Mamie B. (Grizzle) Bauman.2015 Wilfred Sr. was born and bred in Missouri, but Mamie
was born in Arkansas,2016 her father and mother had lived in Indiana, and the Grizzles were
originally from Georgia.2017 Wilfred Sr., born 12 January 1903, died 19 April 1980,2018 and
Mamie, born 24 January 1908, died 12 December 1981, are interred in Valle Spring
Cemetery, Ste. Genevieve.2019
Marguerite and Fred, who lived for a while in Ste. Genevieve before moving to Festus,
Missouri,1091 have had five children: Michael, James, Francis, Edward, and Caroline, the
last dying young.2013
Genevieve Wehner
Genevieve Wehner, born 26 October 1892 in Ste.
Genevieve,2020 never married. She lived with her parents
until their deaths1543,1592,1932 and continued to occupy the
family home at 360 North Third Street.1943 In 1930 her
widowed sister Theckla, who had moved back to Ste.
Genevieve with her three sons, was living with her.1943
The latter part of Genevieve’s life was spent in St. Louis
with her sister Theckla and her nephews Carl, Emil, and Genevieve and Theckla, inseparable
Paul, who operated Hilbert’s Bakery in Pine Lawn, in life, inseparable in death (2010).
Missouri.1703 At least at times, Genevieve was also an
employee at the bakery.1945 Genevieve died in St. Louis on 17 October 1976,1703 and is buried
in Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, sharing a marker with Theckla, with whom she had shared
her life.1923
Rosine Pauline Wehner
Rosine Pauline (often “Paula,” at times “Rose,” late in life, nearly always “Pauline”) was
born in Ste. Genevieve 29 June 1895 and like many of her siblings moved to St. Louis.1546
There, in 1918 and 1919, she worked as a clerk at her brother-in-law Karl Hilbert’s Cass
Avenue bakery.2021,2022 And in St. Louis, like many of her siblings, she met her spouse to be.
On 28 August 1919 Rev. George F.
Heffernan of Saints Teresa and
Bridget Church, united Pauline and
George Bernard Wolken.2023,2024
The Wolkens, who had settled in
the Benton Park West neighborhood,
primarily along Ohio Avenue, were
early St. Louis dairymen. George
Bernard’s grandfather, Herman
Heinrich Wolken, who always went
by the name “Henry,” immigrated to
the U.S. from Germany in 1863 and
worked as a dairyman for others until
1867, when he went into business for
himself.2025 Henry married Mary
Anna (sometimes “Margaret”)
Herman Henry Wolken’s 1880 house, 2800 Ohio (2011). Westerman, a German immigrant, 1
May 1867,2025 and following her 14
October 1882 death, married German-born Caroline (or “Carolina”) Brumleve (also
“Bruemleve,”2026 from German “Brümleve”) on 26 April 1883.2025 In 1887 the family built a
$2000 house, still standing (today a package liquor store), at 2800 Ohio Avenue, the
centerpiece of the Wolken community. (A date of 1880 has been given for the building;2027
however, a limestone inset on the front with Henry
Wolken’s initials gives a date of 1887.)
The oldest of Henry’s nine children (four from the
first marriage and five from the second)2028,2025 was
George Sr. (often called “Gerhard” or “Gerhardt”),
born 12 February 1869, father of George
Bernard.2029,2030 George Sr. worked in his father’s
dairy all his life,2029,2030,2031,2032 which ended early and
abruptly on 21 December 1917, when he died in
Jefferson County, Missouri, of undetermined
causes.2029 George Sr. left a widow, Rosa Anna, née
Bruemleve, and four children: Maria (“Mae”), George An inset on the front of the Henry Wolken
house dates the building to 1887 (2011).
Bernard, Joseph B., and Raymond.2033
Death certificates indicated that Rosa (“Rose”) Bruemleve (born 31 August 1871, died 3
October 1953)2034 and Caroline Brumleve (born 16 July 1858, died 26 November 1926)2026
are sisters, daughters of John Bernard and Marie A. (Klaas) Brumleve,2025 although
conclusive evidence is lacking. If so, George Sr. married his “step aunt” (no blood
relationship).
George Bernard Wolken (George
Jr.), born 6 April 1897 in St. Louis,
started out as a dairy driver,2035 but
by 1919 was a salesman for Pevely
Dairy Company, a position held
throughout his working
life.2024,2036,2023,2033 Following his
retirement George moved to
Seminole, Florida in 1961, living
there for four years before he died on
31 July 1965.2037 Pauline moved to
Zephyrhills, Pasco County,
1867
Florida, where she was residing George Wolken worked at Pevely Dairy Company, 3301
when she passed away in 18 October and 3305 Park Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. (National
1980.2038 Register of Historic Places, Registration, 31 May 2006.)
Rose Marie Wolken

George and Pauline’s only child, Rose Marie,2039 born 29 June 1922,2040 married
Clarence J. Tebeau Jr. around 1947.2041 Clarence, born 8 June 1923 in St. Louis,2042 was the
only child of Marie and Clarence Tebeau Sr., operator of a St. Louis cleaning
establishment.2043 The marriage did not last.
Clarence Sr. and Marie divorced sometime between
1930, when the family was shown intact in the
census,2043 and 1936, when Marie Tebeau married
Louis B. Braun in Hillsboro, Jefferson County,
Missouri.2044 Clarence Jr. and Clarence Sr. ended
up batching together in St. Louis.2045
Between 21 January 1942 and 1 October 1945,
Clarence Jr. served with the U.S. Marine Corps in
WW II.2046 He was with the K Company of the 3rd
Raiders, which conducted light amphibious warfare
behind enemy lines in the Pacific.2047 In civilian life
he had a much more peaceful occupation as a
milkman for the Borden Dairy Corporation.2041
Clarence died 3 January 2004 in Gainesville,
Florida.2041 Rose Marie spent the last years of her
life at Tri-County Nursing Home in Trenton,
Florida,2048,2049 passing away 20 August 2012.2040
Marine Raider insignia. (Wikipedia.) The couple left one child, a daughter, Gerianne
Rose Tebeau.2041,2050
Ohio Avenue, St. Louis (2011). At near left is the brick house at 2851 Ohio occupied by Rosa,
George’s mother following the death of George Sr. Paula (Wehner) and George Bernard Wolken
occupied a house next door at 2845 Ohio. At the far end of the street on the right stands Herman
Henry Wolken’s 1887 brick house. St. Francis de Sales Cathedral, diagonal from 2800 Ohio, rises
in the background.
Bier und Brot Joseph and John Wehner 205
Joseph and John Wehner

Joseph and John Wehner,
twin sons of Nicholas and
Clara, died as children. They
were eight years old in the
1860 census for Union
Township,1318 but appear in
no later censuses. In Valle
Spring Cemetery their names
are carved on their parents’
marker with the designation
“INFANT SONS,”1503
Sons John and Joseph are buried alongside Nicholas and Clara in Ste.
Genevieve’s Valle Spring (Calvary) Cemetery. “infant” being used at the
time to denote age of
minority. That Joseph and John died around the same time indicates their deaths may have
been from a contagious disease passed one to the other.
Pneumonia, dysentery, cholera, croup, typhoid, smallpox, and
“fevers” threatened Ste. Genevieve children. Particularly hazardous
was diphtheria, which spread rapidly through families and
communities, often taking siblings. In 1880 Martha Catherine
Wehner, granddaughter of Nicholas and Clara, died of diphtheria at
age 3.1764 In 1883 the Ste. Genevieve Herald declared, “The
diphtheria is among the children in town.”2051 In that year Henry
Schweiss had two cases of diphtheria in his family; “Mr. Jokerst”
had three cases.2052 In 1888 Aloysius Schwent of Weingarten lost
two children to diphtheria, in a single day.2053 In 1894 the Fair Play
reported, “Diphtheria is raging in and around St. Mary’s. Two
children of Mr. Robert V. Brown, Jr., died of that disease on
Monday last.”2054
Early Ste. Genevieve newspapers were filled with ads for
remedies—Dr. E. F. Garvin’s Solution and Compound Elixir of
Tar, cured “Without Fail” colds, asthma, bronchitis, and
consumption; Perry Davis’ Pain Killer, was the “most certain
Cholera care that medical science has produced”; Dr. Hurley’s
Syrup of Sarsaparilla, Stomach Bitters, Ague Tonic, and Worm
Candy purified blood and cured torpid livers, malarial fevers,
and worms; Dr. Seabrook’s Elixir of Bark and Iron was a great
tonic and appetizer; Dr. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters solved blood
disorders and “Female Complaints.” But despite elixirs, syrups
bitters, and tonics, sickness was common among nineteenth-
century Ste. Genevieve citizens.
Mary Wehner
Mary’s life was one of tragedy and triumph. Born 13 September 1854, she is said to have
started life in the town of Ste. Genevieve.2055,2056 At the time, however, her family was living
in Union Township (or possibly near New Offenburg) and numerous records show the
birthplace of a younger brother, Peter, as Weingarten, which was much closer to the Wehner
residence than was Ste. Genevieve. And, the Church of Ste. Genevieve has no record of her
birth or baptism. All in all, a Ste. Genevieve birthplace is highly doubtful.
Mary was not quite nineteen on 3 June 1873, when she and Martin Meyer were married
by Father Francis Xavier Weiss in Ste. Genevieve.2057 Martin, born 17 August 1841 in
Oldenburg, Germany,1503 was a good thirteen years older than Mary. He had arrived in the
United States about 1848 as a child with his father and mother, John Fred and Mary E.
Meyer, who had first settled in Milwaukee.2056 The 1860 census shows John, Mary E., and
Martin’s brother Bernard (“Bernhard”) in Milwaukee, where father and son Bernard were
millers.2058 For some reason Martin is missing from the census. By 1870, after Martin’s
mother had apparently died, Martin and his father were working as millers in Ste.
Genevieve,2059 and Bernard, also a miller, was living in Pike County, Illinois, north of St.
Louis.2060 We will see Bernard again (p. 213).
Martin made good money as a miller. On 18 May 1871 he loaned $800 to Bartholomew
Bahr, who farmed south of Ste. Genevieve, for a deed of trust to 35 acres of wheat, the
conveyance to be made void if the money were repaid by 18 August 1871 with interest.2061
The following year, on 7 March 1872, Bartholomew gave Martin’s future father-in-law,
Nicholas Wehner, a deed of trust for a wheat crop to cover notes totaling $132.84.2062 There
is no indication that Bartholomew satisfied either debt. In 1878 Martin served as trustee for a
$200 loan made by his father-in-law, Nicholas.1406 Martin was beneficiary for a $600 loan at
8% on a 10 October 1879 deed of trust for 191.94 acres, with his brother-in-law George
Wehner as trustee.2063 Martin did not live long enough to collect. His administrator, brother-
in-law Peter Wehner, signed off on the debt on 18 May 1925, over 45 years later.
In 1874 Martin leased the Beltrami Landings on the Mississippi Slough to receive and
forward river freight.2064 The lessor, Antoine F. Beltrami, was a commission merchant2065
and owned property adjacent to that of Nicholas Wehner and also along the Slough, an inlet
off the Mississippi River with landings, at the time, much
nearer to downtown Ste. Genevieve than the better-
known Little Rock Landing.2066 Antoine, who represented
Ste. Genevieve in the Lower House of the Missouri State
Legislature in 18702067 and later served as town deputy
sheriff,2068 may have leased his property to give him time
for politics. Martin kept John Kern (son of Mathew Kern,
who had co-signed a bond enabling Nicholas Wehner to
get his first Ste. Genevieve business license)1391 on as
“landing-keeper.”2064 (Later, John ran a lumber Fair Play, 3 October 1872.
warehouse for Nicholas Wehner.)2069
But Martin’s primary occupation was with Cone Mills, a flour mill built by Eloy
LeCompte in 1856.1335 In fact Martin and Mary lived in the house built by Eloy in 1832,2070 a
large stone building, one of the town’s finest, at 231 N. Main St., just south of the mill.2071,2072
By 1872 Martin was “Our sterling miller, Martin Meyer, Esq., of ‘Cone Mills’ notoriety.”2073 By
1879 he was mill superintendent.1335 A good job, a fine house, a well-connected wife (she was,
after all, a daughter of Nicholas Wehner), he had it all—then tragedy struck.
1936. 2006.
Eloy LeCompte House, 231 Main Street, home of Mary (Wehner) and Martin Meyer (later, Mary and
William Baumstark), in 1936 (Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey, Henry Le
Compte [sic] House) and in 2006. At the house’s left is Meyer’s Hotel (today the “Main Street Inn”).
At 11 am Friday, 16 July 1880, Ste. Genevieve was startled by a building-shaking
boom.2074 Cone Mills’ two steam boilers had exploded.2075 A smoke stack and escape pipe
were hurled a hundred yards up North Gabouri Creek. A boiler flue flew across Main Street
into Nicholas Wehner’s beer garden. Only one building (still standing today) was
salvageable. Mill engineer William Koenemann, husband of Louisa Wilhelmina Hauck2076
and son-in-law of Nicholas and Barbara Hauck,2077 was killed outright. Miller Valentine
Seitz, brother-in-law of Louis Naumann, was badly burned. Martin Meyer was severely
injured by flying debris but lingered. On day 8 after the explosion, the Fair Play reported
“Mr. Meyers [sic] has been quite low during
the past week, but the symptoms are
favorable for his recovery...”2078 Martin,
with favorable symptoms, died the next day,
25 July 1880.2079 Valentine, with “little
hopes … entertained of his recovery,”2074
lived another fifty years.2080
Martin was buried in Valle Spring
Cemetery beneath an elaborate stone carved
with a flour barrel and wheat sheaves.1503
The Fair Play published a poem “In
Memory of Martin Meyer.”2081 Following a
hiatus of only two months, the rebuilt mill
began operations 18 September 1880.2082 Surviving Cone Mills building (2010).
TERRIBLE BOILER EXPLOSION2074

Engine-Room and part of Mill Wall Blown to Atoms.
ONE MAN INSTANTLY KILLED!
The greatest calamity that has ever befallen our city occurred yesterday morning, about
11 o’clock. Our people were quietly occupied at their different places of business, little
dreaming of the terrible disaster that was to throw the whole city into excitement.
Suddenly every building in town was shaken from top to foundation., and a roaring, as of
wind, was heard. People rushed out doors to ascertain what was the cause, many
believing a cyclone was sweeping our town and that the buildings were about to be
blown to the ground. The news was almost instantaneously circulated that the boilers of
the “Cone Mills” had exploded. Throngs of people—men, women and children—rushed
to the spot, many of them having loved ones employed at the mill. We were on the
ground within ten minutes after the explosion. We found the engine room completely
blown away. Scarcely a brick was left, one on another. The boilers, two in number, were
blown completely to atoms, and the greater portion of the furnace and engine were either
demolished or blown away. The whole end of the main building, which is built of stone,
is cracked and shattered, with two or three holes in the side, and one corner near the top,
blown off. The wreck of the engine room could not have been more complete. The smoke
stack and escape pipe were blown some hundred yards up the creek; two of the boiler
flues were blown over into Mrs. Botz’s back yard, one of them striking her stable and
caving the whole roof in, and another flue was blown across the street into Mr. Wehner’s
beer garden. Debris of all kinds was scattered for hundreds of yards around.
But the worst remains to be told. As soon as the steam and heat would permit, the
crowd rushed in where it was known the engineer, Mr. H. Koenemann, was immediately
preceding the explosion. Here, amid the debris, a ghastly sight met their gaze. Mr.
Koenemann’s lifeless body was found, black and charred, with scarcely a shread [sic] of
clothing left on it, and the whole upper portion of his head blown off. He was carefully
removed and taken to his home, in charge of the coroner.
Mr. Valentine Seitz, who we understand, was in the rear of the engine room, was
terribly scalded over a portion of his body. He was conveyed to his home, where medical
assistance was called, and everything done to alleviate his suffering. But little hopes are
entertained of his recovery.
Mr. Martin Meyer was in the office at the time of the explosion, we understand, and
rushed out to see what had happened. and was hit on the head by the falling debris and
seriously injured. We are informed by his physician that his skull is fractured quite badly
on the back part, and that he received a severe cut on the fore part of his head. He did not
learn whether his injuries were considered materially dangerous.
Some few other persons were slightly injured, but none seriously. The great wonder is
that no more were killed. There were quite a number of wagons standing near the mill,
from some of which wheat was being unloaded, while the others were waiting their turn,
and many persons were standing at different points on the street, yet none of them were
hurt, which is the greatest wonder in the world. Several teams ran away, but no great
damage was done.
In Memory of Martin Meyer

By a Friend
Oh fondly we gather beside thee to-day
thy Form in earth’s bosom we tenderly lay;
But still, ‘mid our sorrow, one thought will remain,
Thy Spirit in glory shall blossom again.
Fair Play, Saturday, 7 Aug 1880.
Mary was left a 25-year-old
widow with three children and no
income.2056,2083 The offspring, Clara
Eleanora, August Guye, and Mary
Martha Theresa, were made wards of
Mary’s brother Peter,2084,2085 who had
to file a $4,000 bond, secured by
Nicholas Wehner, Mary Meyer, and
Valentine Rottler.2086 As “curator,”
Peter invested $500 (from insurance
or inheritance) at 8% interest over 5
years for the children in an 1885 deed
of trust.2087
Nicholas solved his daughter’s
income problem by hiring her to help
run his hotel,1411 but Mary wanted a
business of her own. In 1882 she got
it. On 12 October 1882, for $1000,
Mary purchased the south part of
Block 12 from Mauntel, Borgess, and
Company, the St. Louis firm operating
Cone Mills.2088,2089 On that property,
at 221 North Main Street, next to
Mary’s home, the Eloy LeCompte
house, was erected Meyer’s Hotel (the
name used by the owners, but also
called “Meyer Hotel,” “Hotel Meyer,”
and the “Meyer House” by others). Martin Meyer’s elaborate marker (2007).
Some say that the hotel was built
with Martin’s life insurance payout,2071 but Mary’s father, Nicholas, likely contributed, as
indicated by two 9 December 1882 Ste. Genevieve Herald articles about the hotel:2090
The opening of the new hotel on Main Street was solemnized last Sunday
night in due form, with a number of select friends in attendance to witness the
ceremony. Father Weiss had been invited to bless the new house and Grandpa
Wehner confided to him, that it had been his wish to have the hotel named
“Lafayette House,” but that some of his friends had prevailed upon him to
relinquish this idea and call it “Meyer’s Hotel.” As the company thought the
name very appropriate, it was adopted. Father Weiss then proceeded to bless
the new building, traversing the whole edifice from the ground floor to the
attic and followed by most of the guests who were eager to see the rooms. The
house may be said to be a model hotel building for a small town, containing
nineteen rooms, lofty, and just the size for comfort, well furnished, some of
them being almost too richly furnished for hotel rooms. That the cellar was no
less well furnished, was proved by the excellent old catawba with which Mrs.
Meyer gladdened the hearts of the company. May the new hotel prove a
comfortable resting place for the many weary travelers we hope will stop there,
and a source of profit to the gentle owner.
An opening night visitor, signing his letter with the pseudonym “X.Y.Z.,” provided a
more personal description of the opening.1411
I happened luckily to be a recipient, Sunday afternoon, to an invitation to
attend the opening of the new Hotel, lately erected by Mrs. Martin Meyer on
Main Street. The invitation was gladly accepted and, in company with several
intimate companions, I was promptly on hand at 7 P. M., the time allotted for
the introduction of this commodious and elegant acquisition to the City of Ste.
Genevieve.
Upon my arrival I was kindly ushered into its spacious hall and from thence
into the reception room where numerous invited guests were already
assembled, among whom we noted Rev. F. X. Weiss, Wm. F. Cox, Jules Janis
and lady, O. D. Harris and lady, Felix Rozier, J. A. Ernst, Dr. C. J. Hertich,
Jr., Valentine Rottler and family, John S. Whitlock-architect of the building-
and lady, Charles LeCompte and lady, Fred Bolle and lady, V. Seitz and lady,
A. C. Hertich and sisters, Henry Knamm, Chas. Boyer, the accomplished
young plasterer of the building, also Mrs. Menard and other prominent persona
too numerous to mention.
A few brief moments of conversation [unclear] arrival then Father Weiss
proceeded to bless the New and Magnificent “Meyer House,” as it is now
styled. Father Weiss operated his blessing in the parlor and then, followed by
all who were present, he entered and blessed every room in its turn. During
this ceremony all those present were allowed the pleasure of visiting and
inspecting each apartment in the house and were more than surprised to see
the elegance and convenience in which the house was fitted out.
The new hotel contains in all 19 rooms, large and well furnished with a
spacious hall, possessing in all its details, style and convenience, unsurpassed
by any hotel of its kind in the country, well fitted to receive the noblest Lord
in the commonwealth, in fact, can justly be classed above the average hotel in
larger towns that Ste. Genevieve. Much credit is due the untiring and
enterprising spirit of Mr. Wehner for its completion and adornment and I
predict likewise a brilliant future for the same under his zealous and business
like management. Although, I hear the principle management will be under
the direction of Mrs. Meyer, the proprietress, who is a most excellent lady and
will accommodate her guests beyond a fault. I can cheerfully recommend Mrs.
Meyer in this respect, considering that she has had experience with her father
in the hotel business. I learn that Mr. Wehner will discontinue his hotel and
will refer all his customers to Mrs. Meyer.
Before concluding I will state that the guests were most cordially treated by
Mr. Wehner and Mrs. Meyer, whom I offer my sincere thanks hoping and
wishing them all the success their new enterprise deserves.
X.Y.Z.
Mrs. Menard, who attended the open house, was Augustine St. Gemme, widow of Louis
Charles Menard, a First Lieutenant Governor of Illinois.2091 Among the other prominent
persons present were Jules Janis, a partner in Janis and Valle; J. (Joseph) A. Ernst, founder of
the Ste. Genevieve Herald; Valentine Rottler, owner of Ste. Genevieve Brewery; Felix
Rozier, a member of Ste. Genevieve’s French “aristocracy” and builder of what is known
today as “Inn St. Gemme Beuvais.” Also present were Valentine (“V”) Seitz, the miller who
had survived the Cone Mills exlosion, and Fred Bolle, a joint owner of City Mills.
The hotel, advertising “HEADQUARTERS FOR TRAVELING MEN” with “STEAM
HEAT” and “CLEAN, SANITARY TOILETS INSIDE.”2092 was an immediate success,
particularly among drummers. It didn’t hurt that Nicholas quit the hotel business, sending
clients in Mary’s direction. Mary made an excellent proprietor, business was booming. But
waiting in the wings was a young man, William Baumstark. It may be a disservice to William
to note that he was undoubtedly attracted by the established business as well as the
accomplished woman that ran it. On 10 December 1884 William and Mary (Wehner) Meyer
were married at Meyer’s Hotel by Father Francis Xavier Weiss.2093,2094
Unlike Martin, William Baumstark,
born 15 October 1855 in Oberweier,
Germany and naturalized in
2095,2096,2097
1889, was nearly the same
age as Mary, in fact he was a year
younger. But like Martin, William was a
German immigrant and had even
worked at the Cone Mills as an
engineer.2098 As was customary in those
days, William took over operation of his
wife’s business and it became
increasingly successful, though there is
every reason to believe it would have
been equally so under Mary’s
management. In 1893 a telephone line Meyer’s Hotel, now the Main Street Inn (2010).
was run from the hotel to Little Rock,
where passengers landed.2099 In 1894 William purchased the Eloy LeCompte House, used as
the family home and the hotel annex, for $2,750.2100 Prior to this, the building had apparently
been rented.
William had many ventures beyond the hotel. On 16 January 1886 Joseph Weiler and
William Baumstark began advertising their livery stable located one block west of Meyer’s
Hotel.2101 He ran a horse-drawn “hack” from the hotel, providing transportation around town
and meeting ferries.2102 And he grew wheat on “Baumstark’s Bar,” an agriculturally rich
island opposite Ste. Genevieve and subject to immersion by the Mississippi.2103
Ater 37 years in the hotel business, at age 66, William retired, leasing the Meyer’s to
Mrs. Amelia Lenenberger and Miss Isa James of Bismarck, St. Francois County,
Missouri.2104 The hotel changed hands Monday, 14 November 1921.
William and Mary had five children, all girls—Augusta Mary Theresa, Antoinette Marie,
Illma Olivia Theresa, Anna Helen, and Eulalia Margaret—Mary’s second family,2105 though
the first two did not outlive their parents. On 3 March 1932 William made his will leaving
everything, except some token bequests, to his wife.2106 But she never came into her
heritance. Just ten days later, on 13 March 1932, Mary Wehner Meyer Baumstark died in Ste
Genevieve of arteriosclerosis.2055 William died exactly three months after writing his will, on
3 July 1932, also of arteriosclerosis (and bronchopneumonia).2096 His estate was divided
among his living daughters and an adopted daughter,2107 Wilma Miller—child of his
deceased daughter Antoinette Marie (Baumstark) Miller.
William and Mary are interred with a single marker in Valle Spring Cemetery.2108
Eloy LeCompte2109
Eloy was born in Prairie du Rocher, Randolph County, Illinois, 1 December 1806, the
third of the three children of Pierre LeCompte and Susanne Barbeau. After his father’s
death he moved with his mother to Ste. Genevieve in 1829. On 21 August 1932 he
married Melanie Bogy, sister of U.S. Senator Lewis Vital Bogy of Ste. Genevieve (and
one of the founders of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad). After studying
medicine for a while, Eloy held Ste. Genevieve County offices of sheriff, collector,
county judge, probate judge, and treasurer, holding the latter job for many years. In 1855
he started construction of Cone Mills, which went into operation in 1856. After running
into serious debts (suits resulted in $24,226.78 owed to 22 different plaintiffs, plus
$135.85 damages), he sold the operation in 1870, moving to St. Louis. When some
undivided land belonging to Eloy was sold by the sheriff to help pay off the debts,
George Wehner made the winning bid of $6.50, which did not go far toward settling the
claims against Eloy.2110 In 1881 Eloy returned to Ste. Genevieve, where he lived out his
life, dying 9 February 1890.
Clara Eleanora Meyer

Clara, born in Ste. Genevieve 14 July 1875,2084 never married and lived out her life with
her parents (natural and step).2059,2083,2111,2112,2113 No record shows that she ever had an
occupation, and she appears to have had a limited social life (though she was a bridesmaid
for the 1899 marriage of Johanna Juliann (“Julia”) Wilder and Frederick L. Operle).2114 Clara
always lived in Ste. Genevieve, but did go to St. Louis to die, on 12 July 1930, of peritonitis
from appendicitis.2115 She is buried in Valle Spring Cemetery, alongside her mother and
stepfather, with them in death as in life.2108
August Guye Meyer
August, born in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 2 October 1877,2084 led a short, convoluted,
and somewhat puzzling life. His 5 June 1899 passport application states that he was a
“physician & surgeon,” residing in Ste. Genevieve.2116 The passport may have been for a
journey to Germany, where he studied medicine at Heidelberg (in addition to St. Louis).2117
At the time of the 1900 census, August was an unmarried physician living with his mother
and stepfather in Ste. Genevieve;2118 however, he soon traveled to St. Louis to continue his
medical career.2117 There, on 25 February 1902, he applied for another passport for himself to
be accompanied by his wife “Hella A. L. Meyer” born at Tauberbischofsheim, Germany, on
the 26th day of February, 1873.”2119
Between the middle of 1900 and early in
1902, August had married.
This brief declaration in a 1902 passport
application is our only evidence of Hella’s
existence. She has yet to appear elsewhere.
Her birthplace, Tauberbischofsheim, is
barely 60 miles from Heidelberg. Perhaps
August met Hella when he was attending
medical school in Germany. He may have
even married her there. August asked that
the 1902 passport be sent to “Mrs: Dr. Aug.
G. Meyer” at the Meyer’s Hotel, 3rd and Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 16 Dec 1911.
Hudson Streets, Hoboken, New Jersey. It appears that the couple was staying or planned to
stay at the Meyer’s, a well-known Hoboken hotel, with no known connection to August
Meyer despite the name.
August’s first marriage was short. In 1907 or 19082111 he married Alita L. Wiedmann,
born 27 September 1880 in St. Louis to immigrant parents, John Jacob and Betty (also
“Bettie”) (Nickerl) Wiedmann.2120,2121 President of the J. J.
Wiedmann Cigar Box Co., John apparently made a good
living, as evidenced by the elegant monument (bearing his
likeness and flanked by smaller stones labeled “Mamma”
and “Papa”) in St. Matthew Cemetery, St. Louis.1200
This was the second marriage for both August and
Alita.2111 Alita’s first husband was Benno M. Meyer,2122
whom she had married 1 May 1899 in St. Louis.2123
Benno, whose German name was possibly a diminutive of
“Bernard,” was a son of Bernard Meyer, Martin’s
brother.2060 He and August Guye were first cousins.
In the 1860s, when Martin and his father, John Fred
Meyer, traveled from Wisconsin to Missouri, Bernard had
stopped in Illinois. There on 25 May 1867 in Adams
County he married Clara Meissner.2124 The couple settled
first in Derry Township, Pike County, where they were
living in 1870,2060 and by 1880 settled permanently in the
village of Bethalto, in Madison County, Illinois (today,
part of the greater St. Louis metropolitan area).2125 Benno
John and Betty Wiedmann marker,
was born in July 18702122 in Carlyle, Clinton County,
St. Matthew Cemetery (2012). Illinois,2126 some distance from Pike County, where
Bernard and Clara were or had been living.
Benno did not follow the family occupation, milling. He was a musician, an occupation
first shown in a 1890 St. Louis city directory, when he was living at 1036 S. Eighth
Street.2127 Later he was listed as a “string” music teacher,2128 and he made music his
profession throughout his life.2129,2130,2131,2132 Benno’s father, Bernard, maintained the milling
occupation he had in Wisconsin,2060 eventually working himself up to boiler engineer for
flour mills.2125,2133,2134 But his was a tragic family. In his later years, Bernard was out of work
for months on end.2133,2134 Moreover, by 1910, all but two of his seven children had died.2134
And one of those remaining, Martina Meyer, was deaf, unable to read, write, or speak, and
termed an invalid.2133,2134
Benno’s life was also tragic. To Benno and Alita
on 29 January 1900 was born a boy, Alois B.
Meyer.2135 But Alois’s life was short and anguished.
At his parents’ home in St. Louis, 4314 Ashland
Avenue, on 1 June 1900, Alois died of
bronchopneumonia brought on by mirasmus,
protein starvation, from which he suffered for two
months.2136 Alois was buried in St. Matthew
Cemetery2136 in St. Louis, where Alita’s parents
were also interred.2137,2138 His marker bears an
engraved violin, his father’s instrument.
Benno’s only child was dead, as were five of his
brothers and sisters. His only remaining sibling was
an invalid. On 2 January 1907 Benno picked up a
gun, put it to his head, and pulled the trigger.2132 A
Alois B. Meyer marker with year or two later, Alita and August were married.
engraved violin (2012). In 1910 August left St. Louis to continue his
practice in Ste. Genevieve,2117 where he and Alita
resided in the family hotel, the Meyer.2111 But misfortune continued. On 27 January 1919, in
Ste. Genevieve, at the age of 41, August
Guye Meyer died of chronic interstitial
nephritis, a kidney disorder.2139 He is buried
in Ste. Genevieve’s Valle Spring Cemetery
near his parent’s grave.2108 For a while Alita
supported herself as proprietor of the Meyer
Novelty and Millinery Shop in Ste.
Genevieve,2140,2141 but she moved back to St.
Louis, where she was a nurse at the time of
her death, on 30 July 1928.2142 Alita died of
cancer at Josephine Heitkamp Memorial
Hospital, a very small (40 patients), private
hospital for women near Grand Blvd. and
Lafayette Ave. in St. Louis.2121 From 1908 to
1932 the hospital ran a nursing school, which
may be where Alita received her nurses
training.2143 Like both husbands, Alita died Alita Meyer supported herself running a Novelty
young, only forty-seven years old. She is and Millinery Shop. (Fair Play, 11 Dec 1920.)
2121
buried in Valhalla Cemetery in St. Louis.
John Martin Meyer

August and Alita left a child and a final puzzle. On 28 December 1908 in St. Louis, a son
“Meyer Jr Aug G” was born to Alita and “Aug H.”2144 The informant was “A. H. Meyer
MD.” Despite the wrong initial for August Sr., there is no doubt that the parents were August
Guye and Alita (Wiedmann) Meyer. But the only child we find in August and Alita’s family
after that date is John Martin Meyer,2140 apparently named for his two grandfathers and,
according to the 1910 census, born in December 1908 or January 1909.2111 The SSDI shows
a John Meyer, born 28 December 1908, died April 1970, with a social security number issued
in Missouri. The newborn was apparently given the name “August G.” on the spur of the
moment when paperwork was filled out, but was named “John Martin” after consideration.
About 1929,2145 John Martin Meyer married Bertha M. Westhoff, born 22 October
19062146 to Leo J. and Margaret E. Westhoff, a Kansas farm family living in Grant Township,
Crawford County.2147 In St. Louis, where John and Bertha settled, John worked as an
embalmer for the Louis H. Bopp Funeral Chapel.2145,2148,2149 By 1949 he had become
president of his own firm, Meyer Pfitzinger Funeral Directors Inc.2150
John died in April 1970.2151 Bertha died over two decades later, on 8 December 1991.2152
The couple are interred in Hoyt Cemetery, an isolated, rural, high plains cemetery in Morgan
County, Colorado, where Bertha’s brother Thomas Louis (sometimes “Louis Thomas”) and
much more distant Westhoff relatives are also buried.2153
Mary Martha Theresa Meyer
Born 3 October 1879 in Ste. Genevieve, Mary
Martha Theresa Meyer, who usually went by “Martha
M.,” was but ten months old when her father, Martin,
died.2084 William, her stepfather, was the only father
she knew. Her close friend, Lena Doerge, for whom
she was bridesmaid in 1897,2154 had also lost her
father when quite young, but to divorce (or
abandonment), not a mill explosion.2155 (In 1881
Lena’s mother, Bertha, separated from her husband,
was loaned money against a deed of trust by Mary
Martha’s uncle John George Wehner, who the
following year, forgave the remaining debt.)1533
On 21 April 1903, Martha was joined in marriage
to William George Naumann by Ste. Genevieve’s
iconic priest Charles L. Van Tourenhout.2156 William
(“Will”), born 23 April 1876 in Ste. Genevieve, was
one of fifteen children (six of whom died young) of
Louis Joseph and Sophie Rosalie (Hauck)
Naumann.2157 Like Will’s father, Louis;2158 his uncles
George,2159 Christian (“Chris”),2160 and Charles
Naumann;2161 and his brothers Christian Louis2162 and
Oliver,2163 William was a butcher.2164 But neither his
William George Naumann’s Monument,
career nor his marriage lasted long. On 7 April 1905, Valle SpringCemetery.
just two years after his marriage, 28-year-old William
George Naumann died at the Meyer’s Hotel of a heart attack.2165 With his unexpected and
early death, William was given a rather striking monument at Valle Spring Cemetery, much
more impressive than his wife would have one day, engraved “WEEP NOT HE IS AT
REST.”1503
Not surprising for a young widow in her twenties, Martha married again, but her new
husband did not match Ste. Genevieve expectations. Andrew F. Wilder, fifteen years older
than Martha and prosperous (his father, Peter, termed himself a “speculator”),2166 was
divorced!
The Wilders
Peter Wilder’s family was involved, ambitious, and gregarious. Perhaps the most
sociable was his son Andrew, captain and first baseman of Ste. Genevieve’s
Riversides Baseball Club,2167 and participant in Ste. Genevieve’s 1892 masquerade
balls at the Union Hall. He was costumed at one as “Lawn Tennis” (his future wife,
“Annie” Andre, was a “Tambourine Girl”)2168 and at another as “Trumpeter” (Annie
was “Nanon” from George Sand’s 1872 novel).2169
Another son William, after spending four years in Ohio as a machinist, returned to Ste.
Genevieve to found the mercantile house of Wilder Brothers, General Merchants and
Traders.2170 He was also elected county treasurer and state auditor,4 and served on the
Board of Directors of the Ste. Genevieve Brewing and Lighting Association.2171 The
latter appointment was not surprising; William was wedded to Sophia Rottler,
daughter of Valentine Rottler, founder of the Association.2172
Peter’s son Charles, a partner in the Wilder Brothers firm, served as probate judge and
county treasurer.2173,2170
Most adventurous was George, who traveled to New Mexico in 1889 to “seek his
fortune in the Wild West,”2174 returning to Ste. Genevieve where he became a junior
partner in Wilder Brothers,2170 organized the Ste. Genevieve Brass Band,2175 and
formed a group known as “Wilder’s Amateur Minstrels,” described in 1892 by the
Fair Play:2176
“Large and appreciative audiences attended the performances of Wilder’s Amateur
Minstrels at Union Hall on Monday and Tuesday evenings of this week. First on the
programme was the grand overture by the entire company, which included jokes, witty
sayings, etc. Messrs. Wilder and Stanton sang several songs during the overture which
were loudly applauded. Next came Prof. A. C. Abernathy in his original stump speech.
Mr. Abernathy has been on the stage in Union Hall before and the audience expected
something good from him and were not disappointed. The musical olio by Messrs.
Schoettler, Boyer and Stanton was next on the programme and captured the audience
by storm. The three named gentlemen are excellent musicians and their renditions on
the ocarina, xylophone, flagiolet, banjo and mandolin were first class and a rare treat
to all who were fortunate enough to be present. The entertainment concluded with an
Ethiopian farce in which Messrs. G. N. [George Nicolas] Wilder, C. [Camille] J.
Stanton, A. [Augustus] C. Abernathy, M. J. Thomure, Benjamin Boyer and R.
[Robert] A. Abernathy were the characters, and all acted their parts to perfection.”
On 1 March 1892, at St. Malachi’s Church in St. Louis,2177 Andrew had first married
Anna Andre, a daughter of Dr. Maurice and Clementine (Bernays)2178 Andre of Ste.
Genevieve.2179 The acorn did not fall far from the Speculator’s tree. With a socially good
marriage, Andrew worked his way up from clerk,2180 to steam boat agent,2181 to
“capitalist.”2111
The term “capitalist” may be vague, but that is what Andre was. Starting around
December 1883, when advertisements began appearing, Andrew joined his brothers William,
Charles, and George in forming Wilder Brothers, a large store on Main Street selling minced
meat, calico, fancy dress goods, foot-wear, music boxes, coats and wraps, sewing machines,
almost anything Ste. Genevieve clientele might need or want, giving Rozier & Jokerst, the
town’s other general mercantile, a run for its money. But at the beginning of 1890, Andrew
headed out on his own, buying property at Little Rock landing from Felix and Henry Rozier
for a very substantial $8000.2182 Two miles north of Ste. Genevieve, White Rock became the
major steamboat landing when the Mississippi placed a shoal between itself and the town
proper. At the landing, Andrew served as landing keeper, sold building stone to the federal
government, and built warehouses for incoming merchandise and a large stone mill, all the
while acting as agent for the Anchor, Eagle, and Tennessee Packet Companies.2183
All of this enterprise may have been too much for Anna. Sometime between 1903, when
their last child, Carol Clement Wilder, was born2184 and about 1908, when she married
Charles P. Johnson, a St. Louis lawyer and state representative,2185,2186 Anna and Andrew
were divorced. Anna took the three kids—Maurice Bernays, Francois Andre, and Carol
Clement2184—with her. The children took their new father’s last name, Johnson,2185 and kept
it all their lives.2187,2188,2189 In 1914 “Anne André-Johnson” authored Notable Women of St.
Louis.2190 Though the book was “Lovingly Dedicated to My Husband, Chas. P. Johnson,” the
second marriage lasted no longer than the first. In the 1920 census, Charles was no longer
living with Anna,2191 and when he died 21 May 1920, his death certificate listed him as
divorced.2192
Martha (Meyer) Naumann
and Andrew were married 2
February 1910 in St. Louis,1358
but lived out their lives in Ste.
Genevieve. When first married,
Martha and Andrew lived in the
Meyer’s Hotel,2111 but soon
acquired a fine historic home,
the Dr. Charles Sebastian
Hertich House at 99 N. Main
Street, where they were living in
at the time of the 1920 and 1930
censuses2193,2194 and where
Martha was living as a widow in
1940.2195 There they raised two
The Dr. Charles Sebastion Hertich House, 99 N. Main, built children, Rosemary M.
about 1850, home of a prominent local physician, became the Naumann the only child from
residence of Andrew and Martha Wilder, and later their
daughter Martha and granddaughter Rosemary. Today it is an Martha’s first marriage,2196 and
annex of the Inn St. Gemme Beuvais. Martha Anita Wilder, the only
child of her second marriage,2197 and there they died, Andrew on 8 April 19342198 and Martha
(Meyer) Naumann-Wilder on 23 May 1948.2199 Despite Andrew’s divorce, the couple are
interred in Valle Spring Cemetery, a Catholic cemetery.1503
Maurice Bernays (Wilder) Johnson

On 17 October 1911, Maurice Bernays (Wilder) Johnson held the first pilot/passenger
conversation over an aerophone.2200 On 21 November 1911, he was issued patent US
1009317 for a “Detector for Wireless Signaling Apparatus.”2201 By 1912 he was
acknowledged as the inventor of the Bernays Johnson wireless telephone for
aviation.2202 In 1917 he was employed by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company
in Aldene, New Jersey.2203 A portable wireless phone was demonstrated in New York
City in August 1924.2204 On 8 June 1920, while living Newark, New Jersey, Maurice
Bernays was issued a patent on a desktop paper filing system.2205 On 12 November
1940, while living in Little Falls, New Jersey, he was issued patent D123540 on a
“Design for a Golf Exerciser.”2206 In later years he may have been less successful. In
1942, he was working at a theater for an amusement company.2207
Rosemary M. Naumann
Rosemary was born 27 February 1904 and, as befitted a child (albeit a stepchild) of
Andrew Wilder, was educated at St. Joseph’s Academy in St. Louis.2208 On 28 January 1936
she married Emanuel Felix Andrew LaPlante, son of Peter Felix and Josephine M. (Ehler)
LaPlante.2209 Emmanuel, who sometimes went by “Manuel” or “Manny,” worked in his
younger days in the Ste. Genevieve lime kiln,2210 and later as a railroad fireman.2211
Rosemary was quite close to John Edward (“Eddie”) Wehner, whose wife, Leona May,
was the sister of Rosemary’s father, William Naumann.2157 In addition Edward, son of Peter
Wehner, was a first cousin of Rosemary’s mother, Mary Martha Theresa Meyer.2212
Rosemary often referred to Edward as “Cousin Uncle Eddie.”
Rosemary ended up with her parents’ home, the Dr. Charles Hertich House, where she
and Emmanuel raised two children, Ann Willette LaPlante and Rosemary Lorraine
LaPlante.2208,2211 Emmanuel passed away on 6 December 1971 at his daughter Rosemary
Lorraine’s house in Arnold, St. Louis County, Missouri.2211 Rosemary (Naumann) LaPlante
died well over a quarter century later, on 24 June 2002, in St. Louis, where she had been
living.2208 Rosemary and Emmanuel were laid to rest in Valle Spring Cemetery.2213
Martha Anita Wilder
Martha Anita, the only child of Mary Martha (Meyer) and Andrew Wilder, was born 13
January 1911 in Ste. Genevieve,1358,2214 growing up in the Dr. Charles Hertich house owned
by her family.2193.2194,2195 “Kelly,” a nickname she used throughout her life, like her half
sister, Rosemary, attended St. Joseph’s Academy in St. Louis, Missouri, but then went on to
Fontbonne College, a women’s Catholic school, in that city.2197 On 29 April 1943, in Ste.
Genevieve, she married Louis Jules Rozier Sr., son of Francis (“Frank”) A. and Cecelia Anna
(Schaaf) Rozier of Ste. Genevieve.2215,2216,2217 Earlier, by 1930, the Frank Rozier family had
moved to Los Angeles.2218 For whatever reason, perhaps to get married, Louis returned to
Ste. Genevieve, where he wedded “Kelly” and then returned to Los Angeles. It was there that
both Louis and “Kelly” passed away, “Kelly” on 13 November 1974 and Louis on 20 June
1977.2219 The couple had but one known child, Louis Jules Rozier Jr.2220
Augusta Mary Theresa

Baumstark
Given a very long name for a very little
girl, the first-born child of William and Mary
(Wehner) Baumstark was born 9 October 1885
in Ste. Genevieve,2221 and died 11 June 1894 at
home of “congestive chills,” not yet nine years
old.2108 Augusta’s stone in Valle Spring
Cemetery reads
“Beautiful lovely she was but given a fair
bud to earth to blossom in heaven.”2108
Antoinette Marie Baumstark
Born in Ste. Genevieve 4 September 1887,
William and Mary’s second child, given only the name “Antoinette” in the church record,2105
adopted the middle name “Marie” later2222 and then reversed the two names to give the more
historically romantic appellation “Marie Antoinette.”2223 But she was often just called
“Tony” by her friends.2222 (The original Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, had also
changed her name, from her baptismal name, “Maria Antonia.”)
On Thanksgiving day, 26 November 1907, Antoinette married Leslie Earl Miller of
Elvins, Missouri, in a rather lavish wedding, as one might expect for a daughter of William
and Mary (Wehner) Baumstark.2222 Officiated by three priests (the ubiquitous Father C. L.
van Tourenhout assisted by Father Joseph Preuss, and Father William H. Kotte), the
ceremony was held in the flower-bedecked main parlor of Meyer’s Hotel and was followed
by a bridal dinner of “elaborate and distinguished conception” in the main dining hall.
Leslie was born in August 1886 to William H. and Carrie M. (Silcourt) Miller2224 of St.
Francois County, Missouri.2225 Over the years, William was involved in multiple ventures
including bartending,2225 running the Miller Hotel in Elvins, Missouri,2226 and working as an
agent for a “beer house.”2227 On 5 April 1909, a fire started in the entry way of the Miller
Hotel, which at that time may have no longer been operated by William, destroying much of
the main business district of Elvins including the hotel.2228
At the time of his marriage to Antoinette, Leslie was working as a mechanic for the
Illinois Southern Railroad at the Little Rock landing just north of Ste. Genevieve.2222 In 1904,
the railroad had begun operating a ferry to carry rail cars across the Mississippi to Kellogg,
Illinois.1335
Marie and Leslie’s family made a rapid start when, on 26 July 1908, twin children Wilma
Antoinette and William Anton (also “Anthony”) Miller were born.2224 Unfortunately, the
stress of twin births was too great. Marie died a little over six weeks later, 10 September
1907. Father van Tourenhout, who had married her less than a year before, conducted her
funeral at the Church of Ste. Genevieve.2222 She was followed in death by her son William on
26 October 1908.1503 Marie Antoinette and William are buried under a single, rather
elaborate stone in Valle Spring Cemetery.1503 Leslie married again, in 1909 or 1910,2229 and
eventually moved to Chicago with his parents.2230
Wilma Antoinette Miller

Following her mother’s death, Wilma went to live with her grandmother and grandfather,
Mary and William Baumstark.2111 She is listed as “adopted daughter Miss Wilma
Baumstark” in Mary (Wehner) Baumstark’s obituary2107 and in her grandfather’s will;2106
however, there is no sign that she ever used the last name “Baumstark.” Wilma was treated
well by her grandfather, who, upon his death, left her $1200, three quarters interest in “Goose
Island” (18.53 acres), and one-fourth of the estate remaining after other bequests had been
made. When Mark Twain made his 1882 trip down the Mississippi (reported in Life on the
Mississippi), he noted that Goose Island had shrunk to where it was “all gone but a little dab
the size of a steamboat,” but it had grown again to a significant size by the time Wilma
inherited it. Mississippi islands expand, shrink, appear, disappear, and, like the river, change
shape.
Wilma married a “Dietz” and ended up in Riverside County, California, where she died
12 July 1980.2231,2232 She is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cypress, California.2233
Illma Olivia Theresa Baumstark
The church record of her birth on 17 July 1889 gives her name as just “Olivia
Theresa”;2105 however, somewhere she picked up an additional name, “Illma” (sometimes
“Ilma”), and used all three given names interchangeably. On 10 June 1908 Illma and George
W. Huck were wed in Ste. Genevieve by Rev. Charles L. Van Tourenhout.2234 Born 24
January 1888 in Ste. Genevieve,2235 George was a son of Francis J. and Walburga (Grass)
Huck.2236 Over the years, Francis (“Frank”) was a farm hand, farmer, county assessor, county
collector, probate judge, and salesman.2237,2238,2239,2240 George and Illma resided as a married
couple just a year or two in Ste Genevieve, where their first son was born,2236 and then
moved to Crystal City, where they lived the rest of their married life.2241 George was a
baker2241 and by 1920, was self-employed.2242 But his success did not last long. On 30
September 1925, in St. John’s Hospital, St. Louis, in an era of limited antibiotics, George
died of peritonitis, at age 37.2235
Illma, a widow with three children (Cletus, Georgia, and Linus),2242 left Crystal City for a
while (her son Cletus stayed behind in a boarding house),2243 but returned by 1948.2199 She
was residing there when she passed away, on 15 December 1966.2244 Although they lived
many years in Crystal City, Illma and George were laid to rest in Ste. Genevieve’s Valle
Spring Cemetery.2245
Cletus B. Huck
Born 8 August 1909 in Ste. Genevieve,2236 Cletus lived his entire life in Crystal City,
where he worked for PPG.2243 He did return on 29 October 1938 to Ste. Genevieve to marry
Genevieve Mary Ganahl,2246 daughter of Francis Joseph Ganahl, a Ste. Genevieve soft drink
proprietor and saloon keeper,2247 and Julia P. (Vaeth) Ganahl.2248,2249 Cletus died 12 February
1979, while a resident of Crystal City.2245,2250 Genevieve moved to Florida, where she died 6
May 1997, while residing in Hollywood, Broward County.2251 The couple are interred in
Valle Spring Cemetery, Ste. Genevieve.2245
Georgia Maria Huck
“Sis” was born 4 October 1913 in Crystal City, where she lived her entire life except for a
brief time following her father’s death. On 12 June 1933, in Ste. Genevieve, she married
Harold Jules Bequette of that town.2252,2253 Harold, born 22 September 1911,2254 was one of
four children of Jules J. and Anna R. (Vaeth)2255 Bequette, who farmed in Ste. Genevieve
County.2256,2257 Georgia worked as a secretary for Liguori Publications, a source of Catholic
books, pamphlets, software, and recordings, located in Liguori, Missouri, 11 miles north of
Crystal City.2258 Harold worked for PPG.2259 Harold, who died 8 January 2000, and Georgia,
who died 29 December 2005, both in Crystal City, are buried in Valle Spring Cemetery, Ste.
Genevieve.2258,2259 Left were two children, Illma Ann Bequette and George Jules Bequette
Sr.2253,2258,2259
Linus Edward Huck
Born 9 February 1915 in Crystal City, Linus led a long and fascinating life. On 3 October
1936, in Fairfield, Wayne County, Missouri, he married Anna Alice Foster, daughter of
Chauncey Conger2260 and Flora (Rasberry) Foster.2261,2262 Linus and Anna settled in Scott
County, Missouri. Beginning river life as a waiter on a quarter boat (a boat with living
accommodations), Linus passed exams for a license to navigate rivers and soon became the
captain of his own boat and crew.2262 For 55 years he navigated the rivers of the Midwest,
and from 1964 to 1969 he was mayor of the town of Commerce.2262 On 4 September 2001,
Linus passed away at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.2263 He was buried in
Oakdale Cemetery, in Scott County.2262 Linus left three children, Georgia Ann, Linus F.,
and Lois Lee.2264
Anna Helen Baumstark
Anna Helen Baumstark, born 22 December 1891 in Ste. Genevieve,2105 grew up in
Meyer’s Hotel, the booming family business, surrounded by relatives and boarders, several
of whom were both. In 1910 she was living there with her parents, sister Eulalia, half sister
Clara, half brother August and his wife, nieces Wilma Miller and Rosemary Naumann,
nephew John Martin Meyer, aunt and uncle Mary Martha and Andrew Wilder, and a handful
of boarders who were, at least at the time, without a family tie, including 23-year-old August
John Birsner.2111 The hotel’s close quarters led to a closer relationship. On 12 October 1914
Anna and August were married by the ubiquitous rector of the Church of Ste. Genevieve,
Charles L. Van Tourenhout.2265
August John (names used interchangeably) was born 2 December 1888 in St. Louis2266 to
John N. and Johanna (Neidhard) Birsner,2267 and spent part of his childhood in St. Clair
County, Illinois, where his father was a brewery foreman.2268 August took up his father’s
profession and traveled to Ste. Genevieve, where he could work as a brewer while staying at
the Meyer’s Hotel.2111 After marrying, Anna and August traveled to New Orleans, where,
starting in 1914, John was a “Master Brewer” for Standard Brewing Company,2269 later
moving to Jackson Brewing Company.2270 In New Orleans, their only children, John William
and Marguerite, were born.2271
It was a poor time to be making beer in the United States. On 16 January 1920 the
Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution went into effect banning the sale, manufacture,
and transportation of alcohol. To continue his craft, August moved his family from the
United States (in 1923, when he appears in the New Orleans City Directory,2270 or later), first
to Cartagena, Colombia, returning in 1927,2272 and then to Canada,2273 where August brewed
for Adanac (“Canada” spelled backwards) Brewing Company Ltd., in Regina,
Saskatchewan.2274 He died in Canada, possibly in Winnipeg, where his estate was settled in
1939.2275 Anna returned to the U.S., dying in May 1969, while a resident of New Orleans.2276
John William Birsner Sr.
John was born 22 December 1916 in New Orleans, and passed away 30 December 2002
in Los Angeles.2277 He received a B.S. degree from the University of Manitoba in 1935 and a
Doctor of Medicine from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in 1942.2273 John then
spent the next four years, 1943 to 1946, during WW II, as a captain in the U.S. Army, going
next into radiology, which he practiced for 47 years in California’s Antelope Valley
Hospital.2273 Until his retirement, Dr. Birsner was the hospital’s only Director of Radiology.
Dr. John William Birsner Sr. was interred at St Andrew’s Abbey Cemetery in Valyermo,
California.2278 He was married six times2279 and had both his own and adopted children.
Marguerite Mary Birsner
Born 19 December 1919 in New Orleans,2280
Marguerite Mary Birsner2281,2282 appears in the
1920 census in that city with her family.2271 In the
1920s, she accompanied her parents to Colombia
(“lo” not “lu,” the country, not the city) and then
to Canada.2271 Eventually, possibly after the death
of her father, she returned to the U.S., where she
attended the University of Missouri in Columbia
(“lu” not “lo,” the city, not the country),
graduating from the School of Journalism around
1939.2283,2284 In 1938 she may have taken a hiatus
from her university work since she gave her
address as Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a ship’s
passenger list following a trip to England.2280
Upon graduation, Marguerite lived for a while
with her widowed aunt Mary Martha (Meyer)
Wilder in Ste. Genevieve.2195 After a short time
working on newspapers, Marguerite went into
fashion advertising for H. Liebes and Company in
San Francisco. Around this time she adopted as a
first name “Margo,” the name she would use the
rest of her life.
About 19422283 Margo married David B.
Meblin, a son of Russian Jewish immigrants Marguerite Birsner, 1936 Savitar
Joseph and Leah Meblin.2285 David became a Yearbook, University of Missouri.
television advertising pioneer. He began his
television career with San Francisco’s KPIX, on staff when the station went on the air as
Channel 5, Christmas Eve 1948. It was the first television station in the Bay Area, when there
were few sets to receive broadcasts. Most viewers watched TV shows on sets in department
store windows. At first the station had programming for only a few hours a day, but David
was such an effective advertising executive that he talked Sterling Furniture of San Francisco
into sponsoring the test pattern, a single image that flickered on the screen when nothing else
was on. He also worked at KGO-TV for a number of years and for Avery-Knodel Inc., an
advertising firm. In 1975 he began a second career syndicating TV news features with
Mighty Minute Productions, a company he founded. Clients included Joe Carcione, whose
“Greengrocer” consumer advocate show was sold as a 90-second feature. He also handled
Dr. Dean Edell and Michael Marks, “Your Produce Man.” In 2002 David was inducted into
the Gold Circle of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.2286
Although Margo dropped out of journalism and advertising, she worked as a volunteer at
the Stanford Museum and was a member of the Peninsula Housing Association, which
established the community of Ladera, California. She was an avid reader, averaging 300
books a year, and was an enthusiast of chamber music, ballet, and art. She actively supported
progressive causes, including civil rights, and had a great interest in environmental and
animal protective movements.2283
Margo Mary (Birsner) Meblin died 8 December 1996 of bronchiectasis in Santa Clara
County, California.2281,2283 David passed away almost a decade later, on 30 May 2005, in San
Pablo, California.2286 Two children were left, Amy and Andrew.2283,2286
Eulalia Margaret Baumstark
Eulalia, the youngest of the Baumstark girls, was born 6 January 1894 according to a
Church of Ste. Genevieve transcribed record2105 or 8 January 1894 according to her SSDI and
a contemporary newspaper announcement.2287,2288 The transcription maintained by the church
office, gives her first name as “Amelia”; however, all other records show her name as
“Eulalia,” a good Catholic name, that of a 13-year-old Christian martyred in Barcelona,
Spain, in the 4th century.
By 1930 Eulalia was living in St. Louis, where she was working as a nurse.2289 In the
1948 obituary for her half sister Mary Martha (Meyer) Wilder, she appears with the married
name “Eulalia Jones” and is shown living in St. Charles, Missouri.2199 Sometime between
1930 and 1948, Eulalia had married Vernon Jones.2290
On 26 July 1972, Eulalia M. Jones was pronounced dead on arrival at City Hospital No.
2.2287 She and Vernon, born 28 August 1900, died about the same time2291 and were interred
in St. Matthew Cemetery, on the same day, 18 August 1972, “city-ordered” burials, without
markers and usually reserved for paupers or unclaimed bodies.2292
Had Eulalia and Vernon died together? It seems unlikely since Eulalia had died of
arteriosclerosis with pulmonary congestion and endema.2290 Were they paupers? Again that
seems unlikely since the address of the residence on Eulalia’s death certificate, 902 N.
Kingshighway in St. Louis,2290 corresponds to a respectable, though certainly not elegant,
buff-colored brick apartment house, not the sort of building one would expect for indigents.
Had no one claimed the bodies? Eulalia had, after all, outlived her siblings, both full and half.
But all we know with any certainty is that Eulalia and Vernon lie in pauper-like graves,
unmarked and, in the absence of known children, presumably unmourned. We know the final
scene if not the final act.*
*
In 2012 I traveled with Mary Frances to St. Louis, where I was able to obtain “Eullalia” Jones’s death
certificate. I now regret not also obtaining Vernon’s certificate, though it was not until a little later on that trip
that I realized he had died around the same time. Perhaps the two records together would have solved the
mystery. Like Mark Twain, I am “seldom able to see an opportunity until it [has] ceased to be one.”
Eulalia and Vernon lie in unmarked and unmourned graves in Saint Matthew Cemetery, St. Louis (2012).
Martin Meyer
1841-1880 Clara Eleanora Meyer
August Guye Meyer John Martin Meyer
m Hella A. L. ?
m Alita L. Wiedmann m Bertha M. Westhoff
Rosemary M. Naumann
m William George Naumann m Emanuel LaPlante
Mary Martha Theresa Meyer
m Andrew F. Wilder Martha Anita Wilder
Mary Wehner m Louis Jules Rozier Sr.
1854-1932
Augusta Mary Theresa Baumstark
m ? Dietz
Antoinette Marie Baumstark
m Leslie Earl Miller
Cletus B. Huck
m Genevieve Mary Ganahl
Illma Olivia Theresa Baumstark Georgia Maria Huck

m George W. Huck m Harold Jules Bequette
Linus Edward Huck
m Anna Alice Foster
John William Birsner Sr.

m Nicholson, Hilton, Ellerd,
Anna Helen Baumstark Wall, Mary Lou?
m August John Birsner Marguerite Mary Birsner
m David B. Meblin
Martin Meyer
1841-1880 Eulalia Margaret Baumstark
Theresa Wehner
Theresa Wehner led a tragic life. Her husband passed away relatively young. Two sons
died as children. Another committed suicide. A daughter spent her last twenty-five years in a
mental institution. Theresa lived forty years as a widow, residing with or near her children—
a few years in Ste. Genevieve, then ten years or so in Saint Louis, where she lived in at least
three different homes, twenty plus years in Chicago with a daughter and son-in-law, and
finally a return to Saint Louis only a year or two before her death.
Theresa (designated “Teresa” in some records;1535,2293 “Therese” by her parents,1378,1501
and “Theresia” by her husband2294) was born in Weingarten, Ste. Genevieve County, 2
October 1856.2295 At the time, her father, Nicholas, was still operating his sawmill in Union
Township, just next door to the Ste. Genevieve Township area where Weingarten was
located. In 1878 a new miller, Frederick Bolle, born in Sattenhausen, Hanover, Germany,2296
came to Ste. Genevieve. An 1888 biographical sketch tells the story of his early life:1535
Frederick Bolle, member of the firm of Wehner & Bolle, proprietors of the
City Mills at Ste. Genevieve, was born in Hanover, Germany, August, 13,
1845, and is the son of Christian(a Church of Ste. Genevieve record gives his
name as “Henry Christopher”)2297 and Elizabeth (Burmann) Bolle, both
natives of Hanover, Germany. The father was a merchant and grain dealer in
his native land, and died in 1863 at the age of seventy-two. The mother is still
living and is eighty-three years old. In 1866 Frederick Bolle came to America,
landed at New York, and went from there to Louisville, Ky. He then went to
Bowling Green, and from there to Belleville, Ill., where he engaged in the
milling business, having learned the trade in his native country. In 1878 he
moved to Ste. Genevieve, began working in the Cone Mills, and there
remained until 1883, when he became a member of the present firm.
Also working at Cone Mills were George Wehner and Martin Meyer, Theresa’s brother
and brother-in-law, providing ample opportunity for introductions. On 2 July 1878, not long
after he arrived, Frederick G. Bolle and Theresa Wehner were married.2298 Brothers-in-law
Fred Bolle and George Wehner survived the Cone Mills explosion, probably because they
were not there at the time. The other brother-in-law, Martin Meyer, was not so lucky. Fred
and George continued working at the repaired Cone Mills, but became increasingly eager to
start their own business. On 23 October 1883, City Mills began operation.1409
Frederick Bolle was a partner in City Mills for less than twenty years. On 24 May 1900
he wrote his will2294 and just two days later died of “affliction of the lungs” at the relatively
young age of 54.2296,1540 With the exception of a nominal five dollars to each child, Frederick
left everything to Theresa including his City Mills share, which he requested be transferred to
his son Frederick Nicholas (“Nicholas F.”) should Nicholas wish some day to step into his
father’s shoes. But that never happened.
Theresa was left with five surviving children, Flora Eleonora, Frederick Nicholas, Bertha
Alvina Alma, Herman Thomas, and Augusta Elisabeth, the oldest seventeen, the youngest
six.2299 (Two others, George Wehner and Frederick Felix, had died young.) She inherited her
husband’s position as a partner in the mill, a post she held in 1905,11 but did not and could
not get financial help from her father as had her sister Mary when she was widowed.
Nicholas had died three years earlier. Theresa (and Mary) did, however, receive much of the
Block 1 property when Clara died.
Theresa spent most of her remaining years living with her children. Between 1906 and
1907, when the family first appears in the city directory, Theresa and her five children moved
to 3124 Lemp Avenue in St. Louis, where there were more job opportunities than in Ste.
Genevieve.2300 In 1908 the family was living at 3869 Cottage Avenue2301 and in 1910, at
4212A Morgan Street, their residence for the next several years.2302 She then followed her
daughter Alvina and her husband to Chicago where she was living in 1920 and 1930.2303,2304
Around 1938, Theresa returned to St. Louis, moving into the St. Louis Altenheim, a nursing
home at 5408 S. Broadway.2305 (Dating back more than one-hundred years. the original
Altenheim building was the remodeled former Chouteau mansion, owned by one of St. Louis'
founding families. The original building was razed and replaced n 1972.)2306
It was at the Altenheim that Theresa died 1 December 1940.2295 She and Frederick are
buried in Valle Spring Cemetery in Ste. Genevieve under a single stone labeled “Mother
Theresa,” “Father Fred.”1540 Four of her children are buried nearby. Not a single one of
Theresa and Frederick’s children became a miller or married one, and most died childless.
There were but three known grandchildren, one of them reportedly adopted.
Theresa Wehner
1856-1940 George Wehner Bolle
Flora Eleonora Bolle

m Theodore Mitchell
Frederick Nicholas Bolle
Frederick Felix Bolle

Parker Campbell Russell
Bertha Alvina Alma Bolle
m Samuel Campbell Russell
Robert J. Russell
Herman Thomas Bolle
m Louise Hahn Arline Louise Bolle
m Wilhelmina Flori
Frederick G. Bolle Augusta Elisabeth Bolle
m Peter B. Harris
1845-1900 m Carlyle Marshall Terry
George Wehner Bolle

Born 6 February 1880 in Ste. Genevieve,
George is the only known descendant of Nicholas
or Lorenz Wehner to receive “Wehner” as a given
name.2297 But he carried the name only a few years,
dying at the age of six on 26 April 1886 and sharing
a stone with his brother Felix in Valle Spring
Cemetery.1540
Flora Eleonora Bolle
Born 13 September 1882,2297 Flora, who never
used the name “Eleonora,” led a difficult life. After
her father died, she went with her mother and
siblings to the big city of St. Louis. There, in 1908,
she received a cruel shock when her brother
Nicholas, her chronologically closest sibling,
committed suicide.2307 In 1910 27-year-old Flora, a
spinster by the standards of the time, was doing
housework, presumably for a private family.2302 But Headstone for brothers George and Felix
then on 23 May 1918 at Holy Angels Church in St. Bolle, Valle Spring Cemetery (2010).
Louis, Rev. T. V. O’Reilly united
Flora, now thirty-five, and Theodore
Mitchell in matrimony.2308 In 1920
Flora was working as a cook and
living in a St. Louis rooming house
with her new husband and his child,
Elmer, from a previous marriage.2309
Theodore’s first marriage was to
Lena Schmelzel, who had died 17
September 19142310 and had borne
him ten children, though four had
died by 1910.2311
From a distance of almost a
century, Theodore seems a less than
ideal husband. Born 14 October 1858
in Illinois, he was twenty-four years
older than Flora, who was herself no
spring chicken.2312 But many
May/December (or in this case
August/September) marriages work.
Much more worrisome is that he
seems never to have held a promising
Flora resided more than 25 years at the City Sanitarium, job, going from janitor,2313 to
today, the Missouri Institute of Mental Health. (University watchman,2314 to laborer.2315 And his
of Missouri–St. Louis, Office of Research Administration.) upbringing was highly questionable.
Theodore, whose name may have originally been “Theophilus,”2316 was a son of John and
Eunice (Jarrard) Mitchell2312 of Monroe County, Illinois,2317 but was raised by relatives,
possibly because his mother had divorced and remarried. On 27 July 1857 in Monroe
County, a Eunice “Mitchel” married a Thomas Wharton.2318 If this our Eunice, Theodore’s
birth date of 14 October 1858 given on his death certificate is not correct.2312 In 1870,
Theodore was living in the town of Waterloo, Monroe County, Illinois, with his grandmother
Mary (Hilton) Jerrot, widow of John Jarrot2319 and mother of Eunice. In early records the
family name was given as “Jerrot,” “Jerret,” or “Jerrett,” but later was usually “Jarrard”
(sometimes “Gerard”). On 8 February 1879, Mary (Hilton) Jerrot was admitted to the
Monroe County Almshouse,2320 which she soon left. The 1880 census for the Monroe County
“Poor House” shows seven residents, all men and all born outside Illinois, but no Mary.2321 In
1880 she was living in St. Louis with her grandson Theodore and daughter Emily,2322 widow
of Philip F. Fultman.2323
Theodore’s grandmother Mary and aunt Emily were both illiterate,2317,2322 the latter
working as a “Rag picker,” collecting rags for a living.2322 In July 1863, his uncle Daniel
Jarrett, his mother’s brother,2317 a man with no morals, no conscience, no principles, and no
remorse, had been lynched by an enraged group of Monroe County citizens for murdering
Jacob Kleppinger, leaving his body to be eaten by wild hogs, and selling his horses:2324
At three o’clock P. M. on Wednesday quite a large crowd came dashing into
the town on horseback, surrounded the public square and demanded the keys
of the jail, but were refused and ordered out by the turnkey. But they were not
intimidated. They prepared themselves with a sledge hammer and other
Implements, and broke open the jail and took out six prisoners, put them in a
wagon and started for the timber. When arriving at a lonesome, deserted place
in the woods, on the Dughollow road, the leader made the prisoners
acquainted with their fate, saying that John Greer, Daniel Jarrett and —
Benton had to hang, and if they had anything to say they had better say it then,
for it was their last chance. They gazed at the rope that was fixed on the tree,
but still held their courage, preserving the utmost coolness, Greer remarking
that he had money enough to buy a better rope than that. Greer then told his
mother that three of them had to hang, and bid her good bye, saying, ‘I’ll meet
you in heaven or in hell, one, I don’t know which,’ and taking a ring from his
finger sent it to his niece, he then asked for somebody to pray for him but it
seemed as if there was nobody to do it, so he prayed himself. He asked for a
pencil and wrote his will as coolly as if he was not going to be executed. He
then confessed that he and the two that were with him did murder Kleppinger,
and that he was ready to be hurled Into eternity. Benton then made a short
confession. He stated that he had been In jail seven times and had never been
tried; he always broke jail. Jarrett made his will and prepared for death. They
then were then hoisted and hung until they were dead. The crowd then took
them from the gallows and buried them. The other three were returned back to
jail. The crowd was sober and quiet and then dispersed. This act was
accomplished by the respectable citizens of Monroe county.
All in all, it was not a promising family.
In 1930, Theodore was living in a St. Louis rooming house without Flora,2315 who was an
inmate at the City Sanitarium, 5400 Arsenal Street, a mental illness facility later designated
“St. Louis State Hospital.”2325 Theodore died of a cerebral hemorrhage from arteriosclerosis
10 January 1933 at the City Hospital in St. Louis;2312 Flora lived another twenty years at the
St. Louis State Hospital, until her death from bronchopneumonia 20 November 1953.2326,2327
Theodore was cremated.2312 Flora shares a stone with her brother Nicholas in Valle Spring
Cemetery, Ste. Genevieve.1540 She left no known descendants.
Frederick Nicholas Bolle
Because his life was so short, little is known of Nicholas (the name he went by), his
father’s choice to take over City Mills.2294 He was born in Ste. Genevieve 20 October
1884,2297 and following his father’s death, traveled to St. Louis with his mother and siblings.
For the few years he was there, he worked as an automotive worker2300 and a mechanic,2301
even though his death record states that he was a solicitor.2307
On a Saturday night, 7 November 1908, Nicholas walked into A. W. Siekburg’s saloon at
the corner of Vandeventer and Cottage avenues, just a few doors down the street from where
he was living with his mother, brothers, and sisters.2301 There he called for a glass of soda,
talked for a while with the bartender and others, and suddenly pulled out a bottle of carbolic
acid and drank it down. Nicholas died a miserable and painful death in the ambulance.2328
The funeral was conducted at Meyer’s Hotel in Ste. Genevieve.2329 That it was a suicide
prevented the funeral from being held at the church. Nevertheless, Nicholas was buried in
Valle Spring Catholic Cemetery alongside his sister Flora.1540 Not until 1983 would the
Roman Catholic Church reverse the canon law that prohibited proper funeral rites and burial
in church cemeteries for suicides, but small town priests often considered themselves the
final arbitrators of what would and would not be allowed.
Frederick Felix Bolle
Frederick Felix Bolle, born 20 October 1886,2297 lived only a little over two months,
dying on 30 December 1886.1540 He is buried with his brother George in Valle Spring
Cemetery.1540
Bertha Alvina Alma Bolle
A transcribed record at the Church of Ste. Genevieve gives a middle name of
“Albina”;2297 however, all other records show “Alvina” (in one case “Elvina”), the name she
went by. “Bertha” and “Alma,” found in the curch record, were cast aside. Alvina was born
10 March 1889 in Ste. Genevieve, lived there a few years,2299 and around 1906 traveled with
her widowed mother and siblings to St. Louis, where she became a stenographer.2302
On 26 May 1917, still working as a St. Louis stenographer,2330 Alvina married Samuel
Campbell Russell,2331 a resident of Chicago, Illinois, at the St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic
Church in St. Louis.2332 Alvina appears with Samuel, their two sons, Parker and Robert, and
Alvina’s mother, Theresa, in the 1920 and 1930 Chicago, Illinois, censuses (the younger
child, Robert, only in the latter census).2333,2334
Samuel, born 19 Aug 1893 in Canton, Ohio,2331,2335 was one of three children of John A.
and Amelia S. (Gebhart) Russell,2336 a Pennsylvania farm family.2337,2338 In Chicago Samuel
worked as a piano salesman.2331,2333,2334 In the 1940 Chicago census, Samuel is shown still
working as a piano salesman, but married to a second wife, Lucille, with two new children,
Shirley and William, whose ages indicate that the second marriage occurred around 1934 or
1935.2339 Alvina and Samuel’s marriage had been dissolved.
In the 1940 census for Chicago we also find Alvina (claimed to be married, probably for
propriety’s sake) and her sons, but in distressing circumstances. Alvina, a Ford products
demonstrator, had been out of a job for the preceding thirty-seven weeks and had worked
only nine weeks the year before, when she made a paltry $198.2340 Her oldest son, Parker, a
Works Progress Administration (WPA) probate court clerk, was also out of work,
unemployed for the preceding 25 weeks and working only 29 weeks the year before, for
$465. Only Robert, who had dropped out of school, was employed, as a meat market delivery
boy. Alvina’s ex husband, Samuel, on the other hand, made a rather nice $3550 in 1939,2339
when the average income was around $1300.2341 Of course, Alvina may have been receiving
support money from Samuel, but certainly not from her widowed mother, who, in any event,
would be deceased before the year was out.
When he was offered a dealership in the Long Beach area in 1945, Samuel and Lucille
(birth name “ Lucille Jackson”) moved to California.2342 There they died in Long Beach,
Samuel on 1 June 19602343 and Lucille (who had remarried, to Roy McCoy Cromley, 17
April 1967)2344 on 21 March 1995.2345
Alvina also moved to California, where she died in Los Angeles County 21 August
1979.2346,2347
Samuel and Alvina had two children, both born in Chicago—Parker Campbell Russell,
born 11 October 1918,2348 and Robert J. Russell, born in 1923 or 1924.2333,2334 Parker, who
served as PFC in the U.S. Army, died 11 December 1996 and is buried in Riverside National
Cemetery, Riverside, California.2349
Herman Thomas Bolle
By 1910, Herman, born 8 August
1891 in Ste. Genevieve,2297 was a clerk
in a St. Louis drugstore,2302,2350 and
within three years had worked his way
up to owner of Bolle’s Pharmacy
(sometimes called Herman’s
Pharmacy)2351 at 2800 Shenandoah
Avenue.2352 The substantial two-story
brick building, which earlier housed
Joseph B. Schuster’s Pharmacy,2353
still stands today.
On 17 September 1913 at St.
Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church
in St. Louis,2354 Herman married
Louise (“Lulu”) Hahn, daughter of
Margaret (“Maggie”) Lang and John
Hahn, an undertaker.2355,2356 Herman
and Louise moved into 2528A Herman, Louise, and Arline Bolle, St. Louis, Missouri,
California avenue, just three blocks c1936. (Collection of Barbara Albert Ragsdale.)
from Herman’s Drug Store.2357 Then, by 1917, the family had moved to 2734 Shenandoah,
even closer to the drug store, just a few houses away.
Herman continued managing a pharmacy, thought he may not have always been an
owner.2358,2359 In later years he worked as a pharmaceutical salesman for Blue Line Chemical
Company of St. Louis.2305,2360,2361 There is every indication that Herman and Louise did well
financially, even during the depression years. In 1939 Herman earned $3600, a respectable
income at the time, and the family always lived in rather nice homes, particularly their
elegant two-story brick home at 5827 Neosho Street in a neighborhood of similar homes.2361
Louise, born 30 March 1889, lived her entire life in St. Louis, dying there 13 May
1952.2355 Herman may have left St. Louis following Louise’s death since his address was
reported as Ste. Genevieve when he served as informant for his sister Flora’s 1953 death
certificate.2326 If so, he soon returned.
Herman married a second time, to the long-time widow Wilhelmina (Flori) Wolf, whose
first marriage, to Alexander (“Alex”) Houser Wolf,2362 ended when Alex, a Falstaff Brewery
worker, passed away 18 November 1935.2363 Alex had been twenty-three years older than his
wife, and the couple had been childless.2364 Herman’s marriage to Wilhelmina, always
known as “Minnie,” was brief. She died suddenly, from a coronary occlusion, on 23 January
1956 in St. Louis, and was buried in Sunset Burial Park.2365 She was buried with neither
Herman, nor Alex; however, Alex, who was first interred in St. Matthew’s Cemetery,2363 was
later moved to Sunset.2292
Herman lived the rest of his life in St. Louis, dying there 16 May 1963, and sharing a
simple stone with Louise in Resurrection
Cemetery.1590,2366 Funerals for Herman and
Louise (and for Wilhelmina)2367 were held at St.
Joan of Arc Catholic Church.2368,2369 Herman and
Louise had a single child, Arline Louise Bolle,
said by family members to have been adopted.
Arline Louise Bolle
Arline Louise was born in St. Louis 20
January 1921.2370 In that city, on 30 March 1956,
she married Milton John Conrad Albert,2371 born
in St. Louis to Fredrick and Mary
(Kuechenmeister) Albert 27 October 1917,2372
and settled around 1967 in Russellville, Pope
County, Arkansas.2373 The two passed away in
Russellville in 2000, within weeks of each other,
Arline on 17 August and Milton on 25
September, and are buried in Lakewood Park
Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri.2370,2372 They left
behind three daughters, Mary Louise, Barbara
Milton and Arline Albert, c1944. Jean, and Patricia Lee. A fourth daughter,
(Collection of Barbara Ragsdale.)
Kathleen Marie, predeceased them.2370,2372,2373
Augusta Elisabeth Bolle

Born 2 July 1893 in Ste. Genevieve,2297 Augusta appears in St. Louis in the 1910 federal
census2302 and in the 1910 and 1912 city directories.2374,2375 The obituary of Herman T. Bolle,
“brother of Mrs. Carylayl [sic] Terry,” provided the key to tracing her after 1912,2368 but
considerable untangling of skeins was needed. Among the tangles was Augusta’s use of the
name “Grace,” lack of data on her first marriage, and her absence from the 1920 census.
Augusta and first husband Peter B. Harris are found in the 1930 census, residing in the
Whitehall Hotel in Chicago.2376 Like her sister Alvina and her mother, Augusta had moved to
Chicago. The Whitehall, built in 1927 at 105 East Delaware Place, consisted of luxurious
high-rise apartments, each containing three or four bedrooms, and was located in Chicago’s
Near-North Side, which was fast becoming a highly desirable area for industrialists,
merchants, and managers. Thus, Peter was likely financially comfortable with a promising
career. But other than his name, this is all we know, for the 1930 census, our only record of
Peter, is incomplete. The census enumerator was frustrated by Whitehall’s tenants, who were
always out. He was able to obtain data for “Augusta B. Harris” (though he had her age badly
wrong), but recorded almost nothing for her husband, Peter, and for many other residents. On
the last page of the hotel census the enumerator wrote “Slips left many calls All are residents
at this hotel.” A marriage year of about 1916 is given by the age at first marriage of 18 and
the (incorrect) age of 32 for Augusta in the 1930 census. One more year and the marriage
would be over.
Also staying at the Whitehall in 1930 was Carlyle Marshall Terry, a mechanical engineer
from the Empire State.2377 Carlyle, born 15 July 1894 in New York to Eugene P. Terry and
Hattie A. Bennett,2378,2379 had spent part of his childhood with his grandfather, Columbus F.
Terry, a farmer and Civil War veteran,2380 following his mother’s death at the age of 24 on 11
January 1896.2378 But he rejoined his father and his father’s new bride, Adelaide, growing up
in Brooklyn, New York.2381,2382 During WW I Carlyle was an ensign in the U.S. Navy2383 and
then became an engineer and spokesman for the coal industry.2384,2385 (He reenlisted 9
October 1940, serving until 22 January 1953 and attaining the position of Lieutenant
Commander.)2386 On 28 February 1922, Carlyle married Grace Dieterich,2387 a 1920 graduate
of the prestigious Mrs. Spence’s School of New York City,2388 a Social Register listee,2389
and granddaughter of Charles F. Dieterich. Charles had made a fortune in lighting and energy
companies, was first president of Union Carbide, and had built the fantastic Daheim mansion
in Millbrook, New York.2390
By 1930 the marriage between Carlyle and Grace Dieterich, the engineer and the
socialite, had ended. Carlyle was divorced and living alone at the Whitehall Hotel.2377 On 20
July 1931 Carlyle and “Grace Bolle Harris” were married in Chicago.2391 Whether death or
divorce ended Augusta Bolle’s first marriage is unknown. Grace Dieterich, who married
Reginald Sinclaire, died 26 May 1943 and is buried in Douglas County, Colorado.2392
In 1940, Augusta and Carlyle were living in Chicago and doing very, very well
financially. The 1940 census shows that “Carl” Terry, a lieutenant commander in the Navy,
and “Grace B.” Terry, a saleslady in a ladies’ dress shop, had made a combined $7300 the
previous year.2393 At the end of the depression, this was an excellent income, particularly for
a family of two. In that census, not only is Augusta given the name “Grace,” but her
birthplace is given as New York. It almost appears that Augusta was mimicking Carlyle’s
first wife. But perhaps it was just an error by the census enumerator or a neighbor’s mistake.
On 16 May 1952 Augusta and Carlyle signed the guest book at the funeral of Louise
(Hahn) Bolle giving their address as 268 N. Main, Ste. Genevieve, once the home of
Nicholas Wehner, Augusta’s grandfather.2394 By 23 January 1956, when they attended the
funeral of Wilhelmina (Flori) Bolle,2395 the couple was living in Long Beach, California,
where Alvina (Bolle) Russell had also moved, and there they lived out their lives, “Augusta
Grace Terry” passing away on 29 March 19782396,2397 and Carlyle, on 7 January 1981.2398
Augusta had no known descendants.
Riches and Scandal

Grace Dieterich, born 10 May 1902,2399 was the only child of
Alfred Elliott and Edna (Young) Dieterich,2400 who married 19
April 1900 in New York City.2401 The sole scion of Charles F.
Dieterich, Alfred was born into wealth, but so was his wife, Edna,
born 7 April 1881 to Albert and Minnie Edith (Arents) Young.2402
Minnie was an heir of her affluent uncle Major Lewis Ginter, war
hero, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and co-founder of Allen &
Ginter, which became part of American Tobacco Company,2403,2404
and a good part of Minnie’s money passed on to her daughter,
Edna. But Edna, beautiful, vibrant, and a phenomenal
sportswoman, sought something more. On 7 December 1907, she
sailed away to Paris, France, with Harry Benchley, horse trainer
and coachman for Alfred Vanderbilt,2405 leaving behind 5-year-old
Grace, and husband, Alfred. The elopement made headlines
world-wide, although for two months Alfred denied any problems.
A late-night conference at home with family members (and two Hawaiian Star newspaper,
guards marching back and forth to protect privacy) provided no 1 February1908.
solution. 2405
Finally Alfred admitted Edna’s flight 2406
and filed for a New York divorce,2407
granted 27 April 1908 2408
Alfred’s second marriage 26 May 1909 to Mary (“May”)
Ridgely (Brown) Hughes, daughter of Maryland ex-governor Frank Brown also ended in
divorce. Alfred, who married a third time, to Ethel Vreeland, died 24 January 1935 in San
Francisco.2409,2410 May’s third marriage was to Merwin Ketcham Lee on 10 June 1920.2411
After marrying Harry in England on 27 August 1908 and divorcing him, 4 May
1926,2412,2412 Edna returned to the United States and married John Oldrin, before dying 1
August 1985 in Darien Connecticut.2402
Bier und Brot Peter Wehner 234
Peter Wehner
Peter, youngest of Nicholas and Clara’s six
children, was born 4 March 1859 in
Weingarten, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri,
and was baptized six months later, on 18
September at the Church of St. Joseph in
Zell.2413 At age 15 he attended Christian
Brothers College in St. Louis, completing a
business course and then joining Nicholas in
his saloon and lumber businesses.1288,1423 In
1880 Peter and his father were tending bar at
Nicholas’s Eagle Saloon on North
Main,1423,1410 and in 1883 both were fined for
selling liquor on Sunday ($7 for Nicholas, who
pled not guilty, and $5 for Peter, who
confessed).1424 Nicholas, a scofflaw on Sunday
sales (a predisposition among Ste. Genevieve
Republicans), undoubtedly considered Peter’s
forfeit a badge of honor. By 1885 Peter was
giving his occupation as “lumber Dealer,”2414 Peter Wehner. (Earlyn Jokerst Wehner collection.)
his primary career the rest of his life.2415,2416 He
was the “son” in “N. Wehner & Son, Dealer in Lumber.” His death certificate gives his
occupation as “Retired Lumberman.”2417
Nicholas’s will shows his reliance on Peter:1378
“On account of the great services rendered me by my son Peter Wehner in
attending for a great many years without compensation to all my business; and
never having made him any advancement, I give devise and bequeath to him
absolutely my share, interest and Claim in and to all the property and effects
owned by the firm of N. Wehner & Co. [the lumber yard] said firm being
comprised of my said son Peter and myself ...”
Nicholas also left to Peter the “Liquor, Cigars, wines and general merchandise including
the Billiard and Pool Table, the furnitures and fixtures … composing the outfit of my saloon
generally known and called The ‘Eagle Saloon’ … with all good will of said saloon business
absolutely.” But he would receive the building itself and the land on which it stood, both of
which belonged to his mother, only when Clara’s property was divided following her death.
Like his father, Peter wore several hats besides those of bartender and lumberman. He
made loans and was the beneficiary in deeds of trust for loans of $300 at 8% to Alexander
and Mary Fontaine (29 November 1880 for land just north of Ste. Genevieve Brewery,
Nicholas Wehner, trustee),2418 $270 at 8% to Joseph and Rosa Flieg (23 December 1880 for
181.69 acres, George Wehner trustee),2419 and $250 to Dr. Charles S. and Mary L. Hertich
for a lot in town (5 Apr 1888, George Wehner trustee).2420 All loans were repaid. (He
returned the favor to his brother, acting as trustee

for deeds of trust where George was beneficiary.)
Peter was an original members of the Ste.
Genevieve Board of Trade2421,2422 and in January
1891 was appointed by Henry L. Rozier, Board
President, to meet with officers of the planned
Centralia and Ste. Genevieve Railroad.2423 He was
secretary at brother George’s City Mills;2424 and a
director of the Ste. Genevieve Brewing and
Lighting Association.2425 In 1908 he ran for
County treasurer as a Republican, but lost.2426,2427
The linchpin of the Brewing and Lighting
Association, a corporation founded in 1894, was
Valentine Rottler’s Ste. Genevieve Brewery.2425
Peter was a shoo-in for the Association Board
since he was Valentine’s son-in-law. On 27
January 1885 at the Church of Ste. Genevieve,
Father Xavier Weiss had united Valentine’s
daughter Catherine and Peter in marriage.2428
Catherine, born 16 October 1860 in New Catherine Rottler. (Wehner Family Collection.).
Offenburg,2429 where Valentine had his first
brewery, and baptized 2 December 1860 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Zell,2430 was one
of twelve children2431 of Valentine and
Mary Anna (Isenman) Rottler (sister of
Ursula Charlotte (Isenman) Vaeth, George
Wehner’s mother-in-law).2430
Despite his experience and education,
Peter’s business ability is questionable. By
1901 the Eagle Saloon building was vacant
and the lumber yard had become known
(erroneously?) as the “J. Tlapek Lumber
Yard.”2432 Peter owned the land, but
partners ran the business. In 1902, James
W. Babb announced that he would open a
saloon in the “Wehner building on Main
street,” presumably the site of the Eagle
Saloon.2433 In 1909 Peter, Felix A.
Petrequin (brother of Charles Petrequin,
Catherine’s brother-in-law), and John J.
Tlapek Sr. and Jr. formed the Ste.
Genevieve Lumber and Realty Company to
operate the yard.2434 When Peter fell out
Edward Wehner (left) and Felix Petrequin (right) with the Tlapeks and Petrequin, he was
at lumber yard. As Peter ran into conflicts with removed from management. By 1935
the other partners, Edward took on more and Peter’s son Edward, a better businessman
more of the work. (Eloise Summers Archives.) than his father, had become a partner.1423
Valentine Rottler
Valentine Rottler was a Ste. Genevieve fixture. In 1855 he
was made a partner in the Seitz & Co. Brewery, at New
Offenburg, and later, sole proprietor.2435 After the building
burned in 1872, he moved to Ste. Genevieve, where he
bought the “Ste. Genevieve Brewery” in October 18722436
and co-
managed
a copper
mine.2437 On 19 September 1876,
Valentine purchased a tract of land at the
northeast corner of La Haye and
Courthouse (now Third) streets2438 and
there, in 1883, built a new brewery, a
story-and-a-half building with an
icehouse, a malt kiln, and cellars
containing a mash tub and kettle.1335 But,
misfortune continued. On 25 October
1886 fire destroyed the new building. On
the same site, Valentine then built a large
brick structure, still standing today, to
house the Ste. Genevieve Brewery and an
ice plant. His beer, “Rottler’s Finest,”
Valentine Rottler’s brewery building (2006). was aclaimed:2425
“Associated with the coolness and clearness of the nectar of the Gods, and in fact,
manufactured direct therefrom is the claim of Ste. Genevieve Brewing and
Lighting Association for the product which they have been offering to the public
for the past 11 years and perhaps at few points in the United States have brewers
found a more agreeable spot in which to practice the alchemistry which has so
delightful a result for millions of people, i.e., Lager beer. The products of this
brewery are widely known for their purity and excellent qualities. The brewery
has equipment which is perfect and complete in every detail and their beers are
brewed by an expert brewmaster, Mr. P. H. Schroeder, formerly of Williamsport,
Pa. and are made of the highest grade of malted barley and the choicest of
imported hops. These facts, together with the careful attention given the proper
fermentation and aging, are responsible for the high estimation with which the
Ste. Genevieve beers are regarded by the public at large. This complete equipment
also includes a first class ice manufacturing plant and the brewery is in a position to
furnish ice to their customers at reasonable rates. “Success” is the name of the
brewery’s popular bottled beer, and “Special Pale” their draught beer. The are the
perfection of the brewers’ art and stand as the emblem of purity and wholesomeness.”
Over the years, proposals have been made to use the empty Ste. Genevieve Brewery
building for a winery, or brewpub, or “whatever”, but the old brick structure remains vacant,
a monument to Valentine Rottler and another, “beerier” time.
Eventually L. (“Louis”) J. Donze bought the old saloon building and in 1928 decided to
tear it down. The Fair Play wrote the building’s obituary.2439
The wrecking of this old Ste. Genevieve land-mark brings back to the older
citizens many happy memories of its colorful history in the days when the
Cone Mills were running full force and the building across the street held an
assortment of beverages that tempted the thirsty citizens who made that
section of the town their recreation grounds.
Young Ste. Genevieve does not remember those days—but the old-timers who
were taking their todies [sic] long before Andy Volstead thought of his
famous amendment, remember and the memories fill them with regret when
they see the old land-marks disappear one by one, giving away to the general
advancement of a modern and somewhat synthetic age.
Peter and Catherine lived out their married lives at 599 La Porte,2415 next door to
Catherine’s sister and brother-in-law Theresa and Charles Petrequin.2440,2441 There, in their
yellow two-story frame home,1288,2429 the couple died just days apart, Peter, Nicholas’s last
remaining child, on 3 February 1941 and Catherine on 9 February 1941.2417,2442
Peter and Catherine—who left ten children, John Edward, Louise Alice, Ella Agnes,
Mary Leona, Octavia Clara, Albert Joseph, Henry Charles, Julius Martin, Martha Ervine, and
Walter William (and one more deceased, Julia Elvina), all born in Ste. Genevieve—are
buried with a single stone in Valle Spring Cemetery.1503 Their wills dated 24 February 1934
left the lumber yard property and 45 shares of stock in the company to their son Edward,
their house and accompanying land to their daughter Alice, and the remaining estate to be
divided equally among their other eight surviving children.1448,2443
Peter and Catherine and descendants, 50th Anniversary. (Wehner Family Collection.)
Eloise Marie Wehner

m Dale Winston Summers
Peter Wehner John Edward Wehner
1859-1941 m Leona Mary Naumann Francis Edward Wehner
m Olga Dolores Elizondo
Julia Elvina Wehner
Louise Alice Wehner
Ella Agnes Wehner Mary C. Wehner

m Peter J. Svelich
m Orison Scribener Smith m Sebastian George Basler
Jr.
Mary Leona Wehner
m Nicholas Keser Catherine Ann Keser
Octavia Clara Wehner Patricia A. Bauman

m Walter Joseph Bauman m Sylvester A. Flotte
Albert Joseph Wehner

m Marie J. Lang Albert A. Wehner
Henry Charles Wehner Dolores Cecilia Wehner

m Lyle B. Miljour
m Henry Charles Wehner m Leo Robert Hahto
Julius Martin Wehner

m Mary Ann Oces
Allen C. Wood Sr
m Pamela A. Doll
Martha Ervine Wehner
m Walter Alfred Wood Earl Daniel Wood Sr.
m Virginia R. Hennemann
Carl J. Wehner
m Marilyn J. Cabral
Catherine Rottler Walter William Wehner Paul Julius Wehner

1860-1941 m Wilma B. Oberle m Earlyn Marie Jokerst
Neil William Wehner

m Rowena Theresa Meyer
Peter, Catherine, and children, 27 January 1935. Left to Right: Albert, Octavia, Julius, Alice,
Ella, Catherine, Henry, Peter, Leona, Walter, Ervine, Edward. (Wehner Family Collection.)
John Edward Wehner

Peter and Catherine’s eldest child was christened
“John Edward”2212 and called “Edward J.,” “Ed,” or,
by family and close friends, “Eddie” (but, except in
his early years, never “John” or “John Edward”).
Some claim that he did not like the name “John
Edward Wehner” because it gave him the initials
“JEW.” It is possible. Though a grandchild of an
immigrant, he was xenophobic, questioning all
things “un-American.” He was certainly unreceptive
to Ste. Genevieve’s French, who he believed felt
superior to the Germans. (He was probably right.)
On a trip to New Mexico to visit his grandchild
Mary Frances, he noted the presence of many
American Indians and asked why there were so
many foreigners there! From this one might think
that he was uneducated, but in fact, Ed was widely John Edward (“Ed”) Wehner. (Collection of
read, with a strong interest in politics, and history. Robert and Mary Frances Tapscott.)
(He would have loved this book.) His was the attitude attributed (rightly or wrongly) to
small-town, hard working, Republican businessmen, and he was all of these.
Edward was born in Ste. Genevieve on 23 October 1885, according to a courthouse birth
record returned on 6 November,2444 or on 29 October 1885, according to all other records, of
which there are a multitude. Certainly, Ed believed he was born on the latter date. 2445 On 30
November 1911 he wedded Leona Mary Naumann at the Church of Ste. Genevieve, in a
service conducted by Charles L. Van Tourenhout, rector.2446 Raised in Ste. Genevieve,
Edward had ample opportunity to know Leona’s family, who attended the same church and
who were distantly related to him. (Peter’s first cousin Mary Martha Theresa Meyer had
married Leona’s brother-in-law William George Naumann.)
Leona (“Loni,”2157 “Nibbsie,”2447
“Leonie” ), born 4 September 1887, was one
2448
of fifteen children of Louis Joseph Naumann

(sometimes “Nauman”) and Sophie Rosalie
(“Rosa”) Hauck, fourteen of whom are named in
records of the Church of Ste. Genevieve,2157 and
one other, Anna M. (Mary),2449 who died as a 2-
day-old infant, named on a gravestone in Ste.
Genevieve’s old Memorial Cemetery.2450 Born 4
July 1842 in the town of Wetter, Kreis Marburg,
Hesse, Germany, Louis emigrated in 1853 to the
United States, where he married Sophie.1440
Leona, claimed at age 16 to be the most
beautiful girl in Ste. Genevieve,2451 was raised in
comfort, in one of the town’s nicest houses. Her
father was a well-to-do butcher,2158,2452,2453
whose occupation had expanded to include
livestock dealing.2164 Louis learned the butcher’s
trade under his father and started his own meat
Leona Mary Naumann, age 16. (Collection of
market in 1865.1440 A 10 September 1877 receipt
Robert and Mary Frances Tapscott.) states that he was a “DEALER IN FRESH
MEATS, FLOUR AND PROVISIONS
2454
OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE.” On the wall of the Old Brick House Restaurant in
Ste. Genevieve hangs a single-page Ste.
Genevieve Business Directory printed
around 1891 and advertising “Louis
Naumann, MEAT MARKET and Steam
Sausage Factory, Fresh and smoked
meats and sausages kept constantly on
hand. Nothing but the best quality will
be sent from my shop. The highest
market price paid for cattle, hogs, hide
and tallow.” Louis’s “Steam Sausage
Factory” was made possible by a steam-
driven “upright engine” purchased in Built about 1858, the Louis Naumann house, 299
October 1891 to make sausage. 2455 Seraphin, remains one of Ste. Genevieve’s finest (2006).
Louis was famous for his “Easter Beeves.” The 20 April 1876 Fair Play noted “The
fattest beef we ever saw we think was the one killed by Louis Naumann, Esq. for Easter-the
one he exhibited in the wagon on Thursday before Easter. It was a calf raised by Mr. Leon
Vion, of this city, was eleven months old and weighed 730 pounds.” In the 12 April 1884 Ste.
Genevieve Herald, “One day this week Mr. L. Naumann invited us to take a look at his
Easter Beeves. They consisted of two fat, yearling calves, weighing 570 and 680 pounds
respectively. One was raised by our enterprising farmer, Mr. I. Ziegler, and the other was
fattened by Mr. Naumann himself.”2098
Louis and Sophie Rosalie (Hauck) Naumann and family 3 November 1901. Leona is at bottom right. Sophie
died less than three weeks after this photo was taken. (Collection of Robert and Mary Frances Tapscott.)
Louis was also elected Ste. Genevieve Sheriff, 1880-1884,2456 and Collector of Revenue,
1886-1898,1440 running as a Democrat, when most Ste. Genevieve Germans were
Republicans. Crimes reported during Louis’s four years as sheriff were not high drama.
July, 1882: Young Roth, who has been confined on the County Farm for the
last few weeks, jumped over his 12 foot fence and escaped through town
towards his home. Sheriff Naumann was notified of the fact by Superintendent
Braun and brought him back. The man seems to be harmless but evidently
don’t like the idea of being shut up.2457
July, 1883: A terrific cyclone originated in our jail last Wednesday afternoon
when M. Famille was locked up by Sheriff Naumann for disorderly conduct.
Monsieur took the locking up part of the performance in high dudgeon and
kicked most tremendously, inflicting the severest punishment on his shoes and
cursing everything black and blue. On Thursday morning the culprit was
brought before His Honor, the Mayor, who made him sweat to the tune of
$16.65. For want of the needful wherewith to pay his little bill, monsieur was
sent back to jail to wait for something to turn up.2458
September, 1883: The public grounds at Bloomsdale were turned into a
miniature battle field on last Saturday. it seems that some of the “sluggers” out
there had heard of Jos Haug’s reputation as a pugilist and resolved to give him
a chance to display his muscular strength. Just as he was about to start for
home, he was attacked by Peter McClanahan and a rough and tumble fight
was the result. Sheriff Naumann and deputy sheriff Meyer separated them, in
so doing Nauman was interfered with by one Scofield, who reached in his hip
pocket as if attempting to draw a weapon. The two officers then tried to search
Scofield but they were handled rather roughly by Scofield and some of his
friends. Meyer was at last compelled to draw his revolver using it however
instead of a club and inflicting several flesh wounds on Scofield’s head. The
latter grabbed a spade but did not succeed in doing any further damage.2459
On 16 February 1905 Louis Naumann, highly respected, well-off, with a good family,
fine home, and prosperous business, sat down at home, slashed his left wrist with a knife, and
bled to death. The suicide was attributed by the Fair Play newspaper to a fear of
reoccurrence of appendicitis (extremely doubtful, actually laughable)2460 and by the Ste.
Genevieve Herald to despondency (much more likely).2461 Family members have said that he
was dejected by the death of his wife; however, Sophie had died over 3 ½ years earlier.2462
The suicide, like most, was unexpected and unexplained. Just a day or two earlier, Louis, his
son-in-law Walter Joseph Operle (who married Estella Rose Genevieve (“Stella”)
Naumann),2463,2464 and three other Ste. Genevieve residents had visited a poultry farm in
Farmington in anticipation of establishing a poultry business:2465
Anton Reich, Ben Jokerst, Isaac McNeece, Louis Naumann and Walter Operle
were in Farmington last week and while there visited the poultry farm of E.
W. Geer to secure plans, etc., preliminary to the establishment of a poultry
business at this place. They already have quite a number of fine fowls and as
soon as satisfactory arrangements can be made, the young men will decide on
the location of their farm.
Orphaned at age 17, Leona was taken in by her sister and brother-in-law Stella and
Walter Operle and lived with them until she married.2451,2466 Following their marriage, Leona
(always “Nibbsie” to family members) and Ed moved into 623 La Porte Street, a new house
built for the couple.2467,2468 There, Ed and Nibbsie lived all their married lives. There, they
raised two children, a girl and a boy, Eloise and Francis, a small family for a Catholic family,
but yielding four grandchildren. Edward was a very strict parent, but was a pushover for his
granddaughters.
Edward continued with his father at Ste.

Genevieve Lumber and Realty Company,
until Peter’s death and long thereafter, a
tenure of 60 years, 1903 to 1973,2469 working
as a driver/delivery boy,2415 lumberman,2467
bookkeeper,2468 manager,2470 and
2469
president. By 1935 he was a member of
the firm along with Peter, John J. Tlapek Jr.,
and Felix A. Petrequin.1423 When his parents
died in 1941, Edward received all of the land
“lying on the North side of North Gabouri
Creek and lying East of the main Street,
sometimes called Little Rock Road and being
bounded on the East by the Illinois Southern
or Missouri Pacific railroad track and known
as the Lumber yard property” and 45 shares
of stock in the Ste. Genevieve Lumber and
Realty Company.1448 The business was
shared with Petrequin and Tlapek Jr., but
Edward owned the land upon which it sat.
Eventually John Tlapek wanted out, but on
16 December 1946, before he could sell his
share, he died of a heart attack.2471 Charles J.
Edward and Leona (Nauman) Wehner Wedding “Bud” Tlapek replaced his father2472 in the
Photograph. (Eloise Summers Archives.) business. The other original partner, Felix
Petrequin, died 24 June 1948.2473
Edward had two strong traits—he was honest to a fault and was extraordinarily civic
minded.2451 And he, like his forbearers, was through and through a Republican. In 1940, he
came home one day to tell Leona that he
was worried that his father, Peter, was
becoming senile. “He told me he was
thinking about voting for FDR for a third
term”!2474
In his younger years, Ed was a first
lieutenant in the National Guard.2469 For
24 years he served on the Ste Genevieve
Board of Education, and was Board
president when the new high school was
constructed in 1935-1936 as a WPA
project, and when it was dedicated 18
March 1937.2475 (Today, the building is
the Junior High.) Ed was also secretary of
the local chapter of the American Red
Cross, and was a volunteer fireman,
acting as hose man, then assistant chief, Ed and Leona Wehner house, 623 La Porte, Ste.
Genevieve (2010).
and finally chief, and serving as president
of the Southeast Missouri Firefighters Association. When the Ste. Genevieve Business
League reorganized, he was its first president. Ed
was one of the organizers of the Ste. Genevieve
Savings and Loan Association and served as a
director for 50 years, one term as president. He
was a charter member of Council 1037 of the
Knights of Columbus, and a member of the
Cardinal Glennon Assembly of Fourth Degree
Knights of Columbus.
In what little spare time he had, Ed raised
vegetables in his back yard. When gardening, he
would often find the family’s large, orange-striped
tomcat climbing his pants leg as a signal. Ed
would then pull off an ear of corn, shuck it, and
throw it on the ground, so that Tex could lay a
paw on either end and gnaw off the kernals.2474
Leona had wanted to become a nurse, but her
sisters objected claiming it was no occupation for
“nice” girls.2474 Following her marriage, however,
Leona nursed her diabetic mother-in-law,
Catherine for 13 years, giving insulin shots,
preparing food, and changing dressings on her
gangrenous foot.2451
National Guardsman Edward Wehner. On 12 December 1960, after 49 years of
(Eloise Summers Archives.) marriage, Nibbsie suddenly passed away from a
stroke.2451,2476 For years, she had cared for Ed,
who had a very strict diet after a failed gallbladder operation. He hired a housekeeper, Mrs.
Ritter, to daily clean the house and fix a necessarily bland lunch. As he aged, Ed’s tolerance
for previously forbidden foods increased, and he started strolling down to the Ste. Genevieve
Hotel for his evening meal, a treat for Ed, who was extremely sociable.
In 1963 Ed was commemorated by a local newspaper for his sixty years in the lumber
business.1444 He had started working at the age of 17, when lumber was transferred to the
yard by raft on the Mississippi, and was planning
to be at the lumber yard for “twenty or thirty more
years.” He did not work that long, but he did put
in another ten years. At the end of March 1973,
while Ed was still president, plans were finalized
to sell Ste. Genevieve Lumber to Riverside West
Builder Supply Company of Cape Girardeau.2477
Ed Wehner and Paul Moreau, the other owner,
sold out just in time. One month later, on 28 April
1973, a flooding Mississippi crested at 43.3
feet.1449 Between sandbags and levees, most of
Ste. Genevieve was saved. But the lumber yard
laying along North Gabouri Creek, a natural Tex, the corn-eating cat. (Eloise Summers
channel from the river, was wiped out. Archives.)
In 1981 Edward’s health declined

dramatically and he finally entered a
nursing home in Louisville,
Kentucky, where his son, Francis,
was living. It was there that he died,
at Pine Tree Villa, on 16 September
1982, at the age of 96.2476 At Ed’s
request, his granddaughter Barbara
Summers sang “Let There be Peace
on Earth,” “Amazing Grace” (a
Protestant hymn that Ed loved), and
“How Great Thou Art” for his
funeral.2451 Edward and Leona
Wehner are buried side by side in Ste.
Genevieve’s Valle Spring
Cemetery.1503 In her 1982 Christmas Lumber yard in final years. (Eloise Summers Archives.)
letter, Edward’s daughter Eloise
wrote this tribute:
He was one of the most completely honest persons I ever knew. He had great
sympathy for the less fortunate and generously shared with them the fruits of
his 70 years of labor. He had a long record of public service to the town he
loved…. He set an example of the highest morals, devotion to duty, and love
of God, family and country for all of us. We miss him.
Eloise Marie Wehner
Much of Eloise’s history (and that of her husband, Dale) was obtained from her own
hand2451,2478 and from her daughter Mary Frances (Summers) Tapscott.2447
Eloise was born to Edward and Leona in Ste. Genevieve on 25 March 19132479 and
attended Ste. Genevieve Catholic and public schools, though she went to the former for only
a year, as a result of a run-in between her father, Edward Wehner, and Msgr. Charles L. Van
Tourenhout, the pastor of the Church of Ste. Genevieve. Ed told the pastor that the school
outhouse needed repair, but Van Tourenhout refused to do so. When Eloise used the
outhouse, it collapsed under her and she fell in. Ed took her out of the Catholic school and
put her in public schools, which she attended, graduating from Ste. Genevieve High School
in 1931.2480 As secretary of the Board of Education at the time, Eloise’s father was one of
those signing her diploma.
Eloise received a BS degree in Education from Southeast Missouri State Teachers
College (today, “Southeast Missouri State University”) in Cape Girardeau in 1935, where she
was not only a good student, but an ardent joiner. She was a member of the all-female Clio
Society, the debate team, Pi Kappa Delta (public speaking and debate), Kappa Delta Pi
(education honors), and the Marquette Club (a Catholic Organization).2481 Debate was her
great love. Her scrapbook contains article after article about debate trips and competitions.
After graduating, Eloise taught typing, shorthand, and other business subjects at Missouri
high schools in Diehlstadt (Scott County), St. Mary, and Ste. Genevieve, the only school still
standing today.2451 When she was hired to teach in Diehlstadt (at $50/month), beginning fall
1935, Superintendant E. Earl Crader, said to Bertram Murphy, another teacher (who would
become Eloise’s close friend), “Guess what. The School Board has hired another
Catholic.”2482 At that time there were only three Catholic families in the Diehlstadt School
District. After teaching two years, Eloise requested that she be released from her contract so
she could teach in St. Mary, Missouri, which was much closer to home. In his 6 June 1937
letter approving the release, Crader wrote “Now that you are leaving us I want to tell you
frankly that you have made us a very capable teacher as well as an enthusiastic one. I have
been more than pleased with you and if I can be of service to you in the future, please feel
free to call on me.”2483 The Catholic teacher had passed muster.
While Eloise was at Diehlstadt, the town of Ste. Genevieve built a new high school, a
WPA project. When the building was dedicated on 18 March 1937, her father, who was
president of the Ste. Genevieve Board of Education, introduced the guests, and Eloise gave a
talk on “History of Ste. Genevieve.”2475 Eloise would one day teach in the new high school,
for a salary of $945 a year.2484
At Diehlstadt and later at St. Mary High School,2485 Eloise directed or co-directed a
number of student plays—”That’s one on Bill,” 23 November 1936; “Anything Might
Happen,” 22 April 1937; “Bashful Bobby,” 12 May 1938.2486 During the summers of 1938
through 1940 she attended Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, obtaining on 21
November 1941 a Master of Commercial Science.2451,2487
It was at Southeast Missouri that Eloise met Dale Summers, her future husband, when
they critiqued each other’s English papers. At the time, Eloise thought that Dale’s appraisal
was “somewhat harsh.” Born 5 March 1913 in Illmo, Scott County, Missouri, Dale Winston
Summers was one of five children of John William Sr. and Verne Cumi (Crabtree)
Summers.2488 John William was employed by the Saint Louis and San Francisco Railroad,
the “Frisco,” a line that
never went near San
Francisco, working his
way up from laborer,2489 to
telegrapher,2490,2491 to
2492
station agent. He began
his railroad career in the
Missouri town of
Puxico2489 and later
worked at Delta, Missouri,
while living in Ilmo.2490
Sometime before 1920,
John became a telegrapher
and station agent in
Wittenberg, Missouri, a
1927 Flood, Frisco railroad station, Wittenberg, Missouri, tiny Mississippi River
26 April 1927. (Collection of Betty Jenkins Summers.) village where Dale spent
most of his childhood.2491
Although Wittenberg had a maximum population of just 350 people, it had a brewery, a
furniture factory, a flour mill, two grocery stores, two hotels, and John Summer’s railroad
station, which gave the village the reason for being.2493 It also had a railroad bridge across the
Brazeau River, where, in 1922, a posse hid to ambush and kill the train robber Jack “Quail
Hunter” Kennedy.2494
The Brazeau was a natural

conduit from the Mississippi River,
and the town was hit by flood after
flood. After the devastating 1927
flood, Wittenberg began to dwindle,
until today it has a half dozen
houses, a scattering of foundations,
and a lonely railroad track.
His family relates many tales
about Dale in Wittenberg. He and
his four siblings, Mildred Katherine
(“Mid”), Anna Marguerite (“Pugs”),
John William Jr. (“Pete”), and Dale Summers in front of Summers’s residence, 1927
Wittenberg flood. (Collection of Betty Jenkins Summers.)
Michael Franklin (“Mike”), played
railroad, Dale assuming the role of a
character named “Bob.” The name continued to be used for him by his brothers and sisters all
his life. People not realizing the name was fictitious often referred to him as “Robert
Summers.”
The family, which always lived near a railroad track, had problems with hobos, who were
constantly climbing over the fence around the house. To keep them out, Dale wired the fence
to a battery but accidently included the gate in the circuit. The first person to enter the wired
gate was the local preacher’s daughter.
In 1919, Dale spent his first grade in a Wittenberg school that was so small that even
grades were taught in even years, and odd grades, in odd years. The teacher thought that he
was too advanced to go into the second grade, and third grade would not be taught the
following year, so he was sent directly into fourth grade. He skipped two levels. In May 1931
Dale graduated from Central High School, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the closest high school
to Wittenberg, but still over 30 miles away.2495 Because of the skipped grades, he should
have graduated earlier, but he had quit school for a while to work as a logger. That fall he
entered Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, where he became a member of both the
football team (the Cape Girardeau Indians) and the all-male Webster Society.2481
In the summer of 1932, after a year of college, Dale had his biggest adventure, most
likely termed an “escapade” by his parents. Sometime in June he pushed off from St. Louis in
a skiff (others say “row boat”) on an odyssey down the Mississippi to New Orleans. Near
Grand Tower, Illinois, a small town a couple of miles south and across the river from
Wittenberg, Missouri, he met two other travelers, Leo Newman and Charles Mercurio, who
were making the same trip in a houseboat. Dale joined them. A description of the
“Huckleberry Finn” voyage of the vessel Wanderer was published in the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.2496
Dale escaped the usual threats of river travel—sandbars, snags, rocks, whirlpools—only
to fall victim to the unexpected. He contracted malaria. Newman claimed that Dale was
“restored to health” after being dosed with quinine obtained from a penitentiary along the
river, but any restoration was only partial. His family remembers him shaking violently all
his life whenever he caught a cold. After reaching New Orleans, Newman and Mercurio
returned to St. Louis by jumping freights, but Dale was too worn from his illness to ride the
rails. He wired home for train ticket money, living on bananas that had fallen from conveyer
belts along the docks and skimping to purchase cheap meals until funds arrived.
The fall of 1932, Dale returned to
college, but his stay was short. Early that
year, Dale’s father, John William, had
been made station agent in Pocahontas,
Arkansas.2497,2498 During a Christmas
break train trip from Cape Girardeau to
his new home in Pocahontas, Dale was
approached by a conductor who asked
“Are you John Summers’s boy?” Upon
answering, Dale heard a cold “Your
father’s dead.” On Wednesday, 21
December 1920, at his home in
Pocahontas, John William Summers had
unexpectedly and suddenly died of
pneumonia.2498
Dale, the family’s oldest boy,
immediately dropped out of college to go
to work to support his mother and
(mostly younger) brothers and sisters. He
first delivered papers, then logged, and
then was an engineer on a tugboat. His
mother, Verne Cumi, moved into Cape
Girardeau and started a boarding house,
which she ran the rest of her life.2499
On 31 May 1941, after he had
obtained a decently paying job with Ford
Motor Company in St. Louis (and taking Dale and Eloise, c1935.
some classes at Washington University), (Eloise Summers Archives.)
he married Eloise Wehner, who had been
teaching during the years that Dale was working to support his mother.2500 They had become
engaged two years earlier, when, on Valentine’s Day 1939, Dale had given Eloise a diamond
ring inscribed “D. S. to E. W. 2/14/39.”2501 The wedding, at the Church of Ste. Genevieve,
was not well attended, particularly by the Wehners, because Eloise’s grandparents, Peter and
Catherine, had died just three months earlier. There was some feeling that social events
should be postponed. Moreover, Dale’s mother and his brother “Pete,” who was scheduled to
be an attendant, were struck by serious food poisoning and had to miss the wedding
altogether. The culprit was a custard pie purchased by Pete the night before at a Cape
Girardeau bakery. Kelley Taylor, who would one day marry Dale’s sister “Pugs,” another
attendant, took Pete’s place. This explains Kelly’s ill-fitting suit in the wedding photo.
For a couple of years, Eloise and Dale lived in St. Louis, while Dale continued to work
for Ford Motor Company, a boring job he thoroughly hated. Then he got the break he was
looking for. He became a safety engineer for Employers Liability Insurance Corporation (which
became “Employers Commercial Union Insurance Co.” in 1969) and worked for that firm the
rest of his life. Around 1943, Employers moved Dale and Eloise to Kansas City, Kansas,
where they lived until 1949 and where they had two daughters—Mary Frances, born on the
Missouri side of the city,
and Barbara Eloise, born in
Kansas.
In 1949 Employers
moved Dale and his family
to El Paso, Texas, where
Eloise taught at Loretto
Academy. Then on 1 June
1965, they moved for the
last time, to Decatur,
Georgia, once more at the
request of Employers
Insurance, and Eloise
joined the faculty at
Georgia State College in
Atlanta.2502
On 15 January 1972,
near disaster struck. Dale
suffered a serious heart
attack.2503 He survived and Wedding of Dale Summers and Eloise Wehner, Church of Ste.
entered a Cardiac Rehab Genevieve, 31 May 1941. L to R: Marguerite (“Pugs”) Summers,
Program, which appeared Kelly Taylor (with the tight-fitting suit meant for his brother Pete),
Dale Summers, Eloise Wehner, Frances (“Bud”) Wehner, and Lucille
to be highly successful. But Marie Ohmis (a former student of Eloise Wehner). (Collection of
a little over three years Robert and Mary Frances Tapscott.)
later, on 18 October 1975,
Dale suffered a second and fatal heart attack. The funeral was held in the Church of Ste.
Genevieve, where he and Eloise had been married 34
years earlier.2504 Eloise lived another 12 years in
Decatur, continued to teach a while, and did some
traveling, something that she had had little
opportunity to do with her unadventurous husband.
On 28 July 1987, in Dekalb County, Georgia, Eloise
passed away from complications of lymphoma.2505
Eloise and Dale rest alongside one another in Valle
Spring Cemetery, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.1503 They
left two daughters, Mary Frances and Barbara.
Much of Mary Frances Summer’s life is
detailed in a book about her husband’s family, The
Glenn and Mary Imle Tapscott Family.2506 Mary
Frances was born 15 February 1944 in Kansas City,
Missouri, and was baptized 27 February 1944 at
Blessed Sacrament Church, Kansas City, Kansas.2507
In 1949, she went with her parents to El Paso, where
Mary Frances and Barbara Summers, she completed kindergarten and continued through
1953. (Eloise Summers Archives.) elementary and high school at Loretto Academy,
graduating valedictorian in spring, 1962. That fall she started at Webster College, St. Louis,
Missouri, graduating with a BA in mathematics in 3½ years, in December 1965, by taking
extra heavy course loads.2502
In the summer of 1963, Mary
Frances went to the University of
Minnesota to write math and science
curriculum materials as part of the
Minnemast Project. There she met
Robert Edwin Tapscott, who was in
Minneapolis as a summer employee of
3M Company, and the two hit it off.
Robert (“Bob”) was born 10 June
1938 in Terre Haute, Indiana, to Glenn
Daniel and Mary Emaline (Imle)
Tapscott, residents of Marshall,
Illinois.2508 Following his birth, his
family traveled around the United
States, coming back to Marshall in
1945, where Bob spend his childhood.
In 1951 he traveled with his parents and
siblings to Denver, Colorado, where his
father died the following year, 15 June
1952.2509 Bob graduated from West
High School in Denver in 1956 and after
working several years at Gates Rubber Mary Frances and Bob, Minneapolis, 1963
Company as a student engineer, entered (Collection Robert and Mary Frances Tapscott.)
the University of Colorado in Boulder
full time in 1961. He graduated with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering in 1964, and
then entered the University of Illinois at Urbana, Illinois, where he received a Ph.D. in
Physical Chemistry, in 1968. He has always said that he would not have gone for a graduate
degree had it not been for Mary Frances, who had to explain to him what a Ph.D. was and
then had to convince him to go after it.
Bob and Mary Frances were married 31 December 1966 at the Church of Ste. Genevieve,
where Mary Frances’s parents, grandparents, and great grandparents had been married. Four
generations of Wehners (along with assorted Naumanns and Rottlers) wedded in one church.
Mary Frances and Bob lived for a year in Urbana, Illinois, while Bob completed the Ph.D.
and where Mary Frances obtained an M.S. in mathematics. After a few months in Chicago,
Illinois, where Bob did postdoctoral work, the couple moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico.
There Bob joined the Chemistry faculty at the University of New Mexico, a job he was lucky
to get though he did not know at the time that the acadmic job market would soon collapse.
And there, after raising their only child to school age, Mary Frances became an elementary
school teacher at Manzano Day School, later joining the St. Pius X High School staff as a
math teacher and then the Technology Director, her position when she retired in 2012.
Mary Frances and Bob have one child, Michael Kevin Tapscott, born 16 June 1969 in
Albuquerque. Mike, father of twins, Cody and Corina, lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
Barbara Eloise Summers was born

21 March 1948 in Kansas City, Kansas,
and was educated at Loretto Academy in
El Paso, Texas, where her mother was a
member of the faculty. She graduated in
1965 and, after a year at Webster
College in St. Louis,2510 entered Agnes
Scott College, in Decatur, Georgia.
There she obtained a degree in Spanish
in 1970.
On 21 April 1968, Barbara married
Gerald Wyatt Dobbs at St. Thomas
More Church, Decatur Georgia. Gerald
(“Jerry”) was born 18 April 1947 to
George and Theodocia (Jones) Dobbs,
and was working as plant engineer at
Georgia Regional Hospital.2511 The
couple had two children, both born in
Decatur, Georgia—Jerry Edward, born 9
January 1969, and Alicia Maria, born 24
September 1973. On 9 June 1994, at the
young age of 47, Gerald died of
myocarditis in Lilburn, Georgia, and is
buried in White Chapel Cemetery, Barbara vacuuming Spooky. (Eloise Summers Archives.)
Duluth, Georgia.
On 20 July 1995 at Fort McPherson, Georgia, Barbara was married a second time, to
Robert Alan Summers. Robert (“Bob”) served in the U.S. Army from 27 May 1964 to 31
January 1985, leaving with the rank of Command Sergeant Major. He was also a paratrooper
in the Special Forces, serving
three tours in Viet Nam, two
tours in Korea, and two tours
in Germany. His entire
military career was on jump
(parachute) status, and he was
an airborne instructor at Fort
Benning, Georgia, on the
Jump Committee. Upon
retirement from the U.S.
Army, Bob served as regional
manager for JTPA (Job
Training Partnership Act) and
as Quality Assurance Director
at Fort Bliss, Texas, and Fort
Jackson, South Carolina.
Barbara was a teacher
Barbara and Bob Summers, 2011. (Collection of Barbara Summers.) most of her adult life,
specializing in Spanish and French, and teaching in the Atlanta, Georgia, area at Avondale,
St. Pius, Berkmar, and Duluth high schools. An amateur thespian, she has performed in plays
in the Atlanta area. Barbara has had a life-long affinity for cats, starting with the Summers
family cat, Spooky, who loved to be groomed with a vacuum cleaner.
Four generations: Left to right, standing, Michael Tapscott, Barbara Summers, Eloise (Wehner)
Summers, Jerry Dobbs, Michael Tapscott; seated, Mary Frances (Summers) Tapscott, Edward Wehner,
Alicia Dobbs, c1979. (Collection of Robert and Mary Frances Tapscott.)
Francis Edward Wehner
Francis (“Bud,” less often “Peck” or “Frank”) was born
10 July 1920 in Ste. Genevieve.2512 After graduating from
Ste. Genevieve High School, he attended business college in
St. Louis, Missouri, and then St. Louis University. During
WW II he served in the Naval Construction Battalion,
“Seabees,” part of the time in Luzon. Over the years he
worked for Stecher-Traung Lithograph Company, Allstate
Insurance Company, and Home Insurance Company. On 6
June 1942 he married Olga Dolores Elizondo at the Cathedral
Basilica of St. Louis, Missouri.2513 Born 29 September 1916
in Monterrey, Mexico,2514 Dolores had come to the United States

with her family following her father’s death in a Mexican train
accident.2515 In St. Louis she had graduated from Cathedral
Basilica of St. Louis Grade School and Rosati Kane High School,
and had met Bud in St. Louis on what was more or less, a blind
date arranged by mutual acquaintances.2513,2515 The couple lived
for a while in St. Louis,2394 but by 1960 had moved to
Louisville.2476 They left Louisville for a short time before
returning in 1973. There Dolores died 13 March 2011 and was
interred in Calvary Cemetery, and there Bud continues to live.2514
Bud and Dolores had two children. Michael Francis Wehner
married Jane Rueff2516 on 25 October 1968 in Louisville,
Kentucky.2517 Before the marriage was dissolved, the couple had
three children: Aaron Michael, Jessica Lauren, and Elizabeth
Jane.2518 In 1991, Michael Francis married Deborah (“Debbie”)
Harrell.2516 In 1996, Edward John (“Jack”) Wehner, named after
his grandfather, married Mary Kay Welch of Minneapolis, Francis Wehner c1937. (Eloise
Minnesota.2519 Summers Archives.)
Julia Elvina Wehner

Julia Elvina was born 10 October 18872520 and
died not quite two years later, on 10 September
1889.1503 Under the “Local Department” Section, the
Fair Play stated simply “Died on Tuesday,
September 10th, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Wehner.”2521
Equal space was
given to the
announcement “If
you want to pay 10
cents for a good
smoke go to H. L.
SIEBERT’S” and
more space to the
fact that “Several
Julia Wehner in Ste. Genvieve, 1889. of our citizens
(Eloise Summers Archives.) attended a ball
given at Joseph
Siebert’s on the Fredericktown road Tuesday night.” Like
most 19th-century newspapers, the Fair Play considered the
death of a child, a common occurrence, of minor import.
The much loved and much grieved Julia was the subject
of numerous photos, including one with her grandmother
Clara (Schneider) Wehner (p. 158). A simple, now-broken
stone with a lamb and a cross marks her grave in Valle Julia Elvina’s marker, Valle Spring
Spring Cemetery. Cemetery (2010).
Louise Alice Wehner

At 599 La Porte in Ste. Genevieve, two
houses south of the Ed and Leona Wehner
home, stands a substantial two-story yellow
house. The house had to be substantial since it
housed as many as fifteen individuals at one
time— the owners, Peter and Catherine
Wehner, their eleven surviving children, and a
granddaughter, Mary. The house ended up in
the hands of Peter and Catherine’s daughter
Louise Alice, born in Ste. Genevieve 14
September 18892212 and baptized 5 October
1889 at the Church of Ste. Genevieve.2522
Never married, Alice (the name she preferred)
lived with her parents until their deaths and
then inherited the family home,590
supplementing her limited income by renting
out the ground floor.
Alice, who could be often found working
in her garden, wearing an old-fashioned
bonnet with a panel that hung down the back
Louise Alice Wehner, 90th birthday. (Eloise and a stiff brim, was described by some as
Summers Archives.)
rather homely, but photos show a not
unpleasant visage.
Alice Wehner died in
Ste. Genevieve on 6
December 1985 at the
advanced age of 96.2523
Following a funeral on 9
December 1985 at the
Church of Ste. Genevieve,
she was interred at Valle
Spring Cemetery.1503
Ella Agnes Wehner
Born 6 September
1891, 2212
named “Eleonore”
in a transcribed church
record,2212 and designated
“Elenora,” “Elnora,”
“Eleanor,” and “Elinora” in
Peter Wehner House, 599 La Porte (2004).
various documents, she was
“Ella” to friends and family. The transcribed church record is probably incorrect since
“Elenora” is the name used in the wills of both her father and mother.1448,2443 We will,
however, use “Ella” here, as she would have wished.
Ella had a difficult life. On 5 September 1907,2524 just a day before her sixteenth birthday,
she gave birth to Mary C. Wehner, a child of unknown paternity, at least unknown to
outsiders. A displeased Peter attempted to hide his daughter’s mistake. Mary was not even
recorded in the 1910 Ste. Genevieve census,2415 and she is identified as Peter’s daughter in
the 1920 census.2416 Obituaries for Peter and Catherine Wehner list “Mary of Ste.
Genevieve” among their children.1288,2429 Some of Peter’s true children followed suit. Mary is
cited as a sister in obituaries for both Mary Leona2525 and Octavia2526 and was always called
“Aunt Mary” by her cousins. She is finally identified as Peter’s granddaughter in the 1930
census,2527 though the 1940 census once again shows Mary as Peter’s daughter.2528 But by
that time, for all practical purposes, she was.
In 1920 Ella was living with her parents in
Ste. Genevieve, while working as a hotel
chambermaid,2416 but by 1930 she had moved
(escaped?) to Indianapolis. There she appears in
the 1930 census married to Peter (“Pete”) J.
Svelich,2529 who is claimed to have immigrated
to the U.S. the same year.2530 Though he was
born in Yugoslavia, Peter gave his parents’
birthplace as Austria. It is likely that his origin
was Croatia, which at various times was part of
both the Austrian Empire and Yugoslavia and
Indianapolis, postcard, c1940. (Ancestry.com.)
where the name “Svelich” or “Svelic” is found.
Nine years older than Ella, Peter, born 15 December 1882,2531 was a laborer when he and
Ella were first married.2530 The official date of the census showing both the household and an
immigration year of 1930 is 1 April 1930. How the two managed to meet and marry in just a
few months, particularly when there were language differences, is a mystery. Also unknown
is where they were married. A search of Marion County, Indiana, records finds no marriage.
In later years, Ella reconciled with her father. She and Peter attended her parents 50th
Wedding anniversary in Ste. Genevieve in 1935.1423 In 1941 “Ella (Mrs. Peter Svelich), of
Indianapolis, Ind.” is listed among Peter’s and Catherine’s living children in their
obituaries.1288,2429
But just because Ella had been forgiven by her family, did not mean that things were
going smoothly. Peter and Ella had been married at the beginning of the greatest economic
depression this country has seen, and their finances were in terrible shape. They were forced
to move from house to house in the Indianapolis area. In 1930, they were living at 724 North
Delaware Street, a boarding house;2530 in 1934, at 623 East St. Clair;2532 in 1935, at 922½
East Washington;2533 in 1937 at 1035 River Avenue;2534 in 1940, at 724 Noble Street.2535 Part
of the problem was that Peter was only a laborer;2530,2532,2533,2534 more seriously, he was an
uneducated laborer;2535 most seriously, he was a unwell, uneducated laborer.2535 In 1940
Peter was unable to work and had not worked at all the previous year.2535 Ella was working
as a maid in a private home, but had only been employed 30 weeks in 1939, for which she
had received the miserable sum of $120, much of which was eaten up by rent ($6 a month in
1940).2535 In 1942, Peter (and presumably Ella) was living in Perry Township, just south of
Indianapolis, and was doing even more poorly. Under “Employment” in Peter’s WW II draft
registration is written “none illness for years.”2531
Peter J. Svelich died in 1951 and was buried 26 December in Indianapolis’s Round Hill
Cemetery.2529 His marker’s birth year of 18792529 conflicts with the 15 December 1882 date
on his WW II draft registration.2531 Recorded in Peter’s presence, the latter is more reliable.
The widowed Ella moved to yet another house, at 244 Bakemeyer Street, and went to
work in the Stokely-Van Camp factory.2536 Almost a century earlier, in 1861, Gilbert and
Hester Van Camp had begun producing and selling canned fruits and vegetables at their
Indianapolis grocery store, and had soon obtained a lucrative contract to supply canned pork
and beans to the Union Army during the Civil War. In 1933, the firm was bought out by
James and John Stokely, who founded Stokely-Van Camp, Inc. Ella worked at the canning
factory and warehouse at 2002 South East Street.
On 6 September 1962 in Marion
County, Indiana, the widow Ella Svelich
and widower Orison Scribener Smith were
married.2537 Orison was born 7 August 1889
in Vincennes, Indiana,2538 to Orison S. and
Mariah (O’Brien)2539 Smith,2540 and had
moved to Marion County. There, on 8 April
1917, Orison Jr. married Sarah J. Coy, born
24 November 18952539 to John S. and Della
M. (True) Coy.2541,2542 Orison Jr. was
employed by New York Central Railroad in
their Beech Grove shops in Perry Township,
just south of Indianapolis.2543,2544 In 1942
the Smiths and the Svelichs were neighbors,
possibly living in the same house. Peter
Svelich’s RFD address was RR8 Box 416; Ella’s residence, 244 Bakemeyer Street. (Google.)
that of Orison Smith was RR8 Box
416BB.2531,2544
On 17 November 1957 Sarah J. (Coy) Smith died leaving behind two sons, Lester Carl
and Gerald Earl.2545 A third son, John S., was already deceased. Orison was now free to
marry his neighbor Ella.
Ella, who died in 1972, was buried as “Ella Smith” on 23 March 1971 in Round Hill
Cemetery alongside Peter Svelich.2529 Orison Scribener Smith died in Pasco County, Florida,
on 14 April 1981.2546
Mary C. Wehner
When her mother headed to Indianapolis, Ella’s only child, born in Ste. Genevieve on 5
September 1907,2547 remained behind, staying with her grandfather and working as a
seamstress at Elder Manufacturing Co. (commonly known as the “shirt factory”).2527,2528 It
was at Elder that her aunts Mary
Leona, Octavia, and Martha Ervine
worked. Hiring primarily women,
the “shirt factory” had 100 “girls”
in 19282548 and well over twice
that number of employees in
Advertisement, Fair Play, 1928.
1937.2549
Sometime after February, 1941, when she appeared without her married name in the
obituaries of her parents,1288,2429 Mary married Sebastian George Basler. Sebastian, a glass
worker at PPG,2550,2551 had been born 30 January 1899 in Zell, Ste. Genevieve County, to
George P. and Regina (Guelthle) Basler.2552,2553 Mary and Sebastian lived out their lives in
Jefferson County, Missouri, Mary dying 16 August 1975 and Sebastian dying 24 November
1975, both in Crystal City.2553,2554 They are buried in Crystal City’s Sacred Heart
Cemetery.421 Mary (Wehner) Basler left no known descendants. Her obituary names as
survivors only her husband and “10 brothers and sisters,” who were actually ten uncles and
aunts.2554
Mary Leona Wehner
Mary Leona and her sister Octavia Clara
were twins, born 17 July 1893 in Ste.
Genevieve.2212 Mary, who usually went by
her middle name, “Leona,” did housework
at a local Ste. Genevieve hotel in 1910 and
was a seamstress in the Elder factory in
1920.2415,2416 By 1927 she was living in St.
Louis, where on 26 March of that year she
married Nicholas Oces (later named
“Nicholas Keser”).2555 Nicholas’s obituary
states that the couple was married at Saints
Peter and Paul Church,2556 but the marriage
return shows that the ceremony was
performed by Joseph L. Schuler, a St. Louis
justice of the peace.2555
Nicholas, born 20 June 1901 in
Johnstown, Pennsylvania to Nicholas Sr.
and Emelia Keser,2556 had a complex
background. According to Wehner family
members, he and his sister Mary Ann (who
married Julius Martin Wehner, Mary
Leona’s brother) were left at an orphanage
under the name “Oces,” from Emelia’s Mary Leona Wehner (Wehner Family Collection.)
second marriage. Thus, early records for
both Nicholas and Mary Ann give that name.1288,1423,1526,2555,2557 Mary Leona (and Nicholas!)
believed that she was marrying Nicholas Oces, the name given on the marriage license. Peter
and Catherine Wehner’s 1934 wills designate their daughter Mary Leona, wife of Nicholas,
as “Mary L. Oces.”1448,2443 Eventually, Nicholas discovered that Mary Ann was his half
sister, and that his name was actually “Keser,” a name given in later records.2556,2558 Mary
Ann’s father may have been living at the time that the children were put into the orphanage.
Leona and Nicholas lived their married lives in St. Louis, where Nicholas was a buffer
for an electric company.1288.1423,2559,2560 There, on 6 November 1978, Nicholas passed
away.2556 Leona lived another fifteen years, returning to Ste. Genevieve before dying a
centenarian.2525 The couple are buried at Valle Spring Cemetery.1503
Leona and Nicholas had a single child, Catherine Ann Keser.2557
Octavia Clara Wehner

Octavia shared both her birth
date, 17 July 1893, and early
occupations with her sister Leona.
Before they were married, both
sisters earned a living doing
housework (1910) and as
seamstresses in a “Clothing Factory”
(1920).2415,2416 Octavia’s housework,
however, was for a private family,
rather than for a hotel, like Leona.
The clothing factory was Elder
Manufacturing Company, where their
sister Martha Ervine also worked.
In May 1913 Octavia, Leona, and
brother Albert travelled to Festus to
visit William Wehner, a descendant
of Lorenz Wehner, brother of their
grandfather Nicholas (p. 50).342 All
three had probably known Lorenz,
who died when the two girls were
teenagers.
On 12 February 1928, at the
Church of Ste. Genevieve, Octavia
wedded Walter Joseph Bauman,2561 Wedding photo, Walter Bauman (seated) and Octavia Wehner
the youngest of six children of (right) with Octavia’s sister Ervine and Walter’s brother
Gilbert, 12 Feb 1928. (Wehner Family Collection.)
August B. and Theresa (Klein)
Bauman.2562 Siblings were Amelia Christine, Estelle A. (“Stella”), Leona Elisabeth, John
Bernard, and Gilbert Vincent.2563 Born 19 March 1895,2564 Walter, like his father, was a
carpenter,2565,2566 and later a general building contractor.2567
Octavia and Walter lived their entire lives in Ste. Genevieve. On 4 March 1974, Walter,
who had served in World War I, died in St. Louis Missouri at Jefferson Barracks Hospital.2568
Octavia also passed away in St. Louis on 4 July 1975.2569 The couple, interred in Valle
Spring Cemetery,2570 left one child, Patricia A. Bauman.2567
Albert Joseph Wehner
Twenty-two miles southeast of Ste. Genevieve, across the Mississippi, on a bluff above
the river, lies the town of Chester, Illinois. At the town’s base is the Elzie C. Segar Memorial
Park, where a new visitor’s center publicizes Chester’s three main attractions—the 6 foot tall,
900 pound, bronze Popeye statue, a rather grotesque monument commemorating Chester as
the birthplace of cartoonist Segar, Popeye’s creator; the magnificent, gleaming white, Chester
Bridge, built in 1941, the only Mississippi River crossing between St. Louis and Cape
Girardeau; and the Menard Correction Center (formerly the Southern Illinois Penitentiary), a
castle-like structure dating from 1878, the second oldest prison in Illinois.
It was in Chester that Albert Joseph

Wehner, born 26 April 1896 in Ste.
Genevieve,2571 spent his adult life. He went
there to be a locomotive fireman for the
Illinois Southern Railroad.2572 The position,
which he held in 1917, did not last long. By
1920, Albert was working as a driver for a
meat market,2573 specifically August Lang’s
meat market.2574 From 1917 to 1920 he
served as a private in WW I (despite having
a right leg that had been broken in three
places),2572 and on 5 February 1918 he
married Marie J. Lang,2575 born 23 June Southern Illinois Penitentiary (now Menard
1900 2576
to August and Emma E. (Ponder) Correction Center), Chester, Illinois (2010).
Lang. 2577,2578
(“Chicken or the egg” question: Did Albert’s job with August Lang get him
Marie or did Marie get him the job with August?) The wedding was held in the rectory of St.
Mary’s Catholic Church. The sanctuary was off-limits; Marie had been raised Lutheran.2579
By 1930, Albert had become a cutter at August’s meat market.2580 In later years, Albert
and Marie worked at the Southern Illinois Penitentiary (Menard), Albert as a guard and
Marie at the gatehouse (called by all the “Menard Electric Eye,” the gatehouse, not
Marie).2575 The couple attended St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Chester, where Albert was
active in the Knights of Columbus.
On 29 September 1988, Marie (Lang) Wehner died,2576 followed less than a year later by
Albert, on 8 August 1989.2581 Albert
and Marie are interred in Chester’s St.
Mary’s Catholic Cemetery,2582 The
couple left a single child, Albert A.
Wehner.
Albert A. Wehner
Born 30 April 1920,2583 Albert A.
Wehner served as a Sergeant in the U.S.
Army Air Corps during WW II.2582 It is
said that Albert, usually called “Junior,”
suffered a head injury during his
military training causing the epilepsy he
endured throughout his life.2474 Junior
worked as bookkeeper and accountant
for the Chester Bridge, which was a toll
bridge until 1989.2474 In 1967, he ran for
clerk of the District 2 County Road
Commission, but finished last in a 3-
person race.2584 Junior, who never
married, died 3 February 1995 and is
Wehners: Edward, Marie (Lang), Albert Sr.,
buried alongside his parents in St.
Albert Jr. (Wehner Family Collection.) Mary’s Catholic Cemetery.2582
Chester Bridge, Chester, Illinois (2010).
Henry Charles Wehner

Born in Ste. Genevieve on 21 September 1898,2212 Henry was an electrician’s helper for
Home Light & Water Company of Ste. Genevieve in 1917,2585 but soon took up his real
interest, baking. On 11 October 1919, the Fair Play published an announcement:2586
NOTICE
We wish to announce that we have not been able to give as good service, as
we intended to give on account of keeping bakers or getting them. Our baker
H. Rehm took sick suddenly and it took us some time to get another, but we
have a first class baker now, and he turns out as good goods as can be had
anywhere. So give us another trial and be convinced, and many thanks for
your past patronage. Home Bakery
At the time of the announcement, “Home
Bakery,” established 10 July 1919 in the old
Ringwald Building on Main Street in Ste.
Genevieve, had been in existence just three
months.2587 Henry went to work for the bakery, but
whether he was the “first class baker” in the 1919
announcement is uncertain. He is shown with no
occupation in the 1920 census.2416 On 2 February
1926, after working “for a number of years at the
Home Bakery in Ste. Genevieve,” Henry married
Cecilia Ann Eckery in St. Louis, Missouri, at St.
Vincent de Paul Church.2588,2589 Born 12 November
1901 in Nebraska,2590 Cecilia was one of three
children of William Cornelius2591 and Josephine
(Menard)2592 Eckery.2593 Josephine died suddenly Henry Charles and Cecilia Ann
and unexpectedly in March 1904 in Ashland, Wehner. (Wehner Family Collection.)
Nebraska, when Celia was just a little girl.2594 William moved to Nodaway County, Missouri,
where he married Anna M. Peas,2595 and started a second family.2596 Cecelia, who was living
in St. Louis, probably met Henry when Henry’s sister, Mary Leona, brought her to Ste.
Genevieve when visiting Leona’s parents.2597
Shortly after their marriage, Henry and Cecilia Ann moved to San Francisco, California,
where Henry continued baking.2598 In the 1930s, Henry heard that “Home Bakery” on Main
Street in Ste. Genevieve was for sale and asked his brother Walter to look into it. Henry
ended up returning to Ste. Genevieve, purchasing the bakery in 1934 from Harry Rehm the
original baker for the concern,2599 and buying a house at 759 N. Main, north of the lumber
yard.2600 Harry may have sold out due to health or mental problems since, on 19 January
1935 at his home in Ste. Genevieve, Harry Edward Rehm, “Baker, unemployed,” put a gun to
his head and pulled the trigger.2601
Henry and Walter renamed the new bakery “Wehner Bakery.”2602 Henry was probably
the principal since he is shown as the purchaser2599 and is listed as baker in his “Own Bus”
(own business) and as paid on his own account (“O.A.”) in the 1940 census (which shows
Walter as “Delibery [sic] Boy” for the bakery).2603 Tiring of night work and long hours,
Walter eventually left the business, and in 19472604 the shop was sold to Anthony (“Tony”)
Zarinelli (a baker from St. Louis).2605 Henry returned to California.2606
Henry died 8 April 1992 in Alameda County, California;2607 Cecilia passed away 28
February 1996 in Santa Clara County, California.2590 The couple had but one child, Dolores
Cecilia Wehner.2608
Julius Martin Wehner
Julius Martin Wehner, nearly
always called “Doodoo” or “Uncle
Doodoo” by family members, was
born in Ste. Genevieve 22 August
1900.2212 On 12 September 1918
Julius registered for the WW I
draft while still a Ste. Genevieve
High School student.2609 He
graduated in 1920 at an age a little
older than most, nearly 20.2610 He
was also older than most
bridegrooms when he married
Mary Ann Oces, a St. Louis
resident,2611 on 24 August
1935. 2612
Julius’s niece Mary
(daughter of his sister Ella) and Wedding of Julius Wehner and Mary Oces, 24 August 1935,
nephew Francis (son of his brother St. Louis. Attendants are Francis Wehner and Mary Wehner
Edward) were the witnesses. The (Ella’s daughter). (Wehner Family Collection.)
wedding was conducted with a mass by Rev J. L. Lyons at St. Agnes Catholic Church* in St.
Louis.2613
*
Mary Frances and I visited the church in 2012. No longer in use, the old building had been sold. The new
owner unlocked the doors to reveal a largely empty, musty, wallpaper-peeling interior. An abandoned church,
Mary Ann was the half sister of Julius’s

brother-in-law, Nicholas Keser, husband of
Mary Leona Wehner. Nicholas and Mary Ann,
who was born 15 May 1904 to Emelia and
Joseph Oces in Johnstown, Pennsylvania,2560
had the same mother, but different fathers.
Emelia (or Amelia)2560 may have had the
maiden name “Millard” or something similar
according to an obscure entry in the St. Agnes
Church registry of marriages, though that might
have been an attempt to provide the first
name.2613 According to unconfirmed family
stories, Mary Ann and her half brother Nicholas
were left at an orphanage under the name
“Oces,” an extremely unusual name, possibly a
misspelling. (The name is sometimes written as
O’ces.)2560,2614
Mary Ann first appears in the 1920 census
as “Minnie” (a life-long nickname) working as
a “servant” at St. Vincent’s Hospital in
Belleville, Illinois.2615 She had been baptized in
Bartelso, Illinois2613, a hamlet of a few hundred
souls, just thirty-one miles from Belleville, with
a single Catholic Church, St. Cecelia, part of
the diocese of Belleville.
Erected in 1903, St. Vincent’s was initially
St. Agnes Church, St. Louis (2012).
an annex to St. Agnes’s Infirmary (no

connection with St. Agnes Church, St.
Louis), a home for the elderly and a few
orphans (largely the parentless of St.
Peter’s Cathedral in Belleville), run by the
Poor Handmaids of Christ.2616,2617 In
1926, St. Vincent’s became part of St.
Elizabeth’s Hospital.2618 Minnie and her
half brother Nicholas could have been left
at St. Agnes, although release to nearby
St. John’s Orphanage of Glen Addie, run
As a young girl, Mary Ann (“Minnie”) Oces worked by the same order, is also possible.
at St. Vincent’s Hospital. The hospital no longer
exists, but today would be at the corner of 3 rd and W. Tracing Mary Ann’s family has thus far
Lincoln streets (note changes in street names). Newer proven unsuccessful.
facilities of St. Elizabeth Hospital are now located on Over the years, Julius was a cook on a
the site. (Archives DePaul University Libraries.) Mississippi tugboat,2602 a baker,2527 a
with its tales of births and deaths and marriages, of childhood and family and friendships, of beginnings and
endings, and all in between, is a sad thing. R.E.T.
quarryman,2614 and a part-time farmer.2619 Except for periods around 1921, when he worked
as a laborer in St. Louis2620 and attended Southeast Missouri State Teachers College in Cape
Girardeau,2621 he always resided in or near the town of Ste. Genevieve. Minnie died in Ste.
Genevieve on 22 March 1976 at age 71.2560 Julius lived considerably longer, dying in Ste.
Genevieve on 19 April 1994 at the ripe old age of 93.2614 Julius and Mary Ann, who rest
under a single stone in Valle Spring Cemetery,1503 left no descendants.
Martha Ervine Wehner
Born 30 April 1902 in Ste. Genevieve, Martha Ervine, who went almost solely by
“Ervine,” worked as seamstress at the “Shirt Factory” and “Clothing Factory,” before she
married.2416,2527 The “Factory” was Elder Manufacturing Company, which was then located
at the corner of Merchant and South Main (where the “Show-me Shop” stands today). For
Ervine it was only a fifteen-minute walk from her father’s house, passing by Peter’s lumber
yard and her aunt Mary’s hotel.1335 Ervine’s sisters Mary Leona and Octavia, and her niece
Mary C., daughter of Ella, were also seamstresses at Elder at one time or another.2416,2527
Elder was where Ervine likely met Walter
Alfred Wood, who worked fifty-one years
(interrupted by WW I service as a private in
the U.S. Army) for the company, from 1916
to 1967, first in Belleville, Illinois, and then
in Ste. Genevieve, where he became a
manager.2622
Walter Alfred, who always went by
“Al,” was born 11 March 1896 in Osage
County, Oklahoma to Wesley M. and
Gertrude M. (Jackson)2623 Wood.2622 The
towns of Hominy and Fairfax, both in Osage
County, have been given as his
birthplace.2622,2624 It is likely that he was
born on a farm near these two villages,
which were separated by only 25 miles. Al
was the product of Wesley’s second
marriage. His first had been to Louisa Foster
on 10 August 1878 in Jasper County,
Illinois.2625 After farming for a while in
Jasper County,2626 the couple headed for the
Oklahoma Territory around the time of the
land run.2627 It was there that Louisa
apparently died since Wesley married a
second time, around 1894 or 1895,2628,2629 to Wedding Photo, Ervine Wehner and Al Wood, 5
Gertrude, whose parents had moved from October 1930, Ste. Genevieve. Left to right,
Iowa2630 to Oklahoma.2631 Eloise Wehner, Julius Wehner, Alfred Wood,
Martha Ervine Wehner. (Collection of Robert and
Wesley Wood was stricken with Mary Frances Tapscott.)
wanderlust. Following Al’s birth, the family
moved to Las Tablas in New Mexico (a sheep-herding community in Lincoln County, Billy
the Kid country, today a ghost town),2628 and then back to Oklahoma.2629 When Wesley died
sometime between 1910 and 1920, Gertrude, her son, Al, and daughters Agnes and Maude
ended up in Ste. Genevieve, where Al (mechanic), Agnes (bookkeeper), and Gertrude
(manager) worked for Elder Manufacturing.2632 Since most of the employees were women, it
is not surprising that Gertrude was designated a manager, even in that age. A third daughter,
Hazel, who had married Louis Wiltfong, was living in Kansas City, Missouri.2633 In 1930,
after the death of his mother on 7 April 1929,2623 Al was heading up a household with his
sister Agnes, brother-in-law Frank Godier, and nieces Gertrude and Alice Wiltfong
(daughters of Hazel, who had died).2634
On 5 October 1930 Ervine and Al were joined in marriage at the Church of Ste.
Genevieve by Rev. Charles L. Van Tourenhout.2635 Attendants were Ervine’s brother Julius
and niece Eloise (daughter of Edward Wehner).2622
Al Wood died 15 March 1968 at the Perry County, Missouri, Hospital.2624 Ervine passed
on in Ste. Genevieve on 19 August 1986.2636 Interred at Valle Spring Cemetery,2634 the
couple left two sons—Allen and Earl.2624,2636
Allen C. Wood Sr.
Born 1 April 1934,2622 Allen married Pamela A. Doll in St. Mary, Ste. Genevieve County,
on 5 December 1953.2637 The couple had three children—Tamara, Allen Jr., and Dawn.2638
Allen Sr. died 2 May 2005 while residing in Torrance, California.2639
Employees of Elder Manufacturing Co., Ste. Genevieve, July 1937. (Anvil Saloon and Restaurant.)
Earl Daniel Wood Sr.
Earl, born 1 September 1940,2622 married Virginia R. (“Ginny”) Hennemann 29 August
1959. Ginny was born 11 May 1941 in Perryville, Missouri to Melvin and Emma (Boxdorfer)
Hennemann.2640 In Ste. Genevieve, Earl Daniel went to work for Tony Zarinelli, owner of
Tony's Bakery, which was originally the Wehner Bakery on Main Street purchased from
Walter and Henry Wehner and was then moved to Merchant Street.2641 At the bakery Earl
learned the skills of baking, and continued working there after Tony sold the business to a St.
Louis company (who changed the name to “Toni's Bakery Inc.”) in December of 1976. In
1980 Earl and Virginia Wood bought the bakery changing the name once more to “E&G
Bakery” for Earl and Ginny. The couple owned the bakery until around 1985, when it was
sold and became “Home Bakery.” Earl continued working there until 1990, when the new
owner decided to do his own baking. Earl, a baker for 30 years, and Virginia lived out their
lives in Ste. Genevieve, Earl passing away on 2 October 1998,2642 Virginia, on 24 March
2005. The couple left five children: Earl Daniel Jr., Penney, Patti, Ronnie, and
Julie.2640,2643 The eldest, Earl, died 20 May 2007 in Ste. Genevieve.2643
Walter William Wehner

Walter William, “Peck,” was the
youngest of Peter Wehner’s family.
Born 25 March 1906, Walter was
separated from his brother Edward by
over two decades in age and by a
chasm in personality.2644 He was
hardworking like Ed, but was more
personable, less driven, less
opinionated. And he was a sports
enthusiast, playing on Ste.
Genevieve’s baseball team. His love of
sports likely attracted him to Wilma B.
Oberle, who he wedded 20 April 1930.
Born 29 January 1908 in Ste.
Genevieve and christened “Wilma Wilma (Oberle) and Walter Wehner, April 1980.
Julia,” she was always known as (Eloise Summers Archives.)
“Wilma B.” or, more often, as
“Sis.”2645 Indeed one wonders if the name “Julia” was a mistake in the record. Wilma was the
youngest of six children of William and Mary Louis (Andre) Oberle.2646,2647,2648,2649
On Third Street in Ste. Genevieve is an old brick building dating from at least 1850,
when it housed a hardware store. In the late 1800s it was the site of the Anvil Saloon, owned
by Joseph Vaeth,2650 son of David Vaeth and cousin of Theresa Vaeth, wife of miller John
George Wehner. (Until 1888 Joseph had owned another “Anvil Saloon” in New
Offenburg.)2651 Today the
Ste. Genevieve enterprise is
the “Anvil Saloon and
Restaurant,” specializing in
liver knaefly (liver
dumplings) and what many
believe to be the world’s
best onion rings. On the
Anvil’s walls hang old
photos—the Ste. Genevieve
railroad ferry, which
operated from 1903 to 1966,
Elder Shirt Manufacturing
Company employees in
1937, and the 1924 Ste.
1924 Ste. Genevieve High School women’s basketball team. Wilma Genevieve High School
is third from the left, bottom row. (Anvil Saloon and Restaurant.) women’s basketball team
with uniforms of bloomers
and middy blouses. With a little effort (and probably with spousal help), “Peck’s” sons, Carl
and Neil Wehner, have identified all the girls in the photo—left to right, starting from the
top, Norma Bono, Margaret Ellis, Eula Acuff, Hilda Kunkel, Dora Reuss, Armella Petterson,
Ursula Leat, Vera Okenfuss, Loretta Weiller, Wilma Oberle, Selma Stelter, Bertha Eydmann,
Irma Schwent.2652 In the bottom row, holding the basketball, is Carl and Neil’s mother,
Wilma “Sis” Oberle, at age 16 and in the Junior class.2610 Smileless, she looks a little fierce,
someone you would not want to offend on a basketball court.
Wilma (and her cousin and close friend Myrtle Leona Vorst) had gone to the public Ste.
Genevieve High School so she could play basketball.2653 There, she and Peck were in the
same class and graduated together.2610
After high school, Wilma played basketball professionally in St. Louis for a year. When
the professional team went under financially, “Sis,” in lieu of pay, was given the automobile
that drove her to St. Louis for the games.2654
Married at the at the beginning of the Great Depression, “Peck” and “Sis” moved in with
Wilma’s parents outside the town of Ste. Genevieve,2655,2603 and continued to live with
Wilma’s widowed mother, Mary
Louise, following the death of
William Oberle on 5 July
1941.2656 In his early years
“Peck” was a carpenter,2527,2655
but between 1941 and 1947, he
and his brother Henry, who had
returned from California, worked
together at the Main Street
Bakery (Wehner’s Bakery).
Eventually, “Peck,” who started
work at midnight, had enough of
the long hours and went together
with Artie (Arthur) Donze to buy
the EZ Way Auto Supply. Later
there was an opportunity to get a
dealership for Oldsmobile and Walter and Wilma (“Peck” and “Sis”) Wehner on their 50th
International Harvester, but anniversary with fourteen grandchildren and one great
grandchild, April 1980. (Eloise Summers Archives.)
Artie’s death in a automobile
accident put an end to the venture.2606 In his later years Walter worked alongside his brother
Ed and son Carl at the lumber yard.
Wilma passed away 7 January 19812649 and Walter, a decade later, 17 July 1991.2657 The
couple are interred in Valle Spring Cemetery with a single stone that includes the names
“Peck” and “Sis.” They left three sons, Neil and the twins, Carl and Paul.2603
Families of Carl Wehner (left), Paul Wehner (middle), and Neil Wehner (right) on their parent’s 50th
Anniversary, April 1980. (Eloise Summers Archives.)
Carl Joseph Wehner

Born 5 March 1931,2658 Carl
married Marilyn J. Cabral, daughter
of Christy G. and Christine H.
(Knoke) Cabral, 16 November 1957
at the Church of Ste. Genevieve.2659
Over the years, Carl built silos,
worked in a dairy, worked for Fisher
Auto Body in St. Louis, baked in his
dad’s and Uncle Henry’s bakery and
later with Anthony (Tony) Zarinelli,
and worked in the Ste. Genevieve
Lumber Yard with his uncle Ed
Wehner, his father, Peck, and Franz
Greminger.2602,2606 He joined the
National Guard in 1949 and was in
the U.S. Army Reserve from 1950 to
1977, retiring as a first sargeant.2606
Carl and Marilyn have two children,
Christy Carl and Rebecca Lynn.2602
Paul Julius Wehner
Paul was born 5 March 19312660
and on 11 September 1954 married
Earlyn Marie Jokerst,2661 daughter of
Valentine Nicholas and Emma Louisa
(Huck) Jokerst.2662 Paul, who served
in the U.S. Marine Corps, Korea,1503
and was supervisor for Mississippi
Lime Company in Ste. Genevieve,2663
passed away 19 April 2003 in Ste.
Genevieve2664 and is interred in Valle
Spring Cemetery.1503 The family has Carl and Paul Wehner (Paul and
eight children: Wayne Walter, Carl?). (Wehner Family Collection.)
Yvonne Marie, Mary Louis,
Gregory Paul, Brian Joseph, Timothy John, Debra Ann, and Donald Martin.2665
Neil William Wehner
Neil, born 24 September 1939, married Rowena Theresa Meyer, daughter of Edgar
Anthony and Ada Rosina (Uding) Meyer 16 June 1962 at the Church of Ste. Genevieve.2666
For seventeen years Neil operated a Shell service station, across from the Old Brick House
Restaurant.2667 He then worked for a while in a local window factory before spending another
17 years at Mississippi Lime Company in Ste. Genevieve. Neil and Rowena have four
children: Bruce Gerard, Concetta Marie, Ann Marie, and Dawn Marie.2668
Some descendants of Peter Wehner and their spouses, c1978. Left to right,: Rosemary (Naumann)
LaPlante, Wilma (Oberle) Wehner (“Sis”), Michael Francis Wehner with daughter Jessica Lauren,
Louise Alice Wehner, Walter William Wehner (“Peck”), Mary Ann (Oces) Wehner (“Minnie”),
John Edward Wehner (“Eddie”), Aaron Michael Wehner, Marie (Lang) Wehner, Julius Martin
Wehner, Eloise Marie Wehner, Albert Joseph Wehner, Albert A. Wehner. (Wehner Family
Collection.)
Bier und Brot Postlude 269
Postlude
In 2011, Mary Frances and I (with my
sister and brother-in-law Mary Anne and
Russ McKenzie) visited Dietershausen,
where we thought that our story began. (We
were wrong; it really began in Dietershan.)
The tidy little village, still containing many
half-timbered houses, seemed deserted. Not
a single person was on the streets; not a
single passing automobile paused. The only
businesses were a toy store, closed for the
day, and a Gasthaus, which appeared to be
closed permanently. A nearby major city
for shopping combined with the automobile
has struck local merchants hard, a common
St. Bartholomäus, Dietershausen (2011).
occurance in small towns everywhere.
St. Bartholomäus church was unlocked
though neither priest nor staff was present.
Brilliant banners, colorful statues, and metal
plaques surrounded the nave. Intriguing old
Gothic paintings covered the walls of a side
chapel. A diorama of sheep and a shepherd
with photos of parish children likely
commemorated a first communion. On the
grounds north of the church stood a memorial
for those killed in the wars and five old grave
markers. Four, engraved “Herr Pfarrer”
(Pastor), were for priests. The fifth, an
elegant stone marker with a statuary niche,
commemorated “Sabina Wehner vom
Kisthof” (Sabina Wehner of Kisthof), born
27 October 1836, died 26 May 1895. We do
not know who this particular Wehner, born
just a decade before Nicholas and Lorenz left
for America, was. Nor do we know why she
the only lay person to have a marker in the
church cemetery. But we do know that her
origin, Kistof, once stood near the hamlet of
Cemetery marker for Sabina Wehner, St. Dörmsbach, two miles northeast of
Bartholomäus Church, Dietershausen (2011). Dietershausen.2669
Bier und Brot Postlude 270
Dietershausen, Künzell, Hesse, Germany (2011).

A drive to Fulda revealed that Horas, birthplace of Clara Schneider, Nicholas’s wife, has
been swallowed up by the busy city. All that remains is an unremarkable urban
neighborhood.
Our few days in Hesse allowed visits to the locales inhabited by Mary Frances’s great
great grandparents and found some remaining
Wehners. We stayed at the Park Hotel Wehner
in Bad Orb and ate at Cafe Wehner in
Frisenhausen, just down the road from
Dietershausen. But with the completion of this
book, the task of tracing the Wehners of Hesse
is being passed to others more competent or
more patient.
Aufwiedersehen!
Bier und Brot Abbreviations 271
Abbreviations
B&O Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
E East
EMM Enrolled Missouri Militia
N North
NE Northeast
NW Northwest
OGS Old German Script
PHS Public Health Service
POW Prisoner of War
PFC Private First Class
PPG Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
R Range
RFD Rural Free Delivery
S South
SE Southeast
SW Southwest
Sec Section
SSDI Social Security Death Index
T Township
WPA Works Progress Administration
W West
WW I World War I
WW II World War II
Bier und Brot Endnotes 272
Endnotes
Abbreviations
Beckerman Vol. 1: Rob Beckerman, Ste. Genevieve County Tombstone Inscriptions, Vol. 1,
18 Jun 1982.
18 Mar 1984.
transcribed 1986, published 10 Sep 1998.
10 Dec 1999.
Busch: Walter E. Busch, Fort Davidson and the Battle of Pilot Knob: Missouri’s Alamo, The
History Press, Charleston, South Carolina, 2010.
Gifford: Douglas L. Gifford, The Battle of Pilot Knob Staff Ride and Battlefield Tour Guide,
Winfield, Missouri, 2003.
Hunter: Louis C. Hunter, Steamboats on the Western Rivers, Dover Publications, New York,
1993.
Peterson & Mills: Cyrus A. Peterson and Joseph Mills Hanson, The Battle of Pilot Knob, The
Thermopylae of the West, 2nd Edition, Two Trails Publishing Company, Independence,
Missouri, 2000.
1. His middle name, George, is given in only one U.S. document, a transcription of the marriage record for
his son Lawrence (Lorenz Wehner, consolidated Civil War pension file, Applications No. 908064,
867701, National Archives, Washington, DC). In that transcription, Lawrence’s father is referred to as
George Wehner. Goodspeed’s History claims that John’s middle initial was G.
2. Edith Müßig, Genealogical Report for Robert Tapscott, Archives, Fulda Cathedral Parish, Germany, 6
Aug 2011.
3. Obituary, Nicholas Wehner, Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 6 Mar 1897.
4. Goodspeed’s History of Southeast Missouri, The Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois,
1888, p. 616.
5. Erwin Sturm, Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmale des Fuldaer Landes Verlag, Parzeller & Co. Fulda,
Germany.
6. Wilhelm Schoof, Hessische Ortsnamen in mundartlicher Gestalt, Der Kreis Fulda, Zeitschrift für
Deutsche Mundarten, Vol. 7, pp. 117-123.
7. Die Bubs aus Dietershan bei Fulda. http://www.ahnenforschung-bub.de/dietershan.html.
8. Ahnenforschung Bub, http://www.ahnenforschung-bub.de/genealogie/ahnenliste.html, read 7 Dec 2011.
9. Lorenz Wehner, consolidated Civil War pension file, Applications No. 908064, 867701, National
Archives, Washington, DC.
10. List of all the Passengers Taken at the Port of Brennen on Board the Barque Virginia Bound to
Baltimore, Ancestry.com.
11. Obituary, Clara Wehner, Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1 Apr 1905.
12. Ernst Friedrich Johann Dronke, Codex Diplomaticus Fuldensis, Vol. 1, Theodor Fischer, Cassel,
Germany, p. 129.
13. Stephan Grünkorn, 700 Jahre, Parish of St. Bartholomäus, Dietershausen, Weber-Werberg, Eiterfeld,
Germany, 20 August 2000.
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14. Karl Roth, Kleine Beitrage zur deutschen Sprach-, Geschichts- und Ortsforschung, Munich, Germany,
1860, p. 21.
15. Ernst Forstemann, Altdeutsches Namenbuch, Vol. 2, Nordhausen, 1859, p. 87.
16. Joseph Schneider, ed., Buchonia, Eine Zeitschrift für Vaterländische Geschichte, Alterthums-Kunde,
Geographie, Statistik und Topographie, Vol. 4, C. Müller, Fulda, 1829, p. 23.
17. Pfarrbrief, Pfarrgemeinde St. Bartholomäus Dietersausen (Pastors Letter, St. Bartholomaus Parish),
http://www.pfarrgemeinde-dietershausen.de (read 3 Jul 2011).
18. Steven Ozment, A Mighty Fortress, Perennial Edition, HarperCollins Books, pp. 55, 212.
19. F. W. Bogen, The German in America, or, Advice and Instruction for German Emigrants in the United
States of America, B. H. Greene, Boston, Koch; New York, J. Weik, Philadelphia, 1851. p. 7.
20. Henry Fry, The History of North Atlantic Steam Navigation, Sampson, Low, Marston, and Company,
London, 1896, p. 226.
21. Bark Virginia, Bremen, Germany to Baltimore, Maryland, 31 May 1847, Immigrant Ship Transcribers
Guild, Vol. 6, http://immigrantships.net.
22. Christoph Stöpel, Geogen Surname Mapping, http://christoph.stoepel.net/geogen/en/.
23. Lorenz Wehner and Flora Grisner, Marriage Record, 14 Sep 1848, Old St. Vincent's Catholic Church,
Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
24. Gale Research, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line], Provo, Utah,
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.
25. Hartung-Vance 121906 Family Tree, Ancestry.com.
26. Goodspeed’s History of Southeast Missouri gives a birth date for Nicholas of 30 May 1826; however,
this date does not agree with Nicholas’s obituary, nor does it agree well with census data.
27. Mary Charleton, “Welcome Aboard, Majestic America.” The first steamboat, however, lacked power to
return upstream, a problem faced by steamboats for several more years (Jeremiah Sullivan House,
Historic Madison, Inc., Madison, Indiana, p. 1).
28. Hunter, p. 382.
29. Hunter, pp. 64, 101.
30. Robert C. Keith, Baltimore Harbor, a Pictorial History, 3rd Edition, The John Hopkins University Press,
2005, p. 94.
31. James Veech, A History of the Monongahela Navigation Company, Blakewell and Marthens, Pittsburgh,
1873, p. 24.
32. We have no proof that Nicholas and Clara traveled by Ohio Riverboat, but, in the days before western
railroads and dependable roads, the river was the only reasonable way to travel from Baltimore to Cape
Girardeau. It was far the fastest and cheapest route and it passed by Louisville, a known stopping point
for Nicholas and Clara before they continued on to Cape Girardeau.
33. Robert A. Margo, Wages & Labor Market in the United States, The University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Illinois, 2000, p. 33.
34. Hunter, pp. 420, 421.
35. Edna LaVerne Duff-Hartlage, The Hartlages and Their Kin, 1808-1983, 1983, p. 44. The book cites
Jefferson County Marriages, page 78 for the marriage. (Thanks to Patrick Hartlage for providing access
to this source.)
36. Commonwealth of Kentucky, Certificate of Death, Elizabeth Hartlage, Date of Death 13 Oct 1911, File
No. 36183, Filed 1 Nov 1911.
37. 1850 U.S. census, Kentucky, Jefferson Co, Louisville City, Ward 8, Albert Wehner (“Rupert Weiner”)
household, p. 449 (stamped), dwelling 1005, family 1189, 30 Sep 1850.
38. 1860 U.S. census, Kentucky, Jefferson Co, Distr 1, Albert Wehner (“Abert Winner”) household, p. 38,
dwelling 278, family 277, 22 Jun 1860.
39. Edna LaVerne Duff-Hartlage’s book and later censuses for the children confirm the name “Wehner.” The
death certificate for daughter Elizabeth (Commonwealth of Kentucky, Certificate of Death, Elizabeth
Hartlage, Date of Death 13 Oct 1911, File No. 36183, Filed 1 Nov 1911) shows the names Albert
Wehner and Rosella Wehner. The certificate for Valentine Wehner (Commonwealth of Kentucky,
Certificate of Death, Valentine Wehner, Date of Death 21 May 1939, File No. 2205, Filed 25 May 1939)
gives the parents as Albert Wehner and Rosella Hinkle [maiden name].
40. 1880 U.S. census, Kentucky, Jefferson Co, Johnsontown Magisterial District, Rosella (“Rosalla”)
Wehner household, Supervisor’s Distr 2, Enumeration Distr 98, p. 32, dwelling 257, family 257, 19 Jun
1880.
41. Debbie Kiblinger, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 4 Mar 2011. No page is missing from the
book since the two dates cited appear in the center of a page.
42. St. Louis Catholic Historical Review, Catholic Historical Society of St. Louis, Vol. 1, Oct 1918, p. 179-
180.
43. Nicholas (“Nicholaus”) Wehner and Clara Schneider (“Klara Schnider”), Marriage Record Book 1, Scott
County, Missouri, 1840-1855, p. 57 (LDS Film 0925396, Batch M515801).
44. “Doors Open to Catholic Churches,” Sikeston Standard Democrat, Sunday, 28 Dec 2008.
45. Passenger List, John Holland, 20 Jun 1847, image, New Orleans Passenger Lists, 1820-1945,
Ancestry.com.
46. The Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, 10 Jun 1938.
47. Document II-4-k, Calendar, Notre Dame Archives, University of Notre Dame
48. John H. Lamott, History of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Frederick Pustet Company, Cincinnati, 1921,
p. 141.
49. E. Kluge, Adressbuch der Stadt Köln, M. Lengfeld Verlag, Köln, 1855.
52. Walter Barlow Stevens, Centennial History of Missouri: (the Center State) One Hundred Years in the
Union, 1820-1921, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, St. Louis, Chicago, 1921, p. 353.
53. Walter Williams, ed., The State of Misssouri An Authobiography, E. W. Stephens, Columbia, Missouri,
1904, p. 178.
54. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob Town, Lorenz Wehner (“Laurence Weimer”)
household, Supervisor's Distr 10, Enumeration Distr 42, sheet 3B, dwelling 62, family 65, 4 Jun 1900.
55. 1850 U.S. census, Missouri, Madison Co, Nicholas Wehner household, p. 227 (stamped, front), dwelling
455, family 455, 26 Aug 1850.
56. 1850 U.S. census, Missouri, Madison Co, Lorenz (“Lawrence”) Wehner household, p. 227 (stamped,
front), dwelling 454, family 454, 26 Aug 1850.
57. General Orders No. 2, Headquarters, Department of the Mississippi, Saint Louis, 13 Mar 1862.
58. Bob Schmidt, Veterans and Events in the Civil War in Southeast Missouri, Vol. II, Press of the Camp
Pope Bookshop, Iowa City, Iowa, 2000, 2006, pp. 31-63.
59. Peterson & Mills, Introduction.
60. Peterson & Mills, p. 19.
61. C. S. Russell, Early History of Arcadia Valley, edited by Robert Pollock, Iron County Historical Society,
Ironton, Missouri, pp. 24-25.
62. Busch, p. 25.
63. Barbara M. Fitzgerald, Civil War Heritage – One Family’s Story, manuscript received by Robert
Tapscott, 4 Dec 2009.
64. Peterson & Mills, pp. 74, 113, 153, 154.
65. Peterson & Mills, pp. 87, 109.
66. Gifford, p. 9. These numbers may be low. Another count gives 288 claimed, and 144 confirmed
(Civilians at the Battle of Pilot Knob, http://www.mostateparks.com/ftdavidson/civilians.pdf).
67. Peterson & Mills, p. 227.
68. Civilians at the Battle of Pilot Knob, http://www.mostateparks.com/ftdavidson/civilians.pdf.
69 Peterson & Mills, p. 74.
70. Wiley Britton, The Civil War on the Border, Vol. 2, G. P. Putnman’s Sons, New York, 1899, reprinted
by Kansas Heritage Press, 1994.
71. Confederate record keeping was poor. Federal reports submitted shortly after the battle give a figure of
1500 (Peterson & Mills, pp. 171, 174), a count that is may be too high, though it is not too far from other,
more recent estimations (Busch, p. 32). Modern estimation techniques produce a number of slightly over
500, a figure probably too low (Gifford, p.20).
72. Peterson & Mills, p. 271. Gifford, p.20 gives a figure of 72.
73. Busch, p. 168.
74 Sun Tzu, Art of War, translation by Lionel Giles, NuVision Publications, Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
2004, p. 27.
75. Albert Castel, General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West, Louisiana State University Press,
1968, p. 256.
76. Letter to Major C. C. Rainwater, dated Adrian, Missouri, 5 Jan 1888.
77. Lincoln’s earlier Emancipation Proclamation applied only to rebel states, not to those supporting the
Union.
78. Craig Lambert, “The Deadliest War,” Harvard Magazine, May-Jun, 2001.
79. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Arcadia Twp, Pilot Knob, Lorenz Wehner (“Lawrence Woehner”)
household, Supervisor's Distr 2, Enumeration Distr 52, p. 38, dwelling 374, family 334, 16 Jun 1880.
80. William F. Becker and Amalia (“Mollie”) Wehner, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Marriage Record No. 1066,
certificate date 24 Nov 1886, registration date 4 Dec 1886.
81. Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 14 Jun 1884.
82. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob, Lorenz (“Lorenzo”) Wehner household, pp. 15-16,
83. Edward and Millie (Albert) Preissle, 1876 Census of the County of Iron, State of Missouri, Houston,
Missouri, 1984, p. 28.
84. John M. Abney, 1890 Personal Assessment of Iron County, Missouri, Iron County Genealogy Society,
2006, p. 96.
85. Robert E. and Mary F. Tapscott, Catholic Cemetery, Pilot Knob, Missouri, Transcriptions, 2 Oct 2007, 8
Apr 2010.
86. Records, St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Pilot Knob, Missouri (archived at St. Mary du Lac Catholic
Church, Ironton, Missouri).
87. Death Certificate, Amalia Becker, Registration Distr 392, Primary Registration Distr 4231, File 910,
Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 1 Feb 1932.
88. Death Certificate, Anna Siebert, Registration Distr 431, Primary Registration Distr 4249, File 36593,
Registered No. 95, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 16 Nov 1930.
89. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Town of Pilot Knob, Lorenz Wehner (“Woehner”) household, p.
10, dwelling 84, family 84, 20 Jul 1870.
90. Warranty Deed, Wehner to Cayce, 4 Oct 1875, filed 5 Nov 1875, Deed Book 2, Iron County, Missouri, p.
531.
91. Frederick G. Holweck, “Notable Vincentians (1): Francis Xavier Dahmen, C.M.,” Vincentian Heritage
Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1988, pp. 113, 117, 120, 121.
92. Marriage Record, Robert Schilling and Christina Clara Wehner, St. John Nepomuk Church, St. Louis,
Missouri. (A photograph of the original record was provided by Lila Garner. The translation from
German was carried out by Rosemarie Naether Cummins.)
93. Hermanner Wochenblatt, Hermann, Missouri, 29 Oct 1852.
94. German-Americans made up 23.4% of all Union Soldiers; about 216,000 were born in Germany (Patricia
L. Faust, ed., Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War, Harper & Row, 1986, p. 523).
It is claimed that 80% of the Union soldiers from St. Louis were foreign born, primarily German (Julia
Dent Grant, Missouri—Our Civil War Heritage, Vol. 3, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War,
1994, pp. 451-454.)
95. Missouri Troops in Service During the Civil War, United States Record and Pension Office, Government
Printing Office, Washington, 1902, p. 7.
96. Robert N. Scott, ed., The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, Ser 1, Vol. 3, 1900, p. 384.
97. To what the Home Guards were entitled and what was promised them by General Lyon were subjects of
great debate, not helped by the death of General Lyon at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek on 10 August
1861.
98. Office of Adjutant General, Civil War, Record of Service Cards, Civil War, 1861-1865, Box 88, Reels
s805 and s885, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.
99. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of
Missour, National Archives and Records Administration, Publication M405.
100. Geraldine Sanders Smith, Civil War Soldiers of Madison County, Missouri (and Surrounding Counties),
St. Louis, Missouri, 1997, p. 581.
101. The Enrolled Missouri Militia was under the command of the Governor of the State of Missouri, rather
than the Federal Government. They served within their home area and, like the National Guard today,
only served when called up. They often supplied their own horses and equipment.
102. Headquarters Missouri State Militia, Saint Louis, Missouri, Jul 22, 1862.
103. 1890 Veteran's Schedule, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob, Lorenz Wehner ("Wehmer"), Supervisor's Distr
2, Enumeration Distr 57, p. 5, house 245, family 258, Jun 1890.
104. Busch, p. 21.
105. Deed of Trust, Wehner to Pilot Knob Iron Company, 13 May 1858, filed 18 Aug 1858, recorded 28 Sep
1858, Deed Book A, Iron County, Missouri, pp. 457-459.
106. Warranty Deed, Catherina Bick and others to Flora Wehner, 12 Mar 1900, filed 23 Apr 1900, Deed Book
45, Iron County, Missouri, pp. 595-596.
107. Deed of Trust, Elias Mund to Anna Wehner, Lorenz Wehner Trustee, 3 Nov 1883, filed 3 Nov 1883,
Deed Book 31, Iron County, Missouri, p. 53.
108. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Iron County, Missouri, Louis Siebert and Clara Mund,
issued 28 October 1919, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
109. Quit Claim Deed, Anna Wehner to Caroline Boss, 1 Oct 1885, filed 2 Nov 1885, Deed Book 33, Iron
County, Missouri, pp. 191-192.
110. Deed of Trust, Phillip and Laura Staab to Matilda (“Mathilda”) Wehner, 12 Apr 1884, filed 12 Apr 1884,
111. Deed of Sale, Phillip and Laura Staab by trustee to Lorenz Wehner, 7 Nov 1885, filed 7 Nov 1885, Deed
Book 33, Iron County, Missouri, pp. 219-221.
112. Warranty Deed, Lorenz and Flora Wehner to Wilhelm Just and wife, 2 Mar 1905, filed 11 Mar 1905,
113. Deed of Trust, Wehner and Richter to Kenrick, 12 Dec 1868, filed 28 Jan 1869, Deed Book H, Iron
County, Missouri, pp. 43-44.
114. E. H. Behrman, The Story of The Old Cathedral, 1949, reprinted 1956, Ross-Gould Co., St. Louis,
Missouri, pp. 53-54.
115. Warranty Deed, Rapp to Wehner, 26 Jan 1875, filed 26 Jan 1875, Deed Book 2, Iron County, Missouri,
p. 470.
116. Deed of Trust, Ludwig and Frances Reighert to Lorenz Wehner, 31 Oct 1885, filed 31 Oct 1885, Deed
Book 31, Iron County, Missouri, p. 187.
117. Walter Barlow Stevens, Centennial History of Missouri: (the Center State) One Hundred Years in the
Union, 1820-1921, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, St. Louis, Chicago, 1921, p. 365.
118. Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900, National Archives
and Records Administration, Publication T289.
119. “Pilot Knob News,” Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, 27 Feb 1908, p. 1.
120. Clara Christina Schilling, Death Certificate No. 3383, 2 Jun 1906, filed 9 Jul 1906, Milwaukee County,
Wisconsin.
121. NiNi Harris, Bohemian Hill, An American Story, St. John Nepomuk Parish, St. Louis, Missouri, 2004, p.
7.
122. Find A Grave, Robert Schilling, transcribed from photo of grave marker, http://www.findagrave.com.
The 1900 census, however, gives a birth month of November.
123. Robert’s birthplace has been given as Magdeburg, Prussia; Osterburg, Germany; and Osterburg, Saxony.
Magdeburg is both a district in and the capital of the present-day state of Saxony-Anhalt and Osterburg is
a city in the district of Stendal in the same state. In 1945, Saxony and Anhalt were united. The districts of
Stendal and Magdeburg are geographically close, but are distinct. It appears that Robert was born in
Saxony; however, it is uncertain whether he was born in Osterburg or Magdeburg. Most sources give his
birthplace as Osterburg.
124. Quarterly Abstracts of Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1820-1875,
Kepler, 18 Nov 1847, Microfilm publication M2272, National Archives, Washington, DC. The passenger
list contains the names of only males, Robert’s father (named as “Geo”), his brother Herman (“Herm”),
and Robert.
125. Affidavit, Ottielie Christ, Johanna Schilling, and Adam Christ before Notary Public, Quincy, Adams
County, Illinois, 16 Feb 1886.
126. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis, Ward 2, Johanna Schilling household, 24 July 1860, p. 304,
dwelling 1281, family 2836, 24 Jul 1860.
127. 1870 U.S. census, Illinois, Adams Co, Quincy, Adam Christ household, p. 84, dwelling 581, family 701,
18 Jul 1870.
128. Appointment, Missouri Militia, Rlobert Schilling, No. 1598, State of Missouri, effective 6 Apr 1865,
signed 17 Jun 1865.
129. 1870 census, Missouri, St. Louis, Robert Schilling household, p. 90, dwelling 520, family 669, 28 Jun
1870.
130. 1880 U.S. census, Ohio, Columbiana Co, Salem, Robert Schilling household, Supervisor’s Distr 8,
Enumeration Distr 55, p. 7, dwelling 73, family 77, 3 Jun 1880.
131. 1900 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Robert Schilling household, Supervisor’s Distr 294,
Enumeration Distr 75, sheet 17B, dwelling 283, family 377, 11 Jun 1900.
132. N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1898, Vol. 2, p. 859.
133. Wright's Directory of Milwaukee for 1891, Alfred G Wright Publisher, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Vol. 24,
1891, p. 1050.
134. “Robert Schilling, the Noted Labor Leader, is Dead at Milwaukee,” The Daily Northwestern, Oshkosh,
Wisconsin, Wednesday, 27 Dec 1922, p. 11.
135. Jerry M. Cooper, “Wisconsin National Guard in the Milwaukee Riots of 1886,” Wisconsin Magazine of
History, Vol. 55, No. 1, autumn, 1971, pp. 31-48.
136. “The Rolling Mills,” Milwaukee County Online Genealogy and Family History Library,
http://linkstothepast.com/milwaukee/bayviewmassacre.php
137. Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1960.
138. Barbara Mary Packard Fitzgerald, Robert Schilling, the Baby Milk Business, and Benton Hall, 14 Oct
1995.
139. Find A Grave, Clara Schilling, transcribed from photo of grave marker, http://www.findagrave.com.
140. From the official 1870 census enumeration date (1 Jun 1870) and his age (2), his birth date range is
calculated as 2 Jun 1867 - 1 Jun 1868. From the date of 21 Jun 1938 and his age (69) on his burial record
and date of 18 Jun 1938 and age (69) in his obituary, his birth date range is calculated as Jun 1868 - Jun
1869. The date of Nov 1867 from the 1900 census lies in the first range, but not the second. It is likely
that the month Nov from the 1900 census is correct, but the year could be either 1867 or 1868.
141. 1900 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Albert Schilling (“Schiling”) household, Supervisor’s
Distr 294, Enumeration Distr 155, sheet 5A, dwelling 44, family 79, 4 Jun 1900.
142. 1910 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Albert Schilling household, Supervisor’s Distr 4,
Enumeration Distr 212, sheet 11B, dwelling 156, family 224, 21 Apr 1910.
143. 1920 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Co, Milwaukee City, Ward 25, Albert L. Schilling household,
Supervisor’s Distr 4, Enumeration Distr 20, sheet 2B, dwelling 25, family 37, 3 Jan 1920.
144. 1930 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Cty, Ward 1, Albert Schilling household, Supervisor’s Distr
10, Enumeration Distr 40-6, sheet 23A, dwelling 22, family 38, 10 Apr 1930.
p. 902.
1903, p. 1013.
147. Wright's Milwaukee City Directory 1933, Wright Directory Co., Publishers, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Vol.
80, 1933, p. 1561.
148. Albert L Schilling and Amalia Zimmermann, Wisconsin Vital Record Index, pre-1907, Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services, Vital Records Division.
149. 1870 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Jefferson Co, Watertown, Jacob Zimmermann household, p. 1, dwelling 3,
family 3, 12 Jul 1870.
150. 1880 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Jefferson Co, Watertown, Jacob Zimmermann (“J. Zimmerman”)
household, Supervisor’s Distr 2, Enumeration Distr 182, p. 16, dwelling 152, family 152, 5 Jun 1880.
151. 1860 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Jefferson Co, Watertown, Jacob Zimmermann (“Zimmerman”) household,
p. 55, dwelling 439 family 428, 19 Jun 1860.
152. Obituary, Mollie Schilling, Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Monday, 9 Jul 1934, Sec. L, p.
8, col. 8.
153. Obituary, Albert Schilling, Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sunday, 19 Jun 1938, Classified
Sec., p. 1, col. 3.
154. Milwaukee Catholic cemeteries, records, Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
http://www.cemeteries.org.
155. WW I Draft Registration, Robert Jacob Schilling, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 8 Jun 1917.
156. 1930 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 25, Robert J. Schilling household, Supervisor’s
Distr 10, Enumeration Distr 40-337, sheet 61A, dwelling 1, family 2, 23 Apr 1930.
157. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Robert Schilling.
158. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Lauretta Schilling.
159. Wisconsin Death Index, 1959-1997, Lauretta Schilling, Wisconsin Vital Records Office, Madison,
Wisconsin.
160. Obituary, "Kohl-Fritz," Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Monday, 31 Jul 1916, p. 8, col. 7.
161. Obituary, “Kohl: Anna,” Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee Wisconsin, Saturday, 26 Jan 1935, Sec. L, p.
12, col. 4.
162. 1910 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Robert J. Kempf (“Kemff”) household, Supervisor’s
Distr 4, Enumeration Distr 131, sheet 4B, dwelling 78, family 102, 18 Apr 1910.
163. 1920 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Co, Milwaukee City, Ward 25, Albert L. Schilling household,
164. 1940 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 9, Robert J. Schilling household, Supervisor's Distr
5, Enumeration Distr 72-219, sheet 15A, household 320, 23 Apr 1940.
165. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Mary A. Behrens,
Ancestry.com.
166. Find A Grave, Elizabeth and Edward W. Schilling, transcribed from photo of grave marker,
http://www.findagrave.com.
167. From the official 1880 census enumeration date (1 Jun 1880) and his age (8), his birth date range is
calculated as 2 Jun 1871 - 1 Jun 1872. From the official 1920 Census enumeration date (1 Jan 1920) and
his age (47), his birth date range is calculated as 2 Jan 1872 - 1 Jan 1873. From the 1920 Census data, the
probable birth year is 1872. From the official 1930 census enumeration date (1 Apr 1930) and his age
(57), his birth date range is calculated as 2 Apr 1872 - 1 Apr 1873. The date of Aug 1870 from the 1900
census lies outside these ranges. The birth year is conservatively fixed as 1870 - 1872.
168. Marriage record, Elizabeth (“Lizzie”) Schiller and Edward (“Edwd”) W. Schilling, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, Vol. 30, p. 567,
169. 1900 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Edward W. Schilling household, Supervisor’s Distr 294,
170. 1910 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Edward W. (“E. W.”) Schilling household, Supervisor’s
Distr 4, Enumeration Distr 77, sheets 13A-13B, dwelling 237, family 301, Apr 1910.
171. 1920 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Co, Milwaukee City, Ward 9, Edward Schilling household,
Supervisor’s Distr 4, Enumeration Distr 117, sheet 10A, dwelling 163, family 251, 8 Jan 1920.
172. 1930 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 20, Edward W. Schilling household, Supervisor’s
173. Obituary, “Schilling: Elizabeth,” Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sunday, 12 Aug 1945,
Classified Sec., p. 1, col. 3.
174. Obituary, “Schilling: Edward W.,” Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Thursday, 20 Sep 1945,
Sec. L, p. 11, col. 6.
175. Wisconsin Births, 1820-1907 [database on-line], Provo, Utah, The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.
176. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Evelyn Wagner,
Ancestry.com.
177. 1930 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Co, Wauwatosa City, Raymond Wagner household,
Supervisor’s Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 40-415, sheet 8A, dwelling 141, family 144, 18 Apr 1930.
178. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Raymond Wagner,
Ancestry.com.
179. 1940 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Co, Wauwatosa City, Raymond Wagner household,
Supervisor's Distr 4, Enumeration Distr 40-63, sheets 16A, 16B, household 355, 23 Apr 1940.
180. “Two Veterans Dead in Crash,” The Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wednesday, 17 Sep
1947, p. 1, col. 2.
181. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Edward A. Schilling.
182. Obituary, “Utech: Albert J.,” Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Saturday, 20 May 1933, p. 12,
col. 6.
183. Obituary, “Schilling, Dorothea C.,” The Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Saturday, 26 Nov
1983, p. 5.
184. 1930 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 7, Edward Schilling household, Supervisor’s Distr
185.` 1940 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Co, Wauwatosa City, Edward Schilling household,
Supervisor's Distr 4, Enumeration Distr 40-63, sheet 19B, household 355, 25 Apr 1940.
186. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Dorothea Schilling,
Ancestry.com.
187. 1910 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ida Fredrick household, Supervisor’s Distr 4,
Enumeration Distr 244, sheet 5A, dwelling 81, family 93, 16 Apr 1910.
188. Wisconsin Death Index, 1959-67, 1969-97, Dorothea C Schilling, Wisconsin Vital Records Office,
Madison, Wisconsin.
189. Wisconsin Death Index, 1959-1997, Edward A. Schilling, Wisconsin Vital Records Office, Madison,
Wisconsin.
190. Federal Supplement, First Series, West Publishing Company, Vol. 194, 1961, p. 548.
191. 1900 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, William (“Wm”) Timmerman household, Supervisor’s
Distr 294, Enumeration Distr 64, sheet 21B, dwelling 370, family 478, 27 Jun 1900.
192. Marriage record, William Timmerman (“Timerman”) and Nellie Schilling, Portage County, Wisconsin,
Vol. 2, p. 400, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services Vital Records Division. Racine
County is also given as the marriage location under Nellie Schilling’s name only but with the same date.
(Racine County, Wisconsin, Vol. 5, p. 58)
193. 1880 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Walter Timmerman household, Supervisor's Distr 1,
194. Wright's Directory of Milwaukee for 1896, Alfred G Wright Publishers, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Vol. 29,
1896
195. Wright's Directory of Milwaukee for 1895, Alfred G Wright Publishers, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Vol. 28,
1895, pp. 821, 938.
196. WW I Draft Registration, Arthur William West, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 5 Jun 1917.
p. 1044.
p. 1106.
1903, p. 1162.
200. 1910 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, George H. West household, Supervisor’s Distr 4,
201. WW I Draft Registration, George Henry West, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 12 Sep 1918.
202. 1920 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Co, Milwaukee City, Ward 24, George West household,
203. 1930 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 6, George H. West household, Supervisor’s Distr
204. 1905 Wisconsin State census, Milwaukee City, George H. West household, p. 1512, family 219, 1 Jun
1905.
205. 1940 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 25, Oscar Evans household, Supervisor's Distr 5,
Enumeration Distr 72-561A, sheet 9A, household 195, 15 Apr 1940.
206. Obituary, "West: Nellie (nee Schilling),” Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sunday, 17 Jan
1932, Classified Sec., p. 1, col. 2.
207. Obituary, “West: George H.,” Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wednesday, 5 Jul 1944, Sec.
L, p. 8, col. 3.
208. “Wanderer’s Rest Cemetery Ordered Sold to Pay Off Debt,” Milwaukee Journal, Wednesday, 10 Feb
1987, col. 5, p. 6B.
209. 1930 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 24, Arthur (“Auther”) W. West household,
210. Obituary, “West: Arthur W.,” Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Thursday, 5 May 1960, p. 10,
col. 2.
211. Jacob Jaraczewski (“Jaragewski”) and Maria Gepluch, Wisconsin Vital Record Index, pre-1907,
Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Vital Records Division.
212. 1900 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Jacob Jaraczewski (“Jack Jarzewski”) household,
Supervisor’s Distr 294, Enumeration Distr 103, sheet 6B, dwelling 68, family 105, 6 Jun 1900.
213. 1910 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Jacob Jaraczewski household, Supervisor’s Distr 4,
214. Wood National Cemetery, Milwaukee Wisconsin, Records, Interment.net.
215. Obituary, “West, Helen J.,” Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wednesday, 9 Dec 1981, Part 2,
p. 6, col. 7.
216. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), George West,
Ancestry.com.
217. Obituary, “Adeline C. West,” Greater Milwaukee, gmtoday.com, Saturday, 29 Sep 2007.
218. WW I Draft Registration, Arthur Peter Schilling, Sturgeon Bay, Door County, Wisconsin, 9 Sep 1918.
219. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Arthur Schilling.
220. Arthur P. Schilling and Kathryn (“Catherine”) A. Murphy, Wisconsin Vital Record Index, pre-1907,
Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Vital Records Division.
221. 1900 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Arthur Schilling household, Supervisor’s Distr 294,
222. Obituary, “Mrs. Harriet Murphy,” Milwaukee Journal, Monday, Monday, 16 Nov 1936, col. 2, p. M13.
223. 1880 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, James Murphy household, Supervisor’s Distr 1,
224. 1900 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, James Murphy household, Supervisor’s Distr 294,
225. 1910 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Arthur Schilling household, Supervisor’s Distr 4,
Enumeration Distr 86, sheet 9B, dwelling [blank], family 201, 22 Apr 1910.
226. 1920 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Co, Milwaukee City, Ward 19, Arthur Schilling household,
227. 1930 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 18, Arthur P. Schilling household, Supervisor’s
Distr 10, Enumeration Distr 40-225, sheet 15B, dwelling 12, family 14, 9 Apr 1930.
228. Obituary, “Schilling: Kathryn,” Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Monday, 20 Nov 1950, Sec.
L, p. 13, col. 6.
229. “Cavanaugh, Harriet S.,” The Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Saturday, 11 Jul 1981, p. 5.
230. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Harriet Cavanaugh.
231. 1930 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 18, Arthur P. Schilling household, Supervisor’s
232. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), William Cavanaugh
M. Cavanaugh, Ancestry.com.
233, 1910 U.S. census, Minnesota, St. Louis Co, Duluth, William Canavaugh household, Supervisor's Distr 8,
234. 1920 U.S. census, Minnesota, St. Louis Co, Duluth, William Cavanaugh household, Supervisor's Distr 4,
Enumeration Distr 99, sheet 16B, dwelling 355, family 387, 1 Jan 1920.
235. 1940 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Co, Whitefish Bay Village, William Cavanaugh household,
Supervisor's Distr 5, Enumeration Distr 40-115, sheet 10A, household 185, 13 Apr 1940.
236. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Mary C. Kestelik,
Ancestry.com.
237. Index to Annual Deaths, 1958-2002, Mary Kestelik, Ohio Department of Health, Columbus, Ohio
(Ancestry.com, database on-line).
238. “Schilling, Arthur P.,” The Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Tuesday, 26 May 1970, Part 2, p.
12, col. 3.
239. Index to Annual Deaths, 1958-2002, John A. Kestelik, Ohio Department of Health, Columbus, Ohio
(Ancestry.com, database on-line).
240. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), John A. Kestelik,
Ancestry.com.
241. WW I Draft Registration, Walter Leo Schilling, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 12 Sep 1918.
242. 1900 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Robert Schilling household, Supervisor’s Distr 294,
243. Jack and Marianne Dibean, Berrien County, Michigan, Dibean Marriage Index, 2003-2010.
244. 1900 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Herman Weiss household, Supervisor’s Distr 4,
Enumeration Distr 138, sheets 14A-14B, dwelling 246, family 275, 12 Jun 1900.
245. 1910 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 21, Walter L. Schilling household, Supervisor’s
Distr 4, Enumeration Distr 244, sheet 5A, dwelling 80, family 92, 16 Apr 1910.
246. 1920 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 25, Walter Schilling household, Supervisor’s Distr
4, Enumeration Distr 302, sheet 1A, dwelling 1, family 1, 2 Jan 1920.
247. 1930 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 25, Walter Schilling household, Supervisor’s Distr
248. “Mrs. Emma Schilling,” Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Monday, 21 Jan 1957, Part 3, p. 12,
col. 7.
249. Schilling: Walter L., Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Tuesday, 22 Feb 1938, Sec. L, p. 5,
col. 4.
250. 1940 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 25, Theodore Packard household, Supervisor's
Distr 5, Enumeration Distr 72-570, sheet 13B, household 290, 15 Apr 1940.
251. “Clara J. Packard ‘Tootie’,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wednesday, 29 Jul
2009.
252. Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Clara J. Packard, Ancestry.com
253. “Packard, Theodore E. ‘Ted’,” Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Tuesday, 23 Oct 1990, col. 5,
p. B8.
254. 1930 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 6, Elizabeth Packard household, Supervisor's Distr
10, Enumeration Distr 40-83, sheet 8B, dwelling 18, family 23, 7 Apr 1930.
255. 1920 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 6, James Packard household, Supervisor’s Distr 4,
256. Wright's Milwaukee City Directory 1933, Wright Directory Co., Publishers, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Vol.
81, 1934, p. 1404.
257. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Theodore E. Packard,
Ancestry.com.
258. WW I Draft Registration, William Oscar Schilling, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 12 Sep 1918.
259. William Schilling and Emily Manegold, Wisconsin Vital Record Index, pre-1907, Wisconsin Department
of Health and Family Services, Vital Records Division.
260. Marriage Certificate, August Manegold and Henrietta Bast, Wisconsin, certificate 5 May 1876, marriage
2 May 1876.
261. 1900 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, August Manegold household, Supervisor’s Distr 4,
Enumeration Distr 12, sheet 6A, dwelling 97, family 115, 7 Jun 1900.
262. “Mrs. Clara Graf,” Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Tuesday, 2 Sep 1947., col. 4, p. L2.
263. 1910 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, William Schilling household, Supervisor’s Distr 4,
264. 1920 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Co, Milwaukee City, Ward 18, William O. Schilling
household, Supervisor's Distr 4, Enumeration Distr 215, sheet 10B, dwelling 176, family 281, 15 Jan
1920.
265. 1930 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, William O. Schilling household, Supervisor’s Distr 10,
Enumeration Distr 40-224, p. 20A, dwelling 20, family 24, 9 Apr 1930.
266. 1940 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 18, William Schilling household, Supervisor's Distr
5, Enumeration Distr 72-407 sheet 9B, household 232, 14 Apr 1940.
267. Harry Barsantee, “The History and Development of the Telephone in Wisconsin,” Wisconsin Magazine
of History, Vol. 10, 1926-1927, pp. 150-163.
268. “Schilling: William O.,” Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Saturday, 18 Apr 1942, p. 11, col.
3.
269. “Schilling: Millie,” Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Monday, 10 Mar 1947, Sect. L, p. 9, col.
8.
270. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Millie Bruce,
Ancestry.com
271. 1930 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Cty, Ward 18, Harold J. Bruce household, Supervisor’s Distr
272. 1940 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Co, Shorewood Village, Harold J. Bruce household,
273. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Harold J. Bruce,
Ancestry.com. Milwaukee catholic cemeteries
274. 1910 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Fred R. Bruce household, Supervisor’s Distr 4,
275. Bruce, Harold J., Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Tuesday, 16 May 1989, p. 6B, col. 1.
276. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Harold W. Bruce,
Ancestry.com.
277. "Harold 'Bill' Bruce," Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, California, Monday, 14 Jun 2004.
278. Probable Cause Report, NTSB Identification LAX04LA235, National Transportation Safety Board,
Probable Cause Approval Date 25 Apr 2006.
279. WW I Draft Registration, Robert Schilling Jr., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 12 Sep 1918.
280. 1910 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Robert Schilling Jr. household, Supervisor’s Distr 4,
281. “Schilling: Sgt. Robert,” Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wednesday, 3 Nov 1948, Sec. L, p.
13, col. 8.
282. 1905 Wisconsin State census, Milwaukee City, Precinct 1, Ward 10, Robert Schilling Jr. household, p.
2322, family 135, 1 Jun 1905.
283. 1920 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 6, Robert Schilling Jr. household, Supervisor’s
Distr 9, Enumeration Distr 76, sheet 5A, dwelling 58, family 93, 5 Jan 1920.
284. 1940 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 19, Robert Schilling Jr. household, Supervisor's
Distr 5, Enumeration Distr 72-327, sheet 5A, household 108, 12 Apr 1940.
285. 1930 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 22, Robert Schilling household, Supervisor’s Distr
286. “Schilling: Robert,” Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Saturday, 2 Jun 1956, p. 16, col. 4.
287. Wisconsin Death Index, 1959-67, 1969-97, Clara H. Van Willigen, Wisconsin Vital Records Office,
Madison, Wisconsin.
288. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Clara Van Willigen,
Ancestry.com.
289. James H. Van Willigen, wisconsinrapidstribune.com, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, posted Tuesday, 19
Feb 2008.
290. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Henry Van Willigen
(“Vanwilligen”), Ancestry.com.
291. 1930 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 22, Sander Van Willigen household, Supervisor’s
292. “Fuel Company Founder Dies,” The Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Saturday, 5 Apr 1941,
p. 11.
293. 1940 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 9, Henry Van Willigen household, Supervisor's
294. “4 Dead in Accidents,” The Sheboygan Press, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Tuesday, 9 August 1927.
295. “Brookfield Man Killed in Crash,” Waukesha Daily Freeman, Waukesha, Wisconsin, Saturday, 5 Nov
1955, p. 1, col. 2.
296. “Real Estate Transfers,” Fond du Lac (Wisconsin) Commonwealth Reporter, 17 Aug 1968, p. 10, col. 5.
297. Wisconsin Death Index, 1959-67, 1969-97, Henry Van Willigen. Wisconsin Vital Records Office,
Madison, Wisconsin.
298. “Van Willigen, Clara H.,” Milwaukee Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Saturday, 6 Dec 1980, Part 2, p.
12.
299. “James H. Van Willigen,” wisconsinrapidstribune.com, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, posted Tuesday,
19 Feb 2008.
300. “Schilling, Vernon R.,” Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Thursday, 8 Mar 2001.
301. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Vernon R. Schilling,
Ancestry.com.
302. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Ruth P. Schilling,
Ancestry.com.
303. 1920 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 22, Arthur W. Isleb household, Supervisor’s Distr
4, Enumeration Distr 265, sheets 5B-6A, dwelling 89, family 128, 7 Jan 1920.
304. 1930 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Cty, Ward 4, Arthur W. Isleb (“Islab”) household, Supervisor’s
Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 40-53, sheet 10B, 11A, dwelling 19, family 22, 11 Apr 1930.
305. 1940 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, Ward 10, Vernon Schilling household, Supervisor's Distr
5, Enumeration Distr 72-235, sheet 7B, household 170, 11 Apr 1940.
306. “Ruth P. Schilling,” Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Thursday, 23 Jun 2011.
307. Robert A. Schilling, U.S. Army Infantry, Serial No. 36-841-026, U.S. Headstone Application for Military
Veterans, 16 Jan 1950.
308. Milwaukee County World War II Casualties, Milwaukee County Online Genealogy and Family History
Library, http://www.linkstothepast.com/milwaukee/mkewwii.php
309. Ninth US Army Operations, Vol. IV, p. 41.
310. From the official 1860 Census enumeration date (1 Jun 1860) and his age (6), his birth date range is
calculated as 2 Jun 1853 - 1 Jun 1854. From the official 1870 Census enumeration date (1 Jun 1870) and
his age (15), his birth date range is calculated as 2 Jun 1854 - 1 Jun 1855. From the official 1880 Census
enumeration date (1 Jun 1880) and his age (26), his birth date range is calculated as 2 Jun 1853 - 1 Jun
1854. The date of Feb 1853 from the 1900 Census lies just outside this range. The date of 2 Jan 1851
from his death certificate is far outside these ranges and is probably incorrect. (Death Certificate, William
Wehner, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No. 39072, Filed 12 Nov 1916.)
The birth year of 1856 from his obituary also lies well outside the ranges calculated. In his Civil War
pension application, in a document dated 3 Aug 1898, Lawrence gives a date of 2 Jan 1853; however,
Lawrence may have been exhibiting symptoms of senility at the time. (Lorenz Wehner, consolidated
Civil War pension file, Applications No. 908064, 867701, National Archives, Washington, DC.) The
information in the 1900 Census, which was collected during William’s lifetime, probably in his presence
of that of his wife, and gives a month and year (rather than age) is most likely to be correct.
311. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob Town, William Wehner (“Vehner”) household,
Supervisor’s Distr 10, Enumeration Distr 42, sheet 3A, dwelling 52, family 55, 2 & 4 Jun 1900.
312. “Married,” Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, Thursday, 28 Apr 1881, p. 5.
313. Marriage Certificate, William Wehner and Henrietta Burgsmüller (“Burgemueller”), Iron County,
Missouri, 21 Apri 1881, filed 24 Jun 1881 (microfilm, Ozark Regional Library, Ironton, Missouri).
314. William Wehner, unknown newspaper, unknown date (photocopy obtained from Gary L. Wehner,
Smyrna, Georgia).
315. Iron County Register, 29 Jul 1880.
316. Iron County Register, 20 May 1889.
317. Death Certificate, Henrietta Wehner, The Division of Health of Missouri, File No. 36951, Filed 21 Nov
1933.
318. Register of Births and Stillbirths, [Louisa] Wehner (“Welmer”), No. 238, filed 20 Apr 1885, Iron County
Courthouse, County Clerk’s Office, Iron County, Missouri.
319. Marcine (Amelung) Lohman, Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church of Pilot Knob, MO, Baptisms,
transcribed from the original Church books, rootsweb.ancestry.com.
320. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, Henrietta Wehner household, Supervisor’s Distr
11, Enumeration Distr 36, sheet 10B, dwelling 62, family 68, 10 Jan 1920.
321. Passenger List, International Navigation Company, Red Star Line, S.S. Belgenland, 13 April 1879,
Image at Philadelphia Passenger Lists, 1800-1945, Ancestry.com.
322. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Arcadia Twp, Pilot Knob, Frederick Kaths household, Supervisor’s
Distr 2, Enumeration Distr 52, p. 41, dwelling 317, family 334, 17 Jun 1880.
323. 1890 Veteran’s Schedule, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob, Frederick Kaths, Supervisor’s Distr 2,
Enumeration Distr 57, p. 4, house 196, family 208, Jun 1890.
324. Warranty Deed, John J. Tierney to William Wehner, 10 Jun 1886, filed 14 Apr 1887, Deed Book 32, Iron
County, Missouri, p. 267.
325. Donald C. Miller, “One Hundred Years of Expansion, Glassmaking at Works No. 9, Crystal City, Mo.,”
Crystal City Historical Society, May 1995 (Crystal City Library).
326. Lewis W. Roop, “Brief History of Glass Factory at Crystal City,” Glass Rays, August, 1939, p. 8.
327. Warranty Deed, William Wehner and wife to Aaron and Malinda Byrd, 19 Mar 1909, filed 29 Mar 1909,
328. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, William Wehner (“Wm Weiner”) Sr. household,
Supervisor’s Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 33, sheet 24A, dwelling 516, family 516, 11 May 1910.
329. Death Certificate, William Wehner, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
39072, Filed 12 Nov 1916.
330. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, Ward 3, Henrietta Wehner household,
331. Find A Grave, William Wehner, Gamel [Presbyterian] Cemetery, http://www.findagrave.com,
transcribed from photo of marker.
332. Find A Grave, Henrietta Wehner, Gamel [Presbyterian] Cemetery, http://www.findagrave.com,
333. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Iron County, Missouri, William R. Wehner and Louisa
Anna Waters, issued 1 Oct 1948, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
334. Death Certificate, William Robert Wehner, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics,
File No. 1655, Filed 10 Jan 1934.
335. “Christian Amelung Obituary, Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, 1903.
336. “Johanna Amelung,” Arcadia Valley Enterprise, Arcadia Valley, Missouri, Friday, 6 Dec 1918, p. 4, col.
2.
337. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Louisa Wehner,
Ancestry.com
338. “Louisa Amelung,” Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, thursday, 18 Nov 1886, p. 5, col. 2.
339. “Louisa Wehner Funeral Sunday,” News Democrat Journal, Festus, Missouri, Friday, 6 Aug 1971, p. 4.
340. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, William Wehner (“Wm Weiner”) Jr. household,
341. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, William Wehner household, Supervisor’s Distr
11, Enumeration Distr 36, sheet 7A, dwelling 138, family 151, 6-7 Jan 1920.
342. “Festus Correspondent,” Jefferson County Record, Hillsboro, Missouri, Thu, 5 Jun 1913.
343. Death Certificate, William Robert Wehner, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics,
344. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, Ward 2, William R. Wehner household,
345. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus, Louisa (“Louise”) Wehner household, Supervisor's
346. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Jefferson County, Missouri, Benjamin Rutherford and
Louisa Wehner, license issued 31 Jul 1953, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
(image, Ancestry.com).
347. Marcine E. Lohman, Amelung: My Family History, The Johann Heinrich Christian Amelung Family of
Klein Rhüden (Am Harz), Germany, http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/l/o/h/Marcine-E-
Lohman-OH/PDFBOOK1.pdf, p. 52.
348. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Benjamin Rutherford,
Ancestry.com.
349. Find A Grave, Louisa A. Wehner, Gamel [Presbyterian] Cemetery, http://www.findagrave.com,
350. Find A Grave, William R. Wehner, Gamel [Presbyterian] Cemetery, http://www.findagrave.com,
351. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Kathleen Wehner.
352. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Jefferson County, Missouri, Edgar Oldham and Imogene
Wehner, license issued 28 September 1946, microfilm, Missouri State Archives,
353. Find A Grave, Infant Sons of William and Louisa Wehner, Gamel (Presbyterian) Cemetery,
http://www.findagrave.com, transcribed from photo of marker.
354. Death Certificate, Georgia Pauline Wehner, The Division of Health of Missouri, File No. 13326, Filed 13
Apr 1934.
355. Death Certificate, Bertha Edna Harris, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File
No. 59-041925, Filed 29 Nov 1959.
356. Jefferson County, Missouri, Funeral Home Records, Henry Walter Harris, Jefferson County Historical
Society, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mojchs/FuneralHomes/
357. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, De Soto City, Henry W. Harris household, Supervisor’s Distr
11, Enumeration Distr 45, sheet 11A, dwelling 240, family 246.
358. Marriage License Applicant Information, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Samuel Temperato and Billie
Jeanne Wehner, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image, Ancestry.com).
359. “Billy Jean Wehner,” Glass Rays, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Crystal City, Missouri, 12 May 1938,
p. 25.
360. Marriage License Application, St. Louis County, Missouri, William Robert Wehner and Kay Frances
Alexander, marriage date 18 Jan 1955, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
361. “Bill Wehner,” Sabine Index, Many, Louisiana, Thursday, 23 November 1972.
362. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, De Soto, Henry Harris household, Supervisor's Distr 8,
Enumeration Distr 50-23, sheet 4A, household 85, 5 Apr 1940.
363. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Laura J. Wehner,
Ancestry.com.
Lohman-OH/PDFBOOK1.pdf, p. 64
365. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Bernard Wehner,
Ancestry.com.
366. “Edwin O. Watters Funeral Aug. 11,” Glass Rays, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Crystal City,
Missouri, 18 Aug 1938, p. 13.
367. Find A Grave, Bernard E. Wehner, Gamel [Presbyterian] Cemetery, http://www.findagrave.com,
368. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Kathleen R.
Ferguson.
369. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Orville Ferguson.
370. Marriage License, Jefferson County, Missouri, Orville Ferguson and Kathleen Wehner, license issued 21
February 1936, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image, Ancestry.com).
371. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus, Orville Ferguson household, Supervisor's Distr 8,
Enumeration Distr 50-9, sheet 7B, household 149, 6 Apr 1940.
372. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Francois Co, Perry Twp, Lawrence M. Ferguson household, Supervisor's
Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 95, sheet 4B, dwelling 73, family 73, 30 Jan 1920.
373. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Francois Co, Bonne Terre, Lawrence M. Ferguson household,
374. WW I Draft Registration, Lawrence Monroe Ferguson, Farmington, St. Francois County, Oklahoma, 12
Sep 1918.
375. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, St. Francois County, Missouri, Lawrence Ferguson and
Maggie Cook, issued 23 Oct 1906, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
376. Certificate of Marriage, Jefferson County, Missouri, Lawrence Ferguson and Florence Harris, 20 Dec
1901, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image, Ancestry.com).
377. Find A Grave, Orville and Kathleen Ferguson, transcribed from photo of grave marker,
Lohman-OH/PDFBOOK1.pdf, p. 95.
379. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Jefferson County, Missouri, Paul Robert Ferguson and
Betty Lou Covington, issued 16 oct 1959, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
380. Find A Grave, Paul R. Ferguson, Gamel [Presbyterian] Cemetery, http://www.findagrave.com.
381. Death Certificate, Glenn Lee Ferguson, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File
No. 34524, Filed 4 Nov 1944.
382. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Jefferson County, Missouri, Edgar Oldham and Imogene
Wehner, license issued 28 September 1946, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
383. Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Edgar F. Oldham, Ancestry.com.
384. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Crystal City, John Oldham household, Supervisor’s Distr 11,
Enumeration Distr 34, sheet 14A, dwelling 283, family 296, 20 Jan 1920.
385. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Crystal City, John R. Oldham household, Supervisor’s Distr
386. Death Certificate, John R. Oldham, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
8966, Filed 10 Mar 1932.
387. Death Certificate, Virgie ("Vergie") Ann Oldham, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital
Statistics, File No. 6499, Filed 16 Feb 1951.
388. WW I Draft Registration, Albert Frank Wehner, Festus, Missouri, 12 September 1918.
389 . 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus, Albert F. (“L”) Wehner household, Supervisor's Distr
390. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus, Raymond Biehle household, Supervisor's Distr 8,
391. “Wehner, Albert F.,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, 27 Feb 1962, p. 1B.
392. Find A Grave, Albert F. Wehner, Gamel [Presbyterian] Cemetery, http://www.findagrave.com,
393. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Louise H. Wehner,
Ancestry.com.
394. Find A Grave, Louise H. Wehner, Gamel [Presbyterian] Cemetery, http://www.findagrave.com,
395. WW I Draft Registration, Fred Lawrence Wehner, Festus, Missouri, 5 June 1917.
396. Death Certificate, Fred Lawrence Wehner, Registration Distr 421, Primary Registration Distr 4249, File
32314, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 12 Sep 1940.
397. “Veteran Machinist, Fred Wehner, Died Suddenly at Home,” Glass Rays, Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Company, Crystal City, Missouri, Sep 1940, p. 21.
398. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, Frederick (“Fred”) L. Wehner household,
Supervisor’s Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 33, sheet 10B, dwelling 201, family 211, 27 Apr 1910.
399. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Jefferson County, Missouri, Fred L. Wehner and Grace
Minnie Noce, issued 17 November 1909, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
400. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Grace Wehner,
Ancestry.com.
401. “Grace Wehner Dies Here at 84,” News Democrat Journal, Festus, Missouri, Wednesday, 16 Aug 1972,
p. 10.
402. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Joachim Twp, Sarah J. Noce household, Supervisor’s Distr 10,
403. Death Certificate, Sarah Jane Noce, Reg Distr 421, Primary Reg Distr 4249, File 11663, Missouri State
Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 1 May 1924.
404. Certificate of Marriage, Jefferson County, Missouri, James M. Porter and Sarah Jane McKee, 6 Mar
1864, Recorded 6 Jun 1864, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
405. Certificate of Marriage, Jefferson County, Missouri, Seth G. McKee and Anza M. Jones, 10 May 1839,
microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image, Ancestry.com).
406. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Valle Twp, Seth G. McKee household, p. 3, dwelling 21,
family 21, 24 Aug 1870.
407. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Valle Twp, Seth G. McGee household. Supervisor’s Distr 1,
408. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Plattin Twp, Pasquina (“Pasqueno”) Noce household, p. 15,
409. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Plattin Twp, Charles Noce household, Supervisor’s Distr 1,
410. Charles D. Noce and Sarah J. McKee, Jefferson County, Missouri, Marriages, p. 290.
411. Or possibly 1849. The record is unclear. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Joachim Twp, Sarah
J. Noce household, Supervisor’s Distr 10, Enumeration Distr 53, sheet 16A, dwelling 299, family 306, 12
Jun 1900.
412. Death Certificate, Mary Ann Barsotti, Registration Distr 421, Primary Registration Distr 5776, File
413. U.S. Land Patent, Rolando Noce, Bureau of Land Management, Certificates No. 20370 and 20369, 15
Apr 1853.
414. Jean O’Brien and Frank and Helen Magre, verified March 2007 by Dave Hallemann and Carole Goggin,
Noce Family Cemetery, Jefferson County, Missouri, Jefferson County Historical Society.
415. Robert E. Tapscott, Presbyterian Church Cemetey (part of Gamel Cemetery), Festus, Missouri,
transcriptions, 2010.
416. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus, Frederick (“Fred”) L. Wehner household, Supervisor's
417. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, Frederick (“Fred”) Wehner household,
418. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, Ward 3, Frederick L. Wehner household,
419. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Durward Wehner.
420. Death Certificate, Durward A. Wehner, Registration Distr 160, Primary Registration Distr 5592, File
40873, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 18 Nov 1957.
421. Robert E. Tapscott and Mary Frances Tapscott, Transcriptions, Sacred Heart Cemetery, Crystal City,
Missouri, 5 Apr 2010, 21 Jun 2010, and from photos.
422. WW II U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Muster Rolls, 1939-1949, Durward Albert Wehner, [database on-line].
Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
423. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Jefferson County, Missouri, Durward Wehner and Mary
Chmela, 18 Nov 1943, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
424. “Funeral Services Held Monday for Ladislav Chmela,” Glass Rays, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company,
Crystal City, Missouri, 28 Apr 1938, p. 1.
425. 1910 U.S. census, Illinois, LaSalle Co, Ottawa Twp, Joseph Martenis household, Supervisor’s Distr 3,
426. List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the United States Immigration Officer at Port of Arrival, SS
Lapland, Antwerp to New York, departed 5 Jul 1920, arrived 17 Jul 1920.
427. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Crystal City, Ladislav Chmela household, Supervisor’s Distr
428. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Crystal City, Frank Patek household, Supervisor’s Distr 14,
Enumeration Distr 50-5, sheet 25B, dwelling 484, family 520, 18 Apr 1930.
429. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Mary Wehner.
430. Burial records for Sacred Heart Cemetery, Sacred Heart Church, Crystal City, Missouri.
431. Obituaries, Jefferson County Post, Fred R. Wehner, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri,
Thursday, 12 Nov 1998, p. 4.
432. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Fred R. Wehner,
Ancestry.com
433. “Control Chemists Test Safety Glass, Fred Wehner Jr.,” Glass Rays, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company,
Crystal City, Missouri, Jul 1939, p. 29.
434. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Glenda A. Wehner.
435. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Valle Twp, John B. Krodinger household, Supervisor’s Distr
436. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Lloyd J. Hubbard,
Ancestry.com.
437. Glenda A. Wehner, Jefferson County Online.Org, Jefferson County, Missouri,
http://www.jeffersoncountyonline.org/.
438. “Arthur Wehner Tells of Argonne Battle,” Glass Rays, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Crystal City,
Missouri, 11 Nov 1937, pp. 34-36.
439. WW I Draft Registration, Arthur Julius Wehner, Festus, Missouri, 5 June 1917.
440. Arthur Wehner and Sylvia Cashion, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St. Louis,
Missouri, No. 259982, license 2 Aug 1922, marriage 2 Aug 1922.
441. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Sylvia Wehner,
Ancestry.com.
442. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Joachim Twp, Charles R. Cashion household, Supervisor’s
Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 31, sheets 19B-20A, dwelling 342, family 370, 2 May 1910.
443. Robert E. Tapscott, Transcriptions, Rose Lawn Memorial Gardens, Crystal City, Jefferson County,
Missouri, 22 Jun 2010.
444. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Sylvia Wehner,
Ancestry.com.
445. Jerry McKee and Sharon Uding, Rose Lawn Memorial Gardens, Crystal City, Missouri, Transcriptions,
Jefferson County Historical Society, 2004.
446. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, Ward 2, Arthur J. Wehner household,
447. Brian Wehner, personal communication to Robert Tapscott, Festus, Missouri, 22 Jun 2010 and 24 Jun
2010.
448. “Wehner, Arthur W., Lt./Col., USAF Ret.,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Tuesday, 19
Jun 2001, Obituaries Section.
449. United States Social Security, Administration Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Arthur W. Wehner,
Ancestry.com.
450. WW II Army Enlistment Records, 1938 - 1946, Arthur W Wehner, database on-line, Ancestry.com.
451. Arthur W. Wehner, Jefferson County Online.Org, Jefferson County, Missouri,
http://www.jeffersoncountyonline.org/.
452. Robert E. Tapscott and Mary Frances Tapscott, Transcriptions, Sacred Heart Cemetery, Crystal City,
Missouri, 5 Apr 2010, 21 Jun 2010, and from photos.
453. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Crystal City, Adolph W. Abernathy household, Supervisor's
454. “Nadine Laverne Wehner,” Obituary, Vinyard Funeral Home, Festus, Missouri.
455. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Nadine Laverne
Wehner.
456. Georgia National Cemetery, Nationwide Gravesite Locator, United States Department of Veterans
Affairs.
457. WW II Army Enlistment Records, 1938 - 1946, Ernest J Siracusa, database on-line, Ancestry.com.
458. Arkansas Marriages, 1779-1992, Ernest J. Siracusa and Norma Wehner, [database on-line]. Provo, UT,
USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
459. Death Certificate, Stefano Siracusa, Reg Distr 160, Prim Reg Distr 5592, File No. 32099, Filed 14 Oct
1952, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics.
460. “Leo Siracusa,” Obituary, Vinyard Funeral Home, Festus, Missouri, 2012.
461. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Jefferson County, Missouri, Sam Siracusa and Silvia
Martinie, issued 2 Apr 1915, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
462. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Crystal City, Stefano (“Sam”) Siracusa household,
463. Obituary for Normalee A. Siracusa, Mayes Ward-Dobbins Funeral Home, Marietta, Georgia
(http://www.mayeswarddobbins.com/).
464. Find A Grave, Maxine V. Anderson, transcribed from photo of grave marker,
465. Gary Wehner, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 1 Mar 2012.
466. Maxine V. W. Anderson, Georgia Death Index, 1919-1998, Georgia Health Department, Office of Vital
Records.
467. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus, Arthur J. Wehner household, Supervisor's Distr 8,
468. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Sandra J. Wehner,
Ancestry.com.
469. Find A Grave, Joseph Hill White and Emma Edith White, http://www.findagrave.com.
470. Confirmation Records, Church Records, Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pilot Knob, Missouri,
Confirmations, p. 109.
471. James Bell, The History and Genealogy of Ottery Creek, Iron and Reynolds County Missouri, 1992, p. 6.
472. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis Co, Carondelet Twp, Allison (Alison) Gaines household,
473. “Army Nurse Corps - Reserve Nurses,” The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review, Jan 1918, p. 299.
474. Ward R. Adams, History of Arizona, Vol. 4, Richard E. Sloan, ed., Record Publishing Co., Phoenix,
Arizona, 1930.
475. Death Certificate, Emily Humber Herring, Reg Distr 41:96, No. 27798, Received 12 Aug 1971, North
Carolina State Board of Health, Office of Vital Statistics.
476. Passport Application, Joseph Hill White, No. 24901, Washington, DC, 7 Jul 1918, issued 8 Jul 1918.
477. Find A Grave, Joseph Hill White, transcribed from photo of grave marker, http://www.findagrave.com.
478. 1940 U.S. census, Virginia, Arlington Co, Joseph H. White household, Supervisor's Distr 8, Enumeration
Distr 7-9, sheet 11A, household 224, 27 May 1940.
479. 1930 U.S. census, Arizona, Cochise Co, Douglas, Joseph H. White household, Supervisor’s Distr 3,
Enumeration Distr 2-30, sheet 3A, dwelling 58, family 59, 4 Apr 1930.
480. Marriage Registration, Joseph Hill White III and Wilma Joan Greenleaf, License 23 Apr 1954, Marriage
24 Apr 1954, Kanawha County, West Virginia.
481. “Wilma Joan Greenleaf - Joseph Hill White III,” The Washington Post and Times Herald, Washington,
DC, Sunday, 25 Apr 1954.
482. “Sculptor, Illustrator Edith Hoblin Dies at Age 80,” Falls Church News Press, Falls Church, Virginia, 13
Jan 2005.
483. “Edith Hoblin, 80, Sculptor, Illustrator,” The Washington Times, Washington, DC, Tuesday, 14 Dec
2004.
484. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Lester Hoblin [Jr.],
Ancestry.com.
485 . 1930 U.S. census, New York, Westchester Co, Yonkers, Henry G. Hoblin, household, Supervisor's Distr
486. “Edith White Fiancee of Lester Hoblin,” Herald Statesman, Yonkers, New York, Friday, 4 Mar 1955, p.
11.
487. “Food for Thought,” The Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sunday, 10 Apr 1960, p. 83.
488. Find A Grave, Lester E. and Edith M. Hoblin, transcribed from photo of grave marker,
489. Death Certificate, Frank Joseph Wehner, The Division of Health of Missouri, File No. 9529, Filed 20
Mar 1956
490. Frank’s birthplace has been given as both Pilot Knob, Missouri, and De Soto, Missouri, which are about
48 miles apart. It is known that Frank’s parents were living in Pilot Knob at the time of his birth;
however, a number of reliable documents show the birthplace as De Soto. Frank’s WW I draft
registration gives a birth year of 1892; however, other records show 1891. Ages in the 1900, 1910, and
1920 (but not the 1930) also agree best with a birth year of 1891.
491. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Jefferson County, Missouri, Frank Wehner and Cora
Kiefer, issued 29 November 1917, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
492. “Elinore Lorraine Miller,” Obituary, Vinyard Funeral Home, Festus, Missouri.
493. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, Ward 1, Frank J. Wehner household, Supervisor’s
494. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Joseph Kiefer and
Annie Katie Stoll, license issued 17 Jul 1890, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City,
Missouri (image, Ancestry.com).
495. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Cora J. Wehner,
Ancestry.com.
496. Death Certificate, Frank Leon Wehner, The Division of Health of Missouri, File No. 1487, Filed 23 Jan
1924.
497. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus, Anna Kiefer household, Supervisor’s Distr 10,
498. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, John Keevins household, Supervisor’s Distr 11,
Enumeration Distr 33, sheets 10A-10B, dwelling 191, family 201, 27 Apr 1910.
499. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Plattin Twp, John Keevins household, Supervisor’s Distr 10,
500. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Jefferson County, Missouri, John Keevins and Eveline
Luther, issued 1 Oct 1894, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
501. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, John Keevins household, Supervisor’s Distr 11,
502. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Beauvais Twp, Michael (“Mike”) Stoll household,
Supervisor’s Distr 2, Enumeration Distr 135, p. 13, dwelling 109, family 117, 9 Jun 1880.
503. Death Certificate, Michael Stoll, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
17911, Filed 24 Jul 1921.
504. Death Certificate, Philomina Stoll, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
7053, Filed 12 Mar 1940.
505. Find A Grave, Philomina and Michael Stoll, Sacred Heart Cemetery, Crystal City, Missouri, transcribed
from photo of grave marker, http://www.findagrave.com.
506. “Frank J. Wehner Dies Here at 64,” News Democrat Journal, Festus, Missouri, Thursday, 8 Mar 1956, p.
1.
507. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, Frank Wehner household, Supervisor’s Distr 11,
508. WW I Draft Registration, Frank J. Wehner, Festus, Missouri, Pct 3, 5 Jun 1917.
509. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, Ward 1, Frank J. Wehner household, Supervisor’s
510. “Electrical Department,” Glass Rays, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Crystal City, Missouri, 27 Apr
1939, p. 16.
511. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Crystal City, Frank Wehner household, Supervisor's Distr 8,
512. Death Certificate, Frank Joseph Wehner, The Division of Health of Missouri, File No. 9529, Filed 20
Mar 1956.
513. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Cora J. Wehner,
Ancestry.com.
514. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Jefferson County, Missouri, Philip Miller and Elinora
Wehner, 19 October 1937, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
515. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Phillip E. Miller,
Ancestry.com.
516. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Jefferson County, Missouri, Edward S. Miller and Rachel
L. Lilly, issued 18 Dec 1913, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
517. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, Ward 4, Phillip A. Lilly household, Supervisor's
518. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Crystal City, Anna Keevins household, Supervisor's Distr 8,
519. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Crystal City, Phillip Miller household, Supervisor's Distr 8,
520. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Elinore L. Miller,
Ancestry.com.
521. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Lucille LaRose,
Ancestry.com.
522. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Jefferson County, Missouri, Jesse Howard LaRose and
Lucille Francis Wehner, issued 3 August 1949, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City,
523. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Jesse LaRose,
Ancestry.com.
524. WW I Draft Registration, Martin Harrison LaRose, Festus, Missouri, 5 June 1917.
525. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Crystal City, Martin LaRose household, Supervisor's Distr 11,
526. Death Certificate, Gertrude Mary LaRose, Reg Distr 421, Prim Reg Distr 5575, File 24079, Filed 7 Aug
527. The Charleston Daily Mail, Charleston, West Virginia, 7 Aug 1922.
528. Death Certificate, Irene Josephine Moon, Reg Distr 421, Prim Reg Distr 5575, File 24110, Filed 22 Aug
529. Tri-City Independent, Festus, Missouri, August 1922.
530. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Crystal City, Edward L. Moon household, Supervisor's Distr
14, Enumeration Distr 50-5, sheets 23B-24A, dwelling 449, family 484, 17 Apr 1930.
531. Death Certificate, Mort H. LaRose, Reg Distr 317, Prim Reg Distr 544, File 26864, Filed 5 Aug 1955,
Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics.
532. Jesse Larose, Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File, Department of
Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC.
533. Death Certificate, Frank Leon Wehner, The Division of Health of Missouri, File No. 1487, Filed 23 Jan
1924.
534. Death Certificate, Robert Wehner, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
38575, Filed 26 Dec 1926.
535. Marriage License, Jefferson County, Missouri, Franklin Hoeckele and Dora Wehner, issued 4 March
1919, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image, Ancestry.com).
536. Death Certificate, Frank C. Hoeckele, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File
9507, Filed 17 March 1925.
537. Death Certificate, Charles Hoeckele, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File
17405, Filed 31 May 1939.
538. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, Cape Girardeau Co, Jackson City, Charles Hoeckele (“Hoeckle”)
household, Supervisor’s Distr 12, Enumeration Distr 23, sheet 11B, dwelling 198, family 215, 8 Jun
1900.
539. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Cape Girardeau Co, Jackson, Charles Hoeckele household, Supervisor’s
540. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Cape Girardeau Co, Jackson, Louise Hoeckele (“Heckole”) household,
541. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Cape Girardeau Co, Jackson City, Charles Hoeckele household,
542. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Cape Girardeau Co, Missouri, Charles Hoeckele
(“Hoeckle”) and Ida Mogler, issued 23 Nov 1881, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City,
543. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Cape Girardeau Co, Missouri, Charles Hoeckele
(“Hoeckle”) and Lizzie Masterson, issued 17 Apr 1897, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson
City, Missouri (image, Ancestry.com).
544. “Mrs. Paul Hoeckele of Jackson Succumbs After Child’s Birth,” Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau,
Missouri, Friday, 9 Oct 1936.
545. Mia Pohlman, “The Secret Ingredient,” Detours Magazine, Truman Media Network, Truman State
University, Kirksville, Missouri, Thursday, Tuesday, 29 Nov 2011.
546. WW I Draft Registration, Franklin Charles Hockele (Hoeckle), Jackson, Cape Girardeau Co, Missouri,
12 September 1918.
547. “News from the County Seat,” Cape Girardeau Southeastern Missourian, Cape Girardeau, Missouri,
Wednesday, 5 Jun 1918, p. 3.
548. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, Franklin (“Frank”) Hoeckele household,
549. “Son of Jackson Grocer is Found Slain at Festus,” The Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, Missouri,
Monday, 12 Mar 1928, p. 1.
550. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, Ward 3, Dora Hoeckele (“Heckel”) household,
Supervisor’s Distr 14, Enumeration Distr 50-8, sheet 5B, dwelling 105, family 110, 15 Apr 1930.
551. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus, Dora Hoeckele (“Hoeckle”) household. Supervisor's
552. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, Ward 4, Samuel H. Davis household,
553. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Jefferson County, Missouri, Cletus Davis and Dora Ann
Hoeckle, 21 Jul 1942, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
554. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Dora A. Davis,
Ancestry.com.
555. Jerry McKee and Sharon Uding, Methodist Cemetery, Festus, Missouri, Transcriptions, Jefferson County
Historical Society, 2004.
556. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Clytus Davis,
Ancestry.com.
557. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Virginia L. Harris,
Ancestry.com,
558. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Wayne Trask and
Virginia Hoechele, issued 2 Apr 1938, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
559. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Wayne E. Trask,
Ancestry.com.
560. Death Certificate, Joseph Spain Trask, Reg Distr 316, Prim Reg Distr 3061, File 58-019416, Filed 10 Jun
561. Death Certificate, Eura Ethel Trask, Reg Distr 316, Prim Reg Distr 3059, File 29127, Filed 12 Sep 1957,
562. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Francois Co, Bonne Terre, Joseph S. Trask household, Supervisor’s Distr
563 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Crawford Co., Meramec Twp, District 0007, Steelville City.
564. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Crawford Co, Courtois Twp, Joseph S. Trask household, Supervisor's Distr
565. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Francois Co, Bonne Terre, Joseph S. Trask household, Supervisor's Distr
566. 1940 U.S. census, Illinois, Washington Co, Ashley, Wayne Trask household, Supervisor's Distr 22,
Enumeration Distr 95-1, sheet 7B, household 163, 16 May 1940 .
567. “Jerry W. Trask Sr.,” Evansville Courier and Press, Evansville, Indiana, Tuesday, 15 Jun 2010.
568. 1940 U.S. census, Illinois, Washington Co, Ashley, Wayne Trask household, Supervisor's Distr 22,
Enumeration Distr 95-1, sheet 7B, household 163, 16 May 1940 .
569. “Jerry W. Trask Sr.,” Evansville Courier and Press, Evansville, Indiana, Tuesday, 15 Jun 2010.
570. Death Certificate, Mona E. Howell, File 19438, Filed 2 May 1929, Missouri State Board of Health,
Bureau of Vital Statistics.
571. Death Certificate, Mona Howell, Reg Distr 785, Prim Reg Distr 6031, File 19269, Filed 10 Jun 1929,
572. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Jefferson County, Missouri, Edwin Harris and Virginia
Trask, icense issued 27 Mar 1964, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
573. “Harris, Nina Mae” Obituary, death date 17 Jul 2007, Mahn Funeral Homes, DeSoto, Missouri,
http://www.mahnfuneralhome.com/.
574. “Nina Harris,” Suburban Journals, St. Louis Today, Wednesday, 18 Jul 2007,
http://www.stltoday.com/suburban-journals/.
575. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Jefferson County, Missouri, Edwin Harris and Virginia
Trask, icense issued 27 Mar 1964, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
576. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis Co, Lemay Twp, Edwin Harris household, Supervisor's Distr 12,
577. “Edwin A. Harris,” Suntimes, Ste. Genevieve, www.suntimesnews.com, 2000 obituary archives.
578. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 4, Harry Harris household, Supervisor's
579. Death Certificate, Edna Harris, Reg Distr 791, Primary Reg Distr 1003, File 27572, Filed 26 Sep 1922,
580. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 15, Abraham (“Abe”) H. Harris
household, Supervisor's Distr 10, Enumeration Distr 303, sheet 11B, dwelling 187,
581. Death Certificate, Abe Harris, Reg Distr 791, File No. 3009, Filed 1 August 1928, Missouri State Board
of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics.
582. Robert E. Tapscott, Transcriptions, Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery, Universal City, Missouri, (transcribed
from photographs).
583. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 12,
Wlliam Chartrand household, Supervisor's Distr 9, Enumeration Distr 96-436, sheet 13B, dwelling 211,
family 218, 17 Apr 1930.
584. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Edwin A. Harris,
Ancestry.com,
585. Find A Grave, Edwin A. and Virginia A. Harris, Gamel [Presbyterian] Cemetery,
586. Dorothy E. Biehl, On-Line Obituaries, Mahn Funeral Homes, Festus, Missouri,
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587. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Crystal City, Louis J. Biehle household, Supervisor's Distr 14,
Enumeration Distr 50-5, sheets 13B and 14A, dwelling 265, family 275, 11 Apr 1930.
588. Marriage License, Perry County, Missouri, Louis Biehle and Barbara Bauman, issued 17 Mar 1911,
589. “Louis Perlie Biehle,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, 12 Oct 2003, p. D11.
590. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Anthony B. Biehle,
Ancestry.com.
591. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Joachim Twp, Louis J. Biehle household, Supervisor's Distr
11, Enumeration Distr 32, sheets 23B, 24A, dwelling 478, family 494, 6 Feb 1920.
592. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Raymond J. Biehle,
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593. WW II Army Enlistment Records, 1938 - 1946, Raymond J Biehle , database on-line, Ancestry.com.
594. State Summary of War Casualties [Missouri], Casualty Section, Office of Public Information, Navy
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595. Arkansas Marriages, 1779-1992, Frank B. Clark and Frances M. Hoeckele, [database on-line]. Provo,
UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
596. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Frances Clark,
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597. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Frank Clark,
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598. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Joachim Twp, Frank B. Clark Sr. household, Supervisor’s
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Missouri, http://www.findagrave.com, transcribed from photo of grave marker.
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601. Janssen, Elmer Vernon, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, 31 May 2000, p. B5.
602. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Catherine I. Janssen,
Ancestry.com.
603. Marriage License Application, St. Louis County, Missouri, Elmer Janssen and Catherine Hoeckele, 20
Mar 1945, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image, Ancestry.com).
604. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Elmer V. Janssen,
Ancestry.com.
605. Dianna (Hale) Mattingly and Glenda (May) Crawford, Lake Memorial Garden, Miller County Missouri
Home Page, MOGenWeb, RootsWeb.
606. “Janssen, Catherine,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, 3 Jun 1998, p. B5.
607. “Miss Wehner Dies; Childhood Spent Amid Civil War Scenes,” Milwaukee Journal, Tuesday, 10 Jan
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608. Barbara Fitzgerald, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 15 Nov 2009.
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610. Find A Grave, Mary Wehner, transcribed from photo of grave marker, http://www.findagrave.com.
611. Edward and Millie (Albert) Preissle, 1876 Census of the County of Iron, State of Missouri, Houston,
Missouri, 1984, p. 29.
612. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis City, August Bohnsdet household, Supervisor’s Distr 71,
Enumeration Distr 293, p. 19, dwelling 111, family 182, 11 Nov 1880.
613. Warranty Deed, Zwart to Wehner, 6 Jun 1881, filed 15 Jul 1881, Deed Book T, Iron County, Missouri, p.
307.
614. Warranty Deed, Wehner to Collier, 30 May 1882, filed 13 Jun 1882, Abstract and Index to Deeds, Book
3, Iron County, Missouri, p. 146.
615. John Cooney and Theresa Wehner, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St. Louis,
Missouri, No. 21385, license 23 Nov 1886, marriage 24 Nov 1886.
616. 1870 U.S. census, Iowa, Lee Co, Fort Madison, John Cooney household, pp. 18-19, dwelling 144, family
146, 17 Jun 1870,.
617. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis City, Sarah Cooney household, Supervisor’s Distr 71,
618. Gould’s St. Louis Directory for 1880, Gould Directory Co., St. Louis, Missouri, 1881, p. 257.
620 Dictionary of Missouri Biography, ed. Lawrence O. Christensen, William E. Foley, Gary R. Kremer, and
Kenneth H. Winn, University of Missouri Press, 1999.
621. Missouri Death Records, 1834-1910, St. Louis, Jan 1884, Sarah Cooney, Register of Deaths, p. 94,
Ancestry.com (original images), original data: Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.
624. Gould’s St. Louis Directory for 1888, Gould Directory Co., St. Louis, Missouri, 1889, p
628. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Richard Cooney household, Supervisor’s Distr
11, Enumeration Distr 210, sheet 14B, dwelling 189, family 305, 9 Jun 1900.
629. Walter B. Stevens, St. Louis, The Fourth City, 1764-1911, Vol. 1, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., St.
Louis, 1911, pp. 313-337.
630. John Cooney and Theresa Wehner, Marriage License Application, City of St. Louis, Missouri, No.
21385, 23 Nov 1886.
632. St. Louis City Death Records, 1850 - 1908 [database on-line], Provo, Utah, The Generations Network,
Inc., 1999.
633. Certificate of Death, Theresa (“Tressa”) Cooney, , No. 6809, Burial Permit 1409, Health Department, St.
Louis, Missouri.
634. St. Louis Register of Deaths, Theresa (“Tresa”) Cooney, 1908, p. 1, No. 9, certificate date 1 Mar 1908,
635. Carmella Kranz and Penny Lemon, Headstones at Frieden’s Cemetery, 1997, St. Louis-Pages From The
Past, http://members.tripod.com/vide_poche/fried.html.
636. “Cooney,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, 2 Mar 1908, p. 1B.
637. Dennis Dyckman, Personal Communications to Robert Tapscott, 12 May 2011, 30 Jun 2013.
638. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, St. Louis Co, Missouri, L. C. Boillot and Grace Cooney,
639. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Rollie J. Paddock household, Supervisor’s
641. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 2, David Shelton household,
642. Robert B. Dyckman and Grace Boillot, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St. Louis,
Missouri, No. 253254, license 14 Oct 1921, marriage 15 Oct 1921.
643. Izola Forrester, “Elopements! The Brain Storms of the Affections,” The Scrap Book, The Frank A.
Munsey Co., New York, Vol. 4, Jul-Dec, 1907, pp. 566-571.
644. “Marrying Judge Advertises in Street Cars,” Ada Evening News, Ada, Oklahoma, 10 May 1907, p. 4, col.
4.
645. WW I Draft Registration, Lucian Clifford Boillot, Dyer County, Tennessee, 11 Sep 1918.
646. Death Certificate, William Boillot, File No. 25281, Filed 14 Aug 1941, Missouri State Board of Health,
647. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, Jasper Co, McDonald Twp, Paul C. Boillot household, Supervisor’s Distr
154, Enumeration Distr 54, sheets 7B-8A, dwelling 141, family 147, 13 Jun 1900.
648. Paul C. Boillot and Sarah E. Bunch, Marriage Record, Osage County, Missouri, Filed 21 Jul 1873,
Marriage 27 Mar 1873.
649. Gould's St. Louis Directory for 1913, Gould Directory Co., St. Louis, Missouri, 1914, p. 363.
650. Gould’s St. Louis Directory for 1915, Gould Directory Co., St. Louis, Missouri, 1916, pp. 310, 2617.
651. 1910 U.S. census, Arkansas, Mason Co, Birta, Paul C. Boillot household, Supervisor’s Distr 5,
Enumeration Distr 171, sheet 1A, dwelling 4, family 4, 15 Apr 1910..
652. Salem Cemetery, Yell Co, Arkansas, Transcriptions, Yell County Historical and Genealogical
Association, Dardanelle, Arkansas.
653. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Audrain Co, Loutre Twp, John E. Bunch household, Supervisor's Distr 9,
Enumeration Distr 6, sheet 9A, dwelling [blank], family [blank], 16 Jan 1920.
654. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Boone Co, Columbia, William W. Boillot household, Supervisor's Distr 12,
655. Mrs. Sarah E. Boillot, Weant, Kenneth. Callaway County, Missouri Obituaries, 1920-55 [database on-
line], Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. , 1988.
656. Gould's St. Louis Directory for 1912, Gould Directory Co., St. Louis, Missouri, 1913, no page number.
657. 1920 U.S. census, Tennessee, Shelby Co, Memphis, Lucian C. (“L. C.”) Boillot household, Supervisor’s
658. Memphis City Directories, R. L. Polk & Co., for 1917, p. 172; 1918, p. 172; 1920, p. 195; 1923, p. 144;
1924, p. 157.
659. 1930 U.S. census, Texas, Dallas Co, Dallas, C. E. Johnson household, Supervisor’s Distr 10,
660. Minutes, Meetings of the Mayor and Board of Alderman, City of Oxford, Mississsippi, Book 9, Jan 1934
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661. Polk's Memphis (Shelby County, Tenn.) City Directory 1933, R. L. Polk & Co. of Memphis, Publishers,
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662. 1940 U.S. census, Tennessee, Shelby Co, Memphis, Anna Boillot household, Supervisor's Distr 9,
663. Polk's Monroe, Louisiana, City Directory 1956, R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers, p. 25.
664. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Anna Boillot,
Ancestry.com.
665. Dennis Vincent Dyckman,Family of William Dyckman (5) & Mary Ann McQueen, Register Report, 15
May 2011.
666. Portrait and Biographical Record of Kalamazoo, Allegan, and Van Buren Counties, Michigan :
Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Together with Biographies
of all the Governors of the State, and of the Presidents of the United States, Chapman Brothers, Chicago,
1892, pp. 428-429.
667. 1860 U.S. census, Michigan, Van Buren Co, South Haven, Barney H.. (“B. H.”) Dyckman household, p.
8, dwelling 63, family 61, 2 Jun 1860.
668. Barney H. Dyckman and Asenath A. Wallace, Michigan Marriages to 1850, Ancestry.com.
669. 1870 U.S. census, Michigan, Van Buren Co, South Haven, Barney H. (“B. H.”) Dyckman household, p.
670. Marriage Index, Illinois Statewide, 1763-1900, B. H. Dyckman and Mary A. Chase, Illinois State
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671. 1880 U. S. census, Michigan, Van Buren Co, South Haven, Barney H. (“B. H.”) Dyckman household,
672. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis City, Christopher Kirchner household, Supervisor’s Distr 71,
676. Gould’s St. Louis Directory, Gould Directory Co., St. Louis, Missouri, for the years 1884 through 1887.
678. Aaron S. Dyckman and Annie O’Brien, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St. Louis,
Missouri, No. 27250, license 30 Apr 1888, marriage 30 Apr 1888.
679. Barney H. Dyckman Jr. and Mrs. Maggie McClellan, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City
of St. Louis, Missouri, No. 16293, license 3 Sep 1885, marriage 18 May 1885.
680. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis City, George (“Georg”) McClellan household, Supervisor's Distr
71, Enumeration Distr 99, p. 16, dwelling 75, family 162, Nov 1880.
681. Marriage Certificate, St. Louis County, Missouri, George B. McClellan and Maggie Price, signed 17
May 1880, filed 17 May 1880, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.
683. Although the St. Louis death records give the name as “Mary J.” instead of “Martha J.,” the address 120
S 12th Street is exactly that for Martha J. Price in the 1899 St. Louis City Directory. Moreover, the death
date is what one would expect since the last we see of Martha is 1899 and we do not see her in the 1900
census. Finally, the state in which she was born was Kentucky, as it should be. The name change from
“Martha” to “Mary” may indicate that Martha also used the name “Mary.” One major problem, however,
is that her age at death is given as 47. It should have been 58. St. Louis Register of Deaths, Mary J. Price,
April 1899, p. 312, No. 3160, certificate date 3 April 1904, Ancestry.com (original images), original
data: Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri; Certificate of Death, Mary J. Price, No. 3160,
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2.
686. Crocker-Langley, San Francisco Directory, 1916, H. S. Crocker Co., San Francisco, California, p. 630.
687. Crocker-Langley, San Francisco Directory, 1917, H. S. Crocker Co., San Francisco, California, p. 670.
688. Barney H. Dyckman and Mrs. Tillie Mathers, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St.
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689. Marriage Index, Illinois Statewide, 1763-1900, Lewis H. Mathews and Tillie Camp, Illinois State
690. Death Certificate, Tillie Dyckman, Reg Distr 233, Prim Reg Distr 5318, File 26848, Filed 27 Sep 1947,
691. Death Certificate, Barney Hix Dyckman, Reg Distr 891, Prim Reg Distr 1003, File 41318, Filed 13 Dec
692. Dyckman, Barney H., St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Friday, 13 Dec 1935, p. 14D.
693. WW II Draft Registration, Harry Chase Dyckman, San Francisco, California, 25 Apr 1942.
694. Missouri Birth Records, St. Louis, Robert Dyckman, Registry of Births, original image, Ancestry.com.
695. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Barney H. Dyckman household, Supervisor’s
696. Gould’s St. Louis Directory, Gould Directory Co., St. Louis, Missouri, for the years 1903, 1906, 1922,
1923.
697. 1908 Gould's Kansas City Directory, Gould Directory Co., Kansas City, Missouri, 1908, p. 387.
698. 1910 U.S. census, South Dakota, Brown Co, Aberdeen, Flora Crum household, Supervisor’s Distr 1,
699. U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls, 1893-1940 (National Archives Microfilm Publication T977, 460 rolls),
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702. Death Certificate, Grace Dyckman, Reg Distr 318, Primary Reg Distr 1003, File 38940, Missouri State
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Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 96-569, sheet 3A, household 87, 5-6 Apr 1940.
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Ancestry.com.
709. Marriage Certificate, St. Louis County, Missouri, Robert Richard Dyckman and Agnes F. Groesch,
license issued 25 May 1944.
710. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Patricia G. Dyckman,
Ancestry.com.
711. 1920 U.S. census, Illinois, Sangamon Co, Springfield, Carl T. Groesch household, Supervisor’s Distr 13,
712. Dyckman, Patricia G., St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Wednesday, 17 Aug 1994, p. 4B.
713. Dyckman, Robert V., St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Missouri, Sunday, 20 Sep 1981, p.
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714. Death Certificate, Arthur R. Cooney, State File 377, Registrar’s No. 215, Arizona State Department of
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715. Howard Raymond Cooney, 7 Jan 1927, Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997, Texas Department of State Health
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718. “Funeral of Arthur Cooney,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Sunday, 8 Mar 1942, p. 12A.
719. Arthur R. Cooney and Elizabeth A. Gray, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St.
Louis, Missouri, No. 165573, license 14 Jun 1911.
720. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 23, Alexander Gray household,
Supervisor’s Distr 10, Enumeration Distr 342, sheet 8A, dwelling 88, family 93, 21 Apr 1910.
721. 1920 U.S. census, Texas, Bowie Co, Texarkana, Arthur R. Cooney household, Supervisor’s Distr 1,
722. 1930 U.S. census, Texas, Bowie Co, Texarkana, Arthur R. Cooney household, Supervisor’s Distr 6,
723. 1940 U.S. census, Texas, Bowie Co, Texarkana, Arthur Cooney household, Supervisor's Distr 1,
Enumeration Distr 19-4, sheet 61A, household [blank], 4 Apr 1940.
724. “Former Texarkana Banker Dies Here,” Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona, Friday, 6 Mar 1942, p.
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725. Vital Records, Bowie County, Texas, Deaths, 1983,
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729. Telephone Directories, Texarkana, Texas, 1993-1997.
730. Harold G. Cooney and Helen Nix, Arkansas Marriage Index, 1933-1939 [database on-line], Provo, Utah,
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731. 1920 U.S. census, Arkansas, Lafayette Co, Lewisville, Isaac L. Nix household, Supervisor’s Distr 7,
732. 1930 U.S. census, Arkansas, Lafayette Co, Lewisville, Isaac L. Nix household, Supervisor’s Distr 8,
733. 1940 U.S. census, Texas, Bowie Co, Harold G. Cooney household, Supervisor's Distr 1, Enumeration
Distr 19-13, sheet 81A, household “T”, 8 Apr 1940.
734. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Harold G. Cooney,
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735. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Helen N. Cooney,
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736. Harold Gregg Cooney Jr., 26 Aug 1946, Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997, Texas Department of State
Health Services. Microfiche.
737. Death Certificate, Arthur R. Cooney, Registration Distr 791, Primary Registration Distr 1003, File
36265, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 13 Nov 1952.
738. “Cooney,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Thursday, 22 Jul 1915, p. 18.
739. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Allen R. Cooney,
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740. Lillie M. Monroe and Allen R. Cooney, Arkansas Marriage Index, 1933-1939 [database on-line], Provo,
Utah, Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2005.
741. 1920 U.S. census, Arkansas, Pulaski Co, Little Rock, William H. Monroe household, Supervisor's Distr
742. 1930 U.S. census, Arkansas, Miller Co, Texarkana, William H. Monroe household, Supervisor’s Distr 8,
743. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Lillie M. Cooney,
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744. “Lillie Cooney,” Texarkana Gazette, Texarkana, Texas, Friday, 5 Apr 1991.
745. 1940 U.S. census, Arkansas, Miller Co, Texarkana, William H. (“Therman”) Monroe household,
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746. Allen Cooney Sr., 5 Apr 1993, Texas Death Index, 1903-2000 [database on-line], Ancestry.com, 2006.
747. Elizabeth Anne Cooney, 28 May 1941, Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997, Texas Department of State Health
748. “Allen Cooney,” Texarkana Gazette, Texarkana, Texas.
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751. Find A Grave, Myrtle Irene Dasinger, Cottondale First Baptist Church Cemetery, Cottondale, Florida,
752. 1930 U.S. census, Florida, Jackson Co, Cottondale, Thomas E. Dasinger household, Supervisor's Distr 1,
753. 1940 U.S. census, Florida, Jackson Co, Cottondale, Thomas (“Tommie”) E. Dasinger household,
Supervisor's Distr 3, Enumeration Distr 32-23, sheet 3A, household 46, 4 Jun 1930.
754. Find A Grave, Agnes Dasinger Robinson, Gamel [Presbyterian] Cemetery, http://www.findagrave.com,
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12854, Florida Department of Health, Jacksonville, Florida.
757. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), C. L. Cooney,
Ancestry.com. The source of the name “C. L.” is unknown.
758. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Robert G. Cooney,
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759. Find A Grave, Robert Gray Cooney, transcribed from photo of grave marker,
760. Alice Jane Cooney, 21 Nov 1920, Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997, Texas Department of State Health
761. 1930 U.S. census, Arizona, Pima Co, Tucson, Clifford H. Burrows household, Supervisor’s Distr 3,
762. “Formal Wedding Ceremony at Church Unites Couple,” Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona,
Monday, 24 Aug 1942, p. 4.
763. “Marriage Ceremony is to take Place Saturday Evening,” Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona,
Wednesday, 19 Aug 1942, p. 4.
764. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Clifford C. Burrows,
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765. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Jane Cooney
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766. "Lessie is Enjoying it All," Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona, Saturday, 18 Jun 1949, p. 5.
767. “Mr., Mrs. Marshall on Honeymoon to Indiana,” Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona, Saturday, 18
May 1968, p. 15.
768. Ruth Virginia (“Verginia”) Cooney, 29 Sep 1922, Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997, Texas Department of
State Health Services. Microfiche.
769. “William Singleton,” Texarkana Gazette, Texarkana, Texas, Thursday, 15 Jul 1993.
770. 1930 U.S. census, Texas, Bowie Co, Texarkana, Emmett Singleton household, Supervisor’s Distr 6,
771. Texarkana Genealogical Society, Miller County Arkansas Marriage List, extracted from the Marriage
Index Books, Miller County Courthouse.
772. Glenn Thrapp, Paulette Weaver, Sue Killebrew, Anna Brett, and Doris Lindblad, Transcriptions, Rose
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773. WW II Army Enlistment Records, 1938 - 1946, William L. Singleton, database on-line, Ancestry.com.
774. Jerry Wayne Singleton, 7 Aug 1927, Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997, Texas Department of Health, Bureau
of Vital Statistics, original image.
775. WW I Draft Registration, Emmett F. Singleton, Texarkana, Bowie County, Texas, 5 Jun 1917.
776. Morris A. Horowitz, “The Diesel Firemen Issue on the Railroads,” Industrial and Labor Relations
Review, Vol. 13, No. 4, July, 1960, pp. 550-558.
777. “Ruth Singleton,” Texarkana Gazette, Texarkana, Texas, Friday, 26 Feb 1993.
778. Arthur William Singleton, 26 Mar 1949, Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997, Texas Department of State
Health Services. Microfiche.
779. Bruce Lee Singleton, 15 Feb 1953, Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997, Texas Department of State Health
780. Howard Raymond Cooney, File 741, Reg No. 25, filed 10 Feb 1927, Certificate of Birth, Texas State
Board of Health.
781. Howard Raymond Cooney, Reg Distr 29077, Reg No. 128, filed 3 Aug 1928, Certificate of Death, Texas
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782. Bettiol S, Wang K, Thompson MJ, et al., "Symptomatic Treatment of the Cough in Whooping Cough".
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783. Francis Cooney and Mary A. Bahan, Marriage Certificate, Church of St. Ann, St. Louis, Missouri,
certificate dated 4 Jun 1941.
785. WW I Draft Registration, Frank Cooney, St. Louis City, Missouri.
786. Gould’s St. Louis Directories for 1906-1908, 1910, 1911, 1915, 1916, 1920, Gould Directory Co., St.
Louis, Missouri.
787. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Frank Cooney household, Supervisor's Distr
13, Enumeration Distr 96-521A, sheet 8B, household 186, 16 Apr 1940.
788. Gould's St. Louis (Missouri) City Directory, 1933, Polk-Gould Directory Co., Publishers, St. Louis,
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790. Death Certificate, Frank B. Cooney, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Reg
Distgr 318, File No. 13935, Filed 20 April 1951.
791. Death Certificate, Mary Cooney, Registration Distr 318, Primary Registration Distr 1003, File 36265,
Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 13 Nov 1952.
792. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Patrick Bahan household, Supervisor’s Distr
11, Enumeration Distr 392, sheet 3A, dwelling 38, family 47, 4 Jun 1900.
793. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 23, Patrick Bahan, Supervisor’s Distr 10,
794. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 15, Frank Cooney household,
795. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 10, Frank Cooney household,
Supervisor’s Distr 183, Enumeration Distr 397, p. 8A, dwelling 163, family 167, 7 Jan 1920.
796. Mary Agnes Waters, Florida Death Index, 1877-1998, Florida Department of Health, Office of Vital
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797. Find A Grave, Vernon K. Waters and Mary A. Waters, Good Shepherd Memorial Gardens, Ocala,
Florida, http://www.findagrave.com, transcribed from photo of marker.
798. Florida Marriage Collection, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001, Vernon Kenneth Waters and Naomi Louise Ash,
Ancestry.com, database on-line, Provo, Utah, The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.
799. Florida Divorce Index, 1927-2001, Vernon K Waters and Naomi Waters, 3 Sep 1985, Certificate No.
800. Vernon K. Waters, Florida Death Index, 1877-1998, Florida Department of Health, Office of Vital
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801. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Vernon K. Waters,
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803. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Mary Waters,
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804. Mary Ridgeway, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 18 Dec 2012.
805. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Eileen Beine,
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806. Eileen Beine Memorial Service, Jacksonville, Florida, 11 Feb 2000.
807. Florida Marriage Collection, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001, Clarence Jacob Stetson and Eileen Frances
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808. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Clarence Stetson,
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811. Death Certificate, Anthony A, Beine, Reg Distr 318, Prim Reg Distr 1003, Registrar 1149, State File
5987, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Filed 17 Feb 1950.
812. Death Certificate, Edward Beine, Reg Distr 791, Primary Reg Distr 1003, Reg 1532, File 6588, Missouri
State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 10 Feb 1928.
813. Obituary, Beine, Anthony, unknown newspaper, unknown date.
814. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 27, Anthony Beine household,
Supervisor's Distr 8, Enumeration Distr 96-227, sheet 11A, dwelling 208, family 266, 12 Apr 1910.
815. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Albert A. Beine household, Supervisor's Distr
816. Gould's St. Louis (Missouri) Ciry Directory, 1952, Polk-Gould Directory Co., Publishers, St. Louis,
Missouri, 1952, p. 102.
817. Polk's St. Louis (Missouri) Directory, 1955, R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers, St. Louis, Missouri, 1955, p.
101.
818. Polk's St. Louis County (Missouri) Directory, 1960, R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers, St. Louis, Missouri,
1960, p. 81.
819. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Albert Beine,
Ancestry.com.
820. Find A Grave, Albert A. Beine, Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, http://www.findagrave.com,
transcribed from photo of grave marker.
821. Find A Grave, Gilbert George Biehl, Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis,
118.
823. Theodore Waters and Rena Clint, Index to Marriage License Record, Cole County, Missouri, p. 306,
(Ancestry.com Missouri Marriage Records 1805-2002, original image).
824. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 3, Theodore Waters household,
Supervisor's Distr 183, Enumeration Distr 44, p. 5A, dwelling 1102a [sic], family 86, 8 Jan 1920.
825. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 27, Theodore Waters household,
Supervisor's Distr 8, Enumeration Distr 96-227, p. 10A, dwelling 167, family 189, 10 Apr 1930.
826. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Gale E. Crowell,
Ancestry.com.
827. "Gale Eugene Crowell," Belton Journal, Belton, Texas, Thursday, 4 Jan 1990, p. 3.
828. Florida Marriage Collection, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001, David Eugene Crowell and Teresa Anne
Warren, Ancestry.com, database on-line, Provo, Utah, The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.
829. Florida Marriage Collection, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001, Charlie Eugene Pope and Helen Mary Crowell,
830. Florida Marriage Collection, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001, David Eugene Crowell and Teresa Anne
Warren, Ancestry.com, database on-line, Provo, Utah, The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.
831. Gale E. Crowell and Peggy J. Tuomi, Texas Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2002 [database
on-line], Provo, Utah, USA, The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.
832. Florida Marriage Collection, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001, Harold Leroy Meeks and Barbara Frances
Crowell, Ancestry.com, database on-line, Provo, Utah, The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.
833. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Harold L. Meeks,
Ancestry.com.
834. Find A Grave, Harold L. Meeks, Sea Pines Memorial Gardens, Edgewater, transcribed from photo of
grave marker, http://www.findagrave.com.
835. "Deaths in Central Florida," Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, Florida, Sunday, 3 Jun 2012.
836. Brochure, Ben Blewett High School, St. Louis, Missouri, 1936, p. 21.
837. Penny McDonald, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 29 Nov 2012.
838. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Virginia C.
McDonald, Ancestry.com.
839. List of Passengers, S.S. President McKinley, Manila to Seattle, departed 27 Aug 1937, arrived 15 Sep
1937.
840. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Harold E. McDonald,
Ancestry.com.
841. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis Co, Ferguson, Mark McDonald household, Supervisor's Distr 9,
842. Penny McDonald, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 29 Nov 2012.
843. 1900 U.S. census, Kansas, Pottawatomie Co, St. George Twp, George Thomas household, Supervisor's
844. 1920 U.S. census, Kansas, Pottawatomie Co, St. George, Mark McDonald household, Supervisor's Distr
4, Enumeration Distr 133, sheet 2A, dwelling 31, family 114, approx 7 Jan 1920.
845. Death Certificate, Mark McDonald, Reg Distr 317, Primary Reg Distr 542, Reg No 1148, File 61-
015964, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 8 May 1961.
846. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis Co, Pasadena Hills, Harold McDonald household, Supervisor's
Distr 12, Enumeration Distr 95-224, sheet 63BB, household [blank], 16,17 Apr 1940.
847. McDonald & Wilson, Sales, Inc., incorporated in Missouri, owner Harold E. McDonald, filing date 1 Apr
1950, File No. X00030213.
1958, p. 781.
849. McDonald, Harold E., Sr., St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis Missouri, Friday, 25 Dec 1987, p. 4C.
850. McDonald, Virginia, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis Missouri, Monday, 14 Feb 1994, p. 4B.
851. Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, Catholic Cemeteries, Archdiocese of St. Louis,
http://www.archstl.org/cemeteries/.
852. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Frank B. Cooney,
Ancestry.com.
853. U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949, Frank B. Cooney, 21 Nov 1945.
854. U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949, Frank B. Cooney, 1 Feb 1946.
855. U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949, Frank Bernard Cooney, 1 Apr 1946.
856. U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949, Frank Bernard Cooney Jr., 1 Jan 1946.
271.
Missouri, 1952, p. 288.
859. "Meinberg, Wilma L.," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Thursday, 24 Sep 1998, p. B5.
860. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Wilma L. Meinberg,
Ancestry.com.
861. Hobart Burgess and Gertrude Carmack, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, 9 Dec 1885,
Pulaski County, Missouri, 1918, p. 408..
862. Find A Grave, Garrett H. Burgess, Crocker Memorial Park, Crocker, Pulaski County, Missouri,
http://www.findagrave.com, transcribed from photo of grave marker.
863. Find A Grave, Gertrude B. Burgess, Crocker Memorial Park, Crocker, Pulaski County, Missouri,
864. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Pulaski Co, Tavern Twp, Garrett H. Burgess household, Supervisor's Distr
13, Enumeration Distr 85-9, sheet 17B, family 381, 13 May 1930.
865. “Marriage Licenses,” Edwardsville Intelligencer, Edwardsville, Illinois, Tuesday, 7 Feb 1961, p. 7.
866. Arkansas Marriages, 1779-1992, Glennon E. Meinberg and Barbara J. Overman, [database on-line].
Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
867. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Wilma L. Meinberg,
Ancestry.com.
868. "Meinberg, Glennon E.," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Monday, 9 Nov 1992, p. 4B.
869. "The Morning Report, Hospital Admissions, St. Mary's," Daily Capital News, Jefferson City, Missouri,
Thursday, 8 Aug 1967, p. 8, col. 1.
870. Jett Family Tree, Owner Paul53881, Rusk, Texas, Ancestry.com.
871. "Mr. Ridenhour, Belle, Dies," Daily Capital News, Jefferson City, Missouri, Tuesday, 30 Mar 1971, p. 6,
col. 4.
872. Paul Jett and Etha Ridenhour, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, license 31 Aug 1921,
married 31 Aug 1921, Osage County, Missouri.
873. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Etha Cooney,
Ancestry.com.
874. "Daily Record, Hospital Admissions, St. Mary's," Jefferson City Post Tribune, Jefferson City, Missouri,
Wednesday, 22 Oct 1969, p. 8, col. 3.
Thursday, 6 Jan 1972, p. 22, col. 1.
Saturday, 23 Sep 1972, p. 13, col. 1.
877. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Etha Cooney,
Ancestry.com.
878. Find A Grave, Etha and Paul Jett, transcribed from photo of grave marker, http://www.findagrave.com.
879. Marion Miller, Resurrection Cemetery, Cole County, Missouri,
http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/cole/cemeteries/resurrection1.txt.
880. Find A Grave, Walter Charles Patrick Sr., Park Lawn Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri,
881. Find A Grave, Ida Gladys Greer Patrick, Park Lawn Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri,
882. "Patrick," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Friday, 16 May 1969, p. 2D.
883. Find A Grave, William A. Seiter, http://www.findagrave.com.
884. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), William A. Seiter,
Ancestry.com.
885. “Cooney, Frank B.,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Wednesday, 7 Apr 2010, p. A16.
886. Geraldine (Gerry) T. Ridgeway, Obituaries, Millard Family Chapels, Jefferson City, Missouri,
http://www.meaningfulfunerals.net/fh/home/.
887. Certified Copy of Birth Record, Geraldine Theresa Cooney, City of St. Louis, No. 59042, Reg No. 7588,
filed 24 Jun 1926.
888. Certificate of Baptism, Teresa Geraldine Cooney, Church of St. Leo, St. Louis, Missouri, certificate
dated 6 May 1935.
889. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 25, Charles Ridgeway household,
Supervisor's Distr 183, Enumeration Distr 508, sheet 13B, dwelling 169, family 287, 12 Jan 1920.
890. St. Louis Registry of Births, Thomas Benton Ridgeway, 1904, Ancestry.com (original images), original
data: Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.
Missouri, 1929, p. 1474.
892
. Gould's St. Louis (Missouri) City Directory, 1930, Polk-Gould Directory Co., Publishers, St. Louis,
Missouri, 1930, p. 1242.
893. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Thomas Ridgeway household, Supervisor's
894. Marriage License Application, St. Louis County, Missouri, Thomas Ridgeway and Lucille Weller, 30
Aug 1941, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image, Ancestry.com).
895. U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949, Thomas Benton Ridgeway, 30 Apr 1944.
896. U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949, Thomas B. Ridgeway, 5 Dec 1941.
897. U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949, Thomas B. Ridgeway, 30 Dec 1941.
898. U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949, Thomas B. Ridgeway, 18 Jan 1942.
1943, p. 679.
900. U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949, Thomas B. Ridgeway, 29 Feb 1944.
901. Thomas Ridgeway, Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File,
Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC.
Missouri, 1940, p. 995.
1136.
904 Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Nationwide Gravesite Locator, United States Department of
Veterans Affairs.
905. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Geraldine T.
Ridgeway, Ancestry.com
906. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Alice Howard,
Ancestry.com.
907. Gould’s St. Louis Directories for 1911-1913, 1915-1917, Gould Directory Co., St. Louis, Missouri.
908. From Charles’s date of birth (5 Feb 1889) and his age at first marriage from the 1930 census (26), the
date range for the marriage is 5 Feb 1915 - 4 Feb 1916. From Alice’s date of birth (16 Sep 1892) and her
age at first marriage from the 1930 census (23), the date range for the marriage is 16 Sep 1915 - 15 Sep
1916. The overlap is 16 Sep 1915 to 4 Feb 1916. On the other hand, Alice is listed as single in the St.
Louis city directory for 1917. The data for the directory was probably collected the preceding year since
her first child was born in Apr 1917 and, according to his WW I draft registration, Charles was married
in June 1917.
909. “Howard, Charles Ridgley,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis Missouri, Saturday, 29 Mar 1947, p. 8A.
910. Death Certificate, Charles Howard, Reg Distr 318, Primary Reg Distr 1003, File 11005, Missouri State
Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 14 Apr 1947.
911. WW I Draft Registration, Charles R. Howard, St. Louis, Missouri, Pct 14, 5 Jun 1917.
912. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 10, Charles (Chas) Howard household,
Supervisor’s Distr 10, Enumeration Distr 397, pp. 7B-8A, dwelling 23, family 153, 7 Jan 1920.
913. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Charles Howard household, Supervisor’s Distr
914. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Charles Howard household, Supervisor's Distr
11, Enumeration Distr 96-347A, sheet 3A, household 60, 9-10 Apr 1940.
915. “Howard,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis Missouri, Thursday, 27 Dec 1979, p. 11D.
916. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Charles Howard household, Supervisor’s Distr
Missouri, 1952, p. 668.
1960, pp. 237, 595.
622.
Missouri, 1944, p. 565.
921. “Cole, Harriet Alice (nee Howard),” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Wednesday, 14 May
2008.
922. Susan Mary Cole, obituary, Stygar Family of Funeral Service, St. Louis, Missouri.
http://www.meaningfulfunerals.net/fh/obituaries.
923. “James M. Eller’s Line of Descendants From Jakob Eller,” The Eller Chronicles, Vol. 21, No. 6, May
2008, pp. 10-14.
924. 1860 U.S. census, Pennsylvania, Erie Co, Erie City, Henry Becker (“Baker”) household, p. 176, dwelling
1359, family 1431, 26 Jul 1860.
925. S. B. Nelson, Nelson’s Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Erie County,
Pennsylvania, Erie, Pennsylvania, 1896, pp. 857-858.
926. 1880 U.S. census, Pennsylvania, Erie Co, Erie City, Henry Becker (“Baker”) Household, Supervisor’s
Distr 10, Enumeration Distr 151, p. 38, dwelling 330, family 352, 12,14 Jun 1880.
927. Erie Cemetery, Erie, Pennsylvania, Erie Cemetery Association.
928. WW I Draft Registration, Elmer Bernard Becker, St. Louis, Missouri, 5 June 1917.
929. St. Louis Registry of Births, Becker, December 1888, Ancestry.com (original images), original data:
Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.
930. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob Town, Amalia (Mallie) Becker household, Supervisor’s
Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 18, sheet 12B, dwelling 281, family 284, 11 May 1910.
931. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob Town, Amalia Becker household, Supervisor’s Distr 11,
932. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob Town, Amalia Becker household, Supervisor’s Distr 14,
Enumeration Distr 47-3, sheet 19B, dwelling 428, family 456, 7 May 1930.
933. William Becker Dead, Erie Daily Times, Erie, Pennsylvania, Monday, 20 Jan 1908, p. 2.
934. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 20, Elmer B. Becker, Supervisor’s Distr
10, Enumeration Distr 315, sheet 18A, dwelling [blank], family [blank], 30 Apr 1910.
935. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 13, Elmer B. Becker household,
Supervisor’s Distr 183, Enumeration Distr 263, sheet 2B, dwelling 30, family 46, 2-3 Jan 1920.
936. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 13, Elmer B. Becker household,
937. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Elmer Bernard Becker household, Supervisor's
938. Elmer B. Becker and Gertrude M. Judlin, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St.
Louis, Missouri, No. 181156, license 6 Jun 1913, marriage 9 Jun 1913.
939. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Charles Judlin household, Supervisor’s Distr
11, Enumeration Distr 330, sheet 15A, dwelling 165, family 344, [blank] Jun 1900.
940. Death Certificate, Charles Jamarr Judlin, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File
36294, filed 27 Oct 1916.
941. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Charles Judlin household, Supervisor’s Distr
11, Enumeration Distr 330, sheet 15A, dwelling 165, family 344, [blank] June 1900.
942. Death Certificate, Mathilda E. Judlin, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File
6256, filed 21 Feb 1955.
Missouri, 1952, p. 97
96.
945. Becker, Elmer, B., St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Monday, 23 Oct 1961, p. 3B.
946. Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, Catholic Cemeteries, Archdiocese of St. Louis,
947. Bethany Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, St. Peter’s and Bethany Cemeteries Database,
http://www.stpeterschurch.org/cemetery/index.
948. Judlin, Mathilda, St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Tuesday, 8 Feb 1955, p. 10B.
949. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Gertrude Becker,
Ancestry.com.
950. Rita Clark, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 24 Mar 2012.
951. Death Certificate, Frederick (Fred) William Becker, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital
Statistics, File No. 11746, Filed 2 May 1955.
952. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, St. Francois County, Missouri, Fred W. Becker and
Rosella Kelly, issued 19 Oct 1912, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
953. George W. Kelley, the oldest, appears as the head of his own household in the 1900 census (1900 U.S.
census, Missouri, Reynolds Co, Lesterville Twp, George W. Kelley household, Supervisor's Distr 10,
Enumeration Distr 83, sheet 6A, dwelling 101, family 102, 1 Jun 1900.)
954. Death Certificate, Sarah Kelley (“Sallie Kelly”), Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital
Statistics, File No. 14682, filed 1 Apr 1912.
955. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, Reynolds Co, Lesterville Twp, James Kelley household, Supervisor’s Distr
956. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Reynolds Co, Lesterville Twp, James Kelley household, Supervisor’s Distr
11, Enumeration Distr 18, sheet 11A, dwelling 286, family 289, 9 May 1910.
957. James H. Kelley and Sarah C. Anderson, filed 5 Nov 1875, Missouri Marriage Records, Iron County,
958. Death Certificate, James Harlow Kelley (Harlowe Kelly), Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of
Vital Statistics, File No. 19581A, filed 30 Dec 1933.
959. Gertrude M. Zimmer, Place Names of Five Southeast Counties of Missouri, M.A. thesis., University of
Missouri-Columbia, 1944.
960. Robert E. Tapscott, Transcriptions, Minimum Cemetery, Iron County, Missouri, 24 Jun 2010.
961. WW I Draft Registration, Fred William Becker, East Flat River, St. Francois Co, Missouri, 5 June 1917.
962. Richard Stewart KirKendall, A History of Missouri, Vol. 5, University of Missouri Press, Columbia,
1986, p. 62.
963. 1920 U.S. census, Michigan, Wayne Co, Hamtramck Village, Frededrick W. Becker (Beker) household,
964. 1930 U.S. census, Illinois, Cook Co, Chicago, Ward 31, Edward Becker household, Supervisor’s Distr 4,
Enumeration Distr 16-2683, sheets 10B and 11A, dwelling 88, family 212, 8 Apr 1930.
965. Edwin Becker, Birth Certificate, Registered No. 52060, Reg Distr 3104, Primary Distr 3104, Cook
County, Illinois.
966. Billey Becker, Birth Certificate, Registered No. 30811, Reg Distr 3104, Primary Distr 3104, Cook
County, Illinois.
967. Rosella Becker, Birth Certificate, Registered No. 8308, Primary Distr 3104, Filed 6 Mar 1931, Chicago,
Cook County, Illinois.
968. Rita Clark, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 10 Feb 2012.
969. Edwin Becker, Certificate of Death, Illinois, Registration Distr 3104, Prim Reg Distr 3104, Registered
No. 31747.
970. 1940 U.S. census, Michigan, Wayne Co, Detroit, Edward Becker household, Supervisor's Distr 15,
Enumeration Distr 84-500, sheet 5A, household 75, 8-9 Apr 1940.
971. 1910 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Ashland Co, Ashland City, Andrew Engstrom household, Supervisor’s
972. 1920 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Ashland Co, Ashland City, Andrew Engstrom household, Supervisor’s
Distr 10, Enumeration Distr 7, sheets 2B and 3A, dwelling 45, family 50, 5 Jan 1920.
973. Polk’s Ashland Directory 1924, R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1924, p 82.
974. Polk’s Ashland Directory 1926, R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1926, p 84.
975. Death Certificate, George Washington Miller, Primary Reg Distr 5565, File 17097, Missouri State Board
of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 12 Jun 1945.
976. Death Certificate, Mary Elizabeth Miller, Reg Distr 144, Primary Reg Distr 5562, File 21453, State
Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 27 Jun 1953.
977. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, Reynolds Co, Lesterville Twp, George Miller household, upervisor’s Distr
978. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Julia E. Becker,
Ancestry.com.
979. Death Certificate, William Emanuel Brooks, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics,
980. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Francois Co, Flat River, Emanuel (“Manuel”) Brooks household,
981. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Iron County, Missouri, Emanuel Brooks and Julia Miller,
issued 28 Oct 1915, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image, Ancestry.com).
982. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Arcadia Twp, John Brooks household, Supervisor’s Distr 10,
983. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob Town, Emanuel (“Manuel”) Brooks household,
984. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob Town, Julia Brooks household, Supervisor’s Distr 14,
Enumeration Distr 47-3, sheet 19A, dwelling 419, family 447, 7 May 1930.
985. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob, Frederick (“Fred”) Becker household, Supervisor's
Distr 8, Enumeration Distr 47-3, sheet 35A, household 53, 15 May 1940.
986. Rose Ella Wismiller, California Death Index, 1940 - 1997 [Database on Line], Provo, Utah,
Ancestry.com.
987. Arkansas Marriages, 1779-1992, Charles Wismiller and Rose Becker, [database on-line]. Provo, UT,
USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
988. Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Frederick B. Becker, Ancestry.com.
989. Rita Clark, a descendant, has the original marriage certificate. (Rita Clark, Personal Communication to
Robert Tapscott, 14 Feb 2012.)
990. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Ruby Phillips,
Ancestry.com.
991. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Reynolds Co, Logan Twp, George Cooney household, Supervisor's Distr 11,
992. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Reynolds County, Missouri, George Croney and Mary
Rains, issued 4 Jun 1909, filed 16 Jun 1909, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
993. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Arcadia Twp, Jeff F. Rains household, Supervisor's Distr 10,
Enumeration Distr 41, sheet 11A, dwelling 182, family 182, 19 and 23 May 1900.
994. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Reynolds County, Missouri, Jeff Rains and Adeline Bone,
issued 17 Nov 1881, filed 18 Jan 1882, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
995 Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Reynolds County, Missouri, George Croney and Nora
Whitchurch, issued 5 Sep 1913, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
996. Marriage Index, Illinois Statewide, 1763-1900, James A. D. Whitchurch and Sarah A. Morrison, Illinois
State Archives and Illinois State Genealogical Society.
997. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, Reynolds Co, Jackson Twp, Angeline Whitchurch household, Supervisor's
998. 1880 U.S. census, Illinois, Marion Co, Centralia Twp, James Whitchurch household, Supervisor's Distr
7, Enumeration Distr 127, p. 10, dwelling 101, family 101, 8 Jun 1880.
999. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Reynolds County, Missouri, George Croney and Bertha
Dinkins, issued 5 Dec 1918, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
1000. Farmington State Hospital #4, Hospital Cemetery, State of Missouri, Department of Mental Health,
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mostfran/cemeteries/state_hospital_cemetery.htm.
1001. “Reflections on Farmington State Hospital,” The Daily Journal, Flat River, Missouri, 24 Apr 1987.
1002. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Reynolds Co, Logan Twp,George Croney (“Crony”) household, Supervisor's
1003. Find A Grave, Lyman A. Croney, transcribed from photo of grave marker, http://www.findagrave.com.
1004. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Reynolds County, Missouri, Weldon Dinkins and Bertha
Vinson, issued 13 Aug 1909, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
1005. Find A Grave, Weldon W. Dinkins, transcribed from photo of grave marker, http://www.findagrave.com.
1006. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ozark County, Missouri, G. W. Kyle and Nellie Croney,
issued 4 Jan 1895, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image, Ancestry.com).
1007. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Reynolds Co, Ellington, George Kyle household, Supervisor's Distr 11,
1008. 1940 U.S. census, Illinois, Cook Co, Chicago, Bernard F. Becker household, Supervisor's Distr 30,
1009. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Iron County, Missouri, Roy Wilbur Phillips and Ruby
Becker, issued 11 Jan 1966, filed 4 Feb 1966, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City,
1010. “Obituaries, Fred B. Becker,” Jefferson County Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri,
Monday, 29 Apr 2002.
1011. Rita Clark, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 3 Feb 2012.
1012. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Clarence Becker,
Ancestry.com.
1013. WW II Army Enlistment Records, 1938 - 1946, Clarence E. Becker, database on-line, Ancestry.com.
1014. James Herbert Becker, U.S. Navy Reserve, Serial No. 953-63-32, U.S. Headstone Application for
Military Veterans, 21 Jan 1961.
1015. U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949, James Herbert Becker, 1 Aug 1945.
1016. U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949, James Herbert Becker, 1 Sep 1945.
1017. Pierce Family History, http://piercefamilyhistory.tripod.com/, p. 376.
1018. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Fred W. Becker,
Ancestry.com.
1019. Becker, Fred W., St. Petersburg Times On Line Obituaries, Pasco County, Florida, Wednesday, 27 Feb
2002 (http://www.sptimes.com/2002archive/02/27/Obits.shtml).
1020. Grace Santa Becker, SS Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Ancestry.com.
1021. Frederick William Becker and Grace Natoli, Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002 (Ancestry.com),
taken from image of original record.
1022. Grace Santa Thomas, Florida Death Index, 1877-1998, Florida Department of Health, Office of Vital
Records.
1023. Obituary, Grace Thomas, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Fri 24 Jan 1997.
1024. Fred W. Becker and Hortense Hull, license 4 Aug 1950, marriage 4 Aug 1950, Arkansas, County
Marriage Index, 1837-1957.
1025. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Hortense Becker,
Ancestry.com.
1026. 1910 U.S. census, Illinois, Williamson Co, Carterville, George F. Leaman household, Supervisor's Distr
16, Enumeration Distr 153, sheet 30A, dwelling 367, family 371, 7 and 9 May 1910.
1027. George Franklin Leaman, 28 Nov 1927, Jackson County, Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947
(Ancestry.com).
1028. Mary A. Leaman, 7 Oct 1937, Williamson County, Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947
(Ancestry.com).
1029. 1920 U.S. census, Illinois, Jackson Co, Carbondale, George Leaman household, Supervisor's Distr 17,
1030. Ary remarried around 1913, but was still married to Harold at the time of the 1910 census.
1031. WW I Draft Registration, Thomas J. Ryan, East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Illinois, 5 Jun 1917.
1032. 1930 U.S. census, Illinois, St. Clair, City of East St. Louis, Thomas J. Ryan household, Supervisor's Distr
1033. Polk's East St. Louis (St. Clair County, Ill.) City Directory, Vol. 1948, R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers, St.
Louis, Missouri, 1948, pp. 257, 456.
1034. Obituaries, “Fred William Becker,” The Dispatch, Lexington, North Carolina, Monday, 25 Feb 2002, p.
12A.
1035. Hortense M Becker, Florida Death Index, 1877-1998, Florida Department of Health, Office of Vital
Records.
1036. Find A Grave, Hortense Becker and Fred W. Becker, transcribed from photo of grave marker,
1037. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Mildred Becker,
Ancestry.com.
1038. Melvin L. Becker and Clara Lumpp, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Chicago, Cook
County, Illinois, No. 1722788, license 13 Mar 1942, marriage 13 Mar 1942.
1039. WW II Draft Registration, Joseph John Lump, Chicago, Illinois, 27 Apr 1942.
1040. Meta Marie Lumpp, 14 Apr 1967, file 625434, Cook County, Illinois Death Index, 1908-1988.
1041. 1930 U.S. census, Illinois, Cook Co, Chicago, Ward 1, Joseph Lumpp household, Supervisor's Distr 8,
1042. Joseph Lumpp and Meta Hofsaes, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Chicago, Cook County,
Illinois, No. 517530, license 18 Sep 1909, marriage 18 Sep 1909.
1043. “Obituary, Melvin L. Becker Jr.,” SedaliaDemocrat.com, Sedalia, Missouri, Monday, 29 Nov 2010
(http://www.sedaliademocrat.com/).
1044. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Melvin Louis Becker,
Ancestry.com.
1045. William Becker, Certificate of Death 069D1575, Illinois, Registration Distr 498, Registered No. 358,
Filed 14 Apr 1994.
1046. William Becker, National Cemetery Administration. U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1800-2006 [database
on-line]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com.
1047. Photo, William Becker marker, Wood National Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1048. Barbara Levart, Communication posted on Ancestry.com, Bastrop, Texas, Board, 19 Jul 2009.
1049. William Becker, U.S. Navy separation document, 14 Jul 1946.
1050. That William’s grandfather (or step-grandfather), William F. Becker, was from Erie and was buried there
probably had nothing to do with William’s connection to Erie. William F. was long-dead and the family
had been long-separated from any Erie relatives. William may not have even known of his ancestors.
1051. William Becker, U.S. Navy Citation, U.S.S. President Adams, M. S. Erwin, Captain, U.S. Navy,
Commanding.
1052. William Becker, U.S. Navy Discharge, 14 Jul 1946, Certification, Washington, DC, 26 Dec 1960.
1053. Barbara (Levart) Matchett, Personal Communications to Robert Tapscott, 9 Feb 2011, 10 Feb 2011, 14
Feb 2011, 15 Feb 2011, 28 Feb 2012, 29 Feb 2012, 3 Mar 2012.
1054. The Fish Manuscript, Gowen Research Foundation, Lubbock, Texas.
1055. Find A Grave, Mildred Louise Nickens Cox, http://www.findagrave.com.
1056. “Mildred L. Cox,” Fort Worth Star Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas, Wednesday, 19 Jul 2006.
1057. “Gloria Harvey,” Hood County News, Granbury, Texas, Saturday, 29 Sep 2007.
1058. James A. Harvey and Mildred Nickens, Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002 (Ancestry.com).
1059. “LAAF Chapel is Scene of Wedding,” Laredo Times, Laredo, Texas, Thursday, 6 Jul 1944, p. 2.
1060. James A. Harvey and Mildred Nickens, Marriage License Application, City of St. Louis, Missouri, 1
May 1942
1061. WW II Army Enlistment Records, 1938 - 1946, James A Harvey, database on-line, Ancestry.com.
1062. Bird Justeson and Gladys Nickens, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, license 14 Jul 1945,
married 14 Jul 1945, St. Charles County, Missouri.
1063. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), James A. Harvey,
Ancestry.com.
1064. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Gloria Jean Harvey,
Ancestry.com.
1065. Find A Grave, James A. Harvey, transcribed from photo of grave marker, http://www.findagrave.com.
1066. Dallas - Ft. Worth National Cemetery, Nationwide Gravesite Locator, United States Department of
Veterans Affairs.
1067. Obituary, Fred Hyman, unknown newspaper, unknown date. A family member believes that 1947 is a
more likely year for the marriage.
1068. Frederick Hyman, Ancestry.com. U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2 [database on-line], Provo, UT,
USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
1069. William Sanders Becker, Illinois Deatjh Certificate, Reg Distr 60.1, Reg Number 261, File 88438,
received 9 Jun 1966, State of Illinois, Coroner's Certificate of Death.
1070. “Mildred L. Cox,” Fort Worth Star Telegram, Wednesday, 19 Jul 2006.
1071. A. W. Cutter, Letter to Veterans Administration, Regional Office, St. louis, Missouri, 21 Dec 1960.
1072. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Dorman E. Cox,
Ancestry.com.
1073. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Mildred L. Cox,
Ancestry.com.
1074. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Albert Eichelberger,
Ancestry.com.
1075. Rose W. Becker, Florida Death Index, 1877-1998, Florida Department of Health, Office of Vital
Records.
1077. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Iron County, Missouri, Frank Siebert and Annie Wehner,
issued 19 Jun 1886, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image, Ancestry.com).
He always went by Frank. Francis appears in three St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Pilot Knob, birth record
entries giving Francis Siebert & Anna Wiener [sic] as the parents of Nellie, Edward, and Francis Siebert.
Frank’s middle initial, P, appears on his cemetery marker; his name is assumed to be Peter as Francis
Peter was the name of a son.
1078. “Mayor Siebert of Pilot Knob Dies Suddenly,” The Mountain Echo, Ironton, Missouri, Thursday, 2 Nov
1967, p. 1, col. 1.
1079. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Arcadia Twp, Pilot Knob, Louis (Seibert) Siebert household,
1080. Clarence Siebert, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 7 Feb 2011.
1081. 1850 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, Frank Richard household, p. 222
(stamped, front), dwelling 263, family 276, 31 Aug 1850.
1082. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, Madison Co, Polk Twp, Francis Richard household, p. 48, dwelling 347,
family 347, 11 Jun 1860.
1083. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Madison Co, Polk Twp, Francis (Frank) Richard household, Supervisor’s
1084. Marriage Certificate, Louis Siebert and Caroline Richard, Iron County, Missouri, 27 April 1858, filed 27
April 1858.
1085. Geraldine Sanders Smith, Civil War Soldiers of Madison County, Missouri (and Surrounding Counties),
St. Louis, Missouri, 1997, pp. 497, 581.
1086. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Arcadia Twp, Louis Siebert household, p. 31, dwelling 240, family
231, 8 Jun 1860.
1087. “History and Government of Pilot Knob, Missouri,” Past and Present: A History of Iron County,
Missouri, 1857-1994, Vol. 1, Heritage House Publishing, Marceline, Missouri, Apr 1995, p. 54.
1088. Loretta Pastva, The Catholic Church in Southern Missouri, Editions du Signe, Stratbourg, France, 2005,
p. 17.
1089. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob Town, Francis (“Frank”) P. Siebert household,
Supervisor’s Distr 10, Enumeration Distr 42, sheet 4A, dwelling 70, family 73, 4 Jun 1900.
1090. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob Town, Anna Siebert household, Supervisor’s Distr 11,
Enumeration Distr 18, sheet 13A, dwelling 308, family 311, 11 May 1910.
1091. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob Town, Anna Siebert household, Supervisor’s Distr 11,
Enumeration Distr 18, sheets 11B-12A, dwelling 224, family 240, 12 Jan 1920.
1092. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob Town, William Siebert household, Supervisor’s Distr
14, Enumeration Distr 47-3, sheet 17A, dwelling 369, family 391, 5 May 1930.
1093. Christopher J. Cyphers, The National Civic Federation and the Making of a New Liberalism, 1900-1915,
Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut, 2002, p. 114.
1094. Deed Book 52, Iron County, Missouri, pp. 118-127.
1095. Warranty Deed, South Hungarian Colonization & Land Co to Annie Siebert, 29 Sep 1905, filed 12 Oct
1905, Deed Book 52, Iron County, Missouri, pp. 231-232.
1096. Warranty Deed, Annie Siebert to Moses Edmonds, 12 Oct 1905, filed 13 Oct 1905, Deed Book 49, Iron
County, Missouri, p. 396.
1097. Deed of Trust, Moses and Louisa Bella Edmonds to Annie Siebert, Lorenz Wehner Trustee, 12 Oct 1905,
filed 13 Oct 1905, Deed Book 46, Iron County, Missouri, p. 334.
1099. WW I Draft Registration, Louis Siebert, Registration Card No. 34, Pilot Knob, Iron County, Missouri, 5
June 1917.
1100. Andrew J. Theising, Made in USA: East St. Louis, Virginia Publishing, St. Louis, Missouri, 2003, pp.
105-106, 107-108.
1101. 1910 U.S. census, Illinois, Madison Co, Granite City, John Harbison household, Supervisor’s Distr 13,
1102. Fritz Gruhn, Auswandererlisten des Ehemaligen Herzogtums Braunschweig, 1846-1871, Brunswick
Historical Society, 1971, p. 41.
1103. Death Certificate, Louis Mund, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No. 8414,
filed 3 March 1915.
1104. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Cape Girardeau Co, Apple Creek Twp, Louis Mund (Mundt) household, p.
54, dwelling 285, famly 272, 16 Jul 1870.
1105. Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1820-1902, Ship Rebecca, arrival date 26
Oct 1852, Microfilm publication M259, Roll 36, National Archives, Washington, DC.
1106. Marriage Certificate, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, Elias Mund and Johanna Reicher, signed 28 Jul
1860, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.
1107. Jeanette H. McClure, Pilot Knob Cemetery, Pilot Knob, Missouri, transcriptions, Iron County Missouri
Archives, USGenWeb..
1108. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Francois Co, Pendleton Twp, Louis (Lewis) T. Mund household,
1109. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Cape Girardeau Co, Missouri, Louis Mund and Julia
Young, issued 29 Aug 1881, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
1110. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Arcadia Twp, Louis Mund household, Supervisor’s Distr 10,
Enumeration Distr 41, sheet 8B, dwelling 135, family 135, 13-14 May 1900.
1111. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob Town, Louis (Lewis) Mund household, Supervisor’s
Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 18, sheet 13A, dwelling 311, family 314, 11 May 1910.
1112. There may have been a younger child, Anna, who died 9 October 1881. (Clara W. Thompson, Family
Group Sheet for George Ludwig theodore Mund.
1113. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Clara Siebert,
Ancestry.com.
1114. “Services Held For Mrs. Clara Siebert,” The Mountain Echo, Ironton, Missouri, Thursday, 17 Dec 1970,
p. 1, col. 2.
1115. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Iron Co, Missouri, Benjamin Siebert and Emma Mund,
issued 1 May 1886, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image, Ancestry.com)
1116. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Town of Pilot Knob, Louis (“Serbert”) Siebert household, p. 14,
1117. Roster of the 129th Field Artillery, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, Independence, Missouri.
1118. D. M. Griangeco, The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman, Zenith Press,
Minneapolis, 2009.
1119. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, Louis Siebert household, Supervisor’s Distr 11,
1120. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob Town, Louis L. Siebert household, Supervisor’s Distr
14, Enumeration Distr 47-3, sheets 16A-16B, dwelling 358, family 379, 5 May 1930.
1121. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob, Louis Siebert (“Seibert”) household, Supervisor's Distr
8, Enumeration Distr 47-3, sheet 23A, household 13, 14 May 1940.
1122. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob Town, Louis (“Lewis”) Mund household, Supervisor's
Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 18, sheet 13A, dwelling 311, family 314, 11 May 1910.
1123. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob Town, Julia Mund household, Supervisor's Distr 11,
1124. Death Certificate, Julia Anna Mund, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
10475, Filed 15 Mar 1929.
1125. Death Certificate, John Louis Mund, Reg Distr 316, Prim Reg Distr 6075, State File 10455, Missouri
State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Filed 1 Apr 1947.
1126. “Services Held For Louis Siebert,” 83, The Mountain Echo, Ironton, Missouri, Thursday, 26 Nov 1970,
p. 1, col. 7.
1127. Larry and Sharon Hackworth, Parkview Cemetery, Farmington, Missouri, Photographs,
//www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mostfran/cemeteries/parkview.html.
1128. Judith (Siebert) Coyman, personal communication to Robert Tapscott, 5 Apr 2012.
1129. WW I Draft Registration, Edward Siebert, Registration Card No. 396, Nameoki Precinct, Granite City,
Madison County, Illinois, 5 Jun 1917.
1130. 1920 U.S. census, Illinois, Madison Co, Granite City, Joseph Scherer household, Supervisor’s Distr 14,
1131. 1930 U.S. census, Illinois, Madison Co, Granite City, Edward Siebert household, Supervisor’s Distr 23,
1132. 1940 U.S. census, Illinois, Madison Co, Granite City, Edward Siebert household, Supervisor's Distr 22,
1133. 1900 U.S. census, Illinois, Madison Co, Marine Twp, Joseph Scherer household, Supervisor’s Distr 12,
1134. Marriage Index, Illinois Statewide, 1763-1900, Joseph Scherer and Mary C. Zahmer, Illinois State
1135. Jurga Piotrowski, Transcriptions, Calvary Cemetery, Madison County, Missouri, 3 Aug 2004,
http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/madison/cemeteries/calvary.txt.
1136. His SSDI gives a birth date of 21 Apr 1921 (United States Social Security Administration, Social
Security Death Index (SSDI), George Siebert, Ancestry.com); however, his Department of Veteran
Affairs BIRLS record gives his birth date as 25 Apr 1921, and this agrees with the date given by
relatives.
1137. John Siebert, personal communication to Robert Tapscott, Communication, John Siebert, 8 May 2012.
1138. George Siebert, Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File, Department
of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC.
1139. “Siebert, George W.,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Monday, 27 Dec 1982, p. 7C.
1140. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Edward E. Siebert,
Ancestry.com.
1141. Edward Siebert, Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File, Department
of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC.
1142. Joan Cozis, personal communication to Robert Tapscott, 4 Apr 2012.
1143. Marjorie (Stretch) Siebert, Communication to Robert Tapscott, 4 May 2012.
1144. “Siebert, Edward E.,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Saturday, 11 Apr 1998, p. 14.
1145. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Raymond Siebert,
Ancestry.com.
1146
. 1940 U.S. census, Illinois, Madison Co, Granite City, Oswald Becherer household, Supervisor's Distr 22,
1147. "Gracey-Niemann," Burlington Hawk Eye Gazette, Burlington, Iowa, 17 Aug 1948, p. 5, col. 4.
1148. “Patricia Schwallar,” Alton Telegraph, Tuesday, Alton, Illinois, 12 Aug 2003, p. 5.
1149. Raymond Siebert, Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File,
Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC..
1150. Obituary, Joseph Paul Siebert, Suburban-Journals, St. Louis, Sunday, 18 Nov 2007.
1151. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Mary P. Siebert,
Ancestry.com.
1152. Judith (Siebert) Coyman, personal communication to Robert Tapscott, 23 Apr 2012.
1153. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Joseph P. Siebert,
Ancestry.com.
1154. Siebert, Joseph P., Herr Funeral Homes & Cremation Services, Ltd., Collinsville, Illinois, 2007
obituaries.
1155. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Mary A. Siebert,
Ancestry.com.
1156. “Mary Siebert,” Bellville News-Democrat, Belleville, Illinois, Saturday, 11 Apr 2009.
1157. WW I Draft Registration, Frank Siebert, Registration Card No. 396, Nameoki Precinct, Granite City,
Madison County, Illinois, 5 Jun 1917.
1158. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 2, Francis ("Frank") Siebert household,
Supervisor's Distr 9, Enumeration Distr 96-260, sheet 18B, dwelling 257, family 409, 15 Apr 1910.
1159. Patricia (Seibert) Veninga, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 18 Jan 2011.
1160. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Bertha Siebert,
Ancestry.com.
1161. Death Certificate, Gardner (“Gard”) Eichelberger, Reg Distr 791, Primary Reg Distr 1003, File 10703,
Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 6 Mar 1918.
1162. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Gardner Eichelberger household, Supervisor’s
1163. Death Certificate, Gardner (Gard) Eichelberger, Reg Distr 791, Primary Reg Distr 1003, File 10703,
1164. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Graniteville, Gardner (“Guardner”) Eichelberger household,
Supervisor’s Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 21, sheet 6B, dwelling 126, family 128, 6 May 1910.
1165. Death Certificate, Gardner (“Gard”) Eichelberger, Reg Distr 791, Primary Reg Distr 1003, File 10703,
1166. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 12, Harvey Eichelberger household,
1167. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus, Frank Siebert household, Supervisor's Distr 8,
1168. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Frank Siebert,
Ancestry.com.
1169. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Frank P. Siebert,
Ancestry.com.
1170. Marriage License Application, Jefferson County, Missouri, Frank P. Siebert III and Shirley F. Billings,
19 Nov 1954, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image, Ancestry.com).
1171. “Siebert, Frank P. III 78,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Tuesday, 25 Aug 2009,
Classified Advertising, 3rd Edition.
1172. WW I Draft Registration, Theodore Golfinopulos, St. Louis City, Missouri, 12 Sep 1918.
1173. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 5, Theodore Golfinopulos (“Theo
Golfinopulous”) household, Supervisor’s Distr 9, Enumeration Distr 96-320, sheet 6B, dwelling 73,
family 107, 7 Apr 1930.
1174. Death Certificate, Theodore Golfinopulos, Reg Distr 318, Primary Reg Distr 1003, File 34822, Missouri
State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 27 oct 1950.
1175. “Rayl v. Golfinopulos, Supreme Court of Missouri, 19 Jul 1921,” The Southwestern Reporter, vol. 233,
West Publishing Company, St. Paul, 1922, pp. 1069-1072.
1176. 1860 U.S. census, New York, Madison Co, Cazenovia, John W. Higgins household, p. 74, dwelling 644,
family 638, 2 Jul 1860.
1177. 1870 U.S. census, New York, Onondaga Co, Pompey, Harvey Snow household, p. 7, dwelling 63, family
60, 11 Jul 1870.
1178. Marriage Certificate, St. Louis County, Missouri, Charles S. Dunford and Melissa (“Melisse”) Higgins,
signed 1 Oct 1873, filed 31 Oct 1873, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.
1179. Charles Simeon Dunford, St. Louis Register of Deaths, Feb 1903, p. 156, No. 1032, certificate date 5 Feb
1903, Ancestry.com (original images), original data: Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.
1180. Leonidas DeVon Mecham, Family Book of Remembrance and Genealogy,Salt Lake City, 1952, pp. 630-
641.
1181. List of Passengers, Ship Marshfield, Liverpool to New Orleans, arrived 29 May 1854.
1182. St. Louis, Missouri Marriages, 1804-1876 [database on-line], Provo, Utah, The Generations Network,
Inc., 1999. “Davis may have been her name from an earlier marriage. Some give her name as O’Riley,
though sources are not provided.
1183. Edwards' Annual Directory, City of St. Louis, for 1864, Richard Edwards, Editor and Publisher, St.
Louis, Mo., p. 216.
1184. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis, Ward 8, Charles Dunford (“C. F. Demferd”) household, p. 57,
1185. Mary Dunford, St. Louis Register of Deaths, Week Ending 27 Sep 1867, p. 720, Ancestry.com (original
images), original data: Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.
1186. These were a large apartment house at 2208 (renumbered to 1208) Franklin Avenue and a smaller
dwelling at 3405 Dickson Street, both residences used extensively by Melissa before and after Charles’s
death.
1189. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis City, Charles Dunford (“Donford”) household, Supervisor's Distr
1190. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis City, Charles Dunford household, Supervisor's Distr 71,
1191. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 20, Charles (“Chas.”) Dunford
household, Supervisor's Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 308, sheet 5, dwelling 77, family 116, 12 Jun 1900.
1192. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 5, Melissa (“Malissa”) Dunford
household, Supervisor's Distr 10, Enumeration Distr 70, sheet 10B, dwelling 126, family 237, 21 Apr
1910.
1193. Melissa (“Mellisa”) Golfinopulos, Death Certificate, Reg Distr 791, Prim Reg Distr 1003, File 26984,
Reg 7523, The Division of Health of Missouri, Filed 20 Jul 1917.
Missouri, 1929, pp. 796, 2086.
1198. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Theodore (“Theodora”) Golfinopulos
household, Supervisor's Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 96-93, sheet 8B, household 160, 7 Apr 1940.
1199. Certificate of Naturalization, Theodore Golfinopulos, Petition No. 32369, Eastern District of Missouri, 3
Dec 1942.
1200. Robert E. Tapscott, Transcriptions and Photographs, St. Matthew Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, 11 Oct
2012.
1201. “Golfinopulos,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Monday, Tuesday, 26 Apr 1966, p. 3B.
1202. “Golfinopulos, Theodora,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Friday, 15 Apr 2005.
1203. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Katherine A. Barnes,
Ancestry.com.
1204. “Barnes, Katherine Ann,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Sunday, 28 Mar 2004.
1205. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Anna M. Schonhoff,
Ancestry.com.
1206. Leo Clements Schonhoff and Anna Marie Golfinopulos, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage,
City of St. Louis, Missouri, No. 547413, license 5 Jul 1949, marriage 9 Jul 1949.
1207. Sacred Heart Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, Catholic Cemeteries, Archdiocese of St. Louis,
1208. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Leo C. Schonhoff,
Ancestry.com.
1209. “Schonhoff, Leo C.,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Monday, 29 Jun 2009.
1210. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Frances T. Hoffman,
Ancestry.com.
1211. Edward William Hoffman and Francis Golfinopulos, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City
of St. Louis, Missouri, No. 600937, license 24 Mar 1951, marriage 31 Mar 1951.
1212. Obituary, Frances T. Hoffman, Peoria Journal Star, Peoria, Illinois, Saturday, 3 November 2007.
1213. “Hoffman, Frances T.(nee Golfinopulos),” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Saturday, 3 Nov
2007.
1214. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Theodora
Golfinopulos, Ancestry.com.
1215. Death Certificate, Theodora Golfinopulos, State File No. 124-05 201231, Missouri Department of Health
and Senior Services, received by registrar 15 Apr 2005.
1216. WW I Draft Registration, Clarence Siebert Pilot Knob, Iron County, Missouri, 5 Jun 1917.
1217. “Siebert, Clarence V.,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Monday, Monday, 21 Oct 1963, p.
7B.
1218. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Festus City, Ward 1, Clarence V. Siebert household,
1219. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Crystal City, Clarence Siebert household, Supervisor's Distr 8,
1220. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Clarence Siebert,
Ancestry.com.
1221. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Mary Siebert,
Ancestry.com.
1222. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), William C. Siebert,
Ancestry.com.
1223. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob, William Siebert household, Supervisor's Distr 8,
Enumeration Distr 47-3, sheet 23A, household 9, 14 May 1940.
1224. Death Certificate, Martin Christopher Roehrs, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics,
File No. 42720, Filed 9 Apr 1934.
1225. “Stella M. Siebert,” The Mountain Echo, Ironton, Missouri, Wednesday, 10 Jan 1999, p. 10.
1226. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 24, Martin Roehrs household,
1227. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Belleview Pct, Martin Roehrs household, Enumeration Distr 21,
sheet 2B, dwelling 41, family 41, 5 Jan 1920.
1228. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Stella M. Siebert,
Ancestry.com.
1229. “William F. Siebert,” The Mountain Echo, Ironton, Missouri, Wednesday, 11 Jan 2006, p. 12.
1230. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Iron County, Missouri, Paul Norman Anderson and
Dorothy Elizabeth Siebert, issued 22 October 1948, microfilm, Missouri State Archives,
1231. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Dorothy E. Anderson,
Ancestry.com.
1232. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), William F. Siebert,
Ancestry.com.
1233. Death Certificate, Matilda (Tillie) Shelton, Reg Distr 791, Primary Reg Distr 791, File 7607, Missouri
State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 15 Feb 1933.
1234. John B. Tallent and Tillie Wehner, Marriage License Application, City of St. Louis, Missouri, No.
46804, 11 Jul 1892.
1235 . St. Louis Register of Deaths, John B. Tallent, 1896, p. 37, No. 733, certificate date 29 Jan 1896,
Ancestry.com (original images), original data: Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City,
1236. John B. Tallent and Tillie Wehner, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St. Louis,
Missouri, No. 46804, license 11 Jul 1892, marriage 11 Jul 1892.
1237. 1850 U.S. census, Tennessee, Hamilton Co, Distr 27, J. C. Elder Arms household, p. 462 (stamped,
front), dwelling 1282, family 1282, 26 Oct 1850.
1238. Paul Simpson, Dent County Missouri Marriage Records, 1996

1239. 1850 U.S. census, Missouri, Crawford Co, William Bartlett ("B") Eaves household, p. 218 (stamped,
front), dwelling 415, family 415, 25 Sep 1850.
1240. Evelyn Ruth (Crone) Eaves, Eaves Leaves and Branches, Anundsen Publishing Co., Decorah, Iowa,
1985.
1241. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Francois Co, Thomas Tallent ("Talent") household, pp. 72-73, dwelling
471, family 474, 14 Jul 1860.
1242. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Laclede Co, Lebanon, Thomas Tallent household, p. 17, dwelling 128,
family 118, 18 Jul 1870.
1243. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), George Moss household, Supervisor’s Distr 11,
Enumeration Distr 197, sheets 7B-8A, dwelling 106, family 139, 4 Jun 1900.
1244. "Ted Kortkamp, Julius Berkbigler, Murphysboro Brothers-in-Law Die Within a Two-Hour Period,"
Southern Illinoisan, Carbondale, Illinois, Tuesday, 28 Oct 1975, p. 21.
1245. Register of Marriage Licenses, St. Charles County, Missouri, George G. Ward and Birdie Tallent
(“Tallant”), issued 10 Mar 1913, returned 10 Mar 1913, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson
City, Missouri.
1246. "McFarland," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Tuesday, 21 Jun 1927, p. 24..
1247. 1900 Census, Missouri, St. Louis Co, Meramec Twp, Thomas Tallent household, Supervisor's Distr 10,
1248. Thomas A Tallent and Nettie Gum, Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002 (Ancestry.com).
1249. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 24, St. Louis Infirmary, Supervisor's
Distr 10, Enumeration Distr 462, sheet 13B, 25 Apr 1910.
1250. Death Certificate, Thomas Tallent, Reg Distr 791, Primary Reg Distr 1003, File 8826, Missouri State
Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 27 Feb 1911.
1251. Death Certificate, Christopher E. Tallent, Reg Distr 785, Primary Reg Distr 6032, File 37119, Missouri
State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 15 Nov 1912.
1253. Marriage Certificate, Greene County, 12 Aug 1879, Ed Gunn and Mary Tallent, Missouri Marriage
Records, 1805-2002, original image.
1256. Certificate of Death, John B. Tallent, No. 733, Health Department, St. Louis, Missouri.
1257. "Kelley vs. State," The Southern Reporter, Vol. 22, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minnesota, 1898, pp.
303-308.
1258. Vivien M. L. Miller, Crime, Sexual Violence, and Clemency, University Press of Florida, 2000, pp. 218-
225.
1259. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Enoch McFarland household, Supervisor's
Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 413, dwelling 156, family 180, sheet 9A, 8 Jun 1900.
1260. Death Certificate, Pearl McFarland, Reg Distr 791, Prim Reg Distr 1003, File 19969, Reg No. 5731,
Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 21 Jun 1927.
1261. Death Certificate, Walter McFarland, Registration Distr 728, Primary Registration Distr 5961, File
10611, State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 21 Mar 1912.
1262. Death Certificate, Enoch McFarland, Reg Distr 791, Prim Reg Distr 1003, File 24681, Reg No. 7124,
Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 25 Jul 1914.
1263. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, Ralls Co, Clay Twp, Walter McFarland household, p. 110, dwelling 773,
family 757, 10 Aug 1860.
1264. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Ralls Co, Clay Twp, Walter McFarland household, p. 34, dwelling 773,
family 757, 11 Jun 1870.
1265. Obituary, Henry Claiborn Bartlett Eaves , unknown newspaper, Nov 1920.
1266 Find A Grave, Pearl Tallant McFarland, Allen Cemetery, Allenton, Missouri,
1267. Find A Grave, Enoch McFarland, Allen Cemetery, Allenton, St. Louis County, Missouri,
1270. Arthur E. Cooney, Interment Record 69381, interment 5 Aug 1903, Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
1271. Gould’s St. Louis Directories for 1885-1890, Gould Directory Co., St. Louis, Missouri.
1273. William's Cincinnati Directory, The Williams Directory Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, Jun 1901, p. 386.
1277. Death Certificate, David Shelton, Reg Distr 791, Primary Reg Distr 1003, File 22636, Missouri State
Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 30 Jun 1934.
1278. Marriage Index, Illinois Statewide, 1763-1900, David Colburn Shelton and Lizzie Bell Hassell, Illinois
State Archives and Illinois State Genealogical Society.
1279. Marriage Index, Illinois Statewide, 1763-1900, David Shelton and Emma Hildebrandt, Illinois State
1280. 1900 U.S. census, Illinois, St. Clair Co, St. Clair Twp, David Shelton household, Supervisor’s Distr 15,
1281. 1910 U.S. census, Illinois, Madison Co, Granite City, George Schwarz household, Supervisor’s Distr 13,
Enumeration Distr 61, sheet 7A, dwelling 51, family 141, 3 May 1910.
1282. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 2, David (“Dave”) Shelton household,
Supervisor’s Distr. 9, Enumeration Distr. 96-273, sheet 12A, dwelling 156, family 264, 8 Apr 1930.
1283. Bill Farr, “The Ste. Genevieve, Iron Mountain, and Pilot Knob Plank Road,” Past and Present: A History
of Iron County, Missouri, 1857-1994, Vol. 1, Heritage House Publishing, Marceline, Missouri, Apr 1995,
pp. 35-36.
1284. Mark C. Stauter, “‘A Living Stream of Prosperity’: The Ste. Genevieve, Iron Mountain, and Pilot Knob
Plank Road Company,” seminar, Mineral Area College, 16 Oct 2007.
1285. Personal Communication, Mark C. Stauter, Associate Director Western Historical Manuscript Collection,
Missouri University of Science & Technology, Rolla, to Robert E. Tapscott, 17 Dec 2007.
1286. Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for Big Creek, Iron County, Missouri, Missouri Department of
Natural Resources, 2005 (http://www.epa.gov/region7/water/pdf/mo_big_creek_tmdl.pdf).
1287. James E. Bell, “St. Louis-Iron Mountain Railroad,” Past and Present: A History of Iron County,
Missouri, 1857-1994, Vol. 1, Heritage House Publishing, Marceline, Missouri, Apr 1995, pp. 36-37
1288. “Peter Wehner Enters Into Rest At Age of 81 Yrs.,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri,
Saturday, 8 Feb 1941.
1289. U.S. Land Patent, Andrew Miller, Bureau of Land Management, 9 Feb 1861. The land was 40 acres, SW
¼ NE ¼ Sec 24 T37N R7E.
1290. Janis & Valle Store Daybook, Ste. Genevieve, 1856-1858, microfilm, Western Historical Manuscript
Collection, Rolla, Missouri.
1291. Sledge hammers on 30 Sep, a barrel of corn (probably for feed) on 28 Oct, and a barrel of flour and Jeans
on 29 Nov.
1292. Unfortunately business records for the Ste. Genevieve, Iron Mountain, and Pilot Knob Plank Road
Company no longer exist.
1293. Michael Seitz, obituary, Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, unknown date.
1294. Ste. Genevieve County Family Histories, Ste. Genevieve Historical/Genealogical Society (Ste. Genevieve
Branch Library, Ozark Region), unpaginated.
1888, p. 610.
1296. From his birth date and his arrival at age 21, according to his obituary, Michael appears to have arrived in
1852; however, if his brother Joseph, who was married in January of 1852, traveled with Michael, the
arrival year was more likely 1851. The family is not found in the 1850 census.
1297. U.S. Land Patent, Joseph Seitz, Bureau of Land Management, Certificate No. 15064, 1 Dec 1853. The 40
acres was in SE ½ NE ¼ Sec 24 T37N R7E.
1298. Marriage Certificate, Joseph Seitz and Elizabeth Rottler (Ruddler), Ste. Genevieve Co, Missouri, 29 Jan
1852, filed 13 Apr 1852.
1299. Marriage Certificate, Vincent Bayer and Elizabeth Rottler (Roddler), Ste. Genevieve Co, Missouri, 30
November 1854, filed 4 January 1855. The certificate has two major problems. First, the groom is given
as Vincent Nager, not Vincent Bayer. It is assumed that a clerk misread the certificate of marriage when
recording it. A number of primary sources show that Elizabeth married Vincent Bayer. Second, the
bride’s name is given as Elizabeth Roddler (a common mispelling of Rottler) rather than Elizabeth Seitz,
her married name from her first marriage. Since Elizabeth was married on the same day in the same
church as her brother Valentine, the clerk (or priest) may have just assumed her name to be Rottler.
Elizabeth’s brother-in-law from her first marriage, Thomas Seitz, was also married on the same day in
the church (as were two other couples).
1300. Rottler, Ste. Genevieve (Crystal City, Missouri, Library).
1301. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Middlebrook, Michael Seitz (Sitz) household, p. 114, dwelling 840,
family 823, 10 Jul 1860.
1302. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Iron County, Missouri, Michael Seitz and Mary Selinger,
issued 7 March 1892, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
1303. John Patterson to Nicholas Wehner, 18 Apr 1853, recorded 15 Aug 1856, Ste. Genevieve County,
Missouri, Deeds, Book K, 1855-1856, p. 314. (SENE part of Sec 19 T37N R7E)
1304. Caspar and Johanna Karl to Nicholas Wehner, 20 Mar 1855, recorded 13 Jul 1855, Ste. Genevieve
County, Missouri, Deeds, Book K, 1855-1856, p. 76. (NENE part of Sec 30 T37N R7E)
1305. Amos and Rachel Lunsford to Nicholas Wehner, 8 Sep 1855, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds,
Book K, 1855-1856, pp. 315-316. (W1/2SW part of Sec 17 T37N R7E)
1306. Dominick Becktold to Nicholas Wehner, 8 Aug 1856, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds, Book K,
1855-1856, p. 317. (E½NENW Sec 19, 20 acres; N½NW Sec 20, 57.30 acres
1307. Phillip and Catherine Wolk to Nicholas Wehner, 9 Aug 1856, recorded 15 Aug 1856, Ste. Genevieve
County, Missouri, Deeds, Book K, 1855-1856, p. 315. (SENW part of Sec 20 T37N R7E)
1308. Nicholas and Clara Wehner to Meinrad Donze, 13 Aug 1856, recorded 23 Feb 1859, Ste. Genevieve
County, Missouri, Deeds, Book M, pp. 447-448.
1309. U.S. Land Patent, Nicholas Wehner (Wehnar), Bureau of Land Management, Certificate No. 24,534, 30
Oct 1857. (NE part of Sec 8 T37N R7E; N1/2SE part of Sec 8 T37N R7E; SESE part of Sec 8 T37N
R7E; E1/2NE part of Sec 17 T37N R7E; SE part of Sec 17 T37N R7E)
1310. Nicholas and Clara Wehner to John Lee, 22 Dec 1856, recorded 21 Oct 1858, Ste. Genevieve County,
Missouri, Deeds, Book M, p. 321.
1311. “Land Delinquent List of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, for the Year 1873,” Fair Play, Ste.
Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 18 Jun 1874, p. 2, col. 5.
1312. “Land Delinquent List of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, for the Year 1874,” Fair Play, Ste.
Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 17 Jun 1875, p. 2, col. 2.
1313. 1850 Census, Missouri, St Francois Co, Distr 80, William Ross household, p. 164, dwelling 168, family
168, 12 Aug 1850.
1314. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Francois Co, William Ross household, p. 103, dwelling 683, family 686,
9 Aug 1860.
1315. Nicholas and Clara Wehner to Meinrad Donze, 31 Mar 1858, recorded 23 Feb 1859, Ste. Genevieve
County, Missouri, Deeds, Book M, pp. 448-449.
1316. Nicholas and Clara Wehner to John Cobb, mortgage deed, 4 Aug 1858, Ste. Genevieve County,
Missouri, Deeds, Book M, pp. 384-385.
1317. Nicholas and Clara Wehner to Franz Killian (“Frantz Killen”) Jacob and John Hook, 12 Aug 1859,
recorded 11 Jan 1860, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds, Book N, pp. 251-252.
1318. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Union Twp, Nicholas Wehner (Whener) household, p.
124, dwelling 869, family 853, 6 Aug 1860.
1319. Nicholas Wehner, Franz Jacob, John Hook to Felix Rozier, Deed of Trust, 17 Aug 1860, recorded 18
Aug 1860, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds, Book O, pp. 65-66.
1320. Ste. Genevieve Archives, Roll 63 (Folders 1147-1181), Folder 1164, The Historical Society of Missouri,
Ste. Genevieve Branch Library, Ozark Region, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.
1321. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste Genevieve Co, Ste Genevieve City, Louis Cassel (Kessel) household, p.
1322. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Sebastian Fister household, p. 20,
1323. Ste. Genevieve Archives, Roll 68 (Folders 1275-1295), Folder 1277, The Historical Society of Missouri
(Ste. Genevieve Branch Library, Ozark Region, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri).
1325. Nicholas Wehner to Franz Jacob and John Hook, 10 Sep 1860, recorded 17 Sep 1860, Ste. Genevieve
County, Missouri, Deeds, Book O, pp. 102-103.
1326. J. B. Platisha, Ste. Genevieve, Mother of the West, Bi-Centennial Celebration and Pageant, Missourian
Printing and Stationery Co., Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 1935.
1327. Unlike most rivers, the Mississippi gets narrower as one travels down it. The upper Mississippi (above
the mouth of the Missouri) can be miles wide, but so shallow it could not be navigated by most boats
were it not for a series of dams and locks, 26 in all today. The lower Mississippi has some good channels,
but they are often blocked by sandbars. The entire river has been dredged, walled, diked, dammed,
reshaped, and leveed to turn it into a usable waterway. But the changes have not totally prevented
flooding, and have in some cases may have added to it. Consider the devastation of New Orleans
following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
1328. Gregory M. Franzwa, The Story of Old Ste. Genevieve, 6th Edition, The Patrice Press, Tucson, Arizona,
1998, pp. 22-23. The often claimed figures of 200 laborers and mechanics and 500 Negro slaves are
incorrect.
1329. Until Historian Carl J. Ekberg proved otherwise, a founding year of 1735 had always been assumed for
the village of Ste. Genevieve (Carl. J. Ekberg, Colonial Ste. Genevieve, The Patrice Press, Gerald,
Missouri, 1985, p. 25).
1330. Carl J. Ekberg, French Roots in the Illinois Country: the Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times,
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois, 1998, p. 152.
1331. Russel Gerlach, “The German Presence in the Ozarks,” OzarksWatch, Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 1989, pp.
14-17.
1332. In 1882 Corpus Christi was celebrated at St. Joseph’s church in the German Settlement with a splendid
procession with the customary out door altars, flowers, decorations and all the paraphernalia of a church
festival, Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 10 Jun 1882.
1333. Bonnie Stepenoff, From French Community to Missouri Town, University of Missouri Press, Columbia,
Missouri, 2006, p. 145.
1334. “Ste Genevieve,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 9 Jun 1894, p. 3, col. 7.
1335. Douglas C. McVarish, Historic Resources of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, National Register of Historic
Places Multiple Property Documentation Form, United States Department of the Interior, National Park
Service, October 2001.
1336. Church of Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri (brochure available at the church); Lucille Basler,
Church of Ste. Genevieve, Wehmeyer Printing Company, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.
1337. It is possible that the log church moved may not have been the original church in the old village.
1338. Mary Lucida Savage, The Congregation of Saint Joseph of Carondelet: A brief accountof its origin and
its work in the United States (1650-1922), B. Herder, St. Louis, 1923, pp. 115-116.
1339. The earliest known extant edition of the newspaper is No. 2, published Friday, 14 June 1872. It is
assumed that edition No. 1 of this weekly newspaper was published a week earlier.
1340. Salutatory, Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 6 May 1882, p. 2, col. 1.
1341. There were at least ten earlier newspapers (Howard L. Conard, ed., Encyclopedia of the History of
Missouri, Vol. 5, The Southern History Company, St. Louis, 1901, p. 434), but only the Fair Play and
Herald lasted.
1342. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 13 Aug 1874.
1343 . “Local Matters,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 15 Jan 1881, p. 3, col. 2.
1344. “Communicated,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 24 mar 1883, p. 2, col. 2.
1345. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 3 Nov 1883, p. 2, col. 1.
1346. “Ste. Genevieve Herald Observing 125th,” Missouri Press News, Mar 2006, p. 14.
1347. Carl. J. Ekberg, Colonial Ste. Genevieve, The Patrice Press, Gerald, Missouri, 1985, p. 202.
1348. Gregory M. Franzwa, The Story of Old Ste. Genevieve, 6th Edition, The Patrice Press, Tucson, Arizona,
1998, pp. 56-57.
1349. Ste. Genevieve for the Union and the Old Flag, Daily Missouri Democrat, St. Louis, Missouri, 14 May
1861.
1350. Ste. Genevieve All Right for the Union, Daily Missouri Republican, St. Louis, Missouri, 14 May 1861.
1351. Thomas Adam, ed., Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ABC-CLIO, Santa
Barbara, California, 2005, p. 64.
1352. Howard L. Conard, ed., Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri, Vol. 5, The Southern History Company,
St. Louis, 1901, p. 438.
Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, Ser. 1, Vol. 3, 1900, pp. 132-
133.
1354. St. Louis Weekly Globe, 30 May 1873.
1355. “Proclamation,” John McDonald, 15 Aug 1861, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Missouri.
1356. Michael Fellman, Inside War, Oxford University Press, New York, 1989, p. 34.
1357. Michael Fellman, Inside War, Oxford University Press, New York, 1989, p. 42.
1358. “Andrew Wilder Died Sunday, Age 70,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 14
Apr 1934, p. 1, col. 6.
Pope Bookshop, Iowa City, Iowa, 2000, 2006, p, 133.
1360. He was included in an 1864 list of St. Genevieve County's most influential rebels, by an unknown author,
along with Anthony LaGrave, Hiram Blackledge, Francis C. Rozier, Felix Rozier, Firmin A. Rozier, Eloy
LeCompt, Felix Valle, C. C. Rozier, D. C. Tuttle, John C. Watkins, and Charles R. Smyth. (Missouri
Union Provost Marshal Papers, 1861-1866, Reel F1611, Frame 729, File 9137, 7 Apr 1864.)
1361. Civil War Pension Index, General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 Record for Franklin Leavenworth,
Ancestry.com.
1362. Firmin A. Rozier, Rozier's History of the Early Settlement of the Mississippi Valley, G. A. Pierrot & Son,
St. Louis, 1890, p. 114.
1363. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 7 Nov 1872.
Pope Bookshop, Iowa City, Iowa, 2000, 2006, p. 125.
1365. Office of Adjutant General, Civil War, Record of Service Cards, Civil War, 1861-1865, Box 88, Reel
812, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.
Pope Bookshop, Iowa City, Iowa, 2000, 2006, p, 132.
Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, Ser 1, Vol. 34, 1900, p. 42.
1368. “Blain & Logan,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 21 Jun 1884.
1369. Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 16 Aug 1884.
1370. “Republicans and Prohibitionists Leaving Ste. Genevieve Co. and Democrats on the Decrease,” Fair
Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 25 Nov 1893, p. 3, col. 5.
1371. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 2 Oct 1897.
1372. Lorenzo J. Greene, Gary R. Kremer, and Antonio F. Holland, Missouri’s Black Heritage, Revised
Edition, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri, 1993, p. 153.
1373. Nicholas Wehner dram shop taxes, 5 Nov 1860, Roll 71 (Folders 1344-1362), Folder 1344, The
Historical Society of Missouri.
1374. Nicholas Wehner, dram shop license, 25 May 1874, Ste. Genevieve Archives, Roll 70 (Folders 1329-
1343), Folder 1342, The Historical Society of Missouri.
1375. Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 19 May 1883.
1376. Tax Book, 1861, City of Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, p. 11.
1377. Elvina C. Ziegler to Clara Wehner, 10 Apr 1865, recorded 13 Apr 1865, Ste. Genevieve County,
Missouri, Deeds, Book Q, pp. 510-511.
1378. Will of Nicholas Wehner, signed 13 Sep 1893, proved 1 Apr 1897, filed 13 May 1897, Ste. Genevieve
County, Missouri, Deeds, Book 50, pp., 439-443.
1379. Clara and Nicholas Wehner to L. Bert Valle, Dead of Trust, 1 Jan 1866, recorded 5 Jan 1866, Ste.
Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds, Book Q, p 727.
1380. “Consolidated Land Delinquent List of Ste. Genevieve County for the Year 1971,” Fair Play, Ste.
Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 22 Aug, 1872, p. 3, col. 4.
1381. “Lingering Local Lightning,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 30 Nov 1876, p. 5, col. 2.
1382. “A Holiday Tour,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 22 Dec 1883.
1383. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 14 Aug 1897, p. 3, col. 3.
1384. Nicholas Wehner, Tax Assessment List, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, 1 Jun 1881.
1385. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 21 Jan 1888, p. 3, col. 1.
1386. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 2 Mar 1889, p. 3, col. 3.
1387. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 19 May 1894, p. 3, col 5.
1388. 1850 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Mathew Kern household, p. 210
(stamped, front), dwelling 114, family 116, 13 Aug 1850. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve
Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Matthew Kern (“Kerns”) household, p. 9, dwelling 44, family 45, 2 Jun 1860.
1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Mathew Kern household, p. 1,
1389. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste Genevieve Co, Town of Ste Genevieve, Henry Knieriem household, p.
1390. Henry Knieriem would one day run a Shaving and Hair-Dressing Saloon, with services including
Cupping, Bleeding, and Leeching,’ use of a Magnetic Battery for the Cure of Rheumatism, and sale of
Fine Cigars and Tobacco. (Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 7 Nov 1872.)
1391. Nicholas Wehner business license and merchant statement, 3 Nov 1863, Ste. Genevieve Archives, Roll
70 (Folders 1329-1343), Folder 1340, The Historical Society of Missouri.
1392. “Mr. Nicholas Wehner,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 6 Mar 1897.
1393. Nicholas Wehner merchant statement, 31 Oct 1864, Ste. Genevieve Archives, Roll 70 (Folders 1329-
1343), Folder 1341, The Historical Society of Missouri.
1394. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Nicholas (“Nic”) Wehner
household, p. 17, dwelling 119, family 123, 2 Jun 1870.
1395. Peter Feser to Nicholas Wehner, 19 Jul 1873, recorded 26 Jul 1873, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri,
Deeds, Book Y, pp. 438-439.
1396. 1850 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, James Sims household, pp. 212-
213 (stamped), dwelling 141, family 143, 15 Aug 1850.
1397. James Sims to Clara Wehner, 9 Aug 1869: Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds, Book U, 1869-
1870, pp. 67-68. James signed his name with a mark.
1398. DuRocher’s Addition, 2 Jul 1850, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds, Book G, p. 543.
1399. Laurence DuRocher et al. by Sheriff A. G. Madison to Nicholas Wehner, 8 May 1872, recorded 24 May
1873, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds, Book Y, pp. 332-334.
1400. Nicholas Wehner & wife to George Thomure, 12 Jun 1874, recorded 20 Jun 1874, Ste. Genevieve
County, Missouri, Deeds, Book 2, pp. 354-355.
1401. William S. Rozier, trustee, to Nicholas Wehner, 13 Mar 1880, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds,
Book 31, p. 468.
1402. Nicholas and Clara Wehner to James Shaw, 13 Jan 1882, recorded 5 May 1882, Ste. Genevieve County,
Missouri, Deeds, Book 33, p. 295.
1403. Moses and Adilia Green to Nicholas Wehner, 3 Apr 1882, recorded 18 Apr 1882, Ste. Genevieve
County, Missouri, Deeds, Book 33, p. 282.
1404. Magdalena Panter to Nicholas Wehner, 27 Jan 1883, recorded 1 Feb 1883, Ste. Genevieve County,
Missouri, Deeds, Book 35, pp. 108-109.
1405. Nicholas and Clara Wehner to Charles Fitzkam, 30 Oct 1877, recorded 31 Oct 1877, Ste. Genevieve
1406. Peter & Rosine Schneider, trustors, Martin Meyer, trustee, Nicholas Wehner, beneficiary, 2 Sep 1878,
recorded 2 Sep 1878, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds, Book 28, p. 171.
1407. Francis Bernard to Nicholas Wehner, 30 Jul 1879, recorded 31 Jul 1879, Ste. Genevieve County,
1408. Nicholas and Clara Wehner to Sylvester Braun, 9 Dec 1879, recorded 9 Dec 1879, Ste. Genevieve
1409. “A New Enterprise,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 27 Oct 1883.
1410. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Nicholas Wehner household,
1411. “Meyer Hotel,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 9 Dec 1882.
1412. Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 3 Feb 1883.
1413. Tax Book, 1861, City of Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, p. 2.
1414. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 12 Oct 1876.
1415. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 9 Mar 1895.
1416. “Home and Surroundings,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Thursday, 11 Sep 1873, p. 3, col. 1.
1417. “Fair Play Things,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 19 Apr 1884, p. 3, col. 2
1418. Ste. Genevieve Herald, Saturday, 20 Oct 1883.
1419. “Mass Meeting,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 4 Nov 1882.
1420. “Republican Convention,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 16 Sep 1882.
1421. “The Whole Hog or None and Circuit Court Proceedings,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve,
Missouri, Saturday, 18 Nov 1882.
1422. State vs. Nicholas Wehner, selling without license, undated, Ste. Genevieve Archives, Roll 71 (Folders
0488-0504), Folder 499, The Historical Society of Missouri.
1423. “Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wehner Married Fifty Years Jan 27th,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve,
Missouri, Saturday, 2 Feb 1935, p. 1.
1424. “Proceedings of the Circuit Court, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 1883,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve,
Missouri, Saturday, 17 Nov 1883.
1425. “Circuit Court Docket,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Saturday, 22 Oct 1892, p. 3, col. 4.
1426. “Circuit Court Proceedings,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Saturday, 12 Nov 1892, p. 3, col. 3.
1428. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - 2005, United States Government Printing
Office, 2005, p. 824.
1429. Frank W. Scott and Edmund J. James, Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois, 1814-1879, Urbana,
Illinois, 1910, p. 194
1430. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 28 Jun 1884.
1431. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 7 Apr 1883.
1432. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 26 May 1883, p. 3, col. 3.
1433. Nicholas Wehner, letters to the editor, Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 2 Jun
1883.
1434. “Fair Play Things,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Saturday, 15 Mar 1884, p. 3, col. 1.
1436. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, Florentine Schirman (Florien
Sherman) household, p. 56, dwelling 383, family 388, 28 Jun 1860.
1437. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, Florentine Schirman household, p.
1438. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste Genevieve Co, Quarrytown, Florentine Schirman (“Florentin Schirman”)
Household, Supervisor’s Distr 2, Enumeration Distr 131, p. 14, dwelling 147 (1), family 153 (1), 10 Jun
1880.
1439. Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 5 Aug 1882.
1440. Goodspeed’s History of Southeast Missouri, Goodspeed Publishing Company, Washington DC, 1888, p.
607.
1441. Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1 Sep 1883.
1442. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1 Jun 1889, p. 2, col. 6.
1443. N. Wehner receipt, 27 Aug 1877, Ste. Genevieve Archives, Roll 66 (Folders 1228-1253), Folder 1231,
The Historical Society of Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Branch Library, Ozark Region, Ste. Genevieve,
Missouri.
1444. “Ed Wehner, 60th anniversary in lumber business,” unknown paper, Ste. Genevieve, 1 Apr 1963.
1445. Frederick C. and Sophie Festner to Nicholas Wehner, 24 Mar 1881, recorded 8 Apr 1881, Ste. Genevieve
1446. Sanborn Map Company, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1894 (Special Collections, Ellis Library, University
of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri).
1447. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Frederick C. (“F. C.”) Festner
1448. Will of Peter Wehner, signed 24 Feb 1934, proved 10 Feb 1941, filed 17 Feb 1941, Ste. Genevieve
1449. Bill and Patti Naeger, Mark L. Evans, Ste. Genevieve, a Leisurely Stroll Through History, Merchant
Street Publishing, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1999, p. 136.
1450. James V. Swift, “Several Boats Were Lost At Ste. Genevieve,” Waterways Journal, 2002, p. 14.
1451. “Another Terrible Steamboat Disaster,” Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Louisiana, Tuesday, 31 Aug
1852.
1452. Firmin A. Rozier, Rozier's history of the Early Settlement of the Mississippi Valley, G. A. Pierrot & Son,
St. Louis, 1890, p. 66.
1453. Frederick Way, Way’s Packet directory, 1848-1983: Passenger Steamboats of The Mississippi River
System Since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America, Ohio University, 1983, p. 161. Other
sources claim that the boat was a sternwheeler.
1454. J. Thomas Scharf, History of Saint Louis City and County, From the Earliest Periods to the Present Day:
Including Biographical Sketches of Representative Men, Vol. II, Louis H. Everts & Co., Philadelphia,
1883, p. 1113.
1455 “Local and Other Items,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 29 Jun 1876, p. 7, col. 1.
1456. Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 27 May 1882.
1457. “A Statement,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 5 Oct 1889, p. 3, col. 4.
1458. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 9 Dec 1893, p. 3, col. 1.
1460. “Selected Miscellany,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Friday, 21 Jun 1872, p. 1, col. 1.
1463. “The Railroad Committees,” Fair Play, Saturday, 30 Jan 1886, p. 2, col. 2.
1464. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 17 Jun 1899, p. 3.
1465. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 24 Jun 1899, p. 2.
1466. Death Certificate, Teresa Weinert, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
5998, Filed 19 Mar 1925.
1467. "Pioneers of Parish, Mrs. Teresa Weinert," 1823-1923 Centennial History of All Saints Church, St.
Peter's, Missouri, 1923, pp. 53-53.
1468. Port of New York, List or Manifest of all Passengers, S.S. Hansa, Bremen to New York, arrived 18 May
1868.
1469. Loyalty oath of Bardo Weinerth, St. Charles County, Missouri, 16 Aug 1865.
1470. "Bardo Weinerth, Respondent, v. John M. Trendley, Peter Hanson and Lucy A. Hanson, Appellants,"
Cases Determined in the St. Louis and the Kansas City Courts of Appeal, Vol. 39, E. W. Stephens,
Columbia, 1890, pp. 333-340.
1471. Find A Grave, Bardo Weinerth, All Saints Church Cemetery, St. Peters, Missouri,
1472. "Pioneers of Parish, Bardo Weinert," 1823-1923 Centennial History of All Saints Church, St. Peter's,
Missouri, 1923, pp. 50-52,
1473. Charles Cosmos, Lincoln County Herald, Troy Missouri, Friday, 16 Mar 1866, p. 2, col 3.
1474. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, St Charles Co, Dardenne Twp, Bardo Weinert (Wienert) household, p. 70,
dwelling 448, famly 448, 27 Jul 1870.
1475. Loyalty oath of Bardo Weinerth, St. Charles County, Missouri, 31 Oct 1866.
1476. Marriage Certificate, St. Louis County, Missouri, Bardo Weinert and Margarita Vogel, signed 4 Mar
1856, filed 13 May 1856, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.
1477. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Charles, Dardenne Twp, Bardo Weinerth household, p. 169, dwelling
1305, family 1302, 21 Jul 1860.
1478. Death Certificate, Mrs. Aloys Schneider, The Division of Health of Missouri, File No.11769, Filed 4 Mar
1911.
1479. Some believe that Josepha Schlueter and Sophia were the same person. The only evidence we have for a
wife named “Sophia” is the 1860 census, which may have an incorrect or alternative name for Josepha.
1480. Death Certificate, Kunigunda Weinert, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File
No. 12966, Filed 7 May 1921.
1481. Register of Marriage Licenses, St. Charles County, Missouri, Aloys Schneider and Emelia Weinerth,
issued 30 Mar 1891, returned 9 May 1891, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.
1482. Death Certificate, Mrs. Aloys Schneider, The Division of Health of Missouri, File No.11769, Filed 4 Mar
1911.
1483. Find A Grave, Kunigunda Weinert, All Saints Church Cemetery, St. Peters, Missouri,
1484. Find A Grave, Emelie and Aloys Schneider, All Saints Church Cemetery, St. Peters, Missouri,
1485. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Charles Co, Dardenne Twp, Therese (Theresse) Weinert household,
Supervisor’s Distr 9, Enumeration Distr 113, sheet 25A, dwelling 445, famly 457, 3 Jul 1900.
1486. Henry and Caroline Lawrence to Joseph Schneider, 22 Mar 1867, recorded 29 Jun 1868, Ste. Genevieve
County, Missouri, Deeds, Book S, pp. 700-701.
1487. Joseph Schneider to Clara Wehner, 26 Jun 1868, recorded 29 Jun 1868, Ste. Genevieve County,
Missouri, Deeds, Book S, pp. 701-702.
1488. Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 7 Jun 1884.
1489. Marriage Certificate, Michael Siebert and Mary Vaeth, New Offenburg, Missouri, 22 Feb 1870, filed
Mar 1870.
1490. Beckerman, Vol. 5, p. 5.
1491. 1890 Veteran’s Schedule, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob, Valentine Effinger, Supervisor’s Distr 2,
Enumeration Distr 57, p. 4, house 186, family 198, Jun 1890.
1492. Jeanette H. McClure, Middlebrook Cemetery, Iron County, Missouri,
http://files.usgwarchives.org/mo/iron/cemeteries/middlebr.txt.
1493. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, T34 R3E [Middlebrook], Michael Seitz, p. 1, dwelling 1, family 1,
16 Aug 1870.
1494. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Arcadia Twp, Pilot Knob, Valentine Effinger household,
1888.
1496. Iron County Register, Thursday, 5 Feb 1880, p. 1.
1497. Marriage Certificate, St. Louis County, Missouri, Ferdinand Immer and Rosina Vaeth (“Vath”), signed
14 Dec 1865, filed 13 Jan 1866, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.
1498. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Arcadia Twp, Pilot Knob, Ferdinand Immer household,
Supervisor’s Distr 2, Enumeration Distr 52, pp. 30-31, dwelling 241, family 271, 14 Jun 1880.
1499. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, Iron Co, Pilot Knob Town, Ferdinand (“Ferd”) Immer household,
1500. Death Certificate, Mother Mary Ursula Immer, Reg Distr 317, Primary Reg Distr 500, File 19200,
Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 24 May 1956.
1501. Will of Clara Wehner, signed 13 Sep 1893, proved 30 Mar 1905, filed 15 Apr 1905, Ste. Genevieve
1502. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, City of Ste. Genevieve, Clara Wehner household, Supervisor's Distr 10,
1503. Robert and Mary Frances Tapscott, Transcriptions, Valle Spring Catholic Cemetery, Ste. Genevieve,
Missouri, 29 Mar 2003, 22 Mar 2004, 6 Apr 2010.
1504. “Local Matter,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 15 Jan 1881, p. 3, col. 3.
1505. “Fair Play Things,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 28 Jun 1884, p. 3, col. 2.
1506. “Fair Play Things,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 25 Jun 1881, p. 3, col. 2.
1507. Virginia Schmidt, Deaths, Births and Stillbirths for Ste Genevieve County, Missouri 1883-1893 and
Mortality Schedules, self published, Mt. Vernon, Missouri, p. 38.
1508. Gregory A. Boyd, Family Maps of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Arphax Publishing Co., Norman,
Oklahoma, 2005, p. 10.
1509. U.S. Land Patent, Peter Vaeth, Bureau of Land Management, Certificate No. 8058, 10 Apr 1843.
1510. John and Mary Anna’s names are given in a number of sources including the death certificate and
obituary for their daughter Mary Anna (Isenman) Rottler (Death Certificate, Mary Rottler, Missouri State
Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No. 8925, Filed 21 February 1920; Obituary, Mary
Rottler, Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 28 February 1920) and the 1850,
1860, and 1870 censuses. In some cases, however, a middle name is found in one document and a first
name, in another. No absolute proof that Ursula, whose maiden name is known to be “Isenman,” was
their daughter has been found; however, the household in the 1840 census (1840 U.S. census, Ste.
Genevieve Co., Missouri, John Isenman family, p. 76, line 16.) has a female of the correct age to be
Ursula and is located in the correct place. Ursula, the oldest child, was married before the taking of the
1850 census, which showed names of children.
1511. “Mrs. Ursula Vaeth,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 18 Apr 1891.
1512. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, Peter Vaeth (“Vaith”) household,
pp. 70-71, dwelling 483, family 488, 6 Jul 1860.
1513. U.S. Land Patent, Johannes Isenman, Bureau of Land Management, Certificate No.5591, 1 August 1838.
1514. “Jean Feld Rissover, Our Lady Parish Meets to Discuss Its Future,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste.
Genevieve, Missouri, Friday, 14 Mar 2003.
1515. Marriage Certificate, Peter A. Vaeth and Charlotte Isenman, Ste. Genevieve Co, Missouri, 19 February
1844, recorded 20 May 1844.
1516. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 18 Sep 1880.
1517. Jefferson Democrat, Hillsboro, Jefferson county, Missouri, Wednesday, 13 Oct 1886.
1518. Funeral Card, Rosina Immer, Pilot Knob, Missouri.
1519. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 17 Jan 1891.
1520. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 10 Sep 1874.
1521. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 16 Dec 1875.
1522. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 13 Dec 1884.
1524. 1850 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, Peter Vaeth Jr. household, p. 220
(stamped, back), dwelling 242, family 151, 26 Aug 1850.
1525. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, Peter Vaeth household, p. 66,
1526. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste Genevieve Twp, Peter Vaeth (“Fate”) household,
1527. “Probate Court Proceedings,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 11 June 1883.
1528. “Betty Valle Gegg-Naeger, Pastors of Ste. Genevieve Parish Leave an Indelible Mark,” Suntimes News,
26 Mar 2009.
1530. Joseph & Victoria Gegg, trustors, Peter Wehner, trustee, George Wehner, beneficiary, 20 Nov 1880, rec
20 Nov 1880, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds, Book 28, p. 359.
1531. Joseph & Juliana Arnold, trustors, Peter Wehner, trustee, George Wehner, beneficiary, 4 Oct 1882, rec 9
Oct 1882, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds, Book 28, p. 531.
1532. George & Mary Beckermann, trustors, Peter Wehner, trustee, George Wehner, beneficiary, 17 Jan 1883,
rec 17 Jan 1883, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds, Book 28, p. 572.
1533. Peter Wehner, trustee, to Bertha Doerge, 13 Mar 1882, recorded 13 Mar 1882, Ste. Genevieve County,
1534. A merchant miller is one who buys grain and sells the flour produced on his own account, in contrast to
milling for others for a part of the product.
1888, p. 592.
1536 Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 26 May 1883.
1537. Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 14 July 1883.
1539. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 2 Jul 1892, p. 3, col. 2.
1541. “George Wehner Succumbs Wednesday, February 13th,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday,
16 February 1929, p. 1.
1543. 1920 U. S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, George Wehner household,
1544. Will of George Wehner, signed 7 Feb 1929, proved 11 Mar 1929, filed 11 Mar 1929, Ste. Genevieve
1545. Death Certificate, George Wehner, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
7815, Filed 15 February 1929.
1546. Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Record 2963 Wehner, Parish Church of Ste.
Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.
1547. “Girl’s Parochial School,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 19 May 1883.
1548. WW I Draft Registration, Charles Darwin Blaine, St. Louis, Missouri, Div 14, 12 Sep 1918.
1549. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Charles D. Blaine household, Supervisor’s
1550. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 10, Charles Blaine household,
1551. Death Certificate, Charles Blaine, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, State File
No. 2256, Filed 3 Feb 1947.
1552. Charles D. Blaine and Clara Wehner, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St. Louis,
Missouri, No. 70163, license 20 Apr 1897, marriage 20 Apr 1897. Charles’s obituary states that the priest
who conducted the marriage was Rev. E. J. Shea; however, the marriage certificate clearly shows the
priest’s signature as J. T. Foley.
1553. Death Certificate, Charles Blaine, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, State File
No. 2256, Filed 3 Feb 1947.
1554. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, Wright Co, John Blaine ("Blain") household, p. 1, dwelling 6, family 6, 20
Jul 1860.
1555 . 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Phelps Co, St. James Twp, John Blaine ("Blain") household, p. 12, dwelling
84, family 84, 19 Aug 1870.
1556. Marriage Certificate, John Blaine and Ruth Sauter, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 16 February 1867, filed 26
February 1867.
1558. Charles D. Blaine and Clara Wehner, Marriage License Application, City of St. Louis, Missouri, No.
70163, 20 Apr 1897.
1560. Death Certificate, Clara Blaine, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No. 5768,
Filed Feb 1925.
1561. “Died, Mrs. Charles D. Blaine,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 14 Feb 1925, p. 1.
1562. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Charles Wilson household,
Supervisor's Distr 14, Enumeration Distr 97-4, sheet 2A, dwelling 21, family 24, 2 Apr 1930.
1563. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, Charles Darwin (“C.D.”) Blaine
household, Supervisor's Distr 8, Enumeration Distr 97-7, sheet 16B, household 287, 8 Jun 1940.
1564. Death Certificate, James George Blaine, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, State
File No. 42899, Filed 22 Dec 1955.
1565. WW I Draft Registration, James George Blaine, St. Louis, Missouri, 12 Sep 1918.
1566. 1920 Census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 14, Charles D. Blaine Household,
1567. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 24, James G. Blaine household,
1568. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Marie Blaine,
Ancestry.com
1569. Death Certificate, Adam Casper Wolfram, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics,
File No. 3719, Filed 24 Feb 1942.
1570. Adam C. Wolfram and Lena Buhr, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, lic 27 May 1885, mar
28 May 1885, rec 2 Jun 1885, Henry County, Missouri,, Marriage Licenses, Book E, p. 36.
1571. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis Co, Central Twp, Adam C. Wolfram household, Supervisor’s Distr
10, Enumeration Distr 121, sheets 27B, 28A, dwelling 532, famly 543, 19 Jun 1900.
1572. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), James G. Blaine household, Supervisor's Distr
Missouri, 1944, p. 118.
1574. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), James Blaine,
Ancestry.com.
1575. “Katherine Hundley, Trucking Executive,” The Seattle Times, Seattle, Washington, Friday, 22 Nov 1996.
1576. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Katherine F. Hundley,
Ancestry.com.
1577. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Cole Co, Jefferson City, May Kolkmeyer household, Supervisor's Distr 12,
1578. Death Certificate, Cecelia Katherine Kolkmeyer, Prim Reg Distr 3016, State File 40978, filed 11 Jan
1579. Death Certificate, Vincent Kolkmeyer, Reg Distr 47, Prim Reg Distr 3008, File No. 61-024310, Missouri
State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 24 Jul 1961.
1580. Vincent Kolkmeyer and Mae Glesius, Index to Marriage License Record, Cole County, Missouri, p. 95
(Ancestry.com Missouri Marriage Records 1805-2002, original image).
1581. Resurrection Cemetery, Jefferson City, Missouri, The USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project,
Cole County, Missouri, transcribed 1997.
1582. "Mrs. Kolkmeyer Dies in Hospital," News and Tribune, Jefferson City, Missouri, Sunday, 13 Jul 1975, p.
26, col. 8.
Missouri, 1952, p. 131.
1584. “Attend Christening of Blaine Daughter,” Jefferson City Post Tribune, Jefferson City, Missouri,
Wednesday, 21 Feb 1951, p. 3, col. 4.
1585. Post-Tribune, Jefferson City, Missouri, Wednesday, 6 Oct 1954, p. 5, col. 6.
1586. “Former Jefferson Citian Marries in Puerto Rico,” News and Tribune, Jefferson City, Missouri, Sunday,
28 May 1961, p. 14, col. 5.
1587. Eugene W Hundley, Washington Death Index, 1940-1996 [database on-line], Provo, Utah, Ancestry.com
Operations Inc, 2002.
1588. “Continental Van Lines, Special Deliveries in a Growth Market,” Seattle Industry, Spring 2009 Issue,
1589. Find A Grave, Marie Wolfram Blaine, Forever Oak Hill Cemetery, Kirkwood, Missouri,
1590. Robert E. Tapscott and Mary Frances Tapscott, Transcriptions, Resurrection Cemetery, St. Louis,
Missouri, 3 Apr 2010.
1591. Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Record 2989 Wehner (Wikner), Parish Church
of Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.
1592. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, George Wehner household,
1595. Frank Hartmann and Josephine Wehner, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St. Louis,
Missouri, No. 203947, license 27 Jun 1916, marriage 27 Jun 1916.
1596. WW I Draft Registration, Frank Hartmann, St. Louis, Missouri, 5 May 1917.
1597. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Charles Hartmann household, Supervisor’s
1598. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Charles Hartmann (Hartman) household,
1599. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 10, Mary Hartmann (Hartman)
household, Supervisor’s Distr 183, Enumeration Distr 182, p. 5B, dwelling 91, family 145, 6 Jan 1920.
1600. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 10, Frank Hartmann (Hartman)
household, Supervisor’s Distr. 9, Enumeration Distr. 96-421, sheet 17A, dwelling 225, family 390, 15
Apr 1930.
1601. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 10, Frank Hartmann (Hartman)
household, Supervisor’s Distr 183, Enumeration Distr 182, p. 6A, dwelling 96, family 154, 6 Jan 1920.
1602. WW I Draft Registration, Frank Hartmann, Kansas City, Missouri, 30 May 1917.
1603. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Frank Hartmann,
Ancestry.com.
1604. Death Certificate, Josephine Hartmann, Registration Distr 318, Primary Registration Distr 1003, File 58-
015884, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 18 Apr 1958.
1605. Robert E. Tapscott and Mary Frances Tapscott, Transcriptions, Valhalla Cemetery Mausoleum, St.
Louis, Missouri, 5 Apr 2010.
1606. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Frank Hartmann,
Ancestry.com.
Missouri, 1952, p. 694.
553.
1960, p. 528.
1610. WW I Draft Registration, George Osmond Richards, East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Illinois, 12 Sep
1918.
1611. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, George Richards and
Annie Wehner, issued 11 June 1900, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
1612. Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Record 2547 Richards, Parish Church of Ste.
1613. 1920 U.S. census, Illinois, St. Clair, City of East St. Louis, George O. Richards household, Supervisor’s
1614. 1860 U.S. census, Illinois, Fulton Co, Astoria Twp, John V. Richards household, p. 340, dwelling 2509,
family 2405, 10 Aug 1860.
1615. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Madison Co, T5 R9W, John V. Richards household, p. 75, dwelling 563,
family 563, 5 Aug 1870.
1616. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis, Toussaint Racine household, p. 1, dwelling 1, family 1, 1 Jun
1860.
1617. Montague's Illinois and Missouri State Directory for 1854-5, W.L. Montague, St. Louis, p. 453.
1618. St. Louis Business Directory for 1863, Campbell & Richardson, Publishers, St. Louis, Missouri, 1863, p.
281.
1619. Edwards' Annual Directory, City of St. Louis, for 1864, Richard Edwards, Editor and Publisher, St.
Louis, Mo., p. 445.
1620. Marriage Certificate, St. Louis County, Missouri, Lucian (“Lucien”) Osmond Richards and Julia E.
Racine, filed 24 May 1875, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.
1621. 1910 U.S. census, Illinois, St. Clair, City of East St. Louis, George O. Richards household, Supervisor’s
1622. Registrum Confirmatorum Ecclesiae, St. Elizabeth Parish, East St. Louis, Diocese of Belleville archives,
p. 15.
1623. 1930 U.S. census, Illinois, St. Clair, City of East St. Louis, George Richards household, Supervisor’s
1624. Malcolm McLaughlin, Power, Community, and Racial Killing in East St. Louis, Palgrave Macmillan,
New York, 2005, p. 98.
1625. 1940 U.S. census, Illinois, St. Clair, City of East St. Louis, George Richards household, Supervisor's
1626. Liber Defunctorum Ecclesiae, St. Elizabeth Parish, East St. Louis, Diocese of Belleville Archives, p. 16.
1627. Liber Defunctorum Ecclesiae, St. Elizabeth Parish, East St. Louis, Diocese of Belleville Archives, p. 9.
1628. Holy Cross Cemetery, Fairview Heights, Illinois, 1907-2000, St. Clair Genealogical Society, Belleville,
Illinois, p. 16.
1629. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Helen McCoy,
Ancestry.com.
p. 16.
1631. 1930 U.S. census, Illinois, St. Clair, City of East St. Louis, Raymond McCoy household, Supervisor's
Distr 25, Enumeration Distr 82-56, sheet 25B, dwelling 573, family 600, Apr 1930.
1632. 1900 U.S. census, Indiana, Vanderburgh Co, Howell Town, Frank McCoy household, Supervisor's Distr
1633. 1910 U.S. census, Illinois, St. Clair Co, St. Clair Twp, Mary McCoy household, Supervisor's Distr 13,
Enumeration Distr 157, sheets 8A, 8B, dwelling 128, family 129, 23 Apr 1910.
Illinois, p. 22.
1635. 1920 U.S. census, Illinois, St. Clair, City of East St. Louis, Raymond T. Whiteside household,
Supervisor's Distr 14, Enumeration Distr 173, sheet 10A, dwelling 144, family 178, 17 Jan 1920.
1636. Andrew J. Theising, Made in USA: East St. Louis, Virginia Publishing, St. Louis, Missouri, 2003, pp.
101-105.
1637. J’Nell L. Pate, America's Historic Stockyards: Livestock Hotels, TCU Press, Fort Worth, Texas, 2005, p.
11.
1638. 1940 U.S. census, Illinois, St. Clair, City of East St. Louis, Raymond McCoy household, Supervisor's
1639. “Athur [sic] Richards,” Belleville News Democrat, Monday, 17 May 1976, p. 18, col. 4.
1640. Registry of Baptisms, 1804-1904, St. Elizabeth Parish, East St. Louis, Diocese of Belleville archives, p.
57.
1641. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Arthur Richards,
Ancestry.com.
p. 21.
1643. 1930 U.S. census, Illinois, Madison Co, City of Collinsville, Arthur J. Richards household, Supervisor’s
1644. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Ruth Richards,
Ancestry.com.
1645. Ruth Juanita (“Vaneta”) Evans, Indiana Births, 1880-1920 [database on-line], Provo, Utah, The
Generations Network, Inc., 2000. Though the transcribed birth record gives a middle name “Vasneta”;
other records show a middle initial “J” and her obituaries give a middle name of Juanita.
1646. WW I Draft Registration, Frank Orville Evans, Centreville, St. Clair County, Illinois, 5 June 1917.
1647. Frank O. Evans and Jane A. Wardlow, Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 [database on-line],
Provo, Utah, The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.
1648. Find A Grave, Dolly L. and Chester Evans, transcribed from photo of grave marker,
1649. 1910 U.S. census, Indiana, Daviess Co, Washington City, Frank O. Evans household, Supervisor's Distr
2, Enumeration Distr 23, sheet 2A, dwelling 34, family 36, 18 Apr 1910.
1650. Floyd Orville (“Arville”) Evans, Indiana Births, 1880-1920 [database on-line], Provo, Utah, The
Generations Network, Inc., 2000.
1651. A record of the birth Henry Greenwell’s only known child (“Greenwell,” later identified as Lucille) gives
the mother’s name as “Lula Potts.” (Indiana Births, 1880-1920 [database on-line], Provo, Utah, The
Generations Network, Inc., 2000.) Other records show the name “Alice.”
1652. Henry A. Greenwell and Alice Potts, Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 [database on-line], Provo,
Utah, The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.
1653. 1920 U.S. census, Illinois, St. Clair Co, Centreville Twp, Frank O. Evans household, Supervisor's Distr
1654. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Paul V. Richards,
Ancestry.com.
1655. Polk’s East St. Louis (St. Clair County, Ill.) City Directory, Vol. 1948, R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers, St.
Louis, Missouri, 1948, p. 439.
1656. “Publication-Adoption Notice,” Edwardsville Intelligencer, Edwardsville, Illinois, Friday, 11 Aug 1961,
p. 9.
1657. Paul V. Richards and Helen Misemer, marriage 20 Aug 1949, Arkansas, County Marriage Index, 1837-
1957.
1658. Polk’s East St. Louis (St. Clair County, Ill.) City Directory, Vol. 1950, R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers, St.
1659. “Mrs. Ruth Richards,” East St. Louis Journal, Tuesday, 8 Sep 1970, p. 2, col. 4.
Illinois, p. 20.
1661. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Helen Richards,
Ancestry.com.
1662. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Russell Richards,
Ancestry.com.
Missouri, 1931, p. 1193.
Missouri, 1933, p. 1017.
1665. “Richards, Nora M.,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Saturday, 9 Nov 1996, p. 31.
1666. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Nora M. Richards,
Ancestry.com.
1667. Death Certificate, Hannah Coughlin, Reg Distr 318, Primary Reg Distr 1003, File 2386, Missouri State
Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 12 Jan 1950.
1668. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 26, Thomas Coughlin household,
Supervisor's Distr 8, Enumeration Distr 96-205, sheet 6A, dwelling 81, family 121, 7 April 1930.
1669. Death Certificate, Thomas Coughlin, Reg Distr 791, Primary Reg Distr 1003, File 14407, Missouri State
1670. Widely different immigration years are given in the 1910, 1920, and 1930 censuses: 1871, 1863, and
1858 for Thomas; 1889, 1888, and 1885 for Hannah.
1671. Death Certificate, Stillborn Richards, Reg Distr 791, Prim Reg Distr 1003, File 48882, Missouri State
Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Filed 18 Aug 1936.
1672. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Russell G. Richards household, Supervisor's
Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 96-500A, sheet 9A, household 192, 13 Apr 1940.
Missouri, 1944, p. 997.
1674. “Richards, Russell G.,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Saturday, 17 Jul 1999, p. 16.
1675. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Marie Jones,
Ancestry.com.
p. 47.
1677. Baptism Registry Index, Jan 1905-Nov 1915, St. Elizabeth Parish, East St. Louis.
1678. 1940 U.S. census, Illinois, St. Clair, City of East St. Louis, Edwin Jones household, Supervisor's Distr
1679. Polk's East St. Louis (St. Clair County, Ill.) City Directory, Vol. 1948, R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers, St.
1680 Polk's East St. Louis (St. Clair County, Ill.) City Directory, Vol. 1950, R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers, St.
1681. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Edwin Jones,
Ancestry.com.
1682 “Mrs. Richards Dies; Was 68,” East St. Louis Journal, Thursday, 14 Mar 1946, p. 78, col. 2.
1683. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), James V. Richards,
Ancestry.com.
p. 8.
1685. Obituary, Georgia F. Richards, Kurrus Funeral Home, Belleville, Illinois, Obituary Archive,
http://www.kurrusfh.com/Archive/Archive.html.
1686. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Scott Co, Kelso Twp, Adam C. Green household, Supervisor's Distr 12,
Enumeration Distr 187, sheet 7B, dwelling 120, family 124, 6,8 March 1920.
1687. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Phelps County, Missouri, Adam Green and Sarah Young,
issued 21 Nov 1901, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
1688. 1930 U.S. census, Illinois, St. Clair, City of East St. Louis, Adam C. Green household, Supervisor's Distr
25, Enumeration Distr 82-35, sheets 8A & 8B, dwelling 180, family 218, 9 Apr 1930.
1689. Find A Grave, Sarah M. Green, Mount Hope Cemetery, Belleville, St. Clair Co, Illinois,
1690. Find A Grave, Devetta Margretta Green, Rockview Cemetery, Scott Co, Missouri,
1691. Find A Grave, Adam Clark Green, Jr, Rockview Cemetery, Scott Co, Missouri,
1692. Obituary, Sarah Young Green, East St. Louis Journal, East St. Louis, Missouri, Monday, 8 Apr 1935, p.
3, col. 4.
1693. Find A Grave, Adam C. Green, Mount Hope Cemetery, Belleville, St. Clair Co, Illinois,
1694. 1940 U.S. census, Illinois, St. Clair, Washington Park, James Richards household, Supervisor's Distr 22,
Enumeration Distr 82-27, sheet 28B, household 576, 6 May 1940.
1695. Robert E. Tapscott and Mary Frances Tapscott, Transcriptions, Valhalla Gardens of Memory Cemetery,
Belleville, Illinois, 5 Apr 2010.
1696. Andrew J. Theising, Made in USA: East St. Louis, Virginia Publishing, St. Louis, Missouri, 2003, p.7.
1697. Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Record 3441 Wetteroff, Parish Church of Ste.
1698. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis City, John Wetteroff (“Wetrovsky”) household, Supervisor’s Distr
71, Enumeration Distr 120, p. 15, dwelling 74, family 164, 13 Nov 1880.
1699. Missouri Death Records, 1834-1910, St. Louis, 1883, John Wetteroff (“Wetteroffske”), certificate date
10 Jun 1883, Ancestry.com (original images), original data: Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City,
Missouri.
1700. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Catherine (Katherine) Wetteroff household,
1701. Thomas Capek, The Cechs (Bohemians) in America, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1920, p.116.
1702. Death Certificate, John Wetroff Sr., Reg Distr 115, Primary Reg Distr 4187, File 33502, Missouri State
Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 26 Oct 1949.
1703. “Obituaries, Genevieve Wehner,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 28
October 1976, p. 2.
1704. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Willilliam Wetteroff
and Maria Wehner, license issued 11 Aug 1903, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City,
1705. Missouri Death Records, 1834-1910, St. Louis, 1907, Catherine Wetteroff, Certificate Date 26 Mar
1907, Ancestry.com (original images), original data: Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.
1706. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 13, William W. Wetteroff household,
1707. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 13, William W. Wetteroff household,
1708. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 13, William Wetteroff household,
1709. Death Certificate, Frank Wetteroff, Registration Distr 791, Primary Registration Distr 1003, File 28584,
Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 27 Aug 1930.
1710. Death Certificate, Charles Wetteroff, Registration Distr 318, Primary Registration Distr 1002, File
10786, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 22 Mar 1951.
1711. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis Co, Lemay Twp, William W. Wetteroff household, Supervisor's
1712. Death Certificate, William W. Wetteroff, Registration Distr 318, Primary Registration Distr 1003, File
58-046499, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 12 Jan 1959.
1713. Directory Cape Coral Florida, 7th edition, 15 Dec 1961, pp. 2, 37.
1714. Mary Wetteroff, Florida Death Index, 1877-1998, Florida Department of Health, Office of Vital Records.
1715. St. Louis Registry of Births, Florence K. Wetteroff, 1904, Ancestry.com (original images), original data:
1716, Polk's St. Louis County (Missouri) Directory, 1936, R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers, St. Louis, Missouri,
1936, p. 1394.
1717. Edward J. Bakula and Marie K. Wetteroff, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St.
Louis, Missouri, No. 593004, license 31 Aug 1939, marriage 2 Sep 1939.
1718. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), William Bakula household, Supervisor’s Distr
1719. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis, William Bakula (“Backivi”) household, p. 199, dwelling 982,
family 1610, 7 Jul 1860.
1720. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis, William Bakula household, p. 132, dwelling 536, family 1149, 15
Jun 1870.
1721. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis City, William Bakula (“Bakule”) household, Supervisor’s Distr 71,
1722. Certificate of Death, Vaclav (“Vaslas”) Bakula, City of St. Louis Health Department, Burial Permit 3800.
1723. Missouri Death Records, 1834-1910, St. Louis, 1899, William (“Wm”) Bakula, certificate date 7 Nov
1899, Ancestry.com (original images), original data: Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City,
1724. WW I Draft Registration, Edward Bakula. Precinct 17, St. Louis, Missouri, 5 June 1917.
1725. Death Certificate, Anna J. Cizak, Reg Distr 318, Primary Reg Distr 1003, File 13903, Missouri State
1726. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Anna Bakula household, Supervisor’s Distr 11,
1727. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 13, Anthony Cizek household,
1728. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Anthony (“Tony”) Cizek household,
Supervisor’s Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 184, sheets 4A-4B, dwelling 49, family 82, 5 Jun 1900.
1729. Certificate of Death, Mary Cizek, City of St. Louis Health Department, Burial Permit 6041.
1730. Edward J. Bakula, US Pat 1,422,166, “Phonograph Record Brush,” Filed 25 Apr 1921, Issued 11 Jul
1922.
1731. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 13, Anthony Cizek household,
1732. Death Certificate, Anthony (“Joseph”) Cizek (“Cizak”), Reg Distr 791, Primary Reg Distr 1003, File
1733. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 13, Anna Cizek household, Supervisor’s
1734. Michael McDermott, Pastor Picker's St. Louis Churches and Cemeteries, St. Louis Genealogical Society,
St. Louis, Missouri, 2007.
1735. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis Co, Lemay Twp, Edward J. Bakula household, Supervisor's Distr
1736. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Edward Bakula,
Ancestry.com.
1737. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Marie K. Bakula,
Ancestry.com.
1738. Records, Fort Myers Memorial Gardens, Lee County.
1739. Florida Marriage Collection, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001, Ralph Waldo Wetteroff and Martha Elisabeth
McMillen, Ancestry.com, database on-line, Provo, Utah, The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.
States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Ralph W. Wetteroff,
Ancestry.com.
1741. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 28, Edward P. Stanton household,
1742. Marriage License Application, St. Louis County, Missouri, Ralph Wetteroff and Mildred Stanton, 24
June 1939, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image, Ancestry.com).
1743. Death Certificate, Edward P. Stanton, Reg Distr 1123, Primary Reg Distr 6248B, File 7931, Reg No
6248B, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 13 Feb 1929.
1744. “Along Auto Row,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Monday, 8 Feb 1954, p. 23, col.
5.
1745. “Ralph W. Wetteroff,” Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Sarasota, Florida, Saturday, 5 Jul 1997, p. 7B.
1746. Whitney Metcalf Ballantine Norman Linton Klugow Faltings Panduro Family Tree, Ancestry.com.
1747. Find A Grave, Mildred Wetteroff, Jefferson Memorial Park, Pleasant Hills, Allegheny County,
Pennsylvaniai, http://www.findagrave.com.
1748. Gregory Family Genealogy, based on a book by Benjamin T. Gregory,
http://www.gregoryfamily.com/frontpage.htm, read 8 September 2008.
1749. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Simeon Lowe,
Ancestry.com.
1750. Florida Divorce Index, 1927-2001, Ralph W Wetteroff and Sarah Wetteroff, 3 Aug 1979, Certificate No.
1751. White Pages, Punta Gorda, Florida, 1993.
1752. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Glenn W. Bayless,
Ancestry.com.
1753. “Obituary: Redlands Storyteller William Lewis Dies,” Redlands Daily Facts, Redlands, California,
Monday, 20 Jun 2005.
1754. “Sarah L. Lewis,” Florence Morning News, Florence, South Carolina, Tuesday, 3 Jul 2007.
1755. Florida Marriage Collection, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001, Ralph Waldo Wetteroff and Martha Elisabeth
McMillen, Ancestry.com, database on-line, Provo, Utah, The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.
1756. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Martha R. Wetteroff,
Ancestry.com.
1757. 1920 U.S. census, Ohio, Belmont Co, Union Twp, Edward A. Reline household, Supervisor's Distr 264,
1758. Index to Annual Deaths, 1958-2002, Donald Hamilton McMillen, Ohio Department of Health,
Columbus, Ohio (Ancestry.com, database on-line).
1759. Lee Owen Hench and Bernard Lyle Hench, editors, The Johannes Hench Family in America, The C. B.
Hench Family publishers, 1981
1760. White Pages, Punta Gorda, Florida, 1993-1995; White Pages, Punta Gorda, Florida, 1996.
1761. The Messenger, First Presbyerian Church, Punta Gorda, Florida, Feb 2006, p. 4.
1762. “Martha R. Wetteroff,” The Advertiser Tribune, Tiffin, Ohio, Saturday, 17 Apr 2010.
1763. “Marjorie Hinzman,” Westerville Obituaries, Columbus Local News, Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, 6 Apr
2010.
1764. Death Record No. 20, Martha Wehner, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Courthouse Records 1883-1892,
Report Date 20 October 1883.
1765. “Wehner,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 24 November 1883.
1766. Birth Record No. 248, Ida Bertha Wehner, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Courthouse Records 1883-1892,
Return Date 22 December 1884.
1767. “Leonard Lawrence Bachle,” The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Monday, 6 Jul 2009, p.
9A.
1768. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 1 Dec 1906, p. 3, col . 4. The minister’s return for the
Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Lawrence A Baechle
and Ursula Wehner, issued 19 november 1906, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City,
Missouri (image, Ancestry.com) gives a date of 28 November. A transcribed record at the Church of Ste.
Genevieve gives a date of 18 November (Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church,
Record 3081 Baechle, Parish Church of Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri). The Fair Play article,
which detailed the marriage, is considered the most reliable.
1769. Robert E. Tapscott and Mary Frances Tapscott, Transcriptions, Rose Hill Burial Park, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma, 1 Apr 2010.
1770. The 1900 census gives a birth date of Feb 1875 for Lawrence Bachle. This disagrees with the date of 25
Feb 1874 given on his cemetery marker. The latter, which lies in the ranges calculated from the 1880 and
1920 censuses, is believed to be the most reliable.
1771. 1900 U.S. census, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Co, Oklahoma City, Anton Baechle ("Bachle") household,
Supervisor's Distr 219, Enumeration Distr 170, sheet 16A, dwelling 270, family 344, 23-25 Jun 1900.
1772. Oklahoma County HCE Genealogy Group, Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma, Transcriptions, surveyed 17 Sep 2001.
1773. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, August Baechle household, pp. 73-
1774. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste Genevieve Twp, August Bachle household,
1775. Robert E. Tapscott and Mary Frances Tapscott, Transcriptions, Fairlawn Cemetery, Oklahoma City,
1776. 1900 U.S. census, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Co, Mustang Twp, August Baechle (Beachle) household,
Supervisor’s Distr 219, Enumeration Distr. 159, sheet 10A, dwelling 181, family 181, 21 Jun 1900.
1777. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, August (Anselm) Baechle
household, p. 58, dwelling 400 family 405, 27 Jun 1860.
1778. Determined from her sister Monica’s age at immigration. Obituary, Monica Fallert Trautman Sucher, Ste.
Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1899.
1779. Marriage Certificate, August Baechle and Mary Falk, Ste. Genevieve Co, Missouri, 12 February 1866,
filed 27 July 1866.
1780. “Hymeneal. Baechle-Vaeth,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 14 Apr 1888.
1781. Beckerman Vol. 4, p. 6.
1782. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Beauvais Twp, George Falk household, p. 162, dwelling
1095, family 1097, 29 Aug 1860.
1783. Vicksburg National Military Park, Nationwide Gravesite Locator, United States Department of Veterans
Affairs.
1784. 1890 Oklahoma Territorial census, Oklahoma Co, T11 R4W, Peter Falk, Enumeration Distr 32, p. 39,
dwelling 405, 17 Jun 1890.
1785. Sara Ganus, History Thrives Through Company, The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1
July 2007.
1786. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Nodaway Co, Jefferson Twp, Adam Brandt (Brant) household, Supervisor’s
1787. 1900 U.S. census, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Co, Mustang Twp, Charles Brandt (Charlie Brand) household,
1788. 1910 U.S. census, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Co, Mustang Twp, Charles Brandt household, Supervisor’s
Distr 234, Enumeration Distr. 197, sheets 5A-5B, dwelling 103, family 104, 28-29 Apr 1900.
1789. 1900 U.S. census, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Co, Mustang Twp, Henry Falk household, Supervisor's Distr
1790. “Mrs. Mary C. Bachle,” The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Tuesday, 24 Dec 1957, p. 3.
1791. The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Saturday, 7 Jun 1902, p. 5.
1792. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory, 1903, Chamber of Commerce, p. 151.
1793. “About Completed,” The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Tuesday, 21 Jan 1902, p. 3.
1794. “Real Estate Transfers,” The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Saturday, 19 Oct 1901, p. 6.
1795. The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Friday, 25 Apr 1902, p. 3.
1796. “Application for Liquor License,” The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Tuesday, 11 Feb 1902, p.
2.
1797. “Notice, Application for Liquor License,” The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Wednesday, 11
Jun 1902, p. 7.
1798. The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Sunday, 31 Aug 1902, p. 10.
1799. “Permits to Wed,” The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Wednesday, 7 Apr 1902, p. 2.
1800. 1910 U.S. census, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Co, Oklahoma City, Ward 2, Frank Cimijotti (“Cimmijotti”)
household, Supervisor’s Distr 234, Enumeration Distr 205, sheet 14A, dwelling 207, family 324, 25 Apr
1910.
1801. “A Well Known Citizen,” The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Tuesday, 16 Aug 1904.
1802. “Deaths and Funerals, Bachle,” The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Monday, 3 Jun 1991, p. 60.
1803. Robert E. Tapscott and Mary Frances Tapscott, Transcriptions, Resurrection Cemetery, Oklahoma City,
1804. 1910 U.S. census, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Co, Oklahoma City, Lawrence A. Baechle (“Bachle”)
household, Enumeration Distr No. 228, sheet 2A, dwelling 19, family 29, 15 Apr 1910.
1805. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, John J. Vaeth household,
1806. 1930 U.S. census, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Co, Oklahoma City, Felix Vaeth Sr. household, Supervisor’s
Distr 5, Enumeration Distr 55-63, sheet 4B, dwelling 47, family 125, Apr 1930.
1807. Matt Maile, “Longtime Family Business Keeps OKC Presence With Fireplace Products,” The Journal
Record, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 7 March 2003.
1808. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Charles Braun and
Veronica Falk, issued 21 Jan 1891, filed 11 Feb 1891,microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City,
1809. 1910 U.S. census, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Co, Oklahoma City, Charles Braun (“Brown”) household,
1810. 1930 U.S. census, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Co, Oklahoma City, Lawrence A. Bachle (“Backel”) household,
Supervisor’s Distr 5, Enumeration Distr 55-63, sheet 4B, dwelling 48, family 127, Apr 1930.
1811. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Ralph R. Bachle,
Ancestry.com.
1812. Don A. Wood, Student Roster, 1995-1971, Central High School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 17 Jan
2007, p. 31.
1813. WW II Army Enlistment Records, 1938 - 1946, Ralph R. Bachle, database on-line, Ancestry.com.
1814. “Lucille E. Richards Bachle,” The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Saturday, 22 Aug
1996, p. 32.
1815. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Lucille R. Bachle,
Ancestry.com.
1816. 1930 U.S. census, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Co, Oklahoma City, Joseph Richards household, Supervisor’s
1817. “Ralph R. Bachle,” The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Tuesday, 7 Nov 2000, p. 6D.
1818. "Weddings, Dawson-Bachle," The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Wednesday, 3 Jun 1981, p. 6.
1819. "Couple Plans Trip After Wedding," The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Sunday, 5 Oct 1969, p.
130.
1820. "December Dates Set, Bachle-Howard," The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Sunday, 22 Oct
1972, p. 86.
1821. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Carl Bachle.
2007, p. 35.
1823. “Deaths and Funerals, Bachle,” The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Sunday, 20 Nov 1994, p.
20.
1824. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Jean K. Bachle,
Ancestry.com.
1825. WW I Draft Registration, Eugene Ayers Perry, Louisville, Jefferson Co, 5 June 1917.
1826. 1930 U.S. census, Kentucky, Jefferson Co, Louisville, Eugene Perry household, Supervisor's Distr 5,
1827. 1910 U.S. census, Mississippi, Hinds Co, Jackson, Eugene A. Perry household, Supervisor's Distr 8,
Enumeration Distr 21, sheet 11A, dwelling 201, family 230, 22 and 23 April 1910.
1828. WW I Draft Registration, Hugh Ahern, Ward 2, New Orleans, Louisiana.
1829. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Hugh Ahern,
Ancestry.com.
1830. 1900 U.S. census, Mississippi, Hinds Co, Jackson, James Ahearn household, Supervisor's Distr 7,
1831. “Deaths and Funerals, Bachle,” The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Wednesday, 12 Nov 1980,
p. 24, col. 4.
1832. "Spivey-Bachle," The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Sunday, 28 Aug 1966, p. 68.
1833. "Details of The Public Records," The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Wednesday, 2 Feb 1966,
p. 16.
1834. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Loretto Bachle,
Ancestry.com.
2007, p. 39.
1836. “Deaths and Funerals, Bachle,” The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Sunday, 21 Jun 1981, p. 32.
1837. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Leonard L. Bachle,
Ancestry.com
2007, p. 54.
1839. Rosemary Eckroat Bachle, Women’s War Memoirs, Macedon Publishing Co., Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma, 1999, p. 113.
1840. WW II Army Enlistment Records, 1938 - 1946, Leonard L. Bachle, database on-line, Ancestry.com.
Oklahoma, 1999, p. xii.
Oklahoma, 1999, p. xiii.
1843. 1930 U.S. census, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Co, Oklahoma City, William Eckroat household, Supervisor’s
Distr 5, Enumeration Distr 55-62, sheet 16A, dwelling 266, family 374, 15 Apr1930
1844. Obituary, William M. Eckroat Jr., The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Monday, 9 Mar 1986, p.
256.
1845. Seed Firm Founder Dies at 78, unknown newspaper, unknown date.
1846. Louise Abercrombie, “Book Gets Right at Life During War,” The Ponca City News, Thursday, 10 Jun
1999 .
1847. “Bachle,” The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Friday, 17 Nov 2000, p. 106.
2007, p. 62.
1849. WW II Army Enlistment Records, 1938 - 1946, Herman J. Bachle, database on-line, Ancestry.com.
1850. Find A Grave, Herman J. Bachle, http://www.findagrave.com
1851. Obituary, Laurene F. (Heitman) Bachle, The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 26 February
2001.
1852‘ WW I Draft Registration, George Nicholas Wehner, Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, 5
June 1917.
1853. George (Geo) N. Wehner and Lena Sucher, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St.
Louis, Missouri, No. 261108, license 12 Sep 1922, marriage 14 Sep 1922.
1854. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Magdelin Wehner.
1855. “Magdelin C. Wehner,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Wednesday, 23 Feb 1985, p. 4,
col. 1.
1856. Birth Record No. 887, Peter Leon Sucher, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, courthouse records 1883-1892,
return date 8 Sep 1890.
1857. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 17 Feb 1894.
1858. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Jackson Twp, Peter Sucher household, Supervisor’s
1859. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Jackson Twp, Peter Sucher household, Supervisor’s
1860. Marriage Certificate, Peter Sucher (Suchert) and Catherine Fallert, Ste. Genevieve Co, Missouri, 8
February 1875, filed 17 March 1875.
1861. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, Peter Sucher household,
1862. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, John F. Sucher household,
1863. Death Certificate, Peter Sucher, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File 13276,
Filed 1 March 1937.
1864. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, George N. Wehner household,
1865. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 19 Feb 1921, p. 1, col. 3.
1866. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, George Nicholas (“G. N.”) Wehner
household, Supervisor's Distr 8, Enumeration Distr 97-4, sheet 10A, household 194, 6 Apr 1940.
1867. “George Wehner,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 16 Jun 1977, p. 5, col. 4.
1868. Richard Deposki, Images of America, Ste. Genevieve, Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, South
Carolina, 2008, p. 106.
1869. Obituary, Floyd Donald “Don” Davenport, Emissourian.com, Missourian Web Edition, 12 December
2000.
1870. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, William R. Schmitz and
Wanda G. Wehner, license issued 4 October 1950, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City,
1871. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Cole Co, Clark Twp, William J. Schmitz Jr. household, Supervisor's Distr
12, Enumeration Distr 26-4, sheets 9A,9B, dwelling 189, family 191, 24 Apr 1930.
1872. “Schmitz,” Post-Tribune, Jefferson City, Missouri, Wed, 24 Feb 1971, p. 15, col. 6.
1873. “Evelyn Lucille Voorhees (1922 - 2009),” YumaSun.com,
http://obits.yumasun.com/obituaries/yumasun/.
1874. “William 'Bill' R. Schmitz,” NewsTribune.com, Jefferson City, Missouri, http://www.newstribune.com/.
1875. WW I Draft Registration, John J. Wehner, St. Louis, Missouri, 5 June 1917.
1876. Robert E. Tapscott and Mary Frances Tapscott, Transcriptions, Memorial Park Cemetery, St. Louis,
1878. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 22, John J. Wehner household,
1879. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis Co, Carondelet Twp, John J. Wehner household, Supervisor’s
1880. John Wehner and Alma Kieninger, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St. Louis,
Missouri, No. 172853, license 4 Jun 1912, marriage 4 Jun 1912.
1881. Death Certificate, Alma D. Wehner, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
44114, Filed 8 February 1955.
1882. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, Cape Girardeau Co, Pocahontas Village, Henry C. Kieninger household,
1883. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Cape Girardeau Co, Pocahontas Village, Henry C. Kieninger household,
1884. Death Certificate, Henry C. Kieninger, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File
25967, Filed 10 August 1942.
1885. Death Certificate, Martha T. Kieninger, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File
18272, Filed 24 May 1935.
1886. Jan (Palmer) Lukes, Personal Communication to Robert E. Tapscott, 29 Oct 2012.
1887. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis Co, Lemay Twp, John Wehner household, Supervisor's Distr 12,
1888. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis Co, Lemay Twp, Nelson Kieninger household, Supervisor's Distr
1889. “Nelson Kieninger, Retired Bakery Owner,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Saturday, 6 Jan
2001, p. 12.
1890. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Perry Co, Brazeau Twp, William M. Kieninger household, Supervisor’s
Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 62, sheet 3B, dwelling 41, family 41, 6 Jan 1920.
1891. Death Certificate, Alma D. Wehner, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
44114, Filed 8 Feb 1955.
1892. Death Certificate, Infant Wehner, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
14609, Filed 19 Apr 1915.
1893. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), James H. Wehner,
Ancestry.com.
1943, p. 871.
1895. Marriage License Application, St. Louis County, Missouri, James Wehner and Kathryn Harper, 15
January 1941, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image, Ancestry.com).
1896. A female “Infant Harper” buried on 17 Oct 1915 in the same Calvary Cemetery plot where Genevieve’s
mother, “Katie” A. Hart had been earlier interred is likely another child.
1897. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 28, Daniel Harper household,
Supervisor's Distr 8, Enumeration Distr 96-239, sheet 32B, dwelling 273, family 682, 25 April 1930.
1898. Missouri Birth Records, St. Louis Co, Daniel Harper, Registry of Births, original image, Ancestry.com.
Daniel’s Illinois death record gives his birth year as 1897. The age in his Calvary Cemetery burial record
also corresponds to 1897, a year which is obviously incorrect.
1899. Missouri Birth Records, St. Louis Co, Millard Augustus Harper, Registry of Births, original image,
Ancestry.com.
1900. Missouri Birth Records, St. Louis Co, Edwin Orren Harper, Registry of Births, original image,
Ancestry.com.
1901. Missouri Birth Records, St. Louis Co, Claiborne A. Harper, Registry of Births, original image,
Ancestry.com.
1902. Missouri Death Records, 1834-1910, St. Louis, 1874, Benno Meyer, certificate date 4 January 1907,
1903. Death Certificate, Nellie C. Hart, Reg Distr 791, Prim Reg Distr 1003, File 0170, Missouri State Board of
Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Filed 10 Feb 1926.
1904. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis City, Aloysius Hart household, Supervisor's Distr 1, Enumeration
Distr 119, p. 20, dwelling 127, family 155, 7 Jun 1880.
1905. 1900 Census, Missouri, St. Louis Co, Webster Groves, Frances Hart household, Supervisor's Distr 10,
1906. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis Co, Kirkwood, Thomas Corley household, Supervisor's Distr 11,
Enumeration Distr 104, sheet 31B, dwelling 635, family 668, 4 May 1910.
1907. Death Certificate, Thomas W. Corley, Reg Distr 785, Prim Reg Distr 3037, File 42581, Filed 12 Dec
1908. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Henry E. Hart household, Supervisor's Distr
1909. Death Certificate, Genevieve Hart Harper, Reg Distr 784, Prim Reg Distr 1111, File 12089, Filed 25 Mar
1910. Missouri Birth Records, St. Louis, Genevieve Hart, Registry of Births, original image, Ancestry.com.
1911. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 13, Henry E. Hart household,
1912. Death Certificate, Henry Hart, Reg Distr 791, Primary Reg Distr 1003, File 3620, State Board of Health,
Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 24 Jan 1938.
1913. “Hart,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Tuesday, 5 Aug 1913, p. 14.
1914. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis, Aloysius Hart household, p. 92, dwelling 583, family 687, 28 Jun
1870.
1915. Gould's St. Louis Directory for 1910, Gould Directory Co., St. Louis, Missouri, 1911, pp. 621, 883.
1916. 1920 U.S. census, Kansas, Montgomery Co, Cherryvale, Daniel A. Harper household, Supervisor's Distr
1917. Aspen Junge and Rick Bean, A Short History of the Zinc Smelting Industry in Kansas, Kansas
Department of Health and Environment, Bureau of Environmental Remediation/Remedial Section, 28
Dec 2006, p. 1.
1918. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 28, Daniel Harper household,
Supervisor's Distr 8, Enumeration Distr 96-239, sheet 32B, dwelling 273, family 682, 25 April 1930.
1919. Daniel A. Harper, 15 May 1932, Chicago, Cook Co, Illinois, Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-
1947 (Ancestry.com).
1920. “James Wehner; Owned Kirkwood Bakery,” unknown newspaper, Saturday, 25 Feb 1995.
1921. Karen Bode Baxter and Timothy P. Maloney, Downtown Kirkwood Historic District, National Register
of Historic Places, Registration Form, United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 4
Sep 2009 (http://www.dnr.mo.gov/shpo/nps-nr/09000859.pdf).
1922. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Kathryn Wehner,
Ancestry.com.
1923. Robert E. Tapscott and Mary Frances Tapscott, Transcriptions, Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, 3
Apr 2010.
1924. James H. Wehner Jr., Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 18 Oct 2012.
1925. “Wehner, James H., Sr.,” unknown newspaper, unknown date.
1926. 1940 U.S. census, Michigan, Wayne Co, Hamtramck, John Palmer household, Supervisor's Distr 1,
1927. 1930 U.S. census, Michigan, Wayne Co, Detroit, Protestant Orphan Asylum of Detroit, Supervisor's
1928. Leonard Rose, Stalag Luft IV Prisoner Roster, http://www.b24.net/pow/rose/.
1929. "Marian L. Palmer," Pioneer Press Lake Shore Zone, Glenview, Illinois, 8 Nov 2012..
1930. "Alex D. Palmer," Pioneer Press Lake Shore Zone, Glenview, Illinois, 11 April 2013.
1931. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Theckla Hilbert,
Ancestry.com.
1932. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, City of Ste. Genevieve, John George (George J.) Wehner household,
1933. Gould's St. Louis Directory for 1913, Gould Directory Co., St. Louis, Missouri, 1914, pp. 1015, 2208,
2353.
1934. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 20, Karl (Carl) Hilbert household,
Supervisor’s Distr 10, Enumeration Distr 396, sheet 7B, dwelling 163, family 167, [blank] Jan 1920.
1935. Karl Hilbert and Theckla (Thecla) Wehner, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St.
Louis, Missouri, No. 186777, license 29 Jan 1914, marriage 31 Jan 1914.
1936. WW I Draft Registration, Karl Hilbert, St. Louis, Missouri, 5 Jun 1917.
1937. Death Certificate, Laura Throm, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
34764, filed 12 Nov 1948.
1938. List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the United States Immigration Officer at Port of Arrival, S.S.
Noordam, Rotterdam to New York, departed 3 Aug 1921, arrived 13 Aug 1921.
1939. List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the United States Immigration Officer at Port of Arrival, S.S.
Manchuria, Hamburg to New York, departed 13 May 1922, arrived 24 May 1922.
1940. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis Co, Central Twp, Alois Kling household, Supervisor’s Distr 9,
1941. List of Passengers, S.S. Munchen, Bremen to New York, departed 25 Oct 1928, arrived 5 Nov 1928.
1942. “Hilbert, Karl,” St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Friday, 9 Nov 1928, p. 52.
1943. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Genevieve Wehner household,
1944. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Harold Godfrey household,
1945. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis Co, Pine Lawn, Theckla Hilbert household, Supervisor's Distr 12,
1943, p. 368.
1958, p. 526.
1948. David A. Lossos, http://genealogyinstlouis.accessgenealogy.com/memories2005.htm, St. Louis
Memories (Chapter Three - 2005).
1949. Handwritten notes on photo in archives of Kathy Schuyler.
1950. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Carl G. Hilbert,
Ancestry.com.
1951. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Edna E. Hilbert,
Ancestry.com.
1953. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, George Figge household,
1954. John Krussel, “Krussel-Hoog & Related Families,” http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-
bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jwkrussel&id=I11101.
1955. Death Certificate, John C. Hilbert, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File 16247,
Filed 24 June 1941.
1956. “Hilbert, Edna E. (nee Figge) Asleep in Jesus on Saturday,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri,
28 Apr 2009, Classified Advertising Section.
1957. Emil J. Hilbert, Villager Journal Online, Cherokee Village, Arkansas, Tuesday, 21 Dec 2004.
1958. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Dolores M. Hilbert,
Ancestry.com.
1959. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 10, William F. Hubecky household,
Supervisor's Distr. 9, Enumeration Distr. 96-417, sheet 8A, dwelling 113, family 178, 8 Apr 1930.
1960. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 183, Charles Zykan (Zyken) household,
Supervisor's Distr 10, Enumeration Distr 182, p. 9B, dwelling 147, family 240, 7 Jan 1920.
1961. U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949, Emil Joseph Hilbert, 24 Feb 1944.
1964. Marriage Index, Illinois Statewide, 1763-1900, John P. Wilhelm and Caroline Fischer, Illinois State
1965. Missouri Birth Records, St. Louis, Marguerite Katherine Wilhelm, Registry of Births, original image,
Ancestry.com.
1966. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), John P. Wilhelm household, Supervisor’s Distr
1967. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 13, John P. Wilhelm household,
1968. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 13, John P. Wilhelm (“Willham”)
household, Supervisor’s Distr 183, Enumeration Distr 260, sheet 15B, dwelling 212, family 418, 15 Jan
1920.
1969. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis City, Lawrence (“Laurence”) Wilhelm household, Supervisor’s
1970. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Lawrence Wilhelm Jr. household, Supervisor’s
1971. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Christian (“Mr C”) Wilhelm household,
1972. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Francis (“Frank”) Wilhelm household,
1973. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Lawrence (“Lorenz”) Wilhelm household,
1974. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 13, Robert F. Wilhelm household,
1975. Notes, back of photo of Wilhelm Brothers delivery vans, archives of Kathy Schuyler.
1976. Marguerite Wehner, Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 29 May 1980, p. 2, col.
5.
1977. August P. Wehner and Marguerite K. Wilhelm, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St.
Louis, Missouri, No. 197983, license 23 Aug 1915, marriage 24 Aug 1915.
1979. August G. Wehner, Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Wednesday, 17 Jul 1991, p. 4, col.
1.
1980. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, August P. Wehner household,
1981. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, August Wehner household,
1982. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, August Wehner household,
1983. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 30 Jul 1921, p. 1, col. 1.
1984. “August P. Wehner Dies July 31st,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Friday, 5 Aug 1966, p. 1, col.
5.
1985. David Fiedler, The Enemy Among Us: POWs in Missouri During World War II, Missouri Historical
Society Press, 2003.
1986. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, August Wehner and
Katherine (“Catherine”) Yeager, issued 31 December 1941, microfilm, Missouri State Archives,
Jefferson City, Missouri (image, Ancestry.com).
1987. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 10, John P. Yeager household,
Supervisor’s Distr 10, Enumeration Distr 195, sheets 8A-8B, dwelling 130, family 225, 9 Jan 1920.
1988. “Katherine R. Wehner,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Wednesday, 10 Jan 1990, p. 4,
col. 1.
1989. Obituary, Gilbert Louis Wehner, Tributes.com, 23 Apr 2010.
1990. Williams' Dayton City Directory, 1946, Williams Directory Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, p. 1253.
1991. Jerome Amos Hjalmer Sundgaard, Minnesota Department of Health. Minnesota Birth Index, 1935-2002
[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
1992. 1930 U.S. census, Minnesota, Chippewa Co, Kragero Twp, Amos Sungaard household, Supervisor's
1993. WW II Army Enlistment Records, 1938 - 1946, Joseph R. Wehner, database on-line, Ancestry.com.
1994. "Obituaries, Fred H. Palmer," Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Wednesday, 24 June
2009.
1995. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, William Palmer and
Mary Schweigert, issued 3 November 1900, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
1996. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Beauvais Twp, William M. (“W. M.”) Palmer
household, Supervisor’s Distr 14, Enumeration Distr 97-2, sheets 5B-6A, dwelling 104, family 107, 9
Apr 1930.
1997. Kathy Schuyler, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 5 May 2010 (1).
1998. Robert E. Tapscott and Mary Frances Tapscott, Transcriptions, Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Lebanon,
1999. Kathy Schuyler, personal communication to Robert Tapscott, 5 May 2010 (2).
2000. Death Certificate, William John Wehner, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File
No. 58-015203, Filed 30 Apr 1958.
2001. “William Wehner Electrocuted While Working Saturday,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve,
Missouri, Saturday, 12 Apr 1958, p. 1, col. 6.
2002. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, William J. Wehner and
Elizabeth Kettinger, issued 1 October 1948, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
2003. “Marie Rose (Kettinger) Schwent,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Wednesday, 14
Feb 2010.
2004. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, Meinrad Kettinger household,
Supervisor’s Distr 14, Enumeration Distr 97-7, sheet 26A, dwelling 436, family 436, 7 May 1930.
2005. Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Elizabeth R. Wehner,Ancestry.com.
2006. “Paul W. Wehner,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Tuesday, 16 Oct 2012.
2007. “Lawrence Wehner,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 9 Mar 1978, p. 1.
2008. Kathy Schuyler, Photographic Archives, Lebanon, Missouri.
2009. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Lawrence Wehner and
Theola Rottler, license issued 10 June 1948, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
2010. Theola ‘Tootie’ A. Wehner, Suntimes, Ste. Genevieve, www.suntimesnews.com, week of May 10, 2010.
2011. Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Leonard L. Wehner, Ancestry.com.
2012. "Leonard L. Wehner," Suntimes, Ste. Genevieve, www.suntimesnews.com, 2004 obituary archives.
2013. Wilfred and Marguerite Bauman, personal communication to Robert Tapscott, Festus, Missouri, 22 Jun
2010.
2014. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Wilfred Bauman and
Marguerite Wehner, issued 5 Jul 1950, filed 10 Jul 1950, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson
City, Missouri (image, Ancestry.com).
2015. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Wilfred N. Bauman household,
2016. 1920 U.S. census, Arkansas, Pulaski Co, North Little Rock, William Thomas Grizzle (“Grizzel”)
1920.
2017. 1910 U.S. census, Arkansas, Prairie Co, Fredonia Town, William Grizzle household, Supervisor’s Distr
2, Enumeration Distr 109, sheet 5B, dwelling 108, family 110, 5 May 1910.
2018. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Wilfred Bauman,
Ancestry.com.
2020. Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Record 3016 Wehner (Wilme), Parish Church
of Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.
2023. WW I Draft Registration, George Bernard Wolken, St. Louis, Missouri, 5 June 1918.
2024. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 14, George B. Wolken household,
2025. History of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Western Watchman Publishing Co., St Louis, Missouri, 1924,
p. 186.
2026. Death Certificate, Caroline Wolken, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
36766, Filed 29 Nov 1926.
2027. Edna Campos Gravenhorst, Benton Park West, Ardadia Publishing , Charleston, South Carolina, 2005, p.
15.
2028. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis City, Henry Wolken household, Supervisor’s Distr 71,
2029. Death Certificate, George Wolken, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Reg Distr
423, File No. 41814, Filed 22 Dec 1917.
2030. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), George (“Georg”) Wolken household,
2032. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 14, George Wolken, Supervisor’s Distr
10, Enumeration Distr 234, sheet 9B, dwelling 125, family 199, 22 Apr 1910.
2033. Obituary, George Wolken, Evening Independent, St. Petersburg, Florida, Monday, 2 August 1965, p. 7,
col. 6.
2034. Death Certificate, Rosa (Rose) Anna Wolken, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics,
Reg Distr 318, File No. 34355, Filed 15 Oct 1953.
2037. George B Wolken, Florida Death Index, 1877-1998, Florida Department of Health, Office of Vital
Records.
2038. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Pauline Wolken,
Ancestry.com.
2039. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), George Wolken household, Supervisor's Distr
2040. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Rose Marie Tebeau,
Ancestry.com.
2041. Obituary, Clarence J. Tebeau, St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg, Florida, Tuesday, 13 Jan 2004.
2042. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Clarence J. Tebeau,
Ancestry.com.
2043. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 24, Clarence J. Tebeau (“Sebold”)
household, Supervisor's Distr 8, Enumeration Distr 96-582, sheet 10A, dwelling 137, family 144, 8 Apr
1910.
2044. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Jefferson County, Missouri, Louis B. Braun and Marie
Tebeau, issued 29 Apr 1936, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
2045. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Clarence Tebeau Sr. household, Supervisor's
2046. Clarence Tebeau, Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File,
2047. The Raider Patch, United States Marine Raider Association, 1 Jul 1986, pp. 10-11.
2048. “Salvation Army Thanks Community for Giving During the 2007 Holiday Season,” Gilchrist County
Journal, Trenton, Florida, Thursday, 3 Jan 2008, p. 8.
2049. “Gardening for Residents,” Dixie County Advocate, Cross City, Florida, Thursday, 22 Jun 2006, p. 14,
col. 2.
2050. Florida Marriage Collection, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001, Albert L Cruze and Gerianne Rose Tebeau,
2051. Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 22 Dec 1883.
2052. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 25 Aug 1883, 27 Oct 1883.
2055. Death Certificate, Mary Baumstark, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Filed 14
March 1932.
1888, p. 591.
2057. Marriage Certificate, Martin Meyer and Mary Wehner, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 3 June 1873, filed 2
July 1873.
2058. 1860 U.S. census, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Co, Milwaukee Twp, John F. Meyer household, p. 82,
2059. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Martin Meyer household, p. 16,
2060. 1870 U.S. census, Illinois, Pike Co, Derry Twp, Bernard Meyer household, p. 4, dwelling 35, family 36,
25 Jul 1870.
2061. Bartholomew Bahr to Martin Meyer, Deed of Trust, 18 May 1871, recorded 13 Jun 1871, Ste. Genevieve
County, Missouri, Deeds, Book W, pp. 150-151.
2062. Bartholomew Bahr to Nicholas Wehner, Deed of Trust, 7 Mar 1872, recorded 11 Mar 1872, Ste.
Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds, Book X, pp. 54-56.
2063. Lawrence & Regina Kirchner, trustors, George Wehner, trustee, Martin Meyer, beneficiary, 10 Oct 1879,
rec 10 Oct 1879, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds, Book 28, p. 254.
2064. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 29 Jan 1874.
2065. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Antoine Beltrami household, p. 22,
2066 . Gregory A. Boyd, Family Maps of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Arphax Publishing Co., Norman,
Oklahoma, 2005, p. 107.
2067. Firmin A. Rozier, Rozier's history of the Early Settlement of the Mississippi Valley, G. A. Pierrot & Son,
St. Louis, 1890, p. 137.
2068. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Antoine F. Beltrami (“A. F.
Beltramie”) household, Supervisor's Distr 2, Enumeration Distr 132, p. 10, dwelling 96, family 96, 3 Jun
1880.
2069. “Lingering Local Lightning,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 19 Apr 1877, p. 5, col. 2.
2070. The name of the builder has also been given as “Henry LeCompte,” with a construction date of 1818.
(Historic American Buildings Survey, HABS No. MO 1125), however, neither the name nor the date
agree with other, more reliable records.
2071. Press Release, History of the Main Street Inn Bed & Breakfast, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Main Street
Inn, Karen Kulberg, Innkeeper & Contact.
2072. Mark L. Evans, The Commandant’s Last Ride, Ten-Digit Press, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 2001, p. 118.
2073. “Up to the City,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Friday, 14 Jun 1872, p. 3, col. 2.
2074. “Terrible Boiler Explosion,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 17 Jul 1880, p. 3, col. 3.
2076. Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Record 2129 Koenemann, Parish Church of Ste.
2077. Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Record 1897 Haug, Parish Church of Ste.
2078. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 24 Jul 1880.
2079. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 31 Jul 1880.
2080. Death Certificate, Valentine Seitz, Reg Distr 660, Prim Reg Distr 4396, File 20246, Missouri State Board
of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Filed 19 Jun 1930.
2081, “In Memory of Martin Meyer,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 7 Aug 1880, p. 3, col. 4
2082. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 25 Sep 1880, p. 3, col. 3.
2083. The 1900 census shows that two of Mary’s children had died by that year, only one of whom can be
identified (Augusta Mary Theresa, a child of William Baumstark). (1900 U.S. census, Missouri, City of
Ste. Genevieve, William (Wm) Baumstark household, Supervisor’s Distr 10, Enumeration Distr 105,
sheet 5B, dwelling 90, family 91, 6 Jun 1900.) The unidentified child could have been either Martin’s or
William’s and likely died young.
2084. Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Record 2342 Meyer, Parish Church of Ste.
Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. The record shows August’s middle name as George; however,
several other documents show that his middle name is Guye.
2085. “Guardians’ and Curators’ Docket,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 16
August 1884.
2086. “Probate Court Proceedings,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Saturday, 24 Mar 1881, p. 2, col. 3.
2087. Paul and Mary Huber, trustors, George Wehner, trustee, Peter Wehner curator, beneficiary, 2 Feb 1885,
rec 2 Feb 1885, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds, Book 36, p. 67.
2088. Mauntel, Borgess & Co. to Mary Meyer, 21 Sep 1882, recorded 23 Nov 1882, Ste. Genevieve County,
Missouri, Deeds, Book 34, pp. 479-481.
2089. George H. Morgan, Annual Statement of the Trade and Commerce of Saint Louis for the Year 1882, R. P.
Studley & Co., St. Louis, 1883, p. 78. From the Ste. Genevieve Herald,Saturday, Ste. Genevieve,
Missouri 8 Dec 1883: As proof of the fine quality of flour manufactured by the Cone Mills in this city,
we quote the following passage from the market report of the St. Louis Board of Trade: ‘The St. Louis
milling firm of Mauntel, Borgess & Co. have just received flattering recognition for one of their well-
known brands of flour. A large cracker manufactory of San Francisco, Cal., has ordered a car load of
Mauntel, Borgess & Co.'s celebrated brand of ‘Cone Flour’. this is the first St. Louis flour ever shipped
to the Pacific Coast and as it is ordered by a San Francisco concern for actual use, it shows that the fame
of the ‘Cone’ brand is widespread. This brand of flour is being used by the leading cracker bakeries in all
sections of this country. It is manufactured at Mauntel, Borges & Co.'s roller mill, in Ste. Genevieve, Mo.
2090. Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 9 Dec 1882.
2091. “Obituary,” Fair Play, Saturday, 9 May 1891
2092. Southeast Missouri Drummers’ Association, 1918 Year Book and Souvenir Program, Ste. Genevieve,
Mo., 23-25 May 1918.
2093. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, William Baumstark and
Mary Meyer, issued 8 December 1884, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
2094. “Baumstark Meyer,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 13 Dec 1884.
2095. Birth Record No. 353, Augusta Maria Theresa Baumstark, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Courthouse
Records 1883-1892, Return Date 5 November 1885.
2096. Death Certificate, William Baumstark, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File
No. 23900, Filed 6 July 1932.
2097. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 2 Nov 1889.
2098. Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 12 Apr 1884.
2099. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 13 May 1893.
2101. “Jo. Weiler W. Baumstark,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 16 Jan 1886, p. 3, col. 5.
2102. “Accomodation Line,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 30 Jan 1886, p. 3, col. 2.
2103. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 6 May 1893, p. 3, col. 2.
2104. “Hotels to Change Hands,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 12 Nov 1921, p. 1, col. 3.
2105. Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Record 1333 Baumstark, Parish Church of Ste.
Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. The record for the couple’s last child gives her first name as
Amelia; however, numerous other records show the name to be Eulalia.
2106. Will of William Baumstark, signed 3 Mar 1932, proved 20 Jul 1932, filed 23 Jul 1932, Ste. Genevieve
2107. “Mrs. Wm. Baumstark Passed Away Sunday,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri,
Saturday, 19 Mar 1932, p. 1.
2109. Obituary, “Mr. Eloy LeCompte,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 15 Feb 1890.
2110. Eloy LeCompte land to George Wehner, 10 Nov 1870, recorded 19 Nov 1870, Ste. Genevieve County,
Missouri, Deeds, Book V, pp. 211-214.
2111. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, William Baumstark residence,
Meyer’s Hotel, Supervisor’s Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 138, sheet 7A, dwelling 5, family 5, 21 Apr
1910.
2112. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, William Baumstark household,
2113. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, William Baumstark household,
Supervisor’s Distr 14, Enumeration Distr 97-5, sheets 2B-3A, dwelling 39, family 47, 10 Apr 1930.
2114. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 22 Apr 1899.
2115. Death Certificate, Clara E. Meyer, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
24664, Filed 14 Jul 1930.
2116. Passport Application, August Guye Meyer, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 5 Jun 1899, issued 8 Jun 1899.
2117. “Dr. August Guye Meyer,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 1 Feb 1919, p. 1,
col. 3.
2118. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, City of Ste. Genevieve, William (Wm) Baumstark household, Supervisor’s
2119. Passport Application, A. G. Meyer, St. Louis, Missouri, 25 Feb 1902, issued 27 Feb 1902.
2120. Marriage Certificate, St. Louis County, Missouri, Jacob Wiedmann and Betty Nickerl (Nickels), signed 1
May 1869, filed 14 June 1869, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.
2121. Death Certificate, Alita Meyer, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
26029, Filed 1 August 1928.
2122. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Benno Meyer household, Supervisor’s Distr
11, Enumeration Distr 395, dwelling 177, family 203, sheet 10B, 5 Jun 1900.
2123. Benno M. Meyer and Alita Wiedmann, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St. Louis,
Missouri, No. 80337, license 29 Apr 1899, marriage 1 May 1899.
2124. Marriage Index, Illinois Statewide, 1763-1900, Bernard C. Meyer and Clara Meissner, Illinois State
2125. 1880 U.S. census, Illinois, Madison Co, Bethalto Village, Bernard Meyer household, Supervisor’s Distr
7, Enumeration Distr 15, p. 15, dwelling [blank], family 140, 5 Jun 1880.
2126. St. Louis Registry of Births, Alois B. Meyer, 1900, Ancestry.com (original images), original data:
2131. Gould’s St. Louis Directory for 1904, Gould Directory Co., St. Louis, Missouri, 1905, pp. 2653-2654.
2132. Missouri Death Records, 1834-1910, St. Louis, 1874, Benno Meyer, certificate date 4 January 1907,
2133. 1900 U.S. census, Illinois, Madison Co, Bethalto Village, Bernard Meyer household, Supervisor’s Distr
2134. 1910 U.S. census, Illinois, Madison Co, Bethalto Village, Bernard Meyer (“Meyers”) household,
2135. St. Louis Registry of Births, Alois B. Meyer, 1900, Ancestry.com (original images), original data:
2136. Certificate of Death, Alois B. Meyer, City of St. Louis Health Department, Burial Permit 4388.
2137. St. Louis Register of Deaths, John J. Wiedmann, 1902, p. 299, No. 7461, certificate date 7 September
1902, Ancestry.com (original images), original data: Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
2138. Death Certificate, Bettie Wiedmann, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
12583, Filed 13 March 1917.
2139. Death Certificate, A. G. Meyer, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No. 2959,
Filed 29 January 1919.
2140. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 31 Dec 1921, p. 1, col. 3.
2141. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Alita Meyer household,
2142. Meyer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Tuesday, 31 Jul 1928, p. 24.

2143. The Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word took over operation in 1933 and in 1949 changed the name
to Incarnate Word Hospital. The hospital has been enlarged several times.
2144. St. Louis Registry of Births, August G. Meyer Jr., 1908, Ancestry.com (original images), original data:
2145. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), John Meyer household, Supervisor’s Distr 8,
2146. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Bertha W. Meyer,
Ancestry.com.
2147. 1920 U.S. census, Kansas, Crawford Co, Grant Twp, Leo J. Westhoff household, Supervisor’s Distr 3,
Enumeration Distr 89, sheet 8A, dwelling 139, family 140, approx 3 Feb 1920.
2148. Polk’s St. Louis County (Missouri) Directory, 1936, R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers, St. Louis, Missouri,
1936, p. 507.
1943, p. 558.
1949, p. 896.
2151. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), John Meyer,
Ancestry.com.
2152. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Bertha W. Meyer,
Ancestry.com.
2153. Hoyt Cemetery, Morgan County, Colorado, transcriptions from photographs.
2154. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 3 Jul 1897
2155. The Ste. Genevieve 1880 census shows Lena’s mother Bertha as widowed; however, her husband,
Charles, is known not to have died until 25 Jan 1917, as shown in his Missouri death certificate.
2156. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, William G. Naumann
and Martha M. Meyer, issued 15 Apr 1908, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
2157. Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Record 2416 Naumann, Parish Church of Ste.
2158. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Louis Naumann household, p. 31,
2159. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Francois Co, Farmington, George (“Geo”) Naumann household,
2160. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Christian (“Chris.”) Naumann Jr.
household, Supervisor’s Distr 2, Enumeration Distr 132, p. 18, dwelling 173, family 175, 7 Jun 1880.
2161. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Charles J. Naumann household,
2162. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Christian L. Naumann (“Nauman”)
household, Supervisor’s Distr 14, Enumeration Distr 97-6, sheet 5A, dwelling 90,
2163. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Francois Co, Farmington, Oliver C. Naumann household, Supervisor’s
2164. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, City of Ste. Genevieve, Louis Naumann household, Supervisor’s Distr 10,
2165. “Died,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 15 Apr 1905, p. 6, col. 5.
2166. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Peter Wilder household, p. 6,
2168. “The Unknown,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 31 Jan 1891, p. 3, col. 5.
2169. “The Masquerade Balle,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 13 Feb 1891, p. 3, col. 3.
2172. “Hymeneal. Wilder - Rottler,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 26 May 1888.
2173. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Charles J. Wilder household,

2175. Obituary, George N. Wilder, Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 28 Oct 1899.
2176. “Wilder’s Minstrels,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 2 Jan 1892.
2179. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Maurice Andre household,
2180. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Ludwina Wilder household,
2181. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve Twp, Andrew Wilder household,
2182. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 1 Feb 1890, p. 3, col. 2.
2183. “Ste Genevieve,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 2 Jun 1894, p. 3, col. 7.
2184. Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Record 2990 Wilder, Parish Church of Ste.
2185. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 23, Charles (“Chas.”) P. Johnson
1910.
2186. Thomas William Herringshaw, Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century,
American Publishers’ Association, Chicago, Illinois, 1898, p. 531.
2187. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Maurice Johnson,
Ancestry.com.
2188. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Andre Johnson,
Ancestry.com.
2189. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Carol C. Johnson,
Ancestry.com.
2190. Anne André-Johnson, Notable Women of St. Louis, Published by Mrs. Charles P. Johnson, St. Louis,
Missouri, 1914.
2191. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 14, Charles Johnson household,
Supervisor’s Distr 10, Enumeration Distr 279, sheet 18A, dwelling [blank], family [blank], [blank] Jan
1920.
2192. Death Certificate, Charles P. Johnson, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File
No. 20908, Filed 21 May 1920.
2193. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Andrew Wilder household,
2194. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Andrew Wilder household,
2195. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Martha Wilder household,
2196. Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Record 3317 Nauman, Parish Church of Ste.
2197. Mary Rozier Sharp and Louis J. Sharp III, Between the Gabouri, A History of Ferdinand Rozier and
‘Nearly’ All His Descendants, Histoire de Rozier, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1981, p. 275.
2198. Death Certificate, Andrew Wilder, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
14048, Filed 9 Apr 1934.
2199. “Martha Meyer Wilder Enters Into Rest,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 29
May 1948, p. 1, col. 1.
2200. Fly with Us through Decades of St. Louis History!,
http://www.mohistory.org/Flight_City/HTML/htmlTimeline.html.
2201. Maurice Bernays Johnson, US Pat 1,009,317, Detector for Wireless Signalling Apparatus, Filed 6
October 1910, Issued 21 November 1911.
2202. “Fliers Busy at Klinloch Field,” Aero, Vol. 3, 3 February 1912, p. 362.
2203. WW I Draft Registration, Maurice Bernays Johnson, 4th District, Union County, New Jersey, 5 June
1917.
2204. “New Radio Set Sends Voice in Straight Line,” The New York Times, New York, Sunday, 17 Aug 1924,
p. 8.
2205. Maurice Bernays Johnson, US Pat 1,342,504, Paper File, Patent Filed 5 December 1919, Issued 8 June
1920.
2206. Bernays Johnson, US Pat D123540, Design for a Golf Exerciser, Filed 16 August 1940, Issued 12
November 1940.
2207. WW II Draft Registration, Maurice Bernays Johnson, Passaic County, New Jersey, 25 Apr 1942.
2208. Obituary, "Rosemary M. LaPlante," Ste. Genevieve Suntimes, www.suntimesnews.com, 2002 obituary
archives.
2209. Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Record 3277 LaPlante, Parish Church of Ste.
2210. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Felix LaPlante (LaPlant)
household, Supervisor’s Distr 14, Enumeration Distr 97-6, sheet 1A, dwelling 9, family 10, 14 Apr 1930.
2211. Obituary, "Emanuel LaPlante," Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 9 Dec
1971,p. 3, col. 4.
2212. Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Record 2964 Wehner, Parish Church of Ste.
2214. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Martha Rozier,
Ancestry.com.
2215. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Francis (“Frank”) Rozier
1910.
2216. 1920 U. S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Francis (“Frank”) A. Rozier
household, Supervisor’s Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 155, sheets 9B-10A, dwelling 201, family 210, 10
Jan 1920.
2217. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Francis Rozier and
Cecelia Anna Schaaf, issued 22 October 1894, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City,
2218. 1930 U.S. census, California, Los Angeles Co, Los Angeles City, Francis (“Frank”) A. Rozier household,
2219. California Death Index, 1940 - 1997 [Database on Line], Provo, Utah, Ancestry.com.
2220. Louis Jules Rozier, California Birth Index, 1905 - 1995 [Database on Line], Provo, Utah, Ancestry.com.
2221. Birth Record No. 353, Augusta Maria Theresa Baumstark, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Courthouse
Records 1883-1892, Return Date 5 November 1885.
2222. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 30 Nov 1907, p. 3., col. 3.
2223. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 19 Sep 1908, p. 3., col. 4.
2224. Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Record 3302 Miller, Parish Church of Ste.
2225. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Francois Co, Perry Twp, William H. Miller household, Supervisor’s
2226. "Columbia Brewing Company, Appelant, v. Miller, Respondent," Cases Determined in the St. Louis and
the Kansas City Courts of Appeal, Vol. 124, E. W. Stephens, 1907, pp. 384-394.
2227. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Francois Co, Farmington, William H. Miller household, Supervisor's
2228. "Elvins is Fire Swept," Bonne Terre Register, Bonne Terre, Missouri, Friday, 9 Apr 1909.
2229. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Francois Co, Farmington, Leslie E. Miller household, Supervisor’s Distr
2230. 1920 U.S. census, Illinois, Cook Co, Chicago, William H. Miller household, Supervisor’s Distr 1,
Enumeration Distr 2090, p. 10A, dwelling 147, family 266, 9 Jan 1920.
2231. Wilma Antoinette Dietz, California Death Index, 1940 - 1997 [Database on Line], Provo, Utah,
Ancestry.com.
2232. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Wilma Dietz,
Ancestry.com.
2233. Find A Grave, Wilma Antoinette Miller Dietz, Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Cypress),
2234. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, George W. Huck and
Illma O. Baumstark, license issued 9 Jun 1925, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City,
2235. Death Certificate, George W. Huck, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
28888, Filed 30 September 1925.
2236. Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Record 3235 Huck, Parish Church of Ste.
2237. 1870 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, Anton Figge household, p. 61,
2238. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, City of Ste. Genevieve, Francis J. Huck household, Supervisor’s Distr 10,
1888, p. 602.
2240. "Died, Huck," Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 7 Oct 1922.
2241. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, George Huck household,
2242. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Crystal City, George (“Geo”) W. Huck household,
2243. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Crystal City, Richard Bootle household, Supervisor’s Distr 14,
2244. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Illma Huck,
Ancestry.com.
2246. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Cletus B. Huck and
Genevieve Mary Ganahl, issued 28 October 1938, microfilm, Missouri State Archives,
2247. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Francis (“Frank”) J. Ganahl
household, Supervisor’s Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 155, sheet 17A, dwelling 362, family 384, 14 Jan
1920..
2248. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Frank Ganahl and Julia
Vaeth, issued 26 June 1909, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
2249. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Jerome Rottler household,
2250. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Cletus Huck,
Ancestry.com.
2251. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Genevieve G. Huck,
Ancestry.com.
2252. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Harold J. Bequette and
Georgia M. Huck, issued 12 June 1933, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
2253. Obituary, “George Jules Bequette Sr.,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Wednesday, 17
Mar 2011.
2254. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Harold J. Bequette,
Ancestry.com.
2255. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Jules Bequette and
Anna Vaeth, issued 6 September 1910, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
2256. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, Jules Bequette household,
2257. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, Jules Bequette household,
2258. Obituary, Georgia “Sis” Bequette, Suntimes, Ste. Genevieve, www.suntimesnews.com, week of 26
December 2005.
2259. Obituary, “Harold J. Bequette,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Obituaries, 5 Star Lift
Edition, Thursday, 13 Jan 2000, p. 5.
2260. WW I Draft Registration, Chauncey Conger Foster, Benton, Scott County, Missouri, 12 Apr 1918.
2261. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Scott Co, Commerce Twp, Chancey C. Foster household, Supervisor’s Distr
17, Enumeration Distr 101-2, sheet 3B, family 66, 5 Apr 1930.
2262. “Linus Edward Huck,” Southeast Missourian (seMissourian.com), Cape Girardeau, Thursday, 13 Sep
2001.
2263. Obituary, Linus Huck, Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 5 Sep 2001.
2264. Obituary, “Linus E. 'Bud' Huck,” Sikeston Standard Democrat, Sikeston, Missouri, Thursday, 6 Sep
2001.
2265. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, August Birsner and
Anna Baumstark,issued 10 October 1914, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
2266. WW I Draft Registration, August John Birsner, New Orleans, Louisiana, 5 June 1917.
2267. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Gasconade County, Missouri, John Birsner and Johanna
Neidhard, license issued 20 Oct 1885, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
2268. 1900 U.S. census, Illinois, St. Clair Co, St. Clair Twp, John Birsner household, Supervisor’s Distr 15,
2269. New Orleans City Directory, Soards Directory Co., 1914, p. 153.
2270. New Orleans City Directory, Soards Directory Co., 1923, p. 296.
2271. 1920 U.S. census, Louisiana, New Orleans, August Birsner (“Bursner”) household, Supervisor’s Distr 1,
2272. Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1903-1945, S.S. Heredia, arrival date 11
Jul 1927, Microfilm publication T905, Roll 118, National Archives, Washington, DC.
2273. “Pioneering Radiologist Leaves Hospital Post,” Daily News, Los Angeles, California, Sunday, 16 Mar
1997.
2274. John William Birsner Jr., Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 19 Feb 2011.
2275. August John Birsner, Winnipeg Estate Indexes, 1870-1983, Archives of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
2276. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Anna Birsner,
Ancestry.com.
2277. “A.V. Hospital Radiation Therapy Pioneer Birsner Dies at 86,” Daily News, Los Angeles, California,
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003.
2278. John William Birsner Sr., National Cemetery Administration. U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1800-2006
[database on-line]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com.
2279. California Birth Index, 1905 - 1995 [Database on Line], Provo, Utah, Ancestry.com; Nevada Marriage
Index, 1956-2005 [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007; State of
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2280. Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957, S.S. Scythia, arrival date 19 Jul
1938, Microfilm publication T715, National Archives, Washington, DC.
2281. Margo Mary Meblin, California Death Index, 1940 - 1997 [Database on Line], Provo, Utah,
Ancestry.com.
2282. Savitar Yearbook, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 1936, p. 291.
2283. “Deaths, Margo Meblin,” Palo Alto Online, Wednesday, 15 Jan 1997 (http://www.paloaltoonline.com).
2284. Savitar Yearbook, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 1940, p. 182/
2285. 1920 U.S. census, North Dakota, Grand Forks Co, Grand Forks City, Joseph Meblin household,
2286. “David Meblin-Worked at First Local TV Station,” San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California,
Friday, 24 Jun 2005, p. B7.
2287. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Eulalia Jones,
Ancestry.com.
2289. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 26, Charles Kielblock household,
Supervisor’s Distr. 8, Enumeration Distr. 96-212, sheet 17A, dwelling 214, family 304, 15 Apr 1930.
2290. Death Certificate, Eulalia (“Eullalia”) Jones, State File No. 72-207257, signed 14 Aug 1972, Signed 14
Aug 1972, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics.
2291. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Vernon Jones,
Ancestry.com.
2292. Burial records, St. Matthew Cemetery, 4360 Bates Street, St. Louis, Missouri.
2293. Virginia Schmidt, Deaths, Births and Stillbirths for Ste Genevieve County, Missouri 1883-1893 and
Mortality Schedules, self published, Mt. Vernon, Missouri, p. 63.
2294. Will of Frederick Bolle, signed 24 May 1900, proved 6 Jun 1900, filed 6 Jun 1900, Ste. Genevieve
2295. Death Certificate, Theresa Bolle, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, State File
No. 40145, Filed 15 January 1941.
2296. “In Memoriam,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 9 Jun 1900.
2297. Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Record 1429 Bolle, Parish Church of Ste.
2298. Marriage Certificate, Frederick Bolle and Theresa Wehner, Ste. Genevieve Co, Missouri, 2 July 1878,
filed 5 July 1878.
2299. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, City of Ste. Genevieve, Theresa Bolle household, Supervisor’s Distr 10,
2302. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 23, Theresa Bolle (“Balle”) household,
Supervisor’s Distr 10, Enumeration Distr 367, sheet 14B, dwelling 191, family 193, Apr 1910
2303. 1920 U.S. census, Illinois, Cook Co, Chicago, Samuel C. Russell household, Ward 33, Supervisor’s Distr
1, Enumeration Distr 2090, sheet 8B, dwelling [blank], family 730, 13 Jan 1920.
2304. 1930 U.S. census, Illinois, Cook Co, Chicago, Ward 40, Samuel C. Russell household, Supervisor’s Distr
1939, p. 139.
2306. “St. Louis Altenheim is Undergoing a $2 Million Renovation,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Friday, 10 Aug
2012
2307. St. Louis Register of Deaths, Nicholas Bolle, 1908, p. 25, No. 6223, certificate date 9 November 2008,
2308. Theodore Mitchell and Flora Bolle, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St. Louis,
Missouri, No. 219541, license 23 May 1918, marriage 23 May 1918.
2309. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 7, William Cleary household,
2310. Death Certificate, Lena Mitchell, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
30761, Filed 18 September 1914.
2311. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 7, Lena Mitchell household, Supervisor’s
2312. Death Certificate, Theodore Mitchell, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
3466, Filed 11 January 1933.
2313. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), John W. Smith household, Supervisor’s Distr
2314. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 7, William Cleary household,
2315. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 7, Ivan White household, Supervisor’s
2316. 1870 U.S. census, Illinois, Monroe Co, Waterloo, Mary Jarrard household, p. 9, dwelling 62, family 70,2
Jun 1870.
2317. 1850 U.S. census, Illinois, Monroe Co, New Desire Pct, John Mitchell (“Mitchel”) household, p.80
(stamped, back), dwelling 1225, family 1241, 8 Nov 1850.
2318. Marriage Index, Illinois Statewide, 1763-1900, Thomas Wharton and Eunice Mitchell (“Mitchel”),
Illinois State Archives and Illinois State Genealogical Society.
2319. Marriage Index, Illinois Statewide, 1763-1900, John Jarrot and Mary Hilton, Illinois State Archives and
Illinois State Genealogical Society.
2320. Pat Vaseska and Janet Flynn, Monroe County Almshouse Register, Columbia, Illinois, 2002,
unpaginated.
2321. 1880 U.S. census, Illinois, Monroe Co, Illinois, Poor House, Supervisor’s Distr 8, Enumeration Distr 65,
p. 44, dwelling 362, family 375, 28 Jun 1880.
2322. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis City, Emily Fultman household, Supervisor’s Distr 1, Enumeration
Distr 27, p. 14, dwelling 99, family 150, 4 Jun 1880.
2323. Gould’s St. Louis Directory for 1890, Gould Directory Co., St. Louis, Missouri, 1891, p. 466
2324. “The Mob at Waterloo, Illinois-Three Men Hung,” Sacramento Daily Union, Sacramento, California,
Vol 25, No. 3862, Friday, 7 Aug 1863.
2325. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 24, City Sanitarium, Supervisor’s Distr
8, Enumeration Distr 96-258, sheet 33A, dwelling [blank], family [blank], 18 Apr 1930.
2326. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), City Sanitarium, Supervisor's Distr 14,
Enumeration Distr 96-612, sheet 17A, household [blank], 9 Apr 1940.
2327. Death Certificate, Flora Mitchell, The Division of Health of Missouri, File 40889, Filed 4 December
1953.
2329. Funeral Card, Nicholas Bolle, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.
2331. WW II Draft Registration, Samuel Campbell Russell, Chicago, Cook Co, Illinois, 27 Apr 1942.
2332. Samuel C. Russell and Alvina Bolle, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St. Louis,
Missouri, No. 211331, license 25 May 1917, marriage 26 May 1917.
2333. 1920 U.S. census, Illinois, Cook Co, Chicago, Samuel C. Russell household, Ward 33, Supervisor’s Distr
1, Enumeration Distr 2090, sheet 8B, dwelling [blank], family 730, 13 Jan 1920.
2334. 1930 U.S. census, Illinois, Cook Co, Chicago, Ward 40, Samuel C. Russell household, Supervisor’s Distr
2335. WW I Draft Registration, Samuel C. Russell, Chicago, Illinois.
2336. Samuel C. Russell, Ohio Births and Christenings Index, 1800-1962 [database on-line], Provo, Utah,
Ancestry.com.
2337. 1900 U.S. census, Pennsylvania, Beaver Co, Industry Twp, John Russell household, Supervisor’s Distr
2338. 1910 U.S. census, Pennsylvania, Beaver Co, Industry Twp, John Russell household, Supervisor’s Distr
2339. 1940 U.S. census, Illinois, Cook Co, Chicago, Samuel Russell household, Supervisor's Distr 2,
2340. 1940 U.S. census, Illinois, Cook Co, Chicago, Bertha Alvina Russell household, Supervisor's Distr 7,
2341. Diane Petro, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, The 1940 Census: Employment and Income,” Prologue
Magazine, National Archives, Spring 2012, Vol. 44, No. 1.
2342. Shirley Russell Chertoff, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 19 Nov 2010.
2343. Samuel C. Russell, California Death Index, 1940 - 1997 [Database on Line], Provo, Utah, Ancestry.com.
2344. Roy M Cromley and Lucille Russell, Nevada Marriage Index, 1956-2005 [database on-line]. Provo,
Utah, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
2345. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Lucille Cromley,
Ancestry.com.
2346. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Alvina Russell,
Ancestry.com.
2347. Alvina Teresa Russell, California Death Index, 1940 - 1997 [Database on Line], Provo, Utah,
Ancestry.com.
2348. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Parker C. Russell,
Ancestry.com.
2349. Find A Grave, Parker Campbell Russell, Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, Riverside Co,
California, http://www.findagrave.com, imported from US Veteran’s Affairs.
2351. “Bell Telephone,” St. Louis Republic, St. Louis, Missouri, 1 Jun 1903, p. 12, col. 1.
2354. Herman Thomas Bolle and Louise Hahn, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St. Louis,
Missouri, license 16 Sep 1913, marriage 17 Sep 1913.
2355. Death Certificate, Louise Bolle, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, State File No.
17772, Filed 5 June 1952.
2356. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), John Hahn household, Supervisor’s Distr 11,
2358. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 11, Herman T. Bolle household,
2359. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 13, Herman Bolle household,
Supervisor’s Distr 9, Enumeration Distr 96-476, sheets 43B-44A, dwelling 576, family 766, 21 Apr
1930.
1937, p. 145.
2361. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Herman Bolle household, Supervisor's Distr
14, Enumeration Distr 96-778A, sheet 6B, household 131, 17 Apr 1940,
2362. Marriage License Application, St. Louis County, Missouri, James Wehner and Kathryn Harper, 15
January 1941, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image, Ancestry.com).
2363. Death Certificate, Alexander Wolf, Reg Distr 791, Primary Reg Distr 1003, File 37748, State Board of
Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 20 Nov 1935.
2364. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 24, Alexander Wolf household,
2365. Death Certificate, Wilhelmina Wolf-Bolle, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics,
State File No. 6173, Filed 17 February 1956.
2366. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Herman Bolle,
Ancestry.com.
2367. Obituary "Bolle, Wolf, Minnie," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Jan 1956.
2368. Obituary, “Bolle, Herman T.,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Friday, 17 May 1963, p. 2B,
col. 2.
2369. Obituary, “Bolle, Louise,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, May 1952.
2370. “Deaths/funerals, Arline Albert,” The Courier, Russellville, Arkansas, Sunday, 20 Aug 2000, p. 2A.
2371. Obituary, "Albert, Arline Louise," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Tuesday, 22 Aug 2000,
p. B5.
2372. “Deaths/funerals, Milton Albert,” The Courier, Russellville, Arkansas, Wednesday, 27 Sep 2000, p. 2A.
2373. Barbara (Albert) Ragsdale, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 11 May 2011.
2376. 1930 U.S. census, Illinois, Cook Co, Chicago, Ward 42, Peter B Harris household, Supervisor’s Distr 5,
Enumeration Distr 16-1558, sheet 5A, dwelling 1, family 54, May 1930.
2377. 1930 U.S. census, Illinois, Cook Co, Chicago, Ward 42, Carlyle M. Terry household, Supervisor’s Distr
2378. Baiting Hollow Cemetery, Baiting Hollow, New York, transcriptions, http://longislandgenealogy.com/.
2379. Carlyle Marshall Terry, California Death Index, 1940 - 1997 [Database on Line], Provo, Utah,
Ancestry.com.
2380. 1900 U.S. census, New York, Suffolk Co, Riverhead, Columbus F. Terry household, Supervisor’s Distr
2381, 1910 U.S. census, New York, Kings Co, Brooklyn, Eugene P. Terry household, Supervisor’s Distr 2,
2382. 1920 U.S. census, New York, Kings Co, Brooklyn, Eugene P. Terry household, Supervisor’s Distr 3,
Enumeration Distr 1077, sheet 1B, 2A, dwelling 16, family 26, 3 Jan 1920.
2383. Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps,
Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1 Jan 1920, pp. 110, 111, 120, 121. The announcements
of his first engagement and marriage state that he was a lieuteant; however, there is no evidence that he
held a rank in the U.S. Navy higher than ensign.
2384. “Coal Dealers Argue on Date For Price Cut,” Syracuse Herald, Syracuse, New York, Wednesday, 11 Feb
1931, p. 26, col. 1.
2385. “Coal Dealers Are Warned of Trade War,” Syracuse Herald, Syracuse, New York, Thursday, 12 Feb
1931, p. 6, col. 5.
2386. Carlyle Marshall Terry, Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File,
2387. “Miss Deterich Weds,” Poughkeepsie Eagle-News, Poughkeepsie, New York, Wednesday, 1 Mar 1922,
p. 6, col. 3.
2388. “Dieterich - Terry,” New York Times, New York, Saturday, 31 Dec 1921.
2389. Social Register Summer 1919, Vol. 33, No. 75, New York, Social Register Association, New York City,
1919, p. 77.
2390. John Foreman, “Daheim-Part 1,” The Millbrook Independent, Millbrook, New York, Wednesday, 28 Oct
2009, pp. 4, 5.
2391. Carlyle M. Terry and Grace Bolle Harris, Cook County, Illinois Marriage Index, 1930-1960 [database
on-line], Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
2392. Find A Grave, Grace Dieterich, transcribed from photo of grave marker, http://www.findagrave.com.
2393. 1940 U.S. census, Illinois, Cook Co, Chicago, Carlyle (“Carl”) Terry household, Supervisor's Distr 5,
2394. Guest book, funeral of Louise (Hahn) Bolle, 1952, St. Louis, Missouri (abstracted by Barbara (Albert)
Ragsdale).
2395. Guest book, funeral of Wilhelmina (Flori) Bolle, 23 Jan 1956, St. Louis, Missouri (abstracted by Barbara
(Albert) Ragsdale).
2396. Augusta Grace Terry, California Death Index, 1940 - 1997 [Database on Line], Provo, Utah,
Ancestry.com.
2397. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Augusta Terry,
Ancestry.com.
2398. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Carlyle Terry,
Ancestry.com.
2399. Estate of Grace D. Sinclaire vs. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 13 T.C. 742 (1949), Docket No.
16099, promulgated 14 Nov 1949.
2400. Belinda Metzger, “Re: Edna Young b. abt 1881. New York,” GenForum Internet Site, Genealogy.com, 9
Apr 2010.
2401. “What is Doing in Society,” The New York Times, New York City, New York, Wednesday, 18 Apr 1900.
2402. “Oldrin-Edna Young,” New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, 1 May 1952.
2403. Brian Burns, Lewis Ginter: Richmond's Gilded Age Icon, The History Press, 2011.
2404. “Major Ginter's Will,” The Richmond Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia, Thursday, 7 Oct 1897, p. 1.
2405. “Dieteriches Hold Family Council,” The Evening World, New York City, New York, Saturday, 4 Jan
1908, p. 10.
2406. ”Dieterich Admits Wife's Elopement,” The Washington Times, Washington, D.C., Friday, 14 Feb 1908,
p. 8.
2407. “Dietrich Divorce Trial Begun,” New York Tribune, New York City, New York, Saturday, 28 Mar 1908,
p. 3.
2408. “Gets a Divorce,” Fort Wayne News, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Tuesday, 28 Apr1908.
2409. Alfred E. Dieterich, Funeral Record, N. Gray and Company, Burlingame, California, Book 28, p. 62.
2410. “Dieterich-Alfred Elliott,” The New York Times, New York City, New York, Saturday, 26 Jan 1935
2411. “Mrs. Dieterich Weds Again,” The New York Times, New York City, New York, Thursday, 10 Jun 1920.
2412. Belinda Metzger, “Minnie Edith Arents Young, an Overview,” Personal Communication to Robert
Tapscott, 10 Dec 2011.
2413. Baptismal Certificate, Peter Wehner, Church of St.. Joseph, Zell, Missouri, 24 October 1940.
2414. Birth Record No. 362, John Edward Wehner, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Courthouse Records 1883-1892,
Return Date 6 November 1885.
2415. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, City of Ste. Genevieve, Peter Wehner household, Supervisor’s Distr 11,
2416. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Peter Wehner household,
2417. Death Certificate, Peter Wehner, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
8047, Filed 19 March 1941.
2418. Alexander and Mary Fontaine, trustors, Nicholas Wehner, trustee, Peter Wehner, beneficiary, 29 Nov
1880, rec 30 Nov 1880, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds, Book 32, pp. 147-150.
2419. Joseph & Rosa Flieg, trustors, George Wehner, trustee, Peter Wehner, beneficiary, 23 Dec 1880, rec 23
Dec 1880, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds, Book 28, p. 371.
2420. Charles and Mary Hertich, trustors, George Wehner, trustee, Peter Wehner, beneficiary, 5 Apr 1888, rec
12 Apr 1888, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds, Book 36, p. 327.
2421. “A Board of Trade,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 17 Aug 1889, p. 3, col. 4.
2422. “Peter Wehner Dies February 3,” unknown newspaper, Ste. Genevieve, unknown date.
2424. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, City of Ste. Genevieve, Peter Wehner household, Supervisor’s Distr 10,
2425. Southeast Missouri Drummers’ Association, 1908 Year Book and Souvenir Program, Ste. Genevieve,
Missouri, 28-30 May 1908, unpaginated.
2426. “Supplement,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 24 Oct 1908, p. 5.
2427. “Official Returns,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 14 Nov 1908, p. 3.
2428. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Peter Wehner and
Catherine Rottler, issued 27 January 1885, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
2429. “Mrs. Catherine Wehner Passed Away February,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri,
Saturday, 15 Feb 1941.
2430. Baptismal Certificate, Catherine Rottler, Church of St.. Joseph, Zell, Missouri, 24 October 1940.
2431. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, City of Ste. Genevieve, Valentine Rottler household, Supervisor’s Distr 10,
2432. Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, December 1901, #2, Sanburn Map Company, University of Missouri Ellis
Library Special Collections, Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection.
2433. “Saloon Opening,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 5 Apr 1902, p. 3, col. 3.
1888, p. 610.
2436. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 10 Oct 1872.
2437. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 25 Nov 1875
2438. Valentine and Mary Rottler, trustors, Peter Wehner, trustee, Saul & Peters, beneficiaries, 16 Nov 1882,
rec 20 Nov 1882, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Deeds, Book 28, p. 547.
2439. “Old Wehner Saloon Building Torn Down,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Saturday, 10 Mar 1928, p. 1, col.
3.
2440. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, City of Ste. Genevieve, Charles (Chas.) Petrequin household, Supervisor’s
2441. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Charles Petrequin (“Peterquin”)
2442. Death Certificate, Catherine Wehner, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
8048, Filed 19 Mar 1941.
2443. Will of Catherine Wehner, signed 24 Feb 1934, proved 15 Feb 1941, filed 17 Feb 1941, Ste. Genevieve
2444. Birth Record No. 362, John Edward Wehner, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Courthouse Records 1883-1892,
Return Date 6 November 1885.
2445. WW I Draft Registration, Edward John Wehner, Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, 12
September 1918.
2446. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Edward J Wehner and
Leona M Naumann, issued 25 November 1911, microfilm, Missouri State Archives,
2447. Mary Frances Tapscott, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 19, 20, 21 March 2004.
2448. Obituary, Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 23 Nov 1901, p. 1.
2449. Sophie (Hauck) Naumann, notes on fly leaves of Lives of the Saints, Benziger Brothers, New York, 1889.
2451. Eloise (Wehner) Summers, Notes, Edward J. Wehner Family, unknown date (after 1983).
2452. 1860 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste Genevieve City, Christian Naumann (“Nauman”)
2453. 1880 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Louis Naumann household,
2454. Receipt, Louis Nauman, 10 Sep 1877, Ste. Genevieve Archives, Roll 66 (Folders 1228-1253), Folder
1231, The Historical Society of Missouri.
2456. “The Result of Last Tuesday’s Election,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 11
Nov 1882.
2457. Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 24 Jun 1882, Saturday, 8 Jul 1882.
2458. Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 21 Jul 1883.
2459. Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 8 Sep 1883.
2460. Obituary, Louis Naumann, Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 25 Feb 1905.
2461. “Died,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 25 Feb 1905.
2462. “Died,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 23 Nov 1901, p.1.
2463. Marriage Certificate, Walter Joseph Operle and Estella R. Naumann, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 10 Jun
1903.
2464. Transcript of Baptismal Record, Estella Rose Genevieve Naumann, Church of Ste. Genevieve, Ste.
Genevieve, Missouri, 23 Dec 1948.
2466. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, City of Ste. Genevieve, Louis Naumann household, Supervisor’s Distr 10,
2467. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Edward (“Edw J”) Wehner
household, Supervisor’s Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 155, sheet 3B, dwelling 60, family 61, 3 Jan 1920.
2468. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Edward J. Wehner household,
2469. “Edward Wehner, Civic Leader, Dies at 96,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri,
Wednesday, 22 Sep 1982.
2470. Mary Frances Summers, Letter to Donald H. Rehagen, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 30 October 1966.
2471. Death Certificate, John J. Tlapek, File No. 43154, Filed 7 jan 1947, Missouri State Board of Health,
2472. Obituary, "Charles J. (‘Bud’) Tlaplek," Suntimes, Ste. Genevieve, www.suntimesnews.com, 2002
obituary archives.
2473. Death Certificate, Felix A. Petrequin, File No. 21803, Filed 3 Jul 1948, Missouri State Board of Health,
2474. Mary Frances (Summers) Tapscott, Personal Recollections, Dec 2001 - Sep 2004.
2475. Dedication Banquet, Ste. Genevieve High School, Eloise Wehner Scrapbook, Eloise (Wehner) Summers
Archives, Collection of Mary Frances (Summers) and Robert E. Tapscott.
2476. “Mrs. Leona Wehner Dies December 12th,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Friday, 16 December
1960, p. 1.
2477. “Paul Moreau, Ed Wehner Sell Lumber Businesses to Cape Firm,” unknown newspaper, Ste. Genevieve,
c 31 Mar 1973.
2478. Eloise Wehner Summers, Family Group, Dale Winston Summers, Decatur, Georgia, 3 Feb 1976.
2479. The Social Security Death Index (SSDI) gives Eloise Wehner Summers’s birth date as 20 Mar 1913;
however, other sources, including Eloise herself, considered at least as reliable, give the date as 25 Mar
1913.
2480. Eloise M; Wehner, Diploma, Ste. Genevieve High School, 15 May 1931.
2481. “Miss Eloise Wehner Bride of Dale Summers in Church Ceremony,” unknown newspaper, Cape
Girardeau, Missouri, 1941.
2482. Bertram Murphy, Personal Communications to Robert and Mary Frances Tapscott, 23 Dec 2002, 14 Dec
2003.
2483. E. Earl Crader, letter to Eloise Wehner, Oran, Missouri, 6 Jun 1937.
2484. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Edward Wehner household,
2485. Although the town was officially St. Mary, the high school was St. Mary’s.
2486. Eloise Wehner Scrapbook, Eloise (Wehner) Summers Archives, Collection of Mary Frances (Summers)
and Robert E. Tapscott.
2487. “Miss Elois [sic] Wehner Bride of Dale Summers,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri,
Saturday, 7 Jun 1941.
2488. “Dale W. Summers Passes Away Oct. 18,” Unknown Newspaper, Unknown Date.
2489. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Stoddard Co, Puxico, Matilda J. Meadows household, Supervisor’s Distr 12,
2490. WW I Draft Registration, John William Summers, Illmo, Scott County, Missouri, 1917.
2491. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Perry Co, Brazeau Twp, John W. (“J W”) Summers household, Supervisor’s
2492. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Perry Co, Brazeau Twp, John W. Summers household, Supervisor’s Distr
2493. “Wittenberg: Nothing Left but Relics and Memories,” Southeast Missourian (seMissourian.com), Cape
Girardeau, Saturday, 10 Dec 2005.
2494. Chuck Rabas, Jack Quail Hunter Kennedy, Joan C. Eakin, publisher, Independence Missouri, 1996, p.
18. A map of the town showing the Summers home, businesses, and the bridge where the posse hid when
Kennedy was killed was among the documents, photographs, and other materials held by Eloise
Summers until her death. The cartographer is unknown, but is believed to be one of the children of John
Summers.
2495. Graduation Announcement, Dale Summers, Central High School, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 28 May
1931.
2496. “From St. Louis to New Orleans Aboard a Homemade Houseboat,” St. Louis Globe-Democrat Sunday
Magazine, 25 Dec 1932, pp. 6, 14.
2497. Cleatus Price, Reporter, “Pocahontas, Ark.,” The Frisco Employes’ Magazine, St. Louis, Missouri, Vol.
8, No. 12, Dec 1932, pp. 45-46.
2498. Cleatus Price, Reporter, “Pocahontas, Ark.,” The Frisco Employes’ Magazine, St. Louis, Missouri, Vol.
9, No. 2, Feb 1933, p. 24.
2499. Obituary, "Mrs. Verne C. Summers," unknown newspaper, Cape Girardeau, Friday, 17 Jul 1970.
2500. “Miss Elois [sic] Wehner Bride of Dale Summers,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri,
Saturday, 7 Jun 1941.
2501. Eloise W. Summers, Valentine’s Day, 1939, 2 pages, no date.
2502. Summers Family Christmas Letter, Decatur, Georgia, 1965.
2504. “Dale W. Summers Passes Away Oct. 18,” unknown newspaper, unknown date.
2505. Eloise M Summers, Georgia Death Index, 1919-1998, Georgia Health Department, Office of Vital
Records.
2506. Robert E. Tapscott, Nyla Ford Tapscott, James F. Tapscott, Mary Anne Tapscott McKenzie, Margaret
Tapscott Jacot, and John C. Tapscott, The Glenn and Mary Imle Tapscott Family, The Never-Failing
Brook, GlobeTech Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2004, pp. 25-77.
2507. Transcript of Baptismal Record, Mary Frances Summers, Blessed Sacrament Church, Kansas City,
Kansas, 9 April 1944.
2508. Robert Edwin Tapscott, Certificate of Birth No. 494, City of St. Louis, Indiana.
2509. Memory and Register Book, Glenn Daniel Tapscott, Moore Funeral Home, Marshall, Illinois, 19 June
1952.
2510. Webster College Acepts Three, El Paso Times, El Paso, Texas, Aug 1965.
2512. “Born,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 17 Jul 1920, p. 1, col. 4.
2513. “Frances E. Wehner Marries St. Louis Girl,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, unknown date.
2514. Obituary, "Olga Dolores Wehner," The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, Tuesday, 15 Mar 2011.
2515. Michael, Francis, and Deborah Wehner, Personal Recollections, 25 Mar 2007.
2516. Elizabeth (Beth) Wehner, Family Group Sheet, Michael Francis Wehner, 8 May 2006.
2517. Notes on back of photo of Lt. & Mrs. Michael Wehner wedding picture.
2518. Jane Rueff Wehner, Descendants of MIchael F. Wehner, 1 May 2006.

2519. Edward J. Wehner II, Family Group for Edward J. Wehner II, Aurora, Colorado, May 2006.
2520. A birth date of 10 October 1887 is calculated for Julia Wehner from her death date of 10 September 1889
and her age at death of 1 year 11 months as given on her cemetery marker and is the date recorded in a
family tree of unknown authorship obtained from Carl Wehner; however, a date of 11 September 1887
has been given in a family tree prepared by Walter W. Wehner, Julia’s brother, and in transcribed records
of the Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church.
2521 “Local Department,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 14 Sep 1889, p. 3, col. 1.
2522. Baptismal Certificate, Alice Louise Wehner, Church of Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 14 Jan
1980.
2523. Obituary, "Alice L. Wehner," Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 12 Dec 1985,
p. 4, col. 1.
2524. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Mary Basler,
Ancestry.com.
2525. Obituary, "Leona Mary Keser," Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Wednesday, 11 Aug
1993, p. 4, col. 1.
2526. Obituary, "Clara Octavia Bauman," Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 10 Jul
1975, p. 2, col. 3.
2529. Michael Kallio, Caretaker of Round Hill Cemetery, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 14 Nov
2011.
2530. 1930 U.S. census, Indiana, Marion Co, Indianapolis City, Ward 7, Harry L. Brown Household household,
2531. WW II Draft Registration, Serial No. U1378, Pete Svelich, Marion County, Indiana, 27 Apr 1942.
2532. Polk’s Indianapolis City Directory 1934, Vol. 80, R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers, Indianapolis, Indiana,
1934, p. 1127.
1935, p. 1149.
1937, p. 1510.
2535. 1940 U.S. census, Indiana, Marion Co, Indianapolis City, Ward 11, Peter (“Pet”) Svelich Household
household, Supervisor's Distr 12, Enumeration Distr 96-179, sheet 14A, household 714, 20-22 Apr 1940.
1955, p. 879.
2537. Orison Smith and Ella Svelich, Marion County, Indiana, Marriage Record No. 206491, marriage date 6
Sep 1962, Book 224, p. 552.
2538. WW I Draft Registration, Orison Scribener Smith, 4-1 Ward, Indianapolis, Indiana, 5 June 1917.
2539. Orison S Smith and Sarah J Coy, Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 [database on-line], Provo,
Utah, The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.
2540. 1900 U.S. census, Indiana, Knox Co, Vincennes, Orison Smith household, Supervisor’s Distr 2,
Enumeration Distr 54, sheets 10B, 11A, dwelling 204, family 239, 6 Jun 1900.
2541. 1900 U.S. census, Indiana, Bartholomew Co, Union Twp, John S. Coy household, Supervisor's Distr 4,
2542. John S. Coy and Della M. True, Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 [database on-line], Provo, Utah,
The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.
2543. 1930 U.S. census, Indiana, Marion Co, Perry Twp, Orison S. Smith Household household, Supervisor’s
Distr 8, Enumeration Distr 49-246, sheet 22B, dwelling 520, family 526, 30 Apr, 1 May 1930.
2544. WW II Draft Registration, Serial No. U3615, Orison Scribener Smith, Marion County, Indiana, 27 Apr
1942.
2545. “Death Notices, Smith-Sarah J.,” Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana, Wednesday, 20 Nov 1957.
2546. Orison S. Smith, Florida Death Index, 1877-1998, Florida Department of Health, Office of Vital
Records.
2547. Funeral Card, Mrs. Mary C. Basler, Vinyard's Funeral Home, Festus, Missouri.
2548. “Addition to Factory may be Built,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Saturday, 10 Mar 1928, p. 1, col. 1.
2549. Photo, Employees of Elder Manufacturing Co., Ste. Genevieve, July 1937. (Anvil Saloon and
Restaurant.)
2550. WW I Draft Registration, Sebastian George Basler, Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri.
2551. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Jefferson Co, Crystal City, George Axletter household, Supervisor’s Distr
2552. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Sebastian Basler,
Ancestry.com.
2553. “Sebastian Basler Dies,” Daily News Democrat, Festus, Missouri, Tuesday, 25 Nov 1975, p. 6, col. 1-2.
2554. “Rites set for Mary Basler,” Daily News Democrat, Festus, Missouri, Monday, 18 Aug 1975, p. 6, col. 2.
2555. Nicholas Oces and Leona Wehner, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St. Louis,
Missouri, No. 301983, license 26 Mar 1927, marriage 26 Mar 1987.
2556. Obituary, "Nicholas Keser," Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Wednesday, 9 Nov 1978,
p. 2, col. 5.
2557. “Ste. Genevieve Couple Celebrate Fifty-Sixth Anniversary,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve,
Missouri, Saturday, 1 Feb 1941.
2558. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Nicholas Keser,
Ancestry.com..
2559. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, St. Louis (independent city), Ward 7, Nicholas Oces household,
2560. “Mary Wehner,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 25 Mar 1976, p. 2, col. 5.
2561. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Walter J. Bauman and
Octavia C. Wehner, issued 10 February 1928, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City,
2562. Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Record 1319 Bauman, Parish Church of Ste.
2563. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, August Bauman (“Baumann”)
household, Supervisor's Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 138, sheet 14A, dwelling 7, family 7, 26 Apr 1910.
2564. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Walter Bauman,
Ancestry.com.
2565. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Walter Bauman household,
2566. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, August Bauman household,
2567. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, Walter J. Bauman (“Baumann”)
household, Supervisor's Distr 8, Enumeration Distr 97-7, sheet 3B, household 225, 8 Apr 1940.
2568. “Walter J. Bauman,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 7 Mar 1974, p. 4, col.
3.
2569. “Clara Octavia Bauman,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 10 Jul 1975, p. 2,
col. 3.
2571. From the official 1930 Census enumeration date (1 Apr 1930) and his age (33), Albert Wehner’s birth
date range is calculated as 2 Apr 1896 - 1 Apr 1897. The SSDI birth date of 26 Apr 1896 lies in this
range, and this is the same date given on his military grave marker. A transcription of A Ste. Genevieve
Catholic Church record, however, gives a birth date of 26 Apr 1895.
2572. WW I Draft Registration, Albert Joseph Wehner, Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, 5
June 1917.
2573. 1920 U.S. census, Illinois, Randolph Co, Chester, Albert J. Wehner household, Supervisor’s Distr 17,
2574. 1920 U.S. census, Illinois, Randolph Co, Chester, August Lang (“Long”) household, Supervisor’s Distr
2575. “Chester Couple Will Celebrate Anniversary,” Southern Illinoisan, Carbondale, Illinois, Wednesday, 7
Feb 1968, p. 6, col. 4.
2576. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Marie J. Wehner,
Ancestry.com.
2577. Marriage Index, Illinois Statewide, 1763-1900, August Lang and Emma Ponder, Illinois State Archives
and Illinois State Genealogical Society.
2578. 1910 U.S. census, Illinois, Randolph Co, Chester, August Lang household, Supervisor’s Distr 16,
2579. “Mrs. Lang Dies,” Southern Illinoisan, Carbondale, Illinois, Thursday, 8 Feb 1962, p. 22, col. 1.
2580. 1930 U.S. census, Illinois, Randolph Co, Chester, Albert J. Wehner household, Supervisor’s Distr 26,
2581. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Albert J. Wehner,
Ancestry.com.
2582. Robert E. Tapscott, Transcriptions, St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, Chester, Illinois, 23 Jun 2010.
2583. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Albert A. Wehner,
Ancestry.com.
2584. “Randolph Elects Two Newcomers,” Southern Illinoisan, Carbondale, Illinois, Wednesday, 5 Apr 1967,
p. 3, col. 4.
2585. WW I Draft Registration, Henry Charles Wehner, Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, 12
September 1918.
2586. “Notice,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, 11 Oct 1919, p. 1, col. 4.
2587. “Notice to the Public,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 5 Jul 1919, col. 5.
2588. Henry C. Wehner and Cecilia Eckery, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St. Louis,
Missouri, No. 292425, license 1 Feb 1926, marriage 2 Feb 1926.
2589. “Wehner-Eckery Wedding, Tuesday, February 2nd,” Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, unknown date.
2590. California Death Index, 1940-1997, Cecelia Ann Wehner, State of California Department of Health
Services, Center for Health Statistics.
2591. Death Certificate, William Cornelius Eckery, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics,
State File No. 26174, Filed 4 September 1951.
2592. 1900 Census, Nebraska, Saunders Co, Richland Pct, David Menard household, Supervisor’s Distr 4,
2593. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Nodaway Co, Jefferson Twp, William Eckery household, Supervisor’s Distr
2594. “Sudden Death Comes to Her,” Iowa City Daily Press, Iowa City, Iowa, 10 Mar 1905.
2595. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Nodaway County, Missouri, Eckery and Annie Peas,
license issued 15 September 1916, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri (image,
Ancestry.com).
2596. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Nodaway Co, Jefferson Twp, William Eckery household, Supervisor’s Distr
2597. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 3 Oct 1925, p. 1, col. 2.
2598. 1930 U.S. census, California, San Francisco Co, San Francisco City, Henry (“Henery”) Wehner
household, Supervisor’s Distr 6, Enumeration Distr 38-265, sheet 9A, dwelling 137, family 288, 9 Apr
1930.
2599. “75 Years Ago,” Ste. Genevieve, Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 2009.
2600. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Henry Wehner (“Wehnger”)
2601. Death Certificate, Harry Edward Rehm, Registration Distr 791, Primary Registration Distr 1003, File
3726, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, filed 30 Jan 1935.
2602. Carl and Marilyn Wehner, personal communication to Robert Tapscott and Mary Frances Tapscott, 21
Mar 2004.
2603. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, William Oberle household,
2604. Carl Wehner, personal communication to Robert Tapscott, 28 Jun 2012.
2605. Gould’s St. Louis City Directory 1933, Polk-Gould Directory Co., St. Louis, 1933, p. 678.
2606. Carl and Marilyn Wehner, Neil and Rowena Wehner, Earlyn Wehner, personal communication to Robert
Tapscott and Mary Frances Tapscott, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 6 Apr 2010, 14 Mar 2011.
2607. California Death Index, 1940-1997, Henry Charles Wehner, State of California Department of Health
Services, Center for Health Statistics.
2608. Dolores Cecilia Wehner, California Birth Index, 1905 - 1995 [Database on Line], Provo, Utah,
Ancestry.com.
2609. WW I Draft Registration, Julius Martin Wehner, Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, 12
September 1918.
2610. The Echo, Ste. Genevieve High School Annual, 1924.
2611. Julius M. Wehner and Mary Oces, Marriage License Application, City of St. Louis, Missouri, No.
355769, 23 Aug 1935.
2612. Julius M. Wehner and Mary Oces, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, City of St. Louis,
Missouri, No. 355769, license 23 Aug 1935, marriage 24 Aug 1935.
2613. Julius Wehner and Mary Oces, Marriage Registry, 1922- ,St. Agnes Church, St. Louis, p. 50 (Microfilm,
St. Louis County Library).
2614. Obituary, "Julius M. Wehner," Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 27 Apr 1994,
p. 4, col. 1.
2615. 1920 U.S. census, Illinois, St. Clair Co, Belleville, St. Vincent’s hospital, Supervisor’s Distr 14,
2616. “Another Hospital,” Belleville Daily Advocate, Belleville, Illinois, Friday, 7 Aug 1903.
2617. Encyclopedia of Illinois, edited by Newton Batemen and Paul Selby, and History of St. Clair County,
edited by A. S. Wilderman and A. A. Wilderman, Vol. II., Chicago, Munsell Publishing Company, 1907,
p. 917.
2618. “Two Hospitals Here are to be Made into One,” Belleville Daily Advocate, Belleville, Illinois, Monday,
29 Nov 1926.
2619. 1940 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, Julius Wehner household,
Supervisor's Distr 8, Enumeration Distr 97-7, sheet 14A, household 243, 5 Jun 1940.
2621. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 25 Jun 1921, p. 1, col. 5.
2622. “Testimonial Dinner for Al Wood,” brochure, Elder Manufacturing Company, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri,
29 April 1967.
2623. Death Certificate, Gertrude M. Wood, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File
No. 16128.
2624. Obituary, “Walter (Al) Wood,” Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 23 Mar
1968, p. 6, col. 5.
2625. Marriage Index, Illinois Statewide, 1763-1900, Wesley M. Wood and Louisa Foster, Illinois State
2626. 1880 U.S. census, Illinois, Jasper Co, North Muddy Twp, Wesley Wood (Woods) household,
2627. 1890 Oklahoma Territorial census, Oklahoma Co, Wesley M. Wood, p. 6, 5 Jun 1890.
2628. 1900 U.S. census, New Mexico, Lincoln Co, Las Tablas, Wesley M. Wood household, Supervisor’s Distr
2629. 1910 U.S. census, Oklahoma, Osage Co, Black Dog Twp, Wesley M. Wood household, Supervisor’s
2630. 1880 U. S. census, Iowa, Shelby Co, Greeley Twp, William (Wm) Jackson household, Supervisor’s Distr
2631. 1900 U.S. census, Oklahoma, Osage Indian Reservation, William Jackson, household, Supervisor’s Distr
219, Enumeration Distr 255, sheet 4A, dwelling 695, family 707, 4-6 Jun 1900.
2632. 1920 U. S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, Gertrude M. Wood (Woods)
1920.
2633. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Jackson Co, Kansas City, Louis Wiltfong household, Supervisor's Distr 5,
2635. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Walter A Wood and
Ervine Wehner, issued 6 October 1930, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
2636. Obituary, "Ervine M. Wood," Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 28 Aug 1986,
p. 4, col. 1.
2637. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Allen C. Wood and
Pamela A. Doll, license issued 3 December 1953, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City,
2638. Obituary, "Allen C. Wood Jr.," Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Wednesday, 8 Jul
2009.
2639. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Allen C. Wood,
Ancestry.com.
2640. Obituary, "Virginia R. 'Ginny' Wood," Suntimes, Ste. Genevieve, www.suntimesnews.com, 2005 obituary
archives.
2641. Penney Longley, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 19 Jun 2012.
2642. Penney Longley, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 18 Jun 2012.
2643. Obituary, "Earl D. Wood Jr.," Suntimes, Ste. Genevieve, www.suntimesnews.com, 2007 obituary
archives.
2644. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Walter W. Wehner,
Ancestry.com.
2645. Transcribed Records of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Record 2430 Oberle, Parish Church of Ste.
2646. 1900 U.S. census, Missouri, City of Ste. Genevieve, William Oberle household, Supervisor’s Distr 10,
2647. 1910 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve City, William Oberle household,
2648. 1920 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, William Oberle household,
Supervisor’s Distr 11, Enumeration Distr 154, sheet 12B, dwelling 248, family 251, 2 Feb 1920.
2649. Obituary, "Wilma Wehner," Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 15 Jan 1981, p.
2, col. 8.
2650. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 9 May 1896.
2651. Fair Play, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, 24 Nov 1888.
2652. Carl Wehner, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 3 Feb 2011.
2653. Louise Vorst Sheppard Wade, The Vorst Family in Sainte Genevieve,
http://myrtlevorstsheppard.com/family_vorst.html, 1 Nov 2009.
2654. Rowena Wehner, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 27 Feb 2012.
2655. 1930 U.S. census, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Co, Ste. Genevieve Twp, Walter Wehner household,
Supervisor’s Distr 14, Enumeration Distr 97-7, sheet 23A, dwelling 373, family 373, 1 May 1930.
2656 Death Certificate, William Oberle, Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No.
26081, Filed 13 August 1941.
2657. Obituary, "Walter W. 'Peck' Wehner," Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Wednesday, 24
Jul 1991, p. 4, col. 3.
2658. Carl Wehner, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 20 May 2009.
2659. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Carl Wehner and
Marilyn Cabral, issued 15 November 1957, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri
2660. United States Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Paul J. Wehner,
Ancestry.com.
2661. Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Paul J. Wehner and
Earlyn M. Jokerst, issued 9 September 1954, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City,
2662. Pierre ‘Peter’ Huck, Ste. Genevieve Project Pioneer, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1999, p. 12.
2663. Obituary, "Paul Julius Wehner," Suntimes, Ste. Genevieve, www.suntimesnews.com, 2003 obituary
archives.
2664. Obituary, "Paul Julius Wehner," unknown newspaper, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, unknown date.
2665. Paul and Earlyn Wehner, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott and Mary Frances Tapscott, Ste.
Genevieve, Missouri, 29 Mar 2003.
2666. Jacob Meyer Family Tree, Ste. Genevieve Project Pioneer, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 2006, p. 33.
2667. Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Thursday, 7 Aug 1975.
2668. Rowena Wehner, Personal Communication to Robert Tapscott, 1 April 2006.
2669. Joseph Schneider, ed., Buchonia, Eine Zeitschrift für Vaterländische Geschichte, Alterthums-Kunde,
Geographie, Statistik und Topographie, Vol. 4, C. Müller, Fulda, 1829, p. 25.
Bier und Brot Index 363
Index
Women are indexed under their maiden names or under their married names with the prefix
“Mrs.” Due to their widespread appearance throughout the work, no attempt has been made
to index all references to St. Louis and the town of Ste. Genevieve.
Abernathy Gene, 57
A. C., 216 Grace M., 179
Adolph William, 57 Ida W., 199
Augustus C., 216 Paul Norman, 113
Nadine Laverne, 57 Sarah (‘Sallie’) C., 90, 91
Robert A., 216 Andre
Acuff Anna (‘Annie’), 216, 217
Eula, 265 Mary Louis, 265, 266
Adams Maurice, 217
Helen Louis, 189 Annon
Adrian Sandra J., 57
Rev. John, 22 Arents
Ahern Minnie Edith, 233
Hannah Teresa, 185 Arizona
Hugh, 185 Phoenix, 250
John J., 185 Tucson, 75, 78
Ahrens Trinity Presbyterian Church, 78
Bernice T., 107 Arkansas
Ake Cherokee Village, 196
Eli D., 46 Hot Springs, 188
Jonesboro
Albert
St. Bernards Regional Medical Center, 196
Barbara Jean, 231
Lewisville, 76
Fredrick, 231
Little Rock, 69
Kathleen Marie, 231
Miller Co., 75
Mary Louise, 231
Nevada Co., 75
Milton John Conrad, 231
Pocahontas, 16, 248
Patricia Lee, 231
Randolph Co., 97
Allgier Russellville, 231
Peter, 28 Texarkana, 75
Amelung National Bank of Texarkana, 75
Christian, 49, 50 Yell Co., 70
Edith, 50 Arms
Johanna Eleanor Maria, 49 J. S. Elder, 114
Louisa Justine, 49 Mrs. Amana, 114
William, 50
Arnold
Anderson Joseph, 162
Doug, 57 Mrs. Juliana, 162
Fred C., 71 Nora, 75
Robert, 37 Robert G., 112

Ash Robert L., 112
Naomi Louise, 79 Susan M., 112
Bachle. See also Baechle Basler
Anne Marie, 185 George P., 257
August A., 183 Sebastian George, 257
Barbara Lynn, 187 Bauman
Carl George, 185, 186 Amelia Christine, 258
Charles T., 185 August B., 258
Edward L., 183 Barbara M., 65
Elaine Marie, 186, 187 Caroline, 201
Herman J., 185, 187 Edward, 201
Juanita, 185 Estelle A. (‘Stella’), 258
Karen Jeanne, 185 Francis, 201
Laura Denise, 187 Gilbert Vincent, 258
Lawrence L., 187 James, 201
Leonard Lawrence, 185, 186, 187 John Bernard, 258
Loretto M., 184, 185, 186 Leona Elisabeth, 258
Mary Alice, 187 Michael, 201
Ralph Robert, 185 Patricia A., 258
Rosellen, 186, 187 Walter Joseph, 258
Backoff Wilfred N. (‘Fred’) Jr., 199, 201
Charles, 102 Wilfred N. Sr., 201
Baechle. See also Bachle Baumeister
Anton A. (‘Tony’), 180, 181, 182, 183 Herman, 194
August, 180, 181, 184 Baumstark
Augustin, 180 Anna Helen, 212, 221
Conrad, 180 Antoinette Marie, 212, 219
Francis Joseph, 180 Augusta Mary Theresa, 212, 219
Lawrence Alexander, 180, 181, 184, 188 Eulalia Margaret, 212, 221, 223
Louise, 180 Illma Olivia Theresa, 212, 220
Regina Rachel, 180, 181 William, 211–12, 219, 220
Bahan Bayer
Mary A., 79 Vincent, 123
Patrick, 79 Bayless
Bahr Glenn W., 179
Bartholomew, 206 Becherer
Bakula Cleola, 107
Edward Joseph, 176, 177, 178 Beck
Josephine, 177 Catharina, 27
Vaclav, 177, 178 Becker
William, 177 Amalia. See Wehner, Amalia (‘Mollie’) M.
Baldwin Bernard Frederick, 92, 94, 95, 96, 98
Bertie, 160 Charlotte, 98
Bapp Christina Rose, 99, 100
James W., 235 Clarence E., 92, 93, 94, 96
Baptiste de Girardot Donald, 92, 94, 101
Jean, 10 Doris, 92, 94, 101
Barbeau Edward Fred, 92, 94, 98, 101
Susanne, 212 Edward Paul, 97
Edwin, 92, 94, 98
Barnes Elmer Bernard, 20, 89, 90, 92, 97
Julie A., 112
Frederick (‘Fred’) William III, 97
Mary Kay, 112
Frederick (‘Fred’) William Jr., 90, 92, 94, 97, Bequette

98, 117 George Jules Sr., 221
Frederick (‘Fred’) William Sr., 89, 90–94, 98 Harold Jules, 221
Gerald Bernard, 96 Illma Ann, 221
Gladys Jean, 99, 100 Jules J., 221
Henry, 89 Bernays
Henry Jr., 89, 90 Clementine, 217
James Herbert, 92, 94, 97, 98
Berry
James R., 97
Gloria Jean, 100, 101
Jeffrey L., 100
John, 89, 90 Betten
Judith Layne, 97 John, 139
Julia, 89 Biehl
Mary, 89, 90 Gilbert George, 81
Melvin L., 90, 92, 94, 98 Biehle
Melvin Louis Jr., 98 Anton (‘Anthony’), 65
Meta, 98 Edna, 65
Mildred, 94, 98 Gilbert, 65
Mrs. Dorothy, 96 Herbert, 65
Nicholas, 89 Linda, 66
Patricia, 94, 101 Louis (‘Perlie’), 65
Richard Herbert, 97 Louis J., 65
Rita, 96 Margaret, 65
Rose Marie, 97 Raymond, 52, 65
Rosella, 92, 94, 101 Raymond J., 65
Shirley Ann, 97 Sue, 66
William (‘Bill’), 92, 98, 99, 100, 101 Sylvester, 65
William F., 89, 90 Walter, 65
William Sanders, 100 Walter Carl, 65
Beckermann Billings
George, 162 Shirley Fay, 109
Mrs. Mary, 162 Birsner
Becktold August John, 221
Dominick, 123 John N., 221
Becotte John William Sr., 221, 222
Mary Eleanor, 185 Marguerite Mary (‘Margo’), 221, 222, 223
Beine Blaha
Albert August, 81 Anna J., 178
Anthony A., 81 Blaine
Edward, 81 Bertha, 166
Edward Anthony, 81 Bruce, 166
Mary Eileen, 81 Charles, 166
Ruth Ann, 81 Charles Darwin, 166, 167
Beltrami Cornelia, 166
Antoine F., 206 Gertrude, 166
Benchley Hannibal, 166
Harry, 233 James B., 167
James G., 137, 164
Bennett
James George, 167–68
Hattie A., 232
John E. Jr., 166
Katherine A., 191
John Gregory, 168
Lavonne. See Dasinger, Lavonne
John Sr., 166
Benning Joseph, 166
Mathilda (‘Tillie’) E., 90 Lucinda, 166
Mary Jane, 166
Ruth Ann, 166 Braun

Virginia May, 168 August B., 184
Blaylock Charles B., 184
Violet M., 57 Elizabeth, 184
Bodenstein George G., 184
Johanna, 49 Henry, 184
Laurence, 184
Bogy
Louis B., 203
Lewis Vital, 212
Mary R., 184
Melanie, 212
Mathilda H., 184
Boillot
Bobby Gene, 70
Brooks
Dessie E., 93
L. C.. See Boillot, Lucian Clifford
James W., 93
Lucian Clifford, 70, 73, 74
Mrs. Nora, 93
Mrs. Anna Elizabeth, 70
Nalena L., 93
Mrs. Eula, 70
William Emanuel (‘Manuel’), 93
Paul C., 70
Paul Thomas, 70 Brown
William, 70 Benjamin Gratz, 68
William Clifford, 70 Frank, 233
Harold E., 97
Bolle
Hortense M., 97
Arline Louise, 231
Mary (‘May’) Ridgely, 233
Augusta Elisabeth, 225, 232, 233
Robert V. Jr., 205
Bertha Alvina Alma, 225, 226, 229, 230, 232,
233 Bruce
Flora Eleonora, 225, 227, 229, 231 Fred R., 41
Frederick (‘Fred’) G., 143, 146, 162, 163, 164, Harold J., 41
210, 211, 225, 226 Harold William, 42
Frederick Felix, 226, 227, 229 James F., 42
Frederick Nicholas, 225, 227, 229 Mrs. Ida M., 41
George Wehner, 226, 227 Bruemleve
Henry Christopher, 225 Rosa Anna (‘Rose’), 202, 203
Herman Thomas, 225, 230, 231, 232 Brumleve
Bone Caroline, 202, 203
Adeline, 95 John Bernard, 203
Bono Bryan
Norma, 265 William Jennings, 32
Boss Buford
Caroline. See Mund, Caroline Simeon E., 28
Boxdorfer Buhr
Emma, 264 Anna Helena, 167
Boyer Bunch
Benjamin, 216 John, 70
Charles, 210 Sarah E., 70
Ferd, 131 Burgess
Jules, 131 Garrett Hobert, 84
Louise Mary, 57 Wilma L., 84, 85
Brandel Burgsmüller
Elizabeth, 41 Henrietta, 46–49
Brandt Burke
Adam, 181 Rev. Thomas, 170
Charles E., 181 Burmann
Mrs. Mary, 181 Regina Elizabeth, 225
Burrows Canada
Clifford Coleman, 78 Regina
Clifford H., 78 Adanac Brewing Company Ltd., 222
John, 78 Winnipeg, 222
Leslie Jane, 78 University of Manitoba, 222
Margaret, 78 Capek
Mrs. Pauline C., 78 Thomas, 175
Roy, 78 Carcione
businesses Joe, 223
Big Muddy Coal and Iron Company, 103 Carlos III of Spain, 130
J. C. Penny, 97
South Hungarian Colonization and Land
Carmack
Gertrude B., 84
Company, 103
Button Carruthers
Mary, 85, 86
Loreen M., 65
Cabral Cashion
Charles R., 57
Christy G., 267
Sylvia J., 57
Marilyn J., 267
California Cassel
Louis, 127
Alameda Co., 261
Baldwin Park, 98 Cassidy
Downey Rev. S. L., 85
North American Rockwell, 199 Cavanaugh
El Monte, 101 Harriet C., 37
Inglewood Mary, 37
Northrop Aviation, 199 Mrs. Caroline C., 37
Ladera William G., 37
Peninsula Housing Association, 223 William Sr., 37
Lancaster Cayse
Antelope Valley Hospital, 222 Precilla, 28
Long Beach, 230, 233 cemeteries
Los Angeles, 101, 218, 222 Abbey Cemetery, Valyermo, California, 222
Los Angeles Co., 230 All Saints Church Cemetery, St. Peters,
Oxnard Missouri, 154
Northrop Aviation, 199 Allen Cemetery, Allenton, Missouri, 115, 116
Redlands, 179 Arcadia Valley Memorial Park, Arcadia,
Riverside Co., 220 Missouri, 113
San Francisco, 261 Azleland Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Azle,
Avery-Knodel Inc., 223 Texas, 101
H. Liebes and Company, 222 Belleview Memorial Park, Temple, Texas, 81
Hotel Enterprise, 71 Bethany Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, 90, 176
KGO Television, 223 Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Edwardsville,
KPIX Television, 222 Illinois, 106, 108
Mighty Minute Productions, 223 Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Lebanon, Missouri,
Sterling Furniture, 222 200
San Pablo, 223 Calvary Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 34
Santa Clara Co., 223, 261 Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, 79, 81,
Torrance, 264 83, 111, 112, 172, 192, 194, 195, 202
Call Catholic Cemetery, Pilot Knob, Missouri, 29,
Rhydon M., 116 45, 90, 104, 119
Cameron Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery, St. Louis,
Simon, 24 Missouri, 65
Camp Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington,
Tillie I., 71 Virginia, 59
Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery, 100 Noce Family Cemetery, Jefferson County,
East Elfers Cemetery, New Port Richey, Missouri, 53
Florida, 97 Oakdale Cemetery, Commerce, Missouri, 221
East Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Miller Oakhill Cemetery, Kirkwood, Missouri, 168
County, Arkansas, 75, 76, 78 Our Lady Help of Christians Cemetery,
Erie Cemetery, Erie, Pennsylvania, 90 Weingarten, Missouri, 160
Fairlawn Cemetery, Oklahoma City, 183, 184 Parkview Cemetery, Farmington, Missouri, 106
Forest Hill Cemetery, Wisconsin Rapids, Pilot Knob Cemetery, Iron Co., Missouri, 93
Wisconsin, 42 Pinecrest Memorial Gardens, Marianna, Florida,
Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 77
33, 34, 67 Presbyterian (‘Gamel’) Cemetery, Festus,
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Missouri, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 62, 65
36 Resurrection Cemetery, Jefferson City,
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cypress, Missouri, 85, 86, 168
California, 220 Resurrection Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
Fort Myers Memorial Gardens, Fort Myers, 42
Florida, 178 Resurrection Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, 74,
Friedens Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, 69, 118 87, 107, 112, 168, 231
Georgia National Cemetery, Canton, Georgia, Resurrection Memorial Cemetery, Oklahoma City,
57 183, 186, 187
Good Shepherd Memorial Gardens, Ocala, Riverside Memorial Park, Jacksonville, Florida,
Florida, 79 80
Hillcrest Cemetery, Bowie County, Texas, 75, Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside,
76 California, 230
Holy Cross Cemetery, Fairview Heights, Rose Hill Burial Park, Oklahoma City, 184,
Illinois, 170, 171, 172, 173 185, 186
Holy Cross Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rose Hill Cemetery, Texarkana, Texas, 78
35, 37, 41, 42, 43 Rose Lawn Memorial Gardens, Crystal City,
Hoyt Cemetery, Morgan Co., Colorado, 215 Missouri, 57, 61, 62, 66
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Sacred Heart Cemetery, Crystal City, Missouri,
Louis, Missouri, 86, 87, 112, 179, 196 54, 57, 96, 108, 109, 257
Jefferson Memorial Park, Pleasant Hills, Sacred Heart Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri,
Pennsylvania, 179 112
Kennesaw Memorial Park, Marietta, Georgia, Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery, St. Louis,
57 Missouri, 69, 90, 177, 178
Kolb Cemetery, Allenton, Missouri, 115 Santa Clara Cemetery, Oxnard, California, 199
Lake Memorial Gardens, Osage Beach, Sea Pines Memorial Gardens, Edgewater,
Missouri, 66 Florida, 81
Lakewood Park Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, 117
231 St. Adalbert Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
Liberty Cemetery, Belle, Missouri, 84 36
Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Milwaukee, St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Zell, Missouri, 180
Wisconsin, 36 St. Matthew Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, 111,
McClure Cemetery, Allenton, Missouri, 115 213, 214, 223, 231
Memorial Cemetery, Ste. Genevieve, 149, 157, St. Paul’s Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, 175
240 Sunset Burial Park, St. Louis, Missouri, 176,
Memorial Park Cemetery, St. Louis, 190 231
Methodist Cemetery, Festus, Missouri, 64 Tom Sauk Cemetery, Reynolds County,
Minimum (‘Collins’) Cemetery, Minimum, Missouri, 91
Missouri, 91, 93, 97 Union Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 41
Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, 98 Valhalla Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, 75, 76,
Mt. Olive Catholic Cemetery, St. Louis, 169, 214
Missouri, 65 Valle Spring Cemetery, Ste. Genevieve,
New Picker’s Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, Missouri, 157, 158, 164, 167, 180, 188, 198,
178 199, 201, 205, 207, 212, 214, 216, 218, 219,
220, 221, 226, 227, 229, 237, 245, 249, 253, Frank Sr., 66
254, 257, 258, 263, 264, 266, 267 Mrs. Julia, 66
Wanderer’s Rest Cemetery, Milwaukee, Clemens
Wisconsin, 36 Samuel (‘Mark Twain’), 129, 149, 220
Wisconsin Memorial Park, Brookfield, Clint
Wisconsin, 43 Rena, 81
Wood National Cemetery, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, 36, 99
Cobb
John, 126
Zion United Methodist Church Cemetery,
Mapaville, Missouri, 66 Cole
Chartrand A Joan, 87
Kathleen Anne, 87
Edna, 65
William Frank, 87
Mrs. Elizabeth, 65
William Howard, 87
William, 65
Chase Collier
Carrie, 68
Mary A., 71
Cherry Colombia
Cartagena, 221
Nina Mae, 65
Chmela Colorado
Boulder
Anna, 54
University of Colorado, 250
Hermina, 54
Denver
Julia, 54
University of Denver, 59
Ladislav, 53, 54
West High School, 250
Mary, 53, 54
Christ Connecticut
Darien, 233
Adam, 31
Cimijotti Cook
Margaret Ann, 51
Frank, 183
Mary, 182, 183 Cooney
Mrs. Anna, 183 Alice L., 69, 72, 74, 87, 117
Civil War Allen Richard Jr., 76
Allen Richard Sr., 76
47th Missouri Infantry, 136
Alyce Jane, 75, 78
6th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, 25
Arthur E., 68, 69, 117
78th Enrolled Missouri Militia, 136
Arthur Russell, 73, 74, 75, 117
8th Regiment Missouri Volunteers, 135
Arthur Russell Jr., 76
Battle of Pilot Knob, 16, 17, 18
Bernard, 68, 69
Battle of Vicksburg, 181
Bobbie Jo, 77
Cape Girardeau, 135
Edward Thomas, 85
Fort Davidson, 16, 17
Eileen Frances, 80, 81
Germans in, 24
Elizabeth Anne, 76
Hawkins Taylor Commission, 25
Frank Bernard Jr., 83, 84, 85
in Missouri, 15, 19, 23, 24, 134
Frank Bernard Sr., 79, 117
Missouri Home Guards, 24
Geraldine (‘Gerry’) Theresa, 85, 86
Pilot Knob Home Guard, 24
Grace Phoebe, 69–74, 117, 118
Radical Republicans, 137, 153
Harold Gregg Jr., 76
Rozier’s Mills, 136
Harold Gregg Sr., 75
Ste. Genevieve, 134–37, 138
Howard Raymond, 79
Cizek John M., 85
Anthony (‘Tony’), 178 John Richard, 68, 69, 116
Clardy John Sr., 68
Martin Linn, 146 Margaret Ann, 85
Clark Mary Agnes, 79, 80, 81
Frank B., 66 Mrs. Sarah, 68
Robbie Jean, 77 North Gabouri Creek, 207

Robert F., 85 Ohio River
Robert Gray, 76, 77 European immigration, 131
Ruth Virginia, 75, 78 transportation, 7
Virginia Catherine, 82, 83 vessels, 7
Cooper Plattin Creek, 47
Peter, 31 River aux Vases, 148
Corley Roer (‘Rur’) River, 43
Thomas W., 191 Tennessee River, 10
Wabash River, 10
Coughlin Werra River, Germany, 5
John M., 172
Weser River, Germany, 5
Mary E., 172
Nora M., 172 Cromley
Thomas, 172 Roy McCoy, 230
Coulture Croney
Louis, 130 George Washington, 95
Lyman Arthur, 96
Cox Nellie, 96
Dorman Elmer, 101
Ruby, 95, 96
William F., 210
Crowell
Coy David Eugene, 81
John S., 256
Gale Eugene Jr., 81
Sarah J., 256
Gale Eugene Sr., 81
Crabtree Helen Mary, 81
Verne Cumi, 246, 248 Leon, 81
Crader Czechoslovakia
E. Earl, 245 Bohemia, 175, 176, 177
creeks and rivers Dasinger
Allegheny River, 7 Billy W., 77
Brazeau River, 246 Jimmy Ray, 77
Elbe River, Germany, 193 Lavonne, 77
Fulda River, Germany, 1, 5 Mina Sue, 77
Gabouri Creek, 130, 131, 139, 148, 149, 244 Mrs. Myrtle Irene, 77
Hickory Creek, Ste. Genevieve County, 123 Myrtle Dean, 77
Huzzazh Creek, 64 Thomas (‘Tommie’) E., 77
Mississippi River Tommy Gene, 77
Baumstark’s Bar, 211 Davenport
Beltrami Landings, 206
Floyd Donald, 188
Chester Bridge, 258, 259
Floyd Sr., 188
Eads Bridge, 171
George, 188
European discovery, 129
Mary, 188
European immigration, 131
Patrick, 188
flooding, 130, 149, 244, 247
Richard A., 188
Goose Island, 220
Theresa, 188
Indian names, 129
Little Rock Landing, 121, 144, 149, 150, Davis
206, 211, 219 Clytus V., 64
movement from Ste. Genevieve, 149 Jefferson, 136
railroad ferry, 219 Mary, 110
Slough at Ste. Genevieve, 206 de Finiels
Stanton’s Landing, 150 Nicolas, 130
Ste. Genevieve City Landing, 121, 149 de Renault
transportation, 7 Phillip, 130
White Rock Landing, 217
Monongahela River, 7
Debeli Eaton
Adam, 54 Eura Ethel, 64
Hermina, 53, 54 Eaves
deSoto Lavina Elizabeth, 114, 116
Hernando, 129 Sarah Malinda, 114
Dieterich Vina. See Eaves, Lavina Elizabeth
Alfred Elliott, 233 William Bartlett, 114
Charles F., 232, 233 Eckery
Grace, 232, 233 Cecelia Ann, 260, 261
Dillon William Cornelius, 260
John L., 73 Eckroat
Dinger Arthur V., 186
Franz, 18, 47, 155 Rosemary, 186, 187
Dinkins William Michael Jr., 186
Paul, 96 William Michael Sr., 186
Stella, 96 Edell
Weldon, 96 Dr. Dean, 223
Dobbs Effinger
Alicia Marie, 251 Valentine, 155
George, 251 Ehler
Gerald Wyatt, 251 Josephine M., 218
Jerry Edward, 251 Eichelberger
Doerge Albert, 109
Lena, 215 Bertha Elizabeth, 108, 109, 112
Mrs. Bertha, 162, 215 Gardner, 108
Doll Harvey, 109
Pamela A., 264 Mary Louise (‘Mamie’), 109, 112
Donaldson Sylvester, 109
Rev. John, 91 Eisner
Donze Casper, 11
Arthur (‘Artie’), 266 Eissner
Louis J., 237 Maximilian, 11
Meinrad, 124, 126, 127 Elizondo
Dunford Olga Dolores, 252, 253
Alice, 110, 111 Elleard
Charles Simeon, 109, 110, 111 Charles M., 71
William, 110 Eller
Dunne Jacob, 89
Mary Patricia (‘Pat’), 108 Julia A., 89
Patrick Joseph, 108 Ellis
DuRocher Margaret, 265
Berthelemi (‘Berth,’ Berthel’), 143 England
Dyckman Trowbridge, 110
Aaron Smith, 71 Engstrom
Barney Hicks Jr., 71, 72 Andrew, 93
Barney Hicks Sr., 71 Edward C., 93
Dennis Vincent, 71, 74 Mrs. Anna, 93
Duane R., 74 Ernst
Harry Chase, 72 Joseph A., 133, 210, 211
Ida, 71
Robert Barney, 71, 72, 73, 74
Erwin
Capt. M. C., 99
Robert Vincent, 74
Etzler Mrs. Barbara, 126

William R., 71 Filimon
Evans Catherine, 193
Charles J. (‘Chester’), 171 Fischer
Floyd Orville, 172 Caroline (‘Lena’), 197
Frank Orville, 171 Flemming
Mrs. Ruth, 171 Hannah, 172
Ruth Juanita, 171, 172
Fletcher
Ewing Col. Thomas C., 18
Brig. Gen. Thomas, 17
Flieg
Eydmann Joseph, 234
Bertha, 266 Mrs. Rosa, 234
Falk Flori
Charles, 181 Wilhelmina (‘Minnie’), 231, 233
Clara, 181
Florida
George, 181
Broward Co., 97
Henry, 181
Cape Coral, 176, 178
Joseph, 181
Charlotte Co., 179
Mrs. J., 148
Cottondale, 77
Mrs. Louise, 181
Dunellon, 80
Peter, 181
Duval Co., 81
Philip, 181
Edgewater, 81
Veronica, 181, 184
Gainesville, 203
Fallert Hollywood, 220
Catherine, 187 Jacksonville, 80, 116
Marie, 180, 181, 184 Marianna, 77
Famille Pasco Co., 97
M., 242 Pasco County, 256
Faris Punta Gorda, 179
Ann, 113 Seminole, 203
Farr St. Augustine, 116
Mrs. Minnie, 91 Trenton, 203
Napoleon A., 91 Zephyrhills, 203
Feeley Foley
Rev. Francis Xavier, 22 Rev. J. T., 166
Ferguson Fontaine
Glenn Lee, 52 Alexander, 234
Lawrence Monroe, 51 Mrs. Mary, 234
Mrs. Emma, 51 Forde
Orville, 51, 52 William, 110
Orville Clark, 52 Forecki
Paul Robert, 52 Peter, 36
Feser Foster
Mrs. Rosalie, 143 Anna Alice, 221
Peter, 143 Chauncey Conger, 221
Festner Louisa, 263
Frederick C., 148 Fox
Field Theresa, 79
Maria, 113 France
Figge Schleltstadt, 161
Antoin, 126 Frederick
Edna E., 196 Mrs. Ida, 33, 38, 39
George A., 196
Fremont Dietershan, 2, 269

Maj. Gen. John C., 135 St. Anna Church, 2
French Village. See River aux Vases Dietershausen, 4, 269, 270
St. Bartholomäus Church, 4, 269
Fried
Dörmsbach, 269
Donald, 184
Freudenberg am Main, 160
Fultman Frisenhausen Cafe Wehner, 270
Philip F., 228 Fulda, 1, 270
Gaboury Fulda Monastery, 2
Laurent, 130 Hanover, 225
Gaines Heidelberg, 212, 213
Allison, 58 Hesse, 1
Mrs. Sarah, 58 Hesse-Cassel, 1, 5
Gamble Hofweier, 161
Hamilton Rowan, 24, 136 Hollerbach, 194
Ganahl Horas, 6, 270
Francis Joseph, 220 Kistof, 269
Genevieve Mary, 220 Oberkirchen, 143
Oberweier, 211
Gannett Oldenburg, 206
Ruth, 179 Peasants’ War, 2
Gantt Tauberbischofsheim, 213
Neva J., 76 Thirty Years’ War, 2
Gebhart Wetter, Hesse, 240
Amelia S., 229 Wörth am Main, 153
Geer Wörth am Rhein, 153
E. W., 242 Giese
Gegg Anna Marie, 81
Joseph, 123, 162 Ginter
Mrs. Victoria, 162 Lewis, 233
Georgia Glesius
Atlanta May, 167
Georgia Regional Hospital, 251 Glisner. Also ‘Clysner’ ‘Glisaner’
Georgia State College, 249 ‘Glimmer’ ‘Chrissener’ ‘Glistner’
St. Pius High School, 252 ‘Grisner’ ‘Klisiner’
Avondale Estates Flora
Avondale High School, 252 birth of, 20
Decatur, 249 Civil War pension application, 117
Agnes Scott College, 251 name of, 20–22
St. Thomas More Church, 251 parents of, 22
Dekalb Co., 249 Johann, 22
Duluth
Duluth High School, 252 Godfrey
White Chapel Cemetery, 251 Harold, 195
Lilburn, 251 Mrs. Elsie, 195
Berkmar High School, 252 Godier
Gepluch Frank., 264
Mary, 36 Golfinopulos
German Settlement. See Zell Anna Marie, 111, 112
Frances T., 111, 112
Germany Katherine Ann, 111, 112
Bad Orb Theodora, 111, 112
Park Hotel Wehner, 270 Theodore, 109, 110, 111
Baden-Württemberg, 160
Bremen, 5 Goyne
Virginia A., 183
Grampp Hamilton
F. W., 51 Margaret, 189
Grass Hampton
Walburga, 220 Julia Anna, 105, 106
Gray Harold
Alexander, 74, 87 Vallee, 133, 145, 146, 147
Alice Elizabeth, 74, 75 Harper
Mrs. Elizabeth, 74, 87 Claiborne A., 190
Green Daniel A., 190, 191, 192
Adam Clark Sr., 173 Edwin Orrin, 190
Charles E., 173 Kathryn L., 190, 191, 192
Georgia F., 173 Millard Augustus, 190
Greenleaf Millard F., 190
Virgil Eugene, 59 Harrell
Wilma Joan, 59 Deborah (‘Debbie’), 253
Greenwell Harris
Henry A., 172 Abraham A., 65
Greer Edwin A., 65
Ida Gladys, 85 Florence, 51
John, 228 Georgia Pauline, 50, 51
Gregg Henry Walter, 51
Rev. Harris H., 74 Hubert A., 65
O. D., 210
Gregory Patricia Ann, 65
Sarah Leah, 179
Peter B., 232
Greminger Ronald L., 65
Franz, 267 Hart
Griffith Aloysis., 191
Jane, 84 Genevieve, 190, 191, 192
Grigné Henry Edward, 191, 192
Julia, 170, 172 Nellie C., 190, 191, 192
Grizzle Hartmann
Mamie B., 201 Anna, 168
Groesch Charles, 168
Agnes (‘Patricia’) F., 74 Frank Jr., 169
Carl T., 74 Frank Sr., 168, 169
Grosse Henry (‘Harry’), 168
Rev. H., 161 Mrs. Marry, 168
Guelthle Hartung
Regina, 257 Georg Josef, 6
Heinrich Joseph, 6
Gum
Johannea, 6
Nettie, 115
Josef. See Hartung, Joseph
Gunn Joseph, 6, 11, 22
Ed, 115
Harvey
William, 115
James Albert, 100, 101
Hahn Paul, 99
John, 230
Hassell
Louise (‘Lulu’), 230, 231, 233
Lizzie Bell, 118
Hall
Hauck
Mary Alice, 186
Louisa Wilhelmina, 207
Halleck Nicholas, 11, 122, 207
Maj. Gen. Henry Wagner, 15 Sophie Rosalie, 215, 240
Haug Hoblin
Joe, 242 Andrea, 59
Heck Lester E., 59
Anna Marie, 194 Lester G., 59
Catherine Barbara, 11, 207 Mark S., 59
Heffernan Mrs. Hazel B., 59
George F., 202 Hoeckele
Heim Catherine Irene, 66
Anna, 34 Charles, 63
Dorothy Elizabeth, 52, 65
Heitman Frances M., 66
John, 187
Franklin Charles, 63
Laurene F., 187
Virginia L., 64, 65
Mrs. Della, 187
Hoffman
Hennemann Edward G., 112
Melvin, 264
Edward William, 112
Virginia R. (‘Ginny’), 264
Michael G., 112
Hertich Theresa M., 112
Augustus Caesar, 210 Thomas G., 112
Charles Joseph Jr., 210 Hofsaes
Charles Sebastian, 217, 218, 234
Meta Marie, 98
Hertwig Honig
John, 175
Jacob, 144
Hessoun Phillip, 144
Rev. Joseph, 30 Hook
Higgins John, 126, 127
John W., 109 Mrs. Phillipina, 127
Melissa, 109, 110, 111 Horton
Mrs. Almira, 109
Gustav A., 167
Hilbert Howard
Amy M., 196
Alice, 87
Ann, 196
Charles, 87
Carl G., 194, 195, 196, 201
Charles Jr., 87
Emil Joseph, 194, 195, 196, 201
Charles Ridgley, 87
John C., 195, 196
Harriet Alice, 87
Karl, 194, 195, 196, 202
James, 87
Michael, 196
Mrs. Mildred, 197 Hubbard
Paul, 197 Lloyd Joseph, 55
Paul J., 194, 195, 201 Hubecky
Rose, 194 Dolores Mary, 196
Steven, 196 William F., 196
Thomas, 196 Huck
Hildebrandt Cletus B., 220
Emma, 118 Francis (‘Frank’) J., 220
Hilton George W., 220
Mary, 228 Georgia Ann, 221
Georgia Maria (‘Sis’), 220
Hinkle Linus Edward, 220, 221
Rosalia, 10
Linus F., 221
Rosella. See Hinkle, Rosalia
Lois Lee, 221
Hinzman Humber
Gary, 180
Emily Hurt, 58
Hundley Marshall, 250

Eugene, 168 Maryville, 108
Hyman Menard Correction Center, 258
Fred, 100 Monroe Co., 228
Almshouse, 228
Iceland
Naplate
Hvalfjordur, 86
Federal Glass, 54
Illinois National City, 171
Adams Co., 213 Old Shawneetown, 10
Bartelso Peoria, 112
St. Cecelia Church, 262 Pike Co., 206, 213
Belleville, 118, 171, 173, 225 St. Clair Co., 118, 171, 221
Elder Manufacturing, 263 Urbana
St. Agnes’s Infirmary, 262 University of Illinois, 250
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, 262 Waterloo, 228
St. John’s Orphanage of Glen Addie, 262 Waukegan, 98, 101
St. Peter’s Cathedral, 262 Will Co., 118
St. Vincent’s Hospital, 262
Imle
Bethalto, 213
Mary Emaline, 250
Cairo, 10
Carbondale, 97 Immer
Carlyle, 213 Ferdinand, 26, 155, 156, 160
Carterville, 97 Louis A., 156
Cave-in-Rock, 10 Mary Ursula, 156
Centreville, 172 Indiana
Chester Bloomington
Elzie C. Segar Memorial Park, 258 Indiana University, 246
Popye statue, 258 Daviess Co., 171
Southern Illinois Penitentiary, 258 Howell, 170
St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, 259 Indianapolis, 255
St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 259 Round Hill Cemetery, 256
Chicago, 92, 95, 98, 101, 192, 193, 226, 229 Stokely-Van Camp factory, 256
Whitehall Hotel, 232 Madison, 7
Collinsville, 108, 172 Terre Haute, 250
East St. Louis, 173 Iowa
Elliot Frog and Switch Company, 170, 173 Guttenberg, 187
Monsanto Chemical Company, 173 North Washington, 183
National Stock Yards, 171 Isenman
St. Elizabeth Parish Church, 170, 171, 172, John Joseph, 160
173 Mary Anna, 235
strikes and race riots, 170 Ursula Charlotte, 154, 155, 156, 160, 161, 235
Edwardsville, 84
Isleb
Evanston, 192
Arthur W., 43
Fairview Heights, 173
Mrs. Anna K., 43
Fort Chartres, 130
Ruth, 43
Freeburg, 100
Fulton Co., 169 Jackson
Granite City, 100, 104, 106, 108, 118 Claiborne Fox, 19, 24
Commonwealth Steel, 108 Gertrude M., 263, 264
Granite City Steel Company, 100 Lucille, 230
Jasper Co., 263 Jacob
Joliet, 118 Franz Killian, 126, 127
Kaskaskia, 130 Mrs. Margaret, 127
Kellogg, 219 James
Madison Co., 99, 169 Frank, 135
Marion Co., 96 Isa, 212
Jesse, 135 Just

Janis Wilhelm, 28
Jules F., 122, 210, 211 Justeson
Jansen Bird, 100
John E., 6 Kai-shek
Janssen General Chiang, 82
Elmer Vernon, 66 Madame Chiang, 82
John (father of Elmer Vernon), 66 Kansas
John (son of Elmer Vernon, 66 Cherryvale
Larry, 66 Edgar Zinc Company smelter, 191
Randa, 66 Crawford Co., 215
Ronald, 66 Kansas City
Tracy, 66 Blessed Sacrament Church, 249
Jaraczewski Employers Liability Insurance Corporation, 248
Amelia (‘Emily’), 36 Leavenworth, 82
Charlotte, 36 St. George, 82
Helen, 36 Karl
Jacob (‘Jack’), 36 Caspar, 123
Jarrard Mrs. Johanna, 123
Emily, 228 Kaths
Eunice, 228 Frederick, 47
Jarrett Mrs. Dorothea, 47
Daniel, 228 Keevil
Jarrot William H., 110
John, 228 Keevins
Jett Ella, 60
Paul J., 84 John, 60
Johnson Thomas E., 60
Bettie R., 70 William (‘Willie’), 60
C. E., 70 Kelley
Carol Clement. See Wilder, Carol Clement James Harlow, 90, 91
Charles P., 217 John Marion, 91
Francois Andre. See Wilder, Francois Andre Rosella, 90–94, 98, 101
Maurice Bernays. See Wilder, Maurice Bernays Kelly
Mrs. Martha, 70 James M., 116
Jokerst Kennedy
Ben, 242 Jack (‘Quail Hunter’) Kennedy, 246
Charles C., 159 Kenrick
Earlyn Marie, 267 Archbishop Peter R., 28
Emma Louisa, 267
Kentucky
Valentine Nicholas, 267
Jefferson Co., 10
Joliet Louisville, 8, 10, 225, 253
Louis, 129 Nazareth Academy, 185
Jones Pine Tree Villa, 245
Anza Melvina, 53 Spalding University, 186
Edwin B., 173 Paducah, 10
Theodocia, 251 Shippingport, 10
Vernon, 223 Kern
Judlin John, 206
Charles Jamarr, 90 Mathew, 141, 206
Charles W., 90 Keser
Gertrude M., 90, 92, 97 Catherine Ann, 257
Mrs. Emelia, 257
Nicholas, 257, 262 Kopp

Nicholas Sr., 257 Rev. Anthony, 12
Kestelik Kortkamp
John A., 37 Oscar Jasper, 115
Kettinger Kotte
Elizabeth R. (‘Betty’), 200 William H., 219
Meinrad J., 200 Krause
Kiefer Laura, 194, 195
Cora Josephine, 60, 61 Valentine, 194
John William, 60 Krodinger
Joseph, 60 Glenda A., 55
Lizzie M., 60 John B., 55
Kieninger Mrs. Minnie, 55
Alma D., 189, 190 Kron
Ella O., 190 Karl, 38
Henry C., 189, 190
Krone
Lula E., 190, 192
Conradine, 39
Nelson Harlan, 189, 190
William M., 189, 190 Kuechenmeister
Mary, 231
Kilian
Charles, 144 Kuehn
Rose C., 201
Kirchner
Christopher, 71 Kunkel
Hilda, 265
Klein
Theresa, 258 Kyle
George, 96
Kleppinger
Jacob, 228 La Salle
René-Robert Cavelier, 129
Kling
Alois, 194, 195 Lang
Rosemarie, 194 August, 259
Rudolph, 194 Margaret (‘Maggie’), 230
William, 194 Marie J., 259
Knamm LaPlante
Henry, 210 Ann Willette, 218
Emanuel Felix Andrew, 218
Knieriem
Peter Felix, 218
Henry, 141
Rosemary Lorraine, 218
Knoke LaRose
Christine H., 267
Jesse Howard, 61, 62
Koberich Mort Harrison, 61, 62
Catherine, 175, 176
Lawick
Koenemann Joseph, 126, 127
William, 207, 208
Lawrence
Kohl Caroline, 154
Fritz, 34 Henry, 154
Loretta J., 34
Leaman
Kolkmeyer Ary, 97
Edward, 167 George Franklin, 97
Frederick, 167
Leat
Katherine, 167, 168
Ursula, 266
Vincent Herman Sr., 167
Vincent Jr., 167 Leavenworth
Virginia, 167 Franklin, 136
LeCompte Manegold
Charles, 210 August, 41
Eloy, 207, 209, 211, 212 Emily (‘Millie’) L., 41
Pierre, 212 Mrs. Henrietta, 41
Lee Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, 219
John, 126 Marks
Merwin Ketcham, 233 Michael, 223
Lenenberger Marmaduke
Mrs. Amelia, 212 Maj. Gen. John S., 18
Leonard Marquette
John, 126 Jacques, 129
Lewis Marshall
William Austin, 179 Jennie, 108
Lilly Martin
Rachel L., 61 Sylvia, 57
Lincoln Maryland
Abraham, 136, 167 Baltimore, 5
Lister Fells Point, 5, 6
Sebastian, 127 Henderson’s Wharf, 5
Littennecher slave trade, 6
Mary Anna, 160 Cumberland, 7
Litzelfelner Massachusetts
Martha T., 189, 190 Bedford, 199
Logan Boston, 82
Jon A., 137 Masters
Louisiana Helen Karen, 81
Baton Rouge, 222 Masterson
Louisiana State University, 222 Sarah, 63
New Orleans, 222 Mathews
Jackson Brewing Company, 221 Lewis H., 71
Standard Brewing Company, 221 Matson
Louisville Harriet, 116
Calvary Cemetery, 253 McCaffery
Lowe James, 114
Simeon Doyle, 179 McClanahan
Luebbers Peter, 242
Anna Mary, 62 McClellan
Lumpp George B., 71
Clara, 98 McCoy
Joseph John, 98 Frank O., 170
Lunsford Margrette, 171
Amos, 123 Raymond F., 170, 171, 173
Mrs. Rachel, 123 McDonald
Luther Bernard, 82
Eveline, 60 Bruce, 82
Lyon Frances, 82
Brig. Gen. Nathaniel, 24 Harold Edward Jr., 83
Lyons Harold Edward Sr., 82, 83
J. L., 261 Joseph, 83
Karen, 83
Madison Maj. John, 135, 136
Robert G., 143
Mark, 82
Mary, 83 Martin, 136, 143, 206–8, 213, 225

Michael, 83 Martina, 214
Patricia, 83 Mary Martha Theresa, 136, 209, 215, 216, 217,
Virginia, 83 218, 221, 222, 223, 240
McFarland Mrs. Hella A. L., 213
Enoch, 114, 116 Mrs. Mary E., 206
Hugh, 114, 116 Rowena Theresa, 267
Walter, 116 Michigan
McKee Berrien Co., 37
Sarah Jane, 53 Detroit, 92, 193
Seth G., 53 Protestant Orphan Asylum, 193
McMillen Hamtramck, 92
Donald Hamilton, 179 South Haven, 71
Lois Kay, 179 Wayne Co., 95
Margaret Ann, 179 Dodge Brothers Automobile Plant, 92
McNeece military
Isaac, 242 Camp Coctquidan, France, 55
Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma, 55
Meblin Camp Funston, Kansas, 55
Amy, 223
Fort Benning, Georgia, 251
Andrew, 223
Fort Bliss, Texas, 251
David B., 222, 223
Fort Jackson, South Carolina, 251
Joseph, 222
Fort McPherson, Georgia, 251
Mrs. Leah, 222
Fort Sill, Lawton, Oklahoma, 185
Meckelburg Great Lakes Naval Training Station, North
Fred, 33, 39 Chicago, 99
Meeks Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, 72
Harold Leroy, 81 Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, 108
Meinberg Mill
Glennon E., 84 John Stuart, 117
Meissner Miller
Clara, 213 Andrew, 122
Melchor Bertha, 38
Rev. Joseph, 11 Edward S., 61
Menard George Washington, 93
Josephine, 260 Joseph E., 61
Louis Charles, 136, 211 Julia E., 93
Mrs. Charles, 210, 211 Leslie Earl, 219
Phillip Edward, 61
Mercurio
Robert C., 61
Charles, 247
Vincent P., 61
Messer William Anton, 219
Mrs. Augusta, 39 William H., 219
Mexico Wilma Antoinette, 212, 219, 220, 221
Monterrey, 253 Minnesota
Meyer Deluth, 37
Alois B., 214 Minneapolis, 253
August G. Jr.. See Meyer, John Martin University of Minnesota, 250
August Guye, 209, 212–14, 215, 221 Misemer
Benno M., 213, 214 Helen P., 172
Bernard C., 206, 213, 214
Mispagel
Clara Eleanora, 209, 212, 221
F. J., 194
Edgar Anthony, 267
John Fred, 206, 213 Missouri
John Martin, 215, 221 Arcadia Valley, 13
Audrain Co. Belleview, 113

Mexico, 199 Graniteville, 108
Boone Co. Ironton, 96, 113, 155
Columbia St. Marie du Lac Catholic Church, 103
University of Missouri, 59, 222 Middlebrook, 93, 123, 154, 155
Butler Co. Seitz Bewery, 123, 155
Poplar Bluff, 160 Minimum, 91
Callaway Co. Pilot Knob Iron Company, 14, 16, 26, 103,
Fulton 122, 135
State Hospital No. 1, 168 Iron Mountain, 13
Cape Girardeau, 105, 248 Jackson Co.
Cape Girardeau Kansas City, 72
St. Francis Medical Center, 221 Hotel Kupper, 72
Cape Girardeau Co. Jefferson Co.
Cape Girardeau, 8, 10–11, 22 American Plate Glass Company, 47
Central High School, 247 Crystal City, 48, 96, 220, 221
Riverside West Builder Supply Company, Crystal City Hotel, 112
244 Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, PPG, 47,
Southeast Missouri State Teachers 48, 49, 51, 53, 54, 55, 57, 60, 61, 62,
College, 245, 246, 247, 263 65, 105, 109, 220, 221, 257
Southeast Missouri State University, 245 Sacred Heart Church, 60, 62
St. Vincent de Paul Parish, 22 Festus, 48, 96, 104, 109, 112, 199
St. Vincent’s Church, 11, 22 Dorsey’s Drugstore, 55
Jackson, 10 Festus Mercantile Company, 63
Wagner’s Bakery, 63 Jefferson Memorial Hospital, 53
Pocahontas, 189 Milius Shoe Factory, 51
Cole Co. Hillsboro, 203
Jefferson City, 167 Jefferson County Hospital, 198
Commerce, 221 Liguori
Crawford Co. Liguori Publications, 221
Cherryville, 64 Tanglefoot, 48
Huzzah, 64 Kansas City, 249
Leasburg, 18 Laclede Co.
Steelville, 64 Lebanon, 114, 199
Crqawford Co., 114 Wehner’s Bakery, 200
Dent Co., 114 lead mining, 91
Flat River District, 92 Madison Co., 14
Franklin Co. Fredericktown, 146
Labadie, 188 Madison Iron and Mining Company, 14
Union, 18 Maries Co.
Gasconade Co. Belle, 84
Hermann, 23 Mark Twain National Forest, 64
Greene Co. Missouri Iron Company, 13
Springfield, 115 Nodaway Co., 261
Iron Perry Co.
Arcadia Altenberg, 131
Arcadia College and Academy of the Brewer, 200
Ursuline Sisters for Young Ladies, Frohna, 131
102, 156 Perryville, 63
Iron Co., 13, 14, 95 Hoeckele’s Bakery, 63
Arcadia Perry County Memorial Hospital, 200
Chapel of the Ursuline Convent and St. Mary’s of the Barrens Seminary, 22
Academy, 155, 156 Wittenberg, 131, 246, 247
St. Joseph’s Church, Arcadia College, 102 Wittenberg School, 247
Ursuline Academy for Young Ladies, 156 Phelps Co., 166
Pike Lemay Township, 176, 178

Bowling Green, 225 Mehlville, 84
Pulaski Co., 84 Pasadena Hills, 82
Laquey, 188 Pine Lawn
racism, 137 Hilbert’s Bakery, 195, 197, 201
Ralls Co., 116 University City
Reynolds All Saints Church, 112
Ellington, 95 Webster Groves, 190
Reynolds Co., 93, 95 Wellston, 86
Centerville, 96 Ste. Genevieve Co.
Scott Co., 11, 160, 221 Bloomsdale, 187, 242
Benton, 11 Chestnut Ridge, 126
St. Denis Parish, 11 Coffman, 131
Diehlstadt Jonca, 126
Diehlstadt High School, 245, 246 Lawrenceton, 126
Ilmo, 246 Mill, 126
Rockview, 173 Millers, 126
Shepherd Mountain, 17 New Bourbon, 143
St. Charles New Bremen, 131
St. Charles, 223 New Offenburg, 121, 122, 123, 131, 155,
St. Charles Co., 152 160, 161, 187, 206, 235, 236
St. Peters, 153 Anvil Saloon, 265
All Saints Church, 154 Ozora
St. Francois Sacred Heart Church, 199
Elvins, 219 Punjaub, 126
Miller Hotel, 219 Quarry Town. See Quarrytown
St. Francois Co., 114 Quarrytown, 147, 148
Bismarck, 212 River aux Vases, 161
Bonne Terre, 51, 55, 64 Rocky Ridge, 126
Farmington, 121, 126, 242 Seitz & Company Brewery, 122, 123, 236
Carter and Clardy law firm, 146 Sprott, 126
State Hospital No. 4, 96, 106 St. Mary, 264
Flat River, 90, 91, 93 St. Mary High School, 245, 246
Federal Lead Company, 92 St. Mary’s Mill Company, 188
Iron Mountain, 121 Thurman, 126
Iron Mountain Company, 122, 135 Union Towship, 126
Park Hills, 91 Weingarten, 121, 122, 124, 126, 131, 160,
St. Francois Mountains, 13 161, 205, 206, 225, 234
St. Louis Co. Our Lady Help of Christians Church, 160
Affton POW internment camp, 198
St. George Catholic Church, 177 Zell, 123, 131, 160, 161, 184, 257
Allenton, 115, 116 St. Joseph’s Church, 160, 161, 200, 234,
Arnold, 218 235
Bel-Ridge, 84 Stoddard Co.
Chesterfield, 112, 168 Puxico, 246
Clayton, 69, 85, 97, 115 Wayne Co.
Eureka, 115 Fairfield, 221
Fenton, 84 Missouri, Reynolds Co., 96
Ferguson, 82, 83 Mitchell
Florissant, 172, 196 Elmer E., 227
Kirkwood John, 228
Downtown Kirkwood Historic District, Theodore, 227, 228, 229
192
Kirkwood Bakery, 192
Monroe
Lillie Mae, 76
McArthur’s Bakery, 192
Mrs Willie B., 76
William Henry, 76 Naumann

Moon Anna Mary, 240
Edward Lee, 62 Charles Joseph, 215
Gertrude Mary, 61, 62 Christian (‘Chris’), 215
Irene Josephine, 62 Christian Louis, 215
Moreau Estella Rose Genevieve (‘Stella’), 242
Paul, 244 George A., 215
Leona Mary, 122, 147, 240, 242, 243, 244, 245
Morrison
Louis Joseph, 141, 147, 207, 215, 240, 241, 242
Sarah Angeline, 96
Oliver Charles Nicholas, 215
Mosby Rosemary M., 217, 218, 221
Earl Wesley, 75 William George, 215, 218, 240
Mrs. Tallent Neidhard
Josephine, 115 Johanna, 221
Mueller New Jersey
Francisca, 180 Aldene
Mühl Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, 218
Eduard, 23 Hoboken
Müller Meyer’s Hotel, 213
Caspar Franz, 3 Little Falls, 218
Flora, 2 Newark, 218
Margareta (or ‘Margaretha’ ‘Margarethe’ New Mexico, 216
‘Margarete’), 22 Albuquerque
Maria, 3 Manzano Day School, 250
Mund St. Pius X High School, 250
Amena (‘Minnie’), 105 University of New Mexico, 250
Bertholda (‘Bertha’), 105 Fort Stanton, 58
Caroline, 28 Marine Hospital, 58
Clara, 28 Las Tablas, 263
Clara E., 105 Las Vegas, 90
Elias, 28, 105 New York
Emma W., 105 Brooklyn, 232
Frederick, 105 Buffalo, 83
Ida, 105 St. Joseph’s Church, 12
Idell, 105 Cazenovia, 109
John Louis, 105, 106 Millbrook
Joseph, 105 Daheim mansion, 232
Julius, 105 New York
Lizzie, 105 Mrs. Spence’s School, 232
Ludwig (‘Louis’ or ‘Lewis’) Theodor, 105 Pompey, 109
William, 105 Newman
Murphy Leo, 247
Bertram, 245 newspapers
James Joseph, 36 Fair Play, 133, 137, 145, 146, 147, 150, 242,
Kathryn (‘Catherine,’ ‘Catharine’) A., 36, 37 253
Myers Fredericktown Plaindealer, 146
Ruby, 188 Hermanner Wochenblatt, 23
Naeger Iron County Register, 46
Marian, 123 Jefferson County Republican, 51
Natoli Milwaukee Advance, 31
Frieda M., 97 Milwaukee Reformer, 31
Grace Santa, 97 Milwaukee Sentinel, 33
Joseph, 97 National Advance, 31
National Reformer, 31
Ste. Genevieve Beobachter, 133 Josephinum Roman Catholic Seminary, 154

Ste. Genevieve Herald, 133, 145, 146, 162, 211, Dayton, 199
242 Salem, 31
Sun, Greenville, Illinois, 146 Tiffin, 179
Nickens Okenfuss
Harlan Sander, 100 Vera, 266
Mildred Louise, 99, 100, 101 Oklahoma
Nickerl Fairfax, 263
Betty, 213 Hominy, 263
Nix Land Run of 1889, 181
Helen, 75 Midwest City
Isaac L., 76 Douglas Aircraft, 186
Noce Mustang Township, Oklahoma Co., 181
Charles David, 53 Oklahoma City, 98, 184, 188
Grace Minnie, 53 Bachle Realty Company, 187
Mary Ann, 53 Bachle’s By The Fire, 184, 186, 187
Rolando, 53 Central High School, 185, 186, 187
Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 185
North Carolina Eckroat Seed Company, 186
Asheville
Kathryn Lipe’s Inc., 186
Bingham Military Academy, 58
Oklahoma Wire and Iron Works, 181, 184,
Durham
185, 186
American Tobacco Company, 233
Saratoga Hotel, 182
Winston Salem, 97
St. Joseph Old Cathedral, 186
Nova Scotia Osage Co., 263
Antigonish, 82 Oldham
Halifax, 55
Edgar Franklin, 52
O’Brien John R., 52
Annie, 71 Oldrin
Mariah, 256
John, 233
O’Reilly Operle
Rev. T. V., 227
Frederick L., 212
O’Shea Walter Joseph, 242
Mary A., 107 organizations
Oberle American Federation of Labor, 31
William, 265, 266 Czech-Slavonic Benevolent Association, 178
Wilma B. (‘Sis’). IndexWalterWehner Democratic Party, 32
Obermiller Greenback Party, 31
W., 136 Knights of Columbus, 244
Oces Knights of Labor, 31
Joseph, 262 National Academy of Television Arts and
Mary Ann (‘Minnie’), 257, 261, 262, 263 Sciences, 223
Mrs. Emelia, 262 Poor Handmaids of Christ, 262
Nicholas. See Keser, Nicholas Populist Party, 32
Ohio Sisters of Loretto, 132
Ashland Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondolet, Missouri,
Ashland Chemical Inc., 188 132
Belmont Co., 179 Southeast Missouri Firefighters Association,
Canton, 229 244
Cincinnati, 7, 117, 153 St. Louis Coopers Union, 31
City Hospital, 117 Otte
St. Michael’s Church, 12 Mary A., 196
Cleveland, 31 Overman
Columbus, 180 Barbara J., 84
Packard Phelan
Barbara Mary, 38, 41 Harriet, 36
James, 41 Phillips
Theodore (‘Ted’) Edward, 40, 41 Henry D., 26
Palmer Mary A., 97
Alexander (‘Alex’) Drobnak, 192, 193 Wilbur, 96
Argena R., 199 Picker
Daniel, 193 Rev. Frederick, 178
Eleanore, 193 Pilot Knob, 14, 13–19, 92, 93, 96, 102–4,
Janet (‘Jan’) Jean, 189, 192, 193
112, 113, 155
John, 193
Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, 17, 27,
Kelvin Marc, 193
49, 50, 63
William M., 199
mining, 15
Panter mount, 14
Magdelena, 143 St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 17, 52, 55, 102,
Pastion 103, 106, 108, 109, 119
Peter, 144 Poland
Patek Tychowo, 193
Frank, 54 Ponder
Patrick Emma E., 259
Eileen Ida, 85 Pope Gregory XVI, 117
Walter Charles Sr., 85
Porter
Patterson James M., 53
John, 123
Potts
Peas Alice Lula, 172
Anna M., 261
Preuss
Pease Rev. Joseph, 219
Augustus, 13
Price
Pennsylvania Maggie, 71, 72
Brownsville, 7 Maj. Gen. Sterling, 15, 16, 18, 19
Erie, 90, 98, 99 Martha J., 71
Nagle Engine and Boiler Works, 90
Puerto Rico
Erie Co., 89
San Juan, 168
Johnstown, 257, 262
Monongahela Navigation Company, 7 Purcell
Philadelphia Bishop John Baptist, 12
Jay Cooke & Company, 144 Racine
Pittsburgh, 7, 8 Julia E., 169, 170
Fisher Body Division, General Motors, 179 Toussaint, 170, 172
Williamsport, 236 railroads
Perry Baltimore and Ohio (B&O), 7
Eugene Ayers, 185 Centralia and Ste. Genevieve Railroad, 235
Jeanne K., 185, 186 Chester, Perryville & Ste. Genevieve Railway,
Peterson 152
Mr., 148 Illinois Southern Railroad, 152, 219, 243, 259
Iron Mountain and Southern, 108
Petrequin
Louisville and Nashville (‘L&N’) Railroad, 170
Charles, 131, 235, 237
Missouri, Kansas and Texas (‘MK&T’)
Felix A., 235, 243
Railroad, 84, 167
Jules, 131
New York Central Railroad, 256
Petterson Southern Railroad, 172
Armella, 265 St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad, 14, 16,
Pfeffermann 25, 121, 127, 149, 212
Eva Regina, 3
St. Louis and San Francisco (‘Frisco’) Railroad, Russell George, 170, 172
152, 246 Thomas, 172
St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas, 78 Richter
Texas and St. Louis Railroad, 152 Henry, 28
to Ste. Genevieve, 150, 152 Ridenhour
Rains Etha M., 84
Jeff F., 95 William A., 84
Mary, 95 Ridgeway
Ramsey Bessie, 85
Robert G., 90 Charles Frank, 85
Rapp Edith, 85
Modest and Malinda, 28 Edward, 85
Rasberry Ethel, 85
Flora, 221 Georgia L., 85
Rauenzahn Herbert, 85
Adam, 126, 127 James, 85
Mary F., 86
Rehm Mrs. Julia, 85
Harry Edward, 260, 261
Robert, 85
Reich Thomas Benton, 85, 86
Anton, 242 Thomas Jr., 85
Reighert Ridgley
Ludwig and Frances, 28 Hattie, 87
Reline Ritter
Edward A., 179 Mrs., 244
Martha Elisabeth, 179 Roberts
Reuss Gladys, 100
Dora, 265 Robinson
Reynolds Henry, 148
Thomas Caute, 19 Julia Ann, 71
Rhode Island Robert, 148
Quonset Point, 86 Rochel
Richard Art, 38
Caroline, 102 Roehrs
Francis (‘Frank’), 102 Estella (‘Stella’) M., 113
Mary Savina, 102 Martin Christopher, 113
Richards Roetger
Arthur Julius, 170, 171–72 Rev. J. B., 61
Carol Jean, 173 Roosevelt
George Osmond, 169, 170
Franklin D., 129
Gerald G. (‘Jerry’), 172
Helen, 170–71, 173 Roth
James V., 170, 173 Catherine V., 200
John V., 169 Rottler
Joseph, 185 August H., 201
Lucian Osmond, 169 Catherine, 235, 237, 244, 248, 254, 255, 257
Lucille Emma, 185 Elizabeth, 123
Marcia, 173 Mary Ann, 123
Marie Theresa, 170, 173 Sophia M., 216
Michael, 172 Theola A. (‘Tootie’), 201
Mrs. Sarah, 169 Theresa Elisabeth, 237
Paul V., 172 Valentine, 123, 141, 201, 209, 210, 211, 216,
Roger, 173 235, 236
Ronald, 173
Rozier Evelyn C., 35

Charles, 156 Gottfried, 31
Felix, 127, 210, 211, 217 Harriet, 37
Fermin A., 135, 156 Herman, 39
Frances (‘Frank’) A., 218 Mary Ann, 34
Francis, 127 Millie, 41
Henry L., 217, 235 Nellie F., 35, 36
Louis Jules Jr., 218 Ottielie, 31, 39
Louis Jules Sr., 218 Robert A. (‘Bobby’), 43
Mary Lucille, 234 Robert and Clara
Ruck children of, 33
Cecelia Katherine, 167 deaths of, 33
Robert Jacob, 34
Rudolph
Robert Jr., 42
J. G., 133
Robert Sr.
Ruebsam birth of, 31
Adam, 123 in Salem, Ohio, 67
Rueff labor leader, 32
Jane, 253 marriage to Clara Christina Wehner, 30
Russell milk business, 38
John A., 229 occupations, 31
Parker Campbell, 229, 230 spiritualism, 32, 39
Robert J., 229, 230 Robert William, 34
Samuel Campbell, 229, 230 Suzanne, 43
Shirley, 230 Vernon R., 43
William, 230 Walter Leo, 37, 38, 41, 67
Rutherford William Oscar, 41
Benjamin C., 50 Schirman
Ryan Florentine, 147, 148
Jeremiah, 71 Schlesselmann
Thomas J., 97 H. W., 49
Samuels Schlueter
Herman L., 42 Josepha, 154
Sauter Schmelzel
Ruth, 166 Lena, 227
Schaaf Schmitz
Cecelia Anna, 218 Amy Ann, 188
Schatte Eric M., 188
Johanne, 105 Evelyn Lucille, 188
Scherer Ferdinand, 25
Amanda R., 106 Gladys V., 188
Joseph, 106, 108 Margaret A., 188
Mary Lee, 188
Schiller William John, 188
Elizabeth (‘Lizzie’) M., 34 William Mark, 188
Schilling William R., 188
Albert L., 34 Schneider
Alice, 39 Alloys, 154
Arthur Peter, 36, 37 Clara
Caroline, 35 birthplace, 270
Clara H., 42 death, 158
Clara Jeanette (‘Tootie’), 38, 39, 40, 41, 67 grandmother of Julia Elvina, 253
E. Thomas, 35 grandmother of Martha Catherine Wehner,
Edward A., 35 205
Edward W., 34
grocery store, 158 Siebert

immigration, 6 Bernard, 103, 105
marriage, 6, 11 Cathy, 108
Pilot Knob, 14 Clarence J., 102, 112
roots, 152–54 Clarence Valentine, 20, 103, 104, 109, 112
will, 156, 158, 234 Daniel G., 108
Joseph, 6, 154, 158 David, 109
Mrs. Rosine, 143 Dorothy Elizabeth, 113
Peter, 143 Edward Anthony, 103, 106, 107, 118
Theresia, 6, 152, 154, 158 Edward Elmer, 107
Schofield Emma, 102
Brig. Gen. John A., 25 Frank J., 109
Schonhoff Frank P. III, 109, 112
Leo Clements, 112 Frank Peter Jr., 102, 103, 108, 109, 112, 118
Leo J., 112 Frank Peter Sr., 103, 102–4
George W., 107
Schrempp
H. L., 253
Rev. Vincent, 197
Helen Nellie Louise, 103, 109
Schroeder James J., 107
P. H., 236 Jane, 107
Schuler Jean, 107
Joseph L., 257 Joan, 107
Schulz John G., 107
Johanna, 31, 39 Joseph, 253
Schweigert Joseph Paul, 108
Mary Magdalena, 199 Judith M., 108
Schweiss Justina, 102
Henry, 205 Louis (, 102, 103, 113
Louis L., 103, 104
Schwent Louis L. (son of Anna Wehner), 28, 118
Aloysius, 205 Marie, 108
Irma, 266 Mary A., 108
Seiter Michael, 108, 154, 155
William A., 85 Nellie Louise, 71, 118
Seitz Patricia Anna, 108
Joseph Sr., 123 Raymond, 107
Michael, 123, 155 Scot, 113
Thomas, 123, 155 Tim, 113
Valentine, 207, 208, 210, 211 William (‘Bill’) Franklin Jr., 113
Sexauer William C., 103, 104, 112, 113
George, 159 Silcourt
Shaw Carrie M., 219
Benjamin, 156 Silvia
Mrs. Emilie (‘Mammy’) Shaw, 156 Martinie. See Sylvia Martin
Shelby Sims
Brig. Gen. Joseph O., 18, 19 James, 143
Shelton Singleton
David C., 71, 109, 117, 118 Arthur William, 78
Emma, 118 Bruce Lee, 78
Sherlock Emmett F., 78
Phil, 148 William Leon, 78
Shrum Siracusa
Mary Elizabeth, 93 Ernest J., 57
Gregory, 57
Jim, 57 Columbia Transfer Company, 172

Lori, 57 Commercial Rating Company, 80
Stefano, 57 Cone Mills, 209
Susan, 57 Curtiss Wright Aircraft, 82, 83
slavery Edgar Zinc Company, 191
in Missouri, 19, 23 Employers Liability Insurance Corporation, 248
Sloan Falstaff Brewery, 231
William, 51 Famous-Barr Company, 90
Fischer Flour Company, 163
Smendzik Flavorite Products, 172
Adeline C., 36
Ford Motor Company, 248
Smith Glasco Electric Company, 169
Gerald Earl, 256 Harry L. Yawitz Realty Company, 83
Henry, 133 Henry G. Vreeland & Son, 167
John S., 256 J. J. Wiedmann Cigar Box Company, 213
Lester Carl, 256 Joseph B. Schuster’s Pharmacy, 230
Orison S. Sr., 256 Louis H. Bopp Funeral Chapel, 215
Orison Scribener Jr., 256 McDonald Aircraft Corporation, 79
Smyth McDonald and Wilson Sales Company, 83
Anne Josephine, 108 Meco Tools, 86
Snow Mercantile Bank, 74
Harvey, 109 Mercantile National Bank, 90
Susan, 109 Meyer Pfitzinger Funeral Directors Inc., 215
South Carolina National Bank of Commerce, 74
Florence, 179 Nelson’s Bake Shop, 190
Pevely Dairy Company, 203
South Dakota
Rice, Stix, & Company, 85
Aberdeen, 72
Roadrunner Express, 86
Mobridge, 72
Sachs Electric Company, 201
Brown Palace, 72
Snipen Motor Company, 191
St. Gem St. Louis Screw Company, 117
Capt. Gustavus, 136 Stanley-Melvin Bootery, 172
St. Gemme Union-May-Stern, 80
Augustine, 210, 211 Wehner Bake Shop, 189
St. Louis Well Kalter Company, 81
businesses Western Union, 87
Fisher Auto Body, 267 Willcockson Motors, 179
St. Louis Altenheim, 226 churches
St. Louis City, 8, 82, 92, 114 Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, 111
1896 tornado, 174 Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church, 194
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (‘World’s Cathedral Basilica, 108, 252
Fair’), 165 Church of St. Ann, 79
1904 Summer Olympics, 165 Friedens Church, 69
Benton Park West, 202 Gethsemane Lutheran Church, 190
Bohemian Hill, 30, 174, 177, 178 Holy Ghost Church, 194
Bohemian National Hall, 178 Methodist Episcopal Church South, 51
businesses Old Cathedral of St. Louis, 71
A. W. Siekburg’s saloon, 229 Saint John Nepomuk Church, 21, 30, 174
Baldwin Piano, 70 Saints Peter and Paul Church, 257
Benjamin Ansehl, 85 Saints Teresa and Bridget Church, 90, 202
Blue Line Chemical Company, 231 St. Agnes Catholic Church, 261
Bolle’s Pharmacy, 230 St. Alphonsus Church, 79
Casa Loma Ballroom, 83, 85 St. Anthony Catholic Church, 197
Chrysler Corporation, 188 St. Cronan Church, 112
Citizens Railway Company, 68
St. Francis DeSales Catholic Church, 167, Mildred Susan (‘Sue’), 179, 180
187 Ste. Genevieve
St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, 231 Bicentennial Pageant, 129, 135
St. Kevin’s Church, 166 Board of Education, 246
St. Leo Church, 85 Board of Trade, 235
St. Malachi’s Church, 217 Brass Band, 216
St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church, Business League, 244
230 businesses
St. Vincent de Paul Church, 260 Anvil Saloon, 159, 265
St. Vincent’s Church, 170 Citizens Electrical Company, 200
Washington Avenue Presbyterian Church, 74 City Mills, 141, 143, 157, 159, 163, 164,
circa 1900, 165 188, 198, 211, 225, 229, 235
City Sanitarium, 229 Cone Mills, 141, 146, 149, 150, 162, 163,
French Town, 174 207, 208, 211, 212, 225, 237
Holy Angels Church, 227 Eagle Saloon, 139, 144–45, 159, 235, 237
hospitals Elder Manufacturing (‘the shirt factory’),
Alexian Brothers Hospital, 176 256, 257, 258, 263, 264, 265
City Hospital, 229 EZ Way Auto Supply, 266
City Hospital No. 2, 223 G. H. Arthur bakery, 198
City Sanitarium, 115 Gambrinus Hall Saloon, 159
Jefferson Barracks Hospital, 258 Inn St. Gemme Beuvais, 211
Josephine Heitkamp Memorial Hospital, 214 Janis and Valle Store, 122, 211
Lutheran Hospital, 48, 190 Main Street Bakery, 266
Smallpox Hospital, 68 Main Street Saloon, 159
St. John’s Hospital, 220 Mauntel, Borgess, and Company, 209
St. Louis Infirmary, 115, 167 Meyer Novelty and Millinery Shop, 214
State Hospital, 229 Meyer’s Hotel, 144, 159, 209–12, 216, 217,
U.S. Veterans Hospital, 179 219, 221, 229
hotels Mississippi Lime Company, 267
Holland Hotel, 72 N. Wehner & Son, 141, 150, 234
Illinois Hotel, 71 Nicholas Wehner hotel, 144
New St. Clair Hotel, 71 Nicholas Wehner’s Summer Garden, 137,
Pines Hotel, 72 145, 159
Rob Roy Hotel, 79 Old Brick House Restaurant, 267
Missouri Veteran’s Home, 85 Rozier & Jokerst, 217
schools and colleges Show-me Shop, 263
Bessed Sacrament Grade School, 85 Ste. Genevieve Branch, Merchants Bank of
Blewett High School, 82, 85 St. Louis, 135
Cathedral Basilica Grade School, 253 Ste. Genevieve Brewery, 141, 211, 235, 236
Christian Brothers College, 234 Ste. Genevieve Brewing and Lighting
Fontbonne College, 218 Association, 216, 235, 236
Rosati Kane High School, 253 Ste. Genevieve Lumber and Realty
St. Joseph’s Academy, 218 Company, 235, 243, 267
St. Louis University, 252 Ste. Genevieve Savings and Loan
Washington University, 107, 199, 248 Association, 198, 244
Webster College, 250, 251 Union Hall Saloon, 159
St. Louis City Insane Asylum, 115 Wehner & Bolle, 143, 150, 225
St. Louis Poor House, 115 Wehner’s Bakery, 198, 266
Ursuline Convent, 156 Wilder Brothers, General Merchants and
Staab Traders, 216, 217
Phillip and Laura, 28 childhood illness, 205
Philomina, 60 Church of Ste. Genevieve, 132, 157, 161, 167,
Stanton 180, 188, 194, 198, 201, 219, 221, 223, 229,
Camille J., 216 235, 240, 245, 248, 249, 250, 254, 258, 264,
Edward P., 179 267
Civil War, 134–37, 138 Stelter

Cone Mills Explosion, 207–8 Selma, 266
DuRocher’s Addition, 143, 162 Stetson
E&G Bakery, 264 Clarence Jacob, 80, 81
Fire Department, 198
Stokely
French settlement, 130
James, 256
German immigration, 131–32
John, 256
Girl’s Parochial School, 166, 168
Grant Park Common Field, 162 Stoll
Home Bakery, 260, 261, 264 Anna Katie, 60, 61
Home Light & Water Company, 260 Michael (‘Mike’), 60
lime production, 131, 132, 218 Stretch
Mississippi River landing, 120 Marjorie, 107
origins, 129–31 Patrick Joseph, 107
patent medicines, 205 Striebel
Riversides Baseball Club, 216 Raymond, 42
slaves in, 134, 135 Stuart
Ste. Genevieve High School, 199, 245, 246, Ann, Queen of England, 117
252, 261, 265, 266 Stuckel
Ste. Genevieve Hotel, 244 Mary, 178
steamboat accidents, 149
steamboats, 120, 121, 144, 149 Sucher
the Big Field, 130 Anton, 187
Toni's Bakery Inc., 264 Elizabeth, 187
Tony’s Bakery, 264 John F., 187
Union Hall, 216 Joseph, 187
Wehner Bakery, 261, 264 Julia, 187
Wilder’s Amateur Minstrels, 216 Magdelin C. (‘Lena’), 187, 188
Ziegler’s Addition, 143, 162 Mary R., 187
Mary T., 187
Ste. Genevieve, Iron Mountain, and Pilot Nora Louisa, 187
Knob Plank Road, 120–22 Peter Leon, 187
Midway Station, 122 Peter Paul, 187
sawmills, 122 Theresa R., 187
steamboats Summers
accidents, 149 Anna Marguerite (‘Pugs’), 247, 248
Anchor Packet Company, 217 Barbara Eloise, 245, 249, 251
Doctor Franklin II, 149 Cape Girardeau Co.
Eagle Packet Company, 150, 217 Delta, 246
Fannie Tatum, 149 Dale Winston, 246–49
General Pike, 149 John William Jr. (‘Pete’), 247, 248
New Orleans, 7 John William Sr., 246, 248
St. Louis, Ste. Genevieve, and Chester Packet, Mary Frances, 239, 245, 249, 250
149 Michael Franklin (‘Mike’), 247
Tennessee Packet Company, 217 Mildred Katherine (‘Mid’), 247
travel, 9 Robert Alan, 251
Steffen Sundgaard
Marie, 81 Amos O., 199
Stegmeyer Jean, 199
Elizabeth, 74 Svelich
Stehle Peter J., 255, 256
Rev. Nicholas, 20, 22 Tallent
Steinhauser Birdie, 115
Floritha. See Glisner, Flora Charles C., 115
Christophor E., 115
Elisha, 114 William, 35

Henry, 115 Timmermann. See Timmerman
John B., 114, 115, 116 Timothy, 98
Julia A., 114, 115, 116
Lucinda, 114
Tipton
Blanch G., 188
Mary (daughter of Thomas), 114, 115
Mary (of Hamilton County, Tennessee), 114 Tlapek
Mrs. Hattie A., 115 Charles J. (‘Bud’), 243
Pearl, 116 John J. Jr., 235, 243
Thomas A., 114, 115, 116 John J. Sr., 150, 235
Thomas Jr., 114 Tower
William Henry, 114, 115 James, 190
Tapscott Trask
Glenn Daniel, 250 Albert L., 64
Robert Edwin, 250 Charles S., 64
Taylor David, 65
Kelley G., 248 Jerry Wayne, 64
Tebeau Joseph Spain, 64
Kate, 65
Clarence J. Jr., 203
Kerri, 65
Clarence J. Sr., 203
Mona (daughter of Joseph), 65
Gerianne Rose, 203
Mona E. (daughter of Wayne), 64
Mrs. Marie, 203
Wayne E., 64, 65
Tennessee
Dyersburg, 70
Treaty of Paris, 130
Hamilton Co., 114 True
Memphis, 70 Della M., 256
Terry Truman
Carlyle Marshall, 232, 233 Harry S., 105
Columbus F., 232 Sarah, 66
Eugene P., 232 Uding
Mrs. Adelaide L., 232 Ada Rosina, 267
Texas Utah
Bowie Co., 75 Sandy, 78
El Paso Utech
Employers Liability Insurance Corporation, 249 Albert J., 35
Loretto Academy, 249, 251 Dorothea (also ‘Dorothy’) A., 35
Fort Worth, 101 Vaeth
Laredo, 100 Anna Barbara, 160, 161
Laredo Gunnery School chapel, 100 Anna R., 221
Texarkana, 73, 75, 78 Anton Dominic, 161
Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant, 76 Bernard, 161
Thomas David, 265
Frances (‘Fanny’) A., 82 Felix A. Sr., 184
Thomure George J.. Sr., 184
M. J., 216 John Joseph, 161, 184
Throm Joseph, 265
Anna, 194, 195 Josephine, 161
Marie, 194 Julia P., 220
Michael, 194 Mary, 155, 161
Timmerman Pauline, 161
Peter Andrew (III), 161
Arthur William. See West, Arthur William
Peter Andrew Jr., 155, 160, 161
Mrs. Marie, 35
Peter Andrew Sr., 160
Walter, 35
Regina Agnes, 161
Rosina, 156, 160, 161 Allen & Ginter, 233

Theresa, 154, 156, 161, 164, 165, 265 Voelkner
Vallé Frances, 191
Felix, 157 Vogel
François, 130, 131, 134 Margarita, 154
Jean Baptiste, 157 Vogler
Louis Bert, 122, 139 Joseph, 98
Mrs. Odile, 157
Vorst
Van Camp Myrtle Leona, 266
Gilbert, 256
Mrs. Hester, 256
Vreeland
Ethel, 233
Van Doren Henry, 167
J. Livingston, 13
Wagner
Van Tourenhout James Edward (‘Jack’), 35
Rev. Charles L., 157, 161, 176, 180, 215, 219, Raymond J. Sr., 35
220, 221, 240, 245, 264 Raymond Jene (‘Gene’) Jr., 35
Van Willigen Wallace
Gilbert, 42 Asenath A., 71
Henry, 42
James H., 42
Walraven
Sarah Ethel, 78
Marie Claire, 42
Mrs. Marie, 42 Ward
Sander Jr., 42 George, 115
Sander Sr., 42 Wardlow
Vanderbilt Jane A., 171
Alfred, 233 Washington
Vandevelde Seattle
Bishop James, 12 Continental Van Lines, 168
vessels Washington DC, 168
Bark Johann Kepler, 31 Church of the Pilgrims, 59
Barque Virginia, 6, 11 George Washington University, 59
S.S. Belgenland, 46 Waters
S.S. Hansa, 152 Barbara Frances, 81
S.S. Munchen, 194 Floyd, 81
S.S. Noordam, 194 Patty, 80
SS Lapland, 54 Theodore, 81
U.S.S. Hobby, 97 Vernon Kenneth, 79, 80, 81
U.S.S. President Adams, 99 Watters
USS Gosper, 83 Edwin O., 49
USS Kalinin Bay, 83 Louisa Anna Henriette Albertina (‘Mary’), 49,
USS. Albemarle, 86 50
USS. Franklin, 86 Wehner
Wanderer, 247 Aaron Michael, 253
Wasp Aircraft Carrier, 53 Albert (of Louisville), 10
Vetrovsky. See Wetteroff Albert A. (‘Junior’), 259
Vinson Albert Frank, 52, 65
Bertha S., 96 Albert Joseph, 50, 258–59
Virginia Alita, 188
Charlottesville Amalia (‘Mollie’) M., 17, 89–90, 92, 93, 96
University of Virginia, 58 death certificate, 20
Portsmouth marriage record, 20, 22
U.S. Naval Hospital, 86 Ann B., 192
Richmond Ann Louise (daughter of Lawrence Leonard), 201
Ann Marie, 267
Anna (daughter of Lorenz), 112 Frank A. (son of Lawrence Leonard), 201

deed of trust, 28 Frank Joseph, 60, 61
life, 102–4 Frank Leon, 61, 62
Anna Margaret, 169–70, 170 Frederick Lawrence, 52, 53
Anna Maria, 2, 3 Frederick R., 53, 55
Annette Marie (daughter of Lawrence Leonard), Gary L., 57
201 Genevieve, 195, 196, 201
Arthur Julius, 55–57 George A. (son of August George), 199
Arthur Ward, 57 George Nicholas, 165, 187–88, 198
August George, 198, 199 Gilbert Louis, 198, 199
August Peter, 158, 165, 168, 189, 194, 197–98, Gregory Paul, 267
199, 201 Henry Charles, 260–61, 264, 266, 267
Barbara (daughter of Lawrence Leonard), 201 Ida Bertha Ursula, 180, 184, 185, 188
Bernard Elmer, 51 Imogene Henrietta, 52
Billie Jeanne, 51 James Henry Jr., 192
Brian, 57 James Henry Sr., 189, 190, 192
Brian Joseph, 267 Jean Marie (daughter of Lawrence Leonard), 201
Bruce Gerard, 267 Jessica Lauren, 253
Carl Joseph, 265, 266, 267 Joan (daughter of Gilbert Wehner), 199
Caspar Franziscus, 2, 3 JoAnn (daughter of Joseph Robert, 200
Charles F. (son of Joseph Robert, 200 Johann Georg
Christy Carl, 267 children of, 2, 10
Clara (daughter of John George Wehner), 164, father of Nicholas and Lorenz, 2
166–67, 168 in Dietershan, 3
Clara (wife of Nicholas Wehner). See John (son of Albert and Rosalia), 10
Schneider, Clara John (son of Joseph Robert, 200
Clara Christina John (son of Nicholas), 138, 205
flight during Battle of Pilot Knob, 17 son of Nicholas and Clara, 158
in Pilot Knob, 14 Union Township, 126
in Salem, Ohio, 67 John Edward, 245
life, 30–33 John Edward (‘Edward J.’, ‘Eddie’), 122, 149,
marriage record, 21 218, 235, 239–45, 261, 265, 267
Concetta Marie, 267 John George
Daniel G., 192 children of, 165
David (son of William John), 201 Cone Mills employee, 162, 225
Dawn Marie, 267 construction of City Mills, 163
Debra Ann, 267 death, 164, 195
Dolores Cecilia, 261 guardian of Peter and Anna Vaeth, 161
Donald Martin, 267 husband of Theresa Vaeth, 155, 265
Dora Ann, 63, 64 illness of, 164
Durward Albert, 53, 54 in Pilot Knob, 14
Edward John (‘Jack’), 253 inheritance, 157, 158
Elinore Lorraine, 61 loans by, 162
Elizabeth (daughter of Albert and Rosalia), 10 loans to Mrs. Bertha Doerge, 215
Elizabeth Jane, 253 partner in City Mills, 143, 155, 163
Ella Agnes, 254–56, 261 purchase of Eloy LeCompte land, 212
Eloise Marie, 85, 242, 245–49, 264 resignation from Cone Mills, 146, 162
Emma Edith, 58, 59 son of Nicholas and Clara, 158
Eva Elizabeth, 6 son-in-law of Ursula Vaeth, 235
Ferdinand (son of Albert and Rosalia), 10 trustee, 206, 234
Flora (wife of Johann). See Müller, Flora Union Township, 126
Flora (wife of Lorenz). See also Glisner, Flora will, 164
Civil War widow’s pension, 29 John Joseph, 165, 168, 188–90, 194, 197
Francis Edward (‘Bud’), 242, 245, 252, 253, Joseph (son of Nicholas), 138, 205
261 son of Nicholas and Clara, 158
Union Township, 126 Martha Catherine (daughter of John George

Joseph Robert, 198, 199, 200 Wehner), 165, 205
Josephine Flora, 158, 168–69, 189, 194, 197 Martha Ervine, 256, 263–64
Julia Elvina, 253 Mary (daughter of Gilbert Wehner), 199
Julius Martin, 257, 261–63, 264 Mary (daughter of Lorenz and Flora)
Kathleen R., 51, 52 Civil War stories, 67
Kathy (daughter of Joseph Robert, 200 flight during Battle of Pilot Knob, 17
Lawrence (son of Johann and Flora). See life, 67
Wehner, Lorenz living with Walter and Emma Schilling, 39
Lawrence Leonard, 198, 199, 201 Milwaukee residence, 41
Leonard Lawrence (son of Lawrence Leonard), Mary (daughter of Nicholas)
201 adoption of Wilma Antoinette Miller, 220
Lorenz birth of, 206
Battle of Pilot Knob, 18 children with Martin Meyer, 209
birth of, 20 children with William Baumstark, 212
birthplace, 3 daughter of Nicholas and Clara, 158
brother of Nicholas, 155, 258 death, 212
Civil War pension, 26 inheritance, 143, 157, 158, 226
Civil War service, 26, 29 life, 206–12
death, 117, 156 manager of Nicholas Wehner’s hotel, 209
emigration, 269 marriage to Martin Meyer, 206
Enrolled Missouri Militia, 25 marriage to William Baumstark, 211
marriage, 6, 22 Meyer’s Hotel, 209
occupations of, 26 mother of Mary Martha Theresa Meyer, 136
parents of, 22 parent of Augusta Mary Theresa Baumstark,
personal property of, 26 219
Pilot Knob Home Guard, 24 security for guardianship of Martin Meyer’s
service with Louis Siebert in Home Guard, children, 209
103 Union Township, 126
son of Johann and Flora Wehner, 2 Mary C. (daughter of Ella), 255, 256, 257, 261,
Lorenz and Flora 263
children of, 29 Mary Leona, 50, 255, 256, 257, 258, 261, 262,
deaths of, 28 263
investments of, 28 Mary Louis, 267
marriage, 14, 22 Mary Theresa, 174–77, 174–77
marriage record, 20 Mary Theresa (daughter of John George
pension files, 20 Wehner), 171
Pilot Knob, 14 Mathilda. See Wehner, Matilda
real estate of, 26, 27 Matilda (‘Tillie’), 28, 69, 71, 109
Lorenzo (son of Johann and Flora). See Wehner, life, 114–18
Lorenz Maxine V., 57
Loretta (daughter of Gilbert Wehner), 199 Michael (son of Gilbert Wehner), 199
Louisa, 119 Michael Francis, 253
Louisa H. See Wehner, Louise H. Mrs. Laura J., 51
Louise Alice, 254 Nancy (daughter of Joseph Robert, 200
Louise H., 20, 52, 53, 65 Neil William, 265, 266, 267
Lucille Frances, 61, 62 Nicholas, 85
Margaret Rose (daughter of Lawrence Leonard), $200 loan, 206
201 appointment to railway committee, 152
Marguerite (‘Babe’), 198, 199, 201 beer garden, 154, 207
Maria (daughter of Lorenz and Flora), 45, 67 beneficiary in deed of trust, 206
Maria Catharina, 2 birthplace, 3
Marian L., 189, 190, 192, 193 brother of Lorenz, 258
Mark (son of Joseph Robert, 200 business license, 206
Martha Catherine, 180 Civil War service, 136
death, 156 life, 234–39

Eagle Saloon, 139, 234 lumber yard, 147, 148, 234
emigration, 3, 4, 269 partner in Eagle Saloon, 145
financing of City Mills, 163 politics, 235, 243
furnace man in Pilot Knob, 26 son of Nicholas and Clara, 158
grandfather of Martha Catherine Wehner, Sunday sales, 145, 234
205 trustee on deeds, 162
hotel keeper, 144 Union Township, 126
husband of Clara, 270 will, 237, 257
immigration, 6 Rebecca Lynn, 267
in town of Pilot Knob, 14 Richard G. (son of Lawrence Leonard), 201
lumber yard, 147–49 Robert (son of Frank Joseph), 61, 62
Main Street house, 197, 233 Robert (son of William and Georgia), 51
marriage, 6, 11, 22 Robert J. (son of Joseph Robert, 200
Meyer’s Hotel, 209 Ronald R. (son of Joseph Robert, 200
move to Ste. Genevieve, 132 Rosine Pauline (‘Paula’), 202–3, 203
politics, 137, 145 Sabina, 269
role in Meyer’s Hotel, 210 Stephen (son of Gilbert Wehner), 199
saloon keeper, 144 Susan K., 192
sawmill, 122, 126–27, 225 Teresa (daughter of Gilbert Wehner), 199
security for guardianship of Martin Meyer’s Theckla Regina, 168, 189, 194–95, 196, 197,
children, 209 201
son of Johann and Flora Wehner, 2 Theresa (daughter of Lorenz and Flora)
Ste. Genevieve businesses, 138, 141–49 burial, 118
Sunday sales, 145, 234 in St. Louis with Tillie Tallent, 116
supervisor of Midway Station, 122, 123 life, 68–69
trip to Iron and Francois counties, 155 Theresa (daughter of Nicholas)
trip to Iron and Francois Counties, 154 birth, 225
trustee, 234 Chicago, 226
will, 143, 144, 156, 157, 234 daughter of Nicholas and Clara, 158
Nicholas and Clara death, 226, 229
arrival in Ste. Genevieve, 138–41 inheritance, 143, 157, 158, 225, 226
descendants, 159 life, 225–26
grocery, 141–42 marriage, 225
investments, 143–44 St. Louis, 226
Main Street property, Ste. Genevieve, 139 Union Township, 126
Union Township land transactions, 123–27 Thomas (son of Joseph Robert, 200
Nicholas V. (son of August George), 199 Timothy D., 54
Norma Lee, 57 Timothy John, 267
Octavia Clara, 50, 255, 256, 257, 258, 263 Valentin, 2, 3
origin, 2 Valentine (son of Albert and Rosalia), 10
Patrick (son of Joseph Robert, 200 Walter William (‘Peck’), 261, 264, 267,
Paul J. (son of Frank Joseph), 61 IndexWalterWehner
Paul Julius, 266, 267 Wanda G., 188
Paul William (son of William John), 201 Wayne Walter, 267
Peter wife of Frederick Bolle, 162
birth, 234 William (son of Lorenz and Flora)
birthplace, 206 birth, 46
death, 237, 248 death, 48
Eagle Saloon, 234 life, 46–49
father of John Edward, 218 marriage, 46
guardian of Martin Meyer’s children, 209 William (Wilhelm) Edwin, 50, 51
heir of lumber yard land, 149 William J. (son of Lawrence Leonard), 201
inheritance, 157, 158, 234 William John, 198, 199, 200, 201
La Porte house, 237, 254 William Robert, 49–50
Yvonne Marie, 267 William W., 175, 176

Wehners Wettroff. See Wetteroff
of Jefferson County, Missouri, 50 Wharton
of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, 50 Thomas, 228
Weiler Whitchurch
Joseph, 211 James A. D., 96
Weiller Nora C., 96
Loretta, 266 Rosa, 96
Weinert Solomon, 96
Bardo, 152, 153, 154 White
Emelia, 154 Edith M., 59
Kunigunda, 154 Joseph Hill III, 59
Mrs. Sophia, 154 Joseph Hill Jr., 58, 59
Weiss Joseph Hill Sr., 58, 59
Emma J., 37, 38, 67 Whiteside
Herman, 38 Raymond T., 171
Mrs. Bertha, 38 Whitlock
Rev. Francis Xavier, 161, 206, 209, 210, 211, John S., 210
235 Whitwell
Welch Katherine Adeline, 81
Mary Kay, 253 Wiedmann
Weller Alita L., 213, 214, 215
Lucille, 85, 86 John Jacob, 213
Wernert Wilder
Rev. Lawrence Charles, 102 Andrew F., 216, 217, 218, 221
Werremeyer Carol Clement, 217
A. H., 70 Charles John, 216, 217
West Francois Andre, 217
Arthur William, 36 George Nicolas, 216, 217
George A., 36 Johanna Juliann (‘Julia’), 212
George Henry, 36 Martha Anita (‘Kelly’), 217, 218
Westerman Maurice Bernays, 217, 218
Mary Anna, 202 Peter, 136, 216
William W., 216, 217
Westhoff
Bertha M., 215 Wilhelm
Leo J., 215 Christian, 197
Mrs. Margaret E., 215 Francis (‘Frank’), 197
Thomas Louis, 215 John P., 197
Lawrence Sr., 197
Westphal Lorenz Jr., 197
Anna, 35
Marguerite Katherine, 197, 198, 201
Wetrovsky. See Wetteroff Robert F., 197
Wetteroff Williams
Charles, 175, 176 Bertha Edna, 51
Frank J., 175, 176 Virgie Ann, 52
John Jr., 175 Wilson
John Sr., 175
James, 15
Lizzie, 175
Marie Kathryn, 176, 177, 178 Wiltfong
Marjorie Sue, 180 Alice., 264
Ralph Waldo, 176, 179, 180 Gertrude., 264
Robert R., 180 Louis., 264
Wenzel. See William W. Wetteroff Winchel
William, 171 Louisa Jane, 91
Wirth Joseph B., 202

Elizabeth A., 42 Maria (‘Mae’), 202
Mrs. Katherine (Cathleen?), 42 Raymond, 202
Wisconsin Rose Marie, 203
Ashland, 92 Wood
Fond du Lac Co., 42 Agnes M., 264
Mequon, 37 Allen C. Jr., 264
Milwaukee, 31, 206 Allen C. Sr., 264
Alexian Village, 37 Dawn, 264
Basilica of St. Josaphat, 36 Earl Daniel Jr., 264
Bay View Massacre, 33 Earl Daniel Sr., 264
Benton Hall, 32, 39, 40 Hazel G., 264
businesses Julie, 264
A. O. Smith, 36 Maude A., 264
Interstate Milling, 42 Patti, 264
Luick Dairy, 38 Penney, 264
Milwaukee Iron Company, 32 Ronnie, 264
Milwaukee Nursing Milk Establishment, Tamara, 264
38 Walter Alfred (‘Al’), 263, 264
Milwaukee Telephone Company, 34 Wesley M., 263
Schilling & Company, 31, 34 Wuertz
Schilling Milk Laboratories, 38 Henry, 170
Schmidt and Company, 38 Mary A., 170
T. Mayer Boot & Shoe Company, 36 WW I
The Print Shop, 34 Battle of Argonne Forest, 55
West Town Coal & Ice, 42
WW II
Wisconsin Telephone Company, 41
Guam, 200
St. Anne Church, 43
Iwo Jima, Guam, Solomon Islands, Luzon, 99
street addresses, 33
Naval Reserve, 86
Portage Co., 35
South Pacific campaigns, 83
Racine Co., 35
Stalag 357 POW camp, 193
Shorewood, 37
Stalag Luft IV POW camp, 193
Two Rivers, 35
U.S. Marine Corps 3rd Raiders, 203
Watertown, 34
Weingarten POW internment camp, 198
Wauwatosa, 35, 40, 41
Whitefish Bay, 37 Yawitz
Harry L., 83
Wisconsin, Ashland, 92
Yeager
Wismiller John P., 198
Charles, 93
Katherine R., 198, 199
Wofford Mrs. Mary Ann (‘Mamie’), 199
Caroline Lavina, 114
Young
Wolf Albert, 233
Alexander (‘Alex’) Houser, 231 Edna, 233
Wolfram Sarah May, 173
Adam Casper, 167, 168 Yugoslavia, 193
Marie L., 167, 168
Zahmer
Theodore J., 168
Mary, 106
Wolk Zarinelli
Mrs. Catherine, 123
Anthony (‘Tony’), 261, 264, 267
Philip, 123, 126, 127
Zerga
Wolken Pesquina, 53
George Bernard, 202, 203
George Sr., 202, 203 Ziegler
Herman Heinrich (‘Henry’), 202 Contrad C., 135, 136, 139
I., 241
Mrs. Elvina C., 139
Zimmermann
Amalia (‘Mollie’) C., 34
Jacob, 34
Mrs. Catherine, 34
Zoppoth
Rev. Cajetan, 11, 12
Zwart
Bernard, 68
Mrs. Cornelia, 68
Zykan
Mary Anna, 196
Descendants of Johann Georg

and Flora Müller Wehner
Six generations are shown. Details for living inividuals under age 90 are omitted.
1 Johann Georg Wehner

m. Flora Müller m. abt 1810
2 Maria Catharina Wehner b. 4 Aug 1811
2 Caspar Franziscus Wehner b. 1 Aug 1813 d. 11 May 1829
2 Anna Maria Wehner b. 7 Jan 1818
2 Valentin Wehner b. 18 Nov 1820
2 Lorenz Wehner b. 2 Jan 1823 d. 27 Feb 1907
m. Flora Glisner m. 14 Sep 1848 b. 20 Sep 1828 d. 18 Feb 1908
3 Clara Christina Wehner b. 20 Sep 1849 d. 2 Jun 1906
m. Robert Schilling Sr. m. 1 Oct 1867 b. 17 Oct 1843 d. 26 Dec 1922
4 Albert L. Schilling b. Nov 1867 or Nov 1868 d. 18 Jun 1938
m. Amalia C. Zimmermann m. 23 Nov 1892 b. May 1870 d. 8 Jul 1934
5 Robert Jacob Schilling b. 2 Jul 1895 d. 5 Jan 1973
m. Lauretta J. Kohl m. 1921 - 1922 b. 11 Jun 1897 d. 17 Jul 1984
6 Mary Ann Schilling b. 15 Jun 1924 d. 22 Jun 1996
m. William Edward Behrens
b. 3 Jul 1923 d. 24 Jun 2002
6 Robert William Schilling (details excluded)
4 Edward W. Schilling b. 1871 d. 10 Sep 1945
m. Elizabeth M. Schiller m. 6 Oct 1898 b. Mar 1876 d. 11 Aug 1945
5 Evelyn C. Schilling b. 20 Oct 1899 d. 3 Sep 1977
m. Raymond J. Wagner m. 1920 - 1921 b. 23 Oct 1899 d. 28 Feb 1986
6 James Edward Wagner b. 1924 d. 17 Sep 1947
6 Raymond Jene Wagner (details excluded)
5 Edward A. Schilling b. 4 Mar 1907 d. 25 Apr 1993
m. Dorothea C. Utech m. 1929 - 1930 b. 23 Feb 1907 d. 25 Nov 1983
6 E. Thomas Schilling (details excluded)
m. Lois A. Ziebell b. 1933 - 1934 d. 16 Apr 2010
6 Caroline Schilling (details excluded)
m. ? Pedersen (details excluded)
4 Nellie F. Schilling b. Aug 1874 d. 16 Jan 1932
m. William Timmerman m. 8 Oct 1894 b. Aug 1867
m. George Henry West m. 1903 - 1904 b. 3 Oct 1875 d. 3 Jul 1944
[Children of Nellie F. Schilling and William Timmerman]
5 Arthur William Timmerman b. 12 Dec 1894 d. 4 May 1960
m. Helen Jaraczewski m. abt 1914 b. 23 Feb 1894 d. 6 Dec 1981
6 George A. West b. 16 Nov 1914 d. 9 Sep 1986
m. Adeline C. Smendzik b. 8 Oct 1924 d. 27 Sep 2007
4 Arthur Peter Schilling b. 30 Aug 1876 d. 25 May 1970
m. Kathryn A. Murphy m. 7 Sep 1899 b. May 1876 d. 18 Nov 1950
5 Harriet Schilling b. 9 Aug 1903 d. 10 Jul 1981
m. William G. Cavanaugh Jr. m. 1926 b. 22 Feb 1903 d. 30 Mar 1973
6 Harriet C. Cavanaugh (details excluded)

m. Robert Arnold (details excluded)
6 Mary Cavanaugh b. 12 or 13 Apr 1934 d. 14 Jul 1992
m. John A. Kestelik Sr. b. 2 Jul 1933 d. 31 Aug 1991
4 Walter Leo Schilling b. 2 Jan 1879 d. 21 Feb 1938
m. Emma J. Weiss m. 9 Jun 1901 b. Jan 1881 d. 20 Jan 1957
5 Clara Jeanette Schilling b. 19 Feb 1906 d. 26 Jul 2009
m. Theodore Edward Packard m. 1930 - 1940 b. 26 Mar 1911 d. 21 Oct 1990
6 Barbara Mary Packard (details excluded)
m. Unknown Spouse (details excluded)
m. John Fitzgerald (details excluded)
4 William Oscar Schilling b. 2 Jan 1879 d. 18 Apr 1942
m. Emily L. Manegold m. 17 Jun 1903 b. Jan 1878 d. 8 Mar 1947
5 Millie Schilling b. 23 Sep 1904 d. 21 Mar 1987
m. Harold J. Bruce m. 1928 b. 19 Mar 1902 d. 15 May 1989
6 Harold William Bruce b. 21 Jun 1929 d. 9 Jun 2004
m. Marilyn J. Hinkes m. 28 Oct 1973
6 James F. Bruce (details excluded)
m. Katherine ? (details excluded)
4 Robert Schilling Jr. b. 28 Feb 1884 d. 31 May 1956
m. Elizabeth A. Wirth m. 1903 - 1904 b. 1884 d. 9 Jan 1964
5 Unknown Child b. _____ d. 1903 - 1910
5 Clara H. Schilling b. 6 Dec 1910 d. 4 Dec 1980
m. Henry Van Willigen m. 1930 - 1933 b. 8 May 1906 d. 12 Aug 1980
6 James H. Van Willigen b. 26 Feb 1934 d. 17 Feb 2008
m. Marguerite Pauline Imse m. 27 Apr 1957
m. Barbara Schaefer (details excluded)
6 Mary Claire Van Willigen (details excluded)
m. Robert Weir (details excluded)
5 Vernon R. Schilling b. 15 Oct 1914 d. 6 Mar 2001
m. Ruth Isleb m. 1938 - 1939 b. 21 Jan 1918 d. 22 Jun 2011
6 Suzanne Schilling (details excluded)
m. David Winter Sr. (details excluded)
5 Robert A. Schilling b. 24 Apr 1922 d. 16 Nov 1944
3 Maria Wehner b. 2 Apr 1851 d. by 1855
3 William Wehner b. Feb 1853 d. 12 Nov 1916
m. Henrietta Burgsmüller m. 21 or 23 Apr 1881 b. 17 Apr 1859 d. 20 Nov 1933
4 William Robert Wehner b. 4 May 1882 d. 9 Jan 1934
m. Louisa Anna Henriette Albertina Watters m. 26 Jul 1905 b. 5 Jan 1887 d. 5 Aug 1971
5 William Edwin Wehner b. 8 Oct 1906 d. 19 Nov 1972
m. Georgia Pauline Harris m. 1927 - 1929 b. 15 Aug 1909 d. 14 Apr 1934
m. Laura J. ? b. 15 Aug 1920 d. 11 Jul 2005
[Children of William Edwin Wehner and Georgia Pauline Harris]
6 Billie Jeanne Wehner (details excluded)
m. Samuel J. Temperato b. 8 May 1924 d. 14 Jul 2006
m. Edward William Taylor (details excluded)
6 William Robert Wehner (details excluded)
m. Kay F. ? b. 15 Jan 1936 d. 25 Jul 2005
5 Bernard E. Wehner b. 2 May 1912 d. 4 Jun 1971
5 Kathleen R. Wehner b. 21 Oct 1915 d. 6 Nov 1995
m. Orville Ferguson m. 22 Feb 1936 b. 23 Feb 1913 d. 21 Nov 1986
6 Orville Clark Ferguson (details excluded)
6 Paul Robert Ferguson b. 2 Mar 1940 d. 11 Feb 2001
m. Betty Lou Covington (details excluded)
6 Glenn Lee Ferguson b. 14 May 1943 d. 4 Aug 1944
5 Imogene Henrietta Wehner (details excluded)

m. Edgar Franklin Oldham b. 27 Sep 1925 d. 23 Feb 2004
4 Albert Frank Wehner b. 7 Sep 1883 d. 25 Feb 1962
4 Louise H. Wehner b. 14 Mar 1885 d. 15 Aug 1966
4 Frederick Lawrence Wehner b. 11 Aug 1886 d. 9 Sep 1940
m. Grace Minnie Noce m. 20 Nov 1909 b. 17 May 1888 d. 15 Aug 1972
5 Durward Albert Wehner b. 23 Jan 1911 d. 5 Nov 1957
m. Mary Chmela m. 19 Nov 1943 b. 30 Dec 1912 d. 6 Feb 2002
6 Timothy D. Wehner
5 Frederick R. Wehner b. 6 Dec 1915 d. 6 Nov 1998
m. Glenda A. Krodinger m. 5 Jan 1941 b. 20 Oct 1915 d. 18 Jun 2001
4 Arthur Julius Wehner b. 27 Mar 1888 d. 27 May 1967
m. Sylvia Jane Cashion m. 2 Aug 1922 b. 20 Apr 1904 d. 8 Feb 1998
5 Arthur Ward Wehner b. 9 Jul 1923 d. 17 Jun 2001
m. Nadine Laverne Abernathy m. 7 Dec 1945 b. 9 Jan 1924 d. 16 Dec 2010
6 Brian Wehner (details excluded)
m. Robin Fry (details excluded)
5 Normalee Annabelle Wehner b. 30 Oct 1927 d. 9 Jan 2012
m. Ernest J. Siracusa m. 1951 b. 1922
6 Jim Siracusa
m. Nana ?
6 Gregory Siracusa
m. Carole ?
6 Susan Siracusa
m. Houston Weaver
6 Lori Siracusa
m. John Jones
5 Maxine V. Wehner b. 1930 d. 9 Jul 1977
m. Gene Anderson
6 Doug Anderson
5 Gary L. Wehner (details excluded)
m. Sandra J. Annan b. 1 Sep 1943 d. 26 Mar 2003
4 Emma Edith Wehner b. 25 Nov 1889 d. 15 Jun 1983
m. Joseph Hill White Jr. m. 1 Dec 1921 b. 20 Dec 1894 d. 20 Jan 1952
5 Joseph Hill White III b. 1922 - 1923
m. Wilma Joan Greenleaf (details excluded)
5 Edith Mary White b. 14 May 1924 d. 8 Nov 2004
m. Lester E. Hoblin m. Apr 1955 b. 10 Jul 1920 d. 31 Mar 1982
6 Mark S. Hoblin
6 Andrea Hoblin
m. ? Stack
4 Frank Joseph Wehner b. 18 Aug 1891 d. 7 Mar 1956
m. Cora Josephine Kiefer m. 29 Nov 1917 b. 14 Dec 1899 d. 20 Nov 1987
5 Elinore Lorraine Wehner b. 20 May 1918 d. 6 Sep 2011
m. Phillip Edward Miller m. 23 Oct 1937 b. 1 Nov 1914 d. 30 Nov 1993
6 Robert C. Miller
m. Carol ?
6 Joseph E. Miller
m. Patricia ?
6 Vincent P. Miller
m. Debra ?
5 Lucille Frances Wehner b. 1 Apr 1920 d. Oct 1988
m. Jesse Howard LaRose m. 6 Aug 1949 b. 17 May 1918 d. 18 May 1978
5 Frank Leon Wehner b. 4 Jul 1922 d. 22 Jan 1924
5 Paul J. Wehner (details excluded)
m. Louise ? (details excluded)

5 Robert Wehner b. 22 Dec 1926 d. 24 Dec 1926
4 Dora Ann Wehner b. 17 Dec 1900 d. 15 Mar 1967
m. Franklin Charles Hoeckele m. 4 Mar 1919 b. 5 May 1898 d. 10 Mar 1928
m. Clytus V. Davis m. 22 Jul 1942 b. 20 Feb 1905 d. Jan 1972
[Children of Dora Ann Wehner and Franklin Charles Hoeckele]
5 Virginia L. Hoeckele b. 9 Sep 1919 d. 24 Dec 1994
m. Wayne E. Trask m. 2 Apr 1938 b. 9 Aug 1918 d. 23 Jun 1996
m. Edwin A. Harris m. 28 Mar 1964 b. 21 Jul 1915 d. 3 Jan 2000
[Children of Virginia L. Hoeckele and Wayne E. Trask]
6 Jerry Wayne Trask b. 14 Apr 1938 d. 11 Jun 2010
m. Gail Houchins
6 Charles S. Trask (details excluded)
6 Albert L. Trask Sr.
m. Patricia LeFlore b. 4 Sep 1942 d. Mar 1987
m. Judy ?
6 Mona E. Trask
m. ? Smith m. bef Jan 2000
5 Dorothy Elizabeth Hoeckele b. 8 Jul 1921 d. 6 Aug 2010
m. Raymond J. Biehle b. 1 Jan 1920 d. 18 Aug 1990
6 Linda Biehle
m. Roger Oliver
6 Sue Biehle
m. Daniel Short
5 Frances M. Hoeckele b. 10 Jul 1923 d. 12 May 1986
m. Frank B. Clark Jr. m. 1944 b. 3 Dec 1917 d. 16 Jun 1984
5 Catherine Irene Hoeckele b. 20 Jun 1925 d. 2 Jun 1998
m. Elmer Vernon Janssen m. 23 Mar 1945 b. 10 May 1923 d. 29 May 2000
6 Randa Janssen
m. ? McAllister
6 Tracy Janssen
m. ? Caldwell
6 Larry Janssen
6 John Janssen
6 Ronald Janssen b. 1948 d. 1994
3 Mary Wehner b. 6 Sep 1855 d. 9 Jan 1950
3 Theresa Wehner b. 2 Jan 1858 d. 28 Feb 1908
m. John Richard Cooney m. 24 Nov 1886 b. Mar 1862 d. 9 Apr 1901
4 Grace Phoebe Cooney b. 12 Dec 1886 d. 10 Nov 1951
m. Lucian Clifford Boillot m. 19 Mar 1912 b. 3 Mar 1885 d. 1936 - 1940
m. Robert Barney Dyckman m. 1906, 1921, 1925 b. 13 Sep 1887 d. 13 Jan 1959
[Children of Grace Phoebe Cooney and Lucian Clifford Boillot]
5 Robert Vincent Dyckman b. 21 Jun 1916 d. 18 Sep 1981
m. Agnes F. Groesch m. 27 May 1944 b. 6 Mar 1919 d. 16 Aug 1994
6 Dennis Vincent Dyckman (details excluded)
6 Duane R. Dyckman
4 Arthur Russell Cooney b. 8 Mar 1888 d. 6 Mar 1942
m. Alice Elizabeth Gray m. 15 Jun 1911 b. 11 Apr 1887 d. 17 Dec 1983
5 Harold Gregg Cooney Sr. b. 17 Feb 1913 d. 29 Nov 1997
m. Helen Nix b. 24 Dec 1910 d. 9 Jan 1999
6 Harold Gregg Cooney Jr. (details excluded)
m. Carolyn Ann Jessup (details excluded)
5 Arthur Russell Cooney Jr. b. 31 Dec 1914 d. 21 Jul 1915
5 Allen Richard Cooney Sr. b. 24 Aug 1916 d. 5 Apr 1993
m. Lillie Mae Monroe b. 27 Jul 1914 d. 4 Apr 1991
6 Elizabeth Anne Cooney (details excluded)

6 Allen Richard Cooney Jr. b. 22 May 1944 d. 1 Jun 1996
m. Delphia Mae Whitney (details excluded)
5 Robert Gray Cooney b. 29 Mar 1918 d. 11 Nov 2002
m. Lavonne Dasinger m. 1960 b. 20 May 1931 d. 2 Aug 2002
6 Bobbie Jo Cooney
m. Quillie C. Trott Sr.
m. John Franklin Atkinson Jr m. 15 Jul 1989
6 Robbie Jean Cooney
m. John McCrea
5 Alyce Jane Cooney b. 21 Nov 1920 d. 16 Jun 2011
m. Clifford Coleman Burrows m. 22 Aug 1942 b. 23 Oct 1921 d. 28 Apr 1999
6 Margaret Burrows (details excluded)
6 Leslie Jane Burrows (details excluded)
m. Charles Lawrence Marshall (details excluded)
6 John Burrows
6 Roy Burrows
5 Ruth Virginia Cooney b. 29 Sep 1922 d. 24 Feb 1993
m. William Leon Singleton m. 1942 or later b. 13 Mar 1920 d. 12 Jul 1993
6 Arthur William Singleton (details excluded)
6 Bruce Lee Singleton (details excluded)
5 Howard Raymond Cooney b. 7 Jan 1927 d. 10 Jul 1928
4 Frank Bernard Cooney Sr. b. 16 Dec 1889 d. 1 Apr 1951
m. Mary A. Bahan m. 1 Aug 1912 b. 22 Feb 1889 d. 26 Oct 1952
5 Mary Agnes Cooney b. 13 Jun 1913 d. 1 Nov 1983
m. Vernon Kenneth Waters m. 1944 or after b. 24 Sep 1914 d. 29 Feb 1996
6 Patty Waters
5 Eileen Frances Cooney b. 7 Dec 1915 d. 26 Jan 2000
m. Vernon Kenneth Waters m. 1933 - 1935 b. 24 Sep 1914 d. 29 Feb 1996
m. Albert August Beine m. 1955 - 1960 b. 18 Feb 1906 d. 4 Jul 1973
m. Clarence Jacob Stetson m. 5 Oct 1978 b. 3 Dec 1908 d. Oct 1984
[Children of Eileen Frances Cooney and Vernon Kenneth Waters]
6 Barbara Frances Waters b. 1935 d. 30 May 2012
m. Gale Eugene Crowell Sr. m. by 1971 b. 9 Dec 1934 d. 29 Dec 1989
m. Harold Leroy Meeks m. 24 Jan 1983 b. 13 Sep 1931 d. 9 Feb 2000
5 Virginia Catherine Cooney b. 28 Apr 1918 d. 11 Feb 1994
m. Harold Edward McDonald Sr. m. 25 Jul 1939 b. 28 Oct 1911 d. 23 Dec 1987
6 Michael McDonald
m. Penny ?
6 Harold McDonald Jr.
m. Susan ?
6 Karen McDonald
m. Buzz Phillips
6 Joseph McDonald
m. Susan ?
6 Mary Frances McDonald
m. Michael Palazzola
6 Virginia McDonald
6 Patricia McDonald
m. Lindsay Poettgen
5 Frank Bernard Cooney Jr. b. 30 Oct 1924 d. 5 Apr 2010
m. Wilma L. Burgess m. abt 1947 b. 7 Jan 1927 d. 23 Sep 1998
m. Etha M. Ridenhour m. 5 Sep 1962 b. 1 Apr 1905 d. 26 Jun 1986
m. Eileen Ida Patrick m. 23 May 2005
[Children of Frank Bernard Cooney Jr. and Wilma L. Burgess]
6 Margaret Ann Cooney (details excluded)

m. ? Vessells (details excluded)
m. James E. Baum (details excluded)
6 Edward Thomas Cooney (details excluded)
m. Nancy Lynn Raunborg (details excluded)
6 John M. Cooney (details excluded)
m. Barbara J. Peyton (details excluded)
m. Carol M. ? (details excluded)
6 Robert F. Cooney
m. Debbie ?
5 Geraldine Theresa Cooney b. 16 Jun 1926 d. 22 Feb 2012
m. Thomas Benton Ridgeway m. 1955 or later b. 28 Dec 1904 d. 17 Nov 1970
6 Mary F. Ridgeway
4 Alice L. Cooney b. 16 Sep 1892 d. 24 Dec 1979
m. Charles Ridgley Howard m. abt 1916 b. 5 Feb 1889 d. 28 Mar 1947
5 Charles Howard Jr. b. Apr 1917
5 Harriet Alice Howard b. 22 Jul 1923 d. 12 May 2008
m. William Frank Cole m. 1955 - 1960
6 William Howard Cole
m. Susan Mary Clancy b. 24 Seo 1961 d. 25 Apr 2012
6 A. Joan Cole
m. Douglas Landholt
6 Kathleen Anne Cole
3 Amalia M. Wehner b. 28 Mar 1860 d. 31 Jan 1932
m. William F. Becker m. 24 Nov 1886 b. 7 Mar 1852 d. 19 Jan 1908
4 Elmer Bernard Becker b. 9 Jul 1887 d. 22 Oct 1961
m. Gertrude M. Judlin m. 9 Jun 1913 b. 4 Sep 1887 d. Sep 1968
5 Unnamed Becker
4 Frederick William Becker Sr. b. 26 Dec 1888 d. 5 Apr 1955
m. Rosella Kelley m. 19 Oct 1912 b. 22 Aug 1896 d. 23 Mar 1959
m. Julia E. Miller m. 1930 - 1940 b. 15 Feb 1897 d. 14 May 1989
[Children of Frederick William Becker Sr. and Rosella Kelley]
5 Bernard Frederick Becker b. 21 Sep 1913 d. 25 Apr 2002
m. Ruby Croney m. 10 Oct 1932 b. 29 Jan 1915 d. 28 Mar 1988
6 Gerald Bernard Becker (details excluded)
m. Margaret Lou Cox (details excluded)
6 Rita Becker
m. ? Clark
5 Clarence E. Becker b. 1 Feb 1915 d. Jun 1966
m. Dorothy ?
5 James Herbert Becker b. 1 Feb 1917 d. 25 Oct 1957
m. Alice Belle Davis m. 7 Jan 1939
6 James R. Becker
6 Richard Herbert Becker
6 Edward Paul Becker
6 Judith Layne Becker
5 Frederick William Becker Jr. b. 3 May 1919 d. 22 Feb 2002
m. Grace Santa Natoli m. 10 Mar 1937 b. 11 Jul 1919 d. 19 Jan 1997
6 Rose Marie Becker
m. ? Buffalo
6 Shirley Ann Becker
m. Michael Grant Mallory
6 Fred W. Becker III
m. Hortense M. Brown m. 4 Aug 1950 b. 19 Sep 1910 d. 28 Dec 1986
5 Mildred Becker
5 Melvin L. Becker Sr. b. 1923 - 1924 d. bef 29 Nov 2010

m. Clara Lumpp m. 13 Mar 1942 b. 1924 - 1925 d. bef 29 Nov 2010
6 Melvin Louis Becker Jr. b. 30 Jul 1947 d. 29 Nov 2010
m. Maxine Duncan m. 16 Jan 1965
6 Timothy Becker b. _____ d. bef 29 Nov 2010
6 Charlotte Becker
m. ? Landolfi
6 Meta Becker
m. ? Miranda
6 Daniel Becker
5 Edwin Becker b. 17 Nov 1924 d. 7 Dec 1925
5 William Becker b. 11 Jul 1926 d. 10 Mar 1994
m. Mildred Louise Nickens b. 1 Nov 1923 d. 17 Jul 2006
6 Christina Rose Becker (details excluded)
m. Robert Floyd Levart b. 1 May 1943 d. 31 Aug 2010
6 William Sanders Becker b. 23 Jun 1951 d. 3 Jun 1966
6 Jeffrey L. Becker (details excluded)
m. Linda ? (details excluded)
6 Gladys Jean Becker (details excluded)
m. Michael Buster (details excluded)
3 Anna Wehner b. 4 Apr 1865 d. 5 Nov 1930
m. Frank Peter Siebert Sr. m. 24 Jun 1886 b. 8 Jan 1861 d. 27 Jun 1902
4 Louis L. Siebert b. 9 Apr 1887 d. 21Nov 1970
m. Clara E. Mund m. 30 Oct 1919 b. 5 Oct 1892 d. 14 Dec 1970
4 Edward Anthony Siebert b. 16 Dec 1888 d. 3 Nov 1960
m. Amanda R. Scherer m. 1920 b. Sep 1892 d. 1965
5 George W. Siebert b. 25 Apr 1921 d. 26 Dec 1982
m. Bernice T. Ahrens m. 5 May 1956
6 John G. Siebert (details excluded)
6 James J. Siebert (details excluded)
5 Edward Elmer Siebert b. 6 Sep 1922 d. 9 Apr 1998
m. Marjorie Stretch
6 Jean Siebert
m. Thomas Huelsing
6 Jane Siebert
6 Joan Siebert
m. James Cozis
5 Raymond Siebert b. 16 Dec 1923 d. 22 Nov 1984
m. Cleola Becherer (details excluded)
6 Patricia Anna Siebert b. 30 Apr 1951 d. 8 Aug 2003
m. Frank P. Schwaller d. 25 Jul 1969
6 Cathy Siebert (details excluded)
m. ? Tankersly (details excluded)
6 Michael Siebert
6 Marie Siebert
m. ? Firkus
5 Joseph Paul Siebert b. 14 Jun 1927 d. 13 Nov 2007
m. Mary Patricia Dunne m. 30 Apr 1955 b. 28 Apr 1928 d. Oct 1992
m. Cecilia Loyet m. 1995
[Children of Joseph Paul Siebert and Mary Patricia Dunne]
6 Judith M. Siebert
m. ? Coyman
6 Daniel G. Siebert
5 Mary A. Siebert b. 29 May 1930 d. 7 Apr 2009
4 Frank Peter Siebert Jr. b. 21 Dec 1890 d. 11 Feb 1963
m. Bertha Elizabeth Eichelberger m. 1923 b. 23 Jan 1899 d. 6 Aug 1978

5 Margaret Elizabeth Siebert (details excluded)
m. Ed Alderson (details excluded)
5 Frank P. Siebert III b. 2 Apr 1931 d. 24 Aug 2009
m. Shirley Faye Billings m. 20 Nov 1954
6 Frank J. Siebert
6 David Siebert
m. Jane ?
6 Patricia Siebert
m. David Veninga
4 Nellie Louise Siebert b. Mar 1893 d. 25 Apr 1966
m. Theodore Golfinopulos m. 1926 b. 10 Feb 1880 d. 17 Oct 1950
5 Katherine Ann Golfinopulos b. 30 Jun 1927 d. 25 Mar 2004
m. Robert L. Barnes m. 1951 - 1952
6 Mary Kay Barnes
m. ? Colgan
6 Robert G. Barnes
m. Maureen ?
6 Susan M. Barnes
m. Richard Finley
6 Julie A. Barnes
m. Shane Deay
5 Anna Marie Golfinopulos b. 11 Dec 1928 d. 10 Feb 1993
m. Leo Clements Schonhoff m. 9 Jul 1949 b. 6 Jun 1928 d. 27 Jun 2009
6 Leo J. Schonhoff
m. Donna ?
5 Frances T. Golfinopulos b. 16 Mar 1930 d. 2 Nov 2007
m. Edward William Hoffman m. 1950
6 Edward G. Hoffman
m. Carolyn ?
6 Thomas G. Hoffman
m. Cindy ?
6 Michael G. Hoffman
m. Tina ?
6 Theresa M. Hoffman
m. ? McClellan
5 Theodora Golfinopulos b. 3 Feb 1935 d. 11 Apr 2005
4 Clarence Valentine Siebert b. 14 Feb 1896 d. 20 Oct 1963
m. Mary Louise Eichelberger m. 1928 b. 13 Feb 1906 d. Nov 1984
5 Clarence J. Siebert (details excluded)
m. Katherine Marie Olinger (details excluded)
4 William C. Siebert Sr. b. 12 Feb 1900 d. 29 Oct 1967
m. Estella M. Roehrs m. Nov 1927 b. 17 Jul 1908 d. 10 Jan 1999
5 Dorothy Elizabeth Siebert b. 22 Oct 1928 d. 18 Dec 2009
m. Paul Norman Anderson (details excluded)
5 William Franklin Siebert Jr. b. 22 Apr 1933 d. 6 Jan 2006
m. Ann Faris m. 6 Jul 1957
6 Scot Siebert
m. Kay Inman
6 Tim Siebert
m. Jane ?
5 Jeanette Siebert (details excluded)
m. Donald A. Dahlke b. 31 Aug 1931 d. 25 Mar 2010
5 Mary Ann Siebert (details excluded)
m. Ronald Drake Gedge (details excluded)
5 Carolyn Siebert (details excluded)

m. Bob Schroer (details excluded)
3 Matilda Wehner b. 24 May 1867 d. 14 Feb 1933
m. John B. Tallent m. 11 Jul 1892 b. 1870 - 1872 d. 29 Jan 1896
m. Arthur E. Cooney m. 1900 - 1903 b. 3 Sep 1865 d. 5 Aug 1903
m. David Colburn Shelton m. 1916 - 1920 b. 21 Aug 1857 d. 29 Jun 1934
3 Louisa Wehner b. 13 Sep 1871 d. 29 Oct 1882
2 Nicholas Wehner b. 3 May 1825 d. 27 Feb 1897
m. Clara Schneider m. 26 Dec 1847 b. 18 Aug 1825 d. 27 Mar 1905
3 John George Wehner b. 28 Apr 1850 d. 13 Feb 1929
m. Theresa Vaeth m. 25 Nov 1873 b. 13 Jan 1852 d. 10 Jan 1926
4 Clara Wehner b. 10 Sep 1874 d. 5 Feb 1925
m. Charles Darwin Blaine m. 20 Apr 1897 b. 26 Feb 1873 d. 24 Jan 1947
5 James George Blaine b. 15 Sep 1897 d. 10 Dec 1955
m. Marie L. Wolfram m. 16 Jun 1920 b. 3 Aug 1897 d. 14 Feb 1966
m. Katherine F. Kolkmeyer m. abt 1949 b. 31 Mar 1916 d. 17 Nov 1996
[Children of James George Blaine and Marie L. Wolfram]
6 James B. Blaine b. 18 Oct 1925 d. Sep 1986
[Children of James George Blaine and Katherine F. Kolkmeyer]
6 Virginia Mae Blaine
m. Wallace Roger Lloyd m. 12 Aug 1972
m. ? Hollingsworth
6 John Gregory Blaine (details excluded)
4 Josephine Flora Wehner b. 13 Oct 1875 d. 3 Apr 1958
m. Frank Hartmann Sr. m. 27 Jun 1916 b. 1 Jan 1887 d. Dec 1966
5 Frank C. Hartmann Jr. b. 20 Jun 1918 d. 13 Feb 1991
4 Anna Margaret Wehner b. 10 May 1877 d. 13 Mar 1946
m. George Osmond Richards m. 12 Jun 1900 b. 13 Jan 1876 d. 4 Jul 1948
5 Helen Richards b. 2 Jan 1902 d. Jun 1986
m. Raymond F. McCoy m. abt 1924 b. 1902 d. 1961
5 Arthur Julius Richards b. 23 Oct 1904 d. 17 May 1976
m. Ruth Juanita Evans m. abt 1926 b. 16 Jan 1908 d. 8 Sep 1970
6 Paul V. Richards b. 29 Jan 1928 d. 19 Aug 1992
m. Helen P. Misemer m. 20 Aug 1949 b. 8 Mar 1924 d. May 1986
5 Russell George Richards b. 11 Feb 1910 d. 16 Jul 1999
m. Nora M. Coughlin
m. 1931 -1932 b. 27 Mar 1910 d. 7 Nov 1996
6 Stillborn Richards b. 18 Aug 1936 d. 18 Aug 1936
6 Gerald G. Richards (details excluded)
m. Donna ? (details excluded)
6 Thomas Richards
m. Betty ?
6 Michael Richards
5 Marie Theresa Richards b. 20 Apr 1914 d. 17 Dec 1988
m. Edwin B. Jones m. 1935 - 1940 b. 17 Apr 1907 d. Dec 1968
5 James V. Richards b. 4 Apr 1916 d. 7 Mar 1999
m. Georgia F. Green m. 1935 b. 7 Mar 1918 d. 21 Jun 2009
6 Carol Jean Richards b. 2 Mar 1936 d. 12 Mar 1943
6 Ronald Richards (details excluded)
m. Gwen ? (details excluded)
6 Roger Richards
m. Judy ?
6 Marcia Richards
m. Richard Phillips d. bef 21 Jun 2009
4 Mary Theresa Wehner b. 15 Nov 1879 d. Feb 1968
m. William W. Wetteroff m. 12 Aug 1903 b. 3 Aug 1871 d. 16 Dec 1958

5 Marie Kathyrn Wetteroff b. 20 Dec 1904 d. 30 Jul 1992
m. Edward Joseph Bakula m. 2 Sep 1939 b. 20 Mar 1895 d. 20 Aug 1974
5 Ralph Waldo Wetteroff b. 27 Mar 1910 d. 3 Jul 1997
m. Mildred Susan Stanton m. abt 24 Jun 1939 b. 1914 d. 30 Aug 1963
m. Sarah Leah Gregory m. by 19 Jul 1975 b. 7 Apr 1911 d. 2 Jul 2007
m. Martha Elisabeth Reline m. 30 Dec 1983 b. 13 Dec 1913 d. 13 Apr 2010
[Children of Ralph Waldo Wetteroff and Mildred Susan Stanton]
6 Marjorie Sue Wetteroff b. 13 May 1946 d. 31 Mar 2010
m. Gary W. Hinzman m. abt 1970
6 Robert Ralph Wetteroff
m. Janice ?
4 Martha Catherine Wehner b. 26 Jul 1880 d. 18 Nov 1883
4 Ida Bertha Ursula Wehner b. 21 Nov 1884 d. 18 Feb 1936
m. Lawrence Alexander Baechle m. 27 Nov 1906 b. 25 Feb 1874 d. 19 Aug 1951
5 Ralph Robert Bachle b. 1 Sep 1907 d. 4 Nov 2000
m. Lucille Emma Richards m. 21 Sep 1946 b. 9 Aug 1911 d. 22 Aug 1996
6 Charles T. Bachle
m. Dorelda K. Little m. 15 Oct 1971
6 Juanita Bachle
m. Bill Young
6 Anne Marie Bachle
m. Campbell Palmer Howard m. 22 Dec 1972
6 Karen Jeanne Bachle
m. Lionel James Dawson m. 30 May 1981
5 Carl George Bachle b. 9 Dec 1908 d. 10 Nov 1980
m. Jean K. Perry m. 10 Apr 1939 b. 16 Apr 1912 d. 17 Nov 1994
6 John Perry Bachle
m. Nancy Gae Spivey m. 27 Aug 1966
6 William Carl Bachle
m. Mary Irene Brooks
6 Bonnie Bachle
5 Loretto M. Bachle b. 13 Aug 1911 d. 20 Jun 1981
5 Leonard Lawrence Bachle b. 30 Jan 1918 d. 3 Jul 2009
m. Rosemary Eckroat m. 20 Nov 1940 b. 1922 - 1923
6 Rosellen Bachle (details excluded)
m. Francis Clement Hughes (details excluded)
m. ? Burton (details excluded)
6 Elaine Marie Bachle (details excluded)
m. Thomas A. Dodson (details excluded)
6 Barbara Lynn Bachle
m. Monty Lee Gattis m. 24 Apr 1983
m. ? Bain
6 Mary Alice Bachle
m. Charles Lewis Cusack m. 4 Oct 1969
m. ? Hunter
6 Lawrence L. Bachle
6 Laura Denise Bachle
5 Herman J. Bachle b. 20 Apr 1921 d. 23 Dec 1961
m. Laurene F. Heitman m. 6 Jul 1957 b. 15 Mar 1914 d. 23 Feb 2001
4 George Nicholas Wehner b. 15 Sep 1886 d. 12 Jun 1977
m. Magdelin C. Sucher m. 14 Sep 1922 b. 9 Jul 1891 d. 23 Feb 1985
5 Alita Wehner (details excluded)
m. Floyd Donald Davenport Jr. b. 20 May 1926 d. 30 Nov 2000
6 Richard A. Davenport b. 18 Jun 1956 d. 29 Apr 1999
m. Darla ?
6 Theresa Davenport
m. John Coughlin
6 George Davenport b. _____ d. bef 30 Nov 2000
6 Mary Davenport
m. Rick Hudson
6 Patrick Davenport
5 Wanda G. Wehner (details excluded)
m. William R. Schmitz b. 14 Apr 1928 d. 2 Jun 2012
6 William Mark Schmitz
m. Nancy ?
6 Eric M. Schmitz
m. Sally ?
6 Amy Ann Schmitz
m. Jeff ?
4 John Joseph Wehner b. 7 Dec 1887 d. 15 Jan 1961
m. Alma D. Kieninger m. 4 Jun 1912 b. 14 Sep 1889 d. 24 Dec 1954
5 Infant Wehner b. 15 Apr 1915 d. 19 Apr 1915
5 James Henry Wehner Sr. b. 6 Oct 1916 d. 22 Feb 1995
m. Kathryn L. Harper b. 20 Feb 1919 d. Nov 1983
6 James Henry Wehner Jr.
m. Maureen ?
6 Ann B. Wehner
m. Maurice Brubaker
6 Susan K. Wehner
m. Stephen Herndon
6 Daniel G. Wehner
m. Sandra ?
5 Marian L. Wehner b. 1 Jan 1921 d. 2 Nov 2012
m. Alexander Drobnak Palmer m. 12 Dec 1945 b. 9 Oct 1920 d. 1 Apr 2013
6 Janet Jean Palmer
m. Tom Lukes
6 Kelvin Marc Palmer
m. Vicki ?
4 Theckla Regina Wehner b. 8 Jun 1889 d. 20 Apr 1976
m. Karl Hilbert m. 31 Jan 1914 b. 25 Dec 1888 d. 8 Nov 1928
5 Carl G. Hilbert b. 16 Sep 1915 d. 24 Sep 1999
m. Edna E. Figge m. 7 Oct 1940 b. 5 Jun 1916 d. 25 Apr 2009
6 John C. Hilbert b. 1 May 1941 d. 2 May 1941
6 Michael Hilbert
m. Kathy ?
6 Thomas Hilbert
m. Susan Nelson
6 Ann Hilbert
m. Robert Spooner
5 Emil Joseph Hilbert b. 28 Nov 1921 d. 18 Oct 2004
m. Dolores Mary Hubecky m. 1965 b. 4 Apr 1929 d. 26 Dec 2004
6 Steven Hilbert
m. Lou Ann ?
6 Amy M. Hilbert
5 Paul J. Hilbert (details excluded)
m. Mildred R. ? (details excluded)
4 August Peter Wehner b. 18 Jul 1891 d. 31 Jul 1966
m. Marguerite Katherine Wilhelm m. 24 Aug 1915 b. 26 Aug 1893 d. 22 May 1980
5 August George Wehner b. 20 Sep 1916 d. 7 Jul 1991
m. Katherine R. Yeager m. 3 Jan 1942 b. 28 Jul 1918 d. 6 Jan 1990

6 George A. Wehner
6 Nicholas V. Wehner
5 Gilbert Louis Wehner b. 1 Apr 1918 d. 21 Apr 2010
m. Jeanette Sundgaard (details excluded)
6 Stephen Wehner
m. Andrea ?
6 Michael Wehner
m. Karen ?
6 Teresa Wehner
6 Mary Wehner
6 Loretta Wehner
m. Jim Borjian
6 Joan Wehner
m. Frederick Hutto
5 Joseph Robert Wehner b. 17 Dec 1919 d. 28 Nov 1986
m. Argena R. Palmer (details excluded)
6 Robert J. Wehner
6 Thomas Wehner
6 John Wehner
m. Carolyn ?
6 JoAnn Wehner
6 Kathy Sue Wehner
m. ? Schuyler
6 Charles F. Wehner b. 14 Jan 1957 d. 26 Mar 1958
6 Ronald R. Wehner
6 Patrick Wehner
6 Mark Wehner
6 Nancy Wehner
5 William John Wehner b. 17 Sep 1921 d. 5 Apr 1958
m. Elizabeth R. Kettinger m. 2 Oct 1948 b. 17 Nov 1927 d. 26 Mar 1995
6 Paul William Wehner b. 18 Jul 1949 d. 13 Oct 2012
m. Linda Marie Giesler (details excluded)
6 David Wehner
m. Barbara ?
5 Lawrence Leonard Wehner b. 20 Dec 1923 d. 7 Mar 1978
m. Theola A. Rottler m. 12 Jun 1948 b. 8 Sep 1925 d. 24 Apr 2010
6 Leonard Lawrence Wehner b. 19 Jun 1949 d. 30 Jun 2004
m. Denise Spraul
6 Margaret Rose Wehner b. 1950 d. 1951
6 Barbara Wehner
m. Paul T. Gegg
m. Dan Roy
6 Jean Marie Wehner (details excluded)
m. Robert Edward Holland (details excluded)
6 Richard G. Wehner (details excluded)
m. Tracey Parker (details excluded)
6 Ann Louise Wehner (details excluded)
m. Bradley Paul Kertz (details excluded)
Jason Becks (details excluded)
6 Frank A. Wehner
m. Joan ?
6 Annette Marie Wehner (details excluded)
m. Bruce Allen Carron (details excluded)
6 William J. Wehner
5 Marguerite Wehner (details excluded)

m. Wilfred N. Bauman Jr. (details excluded)
6 Michael Bauman
6 James Bauman
6 Francis Bauman
6 Edward Bauman
6 Caroline Bauman b. abt 1950 d. 1990
m. Milton Hightower
4 Genevieve Wehner b. 26 Oct 1892 d. 17 Oct 1976
4 Rosine Pauline Wehner b. 29 Jun 1895 d. 18 Oct 1980
m. George Bernard Wolken m. 28 Aug 1919 b. 6 Apr 1897 d. 31 Jul 1965
5 Rose Marie Wolken b. 29 Jun 1922 d. 20 Aug 2012
m. Clarence J. Tebeau Jr. m. abt 1947 b. 8 Jun 1923 d. 3 Jan 2004
6 Gerianne Rose Tebeau
m. Albert L Cruze m. 27 Aug 1977
3 Joseph Wehner b. 1851 d. 1860 - 1870
3 John Wehner b. 1851 d. 1860 - 1870
3 Mary Wehner b. 13 Sep 1854 d. 13 Mar 1932
m. Martin Meyer m. 3 Jun 1873 b. 17 Aug 1841 d. 25 Jul 1880
m. William Baumstark m. 10 Dec 1884 b. 15 Oct 1855 d. 3 Jul 1932
[Children of Mary Wehner and Martin Meyer]
4 Clara Eleanora Meyer b. 14 Jul 1875 d. 12 Jul 1930
4 August Guye Meyer b. 2 Oct 1877 d. 27 Jan 1919
m. Hella A. L. ? m. 1900 b. 26 Feb 1873
m. Alita L. Wiedmann m. 1907 - 1908 b. 27 Sep 1880 d. 30 Jul 1928
[Children of August Guye Meyer and Alita L. Wiedmann]
5 John Martin Meyer b. 28 Dec 1908 d. Apr 1970
m. Bertha M. Westhoff m. abt 1929 b. 22 Oct 1906 d. 8 Dec 1991
4 Mary Martha Theresa Meyer b. 8 Oct 1879 d. 23 May 1948
m. William George Naumann m. 21 Apr 1903 b. 23 Apr 1876 d. 7 Apr 1905
m. Andrew F. Wilder m. 2 Feb 1910 b. 21 Feb 1864 d. 8 Apr 1934
[Children of Mary Martha Theresa Meyer and William George Naumann]
5 Rosemary M. Naumann b. 27 Feb 1904 d. 24 Jun 2002
m. Emanuel Felix Andrew LaPlante m. 28 Jan 1936 b. 14 Jul 1906 d. 6 Dec 1971
6 Ann Willette LaPlante (details excluded)
m. ? Prewett (details excluded)
6 Rosemary Lorraine LaPlante (details excluded)
m. Gerald John Glaser (details excluded)
[Children of Mary Martha Theresa Meyer and Andrew F. Wilder]
5 Martha Anita Wilder b. 13 Jan 1911 d. 13 Nov 1974
m. Louis Jules Rozier Sr. m. 29 Apr 1943 b. 12 Jun 1902 d. 20 Jun 1977
6 Louis Jules Rozier Jr. (details excluded)
[Children of Mary Wehner and William Baumstark]
4 Augusta Mary Theresa Baumstark b. 9 Oct 1885 d. 11 Jun 1894
4 Antoinette Marie Baumstark b. 4 Sep 1887 d. 10 Sep 1908
m. Leslie Earl Miller m. 28 Nov 1907 b. Aug 1886
5 Wilma Antoinette Miller b. 26 Jul 1908 d. 12 Jul 1980
m. ? Dietz
5 William Anton Miller b. 26 Jul 1908 d. 26 Oct 1908
4 Illma Olivia Theresa Baumstark b. 18 Jul 1889 d. 15 Dec 1966
m. George W. Huck m. 10 Jun 1908 b. 24 Jan 1888 d. 30 Sep 1925
5 Cletus B. Huck b. 8 Aug 1909 d. 12 Feb 1979
m. Genevieve Mary Ganahl m. 29 Oct 1938 b. 11 Oct 1911 d. 6 May 1997
5 Georgia Maria Huck b. 4 Oct 1913 d. 29 Dec 2005
m. Harold Jules Bequette m. 12 Jun 1933 b. 22 Sep 1911 d. 8 Jan 2000
6 George Jules Bequette Sr. b. 22 Jun 1935 d. 10 Mar 2011

m. Nan McConnell
6 Illma Ann Bequette
m. Edward Mack d. bef 10 Mar 2011
5 Linus Edward Huck b. 9 Feb 1915 d. 4 Sep 2001
m. Anna Alice Foster m. 3 Oct 1936 b. 1914 - 1915
6 Georgia Ann Huck
6 Linus F. Huck
m. Rebecca ?
6 Lois Lee Huck
m. John Ramsey
4 Anna Helen Baumstark b. 22 Dec 1891 d. May 1969
m. August John Birsner m. 12 Oct 1914 b. 2 Dec 1888 d. by 1939
5 John William Birsner Sr. b. 22 Dec 1916 d. 30 Dec 2002
m. Unknown Spouse
m. ? Nicholson m. bef 1950
m. Marjorie Alice Hilton m. 26 May 1956
m. Rose L. Ellerd m. 21 Sep 1963 b. 1919
m. Valerie Wall m. 1 Aug 1971
m. Mary Lou ?
[Children of John William Birsner Sr. and Unknown Spouse]
6 Harvey Ash Birsner (details excluded)
m. Donna Harris (details excluded)
[Children of John William Birsner Sr. and ? Nicholson]
6 John William Birsner Jr. (details excluded)
m. Janice A. Anderson (details excluded)
6 Margaret Birsner (details excluded)
m. Felix T. Rapaport b. 27 Sep 1929 d. 12 Apr 2001
5 Marguerite Mary Birsner b. 19 Dec 1919 d. 8 Dec 1996
m. David B. Meblin m. abt 1942 b. 15 Nov 1910 d. 30 May 2005
6 Amy Meblin
6 Andrew Meblin
4 Eulalia Margaret Baumstark b. 8 Jan 1894 d. 26 Jul 1972
m. Vernon Jones m. 1930 - 1948 b. 28 Aug 1900 d. Jul 1972
3 Theresa Wehner b. 2 Oct 1856 d. 1 Dec 1940
m. Frederick G. Bolle m. 2 Jul 1878 b. 13 Aug 1845 d. 26 May 1900
4 George Wehner Bolle b. 6 Feb 1880 d. 26 Apr 1886
4 Flora Eleonora Bolle b. 13 Sep 1882 d. 20 Nov 1953
m. Theodore Mitchell m. 23 May 1918 b. 14 Oct 1858 d. 10 Jan 1933
4 Frederick Nicholas Bolle b. 20 Oct 1884 d. 7 Nov 1908
4 Frederick Felix Bolle b. 20 Oct 1886 d. 30 Dec 1886
4 Bertha Alvina Alma Bolle b. 10 Mar 1889 d. 21 Aug 1979
m. Samuel Campbell Russell m. 26 May 1917 b. 19 Aug 1893 d. 1 Jun 1960
5 Parker Campbell Russell b. 11 Oct 1918 d. 11 Dec 1996
5 Robert J. Russell (details excluded)
4 Herman Thomas Bolle b. 8 Aug 1891 d. 16 May 1963
m. Louise Hahn m. 17 Sep 1913 b. 30 Mar 1889 d. 13 May 1952
m. Wilhelmina Flori m. 1952 - 1956 b. 18 May 1890 d. 23 Jan 1956
[Children of Herman Thomas Bolle and Louise Hahn]
5 Arline Louise Bolle b. 20 Jan 1921 d. 17 Aug 2000
m. Milton John Conrad Albert m. 30 Mar 1956 b. 27 Oct 1917 d. 25 Sep 2000
6 Kathleen Marie Albert b. _____ d. bef 17 Aug 2000
m. ? Andrews
6 Mary Louise Albert
m. Bryan W. Nicholson
6 Barbara Jean Albert

m. Gene Ragsdale
6 Patricia Lee Albert
m. Randy Bailey
4 Augusta Elisabeth Bolle b. 2 Jul 1893 d. 29 Mar 1978
m. Peter B. Harris m. 1912 - 1916
m. Carlyle Marshall Terry m. 20 Jul 1931 b. 15 Jul 1894 d. 7 Jan 1981
3 Peter Wehner b. 4 Mar 1859 d. 3 Feb 1941
m. Catherine Rottler m. 27 Jan 1885 b. 16 Oct 1860 d. 9 Feb 1941
4 John Edward Wehner b. 29 Oct 1885 d. 16 Sep 1982
m. Leona Mary Naumann m. 30 Nov 1911 b. 4 Sep 1887 d. 12 Dec 1960
5 Eloise Marie Wehner b. 25 Mar 1913 d. 28 Jul 1987
m. Dale Winston Summers m. 31 May 1941 b. 5 Mar 1913 d. 18 Oct 1975
6 Mary Frances Summers (details excluded)
m. Robert Edwin Tapscott (details excluded)
6 Barbara Eloise Summers (details excluded)
m. Gerald Wyatt Dobbs b. 18 Apr 1947 d. 9 Jun 1994
m. Robert Alan Summers (details excluded)
5 Francis Edward Wehner b. 10 Jul 1920
m. Olga Dolores Elizondo m. 6 Jun 1942 b. 29 Sep 1916 d. 13 Mar 2011
6 Michael Francis Wehner (details excluded)
m. Jane Rueff (details excluded)
m. Deborah Harrell (details excluded)
6 Edward John Wehner II (details excluded)
m. Mary Kay Welch (details excluded)
4 Julia Elvina Wehner b. 11 Oct 1887 d. 10 Sep 1889
4 Louise Alice Wehner b. 14 Sep 1889 d. 6 Dec 1985
4 Ella Agnes Wehner b. 6 Sep 1891 d. abt 23 Mar 1971
m. Peter J. Svelich m. 1930 b. 15 Dec 1882 d. abt 26 Dec 1951
m. Orison Scribener Smith Jr. m. 6 Sep 1962 b. 7 Aug 1889 d. 14 Aug 1981
5 Mary C. Wehner b. 5 Sep 1907 d. 16 Aug 1975
m. Sebastian George Basler m. 1941 or after b. 30 Jan 1899 d. 24 Nov 1975
4 Mary Leona Wehner b. 17 Jul 1893 d. 4 Aug 1993
m. Nicholas Keser m. 26 Mar 1927 b. 20 Jun 1901 d. 6 Nov 1978
5 Catherine Ann Keser (details excluded)
4 Octavia Clara Wehner b. 17 Jul 1893 d. 4 Jul 1975
m. Walter Joseph Bauman m. 12 Feb 1928 b. 19 Mar 1895 d. 4 Mar 1974
5 Patricia A. Bauman (details excluded)
m. Sylvester A. Flotte (details excluded)
6 Gregory Flotte
6 Karen Flotte (details excluded)
6 Mary Kay Flotte (details excluded)
4 Albert Joseph Wehner b. 26 Apr 1896 d. 8 Aug 1989
m. Marie J. Lang m. 5 Feb 1918 b. 23 Jun 1900 d. 29 Sep 1988
5 Albert A. Wehner b. 30 Apr 1920 d. 3 Feb 1995
4 Henry Charles Wehner b. 21 Sep 1898 d. 8 Apr 1992
m. Cecilia Ann Eckery m. 2 Feb 1926 b. 12 Nov 1901 d. 28 Feb 1996
5 Dolores Cecilia Wehner (details excluded)
m. Lyle B. Miljour b. 20 Aug 1927 d. 8 Jan 1993
m. Leo Robert Hahto b. 11 May 1936 d. 18 Nov 1983
4 Julius Martin Wehner b. 22 Aug 1900 d. 19 Apr 1994
m. Mary Ann Oces m. 24 Aug 1935 b. 15 May 1904 d. 22 Mar 1976
4 Martha Ervine Wehner b. 30 Apr 1902 d. 19 Aug 1986
m. Walter Alfred Wood m. 5 Oct 1930 b. 11 Mar 1896 d. 15 Mar 1968
5 Allen C. Wood Sr. b. 1 Apr 1934 d. 2 May 2005
m. Pamela A. Doll m. 5 Dec 1953

6 Tamara Wood
m. ? Gilliam
6 Allen C. Wood Jr. b. 20 Aug 1954 d. 4 Jul 2009
6 Dawn Wood
5 Earl Daniel Wood Sr. b. 1 Sep 1940 d. 2 Oct 1998
m. Virginia R. Hennemann m. 29 Aug 1959 b. 11 May 1941 d. 24 Mar 2005
6 Earl Daniel Wood Jr. b. 27 Nov 1959 d. 20 May 2007
m. Robin Marie Roth (details excluded)
6 Penney Wood (details excluded)
m. Mark Allen Longley (details excluded)
6 Patti Wood
m. Tom Sizemore
6 Ronnie Wood
m. Amy ?
6 Julie Wood
m. Cliff Vishino
4 Walter William Wehner b. 25 Mar 1906 d. 17 Jul 1991
m. Wilma B. Oberle m. 20 Apr 1930 b. 29 Jan 1908 d. 7 Jan 1981
5 Carl Joseph Wehner (details excluded)
m. Marilyn J. Cabral (details excluded)
6 Christy Carl Wehner (details excluded)
6 Rebecca Lynn Wehner (details excluded)
5 Paul Julius Wehner b. 5 Mar 1931 d. 19 Apr 2003
m. Earlyn Marie Jokerst (details excluded)
6 Wayne Walter Wehner (details excluded)
m. Gail Ann Jaeger (details excluded)
6 Yvonne Marie Wehner (details excluded)
m. Thomas Alvin Brake (details excluded)
6 Mary Louis Wehner (details excluded)
m. Larry Joseph Naeger (details excluded)
6 Gregory Paul Wehner (details excluded)
m. Debora Ann Hermann (details excluded)
6 Brian Joseph Wehner (details excluded)
m. Kay Ellen Wolfin (details excluded)
6 Timothy John Wehner (details excluded)
m. Joann Reppond (details excluded)
6 Debra Ann Wehner (details excluded)
m. Mark Anthony Bleckler (details excluded)
6 Donald Martin Wehner (details excluded)
m. Annette Marie Palmer (details excluded)
5 Neil William Wehner (details excluded)
m. Rowena Theresa Meyer (details excluded)
6 Bruce Gerard Wehner (details excluded)
m. Sherrie Elizabeth White (details excluded)
6 Concetta Marie Wehner (details excluded)
m. Daniel Joseph Hermann (details excluded)
6 Ann Marie Wehner (details excluded)
m. Harry William Moulton (details excluded)
6 Dawn Marie Wehner (details excluded)
m. Darren Mathew Skaggs (details excluded)
Bier und Brot 416
Robert Edwin and Mary Frances Tapscott.

Bob and Mary Frances Tapscott reside in Albuquerque, New Mexico, their home since
1968. For over thirty years, Bob worked for the University of New Mexico, where he was a
Professor of Chemistry and later the Director of the Center for Global Environmental
Technologies. Since retiring from the University, Bob writes family histories, serves as the
home chef, and works half time for the Good Shepherd Center, a homeless shelter—all
efforts, at present, profitless. He also is addicted to poker, even more profitless. Bob has won
several awards, not a single one having a thing to do with this book and not, therefore, listed
here. Ever hopeful, he is awaiting the day when movie rights for this or a future tome are
snapped up by a Hollywood studio.
Mary Frances, the instigator of this book, retired in 2012 after serving as full-time
Director of Technology (i.e., she handled computers) for St. Pius X High School in
Albuquerque. Now, when she is not helping Bob with family history research, she sings with
the University of New Mexico Chorus, Threshold Choir, and Newman Center Catholic
Church choir; knits and sews with the Tuesday Angel group (which makes items for low
income and homeless); posts newspaper readings for the blind; and plays a mean game of
Mahjong.
These days Bob and Mary Frances live with two cats, their only child having sought his
fortune in Phoenix, Arizona. It is anticipated that Michael will return one day, when he finds
that one of his dad’s books is a cinematic blockbuster.

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Bier und Brot

The Wehners of Southeast Missouri

First Printing, August 2013

Published by Robert E. Tapscott

Dedicated to John Edward (“Eddie”) Wehner

For Mary Frances,

and for Cody and Corina

Other books authored or co-authored by R. E. Tapscott

The Never Failing Brook

Henry the Immigrant

William Edwin Wehner .............................................................................................50

Charles Howard Jr. ....................................................................................................87

Church of Ste. Genevieve ...............................................................................................132

Carl G. Hilbert .........................................................................................................196

Julia Elvina Wehner ........................................................................................................253

The state of Hesse in Germany, where it all started (2011).

Johann and Flora (Müller)

Dietershan around 1930. (Photo courtesy of Christine Bub.)

Caspar Franz Müller, Flora’s brother, was

The Haun provided waterpower, and

Gateway to the West

The Mississippi River near Cape Girardeau (2007).

in size as you ascend, until they

The primary battle occurred within

Lorenz and Flora Wehner

Questionnaire of 2 May 1898 from Civil War pension file.

Private Lorenz Wehner

Lots 22, 23,

Clara Christina Wehner

Robert Jacob Schilling

Kathryn died 18 November

His wife, my great-grandmother, Clara Wehner Schilling, had died a few

After Robert’s death, my grandparents and my mother continued to run the

Albert L. Schilling Robert Jacob Schilling

Walter Leo Schilling Clara Jeanette Schilling

Robert Schilling Jr. Vernon R. Schilling

Iron County Register

Henrietta was born 17 April 1859 in Germany,317 probably as “Henriette Burgsmüller,” a

In May 1913 Octavia, Mary

Catharine”344), and Imogene Henrietta.344,352 A simple stone in the Presbyterian Cemetery

In 1909 he was transferred by the company to Crystal City, where he

Emma Edith Wehner

Frank Joseph Wehner

Frank’s work breaks may have

Lucille Frances Wehner

Dora Ann Wehner

Before and after his marriage, John usually

She sued Barney for divorce,

Texarkana, c1888. The diagonal street is State Line Avenue. (Library of

Harold Gregg Cooney Sr.

Alyce Jane Cooney

Howard Raymond Cooney

Virginia Catherine Cooney

New York, where Harold also served

Thomas’s second marriage came at a

Grace Phoebe Cooney Robert Vincent Dyckman

Harold Gregg Cooney Sr.

Arthur Russell Cooney Jr.

Allen Richard Cooney Sr.