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| 7201 | The birth year of Heinrich or his son Heinrich must be off. | Pitsch, Heinrich (I32556)
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| 7202 | The book Bernhard Martin ... has date of birth as 13 Oct 1914 | Meyer, OPAL Marie (I19407)
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| 7203 | The Books: Großen Historisches Lexicon Evangelischer Jubel-Priester provides the name of Elisabetha's husband She had 15 children, 11 sons and 4 daughters. Two of the daughters died as children. The Coburg Pfarrerbuch notes that she is the great great granddaughter of Maximilian Mörlin. | Steiner, Elisabetha (I21307)
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| 7204 | The Books: History of Cooper County by W. F. Johnston has Elizabeth as dying in infancy | Meyer, Elizabeth (I1624)
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| 7205 | The Bunceton Weekly - January 9, 1931 A TALK WITH UNCLE TOM WOOLERY - Confederate Veteran, Lone Survivor of Company, Reviews Old Times and Recalls Interesting Incidents "Well, son, here I am. They told me you wanted to see me." said Uncle Tom Woolery the other day as he walked into the Eagle office. As I had not seen Uncle Tom on the street for several days, I telephoned to his home, asking that he drop in the first time he came down town. "You've been in this county quite a while haven't you, Mr. Woolery?" I asked. "Well, not so long, only eighty-eight years," he replied. He was born in 1843 and will celebrate his eighty-eighth birthday, January 18th. "Wasn't traveling rather difficult when you were a boy?" was the next question, by way of a start. "Well, not so bad. When I didn't go horse back I walked. but there were no fences to bother with in those days. When we wanted to some some place we right across the nearest way. But I never rode a bull courting like Sam Cole did. He swam across the Missouri River on one to go to a dance. Folks mostly didn't get far from home as we think of distance now a days. I remember though one venturesome party went all the way to the Osage River. And one of them was killed by the Indians before they got back." Asked about his military experience, Mr. Woolery said that a company of home boys met at Houck Springs in 1862, and chose a leader. He took them across the Missouri River to join Pendleton's command. Arriving there they found Pendleton's forces scattered by militia, and the company was obliged to swim back. He entered regular service under the command of General Joe Shelby, taking an oath of enlistment to serve for a period of three years or for the duration of the war. The war had ended at the end of three years and his company was mustered out in 1865. Mr. Woolery, like other Confederate and Federal veterans who saw real military service, says that irresponsible individuals are to blame for the criminal violence, murder and pillage suffered by friends of both sides of the great controversy. Members of the regular troops of both armies, with few exception, conducted themselves as soldiers and gentlemen. "You ask me what was the worst scare I ever had in my life? That's pretty hard to answer. About the most uncomfortable and warmest place I was ever in was St Helena, Ark. on the Fourth of July, 1864. The Federal soldiers were in rifle pits where we couldn't get them and a gun boat in the river kept pelting us with grape. "One always feels a little shaky though just before starting into action. when you got going it was not much more exciting that quail shooting. But when you're lying in the brush somewhere trying to get a little sleep and are woke by a disturbance and wonder what and where it is, it bothers you." Speaking of the first fight at Boonville, brought on by Gen. Lyon's vigorous policy, Mr. Woolery said that he had not yet joined the army, being a boy of seventeen. He was out in the field plowing on that day when he heard the fire of artillery. Not very much plowing was done, he admits. Speaking of the battle of Wilson Creek, in which General Lyon was killed, Mr. Woolery says that Uncle Billy Doyle of this count had charge of the headquarters wagon for General Sterling Price, and the night before the battle had camped right in the bed of the creek which was dry at the time they arrived. During the night a heavy thunderstorm came up and with great exertion they managed to get all supplies and men located on higher ground. within a very short time the creek was an unfordable stream. And when daylight came the forces of General Lyon were in formation on the opposite bank. Among local men participating in this fight were James Speed, Lieutenant George Oglesby. D. Smallwood, (whom General Price called the best cavalryman in the Confederate service), Sam Cole and Dick Hudson. Mr. Woolery tells an interesting incident of Dr. "Bob" Howlett of this county. After a furious engagement at Elk Tavern, Ark., Dr. Howlett worked until midnight caring for the wounded of his company. Just as he had finished a Federal officer came, stating that they had fifty wounded for whom they were unable to reach a physician, and asked Dr. Howlett to care for his men. So the doctor spent the rest of the night working with the Union Troops, not finishing his treatment of the enemy wounded until after daybreak. For a number of years after the conclusion of the war there were three flourishing camps of confederate veterans in this county. Now, Mr. Woolery says there are but about six left and part of them are Virginians. In the course of his service in the Confederate Calvary he served as drillmaster, as sergeant, ranked as captain but never received a commission. Thomas Franklin Woolery, the son of Stephen and Hannah Briscoe Woolery, is the last living representative of a family of thirteen children. Census Areas: 1880 Census: Palestine Twp., Cooper County, MO Shows that Joseph Richard Woolery, nephew was living with Thomas Franklin Woolery's family. 1900 Census - Palestine Twp., Cooper County, MO 1910 Census - Palestine Twp., Cooper County, MO 1920 Census - 1WD Bunceton, Kelly Twp., Cooper County, MO 1930 Census - Bunceton City, Kelly Township, Cooper County, Missouri | Woolery, Thomas Franklin (I10692)
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| 7206 | The burial of Michaël Thoma’s little daughter — 25 September 1622 ( 5 October 1622 in the Gregorian Calendar ) The German transcription : 25. Wed. Michaël Thoma tochter. lein. The English translation : 25 [ September 1622 ], Wednesday Michael Thoma’s little daughter. | THOMÆ, N.N. (I33082)
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| 7207 | The burial of Michael Thomae’s wife — 9 May 1617 ( 19 May 1617 in the Gregorian Calendar ) The Latin transcription : 9. Fri. Michael Thomae ūxor [ not vidua ] The English translation : 9 [ May 1617 ] Friday. Michael Thomae’s wife [ not widow ] | THOMAE, N.N. (I33080)
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| 7208 | The car he was working on fell on him which caused his death. | Beachboard, Joe Roy (I8423)
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| 7209 | The community was saddened the first of this week when it was heard that Mrs. W. I. Watts had passed away at her home southwest of Sac City 1 PM Monday. She had not been in good health for sometime but she had been out and about and so her send passing came as a great shock to her husband and family. She had been ill only since the previous Wednesday but her condition was not considered serious. There remains to mourn her passing her husband for children; W. E. Watts and Guy Watts of Alta, Edith of Des Moines Jeanette, a member of the Waves in Hawaii. A cablegram was immediately sent to the latter, but no word has come from her, so it is presumed that the message has not yet reached her. Funeral arrangements have been delayed hoping that some word might yet come, but if not, the services will be held from the house at 2 PM and from the Methodist Church at 2:30 PM Friday. Rev. O. W. Brand, Minister of the local church and Rev. J. T. Snyder of Storm Lake officiate while Farber and Ottoman funeral homes will be in charge. Burial be made in the cemetery at Storm Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Watts purchased a small farm southwest of Sac City about two years ago and moved their. They were improving it and making a comfortable home for themselves for their old age. Death has now wrecked their plans. They formally lived in Buena Vista and Ida counties. This information was published by the Sac Sun, May 31, 1945. | Perrott, Nettie Florence (I5100)
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| 7210 | The de Bohun then Bohun family is an English noble family of Norman origin that played a prominent role in English political and military history during the Late Middle Ages. The swan used by the family and their descendants as a heraldic badge came to be called the Bohun swan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohun_family Humphrey (VI) de Bohun (c. 1249 – 31 December 1298), 3rd Earl of Hereford and 2nd Earl of Essex, was an English nobleman known primarily for his opposition to King Edward I over the Confirmatio Cartarum.[1] He was also an active participant in the Welsh Wars and maintained for several years a private feud with the earl of Gloucester.[2] His father, Humphrey (V) de Bohun, fought on the side of the rebellious barons in the Barons' War. When Humphrey (V) predeceased his father, Humphrey (VI) became heir to his grandfather, Humphrey (IV). At Humphrey (IV)'s death in 1275, Humphrey (VI) inherited the earldoms of Hereford and Essex. He also inherited major possessions in the Welsh Marches from his mother, Eleanor de Braose... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_de_Bohun,_3rd_Earl_of_Hereford | de Bohun, Humphrey (I35518)
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| 7211 | The death of Miss Ruth Westerman, which occurred at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Westerman, in this city, Friday evening at 7 o'clock, of appendicitis, was a particularity sad one. Miss Ruth had been ill for several weeks, and though her illness was of a serious nature, her loved ones hoped and looked for her recovery, but it was not to be. The same Lord who gave took unto Himself, this beautiful flower just beginning to bloom, and transplanted it in His garden above. Beautiful both in personal appearance and in character, she enjoyed the very highest esteem of all who knew her. Of a modest, though agreeable and friendly nature, she made friends and held their friendship. At the age of eleven years, she became a Christian, and at the time of her death, was a true and devoted member of the Presbyterian church. She was an earnest worker both in the Sunday school and Christian Endeavor, and her place there, as in her home, will be hard to fill. The funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church, Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, conducted by Rev. E. F. Abbott, who paid a beautiful tribute to the dear girl. The pupils of Room No. 8 of the public school, of which she was a member, attended in a body. The pall bearers selected from the school and Sunday school were: John Ryan, Lawrence Geiger, Wilbur Larry, Leo Weyland, Cecil Adams and Perry Johnson. After the services at the church the remains were conducted to Walnut Grove cemetery, where amid a veritable bower of roses, emblematic of the purity and sweetness of her life, she was laid to rest. | Westerman, Ruth S (I4161)
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| 7212 | The descendants of the second marriage with Johann Georg Gehring, who died in 1774 ( p. 39 ), are not entitled to scholarships, because only Margaretha Helene Bau is a descendant of the Founder. Neither are the descendants of Johann Michael Gehring ( 1761 – 1834 ) whose 1st wife Elisab. Katzenberger died in 1791, [ and ] whose 2nd wife Christiane ( 1769 – 1849 ), was the daughter of the Ducal Court’s servant Georg Philipp König. Children : 1. Christian ( 1788 – 1843 ), m. M. Höhn, d. 1857 ( Children — Caroline b. 1819, m. Carl Lindig ; Friedericke b. 1814, m. 1 Carl Dressel, m. 2 Fr. Popp ) 2. Friedericke b. 1798, m. Hofwagner [ court wagonmaker ] Fr. Bauer ( Children — Maria m. 1859 brewer Wilhelm Gehring ; Ludwig b. 1825 ; Louise b. 1827, m. Bernhard Hochrein ; Anna b. 1830 ; Eduard b. 1835 ). 3. Margaretha, m. court trumpeter Daniel Beckert. 4. Friedericke b. 1800, m. Peter Fischer. 5. Christiane b. 1802, m. Christian Ruß. 6. Magdalena b. 1804, m. butcher Georg Ortleb. 7. Philipp b. 1806, m. Georgine Langguth ( Children — Wilhelm, b. 1830, m. Maria Bauer ; Auguste, b. 1832, m. master baker Georg Sauerteig ; Henriette, b. 1837, m. Gottreich Lobenstein. ) | Bau, Margaretha Helene (I30064)
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| 7213 | The descendants of the second marriage with Johann Georg Gehring, who died in 1774 ( p. 39 ), are not entitled to scholarships, because only Margaretha Helene Bau is a descendant of the Founder. Neither are the descendants of Johann Michael Gehring ( 1761 – 1834 ) whose 1st wife Elisab. Katzenberger died in 1791, [ and ] whose 2nd wife Christiane ( 1769 – 1849 ), was the daughter of the Ducal Court’s servant Georg Philipp König. Children : 1. Christian ( 1788 – 1843 ), m. M. Höhn, d. 1857 ( Children — Caroline b. 1819, m. Carl Lindig ; Friedericke b. 1814, m. 1 Carl Dressel, m. 2 Fr. Popp ) 2. Friedericke b. 1798, m. Hofwagner [ court wagonmaker ] Fr. Bauer ( Children — Maria m. 1859 brewer Wilhelm Gehring ; Ludwig b. 1825 ; Louise b. 1827, m. Bernhard Hochrein ; Anna b. 1830 ; Eduard b. 1835 ). 3. Margaretha, m. court trumpeter Daniel Beckert. 4. Friedericke b. 1800, m. Peter Fischer. 5. Christiane b. 1802, m. Christian Ruß. 6. Magdalena b. 1804, m. butcher Georg Ortleb. 7. Philipp b. 1806, m. Georgine Langguth ( Children — Wilhelm, b. 1830, m. Maria Bauer ; Auguste, b. 1832, m. master baker Georg Sauerteig ; Henriette, b. 1837, m. Gottreich Lobenstein. ) | Gehring, Johann Georg (I30067)
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| 7214 | The earliest known ancestor of the Winslows who came to America is William Wyncelow, who was born in London in 1250 and died there in 1298. The name "Winslow" comes from the market town in Buckinghamshire. The family made money in the wool industry, but some also moved to London and became prominent merchants there. The Winslow ancestral home, now known as Kerswell Green Farm, is located in Kempsey (near Worcester), England. -- "Madison County Courier": The Winslow Heritage, Part I | Wyncelowe, William (I35635)
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| 7215 | The Emil Kouba family (Emil, Laura, Marcella and Emil Jr.) visited them in August 1941 in Pico, CA. Baptised in the St. Paul's Lutheran Church. | Rosburg, Alma Maria Johanna (I21545)
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| 7216 | The English translation : [ The banns were ] proclaimed on 21st, 22nd, 23rd Sundays after Trinity Sunday and on the 13th of November [ 1610 ] were married 1. Hans Malther, Conrad’s son, and Elisabeth, Wolff Hauber’s daughter 2. Ernst Thomas, Valentine’s son and Anna, Hanssen Schnäter’s daughter Saturday, 13 November 1610 was Saturday, 23 November 1610, in the Gregorian Calendar. In the Julian Calendar ( still in use at that time ), the 21st, 22nd and 23rd Sundays after Trinity Sunday, 3 June 1610, were, respectively, 28 October, 4 November and 11 November. | THOMÆ, Ernst (I33044)
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| 7217 | The English translation : [ The banns were ] proclaimed on 21st, 22nd, 23rd Sundays after Trinity Sunday and on the 13th of November [ 1610 ] were married 1. Hans Malther, Conrad’s son, and Elisabeth, Wolff Hauber’s daughter 2. Ernst Thomas, Valentine’s son and Anna, Hanssen Schnäter’s daughter Saturday, 13 November 1610 was Saturday, 23 November 1610, in the Gregorian Calendar. In the Julian Calendar ( still in use at that time ), the 21st, 22nd and 23rd Sundays after Trinity Sunday, 3 June 1610, were, respectively, 28 October, 4 November and 11 November. | Schnäter, Anna (I34857)
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| 7218 | The expression ui Eremoin means the descendant of Eremoin | ui Eremoin, N.N. (I33533)
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| 7219 | The families for Henry J McQuigg who married Margaret Houlhan and Henry J McQuigg who married Margaret Ross are forever getting confused. I believe that I have done a decent job of sorting the two families out. This Henry McQuigg was committed to Kingston Insane Asylum on 10 Dec 1886 at the age of 47. He was admitted by his wife, Margaret and the committal was enforced by the the “Law” He repeated saw and spoke to the devil and had other visions. He was a cruel looking man although he was clean, tidy, orderly, and peaceful. He died in the asylum on 18 Jan 1897 of heart disease. | McQuigg, Henry J (I16554)
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| 7220 | The family moved from Augusta, Woodruff County, Arkansas to McCrory, Woodruff County, Arkansas; which is about 11 miles east of Augusta. | Mann, Joseph Hubert (I9878)
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| 7221 | The family of John George Neef settled on a farm about 3 miles west of Boonville. The farm was originally bought by J. G. Neef and John H. Boller together. Later divided, but the Neef’s and Bollers lived many years as the closest of neighbors. Later John P. Neef followed the barbers trade; but eventually founded what was once known as Harlingen’s Book Store in the year of 1865. He married Caroline Fuchs, also from Germany. They had no children and Mr. John Neef died 05 Aug 1957. Jacob H. Neef remained on the family farm. | Neef, John GEORGE (I18735)
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| 7222 | The family of John George Neef settled on a farm about 3 miles west of Boonville. The farm was originally bought by J. G. Neef and John H. Boller together. Later divided, but the Neef’s and Bollers lived many years as the closest of neighbors. Later John P. Neef followed the barbers trade; but eventually founded what was once known as Harlingen’s Book Store in the year of 1865. He married Caroline Fuchs, also from Germany. They had no children and Mr. John Neef died 05 Aug 1957. Jacob H. Neef remained on the family farm. | Neef, John PETER (I17679)
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| 7223 | The family of John George Neef settled on a farm about 3 miles west of Boonville. The farm was originally bought by J. G. Neef and John H. Boller together. Later divided, but the Neef’s and Bollers lived many years as the closest of neighbors. Later John P. Neef followed the barbers trade; but eventually founded what was once known as Harlingen’s Book Store in the year of 1865. He married Caroline Fuchs, also from Germany. They had no children and Mr. John Neef died 05 Aug 1957. Jacob H. Neef remained on the family farm. | Neef, JACOB Henry (I7313)
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| 7224 | The first recorded Justiciar (of the Lothians), governing the southern half of Scotland south of the rivers Forth and Clyde (excluding Galloway) | Olifard, David (I34777)
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| 7225 | The first Sextus Julius Caesar was praetor in 208 BC, and assigned the province of Sicily. He commanded the legiones Cannenses, the legions formed from the survivors of Cannae. After the consuls were ambushed by Hannibal, leaving Marcus Claudius Marcellus dead, and Titus Quinctius Crispinus mortally wounded, Sextus was dispatched by the Roman Senate to ask Quinctius to nominate a dictator. ___________________________________________________ Sextus Julius Caesar was a Roman praetor in 208 BC, during the Second Punic War. He is thought to be the ancestor of all of the later Julii Caesares who appear in history. Sextus is the earliest member of the Julii Caesares whose name is found in historical sources. From the filiation of his son, Sextus, we know that his father's name was Lucius, but it is not known whether his father bore the surname of Caesar. At least some scholars have proposed that this Lucius was the son of Lucius Julius Libo, consul in 267 BC. Sextus appears to have had at least two children: Lucius, who was praetor in 183 BC, and Sextus, who served as military tribune in 181, and attained the consulship in BC 157. In his reconstruction of the Julii Caesares, classical scholar Wilhelm Drumann assumed that the consul was the son of the military tribune, rather than the same man, and therefore inserted an otherwise unknown Lucius between Sextus the praetor and his two sons; but since the tribune and the consul are identical, the consul's grandfather Lucius must have been the father of Sextus, praetor in BC 208. It is likely that the praetor had a third son, Gaius, who was a senator, and is said to have written a Roman history in Greek about 143 BC. This Gaius was probably the great-grandfather of Gaius Julius Caesar, the dictator, whose father and grandfather were also named Gaius. Elected praetor in 208 BC, Sextus was assigned the province of Sicily, and given the command of the legiones Cannenses, legions formed from the survivors of Battle of Cannae.[ A great calamity befell the Roman forces when the consuls Marcus Claudius Marcellus and Titus Quinctius Crispinus, who were scouting Hannibal's position, fell into a trap, and Marcellus was slain. Gravely wounded, Crispinus was unable to return to Rome in order to hold the elections for the following year, and accordingly the senate dispatched Sextus Julius Caesar and two other envoys to meet with him, and urge the consul to appoint a dictator for the purpose of holding the elections. Crispinus nominated Titus Manlius Torquatus, who oversaw the election of new magistrates, but Crispinus himself died from his wounds before the end of the year. https://www.geni.com/people/Sextus-Julius-Caesar-I/6000000003051146604?through=6000000005768265987 | Sextus Julius Caesar I (I34078)
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| 7226 | The follow is from the 12 September 1902 issue of the Boonville Weekly Advertiser Andrew Quint died Friday, September 5th at his home two and one-half miles south of Pilot Grove. He was born in Prussia and came to America in 1852 with his parents. He was one of ten children, of whom there are living: Mrs. Paul Hofflander, Billingsville; Mrs. Jacob Haerle, Boonville; Mrs. Ernest Walji, Speed; and Mrs. Lizzie Willig, Kansas City. The family settled in Clear Creek township, where Mr. Quint was married at the age of 22 to Miss Tabitha, a daughter of Jacob Ellis, a prominent citizen of Johnson county. Five children survive: Henry and Ernest, of Boonville; Edward and William of Pilot Grove, and Mrs. Fannie Wallace, of St Louis. His first wife died in 1870 and he was married to Mrs. Martha Gordon, who survives. Deceased had lived for 25 years on the farm where he died. The funeral services were held at the Methodist church in Pilot Grove, and the remains were interred in the cemetery there. Newspapers: Boonville Weekly Advertiser, Boonville, Cooper County, MO, Obituary, Of Andrew Quint - 12 Sep 1902. | Quint, Andrew Ernest (I5191)
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| 7227 | The following by Ethel Hartman: Marguerite Birsch Thoma, her death on July 15, 1934 was as the result of heat prostration. Grandmother worked as a practical nurse in homes, it was a hot summer, she returned from working for a Mr. Curtis and died shortly after arriving home. There was not even enough time to contact all the children. She was buried in the Evangelical Cemetery in Jefferson City, Missouri. This cemetery was moved for highway construction and is now a part of Riverview Cemetery in Jefferson City. State Records: Death Records - Missouri, Has year of birth as 1876. | Thoma, Marguerite Birsch (I12276)
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| 7228 | The following from Chip Kalb Agatha, the wife of Prince Edward of Wessex. She was originally listed as a German princess from the House of Billung, the daughter of a Frisian markgrave. But it has been pointed out that her name, Agatha, was not German. It was not even popular in the Holy Roman Empire at the time of her birth. So where did Prince Edward find her? Either Hungary or Kyivska Rus’ ( now the Ukraine ). In those countries, Agatha was a popular name for Christian girls. It was a Greek name and it came from the Byzantine Empire, where Greek was the language of both the courts and churches at that time. For Hungary and Kyivska Rus’, Constantianople ( now Istanbul ), as the capital of the Byzantium, was like Rome so the Greek names were popular there. So how did Prince Edward get his bride from there? He didn’t have a choice — his father, King Edmund II “Ironsides” of the English, died in 1016 and Canute, the King of the Danelaw, had an army strong enough to put him on the throne and the King’s sons out of Wessex. These facts are indisputable but what happened afterwards are not. The new King was supposed to have sent the old King’s sons to his half-brother ( or stepbrother ), the King of Sweden, Olof Skötkonung, in the hope that that King would have them killed. But King Olof was apparently peeved at being saddled with such an unpleasant task because he had the sons shipped off to either Poland, where Canute’s uncle was the Duke, or Kyivska Rus’, where Olof’s daughter was the Queen. Either way, the boys ended up in Hungary and that’s where Edward left in 1057 to go back to England. So which country was the birthplace of Agatha — Hungary or Kyivska Rus’? Good question. Edward is known to have come to Hungary from Kyivska Rus’ from Hungary in 1046 but his oldest child, St Margaret of Scotland, was born about a year before. And here things get really complicated. There are several different theories about the ancestry of Agatha and they would make a very long article, like the one for her at the English Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha,_wife_of_Edward_the_Exile ). But it’s pretty clear, from the naming patterns of her descendants, that Agatha was from either an Hungarian or a Kyivskan and that, as the contemporaries had claimed, she was a relative of the Holy Roman Emperors — Otto III, his cousin Conrad II, and the latter’s son Henry III. And Edward could have stayed in Hungary for the rest of his life but he was always loyal to King András. However, in 1057, things got hairy between the King and his brother Prince Béla over the succession. Kyivska Rus’ was just chilln’ at that time so Edward could have gone there with his wife and children. But, at that moment, when the fur was flying through the air from all the places, Edward got the invitation from the King of England, the childless Edward the Confessor, to come home and be the Crown Prince. He decided that it was too good an opportunity to ignore so he high-tailed out of here with his wife and children. Unfortunately, he died as soon as he came home and that set off England’s own crisis of succession. He did have a son and heir, Edgar, but he was smart enough to know why the winner, William of Normandy, was called “The Conqueror” so he submitted — and lived to tell the tale. | Aetheling, Princess of England Agatha (I25453)
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| 7229 | The following information came from Dave Thoma on 28 Mar 2004: A little more information on my Dad. As you know, his birthdate was December 27, 1929. He went to Wellston High School in St Louis but never graduated - instead going to work to help support his family. He did at a later date obtain his GED. He served in the Korean war - during which I time I believe his father died. After his tour of duty he came back to St Louis, got a job working for Emerson Electric for a few years, then moved onto McDonnell Douglass and stayed there until he retired. He currently loves riding a motorcycle (which I can't figure out - but more power to him. He's only had two minor accidents - so he's been pretty lucky so far). He married the former Carole Anne Walsh (DOB 07/24/1935) on August 17, 1957. They lived in an apartment for a couple of years, then moved into a house in Overland, Missouri in the early 60's. Its the house they still live in. Their first child (David Eugene Thoma, Jr - me) was born on July 4, 1962. Their second child - a daughter (Diane Marie Thoma) was born on December 16, 1963. Diane attended All Souls Catholic grade school and graduated from Ritenour Senior High School in 1981. Diane married Frank Lockhart and currently resides in south St Louis County. They have no children. I'm a little more difficult. I also attended All Souls - graduated from DeSmet Jesuit High School in 1980 and graduated from St Louis University in 1984 with a degree in accounting. I married my first wife (Ruth Ann White - DOB June 10, 1953) on September 26, 1986. Our first daughter (Meghann Elizabeth) was born on June 28, 1987. She is currently living in Overland (St Louis County, MO) and is completing her junior year of high school at Ritenour Senior High. She works part-time at the St Louis County Library. Our second daughter (Jessica Lee Thoma) was born on November 20, 1989 and is also currently residing in Overland and is attending the Ritenour School District. She will be a sophomore next year. After we married, Ruth and I bought a home in St Peters, MO in 1987. We moved from there to Sacramento, CA in January, 1990 and moved again to Boiling Springs, PA in January, 1991. Ruth and I separated in 1994 - at which time she moved back to St Louis. I followed, returning to St Louis in 1995. We are still friends and have a better relationship now that we're divorced. Ruth remarried very briefly in 2001 - but soon after had the marriage annulled. I married Shelly Lyn Lakas in December, 1996. We lived in St Ann, MO - then bought a home in O'Fallon, MO. There were no children from that marriage - which ended in March, 2002. I moved to Phoenix, AZ in August, 2003 to be with my girlfriend (though at our age, that's kind of a strange title). I am currently working as a supervisor for a sales company. | Thoma, David Eugene (I20293)
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| 7230 | The following information is from Larry Wilson Glen Matthew Wilson was born 02-15-1918 in Canadian, Texas, USA. His parents were George Matthew Wilson and Milda Heneritta Mueller. He lived in Texas, USA for approximately 10 years until the family moved to Jefferson City, Missouri. He was educated in the Jefferson City School System and met and married his high school sweetheart, Venita Evelyn Schwab on 06-01-1940. They had five children, Larry Glen 12-05-1942, Gary David 06-16-1945, Cheryl Elaine 03-20-1953, Steven Blaine, 06-26-1957 and Leslie Alan, 10-25-1962. Glen was a World War II veteran, serving in the Combat Engineers in the Ruhr area. He joined the Missouri State Highway Patrol 07-01-1946 and served for 32 years, retiring as a Lieutenant. He is still currently living and resides in Springfield, Missouri, were he has lived since 1946. | Wilson, Glen Matthew (I2137)
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| 7231 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Wilson, Larry Glenn (I16536)
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| 7232 | The following information is from Larry Wilson: Venita Evelyn Schwab was born 09-17-1920 in Slater, Missouri to William Martin Schwab and Elsa Irene Tennill. The family moved to Jefferson City, Missouri where she attended school. She was the only child of this family. She died of a massive heart attack on 09-12-2001 in Springfield, Missouri and is buried there. William Martin Schwab was born 07-17-1892 in Arrow Rock, Missouri to John Martin Schwab and Helena “Lena” Catherine Windmeier. He lived in the Arrow Rock, Glasgow, Missouri area. He married Elsa Irene Tennill on 10-21-1914 in Slater, Missouri. William had one brother, Ernest H., born approximately 1902. William Martin Schwab worked for the Missouri Pacific Railroad as a mechanist for over 50 years in the Slater, St Louis and Jefferson City, Missouri area. His last known address in Jefferson City was 311 East Ashley. After the death of his wife, he moved to Springfield, Missouri where he died 03-17-1972. John Martin Schwab also found on census records as Martin J. Schwab was born 09-26-1865 in Germany. The names of his parents are unknown. He immigrated to the United States in 1866. He died in Saline County, Missouri 06-10-1933 and is buried in Slater City Cemetery. He was employed as a blacksmith and in 1913 moved to Slater where he was employed by the Chicago and Alton Railroad. He married Helena “Lena” Catherine Windmeier on 10-21-1891 in Saline City, Missouri. Research still ongoing here. Helena Catherine Windmeier was born 05-30-1873 in Rhineland, Missouri. She died in Saline County, Missouri on 07-13-1952. Her parents were Anton Henry Windmeier and Catherine Helene Sophia Brewe. She had the following brothers and sisters; Lisetta Anna Wilhelmina Windmeier 11-06-1850, Johanna Christina Sophia Windmeier 11-02-1852, Carolina Sophia Windmeier 12-28-1854, Johanna Matilda Christine Windmeier 10-28-1856, Catherine Maria Caroline Windmeier 11-14-1858, Catherine Louise Lisette Windmeier 10-29-1860, Maria Christine Caroline Windmeier 10-25-1862, Gerhard Heinrich Windmeier 11-16-1864, Fredrick Wilhelm Windmeier 10-03-1866, Emma Wilhelmine Windmeier 12-26-1868 and Amelia Louise Windmeier 10-03-1870. Anton Heinrich Windmeier was born 01-24-1819 in Bad Oeyenhausen, Germany. His parents were Heinrich (Nolting)Windmeier (It was a custom in Germany, that when a man married and they would life on the homeplace of the Bride’s father, he would change his name to that of the homeplace.) His mother was named Anne Marie Christine Windmeier. Anton had the following brothers and sisters; Johan Ernest Windmeier 03-21-1816, Hanne F. C. Windmeier 06-22-1817, Wilhelm Freidrich Windmeier 10-15-1820, Freidrich Wilhelm Windmeier 09-19-1822, Christine F. H. Windmeier 11-08-1824, Johan Heinrich C. Windmeier 01-18-1828, Johan Karl D. Windmeier 12-22-1830 and Johanna K. F. Windmeier 12-14-1831. Anton died 02-16-1879 in Rhineland, Missouri. Catherine Helene Sophia Brewe was born 04-13-1831 in Lienen, Tecklenberg, Germany. She married Anton Henry Windmeier on 05-25-1850. She had one sister, Catherine M. Lisette Brewe born 07-21-1834. Catherine Helene died at Arrown Rock, Missouri. Her parents were Johan Heinrich Wilhelm Brewe and Helene Sophia Bardelmeier. Heinrich Nolting Windmeier, place and date of birth unknown. Married Anne Marie Christine Windmeier 12-18-1814. Parents names are unknown. Anne Marie Christine Windmeier was born 02-18-1790 and died about 1854 in Bad Oeyenhausen, Germany. Her parents were Johan Ernest Windmeier and Anne Marie Elisabeth Althoff. Nothing more is known about the family. Elsa Irene Tennill was born 12-02-1898 in Slater, Missouri to Hugh Edward Tennill and Nattie Jane Rimby. She married William Martin Schwab 10-21-1914. She died 10-03-1967 and is buried in Jefferson City, Missouri. She had the following brothers and sisters; Harry Osborn Tennill, James Louis Tennill, Judson Winfred Tennill, Leland Bill Tennill, Nick Tennill, Blanche Venita Tennill and Clinton Leroy Tennill. Hugh Edward Tennill was born 04-01-1869 in Slater, Missouri to John Marion Tennill and Columbia Goodman. He married Nattie Jane Rimby in Gilliam, Missouri on 04-03-1890. He died 07-10-1945 in Saline County, Missouri. Hugh Edward Tennill had the following brothers and sisters; John Thomas Tennill, Joseph Tennill, Filena Tennill, Sophronia Tennill, Luther E. Tennill, Marion Tennill, Elizabeth Tennill Clayborna Tennill, Bessie Tennill and Mary Tennill. John Marion Tennill was born 06-08-1842 in Slater, Missouri to Hugh Tennill and Elizabeth McCardy or McCarty. | Schwab, Venita Evelyn (I9332)
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| 7233 | The following is from Antonette Mares date 4-9-1938. Rudolp Menzel livesin Shodrace, near Pilsen and was a bookkeeper before the war. He was foreced to go to the country for his health. He was married and had two daughters who are attending a domestic science school. Lives at Shadrace near Pilsen. He was a bookkeeper before the war but was forced to go to the country for his health after the war. He is married and has 2 daughters, Marie and Helena who are attending domestic science school per Antonette Mares 4/9/1938. | Menzel, Rudolp (I7784)
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| 7234 | The following is from Antonette Mares dated 4-9-1938. "Joseph Mares was a shoemaker in Berlin for awhile, then in 1882 he emigrated to the U.S. He came to Cedar Rapids (Iowa) and then to Marion, Iowa. In 1884 he started to go West, as the railroad was built to Helena, Teton County, Montana. He arrived in march 1884 and got work at Hereky's brewery. Eastar came. He thought his work was all done, so he went to church. When he returned, the foreman told him he did not need him. Then he went to Marysville, There he found work in a shoe store for Mike McClain. He worked there for 8 years. Mr. McLain died so the business was to be sold and "Papa" bought it out. He had his father come over from Europe and they kept house together. In 1893 his father wanted to return to see his old home, so Papa went with him and they stayed 6 weeks in Zamberk, then he started back alone for the U.S. On reaching Helena, he had word of his father's passing. Anton Hasker took care of the store, and then Papa sold out to him. Papa came to Helena and bought the Central Park property and also became partner of Frank Mares. In 1898 was interested with Toman Brothers at Cascade ranch. On September 11, 1899, he married Antonette Jama at Omaha, Nebraska. They had three children" He worked in Berlin as a shoemaker. In 1876 he emigrated to the U.S. He came to Cedar Rapids, Iowa then to Marion, Iowa. He worked there as a shoemaker. In 1878 he went west as the railroad was built into Montana. He was engaged in harness-making for open range horses near Fort Benton (to be sold to British buyers for the Boer War) because they would be assumed to be 'broken' horses for more money. He went to Helena in March 1884 and got work at Horsky's brewery. Easter came and he thought his work was all done so he went to church. When he returned, the foreman told him he did not need him. Then he went to Marysville. There he found work in a shoe store for a Mike McLain. He worked for him for 8 years, then Mike died. The business was to be sold and Papa (Joseph Mares) bought it out. He had his father (Jan Mares) come over from Europe and they kept house together. In 1893 his father wanted to return to see his old home so Papa went with him and stayed 6 weeks in Zamberk. Joseph started back alone for the U.S.. On reaching Helena he had word of his father's passing. Anton Hasker took care of the store and then Papa sold it out to him, came to Helena and bought the Central Park property and also became partner of Frank Mares (a butcher at Helena). In 1898 he was interested with the Thoman Bros at the Cascade ranch. In 1899, Sept 11, he was married to Antonette Jama at Omaha, Nebraska. They had 3 children: Lillian E. Mares, a home economics and chemistry teacher who married T.G. Aurthur Sears and lives in Seattle, Washington. Joseph R. Mares, a patent attorney for Monsanto Chemical works. He married Delia Nicholie Smith of East Orange, New Jersey. Ernest W. Mares who was a chemist for the Monsanto Chemical Works at East St. Louis, Illinois for over 40 years until he retired. | Mares, Joseph (I16933)
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| 7235 | The following is from Larry Wilson: George Matthew Wilson was born 09-13-1881 in Sedalia, Missouri. He married Milda Heneritta Mueller on 01-18-1910. Of the marriage were born three children; Ola Marie Wilson, Katherine Elizabeth Wilson and Glen Matthew Wilson (my father) 02-15-1918. The family operated a farm in Hemphill County, Texas, USA near Canadian, Texas, USA in the early 1910’s. They later operated a farm in the Jefferson City, Missouri area. George Nelson Wilson worked as a farmer and later as a construction worker until he retired at the age of 69. He was a member of the First Methodist Church. While in Jefferson City, two addresses the family lived were 426 Clark Avenue and 905 Harding. George Nelson Wilson died on 12-30-1960 and is buried in Riverview Cemetery. | Wilson, George Matthew (I1856)
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| 7236 | The following is from Larry Wilson: George Matthew Wilson’s wife Milda Heneritta Mueller was born 02-24-1887 in Osage City, Missouri to Wolfgang Mueller and Elizabeth Treutzel. Milda attended Osage City rural schools. She was a member of the First Baptist Church where she was quite active. She died on 01-15-1961 in Jefferson City, Missouri and is buried in Riverview Cemetery. She had the following sisters and brothers; Mary G. Mueller 11-1888, Albert H. 12-1890, Bertha C. 12-1892 and Edward C. 02-1895. Wolfgang Mueller was born 03-15-1854 in Huntsdale, (Wayne County), Pennsylvania to Andreas (Andrew)Mueller and Elizabeth Hugal. He married Elizabeth Treutzel on 11-17-1885 in Osage City, Missouri. His occupation was listed a a day laborer on the 1900 census. He died in Jefferson City, Missouri on 04-22-1940. From Albert Mueller (son): Andreas Mueller was born 02-11-1826 in Bavaria, Germany, upper Frank, city of Fischback. He sailed from Bremerhaven on 09-17-1847 landing in New York about 11-04-1847. He went directly to Huntsdale, Pennsylvania. He supposedly died of cancer of the stomach in 1893. He married his wife, Elizabeth Hugal in Huntsdale, Pennsylvania in 1849. Their children were: Margaret Mueller 01-22-1850, Christine Mueller 04-17-1852, Wolfgang Mueller 03-15-1854, Rettie Mueller 01-1856 all born in Huntsdale, Pennsylvania; Catherine Mueller 03-07-1860, John Mueller 03-14-1863, Henry Mueller 12-02-1865 and Anna Mueller 1868 all born in Osage City, Missouri. Andreas and his family departed Huntsdale, Pennsylvania in 03-1857, going directly to Osage City, Missouri. Routes of travel were to Dunkirk by wagon, to St Louis, Missouri by railroad and by steamboat to Osage City, Missouri. The 1860 and 1870 census reports showed Andreas as a farmer in the Cole County, Missouri area. Elizabeth Treutzel was born 08-16-1865 in Osage City, Missouri to Fritz Treutzel and Margaret Laemmlein. She died 07-1914 and occupation was listed as housekeeper. Fritz Treutzel was born in Germany on date unknown. The family sailed rfrom Hamburg, Germany in 1853. Their ship wrecked and they were taken back to Lisbon, Portugal where they sailed again. They were nine (9) months on the trip and their first child was born on ship near Cuba. They purportedly landed in 1854 at New Orleans, Louisiana. Fritz’s married Margaret Laemmlein of Germany. Of the marriage were born seven children, one named Charles…….no other information has been obtained on this side of the family. Margaret Laemmlein was born in Germany 05-1834 and died 07-1914. No other information has been obtained on this side of the family as of yet. | Mueller, Milda Heneritta (I4855)
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| 7237 | The following is from Larry Wilson: George Nelson Wilson was born 12-16-1853 in Carthage (Adams County), Illinois. His parents were John Miller Wilson and Elizabeth “Eliza” Ellen Beebie (Beebe). George Nelson Wilson moved with his family to the Jasper County, Missouri area in 1856 and worked on the family farm. George Nelson Wilson had the following brothers and sisters; Charles E. Wilson, Sterling Price Wilson, Susan A. Wilson, William B. Wilson, Eliza E. Wilson, Rebecca J. Wilson, Margaret J. Wilson and Adaline Wilson. All the children with the exception of George Nelson Wilson were born in Missouri. After the death of Catherine “Kate” Simmons, he married Susan M. Shoemaker, 02-11-1867 or 1874. A question arises as one person had them married in Cooper County, Missouri. George Nelson Wilson and family moved to the Osage City, (Cole County), Missouri area. Of the marriage to Susan M. Shoemaker were born Myrtha 10-1893, Nellie 09-1895, Hattie 05-1897, and Maud 02-1899. George Nelson Wilson worked for the Missouri Pacific Railroad and was a commercial fisherman. He died 02-15-1940 in Jefferson City, Missouri and is buried in Riverview Cemetery. He was a member of the Baptist Church and believed to be an alcoholic. | Wilson, George Nelson (I10201)
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| 7238 | The following is from Rosl Reuter: Anna was the daughter of the versatile Georg Rhau (Rhaw). This had first studied, then learned the book printer trade in Wittenberg. But he is also musically special he must have been gifted, he became the first known Thomaskantor in Leipzig. He had to resign from this office in 1520 because he was a follower of Luther. Now he became Schulmeister, but then returned again as a printer to Wittenberg. Here he belonged to the City Council. His eldest daughter Anna first married the respected Rector M. Johannes Weißgerber in Coburg. He died in 1561, before he could take office as a pastor in Hildburghausen. Financially, Anna obviously did not need to make a second marriage. That's how she is Widow able to buy the house at Kirchplatz 2 in 1572, which until her death remained in her own possession. (Where did I get this information from ??????????????????????? Somewhere from the files of the state library, I think. Max lived there later, Mörlin? See further up!) Only after 20 years widowed she married Maximilian Mörlin. Rhaw, George georg_rhau x x Georg Rhaw The spelling of the name can also be found as: Jorg, Joerg, Jeor, Georgius, Jeorgius Rhav, Ravv, Rawh, Rau, Rhau, Rhavus; latinized: Hirsutus (shaggy, rough). * 1488, ice field † 06.08.1548, Wittenberg x x Music theorist, composer, music printer, publisher, educator, Thomaskantor From http://www.schildburghausen.de/personlichkeiten/rhaw-georg/ Rhaw is called "musicus et typographus" . He himself confirms his birthplace in the work entitled "Newe deudsche geistige Gesenge ... for the common schools", which was dedicated to the mayor and council of Esfelt in 1544 . In his "Enchiridion utriusque musicae practicae" he calls himself "Georgius Rhav Esfeldensi" . Rhaw must have spent a happy youth in Eisfeld, because he hangs with great love and gratitude to his native city. "In the same way as my dear fatherland, I am drunk and I have never forgotten to educate a Jew". Already from childhood on ( "a pueritia" - as he writes in the preface to "Postremum Vespert, Officii Opus 1544" ) he has dealt with music and at least enjoyed a good (school) musical education. From 1508 he studied at the University of Erfurt and from 1512 he is a student (" Baccalaureandus in artibus" ) of the University of Wittenberg. The baccalaureate is the lowest level of academic education. In 1514, Rhaw earned the academic degree of "Baccalaureus in artibus". However, he does not take the master's examination - he would have had to study for another one and a half years - but learns in the next four years in the printing of his relatives Johann (it) Rhaw-Grunenberg in Wittenberg the printing trade. He also runs music theory studies. In 1518, Georg Rhaw again became a student, this time in Leipzig, but soon qualified as an "assessor" and accepted into the faculty of the "Faculty of Arts" , where he taught the "Science of Music" . Even before his appointment as "Assessor" he is appointed to the Thomaskantor. Rhaw is the first known Thomaskantor. He must have already been a master of his field, if such an office has been assigned to him. As one of the first followers of Martin Luther, however, he must resign his offices in 1520 (since 1512 Rhaw has relations with Lutheran circles). Rhaw leaves Leipzig and becomes first schoolmaster ( "ludimagister" ) in Eisleben and from 1520 to 1522 in Hildburghausen, where "he enjoyed the greatest goodwill of the other teachers as well as touching attachment of his pupils". In 1523 he moved back to Wittenberg, where he opened a printing shop in 1525. In his workshop he mainly prints and publishes works of early church music, sometimes with his own movements, hymnals, but also the writings of Luther, Melanchthon and Spalatin, as well as the Confessio Augustana as well as pamphlets and his own music theory works. Rhaw is first married to Anna, b. Buses († 23.03.1534). From this marriage go five daughters and a son, Georg jun. († 06.07.1547), forth. The eldest daughter Anna married to the Coburg school principal Magister Johann Weißgerber, who was called to Hildburghausen in 1561 as a pastor, but his office can not take office because he has met death shortly before taking office. The second marriage of Georg Rhaw is closed in 1538. The name of the wife is unknown. She dies on 28.09.1571. The only child of this marriage, the son Johann, died at the age of 9 (27.08.1547). In 1555, in Hildburghausen, a Martin Rhaw, presumably a relative of Georg Rhaw, was called as a pastor at the St. Lawrence Church. He suffers a stroke in 1559 and dies in 1561. A severe internal illness lasting years, which had already made itself felt in 1537, is weakening Georg Rhaw noticeably. "Stone pains", combined with shortness of breath and severe cough, force him to seek permanent medical treatment. But the disease finally defeats his will to live. He was redeemed from his sufferings on August 6, 1548, and buried with great honors and bells. Georg Rhaw has been a respected citizen in Wittenberg. In 1541, 1544 and 1547 he is councilor. As a composer, he has emerged above all through his work "Enchiridion utriusque musicae practicae" (2 parts: "Musica plana" 1517 and "Musica mensuralis" 1520). After: Ingward Ullrich: Hildburghausen musicians . Series: Writings on the History of the City of Hildburghausen, Volume 4 - Verlag Frankenschwelle KG, Hildburghausen 2003 - 3-86180-129-9 | Rhau, Georg (I12934)
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| 7239 | The following is from the Boonville Weekly Advertiser - August 26, 1907 Mrs Annie B. Kirchner, wife of the late Casper Kirchner, died Friday night, August 23 at the home of her daughter, Mrs Martin Tucker, in this city. She was born in Germany 77 years ago and came to America 53 years ago and was married in New York on her arrival there. They located in Boonville soon after and have resided here ever since. The deceased leaves two daughters, Mrs Martin Tucker and Mrs John Bauer. The funeral was conducted from the residence Sunday afternoon to the Walnut Grove Cemetery. My name is Dan Brown. You may not remember me; we exchanged emails a couple of years back on my Kirchner line. At that time I was also talking to a Jochen Kirchner in Germany and through a third gentleman in Germany we were able to pull together a fairly long lineage of the Kirchners; I believe you have all of this information. Anyway, the reason I am writing is that I have a some additional information you may wish to put on the website. My gg-grandparents were Casper and Anna Kirchner. After some time looking for their graves, I discovered that they are buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery in Boonville (see obits below). I visited the caretaker at WG and learned that they are buried in plots bought by their daughter, Margaret, the wife of Martin Tucker, former Sheriff of Cooper County. The Kirchner's graves are unmarked but are next to Martin & Margaret's grave which is marked. Also buried in this plot in unmarked graves are three of the Tuckers children: Barbara Magdalene (26 Dec 1888 - 18 Jan 1940), Martin E. Jr (no dates), and Lula Marie (no dates). Martin Jr and Lula died in infancy. In the obit for Anna Kirchner, it states that she immigrated to New York and was married on her arrival there. This is incorrect. Both Casper and Anna came to the US on the Ernestine which sailed from Bremen, Germany. They arrived in New Orleans on 1 June 1854. Most likely they took a steam ship from New Orleans to Boonville; they were married in Cooper County on 12 June 1854. Finally, I am fairly confident that the character in Emile Paillou's sketch 'Casper's Snake Story' (from Home Town Sketches) is my gg-grandfather, Casper Kirchner. The similarities in name, weight, and grape growing seem to be too many to be coincidence. Hope this information is of interest. Best Regards, Dan | Knoch, Anna Barbara (I10704)
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| 7240 | The following is from the genealogy book of Chris Burbach George William Herman Fiedler (1855) On October 5, 1875, George Fiedler married Ada (Addie) Weber in Boonville. According to census records and her death certificate, Addie was born in Missouri in 1858. Her mother was Katharine Zehringer, who was born on 18 May 1829 in Bavaria. The identity of her father, however, remains unknown. Perhaps Katharine had remarried after the death of Addie’s father. By the time of the 1880 census, George and Addie were living at 2015 Columbus Street in St. Louis, with Addie's mother, Katharine, and daughters Sophia (born 1876) and Norah (born 1878). On October 15, 1881, they had a son, William Augustus Charles Fiedler. Addie died on September 5, 1889, at the age of 30, due to complications from a miscarriage. After her death, George moved the family back to mid-Missouri, spending time in both Boonville and Moberly, Missouri. By February of 1890, George had married Fannie Kelly. It is known that George was a bandleader in Moberly, Missouri, and that Fannie was the stereotypical “evil stepmother”. After this point, there is no known information on what happened to George and Fannie. There are no death records for either in the state of Missouri. Daughter Norah is known to have married George Kempf. Addie’s younger brother Adolph died of anemia in 1895, and her mother Katharine Zehringer bought a plot in the old St. Marcus cemetery. Buried on this plot are: • Adolph Zehringer (17 May 1895, age 29) • Sophia Gessner, presumably George and Addie’s daughter, who died in Chicago of typhoid fever (22 November 1903, age 27) • Katharine (who died in 19 October 1914 at 3807 Fairview in St. Louis) • Addie (who must have been moved to this plot since George had remarried) • Infant child of William and Emma Fiedler (11/26/1904) This cemetery was eventually replaced by the new St. Marcus Cemetery further west on Gravois Road, but the bodies remain unmarked in the old cemetery, which is now a city park. William Augustus Charles Fiedler (15 Oct 1881 – 17 Jan 1947) After his mother's death just shy of his eighth birthday, William A.C. Fiedler spent much of his childhood in Boonville and Moberly, Missouri. William married Emma Lerbs in 1901. Emma was born 26 Jan 1882, in Little Rock, Arkansas, the daughter of Johann and Wilhelmina (Karpinski) Lerbs. Her family had emigrated in 1881 from Prussia. It is known that Wilhelmina was born in Konigsberg, East Prussia, which is now the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. Her surname has also been recorded as Karpinsky. The Lerbs had six children, including Emma, Rose, Augusta, Charlie, Willie and Minnie. They lived at 3645 Pennsylvania Avenue in the “Dutchtown” neighborhood of St. Louis. William and Emma had four children, the first dying in infancy (26 Nov 1904), Elmer (born 20 Jan 1906; died 28 Sep 1976), Ralph (born 24 Jan 1911; died 23 Nov 1973) and Lucile (born 10 Dec 1912; married Richard Zweifel; died 1986). They were a musically inclined family, with William playing trumpet, Elmer playing piano and saxophone, Ralph playing saxophone and Lucile playing piano. William worked for the US Postal Service in St. Louis for many years before opening the Fiedler Hatchery in Fenton, Missouri. Ironically, considering his career with the Postal Service, William was struck and killed by a drunken driver while retrieving his mail on 17 Jan 1947. His wife witnessed the accident while waiting in the car. Emma subsequently sold the farm moved back to the city of St. Louis. Emma spent the last years of her life in a flat on Itaska Street near her daughter Lucile. She died on 25 June 1965, and was buried alongside her husband in Sunset Cemetery in Affton, Missouri. Elmer William Fiedler (20 Jan 1906 – 28 Sep 1976) Elmer Fiedler married Ada Lorene Goodman on 23 May 1926. He spent the early part of his career working at the Taylor Fur Company in St. Louis. An avid musician like his father and grandfather, Elmer played the piano and saxophone, and was a published composer (“Swaying”). He was known to play at local nightclubs in St. Louis, where his wife Lorene would take off her wedding ring to dance. Elmer was also had a passion for learning, as evidenced by his bachelors degree from Harris Teachers College, masters degree from Washington University, and doctors in theology degree from Pikes Peak Bible College. Ada Lorene Goodman was born in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, on July 3, 1902. Her parents were Lee Emerson Goodman and Dora Belle Lambert. There is a wealth of recorded information on both families, too detailed to be included in this document. Lorene was driven for success, having risen above her childhood of near poverty and earning a bachelors degree in education from Harris Teachers College. She also sang at least one season in the chorus of the St. Louis Municipal Opera. Lorene also valued her career, initially refusing to give up her job as a teacher, as was required when a woman got married in the city of St. Louis. It was only after her secret marriage to Elmer was “discovered” that she was forced to give up her job. Elmer and Lorene had four children: Lorraine Lucile (born 9/16/1927; married S. Joseph Gore, 1951), Helen Dora (born 10/2/1931; married Harold Burbach 29 July 1950), Betty Jane (born 22 Apr 1933; married James Johnson, 1952) and William Elmer (born 7 Jul 1936; married Iva Wack; died Oct 1988). They lived at 2746 Osage Street in the Dutchtown neighborhood of St. Louis, until Elmer took a job as the pastor of West Florissant Baptist Church in the northern edge of St. Louis. At that time they moved to the parsonage next door to the church at West Florissant Avenue and Mimika. Elmer and Lorene joined the suburban flight from north St. Louis, first moving to adjacent Bellefontaine Neighbors, and then to Florissant. Elmer later started Black Jack Baptist Church, and died in 1976 after a brief illness. Lorene died on 5 November 1987 at the age of 85. | Fiedler, William Augustus Charles (I17199)
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| 7241 | The following is from Wikipedia Johannes Langer ( from Bolkow ; * to 1485/1486 in Bolkow , Duchy Schweidnitz ; † 15. September 1548 in Coburg ) was a Protestant theologian and reformer in Naumburg and Coburg. Childhood and Youth Even though the Bolkenhainer records are quite complete, Langer's date of birth is not known. However, it can be limited to the years 1484/85. A large number of members of the Langer family appeared in the records of the castle, but the branch of the family belonged to him. The secondary literature assumes that the Reformer Naumburg and Coburg nephew (second degree) of Breslauer Altaristen similar name was that at the summer semester 1464 University of Krakow was inscribed (and which is referred to in the literature to distinguish as "the Elder" ). In the album of the University there is an entry: John Anthony Langer de Bulkenhayn dioec. Wratislaviensis. Ebendieser Langer carried a coat of arms identical with that of the reformer Langer. From youth Langers is not known but it is suspected that his parents have been reasonably prosperous, because it enabled him to an education, which allowed him from the winter semester 1502 the University of Leipzig to visit. That he did not study under the supervision and with the support of an order can be made of matrikel refer to the University of Leipzig. University in Leipzig The first mention Langers found in matrikel the University of Leipzig , the long winter semester 1502 under the heading nacione De Polonorum was enrolled. The entry reads: Johannes Langer de Bolkenheyn totum VI. Under the Polish nation he was introduced as a second entry; From this it can be concluded that Langer must have undergone the student's oath very early. On May 14, 1505 Langer was the as one of 15 candidates Baccalaureatsexamen . Under the chairmanship of the dean, four masters, determined by lot, examined one from each nation. When soon subsequent determination then was Quaestio to explain who submitted the chosen by the promoter Baccalaureanten him. The theme of Langers Quaestio is not handed down. Towards the end of 1509 Langer was among the budding masters . The examination took place only once a year, usually on the day of the innocent children, the 28th of December, the vice-chancellor presided. The acquisition of the Magisterium was obviously not cheap. Four guilders had to be paid in fees, along with gifts and a feast ( Prandia Aristotelis ), which lined up the newly appointed master together. To be able to dedicate the high professional studies, had a master's first two years, the prospective master's in Collegia lectoria et examinatoria teach. The Liber facultatis provides information which events Langer held and where examinations he participated. Langer then took on various university tasks and earned his university. In January, 1516, it was announced in a document that the artists' faculty had discharged their debts by paying 300 florins. In this, Langer is mentioned as dean of this faculty. The Leipziger matrikel is complete and calls as 215. rector, the history of the University, Johannes Langer of Bolkow. Langer received in 1517 by John III. Schoenberg , Bishop of Naumburg-Zeitz, the diaconate - and ultimately the Presbyter ordination and Bishop Adolf to Merseburg presented him with a certificate, which entitled him to take over all church ministries. Langer was born on January 20, 1519 ad legendum sententias accepted. How and whether Peter Lombard commented, is not known. The Leipzig debate began on July 4, 1519. It is not to determine whether Langer still stayed at this time in Leipzig and felt attracted already at this time of Luther's doctrine. Naumburg time. From 1521 Langer worked in Naumburg. He was first preacher am Domstift and then moved to St. Wenceslas , where he was in 1525 officially and explicitly as from the city of Naumburg Council called to be evangelist preacher operates from 10 October. Because of the peasant war , which raged especially near Naumburg, let Bishop Philipp of the Palatinate on May 6, 1525 by its governor and his councilors in Zeitz out a letter in which he expressed his concern that under the "Naumburgischen Stiefts And that you might smolder his spiritual, noble, builder, or builder, "the uproar. "For this reason, anstadt of the gentlemen of Freisingk and Naumburgk, etc., wage [sc. The statthalter, and the councilors of Zeitz], who are obliged to pledge themselves to us in the same way, but who are obliged to keep the frugality of the cheapkey, and to show it to us, as we may be told by Jdermann Would like to do. " After all, the bishop himself wrote to the advice of the Naumburg, but in view of the "itzo-hovering heavy law and uproarious deportations, so that in vil orthen and in the princely world of the Deutzian nation, especially in the common Pauersmanne [...] fride and Einikeyt , Brotherly libe, trew and obedient ". The Council then promised obedience to the bishop, and the bishop replied, on June 30, 1525, with a thank-you letter: "We have spelled out your writings, and have made them known and obedient to you as ours, in which we offer all the true and good, have fallen a singularly good and good. With such kindly rejoice, you will be filled with all grace, and acknowledge [...] Cedula. We also occupy thee publicly to you, in our churches, in the churches of the Cantons, from the hour, and with the most ardent (as well as the others) in the city of Naumburg, on the Canton You should read aloud, that the common people may not be heard, nor a whole party may be heard. " Philip was also in the following years did not see in Naumburg, so that the Council, tired of continual consolations, in urgent matters to the Saxon electors turned. That a great part of the prevention of a bloody insurrection in Naumburg and a great reputation in the council and the population were enjoyed by him, is another letter from the Council to the bishop, dated November 24, 1525: "[...] and have praised God Such a preacher, who, in the past and in the past unchristian indignation, has prevented [...] from ushering and unsuccessful [...] and saved [...], so that he would be heard by the whole people in a very willing and consoling manner ". In 1527 there were disputes between the bishop and the Naumburg council, since changes had been made to the worship and / or measuring system. The bishop complained that the mass was sung in German. This church order is accessible and more corrections of a provocative nature are recognizable, as Langer admits in his own pamphlet. The changes do, of course, affect exclusively the Sunday and holiday worship services, and the priest had no German word to sing, but the congregation was held in German. So they sang the Credo after Wittenberg manner and the epiclesis as a request for faith as Luther Song: We now implore the Holy Spirit . At the center of the worship was the German sermon with German sermons. The father was prayed in German and according to the custom of the Reformation, with "a loving, and a Christian design, and preaching." The most provocative point was the omission of the sacrificial character of the Last Supper. Because instead of the offertory Luther Psalmenumdichtung Out of the depths I cry to you sang, accounted for the Catholic Eucharist theology. Despite its similarity to the Latin Mass it was unacceptable for the bishop. The conflict between the bishop and Naumburg's town council led to the dismissal of Langer. The secondary literature knows about interference Emperor Charles V in the form of an edict, but this edict, although there actually was one thing seems lost. Subsequently Langer received a summons to Jachymov , but did prevent the city council. In the more and more tense quarrel, the town council repeatedly used Langer, but "the Bishop has kept the point that this preacher was abolished, and he wanted to send the Council another who was to preach the Word of God clearly and louder [ ...]. As the preacher M. Johann Lange [r] has learned, he did not want to stay longer in the biting and bickering, but demanded his farewell [...] and went to Koburg. [...] For this reason, the Council gave such advice to the Kurf. To Saxony, and to inform your Curf. Grace concerns asked. The counsel of the bishop of another preacher is waiting. " The Council very often asked the bishop about Langer's successor, but this position remained vacant for at least three years. Coburg time. Langer left Naumburg, but he turned not equal to Coburg, but kept first in Wittenberg , where he published his pamphlet. He has close contact with Martin Luther and particularly with Philip Melanchthon have had. It is necessary to take a brief look at Coburg's history of the Reformation in order to understand why Langer continued his activity there. In 1518 was Langers fellow student from Leipzig period, Balthasar Düring / Thüring, has been appointed from Konigsberg in Franken to Coburg and had been used successfully there for reformation. He later defended Luther's doctrine against the Zwinglis, which was represented chiefly by the chief man of the Veste, Hans Mohr. For this reason, he kept in touch with the Wittenberg reformers, as his surviving letters illustrate. The first Coburg reformer must have apparently died in the period from the end of August to the beginning of October, the last letter of Melanchthon to Düring is dated 29 August 1529. Melanchthon can not have known about Düring's death at this time. From Luther's letter of 29 October 1529 to Elector Johann the Permanent, in which he recommends Langer for the succession of Düring, it is clear that in Wittenberg the death of Düring was known before 29 October: "It is He He Johann La (N.), From Sharkhai (n.), To Naumburg, preached there, by the Bishops, whom we have tried, and discovered, as the mighty, to coburg to stat to order. Where the nu au (e) ch E. kfg, they would be able to take Johann, with the coburg, and to make the ampt, as he offered himself. " The details of the secondary literature that Düring died at the end of October or early November are nonsensical, since Luther knew at the latest on 29 October that Düring had died. Elector Johann answers yet on the next day from Torgau : "We have heard Eur letter [...]; And, in the meantime, to whom John Langer eagerly enlightens you, you have also partially recognized him, so that he should have been eager to accept the place and the ambt, which he may have accepted to accept the treatise on Eur Certainly, if you wish to send the same preacher to Torgau on the contrary, let us then show him with writings of presentation and gracious pandering against Coburg, and let him be taken over to such preacherhood. " On the second of November Langer was in Torgau and received the promised presentation by Melanchthon, which shows that Melanchthon was convinced of the qualities of Langer. This letter of Melanchthon is addressed to the priest Johannes Fesel in Coburg. Melanchthon Langer's conviction is also evident from the following correspondence with Fesel. Even at Christmas this year, he wondered about having heard from the Langer of Naumburg, sent to Coburg, for a long time, and Melanchthon also inquired at length about Langer's condition. As can be seen from the correspondence, there were also other posts open for Langer, if the Coburg position were not acceptable to him. But whether Melanchthon had made his way to Langer in order to give him a quieter position after the time of his struggle in Naumburg, or the Count von Mansfeld had made a name with Langer's doctrine and preaching, he must remain open. At any rate, Johannes Langer's high level of recognition is to be expected. Langer was more remuneration received than its predecessor Düring, because he not only took over the ministry, but also the church leadership and pastoral service in the city and the Veste Coburg . Langer was already married at the beginning of his Coburg era. It can be concluded from time circumstances that he must have married after his release in Naumburg and before his service in Coburg, probably in Wittenberg. It is said that Langer left his wife and children at his death. Three sons know that more children are not mentioned in the sources. Langers importance for the entire history of the Reformation developed during stay Luther at Coburg Fortress occasion of the Augsburg Diet in 1530. In summer 1529, during Langers stay in Wittenberg, Luther created the Schwabach Articles . It is probable that Langer had known this article that he might even be a co-author, for Luther acknowledged, "It was the fact that I helped such artickel (for they are not made by me alone)." This suggests Langer had a copy of it. Anyway, published in May 1530 Coburg Schwabacher items in the printer Hans Bern under the title The bekentnus Martini Luther auff eynzulegen the jezigen company staff Reichstag to Augspurgk, verfasset In siebentzehen Artickel. In the XXX. Jar This pressure was not authorized by Luther, nor did he agree with Luther's handed down manuscripts. Luther was compelled by this pre-publication and the reactions to write a council in which he rejected the sole authority of the Schwabacher articles. This font Luther was titled Auff the screaming of several papists, ruler over the siebentzehen Artickel. Answer Martini Luther. Wittemberg. In MD XXX. Jar According to a letter to Melanchthon Langer seems in Franconia smaller Visitation to have given, the 1535/36 the second great Visitation followed to the Commission among others Langer belonged. The church conditions since the first visitation in 1528, in which Düring had taken part, now seem to have been considerably improved. Starting from 1536 there is hardly any source material. Only one of Luther's letters to Langer on quarrels about moral misconduct in Coburg is preserved. It was not until 1542 that Johannes Langer was mentioned again. A document from the Coburg State Archives shows that Langer had been called into the first newly established consistory for the decision of disputed Ehesachen. In 1545 the third general visit took place in Franconia. Langer was again involved. Johannes Langer On October 17, 1547 Melanchthon wrote, obviously on the request Langers if he one of his sons, probably the oldest, after Wittenberg should send to the study, a last surviving letter to him in selected friendly words and welcomed the latter's request. That Langer was suffering from a stone disease, probably kidney stones, may consist of a diagnosis of the princely court physician Melchior Keypisch be taken from 18 August 1548th Shortly after this diagnosis, on 15 September 1548, Langer broke down during or after an evening preaching, apparently still in the church, and died the same evening. Works Received A letter, dated October 30, 1544, to "Wolff von Sternberg in Calngerg". An anthology of ten sermons on the preface, the seven petitions and the decision of the Lord's Prayer, as well as a sermon on the subject of prayer and a final, short interpretation of the "Our Father". The last copy is available in the University Library of Jena. A flyer from the year 1529, addressed to the city of Naumburg and its city council. The full text of the pamphlet (without marginalia) is available at the following address: http://www.glaubensstimme.de/doku.php?id=autoren:l:langer:rechtfertigu ng . A digital copy is viewed here: http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0002/bsb00025207/images/index. html?seite=00001&l=de . Literature Sources Hans-Joachim Köhler and others (eds.): Pamphlets of the early 16th century. Microfiche series, train 1978-1987, in Fiche 248 / no. 687 with Langer's pamphlet. Karl Eduard Förstemann others (eds.): Album Academiae Vitebergensis. Older series, Vol. 1 (1502-1560), Leipzig 1841 (Unchanged ND: Aalen 1976). Sixtus Brown: Naumburg annals. Edited by Felix Köster and F. Hoppe, Naumburg, 2nd edition, 1927. Otto Posse and others (eds.): Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae regiae. Second part, eleventh volume, Leipzig, 1879. Certificate book of the University of Leipzig from 1409-1555, ed. By B. Stübel. Otto Posse and others (eds.): Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae regiae. 2. main part, vols. 16-18, The matriculation at the University of Leipzig , ed. By G. Erler, vols. 1-3, Leipzig, 1895 ff. Corpus Reformatorum. P. Melanthonis opera quae supersunt omnia. Ed. CG Bretschneider, Hall 1834 ff. D. Martin Luther's Works. Critical edition, Weimar, 1833 ff. Neudruck Graz 1964 ff. D. Martin Luther's Works. Critical complete edition, Briefwechsel, Weimar 1930 ff. Neudruck Graz 1969 ff. Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and Anhalt (ed.): Urkundenbuch the University of Wittenberg. Part 1 (1502-1611), ed. By W. Friedensburg; Historical sources of the province of Saxony and the Free State of Anhalt, ed .: Historische Kommission fd Provinz Sachsen uf Anhalt, Neue Reihe, Vol. 3, Magdeburg 1926. F. Zarncke: The documentary sources on the history of the University of Leipzig. In: Memoirs of Royal Saxon Academy of Sciences 3, Philological and historical Classe II, Leipzig. 1857 Secondary literature [ Edit | Edit source ] Otto Albrecht: messages from the files of Naumburg Reformation history. In: Theological Studies and Reviews 77 (1904), pp 32-82. Karlheinz Blaschke include: The Church organization in the bishoprics of Meissen, Merseburg and Naumburg 1500. Weimar 1969th E. Borkowsky: Naumburg 1028-1928. A history of German bourgeoisie to the ninety centennial. Jena, 1928. Georg Buchwald : A suspected or rejected call to the Joachimsthalerstrasse rectory from the year 1528. In: Yearbook of the Society for the History of Protestantism in Austria 14 (1893), pp 238-240. A. Greiner: The introduction of the Reformation in nursing Coburg 1520-1555, books 1-3 in a band. Coburg 1938. B. Herrmann: The rule of Hochstift Naumburg on the middle Elbe (= Central German research 59). Cologne / Vienna 1970. Ernst Hoffmann: Naumburg A / S. In the age of the Reformation. A contribution to the history of the city and of the diocese (= Leipzig studies from the field of history VII / 1). Leipzig, 1901. Felix Köster: The Church Order for the St. Wenceslas Church in Naumburg aS from 1527. In: monthly for worship and religious art 2 (1897/98), Göttingen 1898, p 361-363. Felix Köster: contributions to the history of the Reformation Naumburg from 1525 to 1545. In: Journal of Ecclesiastical History 22 (1901), pp 145-159. Paul Langer: Johannes Langer of Bolkow and his reformatory work. In: Correspondenzblatt of the Association for the History of the Protestant church of Silesia. Vol. 9 (1906/07), pp. 90-122; Vol. 10 (1906/07), pp. 76-109. Carl Peter Lepsius : Writings. Contributions to Thuringian-Saxon history and German art and antiquities. 3 vols, eds. By A. Schulz, Magdeburg 1854-1855. Carl Peter Lepsius: history of the bishops of Naumburg Hochstift before the Reformation. A Contribution to the History of the Osterland, First Part. (. Only Vol 1 appeared), Supplement to: idem,. Writings. Magdeburg 2nd edition 1855. Georg Reichenbacher: Lutheran testimonies. Testimonies of our Lutheran fathers in the Coburg country. Coburg 1961. Lothar Sauer: The catechumenate in the Coburg region of the Reformation to the terminal at Coburg Bayern 1520-1920. Dissol. Theol. Erlangen-Nuremberg, 1982. *** " Wolfgang Schanze: Luther at Coburg Fortress (= . Coburg History and Local History Issue 6). Coburg, 2nd edition, 1930. References About him see J. Klaus Kipf: Langer, Johannes, from Bolkow (-hayn, Bolkin-), d. Ä. In: Franz Josef Worst Brock (ed.): German humanism 1480-1520. Author Lexicon , vol. 2, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009-2013, Sp. 27-31, there 28. However, sometimes called the Reformer "the Elder" to distinguish him from his son of the same name. Superintendent to Coburg Books: Antiquitates et Memorabilia historiae Franconicae besonders Hildburghausen, Page 417. Was at the University of Leipzig in 1502 where he received his Bachelors degree in 1504 and where he received his Masters degree on 28 Dec 1509. He received a second Masters degree in 1514 and became Dea of Philosphy at Leipzig in 1516, another Bachelors degree on 16 Nov 1516 and a Bachelors degree in Theology in 1517. He was a Wittenberg from 1517 to 1521. He was ordained and served as pastor to Naumburg from 1521 to 1525. From 1515 to 1529 he was pastor at St. Wenceslas in Naumberg. He was pastor and superintendant at Coburg from 1529 (1530) to 1546. There is a note in the Meinhoff/Greiner file that Johann in 1526 was knight by Wladislaus of Bohemia and Hungary because of his scholarship, and had disputes with the Zeitz government which succeeded in ousting him in 1529. And as noted above Johann left St. Wenceslas in 1529. This knighted is noted in an essay by Dr Holstein, “Dr. Nicolaus Medler und die Reformation in Naumberg”, on pages 271 - 287 in the Volume IV of the Zeitschrift für preußische Geschichte und Landeskunde [ Journal of Prussian History and Local Culture ] ( Berlin, Prussia : A. Bath, 1867 ). “For five years nothing was heard from the Evangelical preacher. It was not until 1525, when Johannes Langer was called by the Council and the citizens to St. Wenceslaus Church [ in Naumberg ], the Cathedral Chapter at least no longer standing as an hindrance. Born in Bolkenhain in Silesia in 1484, he was raised on 20 December 1502, according to a Diploma from Buda [ now Buapest, Hungary ] by the virtue of his scholarship, especially for the publication of Calendarium astronomicum fatidicum [ Latin, “Prophecies of the Astronomical Calendar” ] for the years between 1500 - 1530, by Wladislaus [ II ], King of Hungary and Bohemia to the nobility. [ Johannes then ] became at [ the University of ] Leipzig Magister, professor and 1514 Rector of the University, 1517 Baccalaureus of Theology.” | Langer, Johann (I14281)
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| 7242 | The following is from Wikipedia: Joachim Mörlin (April 5, 1514, Wittenberg, Electorate of Saxony - May 29, 1571, Königsberg, Duchy of Prussia) was a Lutheran theologian and an important figure in the controversies following Martin Luther's death. He was the older brother of Maximilian Mörlin, a Lutheran theologian and Reformer. Contents 1 Early life 2 Controversy with Osiander 3 Driven from Königsberg 4 Efforts for Theological Reconciliation 5 Recalled to Königsberg 6 Becomes Bishop of Samland Early life Mörlin was born at Wittenberg, where his father, Jodok Mörlin, also known as Jodocus Morlinus, was the Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wittenberg. Joachim himself studied at the same University under Luther, Philipp Melanchthon, Justus Jonas, and Casper Cruciger the Elder from 1532 to 1536. After a brief residence at Coburg, he returned to Wittenberg and in 1539 became Luther's chaplain, declining a call to succeed Poliander at Königsberg. While a true pupil of Luther, Mörlin was more influenced by the dogmatics of Melanchthon, though devoid of sympathy with the Philippistic efforts for union with the Reformed. On September 22, 1540, Joachim left Wittenberg to become superintendent at Arnstadt, where, until deposed in March 1543 for his rigid discipline and opposition to union, he displayed great activity, moral earnestness, and courage. But neither the appeal of his congregation nor the sympathy of Luther could overcome the hostility of the Count of Schwartzburg, Günther XL. On May 10, 1544, Mörlin became superintendent at Göttingen. Here he was equally firm in insistence on purity of life and doctrine, and wrote his Enchiridion catecheticum (1544), taught rhetoric in the Latin school, and lectured on Erasmus and the Loci of Melanchthon. Mörlin's activity in Göttingen came to an end with his uncompromising resistance to the union advocated by the Interim. On January 17, 1550, after vain protests by both council and congregation to the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Eric II, Mörlin was dismissed from office. Mörlin went to Erfurt, thence to Arnstadt, and finally to Schleusingen, where he lived and preached in the castle of William IV, the Count of Henneberg. Yet even here Mörlin was not altogether safe, and on August 25, 1550, he left Schleusingen, arriving at Königsberg on September 13. There, since Prussia did not belong constitutionally to the Holy Roman Empire, he could not be molested, and was appointed, on September 27, 1550, pastor at the Kneiphöfer Dom and inspector. Controversy with Osiander There Mörlin became involved in the Osiandrian controversy, for it was not in his nature to remain neutral. However, the break between Mörlin and Osiander was gradual. When the latter defended his view of justification (act. 24, 1550), Mörlin remained a silent witness; but Osiander's work with on the incarnation and the image of God, and still more his Bericht und Trostschrift, with its savage attack on Melanchthon, led Mörlin to complain on February 7, 1551, to Albert of Prussia, though he did this so delicately that the duke commissioned him and Aurifaber, Osiander's son-in-law, to assemble the theologians for the conference which was held February 13-17. Here Mörlin's sincere desire for peace was evident, but his suspicion of Osiander increased, even though the latter claimed to be in harmony with Luther, denying the truth of Mörlin's Antilogia seu contraria doctrina inter Lutherum et Osiandrum. On April 19 Mörlin preached against those who depreciated the merits of Christ, and Osiander rightly took this as directed against himself. The breach was now complete, and after an interchange of recriminations, Mörlin was replaced by Stancarus, professor of Hebrew. Before a new colloquy could be held, however, the duke directed (May 8) first Osiander and then his opponents to present their views in writing. Osiander hesitated, and Mörlin attacked him from the pulpit (May 27). The duke now forced Mörlin to defend his tenets in writing, and further roused him and his followers to passionate resistance by appointing Osiander to administer the bishopric of Samland, and by requiring Mörlin and others to submit to the decision of the church. The characteristic reply (July 21) was that Mörlin and his adherents refused to recognize Osiander's jurisdiction, since he was a heretic, and they appealed to a free synod. Osiander's opponents now continued their attacks and virtually met up a separate church. This was forbidden by the duke (August 12), who sent them Osiander's confession of faith, which was returned unread. The polemics still continued, and Albert in despair sent Osiander's confession to the princes and cities of Germany, urging a synod. Mörlin's position was gaining strength in Prussia, and the majority of the opinions of the churches outside Prussia were also favorable to him. The very refusal of the duke to publish these condemnations of Osiander aided Mörlin, who, on May 23, 1552, published a polemic defending the doctrine of justification against his opponent, in which he clearly set forth the orthodox Wittenberg position, and emphasized the difference between it and Osiander's teaching. Besides continuing to urge the publication of the opinions just mentioned, Mörlin preached a sermon (June, 1552) directed against Osiander, deprecating speculations on the inscrutable essence of God; and Osiander replied with his impassioned Schmeckbier, in which he arraigned Mörlin and his friends. The controversy increased in pettiness and coarseness, until Albert threatened (July 15, 1552) to depose Mörlin, only to receive the respectful but firm reply that Mörlin held it his divinely commissioned duty to polemize against Osiander. Meanwhile, a second opinion came from Württemberg, and from it both Osiander and Mörlin claimed the support of Johann Brenz, but on October 17, 1552, the weary struggle found its end in the death of Osiander, a defeated man. Driven from Königsberg The peace-loving policy of Albert was still to demonstrate its futility. The ambiguity of the Württemberg declaration seemed to him to constitute a good formula of union, and on January 24, 1553, he required that sermons on justification should be preached according to the six Württemberg articles, and that all coarseness should be avoided. This was tantamount to a defense of Osiandrianism, but the great majority of the duke's subjects were opposed, while Mörlin declared himself unable to obey the ducal mandate when contrary to the obligations of religion. This was the only course open to him, but the duke's displeasure was now finally incurred, and on February 16, 1553, he presented his resignation. Three days later he sought refuge in Danzig, where he awaited an expected recall, supported as he was by the council and the citizens. But all appeals to the duke were in vain; and the exile at last resigned himself to his punishment and sought for a new field of activity. Mörlin had not long to wait. Brunswick and Lübeck were rivals for his services; the former won by right of priority, and he entered Brunswick on July 25, 1553. In the following year he received an assistant in the Melanchthonian Martin Chemnitz, and developed a powerful activity, strengthening the Lutheran cause with the aid of the religious peace of Augsburg, and preparing, in 1577, his Leges pro ministerio Brunsvicensi, which all the clergy of his superintendency were required to subscribe when entering upon office. He assailed the Reformed as bitterly as the Roman Catholics. Again, in 1564, the council of Brunswick enacted that the Corpus doctrinae should be subscribed by all theologians, a rule which remained in force until 1672. And this was no dead letter, for in 1566 Johannes Becker, a pastor in Brunswick who had subscribed to the Corpus but become a Calvinist, was forced to resign and ultimately was banished from the city. Meanwhile, Mörlin and Chemnitz were active in other inter-Lutheran controversies and in warding off Calvinistic attacks; and the former was the prime mover in the rejection, by the Brunswick clergy, of the doctrines of Schwenckfeld, besides being one of those asked by the council of Bremen to settle the dispute between Johann Timann and Albert Hardenberg. He furthermore defended Hesshusen in his pamphlet Wider die Landlügen der heidelbergischen Theologen (1565). Efforts for Theological Reconciliation In the struggle with Calvinism Mörlin supported Joachim Westphal, and to this end wrote his Confessio fidei de eucharistiae sacramento ministrorum ecclesiarum Saxonicarum (Magdeburg, 1557). At Coswik he sought to mediate between Melanchthon and Flacius, and in his eagerness for peace, when the delegates of the Hanseatic League assembled at Brunswick, he held a conference with Chemnitz, Westphal, and others (January 14, 1557), and reached an agreement on articles tending to reconcile the adiaphorists and those holding to the true Gospel. Mörlin then took these articles to Flacius at Magdeburg, after which he conferred with Melanchthon at Wittenberg, but returned to Brunswick unsuccessful (January 28, 1557). Eight months later Mörlin went to the Colloquy of Worms, but by his opposition to the Philippists and by his withdrawal helped render the conference resultless. In December, 1558, he visited Weimar and Jena to reconcile Flacius and Strigel, and in 1560 he signed the petition of the Jena theologians to the princes to call a Lutheran synod to combat Calvinism. Mörlin was also a prominent figure at the conference of theologians from Lower Saxony held at Lüneburg in July, 1561, and wrote the confession of faith there drawn up, Erklärung aus Gottes Wort und kurzer Bericht der Artikel, etc. (Magdeburg, Jena, and Regensburg, 1561), which became binding on all pastors in Brunswick; and he again showed his Wittenberg orthodoxy in his Verantwortung der Präfation so für die lüneburgischen Artikel (1562). In 1563 the Council of Wesel asked the opinion of the Brunswick theologians for a ruling on the admission of Reformed refugees from England, and the decision was that the immigrants should be received and instructed; but, should they propagate their erroneous views, they should be expelled. In 1566 and 1567 Mörlin found himself compelled to break with his old friend Flacius because of the latter's teaching on original sin; and at the same time he wrote against the Antinomians his Tres disputationes de tertio usu legis. Recalled to Königsberg Meanwhile, inspired partly by him, the struggle had continued in Prussia between the Melanchthonians and the Osiandrian peace-policy of the court. Well informed of all that went on in Königsberg, Mörlin strengthened his sympathisers with his Historia welcher Gestalt sich die osiandrische Schwärmerei im Lande zu Preussen erhoben (Brunswick, 1554). In 1555 he published two other pamphlets on the course of events in Prussia; and finally Albert found himself obliged to yield. On November 30, 1566, Mörlin was invited to return to Prussia, but he declined to leave Brunswick. The invitation was repeated, however (January 31, 1567), and after much persuasion Mörlin accepted and obtained leave of absence from the reluctant Council of Brunswick. On April 9, 1567, he and Chemnitz were joyfully welcomed in Königsberg, and at once began the restoration of Melanchthonian orthodoxy. After much consideration it was decided that the confessional bases should remain the Augsburg Confession, the Apology, and the Schmalkald Articles, the only change being the correction of certain false doctrines which had crept in since the formulation of the Augsburg Confession. The duke, assenting to the rejection of Osiandrianism, readily agreed, and on May 6 Mörlin and Chemnitz gave him their Repetitio corporis doctrinae Christianae, refuting Osiandrianism, Synergism, Antinomianism, Majorism, and similar teachings. Accepted by the synod and the estates, the Repetitio was proclaimed by Albert on July 8, 1567, and Prussia was at last free from theological rancor. Becomes Bishop of Samland Though offered the bishopric of Samland, and though urged by clergy and laity alike to remain in Prussia, Mörlin still felt bound to Brunswick. Accordingly, promised by the estates (June 8, 1567) that no Calvinists should be allowed at court, he returned to Brunswick. But his stay there was brief, and he was unexpectedly released. Learning that a patricide had been let go free, both he and Chemmtz sharply upbraided the magistracy in a sermon on July 13, and were cited to appear before the court. Under these circumstances the envoys of Albert succeeded in inducing the council, unwilling though it was even then, to let Mörlin go (September 24, 1567). He was now declared bishop of Samland, while Chemnitz was made superintendent. Henceforth until his death, in his new office, Mörlin was active in preaching and catechizing, never ceasing to polemize against Philippists, Synergists, and, above all, Calvinists. He died, aged 57, in Königsberg. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jackson, Samuel Macauley, ed. (1914). "article name needed". New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (third ed.). London and New York: Funk and Wagnalls. ********************************************************** This was translated by Wilbur Hansen Kalb and is included for the cause of death. Here are the German and Latin transcription and the English translation of the Jubilee biography of Magister Stephan Mörlin. Note what happened to his brother Joachim ; that is so like him to ignore the doctors. The Historisches Lexicon Evangelischer Jubel-Priester also has a biography for Johann Christian Moerlin. But he seems to be from a different family ; this family had been in Liegnitz since 1528. He was born in Liegnitz, Silesia, the son of Deacon Johann Moerlin ( 1610 – 1667 ) and the father of Johann Christian Moerlin, another pastor, and Christian Gottfried Moerlin, the director of the Gymnasium Altenberg. From Rev. Johann Matthias Gross ( 1676 – 1748 ), Historisches Lexicon Evangelischer Jubel-Priester, Zweyter Theil [ Historical Dictionary of the Evangelical Jubilee Pastors, Second Part ] ( Free Imperial City of Nürnberg : Michael Arnold, 1732 ), page 139 : The German transcription : 101 ) MOERLINUS, M Stephan, wohlverdienter Pastor zu Hilpertshausen, war von Westhausen aus Francken gebürtig, dahin dessen Vater, Herr Jodocus Mörlinus, von dem Professoratu Logicæ auf recommendation des seel. Dr. Lutheri ist befördert worden, und war ein Bruder des berühmten und sehr verfolgten Joachimi Mörlini, welcher endlich als Bischoff zu Sammland den 23sten Maii An. 1571. gestorben da er sich, wider alles Einrathen der Medicorum einem Stein in der Blase wolte schneiden lassen ; wie auch des hochverdientë Coburgis. General-Superintendenten Dr. Maximiliani Mörlini, ( dessen Lebens=Beschreibung in Thomæ aufgegangenen Licht am Abend, weitläufftig a pag. 359. beschrieben stehet, die aber berde in dem Gelehrten Lexico nebst noch vielen andern ausgelassen sind. ) Dieser aber wurde anfänglich An. 1554. Diaconus zu Coburg, und nach 7. Jahren kam er zu dem Pastorat in Hilpertshausen, allwo er der 5te Evangelische Pfarrer worden ist, unterschrieb auch die Formulam Concordiæ, und starb erst An. 1604. eben in seinem Jubel=Jahr, wie aus M. Guthens wunderlicher Güte GOttes, Herr Thomæ in aufgegangenen Licht am Abend p. 438. berichtet hat. The English translation : 101 ) MOERLINUS, Magister Stephan, a well-to-do Pastor of Hilpertshausen, was a native of Westhausen in Franconia, to whose father, Mr. Jodocus Mörlinus, was promoted from the Professorship of Logic on the recommendation of the Bl. Dr. Lutheri, and was a brother of the famous and very persecuted Joachimi Mörlini, who finally died as a bishop of Sammland on 23rd of May AD 1571, when he had cut himself a stone in the bladder against all the advices of the Physicians ; as well as the highly deserved General Superintendent of Coburg Dr. Maximiliani Mörlini, ( whose biography has been extensively given by Thomæ’s Aufgegangenen Licht am Abend, on page 359 but which, however, is omitted from the scholarly Lexico, together with many others. ) This man, however, was at first in the year 1554 Deacon in Coburg, and after 7 years he came to the Pastorate in Hilpertshausen, where he was the 5th Evangelical Pastor, also signed the Formula of Concord, and died at the beginning of the year 1604, just in his Year of Jubilee, as reported from Magister Guth’s Wunderlicher Güte GOttes [ Wonderfully Good LORD ], Mr. Thomæ, in the Aufgegangenen Licht am Abend [ Rising Light in the Evening ], p. 438. Verein für Familsenforschung ia Ost. und Westpreußen e. V. Quellen, Mateialien und Sanımlungen zu altpreußischen Familienfonschung (QMS) Nr. 19/4 Das “Zwischenmanuskript” zum Altpreußischen evangelischen Pfarrerbuch Band 4: L.aasch bis Nutzelius Auf der Grandlage der Samınlungen von Friedwald Moeller bearbeitet von Walther Müller-Dultz, Reinhold Heling und Wilhelm Kranz Hamburg 2013 In Selbstverlag des Vereins Mörlin, Joachim Born Wittenberg 8. (6?) Apr 1514 died Königsberg [Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Russia] 21 May 1571, buried in the Cathedral 26 May 1571, father was Jodocus Mörlin, university professor in Wittenberg, University of Marburg 1535, Magister 1538, member of the University of Wittenberg, 10 Aug 1599, ordained as Preacher in the city church, 17 Aug 1539 Luther's chaplain. 1540 Doctor of Theology, 1540-1543 pastor in Arnstadt [Arnstadt, Ilm-Kreis, Thüringen, Germany], Superintendent in Göttingen [Göttingen, Gottingen, Niedersachsen, Germany], 27 Dec 1550 inserted. Also, pastor at the Kneiphöfer church in Königsberg [Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Russia] 19 Feb 1553 by Duke Albrecht because of all kinds. Overgrazing of land referenced, superintendent in Braunschweig [Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany]. Called back by the Duke 3 Feb 1567. Appointed Bishop of Samland, consecrated by Bishop Venediger in the Cathedral Church of Königsberg [Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Russia] on the 6th of September 1568, in 1567 set up the "Repititio corporis doctrinae Prutenicum" An avid visitor, an energetic defender of Lutheran doctrine and a faithful adviser to his sovereign. At the free residence and the native deputy had 3,000 marks in salary. Married 1539 Anna Cordussin, born 10 Oct 1518, died Königsberg [Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Russia] 3 Nov 1570, buried in the cathedral, daughter of Sebastian Cordus in Erfurt. Children: 1. Joachim Mörlin, graduated from University of Königsberg [Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Russia] 6 Jul 1563 as Master of Arts. 1591 Fiscal in Königsberg [Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Russia]. 2. Maria Mörlin, married Enoch Baumgartner, Ducal clerk in Königsberg [Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Russia]. 3. Christian Mörlin. [Original Page 1209 Starts Here] 4 Hieronymus (Jerome) Mörlin, born in Göttingen [Göttingen, Gottingen, Niedersachsen, Germany] 23 Dec 1545, died Tilsit [Sovetsk, Kaliningrad, Russia] 1602, archpriest. 5. Daniel Mörlin. 6. Anna Mörlin. 7. Jeremias (Jeremiah) Mörlin, born Braunschweig [Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany] 12.10.1554, died. 1607, pastor in Medenau [Logvino, Kaliningrad, Russia]. 8. Maximilian Mörlin, born Braunschweig [Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany] 22 Nov 1558, died Wargen [Kotel'nikovo, Kaliningrad, Russia] 3.9.1603, pastor in Wargen [Kotel'nikovo, Kaliningrad, Russia]. Additions: Meanwhile Doctor Joachim Mörlin had arrived on 13 Sep at Königsberg [Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Russia]. He was born in Wittenberg [Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany] where his father, Jodocus Mörlin, was Professor of Metaphysis and afterwards Pastor of Welschhausen, 2 Meillen of Coburg. Joachim first moved to Marpurg and Cosenitz and in his 18th year to Wittenberg, since he heard Lutherum. - and also made him doctor in 1540, and in just the year after Arnstadt called a preacher. The count aber enturlaubee him from 1543 - The year thereafter he was appointed the magistrate of Göttingen [Göttingen, Gottingen, Niedersachsen, Germany] to inspect their churches, he preached the 18th January and took the 10th May to his office. But as he preached in sharp contrast to the interim in 1548, and a guarantor was thereby initiated the imperial mandate. And to break in half and throw you into a nasty place; so sent the Duke. He had learned from the downfall of the sons that he had brought him from the city of Göttingen [Göttingen, Gottingen, Niedersachsen, Germany], and that he had also come to him by some reporters posted on the paths and passages, not Duke Erich Mutter, Princess Elisabeth, by their tutor, Jobst von Hohnstein, and He sent 14 Reuters to Oldendorf in search of him, from where he moved to Schleusingen. Thought Prince Elisabeth recommended him to her daughter and Hertzog Albrecht in Prussia, who voted him to the Superintendent in Holland. So Mörlin came to Königsberg with M. Francise Maartihuesen, past preacher to St. Johannis in Göttingen [Göttingen, Gottingen, Niedersachsen, Germany], and as Hertzog preached to him, he pleased him so much that he kept him in Königsberg and made him preacher of the cathedral church in Kneiphoffe He made the point Peter Hegemon had to dismiss him, and at the little church in the Löbenicht, he had to take on the position of parish priest, as well as improving his salary. http://bs.cyty.com/kirche-von-unten/archiv/gesch/fs90heintze/Diestelmann-Moerlin.htm Jürgen Diestelmann The episcopal teaching of the superintendent using the example of Joachim Mörlins Among the common prejudices, which are usually passed unchecked, these include : "In the Protestant Church there is no teaching office" or: "In the Protestant church, every pastor is his own pope." The opposite of the infallible Magisterium, which claimed the Roman Catholic Church for the Papal Office, should be described with it. Undoubtedly, these prejudices are underpinned by the fact that the ruler of teaching pluralism evidently teaches every pastor something else. But: Did the Lutheran church really never have a teaching post? The main concern of the Reformation was the proclamation of the Word of God. Because what was written in the Holy Scriptures was scarcely known to the common man in the pre-Reformation period, but was now clearly proclaimed, it was gladly expressed by saying that "the light of the Gospel has been returned to the light." brought " . From the beginning, however, there was the danger that this bright light would be darkened again by other teaching theologians - such as Karlstadt, Münzer, Zwingli, Calvin and others - who appeared alongside the Lutheran Reformation. The fruits of their work have broken Protestantism to this day. In view of this, there is often a demand for a binding teaching office. The more the question comes up:Did the Lutheran church really never have a teaching post? If the Confessio Augustana teaches in Article 28 that it is the divine right of the bishops to "preach the gospel, forgive sin, judge doctrine, reject the doctrine contrary to the gospel, and the ungodly Godless Being is evidently excluded from the Christian community without human power alone through the Word of God "- this means that the Magisterium belongs to the bishops. That there should be bishops, the reformers have often pronounced. But they rejected the mixing of spiritual and temporal power in the hands of the bishops, as it existed in the medieval Occident. The episcopate had become a secular ruling office. As a result, the bishops no longer fulfilled their spiritual duties, but had them performed, at best, by representatives. The Lutheran confessors thus clearly emphasized in Augsburg, in 1530, the distinction between spiritual and secular regiment: "For this reason our people have been compelled, to the consolation of conscience, to indicate the difference between spiritual and secular power, the sword and regiment." Accordingly, the Smalcald Articles (1538) state: "If the bishops were to be right bishops and accept the church and the gospel, one would want to do so for the sake of love and unity, but not out of necessity us and our preachers ordained and confirmed ... But since they are not right bishops or do not want to be, but secular lords and princes who neither preach nor teach, baptize, communicate, nor do any work or office of the church but those who call, persecute, and condemn even those who profess such ministry, let the church not remain without servants for their sake. " This is the background against which the installation of the superintendents of the Lutheran Church can be seen. This had to be done because, on the one hand, the bishops who were then in office refused to be ordained candidates for Lutheran parish candidates, and on the other because a bishop's office was considered necessary. The title of "Superattendent" chosen for the new office - in the beginning it was said instead of "Superintendent" - was nothing but the Latinized form of the Greek episkopos (bishop). That's why z. Luther, for example, sometimes referred to his former conventual brother Johann Lang (Reformer and senior clergyman Erfurt) as both a "superattendent" and a "bishop," although Lang did not officially bear such a title at the time. As a "bishop" Luther also addressed others who had a corresponding office - in his letters between 1522 and 1546 about 250 times! So he also called Joachim Mörlin after his appointment as Superintendent of Göttingen as"faithful Bishop of the Göttingen Church" . Luther saw in the superintendents not only the right-wing bishops, but could, with regard to the bearers of such an office, quite innocently of the "successio apostolica" , d. H. speak of the chain of vocations leading from the apostles to the bishops. So he wrote in the great Galatas commentary:"So there is a double divine vocation, one immediate and one immediate: God calls us all to the vocation of the Word today through mediate vocation, ie, through a vocation that is done by men, but the apostles are directly called by Christ, like the The prophets in the Old Testament of God Himself. The apostles later called their disciples, as Paul did Timothy, Titus, etc. - they then called the bishops, as Titus 1 is read, the bishops have called their successors to our days And so it will go on to the end of the world, that is the mediate vocation, because it is through man, and yet it is divine. " From this point of view of Luther, it was not the succesio but the jurisdictionof the medieval bishops, which was extinguished with the installation of superintendents by the reformers. At the Augsburg Reichstag in 1530, people wanted to clear the way for a re-recognition of the episcopal jurisdiction under the conditions of evangelical preaching and a sacrament administration that did not contradict the Gospel. A re-recognition of the bishops within the framework of the present constitution of the Church and the Reich was possible if theologically clear distinction were made between their office as spiritual leaders of their dioceses (bishops in the true sense), and their office as princes. When in 1544 the cathedral chapter of the bishopric of Kamin approached Bugenhagen to take over the episcopate there, "for his high doctrine, virtue, incorruptible life, and change, that he has true and undecayed witness to all the Christian churches," he declined , As a reason for this rejection, he stated that "the episcopal government must take two loads at the time of this time ." The first and most important is the spiritual one, namely "teaching, visiting, supervising preachers, cultivating and maintaining right-wing consistories". The other "burden" is the secular government. For the former, God gave him "a good deal of mercy"but he does not feel adept at secular government. He would be "too much deducted from the books and his exercises in the studio and prayer through this worldly burden" . The amalgamation of spiritual and secular regiment proved thus also with possible new appointments of vacant episcopal seats as obstacle for the preservation of the traditional episcopate. So then had to build up train by train replacement structures necessarily. In today's ecumenical discussion, many complain that in the time of the Reformation the "apostolic succession" of the bishops had been demolished. But this is an issue that was completely unknown to the Latin Middle Ages and even to the Reformers. It was not touched on any side. The accusation against the Reformers was not aimed at the superintendents not being in the "apostolic succession," but exercising their office without papal confirmation. The office of the superintendent was set up in 1528, initially for the Saxon Kurfüstentum with Luther's writing "teaching the visitators". In it there is the chapter "By decree of the superattender ." About him the following was determined:"This pastor should be superattendent and have diligent attention to all the other priests who sit in the ministry or precinct of the place, that in the respective parishes taught right and Christian and preached the word of God and the holy gospel pure and faithful, and the people are blessed with the holy sacraments after the institution of Christ, that they also lead a good life so that the common people receive better and no nuisance, and not against God's word or anything that would be of service to rebellion against the authorities; preach or teach. " In the same year Bugenhagens church order for the city of Brunswick appeared. In this Bugenhagen ordered under the heading "From the superattendent and his helper" not only the office of superintendent, but also the deputy of the Kodadjutors (helper). He thus established the two offices that have since co-existed in Braunschweig. Bugenhagen wrote in:"First and foremost, we must and want to have a superattendent, that is, an overseer to whom, with his adjutant, the whole cause of all the preachers and the school, as much as it concerns doctrine and unity, is prescribed by the honorable council and the church As there are the treasure chest gentlemen, commanded to supervise what one teaches, and how, etc. That is very necessary, for by the favor of God we want to have harmonious sermons for the word of God throughout the city, as well as from God Grace has begun and is in vogue. " So worked in Braunschweig z. B. next to the superintendent Joachim Mörlin as coadjutor of 8 years younger Martin Chemnitz, before this 1567 took over the office of the superintendent itself. In the two cited writings reference is also made to Luther's work "From secular authority" and ordered the relationship of spiritual and secular regiment. According to the doctrine of the two kingdoms, both are clearly distinguished and the combination of both, as it was associated with the conventional episcopate, is abolished. The secular regiment rules "by the sword," while the spiritual regiment alone is given the word. Both should work together in mutual respect for their functions. There was, of course, a potential for conflict here, which in the following years was to be felt in many problem cases, especially when a secular authority opposed the spiritual regiment. The curriculum vitae of Joachim Mörlins offers clear examples of this, especially with regard to his first superintendent office in Arnstadt. Joachim Mörlin had been after the study of theology "Kaplan" in Wittenberg at the local parish church. In 1540 he was promoted to the post of doctor of the office of superintendent of Arnstadt. The fact that he received this vocation at the age of twenty-six was not unusual at the time, for there was a shortage of spiritual leaders in modern times, as more and more cities and territories joined the Reformation. Mörlin was very enthusiastic about the Arnstadt Superintendent Office. He proclaimed the gospel vividly and clearly. His sermons attest to the pastoral endeavor of a life of the faithful entrusted to him by the Word of God. Repeatedly, for example, he commented on questions of holy matrimony, giving very specific instructions. The obligation to watch over the teaching meant for him not only a theoretical watch over correct teachings. Because he was concerned with the practical implementation of the pure doctrine of the Word of God, both in the life of the individual Christian and in the life of the community, he found it necessary to scourge even the unchristian behavior of the urban regiment. In this he was so consistent that it had to come to open conflict with the not too pious Arnstadt authority. Under the chairmanship of Gothaer superintendent Friedrich Myconius, who was much older and more experienced in his office, a synod of all ordained persons was held. This adopted the so-called "simple foolishness and advice on how to act without frivolity with such persons who have fallen into public vices" . Thereafter, such a person should be exhorted to pray with pleadings and requests. If this does not help, the pastor should visit and warn the person with two witnesses. If the person persists in his "stubborn sense and heart," the pastor and the two witnesses should report to the superintendent. After another consultation with other "communicable brothers" should be the ban. This "simple misgiving ..." was submitted to Luther for comment. He replied with a letter from his own hand in which he expressly approved the manner of this procedure. He wrote : "I like these rules of procedure because they agree with the establishment of the key office (Matthew 18)." However, Mörlins public opinion against the city authorities had the consequence that the city council quit him without further ado. To this has probably also contributed that the manner of his appearance was a bit premature due to his youth and inexperience, because the words of Myconius point out: "Mr. D. Joachim is certainly a learned, pious and good man" , but sometimes something " to be fast . At the same time, Myconius emphasized that the watchman's office had never unfairly served Mörlin; it could "no one say that he has violently punished him, but only what prevents to eternal life ...".Mörlin was generally regarded as a conscientious, scholarly, and highly respected theologian, and he was rightly held to respect his attitude towards the city council of Arnstadt. Later there was a reconciliation between Mörlin and the Arnstadt. But he did not return there because he now held the post of superintendent in Göttingen. But even on his next two stages of life Mörlin had to resist secular authority. His person is a living counter-proof against the assertion that Lutherans have always been overly obtuse. Since the superintendents had no temporal authority in their office and exercised their spiritual regiment only with the word, it seemed obvious that some authorities who were unwilling to bow to the word of the spiritual regiment misused their temporal power over them. Conflicts of the relationship between the spiritual regiment of the superintendent and the secular regiment of the authorities were there again and again elsewhere. Mörlin himself therefore wrote an opinion, which was quoted again and again in the following years, on the question of how far such a magistrate was entitled, The appointment as Superintendent of Göttingen he received at the end of 1543 by the Calenberg Duchess Elisabeth. This had after the death of her husband, the Duke Erich I., held the regency of the Duchy of Brunswick-Calenberg in the guardianship of her son Erich II. She was a daughter of the Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg and an avid and devout patron of the Lutheran Reformation. Mörlin had a generous patron in her. That's why the first time he worked in Göttingen was trouble-free. Similar to Arnstadt, he met the duties of his spiritual profession in Göttingen conscientiously - to the great satisfaction of Elisabeth. But when Erich II, who had a very Lutheran upbringing, had come of age and had taken over the reign himself, he turned away from his mother and broke away from dependence on her. Since he now placed himself ecclesiastically and politically in the shadow of his cousin Heinrich the Younger of Wolfenbüttel, the consequences for the Reformation ordered church system in the Principality of Calenberg were catastrophic. The Augsburg interim adopted on May 15, 1548, demanded from the Protestant estates the return to the old faith or submission to the interim. Erich II enforced this for his principality with all decisiveness. Thus Mörlin again had to oppose the secular authority. He did so with determination, especially from the pulpit. Thus ended his Göttingen work as a superintendent, because under pressure from Erich II, the Council decided in January 1550 Mörlins dismissal. Duchess Elizabeth helped him to escape, so that he the arrest and long-standing imprisonment, the z. Antonius Corvin suffered, escaped. The next life station Mörlins was Königsberg. After a short stay in Schleusingen (county Henneberg) he arrived there in September 1550. He was warmly received by Duke Albrecht of Prussia. Actually, he should first receive the Superintendent position of Prussian-Holland. But the Duke found so much favor with him, that he appointed him immediately as inspector and pastor at the "Kneiphofschen" Dom in Königsberg. This resulted in a direct proximity to Andreas Osiander, the Duke Albrecht of Prussia in 1549 had transferred the Old Town Parish and a professorship at the University of Königsberg. But soon the Osiander dispute broke out here. In a disputation, Osiander put forward opinions on justification that differed greatly from the general view: our righteousness, Osiander said, can not consist in the atonement of Christ, but must refer to the Christ who lives in us; H. to the divine nature communicated to us through the appropriation of the gospel. Osiander had intended to express in his own way certain aspects of Luther's theology that had otherwise been obscured, but he blended the Reformation ideas with speculations derived from Kabbalah and mysticism. The most fundamental concern of the Lutheran doctrine of justification was thereby falsified. Mörlin resisted this and also took position in the pulpit. Duke Albrecht, however, was completely under the influence of Osiander. He pursued his opponents with great severity and also his originally so friendly attitude to Mörlin opposite defeated. As soon as he received news of his sermon, he had not only a pulpit ban for him, but also his immediate expulsion from the Duchy of Prussia. So Mörlin had to leave Königsberg in February 1553 and was even forced to leave behind his sick wife, who then later succeeded him to Brunswick. He immediately received the appointment to the superintendent's office in Braunschweig. Here he was able to do a blessed service from 1553 to 1567, together with his co-major Martin Chemnitz, whom he had met in Königsberg. The Brunswick church historian Johannes Best (+ 1928) wrote about this work of Mörlin in Braunschweig:"Such iron, belligerent theologians were very uncomfortable in those times, when they fought to the death not only for patriotic goals, but also for religious, although the princes, who eagerly sought the ecclesiastical direction, but to the people as fearless independent military leaders in the fight of faith just right.The orthodoxy was then in the free city of Braunschweig also popular because it was the opposite of all adulation upwards of men who used everything for their conviction, they were happy to influence. Thus, in Braunschweig under Mörlin's direction, a high flowering of religious and ecclesiastical life developed. Mörlin showed himself to be a burning light, which consumed itself in the service of the house of God, as a man full of holy spirit, great as a speaker, greater still as a religious-Christian character. His change was like lightning, so his words were like thunder sound. Full of enthusiasm for the preservation of the pure, blessing doctrine, keen and strict in the discipline of the Church, he was again lovable towards those who recognized their guilt and sought to improve. For those who, notwithstanding all sincere admonitions, had been to the Last Supper in two years, the clergy under his direction refused the Christian burial so as not to partake of their sins, rather, to publicly testify to their unwillingness to avoid making pious, obedient Christians and stubborn unbelievers for the same number of eighth and thus making the holy Christian religion an unnecessary thing. Thus, this strict discipline testifies to the highest love, as even the most affectionate parents tend to be the strictest to their children. " Joachim Mörlin did his apprenticeship in the true sense of the word, working together with his co-tutor Martin Chemnitz to develop a confessional book ("Corpus doctrinae") for the Church of the City of Brunswick, in which the teaching principles were laid down in a binding manner. The clerics of the city had to sign as a teaching commitment "VI Leges pro ministerio Brunsvicensi" . In community with other cities of Lower Saxony, a book of confessions has been developed, which is to be regarded as a forerunner of the - later with considerable participation of Martin Chemniz worked out - book of concord of 1580. The intention was to reach agreement on the basis of the Augsburg Confession, its apology and the Schmalkaldic article within northern German Lutheranism. Together with the superintendents of the cities of Lüneburg, Hamburg and Lübeck Mörlin had already 1557 eight articles "on the comparison between the adiaphorists and the true Evangelii confessors"wrote in Wittenberg for a reconciliation between Flacians and Melanchthonians. At the Lüneburg Convention in July 1561, the theologians, seconded by the cities of Lübeck, Bremen, Hamburg, Rostock, Magdeburg, Lüneburg, Wismar, and Brunswick, agreed on a "declaration" written by Mörlin on the corpus doctrinae, binding on all, on the condemnation of false doctrines (Osiandrism, Majorism, Sacrosis and Adiaphorism) and the jurisdiction claimed by the Pope on the occasion of the renewed invitation of the Protestants to the Council of Trent. Within the city of Brunswick, there were hardly any occasions for Mörlin to argue with the secular authorities. The council - as well as the people - valued and honored him as a superintendent and he respected the members of the council as "his masters". Meanwhile, the ecclesiastical relationship in Prussia was very low. Osiander had already died in 1552, but there were fierce arguments with his friends and students, which resulted in a decline of church life. Therefore, the Prussian Estates demanded the recall of Mörlin 13 years previously expelled to Königsberg and his appointment as Bishop of Samland, especially as Duke Albrecht now realized that he had done Mörlin injustice. In Konigsberg it was known that Mörlin in Braunschweig, in spite of the severe insults experienced in Königsberg in his sermons for "the old gray head in Prussia"had ordered to pray. The decrepit Duke was now moving to write to him himself. He desired to return him to Chemnitz under brilliant conditions. After some negotiations it was agreed that Joachim Mörlin returned to Königsberg as Bishop of Samland, while Martin Chemnitz remained as Mörlins successor in the office of the city superintendent in Brunswick. Since 1525 Georg von Polentz had been Bishop of Samland. Although he had probably never studied theology, he became the reformer of East Prussia, supported by Lutheran theologians such as Johannes Brießmann, Paul Speratus and Johann Poliander (Gramann). Thus, it would have been possible to have a Lutheran bishop seat in continuity with the old church. But after his death (1550) Duke Albrecht of Prussia furnished against the opposition of the clergy and the nobility of his favored Andreas Osiander with the title of president of the Samland bishopric. With the appointment of Mörlin, the episcopal constitution was restored. Mörlin remained four years of restless activity as Bishop of Samland. The confessional book Corpus Doctrinae Prutenicum, whose origins were due to him, served as the basis for his teaching, and he undertook a number of visitation journeys, in which he ordered the ecclesiastical conditions in his diocese.The consistorial constitution introduced by Duke Albrecht was abolished again So that Mörlin, as Bishop of Samland, was truly episcopal in those last years of life, his health was now so weakened that on May 29, 1571, he died as a result of a failed bladder operation. Later, however, the consistorial constitution prevailed in general and the Magisterium went largely to the consistories - perhaps a first step that the Magisterium of the superintendent was pushed back. Today, the office of the superintendent in the state churches appears in some places only as an administrative function, as a subordinate link between church authorities and communities. | Mörlin, Joachim (I3774)
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| 7243 | The following is from Wilbur Hanson Kalb: I found old articles about the houses and buildings of Eisfeld, Heldburg and Hildburghausen. They all mention the Superintendentur, the official house and office of the Superintendent, but the first two of them do not mention any of your ancestors, although the parish church of Gellertshausen, north of Rodach, is known to have the grave of Rev. Johann Andreas Buchenröder, who died in 1782. He never married | Buchenröder, Johann Friedrich (I18414)
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| 7244 | The following is from: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mabry/imm_antrim.html. The supposition is that Thomas Mayberry is son of John (1628-1677) and a brother to Richard and possibly William. The Mayburys of Lancashire Richard Maybury (____-1643) settled in Lancashire by 1626 His son, John (1628-1677), settled in Londonderry, Ireland in 1657 Richard Maybury was likely the first of the Maybury family in Lancashire. We have not yet determined the names of his parents. However, it seems likely that he was a son of Nicholas Maybury, one of the hammerman sons of John Maybury of Sussex. On 31 Jan 1626 Richard Maybury, of Churchtowne, Lancashire was married to Anne Wright at Cartmel Priory. Anne was a daughter of John Wright of Churchtowne, who died in 1624. Anne was said to be fourteen years of age when her father died. Presumably, Richard was a few years older. Richard Maybury is referred to in a 1634 court document as a "hammerman of Cartmell Forge". His wife, Anne, was buried on 20 Jul 1643 at Cartmel Priory/Parish, Lancashire. Richard was buried less than three weeks later on 8 Aug 1643 also at Cartmel Priory/Parish. His estate was finally settled in 1650 after his son, John, came of age. On 25 Feb 1627, a year after the marriage of Richard Maybury and Anne Wright, an Anne Maybury, possibly Richard's sister, married William Barrow of Broughton, also at Cartmel Priory. On 4 August 1643, four days before he was buried, Richard Maybury wrote his will: In the name of God Amen 4th August 1643 I Richard Mayberry of the Churchtowne in Cartmell sick in body ...................... to be buried in the parish church of Cartmell at the discretion of my friends ...................... Item it is my will and I do give and bequeath unto John Mayberry my eldest son and his heirs for ever all that my cappittal messuage and croft with its appurtenances in the Churchtowne aforesaid, also all that my messuage and tenement with its appurtenances called the Farmery which was purchased of John Ashburner, also all that one meadow adjoining to the churchyard and that my Mosse and Turbary which I lately purchased of Thomas Burscough. Item it is my will and I do give and demise unto my trusty and good friends Henry Barrow, Edward Michelson, Edward Marshall and Thomas Burscough and their heirs and assigns for ever all that my messuage and Backside with its appurtenances which was purchased of James Keene, also all those lands called Brackenrigge, also all that meadow and ground likewise called Brackenrigge which I lately bought of Thomas Burscoughe and the Mosse and Turbarywhich I bought of Robart Wainhouse, nevertheless upon this special trust and confidence that they (as soon as conveniently they can) make sale thereof to such person or persons and his or their heirs as will give the full worth for the same, and the money arising upon the said sale I do limit and appoint the said Henry Barrow, Edward Michelson, Edward Marshall and Thomas Burscoughe to answer and pay unto my younger children; Nicholas, Martine, Richard, Clement and Mary Mayberry whereof every one of them to have their equal part. Item it is my will that all my messuages lands and tenements with their appurtenances before named bequeathed and demised shall be let by the four men before named to the most profit and advantage to and for the maintenance and bringing up of all my said children until such time as my said son John shall have accomplished the age of one and twenty years; and it is my will that when my said son John hath accomplished the age of one and twenty years as aforesaid, and then be mindful to purchase the said lands before named and demised for the use of my said younger children; or any part thereof; that then he shall have it before any other giving security for the same at my said devisees discretion and paying so much for such lands as he so purchaseth as they can be sold for to another bona fide; and my said devisees to grant such lands as he so purchases to him and his heirs for ever. Item it is my will that if any of my said younger children do die before they come to lawful years to dispose of their portions, that then the portion of him or her so dying shall be equally divided amongst the rest of my said younger children surviving. Item it is my will and I do make Nicholas, Martin, Richard and Clement my sons and Mary my daughter my joint executors to whom I give all my goods as well moveable as immoveable they well and truly paying and discharging all my debts, legacies and funeral expenses, and I do give my loving Master Thomas Preston Esq and my good friends Mr Robert Rawlinson and Henry Berry to be supervisors in this my will, and to see the same truly performed so far as they are able as my trust is in them, and for their pains I give unto every one of them six shillings. Records hereof John Brook - clerk Edward Marshall (sworn) Robte Robinson (sworn) and Thomas Burscough Probate granted 14th September 1643 to John Brooke of Cartmell by virtue of a special commission. The estate was not finally settled until 1650 when Richard Maybury's eldest son, John, reached the age of 21. John Maybury (forgeman) was baptized 8 Jun 1628 at Cartmel Priory, Lancs. When he came of age about 1650 he inherited his father's property in Lancashire but, as we shall see in the court document below, he was "an extravagant man" and contracted debts he was unable to pay. Therefore, about 1657, he "retired out of England" to Ireland where he died in 1677. John Maybury is almost certainly the "Mayberry" or "Meybury" who, along with a man named Hodgins, was brought to Londonderry by one of the London companies to establish an iron foundry. This was part of an effort, on the advice of Sir William Petty, to cut down the timber in order to clear out the "wood-kerne" described as "hostile and homeless Irish who lurked in the woods". The forge was established at a place near Kilrea called Forge Lough. The resulting Kilrea iron was known for its excellent quality due, it was said, to the use of holly in the smelting process. The local history of Kilrea says that this Mayberry was "one of the brave men who fought at the siege of Derry" in 1689. However, John Mayberry died in 1677. If there was a Mayberry who fought at the siege of Londonderry, it was probably his son, Richard Mayberry. The Mayberry spelling continues to be used among descendants of John Mayberry who still live in Londonderry and Antrim. It is also used by the family of William Mayberry, who emigrated to Massachusetts (now Maine) about 1730. Richard Mayberry (forgeman) was born in Ireland. In 1708 he gave a deposition (see below) in which he stated that he was living in Lisnagrot in Londonderry County, Ireland. The deposition shows that Richard's father, John Maybury, left Lancashire about the year 1657 and settled in Ireland. We have not yet determined whether or not John Maybury had children, other than Richard. It likely that Richard or a brother, was the father of William Mayberry, a blacksmith, who was born about 1688 and is said by his descendants to have come from Ballomoney, County Antrim, Ireland to Marblehead, Massachusetts about 1730. This William Mayberry married Bathsheba Dennis in Ireland. Mary Maybury was baptized 16 May 1630 at Cartmel Priory/Parish, Lancs.; m1 Mr. Tompson, as she is named in the will of her brother, Clement Mayberry (1667) as his sister, Mary Tompson; m2 19 Jul 1671 Edward Fell at Cartmel Priory/Parish, Lancs. Nicolas Maybury was baptized 23 May 1632 at Cartmel Priory/Parish, Lancs.; m 14 Aug 1654 Bridget Collison of Ulverston at Cartmel Priory/Parish, Lancs. In 1675 he was a resident of Lindall in the Parish of Dalton, Lancs. at which time he was the executor of the estate of his brother, Clement. Nicholas was still living in Lindall in the Parish of Dalton, giving his age "70 years" when he gave a deposition in 1699. Martin Maybury was baptized 7 Mar 1633/34 at Cartmel Priory/Parish, Lancs. James Maybury was baptized 17 Jan 1635/36 at Cartmel Priory/Parish, Lancs.; bur 6 Apr 1636 at Cartmel Priory/Parish, Lancs. Richard Maybury was baptized 24 Feb 1636/37 at Cartmel Priory/Parish, Lancs.; bur. 15 Mar 1636/37 Cartmel Priory, Lancs. Richard Maybury was baptized 27 Mar 1638 at Cartmel Priory/Parish, Lancs.; m Elizabeth _____; bur 24 Jan 1665/66 at Hawkshead, Lancs. Ann Maybury was baptized 19 Jul 1663 at Hawkshead, Lancs.; bur 10 Oct 1663 at Hawkshead, Lancs. George Maybury was baptized 9 Oct 1664 at Hawkshead, Lancs. Jane Maybury m 3 Nov 1689 John Webster at Dalton in Furness, Lancs. Godfrey Maybury was baptized 15 Mar 1640/41 at Cartmel Priory/Parish, Lancs.; bur. 9 Jul 1641 at Cartmel Priory/Parish, Lancs. Clement Maybury (blacksmith) was baptized 20 Jun 1642 at Cartmel Priory/Parish, Lancs.; wrote his will 12 Sep 1667, giving his residence as Lindall in the Parish of Dalton, Lancs.; bur 2 Jul 1675 at Dalton in Furness, Lancs. Deposition of Richard Maybury of Londonderry, Ireland concerning the estate of his father, John Maybury, formerly of Lancashire 1st May 1708 To the Right honourable William Lord Cowper Baron of Wingham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain Humbly complaining showeth unto your Lordship your orator Richard Mayberry of Lisnayrell (This may refer to Lisnagrot, an area near Kilrea in Londondery where the Mayburys settled.) in the county of Londonderry and Kingdom of Ireland forgeman son and heir of John Mayberry late of Cartmell in the county of Lancashire forgeman deceased that your orator's late father being in his lifetime viz on or about 1654 seized in fee or of some other good and sufficient estate of inheritance of within a certain messuage and tenement and divers closes of land called the Church End Meadow and the Turnery or Infirmary Meadow and also of an ancient house or building called the infirmary being parcel of the late .... Priory of Cartmell which premises are situate lying and being in or near the town of Cartmell in the said county and having occasion to borrow the sum of £80 did apply himself to one William Ashburner of Cartmell aforesaid ale draper (innkeeper) deceased to borrow the same wherever the said William Ashburner did advance and lend to the said John Mayberry the said sum of £80 and for and for securing the repayment thereof with interest the said John Mayberry did by some deed or writing convey the said messuage tenement and premises to the said William Ashburner and his heirs but under a proviso or condition that upon repayment of the said £80 and interest at a certain day therein prescribed the said deed or writing should be void as by the said deed or writing or a defeasance bearing the same date with the said mortgage deed if your orator had the same to produce might more fully appear. And your orator further shows that the said John Mayberry being an extravagant man and having contracted several debts which he was unable to pay was forced to abscond and in or about the year 1657 he retired out of England into Ireland where in or about 1677 he departed this life upon whose decease your orator as he is advised became entitled to the redemption of the said mortgaged premises but your orator being very young at his father's decease and being born and bred in the North of Ireland far from the mortgaged premises he had never any knowledge or information of his right and title to redeem the same till about a year since. And your orator further shows that the said William Ashburner departed this life several years since and that one George Ashburner of Cartmell aforesaid blacksmith and one James Long of the same place woodmonger are now in the possession of the said mortgaged premises and pretending to be entitled to the same by and under some measure conveyance from the said William Ashburner your orator made application to the said George Ashburner and James Long and well hopes that they the said George Ashburner and James Long would have accepted of the said principal sum of £80 (your orator being willing to allow and discount the measure profits for the interest) and permitted your orator to have redeemed the said mortgaged premises. But now so if it may please your Lordship that the said George Ashburner and James Long combining and confederating themselves together with one Rowland Johnson of Cartmell aforesaid, clerk, and with diverse other persons unknown to your orator who when discovered your orator prays may be made parties to this his bill of complaint with apt charges. They the said George Ashburner and James Long do now pretend and give out that the said conveyance from your orator's said father to the said William Ashburner was absolute and upon a valuable consideration and that if any defeasance was ever made or executed thereupon by the said William Ashburner the same was afterwards cancelled and delivered up by your orator's said father and that your orator's said father gave a release of his equity of redemption in the estate and premises to the said William Ashburner whereas your orator doth charge that the said estate so conveyed to the said William Ashburner by your orator's said father was defeasible and at the time of executing the said conveyance a defeasance was also executed by the said William Ashburner and also a counterpart thereof by your orator's....your orator's said father being forced to retire hastily out of this realm and leaving his writing behind him....whereas they very well know that your orator was born and bred beyond the seas in Ireland and hath lived there all his lifetime so that the said fine on the length of time.... 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| 7245 | The following is taken from the Ted’s book “WISCONSIN’S AMAZING WOODS then and now” ABOUT THE AUTHOR Theodore (Ted) F. Kouba, who was on the staff of the U.S. Forest Service for many years in Madison and in the regional office in Milwaukee, left that Service at the end of 1966 because the entire divisional office was moved to Pennsylvania and he wished to remain in Wisconsin. Thereafter for four years he worked on a temporary basis for the research and planning division of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. He now lives in Madison with his wife Marie. Ted Kouba was born on a corn and cattle farm near Blairstown, Iowa, in 1902. The land between his parents' prairie farm and the Iowa River was heavy with woods which he studied like a book. In late autumn and all winter during his youth he relentlessly pursued his trap line three miles long every morning, starting well before daylight. As he proudly entered the one-room country school each day (later a larger high school in town) his success that morning as a trapper of skunk, raccoon, and mink was easily detected by his classmates. It seemed that a hurried bath and change of clothing didn't do what was necessary to counteract the fragrance of the wild fur bearers, especially that of the skunk. Carrying home sometimes through deep snow from one to three skunks, averaging about six pounds each, and occasionally a raccoon, opposum, and mink, along with a lantern, flashlight, rifle, and extra steel traps made him such a thin boy he hardly cast a shadow. But this exercise during his youth along with chores and other work on the farm prepared him for athletics in high school and college and for walking in the woods after graduation. Ted came naturally to love the woods and everything wild. During his early years he kept a number of wild animals as pets. His favorites were three baby skunks which he found wandering aimlessly in the pasture one summer day. Their mother apparently had abandoned them either intentionally or by death. They became such pets they followed him around the premises like pups, but his dog Tip, a great hunter, took a dim view of these pesky animals following his master. Wild animals to him should be "taken" - not coddled. Also as they grew older they kept Tip at a distance with some accurate sharpshooting from one end. These trying circumstances frustrated his dog to the point where the half-grown animals had to be taken deep into a neighbor's woods and released. But Ted was not free from wild things. He kept a pen of snakes well concealed in the family orchard - hidden because his sister Helen feared snakes like a pious person fears purgatory. Those also were released, after a "happening" on the country school yard. Wearing a new suit that day (new suits in those days were purchased only when one grew out of them, otherwise it was patch over patch), he asked a girl classmate to "reach down in my coat pocket to see how deep it is." Inside he had a small, green, harmless snake not more than six inches long. When the young lady touched her warm fingers to the cold snake she let out a scream, jerking her hand from the pocket - not from the top where it entered but sideways, tearing the pocket open. At the same instant the one button of three on his coat that was buttoned went into orbit and has never been heard from since. (Losing one button of three from a coat today is not too serious. In those days it was a tragedy.) If his parents hadn't been so understanding the ruined coat could have been sufficient grounds for another exciting "happening." His marksmanship with rifle and shotgun was well known by those with whom he hunted. Even when hunting alone it is said he never returned empty-handed. But his popularity reached its peak as a freshman at Blairstown High when he came down with diptheria and closed the school for three weeks. No one else in school suffered from the malady, thus all enjoyed a fine vacation. A punishing but highly satisfying experience during his career was carrying a seriously injured person from the mountain wilderness of Idaho in the early 1920s out to a road sixty-eight miles distant when he was a college student working during the summer for the Forest Service on a mapping assignment in the wilds of Idaho. Starting from near the Idaho-Montana divide the helpless man was carried over game trails and mountain ridges to the nearest road sixtyeight miles away to Kooskia, Idaho. From there an ambulance took him to a hospital. Ted and two other foresters with him worked seven days overall to accomplish the task - six days of carrying and one day of rest. Exhaustion overcame them at the end of the fourth day when their hands no longer could grip the two poles of the improvised stretcher made from poplar poles and a piece of canvas cut from their tent. "When darkness came upon us that evening we lay the injured man down on the ground and collapsed on the spot, being too exhausted to prepare and cook the two spruce grouse we had killed with rocks late that day. Our food en route was a steady diet of spruce grouse, popularly known as "fool-hen," a bird that has no fear of man, which we ate almost raw (as soon as the meat was warm), being too hungry to wait until the meat had completely cooked over the campfire. You could say we were living off the land but not very high." There is no record of the number of times the stretcher bearers fell while climbing and descending the steep terrain but it was many. While two men carried, the third cut trail some distance ahead, then hurriedly brought along the bell mare and the ten mules. Despite the rough treatment en route the injured man slowly recovered in the hospital and was most appreciative of their efforts. He happened to be the packer who brought in canned food and other supplies from Kooskia every three weeks with his pack train. Ted received a commendation from his employer the Forest Service which carried an automatic pay increase of $5.00 a month - bringing his monthly salary up to a staggering $75.00 a month. Upon graduation in forestry from Iowa State University in 1926, he joined the U.S. Forest Service and literally "took to the hills" on a Service assignment to buy worn out farmland in Arkansas for the Ouachita and Ozark National Forests. Living among mountain farmers and moonshiners was an exciting and educational experience. He continued his career on the national forests until he transferred to the Land Economic Inventory in Wisconsin in 1929. During 1930 the rapidly spreading white pine blister rust was threatening to destroy the reproduction of this valuable forest tree in Wisconsin. Accepting the challenge to help protect this tree species from the devastating disease, Ted again joined the federal government and cooperated closely with state agencies, counties, pulp and lumber companies and private individuals to control the disease and to develop new control techniques. He actively participated in research projects with federal agencies and with scientists of the University of Wisconsin and the Department of Natural Resources in developing white pines resistant to blister rust and in determining micro-climatic conditions favoring control of the disease. Both studies have provided major contributions to blister rust control work. In 1957 Ted was transferred to the regional Forest Service office in Milwaukee where he specialized in state and private forestry programs in the nine-state region. For the next ten years, still in tyre Milwaukee office, he assisted state conservation departments in forestation, forest management, information and education, and watershed management. Ted's hobby over the years has been looking for Indian artifacts on the ground surface - a hobby which he started on the home farm "as soon as I was able to walk." Through the years he has developed special techniques for finding old Indian hunting grounds and campsites where artifacts can be found. His most prized “find” is one of the oldest Indian campsites in the Midwest, located in Dane County, used by nomad Indians intermittently some 10,000 years ago. Not too strangely, Ted enjoys, with his wife Marie, ballet, opera, plays, concerts and circuses. They attend several each season. Ted's wealth of Wisconsin woods information is the result of some forty years of observations and interpretations of activities throughout the state. He has been active in several conservation organizations and has served as president and on various committees of the Wisconsin chapter of the Soil Conservation Society of America, the Society of American Foresters, and the Charles E. Brown Chapter of the Wisconsin Archeological Society. He is also a member of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters and the American Forestry Association. As satisfying as the past has been Ted looks only to the future. "It's what's ahead that counts," he says, surveying his happy moments with Marie and his work and hobbies. From book #2 by Ted Kouba - Peter Kouba family comes to America, a Resume - Peter Kouba (pronounced KO'-ba as in Czech), wife and three children, came to the promised land, the United States of America, by sailing vessel in 1869. Two girls were the oldest children, while Frank, the youngest, born November 25, 1869 became my sister Helen and my father. Two additional children, will and Emil were born in Iowa. The sailing trip from Europe to America was difficult beyond comprehension, and almost proved fatal. Storms, frequent and overpowering, required masts to be lowered to keep boat from overturning and sinking, and then boat rode the wild waves and precious distance was lost. Able bodies (many were seasick) threw water from boat with pails to keep it afloat. Prayers were truly from the heart! Neither grandfather Peter, nor this brother John who came earlier had farmed. Peter Kouba's had an Inn where meals, beer, and lodging were available. John apparently assisted a large landowner to protect his timber and wildlife as poaching and illegal timber cutting were common. Game in Austria-Hungary apparently was owned by the landowner, not the State. Grandfather, farming for the first time, was totally helpless, as was brother John. It appears the Peter Kouba family came from Moravia, Austria Hungary, Province of Talice, village of Radlice. That portion of Europe is now Czechoslovakia. The land grandfather purchased, apparetly sight-unseen, was forty acres on an unimproved road a few miles from Blairstown and Luzerne, Iowa, geographic location NWSW, Section 28, T.82 N. R. 11W. (See map album 1). Father Frank grew up enjoying farming and fortunately so, as grandfather apparently could not adjust. Dad, over the years achieved extaordinary farming success. He ws a talented accordion player and called dances, and played at many Square dances apparently was the farmer's principal recreation. In 1877, father married the most wonderful girl living, Emma Melsha, daughter of another Czech-American family several miles away. Father realized to get farm produce more efficiently to Luzerne and Blairstown markets, one must live on a better road. He boutht land and a farmstead along a better road about a mile north from his parents farm. (See map album 1). Grandfather Peter died apparently of cancer in 1909 at Luzerne where he and wife Frances were living. Grandmother died ther in 1916. My father and mother were kind, proficient, hard-working farmers. Mother not only did the cooing and other work inside the home, but many times worked in fields alongside father. In a few years they acquired an adjoining ‘40' and so it went, concentrating on raising quality corn, beef cattle, and hogs. Then they hired a year-round farm hand who lived with them. Father grew blue-ribbonquality corn and other small grain which he displayed at county and state fairs and won scores of top prizes. His winnings brought commercial seed company representatives to his door. Oftentimes they purchased at double market price his entire corn crop of several thousand bushels picked out the seed ears and left the remainder for him to use, without cost, for livestock feed. In cooking, mother also excelled, winning more prizes, (12 of them) than than father with grain, and occasionally jokingly reminded him that such a thing could happen. Mother never refused a hungry person who came to the door for food, including homeless of unemployed men. The were given a nourishing meal which they ate sitting on the front porch. More than one offered to chop wood at the woodpile or perform other menial tasks for payment, but was refused. Ftahter gave grain to covered wagon gypsies who begged for grain for their horses. Women did the begging, carried grain in gunny sacks to the several wagons which seemed already filled – with kids! Mother died of continuing heart attacks; deeply felt by her few relatives alive and her many friends, on October 19, 1935 at 60 years. Our dear father Frank died from malignant cancer at Helen's home where he was living on March 5, 1944 at age 75. My precious sister ehelen was born in 1899 at the farm homestead where I came along 1902. From the beginning I was horribly sick for two years, requiring day and night care. Medical research years later recognized allergies and mine apparently was feathers. As baby, I as others in that era, slept in soft, warm feather beds and with down filled pillows. The sicker I became the more oove and feathers were piled around. After the doctor confided that one certain baby would have a short life, forks hired a photographer who came and while baby weakly standing in nightshirt and alone, took my picture. But the subject was out of fucus. Sister Helen about four years (old), who wanted to stand with here sick brother but was refused by the photographer, stood several steps back and came out in sharp focus. (See album 2). My sister, always fortunately, was one of those never sick individuals. We came into a close friendship which has never weakened. She graduated in music from Coe College, became a strikingly successful high school music teacher, and strangely, began at Blairstown where she graduated, before she finished at Coe. Other schools where she taught included grand and high schools ate Belle Plaine, Madrid, and St Charles, Iowa. Many persons came to her for private lessons. In 1925 Helen married Milo Kopecky in the prestigious ‘Little Brown Church in the Vale', continued teaching music as time permitted and later on worked full-time at Collins Radio which contributed notable to World War II effort. Milo's untimely death of a heart attack occurred a few years ago, and is buried in Cedar Memorial Cemetery at Cedar Rapids where Helen expects to be buried also. Ted in 1926 graduated in forestry at Iowa State College, (now University) where he participated in athletics and bane. He became forester for the State of Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory where in 1929 at a university dance he was introduced to a beautiful and distinctly talented girl taking graduate work in English Literature from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. After her graduation in 1930, we were married in the Congregational Church at Madison, Wisconsin. During her school career she was awarded memberships in three honorary sorieties: Kappa Delta Pi, Kappa Sigma Iota, and Pi Lambda Theta. And at this writing, after several strokes darling Marie is in the Madison Convalescent Center in which we celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary August 3, 1990 to the tune of a fine orchestra, among many balloons, enjoying a large cake and which fed all other patients, nurses, and aides. Marie's parents Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Love are buried in Wildwood Cemetery, Salem, south Dakota. Marie and I will be buried at Forest hill where we have an inscribed small marble grave stone. Father and mother, the Frank Kouba's, are buried on the hilltop in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Blairstown, Iowa as are grandparents Peter Kouba'a and uncle Will Koubas. Neither sister Helen and Milo have children nor do Marie and I, thus no continuing generations of the Peter and Frank Kouba lineage will follow. Thus ends a resume of the Peter Kouba family which migrated to the promised land, the magnificent United States of America in 1869. Written by Ted Kouba July 1, 1991. | Kouba, Theodore Frank (I930)
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| 7246 | The following provided by Darren Ivy Boonville Daily News Laura W. Stegner, 85, died January 7 at Lettie Joy's Boarding Home in Lexington (MO). She was born February 5, 1898 in California, Mo. to Christopher Alexander and Lena Hessel Bantrup. She was married to Joseph W. Stegner. He proceded her in death on March 23, 1960. She was a member of the Boonville United Church of Christ, the Boonville American Legion Auxiliary. She had lived in Boonville before moving to Lexington a year and a half ago. Survivors include one son, WIlliam A. Stegner, Palm Beach, Florida; one daughter, Mrs. Anna K. Willig, Lexington; one brother, Walter Bantrup, Boonville; two sisters, Mrs. Frieda Bradshaw, Boonville, Mrs. Alma Hansen, Silver Springs. Maryland, four grandchildren and one great grandson. Services were held Tuesday January 10 at the Walker-Nadler-Graff Chapel with the Rev. Karl Kindt officiating; burial was held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, with the Rev. Sara Hartman officiating. The family suggests memorials be made to Lettie Joy's Boarding Home in Lexington. | Bantrup, Laura W (I20148)
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| 7247 | The following provided by Dorothy Harlan John H. Schnuck was educated in the public schools of Cooper County, attending school at Gooch's Mill in Liberty district. For about three years, he was in a drug business at Gooch's Mill. He abandoned this and engaged in farming on the home place for a few years, then moved to his present farm, which comprises 188 acres, of valuable land. In addition to the home place, Mr. Schnuck owns a farm of 90 acres located one mile east of the home place. The Schnuck homestead is located one mile south east of the city limits of Boonville. John H. served in the Missouri House of Representatives 51st and 52nd General Assembly from Cooper County; 1921 through 1924. | Schnuck, John Herman (I23743)
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| 7248 | The following was compiled by Lee Reber: 1) The 1840 census shows Henry Sr with 4 sons and 2 daughters. 2) In the 1850 census, Henry and Margaret were both 55 and born in Germany. The kids at home are: Mary 20, William 16, Louisa 15, David 11, Hannah 22. Right next door is Henry J. Bromer 24, Sarah 22, Rebecca 1. I think that's all the proof you need to get started. And I strongly suspect the above Louisa is actually Louis/Lewis. That would account for the 4 sons and 2 daus. from the 1840 census. Internet: Ancestry.com, Full date and place of birth | Brommer, Johann Heinrich Sr (I21013)
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| 7249 | The following was written by Wilbur Kalb: Jodok Mörlin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Jodok Mörlin, also known in Latin as Jodocus Morlinus or Maurus ( ca 1490, Feldkirch, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire - 15 September 1550, Westhausen bei Hildburghausen, Electorate of Saxony ), was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wittenberg, the Lutheran Pastor of Westhausen bei Hildburghausen, and a Reformer. He is famed as one of the first witnesses, allies and participants of the Reformation and as the father of two Lutheran theologians, Joachim Mörlin and Maximilian Mörlin. Contents 1 Life 1.1 Before the Reformation 1.2 During the Reformation 1.3 After the Reformation 2 Family 3 References 4 External Links 5 Bibliography Life Before the Reformation Jodok Mörlin was born in or around 1490 in Feldkirch in the Vorarlberg, the westernmost part of the Archduchy of Austria. He was the son of Hugo Mörlin ( 1446 - 1518 ) and his wife, Lucia Ebenko ( d. 1513 ), the grandson of Johann Mörlin, and the great-grandson of another Hugo Mörlin. The name, Jodok, was not Germanic; it was Breton. Jodok might have gotten his rare name if he was baptized on 13 December, the feast day of St Judoc, a 7th Century noble from Brittany. Nothing is known about his early years. But in 1508 he was studying at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, with Johann Eck as one of his teachers, and then, on a scholarship, at the University of Leipzig in 1509 and the University of Wittenberg in 1510. Here in Wittenberg his career was made. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree after only a few months in 1510 and a Magister’s degree in 1512 and became the Professor of Metaphysics in 1514 and then the Dean of the Faculty of Arts in 1516, all at the University of Wittenberg. In 1517 and 1518, he taught an introductionary course about “the three principal languages, Latin, Hebrew and Greek, and the ‘Luther College’ grammar [ der dreier vornehmsten sprach, der lateinischen, jüdischen und kriechischen, und der Kollege Luther grammatica ].” During the Reformation Three years after the beginning of the Reformation, in the spring of 1521, Mörlin was appointed as the pastor of Westhausen. His post had been left vacant in 1520 with the death of the last Catholic priest, Henningus Gode. By then, Mörlin was a presbyter at the Diocese of Magdeburg and already the Conventor [ parish administrator ] of Westhausen. He was recommended to replace Father Gode by Martin Luther and presented by two brothers, Frederick the Wise, the Elector of Saxony, and John the Steadfast, the Duke of Saxony, to the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, Konrad von Thüngen. Mörlin was accepted and installed on 9 April 1521. By then, Mörlin already had a wife and at least five sons, including Joachim and Maximilian, so he was, as Luther had noted in March 1521, “impotent and very poor [ unvermögend und sehr arm ]”, in need of a better income. The appointment did improve his financial prospects because Westhausen was one of the several parishes assigned to the University of Wittenberg so that the professors would have steady income from them. But, as both the pastor and a resident, Mörlin still had to deliver his parish’s annual fees to the University. He himself was not able to obtain his own exemption until 1528. So his financial problems continued, forcing his sons to learn their trades. Joachim was apprenticed as a potter, and Maximilian, as a tailor. Nevertheless, their father proved to be popular as a preacher. Residents came from all over the Heldburger Land to Westhausen to hear his sermons for years before they even got their own Lutheran pastors. This was precisely what the Elector and the Duke wanted, to limit the Catholic influence of the Prince-Bishops of Würzburg over the Heldburger Land. In 1528, the Electorate of Saxony had its first Visitation of the East Country [ Ostland ] of Franconia. When the Visitors came to Westhausen, the parishioners told them that “he was doing all the hard work in the preaching of the Divine Word, and they had no lack of it, but they complained that he would be overcome with drink and pick fights [ er In predigung gotlichs worts allen vleis thue und hetten an Ime kein Mangel, allein wes er sich den trunk überwindten und betryegen Iyeß ]”. Mörlin, threatened with dismissal, promised to improve. In the following Visitations, he kept his word, and he was allowed to keep his offices. But he still had to keep a chaplain and pay him an annual salary of 40 guilders. After the Reformation Mörlin died in Westhausen on 15 September 1550 after 29 years as the town’s pastor. Family Jodocus was married twice. His first wife was Margarete, the daughter of the administrator of the Elector of Saxony’s vineyards, and she died in either 1514 or 1515. Mörlin then married Anna Hausknecht, perhaps a native of Wittenberg, in 1515 and they had 12 children, including two of their eight sons, Joachim and Maximilian. References 1)The surname was also spelled in German before and during the Reformation as Morle, Mohr, Mörtle, Mörlein and Morlin. They all mean the same thing in German, “Little Moor”, in honor of St Maurice the Moor. The coat-of-arms of Joachim Mörlin shows a Moor’s head. 2) Although he was with the Reformation from the beginning, Mörlin was not the first Reformer to have come out of Feldkirch. When he came to Wittenberg in 1510, there was already a group of Feldkirchers studying and teaching there. They were led by Bartholomäus Bernhardi ( 1487 - 1551 ). He had made the trip to Wittenberg in 1504 with fellow Feldkirchers, Johannes Dölsch and Christoph Metzler, the future Bishop of Constance. Their biographies can be read online at “Feldkircher Reformatoren [ Feldkirch Reformers ]” in Vorarlberg Reader. 3) Gruner, “Meine Mörlin-Vorfahren. 4) Krauß, “Die Mörlin”, page 158. 5) See Günther Drosdowski, Duden Lexikon der Vornamen [ Duden Dictionary of Forenames ] ( Mannheim, Vienna and Zürich : Dudenverlag, 1974 ), page 123, for more details. The Saint had been venerated in Germany since the 19th Century. According to Duden Lexikon der Vornamen, his name is a Celtic word for “warrior”. 6) Clemen, “Briefe Mörlin”, pages 220 - 221. 7) “Feldkircher Reformatoren” 8) Fox, Drei Vorarlberger, pages 26 - 32. 9) Also known as Henningus of Havelberg, Father Gode, a native of Werben (Elbe) in the Electorate of Brandenburg, joined the University of Wittenberg in 1511 as a Professor of Law. He had been the Rector and a Professor at the University of Erfurt, from which he graduated in 1489 with a Doctorate in jurisprudence. See Richard Thiele, editor, Erphurdianus Antiquitatum Variloquus, Incerti Auctoris, [ Latin, Etymological Antiquities of Erfurt, Author Unknown ] ( Halle an der Saale, Saxony : Otto Hendel, 1906 ), page 149, footnote 5 for more details. 10) In early 1521, Luther wrote three letters, all in Latin, to Georg Spalatin in an attempt to improve Mörlin’s career and financial prospects. They were dated 29 January, 17 February and 19 March. See Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, Dr. Martin Luthers Briefe, Sendschreiben und Bedenken, Erster Theil [ Letters of Luther, First Part ] ) ( Berlin : Georg Reimer, 1825 ), pages 553, 559, 574 ff.; Ernst Ludwig Enders, Dr. Martin Luthers Briefwechsel, Band 3 : Briefe vim Dezember 1520 bis August 1522 [ Dr. Martin Luther’s Handwritten Letters, Volume 3 : From December 1520 to August 1522 ] ( Leipzig : Heinsius, 1889 ), pages 78 and 81; Karl Eduard Förstemann, editor,Neues Urkundenbuch zur Geschichte der evangelischen Kirchen-Reformation [ New Book of Documents of the History of the Evangelical Reformation of the Church ] ( Hamburg : Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1842 ), page 12, Item 20. 11) Albert, “Magister Mörlin”, pages 68 - 70. 12) Georg Berbig, “Die erste kursächsische Visitation im Osterland - Franken [ The First Visitation of the Electoral Saxony in the East Country of Franconia ]”, Archiv für Reformation-Geschlichte [ Archives of the History of the Reformation ], Vol. III, pages 377 ff. External Links 1) (German) Ancestry and family of Jodocus Mörlin at Andreas Gruner’s online essay, “Meine Mörlin-Vorfahren [My Mörlin Ancestors]” 2) (German) Biography of Jodocus Mörlin in “Feldkircher Reformatoren [Feldkirch Reformers]” at the Vorarlberg Reader website. The Letters of Jodocus Mörlin as Transcribed by Wilbur Hanson Kalb. These letters were published by Dr. Walter Heins. All the letters are done except for one little word, “bülhin”. This little pesky word doesn’t seem to exist today, not even in the dialect of Saxony, and I don’t know the dialect of Voralberg. It’s not even in the online dictionary of Middle High German. As far as I have been able to decipher, it’s supposed to mean, basically, “big and strong as an oak” or, in other words, “heartiness”. Otherwise, it’s done. I could have done that section leading to the letters but you probably would say, “To hell with that! I wanna see the letters!!!” So here they are, with the footnotes at the bottom and a little correction to the first letter’s last sentence. Your friend, Herr Reuther, is right. Jodocus’s personality as well as the family tensions really do come through his letters. I had fun with the translation; it didn’t even feel like work. No wonder you are so excited about those letters! I had a late start this morning but I finished much sooner than I’d thought. I just hope that Jodocus didn’t embarrass his children when they were teenagers . . . “Mother was fine; she didn’t cry. Father did all the crying . . . ” 1. Undated ( to Wittenberg ) The address : "where the most esteemed Master of hol. Theology . . . ”, and the remark, which Joachim had added underneath to prove “to my Doctorate”, places this letter in 1540. On 18 September this year Joachim Mörlin was a Doctor of Theology in Wittenberg. Grace and Peace of the Christ! Dear Son! I would have written to you more, but as things stand now, I cannot write to you more than I could to send with this messenger, Joh. Schlesinger, the 10 Gulden to satisfy your earnest request for now. Your thesis 1) is worth more than 10 Hungarian florins to me. May The Almighty support your beginning! O my Joachim, my son Joachim, how much I would be with you! The messenger will show you my heart. Farewell! I can not and will not you write more now. Your brother 2) has put himself in trouble, but to which you seem to be quite indifferent. 2. 19 June 1543 ( to Arnstadt ) Grace and Peace of Christ our Savior, I wish you and all of yours, Doctor and my dear son! First of all I will not deny to you that I have been twice to Schalkau ; the first time, when your brother received the parish, and now for the second time, when he moved there with his whole family. May the Almighty GOD bless his beginning! But how do you like this fact, let me know by letter, my Doctor! For out of your Brother's words, I realized that you're not quite agreeable with it. But this is certainly true that, when the parish gained your brother as its pastor, I was so pleased that I was moved to flow with steams of tears. How did the plague happened to us, I will tell you, when I am come to you. I want Brother-in-law Wolfgang as a companion. But by foot I can not come, a horse I do not have, and with business it is not possible. As for your sister Katherine, know that, on Wednesday after midnight, in the same hour as your Anna, my dear granddaughter, had in the night before, that is, on Tuesday ( as your letter reports ), fell asleep in the Christ in the presence of us parents and the family. How I felt there, you can imagine yourself. That distinguished aristocrat Nicholas von Heßberg has proven to be very impressed with your benevolence, as he has expressed personally to me. How is your mother doing, you’ll hear from our Wolfgang. May the Almighty GOD bring her 3 ) and her two daughters-in-law or better daughters in grace a safe delivery for His praise and for the propagation of Christianity and of the family of the, blissfully and gently resting in the Christ, Hugo Mörlin! "I think that the Mörlin clan will not wither away. It would be too damaged, because ( Thank God forever ) they [ are ] too healthy." 4 ) Farewell! Greetings to you and all of your Mother, Sisters and the whole family . . . 3. 24 January 1546 ( To Göttingen ) Grace and Peace of the Christ, whose blessing be with your new mother, my dear daughter, and with the grandson and the whole family, my best son and Reverend Doctor! The paper of Dr. Luther, which I have forwarded in accordance with the Brother regarding the Doctorate 5 ), may do him good. He will do so on the advice of the others, who are smarter than I am. In the past year, he has had to depend upon mine, his father’s, advice, [ and ] celebrated his wedding for the second time 6 ), but, from from the letters you had sent to him, I have seen that I had advised him badly. I hoped that your Reverence had graced the wedding with your presence. But, deceived in my hope, I myself thought that, if you had been invited to the wedding of a relative, you would have willingly gathered yourself a single piece of gold and endowed it on the bride and groom, like your Brother, yet you still preferred to wait for a whole year. What is this meanness, not to say this greed, in you, My Lord? On the top of that, it has made me a little upset that your Brother had to pay the messenger. Such unseemly behavior does not become a Doctor of Theology and even less for such a wonderful Bishop, who knows exactly how the chosen Armor of St. Paul makes a Bishop. 7 ) This admonishment, my son, take it as fatherly and friendly [ advice ]! With us, everything is healthy, but everything is also quite expensive. With strong and good wine, the LORD has blessed me. Mother, Brother and Sisters are well, thank GOD. The Mother gave birth on 13 July to a son, who is named after my dear late father Hugo. It is in the childbed the wife of Maximilian has had a daughter Apollonia. So our family increased to the Glory of the Almighty GOD. As for me, it is just bad. Because since Easter I have been in bed three times and in such a way that everyone said unanimously that I was out of it, and was sure in several places [ = times ] that I was already dead. May the Almighty GOD bless me with His Father’s favor and calls me, if it seems good to Him, from this evil world with a good and happy “little hour” [ Stündlein = death ]. What you write about the Duchess 8 ), I do not like. I fear that she limps with her son 9 ) with both legs. 10 ) She wants to serve the Christ and Belial. 11 ) They say, they are weighted with the Gospel, but they resent the Brunswicker oppression and imprisonment. 12 ) If I were like you, I would give them passages from the Gospel to keep in mind - Matthew 10, Verse 37 : “Whosoever loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me”. Likewise, Matthew 16, Verse 24 ; Mark 8, Verse 34 ; Luke 14, Verse 26, etc. You may handle them as you wish, as it befits a true Servant of the Word! As for the partridges, I have nothing at hand. I have been to the [ partridge ] house in this year only five times. On 26 January, your Mother and I were invited by your Brother, but, because of the flooding, we could not go to the first church service of his wife in Coburg. There are greetings in my and your Mother’s name to all of you, your wife, children, Wolfgang and the whole family, especially the Administrator Simon, “with my bülhin”. 4. 13 July 1546 ( to Göttingen ) Grace and Peace from GOD the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ to you and yours, my dear son and Doctor! There is nothing more than what I would rather have, that you would be provided by us with a superintendent or any other position worthy of you, especially since I see that you are reluctant to tarry among the Saxons, perhaps because of the coarseness of the food and the greed of the people. Oh, how I wish that you still had that position in Arnstadt! 13 ) The whole city, indeed the whole area, is waiting for you with such longing! But enough of it! As for my situation, so everything is in order, except that I am very often plagued by [ a kidney ] stone. And that we are floating in the greatest dangers because of the chaos of war in your and other nations. May the Almighty GOD turn them to good and destroy with His powerful arm all enemies of the Gospel! That this may be done, let us pray steadfastly through our unremitting and pious prayers! As for my position, as you were told by our dear brother-in-law Wolfgang, GOD will lead you back to health. So farewell, my son, and keep me fondly as your Father in the flesh, as you tend! Greetings to you and all of yours, Mother, Brother and Sisters . . . 5. 3 July 1548 ( to Göttingen ) . . . I have received your letter in which you comfort me, your father, s you can, as would a pious son with his father. For you know my innate timidity, so I need your much needed consolation from you and your brother. The Almighty GOD will send me, you and the brother, as well as all ministers of the Word His Holy Spirit, this true Comforter, Who consoles us in this very dangerous time, and shows us His Grace, so that we may prove to remain steadfast in the Confession of his Word. Because there is nothing in the whole world, that would be exposed to greater and heavier dangers than the pulpit of the preacher and the ministry of preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as I see from your letter : May the LORD be with you as He had been with the divine Peter and Paul, as He was in the Acts of the Apostles! Know also, my son, that the LORD has blessed me with His abundant blessings on June 1 with a son . . . 6. 18. March 1549 ( to Göttingen ) , , , I have received from you two letters, in which you wish to report at first, that the delivery of your wife has gone bad. How much that has pained me, I can not express to you by mail. I fear that those dangerous times have caused the event. But again, I am comforted by Luther’s and Bugenhagen's writings on the 29th Psalm about unbaptized children. How it has pleased the LORD, whose will shall be done and has been done. Know also that I have endured great pain for the whole Advent season, because of the [ kidney ] stone and other diseases. I have taken only a little bit of food to me the potion gets me. I see furthermore, my son, that you are very worried about your father . . . Because you want to know what secret I hold, if I want to stand firm in the pure and fair teaching of the Gospel. 14 ) I, although a very timid and pusillanimous man, have decided and asked with other ministers of the Word of the Superintendent, who replied that I would not fall off the pure and true doctrine of the Gospel . . . You pray for me, your aged father who is now in his 60th year, to the LORD that He would send me His Holy Spirit, which will make bold and brave to withstand all dangers for the sake of the Gospel. I can not and do not know no more to write. Because I do not read "because the Teutonic kathenfftlin". . . 15 ) 7. 1 October 1549 ( to Göttingen ) . . . There is nothing I wanted more now than I ever have to have you with us . . . I was recently in Coburg with Maximilian, who treated me most honorably and had invited several highly respected men to honor me, and most magnificently and brilliantly hosted them. From what I hear from Master Simon and others, I believe that you will not remain long in Göttingen. 16 ) The LORD do it with you, as it will be good and healthy for you and yours and the Church of Christ. The LORD is the Earth and its bounty. 17 ) If they persecute you in this city, flee to another! 18 ) Show yourself only as a brave soldier of Christ! . . . I am no longer on the side of Wittenberg. It seems to me that they are flattering the Emperor, especially Bugenhagen. But you stand firm in the faith, be manly and be strong in the LORD! 19 ) How do I feel, as you would say, “my buolhin”. . . Remarks : 1) Probably Disputatio ad dictum Luc. XIX : Vade, vende, relique omnia! Wittenbergae 1540 [ Latin, “Discussion of the Theme of Luke 19 : Go Thy Way, Sell, Leave the Rest! Wittenberg, 1540” ] ( Altpreußische Monatsschrift [ Old Prussian Monthly ], Vol. 44, p. 297). 2) Maximilian. 3) According to Letter No. 3, Jodocus Mörlin, who was in his 60th year in 1549 according to Letter No. 6, had a son born on 13 July 1545 and, according to Letter No. 5 another son born on 1 June 1548. He had 12 sons altogether. Except for Joachim und Maximilian who were born in Wittenberg, we know of only the one born in Westhausen, Stephan, who was Deacon from 1554 to 1561 in Coburg, then Pastor in Hildburghausen and died on 10 June 1604, and of a Georg, who was a schoolmaster in Westhausen in 1582. 4) These two sentences [ are ] also in German. 5) Maximilian Mörlin was the Doctor of Theology in Wittenberg on 15 March 1545. 6) That is not true. Realencyklopädie, Vol. 13, p. 249, states that Maximilian’s first wife was a Wittenberger, who bore him two daughters and twelve sons, and, at the beginning of 1531, he was, as a 65-year-old widower, “was married for the second time to a good peasant”. The Wittenberger probably was already the second wife. 7) I Timothy 3:3 : “Not stingy”. 8) Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Lüneburg [ 2nd wife of Eric I, the Elder, the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneberg and Prince of Calenberg-Göttingen ] 9) Eric the Younger [ Eric II, the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneberg and Prince of Calenberg and, since 1495, Göttingen. Unlike his mother and first wife, Eric did not stay loyal to the Lutheran Church. ] 10) See I Kings 18:21. 11) See II Corinthians 6:15. 12) Henry the Younger, the [ last Catholic ] Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, in an attempt to recapture his country in the autumn of 1545, was captured by the Landgrave Philip [ “the Magnanimous” ] of Hesse [ one of the leaders of the Reformation ]. 13) The Count of Schwarzenburg [ Gunter XL “the Rich” or “With the Fat Mouth” ] deposed Joachim Mörlin as the Superintendent of Arnstadt on Martini [ St Martin’s Day, 11 November ] 1543 but he was still allowed to preach and officiate until Easter 1544. 14) Joachim Mörlin seems to have added to his father that, as he himself did, he had to protest the Interim and also to condemn every flexibility in the Mitteldingen [ “neutrality” ] ( in rebus adiaphoris [ Latin, “in the matters of indifference” ] ). Jodocus gets him to understand that he had no desire to interfere in the theological disputes and ecclesiastical politics. 15) Probably = Catonian, see Endres, Luthers Briefwechsel [ Luther’s Correspondence ] pages 15, 317, 154, Footnote No. 14 on p. 318 says : “from Cato, Disticha Catonis [ Latin, “Distichs of Cato” ], or from Catena [ not a real author, just a pen name to cover all the nameless commentators ], Bibelauslegungen [ Interpretations of the Bible ] (?)“. The latter appears to be more correct. 16) In December 1549 Duke Eric ordered the Council of Göttingen to expel Joachim Mörlin. On 18 January 1550 he was released and had to get out of the city. ( Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für niedersächsische Kirchengeschichte [ Journal of the Society of the Church History of Lower Saxony ], pages 34, 35, 37 ff ). 17) Psalms 24:1. 18) Matthew 18:23. 19) I Corinthians 16:13. | Mörlin, Jodocus (I470)
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