The other day’s post informed the story of a grand son of Charles Weber, who had actually been a probate judge of Perry County. Charles was likewise when the mayor of Perryville, and prior to that, was a captain in the Union Army throughout the Civil War. He is imagined as a soldier listed below.

Today, you will check out a story about Charles’s older sibling, Amalie Auguste Wilhelmine Friedricke Weber. I put Amalie at the front of her name since that is what she was called throughout her life. She got my attention since the German Ancestral tree states that today would be her 200th birthday. After simply a bit of looking, nevertheless, I found that today simply may not be her birthday. I will state this. I discovered both a February fourth or fifth date of birth in the GFT, however I likewise found a German baptism record that offers her birthday as February sixth. Possibly you must read this story today, then read it once again tomorrow, followed by reading it a 3rd time on February sixth. Let’s start by taking a look at that baptism record from Germany.

The above baptism record states that Amalie was the child of Johann Christoph and Johanne Dorothea Weber. Although I might not find Dorothea’s first name in any church records in Perry County, a comparable baptism record to the one above for Franz Ludwig Weber, Amalie’s older bro, states her first name was Schenk.

The Weber household became part of the Gesellschaft that left Germany in 1838 and showed up in America in 1839. They made the trip aboard the ship, Republik The members of this household are revealed on the traveler list for that ship listed below. The moms and dads, in addition to the youngest kid, Christian Carl (Charles), took a trip in the fore-cabin of the ship. The others are noted on 2 pages of the steerage area of the ship. Amalie is noted as being 12 years of ages, which does not make good sense if she was born in 1823.

I will include at this moment that Amalie’s dad passed away in St. Louis in 1839 even prior to this household showed up in Perry County. When the 1840 census was taken, their entry was produced Frederick Weber, the earliest kid because household. They were noted right above the entry for Henry Lober (Rev. Gotthold Heinrich Loeber), the very first pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg.

Now, we require to take a look at the guy who would end up being Amalie’s hubby. His name has actually appeared on this blog site on numerous events. That is since in the early days of the Lutheran settlement in Perry County, he was the only physician to be discovered. His name was Ernst Eduard Buenger, who was born upon October 10, 1817 in Etzdorf, Germany. He was the kid of Rev. Jacob Friedrich and Christiane (Reiz) Buenger. Ernst Eduard’s dad passed away right prior to the 1838 migration, so his mom was a widow when the majority of this household pertained to America as part of the Gesellschaft Some issues turned up when they were leaving Germany, so the members of the Buenger household took a trip on various ships. Mother Buenger (as I call Christiane) featured a couple of kids to New york city and after that entered into the New york city Group. The really first character to appear in my imaginary book, Mother Buener: Mom of a Synod, was Ernst Eduard. I understand that I have actually pointed out in the past that Christiane Buenger was the very first individual to own the home on which I now reside in Altenburg. (I will likewise state that a Chinese balloon passed right above this home last night so that this historical occasion is recorded on this blog site.)

The Buenger’s are likewise discovered in the 1840 census for Perry County.

Ernst Eduard Buenger wed Amalie Weber on November 7, 1842 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg. In Chapter 63 of the Mother Buenger book, I discussed how Ernst Eduard and Amalie had a picnic lunch together, with Ernst Eduard strolling her back to her house. It was my method of picturing how these 2 ended up being a couple. The church record for the Buenger/Weber wedding event is imagined listed below.

Our German Ancestral tree notes 14 kids born to this couple. Numerous of them passed away in infancy. Even infants of the regional physician obviously did not have a much better survival rate than anybody else back in those days. The very first 2 kids were born in Altenburg. Then, in the mid-1840’s, the Buenger’s relocated to St. Louis for a while. That had to do with the time that Mother Buenger relocated to St. Louis. Another 2 siblings were functioning as a pastor and instructor in St. Louis likewise, which might have led Ernst Eduard to move in St. Louis. When the 1850 census was taken, we discover the Buenger’s living in St. Louis where Ernst Eduard was a doctor.

That census was taken simply one year after the terrible Cholera Upsurge struck the St. Louis location in 1849. Dr. Buenger should have been kept really hectic and had actually seen lots of people pass away that he was participating in. Numerous kids were born to the Buenger’s throughout their time in St. Louis. A couple of were baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church and a couple of others were baptized at Immanuel Lutheran Church in St. Louis. Immanuel is the church at which Ernst Eduard’s bro, Rev. J.F. Buenger was the very first pastor. When a kid was born to Ernst Eduard and Amalie in 1851, the baptism when again occurred at Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg, so the Buenger’s had actually returned to Perry County. On the file revealed listed below, Dr. Ernst Eduard and Amalie deed the piece of home that when had actually come from Mother Buenger over to Gottlob Neumueller, who had actually wed Clementine Buenger, Ernst Eduard’s sibling. That deal occurred in 1856. This is the exact same piece of home that I now own. So, I conclude that there was a time that Dr. and Mrs. Buenger most likely lived where I do now.

The Buenger home in the 1860 census is discovered residing in the Brazeau Area. Amalie’s mom was consisted of in their home.

The 1870 census program that the Buenger home had actually gotten substantially smaller sized.

The 1880 census was the last one in which we discover both Ernst Eduard and Amalie. At the age of 62, Ernst Eduard was still a doctor.

Later On in the 1880’s and early 1890’s, when Perry County gathered birth records, you discover the intriguing circumstance where a few of these records list Dr. E.E. Buenger as the medical attendant and still others list Magdalena Mueller as the medical attendant. Magdalena was Dr. Buenger’s child who had actually ended up being a midwife, most likely being advised by her dad.

Among my preferred photos of members of Mother Buenger’s household is the one revealed here. It consists of from delegated right, Agnes Fuerbringer, Dr. Ernst Eduard Buenger, Clementine Neumueller, and Herman Buenger. 2 were from Altenburg, one from St. Louis, and one from Frankenmuth, Michigan. I have actually concerned the conclusion that the most likely occasion that got these 4 together was the funeral service for their sibling, Emilie, who was likewise Mrs. C.F.W. Walther. Emilie passed away in 1885 in St. Louis.

Here is an image of Dr. Buenger holding among his grandchildren, in addition to another one imagining both he and Amalie holding grandchildren.

We can likewise have a look at Dr. Buenger standing in front of his physician’s workplace and drug shop in Altenburg.

Likewise, this photo was taken of Amalie Buenger. Her child, Christiane, had actually wed Rev. Friedrich Wilhelm Stellhorn and resided in Columbus, Ohio. That might describe how Amalie had actually a photo taken by a professional photographer in Columbus.

Amalie Buenger passed away in January of 1892 at the age of 68. Right prior to the turn of the next century, Dr. Ernst Eduard Buenger passed away in December of 1899 at the age of 82. We can have a look at his last will and testimony in 2 images that can be bigger by clicking.

There is a little secret here. This file explains how some cash from his golden wedding event was to be utilized. If Amalie passed away in January of 1892, she would have no longer been around for the 50th anniversary which would have been commemorated in November of 1892. Please keep in mind that the probate judge, Charles Weber, Amalie’s bro, signed this type.

Ernst Eduard and Amalie Buenger are buried together in the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery in Altenburg. They have among those gravestones that has their 2 names etched on 2 opposite sides. The front of the stone shows a big cross.

I made a journey to the cemetery today in hopes of resolving the secret of Amalie’s date of birth. Below is a close up image of a part of her side of the gravestone.

I believe you will concur that the number inside the red circle is 6. Because the birth date consisted of in our German Ancestral tree is among those that originates from a death record that offers the number of years, months, and days that the individual lived, I believe an error have actually been made doing that. I put more stock in the baptism record and the date of birth etched on the tombstone. I believe Amalie’s 200th birthday will be commemorated on this coming Monday.