Apr 22
“I’m My Own Grandpa” is the title of an old song that my parents used to have on a 78 Rpm record. The song was written by Dwight Latham and Moe Jaffe back in the 1940s. It was from the same era as another silly song, “Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor on the …
Apr 19
This is the tombstone of Barbara Anna Buechner, nee Pflueger, my second and third great grandmother. She is buried in row 4 of Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Schumm, Ohio. She was the daughter of Johann Christian and Anna Barbara Pflueger, nee Seckel. Barbara married Johann Ludwig Schumm in Holmes County, Ohio, on 1 November 1840 …
Mar 22
Although the inscription “JJ Schumm” is all that is legible on this tombstone, I believe that this is the grave marker of Johann Jacob Schumm, one of the Schumms who immigrated to America in 1833 from Wuerttemberg. I will show how I arrived at this conclusion by using the church records of Zion Lutheran Church, …
Mar 01
This is the tombstone photo of Louis J. Schumm and his wife Sarah, nee Breuninger. They are buried in row 10 in the cemetery of Zion Lutheran Church, Schumm. Louis’ home was the subject of the previous blog. Ludwig Johann “Louis” Schumm was born 26 April 1851 in Van Wert County, Ohio, the son of …
Feb 25
This frame house was the home of three generations of my Schumm ancestors. It is located between Willshire and Schumm in Van Wert County, Ohio. Grandpa always said that the house was originally back in the woods and was moved to its current location. Both the 1872 and 1886 maps of Van Wert County show …
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