Bicycling With Marlene
BICYCLING WITH MARLENE In 2012, when Marlene Litton Almaroad and I were young and spry she decided she wanted to go bicycle riding. So she called one day, and I was all gung-ho. Yes, let’s go. The thing about doing anything with Marlene is, she always does the thinking and the planning. And it is […]
SHAWNEETOWN, BEGINNING AND FLOODS
SHAWNEETOWN, BEGINNING AND FLOODS The business district in the original Shawneetown, now known as Old Shawneetown, This is a picture of the business district in the original Shawneetown, now known as Old Shawneetown, before they moved the whole town about three miles up the hill to the west. I found this picture in Amazing Shawneetown, […]
1937 FLOOD
1937 FLOOD This is our yellow house on the Ohio River at Bay City, Illinois, a little village ten miles south of Golconda, during the ’37 flood and before renovation. You can see part of the old general store behind it that had two feet of river water in it. My father and his father […]
Dachau Concentration Camp
Dachau Concentration Camp This is a picture of the crematorium. And this is the gas chamber where they were murdered. While on our trip to Germany to find what we could about my ancestors, we made some side trips; one being to Dachau, Germany, to see the concentration camp. I know the older of us […]
Martin Luther
MARTIN LUTHER My daughter Sarah Wittig, granddaughter Montana Schafer, husband Larry Wargel, and myself went to Germany for family research but stopped at Wittenberg because the Wittigs are Lutheran, so, although I am now a member of St. Paul Catholic Church in Johnston City, I was also Lutheran for a time, and my grandpa Paul […]
Paul Henry
This is a picture of my grandfather, Paul Henry Alexander Schultetus, who was born in 1982. He grew up in St. Louis near the brewery where he would walk to get his grandmother a bucket of beer. His family and the Busch family had been neighbors back in Germany. After he moved to Illinois, Mrs. Busch […]
A SAD ROOM
A Sad Room This is the room where Laura Schultetus Faulkner and her baby boy died in childbirth in 1939. She eloped at seventeen and died at eighteen. They had rented this one room from her husband Floyd’s brother, Othel, and his wife, Pina, who were renting the Foreman house themselves. That’s the way it […]