Category: Family Mystery
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The Iowa Land Patents of Christian Tenebahn
In the spring of 1852, several Tenebahn families emigrated to the U.S. from Germany. From New Orleans they took a steamboat to Dubuque, IA. There, they split up, some traveling to Minnesota via wagon train. The Christian Tenebahn family remained in east central Iowa, homesteading for about three years. This is their untold story.
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Lots 188 and 189 of McGee’s Addition
In June, 1857, pioneering immigrants, Christian and Caroline Tonebohn, purchased a residential lot in the speculative McGee’s Addition in, what was then, the town of Kansas, Missouri. The lot, then Missouri prairie, is now situated in the heart of downtown Kansas City, MO. Here’s how that happened.
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Johann Friedrich Daniel Wendt – Soldier, Immigrant, and Farmer
We know quite a lot about Max and Minnie Wendt after they settle, by 1870, first in Moberly, MO, then St. Louis, MO, finally Kansas City, KS. Before that; before they emigrated from Germany, we have few details about their whereabouts and lives. Here, we present what is known and unknown with a few theories…
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The Curious Life of Edourd Bruno Czaska
Edourd (Edward) Bruno Czaska lived a short yet adventurous life. In his 44 years he, with his wife Elizabeth, traveled from Germany to Baltimore, MD then westward to San Francisco, CA. We will explore these travels, reveal mysteries, and find that, in the end, it was Edward’s wife Elizabeth who lived long and prospered.
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The True Identity of Delamer Duverus
The Golden Reed, by Delamer Duverus, outlined the vision of humanity and the future where he predicted the downfall of mankind in the kind of apocalyptic terms usually reserved for science fiction, oracles of doom and madmen. Let’s see who he actually was.
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Redd Family Children – Parent Mystery Discussion
The Red family were thought to be Cherokee. That story is partially true in that the Redd family settled on land in Habersham County, GA not long after the Cherokee’s had been removed. In fact, the Redd family are named Red because two Redd sisters named their children as such. Here’s how that happened.
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Buel C Robinson – an exceptional life
The Robinson and Johnson families knew that Lt. Buel Robinson had been shot down and taken prisoner in July, 1944. But, the details of that event, before and after, have been shrouded in mystery. Let’s rewind the years and open this forgotten page of history and see exactly what happened.
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Alonzo Hunt – a wrongful death investigation gone wrong
Alonzo Hunt was struck and killed by an automobile in May, 1925, in Marion, OH. His death sparked a wrongful death investigation that quickly and quietly ended. Did someone get away with murder?
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Solomon Maness-Baldwin – a discovered history restored
Who were the biological parents of Solomon Baldwin, the author’s paternal 2nd grandfather? For over 200 years, no one knew. It took the author four decades of patience and perseverance plus advancing technology to determine the answer.
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