September 2020 archive

Sep 11

We Will Never Forget

Nearly every one of us remembers where we were and what we were doing 19 years ago, when we heard the news that planes had hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and that a fourth had crashed in rural Pennsylvania.

Sep 08

Tombstone Tuesday-Frederick G. & Henrietta A. (Schumm) Roehm

This is the tombstone of Frederick G. and Henrietta A. (Schumm) Roehm, located in row 10 of Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Schumm, Van Wert County, Ohio. The marker is inscribed:

Frederick G.
1872-1926
Henrietta A.
1879-1947
ROEHM

Sep 04

Our Monarch Butterflies

Spoiler alert. This blog post has nothing to do with genealogy. Instead, it is about one of my other interests, a new project we undertook this year. Raising monarch butterflies.

Joe and I both enjoy the birds and other wildlife we see in our woods, but Joe is the real gardener around here. He loves working in the yard–

Sep 01

Tombstone Tuesday-Albert C. Roehm

This is the tombstone of Albert C. Roehm, located in row 4 of Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Schumm, Van Wert County, Ohio. The marker is inscribed:
Albert C. Roehm
1883-1953