19 Wednesday Jun 2019
Posted in Photographs
The following is transcribed from two pages (titled “Historic First”) in the album created by Frederick William Kellerman (1900-1980):
Picture of Dad and Mother in their first home together, fall of 1896.
View of parsonage, Slater County, Mo.
(Fabulous Uncle Phil stood at the far left, but his half of the photo, like so much of his colorful life, has been lost to us.)
19 Wednesday Jun 2019
Posted in Diaries, letters, and manuscripts
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Conrad F Kellerman (1911-1986), Frederick W Kellermann (1900-1980), Herman H Kellerman (1872-1940), Ida Eberlein (1877-1943), Walter L Kellerman (1901-1988)
The following is from a page in the album assembled by Frederick William Kellermann (1900-1980):
A Gem of Purest Ray $erene
A special page ought to be allowed for this snapshot:
Seemingly insigificant by occasion, it yet represents a real treasure. Recognizable, of course are Aunt Ida (left, rear) and Granddad (seated, right). Little “Connie” (Ida’s only boy) sits in foreground (right).
The really precious quality of this treasure in not in the view but what lies behind it — literally speaking. On the reverse side is the only extant sample of Granddad’s handwriting — the handwriting so engrained in memory by the scores of letters that he sent Lute and myself while we were “studenten” at River Forest.
(Circa 1918–Please lift to read)
Lute will well recall the timeless phrase “Ich will ein check einlegen.” He will also recall with some relish how he used to open the letter with some alacrity and fish out the check before reading the letter — to see if it was for 100 or 150 dollars. Priceless memories!
The photo album is in the possession of Gayle Hirsh, nee Kellermann, who graciously provided the images.
18 Tuesday Jun 2019
Posted in Other photographs
From an album created by Frederick William Kellermann. In the possession of Gayle Hirsch, nee Kellermann, who graciously provided the image.
29 Monday Oct 2012
Posted in Vital records
Emma and Emil were engaged for about five years, and Emma taught school while waiting for Emil to finish his course of study at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. The marriage was witnessed by at least one of his fellow students, Herman Kellermann, who later married Emma’s sister Wilhelmina. The other witnesses were Adelbert Karstaedt and ? Hudtloff.
The marriage was conducted by Rev. Theodore Nickel, pastor of the Lutheran church in Shawano, Wisconsin. Like Emil, Theodore Nickel later “accepted a call” to serve as a minister in Australia.
Marriage registration, Emma Bertha Eberlein and Emil Paul Gerhard Kriewaldt, 1895.
20 Saturday Oct 2012
Posted in Newspapers
“Rev. H. Kellermann, the next Pastor of the church, served the congregation from 1916 to 1917, coming from St. Louis, Mo., and was installed by Rev. Paul Heckel of Chattanooga, on May 14th, 1916.
Pastor Kellermann before accepting our call, had been out of the ministry some time on account of impaired health. But his zeal for the Lord’s work induced him to take new courage, brave the weaknesses of the body and come to us, solely to bring the word of God to thirsting souls. However he did not recuperate as he had hoped, his health continuing to decline. A man of exceedingly fine intellect, broadened by travel in foreign countries, bright in mind, willing in spirit, he found himself fettered by an ailing body, unable to continue in the pressing duties connected with pastoral work, in a growing congregation, and although the congregation in its effort to keep him, prevailed on him to take an extended vacation, Pastor Kellermann finally felt constrained to offer his resignation which the congregation reluctantly accepted. He preached his farewell sermon November 11th, 1917, and with his family, took leave for a stay in Southern Florida.”
Source: First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Fiftieth Anniversary Manual, Knoxville, TN: 1919
08 Monday Oct 2012
Posted in Obituaries
Services held Tuesday at the Lutheran Church
Funeral services for Rev. H. H. Kellerman were held at the Lutheran Church Tuesday at 3 p.m. Rev. Kellermann was a resident of Vero Beach for 21 years and was well known to many business and professional people in town. He was in the citrus packing business for a long time was also a director in a local bank at one time.
He passed away early Saturday morning from heart failure on his 68th birthday. Services were held at the home by the Rev. C. W. Mueller and the body lay in state at the church from 2 till 3 o’clock.
Promptly at 3 o’clock the organist of the church, Miss Bernice Meyer, opened the service playing “One Sweet, Solemn Thought” by R. S. Ambrose, while the local pastor and five other pastors from the East Coast marched into the church. After singing of the hymn, “Nearer, My God, To Thee”, the Rev. Dallas Gibson of Ft. Lauderdale read a prayer, followed by Rev. F. Graef of West Palm Beach reading a Scripture passage. Then the Rev. Graef, H. H. Hartmann of Delray Beach and Arlo Mueller of Miami Beach sang three verses of the hymn, “Abide With Me”. The Rev. C. W. Mueller delivered the address basing his remarks on the subject, “The Disciple of the Burning Heart.”
The latter part of the service consisted of the delivery of a massage [sic] from the Florida Pastoral conference by Rev. H. H. Hartmann, the reading of the obituary by Rev. A. Mueller, and a concluding prayer by Rev. W. Meyer of Lake Worth. All the pastors then formed an escort of honor as the body was born to Crest Lawn cemetery, where it was interred.
The active pallbearers were Charles Kutz, J. B. Tipping, H. W. Prange, H. Grumbach, G. O. Roti, and W. Klingsick. Honorary pallbearers were: R. Niedner, H. W. Meyer, Fred Krueger, Wm. Brasch, Elmer Danberg, E. H. Graul, Axel Hallstrum, Wm. Hensick, John Johnson, Edward Klingsick, Louis Klingsick, Wm. Orth, Sr.
Rev. Kellermann was born in St. Louis Mo., on Nov. 9 1872, the son of Conrad Kellermann prominent builder, civic and church leader. He attended Concordia College in Milwaukee, Wisc. and the Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary in St. Louis, from which he was graduated in 1896. Entering the ministry of the Lutheran Church of the Missouri Synod, he served the following charges, Little Rock, Mo., Pine Bluff, Ark., Cape Giradeau, Mo., West Ely, Mo., Knoxville, Tenn., and Vero Beach, Florida. In 1904 he was granted a year’s leave of absence, and traveled extensively in Europe with his father.
In 1919 he made his home in Vero Beach, and has been active in community affairs. He was for nine years president of the Vero Indian River Producers Association. He was also vice-president of the Indian River Citrus Sub-Exchange, and a director of the Florida Citrus Exchange. He was a director of the Farmer’s Bank of Vero.
In 1896 he married Miss Wilhemina Eberlein of Shawano, Wisc.
He leaves to mourn his departure his wife, Mrs. H. H. Kellermann, five sons, Rev. Conrad Kellermann of Miami, Herman W. Kellermann of Tampa, Fred W. Kellermann of New York, Luther W. Kellermann of California, and Edwin H. Kellermann of Vero Beach; besides three daughers, Mrs. M. Mattmuller of Vero Beach, Mrs. Norman Skeels of Miami, and Mrs. S. D. Pepper of Ohio. He also had many grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Source: Vero Beach Press, Friday, 15 November 1940.
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