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A Tale of Two Homesteads
In 1838, our ancestor Friedrich Wilhelm Twellman was 40 years old when he took his then-pregnant wife, Henrietta, and their young family and boarded a ship near Bremen, Germany, for…
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Batter Up!
Our ancestor Louis Garland was a professional baseball player, born in Archie, Missouri in 1905. He began his baseball career pitching for the Ottumwa Cardinals in 1925. In the years…
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First Texaco Station in St. Louis
Automobiles have played an oversized role in the Pipes Family history. In 1919, when cars were still an uncommon sight on the roads of St. Louis, our ancestor Charles Martin…