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Miller Family Heirloom:  Blue Album

 
 
  2. Grandpa Pete Millers parents
Michel Miller and Cathrina Schumacher postcard

3. Sister M. Adelaide La Crosse, Wis
Catherine Miller - daughter of Michel Miller and Cathrina Schumacher

4. Mr. & Mrs. Fred Mehrens Mothers Sister Kate (Mrs. Pete Millers sister)
Wedding picture of Fred Mehrens and Kate Goeres

5. Peter and Anna Miller parents of Joe etc.
Wedding picture of John Peter Miller and Anna Goeres
6. Goeres Family - Pete's wife's family
Peter Goeres and Elizabeth Koch family, circa 1895 (estimated by Barbara's age at about 3 in this picture).  This may have been taken after the death of the daughter Rosa in December, 1894, due to scarlet fever.

Front Row: John William, Peter, Barbara (standing), Elizabeth, August (standing), Peter
Back Row: Catherine, Theodore, Anna

Joseph John Goeres was probably not born yet.
7. The Goereses Grandma Millers brothers & wives
Wedding picture with two couples, one lady in a wedding dress. Apparently, these people are P. Theodore Goeres (man on left, sitting) and his wife Dora Kenkal.
UPDATE: 09/01/99:  The man on the right is John Goeres and either his wife Mary Ellen Kurt.  I can't make out which "wife" goes with which Goeres brother.
8. Grandpa Peter Millers brothers Uncle John (top left),
Jules (top right), Emil (bottom left), Leo (bottom right)

 
9. Goerses
Four Goeres relatives, probably brothers and sisters to Anna Goeres (children of Peter Goeres and Elizabeth Koch), two men in back and two ladies in front.
Update:  09/01/99, The man on the right is Peter Goeres Jr. 
10. No caption.
Photographer: Kamber, Alton, Iowa. Nothing written on the back of the picture.
 

11. No caption.
Photographer: Dwight, Marcus, Iowa. Nothing written on the back of the picture.
12. Harold and Roburs Miller - Uncle Leo's Children
Photographer: Harlan, Iowa. Nothing written on the back of the picture.

13. Pete Miller Sr. dad
Michel Miller.

Photographer: Booth, Harlan, Iowa. Nothing written on the back of the picture.
14. Pete Miller's Mother
Catherina Schumacher.
Photographer: Booth, Harlan, Iowa. Nothing written on the back of the picture.

15. Kate Miller - now Sister M. Adelaide
Photographer: Booth, Harlan, Iowa. Nothing written on the back of the picture.
16. No caption. Photographer: Kamber, Alton, Iowa. Nothing written on the back of the picture.

17. No caption. Photographer: Prof. Savage, Modale and Little Sioux, Iowa. 18. No caption.
Man and a women, they're probably married. The man seems to be the same man as the man in the back, left of the picture on page 9. This is the same man as on page 6 of the Red Album, which names him as "Joe Miller - Elkader cousin"
Photographer: D. Hale, Elkador, Iowa.

19. Pete Willmes
Pete Willmes is probably John Willmes who married Josephine Muller, daughter of Michael Miller
Photographer: Heintz, Harlan, Iowa.
20. Pete Willmes
Pete Willmes is probably John Willmes who married Josephine Muller, daughter of Michael Miller
Photographer: Heintz, Harlan, Iowa.

21. Joe Frank and Finie our Sister - Grandpa Miller's sister
Wedding picture of Joseph Frank and Josephine Miller, daughter of Michel Miller and Cathrina Schumacher.
Photographer: Heintz, Harlan, Iowa.
22. Jake Fromm - friend
Photographer: Heintz, Harlan, Iowa. Nothing written on the back of the picture.

23. No caption.
Wedding picture with another couple. The groom sitting in this picture may be the same man as on page 10 and page 16.
Photographer: Dore Studio, Mapleton, Iowa. Nothing written on the back of the picture.
24. The Miller girls after Mother died 1895
Daughters of Michel & Cathrina Schumacher - Front Row: Mary, Cecelia, Josephine; Back Row: Catherine?, Anna Barbera, Elizabeth
Photographer: Booth, Harlan, Iowa.

25. No caption.
Two girls, probably around 10 - 13 years old.
Photographer: M.G. Koll, Earling, Iowa.
26. Grandpa Millers sister and husband - John Roseman
John Rosmann & Eliszabeth Miller
Photographer: Heintz, Harlan, Iowa.

 
27 #1: No Caption
Photographer: Cundill, Maquoketa (Iowa)
27 #2. Missing

27 #3. Grandpa Miller Peter Miller"
Michel Miller and his son on his lap, John Peter Miller
27 #4. No Caption

28 #1. No Caption 28 #2. UPDATE:  09/01/99, this is Peter Goeres, Jr., son of Peter Goeres and Elizabeth Koch.

28 #3. No Caption, Miniature version of the picture on page 22, Jake Fromm - friend. 28 #4. UPDATE:  09/01/99, man on right is Peter Goeres, Jr., son of Peter Goeres and Elizabeth Koch.

28 #5: 28 #6:
 

29 #1: "Our father and brother Pete", but picture is missing. 29 #2: "Dad's Mother, Aunt Josephine" Mrs. Joe Franck.
Cathrina Schumacher and daughter Josephine
   
29 #3: Missing. 29 #4: Missing.
   
30 #1: Dear to Memory card. 30 #2: To my birdie card.
   
30 #3: Missing 30 #4: Missing