Weldon Mersiovsky sent me an email earlier this year and asked me if I could help a woman named Carol Watson find a patent issued to her grandfather. I agreed to take on the task and contacted Carol Watson. She told me that het grandfather was August Schkade and that he was born on September […]
This article by Dr Wukasch first appeared in Concordia Connections 5.3 (1988): 8. The Wends pioneered Lutheranism in Texas when they settled in the Serbin (Lee County) area in 1854. Many Concordia alumni are of Wendish ancestry. The letters “sch” in conjunction (as in the author’s name) are often seen in Wendish names. -0- All
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The following article appeared in the April 2015 Newsletter of the Texas Wendish Heritage Society in Serbin, Texas. Bronze Plaque Remembers Sorbian American War Heroes [Even while we continue to observe the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, we should also remember that 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the end of
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The following article appeared in the April 2015 Newsletter of the Texas Wendish Heritage Society in Serbin, Texas. Jan Ernest Smoler and Jan Kilian were contemporaries, although not always friendly ones. As editor of a newspaper in Bautzen, Smoler published negative letters sent from the Serbin colony leading to years of tension between Smoler and
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