Wertenberger Index

Posts in Category “Adulthood”

• Springcrest Farm from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Childhood, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1905-1979. Written February 1994. Springcrest Farm had been in the Sechrist family for generations, having John Quincy Adams’ signature on its deed. Its big, white 14-room farmhouse dominated the quadrangle of small buildings surrounding it, expanding from a pioneer colonial to meet the needs of later generations by adding an apartment on either side. Beside the ...
• My Hometown from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Childhood, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1914-1926. Written January 1995. One morning in late August of 1914, I woke up in a new place, a new house, a new town, and a new state. Here I was, destined to spend most of the next two decades of my life. As I walked outside and looked around, I was delighted. So this ...
• Blue Roads from: Adulthood, Dial-Family, Judson, Santiago-Chile
  Events between 1818 and 1994. Written September 1994. Monday, July 18, 1994, was a most memorable day! My daughter and her husband took my fourteen-year-old granddaughter, Lacy, and me on a trip where I would revisit times gone by. Lacy would learn about some of her Ohio ancestors. We first visited Redhaw, Ohio, a small settlement in ...
• The Garden from: Adulthood, Dial-Family, Fairview-Park-OH
  Events circa 1937-1972. Written April 1994. In 1937, the Robert Dials moved, with Robert and Dolly, their two children, from the City of Cleveland to the Village of Fairview. Fairview lay just beyond Rocky River’s ...
• The Storm from: Adulthood, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family, Fairview-Park-OH
  Event on July 4, 1969. Written April 1994 at Judson for The Scribblers. Clevelanders will always remember July 4, 1969. The day dawned hot, sultry, and foreboding. The air was so still it made the heat unbearable. Patriotic programs, ...
• Mississippi from: Adulthood, Childhood, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1905-1913. Written May 1993 – January 1994. During the 1907-1911 period, the Methodist Home Mission Society employed my father and mother as “Home Missionaries” in the backwoods of Mississippi. Those woods were predominantly ...
• McCoy Franklin from: Adulthood, Berea-KY
  Events circa 1898-1980. Written November 1994. Meet McCoy Franklin, a Berea College senior, class of 1926, from Crossnore, NC. He was a tall, gangly, six-footer of the Lincoln type, handsome in a rugged way. A serious student, capable all-around athlete, orator, and casually outgoing with a tremendous sense of humor. He was always ready to tell a ...
• Rainbows from: Adulthood, Dial-Family
  Written April 14, 1987.  The following is the text from Lacy’s Grandmother Dial’s Easter letter to Lacy. Lacy’s bedroom had just been papered in the rainbow pattern that Lacy and her mother had purchased earlier. Dear Lacy Anne, Enclosed is a check for your father to pay for your “Easter ...
• The Trip To New Haven (1922, 1957) from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family, Wertenberger-Family
  1957 text and audio recounting of the 1922 disaster-laden family trip from Ohio to the Yale University commencement.
• The Passport from: Adulthood, Fairview-Park-OH, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  September 1965 trip to Wayne and Ashland counties (Ohio) to locate birth and citizenship documents.
• When A Distinguished Visitor Was Unwelcome! from: Adulthood, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family
  Event circa 1931. Written September 1989. Dr. Emory Dial’s Lorain Ave. Clinic’s second floor housed the clinic surgery, recovery room, X-ray, and doctors’ offices around one huge waiting room. It also held his own spacious ...
• My Trip To My Class Reunion – Ex ’23 from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family
  Event circa 19331. Written September 1989. There was a brilliant full moon when I set off for my alma mater, Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. I had acquired Robert’s agreement that I deserved a brief vacation. ...
• The River Trip from: Adulthood, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family
  Event in 1935. Written September 1989. It was the Mark Twain Centennial Year when Robert and I took a memorable vacation. We started out in our fancy new blue Buick, armed with “Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn,” which Robert read aloud as I drove toward the Mississippi River and Mark Twain country. We went through Nauvoo, the ...
• World War I from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1917-1919. Unfinished draft written . The events that happened during the last two years of World War I affected my family ???, so they were burned in my memory. We were living in Berea, Ky., dominated by ...
• The Wedding from: Adulthood, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family
  Event in 1935. Written April 1993. The excitement was at fever pitch in the Dial clan the day after we came home from our river trip. It was David’s wedding day! David was the family’s baby, a ...
• MWD Obituary from: Adulthood, Judson
  Mary W. Dial (nee Wertenberger) Beloved wife of the late Robert J. Dial M.D., loving mother of Robert J., Jr. (Donna), Dorothy Schwartz (Abba), and Charles, dear grandmother of eight and great-grandmother of 10, sister of the late Carl Wertenberger. Passed away Sept. 1, 2000. Memorial contributions may be forwarded to Judson Park Retirement Community, 2181 ...

Posts in Category “Berea-KY”

• Springcrest Farm from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Childhood, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1905-1979. Written February 1994. Springcrest Farm had been in the Sechrist family for generations, having John Quincy Adams’ signature on its deed. Its big, white 14-room farmhouse dominated the quadrangle of small buildings surrounding it, expanding from a pioneer colonial to meet the needs of later generations by adding an apartment on either side. Beside the ...
• My Hometown from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Childhood, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1914-1926. Written January 1995. One morning in late August of 1914, I woke up in a new place, a new house, a new town, and a new state. Here I was, destined to spend most of the next two decades of my life. As I walked outside and looked around, I was delighted. So this ...
• McCoy Franklin from: Adulthood, Berea-KY
  Events circa 1898-1980. Written November 1994. Meet McCoy Franklin, a Berea College senior, class of 1926, from Crossnore, NC. He was a tall, gangly, six-footer of the Lincoln type, handsome in a rugged way. A serious student, capable all-around athlete, orator, and casually outgoing with a tremendous sense of humor. He was always ready to tell a ...
• The Trip To New Haven (1922, 1957) from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family, Wertenberger-Family
  1957 text and audio recounting of the 1922 disaster-laden family trip from Ohio to the Yale University commencement.
• The Dial Family Apartment from: Berea-KY, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family
  Event circa 1921. Written ????. It wasn’t the way it was supposed to be. My Prince Charming had invited me to see his home — meet his family. I had met his mother and father previously. They seemed ...
• My Trip To My Class Reunion – Ex ’23 from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family
  Event circa 19331. Written September 1989. There was a brilliant full moon when I set off for my alma mater, Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. I had acquired Robert’s agreement that I deserved a brief vacation. ...
• World War I from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1917-1919. Unfinished draft written . The events that happened during the last two years of World War I affected my family ???, so they were burned in my memory. We were living in Berea, Ky., dominated by ...
• Wertenberger Correspondence from: Berea-KY, Childhood, Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Correspondence and related posts from the Himmelright and Wertenberger families. (1899-1924)
• 000128 OHW to Ada (Chile) from: Berea-KY, Letters
  Mystery letter from OHW (CHW’s) brother, showing the broad interest in the Wertenberger’s experiences in Chile.

Posts in Category “Childhood”

• Springcrest Farm from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Childhood, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1905-1979. Written February 1994. Springcrest Farm had been in the Sechrist family for generations, having John Quincy Adams’ signature on its deed. Its big, white 14-room farmhouse dominated the quadrangle of small buildings surrounding it, expanding from a pioneer colonial to meet the needs of later generations by adding an apartment on either side. Beside the ...
• My Grandma from: Childhood, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1906-1916. Written June 1995. Mary Fuhrman Himmelright was born around 18381 on a farm in Ashland County, Ohio, near the village of Redhaw. The county seat, Ashland, was eight miles away. Mary’s grandparents homesteaded the farm but were killed in the wilderness on their way to Pittsburgh to buy supplies. Her story of their four orphan ...
• Santiago from: Childhood, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1901-1906. Written 1985-1995. It was the 22nd of September, the first day of Spring of the first year of the twentieth century when I was born under the Southern Cross. This happened south of the equator in Santiago, Chile, where the seasons are reversed. My Methodist missionary parents had been sent to my first address, Santiago ...
• My Hometown from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Childhood, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1914-1926. Written January 1995. One morning in late August of 1914, I woke up in a new place, a new house, a new town, and a new state. Here I was, destined to spend most of the next two decades of my life. As I walked outside and looked around, I was delighted. So this ...
• Mississippi from: Adulthood, Childhood, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1905-1913. Written May 1993 – January 1994. During the 1907-1911 period, the Methodist Home Mission Society employed my father and mother as “Home Missionaries” in the backwoods of Mississippi. Those woods were predominantly ...
• The Porch from: Childhood, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1905-1914.  Written June 1994. During the late 1800s, architects in this part of the country designed front porches for homes that were ostentatious luxuries. The porches they built had ornately turned spindles in the banisters and fancily shaped pillars supporting the roof. There was always a narrow panel of gingerbread lacework in the wood ...
• Wertenberger Correspondence from: Berea-KY, Childhood, Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Correspondence and related posts from the Himmelright and Wertenberger families. (1899-1924)

Posts in Category “Cleveland-OH”

• The Storm from: Adulthood, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family, Fairview-Park-OH
  Event on July 4, 1969. Written April 1994 at Judson for The Scribblers. Clevelanders will always remember July 4, 1969. The day dawned hot, sultry, and foreboding. The air was so still it made the heat unbearable. Patriotic programs, ...
• The Trip To New Haven (1922, 1957) from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family, Wertenberger-Family
  1957 text and audio recounting of the 1922 disaster-laden family trip from Ohio to the Yale University commencement.
• The Dial Family Apartment from: Berea-KY, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family
  Event circa 1921. Written ????. It wasn’t the way it was supposed to be. My Prince Charming had invited me to see his home — meet his family. I had met his mother and father previously. They seemed ...
• When A Distinguished Visitor Was Unwelcome! from: Adulthood, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family
  Event circa 1931. Written September 1989. Dr. Emory Dial’s Lorain Ave. Clinic’s second floor housed the clinic surgery, recovery room, X-ray, and doctors’ offices around one huge waiting room. It also held his own spacious ...
• My Trip To My Class Reunion – Ex ’23 from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family
  Event circa 19331. Written September 1989. There was a brilliant full moon when I set off for my alma mater, Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. I had acquired Robert’s agreement that I deserved a brief vacation. ...
• The River Trip from: Adulthood, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family
  Event in 1935. Written September 1989. It was the Mark Twain Centennial Year when Robert and I took a memorable vacation. We started out in our fancy new blue Buick, armed with “Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn,” which Robert read aloud as I drove toward the Mississippi River and Mark Twain country. We went through Nauvoo, the ...
• The Wedding from: Adulthood, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family
  Event in 1935. Written April 1993. The excitement was at fever pitch in the Dial clan the day after we came home from our river trip. It was David’s wedding day! David was the family’s baby, a ...

Posts in Category “Fairview-Park-OH”

• The Garden from: Adulthood, Dial-Family, Fairview-Park-OH
  Events circa 1937-1972. Written April 1994. In 1937, the Robert Dials moved, with Robert and Dolly, their two children, from the City of Cleveland to the Village of Fairview. Fairview lay just beyond Rocky River’s ...
• The Storm from: Adulthood, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family, Fairview-Park-OH
  Event on July 4, 1969. Written April 1994 at Judson for The Scribblers. Clevelanders will always remember July 4, 1969. The day dawned hot, sultry, and foreboding. The air was so still it made the heat unbearable. Patriotic programs, ...
• The Passport from: Adulthood, Fairview-Park-OH, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  September 1965 trip to Wayne and Ashland counties (Ohio) to locate birth and citizenship documents.
• Charley’s Pets from: Dial-Family, Fairview-Park-OH
  1 Events circa 1943-1963. Written January 1992. Two-year-old Charley and Skippy the dog sat in a corner of the kitchen swapping biscuits. Charles was eating the dog bone and Skippy the aseptic Arrowroot biscuit meant for the ...
• Content Notes — MWD Essays from: Fairview-Park-OH
  Content Notes and Revisions — MWD Essays Editorial History Revision history and technical notes Wordpress and Grammarly interaction nightmare. WordPress design flaws. Revision History 1993-1998 Hand-written essay drafts transcribed into Microsoft Word 2.0. 2000 Original Word 2.0 document partially converted to Microsoft FrontPage 98. 2008-2009 Converted to W3C XHTML compliant Microsoft ASP.NET website. 2009 Several previously unpublished stories, primarily about the Dial family, were ...

Posts in Category “Judson”

• Blue Roads from: Adulthood, Dial-Family, Judson, Santiago-Chile
  Events between 1818 and 1994. Written September 1994. Monday, July 18, 1994, was a most memorable day! My daughter and her husband took my fourteen-year-old granddaughter, Lacy, and me on a trip where I would revisit times gone by. Lacy would learn about some of her Ohio ancestors. We first visited Redhaw, Ohio, a small settlement in ...
• Grandma’s Family Christmas Party from: Dial-Family, Judson
  Event in December 1991. Written January 19921. Christmas begins for me in July here at Judson. For seven years, I’ve gone to Debbie Malakar’s office and reserved the Rendezvous Room for the last Saturday evening ...
• MWD Obituary from: Adulthood, Judson
  Mary W. Dial (nee Wertenberger) Beloved wife of the late Robert J. Dial M.D., loving mother of Robert J., Jr. (Donna), Dorothy Schwartz (Abba), and Charles, dear grandmother of eight and great-grandmother of 10, sister of the late Carl Wertenberger. Passed away Sept. 1, 2000. Memorial contributions may be forwarded to Judson Park Retirement Community, 2181 ...

Posts in Category “Letters”

• 000115 MHW to Dear Folks at Home (Chile) g <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile
  Sender’s name and mailing address: Colegio Americano, Colegio Inglés para Hombres, 22 Calle del Comercio, Casilla 89, Concepción, Chile Postmarks: Concepción, December 12, 1899; Valparaíso, December 13, 1899; Ashland, Ohio, January 11, 1900; Redhaw, Ohio, January 11, 1900 Recipient’s name and mailing address: Miss Alice Himmelright, Redhaw, Ashland Co., Ohio, U. S. A. 1899 CHW and MDH wedding
• Wertenberger Correspondence <br /> Berea-KY, Childhood, Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Correspondence and related posts from the Himmelright and Wertenberger families. (1899-1924)
• 991031 CHW (&MHW) to Dear Folks at Home (Chile) <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile
  Santiago, Chile Oct. 31st 1899 Dear Folks at Home: Tonight finds us happy and contented in the capital city of Chile. We are happy because we are nearly to our journey’s end, contented because we are among a host of friends and ...
• 000212 MHW to My Dear Folks at Home (Chile) g <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile
  Sender’s name and mailing address: Colegio Americano, Colegio Inglés para Hombres, 22 Calle del Comercio, Casilla 89, Concepción, Chile Postmarks: Concepción, December 12, 1899; Valparaíso, December 13, 1899; Ashland, Ohio, January 11, 1900; Redhaw, Ohio, January 11, 1900 Recipient’s name and mailing address: Miss Alice Himmelright, Redhaw, Ashland Co., Ohio, U. S. A.
• 991211 CHW to Dear People (Chile) <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile
  Sender’s name and mailing address: Colegio Americano, Colegio Inglés para Hombres, 22 Calle del Comercio, Casilla 89, Concepción, Chile Postmarks: Concepción, December 12, 1899; Valparaíso, December 13, 1899; Ashland, Ohio, January 11, 1900; Redhaw, Ohio, January 11, 1900 Recipient’s name and mailing address: Miss Alice Himmelright, Redhaw, Ashland Co., Ohio, U. S. A. Concepción, Chile. Dec. 11, 99 Dear People— Dillie seems to be wracking her brains ...
• 991127 CHW to Dear Folks upon the Hill (Chile) <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile
  November 27, 1899; Santiago, November 29, 1899; Ashland, Ohio, December 28, 1899; Redhaw, Ohio, December 29, 1899 Recipient’s name and mailing address: Mr. Lewis Himmelright, Redhaw, ...
• 991015 CHW & MHW to Today is Sunday (Chile) <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile
  “This has no date. It was started sometimeand closed near that time.”In a hurry Ha. Ha. Today is Sunday, October 15. We have been on the steamer Columbia since noon of Sunday, Oct. 1. We cannot give you an account of all that has taken place, yet to sum it up in a few ...
• 991005 CHW to Dear Friends (Chile) <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile
  Guayaquil, Ecuador. Oct. 5th 99 Dear Friends: Since I did not get my long letter off in Panama will tell you how we have been getting along since we left that city. We came aboard the Columbia Sunday P.M. and did not sail till Monday, Oct. 2nd at about 3 P.M. She was delayed on account of so much ...
• 991126 MHW to Dear Pa, Ma, Grandma… (Chile) <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile
  Concepción, Chile Nov. 26, ’99 1:30 p.m. Dear Pa, Ma, Grandma, Alice, Mellie, Ada: Well, we have had no letter from home since I wrote two weeks ago, but a ship with states mail will be in tomorrow or the next day, then I think we’ll hear from you again. I suppose you are getting on your winter wraps and hats to go ...
• 990928 CHW to My Friends and to all concerned (Chile) <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Panama,Sept. 28 ’99 Dear Friends and to all concerned: Well, of all things, this beats all! This morning at about seven o’clock we landed at Colon. We are now foreigners in a foreign land nearly ...
• 990927 CHW to My Dear Folks on the Hill (Chile) <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  The Athos, Sept. 27th 1899 My Dear Folks on the Hill: if you will excuse the ...
• 000109 CHW to Dear Friends (Chile) g <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile
  Sender’s name and mailing address: Colegio Americano, Colegio Inglés para Hombres, 22 Calle del Comercio, Casilla 89, Concepción, Chile Postmarks: Concepción, December 12, 1899; Valparaíso, December 13, 1899; Ashland, Ohio, January 11, 1900; Redhaw, Ohio, January 11, 1900 Recipient’s name and mailing address: Miss Alice Himmelright, Redhaw, Ashland Co., Ohio, U. S. A.
• 000115 MHW to Dear Folks at Home (Chile) <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Concepción, Chile Jan. 15th 1900 Eight A.M. Dear Folks at Home: After waiting nearly five weeks, finally on the third steamer that came from the north I received a letter from home last Wednesday dated Nov. 26th, . I was glad that everything was alright at home and that Ada’s school was going along rather smoothly. But you must not wait so long before ...
• 000204 MHW to My Dear Mamma and All… (Chile) <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile
  Letter about the conference where the Wertenbergers arrange to be transferred from Concepción to Santiago.
• 990919 MHW to Dear Folks at Home (Chile) <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Sept. 19, 1899New York Dear Folks at home: While I am waiting for Charlie this morning I thought I would write you a few lines more before we leave our native shores. We passed the health examination yesterday, met many of the members of ...
• 990925 MHW to My Dear People at Home (Chile) [AJD] <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  [The purser of the steamer Athos carried the envelope containing Charlie’s letter (#990927) and this letter of Dillie’s from Colón, Panama, to New York City, where he mailed it on October 13. According to the postmarks, the letter reached Redhaw on October 16.] [Sept. 25, 1899] On Board the deck of the Steamer Athos, Atlantic Ocean. My Dear People at Home: Yesterday was ...
• 990929 MHW to Dearest Folks (Chile) <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Panama, Columbia S.A. Sept. 29, ’993:30 P.M. Dearest Folks: While my hair is drying (just being washed) I’ll add a few words to what Charlie has already said. How glad I would be if I could show you all the ...
• 991007 MHW to Dear Sisters, Parents, and Grandma (Chile) <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile
  Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador “Gossip” Oct. 7, 1899 8:30 P. M. Dear Sisters, Parents, and Grandma: If I remember correctly this is the evening ...
• 991017 MHW to Dear Folks at Home (Chile) <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile
  On Board the “Columbia”. Oct. 17, ’99 9 A.M. Dear Folks at Home: The Steamer is passing us now for the north, on which we should have our letters, but we will write anyway as another one will go north in a few days. It is just five weeks ago this morning since we left your familiar smiling faces behind us as we ...
• 991113 MHW to Dear Girls and Boys… (Chile) <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile
  [Sender’s name and mailing address: Mandilla Himmelright Wertenberger, Colegio Americano, Colegio Inglés para Hombres, 22 Calle del Comercio, Casilla 89, Concepción, Chile Postmarks: Concepción, November 13, 1899; Valparaíso, November 19, 1899; New York, December 20, 1899; Ashland, Ohio, December 21; Redhaw, Ohio, December 22, 1899. Recipient’s name and mailing address: Mrs. Elizabeth Fuhrman, Redhaw, Ashland Co., ...
• 991210 MHW to Dear Folks at Home (Chile) <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile
  [No individual envelope for this letter; it shared an envelope with Charlie’s letter, #991211. Nor does the flannel sample she mentions remain in the envelope] Concepcion Dec. 10, 1899 8:30 P.M. Dear Folks at Home: The beautiful “June” Sabbath day has been pleasantly spent in Sunday School and church duties this forenoon, and ...
• 000122 CHW to Dear Friends (Chile) <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile
  CHW expresses frustration with not hearing news from home.
• 000128 OHW to Ada (Chile) <br /> Berea-KY, Letters
  Mystery letter from OHW (CHW’s) brother, showing the broad interest in the Wertenberger’s experiences in Chile.
• 000220 CHW to Dear Parents and Sisters (Chile) <br /> Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Sender’s name and mailing address: Colegio Americano, Colegio Inglés para Hombres, 22 Calle del Comercio, Casilla 89, Concepción, Chile Postmarks: Concepción, December 12, 1899; Valparaíso, December 13, 1899; Ashland, Ohio, January 11, 1900; Redhaw, Ohio, January 11, 1900 Recipient’s name and mailing address: Miss Alice Himmelright, Redhaw, Ashland Co., Ohio, U. S. A.

Posts in Category “Santiago-Chile”

• Santiago from: Childhood, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1901-1906. Written 1985-1995. It was the 22nd of September, the first day of Spring of the first year of the twentieth century when I was born under the Southern Cross. This happened south of the equator in Santiago, Chile, where the seasons are reversed. My Methodist missionary parents had been sent to my first address, Santiago ...
• Blue Roads from: Adulthood, Dial-Family, Judson, Santiago-Chile
  Events between 1818 and 1994. Written September 1994. Monday, July 18, 1994, was a most memorable day! My daughter and her husband took my fourteen-year-old granddaughter, Lacy, and me on a trip where I would revisit times gone by. Lacy would learn about some of her Ohio ancestors. We first visited Redhaw, Ohio, a small settlement in ...
• 000115 MHW to Dear Folks at Home (Chile) g from: Letters, Santiago-Chile
  Sender’s name and mailing address: Colegio Americano, Colegio Inglés para Hombres, 22 Calle del Comercio, Casilla 89, Concepción, Chile Postmarks: Concepción, December 12, 1899; Valparaíso, December 13, 1899; Ashland, Ohio, January 11, 1900; Redhaw, Ohio, January 11, 1900 Recipient’s name and mailing address: Miss Alice Himmelright, Redhaw, Ashland Co., Ohio, U. S. A. 1899 CHW and MDH wedding
• The Passport from: Adulthood, Fairview-Park-OH, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  September 1965 trip to Wayne and Ashland counties (Ohio) to locate birth and citizenship documents.
• Wertenberger Correspondence from: Berea-KY, Childhood, Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Correspondence and related posts from the Himmelright and Wertenberger families. (1899-1924)
• 991031 CHW (&MHW) to Dear Folks at Home (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile
  Santiago, Chile Oct. 31st 1899 Dear Folks at Home: Tonight finds us happy and contented in the capital city of Chile. We are happy because we are nearly to our journey’s end, contented because we are among a host of friends and ...
• 000212 MHW to My Dear Folks at Home (Chile) g from: Letters, Santiago-Chile
  Sender’s name and mailing address: Colegio Americano, Colegio Inglés para Hombres, 22 Calle del Comercio, Casilla 89, Concepción, Chile Postmarks: Concepción, December 12, 1899; Valparaíso, December 13, 1899; Ashland, Ohio, January 11, 1900; Redhaw, Ohio, January 11, 1900 Recipient’s name and mailing address: Miss Alice Himmelright, Redhaw, Ashland Co., Ohio, U. S. A.
• 991211 CHW to Dear People (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile
  Sender’s name and mailing address: Colegio Americano, Colegio Inglés para Hombres, 22 Calle del Comercio, Casilla 89, Concepción, Chile Postmarks: Concepción, December 12, 1899; Valparaíso, December 13, 1899; Ashland, Ohio, January 11, 1900; Redhaw, Ohio, January 11, 1900 Recipient’s name and mailing address: Miss Alice Himmelright, Redhaw, Ashland Co., Ohio, U. S. A. Concepción, Chile. Dec. 11, 99 Dear People— Dillie seems to be wracking her brains ...
• 991127 CHW to Dear Folks upon the Hill (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile
  November 27, 1899; Santiago, November 29, 1899; Ashland, Ohio, December 28, 1899; Redhaw, Ohio, December 29, 1899 Recipient’s name and mailing address: Mr. Lewis Himmelright, Redhaw, ...
• 991015 CHW & MHW to Today is Sunday (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile
  “This has no date. It was started sometimeand closed near that time.”In a hurry Ha. Ha. Today is Sunday, October 15. We have been on the steamer Columbia since noon of Sunday, Oct. 1. We cannot give you an account of all that has taken place, yet to sum it up in a few ...
• 991005 CHW to Dear Friends (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile
  Guayaquil, Ecuador. Oct. 5th 99 Dear Friends: Since I did not get my long letter off in Panama will tell you how we have been getting along since we left that city. We came aboard the Columbia Sunday P.M. and did not sail till Monday, Oct. 2nd at about 3 P.M. She was delayed on account of so much ...
• 991126 MHW to Dear Pa, Ma, Grandma… (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile
  Concepción, Chile Nov. 26, ’99 1:30 p.m. Dear Pa, Ma, Grandma, Alice, Mellie, Ada: Well, we have had no letter from home since I wrote two weeks ago, but a ship with states mail will be in tomorrow or the next day, then I think we’ll hear from you again. I suppose you are getting on your winter wraps and hats to go ...
• 990928 CHW to My Friends and to all concerned (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Panama,Sept. 28 ’99 Dear Friends and to all concerned: Well, of all things, this beats all! This morning at about seven o’clock we landed at Colon. We are now foreigners in a foreign land nearly ...
• 990927 CHW to My Dear Folks on the Hill (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  The Athos, Sept. 27th 1899 My Dear Folks on the Hill: if you will excuse the ...
• 000109 CHW to Dear Friends (Chile) g from: Letters, Santiago-Chile
  Sender’s name and mailing address: Colegio Americano, Colegio Inglés para Hombres, 22 Calle del Comercio, Casilla 89, Concepción, Chile Postmarks: Concepción, December 12, 1899; Valparaíso, December 13, 1899; Ashland, Ohio, January 11, 1900; Redhaw, Ohio, January 11, 1900 Recipient’s name and mailing address: Miss Alice Himmelright, Redhaw, Ashland Co., Ohio, U. S. A.
• 000115 MHW to Dear Folks at Home (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Concepción, Chile Jan. 15th 1900 Eight A.M. Dear Folks at Home: After waiting nearly five weeks, finally on the third steamer that came from the north I received a letter from home last Wednesday dated Nov. 26th, . I was glad that everything was alright at home and that Ada’s school was going along rather smoothly. But you must not wait so long before ...
• 000204 MHW to My Dear Mamma and All… (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile
  Letter about the conference where the Wertenbergers arrange to be transferred from Concepción to Santiago.
• 990919 MHW to Dear Folks at Home (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Sept. 19, 1899New York Dear Folks at home: While I am waiting for Charlie this morning I thought I would write you a few lines more before we leave our native shores. We passed the health examination yesterday, met many of the members of ...
• 990925 MHW to My Dear People at Home (Chile) [AJD] from: Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  [The purser of the steamer Athos carried the envelope containing Charlie’s letter (#990927) and this letter of Dillie’s from Colón, Panama, to New York City, where he mailed it on October 13. According to the postmarks, the letter reached Redhaw on October 16.] [Sept. 25, 1899] On Board the deck of the Steamer Athos, Atlantic Ocean. My Dear People at Home: Yesterday was ...
• 990929 MHW to Dearest Folks (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Panama, Columbia S.A. Sept. 29, ’993:30 P.M. Dearest Folks: While my hair is drying (just being washed) I’ll add a few words to what Charlie has already said. How glad I would be if I could show you all the ...
• 991007 MHW to Dear Sisters, Parents, and Grandma (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile
  Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador “Gossip” Oct. 7, 1899 8:30 P. M. Dear Sisters, Parents, and Grandma: If I remember correctly this is the evening ...
• 991017 MHW to Dear Folks at Home (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile
  On Board the “Columbia”. Oct. 17, ’99 9 A.M. Dear Folks at Home: The Steamer is passing us now for the north, on which we should have our letters, but we will write anyway as another one will go north in a few days. It is just five weeks ago this morning since we left your familiar smiling faces behind us as we ...
• 991113 MHW to Dear Girls and Boys… (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile
  [Sender’s name and mailing address: Mandilla Himmelright Wertenberger, Colegio Americano, Colegio Inglés para Hombres, 22 Calle del Comercio, Casilla 89, Concepción, Chile Postmarks: Concepción, November 13, 1899; Valparaíso, November 19, 1899; New York, December 20, 1899; Ashland, Ohio, December 21; Redhaw, Ohio, December 22, 1899. Recipient’s name and mailing address: Mrs. Elizabeth Fuhrman, Redhaw, Ashland Co., ...
• 991210 MHW to Dear Folks at Home (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile
  [No individual envelope for this letter; it shared an envelope with Charlie’s letter, #991211. Nor does the flannel sample she mentions remain in the envelope] Concepcion Dec. 10, 1899 8:30 P.M. Dear Folks at Home: The beautiful “June” Sabbath day has been pleasantly spent in Sunday School and church duties this forenoon, and ...
• 000122 CHW to Dear Friends (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile
  CHW expresses frustration with not hearing news from home.
• 000220 CHW to Dear Parents and Sisters (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Sender’s name and mailing address: Colegio Americano, Colegio Inglés para Hombres, 22 Calle del Comercio, Casilla 89, Concepción, Chile Postmarks: Concepción, December 12, 1899; Valparaíso, December 13, 1899; Ashland, Ohio, January 11, 1900; Redhaw, Ohio, January 11, 1900 Recipient’s name and mailing address: Miss Alice Himmelright, Redhaw, Ashland Co., Ohio, U. S. A.

Posts in Category “Wertenberger-Family”

• Springcrest Farm from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Childhood, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1905-1979. Written February 1994. Springcrest Farm had been in the Sechrist family for generations, having John Quincy Adams’ signature on its deed. Its big, white 14-room farmhouse dominated the quadrangle of small buildings surrounding it, expanding from a pioneer colonial to meet the needs of later generations by adding an apartment on either side. Beside the ...
• My Grandma from: Childhood, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1906-1916. Written June 1995. Mary Fuhrman Himmelright was born around 18381 on a farm in Ashland County, Ohio, near the village of Redhaw. The county seat, Ashland, was eight miles away. Mary’s grandparents homesteaded the farm but were killed in the wilderness on their way to Pittsburgh to buy supplies. Her story of their four orphan ...
• Santiago from: Childhood, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1901-1906. Written 1985-1995. It was the 22nd of September, the first day of Spring of the first year of the twentieth century when I was born under the Southern Cross. This happened south of the equator in Santiago, Chile, where the seasons are reversed. My Methodist missionary parents had been sent to my first address, Santiago ...
• My Hometown from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Childhood, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1914-1926. Written January 1995. One morning in late August of 1914, I woke up in a new place, a new house, a new town, and a new state. Here I was, destined to spend most of the next two decades of my life. As I walked outside and looked around, I was delighted. So this ...
• Member Instructions from: Dial-Family, Wertenberger-Family
    Documented Features This website is a membership site where any authorized group member can access and read the stories. Initially, every authorized user will be a member of the same group. The site is best viewed on a tablet, laptop, or desktop device. Everything will work on a phone, but the smaller screen forces ...
• Mississippi from: Adulthood, Childhood, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1905-1913. Written May 1993 – January 1994. During the 1907-1911 period, the Methodist Home Mission Society employed my father and mother as “Home Missionaries” in the backwoods of Mississippi. Those woods were predominantly ...
• The Porch from: Childhood, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1905-1914.  Written June 1994. During the late 1800s, architects in this part of the country designed front porches for homes that were ostentatious luxuries. The porches they built had ornately turned spindles in the banisters and fancily shaped pillars supporting the roof. There was always a narrow panel of gingerbread lacework in the wood ...
• The Trip To New Haven (1922, 1957) from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family, Wertenberger-Family
  1957 text and audio recounting of the 1922 disaster-laden family trip from Ohio to the Yale University commencement.
• The Passport from: Adulthood, Fairview-Park-OH, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  September 1965 trip to Wayne and Ashland counties (Ohio) to locate birth and citizenship documents.
• World War I from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Wertenberger-Family
  Events circa 1917-1919. Unfinished draft written . The events that happened during the last two years of World War I affected my family ???, so they were burned in my memory. We were living in Berea, Ky., dominated by ...
• Wertenberger Correspondence from: Berea-KY, Childhood, Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Correspondence and related posts from the Himmelright and Wertenberger families. (1899-1924)
• 990928 CHW to My Friends and to all concerned (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Panama,Sept. 28 ’99 Dear Friends and to all concerned: Well, of all things, this beats all! This morning at about seven o’clock we landed at Colon. We are now foreigners in a foreign land nearly ...
• 990927 CHW to My Dear Folks on the Hill (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  The Athos, Sept. 27th 1899 My Dear Folks on the Hill: if you will excuse the ...
• 000115 MHW to Dear Folks at Home (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Concepción, Chile Jan. 15th 1900 Eight A.M. Dear Folks at Home: After waiting nearly five weeks, finally on the third steamer that came from the north I received a letter from home last Wednesday dated Nov. 26th, . I was glad that everything was alright at home and that Ada’s school was going along rather smoothly. But you must not wait so long before ...
• 990919 MHW to Dear Folks at Home (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Sept. 19, 1899New York Dear Folks at home: While I am waiting for Charlie this morning I thought I would write you a few lines more before we leave our native shores. We passed the health examination yesterday, met many of the members of ...
• 990925 MHW to My Dear People at Home (Chile) [AJD] from: Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  [The purser of the steamer Athos carried the envelope containing Charlie’s letter (#990927) and this letter of Dillie’s from Colón, Panama, to New York City, where he mailed it on October 13. According to the postmarks, the letter reached Redhaw on October 16.] [Sept. 25, 1899] On Board the deck of the Steamer Athos, Atlantic Ocean. My Dear People at Home: Yesterday was ...
• 990929 MHW to Dearest Folks (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Panama, Columbia S.A. Sept. 29, ’993:30 P.M. Dearest Folks: While my hair is drying (just being washed) I’ll add a few words to what Charlie has already said. How glad I would be if I could show you all the ...
• 000220 CHW to Dear Parents and Sisters (Chile) from: Letters, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-Family
  Sender’s name and mailing address: Colegio Americano, Colegio Inglés para Hombres, 22 Calle del Comercio, Casilla 89, Concepción, Chile Postmarks: Concepción, December 12, 1899; Valparaíso, December 13, 1899; Ashland, Ohio, January 11, 1900; Redhaw, Ohio, January 11, 1900 Recipient’s name and mailing address: Miss Alice Himmelright, Redhaw, Ashland Co., Ohio, U. S. A.

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