Traer Memories

Names and birth dates of friends and neighbors of Elizabeth Schreiber in Traer around 1910. This information was shared by Jean Kershaw. Jean is a granddaughter of Elizabeth Schreiber and has her grandmother's memory book from which this information was taken. Elizabeth was born in 1891 in Traer. Jean writes, "The pages on the inside that are printed are in German and says ï¿½printed in Germanyï¿½ on the frontispiece, no date so it mustï¿½ve been before the copy write laws. I hope somebody finds this of interest. It is a treasure to me, along with her old handwritten recipe notebook, which she called her ï¿½receipt bookï¿½."


Louisa Wesch	January 1895	Eva Maisel	February 1891
Herman Antholz	February 1881	Virginia Schreiber	February 1905
Bertha Jording	February	August Wesch	February 1864
John Oster	February 1889	Walter Maisel	March
Lulu Steinhauer	March 1893	John Aikman	March 1893
Emma Smith	March 1893	Leonard Phinney	April 1902
George Wesch	April 1907	Carl Unger	April 1902
Arnold Wesch	April 1902	Susie Lightner	May 1892
Annie Wesch	May 1871	Loretta Parrish	May 1879
Nettie Koryta	June 1893	Elizabeth Wurm	July 1890
Peter Wesch	August 1898	Nellie Shortridge	August 1897
Mrs. Lawrence Leitner	August	Lurleen Davis	August 1901
August Schreiber	August 1865	Elma Cochran	September 1876
Effie McCartney	September 1893	Lavina Weathers	September 1863
John Leitner	September 1890	Lizzie Unger	September 1871
Lydia Unger	September 1898	James Koryta	September 1897
Maggie Walker	October 1892	Paul Nitsch	October 1884
Bertha Wesch	November 1904	John Maisel	November 1875
Etta Wesch	November 1892	John Maisel	November 1883
Matthew Unger	November 1869	Louisia Amelia Schreiber	December 1909
John Leitner	December 1890	George Cochran	December 1875
Bertha Carlson	December 1909

Rebecka Lodge Hall

1926

Blanch Bushnell, Verna Walton, Mrs. Mame McCartney, Mrs. Harshman, Viola Porterfield, Virinda Porterfield, Elizabeth Wurm, Hazel Harshman, Verna Hinze, Susie Demmer, Doris McCartney, Clara Carlisle.

If you have information about this family or can put names to them please email the County Coordinator! I know that they lived just south of Traer.

This was the earliest church in Traer and was built in 1904 and used until 1917. The first board consisted of Daniel Stimbert, John Meixner Sr., Lorenz Leitner, Paul Haas, and August Wesch.

Early members in the congregation included the families of John Meixner Sr., Andreas Wurm, Daniel Stimbert, Julius Kathka, August Wesch, Jake Wesch, George Thir, Paul Haas Sr., Lorenz Leitner, Paul Leitner Sr., and John Herzog.

The building sat near the north end of the main street and was torn down in 1918 by John Kronberger.