We’ve taken a look at an era of Teply families, from Frank Teply’s birth in 1865 and arrival in America in 1867 as a child to Ben Teply’s early death in 1925.
Continue reading63 – End of a Teply Era 1865-1925
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62 – Ben Teply Died
61 – The Teplys and the Alexas
Ben and Anna Teply moved onto the Alexa farm in January 1921. Why?
It’s a story of neighbors, family conflict and lawsuits. Let’s take a look.
Continue reading60 – Ben Teply and Anna Kloppenberg (1G)
It’s January 1919. Ben Teply is just home from the war.
Anna Kloppenberg is working as a domestic.
Let’s get married.
Continue reading59 – St. John’s Church and Cemetery
St. John’s Catholic Church and Cemetery in Hanover witnessed the life events of our grandparents from the 1870s through the 1950s.
Continue reading58 – Ignatz Kloppenberg and Anna Ross (2G)
Let’s take a look at Anna Kloppenberg’s parents – Ignatz Kloppenberg and Anna Ross.
Continue reading57 – Anna Kloppenberg (1G)
We’ve just read Anna’s own words in the last post. Let’s fill in a few details about her early life.
Continue reading56 – Anna Mengers (1G) – In Her Own Words
We have a guest author for this post – Anna Kloppenberg Teply Mengers (1G).
This article is copied from “The Kloppenberg / Overwald Family History”, by Ed Kloppenberg.
The article was written in December 1992. I suspect it was really written by Alice Teply Karr, Anna’s daughter.
Continue reading47 – Ben Teply – WWI – Drafted
The US declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917.
The Selective Service Act of 1917 was enacted one month later on May 18, 1917. It called for a draft to raise a million man army.
Continue reading46 – Teply Lifestyle – Change – 1917
We’ve been talking about Teply lifestyle from 1890 to 1917, what I called the generation of Frank and Anna Teply.
They certainly lived many years thereafter, but these are the years from their early 20s to their 50s.
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Family Nibbles 