Shopping Saturday: Wegman & Sons Grocery

My great-grandfather's sister's husband Anthony Leo "Andy" Wegman worked with his father Herman J. Wegman and his brother John P. Wegman in the family grocery business, Wegman & Sons. The store was located at 3326 Shenandoah Ave., St. Louis, Missouri.

Gould's St. Louis City Directory 1914, page 2234. Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1989 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

One of the products that they sold was India tea. 

 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 9 October 1912, page 9

The store also carried Troco Nut Butter.

 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 21 June 1918, page 11

Friday's Faces from the Past: Schneider and Wegman Cousins

My maternal grandmother Margaret Schneider and her sister Paula are pictured here with their cousins, Marie and Margaret Wegman. I do not know who the other two children in the photo are.

Tombstone Tuesday: Anthony L. and Anna M. (Schneider) Wegman

Anna Maria Schneider was born on 25 Nov 1888 in Remagen, Ahrweiler, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. She was the daughter of my great-great-grandparents Carl Joseph Schneider and Christina Nagel. The family immigrated to St. Louis, Missouri in 1892. Anna married Anthony L. "Andy" Wegman on 1 May 1912, at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in St. Louis, Missouri. Anthony was born on 22 April 1887. He was the son of Herman J. Wegman and Margaret Pauly. Anthony died on 19 July 1962. Anna died in September 1983. They are buried in Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery in St. Louis, section 035, lot 0160.

Wedding Wednesday: Anna Schneider and Andy Wegman

This picture was taken on the wedding day of Anna Maria Schneider (my great-grandfather's sister) and Anthony L. "Andy" Wegman. They married in St. Louis, Missouri on 1 May 1912 at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church.

The people in the picture are identified below:

In more detail, they are:

Back Row
John Wegman - brother of the groom
William J. "Bill" Schneider - brother of the bride
(?) Wegman - not sure; the groom had a sister Margaret, so possibly her
Rudolph "Rudy" Schneider - brother of the bride
Herman J. Wegman - father of the groom
Susan (Shannon) Wegman - sister-in-law of the groom, and wife of John Wegman
Margaret (Pauly) Wegman - mother of the groom
?

Front Row
Joseph "Joe" Wegman - brother of the groom
Paulina (Gersbacher) Schneider - sister-in-law of the bride, wife of John Schneider, and my great-grandmother
Carl Schneider - John and Paulina's son, the bride's nephew, and my grandmother's brother
John Schneider - brother of the bride, and my great-grandfather
Anna Maria (Schneider) Wegman - bride
Anthony L. "Andy" Wegman - groom
Marie (Schneider) Illig - sister of the bride
William F. "Bill" Illig - brother-in-law of the bride, and husband of Marie
Christina (Nagel) Schneider - mother of the bride, and my great-great-grandmother