Sports Center Saturday: Erwin Schaefering

My maternal grandfather's sister's husband Erwin Schaefering participated in many sports.

He played baseball at McKinley High School in st. Louis, Missouri, and was team captain in 1919.

The Carnation (yearbook, McKinley High School, St. Louis, Missouri), 1920, p. 28. Ancestry.com. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 3 April 1919, page 30

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2 April 1920, page 28

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 18 April 1920, page 6

He was chairman of McKinley High School's standing committee on athletics.

The Carnation (yearbook, McKinley High School, St. Louis, Missouri), 1921, p 75. Ancestry.com. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Erwin played football at St. Louis University.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 11 November 1923, page 1S

He later played professional football for the St. Louis Blues.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 28 October 1926, page 32

Ervin was also on the wrestling team at St. Louis University.

The Archive (yearbook, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri), 1922, p. 228. Ancestry.com. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Church Record Sunday: Immanuel Lutheran Church Records, St. Louis, Missouri

The records of the Immanuel Lutheran Church, 3450 Marcus, St. Louis, Missouri are online at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lindainmo/mo_imm_luth/. Records from 1883 to 1920 are available. The records include baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and deaths. Digital photos of the records, taken by Linda Reichert, are available. The original records are located at Concordia Historical Institute in St, Louis, Missouri.

Entry 42 in Image 064 is the baptismal record of Erwin Edgar Schaefering, the husband of my maternal grandfather's sister Vivian Evelyn Boe. He was born on 29 November 1901, and baptized on 15 December 1901. His parents were Georg and Emma Schaefering. Baptismal sponsors were [?] Hallenberg, Alfred Schaefering, and Elisabeth [Schulemeyer?].

Tombstone Tuesday: Vivian Evelyn (Boe) Schaefering

My great-grandmother Kathleen Graham's oldest child, Vivian Evelyn, was born on 9 August 1901 in Alton, Madison County, Illinois. Vivian's biological father was Samuel R. Bowen. She was known as Vivian Walker until her mother married John Boe;  Vivian then took his surname and was raised as his daughter. Vivian married Erwin Edgar Schaefering on 7 February 1922 in Obion County, Tennessee. Vivian died on 12 December 1978 in St. Louis, Missouri. Her ashes are interred at Hillcrest Abbey Crematory and Mausoleum in St. Louis.