From the August 31, 2006 column “Do You Remember” in the Warren County Record appeared with events of 100-years ago: “Mrs. Adolph Schake and her son left Thuesday morning for Cleveland, Ohio, on a visit with relatives.”

Undoubtedly this was the first out-of-state trip for my grandmother. Baptized at the bier of her father; soon her mother died resulting in her being reared as an orphan by an uncle whose surname was Ritter. As a very young girl she was a ‘live-in maid’ for the Kurt Schake family of my great grandfather. She and Adolph eventually married in middle age and rear their family of five. The relatives they visited in Cleveland were half-brothers to Kurt. He and those two brothers all came to America from Lippe in the 1850s.

To learn more about how these German families lived both in Germany and on the Missouri frontier proceed to my electronic book at http://www.rootsweb.com/~mowarren/schake/intro.html