Frederick John LIPPS was born 15 Aug 1847 in Baden, Germany. He arrived in the US in 1865. He was enlisted in the Civil War. He was a Full 2nd Lt. in the Union Army. After the war, he was a farmer. Not sure when he and Sarah were married, but our great-grandfather John Lipps was their first child, born in 1869. Other children were:
Charles – b 1874, d-1941, married Margaret Weber
Louis – b 1876, d 1904
Frances – b 1880, d 1906, married Ignatius Burger
Frank – b 1884, d 1885
Frederick died 8 Jan 1928. He is buried at Eiseleben Lutheran Cemetery, in Scott City, MO.
Sarah SWAN was born 4 Jun 1849 in Erie County, PA. She died 27 Sep 1888 in Kelso, MO.
Thomas Clark was born about 1845 in Ireland. He married Mary Halpin 24 Oct 1869 at St Edwards Catholic Church in Cincinnati, OH. He died sometime before 1932
Mary Halpin was born in 1846 in Ireland. She died 8 Aug 1923 in St Louis, MO. She is buried at Calvary Cemetery (Lot 000N, Sec 005)
Both were born during The Great Famine in Ireland.
They had three kids:
Mary Clark – b 1880 in Cincinnati. d-1950 in St Louis. She married Charles Stewart.
John Blattel was born 24 Dec 1844 in Elz, Nassau, Germany. He, and his family, came to the US in 1854. They settled in Scott County, MO. John was a farmer. He was a soldier in the Civil War. He was a Private in the 2nd Regiment, Missouri Light Artillery. After the war, he married Justina Reiminger on 15 Sept 1868 at St Lawrence Catholic Church in New Hamburg, MO. They had four kids:
Christine (b-1869) married Frank Enderle
Catherine (b 1870) our great-grandmother
Jacob P. (b-1872) married Mary Agatha Scherer
Anton Francis (b-1873) died in 1873
Justina died in 1879 and John remarried Sophia Bossenmeier 27 Jan 1880. He and Sophia had nine kids: Charles (1880), Philomena (1882), Andrew (1884), Caroline (1885), Anna (1888), Louis (1890), Albert (1892), Henry (1895) and Benjamin (1899).
As you can imagine, with all of these kids, the Blattel name is still quite common in southeast Missouri. John Blattel donated the ground for St Augustine Catholic Church in Kelso, MO, where many future Blattel’s were baptized, married and laid to rest.
John Blattel died 31 Aug 1926 in Kelso, MO. He was 81 years old. He is buried at St Augustine Cemetery next to the church.
Justina Reiminger was born 8 Mar 1847 in France. She arrived, by way of New Orleans, with her family, in 1853. She died 18 Apr 1879 in Kelso, MO. She was 32 years old. She is buried at St Augustine Cemetery.
Fitzgerald Family History 