I (Brian J. Smith) wrote this description of the Balthasar Family Album on 27-Sep-1980. Notes in brackets and italics were added by me in July-2003.
The Balthasar family album contains thirty-six pages of photographs. The first thirty contain one photograph each. The last six pages each contain space for four photos, although some of the spots are empty. There are also seven photographs, not part of the album, inserted inside the back cover.
All identification of the people pictured is by Munner [my grandmother, Josephine Regina Voegele Staebell]. She and I went through the album in August, 1980, and I wrote down the names as she told them to me. I have sorted them out into the form presented here.
After going through the album with Munner, I removed each photograph to look for information that might be written on the backs. All but two were blank, except for an occasional photographer's name and address. The two with writing were:
I should point out that Munner had correctly identified the people in both these pictures before I looked on the back.
The pictures are numbered according to their page in the album, 1 through 36. On a page where four pictures are included, their positions are given by a letter:
A- upper left.
B- upper right
C- lower left
D- lower right
The dates of the photographs is not known, except #5, on which the date is written. When two or more people are pictured, they are named here from left to right.
1. Mary Catherine Balthasar Maute and John Maute. Probably a wedding picture.
2. Frank X. Balthasar.
3. Mary Ailinger Balthasar.
4. John Maute.
5. Mary A. Maute Degenhart. Christmas, 1889.
6. Regina ("Ricky"). Last name and relationship unknown.
7. Unknown aunt, possibly Krollman or Burkhard.
8. Unknown.
9. Unknown.
10. Unknown.
11. Julia Balthasar.
12. Possibly the godfather of Anna Regina Balthasar.
13. Top- Minnie Balthasar. Bottom- Unknown.
14. Louis and Helen Maute.
15. Unknown.
16. Frank Balthasar, one of the twins.
17. Louis Balthasar, the other twin.
18. Joseph Henry Voegele.
19. Joseph Henry Voegele, again.
20. Henry Balthasar.
21. Regina Balthasar.
22. "Auntie" Burkhard.
23. "Auntie" Krollman.
24. Bertha Balthasar.
25. John Balthasar.
26. Mary Catherine Balthasar Maute.
27. Joseph Voegele.
28. Josephine and Joseph Pfeiffer.
29. Edmund and Josephine Pfeiffer.
30. Anna Balthasar on the right. The man on the left is unknown. They were best man and maid of honor at a wedding.
31. Three photos. All unknown.
32A. Wedding picture, possibly Mary Balthasar Haentges.
32B. Unknown.
32C. Mary Catherine Balthasar Maute, first communion.
32D. Unknown.
33. Two photos, unknown.
34A. Henry Balthasar.
34B. Regina Balthasar.
34C. William Balthasar and daughter Mary Catherine.
34D. Elizabeth Clemens Balthasar and daughter Anna Regina.
35. Four photos, all unknown.
36A. Unknown.
36B. Possibly Elizabeth Clemens Balthasar with daughter Mary or Anna.
36C. Julia and Mary Balthasar.
36D. Louis and Frank Balthasar, the twins.
There were also seven photographs inserted inside the back cover of the album. They might someday be removed or rearranged. I have numbered them F1 through F7.
F1. Mildred Balthasar and Josephina Regina Voegele Staebell, 1916.
[This photograph was missing when I made a digital copy of the album in July
2003.]
F2. Picture taken at the Louis Ott residence in Gardenville, 1902. Rightmost seated: Catherine Ott Voegele. To her left: Anna Regina Balthasar Voegele. On Anna's lap: Possibly one of her daughters, Joesphine or Gertrude. The other people are members of the Ott family.
F3. Julia Balthasar.
F4. Mildred Balthasar and Joseph Henry Voegele.
F5. Rose Ott.
F6. Minnie, Cecilia, and Kate Balthasar.
F7. Cecilia Balthasar.
Listed here are the family members who appear in the album. This should give some idea of how everybody is related. For some families, there were other children, but only those featured in the album are included here. Dates of birth and death of these people are generally not known. The order in which brothers and sisters of a family are listed does not indicate their relative age; usually, children are listed in the order they appear in the album.
The relationship of Rose OTT (photo F5) must also be explained: Rose OTT was the daughter of Louis OTT. This is presumably the same Louis OTT at whose Gardenville home photo F2 was taken in 1902. Louis was the nephew of Catherine Ott Voegele. Furthermore, he married a sister (name unknown) of Joseph Voegele, the husband of Catherine Ott.
[The previous paragraph contains some inaccuracies. Catherine Ott Voegele had both a brother and a nephew named Louis Ott, who were father and son. Rose Ott was the daughter of the senior Louis Ott, who was Catherine's brother, not her nephew.]
Also pictured in the album are members of the PFEIFFER family. Their relation to the Balthasars, if any, is not known, Joseph PFEIFFER and his wife, Josephine, are pictured in photo 28. Josephine's father, possibly the man in photo 12, was the godfather of Anna Regina Balthasar Voegele. Photo 29 shows Joseph and Josephine Pfeiffer's children: Edmund and Josephine.
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