1. Farwestt used a sword from the Napoleonic War to cut his first corn corp
As is not uncommon, I was surfing the web today instead of
taking care of needed projects and came across the following about Grandma
(Erna) Weihe’s great grandfather Friedrich (Far West ) Muench. (He would have been my generation’s great
great great grandfather. A lot of hard
work to settle a new land!
“Friedrich Muench cut his first corn crop with a sword his
brother had carried in the Napoleonic War.
One of the leaders of the Giessen Emigration Society, Muench who arrived
in St Louis in 1834, had hoped to help found a German state in the West but the
group broke up, and he and a few others settled in Warren County. He wrote later that he was so tired after a
day’s work in the field that he had to support his right arm with his left hand
to get the soup spoon to his mouth. He
had been a minister in Germany and was one of the so-called “Latin farmers’ who
came to the frontier for idealistic reasons.
Unused to the hard work of farming, most Latin Farmers gave up, but
Muench was one of the few to succeed on the frontier.”
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