This is a copy of a letter written by Nonnie Schaefer Ross that was sent to my great great grandparents, Carl John Spohr (senior) and his wife, Nettie Dorothy Graham Spohr, in 1974.
“Mr. and Mrs. K. C. Ross
R. 2, Box 156
Tavares, Florida 32778
Tavares 1/8/74
Dear Nettie + Carl:
I’m finally getting around to answering letters after the X-mas rush. Also I’ve been trying to look up some papers I thought I might get some information.
The things I remember is that I believe Mother + Uncle Louie came from Eger. I remember our mother saying it was on the Austria-Bohemian border but that may all be Germany now.
A paper I have is dated 1899 from Eger, Böhmen so that must be where they were from. It is all in German so there is very little I can make out.
Our mother’s mother was named Breinl and I’m sending pictures which you can keep as I have another set. Relatives once owned a brewery and our mother + your father at one time received a small inheritance. That was when we were all very small.
I also have a ribbon which belonged to mothers + Uncle Louie’s father on which is printed . .
DER EGERER – MÄNNER – GESAUG –
SEINEMEHREN – MITGLIEDE
UND EHEMALIGEN – CHOIRMEISTER
HERRN CARL SPOHR
So I take the word EGERER would mean in the town of Eger.
I also have an article and picture of a statue of L. Spohr, which is all in German too so we looked it up in an encyclopedia and found the enclosed. I don’t remember or know if he was a great or great great uncle. He may be the one you have a picture of. This was all in Cassel, Germany.
I’m glad Carl is interested in looking up some of this history and hope we can find out some more. I will have some Xerox copies of the papers and send them if he wants them.
I have a record of some of his violin music which we bought a long time ago.
As I said if he would want the Xerox copies of the article + statue, also the papers which I think is a birth record I will have them made.
The last we heard from the relatives was in 1952, where we sent care packages to an Aunt + Uncle who had a daughter Lydia. Their last address was Josef Diez (Family)
22b Osouu Kreis Wittlich
Rheinland-Pfalz
Germany
I always thought I would write but worried if any are still living.
I hope this may help some so let me know sometime. He can have some of those things if he wants them, being a Spohr.
Love to all,
Nonnie
P.S.
I don’t believe any of the Spohrs
Had middle names. We didn’t.”
[Included in the letter were 2 short typed paragraphs about Ludwig Spohr, the German composer and his musical life; a list of 9 family history questions; a photograph of a building with the caption, “Seifner Bräuhaus;” a photograph of a man with the caption, “Gustav Breinl;” and a photograph of a woman with the caption, “Lydi Breinl.”]
R. 2, Box 156
Tavares, Florida 32778
Tavares 1/8/74
Dear Nettie + Carl:
I’m finally getting around to answering letters after the X-mas rush. Also I’ve been trying to look up some papers I thought I might get some information.
The things I remember is that I believe Mother + Uncle Louie came from Eger. I remember our mother saying it was on the Austria-Bohemian border but that may all be Germany now.
A paper I have is dated 1899 from Eger, Böhmen so that must be where they were from. It is all in German so there is very little I can make out.
Our mother’s mother was named Breinl and I’m sending pictures which you can keep as I have another set. Relatives once owned a brewery and our mother + your father at one time received a small inheritance. That was when we were all very small.
I also have a ribbon which belonged to mothers + Uncle Louie’s father on which is printed . .
DER EGERER – MÄNNER – GESAUG –
SEINEMEHREN – MITGLIEDE
UND EHEMALIGEN – CHOIRMEISTER
HERRN CARL SPOHR
So I take the word EGERER would mean in the town of Eger.
I also have an article and picture of a statue of L. Spohr, which is all in German too so we looked it up in an encyclopedia and found the enclosed. I don’t remember or know if he was a great or great great uncle. He may be the one you have a picture of. This was all in Cassel, Germany.
I’m glad Carl is interested in looking up some of this history and hope we can find out some more. I will have some Xerox copies of the papers and send them if he wants them.
I have a record of some of his violin music which we bought a long time ago.
As I said if he would want the Xerox copies of the article + statue, also the papers which I think is a birth record I will have them made.
The last we heard from the relatives was in 1952, where we sent care packages to an Aunt + Uncle who had a daughter Lydia. Their last address was Josef Diez (Family)
22b Osouu Kreis Wittlich
Rheinland-Pfalz
Germany
I always thought I would write but worried if any are still living.
I hope this may help some so let me know sometime. He can have some of those things if he wants them, being a Spohr.
Love to all,
Nonnie
P.S.
I don’t believe any of the Spohrs
Had middle names. We didn’t.”
[Included in the letter were 2 short typed paragraphs about Ludwig Spohr, the German composer and his musical life; a list of 9 family history questions; a photograph of a building with the caption, “Seifner Bräuhaus;” a photograph of a man with the caption, “Gustav Breinl;” and a photograph of a woman with the caption, “Lydi Breinl.”]
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