Marriage of Forest Charles Sammons and Clara Margaret Hornberger

 My Heritage sent an e-mail today that I could not resist.  I have upgraded to their Omni Plan in order to have a subscription to oldnews.com   

And here is the fun information that I found about this marriage.  Many years ago I went to Catlettsburg and obtained a copy of the marriage record.  That was fun as well.  My grandmother was five years older than her husband.  So she was old enough to get married on her own.  However, Forest had to take a note from his father saying that he gave permission for the marriage.  And doggone if that note was not still stapled to the marriage record.  

But here is the newspaper account that fills in some more information found on the oldnews site:

The article appeared in the Big Sandy News  Nov 12 1915

Goblet belonging to August Konig

My cousin, Pat, sent me an article that I found to be of great interest.  Pat and I share our Beuhring ancestors.  Frederick George Louis Beuhring (FGL) was in Cabell County in what is now WV by 1819 when he is found serving on a jury.  He had moved to this area from Baltimore Maryland.  It is thought that he came to our shores from Germany in 1795 at the age of 14.  

After moving to Baltimore he was employed by Koenig and Company.  The Lambert papers at Marshall University's special collections say that Koenig and Company were the largest wholesale firm (shippers and importers) in Baltimore in that time period.  Augustus Koenig was the original immigrant who founded the company.  He had no children of his own.  However his sister, Dorothea Louisa Konig who had married Frederick William Dannenburg had died at age 30 and Frederick and his wife, took Frederick's niece, Frances Ellenor Dannenburg (Fannie) into their home to raise.  

FGL Beuhring and Fanny Danneburg married in Frederick Konigs country home, Chateau Blanche, in 1820.  Shortly after their marriage the couple moved to Barboursville, VA (now WV).  And later bought the Nathaniel Scales farm on the Ohio River that is now part of downtown Huntington, WV.  

So now the we have the background of why the article that Pat sent is of such interest to me (I a the 5-gr-grandaughter of August Koenig, I will share some of what the article says.  The information is found in 

This can be found at the Maryland State Archives with link below:

https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5800/sc5881/000001/000000/000185/pdf/msa_sc_5881_1_185.pdf

The information at the bottom of the photo above says:  "Konig goblet acquired by the Society 1952"

 

The information in the article is found on pages 3 and 4 in the issue.  There is information in the article about the German man who owned the glass company that made this goblet and the goblet itself. And the statement that it was acquired by the society from Ethel Luisa Dannenburg Morse who had inherited it from August Konig through her father Frederick Koenig Dannenburg who had in turn inherited it from his Frederick Koenig Dannenburg and in turn from his mother, Dorothea Konig Danenburg.