I recently ran across this newspaper clipping and thought others might enjoy it. This was published in the Olathe Mirror on Mar 25, 1920. Although I never remember going to Olathe, it is only about 30 miles from Riverside. Carolina Renner was the youngest child of Louisa Mary Truskey and John Peter Brenner. She was the baby of the family, born when her mother was 49, 24 years after the first child Bertha.
Scroll down to the 5th paragraph to Mrs John Brenner and daughter Miss Carolina of Parkville, Mo. Mrs. Adam Renner is the firstborn, Bertha. Bertha was born in 1875 and Carolina in 1899.
The Truskey family was not from the Rhine region of Germany, but from an area now in Poland. Records either weren’t as well kept or are not online, so even though we have family records of where they came from, I have not been able to trace the Truskeys much further back in time than their arrival in Illinois, and I don’t even know when that happened…
I do have a post about what I found out about the Truskey family and you can read it here:
https://nichollsfamily.us/blog/?p=538
The photo at right is John Peter Brenner and Louisa Mary Truskey.
I have run across other such local interest clippings. John Peter and Louisa lived, I guess, too close to Kansas City to have a good local paper to tell of their comings and goings. But my grandmother Dessie Anderson in her later years moved to a farm to live with her daughter Grace where I did find local news. Apparently if one family went to have dinner with another it made the newspaper! Since I have no memory of ever meeting her siblings, I found that interesting. This clipping is after Dessie’s oldest sister Flora died. Verna and Leola are nieces, daughters of her sister Flora. The visit was in 1974 and Flora had died earlier in the year. These articles were published in the Cameron Sun.
