Today's Portrait: Jeckering Groceries, Flour & Feed
One of my distant cousins gave me this picture and I absolutely cherish it! I was beyond excited when I saw it and it will forever be one of my favorite family history pictures!
The reason I was so excited for this picture is because I've been researching my family tree for a long time. My 3rd great grandfather- Gerhard Jeckering (1829-1898) immigrated to America from Germany. He came to America as a carpenter but opened this grocery store- (I'm still researching what year the store opened). The only picture I ever had before this one was inside of the store from a newspaper. The building is no longer there- either it was torn down or it was destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood- I'm not sure which one. I never knew what it actually looked like. For some reason, I always pictured it A LOT smaller. Gerhard and his wife had 7 children. They all lived in the apartment above the store. I pictured it dark and cramped and pictured them poor- for some reason. I can see here that that wasn't a small apartment at all! It was fairly big! Good for them! :)
If anyone has any suggestions on how to find out what happened to the building, could you leave it in the comment section below? :) Thanks!
I just today started noodling around with Google Earth. Just out of curiosity, have you tried looking at the location today? It's pretty amazing the applications Google Earth has for genealogy!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment Vonda :) Yes, I LOVE Google Earth- especially when using it for genealogy! I've looked up the address and it doesn't appear to be there. There is a building in it's place but it's TOO different to be it.
DeleteHi Carrie. I agree, nice picture. Have you tried contacting the County office where the land is located? They should have all the records of what has taken place at that particular location. Good luck and hope you find more info.
ReplyDeleteI have not tried that yet, Diane. Thank you very much for the suggestion- I will have to do that! :)
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