The Vogels

The Vogels approximately 1911.

Front, L-R: Mary Vogel, Maria Buxman Vogel (wife to Henry Vogel), Henry Vogel, Jr on lap, Amelia Vogel (daughter to Maria and Henry Vogel), Jacob Vogel, Charlotte Vogel, Pauline Vogel on lap.

Back, L-R: Anna Katherine Vogel, Henry Vogel, Katerina "Katie" Vogel, Amalia "Molie" Vogel, Katherine Vogel. [There is one Vogel child missing from the picture, Charlotte Vogel and it is not known why at this time why she was not in the picture as she was alive when it was taken.]

My Great Great Grandmother Charlotte Sommer Vogel, approximately 1911. On Charlotte's lap is Pauline Vogel (b. 1908), youngest child of Jacob and Charlotte Vogel.

Jacob Vogel (1858 - 1918)

My Great Great Grandfather Jacob Vogel, approximately 1911. 

Katherine Vogel Blum Weigandt (1896-1967)

Katherine Vogel Blum Weigandt, approximately 1911. After visiting her family in Lincoln, Nebr, Katherine returned home to her first husband to find another woman's earring in her bed. She divorced Johann "George" Blum in Aug 1922. When her sister, Mary Vogel Weigandt, died, Katherine married Jacob Weigandt and lovingly raised my grandfather and great aunt. They never had children of their own, but there was a great love between Jacob and Katherine and they lived a happy life together.

Mary Vogel Weigandt (1898-1922)

This is a picture of my Great Grandmother Mary Vogel Weigandt. This is from a photo shortly after the family arrived in the US from Russia. It is estimated to be 1910.

"We Are The Chosen" by Della M. Cumming -

“My feelings are in each family we are called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. We have been called as it were by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors you have a wonderful family, you would be proud of us? How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am and why I do the things I do? It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up. Their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are them and they are us. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation, to answer the call and take their place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and put flesh on the bones.”