These are family photos that were thrown together in the proverbial box of old photographs. If you know anyone not identified (or mis-identified) in these images - or if you know an approximate year, please let me know and I will add the info to this page. Be sure to mention the image file name. Please bring your older relatives over to your house, sit them down, and show them these pictures. I fear someday soon, we may never be able to identify some of these people.
Does you have photos taken at any of the Sebastian Lucas Reunions? I would love to put them up here too!
Unknown Date ~ group 1You will see many photos of LuLu, Lula or Luella Burkhardt. She was referred to by all three names as far as I can tell. Lula married Nate, or Nathan Myre around 1914. She sent many photo postcards to her big sister, Emma (Burkhardt) Lucas.
Brick home was originally a Township Hall or schoolhouse.
Joseph Lucas (1864–1930) was the second child and first son born to Sebastian and Margaret (Deimling) Lucas. Joseph was baptized in St Martin of Tours Catholic Church in Liverpool Township, Valley City, Medina County, Ohio shortly after birth. Valley City was the area where Margaret grew up. Anna Margaret Burkhardt (1865–1947) was the 4th child of Charles Burkhardt, Sr. and Mary Anna (Heilman). They were married about 1891. The family eventually purchased a farm north of Antwerp, Ohio on Twp. Rd. 31 that abutted the Maumee River. They raised 3 boys, none of which ever married. Charles, the oldest, enlisted in the Army and was stationed at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio when he came down with the flu - eventually succumbing to it at the age of 25. Anna always said she could have saved him if she could have brought him home but the Army would not release him.
Harold and Earnest (Ernie) continued farming after their parent's passing. Eventually, Ernie's health failed and he was put in a nursing home before his passing in 1988.
In August of 1992, Mr. Neil Ramsier of Antwerp, Ohio was renting the Lucas farm ground and eventually bought the Joseph Lucas farm. Neil mentioned to Lawrence Lucas that Joseph and Anna Lucas had a daughter. Ernie told this to him at some point. This baby apparently died at birth or was stillborn. On one of our later visits to the farm, we happen to stop by to visit the Horn Sisters, whose family farm was next to the Joseph and Anna Lucas farm, and it brought up an interesting story. There was a corner in the garden where Anna always made sure that flowers were planted and rocks were laid around. When the sisters were young girls they would go over to visit Anna and would ask about this corner in the garden. Mrs. Lucas would tell them that it was her special corner but not tell them why this area was special. After hearing of the baby girl, they believe that this was the baby's grave. I highly doubt that there is a public record of this birth but she was mentioned in Anna's obituary which makes her more thancredible enough to include.
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