Photo Links

My Gallery of Interesting Photographs

St Joseph's Grade School Boys Class of 1927. Photo of the boys who graduated the eighth grade in 1927. The last surviving member was my father, Michael Gramelspacher, who was born 3 June 1912 and died 28 October 1999. Dad says the group photograph did not turn out and so the pupils had individual photos taken. Dad's was taken by Sprauer's Studio. Father Basil named my dad "Angel", because he had an angelic look which concealed the fact that he might have gotten into trouble. (Photo was published in the Daily Herald, Saturday, July 29, 1972, p. 13.) (161KB)

St Joseph's Grade School Boys Class of 1929. Photo of the boys who graduated the eighth grade in 1929. Well, if my dad's story above is correct, then the individual photo format must have been a hit, because my uncle Lawrence's class photo is the same format. Lawrence was born 7 Aug 1914 and still resides in Jasper. He is a long-time season ticket holder for Wildcat basketball, but is now going blind. He still has a very good memory of his classmates from 1929. (142KB)

Interior of St. Joseph Catholic Church. This photo shows the interior of the church during my First Communion in 1954. The interior of the church had just been redone in sandstone veneer, and this was the first class making First Communion in the remodeled church. I remember walking under the scaffolding. We were the first big "baby boomer" class following the war. (147KB)

Exterior of St. Joseph Catholic Church. This is just a snapshot I took in September 1980 after my nephew Chris's baptism. My mom and dad and wife and two daughters are headed back home. (35.2KB)

Joseph & Ottilia Gramelspacher. This photo shows my grandparents standing in the road across from their home at 329 West Tenth Street in Jasper. They were obviously poor folks. The landscape has certainly changed since 1941 when this photo was taken. The main entrance to 10th Street School is now in back of where they are standing. We lived next door to my grandparents, and that field was our playground until the new school was built there while I was in the 8th grade. (26.8KB)

Gramelspacher - Rees Wedding, 1872. Fridolin Gramelspacher, jun., and Genoveva Rees were married 18 Jun 1872 at St. Joseph Catholic church in Jasper, Indiana. Fridolin and Genoveva were both born in Jasper to immigrants from Baden. Fridolin, born 13 Mar 1849, was the son of Fridolin Gramelspacher of Bollschweil and Catharina Mundy of Wagshurst. Genoveva, born 3 Jan 1852, was the daughter of Michael Rees of Bollschweil and Sabina Lampert of Wagshurst. Fridolin is pictured wearing riding boots. His brother, Dominic, kept riding horses, which they used to ride. I guess he fancied himself a horseman. (89.1KB) (Jos. Sprauer, Photographer, Fourth Street, Huntingburg, Ind.)

Baumgart Family. This photo from about 1922 shows my grandparents, William Baumgart and Minerva née Mosby, with their three daughters sitting on the front porch of their home at 1035 12th Street in Tell City. The girls are (l. to r.) Helen, Mildred and Lucille. Mildred is my mother. (50.9KB)

Familienbuch (Family Book) page 63. This is the earlist Gramelspacher in the Familienbuch of St. Hilarius Church in Bollschweil. Johannes is the founder of the Gramelspacher line in Jasper, and Jakob is the founder of the Bollschweil Grammelspacher line. In the Familienbuch the name is spelled as Gremelspacher, Grämelspacher, Gramispacher, and Gramelspacher. The oldest records in Grunern have the name there as Grammelspacher and Grämmelspacher, but the name used there today is Gramelspacher. In Germany today the name Gremmelspacher is the most common form of the name. The Gram(m)elspacher and Gramespacher families consider themselves descendants of Lips Gremmelspach, who was born on the Stohren in 1508. (78.1KB)

Gramelspacher-Schweitzer Family of Troy, Indiana Hilary Gramelspacher, formerly of Bollschweil, Baden, a widower, married Magdalena Schweitzer of Bollschweil, Baden on 27 Feb 1854 in St. Pius Catholic Church at Troy, Indiana. Magdalena and her brother Joseph Schweitzer emigrated from Baden in 1853, presumably so that Magdalena might marry Hilary. Pictured is Magdalena Gramelspacher née Schweitzer and her children. Seated Magdalena (1829), Pius (1860), Hilary (1857), standing Jacob (1868), Mary Magdalena Holtzman née Gramelspacher (1863) and August (1866). (29.5KB) (Photo given to John R. Ray. Jr. in 1980 by Mike Holtzman.)