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- [S90] Lafayette County Historical Society, Continuing the History of Lafayette County, (Higginsville, Missouri: Lafayette County Historical Society, 2002), volume 1, page 394.
Biographical sketch of "William and LouElla Erdman Family." Submitted by Shirley and Martin Tempel.
William C. Erdman, son of Charles and Hulda Erdman, and Lou Ella Meinershagen, daughter of John and Minnie Meinershagen; married "in 1926 at the parsonage of the Salem Evangelical Reformed Church by the Rev. Theo. Hauck. It snowed so hard the afternoon of their wedding that the dinner guests, at the home of the brides' parents, had to be transported to their homes by horse and wagon - the cars of the era could not get through the snow!"
- [S139] Fred H. Meinershagen, The Prosperous and Diligent Blacksmith from Wersen: a Genealogy of Heinrich Adolph Meinershagen, January 1, 1785 - May 22, 1870 (Columbia, Missouri: F. H. Meinershagen, 1973), page 31.
William C. Erdman and Lou Ella Wilhelmine Meinershagen were married on 18 February 1926. No place of marriage given.
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