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Notes:

Baptized in the church of Upstedt 1834, page 25, record number 9:
Day of birth: 2 July
Day of baptism: 13 July
Name of the baptized: Johanne Sophie Amalie Mankopf Wille
Name of the parents: Carl Mankopf, father (!!!)
Mother: Johanne Dorothee Charlotte Wille


Pastor Umbeck's Notebook:

Entry 93:
Christian Willam Regenhardt married to Johanna Mohnkopf 1 Sep 1853

Johanna is legitimate Daughter of:
Carl Mohnkopf (deceased) and Charlotte Immerman

Born 2 July 1834 at Obstadt, Amt Wohlenberg, Hanover
Baptized at Obstadt, Confirmed at Schlewecke.
Stepdaughter of Dormeier.


church records for Upstedt (book 1803-1852), baptisms 1834, page 25, entry 9
Name at christening: Johanne Sophie Amalie
Day and hour of the birth: 2 July at 11:30pm
Legitimate or Illegitimate child: illegitimate
First and last name of the father: Carl Mankopf acknowledged that he is the father
First and last name of the mother: Johanne Dorothee Charlotte Wille
Residence of the parents: Upstedt
Day of christening: 13 July
Name of the pastor who completed the baptism: CJH Rautenberg
Name of the witnesses: 1. Conrad Philipps 2. Frau Bock 2. Frau Borchers


Birth:
Church records for Upstedt (book 1803-1852), baptisms 1834, page 25, entry 9
Name at christening: Johanne Sophie Amalie
Day and hour of the birth: 2 July at 11:30pm
Legitimate or Illegitimate child: illegitimate
First and last name of the father: Carl Mankopf acknowledged that he is the father
First and last name of the mother: Johanne Dorothee Charlotte Wille
Residence of the parents: Upstedt
Day of christening: 13 July
Name of the pastor who completed the baptism: CJH Rautenberg
Name of the witnesses: 1. Conrad Philipps 2. Frau Bock 2. Frau Borchers


The First 50 Years - Trinity Lutheran Church History pg 334 has her birth date as 2 June 1833.

Pastor Umbeck's Notes has her birthday as 2 July 1834.

Christened:
Church records for Upstedt (book 1803-1852), baptisms 1834, page 25, entry 9
Name at christening: Johanne Sophie Amalie
Day and hour of the birth: 2 July at 11:30pm
Legitimate or Illegitimate child: illegitimate
First and last name of the father: Carl Mankopf acknowledged that he is the father
First and last name of the mother: Johanne Dorothee Charlotte Wille
Residence of the parents: Upstedt
Day of christening: 13 July
Name of the pastor who completed the baptism: CJH Rautenberg
Name of the witnesses: 1. Conrad Philipps 2. Frau Bock 2. Frau Borchers

Died:
Died of childbed fever - Trinity Lutheran Church records

Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 8005556

Section 2, Lot 79, Grave 3

Johanne married Christian Wilhelm Regenhardt on 01 Sep 1853 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Christian (son of Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Regenhardt and Johanne Justine Wilhelmine Wressig) was born on 20 Feb 1828 in Ahlshausen, , Lower Saxony, Germany; was christened on 24 Feb 1828 in Ahlshausen Lutheran Church, , Lower Saxony, Germany; died on 07 Apr 1903 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in New Lorimier Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

Trinity Lutheran Church records state she died of Consumption.

Died:
Consumption

Buried:
Old Lorimier Cemetery

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Trinity Lutheran Church records state she died of pneumonia.

Died:
pneumonia. Grave H30

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HENRY REGENHARDT
BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH


DATE: 11 Mar 1893
SLUG: Bio/House of Delegates Nomination
NEWSPAPER: DAILY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
Henry Regenhardt has been nominated by the Republicans of St.
Louis for the House of Delegates. Mr. Regenhardt is the son of Wm
Regenhardt of this city. He is quite a ward politician in the big
city and his nomination to the House of Delegates shows that he is
successful in politics too.
________________________________________________________________
DATE: 11 Mar 1893
SLUG: Bio/House of Delegates Election
NEWSPAPER: DAILY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
Henry Regenhardt, son of our fellow citizen Wm Regenhardt, was
elected to the House of Delegates in St. Louis last Tuesday.


MORTUARY RECORD - City of Cape Girardeau
Page 32
246. Henry Regenhardt
D.O.D. - 11 March 1899
Locality of Death - St. Louis
Cause - Pneumonia
Physician - E.J. Washington
Cemetary - Lorimier Lot 79, Section 2, Grave 7
Sexton - Chas Rueseler
Undertaker - Henry Leidner (St. Louis)

Buried:
Section 2, Lot 79, Grave 5

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• Name: Frederick
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FRED REGENHARDT
Biographical Research

FROM: St. Louis City Hall Marriage Records Vol. 34, Pg. 37.

FREDERICK W. REGENHARDT AND JOHANNA W. T. ACKENHAUSEN
- married 12 Oct 1887
- by Henry Lieck
1420 Warren St.
- an ordained preacher of the gospel.
- both of Cape Girardeau
________________________________________________________________
DATE: 16 Sep 1893
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
Fred Regenhardt went out to Greenville, Wayne County this
morning (Monday, 9/11/93) to put down the stone foundation for a
new courthouse.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 17 Nov 1900
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. COL.
LOCATED: 1983
The work on the new addition to St. Francis Hospital is
progressing nicely. Fred Regenhardt has avbout completed the stone
work and the brick masons are pushing their end and in a few weeks
it will be ready for the finishing touch.
________________________________________________________________
DATE: 16 Feb 1895
SLUG: Bio
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 6 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
Fred Regenhardt will be at the courthouse till Saturday to
collect back taxes for the County Collector.
________________________________________________________________
DATE: 12 Apr 1898
FROM: Cape City Council Minutes
Fred Regenhardt elected to City Council 12 Apr 1898 (2nd
Ward). Appointed to Fire Board.
________________________________________________________________
DATE: 3 Apr 1902
FROM: Cape City Council Minutes

Fred Regenhardt re-elected.

1902: Served on these standing committees:
Street and Wharves
Water and Light
Judiciary
Also on Fire Board

1903-1904: Served on these standing committees:
Judiciary
Ways and Means
Claims
Appropriations
________________________________________________________________
DATE: 3 Aug 1903
FROM: Cape City Council Meetings

Fred Regenhardt's last City Council meeting attended.
Missed Meetings of 17 Aug, 3 Sep.

Pg. 150 Minutes of Special Session 10 Sep 1903:

Resignation of Fred W. Regenhardt of the office of
councilman of the 2nd Ward was presented and read.
Mr. R. states ill health and an indefinite absence from
the city the reasons for tendering his resignation and
asks its immediate acceptance.

On motion the resignation of Mr. R. was received,
accepted, and ordered filed.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 26 Sep 1903
SLUG: Bio
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 2
LOCATED: Aug 1983
L. B. Houck has announced himself as a candidate for
councilman in the 2nd Ward to fill the unexpired term of Fred W.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 24 Oct 1903
SLUG: Bio/Death
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 1
LOCATED: Aug, 1983, Cape Library

F.W. REGENHARDT
Dies at Roswell, New Mexico Wednesday

Fred W. Regenhardt died at Roswell, New Mexico, Wednesday.
The deceased was the son of the late William Regenhardt, whose
death occurred only a few months ago.
Fred Regenhardt had consumption and left here a few weeks ago
at the advice of physicians to seek his health in the far West. He
grew worse all the time till death ended his suffering.
The remains will be brought to this city for interment.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 31 Oct 1903
SLUG: Bio/Death
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 2
LOCATED: Aug 1983
The body of Fred W. Regenhardt arrived here today (Monday
10/26/03) on the noon train from Roswell, New Mexico and was buried
in Lorimier Cemetary at 2:30 pm. The remains were followed to the
grave by a large concourse of relatives and friends.


Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 131580458

Section 2, Lot 14, Grave 2

Christian married Wilhelmina Johanna Ackenhausen on 12 Oct 1887 in St. Louis, (City of St. Louis), Missouri, USA. Wilhelmina (daughter of August Ackenhausen and Whilhelmina Dormeyer) was born on 05 Apr 1866 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was christened on 08 Jul 1866 in Trinity Lutheran Church, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; died on 11 Nov 1898 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in New Lorimier Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: St. Louis, (City of St. Louis), Missouri, USA; 1910-1914: U. S. Marshal - Eastern District of Missouri - Office in St. Louis
• Residence: 1910-1911; Address:
  4132 Cleveland Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri
• Residence: 1911-1914; Address:
  2449 Hord Avenue, Jennings, Missouri
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(Research):

1910-1914
Appointed U.S. Marshal Eastern District of Missouri by President Taft.

EDWARD F. REGENHARDT
Biographical Research

DATE: 8 Aug 1891
SLUG: Bio
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983

Ed Regenhardt is taking music lessons up at the College.
He will graduate in about two weeks from now.
_________________________________________________________________
FROM: St. Louis City Hall Marriage Records Vol. 34, Pg. 37.
EDWARD F. REGENHARDT AND ALOINE THEUERKAUF
- married 9 Sep 1891
- by Rev. Chas T. McDaniel
- at St. Marks Lutheran Church
Southwest corner Bell and Cardinal Streets
- he is listed as being from Cape, she from St. Louis
________________________________________________________________
DATE: 12 Sep 1891
SLUG: Bio/Marriage License
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
Marriage License was granted in St. Louis last Monday to
Edward Regenhardt and Miss Alvina Theuerkauf, daughter of the late
Wm Theuerkauf of this city. When Mr. Regenhardt returns home he
will be bringing with him as his bride one of Cape's fair daughters
who is an accomplished young lady. The Democrat wishes the happy
pair a world of enjoyment and a long life of happiness.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 19 Sep 1891
SLUG: Bio
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983

TUESDAY: Ed Regenhardt has rented the 2nd story in the
Stratman house on Spanish St. and will go to housekeeping in a few
days.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 2 Jan 1892
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 3
LOCATED: 1983
Ed F. Regenhardt and Charles Bode have formed a coªpartnership
under the firm name of Regenhardt & Bode, Contractors for Brick
Work. They have fitted up an office in a room over Burgess' Store
on Main Street where they will give careful attention
to calls for estimates on brick work of any kind. They are both
first class mechanics, and we cheerfully recommend them to all in
need of brick work of any description.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 30 Jan 1892
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
Regenhardt and Bode, contractors for brick work, are now ready
to make estimates and contract for work. They have an office over
Burgess' Store on Main St., where they would be pleased to have
their friends and those contemplating building call on them.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 19 Mar 1892
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 3
LOCATED: 1983
Ed Regenhardt pulled down the big smoke stack at the ruins of
the Lorimier Mills this morning (Thursday, 3/17/92). He took it
down whole and without making a dent in it.
Otto Buekrmann from Fayetteville, Arkansas owned the mills,
destroyed by fire previous Saturday night (3/19/92).
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 9 Apr 1892
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
Ed Regenhardt is putting down a granitoid pavement in front
of the First National Bank.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 25 June 1892
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
Ed Regenhardt went down to Malden this afternoon to put in a
bid for the brick work on the bank building that is to be put up
there.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 17 Sep 1892
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
E.F. Regenhardt is building a brick house for Herman Muellerin
Jackson, and his partner, Chas. Bode. will go to Sikeston in a few
days to build a brick house in that town.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 21 Jan 1893
SLUG: Bio
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983

Ed Regenhardt is going to move up on Sprigg St.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 25 Feb 1893
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
As soon as weather will permit Ed Regenhardt will make
granitoid pavements in front of the new Sturdivant Bank building
on both Main and Themis streets. The walk on Themis Street will
be the longest stretch of granitoid pavement in the city.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 25 Mar 1893
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
The granitoid curbing for the sidewalk around the Sturdivant
Bank was delivered yesterday (Monday 3/20).
The granite curbing being put down around the Sturdivant Bank
building will be there long after the present generations of our
citizens are under the sod.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 27 May 1893
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
Ed Regenhardt is putting in granitoid steps for the Sturdivant
Bank.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 3 June 1893
SLUG: Bio
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
Ed Regenhardt is making a granitoid pavement in front of
Dr.S.S. Harris's property on Themis street. When this job of work
is done Themis Street will have the longest stretch of granitoid
pavement in the city. <2nd house on south side of Themis west of
the courthouse (Al Spradling Jr.)>
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 27 Oct 1894
SLUG: Bio
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983

E.F. Regenhardt returned home from Poplar Bluff. Ed says he
has no notion of moving to the Bluff.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: Aug 1895
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 6 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1 Aug 1983
The contract for repairing the Meriweather Street sewer was
awarded to E.F. Regenhardt by the Council.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 5 Oct 1895
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
E. F. Regenhardt is putting in some granitoid pavement for
Wilson Cramer at Jackson.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 23 Nov 1895
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1 Aug 1983
Ed Regenhardt came in from Greenville, Wayne County, Saturday
night. Mr. R. has the contract to build a big business house at
Greenville and he will have work for a force of hands there for
several months.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 16 Oct 1897
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 1
LOCATED: 25 July 1983
Ed Regenhardt was awarded the contract for the granitoid walks
in the Normal grounds. The contract was for 800 yards, more or
less.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 30 Oct 1897
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
E. F. Regenhardt is down at Kennett this week building some
flues in the stone railroad depot building he completed a few weeks
ago for the Kennett Railroad Company.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 6 Nov 1897
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 4
LOCATED: 1983
E. F. Regenhardt will begin work on the granitoid walks up at
the Normal next month.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 27 Aug 1898
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 1
LOCATED: 25 July 1983
E. F. Regenhardt, who has the contract to build a big
schoolhouse in Bonne Terre, came down Saturday to get some hands
to work.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 11 July 1903
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 2
LOCATED: Aug 1983
E. F. Regenhardt has the contract to build the new building
for the new ice plant.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 29 Aug 1903
SLUG: Bio/Construction/Academic Hall
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
LOCATED: 1983

PG. 5 COL. 1 :
The contract let to Temple and Slavick for plumbing the Normal
building was the biggest plumbing contract ever let in S.E.
Missouri.
PG. 5 COL. 2 :
E. F. Regenhardt says he will begin clearing the ground for
the new Normal within the next 5 or 6 days .
E. T. Maule and son, E. P., came down on the Chester this
morning (Wed 4/29/03). Mr. Maule's son is associated with
Mr.Regenhardt in the contract for the building of the new Normal
structure. Mr. Maule says we have an extra fine quality of
stone here for building purposes.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 17 Sep 1904
SLUG: Bio/Quarry
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 7 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
Mr. Regenhardt invited us to take a drive to the quarries west
of the Normal Campus and there showed us a solid block of marble,
nine and on half feet long, six and a half broad and four and a
half thick, which contained 222 cubic feet of marble, weighing 21
tons. This block was raised from the bottom of the fifty foot
level and set down at the door of the mill ready to be placed under
the saws. This will be sawed into lintels 9' long, 22" broad and
13" thick for the Academic Hall. We expect to live to see the day
when a Missouri new State Capitol will be built from this quarry.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 1 Jul 1905
SLUG: Bio/Quarry
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
At Regenhardt's quarry Monday Mr. Regenhardt had some words
with his engineer and the two came to blows. Regenhardt, who is
a powerful man, struck at the engineer, missed him, hit a piece of
machinery and broke his right arm just above the wrist. Dr. Ben
Schultz bandaged the broken limb and Mr. Regenhardt will soon have
the use of it again.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 25 NOV 1905
SLUG: ACADEMIC HALL
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
MONDAY:
The new Academic Hall was not opened to the public Sunday as
contemplated, on account of bad weather, but will be the first
Sunday that the weather is fair and it is not so muddy.

From The Quarrying Industry of Missouri, Published circa 1905. Pages 113-114. Book located in the University of Missouri-Rolla Library, January 18, 1993.

The Edward F. Regenhardt Quarries

Mr. Regenhardt operates two quarries, one the "Normal" quarry, is located just east of the fair grounds, near the west limits of the city; and the other is located two miles south of the city, just beyond the Killebrew quarry.
The Normal quarry consists of a single irregular opening, 70 feet east and west and 100 feet north and south, having a maximum vertical face of 35 feet. This quarry was opened in 1901 to obtain the stone to be used in the Normal School building at Cape Girardeau.
This stone is coarsely crystalline, heavily bedded limestone, having much the appearance of marble. It is almost pure white in the bottom of the quarry, but has a faint pinkish or bluish gray tint near the surface. Fine structure joints occur from two inches to three feet apart. The stone contains small cavities, known locally as "sand holes". These are not sufficiently abundant to cause any considerable waste.
The quarry is covered with a very light stripping of clay. Large irregular cavities and open joints, resulting from weathering, occur throughout the quarry, These are usually filled with red clay, which occasionally extends to the bottom of the quarry. These cavities and open joints make it difficult to obtain large blocks, free from the effects of weathering. It is the practice to quarry irregular blocks by hand and saw them in the mill. The stone in the upper part of the quarry is said to be harderthan that deeper down. It can be sawed at an average rate of two inches per hour. The stone works nicely under the hammer, and has a pleasing appearance when used as in the Normal school buildings at Cape Girardeau. An excellent grade of white lime ismanufactured out of this stone.
This quarry is equipped with a Wordwell channeling machine, a crushing plant and two gang saws.
The second quarry operated by Mr. Regenhardt is located about two miles south of the city on a bluff just south of the Killebrew crusher, on land leased from St. Vincent's college. It has a face 70 feet long and about 15 feet high. The following are thethicknesses of each of the beds from top to bottom: 4 ft., 1 ft. 5 in., 1 ft. 8 in., 1 ft. 9 in.,1 ft., 1 ft. 10 in., 1 ft, 2 in., 2 ft. 4 in., 1 ft. 2 in., 1 ft. 8 in. Some of the stratification planes have a black color. Near the crossing of these planes and the joints the stone weathers more rapidly than in other parts of the quarry.
All the stone in this quarry has the same general texture and color. It is a very fine grained, compact limestone, having a brownish black to very dark blue color. It is very hard and breaks with a sub-conchoidal fracture.
The major joints strike N 40° - 50° W. A minor set strikes N 55° E. These parting planes are taken advantage of in quarrying an are sufficiently far apart to permit the removal of blocks of practically any required dimensions.
The stone has been used in the basement of the new Normal school buildings and in other structures in Cape Girardeau, The dark color of the stone is in striking contrast with the nearly white "Cape marble".

The William Regenhardt Quarry

This quarry is located near the north limits of the city and is situated on one of the Mississippi River bluffs. The stone, which is known as the Thebes of Cape Girardeau sandstone, caps the hills along the river. The first stone used in Cape Girardeau was obtained from this formation.
It is a yellow, fine grained sandstone which is soft when first quarried but hardens upon exposure, the formation is about fifteen feet thick and consists of beds from three feet to six feet in thickness. When used above ground, it appears to be very durable, as shown by a dwelling built out of it in 1853. For half a century, this building has been exposed to the weather without showing any very marked evidence of deterioration. At one time, this stone was shipped quite extensively through the extremesoutheastern part of Missouri along the Mississippi River. At present very little is being quarried.
The face of the quarry is about 600 feet long and 15 feet high. It is covered with a stripping of twenty feet of loess, on account of which, it is said to have been abandoned.


Southeat Missourian - Out of the Past:

Nov. 27, 1904
Edward F. Regenhardt returns from St. Louis with six bricklayers, and now the brick work on the new Normal School building will be rushed; if the weather continues to cooperate, the building will be completed by June.
Feb. 16, 1905
In the coal famine now facing Cape Girardeau, only one man has come forward to offer relief to suffering people; that man is Ed. Regenhardt; Regenhardt, who owns a marble quarry west of town, has several carloads of screenings in storage for his mill.
June 2, 1905
Thousands of people were attracted to the Cape City Brick plant west of the Cape Girardeau late last evening by a fire which destroyed one of the buildings; the large building west of the engine house and near the Cape and Chester Railroad was in heavy flames before it was discovered; A.R. Ponder, T.M. Williams, Ed Regenhardt, E.W. Flentge, M.E. Leming and other prominent citizens directed the fire-fighting efforts with the fire chief and his men.
June 26, 1905
Ed Regenhardt breaks the small bone in his arm early in the morning; while working at his quarry, his arm is thrown against the derrick, and the bone is broken; he is now sporting a plaster cast.
Nov. 16, 1905
Edward F. Regenhardt, the contractor for the Normal School buildings, has about completed his work on the immense Academic building, which is the finest school building in Missouri; Regenhardt's work has been beyond expectations, and as the building may not be formally dedicated for some time, it is possible he will invite the public to call Sunday and inspect the structure.
Nov. 18, 1905
Edward Regenhardt, builder, says he will throw open the doors of the new academic hall at the Normal School tomorrow from 1 to 5 p.m.; he specially invites his hundreds of friends to be present and look over the building; he states, however, that if it should rain and the Normal grounds around the new building should become muddy, it won't be opened; he is at a point of turning it over to the state and cannot take the risk of having it damaged in any way.
Nov. 25, 1905
Because of the rainy weather last Sunday, contractor Edward F. Regenhardt didn't open the new Normal School building to the public as he had planned; instead, if the weather is nice, he will throw open the doors to public inspection tomorrow.
Nov. 27, 1905
Probably the greatest crowd of Girardeans to ever visit the Normal School at one time was there yesterday afternoon to take a first look at the interior of the great Academic Hall; it is believed more than 5,000 people walked the halls of the new building; the building stands as a monument to the skills of contractor Edward F. Regenhardt.
SAVED: Academic Hall. After the fire destroyed the original Normal School building in 1902, plans were quickly drawn up for Academic Hall at the same location. The legislature authorized an appropriation of $200,000, and work on the new structure began in1903. The architect for the hall was J.B. Legg, and the general contractors were Edward F. Regenhardt and C.O. Allen Maule of Cape Girardeau. The building was opened for public viewing in December 1905 and was put to use early in 1906. It has become the symbol of Southeast Missouri State University.

Dec. 15, 1905
Since the public visited the new Academic Hall at the invitation of the contractor, Edward F. Regenhardt, the upper sections of the windows in the auditorium have been filled with fine stained glass; these windows bear coats of arms and inscriptions commemorative of the history of the Louisiana Purchase, as well as men who were benefactors of education in Missouri.
Jan. 16, 1906
At last week's meeting of the board of regents of the Normal School, contractor E.F. Regenhardt turned the Academic Hall over to the school; the great building is finished, so far as Regenhardt is concerned, and all that remains to be done is completing of the heating and lighting apparatus, which will be done this week.
March 22, 1906
According to Edward F. Regenhardt, Cape Girardeau contractor, his big quarrying plant will start operation tomorrow; it has been idle for some time because of the severe weather; the department of stone trimming will begin at once, and in a short time thework in the shaft will resume; Regenhardt plans to start a new shaft just north of the present hole, filling in the old place with the refuse from the new.
April 14, 1906
E.W. Flentge, Edw. W. Regenhardt and Charles Stones of Cape Girardeau go to Jackson to attend a session of the county Republican committee.
May 1, 1906
The county court is sitting in executive session at Jackson with the courthouse building committee; they are examining bids for the courthouse; there are four bidders for the big job, including Ed Regenhardt of Cape Girardeau, Taylor & Morton of Jackson, one from Kentucky and one from Florida.
May 7, 1906
Squalls and excitement mark the regular meeting of the city council; that body finally passes the sewer ordinance, as well as a measure granting a franchise to the street railway; Edward Regenhardt, a bidder on street improvement work, demands to be heardwhen the council seems ready to accept bids lower than his.
May 30, 1906
Edward Regenhardt is a busy man; his quarry is supplying stone to several projects in other towns, including Advance, Mo., Oran, Mo., and Bradwell, Ky.
June 3, 1906
Teachers for the Juden School District have been appointed for next year; Elsie Regenhardt of Cape Girardeau will teach at Juden School, about four miles north of the city, and A.E. McGuire will have charge of the district's black school; classes will begin about Oct. 1.
June 11, 1906
Fourteen of the 27 members of the county Republican committee met at Jackson Saturday and organized; Blucher Sperling was made chairman, Edward F. Regenhardt vice chairman, Henry Puls secretary, and J.D. Porterfield treasurer.
Sept. 6, 1906
Edward F. Regenhardt has prepared a block of marble from his Cape Girardeau quarry that will be sent to J. Knox Taylor, supervising architect of the treasury and who will make the plans for the federal building which will be built in Cape Girardeau; it ishoped the government can be persuaded to use local marble in the construction of this building.
April 20, 1907
Suit has been filed in the Court of Common Pleas against M.T. Lowman & Co., of Louisville, Ky., by Edward F. Regenhardt for $450, being a claim for stone used in construction of the new county courthouse at Jackson; Regenhardt claims that the account has been due for six months or more, and that repeated attempts to collect the bill have been fruitless.
Feb. 2, 1908
The Republican county convention held yesterday at Jackson was the best attended and most harmonious meeting of the kind ever held in Cape Girardeau County; speeches were made by Judge John A. Snider, Fred Kies, E.W. Flentge, E.F. Regenhardt and L.R. Johnson; delegates and alternates to the congressional and state conventions were selected.
Feb. 8, 1908
A message from Fred Naeter, one of the publishers of The Daily Republican newspaper and a delegate to the congressional convention at West Plains, Mo., reveals that the convention chose Edward Regenhardt as one of the two delegates to the national convention, where William H. Taft is expected to be nominated as candidate for president on the Republican ticket.
July 28, 1908
Ground was broken yesterday for the foundation of The Daily Republican newspaper's new home in the 200 block of Broadway; Jerome Legg, who designed Academic Hall, is the architect for the new building, and Edward Regenhardt is the contractor.
Sept. 5, 1908
Edward Regenhardt is rushing two jobs on Broadway; The Republican building is built up to the second story, and the old Ruesskamp property is rapidly disappearing to make room for the Federal Building.
Sept. 17, 1908
E.F. Regenhardt is advertising the sale of old brick, stone, doors, rods, gutters, building wood, etc., the remains of the old Ruesskamp house he tore down to make room for the new federal building.
Oct. 6, 1908
Edward F. Regenhardt appeared before the Cape Girardeau City Council last night when he filed his bond for the construction of the new city hall, fire and police station; Regenhardt is to complete the hall within 90 working days.
Jan. 28, 1909
The concussion felt in Cape Girardeau in the morning isn't of seismic origin; the cause is simply the tumbling of big Ed Regenhardt into the basement of the new city hall building, which is under construction on Independence Street; the contractor isn't seriously injured.
March 4, 1909
At a meeting last night, a slate of candidates for an "Industrial Ticket" for Cape Girardeau municipal offices was organized; the ticket consists of Merit E. Leming for mayor; Joel T. Nunn, collector; William H. Coerver, treasurer; Robert H. Whitelaw, city attorney; Lee L. Bowman, police judge; Antone Kammer, assessor; William H. Summers, marshal, and for aldermen, Joel T. Juden, E.F. Regenhardt, Will Hirsch and David A. Glenn.
March 18, 1909
The new Duplex printing press for The Daily Republican has arrived and, as contractor E.F. Regenhardt expects to complete the foundation piers this week, arrangements have been made with the expert from the factory to be here next week to set up the machine; this will be the largest printing press in use between St. Louis and Little Rock, Ark.
May 12, 1909
JEFFERSON CITY -- The Missouri House yesterday increased the appropriation budget, passing bills that will take an additional $24,011.75 from the state treasury; among the items was $5,382 to Edward F. Regenhardt for repairs to the Cape Girardeau Normal School.
July 2, 1909
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Charles A. Crow, Edward F. Regenhardt and Harry Naeter of Cape Girardeau visit President William Howard Taft in the morning while all Cabinet officers are with the president.
Aug. 16, 1909
About 20 prominent Cape Girardeau residents responded yesterday to the call issued by Edward F. Regenhardt for a meeting to lay preliminary plans for the Taft Day celebration in October; a 60-minute program was planned, which includes an automobile drive to the Normal School, where the president will address the crowd and plant a tree.
Aug. 20, 1909
Edward F. Regenhardt, chairman of the Taft Day celebration committee, learns there will be special trains running to Cape Girardeau over two lines that day, bringing visitors from Poplar Bluff, Kennett, Campbell and Malden, Mo.

_________________________________________________
8/19/2004
Rob Lewis

St. Louis Central Public Library
Rare Book Room

Men of Affairs of St. Louis

Edward Franz T. Regenhardt

Edward Franz T. Regenhardt can be justly called the original rock ribbed Republican. His sons are named after three presidents; McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft. Cape Girardeau people hunt him out whenever they come to the U. S. Court House where he reigns, six feet six, as United States Marshal.

He is a strong, rugged man; a man who started in the Lutheran Schools and hewed his way out to success with his two hands; descendant of sturdy German stock, born March 24, 1867 at Cape Girardeau and known everywhere. When President Taft sent into Missouri to know who was wanted as U.S. Marshal, he expected a host of candidates. Some people recommended Franz, some Edward, and some Ed., but one and all gave the last name as Regenhardt; and Regenhardt got it. And since then he has earned the respect of the bench and bar for his sterling honesty, his willingness to give everyone a square deal, and his ability to make good. Up and down, sideways and across, through and through he is just what he appears to be a native born Missourian and a credit to hisstate.

This Newspaper Reference Library book, containing portraits, biographies, and cartoons of progressive men of St. Louis, who have helped in the development and history making of St. Louis

It is primarily a publisher's utility library and it's aim is to principally supply newspaper offices with a work of reference wherein it can be found, in correct from, the basic facts, from the birth down to date, regarding the lives of men of notable achievement, together with half-tones from the latest photographs and dealing with the lighter vein of each man's life, a cartoon.

Buried:
Section 3. Lot 58, Grave 2

Edward married Caroline Emilie Alvina Theuerkauf on 09 Sep 1891 in St. Mark's Lutheran Church, St. Louis, , Missouri, USA. Caroline (daughter of Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Theuerkauf and Johanna Sophia Augusta Allers) was born on 01 Jun 1865 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; died on 23 Nov 1942 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in New Lorimier Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• familyserch.org ID: LH3S-18L
• Confirmation: 2 Apr 1882, Trinity Lutheran Church, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

Died:
DATE: 6 Feb 1950
NEWSPAPER: SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN
PG. 10 COL. 1
LOCATED: Sep 1983

Mrs. Emma Weiss, 80 Dies
Rites to Be Tuesday

Mrs. Emma Weiss, 80 years old, wife of the late August Weiss, died at 11 a.m. Sunday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Malinda Kurre, 1865 Broadway, following an illness of eight months of a heart condition.
Funeral services will be conducted a 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at Hanover Lutheran Church with the pastor, Rev. Wm. Wittrock, in charge. Burial will be in Lorimier Cemetary. The body will be taken to the church at noon Tuesday from the Brinkopf-Howell Funeral Home.
Born in Cape Girardeau, April 20. 1869, she was the last of 10 children of the Wm. Regenhardt family. She was married to Mr. Weiss on July 11, 1889, and he died five years ago. They resided on a farm in the Hanover community until 11 years ago when they moved to a residence on Perry avenue. For the past two years she has made her home with her daughter. Mrs. Weiss was a life-long member of Hanover Church being confirmed on April 2, 1889. She was a charter member of the Hanover Lutheran Ladies Aid and was very active in the organization until eight months ago when she became ill.
Besides her daughter, she leaves a son, Ernst Weiss, of Cape Girardeau; two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The pallbearers will be: George Koerber, C.H. Foeste, H.A. Brinkopf, Martin Strack, August Heuer, and Hilbert Heuer.


Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 79836582

Julia married August Weiss on 11 Jul 1889 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. August (son of Georg Heinrich Theodor Weiss and Wilhelmina Lowes) was born on 27 Sep 1866 in Cape Girardeau County, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; died on 09 May 1945 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in New Lorimier Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• familyserch.org ID: 9XLK-GBM
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

ERNST REGENHARDT
Biographical Research
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 6 Feb 1892

NEWSPAPER: DAILY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
Ernst Regenhardt left this morning (2/3/92 Wednesday) for St.
Louis. He will be absent from the city 3 or 4 days.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 5 Mar 1892

NEWSPAPER: DAILY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
Ernst Regenhardt, who has been depot agent for the St. Louis,
Cape Girardeau, and Fort Smith Railway for a long time, has
tendered his resignation and will, we understand, go to St. Louis
and engage in the greenery business. Ernst is a model young man
and we wish him well wherever he may go.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 12 Mar 1892

NEWSPAPER: DAILY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
Ernst Regenhardt, who handed in his resignation as depot agent
for the St. Louis, Cape Girardeau, and Fort Smith Railway Co. in
this city only a few weeks ago, will finish up his business with
the Company today (3/8/92 Tuesday) and next week he will go to St.
Louis. The Company will not find as clever a young man for the
position soon as was young Mr. Regenhardt.

PG. 3 Col. 3:
Thursday, 3/10/92. Ernst regenhardt will leave for St. Louis
tomorrow. The Daily Democrat will visit him regularly.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 23 Apr 1892
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
LOCATED: 1983

PG. 3 COL. 2 :
Wm Paar, Adam Hoffman, and Mr. Dormeyer came in from Jackson
this morning to attend the funeral of Ernst Regenhardt.

Pg. 3 COL. 2 :
Thursday, 4/23/92. The remains of Ernst Regenhardt were
followed to their last resting place this forenoon by a host of
grief-stricken friends.

PG. 3 COL. 3 :
The floral offerings at the funeral of Ernst Regenhardt were
evidence that the young man had a host of friends. It required a
wagon to haul the flowers to the cemetery and the remains of the
noble young man now sleep beneath a wilderness of flowers.

PG. 3 COL. 3 :
Henry Regenhardt of St. Louis accompanied the remains of his
brother from that city to the Cape yesterday (Wednesday, 4/6/92).
He was at the bedside of his brother when he died.



DEATH CERTIFICATE:
Name: Ernst Regenhardt
Age: 21 yrs., 6 months
Occupation: Storekeeper
Place of Death: 1427 Benton St.
Date of Death: 18 APR 1892
Cause of Death: Purpura Haemorrhagica
Physician: C.E. Bauer, 2104 N. 14th St.
FROM: Globe Democrat, Tues, April 18, 1892, Pg. 7, Col. 3
Regenhardt - Monday 6 AM Ernst Regenhardt. Funeral from
1425 Benton Street to Union Depot, Wednesday, 6:30 AM.
FROM: Daily Democrat (Cape), 23 Apr 1892
Death of Ernst Regenhardt
The announcement of the death of the death of Ernst Regenhardt
was received here Monday evening but no particulars of the sad affair were
given in the telegram that brought the news and everybody was anxious to
learn the cause of the sudden taking of so noble a young man who left here
only a few weeks ago enjoying the best of good health for St. Louis where
he went to go into business for himself.
Not until this morning could we get any information as to the
cause of the young man's death. We were shown a telegram this
morning from Ed. Regenhardt to his father informing the family that
Ernst died from the bursting of a blood vessel. He was not sick a
day and as he lived only a short time after the bursting of the
blood vessel his suffering was of short duration. Ernst Regenhardt
was the youngest son of Mr. William Regenhardt of this city and he
was a son of whom any father could well afford to be proud of, for
a nobler young man was never born. In years he was not yet a man,
but in many ways in actions and in all that goes to make a true and
worthy man and good citizen, he was all. He was courteous, obliging,
and kind to all with whom he had any acquaintance, and we can truthfully
say that all his acquaintances were all his friends.
His death, coming suddenly and unexpected as it did, is a
terrible shock to a father who idolized him as his baby son. While
that father is bowed down with grief almost unbearable he must not
imagine that he and his family are the only ones that are mourning
the loss of this noble young man, for such is not the case. The
whole community is deeply grieved for they knew the young man and
loved him for his many and manly qualities.
The remains of the young man arrived here Wednesday evening
and his funeral took place from the residence of his father at ten
o'clock Thursday morning.

MORTURARY RECORD - City of Cape Girardeau
Page 18
31. Ernst Regenhardt
D.O.D. - 18 Apr 1892
Interment - 21 Apr 1892
Age - 20 years 8 months 18 days
Locality of Death - Cape
Cause - Purpues Hemorrhage
Physician - Bomer
Cemetary - Lorimier Lot 79, Grave 8


Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 8005603

https://www.capegenealogy.org/books/DeathCapeCountyBookA1882_1911.pdf - Entry #631

findagrave.com memorial # 8005603

Section 2 Lot 79 Grave 6

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• familyserch.org ID: 9N3P-BWY
• Confirmation: Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

Christened:
Trintiy Lutheran Church

Died:
Died of convulsions - Trinity Lutheran Church records

Buried:
Section 2, Lot 79, Grave 7

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• familyserch.org ID: 9V98-NXV
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

1910 Census

Name Elsie Ragenhardt

Age in 1910 21
Birth Date 1889
Birthplace Missouri
Home in 1910 Cape Girardeau Ward 2, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
Sheet Number 22a
Street Broadway
Race White
Gender Female
Relation to Head of House Roomer
Marital Status Single
Father's Birthplace Missouri
Mother's Birthplace Missouri
Native Tongue English
Attended School Y
Able to read Y
Able to Write Y
Enumeration District Number 0022
Enumerated Year 1910
Neighbors View others on page
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
George H Drew 43 Head
Annie M Drew 45 Wife
Marjorie V R Drew 9 Daughter
Ruth M Drew 7 Daughter
Elsie Ragenhardt 21 Roomer
Olga Ragenhardt 16 Roomer


1920 Census

Name Elsie Pollack
Age 31
Birth Year abt 1889
Birthplace Missouri
Home in 1920 Long Beach, Los Angeles, California
Street E 7th St
Residence Date 1920
Race White
Gender Female
Relation to Head of House Wife
Marital Status Married
Spouse's Name Walter Pollack
Father's Birthplace Missouri
Mother's Birthplace Missouri
Able to Speak English Yes
Able to read Yes
Able to Write Yes
Neighbors View others on page
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Walter Pollack 31 Head
Elsie Pollack 31 Wife
Martin Pollack 1 Son

CA Voter Registration
D=Democrat R=Republican

Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA
1922
Polack, Mrs. Elsie W, hswf, 525 Dawson av, R
Polack, Walter A, gas com emply, 525 Dawson, R
1924
Polack, Mrs. Elsie W, hswf, 1635 Gardenia av, R
Polack, Walter A, employed by gs co, 1635 Gardenia av, R
1926
Polack, Mrs. Elsie W, 1635 Gardenia av, hswf, R
Polack, Walter A, 1635 Gardenia av, cty emply, R
1928
Polack, Mrs. Elsie W, 1635 Gardenia av, hswf, R
Polack, Walter A, 1635 Gardenia av, clrk, D
1930
Polack, Mrs. Elsie W, 1635 Gardenia av, hswf, R
Polack, Martin, 1521 Crescent Hts blvd, stdnt, R
Polack, Walter A, 1635 Gardenia av, clk, D
1932
Polack, Martin W, 546 Westmount dr, R
1934
Polack, Mrs. Elsie W, 1635 Gardenia av, R
Polack, Martin W, 546 Westmount dr, R
Polack, Walter A, 1635 Gardenia av, , D
1936
Polack, Mrs. Elsie W, 1635 Gardenia av ……………housewife, R
Polack, Walter A, 1635 Gardenia av ………………… repairman, D
1938
Polack, Mrs. Elsie W, 1635 Gardenia av ……………housewife, R
Polack, Walter A, 1635 Gardenia av ………………… repairman, D

1942
Polack, Mrs. Elsie W, 1635 Gardenia av ……………housewife, R
Polack, Martin R, 1635 Gardenia av……………………….printer, D
Polack, Walter A, 1635 Gardenia av ………………… repairman, D
1944
Polack, Mrs. Elsie W, 1635 Gardenia av ……………housewife, R
Polack, Martin R, 1635 Gardenia av……………………….printer, D
Polack, Walter A, 1635 Gardenia av ………………… repairman, D
1946
Polack, Mrs. Elsie W, 1635 Gardenia av, R
Polack, Martin R, 1635 Gardenia av, D
1948
Polack, Mrs. Elsie W, 1635 Gardenia av, R
Polack, Martin R, 1635 Gardenia av, D
1950
Polack, Mrs. Elsie W, 1635 Gardenia av, R
Polack, Martin R, 1635 Gardenia av, D
1952
Polack, Mrs. Elsie W, 1635 Gardenia av, R
Polack, Martin R, 1635 Gardenia av, D
1954
Polack, Mrs. Elsie W, 1635 Gardenia av, R
Polack, Martin R, 1635 Gardenia av, D


Cape Republican Newspaper: June 3, 1906
Teachers for the Juden School District have been appointed for next year; Elsie Regenhardt of Cape Girardeau will teach at Juden School, about four miles north of the city, and A.E. McGuire will have charge of the district's black school; classes will begin about Oct. 1.



Christened:
Lutheran Church Records:
Born: 2 NOV 1888
Baptized: 30 DEC 1888
Child: Elsa Wilhelmine Regenhardt
Parents: Fred Regenhardt, Johanna Ackenhausen
Sponsors: David Roth, Wilhelmine Stoffregen

Trinity Lutheran Church

Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 143589667

Sunny Slope Lawn, Section 2, Lot 1526, Grave 3

Elsa married Walter Arthur Polack on 25 Nov 1914 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States. Walter (son of Rev. William Gustav Polack, Jr. and Emilie Tinnappel) was born on 04 Aug 1888 in Dudleytown, Jackson County, Indiana, United States; was christened on 10 Aug 1888 in Seymour, Jackson County, Indiana, United States; died on 14 Apr 1945 in 1635 Gardenia, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA; was buried in Rose Hills Cemetery, Whittier, Los Angeles County, California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• familyserch.org ID: KLDV-355
• Created: 02 Oct 2014

Notes:

Sex of this child is unknown.

Buried in same lot as his/her great grandfather, Henry Dormeyer and his second wife, Fredericka. Per City of Cape Girardeau New Lorimier Cemetery burial records.

Henry's first wife, Charlotte Immerman was the infant child's great grandmother by her previous (and first) marriage to Karl Mohnkopf.

Died:
https://www.capegenealogy.org/books/DeathCapeCountyBookA1882_1911.pdf - Entry #542

Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 8008201

Section 2, Lot 86, Grave 8. Buried in same lot as his/her grandfather, Henry Dormeyer.

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• familyserch.org ID: 9V98-NXL
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

1910 Census

Name Olga Regenhardt
Age in 1910 16
Birth Date 1894
Birthplace Missouri
Home in 1910 Cape Girardeau Ward 2, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
Sheet Number 22a
Street Broadway
Race White
Gender Female
Relation to Head of House Roomer
Marital Status Single
Father's Birthplace Missouri
Mother's Birthplace Missouri
Native Tongue English
Attended School Y
Able to read Y
Able to Write Y
Enumeration District Number 0022
Enumerated Year 1910
Neighbors View others on page
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
George H Drew 43 Head
Annie M Drew 45 Wife
Marjorie V R Drew 9 Daughter
Ruth M Drew 7 Daughter
Elsie Ragenhardt 21 Roomer
Olga Ragenhardt 16 Roomer


CA Voter Registration
D= Democrat R=Republican
Los Angeles City Precinct 504
1922
Beal, Mrs Olga W, hswf, 2019 Orchard av, R
Beal, Selah R, printer, 2019 Orchard av, R
1924
Beal, Mrs Olga W, hswf, 2019 Orchard av, R
Beal, Selah R, prntr, 2019 Orchard av, R
1926
Beal, Mrs Olga W, hswf, 2019 Orchard av, R
Beal, Selah R, printer, 2019 Orchard av, R
1928
Beal, Mrs Olga W, 2019 Orchard av, hswf, R
Beal, Selah R, 2019 Orchard av, mlbrrr, R
1930
Beal, Mrs Olga W, 2019 Orchard av, hswf, R
Beal, Selah R, 2019 Orchard av, mailman, R
1932
Beal, Mrs Olga W, 2019 Orchard av, , R
Beal, Selah R, 2019 Orchard av, R
1934 - Not available
1936
Beal, Mrs Olga W, 2019 Orchard av……….housewife, R
Beal, Selah R, 2019 Orchard av………………mail carrier, D
1938
Beal, Mrs Olga W, 2019 Orchard av……….housewife, R
Beal, Selah R, 2019 Orchard av………………mail carrier, D
1940 – Not available
1942
Beal, Mrs Olga W, 2019 Orchard av……….housewife, R
Beal, Selah R, 2019 Orchard av………………mail carrier, D
1944
Beal, Mrs Olga W, 2018 Ellendale pl……….housewife, R
Beal, Selah R, 2018 Ellendale pl …………………mailman, D
1946
Beal, Mrs Olga W, 2018 Ellendale pl, R
Beal, Selah R, 2018 Ellendale pl, D
1948 – Not available
1950
Beal, Mrs Olga W, 2018 Ellendale pl, R
Beal, Selah R, 2018 Ellendale pl, R

1952
Beal, Mrs Olga W, 4526 Paulhan av, R
Beal, Selah R, 4526 Paulhan av, R


findagrave.com memorial #100423600


Christened:
Trinity Lutheran Church

Buried:
Plot: Resthaven, Lot 156

Olga married Selah Rollin Beal on 18 Apr 1915 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States. Selah was born on 14 Sep 1886 in Trufant, Montcalm County, Michigan, United States; died on 19 Sep 1961 in Highland Park, Los Angeles County, California, USA; was buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Los Angeles County, California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• familyserch.org ID: 9NLZ-QQN
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

Buried:
New Lorimier Cemetery

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• familyserch.org ID: 9NLZ-QQJ
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

Southeast Missourian - Out of the Past:

June 15, 1934
The Regenhardt Construction Co. of Cape Girardeau is the low bidder in Jefferson City on the contract letting for construction of a bridge over the Black River at Poplar Bluff, Mo., on U.S. 60; the firm's bid was $65,800.
Jan. 15, 1952
William M. Regenhardt, 57, contractor and native of Cape Girardeau, died last night in St. Louis hospital; head of Regenhardt Construction Co., he moved his family to Mount Vernon, Ill., 19 years ago, as many of firm's contracts were in Illinois.
Dec. 5, 1955
Regenhardt Construction Co. of Cape Girardeau was the award winner for a $1,027,518 highway paving project in three parts of Madison County, Illinois.

Buried:
Section 3, Lot 41, Grave 5

William married Eola Marguerite Scheppelmann on 12 Oct 1921 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Eola (daughter of Henry Martin Scheppelmann and Lola Freemire) was born on 24 Oct 1897 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was christened on 14 Nov 1897 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; died on 14 Jun 1980 in Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois, United States; was buried in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• familyserch.org ID: LV7N-968
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

Died:
MORTUARY RECORD - City of Cape Girardeau
Page 30
179. Bertha E. Regenhardt
D.O.D. - 26 Dec 1898
Age - 3 years 2 months 18 Days
Place of Birth - Sprigg Street (home of parents)
Locality of Death - Cape
Cause - Pleura Pneumonia
Physician - Porterfield and Rolstin
Cemetary - Lorimier Lot 79, Section 2
assume she was originally buried there. Her name is not listed on
the tombstone on William's lot. Edward F. did not purchase his
cemetary lots until 21 April 1913. Perhaps Edward moved her body to his lot at a later date.>
Interment - 28 Dec 1898
Sexton - Chas Rueseler

Buried:
Buried in her grandfather's (William Regenhardt) lot: Section 2, Lot 79, Grave 1 or 8. Unmarked grave.

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• familyserch.org ID: LCD7-BZW
• Confirmation: 16 Apr 1916, Trinity Lutheran Church, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

April 10, 1957
Acquisition of a site for the new St. Andrew Lutheran Church is announced by Luther Hahs, temporary chairman of the congregation; the four-acre tract secured fronts 416 feet on Kingsway and is just north of the Alvarado; the lot was acquired from Freeman Lewis and T.R. Regenhardt.
-Southeast Missourian Newspaper

Postmaster - Cape Girardeau, Missouri:
Theodore R. Regenhardt Acting Postmaster 05/03/1957
Theodore R. Regenhardt Postmaster 05/28/1957
Russell J. Fowler Officer-In-Charge 04/03/1970
Russell J. Fowler Postmaster 03/20/1971

THEODORE R. REGENHARDT
Biographical Research

DATE: 29 Dec 1900
NEWSPAPER: DAILY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
A thirteen pound boy. That was the Ed Regenhardt's Christmas
present this morning (12/26/00), and Ed is as happy as a boy with
his first pair of pants.


FROM: Record of Births - City of Cape Girardeau

454. NAME: Regenhardt, Theodore Rossevelt
LOCALITY: Sprigg St.
DATE: Dec. 26, 1900 Wednesday
RESIDENCE OF PARENTS: Sprigg St. - Cape
ATTENDING PHYSICIAN: J.D. Porterfield

Southeast Missourian - Out of the Past

Jan. 11, 1954
Figures released by County Collector Ted Regenhardt show county residents and corporations poured $1,097,488.11 into their school systems, county government and miscellaneous adjuncts in taxes they paid during final three months of 1953.
Dec. 5, 1955
Regenhardt Construction Co. of Cape Girardeau was the award winner for a $1,027,518 highway paving project in three parts of Madison County, Illinois.
July 6, 1956
Ted R. Regenhardt, former Cape Girardeau County collector of revenue, has been advanced to the eligible list for the Cape Girardeau postmastership; Regenhardt joins Kenneth Cruse and U.G. Pettigrew on the list of candidates.
March 4, 1957
WASHINGTON -- President Eisenhower nominates 172 postmasters; among the nominations sent to the Senate is that of Theodore R. Regenhardt of Cape Girardeau.
April 10, 1957
Acquisition of a site for the new St. Andrew Lutheran Church is announced by Luther Hahs, temporary chairman of the congregation; the four-acre tract secured fronts 416 feet on Kingsway and is just north of the Alvarado; the lot was acquired from Freeman Lewis and T.R. Regenhardt.
May 4, 1957
Cape Girardeau's new postmaster, Ted R. Regenhardt, was officially sworn in and assumed his duties yesterday afternoon; he succeeds A.S. Reed, acting postmaster.
Aug. 15, 1957
The General Services Administration has notified Postmaster Ted Regenhardt that bids will be received in Kansas City on Aug. 29 for an old-fashioned, hand-fired coal furnace to be installed in the Cape Girardeau post office.
Sept. 25, 1957
Cape Girardeau County and postal officials say they will join efforts for an overpass for Hopper Road at the point where it now is proposed to sever the road into two sections without a connecting link by the planned interstate highway; Postmaster Ted Regenhardt says mail service into the area will be substantially hampered if there is no overpass.
Dec. 11, 1957
Postmaster Ted Regenhardt announces that bids for remodeling and repairing the Cape Girardeau post office from roof to basement, at a cost expected to be well in excess of $100,000, will be opened Dec. 27 in Kansas City.
March 29, 1958
A large highway contract and a smaller one, both in Illinois, will be started shortly by the combined Potashnick and Regenhardt firms of Cape Girardeau; the main job is to be in Jefferson County at Mount Vernon, and will be on highways 37 and 15; the project calls for 10 miles of right of way grading, bridges and concrete pavement.
Oct. 23, 1958
Postmaster Ted Regenhardt announces two highway post offices and two tractor-trailer trucks will expedite mail service in to and out of Cape Girardeau upon cessation of service by Frisco night passenger trains; the rolling post offices will operate out ofSt. Louis and Memphis, Tenn, meeting at Sikeston, Mo.; the tractor-trailer trucks will move between the two large cities, receiving pouches at the various stops on the way.

April 21, 1959
Postmaster Ted Regenhardt has been notified by the General Services Administration that budgetary limitations will delay installation of air conditioning in the post office at Cape Girardeau.

April 2, 1970
Retired as Postmaster (date from Alice Regenhardt Lewis 27 July 2011)

Theodore Roosevelt Regenhardt 101 S. West End Blvd. Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Date of Birth Dec. 26, 1900. Application for Postmaster
No. 5

Recommend purchase of all supplies

I believe an explanation is necessary here as to why I an listing work in the canal zone and in the States under item no 5. 1 spent a part of both years in the canal zone and apart in the states. The work I performed both years in the canal zone as of a similar nature, as was the work I did in the states which was as follows:


Was superintendent of all materials which went into the construction of prisoner of war camps. Supervised at the peak employment load approximately 300 men. Was responsible for the securing of materials, unloading saw yard, loading and hauling to job sites. Worked with Army Engineers in securing materials.

No. 6

Jan 1938 to Nov. 1941 Superintendent of Construction

Wm. McK. Regenhardt, Vice Pres.

Lexington, Ky.

Regenhardt Construction Co. Construction Co.
H & H Building, Cape Girardeau

4 Foremen, 4 mechanics, timekeeper, bookkeeper. Offered better job.

Supervised the construction of concrete highways and earth levees. Purchased materials and supplies. Assisted in making up bids on jobs.


ACTIVITIES

Red Cross County Chairman 1 year
Official Church Board 15 years
Old McKendree Church board of Trustees 5 years
Southeast Missouri Hospital Board of Trustees 1 year
Civil Defense Welfare Director 3 years
Masonic Lodge 32 years
Scottish Rite 6 years
Shrine 6 years



March 1947 to March 7, 1955 County Collector

Collection of taxes for the State of Missouri, County of Cape Girardeau and The Little River Drainage District. Directly responsible for the collecting and disbursement of monies in the average amount per year of $ 1,100,000.00 to the various political subdivisions.


1946 Campaigned for the office of County Collector


1945, Jan. 11, Discharged from Navy and re-employed by McCarthy Bros. Constructions Co. as a superintendent of Levee Construction.

1943 Nov, to Jan 11, 1955 Naval Reserve in engineer corps, Boot camp, Camp Peary Virginia. To New York 30 days Stevedore school, ordered after completion of school to Hawaii, attached to 20th stevedore regiment,



1941 Dec. 9 to Nov. 1943 Employed by McCarthy Bros. Construction Co. in Panama Canal Zone as Superintendent of Construction, France Field Airport, roads, powder magazines. Employed in the states as foreman of materials in the construction of prisoner of war camps.


1938 1941 Employed by Regenhardt Const. Co. as Superintendent in the construction of roads and levees.


1935 1938 Bought newspaper distributing agency Cairo, Ill. and worked for the city of Cairo, building streets.


1921 1935 Started with father in the paving construction business at Poplar Bluff, MO


1920 Sept to 1921 May School State College Cape Girardeau, Mo.


1919 June to 1920 Aug. Worked in Detroit, Michigan making tires U.S. Tires Co. and on Bldg. Construction


1914 to 1919 Worked after school and on Saturday at the Cape
Girardeau Republican which was changed to the Southeast Missourian Newspaper. Had charge of carrier boys and mailing room



Sponsors: August Weiss, Wilhelm Oberheide, Lizzie Vasterling, Emma Ackenhausen

Buried:
Find A Grave Memorial #

Section 3, Lot 58, Grave 5

Theodore married Lois Alline McNeely on 31 Mar 1923 in Bride's Home, Leemon, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Lois (daughter of John Thomas McNeely and Jemima Jane Stevenson) was born on 05 Oct 1897 in Parent's Home, Leemon, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States; died on 05 Feb 1990 in Chateau Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in New Lorimier Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• familyserch.org ID: LHSW-DXC
• Residence: El Cajon, San Diego County, California, United States; 1957 - 1985; Address:
  1174 E. Main, #103 Winchester Drive
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

After marrying Wilma Harrison in 1986, it seems they could not find the right place to live.

Between 1985 until his death in 1996, they moved to retirement coumunities in the Southern California cities of Hemet, Escondido, San Marcos, and finally at 5580 Aztec Dr, Apt 108 in La Mesa.

Edward Taft Regenhardt
1908-1996
Memoirs
Written early 1995
Chapter 1
It all began on 2 April 1908 in a home close to the Normal Quarry where my father obtained the
stone for the Academic Hall that he finished in 1906 and two other buildings all on the college
campus.
Like my two brothers, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, I too was given the name of a
president, Taft. And I was named after a man who became president as I was born on 2 April and
Taft was not elected until November 1908. The same was true for my older brother, William.
On October 26, 1909, President Taft was on his way to a Deep Waterways Convention to be held in
New Orleans October 30 to November 3. Because the flotilla of 14 boats was passing Cape
Girardeau around 5:00 AM no stop was planned. An executive committee with my father as
chairman went to Washington. They convinced the President to stop in Cape Girardeau.
At 4:00 AM when the fleet passed Neelys Landing north of Cape, the telephone operator rang all the
phones giving all customers a 2-hour notice that the president was coming.
The Miller’s 101 Ranch Wild West Show was in Cape at that time and they broke out all the
cowboys and Indians, including William Cody (Buffalo Bill), winner of a Congressional Medal of
Honor. In the parade from the riverfront to the college campus, my father and J. H. Himmelberger
rode in the car with the president. I was told that my mother brought me out to the parade route
and the president kissed me! What makes this so remarkable is that the population was
approximately 8500.
After a speech on the college campus my father joined the flotilla along with Fred Naeter and W. N.
Harrison going to New Orleans as delegates to the convention.
Soon after the Deep Waterways Convention President Taft appointed my father as U. S. Marshall in
St. Louis. We moved to St. Louis first on Cleveland Avenue and later out to Jennings. On
Cleveland Avenue we were close to Shaw’s Garden. I was told later I wasn’t happy going there as I
thought the prone statue of Mr. Shaw was actually Mr. Shaw.
While in Jennings my father would take me to the office once in a while. I remember lunch at the
Gem Restaurant where my father and his cronies had a table reserved every working day. I
remember one lunch on my father’s birthday. He had ice cream from I. Ben Miller’s in Cape sent up
for the occasion. If you never had any of I. Ben Miller’s you missed a wonderful treat. My best
buddy’s (Chester Brown, who retired from the Allied Chemical Corporation as Chairman of the
Board) father was in charge of the plant so we had lots of free ice cream.
During our last year in Jennings I started my schooling, which lasted one day. They teased me and
when I got home I told my mother I was thru with school. Since I was so young my mother said
OK.
When my father was no longer the U. S. Marshall we moved back to Cape to a rental house on
North Street. The house was on the north side of the street, the 2nd house west of the Frederick
Street intersection.
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At this time my sister Norma had a teaching certificate and was teaching the 7th grade at the
Washington School. On the first September when we were in Cape, my mother one morning got
me up and dressed me in my Sunday clothes. I asked what the occasion was and my mother said
I was going to start school. I replied that I was not. This stalemate lasted some time until my
father appeared at the door with a switch in his hand. About halfway up the hill I agreed that I would
go to school. The Uhls lived on the corner just east of our place and every time I saw her (Helen
Uhls), she would relate the story of my father, me, and the switch.
When my father awoke each morning, my mother was at his bedside with his clothes for the day
and helped him dress. I thought that this was a good way to start the day, so when I got married I
tried the routine with my Irish wife. What worked for a German wife, didn’t work for an Irish wife!
While at school I remember riding a friend’s bicycle. Ben Miller’s bike, son of the ice cream man. I
was showing off, riding without holding the handlebars. I crossed the intersection of a dead-end
street when a rural mail carrier entered the intersection in a Model T Ford. He hit me broadside and
didn’t turn his wheels as he thought he might run over me. He didn’t know that my belt was hooked
over the crank and my head was the first thing to hit the curb. Took a few stitches at the time, but
in the late forties I started having double vision. An eye doctor put me on a program to correct the
vision and also said that I must have had a severe blow to the head.
I finally reached the 7th grade, and had my sister as my teacher. At the time I had a paper route
and when she had contests for selling tickets to some benefit I always won the contests, which
really disturbed her. Finally left the 7th grade and went to Central High School. Was there for six
weeks when the study hall teacher and librarian resigned to get married. Who got her job? Sister!
Going back to my paper route, it was during World War I. Since there were no radios or TVs the
people got their news by newspaper extras. We were called at all hours day or night, from
classrooms, our beds to sell extras. On the Armistice signing I sold over 100 papers in three
blocks.
My brother Bill was in the Navy during the war.
The story told me was that during World War I a neighbor of ours on Themis Street told my father
that all German Americans should be deported. With a son in the Navy, my brother Bill, this
statement upset my father. He reached out, grabbed the front of Mr. Taylor’s coat, raised him up to
dad’s eye level and told him what he thought of the remark and then lowered him back to the
ground. I understood he was as white as a sheet and I am sure he never repeated the remark
again.
As I grew older, every day my father became more of a hero to me. But it wasn’t until my great
nephew, Rob Lewis, started to send me information about my father that I realized how wonderful it
would have been to have all of that information when I was a teenager.
He wasn’t only successful in two diverse businesses, but had time to perform civic duties for his
city, state, and nation. Not many sons can say that a President of the United States bestowed a
nickname on their father. President Taft called him the “Lighthouse of the Mississippi”.
During my youth I had the pleasure of enjoying steamboating.
On Wednesday and Saturday the steamboat would arrive from St. Louis laden with cargo and
passengers. Each afternoon they had an excursion to Commerce, Missouri. Good food, dancing,
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etc. We could board the boats on a trip to St. Louis. Stateroom Wednesday night, three wonderful
meals on Thursday, stateroom Thursday night. Off the boat in St. Louis early Friday. All for $4.86.
Each Spring the excursion boats would stop over on their annual trip from New Orleans to the upper
Mississippi River. The same was true for the showboats. On their way back to New Orleans they
would stop again each Fall.
After my father returned to Cape after his job as U.S. Marshal, he became associated with the
Harrison family in paving streets and highways.
Each summer while in high school I worked for my father. In Poplar Bluff we roomed together. One
day the Ku Klux Klan had a parade and rally. I missed the parade but went to the rally. At the rally
I picked up some literature about the Klan. When my father saw it I thought he was going to beat
me. But he firmly told me if I ever brought anything like that again I would suffer the consequences.
I never did!! I also worked in Kennett, Chaffee, and my father’s first state highway job between
Millersville and Fredericktown on Route 9.
Graduated from High School in May, 1925. That year my father had a stroke and instead of going
to college in Rolla, I stayed home and went to the Teacher College in Cape. My father passed
away May 12, 1926. That Fall I enrolled at the Missouri School of Mines in Rolla, where I received a
B.S. Degree in Civil Engineering in 1930.
While at MSM I joined the Grubstaker Club and when they became part of the Triangle Fraternity
System, I became a charter member and served as President in my Senior year. Each summer I
worked with my brothers on paving highways. In fact, during my senior year they paved U.S. 66
from Rolla to Cuba, Missouri. That summer, while working by the fairgrounds, a circus arrived. The
teamsters had trouble controlling their horses when the elephants went by. Also at noon, just when
all the teams were at the feed wagon, they started playing the calliope. We spent the most of the
afternoon rounding up the horses.
At the Missouri School of Mines St. Patrick’s weekend was the school event of the year, as it was
at all engineering schools, as St. Patrick was an engineer. At Rolla, St. Patrick, a junior, arrived on
a railroad handcar. A big parade followed. Each fraternity tried to outdo each other with their float.
During the weekend St. Pat would knight all Seniors. During the ceremony you had to kneel to kiss
the Blarney Stone (a ceramic model of a woman’s breast). Since there were only ten females they
got by with it. I am sure with the large increase in female students they use another Blarney Stone.
Since there was a scarcity of females at MSM and Rolla, too, most of the fellows had their
hometown sweethearts as their guest that weekend. All fraternity houses were turned over to the
girls with chaperones. Students bunked where they could - private homes, motels, etc.
Thursday night all of the fraternities have an open house dance, they staggered the hours. Some
would start at 8:00 PM. some at 9:00 PM, 10:00 PM until all were open. I remember each home
dance lasted 2 hours. On Friday night there was a Masquerade Dance at the gym with a nationally
known band. One year I remember Coon and Saunder’s band played. Saturday nite was the Junior
Prom, a formal dance, with the same band. When the train left at noon, it wasn’t long before most
of us were in our own beds getting some much needed rest.
The first year at the Missouri School of Mines I roomed with Mr. And Mrs. Cook. My roommate,
also from Cape, was Dennis Miller. Our room was on the ground floor. Upstairs also from Cape
were Clarence Weiss and Paul Weber, graduate students in chemistry.
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One night I yelled out and either Clarence or Paul said what was wrong. Dennis replied that a bed
bug had bitten my toe.
The next morning I came to my room about 10:30 AM and Mrs. Cook had our bed stripped down to
the box springs. One look at me and she knew we had tricked her. Left in a hurry and didn’t come
back until the storm had passed.
Clarence Weiss was brewmaster for Mr. Smith who had a pool hall in Rolla. Since this was during
the days of Prohibition, home brew was quite popular. Clarence got half of each batch he brewed.
One Saturday night when the Cooks were away for the weekend, Clarence had what we called a
beer bust. Home brew, sausage, limburger cheese, etc.
The next morning I was the first to leave the house to go uptown for my breakfast. When I got back
and opened the front door you can’t imagine the odor. I aroused everyone and we opened all the
windows. It helped, but not enough. The Cooks let us know that this was not to happen again. We
concurred!
Up Route U.S. 66 from Rolla there is a town called Bourbon. The State had a trout hatchery and
the Von Hoffman Press Company had a lodge for their employees and customers. On a Sunday
when there was a chance of rain we would put on our yellow slickers and Mrs. Cook would drive use
to Bourbon and the hatchery.
When there, one of us would kneel down, shielded by the rest of us and get two trout, one for each
pocket. We all took turns. Believe it or not. Later, Mrs. Cook cleaned all the fish and fed us a fish
dinner.
In May 1930, I received a B. S. degree in Civil Engineering. I had a job offer from the Chicago
Sanitary District, but Mother convinced me that I should go to work with my two brothers in the
Regenhardt Construction Company, which I did. While with the company I was Assistant
Superintendent on a highway bridge across the Black River in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. When we put
the steel beams and tied them together, they raised up on one side about 1/2 inch. After checking
our piers they decided that the rolling mill had barely stayed within the rolling tolerance. We ended
up putting lead shims under each beam.
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Chapter 2
Another thing that enters my mind. In the early 30’s we had no contract. At the time W. H.
Harrison had allied himself with a dentist from Kansas City who had purchased some property from
the county on the road between Cape and Jackson on which to build Memorial Park Cemetery. I
took a crew over and did the grading and built the roads. Since my mother and sister where in
Colorado while Sis went to summer school, I pitched a tent on the property.
I had taken Sleepy and Rosie Chapman, a black couple, to the project. Rosie became our cook.
At lunch one day on of the farmers we had hired for the grading with their teams asked Rosie where
she got the corn on the cob we were having for lunch. She replied that Mr.Eddie went to town early
that morning to buy it. She possibly was talking to the farmer that had the corn patch where she
had picked it.
When I graduated from college I thought that men who wore woolen underwear were sissies. That
Fall we extended our paving season quite a bit. I had rented a room that had no central heating
system or indoor plumbing. Getting up at about 4:30 am was really an experience. I would shudder
when I looked at that pile of clothing I had to put on each day. Being outdoors for 14 hours, it didn’t
have to be too cold for it to bother you.
After getting up and making my trip to the outhouse and then going to a cafe with Bill Porter that
was just opening and the owner was just getting the heating stove going . . . I was in woolen
underwear real quick!!
Since I was in charge of covering the concrete with burlap my days were longer than the rest of the
crew. Concrete doesn’t set up fast in cold weather. Usually my days were 14 to 15 hours long. All
for $1800 a year.
Following are some more memories of my years with the family company:
On one job we had a labor dispute between 2 counties. To protect ourselves supervisors worked 36
hours on, 12 off. We also had a deputy sheriff, who was a rather small man. Each evening after we
shut down, our Black water boy, Foxy cleaned out the drum of the paver. One evening our small
deputy put on a white sweater of mine. Then we turned off the gas supply to the light in the drum
that Foxy was using. In a short time he came out to see what happened. Then he heard the
moans coming from bushes on the side of the road. It was the sheriff in my sweater with no head
showing and long white arms. One look and our water boy (Foxy) was on his way to the camp. He
never cleaned the drum after that.
On our job between Jackson and Fredericktown we had our first fatal accident. One of the laborers
jumped off a truck while it was moving. He, with several others, came from the same community in
a truck. When the owner of the truck was notified, at his request we put the body in the truck. We
covered it with a tarp and finished the day’s work. In another accident near Compton, IL, a laborer
got off a moving truck and hurt his head. Ted took him to a doctor in Compton who had an
operating room. Ted was standing close to the table when the doctor cut the skin on the head.
Blood got on Ted.
A short time later Ted started having problems and he thought he caught a venereal disease from
the blood. He later found out that when he had colitis, some organs had dropped down, causing his
problem.
Going back to our first highway contract: We had trouble with people driving thru our barricades.
Bill put some tacks on the pavement one evening in front of the barricades. The first person to enter
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was a district highway engineer. Our water boy, Foxy, at a safe distance, got on his knees and
imitated Bill picking up tacks and apologize to the engineer at the same time as Bill was.
Another Foxy story. He was very touchy, especially if somebody goosed him. On day he was
walking with Bill carrying about a half a pail of water when somebody touched him. Up went the
bucket and came back down on Bill’s head. All hell broke loose.
One night in our camp the laborers were shooting dice when Sleepy Chapman shot and killed
another laborer because the laborer was too friendly with Sleepy’s wife Rosey. He ran all the way
to Bill’s house while Bill was on his way out to the camp. He later was put in jail. When the time
came for a trial, the defense lawyer would get a continuance. Then Bill and Ted would fire some of
the witnesses. After this went on a few times the case was dismissed because of the lack of
evidence. Sleepy was one of the cement finishers and was the best I ever saw. He was a valuable
asset to the company. If Bill Porter had trouble with the paver he would yell for Sleepy.
One time we were approaching a bridge so the burlap truck would have to travel the county road to
get past the bridge. One day I fired my truck driver and drove the truck myself with a laborer sitting
on a pile of burlap on a flat bed truck as we headed around the bridge. On a county road my front
wheels had just cleared a bridge when it collapsed. When I realized I wasn’t going to turn over I
looked back and my laborer was on some burlap and swimming like hell in just enough water to get
a little wet.
When my father went from construction of buildings to highway construction he bought a fleet of
trucks named Hug. Hug was the name of a highway contractor that saw the need of a specialized
truck for paving highways.
In the early days dry batches of concrete were hauled to the construction site where the mix was
added to water in the drum of a paver. Each truck hauled two batches.
The Hug trucks had a lifetime guarantee on the chassis. Every two years we would take the dump
beds off and pull out the motors. The motors were sent to the Buda Co. for overhaul. Hug would
send in a crew to tighten all loose rivets, replace them when necessary, as well as any other part of
the chassis that was defective.
The trucks were assembled in Highland, Illinois where I went many times to pick up spare parts.
On one of my visits a truck had just come off the assembly line. It was to be used in a quarry
operation and it had 12 speeds forward and 7 in reverse. If my memory is not faulty I think my
father paid about $4500.00 for each truck. There was not a shiny piece of metal or a windshield on
the trucks. The gas tank was under the driver’s seat and a missing gas cap often caused blisters,
you know where.
When Dad started on road paving he had a crew that handled the bags of cement. Instead of an
hourly wage they got so much for each bag of cement used. This included emptying the railroad
cars, placing the required number of bags on each truck and the emptying of the bags at the paver
site.
This reminds me that at Poplar Bluff our cement was in cloth bags. Each bag had to be shaken to
garner all of the cement. That was my first job that summer. Every hour or so my father would
open the door to the shed and ask how I was doing. My pride kept me from stating my real
feelings. Fortunately after a few hours he gave me another job to do.
In the early days the employees were black with the exception of machine operators and
supervisors. A camp was set up to house the black employees.
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During the off-season the employees could get money to tide them over to the new season, when
they paid it back. We had very little turnover from season to season. Many Saturday nights we
had to bail out an employee after his wife had charged him with domestic violence.
We also set up a tent for gambling. Many Saturday nights I spent the entire night with the Blacks
shooting dice. If you haven’t heard a Black talking to the dice you missed part of the folklore of the
Blacks. On the other hand, if my luck was not good I got home early.
Regenhardt Construction Company

Original mechanics, machine operators, and supervisors:

Charles Cole - Head bookkeeper
Gene Andrews - bookkeeper
Charles Kassel - Master Mechanic
Walter Frenzel - Assistant Mechanic
Frank Merritt - Assistant Mechanic
Jack Quill - Crane Operator
Earl Conroy -
Hubert Morrison - Blade Operator
Bill Porter - Paving Superintendent
Bob Phillips - Paver Operator
- Form trenching machine
- Form setter
- Form setter
- Finishing Machine
Sleepy Chapman - Concrete Finisher

Notes on above employees and equipment:
Charles Kassel was the finest mechanic I have ever known. He could do blacksmith work, welding, and
work on both diesel and gas engines.
When we purchased the Form Trenching machine it replaced 10 to 15 laborers
A social note:
While going to the Cape Teacher’s College, I dated Hortense Bagby. Her father was named Lee.
At Rolla the following year I became involved with the school physician’s daughter, Helen Baysinger.
Her father’s name was Lee. On to Compton and Mendota where I met and dated Helen Butler. Her
father’s name was Lee. 3 H.B.’s and 3 Lee’s!!!
Another thing that has bothered me is that my father was a brick and stonemason and had built
numerous homes in Cape Girardeau and SE Missouri. I can’t figure out why he didn’t build one for
his family. Until his death and shortly thereafter when my mother bought a house (at the
intersection of Luce and West End Boulevard on the northwest corner) I had lived in rented houses.
During the 1930’s I left the company as it became impossible to work with Bill. Shortly after Ted
also left for the same reason. For the next few years I had a newsstand and soda fountain in
Effingham, Illinois. I next worked for the Illinois State Highway Department and W.P.A.
In 1940 I got a job with the Federal government with the Quartermaster Corp. of the Army building a
powder plant on U.S. 66 south of Joliet known and the Kankakee Ordinance Works. When that job
was finished the colonel in charge took six of us as key employees to start construction of a new
plant in Clinton, Indiana close to Terre Haute.
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Chapter 3
In the late 20’s or early 30’s Dwight F. Davis, donor of the Davis Cup in tennis, ran for Senator from
Missouri as a Republican in the state primary. My father was his campaign manager. I am sorry to
say he lost.
When I was trying to get a Commission in the Civil Engineering Corps of the Navy Mr. Davis was
Secretary of War. I wrote to him asking for his assistance in getting my commission. Received a
terse reply - Army yes!! Navy no!!
In January of 1943 I applied for a Commission in the Civil Engineering Corps of the U. S. Navy for
service with the Seabees (Construction Battalions). I was turned down for being overweight at 286
pounds. In May they accepted me at 230 pounds with a 42-pound waiver. Lost 56 pounds in 5
months.
In June I was sent to Camp Peary, VA for indoctrination. The indoctrination and later training was to
prepare you for the rigors, trials, and tribulations for duty on some island in the war zone. After my
indoctrination and further training I got a set of replacement orders. The order stated that I was to
join the 49th Construction Battalion wherever it may be. When I showed the orders to a Yeoman in
the headquarters he said I would get a new set of orders. This new set sent me to the Seabee
Base in Davisville, Rhode Island for outfitting for duty on Island X.
Three days later I left there with two wooden crates about 5 feet long and about a foot square on the
way to Baltimore. There I reported to the Port Director who put me on a ship headed for my Island
X.
On arriving on my Island X I opened my crates. I had mosquito netting, pup tent, machete, carbine
rifle ammunition and sundry other items. I couldn’t figure out how I would use these on my Island X,
which was Bermuda!!!
When I reported to my battalion skipper he assigned another officer to get me settled in our BOQ.
He said on departing that he would pick me up a little early for dinner as they were having a party.
At the appointed time we entered the Wardroom. From the door I could see a long table covered
with beautiful white line tablecloths on which were elegant silver pitchers, etc. Booze flowed like
water, with some wonderful snacks. This was my Island X.
The next day the skipper called me into his office and asked me if I had ever unloaded cargo from a
ship. I replied that the first ship I had been on was the one I arrived on. He said good, your extra
duties will be as stevedore officer.
While there we built a large warehouse, small piers, and numerous other structures.
On unloading ships I was first assigned on the graveyard shift. At those hours I had to eat in the
enlisted men’s mess. I found out that they were eating like kings. The Commissary chief was from
a large catering firm in Boston and really knew what good food was.
During the Christmas holidays our Battalion sponsored a Dinner Dance. Our chef closed out the
dinner with a desert called Baked Alaska.
When our tour ended in Bermuda I was assigned as an Equipment and Transportation Officer.
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Just before our departure our skipper advised me that at 5:00 AM, I would report to the Pilot Shack
in the Harbor and accompany the Pilot out to the ship. On board I was to figure out our loading
diagram to speed our loading so that we could sail before the submarine nets were closed.
The ship didn’t show up until 2:00 PM, which made it impossible to load before the nets were
closed.
I had to follow orders and went out with the pilot. When we reached the side of the ship the crew
threw down a Jacob’s ladder. This ladder is made up of two ropes and wooden steps. One minute I
was against the ship - the next minute I was out over the ocean. The fact that I couldn’t swim made
this a terrifying experience and I am sure if you could find that ladder you can find my fingerprints
imbedded in the ropes.
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Chapter 4
Leaving Bermuda we went to the Seabee base in Davisville, Rhode Island. Although I had only been
with the Battalion four months, I was granted a thirty-day leave. Before departure about five couples
agreed to meet in New York about a week before going on to Davisville.
While in New York we went to Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe, Leon and Eddie’s, Rockefeller
Center, the Music Hall, Statue of Liberty, and various other attractions.
While in New York, I had a reunion with Ted and Lois as Ted was going to the Stevedore School.
Some months later they discovered that Ted had TB and they released him from duty after a stay in
the Navy Hospital in Oakland, California.
On Memorial Day, another officer and yours truly picked 250 men each and participated in a parade
in a small town (can’t remember the name). When the first unit reached a cemetery all the bands
played a funeral dirge. It took a while to march to the new beat.
While at Davisville we rented a room in the caretaker’s house on this small Rhode Island estate.
Mr. Porter lived in the big house with two ladies and one man. One of the ladies was the
housekeeper and the other one was the cook. The man was Butler and Chauffeur. Mr. Porter’s late
wife was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and had turned their home in
Providence over to the DAR as a museum.
We started getting invitations to the big house for dinner. Later on we found out that Mr. Porter
could have more drinks when he had company. Alone they let him have one drink.
Jymme started having bridge parties in the gazebo.
One time Mr. Porter took us down to the docks and told the captain of a fishing boat he wanted
some clams. A peck of little neck clams was placed between us and we started shucking and
eating clams on the half shell. I think I liked them better than oysters.
Right down the street a family had a stand between the sidewalk and curb. Here you could get
clam chowder, clam cakes and pie. All very delicious. From the summer proceeds they wintered
in Florida.

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Chapter 5
Left Davisville, Rhode Island for Camp Parks in California. After an uneventful stay in September of
1944 went to Port Hueneme, CA for shipping out to Guam.
Our major project on Guam was building the housing facilities for Admiral Nimitz’ Advance
Headquarters. The 94th NCB built the Administration buildings.
When the 49th NCB left for Guam in September 1944 we had approximately 1,500 personnel. The
average age was 38 years. We had master plumbers, electricians, carpenters, mechanics, etc.
who were in their 60s. Being associated with all of this talent was the high point of my Navy career.
When a battalion would leave a base on deployment many of the disbursing officers (Supply Corps
Officers) would lock the safes. We had an enlisted man that never failed to open a locked safe.
Good thing he was honest.
When we setup camp on Guam on of my Chief Petty Officers asked me where I wanted the paint
shop. I replied that with all the brand new equipment why a paint shop? The chief replied that when
the equipment would need painting all of it would need it at the same time. It goes without saying
that we immediately started painting brand new equipment.
Later on the commanding called me to his office he congratulated me on my foresight. I told him he
was patting the wrong person on the back and told him about my chief petty officer. The C.O. later
commended the chief. While we are talking about painting, when we checked our manifest we had
one two and on-half ton truck that was not on the manifest. I didn’t think it important so I never
informed the C.O. Believe it or not it was one of the first items painted. Later on I was summoned
to the C.O.’s office. He asked me if we had an excess truck. When I replied yes sir, another voice
said I told you some S.O.B. had stolen my truck. After a reprimand I was dismissed. Sure glad to
leave that office.
Especially during one phase of my life I was very lucky.
At the time I entered military service I was a civilian employee of the Federal government. When I
entered the military the law, that applied to my volunteering stated that all the time I was in uniform
Uncle Sam would put in my donation for Civil Service retirement. As a result, I worked as a civilian
for 18 years and with my ten years in the military I got credit for 28 years on my civilian retirement.
Luck number one:
After I was released from active duty in November 1945 I went to work with the Corps of Engineers
in Chicago and lived in Chicago.
In 1948 I moved to Des Plains, Illinois and stated going to a neighborhood bar owned by a former
Seabee. One night he advised me that the Navy was starting a Reserve program and if we earned
50 points a year, after 20 years we could get our retirement. You earned your points by going to
meetings of a Reserve Unit, active duty, correspondence courses, and training duty. In fact the bar
owner was establishing a Reserve Unit in Des Plains. I joined and in May of 1950 I had two weeks
training at Great Lakes. Shortly thereafter I was called back to active duty and was on active duty
until June 1957.
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Luck number two:
After getting out of uniform in 1957, I returned to civilian employment with the Navy. I joined a
Reserve Unit and had some training duty. When I finally had my 20 years, it was the last year I
would be eligible in rank. I am now on my second quarter of a century in retirement (2/25/96).
Luck number three.
On Guam I was introduced to different types of food, such as breadfruit, Land Crab, and Fruit Bat. I
passed on the bat. The first one I saw in Guam had a wingspan of over two feet. They had one at
the Wild Animal Park near Escondido. Recently I read in the paper that they were in short supply
and they were importing them from the Philippines. They are a gourmet item. I ate some Land
Crab and they tasted like coconut, which they could crack, open with their claws.
Being 6’ 3’’ in height I had trouble with my Jeep on Guam. The canvas top kept beating me on the
head. I posed my problem to mechanics in our shop. They solved the problem by taking the gas
tank from under the driver’s seat and dropping the seat. A gas tank from a Japanese vehicle was
hooked on the back of the Jeep. They raised the top and raised the drivers side more that the
passenger side. It goes without saying that I got a lot of double takes from people I passed with a
6’3”, 240 pound driver and the Jeep slanting toward the passenger side.
While on Guam I met two officers on Admiral Nimitz’ staff and we became real good friends.
One of the officers was Vaughn Paul, in civilian life as assistant director at Metro - Golden - Mayer
studios, and the other, Chuck Wheeler, was a cameraman at the Disney Studios. At the time we
met Vaughn Paul, he was married to the musical star Deanna Durbin and during our tour on Guam
they were divorced.
Later on as an officer escort I picked up two nurses with the Army Command and brought them to
our battalion wardroom for a party.
One of the nurses was a red haired Irish gal who prior to the war was living in St. Louis with her
brother who was a priest. Her name was Ethna Higgins. Can’t remember the name of the other
nurse.
After extolling their virtues and beauty to Chuck and Vaughn, I arranged a double date. This
relationship lasted all the time we were together on Guam. After the war I got word that Vaughn had
married Ethna and they had a daughter.
In my office in Chicago the phone rang and when I answered a female voice started giving me a line.
I finally gave up and she said she was the other nurse on Guam. She was on her way to Denver,
but was held over in Chicago because of a bad storm in Denver.
Jymme and I met her for dinner and found out she quit the nursing profession and was modeling. At
the time she was the Revlon girl. She later married an air force officer she met on Guam and then I
lost contact.
About four years ago Wilma and I had lunch in the LA area with Chuck and Vaughn. Chuck lives in
La Quinta and Vaughn lives in the Palm Springs area.
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Chapter 6
When the war was over I went to work with the Army Corps of Engineers in Chicago located in the
Merchandise Mart. We couldn’t find an apartment so we stayed in the Paxton Hotel on La Salle for
about three years. We then bought one half of a two-story duplex in Des Plains, Illinois and
commuted to work on the Northwest Railroad. This railroad is the only left-hand railroad in the U. S.
as it was built by British interests.
The couple that bought the other half had a son about four and gave birth to a daughter, who is my
Goddaughter. She and her husband, a doctor, live in Farmington, Missouri and he has an office in
Cape Girardeau.
After I returned to civilian life in the late 40s my brother Bill bought my stock and Ted’s stock in the
Regenhardt Construction Company. Up to the time of Bill’s death he had paid the 8 per cent
interest, but no principal. After his death we had an attorney, Rush Limbaugh, to find out about the
status of our stock. He informed us that Bill had left a note saying he was sole owner of the
company and that it was too late to do anything about it. I have wondered what our shares would
have been worth when the company was sold.
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Chapter 7
In 1950 I was called back to active duty. Sold our duplex and reported to Port Hueneme, California
for further indoctrination. When that was over I was assigned to MCB 103. Since I was the senior
officer at the time I had the duty of organizing a new battalion.
When organized we went to the Aleutian Islands on a Top Secret project. The scientists were
going to put off the first underground nuclear shot. After about five months they realized we were
about five years ahead of the scientific planning and we returned to the states.
As I was operation officer for our tour I had to write a report on our operations. I was then assigned
as the courier to deliver the report to Task Force Headquarters in Washington, DC
Since the report was marked Top Secret, I had to be awake at all times or turn it over to a
command en route, who would give a receipt. When I landed at the McCord Air Force Base they
would not take my pouch. They finally called a navy base on Pier 13 in Seattle, Washington. They
even sent a car for me. I spent the weekend in Chicago visiting friends after I turned over the pouch
at my office I had worked in. On Monday, I arrived in Washington, DC where I got rid of the pouch
permanently. Since I had written the report I couldn’t understand all the Top Secret stuff.
On returning to the states I was given a special assignment for the Department of Defense on Tinian
in the Mariana group of islands.
After the war, the Interior Department had developed a Leper colony on Tinian and it was built by the
Seabees. When we arrived, my enlisted men, 35 total, occupied the facilities used by the Seabees
when they established the colony. I had handpicked these 35 men from the MCB 103. A battalion
on Guam gave me logistic support, such as cooks, clerks, etc. The only qualms I had when I had
to go to the Leper Colony for booster shots.
Leprosy was very strange as a family lived together with the exception that children under twelve
were not permitted to live with the families. Leprosy is only contagious the first 12 years, with the
exception of blood-to-blood contact.
From Tinian I was assigned to the Seabee base in Gulfport, Mississippi as Planning Officer. The
base was just reopening after World War 2. After a short time the Officer-in-Charge of the
construction equipment depot went on inactive duty and I was transferred to that billet.
Our mission was to maintain in readiness all the equipment needed by the Seabees on a
deployment. It entailed testing equipment arriving from the manufacturer and then keeping it in a
fully operational status. This included jeeps, trucks, cranes, shovels, steel pontoons, well drilling,
water purifiers, etc.
On Easter Sunday 1955 we had over 8 inches of rain in 6 hours. In Mobile in the same period of
time they had over 12 inches. My concern on the Base was that the water could get deep enough
to enter the filling pipes for the oil. Fortunately this didn’t happen.
Every month we started all engines and ran them to full operating temperatures. This dissipated all
the moisture in the crankcase. The Bureau of Yards and Docks directed that we drain all
crankcases and replace the regular oil with preservation oil. When I inquired why, they said that at
the facility in Davisville, Rhode Island, an inspection of some of the equipment had shown rust on
the bearings. I surmised they hadn’t reached operating temperature. To keep from dropping
crankcases to look for rust we got some medical equipment to go down the filler pipe and we could
detect any rust.
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When my tour was up I was transferred to the 12th Naval District, Public Works Office, as the
Planning and Design officer. To me they had scraped the bottom of the barrel to assign me as a
design officer since my entire career had been in construction.
In this billet I realized that you could handle any job if you could analyze your subordinates. Some
of my department heads - I could accept any of their decisions without any qualms. On the other
hand some of them I had to go behind their back to get the right answer from one of their
subordinates.

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Chapter 8
On June 30, 1957 I was released from active duty and found a position as Project Manager in the
District Public Works Office in the 11th Naval district, San Diego. Two projects stand out in my
mind as very interesting.
Number 1 - Dredging of San Diego Harbor
In the late 1950’s the Navy announced that super carriers such as the Kitty Hawk would be berthed
in San Diego. These ships needed a 42’ draft and the harbor was 35’.
Our office designed a new pier just inside of the harbor at Ballart Point. The ships would be berthed
port side so they could get to the ocean in a short time.
The city fathers saw the advantages of a 42’ depth harbor and convinced the Navy to use an existing
pier at the NAS, North Island with a 600’ wide channel to a 1200’ turning basin in front of the pier.
This we did.
Then what to do with the dredging material. The Port Commission of San Diego said they would
take it, if the Navy would build an island to their plans. This we did and now San Diego has Harbor
Island.
Number 2 - Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona
Normally our office was only concerned with the construction of the building and the Navy supply
department bought all the equipment. For some reason or the other the entire project was awarded
to our office.
This meant buying the mirror, 60” in diameter, having it ground and polished, designing the
telescope and all control equipment and having it built. I worked with quite a few noted scientists
and astronomers. Very proud of the fact that Dr. Strand, director of the Naval Observatory in
Washington, DC gave me credit in his publication concerning the Flagstaff facility.
The man in charge of the Inspection Department in the Construction Division retired and I was able
to get the position. I was responsible for furnishing all of the resident officers in charge of
construction an inspection group to fit his needs. We also assisted all of the resident officers in
seeing that all projects were built to government specifications. We also reviewed all projects being
submitted by the bases to the Bureau of Yards and Docks.
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Chapter 9
Retired from Civil Service and then the Reserve program of the military. I was able to retire on my
60th birthday in 1968.
In retirement Jymme and I traveled from coast to coast, and Hawaii and New Zealand.
Lost my Jymme in 1985 after 52 years of wedded bliss.
In 1986 I married Wilma Harrison. I am a very fortunate man as I hit the jackpot twice!! In addition
to traveling in the USA Wilma and I took an Alpine tour - Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France,
and Italy.
In closing I can truthfully say that I had an outstanding professional career and a wonderful private
life. As I look back, day-by-day I realize I had wonderful parents. My father has always been my
hero and my faith is strengthened each day when I review his many accomplishments in the
professional field and the political arena. To me the Academic Hall of the college is a monument to
my hero, my father. The top of his gravestone is in line with the dome of the Academic Hall. My
mother above all things taught me about good food. To me she was the most wonderful German
cook to trod this earth. She also taught me good manners, right from wrong, and many other things
to enhance my life.

Residence:
Safari Mobile Lodge

Died:
Edward Regenhardt

Edward T. “Tiny” Regenhardt, 88, of San Diego, Calif., died Thursday, Aug. 22, 1996.

He was born April 2, 1908, in Cape Girardeau. Son of Edward F. and Alvina Regenhardt. He and Ferne Fowler were married Sept. 17, 1933 in Cape Girardeau. She died Aug. 10, 1895. He then married Wilma Harrison oct. 3, 1986, in Yuma, Ariz.

Regenhardt was a graduate of Central High School and the University of Missouri at Rolla. He was in the construction business several years with his father and brothers. He began a career as a civil engineer with the U.S. government in 1940.

He served in World War II and the Korean War, and then was a civil engineer at the Naval District Office in San Diego. He was a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve when he retired in 1968 from civil service and the reserve.

Survivors include his wife, and a stepson, Steven Harrison of San Diego.

There was no service. His ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean west of San Diego. A grave marker for him and his first wife is in the Regenhardt family lot in New Lorimier Cemetery in Cape Girardeau.


Buried:
Memorial Marker - New Lorimier Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Missouri - Section 3 lot 41 grave 3

Remains cremated and scattered at sea - Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego.

Edward married Ferne Margaret Fowler on 17 Sep 1933 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Ferne was born on 21 Jun 1905 in , Bollinger County, Missouri, USA; died on 10 Aug 1985 in El Cajon, San Diego County, California, United States; was cremated . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Wilma Cornelia Mason on 03 Oct 1986 in Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona, USA. Wilma was born on 03 Feb 1918 in Potosi, Taylor County, Texas, United States; died on 15 Feb 2006 in San Diego, San Diego County, California, United States; was cremated in San Diego, San Diego County, California, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Obit: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Oc-rVwKPngoC&dat=19640822&printsec=frontpage&hl=en - page 2

Funeral at St. Andrew Lutheran Church, Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Birth:
Hannover community

Died:
Mrs. Melinda Kurre

Mrs. Melinda Kurre, 73 years old, 1865 Broadway, died this morning in a Cape Girardeau hospital after an illness of six months.
The body Is at Brinkopf-Howell Funeral Home where friends may call after 7 tonight. Services will be held at 2.30 Sunday afternoon in St. Andrew Lutheran Church, to which Mrs. Kurre belonged. The Rev. Victor Grimm will offic iate and burial will be in Lorimier Cemetery.

Living here since April, 1942. Mrs Kurre belonged to St. Andrew's Women's Guild, Lois Circle and the adult Bible class.
She was married April 9, 1916. to August L. Kurre, who died June 8, 1933. A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Weiss. Mrs. Kurre was born Dec. 18, 1890, in the Hanover community.

Survivors are a son, Clarence Kurre, and a daughter. Mrs. Ruth Edwards, both of Cape Girardeau, and six grandchildren.

Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 7601664

Malinda married August Ludwig Kurre on 09 Apr 1916 in Cape Girardeau County, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. August (son of August John Kurre and Mary Elizabeth Huber) was born on 13 Jan 1886 in Cape Girardeau County, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; died on 08 Jun 1933 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in New Lorimier Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 8111653

Section 5, Lot 161, Grave 7

Family/Spouse: Emma Arnetta Kurre. Emma (daughter of August John Kurre and Mary Elizabeth Huber) was born on 17 Feb 1895 in Cape Girardeau County, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; died on 18 Jun 1952 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in New Lorimier Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1950 Census


Name Martin R Polack
Age 31
Birth Date abt 1919
Gender Male
Race White
Birth Place California
Marital Status Never Married (Single)
Relation to Head of House Son
Residence Date 1950
Home in 1950 Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA
House Number 1635
Dwelling Number 25
Farm No
Acres No
Occupation Printer
Industry Job Printer
Occupation Category Working
Hours Worked 40
Worker Class Own Business
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Elsie W Polack 61 Head
Martin R Polack 31 Son

Find A Grave Memorial# 148526814


Buried:
Sunny Slope Lawn, Section 2, Lot 1526, grave 1

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1910 Census

Name Elsie Regenhardt
Age in 1910 21
Birth Date 1889
Birthplace Missouri
Home in 1910 Cape Girardeau Ward 2, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
Sheet Number 22a
Street Broadway
Race White
Gender Female
Relation to Head of House Roomer
Marital Status Single
Father's Birthplace Missouri
Mother's Birthplace Missouri
Native Tongue English
Attended School Y
Able to read Y
Able to Write Y
Enumeration District Number 0022
Enumerated Year 1910
Neighbors View others on page
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
George H Drew 43 Head
Annie M Drew 45 Wife
Marjorie V R Drew 9 Daughter
Ruth M Drew 7 Daughter
Elsie Ragenhardt 21 Roomer
Olga Ragenhardt 16 Roomer

1936 LA City Directory: r 2019 Orchard Ave. (at home with parents)
1937 LA City Directory: Telephone oerator r 2019 Orchard Ave. (at home with parents)

1940 Census:

Name: Elsie Smolich
Respondent: Yes
Age: 24
Estimated birth year: abt 1916
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: California
Marital status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Home in 1940: Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Street: Orchard Avenue
House Number: 2019
Inferred Residence in 1935: Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Residence in 1935: Same House
Resident on farm in 1935: No
Sheet Number: 10B
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: High School, 4th year
Weeks Worked in 1939: 0
Income: 0
Income Other Sources: No
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Edward Smolich 28
Elsie Smolich 24


Birth:
in the California Birth Index, 1905-1995

Name: Elsie M Beal
Birth Date: 18 Mar 1916
Gender: Female
Mother's Maiden Name: Regenhardt
Birth County: Contra Costa

Elsie married Edward Thomas Smolich on 21 Mar 1937 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States. Edward was born on 23 Feb 1912 in Aurora, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States; died on 31 Aug 2000 in Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elsie married James W. Lamparter on 03 Aug 1968 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States. James was born on 27 Jan 1915 in , , Pennsylvania, USA; died on 10 Mar 2017 in Van Nuys, Los Angeles County, California, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1930 Census

Name: Virginia Beal
Birth Year: abt 1919
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: California
Marital status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Home in 1930: Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
Map of Home: View Map
Street address: Orchard Ave.
Ward of City: x
Block: 72
Institution: Flat Bldg L 1-L. 13
House Number: 2019
Dwelling Number: 331
Family Number: 480
Attended School: Yes
Able to Read and Write: Yes
Father's Birthplace: Michigan
Mother's Birthplace: Missouri
Able to Speak English: Yes
Household Members:
Name Age
Selah R Beal 43
Olga Beal 36
Elsie Beal 14
Virginia Beal 11
Mildred Beal 7


Died:
California Death index 1905-1939

Name: Virginia L Beal
Birth Year: abt 1919
Death Date: 19 Jun 1937
Age at Death: 18
Death Place: Los Angeles, California, USA

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Mildred married Harry Glenn Van Loon on 31 Dec 1942 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States. Harry was born on 31 Oct 1917 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States; died on 12 Feb 1985 in Palm Desert, Riverside County, California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William M. "Bill" Regenhardt Jr., 87, of Mt. Vernon, died 10:25 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011, at St. Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital in Mt. Vernon.

He was born Saturday, July 12, 1924, in Cape Girardeau, Mo., the son of William McKinnely Regenhardt Sr. and Margaret (Scheppleman) Regenhardt. He married Linda Williford on May 8, 1979, in Mt. Vernon, and she survives.

He is survived by his wife, Linda Regenhardt of Mt. Vernon; two sons, Jim Regenhardt and wife Doris of Edwardsville and Tim Regenhardt and wife Kristi of Mt. Vernon; four daughters, Sandra King and husband Ed of St. Charles, Mo., Amy Amann of Northeast, Pa., Carol Ambrosuis and husband Ron of Cypress, Texas and Katy Briggs and husband Randall of Argenta; a step-daughter, Tami Reid and husband Rick of Corinth, Texas; a brother, Joe Regenhardt and wife Mary Alice of Cape Girardeau, Mo.;16 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.

His parents; two brothers, Tom and Bob Regenhardt; a son-in-law, Timothy Amann; and one granddaughter, Rachel Amann, preceded him in death.

Bill attended Purdue University until the beginning of World War II, at which time he entered the United States Armed Services. He served in the U.S. Army as a Second Lieutenant under General George S. Patton, participating in both the Normandy Invasion and the Battle of the Bulge. During his Army service he was awarded the distinguished Purple Heart.

Upon his Honorary Discharge of the U.S. Army, Bill attended Southern Illinois University, completing a degree in mathematics. After graduating from Southern Illinois University Bill returned to Purdue where he graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. After graduating from Purdue, he worked for his father, the late William McKinley Sr., in the construction industry. Upon his father’s death, Bill stepped in to represent the Regenhardt family interest (including his mother’s) in Regenhardt Construction Company, which was owned by both the Regenhardt and Harrison families. At that time the company continued to grow its interest in highway construction and quarrying operations. In 1958, Regenhardt Construction Company became associated with R.B. Potashnick Company. At that time, the company became known as D.L. Harrison, R.B. Potashnick Company. Bill continued working for this venture until 1966. During that time, Bill was responsible for constructing many miles of the new Interstate system.

In 1967 the Regenhardt and Harrison families started Southern Illinois Asphalt, an asphalt contracting company based in Mt. Vernon. Bill became president of the new company, and during his tenure he completed various projects related to infrastructure and commercial development in Southern Illinois, including various sections of the Interstate system. Included in his career, Bill was involved in the purchase of a concrete pipe company located in Mt. Vernon. During this time, Bill was also instrumental in manufacturing the first precast box culverts in the State of Illinois. During this same period, Bill and his partners were involved in the development of rock quarry operations in Buncombe and Cape Girardeau, Mo. Bill continued in this capacity until the families of companies were sold in 1992, at which time he announced his retirement.

During his career, Bill was very involved with industry associations. This included serving as President of the board for the Illinois Asphalt Paving Association. In addition, he served as a board member of King City Federal Savings and Loan, a bank also located in Mt. Vernon. Bill was very involved with community service. His accomplishments include serving as a board member for the Mt. Vernon Township High School Board, member of the YMCA Century Club, Rend Lake Foundation board member, Illinois Societyof Professional Engineers, member of the American Legion Post 141, and Mt. Vernon Oakwood Cemetery Board. He was an avid golfer, a member of the Mt. Vernon Elks Association Post 819, and attended First United Methodist Church in Mt. Vernon.

Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Monday at Hughey Funeral Home in Mt. Vernon, with Mr. Randy Sells officiating.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Hughey Funeral Home.

Interment will be at Oakwood Cemetery in Mt. Vernon. A flag presentation will be performed by Ernie Collins, Chaplain of the Mt. Vernon American Legion Post 141.

For those who wish, memorials may be given to the Oakwood Cemetery or First United Methodist Church and will be accepted at the funeral home or mailed to Hughey Funeral Home, P.O. Box 721, Mt. Vernon, Illinois 62864.

Arrangements have been entrusted to the care of Hughey Funeral Home, where you may call 242-3348 or visit www.hugheyfuneralhome1969.com for further information and to send condolences.

Died:
William M. "Bill" Regenhardt Jr., 87, of Mt. Vernon, died 10:25 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011, at St. Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital in Mt. Vernon.

He was born Saturday, July 12, 1924, in Cape Girardeau, Mo., the son of William McKinley Regenhardt Sr. and Margaret (Scheppelman) Regenhardt. He married Linda Williford on May 8, 1979, in Mt. Vernon, and she survives.

He is survived by his wife, Linda Regenhardt of Mt. Vernon; two sons, Jim Regenhardt and wife Doris of Edwardsville and Tim Regenhardt and wife Kristi of Mt. Vernon; four daughters, Sandra King and husband Ed of St. Charles, Mo., Amy Amann of Northeast, Pa., Carol Ambrosuis and husband Ron of Cypress, Texas and Katy Briggs and husband Randall of Argenta; a step-daughter, Tami Reid and husband Rick of Corinth, Texas; a brother, Joe Regenhardt and wife Mary Alice of Cape Girardeau, Mo.;16 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.

His parents; two brothers, Tom and Bob Regenhardt; a son-in-law, Timothy Amann; and one granddaughter, Rachel Amann, preceded him in death.

Bill attended Purdue University until the beginning of World War II, at which time he entered the United States Armed Services. He served in the U.S. Army as a Second Lieutenant under General George S. Patton, participating in both the Normandy Invasion and the Battle of the Bulge. During his Army service he was awarded the distinguished Purple Heart.

Upon his Honorary Discharge of the U.S. Army, Bill attended Southern Illinois University, completing a degree in mathematics. After graduating from Southern Illinois University Bill returned to Purdue where he graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. After graduating from Purdue, he worked for his father, the late William McKinley Sr., in the construction industry. Upon his father’s death, Bill stepped in to represent the Regenhardt family interest (including his mother’s) in Regenhardt Construction Company, which was owned by both the Regenhardt and Harrison families. At that time the company continued to grow its interest in highway construction and quarrying operations. In 1958, Regenhardt Construction Company became associated with R.B. Potashnick Company. At that time, the company became known as D.L. Harrison, R.B. Potashnick Company. Bill continued working for this venture until 1966. During that time, Bill was responsible for constructing many miles of the new Interstate system.

In 1967 the Regenhardt and Harrison families started Southern Illinois Asphalt, an asphalt contracting company based in Mt. Vernon. Bill became president of the new company, and during his tenure he completed various projects related to infrastructure and commercial development in Southern Illinois, including various sections of the Interstate system. Included in his career, Bill was involved in the purchase of a concrete pipe company located in Mt. Vernon. During this time, Bill was also instrumental in manufacturing the first precast box culverts in the State of Illinois. During this same period, Bill and his partners were involved in the development of rock quarry operations in Buncombe and Cape Girardeau, Mo. Bill continued in this capacity until the families of companies were sold in 1992, at which time he announced his retirement.

During his career, Bill was very involved with industry associations. This included serving as President of the board for the Illinois Asphalt Paving Association. In addition, he served as a board member of King City Federal Savings and Loan, a bank also located in Mt. Vernon. Bill was very involved with community service. His accomplishments include serving as a board member for the Mt. Vernon Township High School Board, member of the YMCA Century Club, Rend Lake Foundation board member, Illinois Society of Professional Engineers, member of the American Legion Post 141, and Mt. Vernon Oakwood Cemetery Board. He was an avid golfer, a member of the Mt. Vernon Elks Association Post 819, and attended First United Methodist Church in Mt. Vernon.

Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Monday at Hughey Funeral Home in Mt. Vernon, with Mr. Randy Sells officiating.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Hughey Funeral Home.

Interment will be at Oakwood Cemetery in Mt. Vernon. A flag presentation will be performed by Ernie Collins, Chaplain of the Mt. Vernon American Legion Post 141.

For those who wish, memorials may be given to the Oakwood Cemetery or First United Methodist Church and will be accepted at the funeral home or mailed to Hughey Funeral Home, P.O. Box 721, Mt. Vernon, Illinois 62864.

Arrangements have been entrusted to the care of Hughey Funeral Home, where you may call 242-3348 or visit www.hugheyfuneralhome1969.com for further information and to send condolences.

William married Dorothy M Jeffery on 19 Jan 1946 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States, and was divorced in 1978. Dorothy was born on 09 Oct 1923 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States; died on 05 Apr 2014 in Maryville, Madison County, Illinois, United States; was cremated . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Funeral service for Robert Gene Regenhardt of Las Vegas, Nev., will be held at 2 p.m. today at Hughey Funeral Home in Mt. Veron, Ill. The Rev. Robert Freytag will officiate, with burial in Mt. Vernon Memorial Gardens.

Regenhardt, 63 years old, died Friday, Nov. 23, 1990 in his home.

He was born Dec. 12, 1926, in Cape Girardeau, son of William McKinley and Margaret Scheppelman Regenhardt.

Regenhardt was a retired heavy equipment operator, and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

Survivors include two sons, William Regenhardt of Las Vegas, Robert Westhall of Atlanta, GA.; a daughter, Kelly Stubbs of Las Vegas; three brothers, William Regenhardt of Mt. Vernon, Thomas Regenhardt of Herrin, Ill., Joe Regenhardt of Cape Girardeau, and six grandchildren.

Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1

Name: Robert G Regenhardt

Residence Date: 1993
Address: 1525 Fremont St # 237
Residence: Las Vegas, NV
Postal Code: 89101-5611
Second Address: 1525 Fremont St # 237
Second Residence: Las Vegas, NV
Second Postal Code: 89101-5417
Third Residence Date: 1988
Third Address: 120 N 13th St Apt 2
Third Residence: Las Vegas, NV
Third Postal Code: 89101-4382

Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2

Name: Robert Regenhardt
Birth Date: 12 Dec 1926
Address: 500 S 13th St Apt 13
Residence Place: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Zip Code: 89101-7238

Robert's remains were later moved to Oakwood Cemetery in Mt. Vernon.

U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 on ancestry.com
Name: Robert G Regenhardt
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 12 Dec 1926
Death Date: 23 Nov 1990
SSN: 327220981
Enlistment Branch: NAVY
Enlistment Date: 31 Jul 1944
Discharge Date: 9 Jun 1946
Page number: 1

Buried:
Originally buried in Mt. Vernon Memorial Gardens. Reinterred in Regenhardt lot in Oakwood Cemetery, Mt. Vernon.

Robert married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Margie Drew Page on 8 Mar 1963 in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, United States, and was divorced on 25 Apr 1968 in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, United States. Margie was born on 03 Jul 1931 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, United States; died on 22 Feb 2017 in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Jean Helen Fickas on 12 Dec 1971 in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, United States, and was divorced about 1976 in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gaunt of 411 South 18th street, today revealed the marriage of their daughter, Phyllls to Thomas Regenhardt, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Regenhardt of 1818 Isabella avenue. The marriage took place June 3rd in Paducah, Ky. - Mt. Vernon Register-News, 6 Aug 1964, page 15.

Obituary

Thomas Edward Regenhardt, 69, of Herrin, Ill., died Monday, August 3, 1998, at the Shawnee Christian Nursing Center in Herrin.

He was born August 15, 1928, in Mendota, Ill., Son of William and Margaret Sheppleman Regenhardt. He married Phyllis “Cookie” Gilbert-Grear Regenhardt.

Regenhardt was a 1951 graduate of Southern Illiniois University in Carbondale. He then worked for the McGraw Construction Co.

After the death of his father he joined his brothers and Don Harrison in the Regenhardt Construction Company.

In January 1961 he became president of Southern Illinois Stone Co. at Buncombe. He was elected president of Missouri Limestone Producers Association in January 1975.

When he retired in 1992, he was president of Southern Illinois Stone Co., vice president of Southern Illinois Asphalt Co., treasurer of Southern Illinois Materials Co. and Southern Illinois Concrete Products Co., vice president of Southern Illinois Pre-Cast Concrete Co., and secretary of Southeast Missouri Stone Co. in Cape Girardeau.

Regenhardt was a member and past trustee of First Presbyterian Church in Herrin, member of Vienna Masonic Lodge 150, Valley of Southern Illinois Scottish Rite, Ainad Shrine Temple, Williamson County Shrine Club, Marion Elks Lodge 800, member and past president of Williamson County Motor Patrol.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Janet Thaxton of Boston, Mass., Joann Putney of Freeport, Ill; a son, Mitchell Regenhardt of Phoeniz, Ariz., a stepdaughter, Diane Regenhardt of Jackson, Mo.; two stepsons, Paul Grear of Herrin, Todd Grear of Mobile, Ala.; two brothers, William Regenhardt of Mt. Vernon, Ill., Joe Regenhardt of Cape Girardeau; four grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother.

Friends may call at Van Netta Funeral Home in Herrin from 5-8 pm Thursday, and Friday from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church in Herrin. A Masonic service will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday.

Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the church, with the Rev. Jack Siebert officiating. Burial will be in Eastlawn Cemetery at Herrin.

Thomas married Phyllis Ann Gaunt on 03 Jun 1944 in Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, United States. Phyllis was born on 11 Nov 1928 in Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois, United States; died on 08 Feb 2010 in Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Joe Howard Regenhardt, a prominent highway contractor, passed away in Cape Girardeau Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. Joe was born, the youngest of four sons, to Margaret and William McKinley Regenhardt Sr. on Oct. 30, 1936, in Mount Vernon, Illinois. He was a dedicated and skilled professional who made significant contributions to highway infrastructure developments in the Midwestern United States as well as Central America. The Regenhardt family has been part of the Cape Girardeau community since 1849.

Joe and Mary Alice Thompson were married on June 24, 1960, in Mount Vernon. Joe is survived by his wife of 63 years, Mary Alice Thompson Regenhardt; four sons, Mark Alan (Karen) of Woodstock, Illinois; John Robert (Sarah) of Hot Springs, Arkansas; Carl Joe of Denver, Colorado; and Brian Edward of Savannah, Georgia; three grandsons, Christopher (Kasey), David and Drake; and one great-granddaughter, Lilly Faith.

Joe was preceded in death by his parents and three brothers Bill, Bob and Tom.
Joe attended Christ Episcopal Church in Cape Girardeau and was active with the Meals on Wheels program.

He graduated from high school in Mount Vernon and went on to attend the University of Missouri at Rolla. He transferred to Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, where he graduated in 1963.

Joe became interested in highway construction at an early age when he would travel with his father, who owned Regenhardt Construction Company, to various highways, levee, bridge, airfield, mining and quarrying operations throughout Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky. Upon the death of his father in 1952 and his college graduation, Joe became a partner in the family construction company with his two brothers and Don Harrison of Cape Girardeau.

Joe worked his way up in the construction field from being a common laborer, a payroll clerk and a job superintendent. Upon his graduation from college, Joe moved to the Cape Girardeau area, assuming various positions within the family business. He participated in the building of U.S. 61 through Cape Girardeau, Interstate 55 through Cape Girardeau County and Highway 25 through Dexter, Missouri.

In 1966, the R.B. Potashnick, D.L. Harrison Company was awarded a highway project in the Central American country of Guatemala. Joe moved his family to Guatemala City to manage that project. After completion, the company continued working in Central America. Over a 10-year period, the company completed several other projects in Guatemala and El Salvador, including two sections of the Pan American Highway. In 1976 Joe relocated his family to Mount Vernon. He continued to commute to Central American until 1982, when their last project was completed. He then returned to Southern Illinois to assume responsibilities with his two brothers in the family construction operations.

In 1985, Don Harrison asked Joe to come to Cape Girardeau to take over the management of Delta Asphalt companies in Southeast Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana. Joe continued in that position until 1992.

In 1992, the family companies were sold to Colas, a French consortium from Paris, France. Three of the partners retired, and Joe was asked by the new company to remain and assume the role of president and CEO. Delta Companies, the new group, included operations in Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. Joe continued in this position until his retirement in December 1999.

After Joe’s retirement, he spent a lot of his time traveling to see his grandsons play baseball, football and participate in wrestling. Joe and his wife traveled extensively during his retirement, visiting Guatemala to see old friends and former employees. Travel also included trips to Alaska and a river cruise on the Yangtze River in the Republic of China.

Joe was an avid collector of antique clocks and enjoyed working on them.

He was on the founding board of directors for AmeriFirst Bank in Cape Girardeau.
He was very active in the construction industry, serving on the board of directors of The Missouri Asphalt Pavement Association, and The Missouri Association of General Contractors, both in Jefferson City. He also served on the board of directors of The Illinois Asphalt Pavement Association in Springfield, Illinois. Joe was a founding board member of The Arkansas Asphalt Pavement Association in Little Rock and served on The National Asphalt Pavement Association board of directors in Landham, Maryland.

The Regenhardt family would like to thank Crown Hospice of Cape Girardeau for the caring service it provided to Joe.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday Aug. 14, at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. There will be a visitation from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday Aug. 15, at Hughey Funeral Home in Mount Vernon.

Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 16, at Trinity Episcopal Church in Mount Vernon, with The Rev. Jon Griffen and Deacon Parker Asplin officiating.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be given to Christ Episcopal Church in Cape Girardeau or Trinity Episcopal Church in Mount Vernon.

Joe married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1925, Cabery, Ford County, Illinois, United States; 1925-1926
• Residence: 1926, Saint James, Phelps County, Missouri, United States; 1926-1927
• Residence: 1927, Rolla, Phelps County, Missouri, United States; 1927-1928
• Residence: 1928, Compton, Lee County, Illinois, United States; 1928-1929
• Residence: 1929, Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois, United States; 1929-1930
• Residence: 1930, Metropolis, Massac County, Illinois, United States; 1930-1931; : 1st Grade; Address:
  214 Metropolis Street
• Residence: 1932, Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois, United States; 1932-1934; : 2nd & 3rd Grade; Address:
  2021 College Street
• Residence: 1934, Marion, Williamson County, Illinois, United States; 1934-1935; : 4th Grade
• Residence: 1935, Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois, USA; 1935-1937; : Grades 5, 6, 7
• Residence: 1937, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, United States; 1937-1938; : 8th Grade; Address:
  1528 Versailles Pike
• Residence: 1939, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; 1939-1946; : High School
• Residence: 1946, Lawrenceville, Lawrence County, Illinois, United States; 1946-1947; : Taught School
• Residence: 1947, , St. Louis County, Missouri, USA; 1947-1948; : STL County Assistant Home Agent - Home Economics
• Residence: 1948, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; 1948-2017
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Alice Alline Lewis (nee Regenhardt) passed away May 2, 2017.

Alice was born March 24, 1925 to Lois Alline (nee McNeely) and Ted R. Regenhardt in Cape Girardeau.

Her father was associated with his father and brothers in the Regenhardt Construction Company. The family moved every year or every other year following their highway construction jobs throughout Illinois and eastern Missouri.

Her grandfather, Edward Regenhardt, was the general contractor for the construction of Academic Hall, the main administration building of what is now Southeast Missouri State University and a Cape Girardeau landmark.

By the time she was high school age, her parents moved the family back to Cape permanently.

She attended Franklin School for the 9th grade, and Cape Central high school the next 3 years, and next attended Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, where she graduated with a B.S. degree in Secondary Education, specializing in Home Economics. Her first job was as a teacher in Lawrence, IL. The next year she worked in St. Louis County as an assistant home extension agent.

She married Freeman Lewis, owner of Wimpy's Drive In and Grocery on September 25, 1948. They joined Centenary Methodist Church later that year.

In 1969, Alice began work as an elementary Guidance Counselor for the Sikeston Public Schools.

In 1970, she went back to SEMO and worked on her master’s degree in elementary guidance counseling, accomplishing her goal in 1973, the same year her son Rob graduated from SEMO. She retired from her work in Sikeston after 20 years, in 1989.

She belonged to the Missouri State Teacher’s Association and was a charter member of the Professional Home Economists organization.

Active in the life of Centenary Methodist Church for 68 years, she served in several capacities: church secretary, nursery coordinator, church board of trustees, and various United Methodist Women offices.

She was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary and P.E.O.

Alice loved to read, play bridge and assemble jigsaw puzzles. She embroidered quilts for her grandchildren as well as creating needlepoint pictures and chair covers. A love of travel took her across the U.S. and one trip to Europe.

She is survived by her husband of 68 years, Freeman.

They have two sons, Rob (Diane) Lewis of San Antonio, Texas and Jon (Susan) Lewis of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Grandchildren Sarah (Thomas) Satterwhite, Angela (Justin) Morgan, and Stephen Lewis. Great-grandchildren Blake and Emily Satterwhite.

She is also survived by her brother Don (Linda) Regenhardt of Chevy Chase, MD; one cousin, Joe (Mary Alice) Regenhardt of Cape Girardeau; six nephews and eight nieces.

She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother Teddy and a sister Dee Ann, both when young children.


A visitation will be held Sunday, May 7th from 2 pm – 3 pm at Centenary United Methodist Church. The memorial service follows at 3 pm. Interment private.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be given to Centenary United Methodist Church, 300 N. Ellis St., Cape Girardeau, MO 63701.





Buried:
Section 8, Lot 170, Grave 5

Alice married Freeman Dale Lewis on 25 Sep 1948 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Freeman (son of Fred Lewis and Ethel Mayme Miller) was born on 20 Jan 1923 in Des Arc, Iron County, Missouri, USA; died on 08 Dec 2017 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried on 14 Dec 2017 in Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Grace Methodist Church

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Find a Grave Memorial # 8005644

Section 3, Lot 58, Grave 3

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Died:
Whooping cough

Buried:
Section 3, Lot 58, Grave 4

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ruth Edwards
Sunday, March 25, 2012

Ruth Edwards
Ruth E. Edwards, 92, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, March 24, 2012, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

She was born July 9, 1919, in rural Cape Girardeau County, to the late August L. and Malinda M. Weiss Kurre.

Ruth graduated from College High School in 1936 and Southeast Missouri State University in 1946 with a bachelor's degree in education. She taught at Wardell, Mo., Benton, Mo., and Anniston, Mo., high schools. Ruth began working at the local Northwestern Mutual Life office as secretary in the mid-1950s. She retired in 1986 after 30 years.

After retirement she became active as a volunteer at Southeast Missouri Hospital, accumulating about 12,000 hours in crafts until retiring in 2007. She also was a member of Rodney Vista Homemakers Club.

She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau. For a number of years she was Sunday school secretary, a member of Trinity's Altar Guild and a longtime member of the Gospel Outreach Board where she scheduled greeters for services, served as a greeter and enlisted members to call local visitors attending the weekend services to give them a personal welcome.

During her retirement years she became a member of Trinity Ladies Junior Aid and held all offices in the organization over the years. She spent many hours working at the Aid's bazaars, suppers and other functions.

She is survived by a daughter, Carolyn Moore (Albert) of Cape Girardeau; granddaughter, Kendra Mitchell of Atlanta; brother, Clarence Kurre of Cape Girardeau; nieces, Patti Beard (Donald), Judy Ringwald (Mike), Nancy Dyson (Royce); and nephew, Tim Kurre (Jane).

Ruth was preceded in death by her parents; daughter and son-in-law, Mary and Roger Rutherford; and sister-in-law, Dorothy Kurre.

Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home.

Funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at Trinity Lutheran Church, with Pastors Douglas Breite and Nathan Burgell officiating.




Southeast Hospital

Buried:
Section 5, Lot 161, Grave 2

Ruth married Neal C. Edwards on 14 Nov 1942 in Bloomfield, Stoddard County, Missouri, United States. Neal was born on 13 Jun 1922 in Delta, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; died on 20 Apr 2013 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Obituary: http://www.semissourian.com/story/2100600.html

Clarence Kurre
Clarence Allen Kurre, 93, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, July 14, 2014, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born July 1, 1921, in Cape Girardeau, to August L. and Malinda M. Weiss Kurre. Clarence attended Randol School, Hanover Lutheran School, College High School, and graduated from Steimle Business College.
He served in the South Pacific with the U.S. Navy during World War II and Korean War.
Clarence was employed by Kimbel Lines, Delta Lines, and ABF 45 years. He was a member of Teamsters Retiree Club and VFW Post 3838. He was active in Boy Scouts more than 20 years. He held various offices, including pack master and Scout master of Troop 8, and was a vigil member of Order of the Arrow.
Survivors include four children, Patricia (Don) Beard and Judith (Mike) Ringwald of Cape Girardeau, Nancy (Royce) Dyson of Tampa, Florida, and Timothy (Jane) Kurre of Cape Girardeau; nine grandchildren, Eric Rothe, Ben (Rachel) Rothe, Daniel (Angela) Rothe, Scott (Denae) Ringwald, Amy (Darin) Stageberg, Craig (Beth) Ringwald, Jennifer (Nick) Thrasher, Jason (Charlsie) Beard and Jeff Beard; and 14 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Dorothy Haman Kurre; and a sister, Ruth Edwards.
Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau, with the Rev. Nathan Burgell officiating. Burial will be in Cape County Memorial Park.
Memorial contributions may be given to the Lutheran Home or Trinity Lutheran Church.
Southeast Missourian-15 July 2014)

Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 132843857

Clarence married Dorothy Lee Haman on 31 Mar 1946 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Dorothy (daughter of John Martin Haman and Adella Ernstine Fredericke Koehrer) was born on 31 May 1923 in McBaine, Boone County, Missouri, United States; died on 27 Dec 2008 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]