The Callans and McClarys, by John Edward Callan - Callanworld

It was a comforting environment at
their home, but Flora was afraid of
storms. One night during a bad
storm, Bert, sleeping on a day-bed
in the living room, heard the
sound of breaking glass. He called
to tell Flora, but she told him it
was nothing and to go back to
sleep. Sure enough, the next
morning it was discovered that the
front storm door had blown open
and broken.
Edgar married in 1950 and
Flora moved to an apartment in
Boonville. It was the same
apartment that Clinton’s mother
Stella had lived in for the past 12
years. Stella remarried in 1950.
She stayed there for several
years, then lived in a small house
on LeRoy Street, just two doors
down from Helen and Clinton,
for about 30 years.
Bert would visit her at her
house and play checkers and
dominoes. She was very kind
and pleasant to be around.
Flora was very afraid of
snakes. She became very agitated
when she found them around
the chicken house or the outhouse
when she was still in the
country. Once Bert had to tell
her about a large blacksnake on
the back porch, which she
shooed out with a broom. After
she moved to town, Bert would
stop by her apartment sometimes
on the way home, and
once had bought a small green
toy snake. It would be fun, he
thought, to lay it in the corner of
her porch and then point it out
to her. It was not fun.
When Bert was in high
August Gerhardt and Flora Elizabeth (Stegner) Gerhardt.
school and college, he lived with
Flora for about four years,
because it was crowded at
home—a four room house with
four sisters. Then Helen and
Clinton, Bert’s parents, purchased
a larger home. For a
short time Flora lived in a
basement apartment with Helen
~ 79 ~
and Clinton, then was in a
nursing home for about two
years prior to her death in 1988.
The Stegner family has
been tracked only to Flora’s
grandparents in the mid 1800s.
Feodor Feodor Stegner, Stegner, Flora’s
father, was born on 26 Feb 1855
in Cooper County, Mo. He died
The Callans and McClarys
on 19 Mar 1952 in Cooper
County, Mo. He married Louise
Louise
Phillipine Phillipine Barbara Barbara Back Back
Back on 11
Jul 1915 in Billingsville, Mo.
Louise was born on 3 Jul 1866 in
Cooper County, Mo. She died
on 6 June 1905 in Cooper
County, Mo.
Johann Johann Peter Peter Stegner,
Stegner,
.Feodor’s father, married
Margaretha Barbara Hertte.
The known Gerhardt
lineage is much more extensive.
Joseph Joseph Joseph Gerhardt, Gerhardt, the father
of August Gerhardt, was born on
9 Jan 1857 in Tutschfelden,
Germany. He died on 21 Feb
1922 in Cooper County, Mo. He
married Katrina Katrina Krumm Krumm Krumm on 7
Mar 1882 in Circleville, Ohio.
She was born on 16 Feb 1858 in
Bahlingin, Baden, Germany. She
died on 21 Feb 1943 in
Billingsville, Mo.
Joseph Joseph Gerhardt Gerhardt was one
of five children of Christian
Friedrich (Chris) and Magdalena
(Lena) Schlenker Gerhardt, and
was born in Tutschfelden,
Germany. In 1881 his father sent
him to the United States to
escape being drafted into the
German army. Others from his
family and the family of his
future wife Katrina Krumm
(Catherine Groom) soon followed.
Joseph made his way to
Circleville, Pickaway County,
Ohio “with little of this world’s
goods.” He married Catherine,
who was born in Germany in
1858. They had nine children:
Henry, Chris Frederic,
Katherina Barbara, Albert,