OLD UNIONTOWN BUILDINGS TOLD STORIES OF THE PAST

UNIONTOWN -- When we clean around the grave of Louise Richter in the Arnsberg Cemetery, I remember my mother telling of her death at the age of 45.

Louise, along with members of her family, had gone to the Unterreiner Sisters Hat Shoppe in Uniontown, to get their new Easter hats.

The shop was located in a room of the Unterreiner home, on the lane leading from near the J.E. Unterreiner Store, to the road going to Altenburg. The sisters decorated the hats to match one's ensemble.

Louise became very ill with stomach pains on the way home. She stopped at the home of her sister and brother-in-law, Mattie and August Boeller, near Appleton, where she died on April 4, 1906.

August Boeller was a half-brother of my grandfather, Charles Engelmann. Charles Engelmann built the west part of the house, owned today by the Seiler family, when he married Louisa Krattle in 1886.

The house is located north of the Zion Methodist Church, near Apple Creek. The Engelmann family crossed the creek to farm land on the Perry County side. They also did some of their trading at the stores in Uniontown.