The Family Vault
Story 2 — A Cold Pocono Winter: Strange Bed-fellows
Not very long after the conclusion of the American Civil War, a young man named John (Jean) Meiser emigrated to the United States from the Alsace-Lorraine region of Germany. As was typical of so many European immigrants of that era, he arrived in New York, met a woman, got married and had a family, and a rather large one at that! They had nine…