HESCH HISTORY: Cake Toppers from 1906

This branch of the Austrian Hesch family is descended from Johann Hesch and his wife Marya (Schlinz) Hesch, who came to America from Oberschlagles, Bohemia with three sons: Paul, Mathias, and Anton. +++Johann & Marya settled in Buffalo County, Wisconsin but moved to Pierz, Mn in about 1885. .+++Mathias settled in Waumandee, Wisconsin and moved to Pierz in 1911. +++Anton never married but farmed with his dad in Agram Township, where he died in 1911.+++And Paul, my great grandfather, settled five miles away, in Buckman, Minnesota. He died there in 1900.

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Saturday, October 17, 2009

Cake Toppers from 1906

These have nothing to do with Hesch History, they're just cool.

I have a 96 year old client whose parents were married in 1906. She said these figures were originally about 6" tall and made of frosting. She was allowed to handle them as a child because her mother knew she'd be careful. Just think: cake toppers that've survived for 103 years!

Such incredible detail. Looking at them makes me think about where they've been over the last 103 years--originally tucked in tissue paper in a cardboard or metal box...touched and marveled over by at least one little girl.....almost being tossed out when mother died....being rescued, and stored in a curio cabinet in a shaving mug, next to the straight-edge her dad used and the brush her husband used...and how easily they could have been lost.