http://mctiernan.com/peter.htm  4-27-2025

The 25 desendents of the 4 families, Fries, Lucash, Blaies & Bender that were married in St. Peter's Cathedral in Belleville, IL


Year Married Husband Wife Family Line(s)
Fries, Lucash, Blaies, Bender
1
1854 John Wittmeier Maria Anna Fries
(Margaret)
Fries
2
1868 Konradius Fries Barbara Lucash Fries Lucash
3
1900 John Westrich Rosa Wittmeier Fries
4
1900
George Fries
Margaret Dahm
Fries Lucash
5
1901 Adolph Fries Anne Blaies Fries Lucash Blaies Bender
6
1917 Joseph B. Lucash Estella M. Kling Fries Lucash
7
1922 Paul Mueller Rose Fohl Blaies Bender
8
1928
Frank W. Lucash
Anne Marie Bauer
Fries Lucash
9
1929 Otto J. Blaes Malinda Jung Blaies Bender
10
1934 Arnie Heinrich Eleanor Fries Fries Lucash Blaies Bender
11
1935
Lawrence J. Wuest
Ottilia Blaies
Blaies Bender
12
1947 Walter J. Lucash Edna Mae Baechle Fries Lucash
13
1947 Gordon D. Bien Rita Olinda Schmidt Fries Lucash
14
1949
Henry Charles Voss
Doris Jean Shinners
Fries Lucash
15
1950 Russel Mueller Virginia Joffray Blaies Bender
16
1951 Leroy Fries Deloras Barbeau Fries Lucash Blaies Bender
17
1951 Donald Walter Daenzer Jacqueline Jean McClane Blaies Bender
18
1952 Jerry Phillip Mazzarino Catherine Cecelia Schmidt Fries Lucash
19
1954 George Joergensen Ruth Lucash Fries Lucash
20
1965 Robert Fries Karen Jung Fries Lucash Blaies Bender
21
1968 (chap.)
Mary Ann Clement James A. Arnold, Jr Fries Lucash
22
1975 Stephen John Clement Patricia Lynn Guetterman Fries Lucash
23
1981
Jeffrey Joergensen
Annette Hammond
Fries Lucash
24
1982 Thomas G Lucash Twila Sue Barhorst Fries Lucash
25
1987 Mark Taylor Sharen Marie Clement Fries Lucash
26
1995
Lucy Wuest
Rob Ruegsegger
Blaies Bender

St. Peter's Cathedral is a central point in the history of the four families. If you know of any additional descendents that were married there please let me know.

Two who got married in the Blaies / Bender families turned out to be 9th cousins but I am sure they didn't know that at the timne. 



Michael McTiernan

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Last updated April 17, 2025

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