William Otto Joachim Ullrich
My grandfather, William Otto Joachim Ullrich, was a complicated man. Even his name was complicated. I never met him because he died of pneumonia at the young age of 43. …
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September 12, 2021
Contains information about those Joachims who became Ullrichs when William Otto Joachim took the surname Ullrich.
Melody Terrace--Front Door
Melody Terrace
My father loved to tell everyone he was a very lucky man and he really was. He considered himself the luckiest man in the world to have been married to my mother. But his “lucky list” was long and included much more than my mother, though she was the…
March 8, 2020
Uprooted
My mother, Evelyn Campbell Ullrich (AKA Mama), was a “city girl” and there was only one city, New York. She was the third generation in her family born in New York; and…
January 28, 2020
"Official" Photo of Isabel Costello Ullrich
Ahead of Her Times
My grandfather, Otto Ullrich, took sick in the winter of 1928. He had a bad cold. He may even have had the flu as there were reports of an influenza…
July 24, 2019