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This blog is created to be a chronicle of the Adolph Wittmann family who immigrated to America from Alsace - Lorraine, France in the 1800's.

Adolph was the father of Emil Wittman Sr. who married Anna Tadrick and had two sons: Emil Jr. and Raymond. Emil Jr. married Mary Ann Lammert and they had a son, Mark. Raymond married Victoria Lammert (sister to Mary Ann) and they had two children: Karen and Jeff.

My hope is to preserve family history for future generations of Wittmans and also to help unite those family members living today.

May the good Lord bless this endeavor and may He use it for His glory!

Angela Somers-Wittman, editor

Angela and Jeff Wittman

About the editor:

I am a Confessional Reformed Christian. After becoming a Christian in 1976 and falling out of church fellowship for a number of years, the LORD renewed my new birth in Christ in 1992. He then  soon had  me involved with local Christian activists as a member of the Illinois Christian Coalition (1994)  and then as a county chapter leader in 1995  (the same  year I was elected to the Waterloo School Board).

I joined the Constitution Party of  Illinois and served as an officer from May 2001 until my resignation in January 2005. During this period of time I was very active politically as a grass root's leader and organizer.

For several years I wrote an "Opinion Shaper" column for our local newspaper and many of those articles are now archived at this blog.

I also spent many years ministering to the lost and speaking on behalf of the preborn at the local abortuaries. I am now a volunteer with Christians for Personhood.

But my greatest love is for the truths of Scripture and sharing them with others. I also love to study the works of the Reformers and learn about our Christian Heritage.

I hope and pray to spend the rest of my life faithfully serving Jesus Christ, who is King of all the nations.


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