Alois Louis Payers of St Louis, Mo.

Any and all information on the family of Alois Louis Payer son of Victor(Viti or Vitus)Payer and brother of Anne, Charles, Martin, Joseph, Edward, Peter, Matthew and one brother unknown to me that died as a young boy, will be greatly appreciated. I have some information that I will share. Spouses and dates of births. Children born to them and other civil war records on Charles. Please contact me if you are interested. Alois was born in Spillville, Iowa and baptised at the St Wenceslaus Catholic Church. His father (Vitus) or Victor came here to the States as a body guard for a man named Joseph Spielman. He carried plans for a church to be built where they settled, Spielville which later came to be called after the wealthy man Joseph Spielman and was recorded in the Decorah County Seat is now shown on the map as Spillville, Iowa by the Turkey River. The plans were for an actual church from Kuttenburg, Bohemia, Czechoslavokia as it was known at that time. Victor (Vitus) had carried the plans all the way from Vienna Austria. Victor was followed by a brother Frank and his wife and an Aunt and Uncle of his named Albert Payer in 1854, there is no record of her name. Albert's mother and father Mathias and Teresa Payer also arrived there in 1854. Alberts family had originally settled in Illinois in 1852 but moved to Iowa in 1854. Alois and his whole family came to St Louis, Mo. in 1888-90. Victor had a new wife by the name of Marie Strolport or Strozpart whom he had married in 1866 after his first wife died in 1864. They settled in Bohemia Hills in South St Louis, Mo., where they lived until their death.