There are new things popping up all the time it seems. Judith Moss recently discovered the following that should be of interest for descendants of Jennie Jameson Naegle Biesinger, the photo below has double interest: It includes both George C. Naegle (her first husband) and also Thomas Biesinger (the father of her second husband, T. K. Biesinger – she and T.K. served two missions for the LDS Church together, in Texas-Louisiana and Hawaii).
Born in 1844, Thomas Biesinger was 15 years older than George C. Naegle, although both were serving missions at the same time. According to Wikipedia, Biesinger was called to serve a mission in Austria-Hungary and became the first Mormon missionary to preach in the present-day Czech Republic and Hungary. Arrested in Prague during his mission, he spent 38 days in prison, and was then tried and found guilty of canvassing as a missionary for a sect not approved of by the state and sentenced to 30 days imprisonment at hard labor and a fine of 30 guldens. After his release from prison, Biesinger again met one of the men who had testified against him at his trial, and baptized him into the LDS Church.
Wikipedia also notes that Biesinger preached in Switzerland from August to December 1884; this was the period when the photograph was taken. In 1928, at the age of 84, Biesinger travelled to Czechoslovakia as a missionary and obtained legal permission for the LDS Church to operate in that country. by Judith Moss
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