50 minutes past 12, noon

In the later years, Gus did not have a radio, after all, he was near deaf. He did not carry a watch. This clock was a wind up alarm clock, notorious for drifting time. Once each day he had a opportunity check the time. The sun lined up with the floor boards of his house at 50 minutes past 12 noon each sunny day.

He said that was enough, for he had few appointments that mattered. A calendar was more important, which, as I recall hung on the east wall, by the front door and he crossed of each day, in the evening, with a thick carpenters pencil.     

Johan Georg MARSTELLER

Note from Kelvin

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~guinevere60/custer/pafg09.htm

75. Elizabeth CUSTER 1 (Nicholas CUSTER , Arnold CUSTER , Paulus CUSTER , Arnold Arets , Johannes , Reinhart \ Reiner , Ololus ) was born on 20 Aug 1739 in Limerick, Montgomery, Pennsylvania. She died in 1789. 

Elizabeth married 1 Johan Georg MARSTELLER on 10 May 1761 in Trappe, Montgomery, PA. Johan was born about 1739 in Trappe, Montgomery, PA. 

http://www.marsteller.org/History%20of%20Pfungstadt.htm
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~quick/d0194/g0000049.html#I030845