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Joseph Hegnauer Link

Born at Missouri in 1914.

born about 1914 at Missouri, United States

Life story

Joseph Link, called Joseph Hegnauer Link in the family tree, was born in Missouri about 1914, the youngest known child of Joseph M. Link and Katherine Susanna "Katie" Hegnauer.1 His mother was a daughter of the Swiss-born farmer Leonhard Hegnauer and his wife Susanna Hirschi, of Pleasant Gap Township, Bates County.2

His father died when Joseph was very young, before January 1920, when the census found him the youngest of seven children in his widowed mother's household on the farm in Pleasant Gap Township.1 He grew up there. In 1930 he was single and a laborer, and in 1940 he was still at home, working as a laborer, with his mother, his sisters Alina and Clara and his brother William.3–4 His later life has not been traced.

What we know

Probable

  • Birth at Missouri, 1914

What's still open

Nothing the notes flag. Which is not the same as nothing left to find.

Sources

Source 1

1 1920 U.S. Federal Census, Pleasant Gap Township

Source 2

2 Missouri Division of Health, Standard Certificate of Death, 1961

Sources 3–4

3 1930 U.S. Federal Census, Pleasant Gap Township
4 1940 U.S. Federal Census, Pleasant Gap Township

Life in time

about 1914

Birth , Missouri, United States

probable Sources 1, 3, 4

How we know

  1. 1914 Birth about 1914 · Missouri, United States · probable

    Probably in Pleasant Gap Township, Bates County, where his parents farmed.

    He is the youngest son in his widowed mother's household in 1920, 1930 and 1940 (index entries attached to him in the family tree). The tree's "Abt. 1914" carries no source in the tree and was presumably worked out from a census age; the ages have not been re-read.

    Sources 1, 3, 4

  2. 1920 Residence Pleasant Gap Township, Bates · proven

    Son, the youngest, in the household of his widowed mother Katherine.

    Index entry attached to him in the family tree; his mother and brothers and sisters identify the household. Image not re-read.

    Source 1

  3. 1930 Residence Pleasant Gap Township, Bates · proven

    Son, single; occupation indexed as laborer.

    Index entry attached to him in the family tree; his mother and brothers and sisters identify the household. Image not re-read.

    Source 3

  4. 1940 Residence Pleasant Gap Township, Bates · proven

    Son, single, laborer, in his mother's household, with Alina, Clara and William; living in Pleasant Gap in 1935 as well.

    Index entry attached to him in the family tree; his mother and brothers and sisters identify the household. Image not re-read.

    Source 4

  • proven
  • probable

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Places in this life

2 places, in order
1 2
  1. 1 Missouri, United States Birth about 1914
  2. 2 Pleasant Gap Township, Bates County Residence 1920 · Residence 1930 · Residence 1940

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The evidence 4 facts with their grades, 4 sources, and the research notes

Facts

Fact Date Place Grade Sources
Birth about 1914 Missouri, United States probable 1 , 3 , 4
Residence 1920 Pleasant Gap Township, Bates, Missouri, United States proven 1
Residence 1930 Pleasant Gap Township, Bates, Missouri, United States proven 3
Residence 1940 Pleasant Gap Township, Bates, Missouri, United States proven 4

Research notes

  • Sources: Every census fact here comes from the index entries attached to him in the Ancestry tree; the images have not been re-read, and his age in each census has not been extracted.
  • Name: The middle name Hegnauer, his mother's maiden name, is given only by the family tree, which cites no source for it; the census indexes attached to him have not been re-read for a middle initial. It is kept as the tree's form.
  • Leads: the WWII draft registration (1940–1942); the 1950 census; the Social Security Death Index; his mother's obituary of April 1961.

Sources

  1. 1

    1920 U.S. Federal Census, Pleasant Gap Township, Bates County, Missouri, E.D. 19, page 9B, household of Katherine Link (head, widowed, farmer), with her children Alina, Roland, Ruth, Edwin, Clara, William and Joseph; roll T625_905; database with images, Ancestry.com (index entries attached in the Ancestry tree; image not re-read).

  2. 2

    Missouri Division of Health, Standard Certificate of Death, state file no. 61-010303, Katherine Susanna Link [indexed "Fink"], died 5 April 1961, Appleton City, St. Clair County; usual residence Pleasant Gap Township, Bates County; born 17 August 1877, Bates County; father Lenard Hegnauer; mother Susanna Hirschi; informant William Link, Butler, Mo.; in "Missouri, U.S., Death Certificates, 1910–1971," database with images, Ancestry.com, image 1961_00010303-02170.

  3. 3

    1930 U.S. Federal Census, Pleasant Gap Township, Bates County, Missouri, E.D. 24, page 6A, household of Katherine Link (head, widowed), with her children Alina, Ruth, Edwin, Clara, William and Joseph; FHL microfilm 2340911; database with images, Ancestry.com (index entries attached in the Ancestry tree; image not re-read).

  4. 4

    1940 U.S. Federal Census, Pleasant Gap Township, Bates County, Missouri, E.D. 7-25, page 5A, household of Katherine Link (head, widowed, farmer), with her children Alina, Clara, William and Joseph; roll m-t0627-02084; database with images, Ancestry.com (index entries attached in the Ancestry tree; image not re-read).