Luzius Hegnauer: Ancestry member media and stories

Written on screen during the Ancestry survey stage on 2026-09-25, from member photos and stories offered as hints on tree person 102705356516 (Hegnauer/Putt tree 206849982). Nothing was downloaded, saved or changed. Every item below is a member-contributed copy (derivative). Readings in [brackets] are editorial.

Pending member photo hints: none. Pending member story hints: one (below). The person's own gallery holds 8 Fold3 images that the owner attached himself (6 CMSR pages, the Fold3 "Civil War Stories" page and the T289 pension card). Those are record images, not member media, and are abstracted in H0001-survey-abstracts.md.

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1. "Bates History - Hegnauer excerpt" (member story, 3-page scan)

• Viewer URL (as offered on H0001): ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/37158608/person/182529662508/media/69b5476f-95cc-42bc-93e7-cffa2a91bf95
• Contributor: Susanna Vogt (sujavo; tree 37158608). Originally shared 4 Dec 2023, and saved by 3 users (one is BE, the owner). Linked to Leonard C Hegnauer, Susanna Katherine Hirschi, Lucious Hegnauer and Margaret Bernet. The hint card says "Attached to Lucious Hegnauer, Birth Abt. 1819".
• What it is: scans of pp. 719-721 of the 1918 History of Bates County, Missouri (Atkeson). The running head is "History of Bates County". The excerpt is the biographical sketch of Christian Hegnauer of Pleasant Gap Township (b. 1868, Leonhard's son, not H0007). It contains one paragraph on Leonhard (H0003), and that paragraph names Luzius. This is a published county history compiled from family information, so it is derivative. The whole excerpt was already abstracted for H0003 in sources/ancestry/H0003-member-media.md item 10. The claims below are only the ones that bear on H0001.

Claims that bear on Luzius (close paraphrase, p. 719)

1. Leonard [Leonhard] Hegnauer was born in Switzerland on 25 April 1843. "His parents were Lucius and Margaret (Bernet) Hegnauer, who were also natives of Switzerland, and immigrated to America in 1856, making a permanent settlement in Madison county, Illinois, where Leonard Hegnauer was reared and educated."
2. When the Civil War began, Leonard enlisted in 1861 for three months' service. In October 1861 he enlisted in Company E, 4th Missouri Volunteer Infantry. (The history says nothing about the father's own service.)
3. In 1869 Leonard moved to Bates County and bought a farm in Pleasant Gap Township. P. 721: the family came from Illinois in ox-drawn wagons, a three-week trip.
4. Pages 719-721 give no death or burial information for Lucius or Margaret.

Assessment.

• Parents' names: correct. They agree with Leonhard's 1843 Igis baptism ("Luzius Hegnauer and Margreth Bernet") and with the 1860 census household.
• Immigration in 1856: correct. It is independently confirmed by the ship Chase manifest (Le Havre to New York, 30 Sep 1856), which lists "Hegemann" Lucie 36, Marguerite 37, Johann 15, Leonhard 13, Christian[e] 10, Martin 8 and Christian 5 (see H0001-survey-abstracts.md). This settles the 1851/1855/1856 conflict in the sons' 1900 census answers in favour of 1856.
• "Permanent settlement in Madison county, Illinois": wrong for the parents. The 1860 census has Luzi, Margreth and all six children in Boeuf Twp, Gasconade Co., Mo. Luzius enlisted at Hermann, Mo., in Nov 1861, and Barbara was born in Missouri in 1859. Leonhard's own 1916 Appleton City Journal obituary says the family "first settled in Gasconade county" and that he went to Madison Co., Ill. in 1865. The county history has compressed Leonhard's own later stay in Illinois (1865-1869) into his parents' story.
• Value for H0001: low. The story gives no dates for Luzius and nothing on his death or burial.
• Recommendation: Ignore on H0001 (the story is about Leonhard's son Christian and belongs on Leonhard, where it was already assessed). Keep claim 1 as corroboration of the 1856 arrival and the parents' names. Flag the Madison County settlement claim as an error.