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Proposals for Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Katharina Hirschi, from Newspapers.com

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This file is for the lead to apply. Nothing in it has been applied. It draws on the harvest Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Hirschi in the papers, 1856–1925 (§1–8) and its adversarial review (§9 of the same file). Every quotation was read on the page image. No living person is named here or proposed for any biography: every person named was born before 1917 and none is flagged living in the study's list of people. YAML strings are single-quoted, with apostrophes doubled. Occurrence IDs (occ:) are given where the capture of 27 Sep 2026 already made rows (O06098–O06713); the items first found by the review have no rows yet and need a capture pass (see §3c).

0. What the newspapers add, against the masters

FactSource (key in §1)Against the mastersBetter source
Appraised strays for Anton Hammer and Carl Hubner, Pleasant Gap, Dec 1873stray1873New (earliest record of him in Pleasant Gap by name)—
His own memory: "When Tony Hammers and I came to Bates county in 1867 we paid 22 cents a pound for bacon at Papinville" (1910)bacon1910Conflicts with 1869 (county history; Rockville Booster). The ACJ obituary prints "1865" (read on the image), which is impossibleThe 1869 deed and Christian's birth in Illinois in May 1868 support 1869 for the family's move. 1867 may be a first visit or a slip; record it as his recollection only
Delegate to the Republican county convention, 30 Aug 1884; Republican candidate for county treasurer, lost 3,771 to 3,072conv1884, treas1884New (probable)—
Republican candidate for judge of the county court, Southern District, 1892; lost to Fred Fix 1,637 to 1,188judge1892New (probable). The harvest called it "county judge"—
Petit juror 1893 and 1906; judge of election, Pleasant Gap, 1894; convention delegate 1898, 1902juror1893, juror1906, elect1894, conv1898, conv1902New (probable)—
"Bryan will not receive a single German vote, except those always Democratic" (Oct 1900)btp1900New—
Bank of Rockville: stockholder Sep 1890; director by Jan 1897; vice-president Oct 1897; director 1903–08 under Laughlin; vice-president 1907–09; president after Laughlin's death (3 Feb 1911); signs as president Mar 1916bank1890, bankdir1897, btp1897, bankstmts, bank1907, bankad1908, laughlin1911, bank1916, bankstmt1916Confirms charter member, vice-president, president; new dates and the director years. Resolves the master's open question: Laughlin was president again by Sep 1903 and until his death in Feb 1911Contemporary statements over obituaries
Moved to Appleton City on Tue 28 Aug 1906, Deardoff house, SW part, for Robert's schoolingacjmove1906, rhtmove1906, acjtemp1906Corrects "about 1906" (H0003) and "about 1907" (H0038); the county history's 1911 is wrongContemporary notices
$50 to the Academy building fund (1908)academy1908New; supports the obituary's "a booster of the Appleton City Academy"—
Judge of the Appleton City elections, Second Ward, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1913; Republican judge of the Aug 1908 primarycityjudge, primary1908New—
C. Tontz of Alhambra, Ill., and Leonhard "are cousins" (1909)tontz1909New. Fits Christian Tontz Jr. being a son of Barbara Bernet (Mrs. Christian Dönz), sister of his mother Margreth (see H0001/H0036), and husband of Susanna's sister Rosina—
Member of Gen. J. B. Steadman Post No. 172, G.A.R., Appleton City; Springfield veterans' reunion 1897; Decoration Day 1911gar1916, reunion1897, decoration1911Confirms "member of the G.A.R. post at Appleton City" (acj1916); new name and events—
Grippe, Jan 1916sick1916New—
Stricken Fri 27 Oct 1916; Robert summoned that evening; body taken to Prairie City Wed 1 Nov; funeral put off to Sun 5 Nov for Leonard from Pullmanacjdeath1916, robert1916, leonard1916Confirms the death certificate and obituaries; new details—
Funeral hour 1:30 (death notice) against 2:00 (obituary)acjdeath1916, acj1916ConflictThe obituary, written after the funeral
"Gone to His Reward" is the Rockville Booster obituary as reprinted in The Republican Press, 10 Nov 1916, p. 3boosterIdentifies the reprinting paper. It has no ox-team passage: H0003's [@bateshist][@booster] for the ox-team journey must drop boosterCounty history p. 721
Administration granted to son Christian 21 Nov 1916; first semi-annual settlement 14 Aug 1917; final settlement docketed 12 Feb 1918 and 14 May 1918 (term beginning 13 May)admin1916, probate1917, probate1918New. The H0038 survey abstract and the harvest give 15 May 1918: the entry stands under "Tuesday, May 14, 1918" in both the Journal and the St. Clair County RepublicanThe calendars as printed
Sale of 40 acres, Sec. 23, Pleasant Gap, to son-in-law J. M. Link, Feb 1911, $2,800link1911New (probable). One printing says $1,800Three printings against one: $2,800
Susanna: Oklahoma visit Sep 1907; sister Rosina's visits Apr 1911 and Oct 1916; birthday party 1913 (probable); grippe Jan 1916okla1907, visit1911, visit1916, birthday1913, sick1916New—
Susanna after Nov 1916: "staying with her daughter, Mrs. Fred Hammer"; Carthage visit Oct 1917grandma1917, carthage1917Confirms H0038 ("live with her daughter Mary Hammer and her son Christian"); new citations—
Susanna died Tuesday 12 Feb 1918; funeral Friday 15 Febwells1918Confirms the certificate against the Rich Hill Mining Review's "Wednesday, Feb 13"; two independent Minnesota papersCertificate + three newspapers
Working notes 1. YAML: citations and facts

1a. H0003 (Leonhard): new citations

Paste these under citations:. bdd1890 is copied from H0008 and lic1895 is not needed here (it stays on H0014 and H0052).

  stray1873:
    text: 'Stray notices, Bates County Record [filed on Newspapers.com as The Butler Times-Press] (Butler, Missouri), 13 December 1873, p. 2, repeated 20 and 27 December 1873, p. 4: a bay pony taken up by Anton Hammer of Pleasant Gap Township on 2 December 1873, "Appraised at $28, by Leonard Hegnauer and Carl Hubner"; a steer taken up by Carl Hubner, "Appraised at $2[8?] by Anton Hammer and Leonard Hegnauer", before J. W. Brooks, J.P.; images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/666919146/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/666919180/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/666919203/).'
    occ: [O06340, O06341, O06342]
  conv1884:
    text: '"The Republicans: Proceedings of the County Convention Saturday, Sept. 30 [sic; the convention met on the Saturday before, 30 August 1884]," The Butler Times-Press [Bates County Record] (Butler, Missouri), 6 September 1884, p. 3: delegates "Pleasant Gap—J H Newton, J C Lane, L Hagenauer"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999273745/).'
    occ: [O06435]
  treas1884:
    text: '[Official vote of Bates County "as cast Nov. 4, 1884"], The Butler Weekly Times (Butler, Missouri), 12 November 1884, p. 5 (table printed sideways): county treasurer, "Catron, D." 3,771, "Hegnauer, R." 3,072; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/859828766/). The Bates County Republican (Rich Hill, Missouri), 7 November 1884, p. 2, prints a local return, "R. S. Catron 569 / L. Hegnaner 513" (as read by the Luzius harvest; the Weekly Times table has 569 and 543 for what is probably the same precinct) (https://www.newspapers.com/image/1000337032/).'
    occ: [O06350, O06349]
  taxpayers1885:
    text: '"Meeting of Tax Payers" (from the Rockville Globe), The Butler Weekly Times (Butler, Missouri), 23 December 1885, p. 6: "The undersigned citizens and tax-payers of the old Prairie township request a meeting ... to be held at Prairie City, on the 26th day of December next ... for the purpose of inquiring into our financial interests in the matter of railroad bonds, and compromise of same"; the signers include "L. Heganuer", Fred Fix, Christ Hirni and J. B. Durand; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/859839827/).'
    occ: [O06338]
  record1889:
    text: '[Local news], The Butler Times-Press [Bates County Record] (Butler, Missouri), 9 February 1889, p. 3: "We received a short call on Monday from L. Hegnawer, of Prairie City. He informs us that the RECORD never reached that office until after it was several days old"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999281814/).'
    occ: [O06355]
  farmers1890:
    text: '[Local news], The Butler Times-Press [Bates County Record] (Butler, Missouri), 31 May 1890, p. 3: "We received a short call on Thursday from L. Hegnaer and A. Hammer, two of Prairie township''s substantial farmers"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999288680/).'
    occ: [O06357]
  bdd1890:
    text: '"Abstract of Deeds," Butler Daily Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 21 March 1890, p. 4, quit claim deeds: "Leonard Hegnauer et al to John Kamm, und[ivided] interest in se ¼ sec 27 twp 39 r 30"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999292856/). The same transfer is in the Bates County Democrat, 27 March 1890, p. 8 (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999128949/).'
    occ: [O06245, O06246]
  bank1890:
    text: '[A bank for Rockville] (from the Rockville Post), Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 18 September 1890, p. 1: a banking house to be established at Rockville, capital $10,000 in $100 shares; the stockholders include J. C. Laughlin, J. B. Durand, "L. Hegnauer, A. Hammer" and Fred Fix; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863244445/).'
    occ: [O06358]
  bridge1891:
    text: '[County court proceedings], The Butler Times-Press [Bates County Record] (Butler, Missouri), 15 August 1891, p. 3: "Bridge ordered across Willow Branch, in S. E. part of county, on petition of L. Hegnauer et al" (as read by the Luzius harvest of 27 September 2026); image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999294143/).'
    occ: [O06334]
  shire1891:
    text: '[English Shire stallion company], The Butler Times-Press [Bates County Record] (Butler, Missouri), 5 September 1891, p. 2, reprinted in the Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 10 September 1891, p. 4: a company "composed of twenty of the leading farmers and horse breeders of Southeast Bates", among them "L. Hegnauer", Fred Fix and J. C. Hirni, bought an English Shire stallion of O. O. Hefner of Lincoln, Nebraska, for $1,900; images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999294362/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863246546/).'
    occ: [O06335, O06336]
  record1891:
    text: '[Local news], The Butler Times-Press [Bates County Record] (Butler, Missouri), 12 December 1891, p. 3: "Mr. Leonard Hegnauer, of Prairie City, was a welcome visitor at the RECORD office Wednesday"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999295295/).'
    occ: [O06362]
  organ1892:
    text: '[Notice of Diven & Deffenbaugh, music dealers], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 22 September 1892, p. 5: "L. Hegnauer one of oldest settlers in Pleasant Gap neighborhood bought a fine Kimball Organ from our live music dealers Diven & Deffenbaugh"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863190968/).'
    occ: [O06337]
  judge1892:
    text: '[Local news], Butler Daily Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 5 November 1892, p. 4: "L. Hegenour, candidate for Judge for the Southern district, on the Republican ticket, came in last evening, and he was heaping coals of fire on the devoted heads of those who sold out a portion of the Republican ticket"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999306740/). Official vote, Bates County Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 17 November 1892, p. 7: "Fix 1637 / Hegenaur 1188 / Lyle 933" (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999113420/). The candidacy is also in The Butler Weekly Times, 19 October – 2 November 1892 ("L. Hegenour, candidate for Judge").'
    occ: [O06370, O06374, O06367, O06368, O06369, O06371, O06372, O06373]
  commencement1893:
    text: '[Local news], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 1 June 1893, p. 3: "Leonard Hegnauer Sr., a prominent citizen of Prairie City, came over to witness the commencement exercises of the Appleton City Academy. His son, Leonard Hegnauer Jr., was a member of the graduation class of the Academy this year"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863193721/).'
    occ: [O06519]
  juror1893:
    text: '[Petit jurors drawn for the November term of the circuit court], Butler Daily Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 13 September 1893, p. 4, and Bates County Democrat (Butler), 14 September 1893, p. 5: "L Hegenaur, Pleasant Gap"; the same list in The Messenger (Adrian, Missouri), 22 September 1893, p. 1 ("L Heganaur, Pleasant Gap"), and The Republican Press (Butler), 28 September 1893, p. 3; images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999186514/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999423152/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/998745508/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999950628/). The same page of the Bates County Democrat reports that his son "Leonhard Hegenaur left for Columbia Tuesday, where he will attend school".'
    occ: [O06339]
  elect1894:
    text: '[Judges of election], Bates County Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 4 October 1894, p. 4: "PLEASANT GAP. W. A. Allen, S. S. Starr, L. Hegnaur and Joe Wix, Jr."; also Butler Daily Democrat, 3 October 1894, p. 1, and The Republican Press, 12 October 1894, p. 2; images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999429558/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999293090/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999951611/). The county statement in the Rich Hill Daily Review, 29 May 1895, p. 2, shows $1.50 each paid to "L Hegnauer" and "C Hegnauer" for election service (https://www.newspapers.com/image/1000577195/).'
    occ: [O06521, O06398, O06399, O06401]
  reunion1897:
    text: '"The Roster Complete," Springfield Leader and Press (Springfield, Missouri), 14 August 1897, p. 6, Union veterans registered at the reunion: "L. Hegnauer, Co. E, 4th Mo."; the same list in the Springfield News-Leader, 15 August 1897, p. 2; images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/40325215/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/40829875/).'
    occ: [O06412, O06413]
  bankdir1897:
    text: '[Rockville correspondence], Butler Daily Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 13 January 1897, p. 1: "J. B. Durand, Judge Fix and L. Hegnaur attended a meeting of the directors of the Bank of Rockville Saturday" [9 January 1897]; the same in the Bates County Democrat, 14 January 1897, p. 1; images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999249858/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999427775/).'
  conv1898:
    text: '[Republican county convention, delegates], The Butler Times-Press (Butler, Missouri), 13 and 20 August 1898: "L. Hagenauer" (as read by the Luzius harvest of 27 September 2026; the Leonhard harvest could not place the hit of 13 August); images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999418844/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999418819/).'
    occ: [O06437, O06436]
  btp1900:
    text: '[Local news], The Butler Times-Press (Butler, Missouri), 13 October 1900, p. 7: "Leonard Hegnaeur, one of the substantial farmers of Prairie City neighborhood was in town Tuesday. During a brief call at this office he remarked that the political outlook in his section could hardly be better, and pleasantly alluded to James Henry Sisson''s letter to the Democrat some time since, in which he said Bryan would get a large number of German Republican votes. Mr. H. says there is nothing in it—that Bryan will not receive a single German vote, except those always Democratic of which there are a few"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/1000944475/).'
  aouw1901:
    text: '"Condolence," Rich Hill Mining Review (Rich Hill, Missouri), 27 June 1901, p. 8: resolutions of Oro Lodge 153, A. O. U. W., on the death of "brother Fred Fix", signed by the committee "L. HEGNAUR, J. FINKLANG, W. T. KEMPER"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/1000383696/).'
    occ: [O06522]
  rht1901:
    text: '[Local news], The Rich Hill Tribune (Rich Hill, Missouri), 15 August 1901, p. 1: "Mr. Leonard Hegnauer was in the city Tuesday, and called on THE TRIBUNE. He is one of our best citizens and a reliable Republican always" (the same column reports his son separately as "Prof. L. Hegnauer of Onarga, Ill."); and 29 August 1901, p. 1: "L. Hegnauer, Sr., was over Tuesday from Prairie City attending to business matters and seeing his friends. Mr. Hegnauer is one of Bates county''s substantial farmers who understands politics as well as agriculture, and exercises the same good judgment in both"; images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/64138293/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/64138323/).'
    occ: [O06523, O06525]
  rht1902:
    text: '[Local news], The Rich Hill Tribune (Rich Hill, Missouri), 23 January 1902, p. 1: "Leonard Hegnauer, one of Bates county''s best and most prosperous farmers of near Prairie City, was trading with our merchants last Saturday"; and "Hegnauer—Baker," 2 January 1902, p. 1, on his son''s wedding: "Of a family noted for sterling integrity and unfaltering devotion to good principles, he is an honor to his parents"; images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/61343473/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/61343454/).'
    occ: [O06528]
  conv1902:
    text: '"Pleasant Gap Twp. Republicans," The Rich Hill Tribune (Rich Hill, Missouri), 29 May 1902, p. 1: delegates elected at Pleasant Gap on 24 May to the convention at Butler: "B. F. Wix, L. Hegnauer, John Gench, D. B. Swezy, Charley Kisner, L. A. Fuller, W. M. Padley, and Cyrus Requa"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/61343595/).'
    occ: [O06529]
  roerich1903:
    text: '[Local news], The Rich Hill Tribune (Rich Hill, Missouri), 16 April 1903, p. 3: "Rev. Otto Roerich who has been preaching for some time past for his people at Prairie City has been compelled to give up his work on account of ill health and remove to a better climate. Mr. L. Hegnauer and Jacob Finklang brought his household goods to Rich Hill for shipment Tuesday"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/61646901/).'
    occ: [O06530]
  rhtvisits:
    text: '[Local news], The Rich Hill Tribune (Rich Hill, Missouri): 13 August 1903, p. 3 ("L. Hegnauer, from near Prairie City, was in Rich Hill last Friday, looking as hale and hearty as ever"); 26 November 1903, p. 3; 14 January 1904, p. 5; 1 September 1904, p. 5 ("one of our substantial citizens of the Prarie City neighborhood"); 27 July 1905, p. 1 ("He brought a load of produce with him. He is one of our up-to-date farmers"); 7 June 1906, p. 5 ("L. Hegnauer, from east of the river"); images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/80082533/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/80084795/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/50601926/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/92623116/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/92623315/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/80087305/).'
    occ: [O06531, O06534, O06535, O06536, O06537, O06541]
  bankstmts:
    text: 'Published statements of the Bank of Rockville, attested by "L. Hegnauer" as one of the directors, with J. C. Laughlin, president, and W. E. Heyle[r], cashier: The Republican Press (Butler, Missouri), 18 September 1903, p. 5, and 25 September 1903, p. 2; The Butler Times-Press (Butler, Missouri), 17 November 1906, p. 2, 23 March 1907, p. 5, 31 August 1907, p. 2, and 29 February 1908, p. 2; The Rockville Booster (Rockville, Missouri), 9 October 1908, p. 3; images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999423444/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999423524/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999042619/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999042931/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999043422/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999104612/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/1000726820/).'
    occ: [O06532, O06533, O06548, O06549, O06550, O06551]
  subscriber1906:
    text: '[Local news], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 12 April 1906, p. 1: his son Robert ordered the paper sent to "L. Hegnauer, R. F. D. No. 1 from Rockville. The Hegnauer family are among the best known and influential people in that part of Bates county"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863444224/).'
    occ: [O06539]
  juror1906:
    text: '"October Petit Jury," The Butler Times-Press (Butler, Missouri), 25 August 1906, p. 3: petit jurors drawn by the county court for the October term of the circuit court, "Rockville—Leonard Hagnauer"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999042377/).'
    occ: [O06544]
  acjmove1906:
    text: '[Local news], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 30 August 1906, p. 3: "L. Hagnauer one of Bates county''s best known and useful citizens, on Tuesday moved his family to Appleton City and now occupy the Deardoff residence in the southwest part of the city. Mr. Hegnaur becomes a temporary resident of the Prairie Queen in order that his son, who is now entering the threshold of manhood, may attend the Academy"; reprinted in the Butler Daily Democrat, 30 August 1906, p. 3; images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863444893/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999278906/).'
    occ: [O06542, O06543]
  rhtmove1906:
    text: '[Local news], The Rich Hill Tribune (Rich Hill, Missouri), 6 September 1906, p. 5: "Leonard Hegnauer and family, of Pleasant Gap township, an old and valued friend of the TRIBUNE has removed from Bates county and taken up his residence in Appleton City"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/80091186/).'
    occ: [O06545]
  acjtemp1906:
    text: '[Local news], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 27 September 1906, p. 4: "Mr. L. Hegenauer, for many years one of Bates county''s most substantial and useful citizens, but now temporarily residing in Appleton City for the purpose of sending his youngest son to the Academy"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863444980/).'
    occ: [O06546]
  bank1907:
    text: '[Rockville write-up], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 28 February 1907, p. 4: the Bank of Rockville, "housed in a new, modern, up-to-date building"; "The officers are J. C. Laughlin, President; L. Hegnauer, Vice-President and W. E. Heyle, Cashier"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863445691/).'
    occ: [O06552]
  link1907:
    text: '[Local news], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 11 April 1907, p. 7: "L. Hegenauer, a good solid citizen of Bates county, who is a resident of Appleton City while educating his son at the Academy, called Friday to renew his subscription ... Mr. Hegenauer''s son-in-law, Joe Link ... is now spending considerable time at his father-in-law''s home here for the purpose of taking treatment from a specialist and Mr. Hegenauer goes to Mr. Link''s farm to look after things"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863445818/). Also 27 June 1907, p. 5: a surgical operation "on Jos. Link, a well known farmer near Prairie City and son-in-law of L. Hegeneaur, of Appleton City" (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863446311/; the same in The Republican Press, Butler, 5 July 1907, p. 3, https://www.newspapers.com/image/999650443/).'
    occ: [O06553]
  electric1907:
    text: '[The electric-light plant], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 28 November 1907, p. 8: "In a few days the following will be wired: L. Hegnauer, Residence. First National Bank. Mrs. Woodworth''s Residence ..."; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863446906/).'
    occ: [O06564]
  rockvillebiz:
    text: 'Rockville correspondence and local news, Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri): 13 June 1907, p. 2 ("L. Hegnauer, of Appleton City, attended a bank meeting at Rockville Saturday, Mr. Hegnauer being Vice-President"); 19 September 1907, p. 2; 21 November 1907, p. 6 ("L. Hegnauer, of Appleton City, and vice-president of the bank of Rockville, was doing business here Wednesday"); 16 October 1913, p. 4; 14 May 1914, p. 8 ("Lenard Hegnauer of Appleton City attended the meeting of directors of the Rockville bank Saturday"); 17 September 1914, p. 2; with The Republican Press (Butler, Missouri), 21 June 1907, p. 2, and 29 November 1907, p. 2; images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863446211/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863446627/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863446888/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863310446/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863311311/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863311657/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999650350/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999651350/).'
    occ: [O06555, O06559, O06562, O06613, O06614, O06556, O06563]
  clara1907:
    text: '"Married at Rockville" (from the Appleton City Tribune), The Republican Press (Butler, Missouri), 27 December 1907, p. 2: the marriage of Walter Sweezy and Clara Hegnauer at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Hegnauer; "The bride is a granddaughter of our fellow townsman, Mr. L. Hegnauer and wife"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999651564/). Also the Appleton City Journal, 26 December 1907, p. 6 (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863446966/).'
    occ: [O06569]
  cityjudge:
    text: 'Judges of the Appleton City elections, Second Ward: The Appleton City Tribune (Appleton City, Missouri), 3 March 1908, p. 1, 17 March 1908, p. 4 ("Leonard Hegnauer"), 26 May 1908, p. 4 (city warrant "233 L Hegnauer 1.50"), and 16 March 1909, p. 4; Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 1 April 1909, p. 2, 10 March 1910, p. 5, 21 March 1912, p. 6 ("Judges—L. Hegneaur, R. M. Daniels, Will Snodgrass and W. B. Leslie"), and 13 March 1913, p. 1 (Republican judges and clerks); images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863263009/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863263125/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863263582/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863058147/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863282540/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863284100/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863290604/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863308785/).'
    occ: [O06575, O06576, O06582, O06593, O06596, O06599, O06609]
  primary1908:
    text: '[Judges for the August primary], St. Clair County Courier (Osceola, Missouri), 9 July 1908, p. 5: "Appleton township—George Vogle, J M Mock, L Hegnauer" (the first three Republicans); also The Appleton City Tribune, 14 July 1908, p. 1; images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863269010/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863263900/).'
    occ: [O06583, O06584]
  academy1908:
    text: '"Helping It Along: A Partial List of Those Who Are Going to See The New Academy Built," Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 9 July 1908, p. 1: contributors to the Academy fund, among them "L. Hagnauer, 50"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863280329/).'
  bankad1908:
    text: 'Advertisement of the Bank of Rockville, "J. C. LAUGHLIN, Pres. L. HEGNAUER, Vice-Pres. W. E. HEYLE, Cashier," The Rockville Booster (Rockville, Missouri), 21 August 1908, p. 4, 19 February 1909, p. 1, 5 March 1909, p. 8, and 19 March 1909, p. 5; images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/1000726706/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/1000727140/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/1000727167/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/1000727192/).'
    occ: [O06588, O06589, O06590]
  journal:
    text: 'Subscription notices, Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri): 24 October 1907, p. 1 ("L. Hegeneaur, a most highly esteemed citizen of the Prairie Queen, called Friday to renew the subscription of his son, Leonard Hegnauer, Urbana, Ill."); 23 April 1908, p. 6; 26 November 1908, p. 6; 8 April 1909, p. 1 ("The Journal''s esteemed friend and loyal fellow-townsman, L. Heg[neau]r, enrolls the name of his son-in-law, Joe Link, a prominent farmer near Prairie City"); 20 April 1911, p. 8 ("L. Hegneaur, one of Appleton City''s good citizens and a loyal friend to The Journal, has our thanks for the substantial favors during the past week"); images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863446739/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863447110/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863281628/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863282582/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863286982/).'
    occ: [O06560, O06581, O06591]
  sonvisit1908:
    text: '[Local news], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 23 July 1908, p. 6: "Prof. Leonard Hegenauer, of the Urbana, Ill., Agricultural College, who had been visiting at the home of his father, L. Hegenauer, in Appleton City for a few days, left for home Thursday, accompanied by his brother, Robert"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863280483/).'
    occ: [O06586]
  tontz1909:
    text: '[Local news], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 8 July 1909, p. 4: "C. Tontz, a prominent citizen of Alhambra, Ill., is visiting at the home of L. Hegnauer in the south-east part of the city. The gentleman are cousins"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863282723/).'
  tontz1910:
    text: '[Local news], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 6 January 1910, p. 1: "Robert Tontz and wife, of Highland, Ill., are visiting at the home of L. Hegnauer in the southeast part of the city. Mr. Tontz is a nephew of Mr. Hegnauer"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863283650/).'
    occ: [O06597]
  oldtimers1910:
    text: '[Local news], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 6 January 1910, p. 8: "The Journal is waiting patiently to hear from ''Squire Wm. Prier, F. I. Johnson, L. Hegnauer, Thayer ''Squire Vannice and other ''old timers'' in this locality as to the year when we ever before had a winter like the present"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863283693/).'
    occ: [O06598]
  bacon1910:
    text: '"Hudson" [correspondence], The Butler Times-Press (Butler, Missouri), 9 April 1910, p. 5: "Speaking of high prices, while in Appleton City last Friday, our old friend Leonard Hegneaur said ''When Tony Hammers and I came to Bates county in 1867 we paid 22 cents a pound for bacon at Papinville.''"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999429423/).'
  corn1911:
    text: '"Appleton City Man as Corn Judge" (from the Champaign Daily Gazette), Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 5 January 1911, p. 6: "R. L. Hegnauer, son of Max [sic] Hegnauer of this city"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863285599/).'
    occ: [O06603]
  laughlin1911:
    text: '"J. C. Laughlin Dead," Butler Daily Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 4 February 1911, p. 3: Jasper C. Laughlin died at his home near Rockville on Friday morning, 3 February [1911], after an illness of several months, and "at the time of his death was president of the Rockville bank"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999134037/).'
  link1911:
    text: '"Matters of Record," Butler Daily Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 6 February 1911, p. 2: "Leonard Hegnauer to J. M. Link, 40 a sec. 23, Pleasant Gap, $2800"; the same in the Rich Hill Mining Review, 9 February 1911, p. 2, and the Bates County Democrat, 9 February 1911, p. 3; The Butler Times-Press, 18 February 1911, p. 2, prints "L Hegnaur to J M Link 40 a sec 23 Pleasant Gap ... 1800"; images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999134063/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/1000581754/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999416812/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999047477/).'
    occ: [O06604]
  visit1911:
    text: '[Local news], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 27 April 1911, p. 8: "Mrs. Louisa Hirschi and daughters, Misses Amelia and Marie, from Highland, Ill., arrived in Appleton City Tuesday morning to join Mrs. Chris. Tontz and daughter, Miss Rose, of Alhambra, Ill., in a visit at the home of Mr and Mrs. L. Hegneaur in the south-west part of the city"; and 4 May 1911, p. 7: "Mrs. C. Tontz, and daughter, Miss Rose, of Alhambra, Ill., and Mrs. Louisa Hirschi and daughters, Misses Amelia and Mary, of High[land], Ill., who were very pleasing and happy guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hegneaur, of this city, left for their respective homes last week. The ladies made friends of all whom they met"; images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863287076/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863287151/).'
  decoration1911:
    text: '[Decoration Day at the Appleton City Cemetery], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 8 June 1911, p. 3: "The graves of fifty-six Union and six Confederate soldiers were decorated with the American flag and beautiful flowers. The following old soldiers who were enlisted in the Union army attended the services at the Methodist church.—T. C. Brown, ... L. Hegnauer ..."; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863287596/).'
  robert1911:
    text: '[Local news], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri): 22 June 1911, p. 1 ("Robert Hegneaur, a well known Appleton City young man and son of Mr. L. Hegneaur, living in the southwest part of the city"); 24 August 1911, p. 4; 21 September 1911, p. 8 ("Robert Hegneaur and wife, who have been visiting at the home of Robert''s father, Mr. L. Hegneaur, in the city during the summer vacation left Sunday for Urbana, Ill."); images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863287762/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863288097/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863288540/).'
    occ: [O06607]
  marie1913:
    text: '[Local news], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 12 June 1913, p. 3: "Miss Marie Hegnauer returned to her home at Pierce City [probably a misprint for Prairie City], Friday after a few day''s visit with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hegnauer"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863309881/).'
    occ: [O06610]
  robert1914:
    text: '[Local news], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 25 June 1914, p. 7: "R. L. Hegnauer and wife of Wells, Minn., arrived in this city Saturday mornig for a ten day''s visit with the former''s parents, L. Hegnauer and wife and numerous friends"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863311425/).'
    occ: [O06617]
  reunion1915:
    text: '"Hegnauer Family Reunion," Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 26 August 1915, p. 1: "Sunday, August 22, was a day long to be remembered by Mr. and Mrs. L. Hegnauer of this city, and their near relatives and a few friends. The day was most pleasantly spent at the country home of Chris Hegnauer in the Prairie City neighborhood, where Grandpa and Grandma Hegnauer formerly lived. A big reunion is held each year ... It was a grand meeting of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Two sons, Leonard, of Texas, and Robert, of Minnesota, were unable to be present"; about sixty people; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863312563/).'
    occ: [O06619]
  sick1916:
    text: '"Route Number 1," The Rockville Booster (Rockville, Missouri), 14 January 1916, p. 4: "Mrs. Fred Hammar returned from Appleton Monday where she has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Hegnauer, who have been on the sick list"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/953552373/). Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 27 January 1916, p. 5: "L. Hegnauer and H. C. Grider, who were numbered among the grippe sufferers, are able to be around town again after being confined to their homes for a few weeks" (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863313090/).'
    occ: [O06634]
  bank1916:
    text: '"Bank of Rockville," The Rockville Booster (Rockville, Missouri), 14 January 1916, p. 4: the bank, established in 1890, had reached "the half-way station" of its fifty-year charter; "With L. Hagnauer, president; J. E. Hook, Vice-President and W. E. Heyle Cashier, this bank is in the hands of men well up in the banking business and in whom the utmost confidence may safely be placed"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/953552373/). Reprinted in the Butler Daily Democrat, 17 January 1916, p. 1 (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999171655/).'
    occ: [O06634]
  bankstmt1916:
    text: 'Statement of the Bank of Rockville, The Rockville Booster (Rockville, Missouri), 17 March 1916, p. 4: total resources $143,309.05; "We, L. Hegnauer as president, and W. E. Heyle as cashier of said bank, each of us, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of our knowledge and belief. L. HEGNAUER, President"; sworn 16 March 1916 before S. M. Doyle, notary; attested by L. Hegnauer and others as directors; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/953552590/).'
  linkdeath1916:
    text: '"Death of Joe Link," Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 28 September 1916, p. 1: Joseph M. Link died at Rich Hill "last Friday morning"; "He was married October 24th, 1895, to Katie Hegnauer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hegnauer of this city"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863313703/).'
    occ: [O06640]
  visit1916:
    text: '[Local news], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 26 October 1916, p. 5: "Mrs. C. Tontz, of Alhambra, Ills., Mrs. Louisa Hirschi, of Highland, Ill., and Mr. and Mrs. Emil Hitz and daughter Edna, of St. Louis, have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hegnauer of this city and other relatives over in Bates county for the past several days"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863313813/).'
    occ: [O06642]
  acjdeath1916:
    text: '"Another Pioneer Passes," Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 2 November 1916, p. 1: Leonard Hegnauer "died at his home Tuesday afternoon of paralysis, after but a few days'' illness. He was stricken down only last Friday"; the funeral "will not be held until Sunday at 1:30 o''clock, awaiting the arrival of a son, Leonard, from the State of Washington. The body will be taken to Prairie City today (Wednesday)"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863313827/).'
    occ: [O06645]
  robert1916:
    text: 'Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 2 November 1916, p. 5: "Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hegnauer, of Wells, Minn., arrived in this city Saturday evening, being summoned here on account of the serious illness of the former''s father" (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863313843/); and 16 November 1916, p. 5: they "left Friday for their home at Wells" (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863313900/). The Wells Mirror (Wells, Minnesota), 1 November 1916, p. 6: "Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Hegnauer were summoned to Appleton, Wisconsin [sic], Friday on account of the serious illness of Mr. Hegnauer''s father" (https://www.newspapers.com/image/1025547961/). The Forum-Advocate (Wells, Minnesota), 2 November 1916, p. 5 ("summoned to Appleton, Missouri on Friday evening"), 9 November 1916, p. 5 ("announcing the death of Mr. Hegnauer''s father from paralysis. Funeral services were held on Sunday"), and 16 November 1916, p. 3 (returned home "Saturday evening"); images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/1025199488/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/1025199573/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/1025199623/).'
    occ: [O06649, O06674]
  leonard1916:
    text: '[Local news], Butler Daily Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 6 November 1916, p. 3: "Leonard Hegnauer, Jr., who was called here to attend the funeral of his father, Leonard Hegnauer, Sr., who was buried at Prairie City, Sunday, departed Monday for his home in Pullman, Washington"; the same in the Bates County Democrat, 9 November 1916, p. 5, and, reworded, The Republican Press, 10 November 1916, p. 5; images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999194299/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999431206/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999655750/).'
    occ: [O06651, O06653, O06655]
  rockville1916:
    text: '"Rockville" [correspondence], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 9 November 1916, p. 2: friends from Rockville at the funeral at Prairie City Sunday; "Mr. Hegnauer was one of the founders of the Bank of Rockville and was president of that institution at the time of his death. He was a Christian gentleman and highly esteemed by the business men of Rockville"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863313861/). "Pleasant Gap," the same issue, p. 4: "A large crowd attended the funeral of Leonard Hegnauer of Appleton City at the Reformed church Sunday afternoon" (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863313868/).'
    occ: [O06656, O06657]
  gar1916:
    text: '"Resolutions," Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 9 November 1916, p. 8: "Passed by Gen. J. B. Steadman Post No. 172, G. A. R., Department of Missouri. Whereas, In the demise of Comrade Leonard Hegnauer, late of Co. E, 4th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and a member of this Post, which occurred at his home in Appleton City, Missouri, October 31, 1916, we have sustained the loss of a worthy member ... His patriotism was intense and his admiration for the Stars and Stripes of his adopted country were all that could be expected of a native born"; committee James Mock, E. B. Smith and T. D. Thayer; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863313881/).'
    occ: [O06658]
  third1916:
    text: '"The Third President" (from the Rockville Booster), Butler Daily Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 13 November 1916, p. 1: the cashier, W. E. Heyle, more than twenty-five years with the Bank of Rockville, said that L. Hegnauer was the third president of the bank to die in his time, after Frederick Fix and Mr. Laughlin; reprinted in the Bates County Democrat, 16 November 1916, p. 5; images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999194877/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999431279/).'
    occ: [O06670, O06671]
  admin1916:
    text: '"Administrator''s Notice," Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 30 November 1916, p. 7, repeated 7 December (p. 7), 14 December (p. 2) and 21 December 1916 (p. 2): letters of administration on the estate of Leonard Hegnauer, deceased, granted by the Probate Court of St. Clair County, Missouri, on 21 November 1916 to Christian Hegnauer, administrator; images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863313976/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863313990/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863314029/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863314042/).'
    occ: [O06675, O06677, O06679, O06681]
  probate1917:
    text: 'Probate calendar, Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 12 July 1917, p. 4, and weekly to 9 August 1917: under "Tuesday, August 14, 1917", "Leonard Hegnauer, Dec''d., Chris Hegnauer, Admr. First semi-annual settlement"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863297840/).'
    occ: [O06689, O06691, O06693, O06695, O06697, O06699]
  probate1918:
    text: 'Probate notices, Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri): calendar of 10 January 1918, p. 8, under "Tuesday, February 12, 1918": "Leonard Hegnauer, Decd.; C. Hegnauer, Admr. Final settlement" (also the Lowry City Independent, 17 January 1918, p. 4, and the Journal of 24 January 1918, p. 2); "Notice of Final Settlement," 14 March 1918, p. 6: Christian Hegnauer, administrator, to make final settlement at the next term of the St. Clair County Probate Court at Osceola, "beginning on the 13th day of May, A. D., 1918" (first publication 14 March 1918); calendar of 11 April 1918, p. 6, under "Tuesday, May 14, 1918": "Lenorad [Leonard] Hegnauer, Deceased; [C.] Hegnauer, Admr. Final settlement"; the same calendar in the St. Clair County Republican (Osceola, Missouri), 2 May 1918, p. 7; images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863299088/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863289273/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863299107/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863299369/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/863299402/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/1206018187/).'
    occ: [O06704, O06706, O06708, O06712, O06511]
  house1918:
    text: '[Sales of town properties by Mills & Routsong], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 14 March 1918, p. 1: "Chris. Hegnauer residence in west part of town to A. Doerflinger"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863299348/).'
    occ: [O06710]
  fair1893:
    text: '"Prairie City Notes," Butler Daily Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 6 June 1893, p. 1: "Leonard Hegenaur went to Chicago last week to take in the fair"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999180305/).'
    occ: [O06380]
  okla1900:
    text: '"Prairie City and Papinville," Rich Hill Mining Review (Rich Hill, Missouri), 4 October 1900, p. 2: "Messrs. Hegnaur, Steiner and Hammer returned Wednesday from Oklahoma"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/1000380859/).'
    occ: [O06438]

Replace the text of two existing citations.

  booster:
    text: '"Gone to His Reward" (from the Rockville Booster), The Republican Press (Butler, Missouri), 10 November 1916, p. 3, obituary of Leonard Hegenauer; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999655738/). The same text in a clipping photographed by jnel126, "Leonhard Hegnauer Obit," Ancestry member tree 154982007, 10 November 2018. The Rockville Booster of November 1916 is not on Newspapers.com.'
    ancestry_url: https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/154982007/person/212045609209/media/f68bbbbe-a677-42bc-8e25-26e4cbac41ff
    occ: [O06659]
  btp1897:
    text: '[Bank of Rockville officers], The Butler Times-Press (Butler, Missouri), 16 October 1897, p. 3: J. C. Laughlin and J. B. Durand resigned; ex-Judge Fred Fix elected president and L. Hegnauer vice president (from the Rockville Gimlet); image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999417331/). The same report in the Butler Daily Democrat, 12 October 1897, p. 4 ("Messrs. Fix and Hegnauer are good substantial farmers and careful business men"), and the Bates County Democrat, 14 October 1897, p. 5 (https://www.newspapers.com/image/999274256/; https://www.newspapers.com/image/999431759/).'
    occ: [O06247, O06414, O06415]

1b. H0003: facts

New facts. Insert each in date order.

  - type: event
    label: Stray appraiser
    date: Dec 1873
    place: Pleasant Gap Township, Bates, Missouri, United States
    note: 'With Carl Hubner, appraised a bay pony taken up as a stray by Anton Hammer on 2 Dec 1873 ($28), and with Anton Hammer a steer taken up by Carl Hubner the same day, before J. W. Brooks, J.P.'
    cite: [stray1873]
    reason: 'The notices give his full name, "Leonard Hegnauer", beside his neighbours Anton Hammer and Carl Hubner of Pleasant Gap Township; his son Leonard was a year old.'
  - type: event
    label: Political candidate
    date: 4 Nov 1884
    place: Bates, Missouri, United States
    note: 'Probable. Republican candidate for county treasurer; lost to R. S. Catron (Democrat), 3,771 votes to 3,072. A Pleasant Gap delegate ("L Hagenauer") to the Republican county convention at Butler on 30 Aug 1884.'
    cite: [conv1884, treas1884]
    reason: 'The Bates County Republican names the candidate "L. Hegnaner" and the Weekly Times table "Hegnauer, R." (R. for Republican). Only two men of the name were of age in 1884: Leonhard, 41, a landowner of Pleasant Gap, and his father Luzius, 64, who owned no known land in the county. Probable, because the print gives only the initial.'
  - type: event
    label: Political candidate
    date: 8 Nov 1892
    place: Bates, Missouri, United States
    note: 'Probable. Republican candidate ("L. Hegenour") for judge of the county court for the Southern District; lost to Fred Fix (Democrat), 1,637 votes to 1,188, with 933 for Lyle.'
    cite: [judge1892]
    reason: 'The Butler Daily Democrat names "L. Hegenour, candidate for Judge for the Southern district, on the Republican ticket". His father was 72 and his son 20; Leonhard, of the south-east of the county, was then the family''s man in public business. Probable, because only the initial is printed.'
  - type: event
    label: Juror, election judge and delegate
    qualifier: between
    date: "1893"
    date_to: "1906"
    place: Bates, Missouri, United States
    note: 'Probable. Petit juror drawn for the November 1893 term of the circuit court ("L Hegenaur, Pleasant Gap"); judge of election at Pleasant Gap in 1894, paid $1.50; delegate to the Republican county conventions of 1898 and 1902; petit juror drawn for the October 1906 term ("Rockville—Leonard Hagnauer"; his post office was R.F.D. 1, Rockville).'
    cite: [juror1893, elect1894, conv1898, conv1902, juror1906, subscriber1906]
    reason: 'Each notice gives only "L." or a bare "Leonard". The son Leonard left for the university at Columbia in the week the 1893 jury was printed, and was working in Illinois in 1902 and 1906; the grandson Leonard S. was 15 in 1906; no other Leonard Hegnauer lived in the county. Probable.'
  - type: membership
    label: Ancient Order of United Workmen
    date: Jun 1901
    place: Bates, Missouri, United States
    note: 'Probable. On the committee of Oro Lodge No. 153, A.O.U.W., that wrote the resolutions on the death of Fred Fix ("L. HEGNAUR, J. FINKLANG, W. T. KEMPER"), which implies membership.'
    cite: [aouw1901]
    reason: 'Fix was his fellow director at the Bank of Rockville, and Jacob Finklang worked with him again in 1903 (moving the Prairie City pastor). The print gives only the initial, and his son Leonard, then teaching in Illinois, may have been home for the summer. Probable.'
  - type: residence
    date: 28 Aug 1906
    place: Appleton City, St. Clair, Missouri, United States
    note: 'Moved on Tuesday 28 Aug 1906 from Pleasant Gap Township into the Deardoff residence in the south-west part of Appleton City, so that his son Robert could attend the Appleton City Academy. The Journal called it a temporary residence in Sep 1906, but he lived there until his death.'
    cite: [acjmove1906, rhtmove1906, acjtemp1906, census1910]
    reason: 'The Appleton City Journal of Thursday 30 Aug 1906 reports the move "on Tuesday", and the Rich Hill Tribune of 6 Sep 1906 his removal from Bates County. This replaces the obituaries'' "about ten years ago" and the 1918 county history''s 1911.'
  - type: property
    label: Land sale
    date: Feb 1911
    place: Pleasant Gap Township, Bates, Missouri, United States
    note: 'Probable. "Leonard Hegnauer to J. M. Link, 40 a sec. 23, Pleasant Gap, $2800" (three printings; the Butler Times-Press prints $1,800). J. M. Link was his son-in-law.'
    cite: [link1911]
    reason: 'The transfer lists give no residence or wife. His son Leonard, then in Oregon or Illinois, is the only other adult Leonard Hegnauer; the grantee was Leonhard''s son-in-law, farming in Pleasant Gap. Probable until the deed is read.'
  - type: event
    label: Election judge
    qualifier: between
    date: "1908"
    date_to: "1913"
    place: Appleton City, St. Clair, Missouri, United States
    note: 'Judge of the Appleton City elections in the Second Ward in 1908, 1909, 1910, 1912 and 1913 (paid $1.50 in 1908), and a Republican judge for Appleton Township at the primary of Aug 1908.'
    cite: [cityjudge, primary1908]
    reason: 'The city council''s notices name "Leonard Hegnauer" or "L. Hegnauer" of the Second Ward, where the 1910 census lists him; no other L. Hegnauer lived in the town.'
  - type: membership
    label: Grand Army of the Republic
    date: "1916"
    place: Appleton City, St. Clair, Missouri, United States
    note: 'A member, at his death, of Gen. J. B. Steadman Post No. 172, G.A.R., Department of Missouri, at Appleton City, which passed resolutions on his death; its members were his pall bearers. He registered at the veterans'' reunion at Springfield in Aug 1897 ("L. Hegnauer, Co. E, 4th Mo.") and was among the Union veterans at the Decoration Day services in Appleton City in 1911.'
    cite: [gar1916, acj1916, reunion1897, decoration1911]
    reason: 'The resolutions name "Comrade Leonard Hegnauer, late of Co. E, 4th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and a member of this Post". The Springfield roster gives his company and regiment (his father served in Co. F).'
  - type: probate
    label: Estate
    qualifier: between
    date: 21 Nov 1916
    date_to: 14 May 1918
    place: St. Clair, Missouri, United States
    note: 'Letters of administration granted to his son Christian Hegnauer by the St. Clair County Probate Court on 21 Nov 1916; first semi-annual settlement docketed for 14 Aug 1917; final settlement docketed for 12 Feb 1918 and, after a notice first published on 14 Mar 1918, for 14 May 1918, at the term beginning 13 May 1918 at Osceola. The probate file has not been read.'
    cite: [admin1916, probate1917, probate1918]
    reason: 'The administrator''s notice, the court''s calendars and the notice of final settlement, printed in the Appleton City Journal, the Lowry City Independent and the St. Clair County Republican.'

Replace the existing Bank of Rockville fact (type: occupation, 1897–1916) with:

  - type: occupation
    qualifier: between
    date: "1890"
    date_to: "1916"
    place: Rockville, Bates, Missouri, United States
    note: 'Bank of Rockville: a stockholder when it was organised in Sep 1890; a director by Jan 1897; elected vice-president in Oct 1897 under Fred Fix; a director on the statements of 1903–08 and vice-president by 1907 under J. C. Laughlin, who was president again after Fix''s death in 1901; president after Laughlin''s death on 3 Feb 1911, signing the statements as president in 1916. Farmer and dairyman on the home place until Aug 1906.'
    cite: [bank1890, bankdir1897, btp1897, bankstmts, bank1907, bankad1908, laughlin1911, bank1916, bankstmt1916, acj1916, booster, rockville1916, third1916, bateshist]
    reason: 'Contemporary notices give each stage: the stockholders'' list of 1890, the directors'' meeting of Jan 1897, the election of Oct 1897, the statements and advertisements of 1903–09 and 1916, and the Booster''s article of Jan 1916 ("L. Hagnauer, president"). Both obituaries say he became president soon after Laughlin''s death, and Laughlin died on 3 Feb 1911 as president. The date of his own election has not been found.'

Replace the note of the 1910 residence fact with: 'Appleton Ward 2. Moved to Appleton City on 28 Aug 1906; with wife Susan and son Robert L.', and add acjmove1906 to its cite.

Death fact. Replace cite and reason:

    cite: [deathcert, deathcopy, acjdeath1916, acj1916, booster, gar1916, robert1916, stclairobit]
    reason: The Missouri death certificate (no. 38609, indexed as "Leonard Hagmauer") and the physician's copy filed with the pension claim give 31 Oct 1916 at Appleton City and a birth date matching the Igis baptism; the informant was his daughter Mrs. Fred Hammer. The Appleton City Journal's death notice (2 Nov 1916) and both obituaries give Tuesday afternoon, 31 Oct 1916, at his home, after a stroke on Friday 27 Oct; the G.A.R. resolutions repeat the date and place.

Burial fact. Replace note and cite:

    note: 'Reform Cemetery, beside the German Reformed church north of Prairie City (the 1895 plat shows the church at the SE corner of Sec. 35, T39N R30W). The body was taken to Prairie City on Wednesday 1 Nov and lay at his son Christian''s home; the funeral was put off to Sunday 5 Nov to wait for his son Leonard from Pullman, Washington, and was held at the church at 2 p.m. (the death notice had said 1:30), conducted by Rev. Neuenschwander of Lowry City; G.A.R. pall bearers; undertaker Fred Luchsinger. Double stone with his wife Susanna.'
    cite: [deathcopy, acjdeath1916, acj1916, booster, leonard1916, rockville1916, gar1916, findagrave, gravephoto]

1c. H0038 (Susanna): new citations

Copy these from §1a exactly: acjmove1906, clara1907, visit1911, marie1913, robert1914, reunion1915, sick1916, linkdeath1916, visit1916, house1918. On H0038 their occ lists become: clara1907 [O06570], marie1913 [O06611], robert1914 [O06618], reunion1915 [O06620], sick1916 [O06635], linkdeath1916 [O06641], visit1916 [O06643]; acjmove1906, visit1911 and house1918 have no row for her. Then add:

  okla1907:
    text: '[Local news], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 12 September 1907, p. 8: "Mrs. Hegnauer and son, Robert, of this city, returned Thursday from a week''s visit with relatives in Oklahoma"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863446618/).'
    occ: [O06557]
  birthday1913:
    text: '"Celebrated 70th Birthday," Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 15 May 1913, p. 1: Mrs. T. D. Thayer''s seventieth birthday, at her home in Appleton City on Friday 9 May, when "a few neighbors and friends, by special invitation from her daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Duncan," gathered there; among them "Mesdames Waggoner, Lawrence, Short, House, Walls, Luchsinger, Clark, Wells, Davidson, Zimmermann, Duncan, Howell, Hegnaeur, Messick, Donnohue, J. B. Jurado and Miss Stephenson"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863309151/).'
  grandma1917:
    text: '"Pleasant Gap" [correspondence], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 1 February 1917, p. 4: "Mrs. D. B. Sweezy and Mrs. Walter Sweezy spent Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Fred Hammer and ''Grandma'' Hegnauer" (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863295091/); and 26 April 1917, p. 4: "Mrs. Chris Fox called on grand ma Hegnauer Thursday afternoon. She is staying with her daughter, Mrs. Fred Hammer" (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863297341/); images, Newspapers.com.'
    occ: [O06683, O06687]
  carthage1917:
    text: '"Pleasant Gap" [correspondence], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 25 October 1917, p. 4: "Mrs. Fred Hammer and mother, Mrs. Hegnauer, visited relatives in Carthage last week"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/863298566/).'
    occ: [O06701]
  wells1918:
    text: '[Local news], The Wells Mirror (Wells, Minnesota), 20 February 1918, p. 6: "R. L. Hegnauer left for Rockville, Mo., Wednesday evening to attend the funeral of his mother which hade [sic] occurred Tuesday and of which he had been notified by a message Tuesday afternoon. The message announcing her death came as a complete surprise to him, as he had not been advised of her illness. A letter had been dispatched by his sister telling him of his mother''s illness, which, however, he did not receive until after he had received the message"; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/1025590692/). The Forum-Advocate (Wells, Minnesota), 21 February 1918, p. 5: "R. L. Hegnauer was summoned to Rockville, Mo., on Wednesday evening of last week by the death of his mother who passed away on Tuesday February 12th. Funeral services were held on Friday, February 15th" (https://www.newspapers.com/image/1025101280/).'

1d. H0038: facts

New facts.

  - type: residence
    date: 28 Aug 1906
    place: Appleton City, St. Clair, Missouri, United States
    note: 'Moved on Tuesday 28 Aug 1906, with her husband and their son Robert, from Pleasant Gap Township to the Deardoff residence in the south-west part of Appleton City, so that Robert could attend the Academy; she lived there until her husband''s death in Oct 1916.'
    cite: [acjmove1906, census1910, visit1911, visit1916]
    reason: 'The Appleton City Journal of Thursday 30 Aug 1906 reports the family''s move "on Tuesday"; she is at the house with her husband in the notices of 1911 and Oct 1916 and in the 1910 census.'
  - type: residence
    qualifier: between
    date: Nov 1916
    date_to: Feb 1918
    place: Pleasant Gap Township, Bates, Missouri, United States
    note: 'After her husband''s death she lived with her daughter Mary (Mrs. Fred Hammer), R.F.D. 1, Rockville ("She is staying with her daughter, Mrs. Fred Hammer", Apr 1917); neighbours called on "Grandma" Hegnauer there in Feb and Apr 1917, and in Oct 1917 she and Mary visited relatives in Carthage. She died at the home of her son Christian near Prairie City.'
    cite: [grandma1917, carthage1917, acj1918, deathcert]
    reason: 'The Pleasant Gap correspondent names her with Mrs. Fred Hammer, her daughter; her obituary says she "again returned to the Prairie City vicinity to live with her daughters and son", and her death certificate and the Journal place her death at Christian''s home.'

Replace the note of the 1910 residence fact: change "The couple had retired from the farm to Appleton City about 1906–1907." to "The couple had moved from the farm to Appleton City on 28 Aug 1906." and add acjmove1906 to its cite.

Death fact. Add wells1918 to cite, and add this sentence to the end of reason: ' Two papers of Wells, Minnesota, where her son Robert lived, confirm Tuesday: he was notified of her death by a message on Tuesday afternoon, and "his mother ... passed away on Tuesday February 12th".'

Burial fact. Add wells1918 to cite, and add to reason: ' The Forum-Advocate of Wells, Minnesota, independently gives "Funeral services were held on Friday, February 15th".'

Working notes 2. Suggested biography paragraphs

2a. H0003

In "### Marriage and Pleasant Gap", second paragraph, replace "In 1869 the young family moved there, crossing the state in wagons pulled by ox-teams, a three-week journey; the nearest railroad station was fifty miles away at Pleasant Hill.[@bateshist][@booster]" with:

In 1869 the young family moved there, crossing the state in wagons pulled by ox-teams, a three-week journey; the nearest railroad station was fifty miles away at Pleasant Hill.[@bateshist] Forty years later Leonhard still remembered that when he and "Tony" Hammer first came to Bates County, bacon cost 22 cents a pound at Papinville.[@bacon1910]

Third paragraph ("Leonhard prospered."), insert after "...and he came to own 405 acres.[@bateshist]":

The local papers, which usually named him only as L. Hegnauer, probably mean him when they call him and Anton Hammer "two of Prairie township's substantial farmers" in 1890, list him among twenty farmers of south-east Bates County who bought an English Shire stallion for $1,900 in 1891, and report in 1892 that "one of oldest settlers in Pleasant Gap neighborhood" had bought a Kimball organ.[@farmers1890][@shire1891][@organ1892] In June 1893 "Leonard Hegnauer Sr., a prominent citizen of Prairie City", went over to Appleton City to see his son Leonard graduate from the Academy.[@commencement1893] The Rich Hill Tribune, reporting his trips to town, called him "one of Bates county's best and most prosperous farmers" in 1902, and in 1905, when he brought in a load of produce, "one of our up-to-date farmers".[@rht1902][@rhtvisits]

Fourth paragraph, replace "His neighbours trusted him with their affairs. In December 1886 he was an appraiser..." to the end of the paragraph with:

His neighbours trusted him with their affairs. In December 1873 Anton Hammer and Carl Hubner called on him to appraise the strays they had taken up,[@stray1873] in December 1886 he was an appraiser of the estate of Peter Grob, probably the Swiss farmer who had lived in his house in 1870, and he witnessed the wills of John Peter Kamm in 1893 and Melchior Schreiter in 1902.[@batesft][@census1870] When Rev. Otto Roerich, who had been preaching at Prairie City, had to give up his work through ill health in 1903, Leonhard and Jacob Finklang hauled his household goods to Rich Hill for shipment.[@roerich1903]

New paragraph at the end of "### Marriage and Pleasant Gap":

Leonhard was a Republican. The local papers name an L. or Leonard Hegnauer of Pleasant Gap, very probably he, as a delegate to the party's county conventions of 1884, 1898 and 1902, a petit juror in 1893 and 1906 and a judge of election in 1894,[@conv1884][@conv1898][@conv1902][@juror1893][@juror1906][@elect1894] and as the Republican candidate for county treasurer in 1884, when he lost to the Democrat R. S. Catron by 3,771 votes to 3,072.[@treas1884] In 1892 the same man, printed "L. Hegenour", stood for judge of the county court for the Southern District and lost to Fred Fix, a Democrat, by 1,637 votes to 1,188, with 933 for a third candidate; the week before the election he was in Butler "heaping coals of fire on the devoted heads of those who sold out a portion of the Republican ticket".[@judge1892] In October 1900 Leonhard told the Butler Times-Press that Bryan would not receive "a single German vote, except those always Democratic of which there are a few".[@btp1900] The next summer the Rich Hill Tribune called him "a reliable Republican always" and "one of Bates county's substantial farmers who understands politics as well as agriculture".[@rht1901]

Replace the first paragraph of "### Later years" ("Leonhard was one of the organisers..." to "...pension certificate no. 1,097,644.[@penorg][@pengen]") with these three paragraphs:

Leonhard was one of the organisers and a charter member of the Bank of Rockville: when it was set up in September 1890, with a capital of $10,000, he and Anton Hammer were among its stockholders.[@bank1890][@acj1916][@booster] He was a director by January 1897, and that October the directors elected him vice-president under Fred Fix; a Butler paper called the two men "good substantial farmers and careful business men."[@bankdir1897][@btp1897] Fix died in 1901, and J. C. Laughlin was president again; Leonhard attested the bank's published statements as a director and was its vice-president by 1907, when it had moved into a new building.[@aouw1901][@bankstmts][@bank1907][@bankad1908] Laughlin died on 3 February 1911, and Leonhard succeeded him as president.[@laughlin1911][@acj1916][@booster] He still went over to Rockville for the directors' meetings, and he signed the bank's statements as its president; in January 1916, as the bank passed the halfway point of its fifty-year charter, the Rockville paper wrote that with "L. Hagnauer, president" it was "in the hands of men well up in the banking business and in whom the utmost confidence may safely be placed".[@rockvillebiz][@bank1916][@bankstmt1916]

He was a devoted member of the German Reformed church near his farm.[@acj1916][@booster] He belonged to the Gen. J. B. Steadman Post No. 172 of the Grand Army of the Republic at Appleton City;[@gar1916] in August 1897 he had registered with the Union veterans at the reunion in Springfield as "L. Hegnauer, Co. E, 4th Mo.", and on Decoration Day 1911 he was among the old soldiers at the service in the Methodist church at Appleton City.[@reunion1897][@decoration1911] He applied for a Civil War invalid pension in July 1903, and again in February 1907, and was issued pension certificate no. 1,097,644.[@penorg][@pengen]

On Tuesday, 28 August 1906, Leonhard moved the family from the farm to Appleton City, just across the county line in St. Clair County, into the Deardoff house in the south-west of the town, "in order that his son, who is now entering the threshold of manhood, may attend the Academy".[@acjmove1906][@rhtmove1906] The Journal called the move temporary, but he and Susan stayed for the rest of his life, and their son Christian farmed the old home place; the 1910 census found them in Appleton City with Robert.[@acjtemp1906][@booster][@census1910] In 1908 Leonhard gave $50 to the fund for the Academy's new building,[@academy1908] and from 1908 to 1913 he was one of the judges of the city elections in the Second Ward, and in August 1908 a Republican judge of the primary.[@cityjudge][@primary1908] In January 1910 the Journal said it was waiting to hear from "old timers" such as L. Hegnauer when there had ever before been a winter like that one.[@oldtimers1910]

Insert a new paragraph after those, before "He suffered a paralytic stroke...":

The house was often full of family. When their son-in-law Joe Link fell ill in 1907, he stayed with them to see a specialist, and Leonhard went out to look after his farm.[@link1907] In July 1909 Christian Tontz of Alhambra, Illinois, the husband of Susan's sister Rosina, came to stay; the Journal noted that he and Leonhard were cousins.[@tontz1909] Their son Robert Tontz came in January 1910, and in April 1911 Rosina and her daughter Rose, with Louisa Hirschi and her daughters from Highland, spent several days with them.[@tontz1910][@visit1911] Robert and his wife spent the summer of 1911 in the house,[@robert1911] a granddaughter, Marie, came in 1913,[@marie1913] and in August 1915 about sixty children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren met at Christian's farm, "where Grandpa and Grandma Hegnauer formerly lived", for the family's yearly reunion.[@reunion1915] In January 1916 both were on the sick list; Leonhard had the grippe and was confined to the house for a few weeks.[@sick1916]

Replace the old second paragraph of "### Later years" ("About 1906 Leonhard retired..." to "...[@acj1916][@deathcopy][@findagrave]") with:

Late in October 1916 Susan's sister Rosina Tontz and other relatives from Illinois and St. Louis were visiting.[@visit1916] On Friday, 27 October, Leonhard suffered a paralytic stroke. Robert and his wife were summoned from Wells, Minnesota, that evening and arrived on the Saturday, and Leonhard died at his home on the afternoon of Tuesday, 31 October, aged 73.[@deathcert][@deathcopy][@acjdeath1916][@robert1916][@booster][@stclairobit] The next day his body was taken to Prairie City, where it lay at Christian's home, and the funeral was put off until Sunday, 5 November, so that his son Leonard could come from Pullman, Washington.[@acjdeath1916][@booster][@leonard1916] About a thousand people, friends from Rockville among them, came to the service at the German Reformed church north of Prairie City, where his comrades of the G.A.R. were the pall bearers, and he was buried in the church's Reform Cemetery.[@acj1916][@rockville1916][@deathcopy][@findagrave] His post resolved that his "patriotism was intense and his admiration for the Stars and Stripes of his adopted country were all that could be expected of a native born", and the bank's cashier remarked that he was the third president of the bank to die in his time.[@gar1916][@third1916]

In the closing paragraph, after "...[[H0008|Barbara]] (Mrs. Kamm) of Rich Hill.[@acj1916][@booster]", insert:

His son Christian was granted letters of administration by the St. Clair County Probate Court on 21 November 1916, and the estate came up for final settlement at Osceola in 1918.[@admin1916][@probate1917][@probate1918] In March 1918 Christian sold what was probably his parents' house in the west part of Appleton City.[@house1918]

2b. H0038

Replace the first paragraph of "### Later years" ("About 1907 Susan and Leonhard retired..." to "...survives in the family.[@familyphoto]") with:

On Tuesday, 28 August 1906, Susan and Leonhard left the farm for Appleton City, just across the county line in St. Clair County, so that their youngest son Robert could attend the Academy; they lived in the Deardoff house in the south-west of the town, and the 1910 census found them there with Robert.[@acjmove1906][@census1910] A studio portrait of the couple with their five surviving children, taken about this time, survives in the family.[@familyphoto] In September 1907 Susan and Robert spent a week with relatives in Oklahoma.[@okla1907] Her own family came to stay: her sister Rosina Tontz, of Alhambra, Illinois, came with her daughter Rose, and with Louisa Hirschi and her daughters from Highland, in April 1911, and came again in October 1916.[@visit1911][@visit1916] Susan was very probably the Mrs. Hegnauer among the neighbours who celebrated Mrs. T. D. Thayer's seventieth birthday in May 1913.[@birthday1913] Her granddaughter Marie visited in June 1913 and Robert and his wife came from Minnesota in 1914,[@marie1913][@robert1914] and in August 1915 the family's yearly reunion at Christian's farm, "where Grandpa and Grandma Hegnauer formerly lived", brought together about sixty children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.[@reunion1915] In January 1916 she and Leonhard were both ill.[@sick1916]

In the next paragraph, replace the last sentence ("Afterwards she went back to the Prairie City neighbourhood to live with her daughter Mary Hammer and her son Christian.[@acj1918][@bateshist]") with:

Afterwards she went back to the Prairie City neighbourhood, where she stayed with her daughter Mary Hammer; neighbours called there on "grand ma Hegnauer", and in October 1917 she and Mary visited relatives in Carthage.[@grandma1917][@carthage1917][@acj1918][@bateshist]

In the death paragraph, replace the first sentence with these two:

Early in February 1918 Susan fell ill with pneumonia; she died at Christian's home near Prairie City, in Pleasant Gap Township, at 11:30 in the morning on Tuesday, 12 February 1918, aged seventy-one.[@deathcert][@acj1918][@wells1918] Her son Robert, in Wells, Minnesota, heard of her death by a message that afternoon, before a letter from his sister telling him that she was ill had reached him, and he left for Missouri the next evening.[@wells1918]

and add [@wells1918] to the citations of the sentence "On Friday, 15 February, after a service at the Reformed Church...".

Working notes 3. Corrections to existing statements

3a. H0003

  1. Biography, ox-team journey: the citation [@bateshist][@booster] becomes [@bateshist] (done in §2a). The Rockville Booster obituary, in the Republican Press reprint and in the member's clipping alike, has no ox-team, three-week or Pleasant Hill passage; the passage is in the county history's sketch of Christian, p. 721.
  2. booster citation: replace its text (§1a). The reprinting paper is now identified.
  3. Biography, "He became the bank's president about 1911": now "Laughlin died on 3 February 1911, and Leonhard succeeded him as president" (§2a).
  4. Biography, "About 1906 Leonhard retired from farming": now "On Tuesday, 28 August 1906" (§2a). The occupation fact's "until about 1906" becomes "until Aug 1906" (§1b).
  5. Research Notes, "Retirement to Appleton City" — replace with:

    Move to Appleton City: On Tuesday, 28 Aug 1906, to the Deardoff residence in the south-west part of the town, so that his son Robert could attend the Academy; the Journal called it a temporary residence in Sep 1906 and Apr 1907.[@acjmove1906][@acjtemp1906][@link1907] This settles "about ten years ago" (both obituaries) against 1911 (the 1918 county history). The Journal places the house in the "south-west" part of the town in 1906 and 1911 and in the "south-east" in July 1909 and January 1910; in March 1918 a "Chris. Hegnauer residence in west part of town" was sold.[@tontz1909][@tontz1910][@visit1911][@robert1911][@house1918] No second move is reported, so the directions are probably loose descriptions of one house.

  6. Research Notes, "Bank of Rockville" — replace with:

    Bank of Rockville: A stockholder in Sep 1890; a director by Jan 1897; vice-president from Oct 1897 under Fred Fix, who died in 1901. J. C. Laughlin, who had resigned in 1897, was president again by Sep 1903, with Leonhard among the directors who attested the statements of 1903–08 and vice-president by 1907–09. Laughlin died on 3 Feb 1911 as president, and Leonhard was president by Jan 1916 and signed the statement of 16 Mar 1916 as president; both obituaries say he took the office soon after Laughlin's death ("for the past five years"). The date of his election has not been found: the Rockville Booster is on Newspapers.com only for 1908–09 and 14 Jan – 7 Apr 1916.[@bank1890][@bankdir1897][@btp1897][@bankstmts][@bank1907][@laughlin1911][@bank1916][@bankstmt1916]

  7. Research Notes, "Move to Bates County" — add at the end:

    The Appleton City Journal obituary, read on the image in Sep 2026, prints "moved to Bates county in 1865", which cannot be right: he married in Illinois in 1866, and Christian was born there in 1868. In April 1910 Leonhard himself told a Bates County correspondent, "When Tony Hammers and I came to Bates county in 1867 we paid 22 cents a pound for bacon at Papinville."[@bacon1910] That may record a first visit with Anton Hammer before the family's move; 1869, the year of the county history, the Booster obituary and the joint purchase from Thomas J. Garrison, is kept for the move.

  8. Research Notes, "Leads" — replace the sentence "Other November 1916 obituaries are unread: ..." with:

    The November 1916 items in the Butler, Rich Hill and Appleton City papers and in two papers of Wells, Minnesota, have been read (see the newspaper file). The St. Clair County Republican of Osceola is on Newspapers.com for at least Oct 1916 – May 1918, but its obituary (abstracted in Ancestry's "St. Clair County Obituaries") was not found by keyword; the issues of 2, 9 and 16 Nov 1916 should be read page by page. The Rockville Booster of Nov 1916, the original of "Gone to His Reward" and "The Third President", is not on the site. The St. Clair County probate file (1916–18) has not been read.

  9. Research Notes, new bullets:

    Newspapers (Newspapers.com, 27 Sep 2026): A harvest and its adversarial review (about 160 searches and 410 page images) found about 110 items about him that are not otherwise cited; they are transcribed in the study's newspaper file for him (Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Hirschi in the papers, 1856–1925). Items naming only "L." were assigned by context: his son Leonard (H0012) was away from 1893 (Columbia, Kansas, Onarga, Urbana, Oregon, Texas and Pullman) and is called "Jr.", "Prof." or "of" his town; the grandson Leonard S. (H0019, born 1891) appears as "L. S." and in the Rockville Route One and Sunday-school columns; his son Robert is "R. L.".

    Probable, not certain: the 1884 convention and treasurer candidacy, the 1892 judgeship, the 1885 taxpayers' call, the 1891 bridge petition and stallion company, the 1892 organ, the 1893 and 1906 juries, the 1894 election judgeship, the 1898 and 1902 conventions, the 1901 A.O.U.W. committee and the 1911 sale to Link. Each names only "L." (or, in 1906 and 1911, a "Leonard" when his son of that name was an adult); he is preferred because the items concern taxpayers, landowners and Republican office in Pleasant Gap while his father Luzius was in his sixties or seventies and his son was away. Possible only, and not used above: "Leonard Hegenaur went to Chicago last week to take in the fair" (1893) and "Messrs. Hegnaur, Steiner and Hammer returned Wednesday from Oklahoma" (1900).[@fair1893][@okla1900]

    Funeral hour: The death notice (2 Nov 1916) set the funeral for Sunday at 1:30; the obituary written after it (9 Nov) says 2:00, which is kept.[@acjdeath1916][@acj1916]

    Robert's account: In Feb 1918 Robert told a Wells paper that news of his father's death had reached him "under almost the same circumstances" as his mother's, the letter about the illness arriving after the message announcing the death. The Wells and Appleton City papers of Oct–Nov 1916 show instead that he was summoned by his father's illness on Friday 27 Oct and arrived the next evening, three days before the death; the contemporary reports are preferred.[@wells1918][@robert1916]

    Sale to Link (1911): The Butler Daily Democrat (6 Feb), the Rich Hill Mining Review and the Bates County Democrat (9 Feb 1911) print $2,800; the Butler Times-Press (18 Feb) prints $1,800. Graded probable because his son Leonard was also an adult Leonard Hegnauer; the deed has not been read.[@link1911]

  10. Research Notes, "Not him" — add:

    The "R. L. Hegnauer" who won with coop chickens at the Appleton City fair in 1911 and entered white corn in 1912 is his son Robert. The "Leonard Hegnauer" appointed census enumerator for Pleasant Gap in 1900 is his son Leonard. The "Leonard Hegnauer" who was president of the township Sunday-school association in 1916 and spoke at the county convention in 1918, and the "Mrs. L. Hegnauer" of the Rockville Route One column whose quilting was reported in Feb 1916, are the grandson Leonard S. and his wife. The "Leonard Hegnauer" among the Academy's visitors in Feb 1911 is probably the grandson.

  11. Name (Research Notes): add the newspaper forms Hegnaur, Hegneaur, Hegnaeur, Hegeneaur, Hegenaur, Hegenour, Heganaur, Heganuer, Hegnawer, Hegnaer, Hagnauer, Hagenauer and "Max [sic] Hegnauer" (1911), and the given name Lenard (1914). In also_known_as, add Leonard Hegnaur and Leonard Hegneaur.

3b. H0038

  1. Biography, "About 1907 Susan and Leonhard retired from the farm": now "On Tuesday, 28 August 1906" (§2b); the 1910 residence note likewise (§1d).
  2. Research Notes, "Death date (conflict)" — add after "the pension payment card and the county history agree.": "Two papers of Wells, Minnesota, where her son Robert lived, give Tuesday 12 Feb independently, and one gives the funeral as Friday 15 Feb.[@wells1918]"
  3. Research Notes, "Siblings" — add: "Her sister Rosina (Mrs. C. Tontz, of Alhambra, Ill.) came to Appleton City with her daughter Rose in Apr 1911 and again in Oct 1916, with Mrs. Louisa Hirschi of Highland (a sister-in-law, whose husband has not been identified) and, in 1911, Louisa's daughters Amelia and Marie.[@visit1911][@visit1916] In 1909 the Journal called C. Tontz and Leonhard cousins, which fits Christian Tontz Jr. being a son of Leonhard's aunt Barbara Bernet (see [[H0036|Anna Margreth Bernet]]).[@tontz1909]"
  4. Research Notes, "Records rejected" — add: "'Mrs. L. Hegnauer gave an all day quilting last Wednesday' (Rockville Booster, 25 Feb 1916, p. 5, Route No. One column): the grandson's wife, Mrs. L. S. Hegnauer, not Susanna, who then lived in Appleton City."
  5. Research Notes, "Leads" — delete "the unread 'Hirschi Hegnauer' newspaper items of 1897–1908 (...)": all have been read, and the relevant ones are now cited (§1c).

3c. The occurrence index (the study's index of records), for an edits/*.json

  1. O06544 (image 999042377): event "political committee list" → "petit jury list"; role "committeeman" → "juror"; citation "... Republican township committeemen" → "'October Petit Jury'"; grade possible → probable.
  2. O06608 (image 863292083): relink from H0003 to H0017 (R. L. Hegnauer is Robert), grade probable.
  3. O06710 (image 863299348): the page is the Mills & Routsong list of town sales, "Chris. Hegnauer residence in west part of town to A. Doerflinger" (ACJ 14 Mar 1918, p. 1), not a notice of final settlement; relink to H0010 (Christian, seller), with H0003 and H0038 named in the note.
  4. O06712 (image 863299369): now read; ACJ 14 Mar 1918, p. 6, Notice of Final Settlement; grade probable → confirmed.
  5. O06511 (image 863299402): "probate calendar for Wednesday 15 May 1918" → "calendar under Tuesday, May 14, 1918".
  6. New rows needed (capture procedure) for the review's new items, listed with image ids in §9c of the newspaper file: 999249858 and 999427775 (1897), 1000944475 (1900), 999043422 (1907), 863446311 and 999650443 (1907), 863280329 (1908), 863282582, 863282723 (1909), 999429423 (1910), 999134063, 999047477, 863286982, 863287076, 863287151, 863287596, 863288097, 863288540 (1911), 863290604 (1912), 863309151 (1913), 863311311 (1914), 863313090, 953552590 (1916), 1025547961, 1025199488, 1025199573, 1025199623 (1916, Minnesota), 1025590692, 1025101280 (1918, Minnesota), 1206018187 (1918), and the unlinked pages the review resolved (§9a–9b).
Working notes 4. Leads for other masters (not for these two biographies)
  • H0014 Katherine Susanna and H0052 Joseph M. Link: married 24 Oct 1895 (ACJ 28 Sep 1916, p. 1, linkdeath1916; the licence was reported on 23 Oct 1895). Link died at Rich Hill on Friday 22 Sep 1916, five days short of his forty-fifth birthday, after years of stomach trouble, leaving seven children; funeral from the German Reformed Church. He was treated at his father-in-law's house in Apr 1907 and operated on for rupture in Jun 1907 (link1907); he bought 40 acres in Sec. 23, Pleasant Gap, from "Leonard Hegnauer" in Feb 1911 (link1911); his father-in-law paid for his Journal subscription in Apr 1909 (journal).
  • H0012 Leonard: "Leonard, of Texas" in Aug 1915 (reunion1915), against Corvallis, Oregon, 1910–16 in H0012; at Pullman by Nov 1916 (leonard1916). Census enumerator for Pleasant Gap, appointed Apr 1900 (Butler Daily Democrat, 28 Apr 1900, p. 1, newspapers.com/image/999274066; The Messenger, Adrian, 4 May 1900, p. 1, newspapers.com/image/998710082); teaching at Onarga, Ill., by Sep 1900 (ACJ 27 Sep 1900, p. 9, newspapers.com/image/863951360). Visits to his parents: Aug 1901 (Rich Hill Tribune, 1 Aug 1901, p. 4, newspapers.com/image/64138278), Christmas 1905 "of Champaign" (Republican Press, 5 Jan 1906, p. 8, newspapers.com/image/999648166), Jul 1908 (sonvisit1908). He was lecturing at Laurel, Washington, on 20 Feb 1918 (Bellingham Herald, 21 Feb 1918, p. 12, newspapers.com/image/768374670), so he probably did not attend his mother's funeral.
  • H0017 Robert Lucius: summer 1911 with his parents (robert1911); coop chickens, first premium, Appleton City fair 1911 (ACJ 7 Sep 1911, p. 1, newspapers.com/image/863288253) and white corn 1912 (ACJ 5 Sep 1912, p. 8, newspapers.com/image/863292083); the Wells items of 1916 and 1918 (robert1916, wells1918); his son R. L. Jr. born about Jan 1916 (Rockville Booster, 4 Feb 1916, p. 4, newspapers.com/image/953552449).
  • H0010 Christian: judge of election, Pleasant Gap, 1902 (Republican Press, 17 Oct 1902, p. 5; Rich Hill Mining Review, 21 May 1903, p. 10); Prairie City Camp No. 4994, M.W.A. (Rich Hill Mining Review, 2 Mar 1911, p. 3); $10 to the Academy fund (Appleton City Tribune, 14 Jul 1908, p. 1); sold the Appleton City house, Mar 1918 (house1918); his wife Anna very sick in Dec 1916, visited by her sister Mrs. Lena Hirni (ACJ 7 Dec 1916, pp. 3 and 8).
  • H0019 Leonard S. and H0443 Anna Katherine Yoss: the quilting of Feb 1916 (Rockville Booster, 25 Feb 1916, p. 5); Sunday-school association president, Sep 1916 (Bates County Republican, 15 Sep 1916, p. 1; Butler Daily Democrat, 12 Sep 1916, p. 2); convention speaker, May 1918 (Butler Daily Democrat, 15 May 1918).
  • H0023 Marie A.: at Bever school, Dec 1913 (Butler Daily Democrat, 8 Dec 1913, p. 1; Rich Hill Mining Review, 11 Dec 1913, p. 4); music lessons, Pleasant Gap, Jul 1914 (ACJ 30 Jul 1914, p. 3). The "Pierce City" of June 1913 (marie1913) is probably Prairie City.
  • H0001 Luzius and H0036 Anna Margreth Bernet: the Journal's "The gentleman are cousins" (tontz1909) supports the link of Margreth's sister Barbara (Mrs. Christian Dönz, "Tontz") to the Tontz family of Alhambra.
  • Unassigned: "Arlene Brown returned from Boonville Saturday morning after having spent Thanksgiving with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Hegnauer, residing near that place" (ACJ 7 Dec 1916, p. 5, newspapers.com/image/863313995); "Henry Hegneaur sold 13 head of choice hogs" (ACJ 8 Dec 1892, newspapers.com/image/863192272), a possible lead for the H. Hegnauer of Henry County.

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