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Cuyahoga Falls, Summit County, Ohio: Edward John Hegnauer (1901–1961) and his descendants

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Part of the Seengen family of Rochester (Rochester, Monroe County, New York: the Seengen (Aargau) family). Index entries only.

Summary

  • Records: 65 records placed (43 confirmed, 17 probable, 5 possible) on 12 people (6 of them living).
  • Founder: Edward John Hegnauer, born 13 Aug 1901 at Rochester, New York (1942 draft card, O03111; Find a Grave, O03989), died 3 Aug 1961 and buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Cuyahoga Falls. He is the Edward, born 1902, in the 1910 household of John Henry Hegnauer and Lizzie Mather at Rochester (O02889), and so a grandson of Jacob Hegnauer and Verena Siegrist of Seengen, Aargau. The Cuyahoga Falls family is therefore not a separate immigrant line: it is the Rochester family, moved west and back.
  • Moves (all from index entries): Rochester (1910, 1915) → Greece, N.Y. (1920, O02952) → Butte, Wallowa Co., Oregon (1930, as "John E.", O03497) → Somerset Co., Pennsylvania, where his twin sons were born in 1940 (O02809) → Portland, Oregon (1942 draft card; voter registrations 1942 and 1946; 1950 census, O02448) → Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (by the 1960s). Oregon newspapers mention "E. J. Hegnauer, Portland" in 1929 (see sources/ancestry/H0007-survey-abstracts.md, which called the family "a New York family, unrelated so far"; the relationship is now found, to the Rochester line rather than to Igis).
  • Wife: Edythe Katherine Mottau (6 May 1906, Massachusetts – 16 Sep 2007), daughter of Edward Charles Mottau and Augusta W. (O03409, O03096).
  • Children: John Henry (2 Jul 1940, Pennsylvania – 21 Jul 2012; Virginia in the 1980s–2000s, buried Oakwood Cemetery), his living twin brother [US-ROC-036], and two living daughters [US-ROC-037], [US-ROC-038] (1950 census, O02445–O02450).
  • Third generation: [US-ROC-036] married Susan Jane Gettins (30 Dec 1945 Toledo – 26 Jul 2012). Their son Edward Raymond "Eddie" Hegnauer (29 Jul 1975 Toledo – 9 Apr 1993) is buried at Oakwood; two other children are living.

Descendant chart

LinkStrengthEvidence
John Henry Hegnauer → Edward JohnprobableThe 1910 census names John H. and Lizzie as the parents of Edward, born 1902 in New York (O02889); the 1942 draft card and Find a Grave give 13 Aug 1901 at Rochester; he was in John's children's household at Gates in 1915 (O02766). No other Edward Hegnauer was born in Rochester. He named his son John Henry, his father's name. No record seen names Edward John's parents directly.
Edward John × Edythe Mottauproven1940 and 1950 households; Tonia Jane's 1972 marriage and Ann Wilhelmina's 1983 marriage name both parents (O03032, O03273).
Edward John → John Henry, [US-ROC-036], [US-ROC-037], [US-ROC-038]proven1950 census household in Portland (O02445–O02450); marriage records of the two daughters.
[US-ROC-036] × Susan Jane Gettins → Edward RaymondprovenEdward Raymond's NUMIDENT names his parents, [US-ROC-036] and Sue J. Gettins (O02298); his mother's obituary index names the same husband (O03539).

Conflicts

  • Susan Jane Gettins's birth year: 30 Dec 1945 (obituary index, SSDI) against 1946 (Find a Grave, O04054). Her obituary index gives the death place as "Akron, Tyler, West Virginia", a FamilySearch standardization of Akron, Ohio.
  • Edythe's middle name: Katherine (voter registrations, SSDI) against "Kathleen" (Find a Grave, O03991).
  • The Find a Grave index entries for Edward John and Edythe placed in "Oakwood Cemetery, La Salle, Illinois" (O03320, O03321) are FamilySearch standardizations of Oakwood Cemetery, Cuyahoga Falls.

Open questions

  1. Edward John's Social Security application (SS-5) or his 1961 Ohio death certificate would name his parents and prove the link to John Henry.
  2. His marriage to Edythe Mottau (between 1927 and 1939; perhaps Massachusetts or Oregon).
  3. "Ed Hegnauer", husband of Anne (McDonald) Hegnauer (obituary index 2014–2023, O03523, O03524): is he [US-ROC-036] in a second marriage? Placed as possible.