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• Court 1898 Brighton, New York

  John and Rudolph are caught on the sidepath without their numbers

  In the bicycle summer of 1898 a deputy sheriff caught the brothers John and Rudolph Hegnauer riding Monroe County's sidepaths without the 25-cent licence numbers, and they were bound over for the grand jury. Read the storyClose the story

  In the summer of 1898 the cinder cycle paths of Monroe County could be ridden only with a 25-cent licence number from the sidepath commissioners, and the Democrat and Chronicle reported that the commissioners' patience was at an end. Deputy Sheriff McKeon spent Sunday, 24 July, on the paths. He took Henry Smith of Fairport on the East Avenue path in Brighton at 8 in the morning and Orville Gould two hours later. Then "the deputy's net fell" again, and "he was rewarded with a brace of victims. John and Rudolph Hegnauer, brothers, were the men." John gave his address as 74 Ontario Street, Rudolph as 5 Hensler Place. At the sidepath hearings before Justice Smith the deputy announced that the brothers had "waived examination and had given bonds to await the action of the grand jury". What the grand jury did, the papers read so far do not say.

  In it: John Henry Hegnauer, Rudolph Hegnauer

  Source: Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester), 25 Jul 1898, p. 8

  Also: Democrat and Chronicle, 27 Jul 1898, p. 10; "Arrests Will Be Made," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 25 July 1898, p. 8; "Arrests Will Be Made," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 25 July 1898, p. 8; [Sidepath cases before Justice Smith], Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 27 July 1898, p. 10; [Sidepath cases before Justice Smith], Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 27 July 1898, p. 10; The biography of John Henry Hegnauer; The biography of Rudolph Hegnauer

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• Office 1366 Zürich (Neumarkt)

  In the tax book of 1366, Johans Hegenower is probably a cook

  In the Zürich tax book of 1366 the name Johans Hegenower stands over the struck-out words "sin koch", his cook: he was probably the household's cook. Read the storyClose the story

  The printed edition of the Zürich tax books lists, in the Neumarkt quarter of the city in 1366, "Johans Hegenower" in the household of one "Irmense". The editors note that the name is written over the words "sin koch", his cook, which had been struck out, so Johans was probably the household's cook. He is the earliest bearer of the surname the study has found. The same year a "Hegnöwer" with no first name was taxed in the Rennweg quarter, and from 1372 to 1375 a "Hegnöwerin", the sister of Cuni Schönöwert, in the Linden quarter. The spellings are the editors'; the page images have not been checked.

  Source: Die Steuerbücher von Stadt und Landschaft Zürich des XIV. und XV. Jahrhunderts, vol. I (1918), p. 172, in the study's note on the Zürich tax books

  Also: Where the name Hegnauer comes from

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• Death 1629 Elgg, canton Zürich

  Seven Hegnauer burials at Elgg in 1629

  Between February and October 1629 the Elgg register recorded the deaths of at least seven Hegnauers, among them two sons of a Sebastian, or Baschi, probably brothers, and, in one fortnight of August, three entries naming an Ulrich. Read the storyClose the story

  Between February and October 1629 the burial register of Elgg, in canton Zürich, recorded at least seven Hegnauers, written Hegner, Hegnower or Hegnawer. Hans Heinrich died on 17 February. Hans, son of Sebastian, died on 4 March and Rudolph, son of Baschi, on 4 October: probably the brothers Hans and Rudolf baptised in 1603 and 1599 to Baschi, or Sebastian, and Barbel Peter. In one fortnight of August the register has Ulrich Hegner on the 16th; on the 23rd a burial whose name the index garbles ("Lienhart Hörer"), with Ulrich Hegner as spouse; and on the 30th Anna, daughter of Ulrich, probably the Anna baptised in 1612. Antoni, son of Antony, probably the Anthony baptised in 1611, died on 27 September. The index gives no causes of death; the study's notes on Elgg call 1629 the plague year.

  In it: Hans Heinrich Hegnauer, Hans Hegnauer, Rudolff Hegnauer, Anna Hegnauer, Anthony Hegnauer

  Source: Elgg Reformed burial register (FamilySearch index), in the study's reconstruction of the Elgg families

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Heinrich Hegnower; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Hegnower; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolph Hegnawer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Ulrich Hegner; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Lienhart Hörer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnower; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Antoni Hegner; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Hegner; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolff Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegner; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anthony Hegnauwer

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• Death 1850 Fehraltorf, canton Zürich

  Lina, probably, is baptised on her mother's burial day

  On 21 July 1850 the Fehraltorf register buried Anna Magdalena Cramer, wife of Johannes Hegnauer of Uster, aged 27, and baptised a Lina, daughter of Johannes, born nineteen days before: probably her daughter. Read the storyClose the story

  Johannes Hegnauer of Uster, son of Heinrich Hegnauer and Barbara Markwalder, married Anna Magdalena Cramer in 1847; their son Hans was born on 19 June 1848 and baptised at Uster. In 1850 the family's entries are in the register of Fehraltorf. A daughter, Lina, was born on 2 July. On 17 July Anna Magdalena died, aged 27. The Fehraltorf register records her burial on 21 July and, on the same day, the baptism of Lina, daughter of Johannes Hegnauer and "Anna Magd Wamer", as the index reads the mother's name. The study takes Wamer to be a misreading of Cramer, and Lina to be Anna Magdalena's daughter (probable). The index gives no cause of death.

  In it: Anna Magdalena Cramer, Johannes Hegnauer, Lina Hegnauer, Hans Hegnauer

  Source: Fehraltorf burial register, 21 Jul 1850 (FamilySearch index; record page read)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Lina; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Joh Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johannes Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Henr Johannes Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hanng Hagenauer; Uster, Wetzikon, the Zürich Oberland and the Thurgau border

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• Death 1676 Volketswil, canton Zürich

  Five burials in ten weeks of 1676, probably all Hegnauer children

  Between 27 August and 2 November 1676 the register of Hegnau's parish recorded the burials of five children whom the study, reading past the indexer's spellings, takes to be young Hegnauers of three households. Read the storyClose the story

  Between late August and early November 1676 the burial register of Volketswil, the parish of Hegnau, entered five children whom the study takes to be Hegnauers, though the index spells the name Hegmantek, Hegnrster, Hegancter, Hegachter and Hegnactter. On 27 August Margareth, daughter of Rudolf, was buried; she had been baptised the August before. On 17 September Jacob Hegnauer, called Jagli, and his wife Anna had a daughter, Susanna, baptised. On 24 September came the burial of Hans Heinrich, son of Felix, baptised in 1672, and on 2 October that of Rudolf's son Caspar, baptised Jacob Kaspar in 1670. On 19 October Jagli's son Jacobli, baptised in 1671, was buried, and on 2 November Jagli's daughter Verena, baptised in 1667. The index gives no cause of death. The study matches each burial to a baptism in the same family by the child's name and the father's.

  In it: Margareth Hegnauer, Hans Heinrich Hegnauer, Jacob Kaspar Hegnauer, Jacob Hegnauer, Verena Hegnauer, Hans Rudolf Hegnauer, Felix Hegnauer, Jacob Hegnauer, Susanna Hegnauer

  Source: Volketswil Reformed register (FamilySearch index), in the study's reconstruction of the Volketswil families

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Margaret Hegmantek; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudi Hegmantek; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Margareth Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Heirnich Hegnrster; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Feliz Hegnrster; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Heinrich Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Caspar Hegancter; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolff Hegancter; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Kaspar Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacobli Hegachter; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jagli Hegachter; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Verena Hegnactter; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacgli Hegnactter; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Verena Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Susanna Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jagli Hegneüwer; The biography of Jacob Hegnauer

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• Wedding 1870 Schiers, Graubünden

  Two of Barbara Hegnauer's daughters marry a Josua Menn, one after the other

  Anna Maria Susanna Held, the wife of Josua Menn, was buried at Schiers in May 1866, not yet twenty-five; in May 1870 her sister married a Josua Menn there. Read the storyClose the story

  Barbara Hegnauer, daughter of Samuel Hegnauer, married Johannes Held at Pfyn, in Thurgau, on 18 August 1838. The registers of Pfyn and of Bern record three of their children: Johannes in 1839, Anna Maria Susanna, born at Bern on 1 June 1841, and Anna Maria Elisabeth in 1848. On 14 May 1866 Anna Maria Susanna was buried at Schiers, in Graubünden. The index calls her Anna Maria Susanna Menn Held and names her husband, Josua Menn; she was not yet twenty-five. On 27 May 1870, at Schiers, her sister Anna Maria Elisabeth married a Josua Menn, with Barbara named as the mother of the bride. The index does not say whether he was the same man. In 1873 Barbara's son Johann married Magdalena Binggeli at Wahlern, in canton Bern.

  In it: Barbara Hegnauer, Johannes Held, Samuel Hegnauer

  Source: Schiers (Graubünden) marriage register, 27 May 1870 (FamilySearch index, Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barba Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barba Hegeauer; "Switzerland Marriages, 1532-1910," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnauer; "Switzerland Marriages, 1532-1910," database, FamilySearch, entry for Samuel Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Baptisms, 1491-1940," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Baptisms, 1491-1940," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Baptisms, 1491-1940," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Baptisms, 1491-1940," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Bb Hegnauer; Swiss cities and other cantons: Basel, Bern, St. Gallen, Zürich city, Luzern, and entries without a parish

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• War 1864 Gasconade County, Missouri

  Luzius, very probably, swears that Henry Domeyer betrayed Union men to the rebels

  Two weeks after Price's army passed through Gasconade County in 1864, Luzius very probably swore that Henry Domeyer had betrayed the Union men of his neighbourhood to the rebels. Read the storyClose the story

  In early October 1864 Sterling Price's Confederate army crossed Gasconade County on its raid through Missouri and took Hermann on the evening of 3 October. On 18 October a "Lucius Hegnaner", very probably Luzius, who had mortgaged his farm in the county that March, swore an affidavit that on 4 October Henry Domeyer had "betrayed union men in his neighborhood to the rebels". It survives among the Union provost marshals' papers. Six years earlier, in October 1858, a "Luzius Hegnaner" and Henry Domeyer had together witnessed a wedding held "at the house of Henry Domeyer" in Boeuf Township. Only a machine transcription of the affidavit has been read, which also renders the name as "Lizurs Hegenne"; the full file may give the deponent's residence.

  In it: Luzius Hegnauer

  Source: Affidavit of 18 Oct 1864, Union provost marshals' papers, Gasconade County, Missouri (FamilySearch Full-Text machine transcription)

  Also: FamilySearch Full-Text, "marriage certificate", Boeuf Twp., Gasconade, 11 Oct 1858; image ARK 3:1:3QS7-L94V-L7L1; FamilySearch Full-Text, "mortgage deed", Gasconade, 3 Mar 1864 (filed 2 May 1866); image ARK 3:1:3Q9M-CSTM-737X-J; The biography of Luzius Hegnauer; The Hegnauers in the Civil War, and the road west (1856-1869)

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• Death 1899 Rochester, New York

  Jacob, the emigrant father, takes his own life in his daughter's attic

  In July 1899 Jacob Hegnauer, 74, who had brought his family from Seengen to Rochester in 1884, was found dead in the attic of his daughter Lina's house; the coroner certified suicide. Read the storyClose the story

  Jacob Hegnauer lived with his daughter Lina and her husband, George Logeman, at 23 Rugraff Park, as he had since his wife Verena died at Lina's in 1896. The papers said he had been despondent since her death and was "a great sufferer from rheumatism". On Sunday, 16 July 1899, the Logemans went out to the bay and left him at home, in good spirits. Neighbours did not see him after noon. Shortly after 7 the next morning Lina, finding his bed unslept in, searched the house and found him dead on the attic floor. He had tied a rope to a crossbeam, stood on a sawhorse and kicked it away, but the rope broke; he had then, it was supposed, fetched his .38 revolver and shot himself. Coroner Kleindienst certified death "by shooting himself while despondent". He was 74, the papers said, and may have died on the 16th.

  In it: Jacob Hegnauer, Lina Hegnauer, Verena Siegrist

  Source: The Union and Advertiser (Rochester), 17 Jul 1899, p. 6

  Also: The Rochester Herald, 18 Jul 1899, p. 7; Democrat and Chronicle, 18 Jul 1899, p. 8; "Hegnauer Was Bound to Die," The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 17 July 1899, p. 6; "Hegnauer Was Bound to Die," The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 17 July 1899, p. 6; "Was Bound to Die," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 18 July 1899, p. 8; "Hanged Himself," The Rochester Herald (Rochester, New York), 18 July 1899, p. 7; "Hanged Himself," The Rochester Herald (Rochester, New York), 18 July 1899, p. 7; Democrat and Chronicle, 23 Apr 1896, p. 12; [Death of Verena Hegnauer], Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 23 April 1896, p. 12; [Death of Verena Hegnauer], Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 23 April 1896, p. 12; The biography of Jacob Hegnauer

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• Death 1685 Elgg, canton Zürich

  Barbel Bulod dies fifteen days after her daughter's baptism

  In 1685 the Elgg registers record Verena's baptism in March, her mother Barbel's death fifteen days later, Verena's own death in June and, in October, that of a son very probably of the same house. Read the storyClose the story

  Jacob Hegnauer married Barbel Bulod at Elgg on 28 October 1679. Their son Hans Ulrich, baptised on 23 November 1681, died on 2 April 1682. On 29 March 1685 a daughter, Verena, was baptised. Fifteen days later the burial register recorded Barbel Bulodi, with a Hegnauer named beside her whom the index calls Jan, probably a misreading of Jacob; the index gives 13 April 1685 as the date of her death. Verena, "Vere" in her burial entry, died on 25 June, less than three months after her baptism. On 13 October the register recorded the death of a Hans, son of "Jacobli" Hegnauer, very probably a third child of the same house. The index gives no causes.

  In it: Jacob Hegnauer, Barbel Bulod, Verena Hegnauer, Hans Ulrich Hegnauer, Hans Hegnauer

  Source: Elgg Reformed burial register, 13 April 1685 (FamilySearch index, Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegenauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Ulrich Hegnautter; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Ulrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Verena Hegmanwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Vere Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Hegnauer; Elgg, canton Zürich: the Hegnauer families, 1553–1875; Elgg "spouse" entries: marriage or burial?; Other spellings of the name in FamilySearch's historical records

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• Death 1744 Uster, canton Zürich

  Two Hans Rudolfs, probably brothers, are buried in one summer

  In 1744 the Uster register buried a Hans Rudolf, son of Heinrich Hegnauer, in July, baptised a new Hans Rudolf in August and buried a Hans Rudolf, son of Heinrich, in September: probably two brothers of one name. Read the storyClose the story

  On 9 July 1744 the Uster register buried Hans Rudolf, son of Heinrich Hegnauer. On 23 August Heinrich and his wife, Dorothea Meyer, had another son baptised and named him Hanss Rudolf. On 10 September the register buried a Hans Rudolf, son of Heinrich Hegnauer, again. Heinrich's was the only Heinrich Hegnauer family at Uster then. The study reads the burials as those of two boys: the July one probably of an older son whose baptism is not in the index, the September one possibly of the baby baptised in August. An earlier reading wondered whether they were one burial indexed twice; the baptism between them makes two boys the likelier answer. The couple gave other names twice, too: an Anna Barbara buried in May 1736 was followed by an Anna Barbara baptised in 1739, and, possibly, a Heinrich buried in 1751 by a Heinrich baptised in 1753.

  In it: Hans Rudolf Hegnauer, Hanss Rudolf Hegnauer, Hans Heinrich Hegnauer, Dorothea Meyer

  Source: Uster burial register, 9 Jul 1744 (FamilySearch index)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hanss Rudolf; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Rudolf Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauers; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauers; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Barbara Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Barbara; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Barbara; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich; Uster, Wetzikon, the Zürich Oberland and the Thurgau border

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• Wedding 1681 Volketswil, canton Zürich

  Widowed in June, Rudolf probably marries again in November

  Rudolf Hegnauer's wife Verena was buried at Volketswil in June 1681, and in November a Rudolf, probably the widower, married Susanna Kuhn. Read the storyClose the story

  Rudolf Hegnauer and Verena Fürer married at Volketswil on 3 April 1666 and had seven children baptised there between 1668 and 1678. Three of them were very probably buried young: Margareth and Caspar in 1676, Elsbeth in July 1678. A daughter baptised in January 1677, less than five months after Margareth's burial, was named Margaretha, and so was another in March 1678. Verena was buried on 24 June 1681; the index names her husband Rudi. On 8 November 1681 a Rudolf married Susanna Kuhn there. The study takes him to be the widower, since no other Rudolf Hegnauer is a husband or father in the register between 1666 and 1699, but has not merged the two. Rudolf and Susanna had children baptised from 1684 to 1697. A Rudi, born in 1641 by the index, was buried on 9 November 1699, and Susanna, Rudi's wife, on 18 January 1718, aged 68.

  In it: Hans Rudolf Hegnauer, Verena Fürer, Rudolf Hegnauer, Susanna Kuhn, Margareth Hegnauer, Jacob Kaspar Hegnauer, Elsbeth Hegnauer, Margaretha Hegnauer, Margaretha Hegnauer

  Source: Volketswil Reformed register (FamilySearch index), in the study's reconstruction of the Volketswil families

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudi Hegmarwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolf Hegnadmer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rodolff Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Magdale Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Kaspar Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elsbeth Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Margareth Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Margaretha Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Margaretha Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Margaret Hegmantek; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Caspar Hegancter; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elssbethli Kegnamer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolff Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolph Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudi Hagnau; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudi Hegnauwer; The biography of Hans Rudolf Hegnauer; The biography of Rudolf Hegnauer

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• Court 1850 Igis, Graubünden

  Peter is declared bankrupt, and probably put under a guardian at his family's request

  In July 1850 the authorities of Igis declared Peter Hegnauer, son of Nutt, bankrupt; in August a guardian was set over "Peter Hegnauer", probably the same man, and his household, at the family's own request. Read the storyClose the story

  On 4 July 1850 the authorities of Igis decreed the call in bankruptcy, "den Conkursruf", over "den hiesigen Bürger Peter de N. Hegnauer", the local citizen Peter, son of Nutt; the cantonal gazette printed the notice. Seven weeks later it printed another, dated Igis, 21 August: "Auf Ansuchen der Familie des hiesigen Peter Hegnauer", at the request of the family of the local Peter Hegnauer, a guardian (Vogt), Ammann Richard Dolf, was set over him "sammt seiner Familie", together with his family. Peter, son of Nutt, was then thirty-eight and had married Anna Berri in 1833. Later notices put the under-age children of a Peter Hegnauer of Igis under supervision in January 1856 and named new guardians for "Peter Hegnauer und dessen Familie" in 1859, 1861 and 1865. From August 1850 on, no notice gives a father's name, so they are probably, not certainly, this Peter.

  In it: Peter Hegnauer, Anna Berri

  Source: Amtsblatt des Kantons Graubünden, 12 Jul 1850, p. 192, and 23 Aug 1850, p. 248 (Staatsarchiv Graubünden), in the study's report on the Graubünden gazette

  Also: The biography of Peter Hegnauer; The biography of Anna Berri; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Peter Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Peter Hegnauer

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• Emigration 1929 Rochester, New York

  Edward goes west twice, and ends his days in Ohio

  Born at Rochester in 1901, Edward John Hegnauer was living at Boulder City, Nevada, in 1933, at Portland, Oregon, in 1950 and at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, when he died in 1961. Read the storyClose the story

  Edward John Hegnauer, a grandson of the Seengen emigrants, was born at Rochester on 13 August 1901, and between 1929 and 1961 the records find him in five states. In November 1929 "E. J. Hegnauer, Portland", probably he, was named in a front-page item of the Bend Bulletin about a car in the Grande Ronde river, and the 1930 census has a "John E." Hegnauer, born in New York, probably he too, at Butte, Wallowa County, Oregon. His father's death notice of March 1933 gave Edward's home as Boulder City, Nevada. On 24 November 1938 he married Edythe K. Mottau at Idaho Springs, Colorado. In 1940 they were at Bakersville, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and from 1942 to 1950 at Portland, Oregon. By 1959 he was living at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, still his home when he died on 3 August 1961, aged 59. Edythe lived to be 101.

  In it: Edward John Hegnauer, Edythe Katherine Mottau, John Henry Hegnauer

  Source: The Times-Union (Rochester), 18 Mar 1933, p. 9, death notice of John H. Hegnauer

  Also: [Death notice of John H. Hegnauer], The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 18 March 1933, p. 9; "Oregon, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945," database, FamilySearch, entry for Edward John Hegnauer; Christian Hegnauer (1851–1935): abstracts of the Ancestry records; "United States, Census, 1930," database, FamilySearch, entry for John E Hegnauer; Ancestry research, 27 Sep 2026: key links among the American Hegnauers; "United States, Census, 1940," database, FamilySearch, entry for Edward Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1940," database, FamilySearch, entry for Edythe Hegnauer; "Oregon, Multnomah County, Voting Registration Records, 1908-1958," database, FamilySearch, entry for Edward John Hegnauer; "Oregon, Multnomah County, Voting Registration Records, 1908-1958," database, FamilySearch, entry for Edward John Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1950," database, FamilySearch, entry for Edward J Hegnauer; Democrat and Chronicle, 31 Mar 1959, p. 32; [Death notice of Thelma E. Drees], Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 31 March 1959, p. 32; Akron Beacon Journal, 5 Aug 1961, p. 35; [Death notice of Edward John Hegnauer], Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio), 5 August 1961, p. 35; "Ohio, Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007," database, FamilySearch, entry for Edward J Hegnaner; "United States, Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch, entry for Edythe Katherine Hegnauer; Find a Grave, memorial 36236272, Edward John Hegnauer (13 Aug 1901 – 3 Aug 1961), Oakwood Cemetery Cuyahoga Falls, Summit County, Ohio; Cuyahoga Falls, Summit County, Ohio: Edward John Hegnauer (1901–1961) and his descendants

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• Wedding 1616 Elgg, canton Zürich

  Anthoni's wife dies eleven days after a baptism, and he remarries in nine weeks

  Margretha Holtz died in December 1615, eleven days after the baptism of her seventh child; on 7 February 1616 her widower, Anthoni Hegnauer, married Beatrix Lud at Elgg. Read the storyClose the story

  Anthoni Hegnauer and Margretha Holtz had seven children baptised at Elgg in under eight years: Anderes in April 1608, then Hans Heinrich, Anthony, Margret, Anna and Maria, and Hanns Conrat on 22 November 1615. Eleven days after that last baptism the burial register records "Margret Helz", Anthoni's wife, under 3 December 1615, which the index gives as the date of her death. On 7 February 1616, nine weeks later, Anthoni married Beatrix Lud at Elgg. Their own children followed from 1620: Beatrix, Salome and, in June 1623, a son again named Hanns Conradt. The register gives no cause for Margretha's death, and the index does not say how many of her seven children were still living when their father married again.

  In it: Anthoni Hegnauer, Margretha Holtz, Beatrix Lud, Hanns Conrat Hegnauer, Hanns Conradt Hegnauer

  Source: Elgg Reformed marriage register, 7 February 1616 (FamilySearch index, Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anthoni Hegnawrer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anderes Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Heinrich Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anthony Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Margret Hegnower; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnower; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Maria Hegnower; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hanns Conrat Hegnower; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Beatrix Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Salome Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hanns Conradt Hegnauwer; Elgg, canton Zürich: the Hegnauer families, 1553–1875; Elgg "spouse" entries: marriage or burial?; Other spellings of the name in FamilySearch's historical records

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• Death 1699 Volketswil, canton Zürich

  Hans and Catharina probably bury four of their five children

  Four of the five children Hans and Catharina Hegnauer had baptised at Volketswil between 1680 and 1691 were probably buried there as children; of the fifth, Jacob, the register's index has no marriage and no burial. Read the storyClose the story

  Hans Hegnauer and his wife Catharina, whose surname the index reads five ways, Füchman, Fühman, Lühner, Füsperin and Füserin, had five children baptised at Volketswil. Anna, baptised on 7 November 1680, was buried the following February. Jacob was baptised on 5 February 1682 and Hans on 25 June 1684. Hans, entered as "Hansseli", was buried on 22 April 1687, and the next son, baptised on 31 January 1688, was also named Hans. Rägula followed on 15 March 1691. A Hans, son of Hans, was buried on 30 March 1698, probably the boy of 1688, and Regeli on 1 January 1699, aged seven. Of Jacob the index of the register, searched to 1801, has no marriage and no burial. The study lists him as one possible origin, among others, of Jacob, the first Hegnauer at Igis in 1715.

  In it: Hans Hegnauer, Catharina Füchman, Anna Hegnauer, Jacob Hegnauer, Hansseli Hegnauer, Hanss Hegnauer, Regeli Hegnauer

  Source: Volketswil Reformed register (FamilySearch index), in the study's reconstruction of the Volketswil families

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Annaeli Heÿneweler; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hansseli Hegnarwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hanss Hegendwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Hegendwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Higrauven; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rägula Kernadwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hanss Kernadwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Regeli Hegnauer; Where did Jacob Hegnauer come from?

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• Emigration 1869 Madison County to Bates County

  Leonhard takes his family across Missouri by ox-team

  By the account of the county history of 1918, Leonhard and Susanna came from Illinois to the Kansas border in 1869 in wagons pulled by ox-teams, a trip of three weeks. Read the storyClose the story

  In 1869 Leonhard and Susanna left Madison County, Illinois, with their two small children, Mary and Christian, for Bates County, Missouri, on the Kansas border. According to the county history of 1918, the family came across the state in wagons pulled by ox-teams, a trip of three weeks; the nearest railroad station was Pleasant Hill, fifty miles away. The Union army's General Order No. 11 had emptied the county in 1863, and many of its people never came back. That year Leonhard and Anton Hammer bought land together from Thomas J. Garrison for $600. The census of August 1870 found Leonhard farming in Prairie City Township, with real estate worth $1,900, the Hammers' household listed next to his, and a Swiss-born farmer, Peter Grob, 31, living in his house.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer, Susanna Katharina Hirschi, Mary Christina Hegnauer, Christian Hegnauer

  Source: History of Bates County, Missouri (1918), p. 721, as cited in Leonhard's biography

  Also: The Republican Press, 10 Nov 1916, p. 3; FamilySearch Full-Text, "deeds, tax lists, probate", Bates Co., 1869–1903; image ARK 3:1:3Q9M-CSLF-KL5N; The biography of Susanna Katharina Hirschi; The Hegnauers in the Civil War, and the road west (1856-1869)

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• War 1914 Rochester, New York

  Caught in Germany by the war, Jacob and Caroline bring home the German side

  Jacob Rudolph and Caroline, who had sailed in May 1914, very probably for his native Seengen, spent six weeks at Marburg after the war began, and came home to tell Rochester that London would be bombed "when the foggy season comes on". Read the storyClose the story

  On 26 May 1914 "Mr. & Mrs. J. Hegnauer", very probably Jacob Rudolph and his wife Caroline, sailed from New York on the Holland-America liner Rotterdam, bound, says the line's register, for "Seengen Kanton Argau", the village he had left thirty years before. It was his fifty-fifth birthday. The war caught them in Germany. Jacob was "in Marburg, Germany, for about six weeks after the war broke out". They landed from the Noordam on 3 October, and on the Monday evening, home at 52 Weld Street, Jacob gave the Democrat and Chronicle the German view. London would be attacked "when Antwerp is captured and the foggy season comes on"; "All you get here are lies." Caroline, who was born in Germany, said the German people felt "pretty bad": "Their men folks are gone to the front. It's awful." The French and English reports, she said, were "lies of the worst kind".

  In it: Jacob Rudolph Hegnauer, Caroline Seip

  Source: Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester), 6 Oct 1914, p. 18

  Also: The Times-Union, 6 Oct 1914, p. 9; "Raid on London," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 6 October 1914, p. 18; "Zeppelins Wait for Fog," The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 6 October 1914, p. 9; "Zeppelins Wait for Fog," The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 6 October 1914, p. 9; Rochester, Monroe County, New York: the Seengen (Aargau) family; Ancestry research, 27 Sep 2026: key links among the American Hegnauers; Holland America Line passenger registers (Rotterdam archives), database, Ancestry.com, collection 62808, record 1048819: "Mr. & Mrs. J. Hegnauer", sailed from New York on the Rotterdam, 26 May 1914, d; Holland America Line passenger registers (Rotterdam archives), database, Ancestry.com, collection 62808, record 1048819: "Mr. & Mrs. J. Hegnauer", sailed from New York on the Rotterdam, 26 May 1914, d; "New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957," database with images, Ancestry.com, list of United States citizens, steamer Noordam, Rotterda; "New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957," database with images, Ancestry.com, list of United States citizens, steamer Noordam, Rotterda; "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Rudolph Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1900," database, FamilySearch, entry for Caroline Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1910," database, FamilySearch, entry for Carloinen Hegnauer; "New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1920," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegnauer; The biography of Jacob Rudolph Hegnauer

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• Death 1829 Elgg, canton Zürich

  Heinrich, father of fourteen, dies at Elgg past ninety

  Heinrich Hegnauer and Anna Barbara Trachssler had fourteen children baptised at Elgg between 1768 and 1795; he outlived her by fourteen years and died in March 1829, past ninety by his burial entry. Read the storyClose the story

  Heinrich Hegnauer married Anna Barbara Trachssler at Elgg on 29 June 1767. Between May 1768 and September 1795 the baptism register named the couple as parents fourteen times, from Hans Rudolf to Zacharias. Three of the children very probably died young: burial entries that name only their father, Heinrich, record a Heinrich and an Elisabetha before they were two and an Anna Barbara at five. The couple gave two of those names again, to a Heinrich in 1780 and an Anna Barbara in 1782. Anna Barbara Trachssler died on 8 April 1815, aged sixty-six by her burial entry, and Heinrich outlived her by fourteen years. He died on 17 March 1829; his burial entry puts his birth in 1737, so he was past ninety. Nine days before him the second Anna Barbara, who had married at Sirnach in the Thurgau, died there.

  In it: Heinrich Hegnauer, Anna Barbara Trachssler, Hans Rodolf Hegnauer, Heinrich Hegnauer, Anna Barbara Hegnauer, Elisabetha Hegnauer, Heinrich Hegnauer, Anna Barbara Hegnauer, Zacharias Hegnauer

  Source: Elgg Reformed burial register, 22 March 1829 (FamilySearch index, Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hs Rodolf Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hs Jacob Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for A Barbara Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elisabetha Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Magdalena Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for A Sabina Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Barbara Hegnaur; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johannes Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johannes Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnaur; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Maria Elisabeth Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Zacharias Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elisabetha Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for A Barbara Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauers; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for A Barbara Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for A Barbara Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for A Barbara Hegnauer; The biography of Heinrich Hegnauer; Elgg, canton Zürich: the Hegnauer families, 1553–1875; Elgg "spouse" entries: marriage or burial?

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• Business 1955 Banning, California

  Robert announces a race between a hare and a tortoise

  In 1955 Banning's Chamber of Commerce, with Robert as its secretary-manager, staged an "Aesop Olympics". Read the storyClose the story

  In September 1955 the San Bernardino County Sun carried a feature headed "Aesop Olympics": Banning, California, would stage a race between a hare and a tortoise on 13-15 October. The race was announced by R. L. Hegnauer, secretary-manager of the Banning Chamber of Commerce. The study identifies him as Robert Lucius Hegnauer, then sixty-seven: the Appleton City boy who had judged corn in Illinois, and at Wells, Minnesota, had taught school, managed a seed house and bought cattle, before he came to Banning a few years earlier. The study has not found which of the two won. Five years later he became the city's treasurer.

  In it: Robert Lucius Hegnauer

  Source: The San Bernardino County Sun, 9 Sep 1955, p. 20

  Also: The biography of Robert Lucius Hegnauer; Appleton City Journal, 22 Jun 1911, p. 1; Record-Gazette, 16 Dec 1969, p. 1

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• Wedding 1920 Rochester, New York

  William proposes in City Court, and the chorus girl accepts

  In January 1920 Rudolph's son William proposed to his sweetheart, a chorus girl, in the criminal branch of the Rochester City Court; the judge approved, and they married four weeks later. Read the storyClose the story

  On 16 January 1920 May Nolan, 19, stood in the criminal branch of the Rochester City Court. A chorus girl for two years, she had left her troupe when it played Rochester, her home town, and with a friend had been "involved in an affair which terminated in the court". Then, the Post Express reported, William Hegenauer of 173 Burrows Street arrived "and had a very affectionate talk with Miss Nolan". They had long been sweethearts, and when it was suggested that wedding bells would solve her predicament he "did not hesitate a minute, but approached the young actress, and blushingly proposed". She accepted. Judge Kohlmetz approved, and ordered her to report to the probation office weekly for six months. She said she would rather wait until that was over. On 11 February Rudolph's son William married Mae Irene Nolan in the study of the Rev. C. Waldo Cherry.

  In it: William Rudolf Hegnauer, Mae Irene Nolan

  Source: The Post Express (Rochester), 16 Jan 1920, p. 6

  Also: The Rochester Herald, 15 Feb 1920, p. 30; "Marriage Proposal in City Court Promptly Accepted by Chorus Girl; Will Give Up the Stage," Rochester Journal and the Post Express (Rochester, New York), 16 January 1920, p. 6; "Marriage Proposal in City Court Promptly Accepted by Chorus Girl; Will Give Up the Stage," Rochester Journal and the Post Express (Rochester, New York), 16 January 1920, p. 6; "Mainly About People," The Rochester Herald (Rochester, New York), 15 February 1920, p. 30; "Mainly About People," The Rochester Herald (Rochester, New York), 15 February 1920, p. 30; The biography of William Rudolf Hegnauer; The biography of Rudolph Hegnauer

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• War 1531 Kappel

  A lexicon says Jakob of Hegnau fell at Kappel in 1531, and his family took to farming

  The Swiss historical lexicon of 1928 says that Jakob, lord of the bailiwick of Hegnau, was killed at Kappel in 1531, and that before 1553 his family left its castle and became farmers. Read the storyClose the story

  The Dictionnaire historique et biographique de la Suisse (1928) treats the lords "von Hegnau" and the Hegnauers as one family: Habsburg ministeriales recorded at Hegnau from 1282, citizens of Baden in the fourteenth century and of Zürich in the fifteenth. It names Jakob as lord of the bailiwick of Hegnau in 1522 and says that he was killed at Kappel in 1531; in 1535 the bailiwick passed to the Trüb family. The family still held some rights of jurisdiction over Hegnau in the sixteenth century, the lexicon says, but could no longer keep up its rank. Before 1553 it left its castle, settled in the village and became farmers. The lexicon itself says it is not known whether this family is related to the Hegnauers of Elgg and Seengen.

  Source: Dictionnaire historique et biographique de la Suisse, vol. IV (1928), 'Hegnau, von, et Hegnauer', in the study's note on the origin of the name

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• War 1864 Ivey's Hill, Mississippi

  John's regiment charges with sabres at Ivey's Hill, very likely with John

  In the winter of 1864 John's regiment marched through bottoms of ice-filled water and then made a sabre charge that a rail fence stopped; John was very likely with it. Read the storyClose the story

  In January and February 1864 the 4th Missouri Cavalry, John's regiment, marched from Union City to Collierville through bottoms where "the water was from 2 to 4 feet deep and filled with large cakes of broken ice". On 22 February, at Ivey's Hill near Okolona, Mississippi, "General Smith ordered the Fourth Missouri Cavalry to charge with sabers". A rail fence stopped the charge, and the regiment's howitzer shell "is reported to have killed Colonel Forrest". On the whole expedition the regiment lost 6 killed, 4 wounded and 4 missing. Corporal John Hegnauer of Company B was present at the musters of 31 December 1863 and 29 February 1864, with no absence recorded between, so he was very likely on the march and in the charge; no card places him there.

  In it: Johannes Hegnauer

  Source: Official Records, Series I, vol. 32, pt. 1, pp. 268 and 270, and John's muster rolls (NARA M405, Fold3), as cited in the research note on the Civil War

  Also: The biography of Johannes Hegnauer; John Hegnauer: his Civil War service records (NARA M405)

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• Emigration 1884 Le Havre to Rochester

  The Seengen Hegnauers cross to Rochester in two parties

  In 1884 Jacob Hegnauer's family came from Seengen to Rochester, New York, in two parties from Le Havre, landing at New York in April and October. Read the storyClose the story

  The Hegnauers of Seengen, in the canton of Aargau, came to America in two parties in 1884. On 2 April the steamer France, from Le Havre, landed Jacob Hegnauer, 58, a farmer, at New York with five of his children: Jacob, 25; Rudolph, a blacksmith; Lina, 19; Hans, 17; and Albert, entered as 11, although he was fourteen. The others followed in the autumn on the steamer Saint-Germain, which left Le Havre on 18 October. Her departure list, as the machine reads it, names "Téréna" [Verena] Hegnauer, Maria Hegnauer and a Mr Rudolphe Thut, and enters a "nourrisson", an infant in arms. When she reached New York on 30 October, her list gave six Hegnauers bound for Rochester: a woman of 59, probably Jacob's wife Verena Siegrist; Rudolph's wife Louise, 23, born a Thut, with Frederick, 1, and the infant, Carl, six months; Verena, 32; and Maria, 22.

  In it: Jacob Hegnauer, Verena Siegrist, Jacob Rudolph Hegnauer, Rudolph Hegnauer, Lina Hegnauer, John Henry Hegnauer, Albert Gottlieb Hegnauer, Louise Thut, Frederick Rudolph Hegnauer, Charles Albert Hegnauer, Verena Hegnauer, Marie

  Source: Departure list of the steamer Saint-Germain, Le Havre, 18 Oct 1884 (FamilySearch Full-Text, machine transcription)

  Also: "United States, Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegnauer; "United States, Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolph Hegnauer; "United States, Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Hegnauer; "United States, Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch, entry for Albert Hegnauer; "United States, Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch, entry for Lina Hegnauer; "New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1920," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegnauer; "United States, Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch, entry for Louise Hegnauer; "United States, Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch, entry for Frederick Hegnauer; "United States, Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch, entry for Carl Hegnauer; "United States, Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch, entry for Venera Hegnauer; "United States, Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch, entry for Marie Hegnauer; "United States, Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch, entry for Tereta Hegnauer; "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Rudolph Hegnauer; "United States, Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database, FamilySearch, entry for Albert Hegnauer; "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008," database, FamilySearch, entry for John Henry Hegnauer; "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007," database, FamilySearch, entry for Lula Hegnauer; The Times-Union, 1 Apr 1931, p. 34; The biography of Jacob Hegnauer; The biography of Rudolph Hegnauer; Ancestry research, 27 Sep 2026: key links among the American Hegnauers; Rochester, Monroe County, New York: the Seengen (Aargau) family

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• Death 1751 Schongau, canton Luzern

  Barbara, the last Seetal Hegnauer on record, is buried at Schongau

  Barbara Hegnauer's burial at Schongau on 3 April 1751 is the last entry the study has found for the Catholic Hegnauers of Pfeffikon and the Luzern Seetal, 167 years after the first. Read the storyClose the story

  On 3 April 1751 Barbara Hegnauer was buried at Schongau, in the Luzern Seetal. The index names no husband or parents for her and gives no age. Hers is the last entry the study has found for the Catholic Hegnauers of Pfeffikon and the Seetal, whose first is Melchior's baptism at Pfeffikon in 1584. At Schongau the name runs from the wedding of Udalricus Hegnauer and Anna Bütler on 22 June 1618. The last Hegnauer mother there, Anna Barbara, wife of Josephus Leontius Schüepp, had a son baptised in August 1743 and a daughter in October 1744; the study has not linked her to the Barbara of 1751.

  In it: Barbara Hegnauer, Anna Barbara Hegnauer, Josephus Leontius Schüepp, Udalricus Hegnauer, Anna Bütler

  Source: Schongau (Luzern) burial register, 3 April 1751 (FamilySearch index, Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Aá Barbara Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Udalricus Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Melchior Hegnauwer; Central Switzerland (Luzern, Zug): the Hegnauer families, 1584–1739; Swiss cities and other cantons: Basel, Bern, St. Gallen, Zürich city, Luzern, and entries without a parish

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• Death 1916 Prairie City, Missouri

  A thousand come to bury Leonhard

  When Leonhard Hegnauer died in 1916, the Appleton City Journal put the crowd at his funeral at one thousand. Read the storyClose the story

  Leonhard Hegnauer died at his home in Appleton City on Tuesday, 31 October 1916, a few days after a paralytic stroke. The funeral waited until the Sunday for his son Leonard to arrive from the State of Washington. It was held at the German Reformed church north of Prairie City, conducted by the Rev. Neuenschwander of Lowry City, and members of the city's post of the G.A.R., the Union veterans, were his pall bearers. "The crowd in attendance at the funeral service was estimated at one thousand people," the Journal wrote, "attesting the high esteem in which he was held by the people of the community." He left his widow, three sons, two daughters, twenty-one grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer, Leonard Hegnauer, Susanna Katharina Hirschi

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 9 Nov 1916, p. 1

  Also: Appleton City Journal, 2 Nov 1916, p. 1; The Republican Press, 10 Nov 1916, p. 3; Appleton City Journal, 9 Nov 1916, p. 4; Appleton City Journal, 9 Nov 1916, p. 2

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• Emigration 1841 Zürich, Liestal and Stadel

  Emma's children are baptised in four parishes over twenty years

  Henrietta Emma Hegnauer and Jakob Meister, married at Zürich in 1839, had children baptised at Zürich, Urdorf, Liestal and Stadel between 1841 and 1861. Read the storyClose the story

  Henrietta Emma Hegnauer, Emma in most of the entries, married Jakob Meister at Zürich on 1 December 1839. Over the next twenty years the church indexes record their children's baptisms in four parishes and two cantons: Henriette Bertha in 1841, entered at both Zürich and Urdorf; Emma at Liestal, in Basel-Landschaft, in September 1842, and Franz Eduard there in July 1846; Adolf at Zürich in January 1856; Ida at Stadel bei Niederglatt in February 1858; and at Stadel on 31 March 1861 an Arnold and an Albert, perhaps twins, perhaps one boy indexed twice. Otto and Emil appear with no date. The index does not say what took the Meisters from Zürich to Liestal and back, nor what Jakob did for a living.

  In it: Henrietta Emma Hegnauer, Jakob Meister

  Source: Reformed church registers of Zürich, Urdorf, Liestal and Stadel (FamilySearch index), in the study's chart of the Basel Hegnauers

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Henrietta Emma Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Emma Hegnaurs; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Emma Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Baptisms, 1491-1940," database, FamilySearch, entry for Emma Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Emma Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Emma Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Emma Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Emma Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Emma Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Emma Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Emma Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Emma Hegenauer

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• Wedding 1874 Embrach, canton Zürich

  Jakob and Barbara marry at Embrach, ten years after their first son's baptism

  Jakob Hegnauer and Barbara Huser had sons baptised at Unterembrach in 1864 and at Embrach in 1868; the index dates their marriage entry at Embrach to October 1874. Read the storyClose the story

  Jakob Hegnauer and Barbara Huser had a son, Heinrich, born on 6 November 1864 and baptised at Unterembrach on 18 December; the index spells the mother "Hausser". A second son, Heinrich August, was born on 27 January 1868 and baptised at Embrach on 23 February. Two further index lines, which the study attaches to the family (probable), give the boys their mother's surname, Huser: one for Heinrich August, and one for a Heinrich Adolf, whose line carries no date. The couple's marriage entry at Embrach is dated 22 October 1874, ten years after the first baptism. The study has no later record of the sons.

  In it: Jakob Hegnauer, Barbara Huser, Heinrich Hegnauer, Heinrich August Hegnauer

  Source: Embrach marriage register, 22 Oct 1874 (FamilySearch index)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jakob Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich August Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jakob Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jakob Hegeauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jakob Hegeauer; Uster, Wetzikon, the Zürich Oberland and the Thurgau border

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• Emigration 1856 Igis to Outagamie County

  Christina and Nicolaus Hermann, probably, follow their daughter to Wisconsin

  In 1856 Nicholas and Christina (Hegnauer) Herman, probably the Igis couple of those names, followed their daughter to Outagamie County, Wisconsin, the year Luzius crossed. Read the storyClose the story

  A county history of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, probably of the 1890s, tells it in its sketch of Frederick Spoehr. On 28 November 1858 he married Christina Herman, "a daughter of Nicholas and Christina (Hegnauer) Herman", born in Switzerland on 5 October 1831. "She came to America in 1854, her parents following her in 1856; the father was a contractor and builder. They settled in Outagamie county, where the mother died in 1863 and the father in 1878. Their family numbered ten children." The study takes the parents, probably, to be Christina Hegnauer, baptised at Igis on 28 May 1800, and Nicolaus Hermann, whom she married in March 1825: a daughter Christina was baptised at Igis on 9 October 1831, four days after the birth date the Wisconsin book gives. They crossed in the same year as Luzius.

  In it: Christina Hegnauer, Nicolaus Hermann

  Source: Biography of Frederick Spoehr, a county biographical history of Outagamie County, Wisconsin (FamilySearch Full-Text, machine transcription)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christina Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christina Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christina Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christina Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christina Hegnauer; FamilySearch Full-Text search, 27 Sep 2026: Hegnauer in machine-read deeds, wills, court and other records; The biography of Luzius Hegnauer

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• Wedding 1861 Baden, Aargau

  Samuel and Anna's four children marry at Baden, two of them to Bruders

  Between 1861 and 1868 four children of Samuel Hegnauer and Anna Engel married at Baden; a son and a daughter both married Bruders, and the eldest, Anna Maria, married last, at about thirty-eight. Read the storyClose the story

  Samuel Hegnauer and Anna Engel had at least four children, and the Baden register shows all four married within seven years. Ludwig, born in 1833, married Barbara Häusenmann on 15 November 1861; Samuel, born in 1837, married Anna Maria Bruder on 27 November 1863; Verena, born in 1841, married Jakob Häfeli on 5 July 1866. Anna Maria, the eldest, born in 1830 by the index, married last: on 20 April 1868, at about thirty-eight, she married Rudolf Bruder. So a brother and a sister married a Bruder bride and a Bruder groom within five years; whether Anna Maria Bruder and Rudolf Bruder were related, the index does not say. It garbles the parents now and then ("Samuel Engel", "Anna Eugel"), but all four entries name the same couple.

  In it: Samuel Hegnauer, Anna Engel, Anna Maria Hegnauer, Rudolf Bruder, Ludwig Hegnauer, Barbara Häusenmann, Samuel Hegnauer, Anna Maria Bruder, Verena Hegnauer, Jakob Häfeli

  Source: Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records (FamilySearch index): marriage of A[nna] Maria Hegnauer and Rudolf Bruder, Baden, Aargau, 20 Apr 1868

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Ludwig Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Samuel Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Verena Hegnauer; Seengen and the other Aargau Hegnauers; FamilySearch research, 27 Sep 2026: Igis before 1744, Seengen, Elgg before 1695, the Familiennamenbuch

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• Wedding 1865 Lauterbrunnen and Thun, canton Bern

  Anna Maria marries Johann Ludwig Lauener at about forty-two

  In 1865 Anna Maria Hegnauer, born about 1823 by the index, married Johann Ludwig Lauener, one of five Hegnauer brides the study has found marrying in canton Bern between 1837 and 1873. Read the storyClose the story

  The Lauterbrunnen register, as indexed, has Anna Maria Hegnauer, daughter of Jakob, marrying Johann Ludwig Lauener on 26 December 1865; the index reads her name as "Anna David" and gives her year of birth as 1823, so she was about forty-two. The Thun register has the marriage too. She is one of five Hegnauer brides the study has found marrying in canton Bern between 1837 and 1873, in parishes from Jegenstorf to Lauterbrunnen: Susanna, daughter of Caspar, in 1837, entered at both Jegenstorf and Bern; Anna Maria, daughter of Johann, at Herzogenbuchsee in 1859; Maria Albertine Sophie, daughter of Gottlieb, about twenty-two, at Zimmerwald in 1868, a wedding entered also at Sursee, in canton Luzern; and Maria, about twenty-three, at Thun in 1873. For none of them does the index give the family's place of origin.

  In it: Anna Maria Hegnauer, Johann Ludwig Lauener, Jakob Hegnauer, Susanna Hegnauer, Carl Gottlieb Rodt, Caspar Hegnauer, Anna Maria Hegnauer, Jakob Gluss, Johann Hegnauer, Maria Albertine Sophie Hegnauer, Johann Rudolf Albrecht Streit, Gottlieb Hegnauer, Maria Hegnauer, Johann Gottlieb Rudolf Studer

  Source: Lauterbrunnen (Bern) marriage register, 26 December 1865 (FamilySearch index, Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Maria Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Susanna Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Susanna Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Maria Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Maria Elb Sophia Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Mina Albertine Sophie Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Maria Hegnauer; Swiss cities and other cantons: Basel, Bern, St. Gallen, Zürich city, Luzern, and entries without a parish

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• Farm 1911 Urbana, Illinois

  Robert qualifies as an expert judge of corn

  In 1911 the Illinois Corn Growers' Association certified Robert as "a fully qualified expert judge of corn". Read the storyClose the story

  In 1910-11 Robert Hegnauer was on the faculty of the agricultural department of the University of Illinois at Urbana. In January 1911 the Appleton City Journal reprinted the Champaign Daily Gazette's account of its first annual corn exhibit, in which the judges, "experts from the University of Illinois", were W. J. Carmichael, K. J. Shephard and R. L. Hegnauer; the Journal introduced him as the son of "Max Hegnauer of this city". In June it printed his certificate: he had "passed the examinations of the Illinois Corn Growers' Association" and was entitled to pass on corn exhibits in its name for a year from 15 April 1911. The Journal filed the news under "IN THE MAKING GOOD CLASS".

  In it: Robert Lucius Hegnauer

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 22 Jun 1911, p. 1

  Also: Appleton City Journal, 5 Jan 1911, p. 6

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• Wedding 1873 Newark, New Jersey

  Wilhelm the engraver marries at Newark

  In 1873 Wilhelm Hegnauer, an engraver, married at Newark, New Jersey; by 1880 the family seems to have been at La Chaux-de-Fonds, a Neuchâtel town that lived by watchmaking. Read the storyClose the story

  On 15 March 1873 Wilhelm Hegnauer, 31, an engraver of Newark, New Jersey, the son of a Rudolph, married Maria Zwinkel. The city's return of marriages gives no birthplaces; the First German Presbyterian Church of Newark also recorded the wedding. A son, Louis Arnold, born in New Jersey on 28 February 1874, was very probably theirs. By September 1880 the family seems to have been at La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the canton of Neuchâtel, a town that lived by watchmaking, where their son James Ernest was born, and in 1918 James gave his father's name as William Nicolas Hegnauer, living at Neuchâtel. Louis, very probably the Louis Hegnauer, 18, who landed at New York from Le Havre in 1892, lived at Newark from at least 1905 and at Irvington by 1925, the year he died. James was in America by 1918, and was living at Newark when he died in 1948.

  In it: Wilhelm Hegnauer, Maria Zwinkel, Louis Arnold Hegnauer, James Ernest Hegnauer

  Source: New Jersey marriage, Newark, 15 Mar 1873 (FamilySearch index; the return read on Ancestry)

  Also: The biography of Wilhelm Hegnauer; The biography of Louis Arnold Hegnauer; The biography of James Ernest Hegnauer; Ancestry research, 27 Sep 2026: key links among the American Hegnauers; New Jersey: Newark (Essex County) and central New Jersey; "United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database, FamilySearch, entry for Louis Arnold Hegnaner; Find a Grave, memorial 211307918, Louis Arnold Hegnauer (28 Feb 1874 – 26 Oct 1925), Woodland Cemetery Newark, Essex County, New Jersey; "New Jersey, State Census, 1905," database, FamilySearch, entry for Louis Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1910," database, FamilySearch, entry for Arnold Hegnaner; "United States, Census, 1920," database, FamilySearch, entry for Louis A Hegnauer; FamilySearch Full-Text, "cemetery records index", Newark, 30 Oct 1925; 4 Dec 1948; image ARK 3:1:3Q9M-C34J-4SGC-Z; "New Jersey, Newark, Woodland Cemetery Records, 1895-1980," database, FamilySearch, entry for Louis A Hegnauer; "United States, Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch, entry for Louis Hegnauer; "United States, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," database, FamilySearch, entry for James Ernest Hegnauer; "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007," database, FamilySearch, entry for James Hegnauer; Find a Grave, memorial 211308000, James Hegnauer (1880 – Dec 1948), Woodland Cemetery Newark, Essex County, New Jersey; "U.S., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1970," database with images, Ancestry.com, First German Presbyterian Church, Newark, New Jersey, marriage of Wilhelm Hegnauer, 31, father Rudolph, and Maria "T; "U.S., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1970," database with images, Ancestry.com, First German Presbyterian Church, Newark, New Jersey, marriage of Wilhelm Hegnauer, 31, father Rudolph, and Maria "T; "U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, Ancestry.com, James Ernest Hegnauer, Local Board 13, San Francisco, California, September 1918: 1962 Powell Street; age 3; "U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, Ancestry.com, James Ernest Hegnauer, Local Board 13, San Francisco, California, September 1918: 1962 Powell Street; age 3; Historical context for the Swiss families: sources read 28 September 2026

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• Wedding 1631 Uster, canton Zürich

  Anna, the first Hegnauer found at Uster, probably marries Ulrich Glatz in 1631

  Almost a century before a Hegnauer man married at Uster, an Anna Hegnauer was there: probably the bride of Ulrich Glatz in 1631, and the mother of Bläsius Glaz, baptised in 1647. Read the storyClose the story

  The earliest Hegnauer the study has found in the Uster registers is a bride. On 13 September 1631 an Anna, indexed as "Hegnonuer", married Ulrich Glatz at Uster; the study takes her to be Anna Hegnauer, wife of Uli Glaz, of the Uster baptisms (probable). One of her children's baptisms is dated: Bläsius, on 24 August 1647. Four more baptism lines, undated, name her as the mother of Geörg, Margreth, Heinrich and Anna Glaz. The next Hegnauer in the Uster register is another wife: Anna Hegnauwerin, wife of Burkhart Appert, buried on 30 December 1685. The first Hegnauer man the study has found at Uster is Hans Heinrich, who married Dorothea Meyer there in 1730.

  In it: Anna Hegnauer, Uli Glaz, Anna Hegnauer, Burkhart Appert

  Source: Uster marriage register, 13 Sep 1631 (FamilySearch index)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnouwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnouwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnouwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnauwerin; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Heinrich Hegnaüer; Uster, Wetzikon, the Zürich Oberland and the Thurgau border

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• Emigration 1856 Le Havre to New York

  The family crosses on the Chace, and a seaman drowns

  

  In 1856 Luzius, Margreth and their five children sailed from Le Havre on a ship that met light winds and calms the whole way and lost a man from the bowsprit. Read the storyClose the story

  The American ship Chace, master White, sailed from Le Havre for New York on 22 August 1856 with merchandise and 200 passengers. Among them were Luzius and Margreth Hegnauer of Igis and their five children, entered on the passenger list as "Hegemann": Lucie 36, Marguerite 37, Johann 15, Leonhard 13, Christian[e] 10, Martin 8 and Christian 5. The ship "has had light winds and calms the entire passage", the New York Herald reported. On 8 September a seaman, Henry Henrickson of Holstein, "fell from the bowsprit overboard, and was drowned". Six days later the brig Clinton spoke the Chace, "23 days out", and was told she had "lost a boy overboard, named Harry", presumably the same man. She reached New York on Monday 29 September. The same page of the Herald carried "The Revolution in Switzerland", a rising that had broken out after she sailed.

  In it: Luzius Hegnauer, Anna Margreth Bernet, Johannes Hegnauer, Leonhard Hegnauer, Christina Hegnauer, Martin Hegnauer, Christian Hegnauer

  Source: New York Herald and New-York Daily Tribune, 30 Sep 1856, and the passenger list of the Chace, printed "Chase" (NARA M237, roll 167), in the research note on the ship

  Also: The biography of Luzius Hegnauer; The biography of Anna Margreth Bernet

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• Death 1736 Volketswil, canton Zürich

  Hans Jacob, perhaps the last Hegnauer man in the register of Hegnau's own parish, is buried

  In April 1736 Volketswil, the parish of the village that gave the name, buried Hans Jacob Hegnauer; the study has found no Hegnauer man in its register after him, but has still to check whether its burial entries have a gap between 1736 and 1753. Read the storyClose the story

  Hegnau, the village that gave the surname, lies in the parish of Volketswil, in canton Zürich, whose register has Hegnauers from 1590. On 27 April 1736 the parish buried Hans Jacob Hegnauer, born in 1706 by the index, which gives his parent as "Hans Nachgelasem", the study's reading of "Hans' nachgelassener [Sohn]", the son left behind by the late Hans. He was probably the Hanss Jacob baptised there in March 1706, whose mother was Barbara Güttinger. The study has found no Hegnauer man in the register after him, though it runs to 1801. But the register is in two books: his is the last burial the study has from the older, its first from the later is of 1753, and whether there is a gap between them is still to be checked. The last entries of the name are baptisms of Hegnauer mothers' children in 1800 and, possibly, 1801.

  In it: Hans Jacob Hegnauer

  Source: Volketswil Reformed register (FamilySearch index), in the study's reconstruction of the Volketswil families

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Jacob Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hanss Jacob Hegenmann; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegn; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Begner; The biography of Hans Jacob Hegnauer

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• Death 1688 Elgg, canton Zürich

  At least six of Margreth Schöchli's eleven children die young

  Eleven children were baptised to Hans Heinrich Hegnauer and Margreth Schöchli at Elgg between 1686 and 1708, and the burial register records at least six of them dying as children. Read the storyClose the story

  Hans Heinrich Hegnauer married Margreth Schöchli at Elgg on 26 June 1683. Between 1686 and 1708 the baptism register named them as parents eleven times, spelling her surname Schohlj, Schählj, Schälin and Schöhlein, among other ways. The burial register, naming the father Heinrich, records six of those children: Hans Andreas at eight months in 1688, Catharina at three in 1689, Hans Heinrich at nine months in 1691, Elsbeth, just three, in 1692, Verena, three, on 23 March 1707, and the last-born, a second Hans Heinrich, at eight in July 1716. Five days after Verena a Katharina died, perhaps their daughter of 1701, and two Heinrichs whose burials of 1689 and 1691 name only the father may be theirs as well. Margreth was buried on 29 March 1732.

  In it: Hans Heinrich Hegnauer, Margreth Schöchli, Hans Andres Hegnauer, Cathrinli Hegnauer, Hans Heinrich Hegnauer, Elsbethli Hegnauer, Verena Hegnauer, Hans Heinrich Hegnauer, Katharina Hegnauer

  Source: Elgg Reformed baptism and burial registers (FamilySearch index), in the study's reconstruction of the Elgg families

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Catharina Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Andreas Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elsbeth Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hs Heinrich Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Margareth Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Susanna Hegnoüer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnäuer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Katharina Hegnäuer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Verena Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnäuer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hs Andres Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Cathrinli Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hs Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elsbethli Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Verena Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Katharina Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrichli Hagenauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauer; Other spellings of the name in FamilySearch's historical records; Elgg "spouse" entries: marriage or burial?

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• Emigration 1872 Igis to Fountain City

  Peter leaves Igis at sixty, and Christian goes to a printing office

  Peter Hegnauer emigrated in 1872, aged sixty; early the next year his youngest son was a printer's apprentice at Fountain City, Wisconsin. Read the storyClose the story

  In 1872, when he was sixty, Peter Hegnauer left Igis for America, as the village's register of citizen families records. His youngest son Christian, then fourteen, emigrated the same year: Christian's printed biography says that he "emigrated to the United States, 1872" and "entered apprenticeship in printing office, Fountain City, Wis., Jan. 15, 1873". Fountain City, a river town on the Mississippi in Buffalo County, Wisconsin, is where the 1880 census found a Peter Hegnauer, 68, and his wife Anna, 65, both Swiss-born, probably the emigrant couple. By 1883 Peter was dead: the Chicago directory of 1883–84 lists "Hegnauer Anna, wid. Peter" at 80 Willow Street, in the same house as "Christian, printer". In 1885 a Mrs. Anna Hegnauer, probably the widow, was living at Burlington, Iowa, where two of her married daughters settled.

  In it: Peter Hegnauer, Anna Berri, Christian Hegnauer

  Source: Biographical directory entry for Christian Hegnauer, editor, Ohio, about 1914 (FamilySearch Full-Text; filed as 'Missouri, Stillbirths')

  Also: FamilySearch Full-Text, "city directory", Chicago, 1883–84; image ARK 3:1:3QS7-89DX-CFT4; "United States, Census, 1880," database, FamilySearch, entry for Peter Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1880," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnauer; "United States City and Business Directories, ca. 1749 - ca. 1990," database, FamilySearch, entry for Mrs. Anna Hegnauer; "United States City and Business Directories, ca. 1749 - ca. 1990," database, FamilySearch, entry for Mrs Anna Hegnauer; "United States City and Business Directories, ca. 1749 - ca. 1990," database, FamilySearch, entry for Mrs Anna Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christian Hegnauer; The biography of Peter Hegnauer; The biography of Anna Berri; The biography of Christian Hegnauer; The biography of Maria Hegnauer; The biography of Anna Hegnauer

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• Death 1947 Staines, England

  Henrietta Hegnauer is buried at Teddington, and her estate goes to probate

  Henrietta Hegnauer, born in 1869, died on 17 March 1947; her death was registered at Staines, her grave is in Teddington Cemetery, and a grant on her estate was made in London that July. Read the storyClose the story

  Three indexes record the end of Henrietta Hegnauer's life, and they are all the study has of her. The death index of England and Wales lists her in 1947 under Staines, in Middlesex, as Henriette Hegnauer, with a birth year of 1869. The Find a Grave index places her grave in Teddington Cemetery and gives the day of her death, 17 March 1947. The national index of wills and administrations adds that a grant on her estate was made in London on 9 July 1947. She was seventy-seven or seventy-eight. None of the three, as the study has extracted them, names a husband, parents or birthplace, and where she came from is not known.

  In it: Henrietta Hegnauer

  Source: England and Wales, Death Registration Index, 1947, Staines district (FamilySearch index)

  Also: "Find a Grave Index," database, FamilySearch, entry for Henrietta Hegnauer; "England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957," database, FamilySearch, entry for Henrietta Hegnauer; Germany and the rest of Europe

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• Wedding 1891 Rainier, Washington

  John Henry marries Lizzie at Rainier, Washington

  Seven years after he landed as 'Hans, 17', John Henry Hegnauer married a Swiss bride in Thurston County, Washington, in October 1891. Read the storyClose the story

  Hans was seventeen when he landed at New York with his father in April 1884. Seven years later, as John Henry Hegnauer, he was in Washington State: on 5 October 1891 he married Lizzie Mather at Rainier, Thurston County. The county's record names his parents as Jacob Hegnauer and "Verina Sigrist". Lizzie was Swiss too: the 1900 census gives her birth as October 1869, in Switzerland. They did not stay in the West. The same census has their daughter Elsie born in New York in July 1892, and a John Hegnauer, probably he, was admitted a citizen at Rochester on 12 October 1892. What had taken John to Washington, the records do not say. In September 1914 Elsie herself was married at Vancouver, Washington.

  In it: John Henry Hegnauer, Lizzie Mather, Jacob Hegnauer, Verena Siegrist, Elsie C. Hegnauer

  Source: Washington, County Marriages, Thurston County: John Henry Hegnauer and Lizzie Mather, Rainier, 5 Oct 1891 (FamilySearch index)

  Also: "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008," database, FamilySearch, entry for John Henry Hegnauer; Ancestry research, 27 Sep 2026: key links among the American Hegnauers; "United States, Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1900," database, FamilySearch, entry for Lizzie Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1900," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elsie Hegnauer; FamilySearch Full-Text, "minor naturalization; petition index cards", Monroe Co. Court, 18 Feb 1892; image ARK 3:1:3Q9M-CSMP-HS5Z-P; "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elsie C Hegnauer; The biography of John Henry Hegnauer; Rochester, Monroe County, New York: the Seengen (Aargau) family

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• Office 1896 Butler, Missouri

  Leonard, probably Leonhard's son, is nominated for the legislature and "declared ineligible"

  In July 1896 the Bates County Republicans nominated "L. L. Hegenaur, of Prairie", probably Leonhard's son Leonard, for the state legislature by acclamation; in August they replaced him, "Mr. Hegenaur having been declared ineligible". Read the storyClose the story

  The Republicans of Bates County met in convention at the Opera House in Butler on Saturday, 11 July 1896. The sheriff and the treasurer went to ballots; then, in the Butler Daily Democrat's report, "L. L. Hegenaur, of Prairie, was nominated by acclamation" for Representative. The Bates County Record spelled him "Haganour", the Butler Free Press "Leonard Hagenauer", and until mid-August the Record's county ticket began "Representative, L. Hagenauer." The study takes the nominee, probably, to be Leonhard's son Leonard, then twenty-four, who had gone to school at Columbia in 1893 and in February 1896 had been commissioned a second lieutenant of the Battalion of State Cadets. It did not last. On 17 August the Democrat reported that the Republican Central Committee had "filled vacancies on their ticket", naming W. B. S. Gault, of Sprague, for Representative, "Mr. Hegenaur having been declared ineligible". None of the papers says why.

  In it: Leonard Hegnauer

  Source: Butler Daily Democrat, 11 Jul 1896, p. 4

  Also: Bates County Record, 18 Jul 1896, p. 2; The Butler Free Press, 17 Jul 1896, p. 4; Bates County Record, 15 Aug 1896, p. 2; Butler Daily Democrat, 17 Aug 1896, p. 1; Bates County Democrat, 20 Aug 1896, p. 4; Butler Daily Democrat, 14 Sep 1893, p. 1; Bates County Democrat, 27 Feb 1896, p. 6; [Republican county convention] Butler Daily Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 11 July 1896, p. 4; [Republican county ticket], The Butler Free Press (Butler, Missouri), 17 July 1896, p. 4; [Republican county ticket], Bates County Record (Butler, Missouri), 18 July 1896, p. 2; [Republican county ticket], Bates County Record (Butler, Missouri), 18 July 1896, p. 2; [Republican county ticket], Bates County Record (Butler, Missouri), 15 August 1896, p. 2; [Editorial paragraphs] Butler Daily Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 17 August 1896, p. 1; [Editorial paragraphs] Bates County Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 20 August 1896, p. 4; "Prairie City Items," Butler Daily Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 14 September 1893, p. 1; [Cadet officers commissioned] Bates County Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 27 February 1896, p. 6; The biography of Leonard Hegnauer; Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Hirschi in the papers, 1856–1925

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• Death 1733 Pfeffikon, canton Luzern

  Pfeffikon buries its last Hegnauers on record, ten days apart

  Melchior Hegnauer, born, the index says, in 1655, was buried at Pfeffikon on 23 April 1733, and Barbara, born in 1659, on 3 May: the last Hegnauers the study has found in the parish. Read the storyClose the story

  On 23 April 1733 Melchior Hegnauer, whom the index writes Hegnawer, was buried at Pfeffikon, in the canton of Luzern, and on 3 May, ten days later, Barbara, written "Hegnawein". The index gives Melchior's year of birth as 1655 and Barbara's as 1659, which would make them about seventy-eight and seventy-four. It names no husband, wife or parents for either, and the study has not placed them in a family, so how they were related, if at all, is not known. They are the last Hegnauers the study has found in the Pfeffikon register, 149 years after the first, the baptism of Melchior, son of Jagli, in 1584.

  In it: Melchior Hegnauer, Barbara Hegnauer

  Source: Pfeffikon (Luzern) burial register, 23 April 1733 (FamilySearch index, Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnawein; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Melchior Hegnauwer; Central Switzerland (Luzern, Zug): the Hegnauer families, 1584–1739

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• Wedding 1843 Liestal, Basel-Landschaft

  A Friedrich Spinnler, perhaps Johanna's widower or her son, marries another Hegnauer

  Johanna Hegnauer, wife of Friedrich Spinnler and mother of at least seven, twins among them, very probably died at Liestal in 1842; fifteen months later a Friedrich Spinnler married Maria Hegnauer there. Read the storyClose the story

  Johanna Hegnauer married Friedrich Spinnler at Liestal on 10 June 1816. The church indexes name her, as Johanna or as Anna, as the mother of at least seven Spinnler children. Johannes was born on 3 June 1817 and baptised five days later; twins, Friedrich and Anna, were born on 10 January 1821 and baptised on the 14th; Maria was born about 1826; Luisa, Karl and Rosina are named in undated entries. Johanna very probably died on 29 June 1842: a Johanna Hegnauer Spinnler, born in 1792 by the index, was buried at Liestal on 2 July. On 17 October 1843 a Friedrich Spinnler married Maria Hegnauer at Liestal. He may have been Johanna's widower, or her son Friedrich, then twenty-two, or another man of the name; the index does not say, and who Maria's parents were is not known. In 1849 Johanna's daughter Maria married at Bennwil.

  In it: Johanna Hegnauer, Friedrich Spinnler, Maria Hegnauer, Friederich Spinnler

  Source: Liestal Reformed marriage register, 17 Oct 1843 (FamilySearch index)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Maria Hegnauser; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johanna Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johanna Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johanna Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johanna Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegenauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johanna Hegenauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegrauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegrauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johanna Hegnauer Spinnler; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Friedrich Hegnauer; The biography of Johanna Hegnauer; Swiss cities and other cantons: Basel, Bern, St. Gallen, Zürich city, Luzern, and entries without a parish; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johannes; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Friedrich; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Maria Spinler; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Maria Spinler

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• Death 1918 Prairie City, Missouri

  The telephone brings the news that Grandma Hegnauer has died

  Susanna Hirschi died in February 1918, sixteen months after Leonhard, and the news went round Pleasant Gap by telephone. Read the storyClose the story

  Susanna Hegnauer, born Hirschi, died at her son Christian's home near Prairie City in February 1918; the Rich Hill Mining Review gave the cause as pneumonia. Born in Switzerland on 15 May 1846, she had come to America in 1849 with her parents, who settled at Highland, Illinois, where she married Leonhard in 1866. In 1869 they moved to Pleasant Gap township, and after Leonhard's death she went back to the Prairie City neighbourhood to live with her children. "This community was shocked," wrote the Pleasant Gap correspondent, "when the news came over the telephone that Grandma Hegnauer had gone to her reward." Her brother Gottlieb Hirschi was away from the meat market for some days, and came to the funeral.

  In it: Susanna Katharina Hirschi, Christian Hegnauer, Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 21 Feb 1918, p. 5

  Also: Appleton City Journal, 21 Feb 1918, p. 2; Rich Hill Mining Review, 21 Feb 1918, p. 8; Appleton City Journal, 21 Feb 1918, p. 4; The Republican Press, 15 Feb 1918, p. 5

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• Wedding 1853 Fehraltorf and Uster, canton Zürich

  Two Hegnauers marry two Anna Furrers, thirteen months apart

  Johannes Hegnauer married Anna Susanna Furrer at Fehraltorf in 1853 and Wilhelm Hegnauer married Anna Furrer at Uster in 1854; the boy born between the two weddings to a Johannes Hegnauer and an Anna Furrer was probably Johannes's. Read the storyClose the story

  On 11 October 1853 Johannes Hegnauer married A. Susanna Furrer at Fehraltorf; the wedding is also in the Pfäffikon register, dated November 1853, and the study reads her first name as Anna. Thirteen months later, on 13 November 1854, Wilhelm Hegnauer, born at Uster in 1827, married Anna Furrer at Uster, and that wedding was entered at Elsau and at Schlatt as well. Six days before Wilhelm's wedding, on 7 November 1854, a boy, Karl Emil, was born to "Johannes Hegnauer and Anna Furrer". His baptism is in two registers: at Uster on 10 December, where the index spells the name "Hegnauerell", and at Fehraltorf the next day. The study gives Karl Emil to Johannes and his Anna Susanna rather than to Wilhelm's Anna (probable). It has no later record of him.

  In it: Johannes Hegnauer, Anna Susanna Furrer, Karl Emil Hegnauer, Wilhelm Hegnauer, Anna Furrer

  Source: Fehraltorf marriage register, 11 Oct 1853 (FamilySearch index)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johannes Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Wilhelm Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Wilhelm Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Wilhelm Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Wilhelm Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Karl Emil Hegnauerell; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johannes Hegnauerell; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Karl Emil; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Joh Hegnauer; Uster, Wetzikon, the Zürich Oberland and the Thurgau border

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• Wedding 1826 Baden, Aargau

  Ludwig, born in 1770, marries at Baden in 1826

  From 1813 to 1872 the Reformed church at Baden, in Aargau, entered Hegnauer weddings, from 1817 probably in its register of couples from elsewhere; one groom, Ludwig, had been born in 1770. Read the storyClose the story

  The Reformed church at Baden, in Aargau, entered Hegnauer weddings from 1813 to 1872, from 1817 probably in its register of couples from elsewhere. The index names no home village, but the families they married into, Siegrist, Studler, Engel, Häfeli, Sandmeier, Hauri, Häusler, are names of the Seetal and the Lenzburg district, where Seengen lies, the study notes. On 4 August 1826 Ludwig Hegnauer, son of Jacob and Maria Häfeli, married Johanna Sandmeier; the index gives his birth as 1770, which made him about fifty-six. On 14 July 1847 Jakob, son of Samuel and Barbara Hauri, born in 1800, married Elisabeth Häusler. The wedding of Friedrich, probably their son, to Susanna Wolf on 29 January 1872 was entered both at Baden and at Mettmenstetten, Zürich.

  In it: Ludwig Hegnauer, Jacob Hegnauer, Maria Häfeli, Johanna Sandmeier, Jakob Hegnauer, Elisabeth Häusler, Friedrich Hegnauer

  Source: Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records (FamilySearch index): marriage of Ludwig Hegneuer and Johanna Sandmeier, Baden, Aargau, 4 Aug 1826

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegneuer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jakob Heganuer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Friedrich Heguaner; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Friedr Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for A Maria Hegnauer; FamilySearch research, 27 Sep 2026: Igis before 1744, Seengen, Elgg before 1695, the Familiennamenbuch; Seengen and the other Aargau Hegnauers; Swiss cities and other cantons: Basel, Bern, St. Gallen, Zürich city, Luzern, and entries without a parish

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• Death 1927 Rockville, Missouri

  Martin stays home while his father and brothers go to war

  Martin Hegnauer's obituary remembered that he was too young to enlist, and stayed at home to help his mother. Read the storyClose the story

  Martin Hegnauer, who died near Rockville on Sunday, 27 March 1927, aged seventy-nine, was born in Graubünden on 20 February 1848. His obituary, sent to the Appleton City Journal by his son-in-law Dr. Troy Brown, remembered that Martin "was not old enough to enlist in the Civil War so remained at home to help provide for the mother and younger children while his father and two brothers served". He married Mary Gambler at St. Joseph in 1875 and lived in St. Louis, where four children were born; in 1885 they came to Pleasant Gap township, and that August his wife died. On the morning of his death the daughter who kept house for him found him unconscious, and he died without waking; the doctor gave the cause as organic heart disease. He was buried in the Rockville cemetery beside his daughter Maggie.

  In it: Martin Hegnauer, Luzius Hegnauer, Mary Gambler, Troy F. Brown

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 31 Mar 1927, p. 6

  Also: The Sedalia Democrat, 3 Apr 1927, p. 15; Missouri State Board of Health, death certificate no. 7203 (Bates Co., 27 Mar 1927), Martin Hegnauer; Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1975 (image https://www.sos.mo.gov/image

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• Wedding 1645 Muri bei Bern, canton Bern

  Rodolph and Verena marry at Muri, the first Hegnauer couple on record at Bern

  On 8 August 1645 Rodolph Hegenauwer married Verena Vogt at Muri bei Bern; their daughter Sara, baptised in 1650, is the first Hegnauer the study has found in the city's registers. Read the storyClose the story

  On 8 August 1645 Rodolph Hegenauwer married Verena Vogt at Muri bei Bern. Their daughter Sara was baptised at Bern on 24 January 1650, the first Hegnauer entry the study has found in the city's registers, and a second daughter, Elsbeth, on 2 October 1656. The entries do not agree on their names: he is Rodolph Hegenauwer at the wedding, Rudolph Hegnauwer in 1650 and Hans Rudolph Hegnauwer in 1656, and she is Verena Vogt, and in 1656 Verena Vögtlin. Sara is probably the Sara Hegnauer, wife of Andres Oth, who had a son, or twin sons, baptised at Bern in October 1676. Where Rodolph came from is not known; his marriage entry may give a place of origin, but its image has not been read.

  In it: Rodolph Hegnauer, Verena Vogt, Sara Hegnauer, Elsbeth Hegnauer

  Source: Muri bei Bern marriage register, 8 August 1645 (FamilySearch index, Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Sara Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolph Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elsbeth Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Rudolph Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Sara Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Sara Hegnauer; Swiss cities and other cantons: Basel, Bern, St. Gallen, Zürich city, Luzern, and entries without a parish

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• Death 1948 Newark, New Jersey

  James Ernest Hegnauer dies suddenly in a factory

  Born at La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1880, James Ernest Hegnauer was very probably in Nebraska in 1910 and Washington in 1920, and at San Francisco in 1918; in 1948, living at Newark, he died suddenly 'in factory'. Read the storyClose the story

  James Ernest Hegnauer, a son of William Nicolas Hegnauer, was born on 16 September 1880 at La Chaux-de-Fonds, a town in the canton of Neuchâtel that lived by watchmaking. A James Hegnauer, born in Switzerland about 1881, was at Running Water, Sheridan County, Nebraska, in 1910 and at Black Diamond, King County, Washington, in 1920, very probably the same man. In September 1918 James registered for the draft at San Francisco; the card calls him a citizen of Switzerland, "not employed", and names his nearest relative as his father, at Neuchâtel. By 1942 he was living in Essex County, New Jersey. He died on 1 December 1948. The Woodland Cemetery records at Newark, where he was buried on 4 December, give his address as 83 Green Street, Newark, and the cause as "sudden death in factory"; which factory, and where, they do not say.

  In it: James Ernest Hegnauer, Wilhelm Hegnauer

  Source: Woodland Cemetery, Newark, records index, entries of 1925 and 1948 (FamilySearch Full-Text, machine transcription)

  Also: The biography of James Ernest Hegnauer; The biography of Wilhelm Hegnauer; "New Jersey, Newark, Woodland Cemetery Records, 1895-1980," database, FamilySearch, entry for James Hegnauer; Find a Grave, memorial 211308000, James Hegnauer (1880 – Dec 1948), Woodland Cemetery Newark, Essex County, New Jersey; "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007," database, FamilySearch, entry for James Hegnauer; "United States, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," database, FamilySearch, entry for James Ernest Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1910," database, FamilySearch, entry for James Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1920," database, FamilySearch, entry for James Hegnauer; "New Jersey, Marriages, 1678-1985," database, FamilySearch, entry for Wilhelm Hegnauer; Ancestry research, 27 Sep 2026: key links among the American Hegnauers; New Jersey: Newark (Essex County) and central New Jersey; "U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, Ancestry.com, James Ernest Hegnauer, Local Board 13, San Francisco, California, September 1918: 1962 Powell Street; age 3; "U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, Ancestry.com, James Ernest Hegnauer, Local Board 13, San Francisco, California, September 1918: 1962 Powell Street; age 3; Historical context for the Swiss families: sources read 28 September 2026

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• Death 1907 Lawton, Oklahoma

  John, probably Luzius's son, buries Mary at Lawton and goes to the Soldiers' Home

  A John Hegnauer, probably Luzius's eldest son, paid $7.50 for a cemetery lot at Lawton, Oklahoma, where his wife Mary was buried in 1907; in the end a stranger was buried there, not he. Read the storyClose the story

  In the burial book of Highland Cemetery at Lawton, Oklahoma, half of lot 46 in block 21½ stands in the name of "John Hegnauer", who paid $7.50 for it; in February 1907 his wife Mary was buried there. He was probably John, Luzius's eldest son, a Union cavalry veteran, who had registered to vote at Lawton in 1906 and 1907. In June 1909 "John Hegnaner, widower of Comanche County" sold his town lot for $500, and that year, at 68, he entered the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Leavenworth, Kansas. In November 1917 the Leavenworth Times listed him moved from the Home's hospital to Company I and back again, in one week. He died there on 31 December and lies in Leavenworth National Cemetery. He was never buried in the Lawton lot: the cemetery book marks it "Reclaimed", and in 1929 a stranger was buried in it.

  In it: Johannes Hegnauer, Mary Hegnauer

  Source: Highland Cemetery burial record book, Lawton, Oklahoma, block 21½, lot 46 (FamilySearch Full-Text; image viewed)

  Also: FamilySearch Full-Text, "mortgage 1906, voter registers Oct 1906 and Mar 1907, deed 23 Jun 1909, mortgage release 1911", Lawton, Comanche Co., Okla., 1906–1911; image ARK 3:1:3Q9M-CSBG-13XS-3; "Oklahoma, Voter Records, 1906-1956," database, FamilySearch, entry for John Hegnauer; "Oklahoma, Voter Records, 1906-1956," database, FamilySearch, entry for John Hegnauer; The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC, USA; Historical Register of National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938; Series: M1749; The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC, USA; Historical Register of National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938; Series: M1749; U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current; The biography of Johannes Hegnauer; The biography of Mary; The Leavenworth Times, 25 Nov 1917, p. 9; [Soldiers' Home transfers], The Leavenworth Times (Leavenworth, Kansas), 25 November 1917, p. 9

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• Death 1797 Elgg, canton Zürich

  Dorothea Meyer, probably the Uster bride of 1730, is buried at 85

  In December 1797 the Elgg register buried Dorothea Meyer, wife of Heinrich Hegnauer, aged 85: probably the woman who had married him at Uster sixty-seven years before. Read the storyClose the story

  On 26 September 1730 Hans Heinrich Hegnauer married Dorothea Meyer at Uster. The Uster entry names his father, Peter; the Elgg register entered the same wedding on the same day, and the study takes the groom to be the Heinrich baptised at Elgg in 1701, son of Peter Hegnauer and Esther Trachsler (probable). Between 1732 and 1755 the Uster register baptised seven children of Heinrich and Dorothea, and between 1736 and 1751 it buried four children of a Heinrich Hegnauer. On 12 December 1797 the Elgg burial register entered Dorothea Meyer, aged 85, naming her husband as Heinrich Hegnauer. The study takes her to be the Uster bride (probable). If so, she was born about 1712, married at about eighteen, had her last child baptised at about forty-three, and was buried sixty-seven years after her wedding.

  In it: Dorothea Meyer, Hans Heinrich Hegnauer

  Source: Elgg burial register, 12 Dec 1797 (FamilySearch index; record page read)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Heinrich Hegnaüer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hs Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for H Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Jacob; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Margaretha; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Barbara; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Barbara; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hanss Rudolf; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elisabeta; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Barbara Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Rudolf Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Rudolf Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauer; Uster, Wetzikon, the Zürich Oberland and the Thurgau border

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• Church 1590 Volketswil, canton Zürich

  Two children of Clinhans, baptised nine weeks apart

  The first Hegnauers the study has found in the register of Hegnau's parish are a Hans and a Barbara, both entered in 1590 as children of Clinhans, only nine weeks apart; the study suspects two men of the name. Read the storyClose the story

  The register of Volketswil, the parish of Hegnau, begins in 1588. The earliest Hegnauer entry the study has found in it is the baptism of Hans on 25 July 1590, and it names only his father, Clinhans; the indexer read the surname as Hegnanwer. On 27 September 1590, nine weeks later, a Barbara was baptised, also a child of Clinhans. The study suggests that there may have been two men of that name. The index names Clinhans as the father at three more baptisms: another Hans on 26 December 1591, Anna on 27 December 1594 and another Barbara on 6 March 1597. A Dorothe, baptised in January 1600 as the child of a Hanss, is linked to him only as possible. None of these entries names a mother. A similar name appears once more: in 1629 Hans Hegnauer and Margreth Ochsner had a son baptised Klihans.

  In it: Clinhans Hegnauer, Hans Hegnauer, Barbara Hegnauer, Hans Hegnauer, Anna Hegnauer, Barbara Hegnauer, Dorothe Hegnauer, Klihans Hegnauer, Hans Hegnauer, Margret Ochsner

  Source: Volketswil Reformed baptism register, 25 July 1590 (FamilySearch index)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Clinhans Hegnanwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnanwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Clinhans Hegnanwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Hegnanwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Clinhans Hegnanwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Clinhans Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Clinhans Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Dorothe Gepnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hanss Gepnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Klihans Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Hegnauwer; Volketswil, the parish of Hegnau: the Hegnauer families, 1590–1801

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• Wedding 1866 Highland, Illinois

  Leonhard marries Susanna at Highland on the Fourth of July

  On Independence Day 1866 the pastor of Highland's German Evangelical congregation married Leonhard of Graubünden to Susanna Katharina Hirschi of Canton Bern. Read the storyClose the story

  On 26 June 1866 Madison County issued licence no. 187 to "Leonard Hagnauer" and "Susan K Hirschi". On 4 July, at Highland, Pfarrer Nicolas Schupbach of the German Evangelical congregation married them, entering the groom in his register as "Leonhard Hegnauer, farmer, Kanton Graubünden, Schweiz" and the bride as Susanna Katharina Hirschi of "Amseldingen, Kanton Bern"; the witnesses were Johann Zimmermann and Jungfer Elisabeth Mollet. He sent the licence back the next day. The two families were already joined. In 1860 and 1863 three children of Leonhard's aunt Barbara Tontz, his mother's sister, had married into Susanna's family, and on 25 October 1863 the same pastor had married two Tontz–Hirschi couples on one day.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer, Susanna Katharina Hirschi

  Source: German Evangelical congregation, Highland, Illinois, marriage register 1860–1870, p. 363, 1866 no. 2 (image read)

  Also: "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," FamilySearch, Leonard Hagnauer and Susan K Hirschi, 4 Jul 1866, Madison Co. Marriage Register vol. 6 p. 204; image 3:1:33S7-9B2K-5JW; German Evangelical congregation, Highland, Ill., register 1860-1870, marriages of Pfarrer Nicolas Schupbach, p. 363[-364], 1866 no. 2 (Susanna Katharina Hirschi of Amseldingen, Kanton Bern, x Leonhard; "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," FamilySearch, Leonard Hagnauer and Susan K Hirschi, 4 Jul 1866, Madison Co. Marriage Register vol. 6 p. 204; FHL film 1306457; image 3:1:33S7-9B2K-5JW; "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," FamilySearch, Jones Tontz and Elizabeth Hirschi, 4 Jul 1860, Madison Co. Marriage Register vol. 6 p. 169; image 3:1:33S7-8B2K-G58; "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," FamilySearch, John Hirsche and Elizabeth Tontz, 14 Oct 1860, Madison Co. Marriage Register vol. 6 p. 170; image 3:1:33S7-LB2K-RM1; "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," FamilySearch, Christian Hirschi and Elizabeth Hirschi, 25 Oct 1863, Madison Co. Marriage Register vol. 6 p. 187; image 3:1:33S7-8B2K-GHK; "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," FamilySearch, Christian Tontz and Rosina Hirsche, 25 Oct 1863, Madison Co. Marriage Register vol. 6 p. 187; image 3:1:33S7-8B2K-GHK; The biography of Leonhard Hegnauer; The biography of Susanna Katharina Hirschi; The biography of Anna Margreth Bernet; Illinois, Madison County: the Hirschi family and the 1866 marriage

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• Court 1806 Lausanne, Vaud

  A Lausanne creditor pursues the fee for Salomon's apprenticeship

  About 1806 a Lausanne woman sent a sworn procurator of Zürich after two Hegnauers for the cost of Salomon's apprenticeship. Read the storyClose the story

  A notarial act drawn up at Lausanne in 1806–07 records that a Lausanne woman named Pachoud gave her power to one Meyer, "procureur juré du Canton de Zurich", a sworn procurator of the canton of Zürich, to recover what was owed to her "pour l'apprentissage de Salomon Hegnauer fils du premier": for the apprenticeship of Salomon Hegnauer, son of the first-named. The first-named was "Jacob Hegnauer"; the second was "sa caution Hegnauer d'Elly", his surety, a Hegnauer of "Elly", which the study reads as Elgg, an old home of the Hegnauers in the canton of Zürich. The act does not say what trade Salomon was learning, nor how the debt was settled. The study takes him, probably, to be of the Elgg family.

  In it: Salomon Hegnauer

  Source: Notarial act, Lausanne, 1806–07 (FamilySearch Full-Text, machine transcription, in French)

  Also: FamilySearch Full-Text search, 27 Sep 2026: Hegnauer in machine-read deeds, wills, court and other records; FamilySearch research, 27 Sep 2026: Igis before 1744, Seengen, Elgg before 1695, the Familiennamenbuch

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• Farm 1882 West Point, California

  Henry and Otto Mentzel claim the Swiss Boy lode

  Henry Hegnauer, a Swiss-born miner of West Point, is on the Calaveras County voter registers from 1867 to 1900. Read the storyClose the story

  The great registers of voters of Calaveras County, in California's gold country, carry Henry Hegnauer, miner, of West Point, from 1867, when he gave his age as 46, to 1900. In 1888 he was entered as "66, Switzerland, Miner"; in 1896 the register described him, aged 78, as 5 feet 7¼ inches tall, of light complexion, with grey eyes. Between 1882 and 1887 he and Otto Mentzel appear together in the county's mining claims, among them one for the "Swiss Boy" lode. In 1900 the census found a Henry Hegnauer, probably he, still in the county, in Mokelumne Hill township, born in Switzerland in October 1818. His ages drift from register to register, and nothing yet shows where in Switzerland he came from or whether he had a family.

  In it: Henry Hegnauer

  Source: Calaveras County great registers, mining claims and a deed, 1863–1900 (FamilySearch Full-Text, machine transcription)

  Also: "United States, Census, 1900," database, FamilySearch, entry for Henry Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1880," database, FamilySearch, entry for Henry Hegnaur; "California, Great Registers, 1848-1921," database, FamilySearch, entry for Henry Hegnaner; "California, Great Registers, 1848-1921," database, FamilySearch, entry for Henry Hegnauer

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• Office 1931 Minneapolis, Minnesota

  Lotta runs the emergency clothes station

  In the autumn of 1931 Lotta Hegnauer directed a Minneapolis workroom where women were paid to remake old clothes for needy families. Read the storyClose the story

  In October 1931 the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune described the city's emergency work programmes. One was an emergency clothes station in the Citizen's Aid Building, sponsored by the Family Welfare Association, where women were paid by the hour to mend and remake used clothing; since late August more than 1,500 garments had gone to needy families. The station was directed by Mrs. Lotta D. Hegnauer of the Family Welfare staff. Lotta, born Lotta Alice Donnell, retired many years later as a social worker of the Children's Home Society of Washington.

  In it: Lotta Alice Donnell

  Source: Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, 4 Oct 1931

  Also: The News Tribune, 5 Apr 1973, p. 15

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• Emigration 1897 Rochester, New York

  Albert sets off for Germany with the Schulz brothers

  In June 1897 Albert Hegnauer, the youngest of the Seengen brothers, left Rochester to sail for Germany on the Friesland with William and John Schulz; two years later William Schulz was best man at his wedding. Read the storyClose the story

  Albert, the youngest of the brothers who had come from Seengen in 1884, was a machinist of 27 when he applied in 1897 for a passport to go abroad for about six months. On the evening of 20 June he left Rochester on the Erie railroad with William and John Schulz, and on the Wednesday the three were to sail from New York on the Red Star liner Friesland, for Germany. How long he stayed away, the papers do not say. He was back by the autumn of 1899: on Tuesday, 26 September, he married Anna Meyer at the home of her brother, 298 Hudson Avenue, the Rev. Carl N. Conrad officiating. Her niece Clara Meyer was bridesmaid, and William Schulz was best man.

  In it: Albert Gottlieb Hegnauer, Anna Maria Meyer

  Source: The Union and Advertiser (Rochester), 21 Jun 1897, p. 7

  Also: The Rochester Herald, 22 Jun 1897, p. 8; Rochester Journal and the Post Express, 22 Jun 1897, p. 8; "Personal," The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 21 June 1897, p. 7; "Personal," The Rochester Herald (Rochester, New York), 22 June 1897, p. 8; "Local Personal Mention," Rochester Journal and the Post Express (Rochester, New York), 22 June 1897, p. 8; "United States, Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database, FamilySearch, entry for Albert Hegnauer; FamilySearch Full-Text, "petition index; passport", Rochester, 1896; 1897; image ARK 3:1:3Q9M-CSMV-FS9K-X; Democrat and Chronicle, 28 Sep 1899, p. 10; The Times-Union, 28 Sep 1899, p. 8; The Rochester Herald, 29 Sep 1899, p. 6; "Meyer-Hegnauer," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 28 September 1899, p. 10; "Meyer-Hegnauer," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 28 September 1899, p. 10; "Meyer-Hegnauer," The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 28 September 1899, p. 8; "Meyer-Hegnauer," The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 28 September 1899, p. 8; "Hegnaeur-Meyer," The Rochester Herald (Rochester, New York), 29 September 1899, p. 6; "Hegnaeur-Meyer," The Rochester Herald (Rochester, New York), 29 September 1899, p. 6; The biography of Albert Gottlieb Hegnauer

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• Church 1584 Pfeffikon, canton Luzern

  Melchior is baptised at Pfeffikon, the first Catholic Hegnauer of Luzern on record

  The baptism of Melchior, son of Jagli Hegnauwer and Margreth Thomman, at Pfeffikon on 16 June 1584 is the earliest entry the study has found for the Catholic Hegnauers of Pfeffikon and the Luzern Seetal. Read the storyClose the story

  On 16 June 1584 the parish of Pfeffikon, in the canton of Luzern, baptised Melchior, son of Jagli Hegnauwer, the usual spelling in Luzern, and Margreth Thomman. It is the earliest entry the study has found for the Catholic Hegnauers of Pfeffikon and the Luzern Seetal. By 1588 there were two Hegnauer couples in the register: Anni, daughter of Rudolff Hegnauwer and Dorothea Marta Wyler, was baptised on 10 August, and Melchior's brother Hans on 24 August. Melchior is probably the Melchior Hegnauwer whose children by Anna Sutter were baptised at Pfeffikon in 1613, 1619 and 1621, and possibly the Melchior who married Maria Büelman there in 1627. By the study's map, Pfeffikon lies about 9 km from Seengen, in Aargau, which with Elgg is one of only two Hegnauer citizenships older than 1800. No record joins the two families, and the Seengen registers are not on FamilySearch.

  In it: Melchior Hegnauer, Jagli Hegnauer, Margreth Thomman, Hans Hegnauer, Anni Hegnauer, Rudolff Hegnauer, Dorothea Marta Wyler, Anna Sutter

  Source: Pfeffikon (Luzern) baptism register, 16 June 1584 (FamilySearch index, Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anni Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jagli Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolff Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Melchioris Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Melchior Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Melchior Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Melchior; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elysabeth; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Melchior Hegnauwer; The biography of Melchior Hegnauer; Central Switzerland (Luzern, Zug): the Hegnauer families, 1584–1739

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• Farm 1850 Township 4 North, Illinois

  Christian Hirschi, very probably, pays for his first land with a Mexican War warrant

  Less than four months after landing at New York, Christian Hirschi very probably paid for 160 acres of public land with a warrant that a private of the 7th Infantry had earned in the Mexican War. Read the storyClose the story

  On 18 November 1850, less than four months after the Hirschis landed at New York, a "Christian Hirsch" took up 160 acres of public land in Township 4 North, Range 5 West, Madison County, at the Edwardsville land office. He paid with a military bounty-land warrant, no. 65,556, issued under the act of 1847 to John McCabe, a private in Captain Whiting's company of the 7th U.S. Infantry, who had earned it in the Mexican War and assigned it to him. The patent, made out to "Christian Hirsche, assignee of John McCabe", was signed on 1 May 1851. The buyer was very probably Christian Hirschi, who farmed in that township in 1860 and 1870. By the family's account his father Peter, 71 by the passenger list of 1850, died in the winter of 1851 and was buried on the farm along Sugar Creek.

  In it: Christian Hirschi Sr., Peter Hirschi

  Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office, military-warrant patent MW-1062-051 to Christian Hirsche, assignee of John McCabe, 1 May 1851

  Also: Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales, HIRSCH CHRISTIAN, 18 Nov 1850, 3rd P.M., T4N R5W: E2NE sec. 14 (80 a), NWNW sec. 13 (40 a), NWNE sec. 14 (40 a); price WARRANT; type FD; vol. 351 p. 062; purch; "New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820–1957," database with images, Ancestry.com, manifest of the ship Belmont, Le Havre to New York, arriv; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Township 4 North Range 5 West, Madison County, Illinois, post office Highland, page 285, dwelling 2061, family 2037, enumerated 25 August 1860: Chas [Christian] Herschi (47,; "United States, Census, 1870," FamilySearch, Christian Kershi [Hirschi], 53, Township 4 Range 5, Madison Co., Illinois, post office Saline, p. 5 (stamped 37), dwelling 1630, family 1698, line 1; NARA; Find a Grave, memorial 156890155, Peter Hirschi, born 6 August 1779, Schangnau, Emmental, Bern; died 1851, Madison County, Illinois; burial "Cremated, Other"; created by R. Marti, 9 January 2016, with; The biography of Christian Hirschi Sr.; Illinois, Madison County: the Hirschi family and the 1866 marriage

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• Death 1841 Basel

  Samuel and Susanna bury three of their eight children

  Between 1841 and 1873 the Basel burial registers recorded three of Samuel and Susanna Hegnauer's children: a baby girl, a boy of two and a daughter of twenty-five. Read the storyClose the story

  Samuel Hegnauer married Susanna Hausmann at Basel on 29 November 1839, and between 1840 and 1856 the Basel registers record the baptisms of eight of their children. The first, Susanna Verena, born on 10 May 1840, died on 22 April 1841, eighteen days before her first birthday; a second daughter, Anna Maria, was born that December. Jacob, born on 9 May 1844, died on 17 March 1847, not yet three. Anna Rosina, born in November 1847, died on 3 August 1873, aged twenty-five; her burial entry names both her parents. Susanna, the mother, whose burial entry gives her birth year as 1815, died on 3 February 1880. Samuel probably outlived her by twenty-two years: a Samuel Hegnauer born in 1815, indexed as "Samuel Kausmann Hegnauer", which the study reads as his wife's maiden name joined to his, was buried at Basel on 11 June 1902.

  In it: Samuel Hegnauer, Susanna Hausmann, Susanna Verena Hegnauer, Jacob Hegnauer, Anna Rosina Hegnauer

  Source: Basel Reformed church registers (FamilySearch index), in the study's chart of the Basel Hegnauers

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Samuel Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Susanna Verena Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Verena Susanna Hegenauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Verena Susanna Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Maria Hegnaner; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jakob Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elisabeth Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Rosina Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Rosina Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Rosina Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Susanna Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolf Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Dorothea Hegenauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Susanna Hegnauer Hausmann; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Samuel Hegnauer Kausmann; The biography of Samuel Hegnauer

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• Death 1835 Mettmenstetten, canton Zürich

  Barbara is buried at about 25, and her daughter Verena six weeks later

  In the autumn of 1835 the Mettmenstetten register buried Barbara Hegnauer, wife of Jacob Berrli, aged about twenty-five, and six weeks later her daughter Verena. Read the storyClose the story

  Barbara Hegnauer, wife of Jacob Berrli, died on 29 September 1835 and was buried at Mettmenstetten on 2 October. The burial entry gives her birth year as 1810, so she was about twenty-five. Six weeks later, on 15 November, the Mettmenstetten register buried her daughter, Verena Berrli, naming her mother as B. Hegnauer and her father as Jacob. The index gives Verena no age, and neither entry a cause of death. These two burials are all the study has of the family: not the marriage, not Verena's baptism, and not Barbara's parents.

  In it: Barbara Hegnauer, Jacob Berrli

  Source: Mettmenstetten burial register, 2 Oct 1835 (FamilySearch index)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for B Hegnauer; Uster, Wetzikon, the Zürich Oberland and the Thurgau border

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• Farm 1868 Gasconade County, Missouri

  Luzius and Margaretha sell the farm to their lender

  After eight years of mortgages, Luzius and Margaretha sold their Gasconade County farm at the end of 1868 to the man who held their notes, and left the county's records. Read the storyClose the story

  The county's deed books, so far read only in machine transcription, trace the farm. In May 1860 Luzi and Margaretha mortgaged their 80 acres in Section 23, Township 44 North, Range 5 West, to secure notes of $200 to Peter Krattly and $250 to Ernst Heck. In March 1864 they borrowed $500 on the land from Hermann Kemper at 6 per cent. By March 1868, when they gave Kemper a second mortgage, for $700 at 7 per cent, the farm had grown to 120 acres. On 26 December 1868 they sold the 120 acres to Kemper for $1,200. Margaretha joined her husband in every one of these deeds. It is the last record of the couple in Gasconade County; the family has not been found in the 1870 census, and the 1880 census finds Luzius and Margreth in Bates County.

  In it: Luzius Hegnauer, Anna Margreth Bernet

  Source: Warranty deed, Luzi and Margaretha Hegnaner to Herman Kemper, 26 Dec 1868, recorded 6 Apr 1870, Gasconade County deed records (FamilySearch Full-Text machine transcription)

  Also: FamilySearch Full-Text, "mortgage deed", Gasconade, 23 May 1860 (filed 31 Jul 1865); image ARK 3:1:3Q9M-CSR1-RSC8-S; FamilySearch Full-Text, "mortgage deed", Gasconade, 3 Mar 1864 (filed 2 May 1866); image ARK 3:1:3Q9M-CSTM-737X-J; FamilySearch Full-Text, "mortgage deed", Gasconade, 3 Mar 1868; image ARK 3:1:3Q9M-CSTM-3Q26; "United States, Census, 1880," database, FamilySearch, entry for Lucius Hegnauer; The biography of Luzius Hegnauer; The biography of Anna Margreth Bernet

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• Wedding 1846 Baden, Aargau

  Twice a Hegnauer bride marries a Rudolf Büchli at Baden

  Elisabetha Hegnauer married Rudolf Büchli at Baden in 1846, and Luise Hegnauer married a Rudolf Buchli there in 1869; the index does not say whether he was the same man. Read the storyClose the story

  On 4 December 1846 Elisabetha Hegnauer, born about 1825, a daughter of Jakob Hegnauer and Maria Studler, married Rudolf Büchli in the Reformed church at Baden. Her brother Rudolf married Elisabeth Häggi there on 14 May 1852, and in 1872 Elisabetha's son Wilhelm Büchli was married at Luzern. On 10 May 1869 another Hegnauer bride married a Rudolf Buchli at Baden: Luise, born about 1846, a daughter of Jakob Hegnauer and Verena Siegrist, who stayed in Switzerland when her family left for Rochester in 1884. The index gives her groom's birth as 1824; whether he was Elisabetha's husband of 1846, it does not say. The coincidence may go further. Luise's father, Jacob of Rochester, born about 1825, could be a son of Jakob and Maria Studler, though his birth would then fall close to Elisabetha's, and no record names his parents. If he was, Elisabetha was Luise's aunt.

  In it: Elisabetha Hegnauer, Rudolf Büchli, Jakob Hegnauer, Maria Studler, Rudolf Hegnauer, Elisabeth Häggi, Luise Hegnauer, Rudolf Buchli, Jacob Hegnauer

  Source: Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records (FamilySearch index): marriage of Elisabetha Hegnauer and Rudolf Büchli, Baden, Aargau, 4 Dec 1846

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolf Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elisab Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Luise Hegnauer; The biography of Jacob Hegnauer; The biography of Luise Hegnauer; FamilySearch research, 27 Sep 2026: Igis before 1744, Seengen, Elgg before 1695, the Familiennamenbuch; Seengen and the other Aargau Hegnauers; Rochester, Monroe County, New York: the Seengen (Aargau) family

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• Church 1676 Bern

  Twins, perhaps, for Sara Hegnauer at Bern

  On 27 October 1676 the Bern index has two baptism entries for sons of Andres Oth and Sara Hegnauer, Hans Rudolff and Antoni: twins, or perhaps one entry indexed twice. Read the storyClose the story

  FamilySearch's index of the Bern registers has two entries, both dated 27 October 1676, for the baptism of a son of Sara Hegnauer and her husband Andres Oth: one names the child Hans Rudolff, with Rudolff in the surname field, the other Antoni. The study reads them as twins, but until the register page is seen it keeps open the chance that one entry has been indexed twice under two readings. Sara is probably the Sara Hegnauwer baptised at Bern on 24 January 1650, daughter of Rudolph Hegnauwer and Verena Vogt, the only Sara Hegnauer in the Bern index. If so, she was twenty-six, and one of the boys bore the name her father is given at a baptism of 1656, Hans Rudolph.

  In it: Sara Hegnauer, Andres Oth, Rodolph Hegnauer, Verena Vogt

  Source: Bern baptism register, 27 October 1676 (FamilySearch index, Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Sara Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Sara Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolph Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Rudolph Hegnauwer; The biography of Sara Hegnauer; Swiss cities and other cantons: Basel, Bern, St. Gallen, Zürich city, Luzern, and entries without a parish; Other spellings of the name in FamilySearch's historical records

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• Office 1892 Bates County, Missouri

  Leonhard runs for judge and loses to his future bank partner

  In 1892 the Republicans put Leonhard up for county judge; the man who beat him later sat beside him at the bank. Read the storyClose the story

  In the autumn of 1892 Leonhard Hegnauer was the Republican candidate for judge of the Bates County court for the southern district. The Butler Weekly Times printed a sample ballot with every ticket but the Democratic one struck through with a large X, "for the purpose of giving the voter an idea how to prepare his ballot". On 5 November the Butler Daily Democrat reported that "L. Hegenour" had come to town the evening before, "heaping coals of fire on the devoted heads of those who sold out a portion of the Republican ticket". The county's totals gave Fred Fix 1,637 votes and "Hegenaur" 1,188. Five years later the directors of the Bank of Rockville elected "Ex Judge Fred Fix" their president and Leonhard their vice-president.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Butler Daily Democrat, 5 Nov 1892, p. 4

  Also: The Butler Weekly Times, 19 Oct 1892, p. 1; Butler Daily Democrat, 11 Nov 1892, p. 4; Butler Daily Democrat, 12 Oct 1897, p. 4

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• Death 1829 Uster, canton Zürich

  Two Hegnauers are buried at Uster in four days

  In March 1829 the Uster register buried Barbara and then Heinrich Hegnauer, each entered with a father named Heinrich; an Elgg entry with the same dates, possibly his, makes Heinrich a man of 76. Read the storyClose the story

  In March 1829 the Uster register buried two Hegnauers in four days. Barbara died on 16 March and was buried on the 19th; Heinrich died on the 18th and was buried on the 22nd. Both entries name the father as Heinrich Hegnauer. The register of Elgg has a Heinrich Hegnauer with the same dates of death and burial, aged 76, and so born about 1753; the study thinks it possible that this is the same man, entered in the Elgg register as well. The study lists Barbara and Heinrich as children of a Heinrich Hegnauer (probable), but the Uster index gives neither of them an age, and if the Elgg entry is his, Heinrich was no child. How the two were related, the index does not say.

  In it: Barbara Hegnauer, Heinrich Hegnauer, Heinrich Hegnauer

  Source: Uster burial register, 19 Mar 1829 (FamilySearch index)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnauer; Uster, Wetzikon, the Zürich Oberland and the Thurgau border

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• Wedding 1597 Volketswil, canton Zürich

  The Hegnauers and the Guls of Hegnau marry for more than a century

  From the wedding of Hans Gul and Elsbeth, very probably a Hegnauer, in 1597 to Magdalena Hegnauer's to Heinrich Gul in 1723, the register of Hegnau's parish joins the Hegnauers to the Guls at least four times, by the study's reading. Read the storyClose the story

  On 26 June 1597 Hans Gul married Elsbetha "Hegmer", as the index reads her, at Volketswil. She was very probably the Elsbeth Hegnauer named as his sons' mother, and theirs is the earliest Hegnauer wedding the study has found in the register of Hegnau's parish. Their son Heinrich was baptised in November 1603, and the index names three more, Jacob, Felix and Andreas. Guls are found "von Hegnau", of Hegnau: a Hans Gul in Zürich records of 1483, a Felix Gul married in 1740. Anna Hegnauer and Heinrich Gul had a daughter Regula baptised. The wife of Jacob Hegnauer, called Jagli, the mother of six children baptised from 1662 to 1676, was Anna Gul, as the study reads the index's Gürt, Gurt, Güll and Güt. On 28 September 1723 Magdalena Hegnauer married another Heinrich Gul. A Gul baptism of 1801 names a mother Barbara "Begner", possibly a Hegnauer too.

  In it: Elsbeth Hegnauer, Hans Gul, Anna Hegnauer, Heinrich Gul, Jacob Hegnauer, Anna Gul, Magdalena Hegnauer, Heinrich Gul, Barbara Hegnauer, Hans Jacob Gul

  Source: Volketswil Reformed marriage register, 26 June 1597 (FamilySearch index)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elsbeth Segnawer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elbeth Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elsbeth Hegnouwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elsbeth Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Susanna Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Magdalena Hegauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Begner; The biography of Jacob Hegnauer; Volketswil, the parish of Hegnau: the Hegnauer families, 1590–1801; Switzerland: where the Hegnauers lived

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• Farm 1910 Metolius, Oregon

  Christian's Metolius homestead is patented

  In 1910 the Land Office granted Christian 160 acres on the high plateau of central Oregon, near Metolius, which remained the couple's home. Read the storyClose the story

  Some time before 1910 Christian and Elizabeth left their land near Salem, Oregon, for a homestead on the high plateau of central Oregon, then part of Crook County. In May 1910 the census found "Christ" and "Lizzie" Hegnauer farming on their own account in the Culver–Metolius district, the farm theirs, free of mortgage. On 10 October 1910 the General Land Office issued the patent, under the Homestead Act of 1862, for the 160 acres of the south-east quarter of Section 29, Township 11 South, Range 13 East; the clerk wrote "Christ Hagnauer". The Salem land had been sold that July. Metolius was the couple's home for the rest of their lives: in 1917 "Christ Hegnauer" of Metolius was on the Jefferson County tax list, and in 1930, retired, he owned a small house in the town, worth $800. He died there in February 1935, aged 84.

  In it: Christian Hegnauer, Elizabeth Stadler

  Source: U.S. General Land Office homestead patent, The Dalles serial 03149 (10 Oct 1910), as cited in Christian's biography

  Also: FamilySearch Full-Text, "deeds, mortgages, indexes", Marion Co., Ore., 1893–1915; image ARK 3:1:33S7-9YQM-3PT8; "United States, Census, 1910," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christ Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1910," database, FamilySearch, entry for Lizzie Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1930," database, FamilySearch, entry for Chris Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1930," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elizabeth Hegnauer; Oregon State Archives; Salem, Oregon; Oregon, Death Records, 1864-1967; "Oregon, Death Index, 1903-1998," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christ Hegnauer; The biography of Elizabeth Stadler; Daily Oregon Statesman, 19 Oct 1910, p. 6

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• Business 1700 Elgg, canton Zürich

  The Elgg register writes Hans Jacob as 'Hegnauerschmid'

  At two baptisms, in 1700 and 1703, the Elgg register named the father Hans Jacob 'Hegnauerschmid', which the study reads as Hegnauer the smith; both children died within months. Read the storyClose the story

  Hans Jacob Hegnauer married Margretha Stadelmann at Elgg on 11 January 1698. Twice the baptism register gave him a longer surname. At the baptism of their son Hans Ulrich on 9 May 1700 he is "Hans Jacob Hegnauerschmid", and at their daughter Anna's on 10 January 1703 "Jacob Hegnäuerschmid": Hegnauer the smith, as the study reads it. In his other entries he is Hegnauer, Hegnäuer or Heganuer. Both of those children died within months, Hans Ulrich on 2 July 1700 and Anna on 12 April 1703, and they were not the only ones. A Hans Jacobli, son of Jacob, probably theirs, had died in March 1699; Hans Melchior, baptised in 1709, was buried in September 1713; and Joachim, baptised in March 1714, probably died that same year. Margretha was buried on 15 October 1741.

  In it: Hans Jacob Hegnauer, Margretha Stadelmann, Hans Ulrichli Hegnauer, Anneli Hegnauer, Hans Jacobli Hegnauer, Hans Melchior Hegnauer, Joachim Hegnauer

  Source: Elgg Reformed baptism register, 9 May 1700 (FamilySearch index, Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Jacob Hegnauerschmid; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnäuerschmid; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegnäuerschmid; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Jacob Hegnäuer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Ulrichli Hegnäuer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anneli Hegnäuer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Jacobli Hegnäuer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Melchior Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Melchior Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Joachim Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Joachim Heganuer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Jacob Hegnauers; Elgg, canton Zürich: the Hegnauer families, 1553–1875; Other spellings of the name in FamilySearch's historical records; Elgg "spouse" entries: marriage or burial?

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• Church 1848 Moudon VD

  Fanny, Rodolphe Arnold and Leonie: the name, perhaps, in the French-speaking west

  Between 1848 and 1876 three entries with French given names put the name, perhaps, at Moudon, Tavannes and La Chaux-de-Fonds; two of them spell it Hegnaner and Hegnanes. Read the storyClose the story

  Between 1848 and 1876 the name appears, perhaps, in western Switzerland, with French given names. On 22 July 1848 Fanny, daughter of Jean and of Anne Madelaine, born Furrer, was baptised at Moudon in canton Vaud; the index spells her surname Hegnaner, which the study takes, as probable, for Hegnauer. On 17 November 1861 Rodolphe Arnold, son of Adolphe Henri and Anna Maria, was baptised at Tavannes in canton Bern under the name Hegnanes, possibly a Hegnauer too. The study files both under French-speaking Switzerland. And the population register of Rotterdam has a Leonie Hegnauer born on 3 October 1876 at La Chaux-de-Fonds, in canton Neuchâtel, a place its index writes as one word, "Chauxderfonds". The study does not know which Swiss family any of the three belonged to.

  In it: Fanny Hegnauer, Jean Hegnauer, Anne Madelaine Furrer, Rodolphe Arnold Hegnauer, Adolphe Henri Hegnauer, Anna Maria, Leonie Hegnauer

  Source: FamilySearch indexes of the Moudon and Tavannes registers and the Rotterdam population register, in the study's chart of Swiss cities and entries without a parish

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Fanny Hegnaner; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Adolphe Henri Hegnanes; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rodolphe Arnol Hegnanes; "Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Population Registers," database, FamilySearch, entry for Leonie Hegnauer; Other spellings of the name in FamilySearch's historical records

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• Business 1882 Galveston, Texas

  Dr. Hegnauer consults in four languages at Galveston

  In 1882 a Galveston card announced 'Dr. med. N. Hegnauer', with consultations in German, French, Italian and Spanish. Read the storyClose the story

  In 1882 a card in Galveston, Texas, announced "Dr. med. N. Hegnauer", with consultations in "German, French, Italian and Spanish". For five years he appears in the city's records: as the attending physician on burial certificates from 1882 to 1884; offering rooms to rent, "by Dr. Hegnauer, 17th and Market", in 1884; in the court calendars, in "N. Hegnauer vs. W. Benison" (1884–85) and perhaps in "Fritz Bohle vs. H. Hegnauer" (1886); and in 1887 on the tax list, for lots 1 and 2 of block 496. In February and March 1880 a "Dr. N. Hegnauer, deutscher Arzt", perhaps the same man, had run his card in the St. Louis German papers. The study takes the Galveston doctor, probably, to be Dr. Nutin of Fountain City and Chicago, Nutt of Igis; that rests on the initial, the calling and the dates, and is not proven.

  In it: Nutt Hegnauer

  Source: Galveston newspaper card, burial certificates, court calendars and tax list, 1882–1887 (FamilySearch Full-Text, machine transcription)

  Also: "Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1837-1910," database, FamilySearch, entry for A Hegnauer; Westliche Post, 17 Feb 1880, p. 2; Westliche Post, 18 Feb 1880, p. 2; Westliche Post, 23 Mar 1880, p. 2; Mississippi Blätter, 22 Feb 1880, p. 1; FamilySearch Full-Text, "naturalization + index card + name list", Buffalo Co. Circuit Court, 28 Oct 1879; image ARK 3:1:3QS7-893Z-D5QF; FamilySearch Full-Text, "city directories (physicians' lists)", Chicago, 1889–1895; image ARK 3:1:3QS7-89DX-8JZM; FamilySearch Full-Text search, 27 Sep 2026: Hegnauer in machine-read deeds, wills, court and other records

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• Emigration 1949 Seengen to Redwood City

  Hedy leaves Seengen at forty

  In March 1949 Hedwig Hegnauer, forty, left her home village of Seengen for New York, alone; a year later she was in California. Read the storyClose the story

  Hedwig (Hedy) Hegnauer was born at Seengen on 27 March 1908, a daughter of Samuel Hegnauer and Rosa Siegrist, and at forty Seengen was still her home. The Swiss register of emigrants overseas records her going in March 1949: place of citizenship Seengen, last residence Seengen, sailing from Cherbourg for New York. She landed at New York on 7 March 1949, and a year later the census found her at Redwood City, in San Mateo County, California. She went alone; nothing shows that her father ever came to America. She died on 26 March 1993, one day short of her eighty-fifth birthday, as Hedy Wirz.

  In it: Hedy Hegnauer, Samuel Hegnauer

  Source: Swiss Overseas Emigration index (Swiss Federal Archives, E 2175-2, vol. 65) and WWII Alien Registration index, as abstracted in the study's Ancestry research of 27 Sep 2026

  Also: "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hedy Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1950," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hedy Hegnauer; "California, Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hegnauer; "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007," database, FamilySearch, entry for Samuel Hegnauer

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• Death 1702 Schongau, canton Luzern

  Casparus is buried at Schongau at about seventy-nine

  On 9 August 1702 Schongau buried Casparus Hegnauer, born, the index says, in 1623, probably the Casparus who had married Margaretha Sticher there in 1643. Read the storyClose the story

  On 9 August 1702 Casparus Hegnauer was buried at Schongau, in the Luzern Seetal. The index gives his year of birth as 1623, which would make him about seventy-nine. The study takes him, probably, to be the Casparus Hegnauer who married Margaretha Sticher at Schongau on 9 September 1643, at about twenty. It is possible that he was also the Kaspar whose wife Ena Keller had daughters baptised at Schongau in 1652, 1655 and 1664; if so, he married twice. The first of those daughters, Barbara, baptised on 26 December 1652, was probably the Barbara Hegnauer who died at Schongau on 4 December 1723, her birth put by the index in 1652. The entries are index-only.

  In it: Casparus Hegnauer, Margaretha Sticher, Ena Keller, Barbara Hegnauer

  Source: Schongau (Luzern) burial register, 9 August 1702 (FamilySearch index, Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Casparus Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Kaspar Hegnasser; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Kaspar Hegnatter; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Caspar Hegnatter; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Maria; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnauwer; The biography of Casparus Hegnauer; Central Switzerland (Luzern, Zug): the Hegnauer families, 1584–1739

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• Emigration 1910 Appleton City, Missouri

  Leonhard remembers 22-cent bacon at Papinville

  Talk of high prices in 1910 sent Leonhard back to his first days in Bates County. Read the storyClose the story

  In April 1910 the "Hudson" correspondent of the Bates County Record passed on a remark made in Appleton City: "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.'" "Tony Hammers" was probably Anton Hammer, with whom Leonhard appraised strays in Pleasant Gap in 1873 and bought shares in the new Rockville bank in 1890. The year is a puzzle. His obituary (1916) and the county history (1918) put the family's move to Bates County in 1869, and his son Christian was born in Illinois in May 1868. The study keeps 1869 for the move; 1867 may have been a first journey with Hammer, or a slip of memory.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Bates County Record, 9 Apr 1910, p. 5 ("Hudson" column)

  Also: Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Hirschi in the papers, 1856–1925; Bates County Record, 13 Dec 1873, p. 2; Appleton City Journal, 18 Sep 1890, p. 1; The Republican Press, 10 Nov 1916, p. 3; The biography of Christian Hegnauer; Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Katharina Hirschi: what the newspapers add to their biographies

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• Death 1909 Basel

  Emilie Margaretha dies at thirteen

  In March 1909 the Basel burial register recorded the death of Johann Jacob and Emilie Hegnauer's daughter, Emilie Margaretha, aged thirteen. Read the storyClose the story

  Johann Jacob Hegnauer married Emilie Bächler at Basel on 4 October 1892, and in the next three and a half years three children were born to them, all baptised in the city: Hans Emil on 20 July 1893, Albert on 1 September 1894 and Emilie Margaretha on 4 February 1896. Emilie Margaretha died on 4 March 1909, aged thirteen, and was buried two days later; the burial register names her parents. At the Hörnli cemetery at Riehen, Find a Grave lists the girl, as "Margar" (1896–1909); an Albert (1894–1918), probably her brother, who would have been twenty-three or twenty-four; a Hans (1866 – 30 September 1939), possibly her father; her mother Emilie, born on 6 February 1872, who died on 24 August 1941; and, as Hans Hegnauer-Scherzenlechner, her brother Hans Emil, born on 20 July 1893, who died on 3 March 1951.

  In it: Emilie Margaretha Hegnauer, Johann Jacob Hegnauer, Emilie Bächler, Hans Emil Hegnauer, Albert Hegnauer

  Source: Basel Reformed burial register, 6 Mar 1909 (FamilySearch index)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Joh Jakob Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johann Jakob Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johann Jacob Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Emil Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Albert Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Emilie Margaretha Hegnauer; Find a Grave, memorial 224706124, Margar Hegnauer (1896 – 1909), Friedhof am Hörnli Riehen, Basel-Stadt, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland; "Find a Grave Index," database, FamilySearch, entry for Margar Hegnauer; Find a Grave, memorial 224706135, Albert Hegnauer (1894 – 1918), Friedhof am Hörnli Riehen, Basel-Stadt, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland; "Find a Grave Index," database, FamilySearch, entry for Albert Hegnauer; Find a Grave, memorial 224706148, Hans Hegnauer (1866 – 30 Sep 1939), Friedhof am Hörnli Riehen, Basel-Stadt, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland; "Find a Grave Index," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Hegnauer; Find a Grave, memorial 224706181, Emilie Bächler Hegnauer (6 Feb 1872 – 24 Aug 1941), Friedhof am Hörnli Riehen, Basel-Stadt, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland; Find a Grave, memorial 224706202, Hans Hegnauer-Scherzenlechner (20 Jul 1893 – 3 Mar 1951), Friedhof am Hörnli Riehen, Basel-Stadt, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland; "Find a Grave Index," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Hegnauer-Scherzenlechner; Swiss cities and other cantons: Basel, Bern, St. Gallen, Zürich city, Luzern, and entries without a parish

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• Wedding 1573 Zürich

  Margret, the first Hegnauer found in Zürich's church books, marries in 1573

  The earliest Hegnauer the study has found in the church registers of the city of Zürich is Margret Hegnower, who married Michel Müller in October 1573. Read the storyClose the story

  The Zürich tax books show Hegnauers living in the city between 1366 and 1470. In the city's church registers the earliest Hegnauer the study has found is a bride: Margret Hegnower, who married Michel Müller in October 1573. The wedding is in the index three times, once with the date 17 October. The next city entries are the marriage of Jacob Hegnower and Walpurg Meÿer on 13 April 1586; the baptism in June 1586 of a Jacob, son of a Jacob, whom the study thinks possibly their child; and the marriage on 23 December 1587 of Elsbeth to a Hans Rudolf whose surname the index breaks off after "Su". The study has not linked any of them to another Hegnauer line.

  In it: Margret Hegnauer, Michel Müller, Jacob Hegnauer, Walpurg Meyer, Jacob Hegnauer, Elsbeth Hegnauer, Hans Rudolf Su[...]

  Source: Zürich marriage register, 17 Oct 1573 (FamilySearch index)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Margret Hegnower; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Margreth Hegnower; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegnower; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegnanwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegnanwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elsbeth Hegnoulerr; Hegnauers in the Zürich tax books, 1366–1470; Swiss cities and other cantons: Basel, Bern, St. Gallen, Zürich city, Luzern, and entries without a parish

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• Emigration 1907 Ellis Island, New York

  Małgorzata Senkowska lands with ten dollars

  In November 1907 a twenty-year-old woman from Wesoła came through Ellis Island on her way to a friend in Joliet, Illinois. Read the storyClose the story

  In the autumn of 1907 Małgorzata Senkowska, twenty and single, left her father in Wesoła, a village in Austrian Galicia, and sailed from Antwerp on the steamer Zeeland. The ship reached New York on 12 November 1907. At Ellis Island she was entered as five feet one inch tall, fair, with brown hair and brown eyes, carrying ten dollars. She named her father, Josef Senkowski of Wesoła, as her nearest relative at home, and she was going to a friend in Joliet, Illinois, whose name, Paweł Siba, is hard to read on the list. Less than two years later, on 26 July 1909, at Holy Cross, one of Joliet's Polish Catholic parishes, Margarita Senkowska, twenty-one, married Martin Worek, who had come from Wesoła too. At the census of 1930 all six of their children were living with them in Joliet.

  In it: Margaret Senkowska, Martin Worek, Józef Senkowski

  Source: New York passenger list, S.S. Zeeland, 12 Nov 1907 (Ancestry), as cited in Margaret's biography

  Also: Martin Worek and Margaret (Margarita/Małgorzata) Senkowska: abstracts of the Ancestry records; Mary Ann Worek: abstracts of the Ancestry records; The biography of Martin Worek; The biography of Józef Senkowski

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• Emigration 1869 Baden, Aargau

  Luise stays in Switzerland when the family leaves

  When the Seengen Hegnauers left for Rochester in 1884, their married daughter Luise stayed behind; in 1933 a Rochester death notice still named 'Mrs. Louise Buchli in Switzerland'. Read the storyClose the story

  On 10 May 1869 Luise Hegnauer, born about 1846, a daughter of Jakob Hegnauer and Verena Siegrist, married Rudolf Buchli, whose birth the index gives as 1824. The wedding was entered by the Reformed church at Baden, probably in its register of couples from elsewhere. In 1884 her father, four of her brothers and her sister Lina sailed for America in the spring, and others of the family followed them to Rochester, New York, in the autumn, very probably with her mother. Luise, married for fifteen years, did not go. The records next find her in her brothers' death notices at Rochester. Rudolph's, in 1931, lists "one sister in Switzerland"; John H.'s, in March 1933, names her: "Mrs. Louise Buchli in Switzerland". When Jacob R. died in January 1940, his notice named one sister only, Mrs. Lena Logeman.

  In it: Luise Hegnauer, Rudolf Buchli, Jacob Hegnauer, Verena Siegrist, Rudolph Hegnauer, John Henry Hegnauer, Jacob Rudolph Hegnauer, Lina Hegnauer

  Source: Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records (FamilySearch index): marriage of Luise Hegnauer and Rudolf Buchli, Baden, Aargau, 10 May 1869

  Also: [Death notice of John H. Hegnauer], The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 18 March 1933, p. 9; The Times-Union, 18 Mar 1933, p. 9; The Times-Union, 1 Apr 1931, p. 34; [Death notice of Rudolph Hegnauer], The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 1 April 1931, p. 34; Democrat and Chronicle, 12 Jan 1940, p. 28; [Death notice of Jacob R. Hegnauer], Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 12 January 1940, p. 28; "United States, Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegnauer; "United States, Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch, entry for Lina Hegnauer; "United States, Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch, entry for Tereta Hegnauer; "United States, Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database, FamilySearch, entry for Albert Hegnauer; Find a Grave, memorial 234652334, Jacob Hegnauer (1825 – 17 Jul 1899), Mount Hope Cemetery Rochester, Monroe County, New York; Find a Grave, memorial 234652363, Verena Siegrist Hegnauer (1826 – 21 Apr 1896), Mount Hope Cemetery Rochester, Monroe County, New York; The biography of Luise Hegnauer; FamilySearch research, 27 Sep 2026: Igis before 1744, Seengen, Elgg before 1695, the Familiennamenbuch; Ancestry research, 27 Sep 2026: key links among the American Hegnauers; Seengen and the other Aargau Hegnauers

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• Wedding 1877 Brackenheim, Germany

  Elisabeth of Uster marries in Württemberg

  In April 1877 Elisabeth Hegnauer, born at Uster thirty years before, married Heinrich Gottlob Stauss in the Lutheran parish of Brackenheim, Württemberg. Read the storyClose the story

  Elisabeth Hegnauer was born at Uster on 26 January 1847, the daughter of Wilhelm Hegnauer and Susanne Ruckstuhl. Thirty years later she married in Germany. The Lutheran register of Brackenheim, in Württemberg, records her marriage to Heinrich Gottlob Stauss on 16 April 1877, with her birth date and her parents' names; a second German index places the wedding at Ochsenburg, in the Brackenheim district, and gives her birthplace as Uster. The indexes spell the groom Stauss and Steuß, Gottlob and Gottlieb. Her wedding is the study's only record of the Uster family outside Switzerland. The entries do not say how she came to Württemberg, and the study has not settled whether her father was the Wilhelm born at Uster in 1827.

  In it: Elisabeth Hegnauer, Heinrich Gottlob Stauss, Wilhelm Hegnauer, Susanne Ruckstuhl

  Source: Brackenheim Lutheran register, marriage of 16 Apr 1877 (FamilySearch index)

  Also: "Germany, Marriages, 1558-1929," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elisabeth Hegnauer; "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch, entry for Wilhelm Hegnauer; "Germany, Marriages, 1558-1929," database, FamilySearch, entry for Wilhelm Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Wilhelm Hegnauer; Uster, Wetzikon, the Zürich Oberland and the Thurgau border

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• Emigration 1850 Le Havre to New York

  Thirteen Hirschis cross on the Belmont

  

  In 1850 Christian Hirschi crossed from Le Havre to New York with his wife, ten children and his father, whom the passenger list makes 71; one of the children was Leonhard's future wife. Read the storyClose the story

  In the summer of 1850 Christian Hirschi, who had lived at Lilachen in the parish of Amsoldingen, Canton Bern, when his youngest son was baptised that January, emigrated with his wife Magdalena, their ten children and his father Peter, entered on the passenger list as 71. They sailed from Le Havre on the ship Belmont and landed at New York on 1 August 1850. The clerk entered all thirteen "Hirschy" passengers in family order, but gave the two men each other's given names, and the children's ages run two to six years low: Susanna, born in May 1846, the future wife of Leonhard Hegnauer, appears as 3. The youngest were "Gotfried 11 months" and "Jacob 6 months"; neither is in the 1860 census. By the family's account they reached Highland, Illinois, a town founded by Swiss settlers, on 14 August.

  In it: Christian Hirschi Sr., Magdalena Stocker, Peter Hirschi, Susanna Katharina Hirschi, Christian Hirschi, Magdalena Hirschi, Johannes Hirschi, Friedrich Hirschi, Elisabeth Hirschi, Rudolf Hirschi, Margaritha Rosalia Hirschi, Gottlieb Hirschi, Jakob Hirschi

  Source: Passenger list of the ship Belmont, Le Havre to New York, arrived 1 August 1850, lines 70–82 (NARA M237)

  Also: Staatsarchiv des Kantons Bern (StABE), K Amsoldingen 5, Taufrodel 1832-1862, p. 199, no. 1 of 1850 (online PDF image 101 of 187; catalogue https://www.query.sta.be.ch/detail.aspx?ID=241384); Staatsarchiv des Kantons Bern (StABE), K Amsoldingen 5, Taufrodel 1832-1862, p. 167, no. 16 of 1846 (online PDF image 85 of 187; catalogue https://www.query.sta.be.ch/detail.aspx?ID=241384); 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Township 4 North Range 5 West, Madison County, Illinois, post office Highland, page 285, dwelling 2061, family 2037, enumerated 25 August 1860: Chas [Christian] Herschi (47,; Find a Grave, memorial 52693825, Christian Hirschi Sr., born 14 August 1814, Schangnau, Emmental, Bern; died 14 November 1885, Highland, Madison County, Illinois; Highland Cemetery, Block 4, Lot 14, #; Find a Grave, memorial 156890155, Peter Hirschi, born 6 August 1779, Schangnau, Emmental, Bern; died 1851, Madison County, Illinois; burial "Cremated, Other"; created by R. Marti, 9 January 2016, with; The biography of Christian Hirschi Sr.; The biography of Susanna Katharina Hirschi

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• Church 1682 Volketswil, canton Zürich

  Twins for Felix and Anna

  On 21 November 1682 Felix Hegnauer and Anna Trüeb had twins, Susanna and Hans, baptised together at Volketswil, the parish of Hegnau. Read the storyClose the story

  On 21 November 1682 Felix Hegnauer and Anna Trüeb had twins baptised at Volketswil, the parish of Hegnau: the register enters Susanna and Hans on one day. They had very probably married there on 23 January 1672. Their son Hans Heinrich was very probably the child of Felix buried in September 1676, at four; Barbara was baptised in 1673 and, after the twins, Marx in 1685. A Susanna, daughter of Felix, was buried on 14 January 1700, and the study takes her for the twin; of Hans it has found nothing more. Felix was buried on 20 August 1707, born in 1639 by the burial index, so the study takes him, probably, for the Felix baptised in December 1639, a son of Marx Hegnauer and Cleophe Isler. Anna was buried on 8 May 1717; the index puts Felix in the parent's place, and the study reads her as his widow.

  In it: Felix Hegnauer, Anna Trüeb, Susanna Hegnauer, Hans Hegnauer, Hans Heinrich Hegnauer, Barbara Hegnauer, Marx Hegnauer, Felix Hegnauer

  Source: Volketswil Reformed baptism register, 21 November 1682 (FamilySearch index)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Felix Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Felix Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Felix Hegner; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Heinrich Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Heirnich Hegnrster; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Marx Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Susann Begnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Felix Hagnauerer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Ann Trueb; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Felix Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Felix Hegnauwer; The biography of Felix Hegnauer; Volketswil, the parish of Hegnau: the Hegnauer families, 1590–1801

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• Emigration 1867 Königsfeld, Germany

  Maria Elisabeth of Elgg dies at Königsfeld in the Black Forest

  Baptised at Elgg in 1791, Maria Elisabeth Hegnauer died in 1867 at Königsfeld in Baden, and the registers of both places entered her death. Read the storyClose the story

  Maria Elisabeth Hegnauer was baptised at Elgg on 7 August 1791, a daughter of Heinrich Hegnauer and Anna Barbara Trachssler. For the next seventy-five years the study has no record of her: no marriage, and nothing to say when she left. She appears again at her death. She died on 26 May 1867 at Königsfeld, in the Black Forest of Baden, and was buried there on 29 May as Anna Maria Elisabeth Hegenauer. The German index of that burial gives her birth as 7 August 1791 and her parents as Heinrich and Anna Barbara, exactly her Elgg baptism. The study's notes describe Königsfeld as the Moravian settlement. Her home parish entered the death as well: the Elgg register has Elisabetha Hegnauer, died 26 May 1867, born, by its reckoning, in 1792.

  In it: Maria Elisabeth Hegnauer, Heinrich Hegnauer, Anna Barbara Trachssler

  Source: Königsfeld burial, 29 May 1867 (FamilySearch index, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Maria Elisabeth Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elisabetha Hegnauer; Elgg, canton Zürich: the Hegnauer families, 1553–1875; Other spellings of the name in FamilySearch's historical records

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• War 1861 Gasconade County, Missouri

  Luzius and Leonhard, very probably, guard the railroad bridges

  After the Gasconade bridge was burned in June 1861, Luzius and his son Leonhard very probably served together in the Home Guards set to watch the county's railroad bridges. Read the storyClose the story

  On 12 June 1861 Governor Jackson and General Price had the Pacific Railroad bridges over the Gasconade and the Osage damaged; at the Gasconade, "the torch being applied the draw fell into the river". General Lyon ordered the Hermann Home Guard to guard the county's railroad bridges, and on 14 June two more companies raised among the farmers were sworn in. Home Guard service cards name a Lucius (once "Lazurus") Hegenauer and a Leonard Hegenauer in Captain Stocklin's company, D, of the 1st Battalion: very probably Luzius and his son Leonhard, then 41 and 18 by their Igis baptisms. Leonhard's entry on the 1890 census of Union veterans gives 16 June 1861 as the day he enlisted. By August the Hermann paper spoke of two months of "langweiligen Wachtdienst an den Eisenbahnbrücken", tedious guard duty at the railroad bridges. The Home Guards were disbanded on 1 October 1861.

  In it: Luzius Hegnauer, Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Gasconade County Home Guard service cards, 1861 (FamilySearch Full-Text machine transcription)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Luzius Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Leonhard Hegnauer; The biography of Luzius Hegnauer; The biography of Leonhard Hegnauer; The Hegnauers in the Civil War, and the road west (1856-1869)

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• Death 1870 Lisbon, Portugal

  Cecilia Jauner Hegnauer is buried in Lisbon

  Cecilia Jauner Hegnauer, born in 1798, died on 23 October 1870 and has her grave in the Prazeres cemetery in Lisbon; she is the one Hegnauer the study has found in Portugal. Read the storyClose the story

  The one Hegnauer the study has found in Portugal is known from her grave. A Find a Grave memorial for the Prazeres cemetery, at Estrela in Lisbon, names her Cecilia Jauner Hegnauer and gives her dates as 1798 to 23 October 1870, so that she died at seventy-one or seventy-two. The study reads Jauner, with a question mark, as her maiden name, which would make her a Hegnauer by marriage. The memorial, as the study has it, names no husband, parents or children, and it does not say where she was born or how she came to Lisbon.

  In it: Cecilia Jauner

  Source: Find a Grave, memorial 242245289, Prazeres Cemetery, Estrela, Lisbon

  Also: Germany and the rest of Europe; Europe outside Switzerland

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• Death 1931 Rochester, New York

  The four Seengen brothers die in turn, and Lena outlives them

  Between 1931 and 1944 Rochester's papers printed the death notices of the four brothers who had come from Seengen in 1884, each with fewer brothers and sisters left to name. Read the storyClose the story

  The four brothers who landed at New York with their father Jacob in April 1884 died in and around Rochester, and their notices show the family growing smaller. Rudolph, the blacksmith of the 1884 list, "entered into rest suddenly" at his home, 173 Burrows Street, on the evening of 31 March 1931, in his seventy-fourth year; he left three brothers and two sisters, one of them in Switzerland. John H. died suddenly at his home on Furlong Road, Brighton, on 17 March 1933, aged 66, leaving two brothers and two sisters. Jacob R. died at his home, 245 Springfield Avenue, on 10 January 1940, survived by one brother, Albert, and one sister, Mrs. Lena Logeman; burial was to be in Mount Hope Cemetery. Albert G., of 308 Inglewood Drive, died on 12 April 1944. The summary of his notice names a sister: Lena, the "Lina, 19" of the 1884 crossing.

  In it: Rudolph Hegnauer, John Henry Hegnauer, Jacob Rudolph Hegnauer, Albert Gottlieb Hegnauer, Lina Hegnauer, Jacob Hegnauer

  Source: The Times-Union (Rochester), 1 Apr 1931, p. 34, death notice of Rudolph Hegnauer

  Also: [Death notice of Rudolph Hegnauer], The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 1 April 1931, p. 34; [Death notice of Rudolph Hegnauer], The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 1 April 1931, p. 34; The Times-Union, 18 Mar 1933, p. 9; [Death notice of John H. Hegnauer], The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 18 March 1933, p. 9; [Death notice of John H. Hegnauer], The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 18 March 1933, p. 9; Democrat and Chronicle, 12 Jan 1940, p. 28; [Death notice of Jacob R. Hegnauer], Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 12 January 1940, p. 28; [Death notice of Jacob R. Hegnauer], Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 12 January 1940, p. 28; [Death notice of Jacob R. Hegnauer], Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 12 January 1940, p. 28; Democrat and Chronicle, 14 Apr 1944, p. 26; [Death notice of Albert G. Hegnauer], Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 14 April 1944, p. 26; [Death notice of Albert G. Hegnauer], Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 14 April 1944, p. 26; "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956," database, FamilySearch, entry for Albert G Hegnauer; "United States, Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolph Hegnauer; "United States, Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch, entry for Lina Hegnauer; Ancestry research, 27 Sep 2026: key links among the American Hegnauers

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• War 1862 Bentonville and Pea Ridge, Arkansas

  John's company goes back for an abandoned gun at Pea Ridge

  In March 1862 John's company charged in the rear guard at Bentonville and, at Leetown, went back to rescue an abandoned gun; John was very likely at Pea Ridge, but whether he rode in the rescue is not recorded. Read the storyClose the story

  In February 1862 the Benton Hussars and three companies of the Hollan Horse became the 5th Missouri Cavalry under Colonel Joseph Nemett, and John's company became its Company A. At Bentonville, Arkansas, on 6 March, "Company A, Captain Pfaff and Lieutenant Apprederis, 28 men" rode in the rear guard covering Sigel's withdrawal and, "with Companies A and B, of the Benton Hussars, charged them"; Lieutenant Schipper had 20 more of the company out scouting. The next day, at Leetown in the battle of Pea Ridge, Nemett "returned with Company A, commanded by Lieutenant Schipper" to rescue an abandoned gun of Welfley's battery. On 8 March the regiment advanced to Elkhorn Tavern. John was present at the musters of 28 February and 30 April, with no absence between, so he was very likely at Pea Ridge; whether he rode with Schipper's men for the gun is not recorded.

  In it: Johannes Hegnauer

  Source: Col. Joseph Nemett's report, Official Records, Series I, vol. 8, pp. 244–245, as cited in the research note on the Civil War

  Also: The biography of Johannes Hegnauer; John Hegnauer: his Civil War service records (NARA M405)

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• Church 1677 Pfeffikon, canton Luzern

  Jacobus and Maria have two sons baptised Joannes Jacobus

  At Pfeffikon, Jacobus Hegnauer and Maria Blattner had a son baptised Joannes Jacobus in January 1675 and another in June 1677; the index does not say what became of the first. Read the storyClose the story

  Jacobus Hegnauer married Maria Blattner at Pfeffikon, in canton Luzern, on 7 March 1665. The index has four of their children, all baptised at Pfeffikon: Joannes Jacobus on 21 January 1675, a second Joannes Jacobus on 26 June 1677, Adamus on 18 December 1680 and Barbara on 14 November 1685. It has no burial for the first Joannes Jacobus, so whether he had died before his brother was given the same name is not known. The entries are in Latin, and the children's carry no surname. The index also has the first baptism a second time, dated 21 January 1875, two hundred years late, and reads Maria's surname as Blattnerin, Blatner, Hatnerin and Blatsman.

  In it: Jacobus Hegnauer, Maria Blattner, Joannes Jacobus Hegnauer, Joannes Jacobus Hegnauer, Adamus Hegnauer, Barbara Hegnauer

  Source: Pfeffikon (Luzern) baptism register, 26 June 1677 (FamilySearch index, Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacobus Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Joa Jacobus; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Joannes Jacobus; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Adamus; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacobi Hegnawer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacobi Hegnawer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacobi Hegnawer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegnawer; Central Switzerland (Luzern, Zug): the Hegnauer families, 1584–1739

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• Wedding 1877 Müllheim, Baden

  Dorothea of Basel marries at Müllheim, in Baden

  Samuel and Susanna Hegnauer's youngest daughter married Gustav Friedrich Eckerlin at Müllheim, over the border in Baden, in April 1877. Read the storyClose the story

  Dorothea Hegnauer, the youngest of the eight children the Basel registers give Samuel and Susanna Hegnauer, was born at Basel on 24 May 1856 and baptised there on 8 June. On 25 April 1877, aged twenty, she married Gustav Friedrich Eckerlin at Müllheim, in the Grand Duchy of Baden. The Lutheran register there gives her birth date as 24 May 1856 and names her parents, Samuel Hegnauer and Susanna: it is that entry which joins the Müllheim bride to the Basel baby. Their son, Gustav Friedrich, was born on 11 January 1879 and baptised at Müllheim on 9 February; the index names his mother only as "Hegnauer". Dorothea is the only one of Samuel's daughters whom the records follow out of Switzerland.

  In it: Dorothea Hegnauer, Gustav Friedrich Eckerlin, Samuel Hegnauer, Susanna Hausmann

  Source: Müllheim Lutheran marriage register, 25 Apr 1877 (FamilySearch index, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages and Burials)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Dorothea Hegenauer; "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch, entry for Samuel Hegnauer; "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hegnauer; The biography of Samuel Hegnauer; Swiss cities and other cantons: Basel, Bern, St. Gallen, Zürich city, Luzern, and entries without a parish; "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch, entry for Gustav Friedrich Eckerlin

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• Church 1940 Canton, Ohio

  The Rev. L. S. Hegnauer is named in some 275 obituaries

  The Bates County farm labourer of 1910 became a minister at Canton, Ohio, and an index of old newspaper obituaries names him in some 275 notices, most probably as the minister who took the funeral. Read the storyClose the story

  In 1910 Leonard Samuel Hegnauer, nineteen and single, was working as a labourer on his father's farm in Bates County, Missouri. By 1940 he was living at Canton, Ohio, and his father's obituary of 1957 calls him "the Rev. Leonard Hegnauer" of Canton. FamilySearch's index of historical newspaper obituaries names a "Rev. L. S. Hegnauer" (eight times "Rev. Leonard") in 276 entries, and a Crawford County collection names him once more. The index does not say why he is named; the study reads him as the officiating minister. Most entries give no date or place; the few that do are for deaths at Bridgeport, in Belmont County, in 1947 and at Canton in 1951. A notice printed in two papers would count twice, so the tally of funerals is not exact. Which church he served, the study has not found.

  In it: Leonard Samuel Hegnauer

  Source: GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries index (FamilySearch), as placed in the study's report on the Canton family

  Also: The biography of Leonard Samuel Hegnauer; Year: 1910; Census Place: Pleasant Gap, Bates, Missouri; Roll: T624_768; Page: 3b; Enumeration District: 0018; FHL microfilm: 1374781; "United States, Census, 1940," database, FamilySearch, entry for Lenourd Hegnauer; Appleton City Journal, 12 Sep 1957, p. 8; "Christian Hegnauer Dies in Butler," Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 12 September 1957, p. 8; "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2013," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rev Leonard S Hegnauer; "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2013," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rev L S Hegnauer; "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2013," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rev L S Hegnauer; "Ohio, Crawford County Obituaries, 1860-2004," database, FamilySearch, entry for Reverend L S Hegnauer

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• Death 1766 Bubikon, canton Zürich

  Anna Barbara marries Rudolf Huber in April and is buried in November

  Anna Barbara Hegnauer married Rudolf Huber in April 1766; seven months later the Bubikon register buried her. Read the storyClose the story

  In April 1766 Anna Barbara Hegnauer married Rudolf Huber. The index has the wedding three times: at Bubikon on 4 April, and twice in Zürich registers, once with the date 13 April. On 9 November 1766, seven months later, the Bubikon register buried A. Barbara Hegnauer, wife of Rudolf Huber. The index gives no age and no cause. One more Bubikon entry is in her file: on 2 November 1763 the register had baptised A. Catharina, daughter of Rudolf Huber and "A. Hegnauer". The study counts all these entries as one woman's; the index alone does not show how the baptism of 1763 and the wedding of 1766 fit together.

  In it: Anna Barbara Hegnauer, Rudolf Huber

  Source: Bubikon burial register, 9 Nov 1766 (FamilySearch index)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnau; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for A Hegnauer; Uster, Wetzikon, the Zürich Oberland and the Thurgau border

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• Church 1798 Uster, canton Zürich

  Regula has twelve children baptised at Uster in nineteen years

  Between 1798 and 1817 the Uster register baptised twelve children of Regula Hegnauer and Johannes Homberger, and gave the name Rudolf or Hans Rudolf four times. Read the storyClose the story

  Regula Hegnauer, very probably the Regula baptised at Uster on 5 September 1773, married Johannes Homberger there on 9 April 1798; the index spells him Homberger, Hanberger and Hornberger. Between August 1798 and November 1817 the Uster register baptised twelve of their children: Hans Rudolf in 1798, Susanna in 1799, Rudolf in 1801, Hans Jacob in 1802, Anna in 1803, Hans Jacob again in 1805, Susanna again in 1806, Heinrich in 1807, Lisebeth in 1809, Hans Rudolf again in 1812, Elisabeth in 1813 and Rudolf again in 1817. Rudolf or Hans Rudolf was given four times, Hans Jacob and Susanna twice each. The study has none of the children's burials, so the index does not say which of them grew up. If she is the Regula of 1773, she was forty-four at the last baptism. That last child, Rudolf, married Regula, very probably his cousin, in 1840.

  In it: Regula Hegnauer, Johannes Homberger

  Source: Uster baptism register, 23 Aug 1798 and later entries (FamilySearch index)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Reg Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Regula Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Regula Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Regula Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Reg Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Regula Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Reg Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Reg Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Regula Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Regula Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Reg Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Regula Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Regula Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Regula Hegnauer; The biography of Regula Hegnauer; Uster, Wetzikon, the Zürich Oberland and the Thurgau border; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Susanna Homberger

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• Death 1918 Wells, Minnesota

  The message comes before the letter

  In February 1918 news of Susanna's death reached her son Robert in Minnesota before the letter saying she was ill. Read the storyClose the story

  On 20 February 1918 the Wells Mirror, in southern Minnesota, reported that R. L. Hegnauer had left for Rockville, Missouri, for the funeral of his mother. Susanna had died on Tuesday, 12 February, and Robert had been told by a message that 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." Robert told the paper it was "a rather singular coincidence" that his father's death, fifteen months before, had reached him "under almost the same circumstances". The papers of 1916 tell that differently: Robert was summoned by his father's serious illness on Friday, 27 October, and reached Appleton City the next evening, three days before Leonhard died.

  In it: Robert Lucius Hegnauer, Susanna Katharina Hirschi, Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: The Wells Mirror (Wells, Minnesota), 20 Feb 1918, p. 6, as read in the Leonhard harvest's review (§9c, item 24)

  Also: Appleton City Journal, 2 Nov 1916, p. 5; Appleton City Journal, 2 Nov 1916, p. 1; Appleton City Journal, 16 Nov 1916, p. 5; Appleton City Journal, 21 Feb 1918, p. 5; Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Katharina Hirschi: what the newspapers add to their biographies

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• Death 1691 Volketswil, canton Zürich

  Rudolf and Susanna, probably, name three daughters Rägula

  Between 1684 and 1691 three daughters were baptised at Volketswil to Rudolf and Susanna, as the study reads the garbled index, and each was named Rägula; the first was buried at three. Read the storyClose the story

  Rudolf Hegnauer married Susanna Kuhn at Volketswil on 8 November 1681. The first child of theirs in the register, a daughter, was baptised Rägula on 8 January 1684, and on 12 August 1687 Rägeli, daughter of Rudi, was buried, three and a half years old. On 7 July 1689 the couple had another daughter baptised Rägula, and on 11 December 1691 a third. The study has found no burial of the second. A daughter Margreth was buried on 11 December 1693, and Verena, the last child found, was baptised on 14 March 1697. The index writes the family's name Hegneüwer, Hegnarwer, Hependwer, Kegendwer, Heynadwer and, in 1697, Hegnauer, and the mother's Kun, Kuch, Kuhn and Kern; the study reads them all as one couple, grading most of the father's links probable.

  In it: Rudolf Hegnauer, Susanna Kuhn, Rägeli Hegnauer, Rägula Hegnauer, Rägula Hegnauer, Margreth Hegnauer, Verena Hegnauer

  Source: Volketswil Reformed register (FamilySearch index), in the study's reconstruction of the Volketswil families

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolf Hegnadmer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rägula Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolff Hegneüwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rägeli Hegnarwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudi Hegnarwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rägula Hependwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolf Hependwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rägula Kegendwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rüdi Kegendwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Margreth Heynadwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudi Heynadwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Verena Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolph Hegnauer

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• Wedding 1760 Gerlikon (Frauenfeld), Thurgau

  Sabina marries at forty-six, over the border in the Thurgau

  In October 1760 Sabina Hegnauer of Elgg, forty-six, married Caspar Engeler at Gerlikon (Frauenfeld) in the Thurgau; less than three years later she was buried at Frauenfeld. Read the storyClose the story

  On 19 October 1760 Sabina Hegnauer married Caspar Engeler at Gerlikon (Frauenfeld), over the cantonal border in the Thurgau. She was forty-six. The Frauenfeld entry gives her birth as 17 June 1714 and her father as Johannes, which is her Elgg baptism exactly: she was the daughter of Johannes Hegnauer and Esther Koller, baptised at Elgg on that day. The marriage was entered again on 23 October in the Aawangen and Ettenhausen registers, also in the Thurgau. It did not last long. Sabina was buried at Frauenfeld on 20 August 1763 as Caspar Engeler's wife, less than three years after the wedding; her burial entry, too, puts her birth in 1714.

  In it: Sabina Hegnauer, Caspar Engeler, Johannes Hegnauer, Esther Koller

  Source: Frauenfeld marriage, 19 October 1760 (FamilySearch index, Switzerland Marriages, 1532-1910)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Sabina Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Sabina Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Sabina Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Sabina Hegnauer; "Switzerland Marriages, 1532-1910," database, FamilySearch, entry for Sabina Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Sabina Hegnauer; Elgg, canton Zürich: the Hegnauer families, 1553–1875

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• Office 1799 Igis, Graubünden

  When the Igis president stays away, a Hegnauer, possibly Christian, takes his place

  When the Salis-Marschlins property was sequestered in March 1799, the president of Igis stayed away and "Hegnauer" took his place: possibly Christian, who had signed the municipality's letter of 22 March. Read the storyClose the story

  In March 1799 Graubünden had a provisional government. On 22 March the municipality of Igis assured the prefect, Florian Fischer, that it would do its duty; the Staatsarchiv's catalogue gives the signatures as "Risch Ladner, Präsident; Christian Hegnauer; Joh. Bapt. Dolf". On 28 March the government sent Fischer the list of municipal officers confirmed by General Masséna, with a "Geschworener Hegnauer". On 29 and 30 March the Salis-Marschlins property was sequestered. Fischer reported on 1 April that little cooperation was to be expected from the Igis president, Risch Latner, who also stayed away the next day, "und an seine Stelle Hegnauer trat": and in his place Hegnauer stepped in. The catalogue gives no first name. The Christian Hegnauer who signed on 22 March was probably Luzius's grandfather; the man who stepped in was possibly he. In 1803 a Christian Hegnauer was elected a Geschworener, a member of the Igis council.

  In it: Christian Hegnauer

  Source: Staatsarchiv Graubünden, Helvetic archive, dossiers B II/02.0056, .0138, .0158 and .0245 (catalogue descriptions), in the study's report on the Graubünden gazette

  Also: The biography of Christian Hegnauer

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• Church 1724 Austria

  The name abroad, 1724-1875, though perhaps not always the same name

  Between 1724 and 1875 the index finds Hegnauers in Austria, Alsace, Paris and Bohemia; in Alsace, and perhaps in Austria, they may be Hagenauers, a different name. Read the storyClose the story

  Catholic registers abroad write Hegnauer at three baptisms: Franciscus Antonius, son of Matthias and Helena, in Austria on 21 March 1724; Joannes, son of Martin "Hegenauer" and Catharina Schmitt, at Saverne in Alsace on 27 December 1763; and Antonius, son of Jacob Meyer and Anna Maria Hegnauer, at Sélestat on 17 December 1778. The study is wary of the Alsace entries. Hagenauer, which can mean someone from Hagenau in Alsace, is a family name of its own, and the study's search of the French records found Catholic Hagenauer and Hegenauer entries at Sélestat and Saverne; its note on the name counts the Austrian Hagenauers as a different name too. Later come two women named Elisabeth Hegnauer, each known only as a bridegroom's mother: in Paris on 3 January 1850, and in Bohemia on 13 April 1875. None of them has been placed in a Swiss family.

  In it: Franciscus Antonius Hegnauer, Matthias Hegnauer, Helena, Joannes Hegnauer, Martin Hegenauer, Catharina Schmitt, Anna Maria Hegnauer, Jacob Meyer, Elisabeth Hegnauer, Jean Ulrich Huber, Elisabeth Hegnauer, Eduard Lischka

  Source: FamilySearch indexes of Austrian Catholic, Bas-Rhin, French Protestant and Czech church registers, in the study's chart of Germany and the rest of Europe

  Also: "Austria, Catholic Church Records, 1565-2007," database, FamilySearch, entry for Franciscus Antonius Hegnauer; "Austria, Catholic Church Records, 1565-2007," database, FamilySearch, entry for Matthia Hegnauer; "France, Bas-Rhin, Parish and Civil Registration, 1525-1912," database, FamilySearch, entry for Joannes Hegnauer; "France, Bas-Rhin, Parish and Civil Registration, 1525-1912," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Maria Hegnauer; "France, Protestant Church Records, 1536-1902," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elisabeth Hegnauer; "Czech Republic, Church Books, 1552-1981," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elisabeth Hegnauer; Where the name Hegnauer comes from; Where did Jacob Hegnauer come from?; Europe outside Switzerland

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• Office 1847 Seengen, Aargau

  Heinrich, Seengen's council clerk, witnesses a wedding

  In 1847 Heinrich Hegnauer, the council clerk of Seengen, witnessed a marriage there; a certified copy of the entry, made in 1865, survives in an American Civil War pension file. Read the storyClose the story

  By the marriage register of Seengen, Rudolf Hansermann of Egliswil married Susanne Hansermann on 12 February 1847 (the names as a machine reads them), and one of the two witnesses was the village's council clerk: "The Council Clerk Henrich Hegnaner", that is, Heinrich Hegnauer. The other was John Hansermann of Egliswil. The wedding is known because a copy of the entry travelled. On 6 August 1865 an extract of the Seengen marriage register was certified at Seengen, and on 9 August at Lenzburg and Aarau, and it is now in the file of an American Civil War pension, where FamilySearch's full-text search found it. The study has read only that page. How Heinrich was related to the Hegnauers who left Seengen for Rochester in 1884 is not known.

  In it: Heinrich Hegnauer

  Source: Certified extract of the Seengen marriage register (Seengen, 6 Aug 1865), in a United States Civil War pension file (FamilySearch Full-Text, machine transcription)

  Also: FamilySearch Full-Text search, 27 Sep 2026: Hegnauer in machine-read deeds, wills, court and other records

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• Emigration 1927 Rockville, Missouri

  The Whiteners are driven out of China

  In March 1927 a missionary family, forced out of China, arrived at Chris and Anna Hegnauer's home in Rockville. Read the storyClose the story

  The Rockville column of the Appleton City Journal of 31 March 1927 carried a short item with a long way home behind it: "Rev. Whitner and family have returned from China where they were missionaries, and are at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Hegnauer. They were driven out by the hostilities in China." "Her" was Marie, the youngest daughter of Christian and Anna Hegnauer. In June 1919 she had married Sterling W. Whitener of Hickory, North Carolina, and an index of the Reformed Church press for that year notes of "Rev. S. W. Whitener" that he "Sails for China". The Journal does not say where in China they served, and no record found so far names the station. The same page carried the obituary of Marie's great-uncle, Martin Hegnauer.

  In it: Sterling Wilfong Whitener, Marie A. Hegnauer, Christian Hegnauer, Anna Wirz

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 31 Mar 1927, p. 6 (Rockville Department)

  Also: "Rockville Department," Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 31 March 1927, p. 6; "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991," database, FamilySearch, entry for Marie A Hegnauer; FamilySearch Full-Text, "church-history index", Reformed Church press (index), 1919; image ARK 3:1:3QHV-53LB-DRN9; FamilySearch Full-Text search, 27 Sep 2026: Hegnauer in machine-read deeds, wills, court and other records; The biography of Marie A. Hegnauer; The biography of Sterling Wilfong Whitener; The biography of Martin Hegnauer; Appleton City Journal, 31 Mar 1927, p. 6; "Rockville Department," Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 31 March 1927, p. 6; "Rockville Department," Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 31 March 1927, p. 6

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• Wedding 1652 Hochdorf, canton Luzern

  Casparus marries at Hochdorf in July, and is perhaps buried there in December

  Casparus Hegnauer married Anna Elmliger at Hochdorf on 8 July 1652; five months later to the day a Casparus indexed as Hegnar, possibly the bridegroom, was buried there. Read the storyClose the story

  On 8 July 1652 Casparus Hegnauer married Anna Elmliger at Hochdorf, in the Luzern Seetal. On 8 December, five months later to the day, the Hochdorf register records the burial of a Casparus whom the index calls "Hegnar". It names no wife or parents for him, so the study links him to the bridegroom only as a possibility. The same index writes "Hegnar" for a Barbara Hegnauer buried at Hochdorf in 1676. The study has found no child of the marriage and no later entry for Anna Elmliger. If the two entries are of one man, Anna was a widow within five months of her wedding. The entries are index-only; the register pages have not been read.

  In it: Casparus Hegnauer, Anna Elmliger

  Source: Hochdorf (Luzern) marriage register, 8 July 1652 (FamilySearch index, Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Casparus Hegnar; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnar; Central Switzerland (Luzern, Zug): the Hegnauer families, 1584–1739

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• Wedding 1840 Uster, canton Zürich

  Regula Hegnauer marries the son of Regula Hegnauer, very probably her aunt

  At Uster in 1840 the bride and the groom's mother were both Regula Hegnauer; bride and groom had been baptised there twelve weeks apart in 1817, and were very probably first cousins. Read the storyClose the story

  On 2 November 1840 Regula Hegnauer married Rudolf Homberger at Uster; the wedding was entered in a Zürich register as well. The Uster entry gives each of them the birth year 1817 and names both sets of parents: for the bride, Rudolf Hegnauer and Regula Grob; for the groom, Johannes Homberger and another Regula Hegnauer. The two had been baptised at Uster twelve weeks apart, the bride on 7 September 1817 and the groom on 30 November, the last of the elder Regula's twelve children. That elder Regula was very probably a daughter of Salomon Hegnauer and Barbara Hoffmann, and the bride's father, Hans Rudolf, was Salomon's son: his marriage entry of 1817 names them. So the groom's mother was very probably the bride's aunt, and the couple first cousins. Their daughter Sophie was baptised at Uster that December, and in November 1860 she married Heinrich Schneider there.

  In it: Regula Hegnauer, Rudolf Homberger, Regula Hegnauer, Hans Rudolf Hegnauer

  Source: Uster marriage register, 2 Nov 1840 (FamilySearch index)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Regula Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rud Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Regula Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Reg Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Reg Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Regula Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Regula Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hs Rudolff Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hs Rudolf Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Regula Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Regula Hegnauer; The biography of Regula Hegnauer; The biography of Hans Rudolf Hegnauer; Uster, Wetzikon, the Zürich Oberland and the Thurgau border; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rud Homberger

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• Farm 1891 Bates County, Missouri

  Twenty farmers buy an 1,800-pound stallion

  In 1891 Leonhard joined a company of twenty farmers who paid $1,900 for an English Shire stallion. Read the storyClose the story

  In September 1891 the Bates County Record's Hudson correspondent reported that "a company composed of twenty of the leading farmers and horse breeders of South East Bates" had bought an "English Shire" stallion from O. O. Hefner of Lincoln, Nebraska, "the celebrated importer of fine horses". A committee of three had gone to Lincoln and come back with the horse early the week before: a four-year-old dapple bay weighing 1,800 pounds. The price paid was $1,900. Among the twenty members of the company were L. Hegnauer, Fred Fix, Martin Rapp and David Sweazey.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Bates County Record, 5 Sep 1891, p. 2

  Also: Appleton City Journal, 10 Sep 1891, p. 4

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• Wedding 1850 Aawangen, Thurgau

  Johannes marries in his sixties, and a son, probably posthumous, follows

  Johannes Hegnauer married Anna Frei in May 1850 and was buried at Elgg the following January; in June 1851 a son of Joh Hegnauer and A Frei was born, probably his posthumous child. Read the storyClose the story

  On 5 May 1850 Johannes Hegnauer married Anna Frei at Aawangen, over the border in the Thurgau. The marriage lasted eight months. Johannes died on 14 January 1851 and was buried at Elgg on the 19th; the burial entry names his wife, Anna Frei, and gives his birth year as 1787, so he had married in his sixties. On 26 June 1851, five months after his death, a son of "Joh Hegnauer" and "A Frei" was born, and three days later he was baptised at Elgg as Johann Heinrich. The study takes him, probably, for Johannes's posthumous son. Who Johannes was is less certain: the study takes him, possibly, for the Johannes baptised at Elgg on 5 March 1786, a son of Heinrich Hegnauer and Anna Barbara Trachssler.

  In it: Johannes Hegnauer, Anna Frei, Johannes Heinrich Hegnauer

  Source: Aawangen marriage, 5 May 1850 (FamilySearch index, Switzerland Marriages, 1532-1910)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Joh Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Joh Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Joh Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johannes Hegnauer; Elgg, canton Zürich: the Hegnauer families, 1553–1875

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• Farm 1856 Kulm valley, Aargau

  A legend names the Kulm valley's Hegnauers after a sunken town

  In 1856 a book of Aargau legends traced 'the numerous Hegnauer family of the Kulm valley' to a sunken town called Hegenau, which no record knows. Read the storyClose the story

  In the first volume of his Schweizersagen aus dem Aargau (1856), Ernst Ludwig Rochholz printed a legend of the Kulm valley: that a town called Hegenau once stood between Oberkulm and Zetzwil and sank, and that it gave its name to "the numerous Hegnauer family of the Kulm valley". The Hagnauer, in the same account, were a different family, "named after an Alsatian castle". No town of Hegenau is recorded, and the study rejects the legend as the origin of the name, which comes from Hegnau, in the canton of Zürich. As evidence of people, though, the legend is useful: by 1856 Hegnauers were numerous in the Kulm valley, about seven kilometres west of Seengen, and the people there already told them apart from the Hagnauers.

  Source: E. L. Rochholz, Schweizersagen aus dem Aargau, vol. 1 (Aarau, 1856), nos. 7 and 52, pp. 7 and 61-62, as cited in the study's note on the origin of the name

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• Death 1791 Igis, Graubünden

  Three sons named Christian, and very probably none lives to four

  Christian and Ursula Hegnauer of Igis gave three sons their father's name between 1781 and 1791, and very probably none of the three lived to the age of four. Read the storyClose the story

  Christian Hegnauer and Ursula Radig married in the church at Igis on 15 January 1777 and had seven children baptised there. Three of their sons were given their father's name. The first Christian was baptised on 5 January 1781; a Christian Hegnauer aged about three was buried in June 1784, very probably he. A second Christian was baptised on 24 March 1789, and a baby Christian, very probably he too, was buried that September. The third was baptised on 21 May 1791 and buried the next day; the burial register names his parents, Christian and Ursula. Very probably, then, none of the three lived to the age of four. Three of the other children grew up and married at Igis, among them Jakob, whose son Luzius took the family to America in 1856.

  In it: Christian Hegnauer, Ursula Radig, Christian Hegnauer, Christian Hegnauer, Christian Hegnauer

  Source: Igis Reformed parish registers (FamilySearch index), as cited in Christian Hegnauer's biography

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christian Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christian Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christian Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christian Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christian Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christian Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christian Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Nutt Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elisabeth Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegnauer; The biography of Ursula Radig; The biography of Jakob Hegnauer; The biography of Luzius Hegnauer

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• War 1917 Rochester, New York

  Four grandsons of Jacob of Seengen enlist

  Between April 1917 and March 1919 the Rochester papers listed four grandsons of the emigrant Jacob as they joined the navy and the army: Oscar (probably), William, Elmer and Carl. Read the storyClose the story

  The Rochester papers printed the names of the city's recruits, and four grandsons of Jacob of Seengen are among them. On 25 April 1917 Oscar Herman Hegnauer, 22, of 52 Weld Street, Jacob Rudolph's son, enlisted in the Fleet Naval Reserve. In March 1918 his cousin William R. Hegnauer, Rudolph's son, was taken for the artillery of the 27th Division, which included the old New York National Guard and was then at Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, South Carolina. In August 1918 Oscar's brother Elmer R., 20, was one of twelve men the navy recruiting office was sending on, as "landsman for machinist mate, aviation". And in March 1919 Albert's son Carl A., of 214 Campbell Park, seventeen, was one of four men the navy station sent to the Great Lakes Training Station. The item naming Oscar is only partly legible, so his entry is probable.

  In it: Oscar Herman Hegnauer, William Rudolf Hegnauer, Elmer Rudolph Hegnauer, Carl Allen Hegnauer, Jacob Rudolph Hegnauer, Rudolph Hegnauer, Albert Gottlieb Hegnauer

  Source: The Times-Union (Rochester), 20 Mar 1918, p. 20

  Also: The Rochester Herald, 26 Apr 1917, p. 11; The Times-Union, 10 Aug 1918, p. 9; Democrat and Chronicle, 8 Mar 1919, p. 18; [Rochester recruiting offices], The Rochester Herald (Rochester, New York), 26 April 1917, p. 11; "Recruiting for 27th Division," The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 20 March 1918, p. 20; [Navy recruiting: men forwarded], The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 10 August 1918, p. 9; "Four New Sailors Go to Great Lakes," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 8 March 1919, p. 18; The biography of Oscar Herman Hegnauer; The biography of William Rudolf Hegnauer; The biography of Elmer Rudolph Hegnauer; The biography of Carl Allen Hegnauer

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• Wedding 1817 Uster, canton Zürich

  Hans Rudolf, 42 and probably a widower, marries Regula Grob

  In 1817 Salomon's son Hans Rudolf, probably a widower, married Regula Grob, about half his age, at Uster, and the wedding was entered again at Würenlos in Aargau. Read the storyClose the story

  Hans Rudolf Hegnauer, baptised at Uster on 26 March 1775, son of Salomon Hegnauer and Barbara Hoffmann, married Regula Grob at Uster on 4 May 1817. He was forty-two; her burial entry gives her birth year as 1796, so she was about twenty-one. The study takes him to be the Rudolf Hegnauer who had married Susanna Spillmann at Uster in 1799, and so a widower in 1817 (probable). Nine days later the marriage was entered again at Würenlos, across the border in Aargau, with his birth year and his parents; the index does not say why. Catholics and Reformed had shared the church of Würenlos since 1532, and its remaining Reformed belonged to the Reformed parish of Otelfingen, in canton Zürich: perhaps the bride's own parish, a lead its register may settle. Hans Rudolf very probably died in 1845, and Regula in 1873.

  In it: Hans Rudolf Hegnauer, Regula Grob, Susanna Spillmann

  Source: Uster marriage register, 4 May 1817 (FamilySearch index)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hs Rudolf Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Salomon Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hs Rudolff Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolf Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Reg Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolf Hegnauer; The biography of Hans Rudolf Hegnauer; Uster, Wetzikon, the Zürich Oberland and the Thurgau border; Historical context for the Swiss families: sources read 28 September 2026

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• Emigration 1905 Ellis Island, New York

  Marcin Worek sails from Antwerp on the Vaderland

  In December 1905 a twenty-five-year-old labourer from a Galician village landed at Ellis Island, bound for his brother-in-law in a Pennsylvania steel town. Read the storyClose the story

  Martin Worek, Marcin in his own language, came from Wesoła, a village in the parish of Barycz, in Galicia, the part of Poland then ruled by Austria. In December 1905, twenty-five and still single, he crossed from Antwerp to New York on the steamer Vaderland. At Ellis Island on 13 December he was entered as Marcin Worek, a Polish labourer and an Austrian subject, bound for McKeesport, Pennsylvania, a steel town on the Monongahela, to join his brother-in-law, Michał Uziel. By the summer of 1909 he was in Joliet, Illinois, where on 26 July, at the Polish parish of Holy Cross, he married Margarita Senkowska, who also came from Wesoła. The census of 1930, twenty-five years after he landed, records him as an alien who could not read or write, working in the merchant mill of a Joliet steel works.

  In it: Martin Worek, Margaret Senkowska

  Source: Ellis Island passenger list, S.S. Vaderland, 13 Dec 1905 (FamilySearch), as cited in Martin's biography

  Also: Martin Worek and Margaret (Margarita/Małgorzata) Senkowska: abstracts of the Ancestry records; Mary Ann Worek: abstracts of the Ancestry records; The biography of Margaret Senkowska

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• Death 1611 Elgg, canton Zürich

  Uli's wife and, probably, a daughter are buried a week apart in December 1611

  On 22 December 1611 the Elgg register recorded Margreth Amann, the wife of Uli Hegnauer, and on the 29th an Ursula, daughter of Ulrich, probably theirs. Read the storyClose the story

  Uli Hegnauer, written Hegner in most of his entries, and Margreth Amann had at least eight children baptised at Elgg between 1573 and 1596, three of them named Urich. In the last days of 1611 the burial register recorded two of the household within a week. On 22 December it has Margretha Amann, wife of Ulrich Hegner, and on 29 December Ursula, daughter of Ulrich Hegner, probably their daughter baptised in 1591, and so about twenty. Eighteen months earlier, on 3 June 1610, an Anna, daughter of Urich Hegner, probably their Anna of 1588, had died. Two more Hegnauers were buried at Elgg in those weeks: a Barbel Hegner on 27 October and, on the same day as Margreth, Dorothea Hegner, the wife of Conradt Büech. The index gives no causes.

  In it: Uli Hegnauer, Margreth Amann, Ursula Hegnauer, Anna Hegnauer, Barbel Hegnauer, Dorothea Hegnauer

  Source: Elgg Reformed burial register, 22 December 1611 (FamilySearch index, Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Ursula Hegner; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegner; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbel Hegner; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Dorothea Hegner; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Urich Hegner; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Urich Hegnouler; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Urich Hegner; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Margreth Hegner; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elsbeth Hegner; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegner; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Ursula Hegner; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Madalen Hegner; Elgg, canton Zürich: the Hegnauer families, 1553–1875; Other spellings of the name in FamilySearch's historical records

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• War 1386 Sempach, canton Luzern

  A Hegnouwer falls at Sempach

  The lists of those who fell on the Austrian side at the battle of Sempach in 1386 include a Hans von Hegnow, "der Hegnouwer". Read the storyClose the story

  In 1886, for the fifth centenary of the battle of Sempach, Theodor von Liebenau printed the lists of those who fell there in 1386. Among the dead on the Austrian side is a "Hans von Hegnow", or "der Hegnouwer". The chronicles and their copies write what appears to be one man in several ways: Hans von Hagnow, Hannss von Hagnouw, Hegnouwer, Hagnauwer and Hagenauer, and the anniversary book of St. Leonhard in Basel has him "dictus Hagnower". The editors of the Habsburg Urbar call the Hegnauers of that age "Austrian service people from Hegnau". No record ties Hans to the study's families.

  Source: Theodor von Liebenau, Die Schlacht bei Sempach (1886), lists of the fallen, in the study's note on the origin of the name

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• Office 1884 Bates County, Missouri

  Leonhard stands for county treasurer

  Leonhard's first run for county office, in 1884, ended some seven hundred votes short. Read the storyClose the story

  In September 1884 "L Hagenauer" was one of the three delegates of Pleasant Gap township at the Republican county convention in Butler. That November he was on the ballot for treasurer of Bates County. Osage township gave R. S. Catron 569 votes and "L. Hegnaner" 543, and the official vote of the county as cast on 4 November 1884, printed across a page of the Butler Weekly Times, gave Catron 3,771 and Hegnauer 3,072. Eight years later Leonhard tried again, this time for judge of the county court.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: The Butler Weekly Times, 12 Nov 1884, p. 5

  Also: Bates County Republican, 7 Nov 1884, p. 2; Bates County Record, 6 Sep 1884, p. 3; Butler Daily Democrat, 11 Nov 1892, p. 4

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• Emigration 1919 New York, New York

  Rudolf of Seengen becomes an American

  Born at Seengen in 1881, Rudolf Hegnauer came to New York as a seaman in 1904, was naturalized there in 1919 and is in ships' crew lists as a U.S. citizen from 1920 to 1951. Read the storyClose the story

  Rudolf Hegnauer was born at Seengen, in the canton of Aargau, on 16 October 1881: the village the Rochester Hegnauers had left in 1884, though no record yet ties him to them. He came to New York as a seaman on La Lorraine in 1904. He was naturalized in New York County in 1919, and in the crew lists from 1920 to 1951 he sails as a United States citizen; in 1943–45 he was a marine engineer, living at Queens Village. His wife, Helen Erna Caroline, née Drechsel, born in Germany in 1900, was naturalized on 23 June 1944. No children appear in the records. Helen died in March 1973, her last Social Security residence given as "Europe".

  In it: Rudolf Hegnauer, Helen Erna Caroline

  Source: New York County naturalization records, 1919, Rudolf Hegnauer (FamilySearch index)

  Also: FamilySearch Full-Text, "naturalization (known); witness; wife's naturalization", New York, 1919; 1943–45; image ARK 3:1:3QSQ-G9M8-K99D-2; "United States, Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolf Hegnauer; "New York, U.S. District and Circuit Court Naturalization Records, 1824-1991," database, FamilySearch, entry for Helen Erna Caroline Hegnauer; "New York, U.S. District and Circuit Court Naturalization Records, 1824-1991," database, FamilySearch, entry for Helen Erna Caroline Hegnauer; "United States, Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch, entry for Helen Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1940," database, FamilySearch, entry for Helen Hegnauer; New York City and other New York records outside Rochester; Rochester, Monroe County, New York: the Seengen (Aargau) family

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• Church 1570 Elgg, canton Zürich

  Hans and Dorothe, very probably twins, are baptised at Elgg

  On 20 April 1570 Brosshans Hegnauer and Barbara Rugger had two children baptised at Elgg on the same day, Hans and Dorothe, very probably twins. Read the storyClose the story

  On 20 April 1570 two children of Brosshans Hegnauer and Barbara Rugger were baptised at Elgg on the same day, Hans and Dorothe; the study takes them, very probably, for twins. Brosshans, a name the study reads as Bross, short for Ambrosius, joined to Hans, had married Barbara on 13 August 1564. She was his second wife: a son by his first, Madalena, had been baptised in 1561. Barbara's first son, Heinrich, followed in May 1565, a little over nine months after the wedding. The index has some trouble with the family. Barbara's surname comes out as Pugger, Ruger, Kuger and Kügger, and at the baptism of the youngest known child, Ursula, in 1573 the parents are "Grashans Hegner" and "Barbel Kügger", very probably the same couple. No later record can be tied to either twin with certainty.

  In it: Hans Hegnauer, Dorothe Hegnauer, Brosshans Hegnauer, Barbara Rugger, Madalena, Baschy Hegnauer, Heinrich Hegnauer, Ursula Hegnauer

  Source: Elgg Reformed baptism register, 20 April 1570 (FamilySearch index, Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records)

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Dorothe Hegnouwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Brosshansen Hegnouwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Brosshansen Hegnouwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Broszhans Hegenuwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Baschy Hegnouwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Heinrich Hegnouwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elszbet Hegnouwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Ursula Hegner; The biography of Brosshans Hegnauer; The biography of Barbara Rugger; The biography of Hans Hegnauer; The biography of Dorothe Hegnauer

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• Emigration 1856 Igis and Zizers, Graubünden

  Luzius is granted his emigration call

  

  In June 1856 the cantonal gazette announced that Luzius Hegnauer and his family meant to emigrate to America, and summoned everyone who owed him money or was owed by him. Read the storyClose the story

  On 6 June 1856 the Amtsblatt des Kantons Graubünden printed a notice of the district office of the Five Villages, dated Zizers, 3 June: "Da Luzius Hegnauer und Familie von Igis willens ist nach Amerika auszuwandern, wurde ihm der gesetzliche Auswanderungsruf bewilliget", as Luzius Hegnauer and family of Igis intend to emigrate to America, the statutory emigration call has been granted to him. His creditors and his debtors alike were to hand in their accounts within eight weeks to the receiver, Joseph Barfuß the younger, at Igis. The Small Council approved the notice on 6 June. On the page before, a guardian was named for the under-age children of "Pet. Hegnauer in Igis", probably his cousin Peter. Luzius was thirty-six. By the end of September he, Margreth and their five children were in New York.

  In it: Luzius Hegnauer, Anna Margreth Bernet

  Source: Amtsblatt des Kantons Graubünden, 6 Jun 1856, p. 167 (Staatsarchiv Graubünden), in the study's report on the Graubünden gazette

  Also: The biography of Luzius Hegnauer; The biography of Peter Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Luzius Hegnauer; The ship Chace, Havre to New York, 1856; Igis to Missouri, 1856

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• Office 1388 Aargau (Baden)

  Wilhelm Hegnauer collects the Habsburg levy of 1388–89 in Aargau

  In 1388–89 Wilhelm, son of Johannes von Hegnau of Baden, collected the Habsburg levy in Aargau, and the tax register he wrote himself survives in print. Read the storyClose the story

  Johannes von Hegnau, a squire and citizen of Baden, was granted the tithe of Endingen and Würenlingen as a fief in 1363. His son Wilhelm collected the Habsburg levy of 1388–89 in Aargau, and in 1904 the editors of the Habsburg Urbar printed the tax register of 1388–89 that Wilhelm, the collector, wrote himself. In documents of 1399 Wilhelm and his brother Jacob are "von Hegnow"; in 1413 the same man is "Wilhelm Hegnöwer". The Baden documents are among the records that show "of Hegnau" turning into a family name passed from father to son. Whether this family is related to the study's Hegnauers is not known.

  Source: Das Habsburgische Urbar, vol. II/2 (1904), and the Gessler documents (1877), in the study's note on the origin of the name

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• Emigration 1892 Rochester, New York

  Jacob and Albert become Americans on the same day

  On 18 February 1892 the Monroe County Court at Rochester admitted Albert Hegnauer and a Jacob, probably his brother Jacob Rudolph, to citizenship. Read the storyClose the story

  Eight years after they landed, the Hegnauers of Rochester went to court to become citizens. On 18 February 1892 the County Court of Monroe County admitted Albert Hegnauer and a Jacob, probably his brother Jacob Rudolph. Albert's was a minor's naturalization: "I, Albert Hegnauer … born in Switzerland", in March 1870, who had arrived in April 1884, renounced the Republic of Switzerland. A Rudolf Hegnauer of Rochester, very probably Albert's brother Rudolph, declared his intention the same day; his petition of 1895 gives his birth as 16 May 1857, his landing at New York as 4 April 1884 and his address as 5 Murray Street. A John, probably another brother, John Henry, was admitted on 12 October 1892. Rudolph's own oath came in August 1900, when "Rudolph Hegnauer, Switzerland, No. 5 Murray street" was one of 127 new citizens sworn in on one day, "a record" for the office.

  In it: Jacob Rudolph Hegnauer, Albert Gottlieb Hegnauer, Rudolph Hegnauer, John Henry Hegnauer

  Source: Monroe County Court, minor naturalization of Albert Hegnauer and petition index cards, 1892 (FamilySearch Full-Text, machine transcription)

  Also: FamilySearch Full-Text, "naturalization petition", Monroe Co. Court, 1895; image ARK 3:1:3Q9M-C911-5SYB-W; "United States, Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database, FamilySearch, entry for Albert Hegnauer; FamilySearch Full-Text, "petition index; passport", Rochester, 1896; 1897; image ARK 3:1:3Q9M-CSMV-FS9K-X; The biography of Albert Gottlieb Hegnauer; The biography of Jacob Rudolph Hegnauer; The biography of Rudolph Hegnauer; Ancestry research, 27 Sep 2026: key links among the American Hegnauers; The Times-Union, 1 Apr 1931, p. 34; Rochester, Monroe County, New York: the Seengen (Aargau) family; Democrat and Chronicle, 7 Aug 1900, p. 7; [New citizens sworn in the County Court], Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 7 August 1900, p. 7

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• War 1864 Brice's Crossroads, Tennessee

  The June 1864 roll finds John away with General A. J. Smith

  The one muster John missed in three years came in June 1864, the month his regiment cut its way out of the rout at Brice's Crossroads. Read the storyClose the story

  John was present at seventeen of his company's eighteen bi-monthly musters. The exception is the roll of 30 June 1864, which marks Corporal Hegenauer absent, "On expedition with Genl A. J. Smith"; Smith was then gathering at La Grange the force that marched on Tupelo in July. The same roll stops part of his pay, about $2.37 (the figure is hard to read), for lost ordnance stores, without saying where or when they were lost. So no one can say where John was on 10 June, when his regiment, the 4th Missouri Cavalry, was placed "with drawn sabers and revolvers, in front" to cut through the enemy blocking the retreat from Brice's Crossroads. On 31 August he was present again, the day after his company came back to Memphis from Smith's expedition to Oxford.

  In it: Johannes Hegnauer

  Source: John's muster roll for May–June 1864 (Fold3 image 211860515) and Official Records, Series I, vol. 39, pt. 1, p. 133, as cited in the research note on the Civil War

  Also: John Hegnauer: his Civil War service records (NARA M405); The biography of Johannes Hegnauer

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• Wedding 1630 Kurzdorf, canton Thurgau

  Hegnauers in the Thurgau, 1630-1728, perhaps from Elgg

  Between 1630 and 1728 Thurgau registers marry and bury Hegnauers whom the study thinks may have come from nearby Elgg but cannot yet place. Read the storyClose the story

  In the canton of Thurgau the index has Hegnauers whom the study cannot yet place in any family. Hans Hegnauwer married Verena Bochsler at Kurzdorf, Frauenfeld, on 14 February 1630. An Anna Hegnawer, who died on 29 May 1674, was buried at Wängi with no kin named. On 20 February 1714 Barbara "Hegnauerin", in the feminine form of the name then usual, married Heinrich Frey at Aawangen, and on 8 December 1728 a Barbara Hegnauer was buried at Aadorf as the wife of a Heinrich whom the index reads "Breyen", probably Frey. On 13 October 1718 Barbara "Hegnauwerin" married Hans Jacob Kradolfer at Affeltrangen; she was perhaps the Barbara born at Elgg in 1697. The study thinks the Thurgau parishes near Elgg, Aadorf and Aawangen among them, probably took Elgg's overflow, but none of these Hegnauers is proven to be of Elgg.

  In it: Hans Hegnauer, Verena Bochsler, Anna Hegnauer, Barbara Hegnauer, Heinrich Frey, Barbara Hegnauer, Hans Jacob Kradolfer

  Source: FamilySearch indexes of Thurgau Reformed registers, in the study's chart of Swiss cities and entries without a parish

  Also: "Switzerland Marriages, 1532-1910," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hans Hegnauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnawer; "Switzerland Marriages, 1532-1910," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnauerin; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnourein; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegenauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnauwer; "Switzerland Marriages, 1532-1910," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnauwerin; Switzerland: where the Hegnauers lived; Other spellings of the name in FamilySearch's historical records

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• Crime 1924 Rochester, New York

  Carl, probably Albert's son, gets 180 days for taking a friend's suit

  In August 1924 a Carl Hagnauer, 23, of 214 Campbell Park, probably Albert's son Carl Allen, was sent to the Monroe County Penitentiary for 180 days for stealing a suit from a man who had taken him in. Read the storyClose the story

  On 22 August 1924 a Carl Hagnauer, 23, of 214 Campbell Park, was arraigned in the Rochester City Court on a charge of petit larceny. He had told a hard-luck story to a man he knew slightly, who offered to share his room with him until his luck turned. After a few days Carl left, taking a suit of the man's clothes. "A man befriends you and you steal a suit of clothes from him," said Judge O'Connor. "The sentence of the court is that you be confined in Monroe County Penitentiary for 180 days." The Times-Union headed its report "False Friend Is Given Long Term". 214 Campbell Park was the home of Albert Hegnauer's family, and the study takes the prisoner, probably, to be Albert's son Carl Allen, who had turned 23 that June.

  In it: Carl Allen Hegnauer

  Source: The Times-Union (Rochester), 22 Aug 1924, p. 4

  Also: "False Friend Is Given Long Term," The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 22 August 1924, p. 4; Democrat and Chronicle, 24 Aug 1918, p. 11; [Death of Robert H. Hegnauer], Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 24 August 1918, p. 11; Democrat and Chronicle, 8 Mar 1919, p. 18; "Four New Sailors Go to Great Lakes," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 8 March 1919, p. 18; The biography of Carl Allen Hegnauer

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• Family 1907 Appleton City and Pleasant Gap, Missouri

  Leonhard minds his son-in-law's farm

  When Joe Link's health failed, he stayed at Leonhard's house in Appleton City in 1907 to be treated by a specialist, and Leonhard went out to look after his farm. Read the storyClose the story

  In April 1907 the Appleton City Journal followed a subscription renewal with sad news. Leonhard's son-in-law, Joe Link, "a well known farmer near Pleasant Gap, has been in failing health for some time past, as the result of a stomach disorder. He 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." Joe had married Leonhard's daughter Katie on 24 October 1895. In June 1907 the Journal reported that Dr. Bowden had "assisted in performing a surgical operation for rupture on Jos. Link". In September 1916 he died at Rich Hill of stomach trouble "after an illness extending over several years", five days short of his forty-fifth birthday, leaving Katie with seven children.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer, Joseph M. Link, Katherine Susanna Hegnauer

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 11 Apr 1907, p. 7

  Also: Butler Daily Democrat, 23 Oct 1895, p. 4; Appleton City Journal, 28 Sep 1916, p. 1; Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Hirschi in the papers, 1856–1925

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• Emigration 1900 Basel

  Hegnauers from Seengen become citizens of Basel, in 1900 and 1908

  A reference book of Swiss surnames records that Hegnauers whose older home was Seengen, in Aargau, acquired the citizenship of Basel in 1900 and in 1908. Read the storyClose the story

  The Familiennamenbuch der Schweiz lists every family that held the citizenship, the Bürgerrecht, of a Swiss commune in 1962, with when it was acquired and, for newer citizens, their older home. Under Hegnauer it gives the city of Basel two dates, 1900 and 1908, and one older home: Seengen, in Aargau, one of only two communes where the book records a Hegnauer citizenship older than 1800 (the other is Elgg). The book names nobody. The study's Basel records of the period have two Hegnauer bridegrooms, Johann Jacob, married in 1892, and Hermann, married in 1905; whether either became a citizen, the records the study holds do not say. Nor has the study found any link between the Basel Hegnauers of the 1800s and Seengen.

  Source: Familiennamenbuch der Schweiz, 3rd ed. (1989), entry Hegnauer, as transcribed in the study's FamilySearch research of 27 Sep 2026

  Also: Swiss cities and other cantons: Basel, Bern, St. Gallen, Zürich city, Luzern, and entries without a parish; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johann Jakob Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hermann Hegnauer

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• Crime 1896 Rochester, New York

  Charles, probably Rudolph's son, spends a night in the Shelter

  In September 1896 two small boys, Charles Hegnauer, probably Rudolph's twelve-year-old son, and Lewis Grow, were locked up for destroying a sewer-pipe company's pipes, and let go by the police court. Read the storyClose the story

  On the night of 10 September 1896 two small boys, Charles Hegnauer and Lewis Grow, were arrested in Rochester on a charge of malicious mischief: they had destroyed "a quantity of sewer pipe belonging to the Standard Sewer Pipe Company". They were sent to the Shelter, and that afternoon the Post Express reported them "at present in confinement" there. The Herald's police-court column of the 12th gave the end of it: "Charles Hegnauer and Lewis Grow, maliciously destroying property; discharged." The study takes the boy, probably, to be Rudolph's son Charles Albert, then twelve, the infant of the October 1884 crossing; no other Charles Hegnauer is known in Rochester. He lived to be ninety.

  In it: Charles Albert Hegnauer

  Source: The Post Express (Rochester), 11 Sep 1896, p. 8

  Also: Democrat and Chronicle, 11 Sep 1896, p. 5; The Rochester Herald, 12 Sep 1896, p. 7; "Sewer Pipe Destroyed," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 11 September 1896, p. 5; "Sewer Pipe Destroyed," Rochester Journal and the Post Express (Rochester, New York), 11 September 1896, p. 8; "Police Court," The Rochester Herald (Rochester, New York), 12 September 1896, p. 7; The biography of Charles Albert Hegnauer; Find a Grave, memorial 145891180, Charles Albert Hegnauer (8 May 1884 – 7 Dec 1974), Holy Sepulchre Cemetery Rochester, Monroe County, New York

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• Emigration 1854 Igis, Graubünden

  The gazette sends Peter to America, then to the Engadine

  

  In April 1854 a creditors' call announced that Peter Hegnauer of Igis was emigrating to America with his family; a week later the gazette corrected itself. Read the storyClose the story

  Nutt Hegnauer died at Igis on 8 January 1854; he was probably the "Nutt Hegnauer, alt", old Nutt, on the Igis list of persons under guardianship in June 1852. On 14 April the Amtsblatt printed a call for accounts, a Rechnungsruf, "über den verstorbenen Nutin Hegnauer und dessen Enkel Peter Hegnauer von Igis, welcher sammt seiner Familie nach Amerika auswandert": concerning the late Nutin Hegnauer and his grandson Peter, who was emigrating to America with his family. A week later came a "Berichtigung", a correction: page 138 should read "Sohn Peter Hegnauer, welcher ins Engadin wegzieht, anstatt Enkel etc.", his son Peter, who was moving away to the Engadine. Yet his next three children, born in 1854, 1856 and 1858, were entered in the Igis baptism register. Peter left for America eighteen years later, in 1872, at sixty.

  In it: Nutt Hegnauer, Peter Hegnauer

  Source: Amtsblatt des Kantons Graubünden, 14 Apr 1854, p. 138, and 21 Apr 1854, p. 144 (Staatsarchiv Graubünden), in the study's report on the Graubünden gazette

  Also: The biography of Nutt Hegnauer; The biography of Peter Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Nuttin Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christina Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elsbeth Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christian Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Peter Hegnauer

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• Family 1936 Wells, Minnesota

  Robert, very probably the father, forecasts 90,000 for the Fats versus the Leans

  The master of ceremonies of Wells's Paul Bunyan basketball tournament, very probably Robert Lucius Hegnauer senior, promised a sell-out. Read the storyClose the story

  In February 1936 the Wells Mirror collected remarks from around the town about its Paul Bunyan basketball tournament, a match between the Fats and the Leans. Among them was a forecast from the master of ceremonies, Robert Hegnauer: a sell-out, with 90,000 people attending. The study takes him to be Robert Lucius Hegnauer, who was then living at Wells and had been a member of its Masonic lodge since 1915, rather than his son of the same name.

  In it: Robert Lucius Hegnauer

  Source: The Wells Mirror, 6 Feb 1936

  Also: The biography of Robert Lucius Hegnauer; Record-Gazette, 16 Dec 1969, p. 1

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• Wedding 1918 Rochester, New York

  Rudolph's children marry, and the packing-room girls give a shower

  Rudolph's daughters Lulu and Ida married within three months in 1913, and in 1918 their brother Fred married Anna Brown, with Ida's husband as best man and a shower from the girls of the shoe factory. Read the storyClose the story

  Rudolph's children married one after another. His daughter Lulu married Fred A. Ofshlager on Tuesday, 25 March 1913, at the home of the Rev. F. D. Oberkircher, her sister Ida attending her; she wore a travelling suit of brown. Ida married Robert L. Pool at the same minister's house in Campbell Street on 11 June, with her brother Fred among the attendants, and there was a dinner at her parents' house afterwards. Fred's turn came on 4 June 1918, at Christ Episcopal chapel, with Robert L. Poole, now his brother-in-law, as best man. The bride, Anna E. Brown, wore pink Georgette crepe; forty sat down at the reception, to a string orchestra; and the girls of the packing room of the Sherwood Shoe Company had given her a shower of cut glass and linen. The couple were to spend the summer at Cranberry Pond, Manitou.

  In it: Frederick Rudolph Hegnauer, Anna Ethel Brown, Ida Hegnauer, Lula Hegnauer, Rudolph Hegnauer

  Source: Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester), 30 Jun 1918, p. 29

  Also: The Rochester Herald, 30 Mar 1913, p. 23; The Times-Union, 14 Jun 1913, p. 3; "Mainly About People," The Rochester Herald (Rochester, New York), 30 March 1913, p. 23; "Mainly About People," The Rochester Herald (Rochester, New York), 30 March 1913, p. 23; "Mainly About People," The Rochester Herald (Rochester, New York), 30 March 1913, p. 23; "Mainly About People," The Rochester Herald (Rochester, New York), 30 March 1913, p. 23; "Hegnauer-Pool," The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 14 June 1913, p. 3; "Hegnauer-Pool," The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 14 June 1913, p. 3; "Hegnauer-Pool," The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 14 June 1913, p. 3; "Hegnauer-Pool," The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 14 June 1913, p. 3; "Hegnauer-Brown," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 30 June 1918, p. 29; "Hegnauer-Brown," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 30 June 1918, p. 29; The biography of Frederick Rudolph Hegnauer

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• Wedding 1715 Igis, Graubünden

  Jacob, the first Hegnauer in the Igis registers, marries Margreth Hartmann

  On 1 March 1715 Jacob Hegnauer married at Igis, the first of the name in the village's registers and very probably the forefather of every later Igis Hegnauer. Read the storyClose the story

  On 1 March 1715 Jacob Hegnauer, entered as "Hagenauwer", married Margreth Hartmann in the church at Igis. He is the first person of the name in the Igis registers, and where he came from is not recorded. Their son Hanss was baptised in December 1715 and Flori in April 1717, but Flori was buried the following February, not yet a year old. Margreth was buried on 26 February 1724, aged forty-three, and four months later, on 23 June 1724, Jacob married Leta Gujan. Their sons Nuttin, baptised in 1725, and Hanss Heinrich, baptised in 1734, were very probably the heads of the two Hegnauer families of Igis later in the century, so that the family that went to America in 1856 would descend from him.

  In it: Jacob Hegnauer, Margreth Hartmann, Leta Gujan, Hanss Hegnauer, Flori Hegnauer

  Source: Igis Reformed church book (FamilySearch index), as cited in Jacob Hegnauer's biography

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hagenauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Hanss Hagenauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Flori Hagenauwer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Flori Hagenautern; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hagenauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hagenauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hamauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegrnauer; The biography of Nutt Hegnauer; The biography of Luzius Hegnauer; Where did Jacob Hegnauer come from?

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• Business 1897 Rockville, Missouri

  The Bank of Rockville in "good and safe hands"

  In 1897 the directors of the Bank of Rockville made Leonhard their vice-president. Read the storyClose the story

  In October 1897 the Rockville Gimlet reported, and the Butler and Bates County papers repeated, that the directors of the Bank of Rockville had accepted the resignations of J. C. Laughlin and J. B. Durand as president and vice-president, and had elected "Ex Judge Fred Fix" president and L. Hegnauer vice-president. "Messrs. Fix and Hegnauer are good substantial farmers and careful business men," the Gimlet wrote, "and with Mr. Heyle handling the combination to the cash, the bank is in good and safe hands." Leonhard was still vice-president when J. C. Laughlin, president again, died in 1911; he then became president himself, and remained so until his death.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Butler Daily Democrat, 12 Oct 1897, p. 4 (from the Rockville Gimlet)

  Also: Bates County Democrat, 14 Oct 1897, p. 5; Bates County Record, 16 Oct 1897, p. 3; The Republican Press, 10 Nov 1916, p. 3; Rockville Booster, 21 Aug 1908, p. 4

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• Accident 1907 Rochester, New York

  Jacob, probably Jacob Rudolph, is run down on his bicycle and sues the motorist

  In 1907 a Jacob Hegnauer of Rochester, probably Jacob Rudolph, sued a motorist for $3,000 after being run down on his bicycle in Scio Street; the driver said he was on the wrong side of the road. Read the storyClose the story

  On 16 June 1907 Jacob Hegnauer was riding his bicycle in Scio Street, Rochester, when George S. Seigel's motor car ran him down. Jacob, who said he had had no warning of the car's approach, sued for $3,000 for his injuries. Seigel's answer, the Times-Union reported in August, was contributory negligence: the plaintiff "was riding on the wrong side of the road", and the motor car "was moving slowly and under perfect control". The case was listed for trial early in the September term of the Supreme Court. The papers read so far do not give the outcome. The plaintiff was probably Jacob Rudolph, then forty-eight; his father, the only other Jacob of the family, had died in 1899.

  In it: Jacob Rudolph Hegnauer

  Source: The Union and Advertiser (Rochester), 12 Aug 1907, p. 9

  Also: Democrat and Chronicle, 13 Aug 1907, p. 12; "Bicyclist to Blame Says Chauffeur," The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 12 August 1907, p. 9; "Causes Damage Suit," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 13 August 1907, p. 12; The biography of Jacob Rudolph Hegnauer; The biography of Jacob Hegnauer

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• War 1943 Bremerton, Washington

  Robert Jr. joins the Navy's floating repair shops in the Pacific

  In 1944 a Minneapolis man, rated machinist's mate for ship repair, joined the floating base that followed the Pacific fleet. Read the storyClose the story

  Robert Lucius Hegnauer Jr. enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve at Minneapolis on 18 December 1943, by the Navy's report of changes of May 1944. In March 1944 he was on the roll of the training station at Farragut, Idaho, then with the Ship Repair Training Unit at Bremerton. Rated in May as machinist's mate second class, marked "(SR)" for ship repair, he was sent on 15 May 1944 to USS YRD(M)-7, a floating workshop for machinery repairs. The index of the rolls places him at Pearl Harbor by the end of June, and on 12 October he was received on board USS Ocelot, the flagship of Service Squadron Ten, for duty with the squadron: a floating base of tenders, repair ships and docks that followed the fleet and repaired its ships near the combat areas. In January 1945 a roll kept at Kwajalein still listed him.

  In it: Robert Lucius Hegnauer Jr.

  Source: U.S. Navy muster rolls (Bremerton, May 1944; USS Ocelot, 1944; Kwajalein, Jan 1945), as cited in Robert Jr.'s biography

  Also: Robert Lucius Hegnauer Jr.: abstracts of the Ancestry records

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• Church 1946 China

  Sterling Whitener, very probably Marie's son, goes back to China as a missionary

  A Sterling Whitener born in China in 1921 to missionary parents, very probably the son of Marie Hegnauer and the Rev. Sterling W. Whitener, went out to China as a missionary himself in 1946. Read the storyClose the story

  A notice published by Global Ministries on the death of Sterling Whitener in 2017 says that he was born in China on 27 June 1921 to missionary parents. The family tree names him Sterling Hegnauer Whitener, and the study takes him to be the son of the Rev. Sterling W. Whitener and Marie Hegnauer of Bates County, missionaries in China until the upheavals of early 1927 drove them out; that March they were staying with Marie's parents at Rockville. By the notice, Sterling graduated from Catawba College in 1942 and from Yale Divinity School in 1945, went out to China as a missionary himself in 1946, served for fifteen years in Hong Kong and later worked in the social work programme of Livingstone College. In 2013, in his nineties, he published In the Shadow of the Pagoda. He died at Greensboro in 2017, aged ninety-five.

  In it: Sterling Hegnauer Whitener, Marie A. Hegnauer, Sterling Wilfong Whitener

  Source: Global Ministries notice of the death of Sterling Whitener (9 Feb 2017), as cited in Sterling's biography

  Also: Appleton City Journal, 31 Mar 1927, p. 6; "Rockville Department," Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 31 March 1927, p. 6; "Rockville Department," Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 31 March 1927, p. 6; The biography of Marie A. Hegnauer; The biography of Sterling Wilfong Whitener

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• Crime 1897 Rochester, New York

  Mounted police catch a thief leaving the yard of Rudolph, probably Jacob's son, with the washing

  In October 1897 two mounted policemen who had watched all night caught a clothesline thief walking out of the yard of Rudolph Hegnauer, very probably Jacob's son, at 7 Hensler Place, Rochester. Read the storyClose the story

  For a month the people around Hensler Place, in Rochester, had been losing washing from their lines at night. Two mounted policemen were set to watch, and after a night of it, at 5.45 on the morning of 20 October 1897, they saw William Becker, 28, walking out of the yard of Rudolph Hegnauer, 7 Hensler Place, with a bundle of clothes under his arm. He ran; they caught him at the stove factory in Oak Street where he worked. He said he had found the bundle on the sidewalk, and asked a policeman what it would cost him to get out. A search of his house in Gates turned up "a lot of goods". The charge of 3 November ran: "Clothing from Rudolph Hegenauer, value of $10, on October 20th." This Rudolph was very probably Jacob's son, who gave his address as 5 Hensler Place the next summer.

  In it: Rudolph Hegnauer

  Source: The Post Express (Rochester), 20 Oct 1897, p. 6

  Also: The Times-Union, 20 Oct 1897, p. 6; Democrat and Chronicle, 21 Oct 1897, p. 9; The Rochester Herald, 21 Oct 1897, p. 6; Rochester Journal and the Post Express, 22 Oct 1897, p. 6; The Times-Union, 22 Oct 1897, p. 6; The Rochester Herald, 23 Oct 1897, p. 7; The Times-Union, 3 Nov 1897, p. 9; "Stole From Lines," Rochester Journal and the Post Express (Rochester, New York), 20 October 1897, p. 6; [The capture of a clothesline thief], The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 20 October 1897, p. 6; [A clothesline thief], Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 21 October 1897, p. 9; "A Clothesline Thief Arrested," The Rochester Herald (Rochester, New York), 21 October 1897, p. 6; "Becker's Extensive Thieving," Rochester Journal and the Post Express (Rochester, New York), 22 October 1897, p. 6; "Stole Goods of Which He Could Make No Possible Use," The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 22 October 1897, p. 6; "Clothesline Thief in Court," The Rochester Herald (Rochester, New York), 23 October 1897, p. 7; [Police Court], The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 3 November 1897, p. 9; Democrat and Chronicle, 25 Jul 1898, p. 8; "Arrests Will Be Made," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 25 July 1898, p. 8; The biography of Rudolph Hegnauer

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• Wedding 1910 Marshall, Missouri

  Robert and Lotta marry, an Academy romance

  The Marshall paper said the love affair began when both graduated from the Appleton City Academy. Read the storyClose the story

  At nine in the morning on Tuesday, 9 August 1910, Lotta Alice Donnell married Robert L. Hegnauer of Appleton City at her parents' home in College Addition, Marshall, Missouri; her father, the Rev. G. J. Donnell, officiated. The Marshall Republican called it "a quiet but pretty wedding". Lotta had been a student at M. V. C. the past winter, and had graduated from the Appleton City Academy "at the same time that the groom did and it was here that the love affair had its beginning". The paper found her "a very pleasant, cultured and sensible young lady who is worthy of the best husband", and him "an able and splendid young man". Robert, who was studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana, meant to take his bride back there. They left "on the 11.15" for Appleton City.

  In it: Robert Lucius Hegnauer, Lotta Alice Donnell, George Johnson Donnell, Alice Juanita Johnson

  Source: The Marshall Republican, 12 Aug 1910, p. 4

  Also: Hegnauer-Donnell (1/2) 12 Aug 1910; Missouri State Archives; Jefferson City, MO, USA; Missouri Marriage Records [Microfilm]; The biography of Robert Lucius Hegnauer

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• Emigration 1879 Buffalo County, Wisconsin

  Dr. Nutin renounces the republic of Switzerland

  In October 1879 'Dr. Nutin Hegenauer' renounced the republic of Switzerland in the Buffalo County court, Wisconsin; he was probably Nutt of Igis. Read the storyClose the story

  On 28 October 1879, in the circuit court of Buffalo County, Wisconsin, "Dr. Nutin Hegenauer, an alien", swore to renounce all allegiance, "particularly to the republic of Switzerland"; B. Keller and J. M. Leonhardy were his witnesses. He was no newcomer: the county's probate accounts show "Dr. Hegnauer" paid by, or claiming against, estates from 1875 (Margareth Petersen) to 1881 (John Baer), and on 30 July 1879 Joseph and Henrietta Leicht deeded to "N. Hegenaner" lot 3 in block 7 of the village of Fountain City, for $110. In 1884 he gave a power of attorney there. In 1880 a Peter Hegnauer and his wife, probably the couple from Igis, were living at Fountain City, and Nutin is the Igis form of Nutt: the doctor was probably Peter's eldest son Nutt, born at Igis in 1834.

  In it: Nutt Hegnauer

  Source: Naturalization, Buffalo County Circuit Court, Wisconsin, 28 Oct 1879, vol. 2 p. 421 (FamilySearch Full-Text, machine transcription)

  Also: FamilySearch Full-Text, "quitclaim deed + indexes", Fountain City, Buffalo Co., 30 Jul 1879; image ARK 3:1:3Q9M-C37K-Q9L2-X; FamilySearch Full-Text, "probate accounts", Buffalo Co., Wis., 1875, 1876, 1879, 1881; image ARK 3:1:3Q9M-C9Y1-NQFV-X; FamilySearch Full-Text, "grantor index", Buffalo Co., 1884; image ARK 3:1:3Q9M-C3Q8-56MS; "United States, Census, 1880," database, FamilySearch, entry for Peter Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1880," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnauer; The biography of Peter Hegnauer; The biography of Nutt Hegnauer; FamilySearch Full-Text search, 27 Sep 2026: Hegnauer in machine-read deeds, wills, court and other records; Ancestry research, 27 Sep 2026: key links among the American Hegnauers

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• Crime 1904 Rochester, New York

  Fred's bicycle thief halts when a policeman fires his revolver

  In September 1904 a man stole Fred Hegnauer's bicycle and tried to sell it on North Clinton Avenue; the buyer called the police, and the thief ran until a patrolman fired his revolver. Read the storyClose the story

  On the afternoon of 27 September 1904 Thomas Moore stole a bicycle from Fred Hegnauer, of 47 Murray Street, Rudolph's eldest son, then twenty-one, and tried to sell it to John Krembel of 423 North Clinton Avenue. Krembel suspected it was stolen and telephoned the fourth precinct police. Moore saw Patrolman Post coming and bolted, running through Ward Street. "Post fired his revolver. Moore halted and was arrested." The Post Express of the next day headed its report "Bicycle Thief Sentenced. Confessed His Crime but His Record Was Against Him."; the part read so far does not give the sentence.

  In it: Frederick Rudolph Hegnauer

  Source: The Post Express (Rochester), 28 Sep 1904, p. 8

  Also: "Bicycle Thief Sentenced," Rochester Journal and the Post Express (Rochester, New York), 28 September 1904, p. 8; The biography of Frederick Rudolph Hegnauer; The biography of Rudolph Hegnauer

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• Office 1900 Butler, Missouri

  Leonhard: Bryan will not get a single German vote

  In October 1900 Leonhard called at the Bates County Record to set it straight about the German Republicans. Read the storyClose the story

  On a Tuesday in October 1900 "Leonard Hegnaeur, one of the substantial farmers of Prairie City neighborhood", called at the office of the Bates County Record. The political outlook in his section, he said, "could hardly be better". He alluded, pleasantly, to James Henry Sisson's letter to the Democrat, which said that 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." The report went on: "The paramount issue of imperialism and militarism don't scare our German Republicans." In August 1901 the Rich Hill Tribune called "L. Hegnauer, Sr." one of Bates county's substantial farmers "who understands politics as well as agriculture, and exercises the same good judgment in both".

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Bates County Record, 13 Oct 1900, p. 7

  Also: Bates County Record (Butler, Missouri), 13 October 1900, p. 7; The Rich Hill Tribune, 29 Aug 1901, p. 1; Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Hirschi in the papers, 1856–1925

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• Court 1874 Trimmis and Igis, Graubünden

  Johann Ulrich contracts to keep two wards for life, probably his uncle and cousin

  In November 1874 the guardians of two Igis Hegnauers, a father and his son, made a contract with a younger Hegnauer, probably the old man's nephew, to keep them for the rest of their lives. Read the storyClose the story

  In March 1868 "Jakob de Heinrich Hegnauer" of Igis was placed under a guardian. By 1872 his father, Johann Heinrich, baptised in 1801, was a ward too: that December a new guardian was named for "Joh. Heinrich Hegnauer und dessen Sohn Jacob". A notice dated Trimmis, 21 November 1874, announced a Verpfründungsvertrag, a contract of care for life, between their guardianship, for "Joh. Heinrich Hegnauer und dessen Sohn Jakob, als Pfrundnehmer", the two to be kept, "und Joh. Ulr. Hegnauer, jgr., als Pfrundgeber", the one to keep them, "alle von Igis". Johann Ulrich was probably Johann Heinrich's nephew, a son of his late brother Rudolph, and then thirty-six. Jakob died four months later, in March 1875. If Johann Ulrich was Rudolph's son, he died in January 1877, aged thirty-eight; his uncle lived until December 1881.

  In it: Johann Heinrich Hegnauer, Jacob Hegnauer, Johann Ulrich Hegnauer

  Source: Amtsblatt des Kantons Graubünden, 27 Nov 1874, p. 376, with the guardianship notices of 1868-1873 (Staatsarchiv Graubünden), in the study's report on the Graubünden gazette

  Also: Igis, Graubünden: the Hegnauer family from 1715 to the emigrants; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johann Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johann Ulrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Joh Ulr Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johann Heinrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolf Hegnauer

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• Court 1940 Rochester, New York

  Jacob R., a janitor, leaves $10,500

  Jacob Rudolph Hegnauer, a janitor, died in January 1940 leaving an estate estimated at $10,500, which his will divided among his five children. Read the storyClose the story

  Jacob Rudolph Hegnauer, who had landed at New York with his father's party in April 1884, died at his home, 245 Springfield Avenue, Rochester, on 10 January 1940, aged eighty. In February the Democrat and Chronicle reported the probate of his will: "Jacob R. Hegnauer, 245 Springfield Ave., a janitor", had left property estimated at $10,500, of which $3,500 was real estate. He divided it among his three sons and two daughters in fifths, but his unmarried daughter Hilda, of Rochester, was to have $500 and the household goods besides. His son Frederick, of Buffalo, was executor. The paper headed the item "$10,500 Hegnauer Estate".

  In it: Jacob Rudolph Hegnauer, Hilda M. Hegnauer, Frederick Edward Hegnauer

  Source: Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester), 16 Feb 1940, p. 21

  Also: "$10,500 Hegnauer Estate," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 16 February 1940, p. 21; "$10,500 Hegnauer Estate," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 16 February 1940, p. 21; "$10,500 Hegnauer Estate," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 16 February 1940, p. 21; "$10,500 Hegnauer Estate," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 16 February 1940, p. 21; "$10,500 Hegnauer Estate," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 16 February 1940, p. 21; "$10,500 Hegnauer Estate," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 16 February 1940, p. 21; Democrat and Chronicle, 12 Jan 1940, p. 28; [Death notice of Jacob R. Hegnauer], Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 12 January 1940, p. 28; The biography of Jacob Rudolph Hegnauer; The biography of Hilda M. Hegnauer; The biography of Frederick Edward Hegnauer

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• War 1862 Missouri

  Leonhard is sick in hospital

  In the autumn of 1862 Leonhard, a railroad guard in the 4th Missouri Infantry, was absent sick in hospital, and he was still marked sick at the end of the year. Read the storyClose the story

  Leonhard's war was guard duty on the Pacific Railroad, not battle. The return of his company, E of the 4th Missouri Infantry, for October 1862 marks him "absent sick at hosp[ital]"; the hospital is not named. At the muster of 31 December he was carried "present, Sick", and five weeks later, on 1 February 1863, he was mustered out at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, aged 20 by the roll. The bridge guards knew sickness: in May 1863 a letter to the Hermann paper said the discharged men had fought it "an den Brücken", at the bridges, for "Fünf Vierteljahre", five quarters of a year. In 1890 the special census of Union veterans recorded his disability as deafness. Whether the illness and the deafness are connected is not known.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Company E, 4th Missouri Infantry, return for October 1862 (Fold3 image 239395000), and Hermanner Volksblatt, 16 May 1863, as cited in the research note on the Civil War

  Also: The biography of Leonhard Hegnauer; FamilySearch Full-Text, "CSR cards, 1863 draft list, pension card", Missouri, 1861–1863; 1912–16; image ARK 3:1:3QHJ-N3B2-39SV-4; "Missouri, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch, entry for Leonhard Hegnauer

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• Business 1909 Appleton City, Missouri

  Robert helps run the paper while the editor takes the waters

  In 1909 the Appleton City Journal's ailing editor left his paper in the hands of three young printers, Robert among them. Read the storyClose the story

  In June 1909 the editor of the Appleton City Journal announced that he and his family were leaving for two or three weeks at El Dorado Springs, in the hope that the rest and the water would put "a few pounds of flesh on the bones of the writer, who has reached a point where he must do something to bring about an improvement or go to bed and very likely to the boneyard". The paper would be run by the employees of the mechanical department, "Arthur Hays, Miss Mabelle Reid and Robert Hegnauer". He asked his correspondents for extra news, and promised that when they fell sick, "we'll come out and take care of your pigs, chickens, and milk the cows".

  In it: Robert Lucius Hegnauer

  Source: The El Dorado Springs News, 17 Jun 1909, p. 8 (from the Appleton City Journal)

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• Emigration 1974 Rochester, New York

  Carl, six months old in 1884, lives to ninety

  The baby of the October 1884 crossing grew up at Rochester as Charles Albert Hegnauer and died in 1974, aged ninety. Read the storyClose the story

  The youngest of the Seengen party that landed at New York on 30 October 1884 was Carl, six months old, entered on the list with his mother Louise, 23, and his brother Frederick, 1; his father Rudolph, the blacksmith, had crossed in April. Carl grew up at Rochester as Charles Albert Hegnauer. He registered for the draft in 1917–18 and again on 26 April 1942, when he gave his birth as 8 May 1884, in Switzerland; the 1920 census had put it in New York. When Rudolph died in 1931, Charles administered his estate. He died on 7 December 1974, aged ninety, and was buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester; his wife, Gertrude Kleisley, was buried there in 1979.

  In it: Charles Albert Hegnauer, Gertrude Odelia Kleisley, Rudolph Hegnauer, Louise Thut, Frederick Rudolph Hegnauer

  Source: Find a Grave: Charles Albert Hegnauer (8 May 1884 - 7 Dec 1974), Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester

  Also: Ancestry research, 27 Sep 2026: key links among the American Hegnauers; "United States, Germans to America Index, 1850-1897," database, FamilySearch, entry for Carl Hegnauer; The Times-Union, 1 Apr 1931, p. 34; [Death notice of Rudolph Hegnauer], The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 1 April 1931, p. 34; "United States, Census, 1900," database, FamilySearch, entry for Chas Hagenauer; "United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database, FamilySearch, entry for Charles Albert Hegnauer; "United States, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," database, FamilySearch, entry for Charles Albert Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1920," database, FamilySearch, entry for Charles Hegnauer; FamilySearch Full-Text, "Surrogate's indexes", Monroe Co., 1918–1966; image ARK 3:1:33SQ-GYCC-Z1N; "United States, Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch, entry for Charles Hegnauer; Find a Grave, memorial 145891229, Gertrude Hegnauer (13 Dec 1883 – 16 Jan 1979), Holy Sepulchre Cemetery Rochester, Monroe County, New York; "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007," database, FamilySearch, entry for Charles A Hegnauer; The biography of Rudolph Hegnauer; Other spellings of the name in FamilySearch's historical records

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• Business 1916 Rockville, Missouri

  Leonhard's bank turns twenty-five

  In January 1916 the Rockville paper praised the bank Leonhard now led, while the same page reported him on the sick list. Read the storyClose the story

  The Rockville Booster of 14 January 1916 gave a column to the Bank of Rockville. Established in 1890, its fifty-year charter had "reached the half-way station"; it had paid its shareholders "355 per cent in dividends amounting to $35,500", and "during the dark days of financial depression this bank stood between its customers and disaster, and emerged from the panic stronger and better patronized than ever." Leonhard, a stockholder since 1890, was its president: "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." The same page reported his daughter Mary home from visiting her parents, "who have been on the sick list"; later that month the Appleton City Journal counted him among "the grippe sufferers" able to be around again. In March he swore to the bank's statement as president.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer, Susanna Katharina Hirschi, Mary Christina Hegnauer

  Source: Rockville Booster, 14 Jan 1916, p. 4

  Also: Appleton City Journal, 18 Sep 1890, p. 1; Butler Daily Democrat, 13 Nov 1916, p. 1; Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Hirschi in the papers, 1856–1925; The biography of Mary Christina Hegnauer

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• Court 1919 Rochester, New York

  Caroline, probably Jacob Rudolph's wife, is in the State Hospital, and Jacob is made her committee

  In May 1919 the Supreme Court at Lyons appointed a Jacob Hegnauer of Rochester committee of Caroline Hegnauer, "an incompetent" confined at the Rochester State Hospital; probably Jacob Rudolph and his wife. Read the storyClose the story

  On Saturday, 3 May 1919, Justice S. Nelson Sawyer held a special term of the Supreme Court at Lyons, in Wayne County, and on the motion of the Deputy Attorney General named committees of "incompetent persons". The Rochester Herald printed the list two days later. One entry reads: "Jacob Hegnauer of 90 […] Avenue, Rochester, appointed [committee] of Caroline Hegnauer, an incompetent [confined at the Ro]chester State Hospital". The right edge of the column is blurred, and the street cannot be read. The study takes the two, probably, to be Jacob Rudolph and his German-born wife Caroline, the only Jacob and Caroline Hegnauer known in Rochester, whom the war had caught in Germany in 1914. As her committee Jacob became the guardian of her affairs. The census of January 1920 lists Caroline in the family's household in Rochester. She died there on 4 June 1922, aged fifty-five.

  In it: Caroline Seip, Jacob Rudolph Hegnauer

  Source: The Rochester Herald, 5 May 1919, p. 15

  Also: "Supreme Court at Lyons," The Rochester Herald (Rochester, New York), 5 May 1919, p. 15; "Supreme Court at Lyons," The Rochester Herald (Rochester, New York), 5 May 1919, p. 15; The biography of Jacob Rudolph Hegnauer; Democrat and Chronicle, 6 Oct 1914, p. 18; "Raid on London," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 6 October 1914, p. 18; "Zeppelins Wait for Fog," The Times-Union (Rochester, New York), 6 October 1914, p. 9

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• War 1861 Hermann, Missouri

  Luzius and Leonhard enlist at Hermann for three years

  In the autumn of 1861 Leonhard and then his father Luzius enlisted at Hermann for three years, and the company books, which make them 19 and 42, describe them both. Read the storyClose the story

  On 14 October 1861, two weeks after the Home Guards were disbanded, Leonhard enlisted at Hermann for three years in Company C of the Gasconade County Battalion, U.S. Reserve Corps. On 18 November his father Luzius enlisted there too, in Company D. The descriptive books give a picture of each: Leonhard, entered as 19, five feet five and a half inches, dark complexion, brown eyes, black hair, a farmer born in "Grisson"; Luzius, entered as 42, five feet six inches, dark complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, a farmer born at "Igis Switzerland". In January 1862 their companies became E and F of the 4th Missouri Infantry, whose duty was to guard the Pacific Railroad. Neither man can be credited with a named battle. They were mustered out together at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, on 1 February 1863.

  In it: Luzius Hegnauer, Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Company descriptive book, 4th Missouri Infantry, Lucius Hegnauer, enlisted at Hermann 18 Nov 1861 (NARA M405; Fold3 image 239395003)

  Also: FamilySearch Full-Text, "company descriptive book (4th Mo. Inf.)", Hermann, Mo., 18 Nov 1861; image ARK 3:1:3QHJ-N3B2-7NTM; "Missouri, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch, entry for Lucius Hegnauer; "Missouri, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch, entry for Lucius Hegnauer; FamilySearch Full-Text, "CSR cards, 1863 draft list, pension card", Missouri, 1861–1863; 1912–16; image ARK 3:1:3QHJ-N3B2-39SV-4; "Missouri, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch, entry for Leonhard Hegnauer; "Missouri, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch, entry for Leonhard Hegnauer; The biography of Luzius Hegnauer; The biography of Leonhard Hegnauer; The Hegnauers in the Civil War, and the road west (1856-1869)

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• Family 1915 Prairie City, Missouri

  Sixty Hegnauers sit down to dinner

  The family reunion of August 1915 fed about sixty people at Chris Hegnauer's farm near Prairie City. Read the storyClose the story

  Sunday, 22 August 1915, wrote the Appleton City Journal, "was a day long to be remembered by Mr. and Mrs. L. Hegnauer of this city". The yearly reunion met at the country home of their son Chris near Prairie City, "where Grandpa and Grandma Hegnauer formerly lived", and brought together children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Mrs. Chris Hegnauer and her daughters served dinner to "that crowd of about sixty people", and "there was nothing lacking in quality or quantity of eatables". Two sons could not come: Leonard, from Texas, and Robert, from Minnesota. Martin Hegnauer's family came from Rockville, and relatives from Carthage and Rich Hill.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer, Susanna Katharina Hirschi, Christian Hegnauer, Anna Wirz, Martin Hegnauer, Leonard Hegnauer, Robert Lucius Hegnauer

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 26 Aug 1915, p. 1

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• Emigration 1923 Delaware County, Oklahoma

  The Wilsons leave the Ozark farms for the Grays Harbor mills

  About 1923 James and Lucy Wilson made the longest move of their lives, from the farms of the Missouri–Oklahoma border to the sawmill towns of the Washington coast. Read the storyClose the story

  James Israel Wilson, born in Arkansas in 1882, married Lucy Harris in 1903, and the census of 1910 found him farming his own mortgaged land in Elk River Township, near Noel, Missouri. Between 1915 and 1917 the family moved a few miles west, across the state line, into Delaware County, Oklahoma, and in January 1920 James and Lucy were farming near Bernice with nine children. About 1923, as their death certificates date it, they made the longest move of their lives, to Grays Harbor on the Pacific coast of Washington, where the sawmills of Aberdeen, Hoquiam and Cosmopolis offered steady work. By the census of 1930 James was a labourer in a sawmill, and the family rented a house at Junction for $20 a month. His death certificate calls him an edgerman in a sawmill when he died at Aberdeen on 8 December 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor.

  In it: James Israel Wilson, Lucy M. Harris

  Source: Censuses of 1910-1930 and the death certificates of James and Lucy Wilson, as cited in James's biography

  Also: The biography of Lucy M. Harris; James Israel Wilson and Lucy M. Harris: abstracts of the Ancestry records

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• Wedding 1808 Igis, Graubünden

  Jakob marries Christina Pleisch, three months after his mother's burial

  In October 1808 Jakob Hegnauer of Igis married Christina Pleisch, probably sixteen and baptised at Luzein; their first child was named for his mother, who had been buried that July. Read the storyClose the story

  On 18 October 1808, in the church at Igis, Jakob Hegnauer, baptised in 1783, married Christina Pleisch, the daughter, as her burial of 1862 records, of Leonhard Pleisch and Maria Nett. She was very probably the girl baptised at Luzein, in the Prättigau, on 3 December 1791, and so probably sixteen, not quite seventeen. Jakob's mother had been buried at Igis on 17 July 1808, entered as Ursula Hegnauer Nadig. The couple's first child, baptised on 16 March 1809, was named Ursula after her; she was very probably the infant Ursula buried three days later. Six more children followed, among them Luzius, who took his own family to America in 1856. Christina died at Igis in September 1862, and the Luzein register entered her death too.

  In it: Jakob Hegnauer, Christina Pleisch, Ursula Hegnauer

  Source: Igis and Luzein Reformed registers (FamilySearch index), as cited in Christina Pleisch's biography

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Tschina Pleisch; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Ursula Hegnauer Nadig; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Ursula Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Ursula Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christian Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christina Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Luzius Hegnauer; The biography of Jakob Hegnauer; The biography of Ursula Radig; The biography of Ursula Hegnauer; The biography of Luzius Hegnauer; The direct line in the registers

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• Death 1966 Puyallup, Washington

  Woodrow Wilson takes his own life at Puyallup

  Two months after moving from Aberdeen to Puyallup, Woodrow Wilson, a Second World War veteran, was found dead in his car at his home; the coroner certified suicide. Read the storyClose the story

  Woodrow Elgia Wilson, a chair-factory hand in 1940 and an Army private from 1942 to 1945, left Aberdeen for Pierce County in September 1966, according to his obituary, and his death certificate calls him a millworker at the Weyerhaeuser Company's White River mill at Enumclaw. He died at his home in Puyallup on 2 November 1966, aged forty-nine. The Pierce County coroner certified suicide, by carbon monoxide poisoning, and the Tacoma News Tribune headed its report "Man Found Dead In His Auto". He was found the next afternoon by his wife, Ruth, from whom he was then estranged, and 3 November is the date she gave on the application for his military headstone and the date carved on his stone. He was buried on 8 November in Fern Hill Cemetery, Aberdeen, under the flat government marker, with a Latin cross, that Ruth requested.

  In it: Woodrow Elgia Wilson, Ruth Eileen Lefaive

  Source: Washington death certificate (1966) and the News Tribune, 4 Nov 1966, p. 40, as cited in Woodrow's biography

  Also: The News Tribune, 4 Nov 1966, p. 40; "Man Found Dead In His Auto," The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), 4 November 1966, p. 40; The News Tribune, 7 Nov 1966, p. 42; "Wilson," funeral notice, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), 7 November 1966, p. 42; Woodrow Elzer Wilson: abstracts of the Ancestry records; The biography of Ruth Eileen Lefaive

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• Wedding 1883 Bates County, Missouri

  Barbara marries Robert Kamm at home

  In March 1883 Luzius's youngest daughter, 'of Papinville', married Robert Kamm before a justice of the peace, at the bride's residence. Read the storyClose the story

  Barbara Hegnauer, born in Gasconade County in 1859, was the youngest of Luzius and Margreth's children and the only one born in America. In June 1880, aged twenty, she was keeping house with her mother in Prairie Township, Bates County, in the home of her unmarried brother Christian. On 23 March 1883 the county recorder at Butler issued a marriage licence to Robert Kamm and "Barbrie Hegnauer", both of Papinville, and five days later, on 28 March, a justice of the peace married them "at the residence of the bride". Robert, twenty-six, had been born at Highland, Illinois; the 1900 census gives his parents' birthplace as Switzerland. The couple settled in Pleasant Gap Township, where their first child, Maggie, was born that December; seven more followed.

  In it: Barbara Hegnauer, Robert John Kamm

  Source: Bates County marriage licence and return, 23 and 28 Mar 1883 (FamilySearch Full-Text, machine transcription; the licence read on Ancestry)

  Also: "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbrie Hegnauer; Missouri State Archives; Jefferson City, MO, USA; Missouri Birth Records [Microfilm]; "United States, Census, 1860," database, FamilySearch, entry for Barbara Hegnauer; O00073; Year: 1900; Census Place: Pleasant Gap, Bates, Missouri; Roll: 839; Page: 7; Enumeration District: 0018; The biography of Barbara Hegnauer

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• Business 1901 Salem, Oregon

  Christian supplies firewood to the asylum

  The Oregon insane asylum at Salem bought its wood by tender: "C. Hegnauer", very probably Christian, won 29 cords of the order in 1895, Christian 30 cords in 1899, and in 1901 he bid again. Read the storyClose the story

  The Oregon State Insane Asylum at Salem bought its fuel by tender. In July 1895 the asylum board, as the Capital Journal put it, "Divides Its Orders on a Compromise": the Statesman reported one price, $2 a cord, for every bidder. "C. Hegnauer", very probably Christian, had offered 100 cords and was awarded 29. In May 1899, when the asylum wanted 3,500 cords of big fir for its main buildings, the trustees accepted "Chris. Hegnauer 30 2.45": thirty cords at $2.45. In November 1901 he bid 35 cords of first-growth fir at $2.95, against Will F. Ketchum's 4,000 cords at $2.85 and an offer from M. C. Banfield of Portland of 5,000 cords of slabwood, tested on the dredges in Portland harbour. The board would look into slabwood "before making awards for wood". Whether his was wanted, the papers do not say.

  In it: Christian Hegnauer

  Source: Oregon Statesman (Salem), 17 Nov 1901, p. 7

  Also: Capital Journal, 26 Jul 1895, p. 4; Daily Oregon Statesman, 27 Jul 1895, p. 4; Oregon Statesman, 2 May 1899, p. 6; Weekly Oregon Statesman, 5 May 1899, p. 3; "Wood Bids Awarded," Capital Journal (Salem, Oregon), 26 July 1895, p. 4; [Asylum wood bids], Daily Oregon Statesman (Salem, Oregon), 27 July 1895, p. 4; "Bids for Wood Opened. Asylum Secures Fuel for the Next Year's Use," Oregon Statesman (Salem, Oregon), 2 May 1899, p. 6; [Bids for wood opened], Weekly Oregon Statesman (Salem, Oregon), 5 May 1899, p. 3; "The Opening of Wood Bids for the Insane Asylum Shows Many Proposals," Oregon Statesman (Salem, Oregon), 17 November 1901, p. 7; The biography of Christian Hegnauer

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• Emigration 1944 Tacoma, Washington

  Lotta goes west to Tacoma

  In 1944, at fifty-four, Lotta Hegnauer left Minneapolis for Tacoma, where the city directories of 1945 to 1956 list her as a social worker and a caseworker. Read the storyClose the story

  Lotta D. Hegnauer had directed a relief clothes station in Minneapolis in 1931 and was a home economist there by 1937. In 1944, at fifty-four, she moved to Tacoma, Washington, where, by her obituary, she spent the rest of her life. The 1945 directory lists her as a social worker at 2420 North 21st Street, and by 1949 she was living at Dash Point, a waterfront community northeast of Tacoma. The census of 1950 calls her a children's worker for the Pierce County welfare department, and the 1956 directory a caseworker. Her death certificate names her employer as the Children's Home Society of Washington, which had found homes for orphaned children since 1896, placing them with families rather than in orphanages. Her obituary lists the American Association of Social Workers, the National Retired Teachers' Association and two honour societies, Omicron Nu and Pi Lambda Theta, among her memberships.

  In it: Lotta Alice Donnell

  Source: Tacoma directories (1945-1956), the 1950 census and her obituary (News Tribune, 5 Apr 1973), as cited in Lotta's biography

  Also: The News Tribune, 5 Apr 1973, p. 15; "Lotta Hegnauer," The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), 5 April 1973, p. 15; Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, 4 Oct 1931, p. 9; "Women Work on Clothing," Minneapolis Sunday Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 4 October 1931, p. 9; National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Pierce, Washington; Roll: 2700; Page: 10; Enumeration District: 27-29; "United States, Census, 1950," database, FamilySearch, entry for Lotta D Hegnauer; Lotta Alice Donnell (Mrs. Robert L. Hegnauer): abstracts of the Ancestry records

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• Emigration 1893 Chicago, Illinois

  Leonhard goes to Chicago to take in the fair

  In June 1893 the Prairie City news had rain, green corn, and Leonhard off to the fair in Chicago. Read the storyClose the story

  The Prairie City notes in the Butler Daily Democrat of 6 June 1893 opened: "Plenty of rain." Some of the cornfields, the correspondent went on, were "taking on the national color of Ireland, especially between the rows", and the wheat looked promising if the wet weather did not bring on rust. Then: "Leonard Hegenaur went to Chicago last week to take in the fair." Emil Bartz, the notes added, would go to St. Louis that week "and on to the Fair later in the season". The Bates County Democrat reprinted the column, in the same type, that Thursday. That spring Leonhard's son Leonard graduated from the Appleton City Academy.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer, Leonard Hegnauer

  Source: Butler Daily Democrat, 6 Jun 1893, p. 1

  Also: Bates County Democrat, 8 Jun 1893, p. 8; "Prairie City Notes," Butler Daily Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 6 June 1893, p. 1; "Prairie City Notes," Bates County Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 8 June 1893, p. 8; Appleton City Journal, 1 Jun 1893, p. 3

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• Wedding 1899 Troy, Kansas

  Lizzie Hegnauer, Martin's daughter, marries at the Higby House

  In October 1899 Lizzie Hegnauer of Missouri, Martin's eldest daughter, married Lew W. Johnson at the Higby House in Troy, Kansas. Read the storyClose the story

  On Saturday evening, 14 October 1899, Lizzie Hegnauer and Lew W. Johnson, "both of Missouri", were married at the Higby House in Troy, the seat of Doniphan County, Kansas, by the Rev. Mr. Brink. The Kansas Chief printed: "Hegnauer—Johnson. Married, at the Higby House, on Saturday evening, October 14, by Rev. Mr. Brink, Mr. Lew W. Johnson and Miss Lizzie Hegnauer, both of Missouri." The Troy Times gave it one line, as the wedding of "W. L. Johnson and Lizzie Hegnaner". The bride was the eldest daughter of Leonhard's brother Martin: the Kansas marriage index gives her birth year as 1876, as her censuses do; in September 1908 Martin's daughter was "Mrs. Lizzie Johnson"; and the 1910 census found her a widow of thirty-four on her father's farm in Rockville Township, working as a dressmaker. Why a Missouri couple married at Troy the papers do not say.

  In it: Elizabeth Hegnauer, Lew W. Johnson

  Source: The Kansas Chief (Troy, Kansas), 19 Oct 1899, p. 8

  Also: The Troy Times, 20 Oct 1899, p. 3; "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911," database, FamilySearch, entry for Lizzie Hegnaner; Rockville Booster, 11 Sep 1908, p. 8; The biography of Elizabeth Hegnauer

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• Farm 1884 Kansas City, Missouri

  John, probably Luzius's son, buys a Kansas City lot with thirty-five notes

  In 1884 a John Hegnauer of Kansas City, probably Luzius's eldest son, bought a lot in W. H. Reed's Addition for $750; he and his wife Mary sold it the next spring. Read the storyClose the story

  In 1880 John Hegnauer, Luzius's eldest son and a Union cavalry veteran, was living in Kansas City, Missouri, with his second wife, Mary, like him a native of Switzerland. On 11 August 1884 C. H. Rhodes and his wife Jennie deeded to "John Hegnaner, Kansas City", probably he, lot 4 in block 2 of W. H. Reed's Addition, for $750; the abstract records thirty-five notes to Rhodes. The Kansas City Journal listed the transfer in November. The Hegnauers did not keep it long. On 10 March 1885 John and Mary sold it to Thomas Hurns, and in May the Journal printed "John Hegnauer and wife to Thomas Hurns; part of lot 4, block 2, W H Reed's addition, $750". By 1900 they were at Webb City, in the lead and zinc district, where the census that year calls John a teamster at a lumber yard.

  In it: Johannes Hegnauer, Mary Hegnauer

  Source: Warranty deeds and abstracts, W. H. Reed's Addition, Kansas City, 1884–1885 (FamilySearch Full-Text, machine transcription)

  Also: Kansas City Journal, 27 Nov 1884, p. 7; The Kansas City Times, 27 Nov 1884, p. 7; Kansas City Daily Journal, 15 May 1885, p. 7; "United States, Census, 1880," database, FamilySearch, entry for John Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1880," database, FamilySearch, entry for Mary Hegnauer; Year: 1900; Census Place: Webb Ward 2, Jasper, Missouri; Roll: 866; Page: 10; Enumeration District: 0050; Year: 1900; Census Place: Webb Ward 2, Jasper, Missouri; Roll: 866; Page: 10; Enumeration District: 0050; The biography of Johannes Hegnauer; The biography of Mary

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• Emigration 1924 Igis, Graubünden

  Adolf Georg renounces his Igis citizenship in 1924, the Bürgergemeinde's notes say

  According to the Bürgergemeinde Landquart's notes, Adolf Georg Hegnauer, baptised at St. Gallen in 1882, married in London in 1919 and renounced his citizenship of Igis in 1924. Read the storyClose the story

  Adolf Georg Hegnauer was born in 1882 and baptised at St. Gallen, the son of Georg Hegnauer and Elisabeth Flütsch; his father was probably Georg, born at Igis in 1846, a son of Peter Hegnauer and Anna Berri. In November 1902 the cantonal gazette declared void a lost Heimatschein, a certificate of home citizenship, made out to "Adolf Georg Hegnauer, ausgestellt in Igis, unter Nr. 213", probably his. The Bürgergemeinde Landquart's notes on the old citizen families of Igis say that he married at St. Giles, in London, in 1919, and renounced his Igis citizenship in 1924. The same notes end the Hegnauer entry: "Dieses Bürgergeschlecht ist ausgestorben", this citizen family has died out.

  In it: Adolf Georg Hegnauer

  Source: Bürgergemeinde Landquart, 'Die Igiser Bürgergeschlechter', and the Amtsblatt des Kantons Graubünden, 7 Nov 1902, p. 637, in the study's report on the Graubünden gazette

  Also: The biography of Adolf Georg Hegnauer; The biography of Georg Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Adolf Georg Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Georg Hegnauer; The biography of Peter Hegnauer; The biography of Anna Berri

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• Death 1923 Rich Hill, Missouri

  Barbara Kamm dies of influenza near Rich Hill

  Barbara, the youngest of Luzius's known children and the only one born in America, died of influenza in January 1923. Read the storyClose the story

  Barbara, the youngest of Luzius and Margreth's six known children and the only one born in America, died on Saturday night, 6 January 1923, at her home a mile and a half east of Rich Hill, after an illness of several weeks. Her death certificate gives the cause as influenza and her age as sixty-three; the obituaries say sixty-four. "She was an old resident of the county, having resided here for about forty years, coming here from Gasconade county, Mo.," wrote the Rich Hill Mining Review, and "a most estimable woman, a good mother and neighbor". The Bates County Republican called her "a popular resident of her community where she will be greatly missed". Her funeral was held at the home on the Tuesday afternoon, and she was buried in Green Lawn Cemetery at Rich Hill. She left her husband, Robert Kamm, four daughters and two sons.

  In it: Barbara Hegnauer, Robert John Kamm

  Source: Rich Hill Mining Review, 11 Jan 1923, p. 5

  Also: Bates County Republican, 12 Jan 1923, p. 1; Butler Daily Democrat, 9 Jan 1923, p. 3; Bates County Democrat, 11 Jan 1923, p. 5; The Republican Press, 12 Jan 1923, p. 7; Rich Hill Mining Review, 11 Jan 1923, p. 8; The biography of Barbara Hegnauer

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• Church 1940 Indiana and Ohio

  Robert follows his father into the ministry

  Leonard's elder son, Robert Lawrence, became a minister too, in Indiana and Ohio, and died at Berne, Indiana, at ninety-six. Read the storyClose the story

  Leonard Samuel's elder son, Robert Lawrence Hegnauer, was born at Rockville, Missouri, on 19 June 1915 and became a minister like his father, in Indiana and Ohio. In 1940 he was living at Mulberry, in Clinton County, Indiana, with his wife, Martha Icieola Sigrist, who had been born there in 1916; in 1950 the census found them at Pomeroy, in Meigs County, Ohio. The obituary index that names his father so often names a "Rev. Robert Hegnauer" in some thirty entries, which the study reads in the same way. Martha died on 28 May 2002 at "Swiss Village", the index of her obituary says. Robert died at Berne, Indiana, on 11 May 2012, aged ninety-six, and his obituary is indexed from papers at Fort Wayne and Decatur, Indiana, and Canton and Massillon, Ohio. Both lie in North Canton Cemetery. The great-great-grandson of the emigrant from Igis died at Berne.

  In it: Robert Lawrence Hegnauer, Martha Icieola Sigrist, Leonard Samuel Hegnauer

  Source: The study's report on the Canton family, from Robert's draft card (1940), the 1940 and 1950 censuses, obituary indexes and Find a Grave

  Also: "Indiana, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947," database, FamilySearch, entry for Robert Lawrence Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1940," database, FamilySearch, entry for Robert L Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1940," database, FamilySearch, entry for Martha Hegnauer; "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007," database, FamilySearch, entry for Martha Icieola Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1950," database, FamilySearch, entry for Robert L Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1950," database, FamilySearch, entry for Martha J Hegnauer; "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages, 1980-2015," database, FamilySearch, entry for Martha I Hegnauer; "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages, 1980-2015," database, FamilySearch, entry for Reverend Robert L Hegnauer; "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages, 1980-2015," database, FamilySearch, entry for Reverend Robert L Hegnauer; "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages, 1980-2015," database, FamilySearch, entry for Robert L Hegnauer; "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages, 1980-2015," database, FamilySearch, entry for Robert L Hegnauer; Find a Grave, memorial 171551272, Rev Robert Lawrence Hegnauer (19 Jun 1915 – 11 May 2012), North Canton Cemetery North Canton, Stark County, Ohio; Find a Grave, memorial 171551348, Martha Icieola Sigrist Hegnauer (20 Aug 1916 – 28 May 2002), North Canton Cemetery North Canton, Stark County, Ohio; The biography of Leonard Samuel Hegnauer

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• Death 1936 Columbia, Tennessee

  The Rev. George Donnell dies at his sister's home in Tennessee

  A Presbyterian minister whose family had followed his pastorates from Indiana to Missouri, Minnesota and Wisconsin died in 1936, far from his Minneapolis home. Read the storyClose the story

  George Johnson Donnell, born in Florida in the 1850s, spent his working life as a Presbyterian minister, and his family moved with his pastorates: they were at Brookville, Indiana, in 1900, at Marshall, Missouri, in 1910, where he married his daughter Lotta to Robert Lucius Hegnauer in the family home, and at Claremont, Minnesota, in 1920. His obituary of 1936 recalled that he had served in the Mankato presbytery and as moderator and stated clerk of the La Crosse presbytery, and that his last pastorate was at Neillsville, Wisconsin. About 1925, by Alice's obituary, he and his wife retired to the Minneapolis area, where she died in June 1935. George died on Sunday, 19 July 1936, aged eighty-one, at the home of his sister, Mrs. Annie Galloway, at Columbia, Tennessee. His funeral was set for the house on West 44th Street in Minneapolis, with burial, like Alice's, in Hillside Cemetery.

  In it: George Johnson Donnell, Alice Juanita Johnson, Lotta Alice Donnell

  Source: The Minneapolis Star, 22 Jul 1936, p. 7 ("Rev. Donnell's Rites Thursday"), as cited in George's biography

  Also: The Minneapolis Star, 22 Jul 1936, p. 7; "Rev. Donnell's Rites Thursday," The Minneapolis Star (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 22 July 1936, p. 7; Star Tribune, 15 Jun 1935, p. 16; "Mrs. Alice Donnell," Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 15 June 1935, p. 16; The Marshall Republican, 12 Aug 1910, p. 4; "Hegnauer-Donnell," The Marshall Republican (Marshall, Missouri), 12 August 1910, p. 4; Missouri State Archives; Jefferson City, MO, USA; Missouri Marriage Records [Microfilm]; Year: 1900; Census Place: Brookville, Franklin, Indiana; Roll: 372; Page: 4; Enumeration District: 0020; Year: 1910; Census Place: Marshall Ward 2, Saline, Missouri; Roll: T624_823; Page: 13b; Enumeration District: 0179; FHL microfilm: 1374836; The biography of Alice Juanita Johnson

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• Business 1907 Rockville, Missouri

  The Rockville bank keeps cashing cheques

  During "the present financial stringency" of late 1907, the Bank of Rockville went on "cashing checks and extending accommodation to all". Read the storyClose the story

  In November 1907 the Rockville column of the Appleton City Journal noted that "L. Hegnauer, of Appleton City, and vice-president of the bank of Rockville, was doing business here Wednesday", and added a word on the bank. "The Rockville Bank has been transacting the regular routine of business in the way of cashing checks and extending accommodation to all." Its patrons and depositors, the column said, had been loyal and had endorsed "the action the Bank has taken during the present financial stringency". The bank's statement of February 1908 showed individual deposits of $94,144 on a paid-in capital of $10,000.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 21 Nov 1907, p. 6

  Also: Bates County Record, 29 Feb 1908, p. 2; The Republican Press, 29 Nov 1907, p. 2

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• Death 1916 Carthage, Missouri

  Christina's husband, Sylvester Krattly, dies west of Carthage

  The Swiss farmer who married Leonhard's sister Christina in 1869 died on his farm near Carthage in May 1916, and the Hermann paper remembered him too. Read the storyClose the story

  Sylvester Krattly, the husband of Leonhard's sister Christina, died at his farm three and a half miles west of Carthage, in Jasper County, Missouri, at 2:45 on the morning of Sunday, 14 May 1916, after four weeks' illness. The Carthage Evening Press headed its obituary "Dies at Age of 82"; he was in fact eighty-one. Born in Switzerland in 1834, he had come to America with his parents, in 1846 according to the Hermann paper; they bought a farm near Hermann, and he "married in 1869 Miss Christine Hegnauer, of Gasconade County". They moved to Jasper County in 1872. The Advertiser-Courier of Hermann printed its own obituary of a "Former Resident of This County", noting that two relatives, Peter Danuser and Fritz Oelschlaeger, attended the funeral. Christina and their son Sylvester were his executors.

  In it: Sylvester Krattly, Christina Hegnauer

  Source: Carthage Evening Press, 15 May 1916, p. 8

  Also: The Advertiser-Courier, 24 May 1916, p. 1; The Carthage Press, 18 May 1916, p. 5; The Carthage Democrat, 25 May 1916, p. 7; The biography of Sylvester Krattly; The biography of Christina Hegnauer; "Former Resident of This County Dies at His Home at Carthage: Sylvester Kraettly," The Advertiser-Courier (Hermann, Missouri), 24 May 1916, p. 1

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• War 1863 Columbus and Clinton, Tennessee

  Corporal John is charged 92 cents for a water bridle

  The only remark on John's muster cards for 1863, the year he was made corporal, is the army's bill for a lost water bridle. Read the storyClose the story

  John rose from private to corporal in the spring of 1863: the roll of 28 February still calls him a private, the special muster of 15 April calls him corporal, and he kept the rank to the end of his service. His company, now B of the 4th Missouri Cavalry, spent May 1863 to January 1864 at Columbus and Clinton, Kentucky, and Union City, Tennessee, "always scouting", in the words of its history. He was carried present on every bi-monthly roll that year. The roll of 31 August 1863 carries the only remark on any of his 1863 cards: "Lost one Water bridle 92 cts."

  In it: Johannes Hegnauer

  Source: John's compiled service record, 4th Missouri Cavalry, card for July–August 1863 (Fold3 image 211860520), in the study's card-by-card transcription

  Also: The Hegnauers in the Civil War, and the road west (1856-1869); The biography of Johannes Hegnauer

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• Family 1917 Prairie City, Missouri

  Thirty-five gather at Christian's to see relatives off to the west

  In February 1917 thirty-five relatives and guests met at Christian's home near Prairie City in honour of family members soon to leave for the west. Read the storyClose the story

  The Appleton City Journal of 22 February 1917 reported: "Gottlieb Hirschi and Willie Kamm, of Rockville, attended a big dinner and family reunion at the Chris Hegnauer home near Prairie City Sunday. There were thirty-five relatives and guests assembled and the occasion was in honor of some of the family, who were soon to leave for the west." Gottlieb Hirschi was a brother of Christian's mother, Susanna, widowed the October before. Which of the family were going west, and where, the paper does not say. The family had long gathered at Christian's farm, the old home place where Leonhard and Susanna had lived: the yearly reunion there in August 1915, "a grand meeting of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren", had drawn a crowd of about sixty.

  In it: Christian Hegnauer

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 22 Feb 1917, p. 4

  Also: Appleton City Journal, 26 Aug 1915, p. 1; The Republican Press, 10 Nov 1916, p. 3; Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Hirschi in the papers, 1856–1925; The biography of Susanna Katharina Hirschi

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• Death 1828 Amsoldingen, canton Bern

  Maria, the Küher's wife, dies of consumption

  

  In November 1828 Maria Hirschi, born Stutzmann, "the wife of Peter the Küher", died of consumption at forty-nine in the parish of Amsoldingen. Read the storyClose the story

  On 5 March 1803 the Thierachern register recorded the marriage of "Peter Hirschi aus dem Schangnau" and "Maria Stutzmann von Uebischi". On 16 November 1828 Maria died in the parish of Amsoldingen, and she was buried there on the 19th. The pastor entered her as "Maria Hirschi v. Schangnau, geb. Stutzmann, Peters des Kühers Ehefrau": Maria Hirschi of Schangnau, born Stutzmann, the wife of Peter the Küher, a dairyman and herdsman. As the cause of death he wrote "Auszehrung", consumption, and her age as "49. Jahr". Her son Christian, born in August 1814, was fourteen. Twenty-two years later Peter left for America with Christian's family, among them Christian's daughter Susanna Katharina, who married Leonhard Hegnauer at Highland, Illinois, in 1866.

  In it: Maria Stutzmann, Peter Hirschi

  Source: Amsoldingen burial register, K Amsoldingen 12, p. 41 (Staatsarchiv des Kantons Bern)

  Also: Staatsarchiv des Kantons Bern (StABE), K Thierachern 14, Eherodel 1753-1833, p. 119, entry 2 of 1803 (online PDF image 62 of 130; catalogue https://www.query.sta.be.ch/detail.aspx?ID=233190); Staatsarchiv des Kantons Bern (StABE), K Thierachern 14, Eherodel 1753-1833, p. 119, entry 2 of 1803 (online PDF image 62 of 130; catalogue https://www.query.sta.be.ch/detail.aspx?ID=233190); Staatsarchiv des Kantons Bern (StABE), K Thierachern 8, Taufrodel 1800-1833, p. 170 (online PDF image 88 of 280; catalogue https://www.query.sta.be.ch/detail.aspx?ID=233184); "New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820–1957," database with images, Ancestry.com, manifest of the ship Belmont, Le Havre to New York, arriv; German Evangelical congregation, Highland, Ill., register 1860-1870, marriages of Pfarrer Nicolas Schupbach, p. 363[-364], 1866 no. 2 (Susanna Katharina Hirschi of Amseldingen, Kanton Bern, x Leonhard; The biography of Maria Stutzmann; The biography of Peter Hirschi; The biography of Christian Hirschi Sr.; The biography of Susanna Katharina Hirschi; The Bernese registers: the Hirschi, Stutzmann and Stocker families

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• Farm 1893 Marion County, Oregon

  The "C. Hegnauer road", probably Christian's, comes before the county court

  In 1893-94 a C. Hegnauer, very probably Leonhard's brother Christian, and others petitioned the Marion County court in Oregon for a road that the Salem papers were soon calling the "C. Hegnauer road". Read the storyClose the story

  Leonhard's youngest brother Christian was probably the Christian Hegnauer, labourer, in the Salem directory of 1891. In December 1893 the Marion County court dismissed "without prejudice" a petition "by C. Hagnauer and others for county road near A. Stanton donation land claim". In February 1894 a new petition, "signed by C. Hegnauer and others", was granted. The court's proceedings describe the road: forty feet wide, from the north-east corner of the Stanton claim to Isaac Kays's claim, meeting the Salem and Silverton road. In April the appraisers of the neighbours' damages on what the Statesman called the "C. Hegnauer road" were sent back: they had left out one C. Baltimore's claim. In 1898, when experts audited the county clerk's trust funds and found $3,278.09 short, $3.75 of it belonged to the "C Hegenauer road" account. The papers give only the initial; the petitioner was very probably Christian.

  In it: Christian Hegnauer

  Source: Daily Statesman (Salem), 8 Dec 1893, p. 4

  Also: Capital Journal, 8 Feb 1894, p. 1; Daily Oregon Statesman, 8 Feb 1894, p. 4; Weekly Oregon Statesman, 9 Feb 1894, p. 8; Capital Journal, 8 Mar 1894, p. 1; Daily Oregon Statesman, 8 Mar 1894, p. 4; Weekly Oregon Statesman, 9 Mar 1894, p. 6; Daily Oregon Statesman, 5 Apr 1894, p. 1; Weekly Oregon Statesman, 6 Apr 1894, p. 6; Oregon Statesman, 27 Apr 1894, p. 3; Capital Journal, 14 Jul 1898, p. 4; "Done by the Commissioners: The Second Day's Session of the County Court," Daily Statesman (Salem, Oregon), 8 December 1893, p. 4; "Marion County Court," Capital Journal (Salem, Oregon), 8 February 1894, p. 1; [Marion County court], Daily Oregon Statesman (Salem, Oregon), 8 February 1894, p. 4; [Marion County court], Weekly Oregon Statesman (Salem, Oregon), 9 February 1894, p. 8; "Marion County Court," Capital Journal (Salem, Oregon), 8 March 1894, p. 1; [Marion County court], Daily Oregon Statesman (Salem, Oregon), 8 March 1894, p. 4; [Marion County court], Weekly Oregon Statesman (Salem, Oregon), 9 March 1894, p. 6; "The April Term," Daily Oregon Statesman (Salem, Oregon), 5 April 1894, p. 1; [County court, April term], Weekly Oregon Statesman (Salem, Oregon), 6 April 1894, p. 6; "County Court Proceedings," Oregon Statesman (Salem, Oregon), 27 April 1894, p. 3; "Experts' Report," Capital Journal (Salem, Oregon), 14 July 1898, p. 4; The biography of Christian Hegnauer

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• Emigration 1946 Longview and Carrolls, Washington

  Robert Jr. takes his family west to Longview

  About 1946, by his wife's obituary, the former Navy machinist's mate moved his family from Minneapolis to Cowlitz County, in southwestern Washington, where the 1950 census found him a machinist in the paper industry. Read the storyClose the story

  Robert Lucius Hegnauer Jr. took his family west from Minneapolis to Cowlitz County, in southwestern Washington; his wife Adelaide's obituary dates the move to about 1946. The Kelso–Longview directory of 1948 lists him as a machinist at Longview, a planned city built in the 1920s by the Long-Bell Lumber Company around what was then the largest lumber mill in the world, where Longview Fibre had made kraft paper since 1927. In April 1950 the census found Robert, Adelaide and their eight-year-old son on a place of three acres or more outside the towns, with Robert working as a machinist in the paper industry. The directories of 1957 and 1960 place them at Carrolls, just south of Kelso, and the 1960 edition names his employer, Longview Fibre. In March 1958 he was the only candidate named for director of his district on the ballot of School District No. 118.

  In it: Robert Lucius Hegnauer Jr., Adelaide Louise Curtis, Robert Curtis Hegnauer

  Source: Kelso-Longview directories (1948-1960) and the 1950 census, as cited in Robert Jr.'s biography

  Also: Longview Daily News, 6 Mar 1958, p. 15; "Notice of Biennial School Election," Longview Daily News (Longview, Washington), 6 March 1958, p. 15; Longview Daily News, 21 Apr 1995, p. B2; "Adelaide L. Hegnauer," obituary, Longview Daily News (Longview, Washington), 21 April 1995, p. B2; The biography of Adelaide Louise Curtis; "United States, Census, 1950," database, FamilySearch, entry for Robert Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1950," database, FamilySearch, entry for Adelaide Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1950," database, FamilySearch, entry for Robert Hegnauer; Robert Lucius Hegnauer Jr.: abstracts of the Ancestry records

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• Business 1907 Rockville, Missouri

  The bank has a new building and a burglar-proof safe

  In 1907 the Bank of Rockville, with Leonhard as vice-president, had a new building and probably the best burglar-proof safe in Southwest Missouri. Read the storyClose the story

  In February 1907 the Appleton City Journal printed a write-up of Rockville, and the town's bank had its paragraph: "The banking business of Rockville is represented by the Bank of Rockville and is housed in a new, modern, up-to-date building, with probably the best burglar proof safe to be found in Southwest Missouri." The officers were "J. C. Laughlin, President; L. Hegnauer, Vice-President and W. E. Heyle, Cashier. These gentlemen are too well known to need any introduction at our hands." Leonhard had moved to Appleton City the August before, but he kept going over to Rockville for the bank: in June 1907 he "attended a bank meeting at Rockville Saturday, Mr. Hegnauer being Vice-President".

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 28 Feb 1907, p. 4

  Also: Appleton City Journal, 13 Jun 1907, p. 2; The Republican Press, 21 Jun 1907, p. 2; Appleton City Journal, 30 Aug 1906, p. 3

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• Court 1852 Igis, Graubünden

  In 1852 Rudolph's four fatherless children are on the Igis list of wards

  

  Rudolph Hegnauer of Igis died at thirty-three in 1841, ten weeks before his youngest child was born; in 1852 his four children were on the Igis list of wards. Read the storyClose the story

  Rudolph Hegnauer of Igis died on 29 January 1841, aged thirty-three, seven years after his marriage to Elsbeth Roffler. He left three small children, Jacob, Katharina and Johann Ulrich, and a fourth, Maria, was born on 8 April, ten weeks after his death. On 12 January 1852 a mortgage of 600 gulden, owed to Joh. Michèl, was entered on the land of the "Geschwister Hegnauer de Rudolf", the children of Rudolph: "Wasen im Loch und Lux und Vadelsacker". On 30 June 1852 the four were on the Igis list of persons under guardianship, as "Geschwister Jakob, Joh. Ulr., Catharina und Maria de Rudolf Hegnauer", with Geschworener J. U. Dolf as their Vogt. The mortgage was still on the register when it was revised in 1903.

  In it: Rudolph Hegnauer, Jacob Hegnauer, Katharina Hegnauer, Johann Ulrich Hegnauer, Maria Hegnauer

  Source: Amtsblatt des Kantons Graubünden, 2 Jul 1852, pp. 225-226, and 30 Jan 1903, p. 71 (Staatsarchiv Graubünden), in the study's report on the Graubünden gazette

  Also: Igis, Graubünden: the Hegnauer family from 1715 to the emigrants; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolf Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolph Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Rudolf Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Katharina Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johann Ulrich Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Maria Hegnauer

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• War 1898 Rich Hill, Missouri

  Lieutenant Hegnauer, very probably Leonard, drills the college boys in the street

  In March 1898 "Lieut. Hegnauer" of Rich Hill College, very probably Leonhard's son Leonard, drilled his company in the street while a militia officer from Butler asked how many of the college boys were available as recruits. Read the storyClose the story

  Leonhard's son Leonard left Prairie City for Columbia in September 1893, "where he will attend school". In December 1894 he was home, "slowly recovering from a serious spell of typhoid fever". In February 1896 Governor Stone commissioned "L. Hegenaur" a second lieutenant of the Battalion of State Cadets, the University of Missouri's military department: "Gwinn and Hegenaur are from Bates." Two years later there was a "Lieut. Hegnauer" at Rich Hill College. On 9 March 1898 the Rich Hill Review reported that "Lieut. Wade, of Butler, telephoned Lieut. Hegnauer of the College this morning, asking for the number of recruits available among the College boys for the State Militia." Wade would come next day, and "Lieut. Hegnauer and his company drilled on the street at 4 o'clock this evening." The lieutenant was very probably Leonard; what he did at the college, the item does not say.

  In it: Leonard Hegnauer

  Source: Butler Daily Democrat, 10 Mar 1898, p. 4 (from the Rich Hill Review of 9 Mar)

  Also: Bates County Democrat, 17 Mar 1898; Butler Daily Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 10 March 1898, p. 4; Bates County Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 17 March 1898; Butler Daily Democrat, 14 Sep 1893, p. 1; Bates County Democrat, 14 Sep 1893, p. 5; "Prairie City Items," Butler Daily Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 14 September 1893, p. 1; "Prairie City Items," Bates County Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 14 September 1893, p. 5; Butler Daily Democrat, 6 Dec 1894, p. 3; Bates County Democrat, 6 Dec 1894, p. 4; "Prairie City Items," Butler Daily Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 6 December 1894, p. 3; "Prairie City Items," Bates County Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 6 December 1894, p. 4; Bates County Democrat, 27 Feb 1896, p. 6; [Cadet officers commissioned] Bates County Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 27 February 1896, p. 6; The biography of Leonard Hegnauer

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• War 1890 Pleasant Gap Township, Missouri

  Luzius is granted his pension, the last trace of him yet found

  The pension Luzius claimed at seventy is the last record of him that the study has found. Read the storyClose the story

  In June 1890 the special census of Union veterans found "Lucius Hageneur" at Pleasant Gap, Bates County, a former private of the 4th Missouri Infantry; it gives his enlistment as 15 August 1862, nine months after the true date. On 15 July 1890, at seventy, he applied for an invalid pension for that service, evidently under the new pension act of that June, and certificate no. 638,825 was issued on his claim. On 21 August 1891 the Kansas City Times and the Kansas City Star printed "Luzius Hegnauer" in their lists of Missouri pensions just granted. No later record of him has been found: no death notice, no grave, no estate, and no widow ever claimed his pension.

  In it: Luzius Hegnauer

  Source: Organization index to pension files (NARA T289), Luzius Hegnauer, Co. F, 4th Missouri Infantry: invalid application 831,233, filed 15 Jul 1890, certificate 638,825

  Also: The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Special Schedules of the Eleventh Census (1890) Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War; Series Number: M1; FamilySearch Full-Text, "pension index card", —, 15 Jul 1890; image ARK 3:1:3Q9M-C3S8-3QTN; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Luzius Hegnauer; The Kansas City Times, 21 Aug 1891, p. 2; The Kansas City Star, 21 Aug 1891, p. 6; The biography of Luzius Hegnauer; The deaths of Luzius Hegnauer and Anna Margreth Bernet

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• Wedding 1886 Bates County, Missouri

  Christian, eighteen, marries Anna Wirz

  Leonhard Hegnauer's eldest son married at eighteen, and his bride, a Swiss-born woman, was nearly eight years older than he; the marriage lasted almost fifty-seven years. Read the storyClose the story

  Christian Hegnauer was born in Madison County, Illinois, in 1868; by the county history of 1918, his parents brought him to Bates County, Missouri, as a baby in 1869, crossing the state in ox-drawn wagons. On 15 November 1886, aged eighteen, he married Anna Wirz, a Swiss-born woman nearly eight years older than he; her death certificate of 1943 says she had lived in the Rockville community for sixty-three years. The plat book of 1895 shows a "C. Hegnauer", almost certainly Christian, with 80 acres in Pleasant Gap Township, in the same section as his father's farm. By the census of 1900 they had seven children, and their elder son bore the names of both his grandfathers, Leonhard Hegnauer and Samuel Wirz. By January 1923 they had moved into the town of Rockville. Anna died there on 20 August 1943, after almost fifty-seven years of marriage; Christian lived until 1957.

  In it: Christian Hegnauer, Anna Wirz, Leonard Samuel Hegnauer

  Source: The Bates County marriage record (1886) and Anna's death certificate (1943), as cited in Christian's biography

  Also: Missouri State Archives; Jefferson City, MO, USA; Missouri Marriage Records [Microfilm]; "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christian Hegnauer; Missouri State Board of Health, death certificate no. 27614 (Bates Co., Aug 1943), Anna Hegnaner; Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1975 (image https://www.sos.mo.gov/images/ar; Missouri death certificates: abstracts; The biography of Anna Wirz; Luzius Hegnauer: abstracts of the Ancestry records; Year: 1900; Census Place: Pleasant Gap, Bates, Missouri; Roll: 839; Page: 1; Enumeration District: 0018; The biography of Leonard Samuel Hegnauer; Registration State: Missouri; Registration County: Bates County; Rich Hill Mining Review, 11 Jan 1923, p. 8; "Prairie City Pick-Ups," Rich Hill Mining Review (Rich Hill, Missouri), 11 January 1923, p. 8; Find a Grave, memorial 69271525, Anna Wirtz Hegnauer (17 Sep 1860 – 20 Aug 1943), Prairie City Cemetery Bates County, Missouri; Missouri Division of Health, death certificate, state file no. 57-027445 (image 1957_00027447; Bates Co., 6 Sep 1957), Christian Hegnauer; Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates 1910-197

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• War 1864 St. Louis, Missouri

  John's three years end as the veterans ride after Price

  In the autumn of 1864 John's re-enlisted comrades went after Price's army, while John, his term served, was sent to St. Louis to be mustered out. Read the storyClose the story

  In September 1864 John's company split. "The veterans and recruits of the company went, September 2, 1864, with General Mower", its history says, while "The rest of the company is now encamped near Memphis". The rest were men like John, whose three years were running out. The veterans went on to fight Price's army at the Big Blue and at Mine Creek. John was sent to St. Louis and mustered out as a corporal "for expiration of term": on 26 October 1864 by his last card, where the day is hard to read, or on 25 October, the day of the fight at Mine Creek, by the register of the National Homes. His muster-out roll gives his age as 24 and a $100 bounty still due to him.

  In it: Johannes Hegnauer

  Source: Annual Report of the Adjutant General of Missouri for 1864, p. 170, and John's muster-out cards (Fold3 images 211860512–211860513), as cited in the research note on the Civil War

  Also: John Hegnauer: his Civil War service records (NARA M405); The biography of Johannes Hegnauer; The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC, USA; Historical Register of National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938; Series: M1749

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• Business 1950 Alturas, California

  At sixty-nine, Arthur Curtis runs a laundry in Alturas

  Arthur Curtis was farming in Iowa in 1910 and 1920 and working for the W.P.A. in Minnesota in 1942; in April 1950, at sixty-nine, he was superintendent of a laundry in the far northeast of California. Read the storyClose the story

  Arthur Curtis, born in Indiana in 1880, was farming in Clay County, Iowa, at the censuses of 1910 and 1920; by May 1920 the family was in Chippewa County, Minnesota, where their daughter Adelaide was born. At Maynard in 1940, aged fifty-nine, Arthur had had twenty-five weeks' work the year before as a carpenter on a government construction project, and in 1942, registering in the "old man's" draft at sixty-one, he was working for the W.P.A. at Clara City. The Minneapolis directory of 1944 lists him as a factory worker, with his wife, Hazel. By April 1950 they were at Alturas, the seat of Modoc County, California, where the census recorded Arthur as superintendent of a laundry, working sixty-six hours a week, and Hazel as a counter girl there. By her obituary, Hazel moved on in 1952 to Cowlitz County, Washington, where Adelaide lived; Arthur came west too.

  In it: Arthur Garfield Curtis, Hazel Lucile Cook

  Source: 1950 U.S. census, Alturas, Modoc County, as cited in Arthur's biography

  Also: The biography of Hazel Lucile Cook; The biography of Adelaide Louise Curtis; National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Cowlitz, Washington; Roll: 5599; Page: 30; Enumeration District: 8-19; Adelaide Louise Curtis: abstracts of the Ancestry records; Adelaide Louise Curtis: what other Ancestry members have shared; Washington death certificates: abstracts

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• Business 1916 Rockville, Missouri

  The cashier who saw three presidents out

  By 1916 the Bank of Rockville's cashier had outlasted three of its presidents, Leonhard the last of them. Read the storyClose the story

  In November 1916 the Rockville Booster talked to W. E. Heyle, who had "cast his lot with the Bank of Rockville" more than twenty-five years before and had had "experiences which seldom fall to one cashier". Leonhard Hegnauer, the paper learned, was the third president of the bank to die since Heyle became cashier: "The first president to pass away was Mr. Frederick Fix, next was Mr. Laughlin and at last Mr. Hegnauer." Fred Fix had beaten Leonhard for county judge in 1892 and had been the bank's president, with Leonhard as his vice-president, from 1897. When Fix died in 1901, Leonhard sat on the lodge committee that wrote the resolutions of condolence.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Butler Daily Democrat, 13 Nov 1916, p. 1 (from the Rockville Booster)

  Also: Bates County Democrat, 16 Nov 1916, p. 5; Rich Hill Mining Review, 27 Jun 1901, p. 8; Butler Daily Democrat, 11 Nov 1892, p. 4; Butler Daily Democrat, 12 Oct 1897, p. 4

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• Court 1906 Igis, Graubünden

  The widow Margreth's creditors are called

  

  In January 1906 the gazette called in the creditors of Margreth Hegnauer-Disch, a widow who had died at Igis the October before, probably the widow of Luzius's brother Jakob. Read the storyClose the story

  In March 1874 "Jakob Hegnauer de Jakob", probably Luzius's younger brother Jakob, owed the Igis poor board, the Armenbehörde, 700 francs, secured on his house, stable and yard in Igis and 87 Ruthen of the Luxbünte. In 1875 Luzius's brother, a widower since 1869, married Margreth Disch, probably the Margreth baptised at Schiers in 1833, and in January 1877 she gave birth to a daughter, Katharina. On 12 January 1906 the cantonal gazette carried a private call to the creditors of "die im Oktober 1905 in Igis verstorbenen Witfrau Margreth Hegnauer-Disch sel.", the widow Margreth Hegnauer-Disch, who had died at Igis in October 1905: probably Jakob's widow. It was signed at Igis by Jos. Martin Gartmann-Hegnauer. In July 1906 the poor board's mortgage of 1874 was cancelled.

  In it: Margreth Disch, Jakob Hegnauer

  Source: Amtsblatt des Kantons Graubünden, 12 Jan 1906, p. 30, with 25 Aug 1905, p. 558, and 27 Jul 1906, p. 428 (Staatsarchiv Graubünden), in the study's report on the Graubünden gazette

  Also: The biography of Jakob Hegnauer; The biography of Margreth Disch; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jacob Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Margareth Disch; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Katharina Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Katharina Hegnauer-Spiess

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• Death 1937 Aberdeen, Washington

  Roy Wilson dies at sixteen of bronchopneumonia

  According to his death certificate, the youngest of James and Lucy Wilson's ten children had had a chronic lung disease since early childhood; in February 1937 bronchopneumonia ended his life at sixteen. Read the storyClose the story

  Roy Kenneth Wilson, the tenth and youngest child of James and Lucy Wilson, was born at Bernice, Oklahoma, on 12 September 1920, and grew up on Grays Harbor, Washington, where the family moved in the early 1920s. In 1930, aged nine, he was the youngest of six children still at home at Junction, in Grays Harbor County. His death certificate records a chronic lung disease, bronchiectasis, dating from early childhood, and an Aberdeen doctor, Harry C. Watkins, attending him from April 1935. In February 1937 he came down with bronchopneumonia, and he died at home, 1110 West Perry Street, on the morning of 4 February 1937, aged sixteen; his father gave the details for the certificate. Four days later he was buried in Fern Hill Cemetery, Aberdeen, where his mother was buried in 1940 and his father in 1941.

  In it: Roy Kenneth Wilson, James Israel Wilson, Lucy M. Harris

  Source: Washington death certificate of Roy Kenneth Wilson (1937), as cited in Roy's biography

  Also: Washington death certificates: abstracts; James Israel Wilson and Lucy M. Harris: abstracts of the Ancestry records; The biography of James Israel Wilson; The biography of Lucy M. Harris

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• Wedding 1901 Iroquois County, Illinois

  Leonard marries, and the Rich Hill Tribune approves

  Leonard married Clara Edith Baker in Iroquois County, Illinois, on Christmas Eve 1901, and the Rich Hill Tribune answered the printed announcement with a column of praise. Read the storyClose the story

  On 2 January 1902 the Rich Hill Tribune acknowledged "a neatly printed announcement": "Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Baker announce the marriage of their daughter, Clara Edith, to Leonard Hegnauer, Tuesday, December twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and one, Onarga, Illinois." The paper answered at length. "Prof. Hegnauer", it said, had "abandoned bachelorhood and joined the host of benedicts who have cheerfully taken upon themselves the bondage of matrimonial servitude", for "a man is only half a man until he is married". Then, more soberly: "Leonard Hegnauer is one of the noblest and best young men that ever went out from one of Bates county's best homes." Leonhard's son had been teaching at Onarga since at least September 1900. Two indexes of the Iroquois County marriage register place the wedding at Watseka, the county seat; the announcement names only Onarga, where the couple would be "at home after January first".

  In it: Leonard Hegnauer, Clara Edith Baker

  Source: The Rich Hill Tribune, 2 Jan 1902, p. 1

  Also: "Hegnauer—Baker," The Rich Hill Tribune (Rich Hill, Missouri), 2 January 1902, p. 1; "Hegnauer—Baker," The Rich Hill Tribune (Rich Hill, Missouri), 2 January 1902, p. 1; The biography of Leonard Hegnauer; Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Hirschi in the papers, 1856–1925

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• Wedding 1886 Butler, Missouri

  Christian and Elizabeth marry at Butler, with her father's consent

  In 1886 Christian, 35, married Elizabeth Stadler, who in 1880 was probably the Eliza living next door, before the probate judge on the day they took out the licence. Read the storyClose the story

  In June 1880 Christian Hegnauer, a bachelor farmer, was the head of a household in Prairie Township, Bates County, with his aged parents and his sister Barbara. Next door lived Rudolf Stadler, a Swiss-born farmer of 40, probably the father of Eliza, 15, who was in his household; by her later census answers she had come from Switzerland in 1879. On 25 March 1886 Christian and Elizabeth Stadler, both "of Pappinville", took out a licence at the county seat, Butler, and were married there the same day by the probate judge. The record notes: "Her Father appears and gives his consent." Christian was 35. About five years later the couple moved to Oregon. They had no children, and were married for nearly forty-nine years.

  In it: Christian Hegnauer, Elizabeth Stadler

  Source: Bates County marriage licence record, 25 Mar 1886 (FamilySearch index; the licence read on Ancestry)

  Also: Missouri State Archives; Jefferson City, MO, USA; Missouri Marriage Records [Microfilm]; Missouri, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1851-1900; O00060; Year: 1900; Census Place: Englewood, Marion, Oregon; Roll: 1348; Page: 14; Enumeration District: 0143; "United States, Census, 1900," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elizabeth Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1910," database, FamilySearch, entry for Lizzie Hegnauer; Oregon State Archives; Salem, Oregon; Oregon, Death Records, 1864-1967; The biography of Christian Hegnauer; The biography of Elizabeth Stadler

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• Wedding 1833 Thun, canton Bern

  Christian Hirschi, Küher, marries Magdalena Stocker at Thun

  

  In October 1833 a young dairyman of Reutigen married Magdalena Stocker at Thun, he with his father's consent and she with her guardian's. Read the storyClose the story

  The banns of Christian Hirschi of Schangnau, Peter's son, a Küher, or dairyman, at Reutigen, and Magdalena Stocker, daughter of Hans, of Boltigen, were read on 29 September and on 6 and 13 October 1833, and on 26 October they were married at Thun. Schangnau, in the Emmental, copied the marriage into its own register with the particulars from the couple's certificates. Christian had been baptised at Thierachern on 28 August 1814 and admitted to communion at Amsoldingen in 1831, and he married "mit Einwillig[ung] d. Vaters", with his father's consent. Magdalena, baptised on 18 December 1814 and admitted at Steffisburg in 1831, married with the consent of her Vogt, her guardian. Their daughter Susanna Katharina, born in 1846, married Leonhard Hegnauer at Highland, Illinois, in 1866.

  In it: Christian Hirschi Sr., Magdalena Stocker

  Source: Schangnau marriage register, K Schangnau 13, p. 13 (Staatsarchiv des Kantons Bern)

  Also: Staatsarchiv des Kantons Bern (StABE), K Reutigen 7, Eherodel 1827-1875, p. 19, no. 15 of 1833 (online PDF image 12 of 102; catalogue https://www.query.sta.be.ch/detail.aspx?ID=230825); Staatsarchiv des Kantons Bern (StABE), K Schangnau 13, Eherodel 1831-1857, p. 13, first entry of the page (online PDF image 8 of 146; catalogue https://www.query.sta.be.ch/detail.aspx?ID=423422); Staatsarchiv des Kantons Bern (StABE), K Thierachern 8, Taufrodel 1800-1833, p. 170 (online PDF image 88 of 280; catalogue https://www.query.sta.be.ch/detail.aspx?ID=233184); Staatsarchiv des Kantons Bern (StABE), K Amsoldingen 5, Taufrodel 1832-1862, p. 167, no. 16 of 1846 (online PDF image 85 of 187; catalogue https://www.query.sta.be.ch/detail.aspx?ID=241384); German Evangelical congregation, Highland, Ill., register 1860-1870, marriages of Pfarrer Nicolas Schupbach, p. 363[-364], 1866 no. 2 (Susanna Katharina Hirschi of Amseldingen, Kanton Bern, x Leonhard; The biography of Christian Hirschi Sr.; The biography of Magdalena Stocker; The biography of Susanna Katharina Hirschi; The Bernese registers: the Hirschi, Stutzmann and Stocker families

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• Emigration 1932 Joliet, Illinois

  Widowed in the Depression, Margaret keeps the family going

  Left with six children when her husband died in 1932, Margaret Worek was washing dishes by the census of 1940, and in 1941, after thirty-three years in America as an alien, she began the process of becoming a citizen. Read the storyClose the story

  Martin Worek died at Joliet, Illinois, on 27 September 1932, in the third year of the Depression, aged about fifty-one. The death index calls him a labourer; he was buried three days later in Holy Cross Cemetery. His widow, Margaret, born Małgorzata Senkowska in the Galician village of Wesoła, was forty-six, with six children, the youngest seven. In 1940 she owned a house at 1109 Harrison Street, valued at $2,000, and the census recorded her as a dishwasher who had found twelve weeks' work in 1939 and earned sixty dollars. Her sons Stanley and Andrew were at home, and Joseph, eighteen, was in the Civilian Conservation Corps. A note of April 1941 on her line of the 1907 passenger list shows that, after thirty-three years in America as an alien, she had begun the process of becoming a citizen, and the census of 1950 records her as naturalised.

  In it: Margaret Senkowska, Martin Worek, Stanley Worek, Andrew Worek, Joseph Worek

  Source: 1940 U.S. census and the naturalization index card of Malgozata Worek, as cited in Margaret's biography

  Also: The biography of Martin Worek; Martin Worek and Margaret (Margarita/Małgorzata) Senkowska: abstracts of the Ancestry records; Mary Ann Worek: abstracts of the Ancestry records

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• Wedding 1907 Prairie City, Missouri

  Clara marries at home, to Mrs. Hirschi's wedding march

  Leonhard's granddaughter Clara married Walter Swezy at her parents' home in December 1907; afterwards the couple were photographed "under the wedding bell" and the whole company in the yard. Read the storyClose the story

  Christian and Anna Hegnauer's daughter Clara married Walter F. Swezy at her parents' home in December 1907. The Rockville column of the Appleton City Journal told the day: the ceremony at 11:30 on Wednesday, 18 December, at Prairie City, Rev. Fisher officiating; the wedding march played by Mrs. Garfield Hirschi, of Oklahoma City; for attendants "Misses Alma Hirschi and Agnes Gench and Leonard and Robt. Hegnauer"; "A splendid dinner was served at 12 o'clock. After which the bride and groom stood under the wedding bell and had their pictures taken and the whole company stood out in the yard and had pictures taken." The Appleton City Tribune, reprinted in the Butler paper, had the marriage "at high noon on Wednesday", with the march played by "Mrs. Hirschi", and called the bride "a granddaughter of our fellow townsman, Mr. L. Hegnauer". The Papinville column put it on Thursday, the 19th.

  In it: Clara Hegnauer, Walter F. Swezy, Christian Hegnauer, Anna Wirz, Leonhard Hegnauer, Susanna Katharina Hirschi

  Source: The Republican Press (Butler), 27 Dec 1907, p. 2 (from the Appleton City Tribune)

  Also: Appleton City Journal, 26 Dec 1907, p. 6; The Republican Press, 27 Dec 1907, p. 8; "Married at Rockville," The Republican Press (Butler, Missouri), 27 December 1907, p. 2, credited to the Appleton City Tribune; "Married at Rockville," The Republican Press (Butler, Missouri), 27 December 1907, p. 2, credited to the Appleton City Tribune; "Married at Rockville," The Republican Press (Butler, Missouri), 27 December 1907, p. 2, credited to the Appleton City Tribune; "Married at Rockville," The Republican Press (Butler, Missouri), 27 December 1907, p. 2, credited to the Appleton City Tribune; "Married at Rockville," The Republican Press (Butler, Missouri), 27 December 1907, p. 2, credited to the Appleton City Tribune; Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 26 December 1907, p. 6; Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 26 December 1907, p. 6; The Republican Press (Butler, Missouri), 27 December 1907, p. 8, Papinville column; The Republican Press (Butler, Missouri), 27 December 1907, p. 8, Papinville column; Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 26 December 1907, p. 6; Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Hirschi in the papers, 1856–1925

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• Death 1919 Spokane, Nebraska

  James Cook is taken home to Nebraska

  After James Harrison Cook died at Spokane in 1919, his body was taken back to Nebraska, with his widow and his mother, for burial. Read the storyClose the story

  James Harrison Cook was born in Otoe County, Nebraska, in 1865. His obituary in the Nemaha County Republican of Auburn, Nebraska, headed "Died in Washington", says that he had farmed in Nebraska and then been in business at Julian, and that about eight years before his death he moved his family to Spokane, Washington, where he was in the real estate business. He died at his home there on the morning of 1 November 1919, aged fifty-four; his death certificate gives pulmonary tuberculosis, of six months' standing. After a service at the house, the body was taken back to Nebraska with his mother and his widow, Addie; the funeral was held in the Methodist Episcopal church at Julian, and he was buried in the Camp Creek cemetery. He left his wife, five sons and his daughters, among them "Mrs. Curtis of Spencer, Iowa".

  In it: James Harrison Cook, Adelaide M. Haywood, Hazel Lucile Cook

  Source: Nemaha County Republican (Auburn, Nebraska), 13 Nov 1919, p. 3

  Also: The biography of James Harrison Cook

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• Death 1829 Igis, Graubünden

  Two of Elisabeth's children are buried in one July week

  In July 1829 Elisabeth Riedberger, born Hegnauer, then forty-four, had a daughter baptised, and within the week two of her children were buried. Read the storyClose the story

  Elisabeth Hegnauer, a younger sister of Nutt and Jakob, married Johannes Riedberger in the church at Igis in March 1807 and brought up a family there. In July 1829, when she was forty-four, a daughter was baptised on the 21st and named Elisabeth after her. On 23 July a child of Johannes and Elisabeth whose name the index does not give was buried, and on 26 July little Elisabeth was buried too, five days after her baptism. Elisabeth lived almost thirty years more. She died at Igis on 3 January 1858, aged seventy-two, and the register of her burial, written more than seventy years after her baptism, still named her parents, Christian and Ursula.

  In it: Elisabeth Hegnauer

  Source: Igis Reformed parish registers (FamilySearch index), as cited in Elisabeth Hegnauer's biography

  Also: "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elisabeth Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elisabeth Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elisabeth Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Elisabeth Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Lisabeth Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christian Hegnauer; The biography of Johannes Riedberger; The biography of Nutt Hegnauer; The biography of Jakob Hegnauer

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• Death 1937 West Dolan Township, Missouri

  Ella is carried home to lie beside Lige

  Ella outlived Lige by twenty-four years and married again, but when she died in 1937, far to the north in Cass County, Missouri, she was taken back to be buried beside him. Read the storyClose the story

  Sarah Ellen Chandler, always called Ella, was forty-nine when her husband, Lige Wilson, died of consumption near Noel, Missouri, in 1912. For a time she lived with her daughter Bertha's family: in January 1920 she was in the Gatton household on Rocky Dell Road at Gravette, Arkansas, among five grandchildren. On 12 April 1927, at sixty-four, she married Frank Phillips of Sulphur Springs before a justice of the peace at Noel. By the end of her life she was living far to the north, in Cass County, Missouri, south of Kansas City, and there she died on 6 January 1937, aged seventy-three, of an intestinal obstruction brought on by gall bladder disease; her death certificate calls her Frank's widow. An undertaker from Cleveland, Missouri, took her back to Sulphur Springs, and she was buried in the Butler Creek Cemetery, where Lige lay.

  In it: Sarah Ellen Chandler, Elijah Daniel Wilson, Frank Phillips, Bertha Ellen Wilson

  Source: Missouri death certificate of Sarah Ellen Phillips (1937), as cited in Ella's biography

  Also: The Pineville Herald, 6 Dec 1912, p. 1; "County Correspondence," The Pineville Herald (Pineville, Missouri), 6 December 1912, p. 1, Noel and Butler Creek columns; The biography of Elijah Daniel Wilson; The biography of Bertha Ellen Wilson; The biography of Frank Phillips; Elijah Daniel Wilson and Sarah Ellen "Ella" Chandler: abstracts of the Ancestry records

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• Family 1911 Urbana, Illinois

  Lotta looks for the students' wives

  At Urbana in 1911 the Dames' Club asked every student's wife to send her name to Mrs. Robert L. Hegnauer. Read the storyClose the story

  In October 1911 the Daily Illini announced a meeting of the Dames' Club at the home of Mrs. A. Heck in Urbana, with "a special invitation ... to all wives of students in the University". There was a difficulty: "Owing to the new method of registration, it is a difficult task to locate the married students." All ladies who were wives of students were therefore asked to send their names and addresses to Mrs. Robert L. Hegnauer, 1111 West Stoughton Street. Lotta had married Robert, a student at the university, in August 1910.

  In it: Lotta Alice Donnell, Robert Lucius Hegnauer

  Source: The Daily Illini, 17 Oct 1911, p. 4

  Also: "Dames' Club Meeting," The Daily Illini (Urbana, Illinois), 17 October 1911, p. 4; The Marshall Republican, 12 Aug 1910, p. 4

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• Farm 1910 Salem, Oregon

  Christian sells for $4,000 the fruit land he bought for $500

  In 1899 Christian bought 37 acres of the Dorrance Fruit Farms in Marion County, Oregon, for $500; in 1910, homesteading in central Oregon, he and Elizabeth sold them for $4,000. Read the storyClose the story

  Among the deeds filed at the Marion County recorder's office in Salem, Oregon, on 28 March 1899 was one from the First National Bank of Salem to Christian Hegnauer, for "lots 1, 2, 3 and 13, of the Dorrance Fruit farms, containing in all, 37.43 acres". The price was $500. The Oregon Statesman printed it the next morning, under a report on a consignment of hops. The 1900 census found Christian and Elizabeth on the Salem and Silverton road, owning their farm with a mortgage, and the county's indexes record mortgages by the couple in 1899 and 1905. By May 1910 they were farming a homestead in Crook County, and by a deed of 25 July, acknowledged there, they sold the four lots to J. R. and Elizabeth Worden. The Daily Oregon Statesman of 19 October gave the price: "$4000", eight times what Christian had paid.

  In it: Christian Hegnauer, Elizabeth Stadler

  Source: Daily Oregon Statesman (Salem), 19 Oct 1910, p. 6

  Also: Oregon Statesman, 29 Mar 1899, p. 6; [Real estate transfers], Oregon Statesman (Salem, Oregon), 29 March 1899, p. 6; [Real estate transfers], Daily Oregon Statesman (Salem, Oregon), 19 October 1910, p. 6; [Real estate transfers], Daily Oregon Statesman (Salem, Oregon), 19 October 1910, p. 6; FamilySearch Full-Text, "deeds, mortgages, indexes", Marion Co., Ore., 1893–1915; image ARK 3:1:33S7-9YQM-3PT8; Year: 1900; Census Place: Englewood, Marion, Oregon; Roll: 1348; Page: 14; Enumeration District: 0143; Year: 1910; Census Place: Kutcher, Crook, Oregon; Roll: T624_1279; Page: 7a; Enumeration District: 0053; FHL microfilm: 1375292; The biography of Christian Hegnauer; The biography of Elizabeth Stadler

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• Runaway 1917 Missouri (place not stated)

  The mules of Leonard Hegnauer, probably the grandson, run away

  In February 1917 the Appleton City Journal reported that Leonard Hegnauer's team of mules had run away; this Leonard was very probably Leonhard's grandson, Leonard Samuel. Read the storyClose the story

  The front page of the Appleton City Journal of 22 February 1917 carried the line: "Leonard Hegnauer's team of mules ran away." The Leonard of 1917 was very probably Leonhard's grandson, Leonard Samuel, the elder son of Christian. He was then twenty-five; his draft registration of that year describes him as married, and the 1920 census found him in Prairie Township, Bates County. His uncle Leonard had left the county long before, and his grandfather had died the autumn before. The report, as the study has it, gives nothing more: not where the mules bolted, what they were pulling, or whether anyone was hurt. The same issue told of a big family dinner at his father's home near Prairie City, in honour of relatives who were soon to leave for the west.

  In it: Leonard Samuel Hegnauer

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 22 Feb 1917, p. 1, as noted in Leonard Samuel's biography (research notes)

  Also: Leonhard Hegnauer: abstracts of the Ancestry records; Appleton City Journal, 22 Feb 1917, p. 4; Registration State: Missouri; Registration County: Bates County; "United States, Census, 1920," database, FamilySearch, entry for Leonard L Hegnauer; The biography of Leonard Hegnauer; The Republican Press, 10 Nov 1916, p. 3

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• War 1862 Hermann, Missouri

  Freedom seekers come under the protection of Leonhard's captain

  In November 1862 people escaping slavery on Loutre Island came into the lines of the 4th Missouri Infantry and placed themselves under the protection of the captain of Leonhard's company. Read the storyClose the story

  In November 1862 enslaved people escaping from Loutre Island, across the Missouri River, "placed themselves under the protection of Capt. Mundweller" within the lines of the 4th Missouri Infantry. Captain Balthasar Mundwiller commanded Company E, Leonhard's company. Four of the freedom seekers were jailed at Hermann on Tuesday 25 November; at about nine that evening they were freed from the county jail by C. C. Manwaring, acting as provost marshal, and Hermann's German townspeople. How many escaped in all is not recorded. Nor is Leonhard's part: he had been in hospital in October and was still marked sick at the end of December, so whether he saw any of it is unknown.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: C. C. Manwaring to Gen. Curtis, 26 Nov 1862, quoted by the House Divided Project (2020), as cited in the research note on the Civil War

  Also: FamilySearch Full-Text, "CSR cards, 1863 draft list, pension card", Missouri, 1861–1863; 1912–16; image ARK 3:1:3QHJ-N3B2-39SV-4; The biography of Leonhard Hegnauer

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• Farm 1915 Bavaria, Texas (as the directory prints it)

  The 1916 directory has Leonard managing a plantation in Texas

  The University of Illinois directory of 1916 lists the agronomist Leonard Hegnauer as manager of a plantation in Texas, and the report of the family reunion of August 1915 calls him "Leonard, of Texas". Read the storyClose the story

  Leonard Hegnauer, born in Bates County, Missouri, in 1872, took an A.B. at the University of Kansas in 1900 and a B.S. in agriculture at the University of Illinois, whose directory of 1916 sums up what followed: its College of Agriculture and experiment station from 1906 to 1910, the Washington agricultural college in 1910–11, and the Illinois experiment station again from 1911 to 1914. It then lists him as "Mgr Bavaria Valley Plantation Bavaria Tex". The Appleton City Journal's report of the Hegnauer family reunion of August 1915 agrees: one of the two sons who could not come was "Leonard, of Texas". When his father died in November 1916, the Rockville Booster's obituary called Leonard "a resident of Washington". The censuses of 1920 to 1940 find him at Pullman, and his death certificate of 1963 calls him a retired extension agronomist of Washington State University.

  In it: Leonard Hegnauer

  Source: University of Illinois Directory (1916), p. 292, as transcribed in the survey of Robert Lucius Hegnauer's Ancestry records

  Also: Appleton City Journal, 26 Aug 1915, p. 1; "Hegnauer Family Reunion," Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 26 August 1915, p. 1; The biography of Leonard Hegnauer; The Republican Press, 10 Nov 1916, p. 3; "Gone to His Reward," The Republican Press (Butler, Missouri), 10 November 1916, p. 3, credited to the Rockville Booster; "United States, Census, 1920," database, FamilySearch, entry for Lonard Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1940," database, FamilySearch, entry for Lennard Hegnauer; Washington death certificates: abstracts; "Washington, County Death Registers, 1881-1979," database, FamilySearch, entry for Leonard Hegnauer

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• War 1861 Hunter's Farm, Missouri

  John's company brings in four prisoners and four horses

  Eight days after John was mustered in at Bird's Point in 1861, his company came back from Hunter's Farm with four prisoners and four horses; whether John rode with it is not recorded. Read the storyClose the story

  In August 1861 John enrolled at Camp Benton in St. Louis in Captain Ernest Pfaff's company of Missouri Mounted Volunteers, soon Company A of the Benton Hussars. On 18 September the company was mustered into federal service at Bird's Point, across the Mississippi from Cairo; the roll gives his age as 20. Eight days later a squadron from Norfolk, a few miles below Bird's Point, surprised part of Jeff Thompson's force at Hunter's Farm near Belmont, and the report records that "Captain Langen's company, and Captain Pfaff's company, returned at 5 o'clock p.m., with 4 prisoners and 4 horses." John was with the company at Bird's Point on 18 September and present at the muster of 31 October; whether he rode out that day is not recorded.

  In it: Johannes Hegnauer

  Source: Official Records, Series I, vol. 3, pp. 197–198, and John's muster-in roll, Bird's Point, 18 Sep 1861 (Fold3 image 215629973), as cited in the research note on the Civil War

  Also: John Hegnauer: his Civil War service records (NARA M405); The biography of Johannes Hegnauer

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• Business 1889 Chicago, Illinois

  Dr. Nutin practises in Chicago

  From 1889 to 1895 the Chicago directories list 'Hegnauer Nutin, physician', probably Nutt of Igis; a Nutin Hegnauer, 63, died there in 1897. Read the storyClose the story

  The Chicago city directories list "Hegnauer Nutin, physician, 9 Rees" in 1889–90, and the same address in 1891. By 1892–93 he had moved to North Western Avenue, and in 1894–95 he was at 212 West Lake Street. In August 1891 the Chicago Tribune quoted "Dr. Nutin Hegnauer of No. 9 Rees street" at length on the death of a patient. On 8 July 1897 a Nutin Hegnauer, aged 63, born in Switzerland and married, probably the doctor, died at Chicago; the county index misreads him as "Untin". He was buried in Forest Home Cemetery three days later. His name and age fit Nutt, the eldest son of Peter Hegnauer of Igis, born on 30 March 1834, whose brother Christian was a printer in Chicago in 1883–84, and the study takes the doctor, probably, to be Nutt.

  In it: Nutt Hegnauer

  Source: Chicago city directories, lists of physicians, 1889–1895 (FamilySearch Full-Text, machine transcription)

  Also: "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998," database, FamilySearch, entry for Untin Hegnauer; "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998," database, FamilySearch, entry for Untin Hegnauer; The Inter Ocean, 24 Aug 1891; Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug 1891, p. 3; FamilySearch Full-Text, "city directory", Chicago, 1883–84; image ARK 3:1:3QS7-89DX-CFT4; The biography of Nutt Hegnauer; Ancestry research, 27 Sep 2026: key links among the American Hegnauers; Illinois: Chicago (Cook County), Madison, Iroquois and Clinton Counties; "Was It Hydrophobia?," Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), 24 August 1891, p. 3; The Inter Ocean (Chicago, Illinois), 24 August 1891

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• Farm 1920 Pleasant Gap Township, Missouri

  Katie Link, widowed in 1916, runs the farm for twenty years

  Widowed in 1916 with seven children, Katie Link was running the family farm in Pleasant Gap Township when the census came in 1920, and at sixty-two she was still the farmer at the census of 1940. Read the storyClose the story

  Katherine Susanna Hegnauer, known as Katie, was born in Bates County in 1877, a daughter of the Swiss settlers Leonhard and Susanna Hegnauer. In October 1895 she and Joseph M. Link took out a marriage licence, and by June 1900 they were farming in Pleasant Gap Township, close to her sister Mary's family. Joseph died at Rich Hill in September 1916, and in January 1920 the census found Katherine a widow and the head of the household, running the farm with all seven children at home. In 1930 six of the children were still with her, and in 1940, at sixty-two, she was still the farmer, with four grown children at home. She died at the Ellett Memorial Hospital in Appleton City on 5 April 1961, aged eighty-three, and was buried in the Reform Cemetery beside the German Reformed church north of Prairie City, where her parents lie.

  In it: Katherine Susanna Hegnauer, Joseph M. Link

  Source: U.S. censuses of 1920, 1930 and 1940, Pleasant Gap Township, as cited in Katie's biography

  Also: Appleton City Journal, 28 Sep 1916, p. 1; "Death of Joe Link," Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 28 September 1916, p. 1; Butler Daily Democrat, 23 Oct 1895, p. 4; [Marriage licences], Butler Daily Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 23 October 1895, p. 4; "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991," database, FamilySearch, entry for Katie S Hegnauer; Year: 1900; Census Place: Pleasant Gap, Bates, Missouri; Roll: 839; Page: 1; Enumeration District: 0018; Year: 1920; Census Place: Pleasant Gap, Bates, Missouri; Roll: T625_905; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 19; Year: 1930; Census Place: Pleasant Gap, Bates, Missouri; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 0024; FHL microfilm: 2340911; Year: 1940; Census Place: Pleasant Gap, Bates, Missouri; Roll: m-t0627-02084; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 7-25; Find a Grave, memorial 55639179, Leonhard Hegnauer (25 Apr 1843 – 31 Oct 1916), Reform Cemetery Pleasant Gap, Bates County, Missouri; Find a Grave, memorial 56820862, Susanna Katharina Hirschi Hegnauer (15 May 1846 – 12 Feb 1918), Reform Cemetery Pleasant Gap, Bates County, Missouri

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• Family 1922 Wells, Minnesota

  Lucius entertains the first grade

  In 1922 the Wells school notes recorded a birthday party given by six-year-old Lucius Hegnauer. Read the storyClose the story

  The school notes of The Forum-Advocate of Wells, Minnesota, for 2 February 1922 ran from room to room. The kindergarten was making Sunbonnet Baby and Circus booklets; the second grade was building a doll house that "gives promise of being unusual in its line"; and "the First Grade was entertained by Lucius Hegnauer who had a birthday party on Wednesday". Lucius was Robert Lucius Hegnauer Jr., the son of Robert and Lotta, who had turned six in January.

  In it: Robert Lucius Hegnauer Jr., Robert Lucius Hegnauer, Lotta Alice Donnell

  Source: The Forum-Advocate, 2 Feb 1922, p. 8

  Also: The biography of Robert Lucius Hegnauer Jr.

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• Business 1903 Mansfield, Ohio

  Christian, a Chicago printer in 1883, is a Mansfield editor by 1914

  Apprenticed to a Wisconsin printer in 1873, Christian Hegnauer was by about 1914 an editor and a partner in the Courier Publishing Company of Mansfield, Ohio. Read the storyClose the story

  In Chicago in 1883 Christian Hegnauer was a printer, living with his widowed mother at 80 Willow Street, and on 16 April he signed a bond as one of the three trustees of the First German Presbyterian Church at 67 Willow Street. On 1 May 1884 he married Cornelia M. Conzett. The family moved often: a daughter was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1887 and a son at Columbus in 1893. In 1903 they settled at Mansfield. There, says his printed biography of about 1914, Christian Hegnauer, "Editor", was a partner in the Courier Publishing Co., "editors of the Mansfield Courier". The company's bills from 1914 to 1926 are signed "C. Hegnauer, Secy". He died on 17 February 1926, "late a resident of the Township of Madison", Richland County, and by his will of 1923 left everything to Cornelia.

  In it: Christian Hegnauer, Cornelia Conzett

  Source: Biographical directory entry for Christian Hegnauer, editor, Ohio, about 1914 (FamilySearch Full-Text; filed as 'Missouri, Stillbirths')

  Also: FamilySearch Full-Text, "city directory", Chicago, 1883–84; image ARK 3:1:3QS7-89DX-CFT4; FamilySearch Full-Text, "trustees' bond; deed", Chicago, 16 Apr 1883; 1884; image ARK 3:1:3Q9M-C37X-9SH8-B; "Illinois, Marriages, 1815-1935," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christian Hegnauer; "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003," database, FamilySearch, entry for Alma Hegnauer; "Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953," database, FamilySearch, entry for Wilbur C Hegnauer; FamilySearch Full-Text, "deeds, wills, printers' bills", Mansfield, 1909–1926; image ARK 3:1:3Q9M-C375-8C3W; FamilySearch Full-Text, "will, probate, notices, estate file", Richland Co., Ohio, 23 Jul 1923 – 1926; image ARK 3:1:3Q9M-C3MR-6SFY-3; The biography of Christian Hegnauer; The biography of Cornelia Conzett

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• Death 1957 Butler, Missouri

  Christian dies at ninety, after 75 years in Bates County

  Leonhard's son Christian, who kept the old home place, died at Butler in 1957. Read the storyClose the story

  Christian Hegnauer died at Butler, Missouri, on Friday, 6 September 1957, aged ninety, after more than seventy-five years in Bates County. The Appleton City Journal said he was born on 3 May 1867 near "Alhambria", Illinois, a son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Hegnauer, and came to the county with his parents; the study, from other records, puts his birth in 1868. He had married Anna Wirz, whom the notice calls "Wertz", and she died before him. It was Christian who farmed the old home place when his father moved to Appleton City, who hosted the family reunion of 1915, and who settled his father's estate in 1916-18.

  In it: Christian Hegnauer, Anna Wirz, Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 12 Sep 1957

  Also: The biography of Christian Hegnauer; The biography of Anna Wirz; Appleton City Journal, 26 Aug 1915, p. 1; Appleton City Journal, 30 Nov 1916, p. 7; Appleton City Journal, 14 Mar 1918, p. 6; The Republican Press, 10 Nov 1916, p. 3

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• Farm 1844 Igis, Graubünden

  In 1844 Luzius, probably, pledges a house in the Oberdorf

  

  A revision of the Igis mortgage register in 1903 printed a title of 1844: a house in the Oberdorf, on the Untergasse, pledged for 300 gulden by "Hegnauer Luzius", probably the Luzius who emigrated in 1856. Read the storyClose the story

  When the Igis mortgage register, the Pfandprotokoll, was revised in 1903, the cantonal gazette printed a decree listing the old titles still standing and calling on their holders to prove their rights within a month. Item 4 was title no. 35, dated 19 December 1844: "Pfandobjekt: Wohnhaus im Oberdorf, Untergasse", a dwelling house in the Oberdorf, on the Untergasse, pledged for 300 gulden to Joh. Campell in Süs. The debtor is given as "Hegnauer Luzius, später Hegnauer Jakob". Luzius had married in 1840 and was twenty-five, with two small sons. The study takes him to be the debtor, as no second Luzius Hegnauer of house-owning age is known at Igis then; the later Jakob was probably his younger brother, who married at Igis in 1859.

  In it: Luzius Hegnauer

  Source: Amtsblatt des Kantons Graubünden, 23 Jan 1903, p. 44 (Staatsarchiv Graubünden), in the study's report on the Graubünden gazette

  Also: The biography of Luzius Hegnauer; The biography of Jakob Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Luzius Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Luzius Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Johannes Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Leonhard Hegnauer; "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996," database, FamilySearch, entry for Jakob Hegnauer

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• Death 1934 Carthage, Missouri

  Christina dies at Krattley Crossing

  Christina Krattley, born a Hegnauer in Switzerland in 1845, died at her home near Carthage in 1934. Read the storyClose the story

  Christina Krattley died at 8.35 on the morning of Monday, 8 January 1934, at her home at Krattley Crossing, on route 4, four miles south-west of Carthage, Missouri. She was eighty-eight. The Carthage Evening Press recorded that she was born Christina Hegnauer in Switzerland on 26 October 1845, had lived in America almost all her life and had lived in the neighbourhood for sixty-one years. Her husband, Sylvester Krattley, had died in May 1916. The funeral was held at the Knell Service Home, with the Rev. Samuel Michael, the Lutheran pastor of Joplin, in charge, and she was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.

  In it: Christina Hegnauer, Sylvester Krattly

  Source: Carthage Evening Press, 8 Jan 1934

  Also: Jasper County Democrat, 12 Jan 1934, p. 4

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• Death 1891 Chicago, Illinois

  Dr. Nutin, probably Nutt of Igis, calls hydrophobia "nonsense"

  When a Chicago boarding-house keeper died in August 1891, four weeks after a dog bite, her doctor, Nutin Hegnauer, probably Nutt of Igis, told the Tribune it was a fever: "as for hydrophobia, it's nonsense". Read the storyClose the story

  On a Saturday in August 1891 Mrs. Ann Raffal, a boarding-house keeper of Blackhawk Street, Chicago, died in St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Four weeks earlier she had come home from a saloon saying a dog had bitten her, sure hydrophobia would follow. By the Monday a black spaniel supposed to be the dog had been shot, and a coroner's jury was to sit. The Chicago Tribune asked "Was It Hydrophobia?" Her doctor, "Dr. Nutin Hegnauer of No. 9 Rees street", scoffed. He had treated her for "a sort of typho-malaria fever", and blamed the house and her worries: "I have also heard that four weeks ago Mrs. Raffal was bitten by a dog; but as for hydrophobia, it's nonsense." She had never mentioned the bite to him. The Inter Ocean named him too. The study takes the doctor, probably, to be Nutt, eldest son of Peter Hegnauer of Igis.

  In it: Nutt Hegnauer

  Source: Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug 1891, p. 3

  Also: The Inter Ocean, 24 Aug 1891; "Was It Hydrophobia?," Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), 24 August 1891, p. 3; The Inter Ocean (Chicago, Illinois), 24 August 1891; FamilySearch Full-Text, "city directories (physicians' lists)", Chicago, 1889–1895; image ARK 3:1:3QS7-89DX-8JZM; The biography of Nutt Hegnauer; Ancestry research, 27 Sep 2026: key links among the American Hegnauers

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• War 1918 Prairie City, Missouri

  Lizzie takes charge of the Red Cross sewing

  In February 1918 Prairie City's women started their Red Cross work, and Lizzie Hegnauer took the sewing. Read the storyClose the story

  In February 1918 George Yoss went to Butler and brought back two ladies to teach the Prairie City chapter of the Red Cross "Surgical Dressings and Knitting and any work of benefit to the soldiers". At the meeting the women who would sew at Prairie City appointed Mrs. W. B. Reynolds instructor for the surgical dressings, Mrs. G. W. Sunderwirth for the knitting "and Miss Lizzie Hegnauer for the sewing". The correspondent admitted that the work "has not been done here as it has in other places", but hoped "we still may show our colors and make up for the time we have lost. Everyone come and help do their bit."

  In it: Lizzie K. Hegnauer

  Source: Rich Hill Mining Review, 21 Feb 1918, p. 8

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• Family 1916 Rockville, Missouri (rural route)

  An all-day quilting, on mush and soup

  In February 1916 Mrs. L. Hegnauer, probably Anna, the wife of Leonhard's grandson, gave a quilting that "took all day", and fed her guests everything imaginable while living on mush and soup herself. Read the storyClose the story

  The "Route No. One" column of the Rockville Booster, "By Priscilla", reported on 25 February 1916: "Mrs. L. Hegnauer gave an all day quilting last Wednesday, and it took all day, but by the time the last one had left the quilt was finished. She had everything imaginable for dinner in spite of having to live on mush and soup herself." The hostess was probably Anna, the wife of Leonhard's grandson Leonard S. Hegnauer, whose household the rural Rockville column otherwise followed. The study first took her for Leonhard's wife Susanna, but Susanna was then living in Appleton City. Why the hostess was living on mush and soup, the column does not say.

  In it: Anna Katherine Yoss

  Source: Rockville Booster, 25 Feb 1916, p. 5 ("Route No. One")

  Also: The biography of Leonard Samuel Hegnauer; Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Hirschi in the papers, 1856–1925

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• Wedding 1885 Butler, Missouri

  Mary marries her childhood neighbour, Fritz Hammer

  In the census of 1870 the Hammers were the Hegnauers' nearest neighbours; fifteen years later their eldest boy married the Hegnauers' eldest girl. Read the storyClose the story

  In August 1870, when the census taker came to Prairie City Township in Bates County, Missouri, three-year-old Mary Christina Hegnauer was living on her parents' farm with her little brother, Christian. The next house was Anton Hammer's, a farmer from Baden, whose eldest boy, Fritz, was eleven. On 12 March 1885, at Butler, Mary, about eighteen, married that boy from next door, Fritz Hammer, then about twenty-six. Known in English as Fred, he appears in the county plat book of 1895 with 80 acres in Section 36 of Pleasant Gap Township, directly north of her father's farm. By the census of 1900 they had four children. When her father died in 1916, and her mother in 1918, it was Mary who gave the particulars for their death certificates. She died in 1920, by her own death certificate, and was buried in the Prairie City Cemetery.

  In it: Mary Christina Hegnauer, Fritz Hammer

  Source: 1870 U.S. census, Prairie City Township, and the Bates County marriage record, as cited in Mary's biography

  Also: Missouri State Archives; Jefferson City, MO, USA; Missouri Marriage Records [Microfilm]; "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991," database, FamilySearch, entry for Mary C Hegnauer; The biography of Fritz Hammer; Bates County Democrat, 9 Jun 1892, p. 7; Bates County Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 9 June 1892, p. 7, local news; Luzius Hegnauer: abstracts of the Ancestry records; Leonhard Hegnauer: abstracts of the Ancestry records; Year: 1900; Census Place: Pleasant Gap, Bates, Missouri; Roll: 839; Page: 1; Enumeration District: 0018; Missouri State Board of Health, death certificate no. 38609 (St. Clair Co., 31 Oct 1916), Leonard Hagmauer; Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1975 (image https://www.sos.mo.gov; Missouri State Board of Health, death certificate no. 4170 (Bates Co., died 12 Feb 1918), Susana Katherine Hegnauer; Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1975 (image https://www.s; Missouri Office of the Secretary of State; Jefferson City, MO, USA; Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1969

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• Business 1892 Appleton City, Missouri

  An old settler buys a Kimball organ

  In 1892 the Appleton City music dealers boasted that "L. Hegnauer", one of the oldest settlers of the Pleasant Gap neighbourhood and probably Leonhard, had bought a fine organ. Read the storyClose the story

  In September 1892 the music dealers Diven & Deffenbaugh turned a customer into an advertisement in the Appleton City Journal: "L. Hegnauer one of oldest settlers in Pleasant Gap neighborhood bought a fine Kimball Organ from our live music dealers Diven & Deffenbaugh. Get their prices. See their Pianos and Organs, and then enquire of any of twenty-six number-one farmers they have sold to, in regard to their honest way of dealing ..." The buyer was probably Leonhard. The phrase "oldest settlers" here means the earliest: by his obituary he had lived in the county since 1869, while his father Luzius is not recorded in Pleasant Gap before 1884. Early in 1891 his son Leonard, then at the Academy, had played solo alto in its military band.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 22 Sep 1892, p. 5

  Also: Appleton City Journal, 1891; The biography of Leonard Hegnauer; The Republican Press, 10 Nov 1916, p. 3; Luzius Hegnauer and Anna Margreth Bernet in the papers, 1856–1900

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• Death 1943 Rockville, Missouri

  Anna dies at home in Rockville after years of heart trouble

  Anna Wirz, sixty-three years a resident of the Rockville community, died at home in August 1943. Read the storyClose the story

  Anna Wirz was born in Switzerland on 17 September 1860, a daughter of Samuel Wirz. In 1886 she married Christian Hegnauer, the elder son of Leonhard, nearly eight years her junior; in 1900 and 1910 they were farming in Pleasant Gap Township, and by January 1923 they had moved into the town of Rockville. From January 1943 a doctor attended her. She died at home in Rockville at 6.30 in the evening of 20 August 1943, aged 82. The certificate gives the cause as myocarditis of five years, due to Bright's disease, due to arteriosclerosis of ten years, and records 63 years in the Rockville community. Her husband, Chris, 76, was living, and her son, the Rev. L. S. Hegnauer of Canton, Ohio, gave the particulars. She was buried at Prairie City two days later.

  In it: Anna Wirz, Christian Hegnauer, Leonard Samuel Hegnauer

  Source: Missouri death certificate no. 27614, Anna Hegnauer, Bates County, 20 Aug 1943

  Also: "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christian Hegnauer; Missouri State Archives; Jefferson City, MO, USA; Missouri Marriage Records [Microfilm]; "United States, Census, 1900," database, FamilySearch, entry for Anna Hegnauer; "United States, Census, 1900," database, FamilySearch, entry for Christian Hegnauer; Year: 1910; Census Place: Pleasant Gap, Bates, Missouri; Roll: T624_768; Page: 3b; Enumeration District: 0018; FHL microfilm: 1374781; Rich Hill Mining Review, 11 Jan 1923, p. 8; The biography of Anna Wirz; The biography of Christian Hegnauer; The biography of Leonard Samuel Hegnauer; Missouri death certificates: abstracts

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• Court 1930 Faribault County, Minnesota

  Hegnauer versus Hegnauer, probably Robert and Lotta

  A Minnesota court report of 1930 records a divorce that the study takes to be Robert and Lotta's. Read the storyClose the story

  In November 1930 the Courier-Sentinel's report of the civil cases decided in the Faribault County court included "Hegnauer vs. Hegnauer", in which a divorce was granted to the plaintiff. The report prints no given names and does not say which spouse brought the suit. The study takes it, very probably, to be the divorce of Robert Lucius Hegnauer and Lotta Alice Donnell, the only Hegnauer couple known in the county, who were still married in April 1930. Two days after the report, on 22 November 1930, Robert married Blanche Estelle Isherwood in Cass County, North Dakota.

  In it: Robert Lucius Hegnauer, Lotta Alice Donnell, Blanche Estelle Isherwood

  Source: The Courier-Sentinel, 20 Nov 1930

  Also: The biography of Robert Lucius Hegnauer; The biography of Lotta Alice Donnell

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• War 1942 Tacoma, Washington

  Woodrow goes from the chair factory to an ordnance company

  In 1942 a Grays Harbor furniture worker went into the Army, and by his headstone application he served for three years as a private in an ordnance evacuation company. Read the storyClose the story

  Woodrow Elgia Wilson, born at Bernice, Oklahoma, in 1917, was living on Grays Harbor, Washington, by the census of 1930. The census of 1940 found him labouring on W.P.A. street construction, and his draft card of October that year names his employer as the Grays Harbor Chair Factory in Hoquiam. On 23 July 1942 he enlisted in the Army at Tacoma as a selectee; the enlistment record describes a married man with a grammar-school education who had worked in furniture manufacturing. His headstone application of 1966 gives his service as 5 August 1942 to 20 October 1945, as a private in the 470th Ordnance Evacuation Company, a kind of unit whose work was recovering disabled tanks and vehicles and bringing them back for repair. Where the company served has not been traced. His grave in Fern Hill Cemetery, Aberdeen, bears the words "PVT US ARMY / WORLD WAR II".

  In it: Woodrow Elgia Wilson

  Source: WWII Army enlistment record and his military headstone application, as cited in Woodrow's biography

  Also: Woodrow Elzer Wilson: abstracts of the Ancestry records

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• Court 1913 Marion Township, Missouri

  Sylvester's will: the land for Christina, the horses for their son

  Sylvester Krattly left his widow the farm for life and thanked his son for the care he had given his parents. Read the storyClose the story

  On 2 January 1913 Sylvester Krattly of Marion Township, Jasper County, husband of Luzius's daughter Christina, made his will. He had $5,000 in notes deposited with the Peoples Bank of Hermann, in Gasconade County, where the 1870 census had found him farming before the family moved to Jasper County in 1872. Of that money his son Sylvester was to have $400 "for the care and consideration which he has given to his mother and myself", and each of his three unmarried daughters $50; the rest was to be shared equally by the eight children. The son was also to have a team of horses and all the farm machinery, wagons, buggies and harness. Everything else, the land included, went to "my beloved wife, Christina Krattly" for her lifetime. The will was proved on 23 May 1916, nine days after his death, and Christina and her son became its executors.

  In it: Sylvester Krattly, Christina Hegnauer, Sylvester Krattly

  Source: Jasper County, Missouri, Wills, vol. H, pp. 448–449, as cited in Sylvester Krattly's biography

  Also: The biography of Christina Hegnauer; The Carthage Democrat, 25 May 1916, p. 7; The Advertiser-Courier, 24 May 1916, p. 1; Carthage Evening Press, 15 May 1916, p. 8

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• Office 1900 Pleasant Gap Township, Missouri

  Leonard takes the census of his home township

  In 1900 Leonhard's son Leonard, then a student of twenty-eight, was appointed census enumerator for his home township. Read the storyClose the story

  In April 1900 the census supervisor's appointments were printed in the Butler Daily Democrat, and for Pleasant Gap the enumerator was "Leonard Hegnauer". He was Leonhard's son, twenty-eight, who took his A.B. at the University of Kansas that year. The census sheets of Enumeration District 18 bear his name as enumerator. One, taken on 16 June 1900, includes the household of his aunt Barbara Kamm; he recorded that she had borne seven children, five of them living. His own family is on another sheet of the district: his parents, his brother Robert, and Leonard himself, "student", single, twenty-eight. On 27 September the Appleton City Journal reported him teaching at Onarga, Illinois.

  In it: Leonard Hegnauer

  Source: Butler Daily Democrat, 28 Apr 1900, p. 1

  Also: The Adrian Journal, 4 May 1900, p. 1; Bates County Democrat, 3 May 1900, p. 2; The Republican Press, 4 May 1900, p. 5; Bates County Record, 5 May 1900, p. 3; Year: 1900; Census Place: Pleasant Gap, Bates, Missouri; Roll: 839; Page: 11; Enumeration District: 0018; Year: 1900; Census Place: Pleasant Gap, Bates, Missouri; Roll: 839; Page: 7; Enumeration District: 0018; The biography of Leonard Hegnauer; The biography of Barbara Hegnauer; Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Hirschi in the papers, 1856–1925

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• Weather 1910 Appleton City, Missouri

  The Journal asks the old timers about the winter

  In January 1910 the Appleton City Journal wanted Leonhard and the other "old timers" to say when there had ever been a winter like it. Read the storyClose the story

  On 6 January 1910 the Appleton City Journal turned to the elders of the district: "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." Leonhard, sixty-six, had lived in Bates County from 1869 and in Appleton City since 1906, long enough to be counted among the old timers. Whether he or any of the others answered, the study has not found. The same issue reported that Robert Tontz and his wife, of Highland, Illinois, were staying with the Hegnauers; Mr. Tontz, it said, was "a nephew of Mr. Hegnauer".

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 6 Jan 1910, p. 8

  Also: Appleton City Journal, 6 Jan 1910, p. 1; The Republican Press, 10 Nov 1916, p. 3; Appleton City Journal, 30 Aug 1906, p. 3; The biography of Leonhard Hegnauer

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• Office 1969 Banning, California

  Banning buries its city treasurer

  Robert Hegnauer was still Banning's city treasurer when he died at eighty-two, eleven months after his wife. Read the storyClose the story

  Robert Lucius Hegnauer, whom the census of 1950 found teaching in a grade school at Banning, California, became the city's treasurer in 1960. In September 1961 he signed a city notice of the sale of a delinquent improvement bond as "Treasurer of the City of Banning", and in January 1968 the Daily Record-Gazette reported on its front page that he was seeking a third term. His wife, Blanche, died on 20 January 1969. Robert died eleven months later, on 14 December 1969, aged eighty-two, still the city's treasurer. The Record-Gazette's front-page notice, "Rites for City Treasurer Slated", recalled that he had been a member of Doric Lodge 87 at Wells, Minnesota, since 1915. Two ministers and San Gorgonio Lodge No. 668 were to officiate at his funeral, set for 17 December, and he was buried beside Blanche in San Gorgonio Memorial Park, where they share a flat bronze marker.

  In it: Robert Lucius Hegnauer, Blanche Estelle Isherwood

  Source: Record-Gazette (Banning), 16 Dec 1969, p. 1

  Also: The biography of Robert Lucius Hegnauer; The Daily Record-Gazette, 19 Jan 1968, p. 1; Hegnauer Seeks Third Term as City Treasurer 19 Jan 1968; Daily Record, 26 Sep 1961, p. 15; [Notice of sale of a delinquent improvement bond], Daily Record (Banning, California), 26 September 1961, p. 15; National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Banning, Riverside, California; Roll: 3685; Page: 8; Enumeration Distric; "United States, Census, 1950," database, FamilySearch, entry for Robert L Hegnauer; "California, Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch, entry for Robert L Hegnauer; Find a Grave, memorial 202231524, Robert Lucius Hegnauer (11 Nov 1887 – 14 Dec 1969), San Gorgonio Memorial Park Banning, Riverside County, California; Find a Grave, memorial 237889446, Blanche E. Heck Hegnauer (18 Dec 1892 – 20 Jan 1969), San Gorgonio Memorial Park Banning, Riverside County, California; The biography of Blanche Estelle Isherwood

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• Church 1879 near Prairie City, Missouri

  Leonhard and Susanna are among the new church's first members

  About 1879 the Hegnauers, Hammers and Kamms were among the first members of the German Reformed church near Prairie City. Read the storyClose the story

  The county history of 1883 records that when the German Reformed church near Prairie City, Bates County, was built, about 1879, "A. Hammer and wife, Leonard Hegenaur and wife, Peter Kamm and wife, and Christopher Hegenaur, were among the first members". The "Christopher" was probably Leonhard's brother Christian, who in June 1880 was an unmarried farmer in Prairie Township, with their parents in his household. In 1881 Leonhard was one of the trustees of the German Evangelical Reformed Zion Church, probably the same congregation, when Friederike Schapeler deeded land to it. Leonhard remained a devoted member: his funeral in 1916 was held at the church, and he and Susanna lie in its Reform Cemetery.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer, Susanna Katharina Hirschi

  Source: Account of the German Reformed church near Prairie City, county history of Bates County, 1883 (FamilySearch Full-Text, machine transcription)

  Also: FamilySearch Full-Text, "deeds, tax lists, probate", Bates Co., 1869–1903; image ARK 3:1:3Q9M-CSLF-KL5N; O00060; Missouri State Board of Health, death certificate no. 4170 (Bates Co., died 12 Feb 1918), Susana Katherine Hegnauer; Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1975 (image https://www.s; The biography of Leonhard Hegnauer; The biography of Christian Hegnauer; The biography of Susanna Katharina Hirschi; FamilySearch Full-Text search, 27 Sep 2026: Hegnauer in machine-read deeds, wills, court and other records; Appleton City Journal, 9 Nov 1916, p. 1

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• Court 1918 Butler, Missouri

  The referee in the case against C. Hegnauer, probably Christian, is "now somewhere in France"

  In the week his mother died at his house in February 1918, a suit of the Independent Harvester Company against "C. Hegnauer", probably Christian, needed a new referee: the first was "now somewhere in France". Read the storyClose the story

  In February 1918 Leonhard's son Christian had business before two courts. His father's estate, which he administered, was down in the St. Clair County probate calendar for its final settlement on Tuesday, 12 February. At half past eleven that morning his mother, Susanna, died at his home near Prairie City, and the settlement next appears in the calendar for the May term. Meanwhile the Bates County circuit court had convened on the Monday, and the Bates County Democrat of 14 February listed the cases heard since Wednesday morning. One was "The Independent Harvester Co., versus C. Hegnauer; report of referee; order of referee rendered. J. A. DeArmond appointed referee in place of D. C. Chastain, now somewhere in France." The paper gives only the initial, and the defendant was probably Christian. What the company claimed, and how the suit ended, the papers read so far do not say.

  In it: Christian Hegnauer, Susanna Katharina Hirschi, Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Bates County Democrat (Butler), 14 Feb 1918, p. 8

  Also: [Circuit court notes], Bates County Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 14 February 1918, p. 8; Appleton City Journal, 10 Jan 1918, p. 8; [Probate calendar], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 10 January 1918, p. 8; [Probate calendar], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 10 January 1918, p. 8; Appleton City Journal, 11 Apr 1918, p. 6; [Probate calendar; Notice of Final Settlement], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 11 April 1918, p. 6; [Probate calendar; Notice of Final Settlement], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 11 April 1918, p. 6; The biography of Susanna Katharina Hirschi; The biography of Christian Hegnauer; Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Hirschi in the papers, 1856–1925

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• Business 1890 Rockville, Missouri

  Leonhard buys into the new Bank of Rockville

  In September 1890 a bank was to be set up at Rockville with $10,000 in $100 shares, and "L. Hegnauer" was among its stockholders. Read the storyClose the story

  In September 1890 the Appleton City Journal passed on news from "Rockville's new and newsy little paper, the Post": "a banking house is to be established in that town. The capital stock is to be $10,000 divided into shares of $100 each." Twenty-four stockholders were named, among them J. C. Laughlin and Fred Fix, who both served as the bank's presidents, and, side by side, "L. Hegnauer, A. Hammer": Leonhard and, probably, Anton Hammer, with whom he had appraised strays in Pleasant Gap in 1873. It was the beginning of the Bank of Rockville, and Leonhard stayed with it for the rest of his life. He was elected vice-president in 1897 and became president after Laughlin's death in 1911; when he died in 1916 his obituary called him "one of the charter members".

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 18 Sep 1890, p. 1 (from the Rockville Post)

  Also: Bates County Record, 16 Oct 1897, p. 3; The Republican Press, 10 Nov 1916, p. 3; Bates County Record, 13 Dec 1873, p. 2

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• Death 1916 Rich Hill, Missouri

  Joe Link dies five days short of forty-five

  Katie Hegnauer's husband died at Rich Hill in 1916, leaving her with seven children at home. Read the storyClose the story

  Joseph M. Link, a Bates County farmer who lived about twelve miles south-west of Appleton City, died at Rich Hill on a Friday morning in September 1916, of stomach trouble "after an illness extending over several years". His condition had not been thought serious until the last few months; he had been taken to Rich Hill for treatment and died there. He would have been forty-five in five days. He had married Katie Hegnauer, Leonhard's daughter, on 24 October 1895, and their seven children, four sons and three daughters, were "all of them living and at home with the bereaved wife". He was buried near the German Reformed church in Prairie township.

  In it: Joseph M. Link, Katherine Susanna Hegnauer, Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 28 Sep 1916, p. 1

  Also: Appleton City Journal, 11 Apr 1907, p. 7

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• War 1916 Appleton City, Missouri

  The old soldiers' farewell to Comrade Hegnauer

  His G.A.R. post praised Leonhard's love of "the Stars and Stripes of his adopted country". Read the storyClose the story

  After Leonhard's death, the Gen. J. B. Steadman Post No. 172 of the G.A.R., the Union veterans, passed resolutions on "Comrade Leonard Hegnauer, late of Co. E, 4th Missouri Volunteer Infantry". "His patriotism was intense," the post wrote, "and his admiration for the Stars and Stripes of his adopted country were all that could be expected of a native born." The resolutions were to be spread on the post's records, published in the Appleton City Journal and sent to his widow and children. Leonhard had come from Switzerland at thirteen and had served in the Union army alongside his father.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 9 Nov 1916, p. 8

  Also: The biography of Leonhard Hegnauer; Springfield News-Leader, 15 Aug 1897, p. 2

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• War 1911 Appleton City, Missouri

  Leonhard joins the old soldiers on Decoration Day

  On Decoration Day 1911 Leonhard was among the Union veterans at the service in Appleton City. Read the storyClose the story

  The Appleton City Journal of 8 June 1911 described Decoration Day at the town's cemetery: "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." Among the names was "L. Hegnauer". Leonhard, sixty-eight, had served as a young man in Company E of the 4th Missouri Infantry. Five years later two of the men on that list, E. B. Smith and T. D. Thayer, signed the resolutions of Gen. J. B. Steadman Post No. 172, G.A.R., on Leonhard's death, which praised "his admiration for the Stars and Stripes of his adopted country".

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 8 Jun 1911, p. 3, as read in the Leonhard harvest's review (§9c, item 13)

  Also: Appleton City Journal, 9 Nov 1916, p. 8; The biography of Leonhard Hegnauer

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• Church 1893 Appleton City, Missouri

  Leonard graduates from the Academy, and his father comes to watch

  At the Appleton City Academy's commencement of 1893, Leonhard's son gave an oration called "The True Spirit", with his father in the audience. Read the storyClose the story

  The Appleton City Academy held its commencement in the Durley Opera House on Friday, 26 May 1893, under the motto "Our Horizon Widens." Among the four academic graduates was "Leonhard Hegnauer, Jr.", who gave an oration titled "The True Spirit" and sang in the quartet "Meet Me When 'Tis Moonlight". The Appleton City Journal noted a visitor from over the county line: "Leonard Hegnauer Sr., a prominent citizen of Prairie City, came over to witness the commencement exercises." At the banquet the next night the Academy's graduates founded an alumni association, with Clyde Chapin, of the class of 1891, as president. In March 1891 the Bates County Record had reported that Clyde Chapin and Matt Belisle, of Hudson, and "Leonard Hegnaer, jr.", of Pleasant Gap, went to St. Louis for the funeral of General Sherman. In September 1893 Leonard left for Columbia, "where he will attend school".

  In it: Leonard Hegnauer, Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 1 Jun 1893, p. 3

  Also: Appleton City Journal, 1 Jun 1893, p. 2; [Appleton City Academy commencement], Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 1 June 1893, p. 2; Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 1 June 1893, p. 3; Appleton City Journal (Appleton City, Missouri), 1 June 1893, p. 3; Bates County Record, 7 Mar 1891, p. 3; "Hudson Items," Bates County Record (Butler, Missouri), 7 March 1891, p. 3; Butler Daily Democrat, 14 Sep 1893, p. 1; Bates County Democrat, 14 Sep 1893, p. 5; "Prairie City Items," Butler Daily Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 14 September 1893, p. 1; "Prairie City Items," Bates County Democrat (Butler, Missouri), 14 September 1893, p. 5; The biography of Leonard Hegnauer

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• Emigration 1916 Appleton City, Missouri

  Susanna's family comes from Illinois to stay

  Susanna's sister Rosina Tontz and other relatives from Illinois came to Appleton City again and again, and in October 1916 they were visiting in the days just before Leonhard's stroke. Read the storyClose the story

  Susanna's family kept in touch from Illinois. In July 1909 "C. Tontz, a prominent citizen of Alhambra, Ill.," the husband of her sister Rosina, stayed with Leonhard in Appleton City. "The gentleman are cousins," said the Journal: Christian Tontz was probably a son of Leonhard's aunt. In January 1910 Robert Tontz of Highland, "a nephew of Mr. Hegnauer", came with his wife. In April 1911 Rosina came with her daughter Rose, and Mrs. Louisa Hirschi with her daughters Amelia and Marie; "The ladies made friends of all whom they met." On Thursday, 26 October 1916, the Journal reported that Mrs. C. Tontz, Mrs. Louisa Hirschi and Mr. and Mrs. Emil Hitz and their daughter Edna, of St. Louis, had been visiting "for the past several days". The next day, Friday, Leonhard was stricken with paralysis. He died on 31 October.

  In it: Susanna Katharina Hirschi, Leonhard Hegnauer, Margaritha Rosalia Hirschi

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 26 Oct 1916, p. 5

  Also: Appleton City Journal, 6 Jan 1910, p. 1; Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Hirschi in the papers, 1856–1925; Appleton City Journal, 2 Nov 1916, p. 1; The biography of Susanna Katharina Hirschi; The biography of Margaritha Rosalia Hirschi; The biography of Anna Margreth Bernet

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• Court 1889 Highland, Illinois

  Susanna is paid her share of her father's estate

  When her father's estate was settled in 1889, Susanna was paid her share, and Leonhard paid back with interest the $600 he owed it. Read the storyClose the story

  Susanna's father, Christian Hirschi of Highland, twice lent money to her husband. On 31 December 1884 he and Jacob Kamm, both of Madison County, Illinois, released to Leonhard their interest under a trust deed of 1 January 1874 on his land in Bates County. In his will of 3 June 1874 Christian left his estate in equal shares to his seven children or their heirs. He died at Highland on 14 November 1885. Among the notes his executor, Susanna's brother Fridrich, gathered in was one of Leonhard Hegnauer for $600, dated 31 May 1884 at 7 per cent, which Leonhard repaid with interest, $662.65. When the estate of $14,106.71 was divided in March 1889, "Susan Hegnauer 1/7" was due $2,015.24 and was paid $1,955.61.

  In it: Susanna Katharina Hirschi, Leonhard Hegnauer, Christian Hirschi Sr.

  Source: Madison County, Illinois, Probate Court, estate of Christian Hirschi Sr., case file (box 152): will of 3 June 1874 and final account of 13 March 1889

  Also: The biography of Susanna Katharina Hirschi; The biography of Christian Hirschi Sr.; The biography of Leonhard Hegnauer; The deaths of Luzius Hegnauer and Anna Margreth Bernet

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• Church 1903 Prairie City and Rich Hill, Missouri

  Leonhard hauls the sick pastor's goods to Rich Hill

  When the preacher at Prairie City had to give up his work for his health in 1903, Leonhard and Jacob Finklang took his household goods to Rich Hill. Read the storyClose the story

  In April 1903 the Rich Hill Tribune reported: "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." The paper does not name the church. By the county history of 1883, Leonhard and Susanna were among the first members of the German Reformed church built near Prairie City about 1879, and at his death in 1916 he was remembered as "a faithful member of the German Reformed church", so Roerich was probably its pastor. Where he went to find his better climate is not said.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: The Rich Hill Tribune, 16 Apr 1903, p. 3

  Also: FamilySearch Full-Text, "county history", Bates Co., 1883; image ARK 3:1:3QS7-L9DF-KWST; The biography of Leonhard Hegnauer; The Republican Press, 10 Nov 1916, p. 3; Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Hirschi in the papers, 1856–1925

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• Emigration 1906 Appleton City, Missouri

  Leonhard moves to town so that Robert can attend the Academy

  In August 1906 Leonhard left the farm for Appleton City, "temporarily", so that his youngest son could go to the Academy. Read the storyClose the story

  On Tuesday, 28 August 1906, Leonhard, "one of Bates county's best known and useful citizens", moved his family into the Deardoff residence in the south-west part of Appleton City, just over the county line in St. Clair County. The Appleton City Journal explained: "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." The son was Robert, the youngest, then eighteen. The Rich Hill Tribune saw off "an old and valued friend of the TRIBUNE", and in September the Journal again described him as "temporarily residing in Appleton City for the purpose of sending his youngest son to the Academy". In 1908 he gave $50 to the fund for the Academy's new building. The temporary stay lasted the rest of his life: he died in Appleton City in 1916.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer, Susanna Katharina Hirschi, Robert Lucius Hegnauer

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 30 Aug 1906, p. 3

  Also: The Rich Hill Tribune, 6 Sep 1906, p. 5; Appleton City Journal, 27 Sep 1906, p. 4; Butler Daily Democrat, 30 Aug 1906, p. 3; Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Hirschi in the papers, 1856–1925; The biography of Robert Lucius Hegnauer; The Republican Press, 10 Nov 1916, p. 3

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• Business 1907 Appleton City, Missouri

  Leonhard's house is wired for electric light

  When Appleton City's new electric-light plant began wiring the town in 1907, Leonhard's house was on the list. Read the storyClose the story

  In November 1907 the Appleton City Journal reported on the town's new electric-light plant. After listing the buildings already wired, it went on: "In a few days the following will be wired: L. Hegnauer, Residence. First National Bank. Mrs. Woodworth's Residence. Mrs. W. R. Yoder's Residence." By the county history of 1918, Leonhard had come to Bates County in 1869 with his young family, crossing Missouri in wagons drawn by ox-teams, and he farmed there until August 1906, when he moved to Appleton City. Fifteen months later the old settler was to have electric light in his house.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer, Susanna Katharina Hirschi

  Source: Appleton City Journal, 28 Nov 1907, p. 8

  Also: The biography of Christian Hegnauer; The biography of Leonhard Hegnauer; Appleton City Journal, 30 Aug 1906, p. 3

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• Farm 1873 Pleasant Gap Township, Missouri

  Leonhard appraises a stray pony and a steer

  In December 1873 Leonhard helped put a value on two strays taken up by his neighbours in Pleasant Gap township. Read the storyClose the story

  Four years after the family came to Bates County, the Bates County Record printed two stray notices from Pleasant Gap township. On 2 December 1873 Anton Hammer had taken up "one Bay Pony, supposed to be 3 years old, about 14 hands high, black mane and tail, also, left hind foot white, branded on right shoulder with letter K", and Carl Hubner "one four year old steer, color, Brown, with white tail and white in face". Both were posted before I. W. Brooks, justice of the peace, and both were appraised at $28: the pony by Leonard Hegnauer and Carl Hubner, the steer by Anton Hammer and Leonard Hegnauer. The notices ran for three weeks.

  In it: Leonhard Hegnauer

  Source: Bates County Record, 20 Dec 1873, p. 4

  Also: Bates County Record, 13 Dec 1873, p. 2; Bates County Record, 27 Dec 1873, p. 4; The biography of Leonhard Hegnauer

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