Hagenbuch family history & genealogy
Most Hagenbuchs living in the United States can trace their ancestry to Andreas Hagenbuch (b. 1715), who landed with his family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 18, 1737. Andreas, however, was not the only...
Several previous articles were dedicated in part or in total to Percy Hagenbuch who was born in 1880 and died in 1967. My great Uncle Perce—the older brother to my grandfather, Clarence—is one of...
Piecing together family history is rarely a simple task. The further one goes back through time, the less there is to work from. Memories fade, photographs are lost, and documents are destroyed. Precious little...
As this website deals with facts (although sometimes an unverifiable family story is included), the adage “write what you know” attributed to Mark Twain is the usual standard. In that vein, I asked my...
Before Andreas Hagenbuch (b. 1715) and his family immigrated to America in 1737, they lived in the village of Grossgartach, which today is part of Leingarten, in southern Germany. While Andreas was a native...
As a boy, I didn’t realize how much of an impact growing up on a farm would have on me. Because I moved from the farm when I was 13, I mostly only remember...
The following article was originally published after finding the site of Hiram Hagenbuch’s (b. 1847) home in 2015. It opened a new chapter in our understanding of Hiram and his family, as well as...
We continue with the fourth and final installment of Enoch Hagenbuch’s history of the Hagenbuch family (Read: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3). In this, Enoch details information about the lives of his...
On April 9, 1785 Andreas Hagenbuch (b. 1715) signed his last will and testament. He died sometime between April 11th and September 26th of that year and was buried at the Hagenbuch Homestead in...
Enoch Hagenbuch’s (b. 1814) written history left off with his mention of having thirteen children (Read: Part 1 and Part 2). We continue in Part 3 with the listing of those children and details...
