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Hauger

Mary Catherine Hauger 1 Feb 1846-21 May 1923 daughter of Jacob and Katherine (Hubbard) Hauger, married 17 Sept 1871 Vigo County, Indiana, John Barbre.

Haugers in Pennsylvania:


The Meaning of the Name Hager:

The Hager family is of old Saxon origin, the very name denotes its source and its antiquity. The "Hager" was one of the sworn and knowing freeman, called "Vierharren" holding the "Felkmete (Thing), which was legislature, divine service and court of justice combined. The mystic square of the Thing on which sat or stood the officers, was called "Die Hegung" and at one of the "Vierherren", the person who was appointed to watch that an uninitiated person did not overstep the boundaries of the square was a representative of the court (Graf) during proceedings was called Hager.

Such offices in very early times were hereditary. If the father was a Verherren, his eldest son would be initiated in due time and would inherit the same office. Family names were only to be found with the princes (thelings). Gradually the nobility began to take the name of the place where they resided, or their office, and it is obvious that the name of Heger very early furnished the names for a family connected with the same for several generations.

That the Heger family had the name for the old Saxon Thing is distinctly told us in a quaint old chronicle of the sixteenth century: "Dasselsche und Einbecksche Chronica, v Johan Setzner und Hardessianum, Erfurt, 1294". Page 171: "The noble men of Heger held from olden time as a fief, a free-field-court from the Imperial Abbey or Corvey and derive a hereditary revenue from the same and today there are under their auspices in Strethagn two sessions of the free field court annually". Miss Brent of Baltimore in Williams History of Washington County, Maryland.

Somerset County Historical papers.
The earliest pioneers came into Somerset County, Pennsylvania soon after 1753 and opened paths through what was then Bedford County - the earliest surveys were made in 1767. About 1769 a number of settlers arrived near Somerset preceded only by a few scattered hunters, which was typical of early frontier life.
The first permanent settler was Philip Waferline who with his family settled in Brothers Valley in 1768, followed in 1771 by Harmon Husband, a Quaker who was born in Maryland. By 1788 the settlement of Somerset County, delayed by the Revolutionary War, was well under way. Berlin had been settled by Germans from the Palatinate and a number members of the Lutheran Reformed church who came in 1780 and planed the town. Meyersdale was founded in 1785, when Andrew Berndreger took up land and began building a gristmill.
The first court was held in Somerset on December 21, 1795 in a room in Webster's Tavern in Somerset, known then as Brunnerstown, which was laid out in l787. Somerset County was erected from Bedford County in 1795 and the first courthouse built. In 1852 ground was broken for the first railroad in the county. (The above information was taken from "MY PENNSYLVANIA" by Governor Edward Martin.)

History of the Hauger family by D. S. Hager, M.D., Chicago Illinois.


A family located in Brothers Valley Township in 1794. Perhaps no family of people have done more to help to develop the United States, the State of Pennsylvania and especially Somerset County than the Hager or Hauger family, as they spell and pronounce their name in the German or Pennsylvania Dutch part of the county.
The name originally was spelled Hager in the German letters and pronounced as though spelled Hauger or Haugher, but when the English language and letters came into use in these sections the spelling of the name changed and in Somerset County those who lived in the district Pennsylvania Dutch communities adopted the spelling Hauger or Haugher which has been retained to this day. The great majority of the family who migrated into the English speaking communities retained the original spelling and pronounced it as in English, Hager. There is perhaps no state in the Union nor any large city in which you cannot find a representative of the Hager family.
The name Hager in German signifies lean, lank or hungry-looking, This ccrtainly, however, could not be applicable to the wellfed Somerset County representatives today.
In the first census list of the citizens living in the original thirteen states in 1790, which the government has published (excepting the states whose official records were destroyed by the British in the war of 1812) there are the names of many Hagers, but at that time there were none who spelled officially otherwise than Hager.
John Hager, the representative of the family who settled in Somerset County (then a part of Bedford County) purchased in 1794 for the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds, the old homestead near Berlin now occupied by a descendant John Croner (formerly owned by Bruce Hauger). This farm had been in the Hauger family ever since that time. John Hager was married to a lady named Barbara Miller. Her home and entire family were destroyed by Indians, and she and a brother were held captives by the Indians for eight years, when they were finally exchanged in Philadelphia in return for an Indian chief held by the whites. Her brother liked the Indian life and returned to the Indians, but was never heard of again.
Originally, the family settled in the eastern part of Pennsylvania, and since then have scattered all over the United States, many of them became prominent in civil and political affairs. The first representatives came over to this country in the first series of German emigrants in the early middle part of the seventeenth century, and well authenticated heresay has it that they came from a well to do family, the representatives of which lived in southern Germany, Bavaria, and Austria. The same source says that they possessed a book of heraldry and a coat of arms distinctive of their rank. It is a well-known fact that the Hager family in Germany today is noted for their scientific and literary works, the great pharmacist being one of their rank, while the Hager name is also prominent in literary work in that country.
Originally the Hagers must have been affiliated with the German Reformed Church, as Captain Jonathan Hager, the founder of Hagerstown, Maryland was killed by a saw log rolling over him as he was preparing to saw it into timber with which to build the old German Reformed Church. The great great grandfather of most of the representatives in Somerset County today, John Hager and his wife are buried in the old German Reformed burial ground in Berlin. A curious anomaly is that his name is spelled Hager, while his son Henry is buried on a farm near Beechdale and his name is spelled Hauger.
Many of the Hagers in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York and Massachusetts served in the Revolutionary War. Among the list of names of the muster of Minute men for the protection of Concord and Lexington the night Paul Revere made his famous ride, the Hager name is conspicious.
Among those who won disticction in civic and political affairs in this country may be mentioned Senator Hager of California, Congressnan Hager of Iowa, as well as Samuel Hager who was defeated for the office of Governor of Kentucy by Governor Wilson. The archives of biography and encyclopedias show many an elaborate record of the high records of the Hagers in America.
INTERESTING RECORDS
Before Somerset County was formed, Bedford County comprises in addition the area of the present Somerset County. Among the townships of Bedford county were, as they are yet known Brothersvalley and Milford townships and in addition a township known as Elk Lick Township. In the State tax records fror thesea townships for 1783 90 the list of taxable property with the official spelling of the names is interesting as showning the translation from the German pronounciation. We find such familar names as Stotsman, Stootsman, Lyvngood, Barky, Shroak, Plauch, Barrons, Spiker,Knoonce, Fredline and many others that show there must have been considerable wrestling with names to conform the sprlling with the German pronounciation.
John Hauger was born in Prussia in 1749, came to America with his parents (or because his stepmother came to Hagestown, Maryland where he had relatives). Here he married Maria Barbara Miller, who was

born 6 Apr 1749 and died 11 May 1826. After their marriage they moved from New Jersey - first to Hagerstown, Maryland and then to that part of Bedford County, Pennsylvania which on 17 Apr 1795 was set apart as Somerset County, an area of 1,050 square miles. Situated as it is, between Laurel Hill and the Allegheny Mountains, the county is one of remarkable beauty. The County is bordered on the north by Cambria County, on the east by Bedford County, on the south by the Maryland State Line and on the west by Westmoreland and Fayette Counties.


New Jersey Archives records one John Hager (Hauger) in a Company of New Jersey Revolutionary Troops as an Ensign and it is rather significent that this John Hauger is or was the father of John Hauger who was born 22 Oct 1772 and died in Somerset Coanty, Pennsylvania 3 May 1836. He married Hannah Shultz who was born 28 July 1772 and died 9 March 1844. Both the Michael Shultz family and the John Hauger family came from the same part of New Jersey, and that Michael Shultz and John Hauger belonged to the same Company of New Jersey Revolutionary troops. We find the name spelled Hauger, Hager, Hagger, Haugger, Hoger, Hogger, etc. John Hauger, St. died in Somerset County, Pennsylvania 6 Dec 1813 a Revolutionary soldier, private, Captain William M. Berryhill's Company, First Battalion, Cumberland County Militia - 1780.
The only authentic inforanation so far obtainable is that John Hauger came from Antrim Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania to Brothersvalley Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania and bought the farm upon which Bruce Hauger lived (now owned by Joha Croner). He bought this farm on January 4, 1794 for the sum of two hunderd and fifty pounds. This farm has been in the Hauger name ever since. The record of transfer in Somerset County is spelled Hauger, but on the tombstone it is engraved as follows: John Hager, born in Prussia, year 1749, died December 6, 1813. He had seven sons and two daughters. Alongside him is buried his wife and on her tombstone is engraved as follows: Maria Barbara Hager, born April 6, 1749, died May 11, 1826.
Sources:

The Standard of Somerset, Pennsylvania dated Thursday 23 September 1909.

Somerset County, Edward B. Scull, Somerset, Pennsylvania, compiled by William H. Engle, M. D., 1877, member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Genealogy of the descendants of Michael Shultz, Charles Rose Shultz, p201.

Early Germans in New Jersey, Theodore Frelinghuysen Chambers, Reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1982, p392.

Information from Mrs. Edward Beard of Connelsville, PA.


Very little is known about the early history of John Hager. It is said that he came from the province of Cassel in Germany about 1774-76. Legend has it that they were of a rich family. It is said that John went with his sisters to see the soldiers that the British had employed from the Count of Cassel during the American Revolution. John teased his sisters by telling them that he too was going to AMerica and did enter the ship, the captain would not let him out again and the ship soon sailed - he was brought against his will to America. He left the German forces at the first opportunity and joined the American forces under General Washington where he served during the entire war.

Legend also has it that in a certain territory the American Army could not keep its guards from being killed by silent but deadly arrows of the Indian allies of the British. John Hager was selected as a guard to try to overcome this difficulty and he agreed to do so on the one condition that he be allowed to shoot on sight without the ususal challenge, if he saw fit to do so. This request was granted and before he had been at his post of duty many days he saw what appear to be a pig approaching him. He shot it upon first sight and upon inspection found that he had shot an Indian who had a pigskin over him, crawling along with his bow and arrow in order to get near enough to send the arrow on its deadly mission. This was the last time the guards were molested at that point.

He was a tailor by trade. He was married to Barbara Miller whose home was destroyed by the Indians and whose entire family, exept one brother, massacred by the Indians. She and her brother were made captives and held for about ten years when they were excanged in Philadelphia for and Indian Chief held captive by whites. The brother had like the wild, easy-going Indian life and returned soon after, he was never heard from again.

The above legends are not verified but it is known tht the County of Cassel was a profligate prince and that he made it a business of forcing men into his service as he was paid for it. At the time of the American Revolution he was particularly hard up and everyone who was not at the head of a family, or a land owner, was forced like a slave into his service and shipped to America. To the great honor and credit of many of these sturdy germans, however, it must be said that at the first opportunity, they left the British forces and enlisted for teh cause of freedom.

The Count of Cassel gave instructions to his generals in America to the effect that htose who were liable to died from wounds or sickness should be left to do so, because he got paid ten times as much for those who were killed as he did for those who were wounded or sick. His excuse was that he needed the money for his racing stables as well as for his grand opera entertainments in Rome.

Somerset County Historical Society papers.


John Hager

1749: born Prussia.

ca 1762: came to America with his parents or because his stepmother came to Hagerstown, Maryland where he had relatives.

no date: married Maria Barbara Miller (6 Apr 1749-11 May 1826, buried Old German Reformed cemetery, Berlin, Somerset County, Pennsylvania). In Oct 1760 she and her family were captured by Indians and held prisoners for seven to ten years.

no date: daughter Elizabeth born.

22 Oct 1772: son John, Jr. born.

ca 1775: daughter Barbara born.

5 Aug 1780: served as a private in Captain William Berryhill's Company, First Battalion, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Militia. Pennsylvania Archives 5th series V 8 p80.

1781: son Daniel born.

10 Sept 1782: son Simon born.

9 Apr 1783: deed from John Frees and wife to John Hager of Chambersburg, Pennsylvnia for property in the Borough of Chambersburg, consideration forty pounds. Franklin County, Pennsylvania Deed Book.

1 Sept 1784: deed from William Cowanand wife of Hamilton Township to John Hager of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania for 300 pounds, 106A in Hamilton Township. Franklin County, Pennsylvania Deed Book.

18 Nov 1784: deed from Barbara and John Hager to William McClure, all of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania for 200 pounds.

24 Jan 1784: son Henry born.

31 Mar 1785: deed from Barbara and John Hager to Jacob Whitmerfor 200 pounds ten acres in Antrim Township.

31 Mar 1785: deed from John and Barbara Hager to George Clingan all of Chambersburg 106A farmland in Hamilton Township for 295 pounds. Franklin County, Pennsylvania Deed Book.

15 June 1785: agreement of sale between Henry Sites and John Hager [name in the body of the instrument is spelled Hauger and the signature is written Hager] all of Antrim Township (Hager in signature) for the sale of ten acres. Franklin County, Pennsylvania.

no date: son Joseph born.

4 June 1788: son Jacob born.

4 June 1791: son William born.

21 May 1792: deed from Henry Sites and wife to John Hager, all of Antrim Township, ten acres (same tract as covered by the previous agreement).

1793: to Somerset County, Pennsylvania from Hagerstown, Maryland.

1793: bought "Friendship Farm" for 250 pounds. 1910 Hager history by David S. Hager MD, Chicago, Illinois. Somerset County Historical Society Papers.

18 Jan 1794: John and Barbara Hager to Jacob Whitmer all of Antrim Township farmland for 200 pounds. Signed in German: John Hauger. Franklin County, Pennsylvania.

18 Nov 1794: John and Barbara Hager to William McClure all of Chambersburg land in the Borough of Chambersburg, for 200 pounds. Franklin County, Pennsylvania.

6 Dec 1813: died, buried Old German Reformed cemetery, one block north of Main Street, Berlin, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

On stone is inscription "John Hager was born in Prussia in the year 1749, Died Dec 6th 1813, He had seven sons and two daughters".

1814: estate #1. Administers bond filed 7 Dec 1813. Brothersvalley Township, Administrators: Daniel and Simon Hauger. Inventory $947.47½, Advance of sales $43.20, Sale of rye and wheat $79.03, Total $1060.20, Disbursements $58.00½, Ballance in hands of administrator $1002.20 for distribution, Account filed 29 Mar 1815, Real estate 203 acres. Widow Barbara, Children: John, Daniel, Simon, Henry, Joseph, Jacob, William, Elizabeth married Michael Cover, Barbara married George Nagle, all of age. Appraised $11.25 per acre.

1826: widow Barbara's will probated. Somerset County, Pennsylvania Will Book 17.

Served in the Revolutionary War from New Jersey. { {rovate om Capt Wm. Barryhill's Co., 1st Battalion, Cumberland County militia] After marriage moved from New Jersey to Hagerstown, Maryland, then to that part of Bedford County which is now Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

John Hager no doubt had a hard time to get his German name accepted in the English speaking community. Notice that the lawyer who wrote the deeds as well as the agreement spells it Hauger and the signature is spelled Hager in all except the last deed. This no doubt gave him considerable trouble in business relations and he decided to spell it the way that the English speaking people would do, but no doubt on account of natural modesty he waited until he went into his new home in Somerset County before he would change the spelling. Notice that he bought the farm in Somerset County on 4 Jan 1794 and eleven days later he returned to Chambersburg to transfer and complete his sale there and here he spells his name Hauger. Therefore it is to be concluded that he first began to spell his name Hauger about 1 Jan 1794, in his new home in Somerset County. His wife however knew that was not the way to spell it properly, therefore after his death she had it engraved on the tombstone as it is rightly 0spelled Hager. Nevin Hauger of East McKeesport, Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Hauger (daughter of John and Maria Barbara (Miller) Hager)

no date: married Michael Cover.

no date: son Jacob Cover born.

no date: daughter Catherine Cover born.

or

Elizabeth Hager: 24 Apr 1768: born, no date: married Abraham Kemmel (9 Sept 1764-31 Jan 1840, buried Hauger cemtery, Brothersvalley Township), 24 May 1836: died, buried Hauger cemetery, Brothersvalley Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.



John Hauger, Jr. (son of John and Maria Barbara (Miller) Hauger/Hager)

22 Oct 1772: born.

no date: married Hannah Shultz (28 July 1772-9 Mar 1844, buried Lenhart cemetery). Somerset County, Pennsylvania Estate Book 12.

1800/1804: daughter Elizabeth born.

no date: son Jonathan born.

no date: daughter Susanna born.

no date: son William born.

no date: son Joseph born.

no date: son Simon born.

no date: son Jacob born.

no date: son Isaac born.

18 Jan 1798: ???son Emanuel born.???

29 May 1802: deed from Ludwick and Mary Fridline et al to John Hauger all of Somerset County, Pennsylvania 217A for 30 pounds situated near the forks of Laurel Hill Creek formerly in Turkey Foot (now in Somerset Township)... Somerset County, Pennsylvania Deed Book 4 p85.

22 May 1832: will written.

3/8 May 1836: died, buried Lenhart cemetery (on Barrons farm).

17 May 1836: will probated. Will named wife Hannah 1/3 including my two places and personal property; son Jonathan - oldest, 1/4 section in Ohio that he lives on; Joseph place he lives on in Somerset Township and two horses; William the other 1/4 section in Ohio; Isaac share out of notes and bonds; Simon plantation I live on and two horses; Jacob gets his share same way as Isaac; daughter Elizabeth married John Lenhart, like Isaac and Jacob; Susanna married Frederick Lenhart; Executor son Joseph and William Rickerd. Somerset County, Pennsylvania Will Book 3 p243.

4 Mar 1844: will of Hannah (X) Hauger widow of John of Somerset Township, children: Simon - stove and pipe, mantel clock, 1 copper kettle, 1 iron kettle, 5 cow chains, 1 foot ax, 1 broad az, 1 small auger and 2" auger and the English Bible; Caroline Leonhard daughter of Frederick - 2 bedsteads and bedding, chest and all in it, 1 pair fire tongs and shovel, 1 skimmer ladle, meat fork, coke shove, all kitchen furniture. Jacob Hauger, Executor.

15 Dec 1845: John Hauger by John Neff Trustee of Estate, to Simon and Isaac Hauger, one tract to Isaac, one tract to Simon, 2/3 John's and 1/3 of widow since deceased, each $600. Somerset County, Pennsylvania Deed Book 22 p367.

Ensign, New Jersey Revolutionary Troops. Pennsylvania Archives series 6 V 15 p870.

Lived a few miles northwest of the Borough of Somerset, two miles from Lavansville, Somerset Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

Lived near Donegal, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Hauger (daughter of John and Hannah (Shultz) Hauger, Jr.)

1800/1804: born.

no date: married John Lenhart (l79O/94-____).

15 June 1816: son Jonathan Lenhart born, died 1 Aug l906; married Leah Pile, lived in Somerset and Donegal Townships. Children:

Sarah Lenhart born 8 Nov 1842, married _______ Hemminger.

Catherine Lenhart born 11 Dec l844, died 8 Apr 1856.

David Franklin Lenhart born 19 April 1846, died 3 Feb 1892 Pleasant Unity, Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth Lenhart born 15 Oct 1848; married _______ Griffith of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania.

Susanna Lenhart born 19 Jan 1849, died 16 Apr 1858.

Mary Lenhart born 15 Oct 1851, died 29 Mar 1858.

Simon Peter Lenhart born 19 Apr 1850, died 4 Apr 1859.

Jonathan Lenhart, Jr. born 16 Jan 1853, died 20 Mar 1879. Child:

William H. Lenhart lived in Latroe.

Abraham Lenhart born 24 Mar 1854, married _______ Weaver. Child:

Jacob Lenhart of Youngwood, Pennsylvania.

William Alexander Lenhart born 4 Sept 1855, died 23 Mar 1858.

Henry Lenhart born 21 Feb 1857, lived in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

Andrew C. Lenhart born Sept 1858, lived in York, Pennsylvania.

Lottie Grace Lenhart born 6 July 1859.

Infant born and died 1860.

Agnes Lenhart born 2 July 1861, married _______ Baum.

Ellen Jane Lenhart born 1 May 1863, died 2 Sept 1877.

Ida Medora Lenhart born 10 Nov 1865, died 2 Sept 1877.

Harvey Demis Lenhart born 9 Oct 1867.

12 June 1819: son Peter Lenhart born, died 7 Dec 1873, buried near Kregar, Donegal Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; married Margaret Darr. In 1841 Peter Lenhart sold to his brother Jonathan Lenhart his undivided half interest in the farm of their father John Lenhart in Somerset Township, same having been sold to John in 1826, by Jacob and Catherine Lenhart). Children:

John Lenhart born 1845, married Mary Miller, Confluence, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Children:

Peter Lenhart born ca 1842, died Aug 1949, buried at Ursina, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

Jacob Lerhart died 1942, Buffalo, Erie County, New York.

Lynan Lerhart born ca 1889, died 1941, buried at Confluence, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

Sadie Lenhart married _______ Rietz.

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