Napoleon Hessig

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Napoleon Hessig
b. 2 April 1840, Stark County, Ohio, or St. Joseph County, Indiana, to George and Margaret (Keifer) Hessig
d. 1918, Whitewater Township, Winona County, Minnesota

m. 14 June 1863, Indiana
Fiannah Schlott
b. 13 May 1841, Stark County, Ohio
d. 31 May 18??, Whitewater Township, Winona County, Minnesota

Children with Fiannah Schlott:

  • Harvey
  • George Franklin
  • Alice Maudilla
  • Minnie Belle
  • Mary Amanda
  • William Day
  • Lillie May
  • Edna Gertrude
  • Aaron E.
  • Lulu Edna

In 1862 Napoleon Hessig walked to Minnesota on foot from Harris Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana, and claimed 160 acres of wild land lying at the head of the Whitewater Valley in Winona County. The following year he returned to Indiana, where he married. He and his wife then returned to Minnesota.

Submitted by:
Graylen K. Becker
Rochester MN

George Hassig

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George Hassig
b. 17 November 1808, Strasburg, France, to John and Barbara Hassig

m. 1840, Indiana
Margaret Keiffer

Children with Margaret Keiffer:

  • Napoleon (1840–1918) married Fiannah Schlott
  • Franklin (b. ca. 1846–22 July 1912) married Maria (Winters) Butler
  • Louisa (b. ca. 1842-d. young)
  • Eliza Ann (b. ca. 1844–abt. 1872) married John Keller
  • Emanuel (1848–1923)
  • Israel (b. ca. 1845) married Emma C. Miller
  • Margaret (b. ca. 1851 and may have d. in February 1908) married William Null

George came to the United States in 1832, and lived for about five years in Stark County, Ohio, before moving to Harris Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana, about 1837.

Submitted by:
Graylen K. Becker
Rochester MN

Emanuel Hessig

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Emanuel Hessig
b. about 1848, Harris Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana, to George and Margaret (Keifer) Hassig
d. 25 June 1923, Winona, Minnesota

m/1. 6 May 1871, Plainview, Winona County, Minnesota
Arwilda D. Hodgkin
b. 27 June 1850, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, to Stephen H. and Nancy A. (Hemprell) Hodgkin
d. shortly after the birth of a second daughter on 20 March 1873

m/2. 10 December 1878, Whitewater, Winona County, Minnesota
Nancy Albertine “Tina” Hodgkin
b. 18 March 1858, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, to Stephen H. and Nancy A. (Hemprell) Hodgkin
d. 1 September 1915, near Garneill, Fergus County, Montana

Children with Arwilda D. Hodgkin:

  • two daughters who died at or shortly after birth

Children with Nancy Albertine Hodgkin:

  • Nellie (b. 12 October 1879, Harris Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana)
  • Victor Emanuel (b. 16 April 1884, Beaver Valley, Minnesota)

Emanuel emigrated from St. Joseph County, Indiana, in 1862 to Winona County, Minnesota. He moved about 1898 to Garneill, Fergus County, Montana, and returned to Beaver, Minnesota, about 1905.

Submitted by:
Graylen K. Becker
Rochester MN

Frances Herndon

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Frances Herndon
b. 1791–92, Culpepper or Madison County, Virginia, to William and Mary (Bohannon) Herndon
d. 29 January 1865, Sangamon County, Illinois

m/1. 5 March 1812, Franklin County, Indiana
Henry Hammons

m/2. 13 February 1823, Franklin County, Indiana
Elisha James
b. about 1775, Maryland
d. 14 October 1841, Rush County, Indiana

Children with Henry Hammons:

  • Harrison (1812–1891)
  • Nancy (b. ca. 1820)

Children with Elisha James:

  • George B.
  • Frances “Fanny”

The minutes of the Pleasant Run Baptist Church recorded the death of Elisha James in the fall of 1841 in these exact words: “All the neighborhood attended the burying of Brother Elisha James last week; everybody know about it, why bother to record the fact.”

About 1841, and before the 1850 census, Frances and her children, Nancy Hammons, and George B. and Fanny James, moved from Rush County, Indiana, to Sangamon County, Illinois, to be near her brother, Archer Gray Herndon. Archer, who had been known as a great Indian fighter, assisted Frances in making a home and taking care of her children. She did seamstress work and tailoring for local residents.

Archer Gray Herndon and Abraham Lincoln and seven others were members of the “Long Nine”, the group that was instrumental in establishing Springfield as the capitol of Illinois. Archer’s son, William Henry Herndon, was the law partner of Abraham Lincoln and after Lincoln’s death wrote a three-volume biography of Lincoln.

Archer Gray Herndon, Frances Herndon James, and Abraham Lincoln are all buried at Oak
Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois.

Submitted by:
Sharon Hohimer
Chatham IL

Horace Russell Henkle

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Horace Russell Henkle
b. 1 November 1870, Jasper County, Indiana, to Lemual Wesley and Lucinda (Russell) Henkle
d. 11 October 1949, Paonia, Delta County, Colorado

m. 5 September 1895, Noblesville, Hamilton County, Indiana
Effa Hope Phelps
b. 20 October 1875, Westfield, Hamilton County, Indiana
d. 15 March 1952, Paonia, Delta County, Colorado

Children with Effa Hope Phelps:

  • Herman Henry (1900–1987)
  • Lydia (1902–1982)
  • Margaret (1904–1983)
  • Esther (1911–1987)
  • Charles Van (b. 1914)

Horace Henkle taught school in Jasper County, Indiana, for a time but chose to escape the fate of most tuberculosis sufferers by “going west” to work and live in the sunny, dry climate of Colorado. He emigrated from Indiana in 1895 to Colorado Springs, Colorado. After teaching there for a few years, he became a life-long farmer and fruit grower, pioneering a new planting of fruit trees in Mesa County, Colorado.

Copies of a pictorial family history, Ancestors and Descendants of Horace Russell and Effa Hope Phelps Henkle, have been donated to the Allen County Public Library, the historical library of Hamilton County, Indiana, and other genealogical libraries by four of their children.

Submitted by:
Charles Van Henkle
Lincoln NE

Emery William Hendrixson

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Emery William Hendrixson
b. 28 March 1881, Delaware, Ripley County, Indiana, to Jesse Alexander and Catherine A. (Engles) Hendrixson
d. 31 March 1968, Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas

m. 7 September 1903, Anthony, Harper County, Kansas
Anna Estrella Cooley
b. 19 September 1888, Kingston, Caldwell County, Missouri
d. 18 January 1965, Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas

Children with Anna Estrella Cooley:

  • Edward Eugene (1905–1982)
  • Fredrick Franklin (1907–1972)
  • Lyrah Catharine (b. 1912)
  • Rosa Minnie (1912–1946)
  • Merle Douglas (1914–1987)
  • Lloyd Raymond (b. 1916)
  • Harry Dudley (1919–1977)
  • Cora Iola (b. 1921)
  • Hazel Jeanne (b. 1927)
  • Esther Marie (b. 1929)
  • Ruth Ann (b. 1932)

Emery emigrated from Ripley County, Indiana to Lyons, Rice County, Kansas, in 1886.

Submitted by:
Elizabeth Hendrixson
Wichita KS 

Alexander Jesse Hendrixson

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Alexander Jesse Hendrixson
b. 23 June 1834, Ripley County, Indiana, to John C. and Martha (Crandall) Hendrixson
d. 8 December 1911, Ninnescah Township, Reno County, Kansas

m/1. 16 April 1857, Dearborn County, Indiana
Catherine A. Engle
b. 20 November 1842, Indiana
d. 11 May 1890, Little River, Rice County, Kansas

m/2. after May 1890
Rosea M. (Campen) Duvall

Children with Catherine A. Engle:

  • John C. (1858–1859)
  • Henry Albert (1860–1954) married Hannah Edna Dole
  • Sarah G. (b. 1862)
  • George (1865–1873)
  • Clara B. (1868–1869)
  • Franklin Dayton (1870–1946) married Cora A. Mathes
  • Ida Mae (1873–1888) married Charles Rollins
  • Mary A. (1875–1876)
  • Nora Zelma (1877–1954) married William Enfield
  • Emery William (1881–1968) married Anna Estrella Cooley
  • Elzena Wheeler (1883–1957) married John T. Arnold

Alexander emigrated from Indiana in 1886 to Lyons, Rice County, Kansas.

Submitted by:
Elizabeth Hendrixson
Wichita KS

Richard Hendrickson

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Richard Hendrickson
b. 1810, Kentucky
d. 25 February 1896, Redfield, Bourbon County, Kansas

m/1. 15 August 1831, Bartholomew County, Indiana
Margaret McKibbon
b. 1813, Ohio
d. 12 April 1849, Newcastle Township, Fulton County, Indiana

m/2. 1850
Sarah Jane Crew/Cruz

Children with Margaret McKibbon:

  • Mariah (b. 1835)
  • Sarah “Sally” (b. 1838)
  • Harrison Henry (1840–1899) married Lizzie Custard
  • Richard (1842–1863)
  • George (1844–1878) married Mary Ann Morgan
  • James (1846–1863)

Richard emigrated from German Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana, to Bloomfield, Davis County, Iowa, in 1853.

All of Richard and Margaret’s sons volunteered and served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Richard, Jr. and James died in the war. George, the only son to have children, fathered eight children before he died at age 33 in 1878 of war-related injuries and illness.

Sarah Jane Crew/Cruz, Richard’s second wife, was a widow with a son, William.

In 1865 Richard and Jane, his second wife, moved from Iowa to Kansas, where he farmed
and operated a gristmill. They lived long and healthy lives until they died within hours of each other in 1896. Around 1878, the spelling of the family name was changed to Hendrixson for reasons unknown.

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Paula G. Vierra
Eagan MN

Calaway Hedrick

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Calaway Hedrick
b. 6 November 1832–33, Tennessee, to John and Lucy (Hipshire) Hedrick
d. July 1912, Liberty, Montgomery County, Kansas

m. 3 November 1858, Grainger County, Tennessee
Sarah Emmaline Harvey
b. September 1828 or 1830, Tennessee
d. 30 July 1902, Montgomery County, Kansas

Children with Sarah Emmaline Harvey:

  • Barbara Ellen
  • William Tobias
  • Mary
  • Eliza
  • James E.
  • Lucy
  • Albert Sherman
  • John Wesley

Calaway immigrated to Indiana from Tennessee in 1865. He emigrated from Randolph County, Indiana, to Liberty, Montgomery County, Kansas, after 1876.

Submitted by:
Judith L. Weber
Greenfield IA

William Hayes Hedden

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William Hayes Hedden
b. 21 May 1877, Taylor Township, Harrison County, Indiana, to Benjamin Franklin and Anna Mae (Fertig) Hedden
d. 9 August 1964, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky

m. 9 June 1909, Ellensburg, Kittatas County, Washington
Myrtle Alice Pittock
b. 26 March 1882, Falls City, Richardson County, Nebraska, to Henry and Alice Cary (Elwell) Pittock
d. 13 January 1980, Sunland, California

William emigrated from Taylor, Harrison County, Indiana, to Red River, Kittson County, Minnesota, about 1900.

Children with Myrtle Alice Pittock:

  • Wilbur Hayes (1911–1911)
  • William Harold (b. 1913) married (1) Ellen Eva DeBook, (2) Irene Archuletta Naranjo, (3) Mary Fernandez Powell, (4) Anna Elizabeth Smith
  • Harvey Pittock (1914–1950)
  • Wilma Hazel (b. 1916) married Kenneth G. William
  • Benjamin Franklin (1926–1928)

William H. Hedden’s grandparents, George Washington and Elizabeth Malone Hedden of Kentucky, were the first inhabitants of their Harrison County, Indiana, wilderness farm after the Potawatomi Indians left. Their son Benjamin Franklin, who was born in Kentucky, was the first of their twelve children. Their second son, George Washington Heddon, Jr., born on Heddon Hill in southern Indiana, was fatally wounded on the first day of the Battle of Nashville during the Civil War.

William Hayes Heddon, sixth child of Benjamin Franklin Heddon and the first of his second wife Anna Mae Fertig, told of how his family raised fruit, pork, and other farm produce. They would have relatives and neighbors come to stay during harvest and butchering times to help. Then the family produce would be taken by team and wagon to Rosewood, a shipping point on the Ohio River. William would go on the steam paddle wheeler with the produce, which was packed in locally manufactured wooden barrels, to the market nineteen miles up river at Louisville.

During one of these harvest seasons, the Heddon home, a large timber building, caught fire in the middle of the night. The family threw everything out of windows on the second story and dragged as much out of the first floor as they could. The disaster nearly ruined Benjamin Franklin Heddon, who built a much smaller house on the spot.

Submitted by:
William Harold Hedden
Arvada CO