HESCH HISTORY: One little letter different...

This branch of the Austrian Hesch family is descended from Johann Hesch and his wife Marya (Schlinz) Hesch, who came to America from Oberschlagles, Bohemia with three sons: Paul, Mathias, and Anton. +++Johann & Marya settled in Buffalo County, Wisconsin but moved to Pierz, Mn in about 1885. .+++Mathias settled in Waumandee, Wisconsin and moved to Pierz in 1911. +++Anton never married but farmed with his dad in Agram Township, where he died in 1911.+++And Paul, my great grandfather, settled five miles away, in Buckman, Minnesota. He died there in 1900.

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Wednesday, March 4, 2009

One little letter different...

Grandmas' mother Louise Sand was a RAUSCH, pronounced Rau-ssh, but there's another family in the Pierz/Buckman area named RAUCH (the way Roger says it, it rhymes with Couch). I think dad used to say Rauk, remember? I never distinguished between the two names before talking to--hmm, my third cousin, Roger.

Wanna calculate for yourself? This is from Ancestry.com, and our 'common ancestor' was Johann. For Roger, it's Johann, Mathias, Valentine, and Edna; for me, it's Johann, Paul, Anton, and Mike--see? Third cousins!

Of course at least one Hesch married a Rauch...that would be Anna, daughter of Mathias Hesch, who married John A Rauch, the kid from across the road in Agram Township, west of Pierz.

These descendants, too, are invited to the reunion!