The Final Request: Samuel Sechler and Mary Davis, Part 5
The March 13, 1880 proposal of marriage from Samuel Sechler to Mary Davis was accepted on April 8 in a letter from Mary to Sam. We do not know what occurred between that date...
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The Proposal: Samuel Sechler and Mary Davis, Part 4
Although the Sechler family of Pennsylvania only impacts the genealogy of a fraction of our readers, the letters that Samuel Sechler and Mary Davis wrote to each other in 1879 and 1880 open a...
Love Letters Continued: Samuel Sechler and Mary Davis, Part 3
Samuel Sechler and Mary Davis were married on December 1, 1880. They are the parents of Hannah Margaret Sechler who married Clarence Charles Hagenbuch—great great great grandson of the patriarch Andreas and grandfather of...
Letters of Samuel and Mary “Davis” Sechler, Part 2
The fifty some pieces of communication mentioned in Part 1 of this series are in a small cardboard box. The letters are divided into two packets wrapped inside the outer sleeves that were once...
Hagenbuchs and Sechlers Entwined
Back in about 1978, I first walked through the graveyard at New Bethel Union Church near the Hagenbuch homestead in Albany Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. I had been looking for the farm where Andreas...
Giving Care to Our Ill Relatives
As you know, I am now on hospice care due to the advancement of prostate cancer. I was still hoping to buy more time; but two weeks ago, after my wife Linda, my oncologist,...
Picture Perfect: Family in Photos
The Hagenbuch photo archives are massive. I have drawers of photos. I have boxes of photos, and I have folders filled with photos. Some are filed by family, but many are stored as a...
Back to My Roots with Photos
When I began dating Linda back in 1972, I became interested in photography. My mother, Irene, had already been taking a lot of photos for years and many of these were on slides. We...
Homer Hagenbuch’s Scrapbook, Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, details about the different types of ephemera found in the scrapbook of Homer Hagenbuch (b. 1916) were discussed. His mother, Hannah, and his sister, Ellen, were instrumental in...
Distinguishing Features
“Ahh, she looks just like Uncle Joe!” “No, she doesn’t. But she has her mother’s nose.” “Well, I think she looks just her Daddy’s picture when he was born. Look at those eyes and...
