This Week's Article From the Beech Grove

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Sunday School Picnic at Knoebels Grove, c. 1937

It is a fact that Oak Grove Lutheran Church, which is located between Pottsgrove and Danville, Pennsylvania, was often referred to as the “Hagenbuch Church” during the 1900s. That is certainly supported by the...

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Andreas Hagenbuch Acquires Land in Berks County

Andreas Hagenbuch (b. 1715) and his family landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 18, 1737. They spent that first winter in or nearby the city. As spring approached, Andreas Hagenbuch visited the Pennsylvania Land...

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Montour County Christmas Memories

Rewriting the article on early Christmases last week brought to mind one of the wishes that all genealogists have: that our ancestors would have kept better records, especially of their every day life experiences....

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Christmas for the Hagenbuchs in Berks County

This article was first published in the December, 1982 issue of “The Beech Grove.” We all have fond memories of Christmases long ago. The snow seemed deeper, the stoves in our homes warmer, and...

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Settling in Pennsylvania in 1737

Andreas Hagenbuch (b. 1715) and his pregnant wife, Maria Magdalena (Schmutz), landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 18, 1737. They had endured many hardships during their months at sea aboard the Charming Nancy, including...

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The Beech Grove: Hagenbuch Family Newsletter

Since I was 13 years old, I’ve always had an interest in our family history. Some folks tell me 13 is an early age to be making family trees and asking relatives what they...

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Music of Andreas Hagenbuch’s Time

Music can reveal a great deal about people and their culture. This is true whether those people are from the present or the past. Andreas Hagenbuch was born in 1715 in Grossgartach within the...

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One Silver Dollar

This story was told to Mark Hagenbuch around 1963 by his great Uncle Perce (b. 1880) and corroborated in 1972 by his father’s first cousin, Bruice Hagenbuch (b. 1913). Francis Eugene Hagenbuch—Uncle Gene—was the...

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Pronouncing Hagenbuch

As I have done many times when I have an appointment, I walked up to the receptionist’s desk and wrote my name on the pad: “Mark HAGENBUCH”. (I print my last name and usually...