Tagged: Oak Grove Lutheran Church

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Franklin Walter Hagenbuch Family, Montour Co., PA

Several articles have been written about Hiram Hagenbuch and his wife Mary Ann “Lindner” Hagenbuch. Hiram, born 1847, was the son of William Hagenbuch born 1807. Hiram was the great great grandson of Andreas...

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Cemetery Stories

The story has already been related of my Sunday sojourns to the Oak Grove Church cemetery with my great Uncle Perce. Cemeteries often hold a morbid fascination for most people and stories abound that...

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Percy Hagenbuch and Family

Several previous articles were dedicated in part or in total to Percy Hagenbuch who was born in 1880 and died in 1967. My great Uncle Perce (older brother to my grandfather, Clarence b. 1889)...

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A Day Trip Through Hagenbuch Country

This article documents a trip that occurred on May 31, 2015, when I was still living in California. During visits to Pennsylvania, my father, Mark, and I would explore sites connected to our Hagenbuch...

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Clarence and Hannah (Sechler) Hagenbuch Family

Clarence Charles Hagenbuch was the son of Hiram Hagenbuch (b. 1847) and Mary Ann (Lindner) Hagenbuch (b. 1853); he was a great, great, great grandson of Andreas Hagenbuch (b. 1715). His family line is:...

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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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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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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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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...