Augustus Hartwig1,2

Family Chart
ID# 23294, (1860 - )
FatherHarmon Jacob Hartwig3,4 (6 Oct 1833 - 30 Aug 1920)
MotherMarie Sophie Charlotte Geltmeyer3 (27 Nov 1831 - btn 1862 - 1870)

Key Events:

Birth: 22 Feb 1860, Indiana5,6,7
ChartsDescendants of Hermann Hinrich Fennker
AncestryThe Fenker Family

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Narrative:

     Augustus Hartwig was born on 22 Feb 1860 in Indiana.5,6,7 Augustus and Angeline were twins.8,9
     He appeared on the 1860 Federal Census of Huntington, Huntington Co., Indiana, in the household of his parents, Harmon Jacob Hartwig and Marie Sophie Charlotte Geltmeyer.10
     His mother apparently died between 1862 and 1870, when Augustus was under 10 years old, perhaps as young as two.11,12,13
     Augustus has not been found in the 1870 census. He was not listed with his father, with his two sisters who were with their father's sister and her husband in Cincinnati, with his younger sister who was also listed with their mother's brother in Huntington, nor with any of the other known siblings of either his father or mother.
     He appeared on the 1880 Federal Census of Huntington Twp., Huntington Co., Indiana, in the household of his father, Harmon Jacob Hartwig, and stepmother, Elizabeth Zahn.4
     He was a laborer in 1880.14
     No further record of him has been found. The generally through coverage of the family in local newspapers includes no mention of his death or of him living elsewhere.

Citations

  1. [S11129] Herman Hardwick household, 1860 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana, shows name as Augustus Hardwick.
  2. [S11148] H. Hartwieg household, 1880 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana, shows name as Gustaves Hartwieg.
  3. [S11129] Herman Hardwick household, 1860 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana, shows them apparently living as parent and child.
  4. [S11148] H. Hartwieg household, 1880 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana.
  5. [S11129] Herman Hardwick household, 1860 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana, shows age 1 and state.
  6. [S11148] H. Hartwieg household, 1880 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana, shows age 21 and state.
  7. [S500] Findagrave.com, online, memorial # 78956462, Angeline Hartweg Hoffmann, his twin sister, shows grave location and date.
  8. [S11129] Herman Hardwick household, 1860 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana, shows them as twins.
  9. [S11148] H. Hartwieg household, 1880 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana, shows them as twins.
  10. [S11129] Herman Hardwick household, 1860 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana.
  11. [S11130] Abraham Falk household, 1870 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana, shows Harmon clerk in a grocery store and apparently rooming with a grocer.
  12. [S11131] Gotteib Miller household, 1870 U.S. Census, Hamilton Co., Ohio, shows Angeline and Emma living with Harmon's sister and her husband.
  13. [S10869] Nathan Kuhlman household, 1870 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana, shows Emma also living with her brother Nathan and his wife.
  14. [S11148] H. Hartwieg household, 1880 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana, shows occupation as labourer.