Lorenz Hartung

1830-1925 · Germany

Born 1830, Prussia

Died 1925

Children include John

Lorenz Hartung was born in 1830 in Prussia. His gravestone at Oxford, Kansas, gives the year. The 1880 census gives Prussia as the birthplace of both him and his parents. His first name also appears as Lawrence and Lawrentz.

A family tree places his birth on 14 December 1830 at Geisleden, a Catholic village in the Eichsfeld, then part of the Prussian province of Saxony. The same tree names his parents as Balthasar Johann Hartung and Elisabeth Semmelrogge. It gives his marriage to Katharina Hasselwander on 30 March 1862 in St. Louis County, Missouri. That fits the census, which calls him Prussian, but the tree cites no church record for either event.

His wife Kate, born Catharine Hasselwander in 1842, was German too. Their first five children were born in Missouri: Margaret about 1863, Annie about 1865, Edward in 1866, Clara about 1869 and Frances about 1871. By about 1873 the family had moved to Kansas, where Amanda was born. Katurah, called Tura, followed in October 1876, and John Adam on 25 February 1883 at Oxford.

On 14 June 1880 the census taker found the family farming in Oxford Township, Sumner County. Oxford is a small town on the Arkansas River in south central Kansas, between Wellington and Winfield. Lorenz was 49 and Catharine 38. Margaret, 17, and Annie, 15, kept house. Edward, 13, was a plowboy. Clara, Frances, Amanda and Ketura were at home.

In 1895 the state census still had them there. L. Hartung was 64 and Catharine 54, with three of the children at home, the youngest John, 12.

Several of the children went south into Oklahoma after it opened for settlement. Edward farmed near Garber, in Garfield County. John farmed near Billings and later near Morrison, in Noble County. Both families came back to visit. In the autumn of 1906 the wife of Ed Hartung spent two weeks at Oxford with his parents. In January 1911 the Billings paper reported that John had left on a Saturday "to spend a week visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hartung of Oxford, Kansas."

Lorenz Hartung died at Oxford in 1925, at about 94 or 95. A family tree gives the date as 25 June. Kate died the next year. They are buried in the Oxford Cemetery under one grey granite stone headed HARTUNG, with LORENZ 1830 1925 on one side and KATE 1842 1926 on the other. Their daughter FRANCES 1871 1905 is cut below them.

Children

John Adam Hartung 1883-1958

Sources

The Pawnee Chief (Pawnee, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 41, 26 June 1958, p. 1; Gateway to Oklahoma History, ark:/67531/metadc2289825, page 1.

Oklahoma, Noble County, Parker Funeral Home, Funeral Records, 1908 to 1982, John Adam Hartung; FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:DHYD-RCMM.

Kansas State Census, 1895, Sumner, Atchison County, household of L. Hartung; FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:QL8J-2XQ8.

Find a Grave, memorial 19062444, Lorenz Hartung, Oxford Cemetery, Oxford, Sumner County, Kansas, photograph added 2007; also memorials 19062459 (Kate) and 19062467 (Frances).

1880 United States census, Oxford Township, Sumner County, Kansas, enumeration district 191, page 19 (stamped 95), dwelling 168, family 185; National Archives microfilm T9, roll 398, archive.org item 10thcensus0398unit, image 195.

The Billings News (Billings, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 16, 20 January 1911, p. 3; Gateway to Oklahoma History, ark:/67531/metadc1172291/m1/3.

People's Voice (Wellington, Kan.), 13 February 1896, p. 1, and 25 June 1896, p. 1, the second reprinted from the Oxford Register; Chronicling America, Library of Congress, sn85032801.

The Billings News (Billings, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 4, 12 October 1906, p. 5; Gateway to Oklahoma History, ark:/67531/metadc1172212/m1/5.

Oklahoma, Noble County, Parker Funeral Home records, entry for John Adam Hartung (FamilySearch DHYD-RCMM); Kansas state census 1895 (QL8J-2XQ8); 1880 census, Oxford Township, Sumner County, Kansas, ED 191, page 19 (stamped 95), dwelling 168 (National Archives T9 roll 398, archive.org 10thcensus0398unit, image 195); Find a Grave memorials 19062444 (Lorenz), 19062459 (Kate) and 19062467 (Frances), Oxford Cemetery, with the stone photograph; memorials of the children 31564007, 117913551, 36365847, 54611758, 54611725, 63282148; People's Voice, Wellington, 13 February 1896 p. 1 and 25 June 1896 p. 1 (Chronicling America, sn85032801); Billings News, 12 October 1906 p. 5, 11 December 1908 p. 4 and 20 January 1911 p. 3 (Gateway to Oklahoma History, ark:/67531/metadc1172212, metadc1173018, metadc1172291); family tree of Lorenz Hartung on GEDBAS (genealogy.net, person 1274543189).

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