Re: Jacob Mohr

I have a book written about Moos by a local historian there that includes some genealogy information. I also use the website “Emigration from Southwest-Germany” put out by the Landesarchiv Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Mathias Haungs’s parental home was Karlstrasse 2 in Moos. You can use Google Earth to see it (use ‘Moos-Buehl’ for the village name). His mother’s maiden name was ‘Back’ according to the history book, she was born in Oberwasser (another village in Baden north of Moos) and died in 1873.

This is Mathias’s record from ‘Emigration from Southwest-Germany’
Last name; Haungs
Last place of residence; Bühl
District; Moos
Marital status; led. [single]
Country of destination; Nordamerika
Reference; Ignaz, Brigitta (Sohn von)
Emigration year; 1853
Age at emigration; 21

It is likely he is 'Math. Hangs' arriving in New York 7 Mar 1853 on ship 'Isaac Bell' traveling with 22 year old Dionis and 25 year old Lorenz 'Ocks' (Ochs) who were also from Moos. Dionis and Lorenz were cousins, not brothers, and one ended up in Erie County and the other in Kansas(?).

Mathias had the two siblings that we know came to America and that you mention. Carl/Karl Haungs (1835-1899) left in 1857 and Theresia Haungs-Windeck (1837-1899) left in 1855 and they both lived in the Peoria area.

Xaver Haungs has been a bit of a mystery to me. There was a Xaver Haungs who left Moos in 1855.

‘Emigration from Southwest-Germany’
First name; Xaver
Last name; Haungs
Last place of residence; Bühl
District; Moos
Reference; Dyonis (Sohn von) [mother was Marie Sofie Schell]
Emigration year; 1855
Age at emigration; 17

This Xaver/Xavier was the one that I thought was in the 1860 census of Peoria. He was born 1834 in Moos and the Peoria Xavier was shown as born around 1836 in the census. I know enough not to blindly trust census records. Did you find Franz Xavier Haungs (1827-1861) in the Moos microfilms or via local Peoria records? ‘Haver’ is not a German name but ‘Xaver’ pronounced in German would sound somewhat like ‘Haver’ to a English-speaker. Do you think ‘Xaver’ and ‘Haver’ might be the same person? There is no Franz or Xaver Haungs born 1827 in Moos in either the book or the Emigration from Southwest-Germany site but that is not too troubling as neither the book or the site captured everyone who left.

The St. Dionis Catholic Church records from Moos use Latin first names so Georgius Haungs would likely be known as Georg in civil records. His wife’s name was likely ‘Knebel’, another common Moos family name. There were Knebels from Moos in Limestone Township of Peoria County.I would think it is possible that ‘Gardner’ is likely ‘Gartner’.

Florian Haungs (1816 Moos – 1880 Peoria) was a son of Franz Anton Haungs of Moos and Theresia Hensel of Hildmannsfeld. He is likely related to Mathias in some way. Florian’s sister Carolina Haungs (1819-1856?) lived in Peoria with husband Louis/Ludwig Droll (1823-1893). Florian’s sister Euphrozine Haungs was married to Dominik Seiler and although she never came to America some of her Seiler children did and they lived in Limestone Township of Peoria County.Florian’s wife was Albina Streibich and a number of Albina’s siblings came to Peoria (Lidle, Mangold, Speck and Streibich family names).

A Volz family from Moos lived in Limestone Township and a Trapp family lived in Kickapoo Township.

That's enough for this message.