John and Anna Reuter Hingtgen

HINGTGEN, REUTER, EBNER, REISTROFFER, REITER, ETRINGER, EVEN

Posted By: Gene Ebner (email)
Date: 4/1/2005 at 23:09:44

John and Anna Reuter Hingtgen came to Jackson County from Hostert, Luxembourg in 1862. John's father Peter Hingtgen and three brothers, Jacob,Theodore,and Bernard and a sister Anna Hingtgen Even came to Jackson County in the 1850's. John's mother died before the family left Luxembourg. John Hingtgen was born John Simong to his unwed mother Susan Simong on November 27, 1817. Susan married Peter Hingtgen about six months later.

John and Anna Hingtgen came to Jackson County with five of their children, Susan, Theodore, Anne,Marguerite, and John Peter in 1862. They bought 80 acres of land from Alexander Millne in section 1, Richland Township on October 21, 1862. This land was to the west of his brother's farms.

Three more children, Susanna, Theodore Leo, and John were born on their farm and baptized at St. Donatus church. John and Anna's oldest daughter Susan married Frank Reistroffer at St Donatus in 1864. Theodore J. Hingtgen married Mary Etringer at St Donatus in 1872. Anne Hingtgen married Edward Ebner at Spring Brook in 1872. Marguerite married Theodore Reiter around 1875.
John Peter and Theodore Leo got married in North Dakota after after 1879. The youngest John Jr.Hingtgen never married.

John Hingtgen died in Janurary 1877 in Jackson County, Iowa and his wife Anna died August 1903 in Jackson County, Minnesota.

The information for the biography came from Germans to America boat records, census records, Land Deed records, church records, Luxembourg civil records, land abstracts, plat maps of Jackson County, History of Jackson County 1879, and from family oral history.