G. A. HEBING
[Page 712.] Gehart Hebing came with his brother, Charles, and helped to improve the farm on that section. They, also, owned a place in Union township, and on a division of the property being made, Gehart removed to Union, where he now resides.
[Page 745.] G. A. Hebing was born on the banks of the river Rhine in Prussia, December 12, 1840. When nineteen years of age he came to America to seek a home. He landed at New York City, remaining there four weeks, and then went to Sandusky, Ohio. Six weeks later he went to Davenport, Iowa, thence to Grinnell, where he remained four weeks. He next went to Council Bluffs and Omaha, and a few days later to Cass county. This was in 1857. In February, 1859 he, in company with eight others, crossed the plains to Central City, Colorado and engaged in mining. He returned to Cass county in October of the same year. A few days after his return he started East on a visit to New York City, Sandusky and other points. The following spring he came again to this county and soon after, again crossed the plains to Colorado. He remained there until the December following, and then returned. August 1, 1862, he enlisted in company I, of the Twenty-third Iowa Volunteers. He participated in engagements at Currant river, Missouri, Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, Raymond, Champion Hill and Black River Bridge. He was wounded at the latter place in the left leg, in consequence of which he suffered amputation. He was removed, three weeks later to Jackson hospital at Memphis, then to Dodge hospital at St. Louis, thence to Jefferson barracks and there discharged as convalescent and returned to Cass county. Three months previous to enlistment he was married to Mary E. Chapman, a daughter of one of the pioneers of Adair county. She was born in February, 1841. After his return from the army, Mr. Hebing began improving a farm in Bear Grove township, on which he lived until December, 1882, then sold and moved to his present farm in Union township. It is located on section 20, and contains seven hundred and twenty acres with five hundred acres improved. This is the largest farm in the township. The land lies on sections 20, 21 and 29. His residence is on section 20. Mr. and Mrs. Hebing have six children--Altha F., wife of W. R. Noland of Edna; Charles H., Frederick M., Lena A., Mattie and Mary Maud.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 712, 745.
