Today In Genealogy History – October 22, 2011
Esther Myra Hertz was born 110 years ago – October 22, 1901 – in Johnson County, Iowa, the daughter of George Edwin Hertz and Rosa Leuenberger. Esther married James Jolly; they had one son, Rex Edwin.
Jacob Leuenberger and Margareth Streich
Jacob and Margareth Streich Leuenberger Jacob Leuenberger and Margareth Streich are Ritchey’s great-great-grandparents. Both were born in Germany and came to the United States before their marriage in Johnson County, Iowa, on May 27, 1869. They had 9 children. Rosa, born March 31, 1876, married George Edwin Hertz […]
Biographies From A History of Johnson County, Iowa
From History of Johnson County, Iowa CHARLES FERNSTROM, farmer and stock raiser, post-office Lone Tree; was born in Sweden, City of Skara, August 22, 1833, where he spent his early life and attended the university of his native city; also engaged in clerking in a book store for […]
Aquilla Whitacre, Biography
Taken from the History of Johnson County, Iowa AQUILLA WHITACRE, was born at Hopewell, near Winchester, Virginia, the 7th of 9th month, 1797, and removed with his parents, Robert and Patience Whitacre, in 1805, near to Miami Monthly Meeting at Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio. In 1820, or near […]
Today In Genealogy History – September 28, 2011
Rosa Leuenberger and George Edwin Hertz were married 113 years ago – September 18, 1898 – in Johnson County, Iowa. Rosa was the daughter of Jacob Leuenberger and Margaret Streich. George was the son of Henry Hertz and Amelia Florentina Probst. George and Rosa had two children: Harold […]
Biographies of Ames Cherry and Captain Alfred B. Cree
History of Johnson County, Iowa Ames Cherry, farmer, Lincoln township, post-office, Iowa City; was born August 24, 1840; came to Iowa City with his father, Thomas W. Cherry in 1856. He was married January 10, 1867, to Miss Minnie McClellan. This union is blessed with two children: Louis, […]
Oakland Cemetery, Solon, Iowa
Jolly – Hertz – Leuenberger Oakland Cemetery in Solon, Iowa, is the final resting place for Ritchey’s paternal grandmother and her ancestors. In a previous blog about the George Hertz family there are photos for the gravestones of George Hertz, his first wife Rosa Leuenberger, second wife Ethel […]
George Hertz Family
Note by Phyllis Brown: George Edwin Hertz is Ritchey’s great-grandfather. He is the son of Henry and Florentina Probst Hertz. George married Rosa Leuenberger 28 Sep 1898 in Johnson County, Iowa. They had two children, Harold born in 1899, and Esther in 1901. Rosa became ill with consumption […]
BELOVED MAN FALLS ASLEEP
Note by Phyllis Brown: Henry Hertz was my husband’s great-great-grandfather. Since Ritchey’s father was adopted at the age of two, it was only in the last several years that we discovered his family lines. We knew Rex’s mother was a Hertz and his father was a Jolly. The Iowa […]
