Wilhelm HARTINGS

[v13t1393.ftw] WILLIAM AND MATHILDA AND THEIR CHILDRED IMMIGRATED FROM GERMANY TO AMERICA IN MAY OF 1850. THEIR PORT OF ENTRY BEING NEW YORK. THEYHAD SOME DIFFICULTY AT THE PORT OF ENTRY BECAUSE THEIR YOUNGEST CHILD, GERHARD, HAD BECOME VERY ILL DURING THEIR JOURNEY. THEIR DETENTION AT THE PORT OF ENTRY WAS IRKSOME TO THEM; BEING IN A STRANCE LANDAND DIFFERENT CUSTOMS. ALL THE OTHER PASSENGERS HAD LEFT FOR THEIR DESTINATIONS AND THEY WERE LEFT ALONE. THE WORST PROBLEM BEING LangUAGE DIFFICULTIES. AFTER RECEIVING PERMISSION FROM AUTHORITIES, THEIR SICK CHILD, GERHARD, WAS LEFT IN THE CARE OF A PRIEST AND THE FAMILY LEFT FOR THEIR ORIGINAL DESTINATION, IOWA. BUT BEFORE REACHING IOWA THEY STOPPED IN CINCINNATI, OH; AFTER VISITING WITH FRIENDS THEY WERE ADVISED TO GO BY CANAL BOAT TO MINSTER, OH, THAT THERE WAS GOOD FARM LAND THERE. THEY FOLLOWED THE ADVISE OF THEIR FRIENDS AND SETTLED ON A FARM IN THE PARISH OF ST. ROSE, MERCER, OH. AFTER GETTING SETTLED, WILLIAM WENT BACK TO NEW YOUK TO GET HIS YOUNGEST SON, BUT WHEN HE ARRIVED HE FOUND THAT THE PRIEST HAD BEEN CALLED BACK TO EITH AUSTRALIA OR ENGLAND AND NOT BEING ABLE TO REACH WILLIAM, HAD TAKEN THE BOY WITH HIM. A DEVASTRATED WILLIAM RETURNED TO OH TO TELL HIS FAMILY THE BAD NEWS. NOTHING WAS EVER LEARNED AS TO THE EXACT LOCATION OR WHEREABOUTS OF GERHARD.

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