In 1884 Johann JOACHIM Friedrich Hagen emigrated with his family to America and settled in Clayton Co., Iowa. His brother Johann Joachim HEINRICH Hagen followed in 1887. The two brothers descended from their father's third marriage. His name was Johann Joachim Friedrich Hagen and he was farmer in Klein Krams. He stayed only 8 years on the farm, then his stepdaughter took over the farm in 1842. His seven surviving children from his three marriages did not have any good chances. The sons became Häusler (very small farmers) or Einlieger (people without land property who lived in other people's houses and were usually daylabourer), his daughters married Einlieger. Only the two sons from his third marriage took the risk of emigrating to America.
Johann Joachim Friedrich Hagen
Interimswirt (tenant for a certain time) in Klein Krams 1834 - 1842
b. 1808 in Klein Krams, d. 1882
1. marr.1834 Ann Marie Lehn Martens, 1782 - 1835, Klein Krams.
She was the widow of Hauswirt (farmer)
Jürgen Christian Jahnke in Klein Krams. The daughter of this marriage and her husband took over the farm
in 1842.
2. marr. 1836 Marie Elisabeth Lammert, b. 1808 in Alt Krenzlin, d. 1855 in Klein Krams
They had six children. One was deadborn, one died as a child. The surviving children married and stayed in the region, as far as I know.
3. marr. 1855 Catharina Maria Dorothea Schmidt, b. 1827 Niendorf near Conow.
They had four children. One of them died young, the daughter moved away and the two sons Heinrich and Joachim emigrated.
| Henry Hagen | Caroline E. Ball | |
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| Johann Joachim HEINRICH (HENRY) Hagen b. 1856 in Klein Krams, d. 1936 in Jefferson Twp., Clayton Co., Iowa, Amerika. He followed his younger brother to the United States in 1887. In Jefferson Twp. he married in 1898 Caroline E. Ball who was already born in America. They had five sons and three daughters. Except the oldest son who died, a half year old, all survived. |
Johann JOACHIM Friedrich Hagen
b. 1859 in Klein Krams, d. 1933 in Dubuque, Iowa, Amerika.
He married in 1883 in Leussow widow Elisabeth Marie Johanna Schaal, b. 1857 in Glaisin, d. 1928, bur. in Guttenberg, Iowa. Her first husband, farm tenant
Theodor Carl Friedrich Bühring, died 1882 in Klein Krams. From this marriage they had only one child
THEODOR Carl Friedrich Bühring, b. 1882.
In Klein Krams the couple Hagen/Schaal also had a daughter
Wilhelmine (WILMA or MINNIE) Anna Elisabeth, b. Dec. 1883.
The little family went away with a group of emigrants (also the Sass family) from the region and reached New York with the "Suevia"on June 18th 1844
Son Theodor stayed unmarried, while daughter Wilma/Minnie married Frederick Timmermann whose family came from Glaisin near Eldena.
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