I would like to contact with people, whose HAAS ancestors came from Baden, Germany especially from the area around the city of Oberkirch, or from one of the small villages like Lautenbach, Oedsbach, Sendelbach, Grimmersbach, Hesselbach, Winterbach, Tiergarten. Here is what we have: Zeriockus (or Cyriak) Haas was born to the second marriage of Franz Anton Haas and his wife Helene Kaltenbronn. They were married in the little village of Oedsbach on May 18, 1840. Helene Kaltenbronn was the daughter of Josef Kaltenbronn and his wife Anna Maria Wiegele. Franz Anton and Helene had four children born to this second marriage, Zeriockus (Cyriak) Haas was the first born on June 21, 1841, next was a daughter Helene Haas who was born April 17, 1844, then another son was born to this union Klemens Haas born September 20, 1847, but died the next month October 1, 1847, the last child born to this marriage was Karoline Haas born January 6, 1849, and she died October 7, 1849. This is the last date in Germany that we have of this family. Since the year 1849 brought so much sadness to Helene (Kaltenbronn) Haas, she lost her mother Anna Maria (Wiegele) Kaltenbronn died on August 7, 1849, then next her little baby Karoline Haas died on October 7, 1849, and 12 days later on October 19, 1849 her husband Franz Anton Haas died. We were unable to find any records that pertained to this little family in Germany after 1849, no marriages, deaths and etc. We can just feel very sorry for a young mother with a small eight year old son and a little five year old girl. She might have joined with other members of her family to start anew in America. We can only speculate to what happen between 1849 and 1865. What we do know that in 1865 through 1868 Zeriockus Haas had a Boot and Shoe Store in Memphis, Tennessee located at 244 Second Street.