Hi Willi, We don't appear to be connected, but please check our family web site: http://www.thf.net. Good luck with your search - a very sad and interesting story anyway, thanks for sharing Sandra Haas Piper >From: "Willi Haas" <willi.haas@beasys.com> >Reply-To: HAAS-L@rootsweb.com >To: HAAS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [HAAS-L] HAAS from Baden, Germany >Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:37:44 +0200 > >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. > > >============================== >Share your family tree with loved ones through a FREE private website at >MyFamily.com! >Get started today at http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWText1 > > _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com