This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HYh.2ACEB/90 Message Board Post: Looking for children of gg grandfather, lived in Chicago.Son, William, Arthur, possible Otto????? Don't know if there were any daughters.

I am trying to find out the relationship of some Hartwigs to my family. I found a few pictures in our family photo album - pics taken end of 1800's and early 1900's. A John C. Hartwig 1858 - 1921 and his wife Rachel 1860 - 1950. John C. Hartwig is in a photo with the Smith boys: Henry, Siebert, John, and William. Their parents were Seibert Smith and Anna Catherine Miller. I don't know how Mr. Hartwig is related but it seems strange that he would have a picture taken with the four Smith boys if he is not related. There is also in the album, several pictures of a George Webster and his wife Emma Hartwig, and their children, John, Howard, and Anna Webster. There is also a Siebert Hartwig 1869-1943 who was married to an Ella Ports 1877 - 1923 their daughter named Edith and a son named Robert L. Hartwig. Siebert or Sybert seems to be a recurring name here. These folks lived in Whiteside County and are buried at the Old Brick Church cemetary outside of Polo, IL, a little over 100 miles due west of Chicago. Perhaps Anna Catherine Miller's mother was a Hartwig but I have found nothing to back that up. Anna Catherine's parents were James and Anne Miller. She had a sister Mary and a brother John. Perhaps Siebert Smith's mother was a Hartwig. His father was Casper Smith 1798 - 1880 but his mother is not buried in the cemetary and I don't know her name. Do any of these names mentioned show up in any one else's research for Hartwigs in IL at the turn of the century? Judi Farster