Hardie -- have a lot of Hartungs that start with Urban Hartung b bef 1700 Prussia. Chuck Bollinger HARDIE HARTUNG wrote: > My name is Hardie Hartung. My great-grandfather was Conrad Hartung and my > great-grandmother was Anna Elisabeth Trube(Truby). My known connection to > Armstrong County, PA, is that my great-grandparents and their three oldest > sons left Freeport,Armstrong,PA by barge between 1855 and 1861. They went > by barge to Pomeroy,Meigs,OH were they settled and had four more sons and > one daughter. The daughter is believed to have died at an early age. > Sometime after the last child was born, my great-grandparents and the > youngest four boys left OH and went to the Junction City,Geary,KS area > where they stayed. > > I do know that my great-grandfather arrived in this country during the > early 1840s and served in the Mexican-American War. Because he was a > teenager then I don't think they were married then. The oldest of the > children was born in 1851. I do not know if they were married in PA, but > according to the OH Census of 1870, the three oldest children were born in > PA. Also, according to this same census, my great-grandparents were both > born in Germany. > > My wife and I have a home page on Family Tree Maker - The Hartung-Ritter > Family. This page has a descendant tree, which is my current knowledge of > the tree. > > I would appreciate any help in tracing the PA connection for both the > Hartung and Trube(Truby) sides of the family. > > ==== PAARMSTR Mailing List ==== > To reach archived messages, go to: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/~archiver/lists/PAARMSTR-L/