ED. married Living. [Group Sheet]

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William attended Pleasant Hill School and the German Evangelical Parochial School in Hoyleton.
He was a farmer all his life except about one year, 1901, when he worked for the Granite City Steel Co. at Granite City, Illinois.
Wiliam raised registered Holstein and Guersey dairy cattle and during his later years he raised Registered Polled Hereford cattle. During the pre-tractor days he raised horses and mules and it was not unusual to have more horses and mules than cows onthe farm. He quit farming, July of 1967, and celebrated his 100th birthday December 22, 1978. His brother Edard observed his 102nd birthday December 13, 1978.

WILLIAM married HAUN MARY ALMA on 30 Mar 1904 in In home of her parents 3 mi. s. of Hoyleton.. MARY (daughter of HAUN JOHN ELLIOTT and NEWMAN MARY ELIZABETH) was born on 16 Oct 1881 in b. south of Hoyleton, Washington County, Illinois; died on 4 Apr 1932 in After a brief illness.; d. at place she was born.; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

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Her parents' home (farm) was recognized as a Centennial Farm in 1972 having been bought by John E. Haun Dec. 2, 1869 and is still owned by the family.

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Roy Johnson had name as Eberhard Friedrich Hermann Rodekopf b. December 27, 1838.
Bertrum Dueker had name as Eberhard Richard Hermann Peithmann b. December 2, 1838.
Came to USA in 1866.
Lived on farm 3 miles south of Hoyleton, Illinois, in section 35.

EBERHARD married SCHNAKE LOUISE (LOUISA) on 19 May 1869 in Washington County, Illinois. LOUISE (daughter of SCHNAKE ERNST HEINRICH and BRINK CHRISTINE LOUISE CAROLINE) was born on 12 Oct 1851 in Near North Prairie, Washington County, Illinois; died on 3 Nov 1908 in Washington County, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

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John E. Haun was born in Tennessee, August 15, 1842 and died near Hoyleton on December 28, 1914. He came to the Hoyleton area, Washington County, probably in 1857. His adult years were spent on a farm south of Hoyleton. Pleasant Grove Methodist Church was built on a corner of his land. He was a faithful member of his church and served many years as superintendent of the JSunday School. John was the first president of the Hoyleton German State Bank which was organized November 3, 1906 and remained president until his death.
John E. was the oldest son of Adam Haun and Mary Ann Elliott. On November 13, 1864 he married Mary Ann Newman (1843-1876) daughter of Martin Newman. To this union were born Ada, married August Cohlmeyer (a former sheriff of Washington County); Jennie married George Cohlmeyer; Elmer married Luella Farmer (1874-1908), and Annabelle Allen; Bert married Mary Rainey; and Melvin married Mary E. Poole. On January 3, 1878 John E. married Mary Elizabeth Newman, daughter of John Newman and Hester Ann House, born April 21, 1853 in Washington County near Richview and died at Beaucoup on February 8, 1934. John E. and Elizabeth are both buried in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Beaucoup Twp. To this union were born two children, James Wesley who lived only three years, and Mary Alma who was born south of Hoyleton on October 16, 1881 and died at the same place April 4, 1932. She is buried in the North Prairie Cemetery in Hoyleton Twp.
On March 30, 1904, Alma married William Peithman, son of Herman and Louise (Schnake) Peithman. William was born December 22, 1878 on the Peithman-Schnake farm also south of Hoyleton. William and Alma lived on the farm with her parents for about four years. They purchased a farm in Richview Twp and lvied there until her father, John Haun, died. They moved with their family back to the Haun Homestead in 1915. This was the family home until 1979 when William at age of 92 went to Friendship Manor at Nashville. He was privileged to celebrate his centennial birthday on December 22, 1978. William and Alma were the parents of six children - Harlan and Mollie (Liese) Peithman, living at Normal, Illinois; Lois and Elmer Groennert, living in rural Nashville; bernice and Don Richert, living in Belvidere, Illinois; Elva and Ed Rhea, living in rural Waverly, Illinois; Marvin and Ruth (Rumig) Peithman, living in rural Richview; and Muriel and Wesley Brink, living in Belleville, Illinois. Alma and all six of her children were school teachers and each taught at some time in Washington County.
From 1979 Washington County History book

JOHN married NEWMAN MARY ELIZABETH on 3 Jan 1878. MARY (daughter of NEWMAN JOHN and HOUSE HESTER ANN) was born on 21 Jan 1853 in Washington County, near Richview, Illinois; died on 8 Feb 1934 in Beaucoup, Illinois; b. Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Beaucoup Twp.. [Group Sheet]