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The story handed down through time is that Johannes Valentin Hoehn, made the trip to America in the 1800's. He with other family members left
what would have been a Mother and Father in Alsace, Germany. I have yet to find record of that.
THE ANCESTORS. Johannes Valentin Hoehn,
who would later change his name to John Valentine Hoehn, had four brothers and three sisters. A total of eight Hoehn siblings.
The three sisters were named Rachel, Salome and Louisa. The four brothers were Georg, Michael, Christian and Frederick.
As proof of this, I was able to find a German web site hosted by the firm of Schroeder & Fuelling. They are a professional
genealogical partnership located in Gummersbach, Germany. They have produced a 19th Century Hessian Emigrants list. In that
massive database I was able to find Georg Heinrich Hoehn. He is listed with no birthdate, no destination (America?), and 1836 as the
year of emigration. This quite frankly was the most important piece of information I could find on an ancestor. He is
listed as what
appears to be the eldest male traveling in a party of eight (8). This is important for a reason. Johannes Valentin Hoehn's birthdate
is 1831, such that he would have been a five year old boy making the trip to America. But this doesn't appear to be true. My
opinion is that some Hoehn family members came first and others followed. Georg quite possibly was the oldest sibling.
BUTLER COUNTY EVIDENCE.
My thanks to the living ancestor of Blanche Haine Marburger and the testimony documented in her personal Bible. Along with
John Irvine Haine I was able to obtain the following information. The original names of
the Hoehn family are documented as well as the fact that Johannes Valentin Hoehn met Elizabeth
Boehm, 10/02/1842 - 06/24/1925, on ship and married her in America. The story is told that their ship docked in
Baltimore. Supposedly they stopped in Ambridge, Pennsylvania before arriving at their final destination in Butler County.
This began the family tree of Hoehn in Pennsylvania. Click
here or on the image at right of the tombstone that also resides in the St. Johns Evangelical
Lutheran Church of Lovi Cemetery in Cranberry Township. The tombstones of John and Elizabeth rest back to back in
the cemetary and this is evident from the image of John's. Note "Father" is also inscribed on his tombstone.
John V. Hoehn's tombstone shows 08/06/1831 to 11/30/1906. This is the only known Hoehn ancestor that resided in Butler County
of Pennsylvania. Not one living ancestor can verify if all the other seven siblings headed west. Supposedly his one son, Henry
Christian, had a home built by John's brother Christian. He was a carpenter. This would give substance to the fact
that some Hoehn family must have lived in western Pennsylvania before departing. John V. Hoehn, the beginning of the ancestry
in America, had three sons, George, John, Henry, and one daughter, Nettie. It was his son John Lewis Hoehn, 09/13/1868 - 06/28/1929
that married Margaret Covert around the turn of the century. Margaret Covert, 05/03/1874 to 09/16/1956, was herself of
Germanic origin living in Butler County. The tombstone of John Lewis Hoehn resides in the cemetary on
top of the hill overlooking Evans City, Pennsylvania. Click here or on the image
at left.
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