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John Lewis Haine and Margaret Covert had four children. John I., Harry E., Blanche and Elda. All were born and raised
in the Butler County area. See the state and county map on the right for the location. One of the so called "heredity"
links of a true Haine has been the presence of maps. Harry was one who spent his time perusing and examining
state road maps. Many living family members will attest and give testimony to this as fact. For this reason, I present
many maps from the area of ancestry in Pennsylvania. To be more concise, see the township map link on the right
which more appropriately represents the area that the known Hoehn tombstones reside. Cranberry Township is the
very bottom left corner, or southwest township of the county.
WHO CHANGED MY NAME?
This itself is the very enlightenment but yet incentive for this web site. Two of John Lewis Hoehn's children still reside
in Pennsylvania. Harry, 06/02/1906 - 12/10/1981, and Elda, 10/12/1904 - 12/17/1929, have since passed away, but
the living, John and Blanche are the legacy of those of us who live this day with the Haine surname. All four children born to
John Lewis were born Hoehn's. John and Harry both changed their surname to Haine. To this day I seek the reason for that
change. For causes
and reasons unknown, the name of Haine must have seemed more fitting in the early 1900's growing up in Butler County.
John, born in 1909 and Harry, born in 1906 are the first generations of Haine. Born in the 19th century, the name change is
relatively short in time span for those of us living in the Year 2000.
LIVING TESTIMONY.
I can't help but wonder today about the legacy of the Hoehn's that left for St. Louis. Work was plentiful there in the
1800's and with the expansion of the West, this was the place to be. It is not even known which of the original brothers
left, but the reason is known. The wife died while living in western Pennsylvania, leaving him with six children. He went to
St. Louis to find work. After obtaining work he returned to gather his six children and head west. Many Hoehn's live
in Missouri to this day.
Through genealogical records I was able to find and substantiate that sister Louisa went to Missouri. The Marriage Index of
Missouri for 1851-1900 lists Louisa Hoehn. All the Hoehn brothers were listed in Pennsylvania and Missouri Census records.
It was in the Census records that I found that Christian's name was really Christian Henry Hoehn. Quite possibly the
reason why brother John Valentine named one of his own sons, Henry Christian Hoehn.
The legacy of the Hoehn's remained in son John Lewis to raise his family with Elizabeth Covert. John's brother Henry
Christian, 10/25/1873 - 10/03/1964, was a farmer and unmarried. It is his farm which one of Harry's own sons,
Don, help farm
at an early age of his life in Cranberry Township. Through the records and archives of Butler County, I was able to
find an offical 1874 Cranberry Township map. If you click on the image in the right column, you will see a piece of history from
the late 1800's in Butler County. I have circled in red the names not only of Hoehn but of Covert. The map is large and
may take some time to load in your browser.
Are these in fact the
homesites of family members I do not know? The top one identified in the map is J. Covert while the bottom two are
J. Hoehn and H. Hoehn. I would have to assume without verification that this represents the original ancestor,
John Valentine Hoehn who would have been forty-three (43) years of age. It could not have been his son John Lewis as he would
have only been six (6) years of age. My assumption for H. Hoehn is that it is Henry Christian's farm but he would have only
been a year (1) old as he was born in 1873. But, remember, this house and farm was built by the brother of John
Valentine, Christian
who was the carpenter. Christian the brother quite possibly could have been a Henry Christian Hoehn himself. John Valentine,
from what I can decipher, quite possibly named his son after one of his brothers.
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