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in his 20s. His secret was kept for many years until one day he thought he was dying (but did not), and he told Barbara the truth!
Barbara married Johannes ?John? Zengerling (also spelled Zengarling, Zingerling, etc.) on November 14, 1855 at Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church in Bay St. Louis, MS (Book 1, p.23). He was also a German immigrant bom on September 15, 1815 in Gehrden, Germany to Joseph Zengerling and Maria Franzisca Weber. Following her marriage, Barbara spent the rest of her life in the Bayou La Croix community where her home was located on the old Bayou La Croix Bayou. She apparently could read and write, for her signature is on her marriage record at Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church. We have photos of her, and she looks to be a ?tough old German? as her grandson, Joseph L. Zengarling related to us. He said they were all afraid of her. He recalled when he was small, he walked past a cage of quail, and they started flying wildly all over the cage. His old ?Grandma? slipped up behind him and ?almost slapped his head off? for scaring her quail!
Barbara Hausch Zengerling can be found in the 1900 Hancock Co., MS census (house #549) as ?Barbara Zingerling? bom in ?Europe?, in ?December 1837?, a widow with several of her children. She again is listed in the 1910 Hancock census, house #370 with several grown children in the home. For more details on her husband and children, see our Johannes ?John? Zengerling Family Research.
Anna ?Barbara? Hausch?s father was Johann ?Michael? Hausch, born on August
16,	1809 in Zell, Aichelberg, Wurttemberg, Germany. He was the son of Johannes Hausch and Maria Catharina Wittlinger. Michael, as he was best known, married on February 7, 1833 in Jebenhausen, Germany to Christina Friederike Schrag. As noted earlier, Michael immigrated to America when his ship landed in New Orleans on October
28,	1854. He followed his daughters and possibly other relatives seeking a better life for him and his family. From what we can surmise, he possibly met his daughters who were living in Lakeshore, MS for that is where his daughter, Barbara was married in November 1855. From church records and his ship record, he was a farmer by trade. He apparently died before December 2, 1866, for he is not mentioned in the letter from his daughter, Maria to his other daughter, Barbara. Maria mentioned her mother, sisters, brother-in-law, etc. - not her father. Older family members told us he died in Hancock Co., MS and was buried in a family cemetery near the Bayou La Croix Bayou next to his daughter?s (Barbara Zengerling) home. We did observe this small private cemetery with several wooden head makers prior to 1969. It had an old wire fence around it with a cedar tree growing in the corner. No names or dates could be read, and the cemetery was destroyed after Hurricane Camille in 1969 when timber cutters cleaned the broken trees off the property. This is most likely where his remains lie. About the time of Michael?s death, it seems most of the family moved back to New Orleans for it was in the 1860?s that we start seeing records of their children?s births, marriages, etc. Velma Zengarling Heitzmann even recalled hearing that her Great-grandmother (Michael?s widow) moved to New Orleans and died there.
Christina Friederike Schrag, (also spelled Shack, Schrake, etc.) was the wife of Johann ?Michael? Hausch. She was bom on January 16, 1804 in Jebenhausen to Johann Joachim Ruprecht Schrag and Rosina Kempter as found on her baptismal record in Germany. Following her husband?s death, she moved with her sons to New Orleans and died there on December 17, 1874. Her obituary was found in the December 18, 1874
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