Christian Hahn Family

This article on Christian Frederick Hahn and his family is for family research and genealogy only. It may not be used for commercial purposes or without the permission of the copyright owner Thomas Swiftwater Hahn E-mail: swiftwater@lenapedelawarehistory.net or 3751 Schefflera Drive, Fort Myers FL 33917-2040.

Christian Hahn Family Photographs Scroll down to near the bottom of the page.

CURRENTLY CREATING AND EDITING OF THIS PAGE. Some of the entries duplicates those contained under Martha "Mattie" Defries Hahn. Editor

Chronology:
1853 16 April - Birth of sister, Margherita Hahn, in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
1858 11 August - Birth of sister, Emma M. Hahn, in Sandusky, Ohio
1861 17 May - Birth of sister, Christene Christiana Hahn, in Sandusky, Ohio.
1863 31 March - Christian "Chris" Frederick Hahn born at Swan Creek, St. Clair County, Michigan
1866 5 June - Birth of sister, Marie Louise Hahn, at Swan Creek, St. Clair County, Michigan
1868 4 March - Birth of brother, John C. Hahn, at Swan Creek, St. Clair County, Michigan
1869 1 August - Birth of brother, Edward G. Hahn, at Roseville, Warren Township, Macomb County, Michigan.
1870 2 June - In census of Roseville, Warren Township, Macomb County, Michigan.
1872 27 May - Birth of brother August Christophorous Hahn, at Erin Township, Macomb County, Michigan [Check township]
1876 16 September - Birth of Paul Nicholas Hahn, at Peachville, Butler County, Pennsylvania.
1880 18 June - Father John Hahn in census at Peachville, Fairview Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania.
1886 November 3 - Marriage of Christian Hahn and Martha "Mattie" Francis Defries in Wyandotte County, Kansas. ((Wyandotte Gazette)
1888 September - Wife Mattie Defries received 5 acres land from her mother's Delaware Allotment in Wyandotte County, Kansas
1889-1901 - Children born at Muncie, Wyandotte Township, Wyandotte County, Kansas
1900 In census of Muncie, Wyandotte Township, Wyandotte County, Kansas.
1905 1 March - In census of Muncie, Wyandotte County, Kansas.
1910 In census of Muncie, Wyandotte Township, Wyandotte County, Kansas.
1911 13 December - - Grantee of a General Warranty Deed in Shiloh Township, Neosho County, Kansas, but he was described as being "of Wyandotte County, Kansas."
1914 17 November - Grantor of a General Warranty Deed in Shiloh Township, Neosho County, Kansas to a party from Morris County, Kansas
1915 In census of White City, Rolling Prairie Township, Morris County, Kansas.
1916 Sale of land in Wyandotte County by Martha F. Defrees
1920 7 January - In census of White City, Rolling Prairie Township, Morris County, Kansas.
1930 26 April - In census of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas.
1934 3 July - Died at Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas 1934
1934 5 July - Buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, at Topeka

Christian "Chris" Frederick Hahn was born on 31 March 1863 at Swan Creek (present Anchorville), St. Clair County, Michigan, near Detroit. He was the son of Reverend John George Hahn and Mary Ann (Ellenberger) Hahn. According to the statement of his brother, Paul Nicholas Hahn, Christian, generally known as "Chris", was the fifth of eleven children to live to adulthood. Little is known of Christian Hahn's early life. He lived with his family in Swan Creek for about six years--from his birth in 1863 until not later than 1 August 1869--when his brother, Edward Oscar Hahn, was born in the Detroit area near Roseville Post Office, Warren Township, Macomb County, Michigan. The communities of Swan Creek and Roseville were some thirty miles apart. It is not known when the family moved to Peachville (present Buena Vista), Fairview Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, where his brother Paul Nicholas Hahn was born on 16 September 1876. Christian was thirteen at the time. It is not known how long the Hahn's were at Peachville, but they appear at "Barnhart's Mill" Post Office, Fairview [Donegal] Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania in the 1880 census. Chris Hahn was listed in that census as a farmer at age seventeen. He also attended school that year; it is possible that he graduated from high school there.

Christian Hahn may have moved directly from the family's farm at Barnhart's Post Office, Fairview Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, to Stony Point, Muncie, Wyandotte Township, Wyandotte County, Kansas. It is not known why he did not stay in Butler County where his father, John George Hahn had been farming--and was possibly a Lutheran minister--or when he moved, or by what route, or if he stopped for any length of time along the way. According to their son, Paul Nicholas Hahn, the mother, Mary Ann (Ellenberger) died about 1883. and, we know according to family history that the father, John G. Hahn, was buried at Bay City, Michigan in 1887.The death of his mother about 1883 may have precipitated the move of some of the children who were then living at home. It is not known what the state of John Hahn's health was at that time, but perhaps he was not able to take care of them. Why Chris Hahn chose Kansas as a place to emigrate remains a mystery. There does not seem to have been bounty land available to him nor does it appear that any relatives were there. So far, we have found no entries for any of the Hahn's in the 1885 Census for Wyandotte County, so it appears that they arrived sometime after that enumeration. It is not known where Christian lived when he arrived in Wyandotte County.

The first record to be found of Chris Hahn's presence in Wyandotte County was on 3 December 1886, when he and (Kansas Delaware) Martha "Mattie" Francis (Defries) Hahn , applied for a license to marry Mattie--as she was always called--being a resident of the county at that time. One would think that Christian would have been in Wyandotte County for a while before they married. No other record has been found of that marriage. That is, there is no record of it having been recorded, but there was an article in the Wyandotte Gazette, it which it stated that they were married on 3 November 1886 at the home of her mother, Mary Jane Grinter Defries. It also appears the Paul N. Hahn, the youngest of the living children, went to Wyandotte County to live with Christian and Mattie after the death of the remaining Hahn parent. However, in the Wyandotte County, Kansas Farmer Directory, 1921, Paul N. Hahn is listed as being a "settler" there as of 1885 and his older brother, August "Gus" Christophorous Hahn, as of 1890. The area in which Christian Hahn lived in Wyandotte County, was known as "Stony Point" in present-day Kansas City, Kansas. It appears that the "official" address may have been Muncie. This is the place shown in the birth certificate of his son, Walter "Walt" Frederick Hahn. Christian Hahn was a storekeepe. He was also the Clerk of the Stony Point School where his children attended school.

The area in which Christian Hahn lived in Wyandotte County, was known as "Stony Point," in present-day Kansas City, Kansas. It appears that the "official" address may have been Muncie. This is the place shown in the birth certificate of his son, Walter "Walt" Frederick Hahn. Christian Hahn was a storekeeper and Clerk of the Stony Point School. The Hahn's had about eighty acres of land within the former Delaware Reserve, so it is likely that he was also a part-time farmer and he is listed in the 1915 census as such. Christian and Mattie had many real estate transactions, but they mostly dealt with the same tract of land, Section 21, Township 11, Range 24 in the NW and NE quarters. According to his son, Walter Hahn--as told to his son Thomas F. Hahn--they lived on the west side of present-day 78th Street. This may have been the five acres in Section 17, Township 24, Range 24 that Mary Jane (Grinter) Defries gave to Mattie on 12 September 1888. According to Marguerite Hahn (daughter-in-law of Paul N. Hahn) in 1995, they lived on the east side of 78th Street, at the intersection of 78th and____, next to the general store that Christian Hahn operated. Deed data shows that they did have land on the latter site. That property bordered the former Wyandotte Reserve. Marguerite also said that later owners were Mumford and Tiner, and hat her husband, Vernon Hahn, was born [November 1907] in that house, that is, his father, Paul N. Hahn, son of John G. Hahn and Mary Ann (Ellenberger) lived there at that time. The Christian Hahns may have lived at both locations. Mattie's mother, Mary Jane (Grinter) Defries, owned a quarter-section of land (80 acres) in the vicinity Delaware Reservation that had been allotted to her in 1867 under the 1866 Treaty between the Delaware and the United States).

Although Christian was the son of a Lutheran minister, there is no documentation that he followed that religion after his move to Kansas. Mattie's parents, Audley Paul Defries and Mary Jane (Grinter) Defries, were Methodists. They were buried in the Grinter Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery at the intersection of Schwartz Road and 78th Avenue (also known as Grinter Road), in Stony Point. Land for the church had been donated by her grandparents, Mose Read Grinter and Anna "Annie" (Marshall) Grinter. This church was only a short distance down the road from the Christian Hahn's and was undoubtedly where they attended church services. Later in life they went to attended the Methodist Church but did not seem to be active in church affairs. Thomas F. Hahn cursorily searched the difficult-to-use old tax records for Wyandotte County, Kansas at the Wyandotte County Historical Museum at Bonner Springs, but he found no tax records for Christian or Mattie Hahn.

There are real estate transactions involving a C. or Charles Hahn as early as 15 September 1892 that can be confused with those of another C. F. Hahn. They are not included in this record, but are in the Hahn file of Thomas F. Hahn. There may be transactions of C. F. Hahn in the Wyandotte County Deed Records that have been overlooked. The first record of real estate for Chris and Mattie Hahn seems to be that of 13 February 1901. The Hahn's had about eighty acres of land within the former Delaware Reserve, so it is likely that he was also a part-time farmer and is listed in the 1915 census as such. Christian and Mattie had many real estate transactions, but they mostly dealt with the same tract of land, Section 21, Township 11, Range 24 in the NW and NE quarters, which land appears to be that allotted to No. 892 Jane Shawnee in 1862 . According to his son, Walter F. Hahn--as told to his son Thomas F. Hahn-- they lived on the west side of present-day 78th Avenue. This may have been the five acres in Section 17, Township 24, Range 24 that Mary Jane (Grinter) Defries gave to Mattie on 12 September 1888. [A more precise description of the land will be entered later. Editor] . Mary Jane's land was in Section 17 of Township 11 , Range 24 in the east half of the southeast quarter. According to Marguerite Hahn (daughter-in-law of Paul Nicholas Hahn) in 1995, they lived on the east side of 78th Avenue, at the intersection of 78th and Kansas?, next to the general store that Christian Hahn operated. Deed data shows that they did have land on the latter site. That property bordered the former Wyandotte Reserve. Marguerite also said that later owners were Mumford and Tiner, and that her husband, Vernon Hahn, was born [November 1907] in that house, that is, his father, Paul N. Hahn, son of John G. Hahn and Mary Ann (Ellenberger) lived there at that time. The Christian Hahn's may have lived at both locations. Mattie's mother, Mary Jane (Grinter) Defries, owned a quarter-section of land (80 acres) on the Kansas Delaware Reserve that had been allotted to her in 1867 under the 1866 Treaty between the Delaware and the United States). Although Christian was the son of a Lutheran minister, he does not seemed to have followed that religion after his move to Kansas. Mattie's parents, Audley Paul Defries and Mary Jane (Grinter) Defries, were Methodists. They were buried in the Grinter Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery at the intersection of Schwartz Road and 78th Avenue. When your editor used to travel on that road with his parents going to the Grinter Reunions in the 1930s, it was known as the "Grinter Road"). Land for the church and cemetery were been donated by Mattie's grandparents, Moses Read Grinter and Anna "Annie" (Marshall) Grinter. This church was only a short distance down the road from the Christian Hahn's and was undoubtedly where they attended church services. Later in life they attended the Methodist Church, in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, but they did not then seem to be active in church affairs. Thomas F. Hahn cursorily searched the difficult-to-use old tax records for Wyandotte County, Kansas at the Wyandotte County Historical Museum at Bonner Springs, but he found no tax records for Christian or Mattie Hahn. The 1895 Kansas Census for the Hahn's has not yet been done and the data from the 1900 Federal Census for Kansas needs to be redone. In the 1905 Kansas Census for Wyandotte County, Christian Hahn is listed as being a farmer. Additionally, he is known to have had a small general store not far from their house.

The Chris Hahn Family moved from Wyandotte County, Kansas City to a farm near Thayer, in Shiloh Township, Neosho County, Kansas, in probably 1912, although a note on the back of a photograph of the Christian Hahn family, apparently taken in Kansas City, says that the photo was taken in 1910 "before the Hahn's moved to Thayer [Shiloh Township, Neosho County]" On 15 November 1911, "C. F. Hahn" purchased 360 acres there in the South 1/2 of Section 16, Township 30 South, Range 18 East. The deed shows that he still lived in Wyandotte County, or at maintained an address there at the time. It is possible that they timed the move from Wyandotte County to Neosho County to coincide with the school year.

This road sign is at the southeastern corner of the Christian Hahn farm in Neosho County, Kansas. The house, barn, and outbuildings were in the clump of trees to the northwest in the background Tom and Chris Hahn found this house by doing deed research in the Neosho County Court House and by obtaining location information from the County Tax Assessor. (Photo by Tom Hahn in 2002).

Their daughter, Margaretta "Margaret" Francis (Hahn) Walter, told her daughter, Donna Jean "D. J." (Walter) Reineke, "My dad thought living on a farm would be a wonderful place to raise a family and they left the store and moved to the farm in Thayer, Kansas." Eunice Marcelle "Becky" (Beckman) Corby, the daughter of Christian and Mattie Hahn's daughter, Marie Louise "Lou" (Hahn) Beckman, related that she (Louise) said that she kept house in Parsons, Labette County, Kansas, so that her brothers Walter "Walt" Frederick Hahn and Edward "Ed" Oscar Hahn could go to high school there. Louise was a seamstress, so it seems likely that she did that while living in Parsons. She would have been about twenty to twenty-three years of age during the Hahn's stay in Neosho County. Their farm was about fifteen miles from Parsons, too far to commute each day, so the story seems likely to be true. Their nearest town was Thayer, five or six miles away. It is likely that they went to church at Thayer and probably had friends in the the area from their church affiliation. Donna Jean (Walter) Reineke told her cousin, Thomas "Tom Swiftwater" Frederick Hahn, that her mother, Margaret [Margaret Francis] Hahn], said that Myrtle [her sister Myrtle May (Hahn) McCollister] was married [and probably living in Kansas City] and that Louise was busy working other places [that is, in Parsons], that they really had very hard times, and that Margaret was missing the goodies from the store in Kansas City.

The farm may have been devoted to the growing of corn or other crops, as it is now. In June 2002, the farm was leased to a man who grew corn and soy beans, but who didn't there, nor has there been anyone living there for some time. That is now a common practice in the area. Thomas F. Hahn and "Christopher "Chris" Frederick Hahn confirmed the location of the Hahn farm by deed research and an on-site visit where they visited with the present absentee tenant farmer. They discovered that the farm house was gone as was the barn, the latter replaced by a more recent barn. Thomas F. Hahn has a photo of several men building a silo. His father, Walter, may have told him that the photo was taken on this farm and it appears that their farm house is in the background of the photograph. . One outbuilding, sort of a workshop, seems to have survived. Tom Hahn "liberated" an old horseshoe that could have been used on the Hahn Farm. The lessee of the farm told them that the house and barn had been demolished forty or more years previously. The house sits back about 1,000 feet of Ford Road, which road borders the farm on the east side. Big Creek--much smaller than the name suggests--runs through the property in the western and southwestern portion of the property. The place where the old house and old barn sat, and the road to the property can be seen in a 1986 aerial photo for the Parsons, Kansas area. There are more recent buildings on the property, now abandoned and dilapidated. The road on the South side of the Farm is 40th Road or Street, the former designation used on a 1987 Neosho County property valuation map and the latter on a map on a modern road map. The farm of the family Leslie "Les" F. Beckman, spouse of Christian Hahn's daughter, Louise, is one section to the south and one section to the east, at the southwest corner of the intersection of probably Gray Road and 30th Road/Street. They undoubtedly became friends as "neighbors," and possibly through a church connection. Your editor, visited that farm from Topeka with the Leslie and Louise (Hahn) Beckman several times in the 1930s and early 1940s and had no idea that that farm at which his father lived was only two miles away! It does not appear that any other members of the Hahn family were in that area of the state 1912 - 1915.

From the farm near Thayer, the Hahn Family seems to have moved about 1915 to White City, Rolling Prairie Township, Morris County, Kansas. Christian and Mattie sold the Neosho County property in December 1915, two months before their mortgage became due. The Christian Hahn Hahn Family is in the 1915 census for White City, Rolling Prairie Township, so it seems likely that they moved to White City some months before they sold the farm in Neosho County. The enumeration date of the 1915 census would be helpful to have in that it would provide the "latest" date by which they were in White City. The Hahn Family lived across the railroad tracks on the west side of town. Thomas F. Hahn has a photo of the house as it appeared in the 1970s.

Chris Hahn House, White City, Kansas . (Tom Hahn took this photograph in the 1970s.)

In the 1915 census of White City, Chris was enumerated as a "merchant." His store was on the north side of the main street, just east from the Torgeson Brothers General Store. Christian's son, "Walter Hahn," and his daughter, "Louise Hahn," are listed as clerks in the store in the 1915 census. His grandson, Thomas F. Hahn, has a candy jar from the store at his home at Fort Myers, Florida. When the Hahn's sold the store to the Torgesons--family members of Walter Hahn's wife, Florence Vivian (Torgeson) Hahn, Louise Hahn stayed on as a clerk. She is listed in the 1920 census as a department store clerk. In the 1920 census, "Christian F. Hahn" is listed as a house carpenter, so it is likely that that is what he did after selling the store in White City.

Chris and Mattie Hahn in Their Door Yard (Hahn Collection)
Is Mattie contemplating the hard work involved in the image just below? It is thought that both of these photographs were taken at the Hahn Family Home in White City, Morris County, Kansas. It is likely that either Mattie or Chris, or their daughter, Myrtle, sent these photographs to their son, Walter, in World War I in France . On the back of the bottom image, someone has written, "Shows a little less gate; more kingling [sic] pile which will be of good use next winter."

Chris and Mattie Hahn Working on the Wood Pile ( Hahn Collection)
There was no sign of a barn in the photograph taken in the 1970s of their White City House. The barn appears to be quite large in comparison with the size of the house. However, in the early 1900s, people living on the edge of a town did have large barns. One wonders about the source of the wood. Trees for lumber were not plentiful in the White City in the Prairie Land that in which it sat. It is known that Chris Hahn was a carpenter as well as a farmer and a storekeeper, so perhaps the kindling was left over from something that he built?

In the 1920 census at White City, "Walter Hahn" was listed as a garage mechanic and "Edward Hahn" as a bank clerk, occupations they pursued after they moved to Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas by 1921. They probably moved from White City to Topeka, by 1921, probably to be near some of their children who had moved there.

It appears that Christian and Mattie Hahn moved from White City directly to 629 West Euclid (later West 17th Avenue), on the south side of the street, in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. At one time the Euclid Avenue street car line went by the elder Hahn and Torgeson houses and later a bus route did the same Their lot backed up to the property of the "Kansas Free Fair." At the time of the annual fair in the first part of September, the Hahn house was a center of activity for local and out-of-town family members, fair visitors' cars were parked in the back for a little extra income. The house has a spacious back yard which was used as a place to rent space to visitors of the fair. The front porch facing West 17th was a popular place to sit and watch the visitors pass to and from the fair grounds. There was a garden at the lower end of the yard, and a chicken house, and in between that area and the house was where we played croquet and horseshoes. The property is now a part of the parking lot of the Kansas Exposition.

Their daughter Margaret (Hahn) Walter said that she was so glad when her dad decided to move to Topeka and he do carpenter work as life was better for them there. The Chris Hahn's lived in the same house until there until his death in 1933 and her death in 1952. In Topeka, Christian worked as a contractor building houses. The 1930 census lists the occupation of "Christian F. Hahn" as being a house carpenter. He built a house for each of his sons, Walter Hahn and Edward Hahn, and for his daughter Louise Hahn and her spouse Leslie F. Beckman, probably with their help. In his death certificate, Mattie reported that he had been a carpenter for twenty-five years, that is, since about 1909. So, it appears that while he was a farmer and a store owner, he also supplemented his income by carpentry.

Chris and Mattie's home was as a meeting place for the family members living in Topeka. Three of their children lived within a few blocks of the parents, and the other two lived about a mile and two miles away. Walter Hahn's parents in-law, Thomas "Tom" Torgeson and Margaret "Maggie" (Owen) Torgeson lived just three blocks away at 912 West Euclid Avenue (later West 17th Avenue). That house in 2004 was empty and the windows boarded up. Both families were friends in White City and continued that friendship while in Topeka. Like the Hahns, the Torgesons had moved to Topeka to be near their children. Walter Hahn's wife, Florence Vivian (Torgeson) Hahn in 1977 wrote to her son, Thomas F. Hahn, saying:

Mattie had numerous relatives from the Kansas City area and some of them were frequent visitors. From the 1930 census for Topeka we see that Elen Speerschneider lived with the Hahns while she was a clerk in a Topeka bank. That would have been a typical gesture of the Hahns, that is, to extend a helping hand to a friend or relative. The children of Christian and Mattie often were at their house on Sunday evenings. Often someone went out for ice cream at Baughman's Ice Cream Plant. When that happened Christian Hahn, ever the retail merchant, broke out a fresh box of saltine crackers to go with the ice cream. Their daughter Margaret, and her daughter, Donna Jean Walter, lived with the Hahns from the early 1940s until about 1963. During the war years of the 1940s, the upstairs rooms were sometimes let out to a renter. After Mattie's death on 27 August 1950, Margaret owned the house and she and Donna Jean, continued to live in the house. Donna Jean lived there until her marriage to Robert "Bob" Reineke on 23 January 1954. Margaret lived there until sometime after her marriage to Fredrick "Fred" Hottle on 22 November 1963. The house is no longer there, the houses on the south side of the street in that block having been demolished for the present-day Kansas Exposition, or whatever it is called, as was the house where the Edward Hahn Family lived a few houses west at 709 West Euclid Avenue. Christian Hahn's grand daughter, Donna Jean (Walter) Reineke, in an email of 18 January 2003 to Thomas F. Hahn, said of their grandmother, Mattie:

Chris and Mattie Hahn lived together in this house at on the east side of 329 West 17th (originally Euclid Avenue) from the early 1920s until his death in 1934. Mattie continued to live here until her death in 1952. Immediately to the rear of the deep lot, was the Kansas Free Fair Grounds, separated only by a wire fence. Their daughter, Margaret (Hahn) Walter and Margaret's daughter, Donna Jean lived with her for many years. Photo provided by D. J. (Walter) Reineke)

The death certificate for Chris Hahn states he died of a heart condition with a contributory illness of diabetes. It seems that a splinter in one of his hands led to the final episode ending with his death. He was attended in his illness by Dr. W. A. Wehe. Christian Hahn was buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery in Topeka, with his sister, Bertha D. (Hahn) Turner buried on the left side, and Mattie on the other. They are surrounded by the graves of Chris and Mattie's sons and daughters and their husbands and wives.

Mt. Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Kansas. In these four rows are the burials of Christian Hahn and his sister, Bertha Hahn and Chris's spouse, Mattie Defries and all of the Christian Hahn sons and daughters and their husbands and a couple of their children and spouses. (The photo was taken by Tom Hahn in June 1993.

The "Singing Tower" at Mt. Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Kansas, where songs were played on the carillon at certain times or on special occasions. The Hahn's sometimes went to hear them. The tower was across the road and to the south a bit. (Tom Hahn took this photo in June 2002)

Christian Hahn Family, Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas. Mary Louise "Lou" Hahn (left), Myrtle May Hahn (rear), Walter "Walt" Frederick Hahn (right), Edward "Ed" Oscar Hahn (front) in Kansas City, Wyandotte County, ca.1900. Photo provided by Thomas Swiftwater Hahn. ( Hahn Collection)

Christian Hahn Family, Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas, ca.1912 (Hahn Collection)

Above is the family of Martha Frances (Defries) Hahn and Christian Frederick Hahn. Martha "Mattie" Defries was the daughter of Mary Jane (Grinter) Defries, and the grand-daughter of Anne (Marshall) Grinter. From left-to-right, spouse Christian "Chris" Frederick Hahn, children Mary Louise "Lou" Hahn later Beckman, Walter "Walt" Frederick Hahn, Edward "Ed" Oscar Hahn, Myrtle May Hahn later McCollister, and (center) Margaretta "Margaret" Frances Hahn later Walter and Hottle. (Hahn Collection)

Census: 1870 Roseville, Warren Township, Macomb County, Michigan, enumerated 27 June 1870, p. 5. Dwelling 35, Family 35. Line 3. [In the family of his father Hahn, George J., that is John George Hahn.] Line 10. Hahn, Christian. Age 7 [1863]. Male. White. At Home. Born Michigan. Father foreign born. (Film Series M593, Roll 688, p. 117)

Census: 1880 Barnharts Mill, Fairview Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania. Dwelling 419. [In the family of his father John G. Hahn] Hahn, Christian. White. Male. Age 17 [1863]. Single. Farmer. In school. Born MI (LDS Film 0295622, p. 43)

Census: 1885 Wyandotte County, Kansas. Neither Chris nor any of his family have yet been found in this census. It is possible that he was still in Pennsylvania at this time, or enroute to Kansas.

Census: 1895 Wyandotte Township Wyandotte County, Kansas. Dwelling 425. Family 438. Line 1. C. F. Hahn, age 31, born Mich., from PA, farmer
Line 2. Mrs. M. F. Hahn, age 27, born KS
Line 3. Myrtle Hahn, age 5, born KS
Line 4. Lulu Hahn, age 2, born KS
His family was enumerated just prior to his mother-in-la, Mary Jane (Grinter) Defries and her family at Dwelling 426, family 440. Of interest is the fact that there were 576 families in 558 dwellings enumerated in Wyandotte Township. (FHL Film 570416, p. 63)

Census: 1895 Agricultural Census Kansas, Wyandotte County. LDS Family History Library Film 570416.
Line 12. C. F. Hahn, 80 acres, 65 acres under cultivation, 80 acres under fence. Fence 150 rods rail, 240 rods hedge, 150 rods wire. Farm value $4500, implements $100. 28 acres winter wheat, 15 acres corn, 4 acres oats, 4 acres Irish potatoes, 1 acre sorghum, for syrup, 125 bushels of corn on hand, 20 bushels wheat, 5 acres timothy, 14 acres clover, 5 tons tame hay, $100 garden products sold, $85 poultry & eggs sold, 150 lbs butter made, 2 horses, 3 milch cows, 3 swine, $50 animals slaughtered. Trees bearing 12 apple, 36 peach, 6 plum. Not bearing trees 60 apple, 3 pear, 24 plum, 12 cherry, 1/8 acres raspberries, 1/2 acre blackberries, 1/8 acres vineyard, $25 hort.[icultural] prod. sold. 3 dogs.

Census: 1900 Wyandotte Township, Wyandotte County, Kansas. Line 18. Hahn, Christian F. Born March 1864 MI
Line 19. Hahn, Mattie. Wife. Age 31 [1869]. Born in Kansas
Line 20. Hahn, Myrtle M. Age 11[?]. Born December 1889 in Kansas
Line 21. Hahn, Mary L. [Louise]. Born November 1895 in Kansas
Line 22. Hahn, Walter F. Age 7. Born November 1896 in Kansas
Line 23. Hahn, Edward. Born October 1898 in Kansas
Hahn, Paul N. Born July 1876 Pennsylvania
(LDS Film 1243961, vol. 58, E. D. 173, Sheet 13)

Census: 1905 Wyandotte Township. Wyandotte County, Kansas. Enumerated 1 March. Dwelling 166, Family 169. Hahn Christ. F. Age 41 [1864]. From Pennsylvania.
Hahn, Mrs. M. F. Age 37 [1868]. Born in Kansas
Hahn, Mertel. Age 15 [1890]. Born in Kansas
Hahn, Louise. Age 12 [1893]. Born in Kansas
Hahn, Walter. Age 9 [1896]. Born in Kansas
Hahn, Edward. Age 6 [1899]. Born in Kansas
Hahn, Margarette. Age 3 [1902]. Born in Kansas
Defries, Ed. Born in Kansas
[A. V. Wheat lived at dwelling 167. Roy Wheat married daughter Elma of Paul N. Hahn, so this Wheat may be related to him. Ed Defries is probably a nephew of Mattie, but his age should be checked in the census.]
(Vol. 478, Sec. 2, p. 26 at the Kansas State Historical Society Research Center)

Census: 1905 Agricultural for Wyandotte Township, Wyandotte County, Kansas. [The data from this census will be entered here if a copy of the census can be found. Editor]

Census: 1910 Wyandotte Township, Wyandotte County, Kansas. Series T624 Roll 460, part 1, image 1910. Ancestry.com Online Image 19 of 24. Enumeration 30 May, p.196. Muncie [Grinter Road, now 78th Avenue] Road. Dwelling 208 Family 210. Hahn, Christian. Age 47 [1863]. First marriage. Born Michigan. A merchant in general merchandising. [His store was on Muncie Road.]
Hahn, Mattie, was age 42 [1868], was born in Kansas, her first marriage, had 7 children born, had 5 living. [Because she was married in 1886, it appears that she may have lost her first two children.]
Hahn, Louise, was 17 [1893], and was born in Kansas.
Hahn Walter, age 14. [1895] and was born in Kansas.
Hahn, Edward O. Age 11 [1899] and was born in Kansas.
Hahn, Margaret. Age 8 [1902] and was born in Kansas.
[Daughter Myrtle and her husband, Gerald T. McCollister, were enumerated next door at Dwelling 209 Family 211.] (LDS Film 1370356 080 0204 0210 [?]

Census: 1915 White City, Rolling Prairie Township, Morris County, Kansas. Enumerated 7 January. Dwelling 10, Family 10. Line 8. Hahn, C. F. Age 52 [1863]. Born in Michigan. From Pennsylvania. Merchant
Line 9. Hahn, Martha. Age 48 [1867]. Housekeeper. Born Kansas. From Kansas
Line 10. Hahn, Louise. Age 22 [1893]. Born KS. From Kansas. Clerk
Line 11. Hahn, Walter F. Age 19 [1896]. Born KS. From Kansas. Clerk
Line 12. Hahn, Oscar ) [Edward]. Age 16 [1899]. Born Kansas. From Kansas. Student
Line 13. Hahn, Margaret. Age 13 [1902]. Born KS. From Kansas. Student
(Kansas State Historical Society Research Center, Film K162 viewed June 2000, p. 2)

Census: 1920 Kansas, Morris County, Rolling Prairie Township, White City, Enumeration District 99, Sheet 6. Enumeration date, 7 January 1920. Line 45 Dwelling 151, Family 156.
Hahn, Christian F. Head. Male. White. Age 56 [1864]. Married. Born Michigan. Father born Germany. Mother born Pennsylvania. Occupation Carpenter, House. Employment Code 148
Line 46 Hahn, Mattie. Wife. Female. White. Age 51 [1869]. Married. Able to Work. Able to work. Born Kansas. Father born Kentucky. Mother born in Kansas
Line 47. Hahn, Louise. Daughter. Female. White. Age 27 [1893]. Single. Born in Kansas. Father born in Michigan. Mother born in Kansas. Saleswoman. Department Store. Wage Earner. Code 791.
Line 48. Hahn, Walter. Son. Male. White. Age 24 [1896]. Single. Born in Kansas. Father born in Michigan. Mother born Kansas. Mechanic. Garage. Wage Earner. Code 378
Line 49. Hahn, Edward. Son. Male. White. Age 21 [1899]. Single. Born Kansas. Father born in Michigan. Mother born in Kansas. Clerk. Bank. Code 994
Line 50. Hahn, Margaret. Daughter. Female. White. Age 18 [1902]. Single. Born in Kansas. Father born Michigan. Mother born in Kansas. No occupation listed.
(Ancestry.com Online Images. Also, LDS FHL Film 1825261, vol. 33)

Census: 1925 Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. [The data from this census will be entered when the data has been found. An unsuccessful attempt was made in October 2004]

Census: 1930 Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. Enumerated 26 April. Part of Ward. Enumeration District 89-35, Sheet 16B Enumerator Birdie V. Taylor, Supervisor's District 5 1551. Address 629 West Euclid Avenue [later West 17th Avenue]. Dwelling 629 Family 544:
Line 51. Hahn, Christian Head. Owned home, mortgage $5,000. Did not live on a farm. Male. White. Age 67 [1863]. Married. Age at first marriage 23. Can read and write. Born Michigan. Father born Germany. Mother born Pennsylvania. Code 62 13 1. Speaks English. Carpenter, contractor. Code 06X1. Wage earner. Worked the previous day. Not a veteran.
Line 52. Hahn, Mattie F. Wife. Home. Female. White. Age 62 [1868]. Married. Age 23 at first marriage. Born Kansas, Father born Kentucky. Mother born Kansas. Speaks English. Code 70.
Line 53. Speerschneider, Elen. Boarder. Female, White. Age 20 [1910]. Single. Did not attend school within the past year. Reads and writes English. Born in Kansas. Father born Wisconsin. Mother born in Kansas. Code 70. Bookkeeper at bank. Code 6783. Wage earner. Worked the previous day. [Elen Speerschneider was a relative Mattie Hahn.]
(Ancestry.com Image 32 of 14 & 89 of 11)

The Hahn Family at Walt Hahn's House in Topeka, 1944 (Thomas Hahn Collection) The occasion at which this photograph was taken was probably at a family wedding dinner or reception for Irma McCollister, front row, wearing a corsage. Her adoptive parents, Gerald "Mac" McCollister and Myrtle May (Hahn) McCollister--Mattie's daughter--are in the back row, left; the matriarch of the family, Mattie (Defries) Hahn, is in front of Myrtle. Daughter Louise "Lou" Beckman and her husband, spouse, Leslie "Les" Beckman are to her left, back row. Back row, right, is Mattie's son, Walt Hahn, and his wife, Florence (Torgeson) Hahn; Marie (Jenkins) Hahn, spouse of Ed Hahn is to Mattie's right. Front row (left-to-right) are Jean Hahn, Ed and Marie Hahn's daughter; Tom Hahn, Walt and Florence's son; son; and, Barbara Hahn, Ed and Marie Hahn's daughter. Irma's husband, Theodore "Ted" Gregg, may have taken the photograph, or Ed Hahn, who is not in the photograph.

The children of Christian "Chris Frederick Hahn and Martha "Mattie" (Defries) Hahn are:
1. (Kansas Delaware) Myrtle May Hahn was born on 21 December 1889 at Muncie, Wyandotte County, Kansas.

Myrtle married Gerald "Mac" T. McCollister. He was born on 12 March 1884 in Nebraska and died on 31 July 1952 at Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas.

Gerald McCollister with the White City, Kansas Basketball Team ca.1920-1922. (Hahn Collection)

Mac was a teacher at the Stony Point School in Kansas City, Kansas. When Myrtle's (Hahn) Family all went to the farm at Thayer, Kansas about 1912, Mac and Myrtle seem to have stayed in Kansas City. The Hahn Family moved from the farm to White City, Morris County, Kansas about 1915 and they appear in the 1915 census there. It is thought that Myrtle and Mac went to White City about the same time, but we have not yet researched them in the 1915 census for that place. We know that Mac was the coach of the White City basketball team as shown in the photograph just above [and perhaps a teacher as well?] They also appear in the 1920 census at White City. I suppose that they could have preceded the Hahn Family to White City, but there does not seem to be any indication of that.

The McCollister's lived at Topeka, Kansas, where Mac worked as a carpenter at the Santa Fe Railway Company shops, most of their lives. Myrtle died on 23 December 1964 at Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. Mac also died at Topeka. They were buried in that city in the "Hahn Plot" in the Mount Hope Cemetery in Topeka. They adopted two children:
(1) Irma Louise Hahn, born on 26 May 1919 at Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas. (Birth Certificate) Irma grew up on Polk Avenue in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. She married 1942-1943 Theodore "Ted" Marion Gregg. He was born on 9 July 1914. They lived in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio where he was from. Their address was 38095 Chestnut Ridge. Ted died of pneumonia at Elyria on 19 February 1997 at 4:20 a, at age 59. His address when he passed away was 40282 Biggs Road, La Grange, Ohio 44050. Irma died on 1 July 1978 at age 59 in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio of respiratory failure, Kartagener's Syndrome, and congestive heart failure. Irma was buried in Brookdale Cemetery in Elyria. Ted and Irma were buried in Lot 425, Section F, Spaces 3 and 4. Their daughter Michele Renee married Michael "Mike" Jay Stump (Both living) . They have a son, Michael Jay Stump, Jr., and a daughter, Mikalya Louise Stump (both living).

(2) Dorothy Nadine (Living). In January 2004 she moved from Carbondale, Osage County, Kansas. to Iowa.

2. (Kansas Delaware) Mary Louise "Lou" Hahn was born on 19 November 1892 at Muncie, Wyandotte County, Kansas. She married on 25 December 1920, at probably Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, Leslie "Les" F. Beckman, who was born on a farm near Thayer, Labette County, Kansas.

Louise (Hahn) Beckman with Her Nephew, Ray Hahn, at Ray's Home near Kansas City, Missouri in August 1941. Left-to-right: Louise (Hahn) Beckman (with her spouse), Leslie "Les" Beckman Louise, Martha "MarLou" Hahn (spouse of Ray Hahn), Marcelle "Becky" Beckman (daughter of Louise and Les Beckman), Ray Hahn, Florence (Torgeson) Hahn (Photo by Walt Hahn. Thomas Hahn Collection)

The Beckman Family in Topeka from a 1941 Christmas Card. Left-to-right: Marty Beckman. Pepper Beckman (family dog), Marcelle "Becky" Beckman, Leslie "Les" Beckman, Louise "Lou" Beckman. (Hahn Collection)

Louise Beckman and Walter Hahn at Beckman's, 1415 Byron in Topeka Kansas, Thanksgiving Day 1944.

They lived in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas at 1415 Byron Avenue most of their lives. Les died at Topeka on 24 May 1981 and Lou died on 11 July 1945 while aboard a Santa Fe Railway train near Bakersfield, Kern County, California. They are buried adjacent to one another in the "Hahn Family Plot" at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Topeka, Kansas.

They had two daughters:
1. (Kansas Delaware) Eunice Marcelle "Becky" Beckman born on 29 October 1921 at Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. She married Harry G. Corby, Jr., born on 22 August 1922. They lived most of their lives in Topeka. Harry died in March 2001 and Becky died on 28 June 2001. They are buried adjacent to one another in the "Hahn Family Plot" at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Topeka.

Marcelle "Becky" (Beckman) Corby (left) and Donna (Walter) Reineke at a Hahn Family Memorial Service at the Mount Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Kansas (Photo by Bob Reineke)

They had two sons:
        1. (Kansas Delaware) David "Dave" Corby (Living)
        2. (Kansas Delaware) Richard "Rick" Corby (Living)
    2. (Kansas Delaware) Martha "Marty" Mae Beckman, born on 27 March 1927, died on Saturday 23 May 1981, married James Kilkenny (Living). Their children: (To be added)

Marty Beckman and Tommy Hahn near Green Mountain Falls, Colorado ca1939. (Thomas Hahn Collection) Tommy and his parents, his Aunt Bernice, his Aunt Gladys, and his Aunt Mae had driven to Colorado. The Beckman's came on their Santa Fe Railway pass for a long weekend to visit. (Hahn Collection)

Marty Beckman and Tommy about age 12 at the Swing in front of the Walt Hahn House (Hahn Collection)

Marty Beckman, 1944 at 1415 Byron Avenue, Topeka, Kansas. Her Dog Pepper in front.

3. (Kansas Delaware) Walter "Walt" Frederick Hahn was born on 28 October 1895 on the Delaware Allotment of his maternal grandmother, Mary Jane (Grinter) Defries at (Stony Point) Muncie, Wyandotte Township, Wyandotte County, Kansas. (See his full entry Walter "Walt" Frederick Hahn)

Walter married Florence Vivian Torgeson of White City, Rolling Prairie, Morris County, Kansas on 5 September 1920 at Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. Florence was born on 23 March 1898 at White City, Rolling Prairie Township, Morris County, Kansas, the daughter of Margaret Louise Owen, born on 13 September 1870 at Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa, died on 29 October 1952 at Newton, Harvey County, Kansas, and was buried in the White City Cemetery. Her parents were Orson Anderson Owen, born on 1 September 1842, at possibly Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio, died on 26 April at Parkerville, Morris County, Kansas, and was buried in the Parkerville Cemetery as a Civil War Veteran. She was the daughter of Thomas "Tom" Torgieson (Torgeson), born on 29 September 1857 near Bygland, East-Agder, Norway, died at White City, Morris County, Kansas on 30 March 1939, and was buried there. Walt and Florence lived in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas most of their married lives and were buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery. He died on 4 April 1967 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Topeka. She died on 6 October 1998 at the Canterbury Nursing Facility at Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, West Virginia, was cremated at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, and was interred in the Mount Hope Cemetery in the Hahn Family plot at Topeka, Kansas , next to her spouse, Walter Frederick Hahn, in the Spring of 1999.

4. (Kansas Delaware) Edward "Ed" Oscar Hahn was born probably at home on 29 July 1898 at Muncie, Wyandotte County, Kansas, that is, present Kansas City, Kansas. The Christian "Chris" Frederick Hahn house was on Grinter Road, now 78th Street. The house in which Edward was born was probably on the land that his mother, Martha "Mattie" Francis (Defries) Hahn, had been given from her mother's allotment on the old Kansas Delaware Reserve. His brother, Walter "Walt" Frederick Hahn, once told Walter's son, Tom Hahn, as they were driving by the old house and barn in the 1930s, that he and his brother, Edward, got splinters in their rear ends when they tried to slide down the roof of the barn. Edward attended the Stony Point School at Muncie.

He moved with the Christian Hahn family to a 360-acre farm in Shiloh Township, Neosho County, Kansas, probably in 1912. Edward attended high school at Parsons, Labette County, about fifteen miles away. His sister, Mary Louise "Lou" (Hahn) Beckman, kept house in Parsons while he and his brother, Walter Hahn, went to school. His nephew, Tom Hahn, has a photo of several men, one of whom appears to be Edward, constructing a silo thought to be on he Hahn farm, or a nearby farm. Tom also has a photo of their house, as does his daughter, Patricia "Pat" (C. (Hahn) Blair.

In 1915, Edward went with the Hahn family to live at White City, Morris County, Kansas, on the West side of the little town, across the railroad tracks. Edward attended the University of Kansas for a short time. His daughter, Pat (Hahn) Blair, has his student handbook for the University of Kansas. It appears that he enrolled for classes on 19 September 1918. During World War I, Edward was in the Army for several months. In that same student notebook, he said, "Reported at 2:00, measured, signed up and inducted into service." It is not clear whether this was before or after he attended the University of Kansas. He must have been in the service for at least six months to be eligible for the veteran rights that he later used. In 1920, he was a bank clerk in White City. Edward and his future wife, Ida Marie "Marie" Jenkins, met in White City. She attended Baker University at Baldwin, Douglas County, Kansas. They married on 6 September at Baldwin City, Douglas County, Kansas, Ida Marie Jenkins, born on 4 July 1897, White City, Rolling Prairie Township. Morris County, Kansas. After they married on 6 September 1920, in Baldwin City, Douglas County, Kansas, they went to Kansas City, Missouri on their honeymoon with his brother, Walter, and his wife, Florence Vivian (Torgeson) Hahn. Walter and Florence had married in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas two days before. Edward and Marie were living in White City when their eldest daughter, Genevieve "Jean" Marie Hahn, was born on 19 January 1922.

Ed and Marie moved to Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas sometime after the birth of their daughter, Jean. It appears that he worked for the Santa Fe Railroad at Topeka for a short time. In 1930, he was a bank accountant at the Central National Bank. He and Marie lived in Topeka most of their lives. In 1930, they owned a house on 707 West Euclid Avenue (later West 17th Avenue) in Topeka. To the rear of the house was the Kansas Free Fair Grounds. The house was just a few houses west of his parents, Christian and Mattie Hahn, at 629 West Euclid Avenue on the same (south) side of the street. The Edward Hahn house on West Euclid Avenue--as well as the Christian Hahn house -- was later demolished for the construction of the Kansas Exposition building. Sometime in the 1920s, Christian Hahn built--probably with Edward's help--the Edward Hahn house at 1413 Byron Avenue, on the South side of the street, next to the Leslie Beckman house at 1415 Byron. This house was only five or six blocks from the Christian Hahn house. The Edward Hahn House on Byron Avenue is still standing. In 1936, they lived in a house several houses west, also on the South side of Byron Avenue. Edward's nephew, Tom Hahn, remembers that house filled with campaign items for Alfred "Alf" Landon, the Republican Presidential Candidate in 1936. Edward was an active supporter of Landon in that campaign. The house is now gone, possibly as a result of the tornado in the 1960s. Edward had a varied career as a banker in Topeka, a diamond miner in Arkansas, a participant in the construction of the ALCAN (Alaska-Canadian) Highway, the owner of a cosmetics company, and a federal government employee at Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas. In 1941, the Edward Hahn family moved to a large house at 1534 College Avenue. Edward extensively remodeled the house so that his daughter, Jean, and her husband, Charles "Charlie" Johnson, could have a place to live while he started in business after they married in 1943. Daughter Barbara "Barb" and her husband, Samuel "Sam" Lamantia, lived there while he attended Washburn College after they married in 1946. Edward, Marie, and daughter Pat lived also lived there during this period. Each family group in its own apartment. In this way, Edward and Marie kept up the family tradition of helping their children while they were starting out in life. In 1952, Edward and Marie and daughter Pat moved to 1433 Lincoln Ave. He spent his last year in this life at the Presbyterian Manor at Topeka. Edward died on 24 July 1979 at the St. Francis Hospital as the result of a heart attack. He lost his eyesight several years earlier. Edward was buried in the Fairlawn Section of the Fairlawn-Mount Hope Cemetery, in the Hahn Family Plot, next to his spouse, Marie.

Edward is on Roll of the Kansas Delaware Tribe of Indians. To his nephew, Tom Hahn, he was an interesting man who worked away from home much of the time. He had a good sense of humor, was a good story teller, and was interested in the history of his family.

They lived in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas most of their lives. She died 10 October 1978 at Topeka. He died on 24 July 1979 at the Veterans Hospital in Topeka. They were buried in the "Hahn Family Plot" at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Topeka. Ed and Marie had three daughters:
1. (Kansas Delaware) Genevieve "Jean" Marie Hahn born 19 January 1922, White City, Morris County, Kansas, died 29 November 1988, Evanston, Cook County, Illinois. She married Charles "Charlie" Johnson (Living). Their daughters are (Kansas Delaware) Candace "Candy" Ann Johnson (Living) and Diane Marie Johnson (Living). They were born at Topeka.
2. (Kansas Delaware) Barbara "Barb" Ann Hahn based on the personal personal knowledge of Barbara Ann (Hahn) Lamantia, her sister Patricia "Pat" (Hahn) Blair and her cousin, Thomas "Tom" Frederick Hahn. Her nickname was "Barb." Barbara was born on 15 November 1926 at Topeka, Shawnee County, Topeka, Kansas. She was baptized at the Trinity Episcopal Methodist Church in Topeka on 27 March 1927 along with her cousins Thomas Frederick Hahn, Martha Mae Beckman, and Dorothy Nadine McCollister. Barbara attended Crane and Boswell Junior High School. She graduated from Topeka (Kansas) High School in 1944 and attended Washburn College (Topeka, Kansas). Barbara married Samuel "Sam" James Lamantia. He was born on 29 September 1923, at Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York, the son of Pietro and Catherine (Medonia) Lamantia. They came from Bulcodefalco (north of Palermo) Sicily 1910/1911). They both died and were buried at Jamestown, New York. Barbara and Sam divorced, but Sam attended many of his former family's functions in order to keep up with his children, and family. Sam later married and was later divorced. He died on 3 May 1997 in the St. Francis Hospital at Topeka, and was buried in the West Lawn Memorial Garden Cemetery at Topeka, Kansas.

Barbara worked as an administrative assistant at Washburn College, owned and managed Barbara Edward's [the Edward part named for her father, Edward], was a drapery fabricator, and a paste-up artist. She bravely fought cancer and always put on a cheerful face. Barbara was a joy to all her family and friends who were always welcome at her home and had a good time there. Barbara died at Topeka on 10 March 2001. She was buried 14 March in the East Lawn Section of the Mount Hope cemetery in that city.

Her children were:
Child 1. Alan Edward Lamantia was born on 28 December 1946, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. He married first Nancy Grimm. Their child, Sandra Lee "Sandy" Lamantia, was born on 25 November 1965. She married James "Jim" Turk. They live in Spanaway, Washington. Their children are Zachary James Turk, born on 27 June 1993 and Ashlyn Nicole Turk, born on 13 October 1997. Nancy Grimm married second James "Jim" Foster. In 2003 they were to be living in Alaska. Alan married second on 6 January 1973, at New Paltz, Ulster County, New York, Marie Sinagra. She was born on 22 March 1947. Their child, Joseph Alan, born 7 December 1975. He married Dawn ______. In 2003 they lived in San Jose, California.
Child 2. Christine "Chris" Lamantia was born on 20 October 1953, at Topeka, Kansas. She married Mark Alan Patek. They divorced. Their son, Mark William Patek, was born on 15 October 1980. In 2003 they live at Topeka, Kansas.
Child 3. Mark James Lamantia, was born 28 December 1954, at Topeka, Kansas. He married on 29 May 1982, at Topeka, Kansas, Sarah Baker. They divorced. They had one son, Jason James Lamantia. He was born on 15 April 1983, in Topeka. In 2001 Mark James lived in Topeka.
Barbara's children are all on the Kansas Delaware Tribe of Indians Rolls. Barbara worked as an administrative assistant, a drapery fabricator, a paste-up artist, and was manager of a clothing store.

                                                      Patricia "Pat" Christine (Hahn) Blair (Blair Photo)

3. (Kansas Delaware) Patricia "Pat" Christine Hahn was born on 10 February 1935 at Phoenix, Arizona. She married on 25 September 1954 at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas,   Kenneth "Ken" Wayne Blair born on 24 January 1935 at Parsons, Labette County, Kansas. They live in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas. Pat wrote to Tom Hahn in October 2006, "The folks carried on Grandpa Hahn's example of providing housing for the girls as they married and started out but by the time Ken and I were married, [in Topeka] the folks had sold the 1534 College house and were in the apartment at 1433 Lincoln. Ken and I rented an upstairs apt. at 800 Garfield and shared a bathroom with the other couple. (I doubt I did my share on keeping that clean.) Hopefully, I would do better now days on that chore. Ken worked for a printer and I worked for an insurance co. then for the State of Ks. in the personnel division. About a year into our marriage, Ken was offered a job in Lawrence with better pay and hours and I was pregnant with Cindy. We purchased a small home and lived there until David arrived, then built a house that we lived in for a couple of years, then onto 19th Terrace for 46 years where it was less expensive and lower taxes (and better built.)"

Pat Hahn and Ken Blair's Wedding Day 25 September 1954.Topeka, Kansas. (Blair Photo)

Their children:
      1. (Kansas Delaware) Cynthia "Cindy" Jane Blair was born on 26 January 1956 at Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas. She married at Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, Edwin Nicholas "Nick" Gentry, born on 18 June 1952 at Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas. They live in Lawrence. Their children:
             1. (Kansas Delaware) Nicole Christine Gentry was born on 3 February 1978. She lives in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas.
             2. (Kansas Delaware) Laura Marie Gentry . She lives in Lawrence, Kansas)
     2. (Kansas Delaware) David Lynn Blair (Living)

Kansas Delaware David Bair, Strong Wise Owl and Bill Blair, Son of Strong Wise Owl, Sumer 2006 (Hahn Collection)