HISTORY OF LAUDEMAN FAMILY
    
                 Brief Biography of Jacob and Anna Laudeman
    
In the year of 1833 Jacob and Anna (Hensel) Laudeman with their four sons and 
two daughters, and Adam Hensel (brother of Anna) and his family emigrated from 
Reihnbeihren, Germany to the United States to escape the German compulsory 
military service for their sons.
    
The food preparation for such a long journey as this meant much work and 
concern for the mothers.
    
After arriving in New York they moved to Ausenburg, Ohio, now called East 
Canton, where they lived about seven years. In 1840 they moved to Indiana 
in a covered wagon. During this journey while traveling through Maumee and 
the Black Swamp (which is now rich agricultural districts) Mother Laudeman 
cried and said they were surely now at the end of the world. After traveling 
through Colewater, Michigan and Mishawaka, Indiana they settled in German 
Township, two miles southwest of Bremen, purchasing three 80 acre tracts for 
S1.25 an acre, and there lived their remaining lives.
    
Mother Laudeman was born April 13, 1799 and died March 13, 1864, and Father L
audeman was born April 12, 1788 and died March 10, 1870.  They  were married 
in the year of 1814.
    
ChiIdren of Jacob and Anna (Hensel) Laudeman
    
 Name             Born         Died        Married to
    
 Jacob        11-22-1815     7- 2-1882    Elizabeth Stine
 John          9-18-1818    12-26-1877    Caroline Knoblock
 Peter         4-18-1821    10- 7-1876    Anna Herzog
 Frederick     4-19-1824     6-28-1908    Salome Hockeman
 Elizabeth     6-16-1831     1- 3-1913    Frederick Knoblock
 Kathern                                  Bernard Rub
 Samuel        8-26-1838     8- 8-1921    Margaretha Gass
                                          Johanna Needenberger

Compiled by Newa (Heinke) Davis 1956
Revised, updated - Carl Heinke 1984 Desc. of Margaret (Laudeman) 
b. 1854 and Philip Heinke b. 1856.