Memories of Genevieve Jauch Glunz

Date: 1989 to 1989
Location: Buffalo, Erie, New York
Surnames/tags: Jauch Glunz Hemann

Letter dated 6 September 1989 from Dorothy Hemann Smith and Archie Smith (of Buffalo, NY?) to John L. Smith & Miriam S Smith of Solana Beach

Dear John & Mim,

Mil [Mildred Smith Heffley] said you might be interested in our family history. My son gave us a book in which I write (occasionally!) any information I receive about Grandma Jauch (Paulina Glunz Jauch) and her children (12, yet!)

Cousin Genevieve, who lives in Peterborough, Ontario, is older than us, and she remembers more about Granma than I do.

She sent these pages to me, hastily scribbled as she would recall certain events and people.

I had this copy made for you, and Hope it will give you some facts about our ancestry. There are many gaps -- did they come by boat, and land at Ellis Island? how did they get to Bflo, etc?

Arch & I celebrated our 50th anniversary in April, & we still function, although at a slower pace.

Do hope all your family are well.

All our love,

Dorothy & Arch

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Attachment is the collection of pages from Genevieve Jauch Glunz, not dated. Items in italics are my editorial notes.' Smith-32867 08:58, 13 November 2017 (EST)

Dear Dorothy,

The following is a list of the JAUCH children of Ludwig Jauch and Paulina Glunz; each name is followed by first their spouse, then their children with some notes:

1. Henry - Estella - Harry - Gladys
2. John - Clara - Edwin - Dentist
3. Bill - Anna - Walter - Genevieve [author of this document?]
4. Bert - not married; he went with a young lady and she was drowned
5. Edward - Mattie - Margaret
6. Louis - Mary - no children; Divorced (She is Mary Jachel)
7. Fred - see note #7
8. Mike - ? - Eleanor - Eddie (marginal note: Eleanor married and her brother lived with her on Mulberry St. Then I guess he got married - he was a good looking chap. Uncle Mike died of TB so I was told)
9. Kate - Henry Alles - Irene (her children Clifford, Muruial, Leonard; aunt Kate had a baby before Irene who died young)
10. Lena - John - Howard - Mildred - John [this is the line of Jillaine Smith]
11. Lizzie - Jules - Dorothy
12. Jennie - Jack - Roy (Staley)

No. 6 - Louie - and Mary Jackel were divorced; she married again; he had a pop[.?] business and 2 children

No. 9 - Kate - now if you want information about old neyse's [?] etc - Muriel may have them - also I sort of narrowed it down about the Bible - I always thought that Bert had it and gave it to Lena - but I think maybe Kate took it as she was the oldest child. Call Clifford and he may be able to tell you about it - or maybe grandma gave it to her.

No. 7 - Fred - as I was told this story - He was missing from home - in those times women come to some peoples homes and told them things about happenings. This woman told grandma that in the spring when the boats went out of the harbor that they would find their son and sure enough it came true - he was wedged under a boat. Now I am not sure if he was married - but I do remember Aunt Mary saying that someone died and people got the person mixed - because there was a Louis Jauch and a Louisia - so the only person grandma [____] that she could be was Fred's wife or Louis first or I gather 2nd wife - and I'm not sure which L. died - maybe they both died -- at the same time. (Marginal note: "might this Louisa was Kempff's sister - who knows?)

8. Maybe Eddie Jauch would have some information he would be quite old now -- but you never know. So as far as the Bible goes - Gldy would know if her dad hat it. John - sure weoul not have it. Nor Bert - Norre Louis - Mike or Fred. My dad didn't have it - & Margarets father died young so he would ot have it. Mildred and you haven't got it and I know Jenny wouldn't have it - so that leaves Kate - I can't figure out how Bert would not keep track of it.

I hope that you can make all this out.

Now - Walter has a son Robert and a daughter Pat. The boy in the nursing home is David he is about 27 (Robert's son). He had a stroke 3 years ago [c 1986] - it's a sad story - he is in the nursing home in Williamsville. I am surprised that Fred Glunz's daughter does not have some information.

When we first came to Canada - Casper [Glunz] came to visit us - I was the only one home-- and we had a long chat. Some one drove him but they did not come in to visit. I understood that he married a Canadian girl - her father had a shoe business here - this would have been the visit in 1940 or so).

He told me that Grandpa [Ludwig] Jauch was born in Switzerland near the border & Grandma worked as a house helper near there when they met (in Germany).

We're 95% certain that Ludwig was born in Schwenningen, which is not far north of the Swiss border. We also do not know where he was from 1847 when his father (with children) left Schwenningen as part of the town-subsidized emigration of the poor to the US and 1867 when he first shows up in Buffalo, New York. Did he live in Switzerland in the interim?

I do know from other talks that grandma came over to the States when she was 16 and brought her 2 little brothers with her. Casper and Fred [Glunz].

This has been confirmed through emigration documents.

Fred lived in Detroit or Cleveland and had a 2nd hand furniture business there. I met him and his grandson one time; he used to visit grandma and always gave her a nice bit of money for her birthday. So maybe his family knows more about the voyage to the U.S.A. (Her birthday June 30)

I do not know how they came to Buffalo. I am wondering where a young girl would go on arriving. Now this is my idea. Casper said that in the villages where Grandma's family and Howard's family (his grandparents lived there was an inter marriage after one or the other became a widow - etc. - See Granma was a Glunz - she married L. Jauch - my father Bill Jauch (Jennie (me) his daughter Jauch - married Howard Glunz.

We now know that Grandma Paulina Glunz and her two brothers followed their father, Caspar Glunz Sr who had come over a few years earlier.

Now Howard [Glunz] got dates from his older sister. His grandparents were born in Swabish Halle or Hall, Wurtenberg Germany. Well I know that Granma often mentioned Wurtenburg.

Howard's Glunz line is a separate family, but both sets of Glunzes did originate in Hausen ob Verena, and were distant cousin, connecting several generations "up" the tree.

So I imagine that they knew one another in Germany - Howard's grandmother was Katrina (his grandfather Elias) she was older than Grandma. They came to the States when Howard' dd was 2 - but they settled in Pennsylvania or about 7 years or so then came to Buffalo.

They lived on Mulberry St near us - now I'm just guessing but I think that maybe Grandma [Paulina Glunz] stayed there [with Elias & Katrina] at first. I'm not sure when she and grandpa were married but I doubt that it was when she was 16. (Marginal note: Grandma and Katrina were friends I know that.)

We now know that they married ten days after she arrived in the U.S. We also know that she was not 16, but 20, when she emigrated.

Their first house-- rented I guess-- was on Mulberry St. up further from their house that they bought. (Howard's grandmother was about 10 or so years older than ours) or she could have stayed at the Church house - St. Peters was a German speaking church then-- or more German than English, as Howard was confirmed in German - and that was about 1915 or so.

I am also trying to figure the dates of birth etc as far as I can get is this:

Pauline J. Glunz Birth 1845; married 1865; died 1930 or 31. Grandma was 82 or 84 when she died. 16 years old come to U.S.A. 1861 date (app).

See note above.

Louis Jauch Birth 1843; Married 1865; Died 1912; also he was 69 if I am right.

We believe he was the Ludwig Jauch born in Schwenningen in 1839; see notes above about his marriage.

I may be a way off on these figures but I figured from Howard's family too. Kate was the older so get her age and it will figure out right.

There are 2 different Jauch families in Buffalo.

Bob Jauch - 309 Danbury Drive, Cheektowaga, NY 14225; his phone number is 836-2048. He is tracking down the Jauch family so he may have some informtion for your son. Call him he is a very nice person. I know you k now - grandpa was killed oming home from work - 2 men driving a horse and wagon knocked him down the shalft of the wagon killing him. I remember him. He had a goatee - a very mild sort of man. but grndma was my favorite of anyone and now I feel so stupid for not (as you said asking questions) - now I would ask a million. She ame up to our home every night and I always stayed there when Bert came up to Canada on his holidays (or vacation s you Yankees would say). I was with her often. She had a stroke - and helped out-- and I know that your mother - Lena [Paulina Jauch Smith], Jennie, Kate - came certain days to help her. Henry - My Dad and Bert were good to her-- and did see more of her than the others-- but then some died young.

Well if this makes any sense I hope that it helps out.

I was wondering if the immigration office would have a record of her landing and marriage - now we are the only Glunz in Canada-- and I am sure that Howard's and Grandma's are the only ones in the states so contact the brother's family in Detroit.

It must be a big one as a few years bak my son-in-law spotted an item in the Readers Digest - where this man - Glunz - hired a large bus and took all of his relatives to Florida. This was a son or grandson - so there must be a lot of Glunzes there.

I suppose that I could have said all of this is in about 25 words or less but if I get going I just go-go.

Howard never gets lonesome with me around. In August we will be married 60 years - a long time - he has been retired 22 years.

I have a lot of little tid bits left about a few things but (not gossip) - just Grandma things - some timem I'll write them down for you.

I will close now. Hope that you and your family are well.

Jenny - Pauline (I like Pauline, grandma's name)

P.S. I am going to read this again and see if there is anything that I should have left out or put in. I go on and on like a running brook.

P.P.S. I bought a leather book just for families and our children etc. Will not have to guess at dates etc. I put everything into it. There are 6 generations in it.)

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We were sorry to hear about Howard's wife [Evelyn Jung] - as one gets older there are so many things that happen to us.

I think that we all live from day to day - with the good Lord's help.

After reading this a few times I thought that I should write it over - and make it short and sweet - but then I could go on and on! So here it is.

Now another change - something kept popping into my head-- about a place, that grandma always mentioned-- and finally it came to me. Stuttgart. I am sure that this was a special place- as she mentioned in many times. Schwabisch Hall is not far from there only its more farm land and its population in the cities was about 23,000; Stuttgart's was 628,000 -- about 15 years ago. Let me know if all of this information is of any help.

We now know that grandma Paulina Glunz Jauch was born in Cannstadt-- what is now a suburb on the northeast side of Stuttgart.