Hartman, Elizabeth

1825 - 1913  (87 years)    Has no ancestors but more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Hartman, Elizabeth
  Born	12 Dec 1825	, , Indiana, USA
  Gender	Female
  Biography	This is a page from the book on history of the RICKERT family. The Rickert family is often connected to the Siddons Family. This is written by Father William Rickert, a priest who lives in Green Bay and used his Uncle's diary. (This will tell what kind of a man Ed Hughes was to his family and anyone else near him.) copied as is... a few "facts" are in question names mentioned in this piece--Siddons, Hughes, Rickert, Hartman, Smith, Van Roy, Hammen, MCCann, Brumm, McCormick, Dresang, Van Dyke, Fitzmaurice, Ward, Geldernich, Muttard, Caliebe. Mrs. Elizabeth Hartman Siddons, mother-in-law to Ed Huges Jr. Elizabeth and her 5 children came back to Wisconsin but not to their old place in Freedom, which seems to have been sold when they left, but to an uncle, one of the Hartmans in Appleton. When her daughter, Mary Siddons married Ed Hughes, Elizabeth went to live with them. They had a farm where we knew our Uncle John Richert, to have lived. There she, Elizabeth, continued to smoke home grown tobacco in a clay pipe. She would grind the leaves in the palm of her hand and place the tobacco in a cloth pouch and carry it with her at all times in her apron pocket. Elizabeth was a very proficient at rug weaving and earned enough while living with her daughter, Mary Hughes, to buy all the groceries for the Hughes and her 6 children. Notwithstanding her great diligence, Ed Hughes was very dissatified with their presence in his house. Ed Hughes was so mean and ornery, that on one occasion years later, when young Dan Siddons broke his plow on a tree root, Ed beat him up so badly and with such ill feelings, that Dan tied a shirt and a pair of socks in a knot and attached it to a stick, and left his Mother and his sisters with a hurried but sad farewell and headed barefoot for Mattoon, never to return to the Hughes farm. Uncle Dan married a girl from up north by the name of Mary Smith. Like Daniel, all the Siddons girls got married very young so they might escape the forced hardships and rigors of the Hughes home. Ed Hughes had 3 boys and 3 girls of his own; it must have been quite a house full to have the Siddons family living with them. One of his boys, Tom Hughes was a close friend to the Richert boys; Tom bought 60 acres where we knew Tony Van Roy to have lived; Tom had one horse and used one of this Dad's when he needed an extra horse for plowing, etc. When Tom was killed in the woods in Florence in November 10, 1894, Ed Hughes (his Dad), took over Tom's place because Tom had a sum of money paid down on the place and that was the only way they could hold it. Ed sold his farm to Sid Hammen, but Sid eventually lost it. That is how George and Martha Rickert came to buy it. Ed Hughes lived to the age of 80 and died poor. In his last years, he used to live at the McCann place; in 1917, when Dad owned the farm and with it, the McCann place, he received $6 per month rent from Ed Hughes. Ed Hughes was born in August of 1842 and married in 1863. He was 6 years older than Mary Siddons when he married her (my great Aunt). His first child was a girl names Addie or Adelaide, born October 11, 1856; Addie Hughes married Hank Brumm and lived in Birnamwood. His next child was John Hughes, born May 7, 1867 and he seemed to prosper more than any of the other children. No child was born for another 5 years when Tom appeared, a very dear friend to the Rickert boys. A tree fell on him at the age of 22 in Florence. On March 14, 1874, twins were born to Ed and Mary Hughes and they names them Annie, who married Pete McCormick, and Martha who married Tim McCormick. Tom Hughes who was 2 years older than the twins, owned the 40 acres where we use to pasture young stock south of the creek. Owen Huges was born June 20, 1879 (youngest child). The Hartmans moved to Iowa in 1870 or 1872. Grandpa Rickert (John Rickert) use to live on Joe Dresang's place. His son John and his wife Elixabeth are both buried at St Nicholas Cemetery, straight west of the Crucifixion group. When George and Martha bought the farm, it had a very small log barn. Straight Van Dyke built Uncle Will's barn; Joe E. has since added a handsome addition. Before Mary Smtih married Dan Siddons, her family was neighbors and close friends to the Fitzmaurice Family in Appleton. She always paid them a visit when she came from Mattoon to Appleton. The Smith Family remained remained good Catholics even up north, but Mary fell away from the faith after she married Dan Siddons. Dan Hughes, a brother to Ed Hughes had the saloon in Slabtown, gave it up because the town would not renew the license. Ed, Owen, Dan, and Margaret and Ann Ward were all children of old John Hughes and are buried in Stockbridge. Susie Geldernich married John Hughes in 1904 when she was living in the McCann place; John's first wife had died in 1899,she was a Muttard girl and she and John lived the first place south of Caliebe's. John Hughes was born in a little shanty in 1867; it belonged to Jane Bates and was located south of our cheese factory by the creek. The day John was born, his Mother had caught many fist in "Whiskey" creek throughtout the day, and after she had the fish cleaned, that evening she gave birth to her baby without the aid of a doctor. Joh was born on the 7th of May. At that time of the year, water could still be high; suckers and Northern could still be spawning. Now the creek is no more than a ditch.
  Other Info or Events	12 Dec 1825
  daughter of John Hartman
  Died	21 Jan 1913
  Buried	Mattoon, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA
  Person ID	I31752	1FamilyTree
  Last Modified	4 Feb 2017

  
  

  Family	Siddons, John Gibson Christian,   b. 26 Sep 1830, , , Indiana, USA ,   d. 17 Sep 1860, , , Iowa, USA  (Age 29 years)
  Married	Bef 1846
  Children	1. Siddons, James Will,   b. 24 Sep 1846,   d. 10 Feb 1934  (Age 87 years) + 2. Siddons, Mary,   b. 30 Mar 1848, , , Indiana, USA ,   d. 26 Nov 1922  (Age 74 years)   3. Siddons, Nancy E.,   b. 15 Jun 1851,   d. 6 Dec 1851  (Age 0 years)   4. Siddons, Martha Isabelle,   b. 30 Jun 1853,   d. 14 Dec 1942  (Age 89 years) + 5. Siddons, Rose Ann,   b. 24 Aug 1855, , , Indiana, USA ,   d. 3 May 1921, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 65 years) + 6. Siddons, Rachel Jane,   b. 31 Oct 1857, , , Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 13 Mar 1908  (Age 50 years)   7. Siddons, John B.,   b. 24 May 1859,   d. 26 Aug 1860  (Age 1 years)   8. Siddons, Daniel C.,   b. 1 Jan 1861,   d. 24 May 1933  (Age 72 years)
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2011
  Family ID	F10317	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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