Timm’s Trilogy comes to an end today. I would like to give him a big “shout-out” for giving me a few days off.

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Yesterday, we met Augusta’s second Christian Haupt and began looking at their family. We’ll continue now with her last known child, Carolina ‘Emma’ Haupt, who was born 21 May 1874 and baptized the following month in “Sud[heim]”. With all three of her baptism sponsors having been named Carolina, I’m a bit surprised that she instead went by Emma later in life.

By the 1876 Missouri State Census, Carl (a.k.a. Charles) and Wilhelmina (a.k.a. Minnie, Mina, etc.) were the only surviving children from Augusta’s first marriage, and both were still living at home with their four younger half-sisters.

Charles married before the 1880 US Census, leaving his parents with just his sisters at home. Mina was described as Christian’s step-daughter while the rest were listed as his daughters. The birthplaces for Christian and “Gusta” were given as “Prussia”, with “Hanover” written above in parenthesis. The Kingdom of Hanover had been annexed in 1866 by its larger neighbor and ally, the Kingdom of Prussia, becoming the Prussian Province of Hanover. German unification under Prussian dominance was largely completed in 1871, when the southern states of Baden, Bavaria, Hesse, Saxony, and Württemberg joined with Prussia, which then declared a new German Empire. In US records, “Prussia” largely became shorthand for all things German.

While the population schedules from the 1890 US Census were destroyed by fire, we can still view entries that were collected relating to surviving Civil War military service members or their widows. It shows Christian (a.k.a. John) Haupt had moved into Cape Girardeau’s 2nd Ward. While most veterans only had a single row relating to their service, John had two; one for his time as a private in the cavalry and one for his time as bugler with the light artillery.

Augusta’s second Christian, a.k.a “John Haupt”, died in Cape Girardeau on 27 Oct 1895. His death notice in The Cape Girardeau Democrat didn’t provide much background about his life beyond his age and his date of death.

The Deutscher Volksfreund, a German-language newspaper formerly published weekly in Jackson, Missouri, mentioned he used to live near Kurreville and had been an invalid for years as a result of the hardships he faced during the Civil War.

John’s military pension card indicates he filed as an invalid in 1884. That may have been about the time the Haupts left Kurreville for Cape Girardeau. It appears Augusta was quite prompt about filing for support as his widow after his death.

His gravestone at Fairmount Cemetery in Cape Girardeau inscribed his name as “John” and  gave his birthdate as 1 Jan 1834, exactly one year earlier than indicated by his baptism record, which we looked at yesterday in Part 2.

Someone, probably his widow Augusta, also submitted paperwork for a military gravestone, which was placed beside his family gravestone in 1896.

Augusta made her final appearance in the US Census in 1900. She was living in Cape Girardeau with her daughter, Amalia (a.k.a Molly), and son-in-law Levi Mogler. Her entry indicates she was a widow who bore 11 children, five of whom were still living. It also corroborates that she immigrated to the US in 1854.

Augusta died in Cape Girardeau on 1 Dec 1900. I didn’t find a death notice in any of the English-language newspapers, but the Deutscher Volksfreund came through once again, though it only mentioned her date/location of death and that she was almost 68 years of age.

Augusta Haupt was buried  at Fairmount Cemetery in Cape Girardeau beside her second husband. Their gravestone inscriptions appear to be on opposite sides of the same stone. The 9 Jan 1832 birthdate inscribed for her agrees with her baptism record and 1854 church marriage record we looked at on Monday in Part 1.

Huge thanks to Warren for handing me the keys these last three days and letting me share this unusual tale. Because men’s names appear far more often in historical records than women’s and because women typically take their husband’s surname, I’ve previously encountered several families in which later researchers conflated a man’s similarly named wives, not realizing that the Anna or Maria who appeared with him in one census was not the same Anna or Maria that appeared with him in the next. However, this was the first situation I’ve encountered where a woman’s two husbands got conflated.

There must be something to this “Hauptidentitätsverschmelzung”, because while I was investigating Augusta’s two husbands, I identified another woman in Cape Girardeau County, Wilhelmine Hartwig, who also married two Christian Haupts, and they seem to get conflated quite often, too. However, I suppose that’s a story for another day.