The story of the farmer, miller and professor of Good Principle, who emigrated to Argentina in the virgin forest in the early twentieth century.
Born in 1868 in Good Start, John Heck Nephew was the eldest son of Jacob and Catharina Noll Heck. His father was a farmer and miller at Arroio Stones, Interior Good Principle, and was owned mill cassava flour. As the production was great, John was the father's right arm who also worked with the slaves who lived on the family farm.
Even with the law of 1850, which forbade Germans and their descendants were slaves, was common to find families of many possessions, traders, millers and owners of large areas of land, owned slaves. The relationship between them varied in each family. Heck was created by slaves from his father, two of them were very close and knew perfectly the German language.
John who was known as "Heck Hannes", married Caroline Schneider in 1892. At that time he also helped his father in the mill, was a farmer and taught school in the small creek of stones. When there was no teacher in the village people with more information were those who were devoted to education, often for free.
John and Caroline had 10 children, born to 11 when, Paula, Carolina died after childbirth. He remarried Pauline Junges Stream Stones in the first seven were born sons. In 1922, when his father had died and her mother emigrated with three of his sisters for Cerro Largo, Heck also emigrated, but went beyond them all. Traveled to the Misiones (Missions Argentinas, then a region of virgin forests, the fate of many German settlers) and settled in Mbopicuá.
In four more children were born Mbopicuá altogether Heck had 22 children. Heck when he emigrated, some children were already married, but only one remained in the region in Montenegro, where he left descendants. To take the virgin forest of the region, Heck founded a sawmill with his sons and husbands.
In 1936 Heck had appendicitis at the time surgery was not done, your kids put on a stretcher and walked miles across the divide, in Paraguay, where there was a doctor. Diagnosed the problem, the doctor told them that his father would have only 48 hours of life. Heck died on January 28, 1936, to 67 years, 3 months and 22 days. Heck was the first to be buried in the cemetery of Mbopicuá, within the locality of Puerto Rico, nearby, along with his sons, he had built a wooden chapel a year earlier, called the "Capilla de la Virgen de Mbopicuá.
His 22 gave him 96 children and grandchildren are now over 700 people in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. One of the most famous descendants of Heck, Heck is Father Alfonso, who was born in Argentina, studied in Italy and worked in Germany with Pope Benedict XVI when he was archbishop of Munich and Freising in the late 1970s.
Born in 1868 in Good Start, John Heck Nephew was the eldest son of Jacob and Catharina Noll Heck. His father was a farmer and miller at Arroio Stones, Interior Good Principle, and was owned mill cassava flour. As the production was great, John was the father's right arm who also worked with the slaves who lived on the family farm.
Even with the law of 1850, which forbade Germans and their descendants were slaves, was common to find families of many possessions, traders, millers and owners of large areas of land, owned slaves. The relationship between them varied in each family. Heck was created by slaves from his father, two of them were very close and knew perfectly the German language.
John who was known as "Heck Hannes", married Caroline Schneider in 1892. At that time he also helped his father in the mill, was a farmer and taught school in the small creek of stones. When there was no teacher in the village people with more information were those who were devoted to education, often for free.
John and Caroline had 10 children, born to 11 when, Paula, Carolina died after childbirth. He remarried Pauline Junges Stream Stones in the first seven were born sons. In 1922, when his father had died and her mother emigrated with three of his sisters for Cerro Largo, Heck also emigrated, but went beyond them all. Traveled to the Misiones (Missions Argentinas, then a region of virgin forests, the fate of many German settlers) and settled in Mbopicuá.
In four more children were born Mbopicuá altogether Heck had 22 children. Heck when he emigrated, some children were already married, but only one remained in the region in Montenegro, where he left descendants. To take the virgin forest of the region, Heck founded a sawmill with his sons and husbands.
In 1936 Heck had appendicitis at the time surgery was not done, your kids put on a stretcher and walked miles across the divide, in Paraguay, where there was a doctor. Diagnosed the problem, the doctor told them that his father would have only 48 hours of life. Heck died on January 28, 1936, to 67 years, 3 months and 22 days. Heck was the first to be buried in the cemetery of Mbopicuá, within the locality of Puerto Rico, nearby, along with his sons, he had built a wooden chapel a year earlier, called the "Capilla de la Virgen de Mbopicuá.
His 22 gave him 96 children and grandchildren are now over 700 people in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. One of the most famous descendants of Heck, Heck is Father Alfonso, who was born in Argentina, studied in Italy and worked in Germany with Pope Benedict XVI when he was archbishop of Munich and Freising in the late 1970s.
Photo's oldest immigrant nephew John Heck, the photo taken early in the century, is the second wife and their children at 12 / 1 Stream of Stones, Interior Good Principle. A curiosity, with children from first and second marriage, as Heck counted at the time, three pairs of twins. The older girls at the edges of the photo. Little boys, one left the father and the other the right of a mother and two twin babies, a mother's lap and another in his father's lap.
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