HERMAN G. ANNEGERS, Sr., was formerly a citizen of Hanover , Germany , a substantial farmer and a man of influence in his village. In 1855, however, against the urgent advice of his neighbors, he emigrated to the United States , to give his children the advantages of its institutions. He came directly to Henderson county, and purchased the S. E. 1 of Sec. 29, T. 9 N., R. 5 W., paying therefor $1,405 in gold.

He buried his wife not long afterward, in the fall of 1857. He himself is still living at the age of seventy-eight. He has three chil­ dren living, two sons, whose biographies follow, and one daughter, the wife of H. H. D. Thesing, York county, Nebraska .

 

History of Mercer and Henderson Counties.

 

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