Ahrends, Arns, or what?

Because of the letter from Lizzie Brandt, I started looking for any
information I could find about Heinrich's siblings and parents. I'm
sure I need to give credit for some of this info, but am not sure where I got each piece of info. I know Sally Widener has gotten some of it from the Batesville Library and other sources.
The letter stated that Heinrich came with a brother and 2 sisters to
US and settled near Hubbles Corner. The brother Herman married Rebecca Dorothea Harves and continued to live in the Hubbles Corner area. In the 1850 Census they had three children : Margaret, John & William. Heinrich & Mary lived on the next farm with children: Mary, Anna, Christian & Henry. Martha who married a Sitterding, moved to Delaware Twp (Adams church area or Batesville).
In the 1880 Census, she was a widow with four boys at home. We have learned that she had two girls who were already away from home in 1880. The sister who married a Pohler, we have learned from the Ripley County History Book II, was Anna.
She was married to Fred Pohler/Pohlar. They continued to live in the
Hubbles Corner area and are buried on that cemetery.
I found the name & address of the pastor of St John's church in
Hubbles Corner from my pastor. I e-mailed her and received the name of Doris Schwier who does research on that area. I asked her to find what she could, especially if there was anything about the four siblings' parents.

I believe the father of the four children, must be Heinrich Ahrends, and he probably came over with the children.

This is why I think so - From an old secretaries book, in the old German script, translated by Robert Rau of Cincinnati Ohio, he lists the 20 some original families that joined together and started St. John in 1833. The church was organized in 1833 by Rev. Frederich Rice. On 5 September 1833, a half acre of land was sold to the newly formed church trustees, the deed was transferred to the trustees and the trustees and the clerk took their oaths of office. This was for a log church and a cemetery. One of the 20 some original families listed - is Heinrich Arnds. The son, Heinrich Ahrens born in 1819, would only be 14 years old in 1833. So it would have had to be the father joining as a member.

When the log church was too small for the growing congregation, they decided to build a larger brick church. In 1854, another half acre of land, adjacent to the log church lot was purchased. Money was pledged by the families to pay on this new church building. Henry Ahrends pledged $50; Harm Ahrends $30; Henry Pohler $25. This payment was due on May 1st; September 14th; and the last payment on December 25th. These people; Henry, Harm and Henry Pohler must have been the two sons and Anna's husband. Also the building committee for the new brick church, dedicated in 1855, was Thomas Ehler, John Gutapfel, and Henry Ahrends. I believe the only item, left from this old brick church, is the "bell" in the present church tower. The date on it is 1855.

In the Dearborn County index to marriages:

20 January 1845 - Hiram Airns to Rebecca Dorothea Harves by Rev. Wm Wier (serving St. John at the time)

27 May 1847 - Henry Pohler to Anna Owens

[Ahrends] by Rev. Wm Wier (serving St. John at the time)

5 April 1859 - John H. King to Rebecca Ahrends

by Rev. John F. Isensee (serving St. John at the time)

27 September 1868 - Cort Bruns to Margaret Ahrens by Rev. John F. Isensee ( serving St. John at the time) Margaret is buried in the old cemetery - born 31 Jan 1846

died 7 June 1872 age 26y 4m 7d daughter of Harm Ahrends and Rebecca Dorothea Harves (according to your paperwork)

Cort Bruns then married Anna Sophia Schutte on 10 October 1872

St. Stephens Lutheran Church "Busse" (which is 4 miles south from St. John Lutheran Church at Hubbells) in their baptism records are two Ahrends:

Wilhelm Arans

b 12 Oct 1849

bp 9 Feb 1850

sp the parents

p Harm Arans & Becke Dorothea Herfers

Heinrich Arns

b 4 June 1853

bp 22 July 1853

sp Heinrich Arns

p Harm Arns & Becke Dorothea Hervers

There are no deaths, etc. listed for the Ahrends name at Busse.

In the old cemetery there should be about 350 stones, there are 100. So I know some of your relatives are some of the missing - as are those of my husbands. Last fall, as we were getting ready for the old cemetery to be radar detected for burials outside the perimeter of the original half acre, I found some broken stones out by the road. A friend of mine helped me dig them up, as we did not want them damaged any more. We found more pieces in this same area and dug them all up. As luck would have it, 5 or 6 pieces matched and are all part of the cemetery stone for Harm Ahrends.

Harm Ahrends

b 17 May 1822

d 4 July 1855 (is what I make off of it.)

So Harm Ahrends was indeed buried somewhere in the old cemetery.

Anna Pohler is buried in the Church row cemetery 2nd part.

William and Ruth Ahrends are buried in the Evangelical Union Cemetery Association which is west of the St. John Church cemetery property.

Rebecca D. King (Ahrends)

born 1 June 1823 - is buried also in the Ev. Union Cemetery Association - but there is no death date listed. Also on the stone is listed two sons names and one son's wife's name. It is a large stone in the center of the lot. ??? I figured she was one of the 4 children, but you have a Martha Sitterding listed as the other sister???

There are Pohler's buried at St. John Cemetery at Penntown. I will send the list of them soon.

Also, I will send some scanned paperwork - to show some of the information.

We are in the process, at St. John Lutheran Church, Hubbells, of building a new Fellowship Hall. This is why the old cemetery had to be radar detected for unknown graves outside the area.