{"id":9991,"date":"2021-08-20T16:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T20:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahering.com\/wp\/?page_id=9991"},"modified":"2024-01-21T00:01:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T05:01:22","slug":"genlauraofmcgregor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/lisahering.com\/wp\/genlauraofmcgregor\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Laura of McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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This is the story of Laura Allen Hall Hering<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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A well loved mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and great great grandmother<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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And so the story goes… written by Lisa Hering with research and stories by Lee Hering<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Credits: Henry “Lee” Hering, Youngset son of Laura Allen Hall Hering<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Just thought it might be good timing to give credit for much of this information to my father, Lee Hering, who has been researching his genealogy for about 60 years. His interest began when his mother, Laura Hall Hering, showed him a list of all her in-laws which she had made when she got married in order to keep them straight. When Laura and Albert married, he didn’t have much to learn in the way of in-laws since she had been raised an only child. But Albert, on the other hand, was one of 12 children, 10 of which grew to adulthood. And they were all married with children. And both his parents were still living and both his grandfathers. Lee loved puzzles, and when she showed him the list back in the 1960’s, he was hooked.<\/p><\/div>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Lee has a database with about 4000 names, most with copies of public records, headstones, photographs, paintings, and personal letters. He is dedicated to accuracy and only lists those people he feels are certain.\u00a0 His information on the Hering\/Hall ancestry goes back to the mid 1600’s in Germany and on my mother’s side it goes all the way back to King Edward I of England.<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The greatest genealogical library in the world is in Salt Lake City at the Mormon library. Several times, Lee moved there, renting an apartment for about 3 months at a time, in order to do research. He claimed that “ancestors were falling off the book shelves!” He has gone to many a cemetary on his travels looking for ancestral headstones. He has been to Junction, TX and seen Warren Hall’s headstone, to the Berlin community near New Braunfels to see some of Albert’s ancestors, and even to London and Germany to see where ancestors lived and perhaps to find their homes still standing. Many of the Hering ancestors have their roots in a small town in Germany called Oberkaufungen. We have been to the church where our ancestors were married, and seen the parsonage with the name “Christoph Hering” inscribed in stone above the door, and in 1984, because of his research, I was baptized there at the Stiftskirche which is over a thousand years old. The community did a newpaper article about me on an American finding her “roots” and at the ceremony they played Home on the Range because I was from the wild west! In that same town, Lee found the home of one of our ancestors and was taking a photo of it when an angry German woman came out and asked him what he was doing. In his broken German, he said, Ich bin Hering. And her whole attitude changed. She said “Ich bin auch Hering!” I am also Hering! She invited him in and showed him all sorts of photos. He has dozens of 3 ring binders full of data, and now helps others with their family history. At the time of this writing, he is 96 and still sharp as a tack.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Laura Hall Hering of McGregor<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0Post 1: Laura Allen Hall Hering<\/p>

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0I want to honor my grandmother, Laura Allen Hall Hering, by posting a photo and tribute to her each day until her birthday. If anyone else wants to help contribute, please feel free. On May 10, 2022 she would have been 127. On June 1, 2022, she will have been gone for 50 years (1895-1972). I still remember the day she left us. Funny thing is, I didn’t live near her, and only saw her a few times a year. Why I felt so strongly about her, I don’t know. But I did. There was something magical about her, comforting, caring, grandmotherly but just good human being, mother, and wife. I have so many stories about her through my dad. But none of them convey the feeling I have about her knowing her personally. Maybe it’s a false feeling because I didn’t see her that much, I didn’t grow up with her right next door. But my love for her is fixed in my memory, and that will never change. She had a younger brother and an older sister both who died as small children. She was raised as an only child. She lost her father at age 4 to tuberculosis. She was born in McGregor, TX. Her mother and grandmother moved there in 1884 when the town was 2 years old.\u00a0 Laura Hall at about 18 months. *BTW, my dad just told me this… the reason this photograph was made was because she was ill and her parents were afraid she wasn’t going to live. Wow.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Post 2: Laura Allen Hall Hering<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 The marriage of Laura’s parents, Warren J Hall and Augustine Meier in 1892, was not to be long nor happy. Their first child, a daughter, died before Laura was born and is buried in the McGregor cemetery. Laura was born in 1895 at 707 W 2nd St. in McGregor. Warren contracted tuberculosis and the family moved to San Antonio for the beneficial climate. While there, they had a son who died at 7 months. He is buried in San Antonio. Warren’s illness did not improve, and the family of three moved further west to Junction, Texas where Warren eventually died and is buried there. Laura remembers the silver dollars on his eyes.<\/span><\/p><\/div>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Their money was used up. Augustine, or Gustine for short, and Laura headed back to McGregor taking a stage coach from Junction to San Antonio and then the train to McGregor to live with the older Augustine on the corner of Adams and W 2nd St. Gustine didn’t have a dime to tip the porter, and so kicked the suitcase from the carriage to the train, with Laura on her hip in one hand and a bag in the other hand. Laura was 4. Gustine was just 23, a widow with two lost children. Gustine became a dressmaker, and Laura was raised primarily by her grandmother, Augustine Jahnke Hayes, between whom there was mutual adoration.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Post 3: Laura Allen Hall Hering<\/div>
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After Laura and Gustine returned from west Texas, Laura shared a room and a bed with her mother in Gustine’s mom’s house for 3 years. For a little girl, that’s pretty comforting having mommy always there, especially when you’ve lost daddy.<\/div>
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Post 4: Augustine Jahnke Hayes, grandmother to Laura Allen Hall<\/p><\/div>

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Augustine was our “marrying” ancestor. She married twice more before her 4th and last husband, Frank Hayes in 1896. He was the grandfather Laura knew and loved. But not before we have some interesting romances (plural) in the family. Mr. Warren Washington Joseph Hall and his brother had a second hand shop of some type in McGregor. Warren’s age was half way between the two Augustines. Hmm, which one is a man supposed to date? Family legend says he dated mom first, and then, the younger Gussy, whom he married. Their first child was born 8 months after the 1892 wedding. The child, a girl, Leafy Ione Hall, sadly died in childhood and is buried in McGregor. Their next child, a girl, was our Laura.<\/div>
Frank turned out to be a very good man whom Laura adored. Augustine (now Hayes) never wanted her age known and listed it differently in each census. She told Laura she was about ten years older than Frank and didn\u2019t want him to think she was an old woman, so she always said yes to going out dancing even if she was really too tired. She died in 1920 claiming she was 63. You can find her grave in the McGregor cemetery next to her daughter whose headstone reads: “Gustine”.<\/div>
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Post 5 Laura Allen Hall<\/div>
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Post 6: Laura Allen Hall Hering<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Life settled down for a while after Laura\u2019s mother remarried. The town, McGregor, was growing and new buildings and invetions were coming along. They had electricity (a drop cord in the middle of usually only one room in the house, with one receptacle on it) and running water fairly early on, as well as a flour mill, a school and a post office (no home delivery except to rural areas). Around the turn of the century, they had two hotels, a national bank, a tannery, and a cottonseed oil mill. Daddy Jake was a good businessman with many interests. He was a good provider and eventually had numerous buildings and acreage. He owned a paint store, a lumber yard, a steam laundry, and a wood lot. Laura\u2019s step-grandfather, Frank Hayes, was a blacksmith and did repairs and made many things out of steel for the townspeople. What the town did not have was indoor bathrooms. Only outhouses and chamber pots!<\/div>
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Laura learned how to sew from her mother who was a dressmaker and Laura would have been making some of her own clothes, maybe even her own hats (how do you like this one?). They had one of those treadle sewing machines that you pump your foot on to make it go. And it was black with that pretty shape that old machines have, but it wasn’t old back then … it was the newest thing! They didn\u2019t have closets or clothes hangers. Laura said she made her own clothes hangers by rolling up a magazine, tying it with a cord and then making a loop in the cord. She\u2019d hang the dress on the rolled magazine and hook the loop on a nail hammered into the wall. Voila, closet. She was very creative and could crochet and make roses out of ribbon.<\/div>
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Post 7: Laura Allen Hall Hering<\/p><\/div>

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0There were no telephones until about 1914, and so the townspeople of McGregor would send a written letter that had to be delivered to the post office. If the note was to someone local, often parents would send a child to hand deliver it to the recipient. Although the streets had names, there were no street signs as of yet, and so you just had landmarks and verbal directions based on people or buildings you knew. We have little notes that were shared between some of our ancestors, just nice anecdotes saying if they were sick and wanting to visit and such. Laura often walked to Main Street to do errands like getting the mail and picking up groceries. There was a little girl about 5 named Katherine Perkins who lived along the way, and the little girl\u2019s mother always told her to wait for Laura to pass by the house so she could walk with an older girl. If you had to go any distance, you took a horse and buggy, but that took a lot of time to get set up, so if you could walk or ride a bike, so much the better. But most of the streets were dirt. And that made it hard to ride a bike sometimes. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0One day, when Laura was 16, she rode her bicycle to town. She slipped and fell off the bike. Standing nearby was a quiet young fellow named Albert Hering, son of the German farmer Charles Gustav Hering. Albert too was in town doing errands. This 17 year old worked on his father\u2019s farm which was situated some 5 miles northwest of town on the Crawford Highway (now known as the \u201cOld\u201d Crawford Highway, but it wasn’t old back then). He was a farm boy with only a 4th grade education, tall, slender, and broad shoulders used daily for lifting and plowing. Laura was a city girl who was already in 10th grade. He didn\u2019t say anything, but he remembered that day and the pretty city girl.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>

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Post 8: Laura Allen Hall Hering<\/p><\/div>

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Laura graduated from high school in 1912. She was a grown lady now, and it was time to decide her future. In truth, she wanted to live on a farm and be a farm wife. But as a city girl, there was not much possibility of that. She really knew nothing of farming. But she wanted to live in the wide open spaces. For now, however, she would learn to be a teacher. And Baylor University, established long ago in 1845 while Texas was still an independent nation, was just 20 miles away in Waco.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Post 9: Laura Allen Hall Hering<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0Life for Laura at Baylor University. At that time, not many women were lucky enough to get to go to a university. Women were not even allowed to vote. They were barely allowed to work and only in certain fields. So it was a very serious thing to go to college. Now, what type of a student do you think Laura was?\u00a0<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I cannot tell you what kind of grades she made, but I can tell you that she was a woman of … fun. Laura and her camera captured just about everything, silly times, goofey times, memorable times. If there is one thing she did, she made a lot of friends. She’s the middle one in white on this train made of young women. Names of the engine and caboose are unknown. But there is a likely chance that this was a dignified, serious, and instructional purpose for this unlady like behavior. On second thought, no there wasn’t. No supervision, no watchful eyes of mother or grandmother, her first time away from home was simply fun. Not so different from modern day kids! Except I don’t think there was sex, violence, alcohol, or drugs. Laughter was about the extent of it, and Laura loved laughter. I think that’s what I loved about her so much. She was simply a happy person. You could see that in her. It was genuine.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Post 10, Laura Allen Hall Hering<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Laura spent the 1912 and 1913 school years at Baylor University in Waco. Apparently she had her own personal camera, undoubtedly a rarity. This enabled her to produce even more silly things. She always had a good sense of humor and sillyness fits her personality. I know because my dad still repeats a lot of her “phrases”, for example, “He who tooteth not his own horn geteth his own horn not tooteth.”<\/span><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Laura most definitely had fun at Baylor. She was good at making friends and she made a lot of them those two years she spent at Baylor.\u00a0 Look at this series of 5 staged photos.\u00a0 What an actress! She must have gotten her training with Daddy Jake back in McGregor as we do see a number of photos of her in costume, so she must have liked it some.\u00a0 Something tells me she instigated this crime scene, seeing as how she was the designated “Victor!”\u00a0 (She is the one in the sailor type collar. One thing I have noticed about old photos is you so often can’t see faces. ) Click on the photos below to see them in detail with captions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Post 11, Laura Allen Hall Hering<\/p>

Here are a few Interesting local sites, photographs taken by Laura about this time -1912-ish. Laura had decided to become a school teacher. Although Baylor was a four year college, she didn’t need 4 years to become a school Ma’am or “marm” in the rural areas around McGregor. She only needed two. So, at the end of the second school year, she was ready to go back home. A four year degree would have been nice, but expensive and it really didn’t warrant the time or expense. In fact, she would end up only teaching one year, so she made a good decision.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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