LEONARD EDWIN HAUG
Leonard Edwin Haug, b July 18, 1896 in Palmer, Ellis County, Texas, d
May 29, 1963 at his near Marlin, Falls County, Texas and buried in Perry
Methodist Church Cemetery at Perry, Falls County, Texas - was a son of Otto R.
Haug, b February 25, 1868 in Illinois, d February 25, 1941 and buried in Calvary
Cemetery at Marlin, Texas, and his wife, Drusilla (Barnhardt) Haug, b June
26,1869 in Ellis County, Texas, d January 30, 1942 and buried by her husband in
Calvary Cemetery at Marlin. Drusilla's parents, Louis and Jane (Dehnke)
Barnhardt came to the United States in 1849 - settling first in Illinois, and
then moving to Ellis County, Texas, where they remained the rest of their lives.
Leonard Edwin Haug came to Falls County as a boy with his parents, who
first settled near Riesel, Texas, subsequently moving to the on the
McClanahan Road, between Marlin and McClanahan, in Falls County.
On February 19, 1924 in the First Baptist Church parsonage at Marlin,
with Reverend S. D. Dollahite officiating, Leonard was married to Alise Augusta
Eckert, b April 24, 1899 in Falls County, Texas, d August 24, 1971- a daughter
of Alfred Eckert, b 1866 in Germany, and his wife, Ophelia (Courts) Eckert, b
1870.
Mr. Haug was a member of Perry Methodist Church, and a veteran of World
War I. He helped organize the World War I veterans association in Marlin, and
was serving as its president at the time of his death. He was bookkeeper for the
Parton gin interests in Marlin and Otto, until suffering a heart attack and
stroke about four years before his death, which incapacitated him.
Leonard Edwin and Alise (later called "Alice") were the parents of a
daughter:
Dorothy Katherine Haug, b December 1, 1924 at Perry, Falls County, Texas,
who married August 31, L946 in Falls County to Harold Chamberlain Mitchell, Jr.,
b August 14.1921 and had three children.
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of
these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 219 column 1 and 2.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.
