William HAGLER^{[1, 2]}

1750 - 1827  (77 years)

• Name	William HAGLER  [3, 4, 5]
  Birth	1750	Conestoga Twp, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
  	If his father's age is correct, he was 50 years old when William was born.
  Gender	Male
  Death	1827	Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA
  Burial	Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA
  Person ID	I30402090282	Welch Webb Haigler Mershon
  Last Modified	26 Jul 2023

  
  

  Father	Hans Jacob HAGLAR,   b. 1700, Basel, Canton of Basel, Switzerland d. 1760-65, Hardy or Grant County, West Virginia, USA
  Mother	Maria Elizabeth MOHLER,   b. Basel Canton, Switzerland d. 1816, Hardy, Bedford, Virginia, USA
  Family ID	F297	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Magdalena WHITSEL,   b. 1755, Conestoga, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1831, Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	1780	Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA   [4]
  Children	1. Polly Ann HAIGLER,   b. 1780, Pendleton, West Virginia, USA d. 18 Nov 1856, Pendleton, West Virginia, USA (Age 76 years)   2. Henry HAIGLER,   b. 26 Dec 1780?   d. 22 Dec 1839, Orangeburg, Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States   3. Christena HAIGLER,   b. 1782, Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA   4. William HAIGLER, Jr.,   b. 10 Aug 1782, Randolph County, West Virginia, USA d. 31 May 1854, Richmond, Washington County, Iowa, United States (Age 71 years)   5. Mary HAIGLER,   b. 14 Jan 1784, Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA d. 12 April 1857, Fayette County, Ohio, USA (Age 73 years)   6. Jacob HAIGLER,   b. 25 Jan 1786, N Branch Potomac, Pendleton, Virginia, United States d. 1 Apr 1842, Randolph, Charlotte, Virginia, USA (Age 56 years)   7. Susan HAIGLER,   b. 1788, Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA   8. George HAIGLER,   b. 1790, Pendleton, West Virginia, United States   9. John HAIGLER,   b. 30 Mar 1791, Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA d. 1875 (Age 83 years)   10. Martin HAIGLER,   b. 1794, Pendleton, West Virginia, United States   11. Clara HAIGLER,   b. 1798, Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA d. 19 Jan 1880, Selma, Van Buren, Iowa, USA (Age 82 years)   12. Elizabeth HAIGLER,   b. Abt 1798, Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA d. 18 Nov 1856, Pendleton Co, VA, West Virginia, United States (Age 58 years)   13. Phebe (Phoebe?) HAIGLER,   b. 21 Aug 1798, Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA d. 21 Jul 1867, Greene County, Ohio (Age 68 years)   14. Anna HAIGLER,   b. Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA
  Last Modified	26 Jul 2023
  Family ID	F151	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Mill Creek Hamphsire County, VA where Indians killed Hans Jacob Hagler Haegler
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• Notes

  Raymond Haigler, 1970: First Haiglers came to Conestoga Twp, Lancaster Cty, PA in the early 1700s. Search of records in Lancaster County did not find who his parents were. Came from Langenbruck, Basel Canton, Switzerland. (Archive Building in Leistal, Switzerland has genealogical records dating back to 1660.) Reference to four older brothers of Wm Haigler was found in the "Pennsylvania Germania", v13: John, Jacob, Benjamin and Sebastian. The older four brothers fought the French and Indians along the Ohio River from Wheeling to Fort Pitt. In a note written in 1860, Sebastian's son, Abraham, says he didn't know his grandfather's name, only that he came from Basel, Switzerland and was killed by Indians in Hardy County, VA. This would be Jacob Haigler who emigrated in 1745. Some or all of the brothers also fought in the Revolutionary War, and Wm H served as a bodyguard for Gen. Washington although the National Archives does not have a record of his service. (Many records were lost in fires in 1800 and 1814.) A reference to his service does appear in the "Compendium of American Genealogy, v 5, p 555, and in records of Pendleton and Hardy Counties in VA. Uncle Ray says that the family migrated from PA to Augusta County, Virginia (which became Pendleton County in 1787). They settled on a farm located on the No Fork of Mill Creek near farms on which his brothers John, Jacob and Sebastian had previously located. (Mill Creek is in the Allegheny Mountains in present Randolph County, West Virginia. Most of Wm H's children married and made their homes in Pendleton, Hardy, Randolph and Hampshire Counties. (Per Ray Gall from layton147 1/5/14: Typed notes found in old family histories said that William's brothers John, Jacob and Sebastian settled near each other when the family migrated from PA to Virginia in 1783-84.) The dates for his parents do not add up. They would have been too old when he was born. Perhaps his mother's birthdate is wrong. A document called "The Genealogy of the Family of Jacob Hegler of the canton of Basle, Switzerland and of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania..." by Melville F. Hegler, 1948, says William was probably the son of Benjamin, but that would seem to contradict the story that William and Sebastian were neighbors. The Genealogy also cites the state census of Hampshire County, VA, 1782-83, p. 91, John Wilson, Taker as stating that the family was referred to as the "Haglers on the Pike" in contrast to those in Pendleton County. It is clear that there was considerable confusion over names and counties, which changed over time, many of the ones cited above having been carved out of the original Augusta County, Virginia. Waddell’s Augusta County Annals p 204 refers to Bastion Hagler and William Haigler being neighbors. The “Compiler” says William was probably Benjamin’s son.

  
  

• Sources

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