01 - The Black Forest of Southwest Germany - First Evening Stop on Our Hiestand-Haston Family Heritage Tour to Switzerland and the Rhineland of Germany - The Black Forest is Known for its Awesome Beauty Our first evening will be spent in the Black Forest, along our way from Frankfort...

"Bud" (Clarence E.) Haston, Jr. Awarded the Gold Star Honor In WWII - An Honor Nobody Wants to Win - Thanks to Chuck Haston of McMinnville, TN for sharing this information with us.  Chuck's father (Judge Charles D. Haston) is Bud Haston's kid brother."Bud" Haston (Clarence Eugene Haston, Jr.) grew...

16 - Can I Get Into the DAR or SAR through Daniel Haston? The centennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1876 renewed a fervor to honor our country’s Revolutionary War patriots. In the year of that centennial, the Society of Cincinnati (Ohio) launched The Sons of...

15 - Henry Hiestand's Estate Settled and the Family Parts Ways Daniel's Mother & Father Die in 1777 and 1779 Peter Hiessandt, Sr.'s, (older brother of Daniel) Bible record was written in the old German script, but transcribed later by descendants.  Peter recorded some very helpful information about his mother...

Hiestand-Haston Family Heritage Tour June 14-27, 2023 - Switzerland & Rhineland of Germany Photo above: The "village" of Richterswil in Canton Zürich, Switzerland - where our Hiestand-Haston ancestors lived centuries ago. Download the Questions and Answers Document A Tour with Double-Value Scenic Value The "scenic value" of this tour alone...

Ruth Haston Norwood May 15, 1929 - April 3, 2021 A Daniel Haston History Hall of Famer Daniel was my gggg grandfather. David my ggg, Isaac [Isaac T.] my gg, Wm Carroll (not David's son) my g grandfather, Wm Isaac my grandfather. Ruth Haston Norwood (January 19, 2001) When I...

14 - Daniel & Christina Nave Hiestand/Haston Newlyweds in Fort Valley, VA Daniel and Christina lived on Passage Creek for the first ten years or so of their marriage.  Their little kids (three whose names are unknown, but David and Joseph Haston for sure) would have played in this creek...

13 - Our Daniel Hiestand Married Christina Nave In Shenandoah County, Virginia View Larger Version of this Image I think we can safely say it's fact that our Daniel Hiestand/Haston married Christina Nave on September 28, 1773, or at least was issued a marriage bond on that date.  But two...

12 - Hiestand Land in "The Fort" - Fort Valley, Virginia Seven Bends of North Shenandoah River, near Woodstock, VA with Fort Valley in the Massanutten Mountain behind (east of) the river.Photo Above - Looking SoutheastForeground = Seven bends of North Fork Shenandoah River (near Woodstock, VA) on the west...

One of the Most Heroic Units in the Mexican War I have no photo of him.  I have no details of his specific activities during his year of service in the Mexican War.  He was only a private.  He was only a volunteer, not a member of the Regular Army. ...

11 - The Henry Hiestand Family in Virginia When Henry Hiestand and his wife (name unknown) moved their family to Virginia, they probably already had four or five children who had been born back in Lancaster County, PA--Barbara (c. 1734), Jacob (c. 1736), Peter (c. 1738), and maybe Abraham (c....

10 - Indian Attacks Around Our Hiestands in Pennsylvania and Virginia Memorial for Rev. John Roads - Mennonist & wife and six children massacred here by Indians, August 1764 As a kid, cowboys and Indians was just a fun game we played.  And the battles between Indians and American pioneers...

One Family - Many H-Surname Spellings Colonel Howard H. Hasting, Sr. - a 1950s--early 1980s Haston family researcher - opened his research report on the family of Daniel Haston with this question: What is the name of this family?  He then proceeded to reference several different ways our H-surname has been...

Hiestands Move to the Shenandoah Valley in Northern Virginia From a "Hiestand field" on the South Fork of the Shenandoah River Our Daniel Hiestand/Haston was probably born a quarter mile or less down river from this spot. He grew up here and no doubt learned to swim and fish in...

08 - Henry Hiestand Settled on Land Acquired from William Penn's Sons Outline of the 226 acre tract Henry Hiestand settled on and had surveyed in Lancaster County, PA. And who were Henry Hiestands parents? Exactly where did he live in Lancaster County, PA? Why did he owe so much...

07 - Henry Hiestand - His Earliest Years in America William Penn's first visit to his American colony in 1682 paved the way for our Henrich Hiestand to settle there 45 years later. Image Source: https://owlcation.com/ For Americans, an "immigrant ancestor" is an ancestor who emigrated from some other country,...

Caney Fork of the Cumberland (The Book) Daniel Haston settled on the south side of the Caney Fork River in what was then White County, TN.  The river holds lots of memories for those of us who grew up near there.  I certainly have enough personal stories to occupy you...

06 - The Journey from Ibersheim to America Source: http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ In early 1727, Henrich Hiestand probably boarded a barge in Worms, much like the one above, saying a "forever" goodbye to his Ibersheim family.Of the Mennonites who emigrated from the Rhine lands, “only a small proportion—roughly 10 percent—journeyed overseas.  The...

05a - Our Hiestands (Heystandts) - Refugees in Friedrichstadt on the North Sea "Heystandt" was the way the Hollander-Dutch spelled our Hiestand name. The Nine Years War or the War of the Grand Alliance In 1689 Ibersheim and the entire Palatinate again became a hot war zone.  Five years after...

05 - Ibersheim, Germany German Home-Village of Our Hiestands https://www.akpool.de/ The village of Ibersheim (pronounced, Ibers-heim ["ib" as in "crib"]) is situated on what historically was an unprotected floodplain on the left bank (west side of) the Rhine River, just below (north of) a sharp northeastward bend in the river,...