My Genealogy Hound

JOHN HESSLER, an enterprising farmer of Franklin County, was born December 18, 1823, in Saxony, Germany. His father was Conrad Hessler, and his mother was nee Margaret Kluge. The father was born in Prussia. He served eight years under Napoleon I, participating in the great battles of Leipsic, Moscow and Waterloo. He died in Saxony in 1856. The mother was also a native of Saxony, where she died a few weeks before the death of the father occurred. In 1844 John Hessler came to America, where he found employment in carpet factories in New York and Baltimore for about twelve years. In 1856 he moved to Fort Wayne, Ind., where he followed the same occupation for two years. He then removed to Wabash, Ind., and there worked at his trade a short time, and then engaged for about ten years in tenant farming. He then immigrated to Franklin County, Tenn., where he farmed as tenant for seven years, and then bought the farm whereon he now lives. While in New York he married Margaret Klein, a native of Darmstadt, Germany, who became the mother of ten children, eight of whom are still living. She died May 24, 1855, in Wabash County, Ind. Mr. Hessler has a good farm of 250 acres, which he has paid for with the products of the place. It is splendidly improved, considering that when he bought it, it was an old and worn-out farm.