Johan Haip

Johan Haip (the 2nd, born in 1846), is the son of Johann Peter Haip (the 1st, born Oct. 27, 1818, in Tscherwenka, Yugoslavia, and died April 29, 1885, in Tscherwenka, Yugoslavia), and his second wife Mrs. Katharina (Roth) Judita, born June 2, 1821, in Tescherwenka, Yugoslavia. -------------------- Note the difference in the spelling of the first names, between father and son. [These are the spellings on their gravesites]. ---------------------------- Johan was born Nov. 28, 1846, in Tscherwenka, Yugoslavia. He died about 1925, in Beschka, Yugoslavia. ----------------------------- Note: PLEASE, do NOT transfer this memorial to other web sites. Thanks, Nancy Heib. ---------------------------- Note: Tscherwenka is known as Crvenka, Serbia today. -------------------------- His father Johann Peter Haip was married to his second wife Mrs. Katharina (Roth) Judita, on Jan. 9, 1840. Katharina was born on June 2, 1821, in Tscherwenka, Yugoslavia. ----------------------------- His father Johann Peter Haip died on April 29, 1885, in Tscherwenka, Yugoslavia. _______________________________ _______________________________ Johan Haip of "this" memorial, was born Nov. 28, 1846, in Tscherwenka, Yugoslavia. He died about 1925, in Beschka, Yugoslavia. ------------------------------ He married Margaretha Mayer, on May 18, 1873, in Tscherwenka, Yugoslavia. Margaretha died in 1928, in Beschka, Yugoslavia. ---------------------------- They had four known sons: 1. Georg Haip 2. Johann Haip/Heib (born 1877), 3. Josef Haip (born about 1880-85). 4. Peter Haip. -------------------------- Note: The first wife of their son Johann, whose maiden name was Rosina ("Rosa") Kniesel, is also buried in this cemetery, with four of their children, next to her parents Franz and Sofia Kniesel. She is listed on the headstone as "Rosa Haip, nee (maiden name) Kniesel". ------------------------------- Johan died "about" 1925, in Beschka, Yugoslavia. ------------------------ Johan and his wife Margaretha are buried in the cemetery of the former (German) Evangelical Church, known as the "German Cemetery" (Friedhofgasse), on Ulica Iva Adrica (street), in Beschka, Yugoslavia (now part of Serbia). The church was destroyed during the war, but the cemetery remains. [Note: The cemetery for the "non-German" (Serbian) people, is right next to this cemetery for the German people]. ------------------------------- The inscription on their headstone reads: "Ruhestatte Familie Johan Haip", (which means in English)-- "Resting place [of] Family Johan Haip". _________________________________ GERMAN CEMETERY, in BESCHKA. Re-Dedication Ceremony on Aug. 26, 2007: --- Years after the German people were forced to leave Beschka, Yugoslavia in 1944 (because of the war), a group of the German people and some of their descendants made a trip back to their former home, only to find this cemetery in very bad condition. Over several years of trips back to Beschka, they cleaned up this cemetery and took photos of all of the headstones that were still readable. [These readable headstones had death dates of from 1860 to 1944]. They could decipher the names and inscriptions on 143 of their German ancestors grave stones. These headstones included one "family" headstone for the Johan Haip family, and five family headstones for the Kniesel families. They collected donations, to restore and preserve this cemetery for posterity. They cleaned all of the headstones. They planted a "living" fence (hedge), of arborvitae plants around the cemetery. They also arranged for a permanent plaque to be placed at the cemetery, during a re-dedication ceremony they had there on Aug. 26, 2007. The stone tablet is written in German on the left half, and written in Serbian on the right half. About 50 German descendants had made the bus trip there for the ceremony, which also had about two dozen Serbs present. There were both German and Serbian priests there for the ceremony. Even though they did not make a public announcement of the ceremony, there were cameras from the local television station present. -------------------------------- For the ancestry of this Haip family, google the book titled "Tscherwenka" (1785-1944), by Angela Hefner (pages 117 and 118). "OR" download it from the following web site: http://www.genealogienetz.de/vereine/ AKdFF/CDROM-e.htm -------------------------------- Also "Google" the book titled: "Beschka Homeland Book" by Peter Lang (tranlated by Brad Schwebler), on page 36 (third paragraph), for a mention of his son Johann Haip (Heib), (born 1877). -------------------------------- Heupp / Haip / Heib. --- This family name was spelled as "Heupp" back in the 1700's in Yugoslavia. It later was spelled as "Haip" in Yugoslavia, in the 1800's. Later spelled as "Heib" (about 1944) in Germany, and later in the U.S. --------------------------- Their son Johann (born 1877), and Johann's son Josef (born 1911), later changed the spelling of thier surname from "Haip", to "Heib", possibly when they had to flee from Yugoslavia, to Germany, in 1944. ------------------------------- Click on photos for enlargements, captions, and additional photos. ------------------------------- For more information on this family, click on his son's name below. -----------------------------