This is a story of Hannes, a German-Lutheran boy who joined a band of Swiss Mennonites fleeing from Europe's desperate terror and poverty of the 17th century. It is a story of the perils of Hannes' journey and the improvement of his rifle, brought from his fatherland.
Family records : mostly of three distinct groups and descendants of Joseph, David and Henry Bauman, who settled as pioneers in Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, up to the year 1825 : each representing one of the three tribes of Christian, Peter and Jacob, respectively, who are children of the old progenitor Wendel Bauman : also an extensive history of family lineages of the early ancestors
