Mary Buchenberg Meyer Family

Mary Buchenberg was born on August 4,1855, in Ottigen, Germany, and came to America with her parents in 1871, when she was sixteen years old. In America she did housework for a family in Toledo that could not speak English. She told that she would make seventeen mince pies in the fall of the year, and then store them in the attic to use one at a time as needed. She did not like the big city so came to Freedom Township, Henry County, where she met and married Henry Meyer. They were married on September 26, 1876.

Henry Meyer came to America from Germany. He had a brother who was a Lutheran minister in Germany. Henry was a soldier in the France-Prussian War. He had a son, Heinrich, by a previous marriage, who died of diptheria at the age of thirteen years.

Henry and Mary cleared the land where the Freedom Township School stands today. They planted corn by the tree stumps to raise feed for their cows in the winter. This land belonged to Governor R.K. Scott and that is how they got the name Scott Meyer.

On January 6, 1882, they bought the eighty acre farm from the Jesse Hitt family in Marion Township, near Hamler, Ohio. They cleared the land of that farm with the help of friends and neighbors. The farm was bought by Henry and Emma Meyer Haase in March, 1928. Since 1959, it has been owned and operated by Clarence Haase, a grandson of Mary Scott Meyer. The Meyer family were one of the first members of Hope Lutheran Church. Henry died in 1904 and Mary died in 1950, and both are buried in Hope Cemetery. They had four daughters: Sophia, Mary, Emma and Alma.