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Hampton Town Hall
Hampton War Memorial
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Donald Bush, from Rock Island, is a descendent of John Gerhart Frels who settled
in Hampton Township. Frels came to this county in the 1840s, settled there, farmed and was also a black smith.
His brother Henry Frels joined him in the early 1850s. Henry's daughter married Marx Hauberg. This would make her
the mother of John Hauberg the lawyer of Rock Island. This information is from the book, A
Sailor Goes Farming written by John Hauberg in the 1950s.
John Gerhart Frels lived just a short time into the 1850s. He died and was buried on the farm in Hampton township.
In the past few months that Cemetery was visited by family members for the first time since the 1960s. It is a
deeded property and sits in the middle of private property. The owner of the property helped us remove the stones
this past fall so they could be cleaned and repaired. I have them at my house in Rock Island at this time. We plan
to set the stones again in the spring or summer. As you may have guessed the cemetery was grown over and if I did
not have my cousin with me who worked on the cemetery in the 1960s we never would have found it.
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