Herman was the youngest child born to Henry Bernard Boing (?-1873) and Anna Margarita Leuders (?-1908). He arrived in America in 1873 eventually winding up on a farm in Franklin County, Indiana.
On 1 Feb 1883 he married widow Gertrude Uhlenbrink Bessler (1843-1910) who had two children, Mary (1878-1946) and John (1880-1950) that he helped raise. He and Gertrude also had two girls, Katie (1883-1918) and Gertie (1887-1911). In 1888, Herman bought a farm not too far from his own. It passed to John Bessler after his death and remained in the Bessler family becoming an Indiana Homestead Farm until 2011 when it was sold.
Herman was a tough taskmaster and didn't always get along with his step-son. He did teach him how to become a good farmer and also how to make wooden shoes. Herman's tools were used by John then inherited by John's son, Clem. Clem never learned to make the shoes so eventually he donated them to the Decatur County Historical Society.
Herman died in 1910, a week after his wife had died, of pneumonia. They are buried together along with their daughter Gertie in St. John the Evangelist Cemetery in Enochsburg.
On 1 Feb 1883 he married widow Gertrude Uhlenbrink Bessler (1843-1910) who had two children, Mary (1878-1946) and John (1880-1950) that he helped raise. He and Gertrude also had two girls, Katie (1883-1918) and Gertie (1887-1911). In 1888, Herman bought a farm not too far from his own. It passed to John Bessler after his death and remained in the Bessler family becoming an Indiana Homestead Farm until 2011 when it was sold.
Herman was a tough taskmaster and didn't always get along with his step-son. He did teach him how to become a good farmer and also how to make wooden shoes. Herman's tools were used by John then inherited by John's son, Clem. Clem never learned to make the shoes so eventually he donated them to the Decatur County Historical Society.
Herman died in 1910, a week after his wife had died, of pneumonia. They are buried together along with their daughter Gertie in St. John the Evangelist Cemetery in Enochsburg.
Herman was the youngest child born to Henry Bernard Boing (?-1873) and Anna Margarita Leuders (?-1908). He arrived in America in 1873 eventually winding up on a farm in Franklin County, Indiana.
On 1 Feb 1883 he married widow Gertrude Uhlenbrink Bessler (1843-1910) who had two children, Mary (1878-1946) and John (1880-1950) that he helped raise. He and Gertrude also had two girls, Katie (1883-1918) and Gertie (1887-1911). In 1888, Herman bought a farm not too far from his own. It passed to John Bessler after his death and remained in the Bessler family becoming an Indiana Homestead Farm until 2011 when it was sold.
Herman was a tough taskmaster and didn't always get along with his step-son. He did teach him how to become a good farmer and also how to make wooden shoes. Herman's tools were used by John then inherited by John's son, Clem. Clem never learned to make the shoes so eventually he donated them to the Decatur County Historical Society.
Herman died in 1910, a week after his wife had died, of pneumonia. They are buried together along with their daughter Gertie in St. John the Evangelist Cemetery in Enochsburg.
On 1 Feb 1883 he married widow Gertrude Uhlenbrink Bessler (1843-1910) who had two children, Mary (1878-1946) and John (1880-1950) that he helped raise. He and Gertrude also had two girls, Katie (1883-1918) and Gertie (1887-1911). In 1888, Herman bought a farm not too far from his own. It passed to John Bessler after his death and remained in the Bessler family becoming an Indiana Homestead Farm until 2011 when it was sold.
Herman was a tough taskmaster and didn't always get along with his step-son. He did teach him how to become a good farmer and also how to make wooden shoes. Herman's tools were used by John then inherited by John's son, Clem. Clem never learned to make the shoes so eventually he donated them to the Decatur County Historical Society.
Herman died in 1910, a week after his wife had died, of pneumonia. They are buried together along with their daughter Gertie in St. John the Evangelist Cemetery in Enochsburg.
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