About This Farm

Friedrich Herman Wach was born on December 30, 1831 in Germany. In 1885, Friedrich, his wife, and nine children arrived in America to homestead in Nebraska. One year later he filed for a homestead claim in Hayes County. He took his three oldest children with him and left his wife and six younger children in Sutton, NE until he could provide a home for them. Once a sod house was built on his homestead, he went to Sutton to bring the rest of the family. They started back to Hayes County with a cov