Cornelia Hage

1842 - 1931  (88 years)

• Name	Cornelia Hage
  Birth	28 Oct 1842	Bruinisse, Zeeland, Netherlands   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Birth	28 Oct 1843	from Lou Otto notes
  Birth	28 Oct 1848	from Geneology
  Death	3 Jun 1931	At home 88 Greene Ave about 6:00am Sayville NY   [1, 2]
  Burial	Union Cemetery, Sayville, Long Island, New York   [2]
  Person ID	I28523	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Cornelis Hage,   b. 12 Apr 1812, Bruinisse, , Zeeland, Duiveland, NEDERLAND, d. 22 Jan 1894, Sayville, New York, United States (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Alemina (Fka Jacomijna ) Van Vessem,   b. 5 Feb 1816, Bruinisse, Holland d. 2 Jun 1898, Sayville, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	4 Sep 1840	Bruinisse, Zeeland, Netherlands
  Family ID	F12083	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Johannes Otte aka Otto, Sr.,   b. 22 Jan 1833, Oosterland, Zeeland, Netherlands d. 21 May 1905, Sayville, Suffolk, New York, USA (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	19 Mar 1863	At The House of Cornelius Hage
  Children	1. Joanna (Anna) Otto,   b. 12 Feb 1864, Sayville, Suffolk, New York, United States d. 15 Dec 1950, Union Cemetery Sayville NY USA (Age 86 years)   2. Cornelius Otto,   b. 14 Apr 1865, Sayville, Suffolk, New York, United States d. 24 Dec 1938, boat exposion Oceans (Age 73 years)   3. Johannes "John" Edward Otto, Jack,   b. 25 Dec 1867, Sayville, Suffolk, New York, United States d. 9 Mar 1931, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States (Age 63 years)   4. Thomas Nelson Otto,   b. 12 Mar 1873, Sayville, New York, United States d. 1 May 1949, Bay Shore, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 76 years)   5. Louis Alfred Otto,   b. 5 Jun 1874, Sayville, Suffolk, New York, United States d. 15 Nov 1930, Sayville, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 56 years)   6. Bertram Henry Otto,   b. 8 Oct 1877, Sayville, Suffolk, New York, USA d. 17 Apr 1933, Bay Shore, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 55 years)
  Family ID	F12079	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 May 2026

  
  

• Notes

  [Cornelius Otto Descendents 7-18-05.pdf. FTW] She spent time during childhood near the Choptank River in eastern Maryland. She visited Bruinisse, Holland in July 1905 and then returned back to Sayville, New York soon after. from Louis L. Otto's history see Book "To Descendants of the Otto and DEGRAFF Families" Note 23 Cornelius and Jacomina Hage. They were the first Dutch family to come to the Sayville area, arriving in Oakdale on 6-6-1849. They came from the village of Bruinisse, which is on the island of Duiveland in the delta of the Scheldte River below Rotterdam. (In 1953 there was a terrible storm in the North Sea causing bad floods in the river mouths. Bruinisse was washed off the map, and many other island towns were destroyed partially or completely. All village records were lost, but some county records are still available. To avoid a future repetition of this disaster, the government initiated the "Delta Project" to join the many islands and seal off the estuaries. Cornelius Hage was a farmer for General Ludlow on the latter's estate in Oakdale. He and his family lived there until they moved to a little house on the west side of Railroad Avenue in Sayville the next house north of the court house which was subsequently built on the NW corner of Railroad Avenue and Swayze Street. The american pronunciation of his name is H a J (long A, soft g), the dutch pronunciation is something like aw-huh. Cornelius Hage was a very quiet, patient man, married to a little spit-fire of a woman, Minkya van Kaze Aw-huh. He was known for his unfailing answer to her outbursts - the Dutch word for patience. (It sounds like hedeRlt~. He and his wife were charter members of the Dutch Reformed Church in West Sayville when it was organized in 1860. Cornelius Hage had a sister Jobanna Maria Hage (1816-1894) who married Peter Henry Okkerse. They lived on Chicken Street (now West Street or Dale Drive) in Oakdale. When the Hage family arrived in Oakdale they must already have had four of their seven daughters. Grandma Otto (Cornelia) remembers going to church services in the little chapel, St. John's Church, still standing in Oakdale, where the slaves of the Ludlow family sat in the balcony. The little girls drove the cows home from pasture to the bay carrying a forked stick to pin down snakes. A huge black snake appeared one day on the kitchen rafter above where Mother Hage was heating a large kettle of water. She dealt with the emergency at once by pushing the snake off the rafter so it fell into the pot. In their first summer the little girls had trouble learning English. The family needed a kitchen knife, so little Cornelia, who had been to school in Holland, went to the Terry store in Sayville. She saw the printed name of her need, and happily asked for a k-nifye, giving it the Dutch pronunciation. She always laughed about the laughter which greeted her efforts, but she got the knife. Apparently while Cornelia was in her early teens she accompanied the Ludlow family to the Eastern Shore of Maryland one summer. As an old lady, she used to tell the tale (which made mine and my brothers pop) of seeing the battle of the Merrimac and the Monitor from the Maryland shore during the Civil War, but a study of dates indicates this could not have been true. When she was telling this story she was old enough to have confused this and other events from her early life. All seven of the Hage sisters married, three of them to three Otto brothers - William and Nell, John and Cornelia, Henry and Maria. Note 24 Louise Hage, one of Cornelius and Minna Hage's younger daughters, married George Howell. They owned the land on Greeley Avenue immediately north of John Otto's property. They sold it to the Bezant family, who were Bohemians. They subsequently sold the property to our neighbors, Tony and Mammy Vitoch. George and Louise Howell moved shortly after 1900 to a farm in North Carolina near Morehead City.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1588] Database online. Record for John Otto [S1801] . Date of Import: 21 Jul 2005