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1818 Joseph Wenger and Barbara Beery were married on April 28 in Rockingham County, Virginia. [1] [2]

1850 Joseph Wenger (age 55, born in Virginia) lived in Rockingham County, Virginia, in a household with Barbara Wenger (55), Jacob Wenger (21), Mary Wenger (17), Joseph Wenger (14), and Elizabeth A Debord (14). Joseph Wenger was a farmer. [3]

1860 Joseph Wenger (age 65, born in Virginia) lived in District 1, Rockingham County, Virginia, in a household with Barbara Wenger (64), Jos H Wenger (24), Jacob Geil (33), Mary Geil (27), Catherine Geil (6), Barbara Geil (4), and Joseph Geil (2). Joseph Wenger was a farmer. [4]

1865 Joseph Wenger died on February 14 at Rockingham County, Virginia and was buried at Lindale Mennonite Church Cemetery, Linville, Rockingham County, Virginia. Joseph Wenger was born on September 17, 1794. [5] [6]

1868 The heirs of Joseph Wenger, deceased, of Rockingham County, Virginia, sold land from the estate to Jacob Long. The heirs were listed as: John Wenger and Annie his wife, Jacob Guile/Geil and Mary his wife, John Good and Annie his wife, Isaac Wenger and Lydia his wife, Abraham Wenger and Sarah his wife, Jacob Wenger and Hannah his wife, of Rockingham County, Virginia, Isaac Grove and Catharine his wife and Martin Grove and Barbara his wife, of Augusta County, Virginia, and Joseph Wenger and Elizabeth his wife of Iowa [certified by a clerk of Keokuk County, Iowa], and Barbara Wenger widow. Dated October 3. [7]

1871 Barbara Beery Wenger died on August 26 at Edom, Rockingham County, Virginia and was buried at Lindale Mennonite Church Cemetery, Linville, Rockingham County, Virginia. Barbara Beery Wenger was born on March 12, 1795. [8] [9]

Research Notes:

A biosketch reports [10]:

Barbara Beery, b March 12, 1795, New Market, Va.; after marriage lived on portion of Wenger estate near Edorn and with husband converted forest into well-improved farm, later adding other farms; Mennonite; d Aug. 26, 1871, near Edom; Lindale Mennonite church cem.; m April 28, 1818, Joseph Wenger. b Sept. 17, 1794, near Edom (s Joseph and Anna (Hochman) Wenger); mostly self-educated, mastered English, German, and vocal music, and understood French, Greek, and Latin; schoolteacher; farmer near Edom; Mennonite; d Feb. 14, 1865, near Edom; fever and exposure (following severe illness, autumn 1864, his strength was overtaxed in attempting to keep fire from spreading to home when barn was burned by soldiers in Civil War); Lindale Mennonite church cem.

A biosketch reports [11]:

1) Barbara Beery was born in New Market, Shenandoah Co., Va., March 12, 1795, and died near Edom, Va., Aug. 26, 1871, and Joseph Wenger, born near Edom, Rockingham Co., Va., Sept. 17, 1794, and died Feb. 14, 1865, were married April 28, 1818 (See Wenger History).

Barbara Beery was the oldest of her father John Beery's family, and was raised at the homestead three-fourths of a mile south of Edom, Rockingham Co., Va. When at the age of 23 years she married Joseph Wenger. Soon afterwards they began housekeeping on a portion of the Wenger estate, one-fourth mile east of Edom, where they started in the forest, and with the blessings of good health, brawny arms, and willing hands they converted it into a well-improved farm, besides adding other farms. It is natural that we reverence our parents. Indeed, it is due unto them. But how sad it is in some instances where children do not respect father and mother, especially in old age. The above parents were kind to their children, yet strict, and decisive, and the longer I live, the more I consider that they did the right thing at the right time, and the more thankful I am for the training and advice I received at their hands. My memory of these sainted and departed parents is indelibly fixed in my mind. This sketch is written on the date of mother's anniversary of her birth, 110 years ago to-day (March 12, 1905). These parents united with the Mennonite church in early life, and are buried at the Lindale Mennonite church cemetery, a short distance north of Edom, Va.— (Their Son, Joseph H. Wenger, South English, Iowa.)

Their Children:

1. Catharine Wenger, b. March 20, 1819. No. 33.
2. John B. Wenger, b. Sept. 16, 1820. No. 34.
3. Elisabeth Wenger, b. May 21, 1822. No. 35.
4. Isaac Wenger, b. Nov. 22, 1823. No. 36.
5. Abraham Wenger, b. May 31, 1825. No. 37.
6. Anna Wenger, b. Jan. 8, 1827. No. 38.
7. Jacob Wenger, b. June 4, 1829. No. 39.
8. Barbara Wenger, b. June 20, 1831. No. 40.
9. Mary Wenger, b. May 21, 1833. No. 41.
0. Joseph H. Wenger, b. Nov. 15, 1835. No. 42.

A genealogy of the Kagy family reports that Barbara Beery, daughter of Barbara Kagey and Daniel Beery, married Joseph Wenger. [12] They were married on 28 April 1818 in Rockingham County, Virginia. [13]

Joseph Wenger, 1794-1865, was a deacon of the Virginia Mennonite Church. He lived in the northern district. [14]

See also [15] Mennonite card file. [16]


Footnotes:

[1] Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940, [AncestryRecord].

[2] Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850, [AncestryRecord].

[3] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[4] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[5] Find A Grave Memorial 128136710, [FindAGrave].

[6] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[7] Rockingham County, Virginia Deed 4-48, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[8] Find A Grave Memorial 128136723, [FindAGrave].

[9] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[10] William Beery, Judith B. Garber, Beery Family History (1997), 88, [GoogleBooks].

[11] Joseph H. Wenger, History of the descendants of Abraham Beery: Born in 1718 (1905), 18, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].

[12] Franklin Keagy, A History of the Kägy Relationship in America (1899), 427-428, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].

[13] John Vogt and T. William Kethley, Rockingham County Marriages 1778-1850 (Iberian Press, 1984), 225, [GoogleBooks].

[14] Harry Anthony Brunk, History of Mennonites in Virginia, Vol. 1, 270, [HathiTrust].

[15] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Wenger A.3349D, [Website].

[16] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].