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Notes for Joseph S Wenger and Elizabeth Zimmerman

1769 Joseph Wenger, born in 1769, son of John and Anna Sherk, married Elizabeth Zimmerman. [1]

1778 On 21 November, Elizabeth Zimmerman was born. [2]

1812 On 18 February, Isaac Wenger, eldest son of Joseph Wenger and Elizabeth Zimmerman, was born. He married Mary Bowman. [3] [4]

1824 Josesph Wenger died. [5]

"Joseph Wenger, born in 1769, who married Elizabeth Zimmerman," [6]

Joseph Wenger "was born and resided in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he died. He was married to Elizabeth Zimmerman who was born November 21st, 1778, and died March 23rd, 1840. After his decease, which took place in Pennsylvania in 1824, the widow with her family moved to Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada in 1825, and resided in the town of Waterloo, in old Abraham Erb's house for eighteen months, then she moved two and one half miles north of the town of Waterloo, on the place known as Freunds (now Eli Martins), opposite the Martin Mennonite Church. Here she resided until her death. Her family consisted of nine children." [7]

Richard Warren Davis reports that Joseph Wenger had two wives. [8]


Footnotes:

[1] I. L. Stuart, History of Franklin County, Iowa, Vol. 2 (Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing, 1914), 377, [HathiTrust].

[2] Ezra E. Eby, A Biographical History of Waterloo Township, Vol. 2 (1896), 621, Person 7967, [GoogleBooks].

[3] Ezra E. Eby, A Biographical History of Waterloo Township, Vol. 1 (1895), 100, Person 208, [GoogleBooks].

[4] Ezra E. Eby, A Biographical History of Waterloo Township, Vol. 2 (1896), 622, Person 7971, [GoogleBooks].

[5] Ezra E. Eby, A Biographical History of Waterloo Township, Vol. 2 (1896), 621, Person 7967, [GoogleBooks].

[6] I. L. Stuart, History of Franklin County, Iowa, Vol. 2 (Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing, 1914), 377, [HathiTrust].

[7] Ezra E. Eby, A Biographical History of Waterloo Township, Vol. 2 (1896), 621, Person 7967, [GoogleBooks].

[8] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Wenger A.33428, [Website].