1839 Philip Zeigler of North Middleton Twp, Cumberland County wrote his will, dated September 9. The will named heirs John, Abraham, Samuel, Jesse, David, Philip, Mary (wife of John Adam Humerick), and Sophia (wife of Jacob Weise). Probate October 8, 1839. [1]
1840 A deed granted land in North Middleton to Peter Lehn, from John Zeigler and wife Mary, Abraham Zeigler and wife Elizabeth, Samuel Zeigler and wife Elizabeth F., Jesse Zeigler and wife Mary Ann, David Zeigler and wife Ann Margaret, Philip Zeigler and wife May Ann, John A Hemrich and wife Mary Ann, and Jacob and Sophia Weise. Witnessed by Abraham Lamberton. [2]
A biosketch of Philip and Mary Kramer Ziegler, Jr reports [3]:
In 1830 John Adams Humrich married Mary Ann Zeigler, of North Middleton township, a daughter of Philip Zeigler, whose father, Philip Zeigler, Sr., came from Wurtemberg, Germany, in the year 1753, and located in Upper Salford township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county, where on Sept. 24. 1763, he was naturalized. He was a land owner and a farmer and a warm friend of the Continental cause in the Revolutionary war. He and his wife Elizabeth had six sons, viz. : Henry, Andrew, John, George, Mark and Philip, and two daughters, Catharine and Elizabeth, as appears by his last will and testament, duly probated in Montgomery county. His son, Philip Zeigler, Jr., who was one of his executors, married Mary Kramer of the adjoining county of Bucks, and by her had three sons and two daughters born in Montgomery county. The sons were John, Abraham and Samuel, and the two daughters were Elizabeth and Mary Ann. With this family, in 1801, when his daughter Mary Ann was yet less than five years old, he migrated to Cumberland county and settled near Sterrett's Gap, in Middleton (now Middlesex) township, where he resided until the end of his days. In addition to the above-named children three sons, Jesse, David and Philip, and a daughter. Sophia, were born after the family settled in Cumberland county. Three daughters, not named, died in infancy, but the rest of his children all grew to maturity, married, and with a single exception left families. Elizabeth, the oldest daughter, married Dr. Conrad Eckert, of Carlisle, and died without issue in August, 1823, in the thirty-fifth year of her age. Sophia, the youngest child, became the wife of Jacob Wise, and at the age of almost ninety-two years is still living at her home in the village of Springville, in this county, reasonably active in mind and body.
Philip Zeigler, Jr., the Cumlierland county ancestor of the Zeigler family, was also a member of the German Lutheran Church of
Carlisle, as were all his children and many of his grandchildren. He was a Democrat in politics, and took interest in public affairs, but never sought office. He was possessed of considerable property and as a stockholder and director lost heavily in the old Agricultural Bank of Carlisle. His chief occupation was farming, at which he engaged extensively, and the "Mansion Farm," which he bought in 1801, is still owned and farmed by his grandchildren.
[1] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Cumberland, Will L-74, FHL film 21082, [FamilySearchImage].
[2] Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Deed SS-426, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[3] Jeremiah Zeamer, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County Pennsylvania (1905), 2, [InternetArchive].