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Notes for John Baldwin Wenk and Caroline Meals

1851 John Wank and Caroline Meals, both of Menallen Twp, were married on March 27. [1]

1870 John B Wenk (age 39, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Menallen Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Caroline Wenk (39), John Wenk (15), Amanda Wenk (14), Catherine Wenk (10), David Wenk (12), George Wenk (8), Jane Wenk (6), Minnie Wenk (3), and Parker Wenk (2/12). John B Wenk was a farmer. [2]

1880 John Wenk (age 49, born in Pennsylvania, married) lived in Menallen Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Caroline Wenk (49), Ferdinand Wenk (22), Catharine Wenk (20), George Wenk (18), Jennie Wenk (14), Minnie Wenk (12), Parker Wenk (10), Harry Wenk (8), and Bertha Wenk (6). John Wenk's father was born in Switzerland and his mother was born in Pennsylvania. John Wenk was a farmer. [3]

1893 John B Wenk, spouse of Caroline Wenk, died on September 28 in Wenksville, Adams County, Pennsylvania. He was born on December 30, 1831 in Menallen Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, son of John Wenk and Lovina Wenk. [4]

1918 Amanda Cullings, spouse of William J Cullings, died on February 7 in Swatara Twp, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. She was born on February 17, 1856 in Pennsylvania, daughter of John B Wenk and Caroline Wenk. [5] [6]

1919 John F Wenk, spouse of Mary E Evans, died on January 11. He was born on February 18, 1854 in Pennsylvania, son of John B Wenk and Caroline Wenk. [7] [8] [9]

1930 George Lincoln Wenk, spouse of Lillie C Wenk, died on March 23 in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He was born on June 24, 1863 in Wenksville, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [10] [11]

1939 Jennie L Mumma, spouse of David P Mumma, died on January 29 at age 72y 10m 20d in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. She was born in Pennsylvania, daughter of John B Wenk and Caroline Meales. [12] [13]

1939 David Ferdinand Wenk, spouse of Alice E Wenk, died on August 14 in Menallen Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania. He was born on June 8, 1858 in Adams, Pennsylvania, son of John B Wenk and Caroline Meales. [14] [15]

1949 Parker W Wenk, spouse of Daisey Martin Wenk, died on January 30 in Cowansville, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He was born on March 19, 1870 in Adams, Pennsylvania, son of John B Wenk and Caroline Wenk. [16]

1950 Anna C. Rexroth, daughter of John B Wenk, died at age 89 on June 10 in Akron, Ohio. She had lived at Adams County, Pennsylvania. [17]

1963 Minnie G Yeatts, spouse of Elmer A Yeatts, died on December 21 in Quincy, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. She was born on May 6, 1868 in Wenksville, Pennsylvania, daughter of John B Wenk and Caroline Meals. [18] [19]

Caroline Meals is named as the wife of John B Wenk in a book by Arthur Weaner. [20]


Footnotes:

[1] Robert Stover, Abstracts of the Republican Compiler, 1831-1851, Vol. 2 (1976), 424, [GoogleBooks].

[2] United States Federal Census, 1870, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[3] United States Federal Census, 1880, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

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

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

[6] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

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

[8] Wisconsin, U.S., Death Records, 1872-2004, [AncestryRecord].

[9] Pennsylvania, U.S., Births, 1852-1854, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

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

[11] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[12] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

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

[14] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

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

[16] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[17] U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current, [AncestryRecord].

[18] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

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

[20] Arthur Weaner, History and genealogy of the German emigrant Johan Christian Kirschenmann, anglicized Cashman (Gettysburg, Pa. Priv. print. by A. Weaner, 1960), pages xxiv and xxix, [URL].