1769 Joseph Wenger, born in 1769, son of John and Anna Sherk, married Elizabeth Zimmerman. [1]
1778 Elizabeth Zimmerman was born on November 21. [2]
1795 Susanna Wenger, spouse of Joseph Shirk Wenger, died on October 8 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She was born on August 31, 1762 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, daughter of David Martin and Susanna Maria Martin. [3]
1812 Isaac Wenger, eldest son of Joseph Wenger and Elizabeth Zimmerman, was born on February 18. He married Mary Bowman. [4] [5]
1825 Joseph Shirk Wenger, spouse of Susanna Wenger, died on February 20 in Pennsylvania. He was born on September 12, 1769 in Pennsylvania, son of John Graybill Wenger and Anna Wenger. [6] [7]
1840 Elizabeth Wenger died on March 23. She was born on November 21, 1778. [8]
1868 Daughter Mary Zimmerman Meyer, spouse of John N Meyer, died on March 16 in Ontario, Canada. She was born on April 28, 1814 in Pennsylvania, daughter of Elizabeth Wenger. [9]
Research Notes:
Mennonite card file. [10] Joseph Wenger was born on September 12, 1769. [11]
"Joseph Wenger, born in 1769, who married Elizabeth Zimmerman," [12]
Zimmerman genealogy. [13]
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." [14]
Wenger Genealogy. Joseph S Wenger was born on September 12, 1769. Joseph Wenger married Elisabeth Zimmerman. [15]
[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] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[4] Ezra E. Eby, A Biographical History of Waterloo Township, Vol. 1 (1895), 100, Person 208, [GoogleBooks].
[5] Ezra E. Eby, A Biographical History of Waterloo Township, Vol. 2 (1896), 622, Person 7971, [GoogleBooks].
[6] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[7] Ezra E. Eby, A Biographical History of Waterloo Township, Vol. 2 (1896), 621, Person 7967, [GoogleBooks].
[8] Canada, Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[9] Canada, Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[10] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[11] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[12] I. L. Stuart, History of Franklin County, Iowa, Vol. 2 (Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing, 1914), 377, [HathiTrust].
[13] A twig of the Zimmerman off-spring of Glause Zimmerman born 1647, died 1729, [AncestryImage].
[14] Ezra E. Eby, A Biographical History of Waterloo Township, Vol. 2 (1896), 621, Person 7967, [GoogleBooks].
[15] Jonas G. Wenger, Martin D. Wenger, and Joseph H. Wenger, History of the Descendants of Christian Wenger (1903), [AncestryImage].