1893 Obituary of Joseph Miser, died July 8 in Waterloo, Indiana.
The Waterloo Press, Waterloo, Indiana, July 13, 1893. [25] [26] [27]
1743 Johann Adam Meiser, child of Johann Michael Meiser and Anna Elizabeth Sixt, was born in 1743 in Millbach, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Johann Adam Meiser was married to Mary, Anna Catharine Haas, and Mary. [1]
1761 Anna Catherine Meiser, child of Johann Adam Meiser, was born in 1761. [2]
1780 Johan Adam Myser enlisted in the Northumberland County Militia. He was born in 1743. [3]
1788 Adam Meiser was taxed in 1788 in Potter Twp, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. [4]
1806 "The land on which the village [New Salem/Annapolis, Jefferson County, Ohio] stands had been entered by Henry and Adam Miser, whose descendants still live in the neighborhood.". [Henry was Adam's nephew, the son of Henry]. [5]
1806 Henry Maiser and wife Margaret, of Jefferson County, Ohio, sold land in Jefferson County to Adam Myser. Dated November 1. Henry Miser had received a patent for the land in 1806. [6]
1819 Adam Myser received two patents for land in Holmes County, Ohio, on October 23. [7] [8] [9] [10]
1820 Adam Misor lived in Paint Twp, Wayne County, Ohio in a household with males: 1 (under 10), 4 (10 thru 15), 1 (16 thru 18), 3 (16 thru 25), and 1 (45 and over); and females: 1 (under 10), 1 (10 thru 15), and 1 (45 and over). Henry Misor and John Misor were listed adjacent. [11]
1824 Adam Myser died on May 22, 1824 and was buried at the Myser Family Cemetery, Winesburg, Holmes County, Ohio. [12] [13] Notes report:
Married to 1st to Anna Catharine Haas, 2nd to Mary Eckhart
Revolutionary War veteran, served in Captain John Sneider's Company in the Northumberland County Militia.
1824 Adam Miser, of Waine [Wayne?] County, Ohio, purchased land in Jefferson County from Kramer Johnston and wife Christiana Johnston. [14]
1825 Adam Meiser was taxed in Holmes County, Ohio. [15]
1826 Adam Meiser was taxed in Paint Twp, Holmes County, Ohio. [16]
1826 Mary Myser, spouse of Johann Adam Myser, died in 1826 in Holmes County, Ohio. She was born in 1760 in Pennsylvania. [17]
1827 Mary, Henry, and John Mizer were taxed in Paint Twp, Holmes County, Ohio. [18]
1828 Adam Mizer was taxed in Paint Twp, Holmes County, Ohio. [19]
1829 Henry, Philip, and Michael Meizer were taxed in Paint Twp, Holmes County, Ohio. [20]
1850 Joseph Miser (35, born in Ohio) lived in Union Twp, De Kalb County, Indiana, in a household with Elizabeth Miser (31), Sarah Miser (10), David Miser (6), and Franklin Miser (3). Joseph Miser was a farmer. [21]
c 1880 Mary Eckart was a member of the Christ Methodist Church in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. [22]
1883 A FindaGrave memorial reports that Samuel Miser died on October 30 in Richland Twp, DeKalb County, Indiana. Samuel Miser was buried at Tamarack Cemetery, Waterloo, DeKalb County, Indiana. He was born on May 6, 1809. [23]
1899 A FindaGrave memorial reports that son Adam Meiser died in January in Holt County, Missouri. Adam Meiser was buried at Nichols Grove Cemetery, Holt County, Missouri. Adam Meiser was born in 1804 in Jefferson County, Ohio. [24]
Mr. Joseph Miser was born In Westmoreland Co., Ohio, July 30 1814, died at his residence in Waterloo, July 8, 1893. Aged 78 yrs., 11 mos., 8 das.
When young he was confirmed in the German Reformed church. United in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Ash in 1839, after which they moved to Ind., in the fall of 1841. They then united with the Evangelical Association, and of late years belonged to the U. B. church. To this union, were born four children, two two girls. One girl preceded him to his long home in her infancy. Bro. Miser professed faith in Christ nearly sixty-five years. Te was a kind husband, father and neighbor. Mr. Miser was the youngest of fourteen children, nine boys and five girls. All lived to be about seventy years of age. Father Miser leaves a kind companion, three children, nine grand-children, three great-grand-children. He stated to the friends a few days before he passed away that he had been looking over his past life and came down to the present- it was all bright. The surviving ones need not mourn as those who have no hope.
The funeral occurred July 10th, at the residence af the deceased, Rev. S. P. Klotz officiating, and the remains were laid to rest in the beautiful cemetery of Waterloo to await the ressurretion morn. May the great head of the church bless all the surviving ones and grant a reunion in heaven.
A Genealogy of the Meisser Family reports [28]
JOHANN ADAM MEISER 3/9, son of Johann Michael Meiser 2/2 (Johan Jurg Meisser 1/1) and Anna Elizabeth Sixt (believed to be Zecht) was born in Millbach, Pennsylvania, ca. 1743-1745, being named as the youngest son in his father's will (will number 150-1745 as recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.) Johann Adam Meiser died in Wayne County, Ohio, ca. May 22, 1824, at which time he and his wife, Mary, deeded all their lands to several of their children. The record of the deeds for Adam and Mary Myser can be found in Wooster, Holmes County, Ohio.
Adam was born and reared at Millbach, Pennsylvania. He next lived in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, in that portion which is now Snyder County, as early as 1780. This has been substantiated by Dr. Charles Fisher in "Snyder County Pioneers." In 1796 he was assessed in Mahantango Township. On May 13, 1780, he began a tour of duty in Captain John Sneider's Company in the Northumberland Co., Milita as recorded in the Pennsylvania Archives 3/23/257. During this year (1780) he was captured at his home and carried off by the Indians, remaining in captivity about eighteen months, according to Linn's "Annals of Buffalo Valley, page 188. Linn's book (page 303) also states Adam was in West Buffalo, 4/9 Michael Mis Northumberland County, Pennsylvania in 1796, in a dwelling described as a "hewed log cabin." 4/10 Philip Miser He was next found to be in Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, near New Salem (now Adam Miser Annapolis). This is authenticated on page 518 of the "20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio," written by Doyle in 1910, which states that the village of New Ohio Salem, where Annapolis now stands, was entered by Henry and Adam Miser, whose descendants still live in the neighborhood.
On May 14, 1812, Adam bought 155 acres of land in Jefferson County, Ohio, from this Henry, who was his nephew and a son of Henry 3/4, brother of Adam 3/9. This land he held until February 16, 1824, when he sold it to Thomas Johnson. On March 16, 1818, he received a patent for 160 acres of land in Auburn Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. He subsequently sold this land to his grand-nephew, George Mizer 5/5, a grandson of his brother John (Johannes) Meiser 3/7. On October 23, 1819, he received a patent for 160 acres of land in Paint Township, Wayne County, Ohio, from President James Monroe. This is where he settled and lived the remaining days of his life. He is buried on this farm in a grave recently located and authenticated. A grave marker, supplied by the War Department, was placed upon it on May 17, 1964, in a dedication by the Wooster-Wayne Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Through the efforts of the Meisser Genealogy Association, many descendants were searched out and advised of the dedication. This resulted in over 200 attending from as far west as California and as far east as New York. The location of Adam's grave is on the original homestead farm, presently in Holmes County, Ohio on the S. W. ½; Sec. 26; Twp. 15; R. 11; originally containing 160 acres and presently owned by Levi J. Miller of R.D. #1, Beach City, Ohio.
Adam was married first to Anna Catharine Haas December 8, 1760 at Millbach, Pennsylvania, according to the Millbach Church records at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Their first child, Anna Catharine Meiser, was baptized September 20, 1761. Adam's second marriage was to Mary Eckhart ca. 1783 as evidenced by the will of Jacob Eckhart (Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 2/108). No other record has been found concerning this marriage. The first child of Adam Meiser and Mary Eckhart was born early 1784 in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. At this time Adam lived near his brother, Henry 3/4, and his nephew, John 4/2. John 4/2 was baptized Johann Adam Meiser on April 2, 1760, with Adam and his betrothed Anna Catharine Haas, as sponsors.
The familes of Adam 3/9, Henry 3/4, and John 4/2 remained in close proximity to each other in their further migrations westward. At Jefferson County, Ohio, Henry 4/6, son of Henry 3/4; John 4/2, son of John 3/7; and Adam 3/9 took out lands close to each other in 1802, 1806 and 1812 respectively. In fact Adam's lands and those of John 4/2, joined. In 1812-1818 of these families, Adam and John 5/1 (Adam's grand-nephew and the son of John 4/2), took up lands in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. They were followed by Adam's other grand-nephews, Jacob 5/6 and Philip 5/7, also sons of John 4/2. Soon afterward Adam sold his Tuscarawas County holdings to his other grand-nephew, George 5/5, also the son of John 4/2. Additionally, in 1828, Adam's son John "W" Mizer 4/4, settled in the same general area.
The closeness of these families is further evidenced by the fact there were double family ties between them. Adam 3/9 and his nephew, John 4/2, married sisters, Mary Eckhart and Rosina Eckhart respectfully, as supported by the will of Jacob Eckhart of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, p. 108.
No further record is found of Mary Eckhart except a Mary appearing along with that of Adam on May 22, 1824, when they jointly signed deeds transferring all their lands to several of their children in Paint Township, Wayne County, Ohio -- (as seen in Holmes County, Ohio, records). An obituary of Adam's youngest son, Joseph 4/14, states that he, Joseph, was the youngest of fourteen children-nine boys and five girls. In support we list the following:
CHILDREN:
4/1 Anna Catharine Meiser, baptized Millbach, Pa., Sept. 20, 1761.
4/2 Jacob Myser
4/3 A daughter
4/4 John W. Miser
4/5 Mary Miser, born June 16, 1788 and died June 27, 1866 (according to the "Ancestry of James Shanks-Huron County, Ohio" by Harry S. Blaine), married Benjamin Helwig who entered the lands now occupied by John Ridenour and received by Helwig during the administration of Andrew Jackson, 1827.
4/6 Catharine Miser
4/7 Henry Miser
4/8 George Miser
4/9 Michael Miser
4/10 Philip Miser
4/11 Adam Miser, Jr., born ca. 1803-1808, probably in Jefferson County, Ohio;married Catharine Galatine on Sept. 18, 1838, according to the Wayne County, County, Ohio marriage records; went to Waterloo, Ind. for one year, then to Holt Co., Missouri in 1870.
4/12 Samuel Miser
4/13 A daughter
4/14 Joseph Mizer
Research Notes:
Holmes County Ohio deed index Miser: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4T-M3G7-K?cat=229583&i=159
WikiTree https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Meiser-20
Rootsweb https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~kell/genealogy/dad/bonnett/seek.html
FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bsurname%3Ameisser
1966 https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/27068
1986 https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1117231
1997 https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1117610
See image of the farm at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/155492298/person/402298456987/facts?_phsrc=mUc6635&_phstart=successSource
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