John 'Adam' Wattenbarger

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• Residence: 1819, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
• Civil: 2 Sep 1825, Greene County, Tennessee, USA; 60 acres granted by the state of Tennessee to Adam Wattenberger, 60 acres. With description.
• Residence: 1830, Greene County, Tennessee, USA; Free White Males: 40-49:Adam(43); 15-19:Charles(12) & Jacob Adam(21); 5-9:Wilson(10); Free White Females: 40-49:Mary Ann(42); 20-29:Mary(23); 10-14:1:Eliza(14) or Barbara(15); 5-9:Sarah(7)
• Residence: 1836, Greene County, Tennessee, USA; Tax list; 217 acres. As Adam Wattenbarger
• Residence: 1840, Greene County, Tennessee, USA; Free white persons: Male 50-59:Adam(53); 20-29:Charles(22); Female: 40-49:Mary Ann(52); 15-19:2 Sarah(17) & Serena(15)
• Residence: 1850, Greene County, Tennessee, USA; Adam(64) and Mary(62). No children
• Probate: 3 Oct 1859, Greene County, Tennessee, USA; See attached will for John Adam Wattenbarger

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Birth:
Birth record reads Johann Adam Wurtenberger

Buried:
GRid=70540269; Double headstone with wife Mary M Smith looks new and has children's names on back

John married Mary Ann (Magdalean) Smith on 17 Nov 1806 in Greene Co, TN. Mary was born in 1788 in Virginia; died in 1870 in Greene Co, TN; was buried in Zion United Methodist Church Cemetery, Greene Co, TN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary Polly Wattenbarger was born on 27 Aug 1807 in Tennessee; died on 4 Jan 1878 in Romeo, Greene, TN.
2. Jacob Adam Wattenbarger was born on 24 Jul 1809 in Washington Co, TN; died on 7 Dec 1882 in Cleveland, Bradley, TN; was buried in Red Hill Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley, TN.
3. Barbara Wattenbarger was born in 1815 in Washington Co, TN; died in 1844 in Greene Co, TN.
4. Eliza Wattenbarger was born on 20 Feb 1816 in Greene Co, TN; died on 1 Jan 1891 in Greene Co, TN.
5. Charles Wattenbarger was born in 1818 in Greene Co, TN.
6. Wilson Wattenbarger was born on 29 Nov 1820 in Greene Co, TN; died on 13 Aug 1889 in Greene Co, TN; was buried in Zion United Methodist Church Cemetery, Greene Co, TN.
7. Sarah Elizabeth (Sallie) Wattenbarger was born in 1823 in Greene Co, TN; died on 9 Mar 1898 in Greene Co, TN; was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Greene Co, TN.

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• Residence: 1782, Cumru, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA; PA tax records; as Adam Wirtemberger; 2 cows
• Residence: 1786, Cumru, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
• Residence: 1790, Cumru, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA; As Adam Wirtemberger; 2 males 16 and older (not sure who the second one is); 2 males under 16 (sons Wm & John Adam); 1 female (wife Elizabeth, they they should have also had a 1 year old daughter)
• Residence: 1800, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
• Residence: 1819, Washington County, Tennessee, USA

John married Maria Elizabeth Ferntzeler
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on 4 Feb 1783 in Cumru, Berks, PA. Maria was born on 4 Dec 1768 in Berks Co, PA; died in 1850 in Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Subdivision 4, Washington County, Tennessee, USA

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• Departure: Bef Sep 1751, Ilbesheim, Palatinate; "Johann Adam Wirdeberger was a passenger on the Neptune, which arrived in Philadelphia on 24 Sep 1751 from Rotterdam via Cowes, England. \" See https://www.immigrantships.net/v3/1700v3/neptune17510924.html
• Arrival: 24 Sep 1751, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA; According to GRid=185574927, he departed from the town of Ilbesheim, Germany, via Saarland (a German state), from which the Saar river flows to the Moselle, which flows to the Rhine.

Notes:

See GRid=185574927 for an fairly extensive biography.

The surname Wuertemberger is a "toponym". It was derived from his family's homeland in the duchy of Württemberg, which was affiliated with the Holy Roman Empire, but was (like nearby states) fought over continually in the early- and mid-1700's. It is now part of the German state Baden-Württemberg, whose capital is Stuttgart. Baden-Württemberg is the most southwesterly German state, bordering Switzerland and France (Alsace). I can't really say that Adam (as he was known, at least in America) was born in Württemberg, but his family certainly came from there.

His FindAGrave page says that Adam emigrated from Ilbesheim, a town in the Rhemish Palitanate, a duchy just northwest of Württemberg, but, again, I can't say when or even whether he moved there from Württemberg. The Palitanate is now part of the German state Rhineland-Palatinate, which borders Luxembourg and Belgium on the west.

Johann Adam was part of the mass immigration from southwest Germany in the mid-1700s that was driven by the devastation caused by War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Year's War. These immigrants are collectively known as German Palatines, though the Rhenish Palatinate was only one of several historical districts affected.

The name Wuertemberger was spelled many different ways in records that have been found, and about a generation later, had been anglicized to Wattenbarger.


Died:
GRid=185574927; Unknown burial. Interesting bio with details of immigration, wife, children, parents, grandparents.

Johann married Anna Maria Strohecker in 1756 in Pennsylvania. Anna was born in 1738 in Wimsheim, Wuerttemberg; died before 1782 in Berks Co, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]