Jacob Adam Wattenbarger

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• Occupation: Farmer
• Residence: 1830, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1840, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1850, Subdivision 26, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; Age 39; Wife Susanah (34); Children Adam(15), Sarah(15), Mary(12), Wiley(11), Cristean(10), Wilson(8), Samuel(7), Jacob(4)
• Residence: 1860, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; Age51, Farmer; Wife Susunnah(43); Children Jacob Wattenbarger (51); Children Wiley(20), Christiann(19), Wilson(18), Samuel(16), Jacob(13), George W(8), Malinda(8). Real Estate value:$3000, Personal Estate:$1000
• Residence: 1862, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1870, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; Jacob Wattenbarger (61) Farmer. Real Estate:$1200, Personal:$900. Susannah (52), sons Jacob (22) & George W(18), widowed dau Mary Richmond (32), (new pg) Mary's sons Jacob (12), John H (11). Jacob W Sr & Susannah cannot write. Jacob R cannot read or write
• Residence: 1880, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; Jacob Wattenbarger(69) Widower, Farmer. Son George(27) Farmer, his wife Josie(22), children Malinda(5), SA(1)

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Residence:
1880 Federal Agricultural Schedule:
Tilled:100a, meadows:10a, Woodlands:60a;
Value:farm:$1200, Implements:$150, Livestock:$500; Production:$600,
Grassland Mown:4a, Hay:4a;
Horses:5, Mules:1;
Milch cows:5, Other cattle:1, Calves:5, Cattle sold:5, Slaughtered:1, butter: 250lb, Sheep:22, Lambs:8, Sold:3, Saughtered:1, Killed by dogs:1, Shorn:16,30lbs, Swine:40, Poultry:Barnyard:25, Other:21, Eggs:200doz.
Corn:27a,500bu; Oats:8a,10bu; Wheat:20a,40bu; Sorghum:1a; Molasses:90gal.
Canadian Peas:4bu, Sweet potatoes:1/4?a,25bu;


Buried:
GRid=34225605;Thin headstone says "J Wattenbarger". No bio Headstone

Jacob married Susannah Barger on 20 May 1834 in Washington County, Tennessee, USA. Susannah (daughter of Wiland Barger and Christiana Zetty) was born on 15 Jul 1816 in Washington County, Tennessee, USA; died on 11 Nov 1878 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Red Hill Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Adam Wattenbarger was born on 17 Jun 1835 in Greene County, Tennessee, USA; died on 9 Jun 1906 in Rockwood, Roane County, Tennessee, USA.
2. Sarah A Wattenbarger was born on 30 Oct 1836 in Greene County, Tennessee, USA; died on 21 Feb 1909 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Red Hill Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA.
3. Mary Wattenbarger was born on 3 Mar 1838 in Greene County, Tennessee, USA; died on 2 Sep 1914 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Union Grove Church of Christ Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA.
4. Wiland W (Wiley) Wattenbarger was born on 22 Nov 1839 in Greene County, Tennessee, USA; died on 18 Oct 1905 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Union Grove Church of Christ Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA.
5. Christiann Wattenbarger was born on 31 Dec 1840 in Greene County, Tennessee, USA; died on 6 May 1922 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Red Hill Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA.
6. Wilson Wattenbarger was born on 31 Aug 1842 in Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; died on 23 Oct 1903 in Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Candies Creek Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA.
7. Samuel Wattenbarger was born on 2 Mar 1844 in Greene County, Tennessee, USA; died on 31 Oct 1906 in Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Union Grove Church of Christ Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA.
8. Jacob A Wattenbarger was born on 23 Jun 1848 in Greene County, Tennessee, USA; died on 5 Dec 1870 in Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Red Hill Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA.
9. George Washington Wattenbarger was born on 11 Aug 1851 in Greene County, Tennessee, USA; died on 26 Feb 1916 in Dawnville, Whitfield County, Georgia, USA; was buried in Dawnville Cemetery, Dawnville, Whitfield County, Georgia, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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 County, Tennessee, USA. Mary was born in 1788 in Virginia, USA; died in 1870 in Greene County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Zion United Methodist Church Cemetery, Greene County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1860, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1870, Greene County, Tennessee, USA

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Buried:
GRid=70540270; Headstone shared with husband John Wattenbarger looks new. Inscription: "With Love"

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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 on 4 Feb 1783 in Cumru, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA. Maria was born on 4 Dec 1768 in Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA; died in 1850 in Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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, USA. Anna was born in 1738 in Wimsheim, Wuerttemberg; died before 1782 in Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]