Adam B Wattenbarger

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• Residence: 1850, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
• Military: 1861
• Residence: 1880, Elm Springs, Washington County, Arkansas, USA
• Residence: 1910, Omega, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, USA
• Residence: 1920, Omega, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, USA

Adam married Hester Jane Holmes on 20 Jun 1855 in Washington County, Tennessee, USA. Hester was born on 20 Feb 1836 in Tennessee, USA; died on 10 Jan 1922; was buried in Douglas Cemetery Highfill, Benton County, Arkansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Virginia Wattenbarger was born about 1863 in Tennessee, USA.
2. Elizabeth Wattenbarger was born about 1867 in Benton County, Arkansas, USA; died on 9 Feb 1944 in Oolagah, Rogers County, Oklahoma, USA.
3. Luvada Wattenbarger was born on 8 Jun 1876 in Arkansas, USA; died on 1 Nov 1906; was buried in Ketchum, Craig County, Oklahoma, USA.

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• Residence: 1850, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1860, Leesburg District, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1880, Denton County, Texas, USA; Precinct 2;
• Residence: 1890, Saline District, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, USA; Cherokee census says "By whom improvements claimed: John Edwards". His daughter-in-law was Amy Edward, who applied for Cherokee citizenship, but was denied. I don't know the exact connection.

George married Nancy Ann Collet on 31 Jul 1832 in Washington County, Tennessee, USA. Nancy was born in 1819 in Tennessee, USA; died on 15 Mar 1884; was buried in Springtown Cemetery, Springtown, Benton County, Arkansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1860, Leesburg District, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1880, Denton County, Texas, USA; Precinct 2;

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Buried:
GRid=22588206, photo of large headstone, list of 8 children

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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]

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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.

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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]