Johann Adam Wuertemberger, I

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Stocking weaver
• Residence: 1751, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA; Pennsylvania Census
• Departure: Bef Sep 1751, Ilbesheim, Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire
• Arrival: 24 Sep 1751, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA; As "Johann Adam Wirdeberger", on The Neptune which came from Rotterdam via Cowles, England
• Residence: 1779, Cumru Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA; Stocking weaver, 1 cow, 10+6 = 16 Pennsylvania pounds This could be his son. Adam II was definitely a stocking weaver; I don't know if Adam I was.

Notes:

He was born as Johann Adam Württemberger (with an umlaut), but I use the anglicized spelling becuase it is consistent with other named used in America. His birth date is in dispute. Several Johann Adam Württembergers were born in Württember in the mid-1700, and his birth dates in various online sources reflect that variety. The most common date is 1737, but that date is inconsistent with several life events, so I've chosen the compromise date of "about 1730"

At least from the time he arrived in America, records, he used his middle name "Adam", and all American records (except his son's birth record in a German Lutheran Church) identify him as "Adam Wirtemberger" (or with a surname that could be just a misspelling
arrived in Philadelphia in 1751 on the ship "The Neptune", which embarked from Rotterdam, but he began his journey in Ilbesheim, a town in the Rhemish Palatanate. The Palatinate was a vassal state of the Holy Roman Empire, and is now part of the German state Rhineland-Palatinate. He married Anna Maria Strohecker (also from Wuerttember) 1756, likely in Reading, Pennsylvania, because he owned a home near the center of town in 1758. (See the attached map.)

His family was (at some point) from the Duchy of Württemberg, also part of the Holy Roman Empire. It was adjacent to the Palatinate, but 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 don't know whether Adam was born in Württemberg or the Palatinate, but I'm saying the former because we know that his family was from there. In any case, he 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 Palatinate was only one of several historical districts affected.


Birth:
We don't really know where he was born. He emigrated from the Palitinate but his family was from Wuerttemberg,

Died:
GRid=1233488720; Interesting bio with details of immigration, wife, children, parents, grandparents.

GRid=1233488720 says that he was buried in the Alsace Lutheran Church Cemetery in Reading, but I don't know of any primary souirces for that, and it seems unlikey. In the 1750s and perhaps into the 1770's, he lived in the center of town. Tax lists in 1779, 1881, and 1882Unknown 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, Holy Roman Empire; died before 1782 in Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1781, Cumru Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
• Residence: 1786, Cumru Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
• Residence: 1800, Dublin and Air, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, USA
• Death: 1829, Trumbull County, Ohio, USA

John married Catherine Engel on 10 Dec 1780 in Cumru Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA. Catherine was born in 1761 in Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1779, Cumru Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA; PA tax list; stocking weaver, 10+6 (for 1 cow) = 16 Pennsylvania pounds
• Residence: 1781, Cumru Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA; Tax list.; 1781 Cumru, Berks, PA Tax list. Adan Wirtemberer, Stocking weaver; Valuation: 50 + 4 for two cows; Tax: 7.6 Pennsylvania pounds. His brother Jacob Wirtemberge is also described as a stocking weaver
• Residence: 1782, Cumru Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA; PA tax records; as Adam Wirtemberger; 2 cows, value=40, tax=11.8 Pennsylvania pounds
• Residence: 1786, Cumru Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA; Pensylvania Census
• Residence: 1790, Cumru Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA; Federal Census. As Adam Wirtemberger
• Residence: 1800, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
• Residence: 1819, Washington County, Tennessee, USA

Notes:

Name:
Johann Adam Wattenbarger was born in Pennsylvania in 1760 as Johann Adam Wuertemberger with only a slight Anglicization of his father's original family name "Württemberger". His father was born as Johann Adam Württemberger in about 1830 in Württemberg, which is now part of Germany..

I use his original firstnane "Johann", the anglicized "Wattenbarger" and the suffix "II"

• There is no primary documentation of his first name other than his birth record,


• He used the name "Adam Wattenbarger" in his will, and


• Although he was born with (essentially) the same name as his father, his ultimate use of "Wattenbarger" somehow turns me away from "Jr".


Both men were identified as "Adam Wirtemberger" (or something else that could just be a typo) in all American records until Adam II moved to Tennessee.
includng on the manifest of the ship that brought Adam I to Philadelphia.



Residence:
2 males 16 and older (probably Adam I and Adam II),
2 males under 16 (Williamm 5, and Adam III, 3)
1 female (Adam II's wife Maria Elizabeth)
There should also be a 1-year-old female (Anna Maria)

John married Maria Elizabeth Ferntzeler on 4 Feb 1783 in Cumru Twp, 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: 1790, Cocalico, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
• Residence: 1800, Haines, Centre County, Pennsylvania, USA
• Residence: 1820, Nimishillen, Stark County, Ohio, USA
• Residence: 1830, Perry, Stark County, Ohio, USA
• Residence: 1840, Stark County, Ohio, USA

Notes:

Died:
GRid=88353813; Inscription: 80y 6m 15d - husband of Mary Elizabeth

Family/Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Harter. Mary was born on 25 Aug 1767; died on 21 Aug 1832 in Plain Twp, Stark County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Elizabeth Kennedy on 15 Jan 1821 in Washington County, Tennessee, USA. Elizabeth died in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1819, Washington County, Tennessee, USA; Tennesee Census
• Possessions: 13 May 1824, Green County, Tennessee, USA; 60 acres on LIck Creek granted by the state of Tennessee, with metes and bounds 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

Notes:

Name:
John Adam Wattenbarger III was born in Pennsylvania in 1787 as Johann Adam Wuertemberger, but his parents were using the name "Wattenbarger" by the time they moved to Tennessee before he was 20. A centotaph (a gravestone-like monument) in the cemetery where he was buried uses the Anglicized name "John Adam Wattenbarger."

His father Johann Adam was born in 1760 in Pennsylania with the slightly Anglicized surname "Wuertemberger , and his grandfather, was born in 1839 in Württemberg (now part of Germany) as Johann Adam Württemberger

Birth:
Birth record reads Johann Adam Wurtemberger

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: 1836, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1850, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
• Probate: 5 Apr 1852, Greene County, Tennessee, USA

Jacob married Hannah Zetty on 11 Aug 1815 in Washington County, Tennessee, USA. Hannah (daughter of Christian Zetty and Barbara Miller) was born about 1790 in Rockingham County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1819, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1840, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1850, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1870, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA; Post Office: Athens

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=17396245; wedge double gravestone; no obit.

Peter married Margaret Rebecca Sliger on 9 Mar 1819 in Washington County, Tennessee, USA. Margaret was born in 1798 in Washington County, Tennessee, USA; died in 1872 in McMinn County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Buttram Methodist Cemetery, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1830, Washington County, Tennessee, USA

Solomon married Mary (Polly) Humphreys on 6 May 1824 in Washington County, Tennessee, USA. Mary was born in 1807 in Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
She may have married Jesse Brown and moved to Illinois.

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• Residence: 1850, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1860, Leesburg District, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1880, Denton County, Texas, USA
• 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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Nimishillen, Stark County, Ohio, USA
• Residence: 1860, Pleasant, Wabash County, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1870, Pleasant, Wabash County, Indiana, USA

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=31628105; tall monument shared with wife Christina

John married Christina Snyder on 23 Sep 1819 in Stark County, Ohio, USA. Christina was born on 1 Apr 1793 in Pennsylvania, USA; died on 16 Jan 1863; was buried in Laketon Cemetery, Laketon, Wabash County, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
GRid=88353692; unmarked grave

Family/Spouse: James Cavender. James died in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1860, Greene County, Tennessee, USA

Notes:

Buried:
grid=143553168

Mary married John Cooter on 23 Oct 1828 in Greene County, Tennessee, USA. John was born about 1805 in Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Residence: 1830, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1836, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1840, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1850, 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)
• Probate: 4 Mar 1881, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA

Notes:

Name:
He was known by his first name Jacob, though

1. His father John Adam Wattenbarger III (born in Pennsylvania in 1787 as Johann Adam Wuertemberger),


2. His grandfather, born in 1760 in Pennsylania as Johann Adam Wuertemberger II, and


3. His great grandfather, born in about 1830 in Württemberg (now part of Germany) as Johann Adam Württemberger

were all called Adam. Since their births were separated by the Atlantc Ocean and their surnames were not consistent, I call them Adam Wuertermberger I, II, and III rather than Sr, Jr, and III.

Documents in Pennsulvania (other than birth records) used the surname "Wirtemberger". Adam II left Pennsylvania between 1790 and 1800, when Adam II was a child, and began uising the name "Wattenbarger" once he reached Tennessee.

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]

Barbara married Henry Smith on 15 Aug 1833 in Greene County, Tennessee, USA. Henry died in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eliza married Alfred Couch on 7 Jan 1836 in Greene County, Tennessee, USA. Alfred was born on 7 Oct 1818 in Greene County, Tennessee, USA; died on 26 Apr 1877 in Greene County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1880, Democrat, Carroll County, Indiana, USA; Widowed; living with son Daniel

Charles married Elisa Harmon on 16 Apr 1835 in Greene County, Tennessee, USA. Elisa was born in 1818 in Tennessee, USA; died in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1860, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1870, Laurel Gap, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1880, Greene County, Tennessee, USA

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=70540272; no obit. thin slab gravestone.

Wilson married Serena Eliza Jane Williams on 10 Oct 1839 in Greene County, Tennessee, USA. Serena was born on 17 Jun 1818 in Tennessee, USA; died in 1889 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: 1860, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1870, Greene County, Tennessee, USA; Post Office: Rheatown

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=102204012; Stone fallen on and embedded in the ground. No obit.

Sarah married William Pickens Fink on 10 Feb 1842 in Greene County, Tennessee, USA. William was born on 15 Feb 1818 in Tennessee, USA; died on 19 Mar 1900; was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Greene County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1860, Leesburg District, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1880, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1900, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1920, Washington County, Tennessee, USA; Widowed; Living with son Frank Browning

Martha married Elbert S Browning on 5 Sep 1867 in Washington County, Tennessee, USA. Elbert was born on 5 Dec 1845 in Tennessee, USA; died on 14 May 1901; was buried in Limestone Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Limestone, Washington County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1860, Leesburg District, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1870, Ebenezer, Greene County, Missouri, USA
• Residence: 1880, Denton County, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1890, Delaware District, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, USA; Cherokee Census says "Claims right, but hasn't made application"

Notes:

Died:
Wife is listed as widowed in the 1900 census

Samuel married Rebecca M Barkley on 28 Oct 1857 in Washington County, Tennessee, USA. Rebecca was born about 1839 in Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Amy Edwards on 19 May 1867 in Greene County, Missouri, USA. Amy was born in Feb 1844 in Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Washington County, Tennessee, USA

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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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Washington County, Tennessee, USA

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1860, Leesburg District, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
• Military: Betw 1861 and 1865
• Military: 15 Sep 1864, Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1860, Leesburg District, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1880, Denton County, Texas, USA

Notes:

Birth:
per mother's FindAGrave record; GRid=22588206

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Nimishillen, Stark County, Ohio, USA
• Residence: 1860, Pleasant, Wabash County, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1880, Pleasant, Wabash County, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1900, Pleasant, Wabash County, Indiana, USA

Notes:

Died:
GRid=31627972; Gravestone inscription says Died Nov 23,1891 Aged 76Y, 3M, 3D, but the 1900 census says he was alive, all existing census record have him 10 years older, and the birthdate implied by the gravestone makes his father 15 when he was born.

David married Mary Catherine Rule in 1854. Mary was born about 1827 in Ohio, USA; died in 1922 in Wabash County, Indiana, USA; was buried in Laketon Cemetery, Laketon, Wabash County, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Nimishillen, Stark County, Ohio, USA
• Probate: 6 Mar 1882, Wabash County, Indiana, USA

Soloman married Eliza Petree on 19 Dec 1852 in Stark County, Ohio, USA. Eliza was born on 6 Mar 1834 in Womelsdorf, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 4 Dec 1914 in Laketon, Wabash County, Indiana, USA; was buried in Laketon Cemetery, Laketon, Wabash County, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Nimishillen, Stark County, Ohio, USA
• Residence: 1860, Pleasant, Wabash County, Indiana, USA

Family/Spouse: Samuel B Rager. Samuel was born about 1829 in Pennsylvania, USA; died in 1909; was buried in North Manchester, Wabash County, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Nimishillen, Stark County, Ohio, USA
• Residence: 1860, Pleasant, Wabash County, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1880, Pleasant, Wabash County, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1900, Pleasant, Wabash County, Indiana, USA

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=31627955; Large memorial for Daniel, Wife Delilan, and Son M.H

Daniel married Delilah Rhodes on 2 Apr 1863 in Wabash County, Indiana, USA. Delilah was born on 5 Feb 1841 in Kosciusko County, Indiana, USA; died on 12 May 1931; was buried in Laketon Cemetery, Laketon, Wabash County, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]