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Ancestry chart segment

  Generation 6            Generation 7          Generation 8
                                          +--John Hockenberry
                                          |   (1741-1839)
                  +-- Casper Hockenberry--+
                  |     (1785-1860)       |
                  |                       +--Hannah Kelly   
Anna Hockenberry--+                          (????-1803)                   
  (1810-~1890)    |                                     
                  |                        
                  +-- Margaret Shaffer  
                      (1788-1852)
  Sources: [5]

Children

(all children with Jonathan Wimer)
Birth order of Daniel (oldest son) uncertain.

Places of Residence

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Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	1850 United States Federal Census, Muddy Creek Twp, Butler Co, PA, page 16 and 17. Census dated 28 August 1850. Lines 35-42 (pg 16) and lines 1-2 (pg 17): Jonathan Wimer, age 48, farmer, $2400 real property; Anne, 48; Margaret 18; Sophia, 17; Rebecca, 15; Hannah, 13; Peter, 10; William, 8; Catherine, 6; Jefferson, 4. All children in school except Jefferson. All born PA. Also on page 17, two houses away,a household headed by Mary Wimer. Two houses further on, the family of John Wimer (Jonathan's brother). Lines14-19: Mary Wimer, age 65, apparently a widow, with children Thomas 30, Adam 25, Margaret 20, Mary 15, and Daniel 14. Lines 24-30: John Wimer age 58; Nancy, age 45; Isaac F, age 22; Jonathan, age 16; Nancy R, age 13; John , age 9; and Sam'l, age 5.
2	1860 United States Federal Census, Worth Twp, Butler Co, PA, page 2. Census dated 2 July 1860. Lines 1-9: Jonathan Wimer, age 51, farmer, $5000 real, 2345 personal property; Ann, 50; William, 17; Catherine, 15; Jefferson, 13; Jonathan, 7; Peter 20, mar. within year; Ellinor, 18, mar. within year. All children in school. All born PA. On Lines 9-15 is a family headed by a John Wimer.
3	1870 United States Federal Census, Worth Twp, Butler Co, PA, page 11. Census dated 22 June, 1870. Lines 17-22: Jonnathan Wimer, 67, farmer, $8800 real, $2300 personal property; Ann, 60, keeping house, can not write; Jefferson, 23, farm labor; Susan, 25, keeping house; Jonnathan, 17, farm labor; Margaret Fisher, 10. All born PA.
4	1880 United States Federal Census, District 58, Worth Twp, Butler Co, PA, page 12. Census dated 10 & 11 June 1880. Lines 40-43: Jonathan Wimer, age 77, farmer; Ann, 69, wife, keeping house; Margaret R., 22, widow, dau-in-law, at home; Ellen Wiglere, 17, servant. All (and all parents) born PA. Jefferson Wimer and family start on line 44.
5	The Wimer Family by Paul W. Myers, 1973, pp 32-34 gives biography of Jonathan Wimer, land transactions, wife's parents, location of Wimer & Hockenberry homesteads, children's names & birthdates, date of death of Jonathan & Ann, burial at Mt. Zion cemetery.
6	Will of Jonathan Wimeras transcribed by Paul W. Myers in The Wimer Family, p. 35. Lists "wife"; sons Jefferson & Peter; daughter-in-law Margaret, widow of my son Jonathan H."; daughters Margaret Jane, Sophia,Rebecca, Catharine Ann; three grandchildren (unnamed), children of daughter Hannah. Signed 8 June 1880.(Willbook source not listed; presume Butler County PA). From correspondence of Norman C. Miller, Jr., 1988: "Jonathan's will does not name Daniel...he did identify a dau.-in-law Margaret Jane (widow of Jonathan H.) and a dau-in-law Margaret worded to indicate a different one. This could only be Daniel's wife (or ex-wife). I know his parents held Daniel responsible for William's death[Civil War] - which could have been reason enough to have disinherited him."	(Complete transcription)
7	Correspondence of Norman C. Miller, Jr. with Elizabeth Wilson Williams, 1988. (See Contributors page.) "Jonathan Wimer's first born son was Daniel, born circa 1836 (or 1832...or 1838) and middle initial was N (or M or W.) I know Myers (ie. Paul W. Myers in "The Wimer Family") does not list him as a son, but he was. My grandmother Miller said her Uncle Daniel was the black sheep of the family...she said he was one of her favorite uncles and she gave me a small pocket photo album that Daniel carried during the Civil War. Inside the fly leaf Daniel wrote his name as Daniel N. along with his unit - Battery B, 1st Pa. Artillery. Daniel enlisted in Bat'ry B. in Aug of 1864 serving until discharged in June '65." Miller gives further military records of Daniel N Wimer, Daniel M Wimer/Wymer, (indicating birth years 1836, or 1838)and brother William Wimer; and a grave for Daniel W. Weimer (calculated birth year 1832)with marker for Co. G. 134th PA Vols. at Zion Baptist Cemetery in Worth Co., where Daniel's father Jonathan Wimer is also buried.	Click here for complete Miller correspondence re. Daniel Wimer
8	Personal correspondence from Elizabeth Wilson Williams]	N/A

Source notes

Conjecture

• Daniel Wimer, discussed by Norman C. Miller Jr., does not appear in the various census as living with the Jonathan Wimer family.
  However, living two houses away from Jonathan's family in 1850 is a Mary Wimer, age 65, apparently a widow, with children Thomas 30, Adam 25, Margaret 20, Mary 15, and Daniel 14. It is possible that all the children are hers (she would be 51 when Daniel was born), but also possible that some of the younger children (Margaret, Mary, Daniel) are staying with her, children of Jonathan and Ann Wimer. There isn't a Mary in the list of Jon & Ann's children, but their daughter Sophia was obviously named for her grandmother, Mary Sophia Snyder, and could have had the name Mary . Margaret was born in 1831, Sophia in 1833, and Daniel 1836 or earlier. The children living with Mary Wimer in 1850 are a decent match, age-wise. It is possible Jonathan sent his 3 oldest children to help out with Mary Wimer's farm after her husband died. (Note: Margaret and Sophia are present in Jonathan's house in the 1850 census, but Daniel is not.) The question is, who is Mary Wimer? Probably the wife of a cousin of Jonathan Wimer's, or even an aunt, the wife of a brother of Christopher Wimer. Two houses on past Mary Wimer lived John Wimer, brother of Jonathan Wimer. So, whoever Mary Wimer is, she seems intimately related to John and Jon Wimer, and it is easily possible that the 14 year old Daniel at her house could be the missing son of Jonathan.

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