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Ancestry chart segment

  Generation 6            Generation 7
 
                      +-- Christophel Wimer
                      |     (1770-1842)
Jonathan Wimer -------+ 
  (1802-1881)         |
                      +-- Mary Sophia Snyder   
                           (1769-1842)
                   
                                  

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(all children with Ann Hockenberry)

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. There are also Wimer families headed by Mary Wimer and John Wimer on page 17.
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 blacks heep 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	N/A
8	Personal correspondence from Elizabeth Wilson Williams]	N/A

Source notes

• Earlier census are available, but shed no particular light on the family.
• This branch of the Wimer family connects to the Wilson family, 3 generations later. Peter Wimer (31 May 1841-30 Dec 1919) married (29 Sept 1859) to Eleanor Fisher (19 Jan 1843 - 24 May 1918); their son Ford Wimer (4 Dec 1885 - 7 Aug 1971) married A. Gertrude Leise (9 Nov 1892 - 4 June 1966); their son Charles W. Wimer (b. 18 May 1910) married Bernice Evelyn Wilson, daughter of James Garfield Wilson and Lorena Bernice Mayer.
  from p. 34 & 47 of The Wimer Family by Paul W. Myers.