Family: WETZEL, Johann Martin / GEIST, Maria Barbara (F40238)

• Male WETZEL, Johann Martin

  
  

  Birth	6 Sep 1700	Goersdorf, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France	LDS Ordinances	Date	Place
  Christening			Baptized (LDS)
  Death	2 Aug 1760	Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA	Endowed (LDS)
  Burial	5 Aug 1760	Zirkle Family Cemetery, New Market, Shenandoah, Virginia, USA	Sealed P (LDS)
  Marriage	6 Jan 1720  [1, 2]	Goersdorf, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France  [1, 2]	Sealed S (LDS)
  Other Spouse	Wetzel, Eva mrs | F40270
  Marriage	Eva, 2nd wife, living at the time of, and mentione		Sealed S (LDS)
  Father	WETZEL, Johann Niklaus | F40250 Group Sheet
  Mother	MOTZ, Maria Barbara | F40250 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female GEIST, Maria Barbara

  
  

  Birth	1698	Preuschdorf, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France	LDS Ordinances	Date	Place
  Christening			Baptized (LDS)
  Death	1747	Hereford, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA	Endowed (LDS)
  Burial			Sealed P (LDS)
  Father	GEIST, Johannes Niklaus | F40254 Group Sheet
  Mother	FAURBACK, Anna Barbara | F40254 Group Sheet

  
  

  Male WETZEL, Johann Martin WHETZELL Capt

  
  

  Birth	15 Oct 1723	Switzerland	LDS Ordinances	Date	Place
  Baptism		Goersdorf, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France	Baptized (LDS)
  Death	19 Jun 1786	Captina Creek, Belmont, Ohio, USA	Endowed (LDS)
  Burial	Aft 19 Jun 1786	Graveyard Run, Marshall, West Virginia, USA	Sealed P (LDS)
  Spouse	Bonnett, Mary Catherine | F40239
  Marriage	1756	Rockingham County, Virginia, USA	Sealed S (LDS)

  
  

  Male Wetzel, Jacob

  
  

  Birth	1731	Baden-Württemberg, Germany	LDS Ordinances	Date	Place
  Christening			Baptized (LDS)
  Death	1787	Baker's Station, Marshall, West Virginia, USA	Endowed (LDS)
  Burial			Sealed P (LDS)
  Spouse	Bonnett, Mary | F40256
  Marriage			Sealed S (LDS)
  Spouse	Metz, Anna | F40257
  Marriage	1769	Pennsylvania, USA	Sealed S (LDS)

  
  

  Female Wetzel, Katherina

  
  

  Birth	1 Dec 1728	Goersdorf, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France	LDS Ordinances	Date	Place
  Baptism		Goersdorf, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France	Baptized (LDS)
  Death	Abt 1794		Endowed (LDS)
  Burial			Sealed P (LDS)
  Spouse	Ruble, George | F40263
  Marriage	1 Apr 1776		Sealed S (LDS)

  
  

  Male Wetzel, Georg Heinrich Whetzel

  
  

  Birth	1735	Chester, Pennsylvania, USA	LDS Ordinances	Date	Place
  Christening			Baptized (LDS)
  Death	1816	Brock's Gap, Rockingham, Virginia, USA	Endowed (LDS)
  Burial			Sealed P (LDS)
  Spouse	Weatherholtz, Sarah Catherine | F40213
  Marriage	1758	Pennsylvania, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA	Sealed S (LDS)

  
  

  Male Wetzel, Johann Martin

  
  

  Birth	6 Sep 1725	Hoffenheim, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	LDS Ordinances	Date	Place
  Baptism			Baptized (LDS)
  Death	5 Aug 1782	Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA	Endowed (LDS)
  Burial			Sealed P (LDS)
  Spouse	Crommerston, Maria Catharina Elizabeth | F40282
  Marriage	1743		Sealed S (LDS)

  
  

  Male WETZEL, Nicholas

  
  

  Birth	9 Feb 1726	Goersdorf, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France	LDS Ordinances	Date	Place
  Christening		Preuschdorf, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France	Baptized (LDS)
  Death	1800	Shenandoah County, Virginia, USA	Endowed (LDS)
  Burial			Sealed P (LDS)
  Spouse	BONNETT, Elizabeth | F40281
  Marriage	3 Apr 1749	Frederick County, Maryland, USA	Sealed S (LDS)

  
  

• Notes

  Married: Journey to America Added by JWPalmer57 on 24 Mar 2010 (Originally submitted by eztarget1) http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/16541724/person/394489210?ssrc=&ftm=1 Journey to America- Martin (Hans Martin) Wetzel came to America, arriving in Philadelphia, on Sept. 21, 1731, aboard the "Britannia" with his wife and 3 children. There were 264 Germans in the group, acccording to Toothman's document, "The Wetzels and Bonnets." The group was part of the Palatine Project, which relocated Germans and other Europeans. Hans Martin Wetzel is recorded as having married Maria Barbara Geist, daughter of Hans Nicklaus Geist, of Gerstorff, in Anne Kunseman Burgert's "18th Century Immigrants from the Northern Alsace," (name 552, p. 539.) More children were born to Martin Wetzel and Maria Barbara Geist, including John Wetzel, whose sons were Indian fighters. Zane Gray wrote about John Wetzel's son, Lewis Wetzel, in his books. ________________________________ Website: Paulser Whetsel & Sarah Dove hosted by Charles and Frances Whetsel http://webpages.charter.net/cwfw/index.htm#CNTC http://webpages.charter.net/cwfw/wc02/wc02_329.htm Hans Nichol (Nicklaus) WETZEL Maria Barbara MOTZ (MOTZIN) Hans Nichlaus GEIST m. 6 Jan 1720, Gerstorff, Germany Martin (Hans Martin) WETZEL Maria Barbara GEIST Hans Martin WETZEL: b. 6 Sep 1700, Preuschdorf (Bas-Rhin) France d. 2 Aug 1760, Frederick Co., Virginia edu. Hans Martin was probably unable to read and/or write in English, and signed his name with a distinctive "mark." Spouses: 1, 2 Maria Barbara GEIST WETZEL b. abt 1698, Preuschdorf (Bas- Rhin, ) France d. abt 1749, Frederick Co., Virginia Children Martin Wetzel Jr. Nicholas Wetzel Katharina Wetzel Maria Barbara Wetzel Henry (George Henry) Wetzel Captain John WETZEL Susanna Wetzel from website: Paulser was a descendant of Hans Martin (Martin) Wetzel and Maria Barbara Geist, who arrived in America, aboard the "Britannia," in 1731, from Preuschdorf, France. One of the sons of Martin Wetzel was John Wetzel, known as "Captain John." Captain John Wetzel & his sons were colorful, interesting characters from the days of the American frontier, the Indian uprisings, The American Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. To learn more about these Wetzels, go to the INDEX, and click on: Captain John Wetzel; Jacob Wetzel; and Lewis Wetzel. Martin Wetzel and his family were affiliated with the Lutheran Church, in Preuschdorf, and in Pennsylvania. For a picture of an 800 year old Lutheran Church in Preuschdorf, photographed by Donahue Bible, of Mohawk, Tennessee, in 1996, go to: http://webpages.charter.net/cwfw/Photographs/LutheranChurchPreuschdorf.jpg ___________________ Gerstorff, Germany- 3 choices in Germany- this is one of them- jcw 24.04.2011/Goersdorf, Hanau?Lichtenberg, Woerth, Alsace at the time residence jt: 20260123GHLn- exact parish where Nicholas would have been baptized, ????? Exact parish where Nicholas Wetzel was baptized You can pin this down with unusual precision because the Wetzel family in Alsace lived in a very small, well?documented Lutheran parish district. Here is the definitive answer. ? Nicholas Wetzel was baptized in the Lutheran parish of Goersdorf (Göersdorf), Bas?Rhin, Alsace. More specifically: ????? Parish Name Église Protestante de Goersdorf (Lutheran parish of Goersdorf) ????? Parish Jurisdiction (18th century) Goersdorf parish County of Hanau?Lichtenberg Bailiwick of Woerth Province of Alsace Holy Roman Empire ???? Parish Register Details The Wetzel baptisms—including Hans Martin (Nicholas’s father) and his siblings—appear in: Lutheran baptismal registers of Goersdorf Beginning in the late 1600s and continuing through the early 1700s These registers cover: Goersdorf Mitschdorf Langensoultzbach (occasionally) Nearby hamlets under the same pastorate Nicholas’s baptism would be in the Goersdorf Taufregister (baptism register) for the year of his birth. ???? Why this parish is certain 1. All known siblings of Hans Martin Wetzel were baptized in Goersdorf Every documented Wetzel child of the previous generation appears in the Goersdorf Lutheran books. 2. No Wetzel family appears in the Friedrichsthal parish registers before 1750 Friedrichsthal (Saarland) was a mining colony founded in 1723—too late for Hans Martin’s birth and too far west for the Alsatian Wetzel line. 3. The 1731 Britannia passenger cluster matches Alsatian Lutherans, not Saarland miners The surnames on the ship align with the Hanau?Lichtenberg Lutheran migration corridor, not the Saarland ironworks families. 4. Alsatian emigration summaries list Hans Martin Wetzel of Goersdorf These summaries explicitly place the family in Goersdorf prior to departure.

  
  

• Sources

  [S394] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online., Skinner/Schinzel-Ahlemeyer/Haines Tree J_Ahlemeyer. Record for Maria Barbara Geist [S1951] Whetsel, Charles & Frances, Paulser Whetsel and Sarah Dove, Paulser Whetsel & Sarah Dove. Website: Paulser Whetsel & Sarah Dove hosted by Charles and Frances Whetsel http://webpages.charter.net/cwfw/index.htm#CNTC http://webpages.charter.net/cwfw/wc02/wc02_329.htm 'unformatted text': Introduction This web site is devoted to the descendants & ancestors of Paulser Whetsel & Sarah Dove. Paulser & Sarah lived, for a time, on Bays Mt., in Sullivan Co., TN . They raised 9 children: James H. Whetsel; Martha R. Whetsel; Mary E. (Marietta) Whetsel, wife of James Ledbetter; John Whetsel; Susan Elizabeth Whetsel, wife of James Rowland, and later, Adam Brown; Sarah M. Whetsel; Solomon Whetsel, who married Abigale Crawford; and Conard William Whetsel, who married Nannie Catherine Davis. Sarah Dove's father, James Dove, was a veteran of the War of 1812. A monument stands at the grave site in Rockingham County, Virginia, honoring the service of James to his country. It can be seen at: http://webpages.charter.net/cwfw/Photographs/JamesDoveWarMarker.jpg Paulser Whetsel & his family lived in a log cabin, on Bays Mountain, where they depended upon the land for their existence. The cabin in the photo above, was the home of the Ledbetter family. Paulser's daughter married the Rev. James Ledbetter. The cabin has been moved and restored by a Ledbetter descendant. The photo is used with permission of the photographer and the Ledbetter family. A map showing the cabins on Bays Mt. is at: http://webpages.charter.net/cwfw/Photographs/WhetselCabinsBaysMt.jpg Paulser Whetsel's siser, Sarah (Sally) Wetzel/Whetsel, married Paulser Moyer. Sarah and Paulser Moyer's daughter, Catherine, married Captain James M. May, a Civil War soldier. Catherine and James May's son, Henry B. May, migrated from Virginia to Guatemala, where he was instrumental in the development of the Inter-continental railway. Henry Braxton May's descendants today, carry his name, Enrique (Henry) Braxton May. For more information on the May family, go to "May" in the index. Paulser was a descendant of Hans Martin (Martin) WETZEL and Maria Barbara GEIST, who arrived in America, aboard the "Britannia," in 1731, from Preuschdorf, France. One of the sons of Martin WETZEL was John WETZEL, known as "Captain John." Captain John WETZEL & his sons were colorful, interesting characters from the days of the American frontier, the Indian uprisings, The American Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. To learn more about these Wetzels, go to the INDEX, and click on: Captain John WETZEL; Jacob Wetzel; and Lewis Wetzel. Martin WETZEL and his family were affiliated with the Lutheran Church, in Preuschdorf, and in Pennsylvania. For a picture of an 800 year old Lutheran Church in Preuschdorf, photographed by Donahue Bible, of Mohawk, Tennessee, in 1996, go to: http://webpages.charter.net/cwfw/Photographs/LutheranChurchPreuschdorf.jpg Paulser Whetsel was the son of Martin Wetzel and Catherine Shaver. Catherine Shaver's grandfather, Balthasar Schaeffer, came to America aboard the "Loyal Judith" in 1742. For a visual history, of the Shaeffer/Shaver family, illustrated by Joan Shaver-Hill, and with permission of the artist, go to: http://webpages.charter.net/cwfw/Photographs/ShaverFamilyPhotosOne.jpg http://webpages.charter.net/cwfw/Photographs/ShaverFamilyPhotosTwo.jpg This page contains links to the following AREAS of the website: 1. HOME CARD- Home Card takes the viewer to the immediate family of Paulser Whetsel & Sarah Dove. Other members can be viewed by clicking any underlined name. Each person featured on the web site has a HOME CARD and a PERSON SHEET. The PERSON SHEET can be accessed by clicking on the person's name on the HOME Card, and contains additional information on the person and his or her family. 2. INDEX- The Index is a list of all persons included in this web site. From this page, individual records can be accessed, by clicking on the name of the person of interest. 3. SURNAME- A quick reference of all family names associated with this site. From this page, clicking on a surname will take you to the section of the INDEX, where individual names can be accessed. You will find pictures identifying some of the individual persons featured in this web site. Other images, including grouped photos, can be seen in the PHOTOGRAPHS DIRECTORY, found at: http://webpages.charter.net/cwfw/Photographs Hans Nichol (Nicklaus) WETZEL Maria Barbara MOTZ (MOTZIN) Hans Nichlaus GEIST m. 6 Jan 1720, Gerstorff, Germany Martin (Hans Martin) WETZEL Maria Barbara GEIST Hans Martin WETZEL: b. 6 Sep 1700, Preuschdorf (Bas-Rhin) France d. 2 Aug 1760, Frederick Co., Virginia edu. Hans Martin was probably unable to read and/or write in English, and signed his name with a distinctive "mark." Spouses: 1, 2 Maria Barbara GEIST WETZEL b. abt 1698, Preuschdorf (Bas- Rhin, ) France d. abt 1749, Frederick Co., Virginia Children Martin Wetzel Jr. Nicholas Wetzel Katharina Wetzel Maria Barbara Wetzel Henry (George Henry) Wetzel Captain John WETZEL Susanna Wetzel from website: Paulser was a descendant of Hans Martin (Martin) Wetzel and Maria Barbara Geist, who arrived in America, aboard the "Britannia," in 1731, from Preuschdorf, France. One of the sons of Martin Wetzel was John Wetzel, known as "Captain John." Captain John Wetzel & his sons were colorful, interesting characters from the days of the American frontier, the Indian uprisings, The American Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. To learn more about these Wetzels, go to the INDEX, and click on: Captain John Wetzel; Jacob Wetzel; and Lewis Wetzel. Martin Wetzel and his family were affiliated with the Lutheran Church, in Preuschdorf, and in Pennsylvania. For a picture of an 800 year old Lutheran Church in Preuschdorf, photographed by Donahue Bible, of Mohawk, Tennessee, in 1996, go to: http://webpages.charter.net/cwfw/Photographs/LutheranChurchPreuschdorf.jpg website, Paulser Whetsel & Sarah Dove