Hans Wagner

Note the two DAR Patriot links below: Two families have been merged.

The Daughters of the American Revolution designated Hans Waggoner (Wagner) DAR Ancestor Number A120042. (Reference the DAR GRS at dar.org. Membership is not required to access the Genealogical Research System: it is a free service.)

SAR Patriot #: P-311586

From Bill_3515 on ancestry.com:

The earliest mention in written records of a Waggoner in the Winston-Salem area was a John Wagoner. John was a chain carrier in 1753 of a land survey party. He may well be the Hans Wagner in whose deserted cabin the original colonizing party of Moravians stayed in 1753 near the future site of Bethabara. Hans anglicized his name to John Waggoner (Wagoner) for deed records. Hans was born in Germany c. 1720. Hans traveled to North Carolina where he built the cabin in which the Moravians stayed. He later built a new cabin and a mill on the Yadkin River sixteen miles west of Bethabara. Hans Wagner is mentioned several times in the Records of the Moravian Church.

In 1754 Hans and his family of four daughters moved to Fairfield County, South Carolina. By 1760 Hans had built Fort Waggoner on the Beaver Creek six miles above the Broad River. The Fort was built for the protection of his daughters from Indian raids in the Cherokee War (French and Indian). Among the descendants of Hans was a son, Isaac Waggoner, who moved back to North Carolina and would later emigrate to Illinois.

According to information in the Combined History of Shelby and Moultrie Counties, Illinois (Brink, McDonough & Co., Philadelphia, 1881), Isaac Waggoner was a native of South Carolina where he married Emsey Holeyfield. A few years after his marriage to Emsey, Isaac and his family relocated in Rutherford County in North Carolina. The family of Isaac left North Carolina in November of 1827, and in March of 1828 they settled in Whitley Township of Moultrie County, Illinois near Shelbyville in central Illinois.John G. Waggoner was a grandson of Isaac Waggoner and also an Elder in the Christian Church. He came from Shelbyville, Illinois to preach at the Christian Church in Pittsfield, Illinois from 1884 to 1887.

In what was a remarkable coincidence, while John G. Waggoner was preaching in Pittsfield, another John G. Waggoner (Great-grandfather John Green Waggoner) was farming four miles to the south and west in Martinsburg Township. The two John G. Waggoners had the same first name, middle initial and last name, which was spelled identically. Both had been born about the same time. The preacher was born in 1844, the farmer in 1850. Both were natives of central Illinois and both had Waggoner ancestors who had emigrated from North Carolina. It would be simple enough to assume that the two John G. Waggoners were related. Perhaps, the two John G.'s had even met and had come to that same conclusion. In the small rural area of Pittsfield in the 1880's, it would have been difficult for them to avoid meeting and remarking on their common name.

Hans Waggoner was married several times.

1) X X   

2) MARIE DELASHMETTE   

3) ELIZABETH JOHNSTONE   

4) X FAIR   

5) MARGARET X   

Marie Delashmette was the mother of his daughter, Mary, who married Samuel Mobley, DAR Ancestor Number A080887, Find A Grave Memorial 85641708.

Elizabeth Johnstone was the mother of at five of his children (not in order of birth):

1. Isaac married Emsey Holeyfield, daughter of William and Valentin Austin Holeyfield (Hollifield). 2. Susan married Thomas Camp, DAR Ancestor Number A018522 3. Margaret married George Halsey 4. Jean 5. Ann "Nancy" married Andrew McLean, DAR Ancestor Number A077927. [Nancy was a popular nickname for Ann as Polly was for Mary.]

Buried in Bethany Reformed Church Cemetery, Davidson Co., NC

source: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=anc...

There are conflicting listings of a Hans/John/Jacob Wagner/Waggoner all born ca. 1717 or 1727 in either Germany or Holland, all married to Marie DeLashmette amongst several wives. Here are links to RootsWeb.com listings:

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cuzz-alf...

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=msmnet&i...

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dave-har...

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=melissag...

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