Mary Wismer

A Brief History of Jacob Wismer and a Complete Genealogical Family Register With Biographies of His Descendants from the Earliest Available Records to the Present Time By A J Fretz, Eli Wismer

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Page xiii, 7, 8, 13, 19

I. Jacob Wismer, (...) was born in Germany about 1684, and died in Bedminster Township, Bucks Co., Pa., Feb. 4, 1787 in his one hundred and third year.

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The children of Jacob and Nanny Wismer, as near in the order of birth as could be placed were: ---Jacob, Mary, Elizabeth, Joseph, Henry, Mark, Daniel, John, Christian, Nanny, Abraham.

II. Jacob Wismer,* bn. in Bucks Co., Pa., about 1721. Mrd. Margaret ---. The dates of death of himself and wife are not known. He received his portion of his father's estate in 1783. Lived in Plumstead Twp. at what is known as the burnt mill, where he followed the occupation of miller. Children: Abraham, Isaac, Anna, Mary, Elizabeth, Jacob, Mary, Barbara, Hannah, Margaret.

III. Rev. Abraham Wismer, bn. in Bucks Co., Aug. 21, 1746. Mrd. ---. He was familiarly known as Abraham Wismer, the "long-beard." Children: Barbara, Margaret, Elizabeth, Hannah, Magdalena.

IV. Elizabeth Wismer, bn. —; died—. Mrd. Joseph Overholt,—. Children: Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, Martin, Joseph, Margaret.

V. Mary Overholt, bn. in 1804; died in 1889. Mrd. Abraham Beam. He died—. No issue. Mary mrd. second husband, Abraham Wismer. (See Index of References No. 5.)

A Brief History of Jacob Wismer and a Complete Genealogical Family Register With Biographies of His Descendants from the Earliest Available Records to the Present Time By A J Fretz, Eli Wismer

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IV. Abraham Wismer, bn. in Bucks Co., Nov. 30, 1791; died June 25, 1859. Mrd. Elizabeth Leatherman, Apr. 13, 1813. She was born Feb. 5, 1790; died Apr. 15, 1845. Children: Samuel, Esther, Jacob, Catharine:, Mary, Elizabeth, Abraham. For second wife Abraham mrd. Mary, daughter of Joseph Overholt, and widow of Abraham Bean, in 1847. She was born in 1804; died in Kent Co., Mich., in 1889. One child: Sarah.

He was the fourth owner and occupant of the Wismer homestead. During his early life he also distilled whiskey from apples on the farm. Thousands of bushels of apples were thus disposed of in the neighborhood. About 900 gallons of whiskey was the yield in a good season. This occupation so far carried on by every generation had its career ended by the subject of this sketch, who, from his earlier experience, and a full realization of the danger to, and demoralizing effects on the rising generation, could without the surrender of any convictions, abandon the heretofore popular "Still."

Mr. Wismer and wives were members of the Old Mennonite church at Deep Run, of which he was a deacon thirty years. During his term as deacon some stirring events took place ending in a division of the church. He was a popular man in the community, well read and posted in the ordinary business transactions of his day. Settling estates, clerking sales, writing wills and agreements, &c, occupied part of his time.