My husband and I are researching the following surnames and families:
EAMES, HATHEWAY, KESNER, KNEPPER, LYNCH, MUNN, ONSTINE, PRIOR, SCHMIDT, WALLACE,WATKINS, WIESE AND WINSOR.
As of July 13, 2005, we have a Family Tree with over 15000 individuals. Please search for your kin here and please share yours with us too.
See the recently discovered generations of Johann Jobst Wiese. There are 359 individuals in this descendant report on Johann. His seventh great grandson, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Wiese b. about Dec. 28, 1808, married Anna Christine Horstmann, Oct. 12 1835 in Hahlen, Prussia. They came to America between 1851-1854 from Hahlen,(NW of Minden), Westfalen, Prussia (Germany)and settled in Frogtown, Clinton Co., IL, where Wilhelm was a farmer. This is a township of Breese, Clinton Co., IL. William and Christine Horstmann Wiese are responsible for the Wiese Family becoming Americans.
See the fourteen generations of 733 individuals in the descendant report on Nicholas Hathaway b. about 1595 in Kingscote, Gloucestershire, England. He was enumerated in Boston, MA in 1638 and in Taunton, MA in 1640 and in Braintree in 1643. He is considered by the Hathaway Family Association of America to be the progenitor of Hathaways in America. Our branch forward from Simeon Hatheway b. June 25, 1719, changed the spelling of the surname to Hatheway. Simeon fought with six of his sons in the Revolutionary War at the Battle of Bennington, and is buried in Bennington, VT. He was one of the 3 Bennington men who signed the warrant for the convention for the purpose of declaring the independence of VT.
See the fifteen generations of 821 individuals in the descendant report on Thomas Eames b. about 1525 in Dorsetshire, England. His grandson, Anthony Eames b. between 1592-1596 Dorsetshire, England, married Margery Pierce probably in St.George, Dorsetshire, England. Margery was born about 1599 probably in Dorsetshire, England and died in Marshfield, MA. Anthony Eames is listed among the passengers of the ship "Recovery of London", Gabriel Cornish, master, which sailed from the port of Weymouth to New England on March 16, 1633. They lived and died as Pilgrims in Marshfield, Plymouth, MA and many of their grandchildren married grandchildren of the Mayflower Pilgrims, such as Anthony N. Eames b. between 1633-1656 who married Mercy Sawyer, a greatgrandaughter of Richard Warren, The Pilgrim.
See the five generations of 100 individuals in the descendant report on George Frederich Schmidt b. June 21, 1854 in Neustadt, Bavaria, who came to the United States in 1871 at 17 years of age. He and his wife Dorothea Adelheid Weiss Schmidt farmed in Pendelton, MO but they moved to Redondo Beach, CA in 1907, where George died while attempting to adjust a belt on a fly-wheel at the Pacific Electric car barns on Camino Real on November 14, 1914.
See the ten generations of 587 individuals in the descendant report on Tilman Knepper, b.1627 Nordrhein,Westfalen,Germany. Wilhelmus Knepper b. 1691 in Nordrhein, m. Veronica Bloom/Bloem and on the 11th of September 1729 Wilhelm, Veronica, and possibly a son named Joshua (birthdate uncertain) set sail for Penn's Land (Pennsylvania) on the ship Allen. They are responsible for the Knepper family becoming Americans. The fifth great grandson of Tilman Knepper, James Sanks Knepper was b. about 1829 in Washington Co., MD. He was a shoemaker at the age of 21 in the 1850 Marion Co., IN census. He enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War on September 5, 1865. He died January 15, 1870, in Hendricks Co, IN and in buried in Ayres Cemetery.
We are awed by the achievements of our ancestors and proud to know of them and what was important to them in their daily lives. We hope to honor their lives with rememberance and to to sow an attitude of respectful caring in the lives of our own descendants for the hardships our forefathers endured because they cared. Let us know you visited!
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- Lorinda Collins and Amon Wallace (41 KB)
Lorinda Collins b. abt 1846 and Amon Wallace b. abt 1844. They married abt 1869 in Sioux City, IA.
- George Schmidt's Family in Redondo Beach, CA 1911 (345 KB)
From left to right: Rose, Mayme, "Frank" (George Schmidt Sr.), Dora (Dorothea), George Jr., and Alice. This picture was taken before Rose Schmidt was married. (Rose is Lynn Wiese's grandmother.)
- St. Martini Church of Minden, Germany (10 KB)
This is the Evangelical Church, St. Martini in Minden, Germany, where Heinrich Christian Wiese was christened on Oct. 2, 1842. Heinrich was the son of Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Wiese and Anna Christine Horstmann, who came to America from Prussia between 1851 and 1854.
- Rose E. Schmidt and Herbert Wiese (307 KB)
Picture taken just after they were married on June 10, 1912 in St. Louis, MO.
- Kesner/Knepper Family Photo (119 KB)
This picture was taken in Sloan, IA, probably in the late 1880’s. Back row: Molly Nichols (Mary Belle Kesner), John Thomas Knepper, Anna Knepper (Margaret Anna Kesner). Front Row: Jim Kesner, John Kesner, Dug, (perhaps Doug Nichols, Molly’s husband).
- Leanne Watkins Oglesby and Lynn Karl Wiese (72 KB)
Wedding Day December 27, 1969 Bakersfield, CA at the First Presbyterian Church
- Winsor/McElroy Sisters (28 KB)
From Left to Right: Jessie McElroy, Mary Frances Winsor, Sophia Ann Winsor.
- Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wiese and Wiese Family (119 KB)
Wedding Day September 11, 1999 at the First Presbyterian Church, Sunnyvale,CA. The family with them is from the Wiese side;from left to right: Row 1, Laurie Piner, Frank Piner, Lura Bangle, Kendra Miller, Issiah Miller Karin Bousquet, Warren Riopelle; Row 2 Mable Miller, Betty Mohr, Margaret Wiese, Joyce Oglesby; Row 3 Ed Bangle, Alan Mohr, Chris Miller, Pat Wiese, Lynn Wiese, Kelly Wiese, Jim Wiese, Leanne Wiese, Julie Sailor, John Bousquet, Vicki Bousquet, Jerry Watkins, Marsha Watkins; Row 4 Brian Sailor, Ken Miller, Jane Shoemaker, Charlie Shoemaker, Chad Shoemaker, John Wiese, Becky Watkins, John Miller, Jan Miller, and David Bousquet.
- Edward S. and Eunice Hathaway Family Camping Trip (116 KB)
Summer Camp Meeting 1892
E.S. Hatheway with beard, Eunice Prior, seated, son Ernan to the left, George Payne is seated holding hat, Elizabeth Bryant holding baby, baby in arms is Ernan G. b. 1891, boy on ground is Howard H., b. 1882, girl at far left is Clara, b. 1884, standing behind George is Ella Shry, b. 1875, seated to right of Elizabeth is Fannie
Elizabeth, b. 1880, standing to the left of Eunice is Edna, b. 1877, standing with hat on is Alice Eulalia,
b. 1878. George P. and Elizabeth's childern not yet born are Ellliot K., b. 1896, (father of John L. Hatheway) and Roberta, b. 1893. The picture title and date was noted by Grace L. Hatheway, wife of Elliott K. Hatheway, in the family scrapebook. The location where the picture was taken is not known.
These are the aunts, uncles, grand parents, and great grand parents of John L. Hatheway, b. 1930
- Mr. and Mrs. James Wiese (96 KB)
Wedding Day, September 11, 1999 Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church, Sunnyvale, CA
- Mary Frances Winsor Hatheway (18 KB)
Mary Frances Winsor Hatheway. This picture was taken in Sabula, Jackson Co., IA about 1870-1875.
- Mr. and Mrs. Brian Sailor (75 KB)
Julie and Brian's Wedding Day on September 26, 1998 at the Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church, Sunnyvale, CA.
- James Sank Knepper (67 KB)
James Sank Knepper Civil War Photo taken about Feb. 3, 1865. Age 36, Hazel Eyes, Light Complexion, Brown hair, 4 feet 11 1/2 inches tall. He enlisted as a private in the Union Army in Company A of the 148th regiment of the Indiana Infantry. "On the 18th it left for Nashville, Tn and was at once placed on duty. From that time until its muster-out, the regiment was kept constantly employed in doing guard and garrison duty in the interior of Middle TN. On the 5th of September, 1865, it was mustered out of service and proceded to Indiana, arriving at Indianapolis on the 8th with 36 officers and 784 men for final discharge."
- HATHAWAY FAMILY CREST (73 KB)
The hunting horn on the family crest is a replica of the horn atop the St. Braivels Castle in the Forest of Dean in Glouscestershire, England. The crest is a demi-lion, rampant gules, holding in the dexter paw a fleur-de-lis. The Arms, Sable. A bugle horn garnished argent. Motto: Nec prece nec pretio (neither by treaty nor bribery).
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