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In 1752, the same year the Wildermuths came to this country, the Wagners also came. But, they stopped off in Chester County for about 5 years after which they too went to Bern Township, Berks County Pa. Jacob Wagner was but a small boy when he arrived in this country with his parents in 1752. He died in 1786, while still a young man, leaving a widow, Catherine Wagner and 8 minor children, whose names were Phillip, Esther (who was the wife of Michael Fisher), Daniel, Elisabeth, Jacob Jr., John, Catherine and Margaret.
On the trip from Berks County, Pa. to Ohio in 1805, were William Wildermuth and family; Catherine Wagner and sons Daniel and Jacob and Elisabeth. Daniel Wagner was married and with him was his wife, Magdaline Groh Wagner and two daughters, Catherine and Mary Wagner. David Wildermuth, William Wildermuths eldest son was also married and with him were his wife and four children (His wife was Elisabeth Wagner, the daughter of Jacob and Catherine Wagner and the children that t ey had with them were Catherine, Elizabeth and Mary Ann Wildermuth, their oldest child, Samuel Wildermuth, having died in Pennsylvania.); the Bachers, formerly of Berks County Pa., but later of Fairfield County Ohio, must have come to Ohio with the Wagners and Wildermuths. For, just a couple years later Daniel Wildermuth was married to Catherine Bacher and Jacob Wagner was married to Barbara Bacher.
From here on the greater part of this sketch will be about David Wildermuth (who was the eldest son of William and Maria Barbara Ebeling Wildermuth) and his children. David Wildermuth and Elizabeth Wagner had two more children born in Ohio, David C and Rebecca Wildermuth. Elizabeth died in 1808, and in 1810 David Wildermuth married a widow with a couple of small children. She was Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper, and she and David were the parents of five children, Matilda, Henry, Eli, John, and Isaac. Elizabeth Cooper Wildermuth, died in 1834 and one year later, David Wildermuth married Miss Christina Havens. There were the parents of one child, Louisa Ann Wildermuth. David Wildermuth died in 1846, when Louisa Ann was but 10 years of age, and Christina Havens Wildermuth died 9 years later.
David Wildermuth was born March 27, 1774, in Bern township, Berks County, Pa; married to Elizabeth Wagner November 29, 1796. Their children were: Samuel, born November 23, 1797, died August 22,1799: Catherine, born October 17, 1799, married to Cyrus Newkirk. Have been told that she was the mother of 16 children, but we have the names of only 8 of them. Cyrus Newkirk and family emigrated from Ohio to Blanchardville, Wisconsin, where they were lead miners. Later they went to Lloyd County, Wisconsin, where they homesteaded. Their descendants are mostly in Wisconsin and California. Catherine Wildermuth Newkirk died November 8, 1882, and both she and Cyrus and some of their family are buried in the Wildermuth Family Cemetary on the old David C. Wildermuth farm near Lloyd, Wisconsin.
Elizabeth Wildermuth was born in Berks County, Pa., Aug. 28, 1801, came to Ohio with parents in 1805. Was married to William Cline, and had one son Samuel Cline.
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