Historical note may have been submitted by Calvin Kephart, the historian., Weisel Family Association 1935 Reunion Program.

Weisel Family Association

Fourth Annual Reunion

All Related Branches

but Especially of the Descendants of

the Colonial Pioneers

George Michael and Susanna Weisel

1732

at Menlo Park, near Perkasie

Bucks County, Penna.

on Saturday, September 7, 1935

FOURTH ANNUAL REUNION APPROACHES

A heavy rainfall diminished to approximately 100 the attendance at the Third Annual Reunion last year, but a good time, good music, and profitable talks were nevertheless enjoyed by the faithful who braved the storm. Let us all come out for the Fourth Reunion on Saturday, September 7, and make it another occasion for congeniality of kinship and the renewal of family ties.

BEDFORD COUNTY (PA.) WEISELS

We should know more about those branches of the Bucks County Weisel stock that settled in other parts of the country, such as those who went to Bedford County, Pa., and to western Maryland shortly after 1800. Both had members who were prominent in their community and a credit to their ancestry. The data below relate to the Bedford County lines.

Among the nine children of George Weisel, a soldier of the Revolution, and Anna Mary (Weierbach) Weisel, representing the third generation in America, were (1) Jacob, born February 22, 1754, died April 12, 1839; (2) John (George), born April 5, 1758, died in December, 1844; (3) (John) Peter, born August 10, 1766, died November 6, 1851 ; and (4) John, born September 9, 1768, died December 25, 1864. All migrated to St. Clair twp., Bedford County, not far from Osterburg.

Jacob married Anna Maria (Silvius?), born August 4, 1783, died March 12, 1868, and had four daughters, (1) Mary, born January 9 1809, died August 28, 1875, wife of John Bradley (June 28, 1805-February 24, 1877), children Daniel, Edward, Catherine, and Mary; (2) Susanna, born October 28, 1810, died February 22, 1875, wife of Thomas Allison (February 22, 1807-July 3, 1886), child Robert W.; (3) Catherine (1814-1891) and (4) Sarah (1822-1890), unmarried.

John (George) married (1) Sarah (Pfeil?) and (2) Anna Barbara - and had by Sarah the following children (not necessarily in this order), (1) John (married - Hoover?), (2) David (to Somerset County, Pa.), (3) Abraham (married Elizabeth Mann), (4) James (married Mary Reimund), (5) Philip (married Mary Nycum), (6) Isaac (married Jane Dorsey), (7) Michael (unmarried), (8) Samuel (to Fort Wayne, Indiana), (9) Mary (married Jacob Mechtley), (10) Elizabeth (married Adam Bowers), and (11) Sarah (married a Mechtley).

(John) Peter was unmarried.

John married Margaret Schneider in Bucks County on September 29, 1796, as shown in the Tohickon church records, and their children were (1) Samuel, born 1797 (married Polly Fetters), (2) Jacob, born 1798, died 1839 (married Anna Maria ___), (3) Daniel, born 1801 (married Elizabeth Poff in Wayne County, Ohio, settled in Portland, Indiana), (4) John, born 1803 (married Rebecca Ronce), (5) Susan, born 1805 (married --- Prosser), (6 and 7) Mary and Hannah (died young), (8) Sarah born 1810 (married Daniel Fetters), (9) Rachel born 1812 (married Jacob Walters), ( 10) Rebecca, born 1815 (married John Fickes), (11) Josiah, born 1817 (married Amelia Heller), our secretary's line, and (12) Hester, born 1820 (married Fred Shimer).

John (George's) son John had a son Levi, who went to Ohio. His daughter Eliza married Joseph L. Dougherty.

His son Honorable Abraham Weisel, born December 31, 1801, was an early manager of Bedford Springs and was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1841-42. He was an elder in Friend's Cove Reformed Church. Children: Samuel, William, Margaret, Simon Peter, John, Hannah, George, Mary Jane, Henrietta, Abraham, Jr., and Joseph F. Abraham Jr., born February 14, 1844, married Malinda Hartman, and their children include William F., merchant at Bedford, and the late James Harold, a noted musician and composer at Pittsburgh.

Another son, Philip, and his wife Mary (Nycum) had children: Mary Matilda (married (1) Elias Diehl, children Jennie and William, and (2) Samuel Nicodemus, daughter Etta), Sarah Ellen (married John P. Reed, descendant of Montgomery County colonial Riedt family), William (unmarried), Emma (married Biven Middleton), and Henrietta (unmarried).

Another son, Isaac, and his wife Jane (Dorsey) lived near North Baltimore, Ohio. Descendants now reside at Los Angeles, Calif.

Margaret is listed as the 7th child of Daniel and Margaret and married to Jacob Roth (Rhode).

Riverview Cemetery, Williamsport, Washington County, Maryland (Riverview Cemetery records obtained from the Washington County Historical Society, Hagerstown, Maryland).

Weisel, Jacob b. 5 Aug. 1753; d. 31 Oct. 1812

Weisel, Margaret b. 16 Sep. 1773; d 28 Jul 1817

Weisel, Daniel, Sr. b. in Bucks County, PA 19 Apr. 1765; d 19 May 1825

Weisel, Mary 3rd d/o Daniel and Margaret Weisel b. 6 Dec. 1799, d. 4 Apr. 1846

Shoop, A. d 26 Feb. 1873 age 65 yr, 8 mo, 22 da

Shoop, Susan w/o A. Shoop d. 23 Jan 1907 age 93 yr, 3 mo, 12 da

Rhode, Jacob Jr., b. 2 Jul 1804, d. 9 May 1875

Rhode, Margaret w/o Jacob Rhode b. 5 Oct. 1807, d. 8 Mar. 1870

Weisel, Dr. Samuel b. 10 May 1810, d. 26 Jan. 1872

Weisel, Susan M. w/o Dr. Samuel Weisel d. 26 Dec. 1898 age 89 yr.

Weisel, Samuel L. s/o Dr. Samuel and Susan M. Weisel d. 9 Jan. age 36 yr.

Weisel, Dr. Edmund T. 2nd s/o Dr. Samuel and Susan M. Weisel b. 12 Oct. 1840,

d. 3 Mar. 1870

Weisel, Marion E. b. 28 Nov. 1844, d. 25 Feb. 1890