David ZENTMIRE

Notes:

"William H. Zentmire was born in Warren County, Ohio, September 1, 1844. His father, David Zentmire, was a native of the same state and was of German ancestry. The paternal grandfather served as a soldier in the War of 1812. David Zentmire was a carpenter by trade and followed that pursuit in early manhood, but afterward turned his attention to farming and became fairly well-to-do. His political allegiance was given to the Whig Party and he afterward supported the Republican Party. He married Diana Minick, who was born in Pennsylvania and was a member of the Quaker or Friends church. She represented one of the old Pennsylvania Dutch families. By her marriage she became the mother of the following named: Angeline, the wife of Robert J. Black, a retired farmer living in Chautauqua County, Kansas; Amanda, deceased; Samantha, who makes her home with her sister Angeline; William H.; Sylvester, deceased; Wilson, who is superintendent of the county infirmary of Mercer County, Illinois; Elizabeth, the wife of Hale McClure, a cattleman of North Dakota; George, a cattleman of Montana; Harry, who is engaged in farming near Big Mound, Iowa; Alice, the widow of Horace McLean, of Red Oak, Iowa; and Eva, the wife of Adam Hemingway and a resident of Red Oak, Iowa."

Source: 1907 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa
Pages 734 & 735

David married Mary MARDIS 1832, Warren, Ohio. [Group Sheet]

David married Dianna Amanda MINICK 26 May 1840, Warren Co., Ohio. Dianna was born 26 Apr 1820, Ohio; died 4 Jul 1869, Millersburg Twp., Mercer Co., Illinois; was buried Brick Cemetery, Joy, Mercer Co., Illinois. [Group Sheet]

1. Angeline ZENTMIRE was born 1 Oct 1840, Ohio; died 8 Mar 1925, Cedar Vale, Chautauqua, Kansas; was buried Round Mound Cemetery, Cedar Vale, Chautauqua, Kansas.
2. Amanda ZENTMIRE was born 1841, Ohio; died Bef1870.
3. Samantha ZENTMIRE was born 29 Mar 1843, Ohio; died 1 Jun 1910, Cedar Vale, Chautauqua, Kansas; was buried Round Mound Cemetery, Cedar Vale, Chautauqua, Kansas.
4. William Hamilton ZENTMIRE was born 01 Sep 1844, Warren Co., Ohio; died 16 Jan 1917, Oakland, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa; was buried Oaklawn Cemetery, Oakland, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa.
5. Charles Sylvester ZENTMIRE was born 1846, Ohio; died 09 Jun 1880, Lyons, Rice, Kansas; was buried Lyons Municipal Cemetery, Lyons, Rice, Kansas.
6. Wilson Porter ZENTMIRE was born 11 Sep 1847, Brown Co., Ohio; died 25 Feb 1917, Perryton Twp., Mercer Co., Illinois; was buried Aledo Cemetery, Aledo, Mercer, Illinois.
7. Mary Elizabeth ZENTMIRE was born 14 Dec 1849, Ohio; died 1 Dec 1916, Knierim, Calhoun, Iowa; was buried North Dakota.
8. David ZENTMIRE was born 21 Apr 1852; died 3 Sep 1853, Warren, Ohio; was buried Olive Branch Cemetery, Warren, Ohio.
9. George W ZENTMIRE was born 1854, Mercer, Illinois; died 21 Sep 1918, Thermopolis, Hot Springs Co, Wyoming; was buried Evergreen Cemetery, Lot #E228-6, Red Oak, Montgomery Co, Iowa.
10. Sarah Alice ZENTMIRE was born 30 Oct 1857, near Aledo, Mercer Co, Illinois; died 23 Oct 1930, Red Oak, Montgomery Co, Iowa; was buried Evergreen Cemetery, Lot #E228-4, Red Oak, Montgomery Co, Iowa.
11. James Harrison ZENTMIRE was born 17 May 1860, Aledo, Mercer, Illinois; died 26 Dec 1929, Ames, Story, Iowa; was buried Sharon Cemetery, Harrison Twp., Lee, Iowa.
12. Eva Ann ZENTMIRE was born 15 Sep 1863, near Aledo, Mercer Co., Illinois; died 18 Dec 1943, Red Oak, Montgomery Co., Iowa; was buried 20 Dec 1943, Evergreen Cemetery, Lot 228-3, Red Oak, Montgomery Co., Iowa.

Notes:

George's surname was also noted as Zentmyer, Sentmire, Zentmyre, Zentmeyer, St. Myer, Saintmyer

"The settlement at Mather's Mill, on the Miami, (Miami river, Ed) on the Lebanon & Wilmington road, was earlier than 1807, David Van Schoyck and Lewis Rees being there before that time. Lewis Rees built the mill in 1807, when it was disposed of to Richard Mather, who settled there the same year. George Zentmire settled the same year some distance below the mill, and built the dam for Mather. His cabin was by a spring below the mill. In addition to the mill Richard Mather set up a store and smith shop; he brought with him Jacob Ashmead and Richard Taylor as millers. Jacob Horn, a blacksmith; Jacob Longstreth, storekeeper; Samuel Couden, an Irishman; John Frazee and others came the same reason. George Zentmire was a Virginian (George lived in Virginia, but was born in Pennsylvania -Ed) of German descent, spoke the German language fluently and was a Revolutionary soldier. (actually, War of 1812 -Ed) George Zentmire purchased a farm on the river below Freeport, (Freeport was renamed Oregonia in 1882 -Ed) where he died May 20, 1836; his wife, Elizabeth Dunn, died February 18, 1854. Their family, four sons and four daughters, are scattered, one son, Rev. Samuel Zentmire, living at Morrow. The river at this time was amply stocked with fish; brush drags were made to be used as seines, and great quantities were obtained. Fifteen or more deer in one herd was a common sight. Many of the oldest inhabitants assert with great earnestness, that a fight with Indians on the Zentmire farm, and also a short distance above Freeport, took place sometime previous to the first settlement, but no direct evidence of such events can be obtained." --History of Warren County, Ohio, W. H. Beers Co., 1882.



Occupation - self described - "Plantation Owner"



George served in the War of 1812 in Joseph Curtis' Company of the Ohio Militia from 23 Feb 1814 to 23 Apr 1814 and was paid $16.00.



More information about George Zentmire can be found on the Ohio Valley page

George married Elizabeth DUNN 14 Mar 1797, Frederick Co., Virginia, married by Alexander Balmain. Elizabeth was born 9 Nov 1776, Virginia; died 18 Feb 1854, Warren Co., Ohio; was buried Feb 1854, Olive Branch Cemetery at Warren Co., Ohio. [Group Sheet]

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There is much additional material about Bernhard on the York Co. page.



There is a Bernhard Nicholas Santmyer b.1735 listed in FamilySearch IGI and elsewhere as the father of Jacob and George Zentmeyer, which we believe to be an unfortunate fabrication by a misguided LDS compiler, combining our ancestor Bernhard Zentmeyer b.1740 with another actual immigrant, Nicholas Sandmeier, who arrived on 9 Oct 1775 on the good ship King of Prussia. I have convinced FamilySearch to quarantine this record, although no one can remove it entirely except for its contributor, who will not respond to us. This bogus record also lists the surname of Bernhard's first wife as 'Luther,' for which we have found no evidence, see Catharina LNU, but unfortunately this fabricated 'Luther' record has generated entries on 60+ trees on Ancestry.com.

Johann married Catharina LNU Bef 1760. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

We do not have a surname for Bernhard's wife. She was identified as 'Catharina' both in the birth record for her son Johannes in 1763, and as a baptismal sponsor with Bernhard for Anna Margaretha Geister on 7 Aug 1760. This dates their wedding to around 1760 when Bernhard would have been twenty years old.

The surname 'Luther' has been put forth on the internet for her, with some claiming she was Maria Catharina Luther, born 1734 in Herbitzheim, Bas-Rhin, Alsace. This Maria Catharina Luther did in fact emigrate to Philadelphia, arriving with her parents on 15 Sep 1749 aboard a different Phoenix voyage, according to Strassburger-Hinke's Pennsylvania German Pioneers. But according to Annette Burgert's Eighteenth Century Emigrants, this Maria Catharina married Josiah Harper on 10 Sep 1763, only weeks after Johannes Zentmeyer was born, so she was not Bernhard's wife.

Others identify her as Catharina Elisabetha Luther baptized 8 Jan 1744 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. But the Kichenbücher (church records) reveal that this Catharina was married in 1765 in Frankfurt and died there in 1782.

The only place we have found the surname 'Luther' connected to Bernhard other than in Ancestry.com member trees is in the IGI on FamilySearch, where Bernhard is wrongly identified in a completely fictitious member-submitted tree as 'Bernhard Nicholas Santmyer, b. 1735' with a wife whose surname is 'Luther.' We believe this is the source of the 60+ Ancestry.com member trees which identify her as 'Luther.'

It is our suspicion that some Ancestry.com tree-makers took 'Catharina' from our website and combined it with 'Luther' in the IGI record. When you then search 'Catharina Luther,' online, the two individuals above can be found.

Anyone having any original source information for the Catharina's surname - family bibles, hand-written genealogies, anything - please contact me.

Gary Zentmyer

Notes:

The 1760 marriage date is from a birth record for Anna Margaretha Geister, which lists Bernhardt Zentmoyer and Catharina as sponsors.

Notes:

Bernhard was the Patriarch of the Zentmeyer/ Zentmyer/ Zentmire/ Santmyer/ Santmyers families in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and later into Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Nebraska.

There is a Bernhard Nicholas Santmyer listed in FamilySearch records and elsewhere as a member of this family, but he never actually existed, he is an unfortunate synthesis of several records by an unidentified compiler. I am working diligently with FamilySearch to remove this fabrication from the record.

Bernhard is also not related to Henricus Zentmaÿr of Brilon, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany, an actual person, who had been incorrectly linked to this family in good faith by Dorothy Zentmyer Jones

Penn Township was formed out of Warwick Township in 1846.

Johann married Maria Salome ROTH 16 Feb 1739, Bischwiller, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. Maria (daughter of Jacob ROTH and Catharina WALTHER) was born 16 Mar 1712, Bischwiller, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France; died 1774, Warwick Twp., (now Penn) Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; was buried Union (White Oak) Cemetery, Penryn, Penn Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

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Headstone Inscription:
(East Face) Here lies with God Salome Zentmeyer was buried in the year 1774
(West Face) Was 61 Years Old
Salome was born 16 Mar 1712 per church records (Kirchenbücher) in Bischwiller, so she must have died before March 1774.