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Rosannah ZENTMEYER

Female 1837 - 1868  (30 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Rosannah ZENTMEYER was born 2 Dec 1837, Warren Co., Ohio (daughter of David Wendel ZENTMEYER and Mary TERRY); died 16 Nov 1868, Warren Co., Ohio; was buried Nov 1868, Lebanon Cemetery, Turtle Creek Twp., Warren Co., Ohio.

    Rosannah married Alvin Lamden BONE 8 Mar 1866, Warren Co., Ohio. Alvin was born 30 Jun 1844; died 7 Feb 1911; was buried 1911, Lebanon Cemetery, Turtle Creek Twp., Warren Co., Ohio. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. Edgar Alvin BONE was born 1 Jan 1871, Warren, Ohio; died 16 Jan 1938, Warren, Ohio; was buried Blanchester IOOF Cemetery, Blanchester, Clinton, Ohio,.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  David Wendel ZENTMEYER was born 20 Feb 1802, Botetourt or Montgomery (son of Johannes ZENTMEYER and Barbary WINDLE); died 29 Nov 1884, Warren Co., Ohio; was buried Dec 1884, Fort Ancient Cemetery aka Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery, Turtlecreek Twp., Warren Co., Ohio.

    Notes:

    Possible additional child - T.J. Zentmeyer b. 1839; 1850 census living with David's brother Daniel Zentmeyer in Floyd Co., Virginia

    David was a Lutheran Minister

    Several original sources claim Johannes and Barbary moved from Cave Spring to Montgomery County near present-day Floyd in 1800, however the poem below claims the move was after 1802.

    1850 US Census in Turtlecreek, Warren, Ohio
    1870 US Census in Turtlecreek, Warren, Ohio
    1880 US Census in Lebanon, Warren, Ohio

    David married Mary TERRY 17 Jan 1832, Warren Co., Ohio. Mary (daughter of John TERRY and Osee CLARK) was born 23 Nov 1803, Turtle Creek, Warren Co., Ohio; died 19 Dec 1890, Warren Co., Ohio; was buried Fort Ancient Cemetery aka Bethel Baptist Cemetery, Turtlecreek Twp., Warren Co., Ohio. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Mary TERRY was born 23 Nov 1803, Turtle Creek, Warren Co., Ohio (daughter of John TERRY and Osee CLARK); died 19 Dec 1890, Warren Co., Ohio; was buried Fort Ancient Cemetery aka Bethel Baptist Cemetery, Turtlecreek Twp., Warren Co., Ohio.
    Children:
    1. Amanda ZENTMEYER was born 1832, Warren Co., Ohio; died 1859, Warren Co., Ohio; was buried 1859, Fort Ancient Cemetery aka Bethel Baptist Cemetery, Turtlecreek Twp., Warren Co., Ohio.
    2. Charlotte ZENTMEYER was born 1834, Warren Co., Ohio; died 1878, Warren Co., Ohio; was buried 1878, Ft Ancient Hilltop Cemetery aka Bethel Baptist, Turtle Creek Twp., Warren Co., Ohio.
    3. Mary J ZENTMEYER was born 1836, Warren Co., Ohio; died 1857, Warren Co., Ohio; was buried 1857, Ft Ancient Hilltop Cemetery aka Bethel Baptist, Turtle Creek Twp., Warren Co., Ohio.
    4. 1. Rosannah ZENTMEYER was born 2 Dec 1837, Warren Co., Ohio; died 16 Nov 1868, Warren Co., Ohio; was buried Nov 1868, Lebanon Cemetery, Turtle Creek Twp., Warren Co., Ohio.
    5. Sarah H. ZENTMEYER was born 1840, Warren Co., Ohio; died 1858, Warren Co., Ohio; was buried 1858, Ft Ancient Hilltop Cemetery aka Bethel Baptist, Turtle Creek Twp., Warren Co., Ohio.
    6. Melinda ZENTMEYER was born 26 Dec 1842, Warren Co., Ohio; died 6 Apr 1931, Oregonia, Warren, Ohio.
    7. Milton Wendel ZENTMEYER was born 24 Mar 1844, Freeport, Warren, Ohio; died 2 Aug 1929, Mazomanie, Dane, Wisconsin; was buried Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, Warren, Ohio - Plot: Corwin Addition.
    8. Louiza ZENTMEYER was born 1849, Warren Co., Ohio; died 1853, Warren Co., Ohio; was buried 1853, Ft Ancient Hilltop Cemetery aka Bethel Baptist, Turtle Creek Twp., Warren Co., Ohio.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Johannes ZENTMEYER was born Aug 1763, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania (son of Johann Bernhard ZENTMEYER and Catharina LNU); died 3 Sep 1844, Floyd Co., Virginia; was buried Sep 1844, Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Floyd Co., Virginia.

    Notes:

    Johannes Zentmeyer, grandson of Johann Bernhard Zentmeyer, emigrant ancestor of the Zentmeyers in the US. The surname was also recorded as 'Centmeyer,' 'Sentmeier,' 'C. Meyer,' 'C. Mayer,' 'St. Moyer,' and 'St. Mire.' Johannes married Barbary Windle about 1790. He was an early member of the Little River church, later renamed Zion Lutheran Church, which still stands in Floyd, Virginia. Rev. Robert J. Miller, a circuit preacher, wrote in 1813, "In the evening we went home with Mr. Zentmeyer, who appears to have a sense of divine things, and has a serious and promising family of children."

    Time Line:
    1763 baptized in Lancaster County
    1783 was granted Treasury Land Warrant for 135 acres in Montgomery County near present-day Floyd, on Oldfield Creek near Franklin Pike
    1789 married Barbary Windle in the Shenandoah Valley
    1792 daughter Elizabeth born
    1797 bought 40 acres from Jacob Miller in Montgomery County, Virginia, on Mudlick Creek near the present corner of McVitty Rd. and Old Cave Spring Rd., Cave Spring, Virginia.
    1799 son Daniel born
    1800 moved from Cave Spring to Montgomery County near present-day Floyd
    1801 daughter Catherine born
    1802 son David born
    1805 daughter Rebecca born
    1806 listed a Sponsor for baptism of Jacob Marchel and Sarah Krank
    1808 listed as Sponsor for baptism of Lydia Marchel
    1808 purchased 153 acres on south fork of Little River
    1809 listed as an Officer of Little River Church, predecessor to Zion Lutheran
    1809 unnamed daughter born who succumbed after one year
    1810 US Census in Christiansburg, Montgomery County as John Zentmeyer
    1812 135 acre Land Warrant property surveyed
    1815 purchased 18 acres on Oldfield Creek from David Howell
    1816 listed as Sponsor in baptism of Benjamin Herman
    1817 listed as Sponsor in baptism of John Williams
    1818 Cave Spring land was sold to John Hartman
    1820 US Census in Christiansburg, Montgomery County as John Zentmin
    1830 US Census in (La) Fayette, Montgomery County as John Zentmine
    1840 US Census in Floyd County as John Zeatriger (Floyd County was formed from Montgomery County in 1831)


    It is not clear why Johannes is listed in the 1810 and 1820 Census in Christiansburg, and in the 1830 Census in (La) Fayette. But there can be no doubt as to the identity of these three families, as the number and ages of the wife and children in the Censuses exactly match Johannes' family.

    Johannes married Barbary WINDLE Abt 1789, Shenandoah, Virginia. Barbary was born 29 Mar 1771, Dunmore Co., Virginia; died 2 Oct 1839, Floyd Co., Virginia; was buried Oct 1839, Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Floyd Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  Barbary WINDLE was born 29 Mar 1771, Dunmore Co., Virginia; died 2 Oct 1839, Floyd Co., Virginia; was buried Oct 1839, Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Floyd Co., Virginia.

    Notes:

    It was unclear to me as to why Barbary was named in the will of her husband Johannes Zentmeyer who died in 1844, as the date of death on her headstone was 1839, until I checked and found that the will was written in 1838.

    Children:
    1. Elizabeth ZENTMEYER was born 1792, Botetourt Co., Virginia; died Aft 1860, Floyd Co., Virginia.
    2. Daniel E ZENTMEYER was born 1799, Botetourt Co., Virginia; died 22 Jun 1865, Floyd Co., Virginia; was buried Jun 1865, Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Floyd Co., Virginia.
    3. Catherine ZENTMEYER was born 1801, Botetourt or Montgomery, Virginia.
    4. 2. David Wendel ZENTMEYER was born 20 Feb 1802, Botetourt or Montgomery; died 29 Nov 1884, Warren Co., Ohio; was buried Dec 1884, Fort Ancient Cemetery aka Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery, Turtlecreek Twp., Warren Co., Ohio.
    5. Rebecca ZENTMEYER was born 1805, Montgomery Co., Virginia; died 1853.
    6. Unnamed ZENTMEYER was born 4 Jun 1809, Montgomery Co., Virginia; died Jul 1809, Montgomery Co., Virginia.
    7. Mary R ZENTMEYER was born 1810, Montgomery Co., Virginia; died Abt 1860.
    8. John Newton ZENTMEYER was born 13 Jul 1812, Montgomery Co., Virginia; died 9 Mar 1892, Patrick Co., Virginia; was buried Abram Penn Farm Cemetery, Critz, Patrick, Virginia.

  3. 6.  John TERRY was born 15 Mar 1773, New Jersey; died 6 Jun 1857, Warren, Ohio.

    John married Osee CLARK Osee was born 5 Sep 1779, Pennsylvania; died 8 Jan 1869, Lebanon, Warren, Ohio. [Group Sheet]


  4. 7.  Osee CLARK was born 5 Sep 1779, Pennsylvania; died 8 Jan 1869, Lebanon, Warren, Ohio.
    Children:
    1. 3. Mary TERRY was born 23 Nov 1803, Turtle Creek, Warren Co., Ohio; died 19 Dec 1890, Warren Co., Ohio; was buried Fort Ancient Cemetery aka Bethel Baptist Cemetery, Turtlecreek Twp., Warren Co., Ohio.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Johann Bernhard ZENTMEYER was born 11 Mar 1740, Bischwiller, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France (son of Johann Bernhard ZENTMEYER and Maria Salome ROTH); died Abt 1820, Shenandoah Co., (now Warren Co.) Virginia; was buried Santmyer Cemetery, in an unmarked grave.

    Notes:

    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]


  2. 9.  Catharina LNU

    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.

    Children:
    1. Jacob SANTMYER was born Abt 1762, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died Abt 1816, Shenandoah Co., (now Warren Co.) Virginia.
    2. 4. Johannes ZENTMEYER was born Aug 1763, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died 3 Sep 1844, Floyd Co., Virginia; was buried Sep 1844, Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Floyd Co., Virginia.
    3. George ZENTMIRE was born 13 Sep 1769, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died 20 May 1836, Washington Twp., Warren Co., Ohio; was buried May 1836, Olive Branch Cemetery, Washington Twp., Warren Co., Ohio.


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