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George ST. MYERS

Male 1830 - 1875  (45 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  George ST. MYERS was born 1830, Ohio (son of John ZENTMIRE and Nellie SWORDS); died 21 Feb 1875, Indiana; was buried Williamsburg Cemetery, Wayne Co., Indiana.

    George married Eliza Ann STUDY 08 Apr 1852, Wayne Co, IN. Eliza was born 22 Oct 1833, Indiana; died 20 Dec 1881, Iniana; was buried Williamsburg Cemetery, Green Twp., Wayne Co., Indiana. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. Bertha ZENTMIRE

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  John ZENTMIRE was born 14 Jan 1799, Frederick Co., Virginia (son of George ZENTMIRE and Elizabeth DUNN); died 25 Aug 1870, Indiana; was buried Mt. Zion/Williamsburg Cemetery, Green Twp., Wayne Co., Indiana.

    John married Nellie SWORDS Bef.1830, Warren Co., Ohio. Nellie was born Tennessee; died Feb 1840. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Nellie SWORDS was born Tennessee; died Feb 1840.
    Children:
    1. 1. George ST. MYERS was born 1830, Ohio; died 21 Feb 1875, Indiana; was buried Williamsburg Cemetery, Wayne Co., Indiana.
    2. Barbara Ellen ST. MYRES was born 1832, Ohio; died 1849, Richmond, Wayne Co., Indiana.
    3. James ST. MYERS was born 22 Jun 1834, Warren, Trumball, Ohio; died 29 Apr 1913, Randolph, Ohio; was buried Mount Zion Cemetery, Winchester, Randolph, Indiana.
    4. David ST. MIRES was born 1836, Ohio; died 1913; was buried Williamsburg Cemetery, Green Twp., Wayne Co., Indiana.
    5. Samuel ST. MYER was born 25 Sep 1838, Green Twp., Wayne, Indiana; died 1926, Green Twp., Wayne, Indiana; was buried Williamsburg Cemetery, Williamsburg, Wayne, Indiana.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  George ZENTMIRE was born 13 Sep 1769, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania (son of Johann Bernhard ZENTMEYER and Catharina LNU); died 20 May 1836, Washington Twp., Warren Co., Ohio; was buried May 1836, Olive Branch Cemetery, Washington Twp., Warren Co., Ohio.

    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]


  2. 5.  Elizabeth DUNN was born 9 Nov 1776, Virginia; died 18 Feb 1854, Warren Co., Ohio; was buried Feb 1854, Olive Branch Cemetery at Warren Co., Ohio.
    Children:
    1. 2. John ZENTMIRE was born 14 Jan 1799, Frederick Co., Virginia; died 25 Aug 1870, Indiana; was buried Mt. Zion/Williamsburg Cemetery, Green Twp., Wayne Co., Indiana.
    2. Hannah ZENTMIRE was born 22 Sep 1799, Virginia; died 22 Sep 1870, Economy, Wayne Co., Indiana; was buried Economy Cemetery, Economy, Wayne, Indiana.
    3. James ZENTMIRE was born 28 Oct 1801, Virginia; died 28 Jan 1883, Bartholomew Co., Indiana; was buried Simmons Family Cemetery, Bartholomew Co., Indiana.
    4. Catherine ZENTMIRE was born 11 Feb 1805, Jefferson Co., Virginia (now West Virginia); died 6 Jun 1891, Old Saint Louis, Bartholomew, Indiana; was buried Old Saint Louis Cemetery, Old Saint Louis, Bartholomew, Indiana.
    5. Samuel ZENTMEYER was born 1808, Washington, Warren, Ohio; died 1895, Warren, Ohio; was buried Morrow Cemetery, Salem, Warren Co., Ohio.
    6. David ZENTMIRE was born 6 Mar 1810, Washington, Warren, Ohio; died 20 Feb 1870, Millersburg Twp, Mercer Co., Illinois; was buried Brick Cemetery, Joy, Mercer Co., Illinois.
    7. Rebecca ZENTMIRE was born 1814, Washington, Warren, Ohio; died 1914, Ohio.
    8. Elizabeth ZENTMIRE was born 1816, Washington, Warren, Ohio; died Oct 1847.
    9. George ZENTMIRE was born 4 Sep 1820, Washington, Warren, Ohio; died 17 May 1892, English Settlement, St Clair Co, Missouri; was buried Roscoe Cemetery, St. Clair Co., Missouri.
    10. Lucinda ZENTMIRE was born 21 Jun 1820, Washington, Warren, Ohio; died 24 Dec 1904, Hope, Bartholomew, Indiana; was buried Moravian Cemetery, Hope, Bartholomew, Indiana.


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. 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. 4. 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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