Also known as John B Waggoner. The son of John Waggoner, Sr. (Revolutionary War hero and a Life Guard of George Washington) and Elizabeth Leach Waggoner.
John Waggoner Jr, second child and first son of John Waggoner Sr, and his wife, Elizabeth Leach Waggoner, was born in Frederick County, Maryland, January 15, 1790. He accompanied his parents in their migrations westward, first to Bedford County, PA in 1797, and to Perry County, Ohio in 1803.
Being the oldest son of the family, naturally much of the labor and responsibility incident to pioneer life on the Western frontier devolved upon him, assisting his parents in rearing a large family in the forests of Perry County, Ohio. He no doubt often listened to the narratives and stories told by his illustrious father relating his experiences in the American Army during the Revolutionary War, and when the Second War for American Independance, known as the War of 1812, came to an issue, we find the son filled with a desire to assist his country in this war as his father had served in the previous one.
In the "Roster of Ohio Soldiers who served in the War of 1812", we find his name as a private in various companies for periods of time from April 27, 1812, to January 11, 1815, serving under Captains George Gibson, Henry Ulney, Jeremiah Simms, Jacob Catterline, and Daniel Conner.
The name of "John Waggoner" appears on the rolls of the above companies at pages 11, 14, 16, 26, and 127, but may not always have been the same person, as we were not personally contacted by the Adjutant-General's office in the War Department at Washington, D C, to verify the records there as found in Volume One and Two of the "Records of the War of 1812". We know, however by tradition, that the subject of this sketch was enrolled as a private in this war, and that his enlistment was from some county in the vicinity of Perry County, as that county was not organized until 1818, and his enrollment would therefore be credited to some county other than Perry.
Return Jonathan Meigs was governor of Ohio at that time and on April 6, 1812, he received instructions from President James Madison, to assemble the militia at Dayton, Ohio, where the men were to be drilled and otherwise prepared for war, and all enrollments were to cease at the end of the month. Ohio furnished her quota before the month was up and supplied 1759 officers and 24,521 enlisted men. They left Dayton June 1, 1812, and many of them were not finally discharged until early in 1815, when the war was over. We also find the names of Jacob and David, twin brothers of John Jr, who were two years younger than John.
After the close of the war John Jr engaged in farming in Reading Township, Perry County, Ohio, and on January 16, 1816, was united in marriage with Mary Bowman; Philip Spohn, J P, Reading Township, officiating (Fairfield County Records, Volume One, Page 101). Mary Bowman was born April 7, 1798, at Lehigh Gap, Northamton County, PA; the daughter of Joseph and Magdalena
Seger Bowman. Her parents operated a tavern at Lehigh Gap, which was formerly owned and operated by his father, Barnhart Bowman, who was a lieutenant in his brother Henry Bowman's Company during the Revolutionary War. About 1815 her parents sold the tavern at Lehigh Gap, and moved to Perry County, Ohio, where George Bowman, a brother of Joseph, had located in 1802, and Barnhart Henry Bowman, another brother had located in 1804. In 1809, Barnhart had married Elizabeth "Betsey" Waggoner, the oldest sister of John Jr.
Mary Bowman Waggoner, wife of John Jr, was therefore a niece of Barnhart Henry Bowman, the husband of "Betsey" Waggoner, thus bringing the pioneer Bowman and Waggoner families into close relationship. George Bowman, above mentioned, a brother of Joseph, married Susannah Rugh, in Westmoreland County, PA, and emigrated to Perry County, Ohio in 1802 and their oldest daughter, Mary Bowman, born September 10, 1801, marriedGeorge L Overmeyer, May 16, 1816, just four months after the marriage of her first cousin, Mary Bowman, the daughter of Joseph; to John Waggoner Jr.
George L Overmeyer and Mary Bowman were the parents of twelve children, of which Barnhart B Overmeyer, the writer's father, was next to the youngest.
Mary Bowman Waggoner was also the mother of twelve children and the two families lived neighbors in Perry County and later in Sandusky County. Both were members of the Lutheran Church at the Four-Mile House, and both are buried in the cemetary there.
Mary, the daughter of Joseph and Magdalena Seger Bowman, was born April 7, 1798, and married the subject of this sketch, John Waggoner Jr. After the death of her father, Joseph, in September, 1822, her mother disposed of the farm in Reading Township, and purchased from the government on May 29, 1829, the East 1/2 of the Northeast 1/4 of Section Thirteen, consisting of 80 acres, in Washington Township, Sandusky County, Ohio; later known as the George Boyer farm, and located just west of the quarter section owned and occupied by her daughter, Mary Waggoner, and family. She died April 13, 1860, and her remains rest in a lot adjoining her daughter Mary and husband, John Waggoner Jr, while those of her husband, Joseph Bowman, are interred in Perry County, Ohio.
John Waggoner Jr and his wife Mary Bowman Waggoner, after their marriage in 1816, engaged in farming in Reading Township, Perry County, Ohio, and purchased lands, evidently intending to make their permanent home, but when the stories of the opening of the sale of government land in the "Black Swamp" area of Seneca and Sandusky Counties at $1.25 per acre became hearth-stone topic of conversation in every pioneer home in Perry County, and the fact that his sister, Nancy, and her husband, John Mackling, had purchased Pike Tracts Nos. 133 and 134 in Washington Township, Sandusky County as early as May 1, 1825, intending to locate there as soon as they could dispose of their lands in Perry County; and the further fact that his twin brothers, Jacob and David, had each entered land from the government in Seneca County, filled John Jr and his wife with a desire to sell their holdings in Perry County and locate in Sandusky County, Ohio.
On Christmas Day, 1827, they sold their land in Sections Twenty-eight and Twenty-nine in Reading Township to Nick Lyons.
His parents, John Sr and Elizabeth Leach Waggoner, at the same time sold lands in the same sections, which might indicate that they owned the tracts jointly, and at least two deeds of later date given by his parents in the sale of real estate bear the name of John Jr as a witness. One of these is under date of January 13, 1829, and the other March 28, 1829, and no doubt were executed just prior to the departure of John Jr and family for Sandusky County. On February 25, 1828, John Jr entered from the government the Northwest 1/4, Section Eighteen, Sandusky Township, containing 153.71 acres, and during the summer of 1829 they, with six or seven small children ranging from infancy to thirteen years of age, moved with team and wagon from Perry County to Sandusky County, Ohio, and settled in a log cabin on their quarter-section in Sandusky Township. This tract was adjacent to the three quarter-section tracts purchased by Michael and George L Overmeyer and Daniel Hensel SR, who entered them from the government in 1827. They moved from Perry
County in the autumn of that year and had cabins in the wilderness which they occupied when John Jr and his family arrived in 1829. The hardships endured by this pioneer family were not unlike those which all encountered and their coming to Sandusky County was no doubt the inspiration that
brought his parents to purchase the quarter-section to the north of theirs from Michael Overmeyer and locate there in 1830.
Magdalena Bowman, the widowed mother of Mary Bowman Waggoner, purchased eighty acres just west of the tract owned by John Jr, May 29, 1829. Solomon Waggoner, a brother of John Jr, purchased 240 acres in Section Two, Washington Township, May 28,1828. John Jr bought the Southeast 1/4 of Section Thirteen, Washington Townshi, 160 acres, July 15, 1829. This is located just south of the tract owned by his mother-in-law, Magdalena Bowman. John Jr also purchased 160 acres in the North 1/2 of Section Eleven, Washington Township, February 22, 1830, and February 17, 1834, he purchased 40 acres in Section Seven, lying just north of the original quarter-section he owned and occupied in Section Eighteen, Sandusky Township.
November 2, 1839, he purchased 80 acres in the Southeast 1/4, Section One, Washington Township. This was just south of the tract owned by his brother, Samuel. He also purchased 60 acres in the Southwest 1/4 of Section Six, Rice Township.
From the above brief record of the purchases of real estate by John Jr, from 1828 to 1839, amounting to 670 acres, it will be seen that he was quite active and prosperous after locating in Sandusky County. His homestead and place of residence, Section Eighteen, Sandusky Township, is known as the Samuel B Waggoner farm, and is still in the possession of the family (1940), while the tract in Section Eleven was transferred to his oldest son, Daniel; thence to Amos E, and is now owned by Clyde Waggoner, a great-grandson of John Jr.
The tracts in Section One, Washington Township, and Section Six, Rice Township, are now owned by Dr. Chester Waggoner, another great-grandson of John Jr. Thus it will be observed that nearly all of the lands owned by John Jr, and purchased by him from the government and previous owners, has descended for more than a century in the Waggoner family. The original family of John Jr and his wife, Mary, consisting of six or seven children when they located in Sandusky County, increased in number until 1842, when there were twelve children in the family; however, four of the older
children were married before the younger children of John Jr and Mary were born. One died in childhood, so the size of their family under the parental roof remained about the same during those years. The primative log cabin was replaced by a larger and more modern one and the brick house now occupying the site was erected by the son, Samuel B, after he acquired thehomestead farm from his brother, Jacob, in 1971.
John Jr, being the oldest son of John Sr, the common ancestor of the family in Ohio, and living on adjoining lands they owned respectively, naturally made him the main help and advisor to his father during his declining years and after the death of his father, December 15, 1842, it was found that his father in his will had named John Jr and David Engler, a neighbor, as executors of his estate.
The settlement of this estate was in every instance signed by John Jr, with his "mark" or "cross" only, which would indicate that he had very few or no educational advantages in his youth in the frontier settlements of western Pennsylvania and Perry County, Ohio. David Engler Sr, who came to Sandusky County from Frederick County, Maryland, the original home of John Sr, and perhaps knew the family in that state, apparently did the clerical work necessary in administering the estate of John Sr. John Jr only survived the death of his father about five years and passed to his reward November 7, 1847, aged 57. His widow, Mary Bowman Waggoner, continued to reside on the homestead farm in Section Eighteen until her death, twenty-six years after the death of her husband, She died November 2, 1873, aged 75 years, and her remains were interred in the Four-Mile Cemetary, beside those of her husband and her mother, Magdalena Bowman. A suitable and imposing monument marks their last resting place. The inscription for John Jr, however reads "John
Sr",which no doubt was made to distinguish him from his son, John, with no thought of his own father as "John Sr". The remains of John Sr at that time were resting in the Bowles Cemetary in Section Twenty-nine, Sandusky Township, and were not removed to the Four-Mile Cemetary until about 1900 or 1901.
John Jr and his family were members of the Lutheran Church and were among the pioneer members in that organization of the Lutheran congragation at the Four-Mile House, now known as the Salem congregation. The congregation was organized by Rev. A A Conrad as early as 1835, but the Constitution and By-Laws were not written and adopted until 1839. The first Confirmation Class consisting of twenty-one members was confirmed April 27 and 28, 1839, by Rev. Conrad and the four eldest of the twelve children born to John Jr and his wife, Mary Bowman, were members of this class, viz: Daniel, Salome, John B, and Nancy; although Salome was married in 1836 and her name as a member of this class is given as Salome Reed. Elizabeth and Harriet Waggoner were also members of the class, but they were daughters of Solomon and Elizabeth Stockberger Waggoner.
The sons and daughters of John Jr and Mary Bowman Waggoner grew to maturity and married into the pioneer families in the community and with their descendants form one of the principal and perhaps the largest chapter in the History of the Wagner-Waggoner-Wagoner Family. They were a thrifty, honest, industrious God-fearing people, with large families as a rule, and their descendants form a very important part of the community where this pioneer couple established a home in the unbroken forest of the "Black Swamp" 110 years ago, while others have gone into various walks of life into remote parts of the country.
Their descendants today are legion who can reflect over the deeds and accomplishments of their forebears with just and enviable pride to be able to trace their lineage to John Waggoner Jr, and his wife, Mary Bowman Waggoner, whose life-span over a period of about eighty-three years, from
January 15, 1790 to November 2, 1873, as briefly set forth in these pages, should be an inspiration to those now living and worthy of emulation by generations yet unborn.
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Author: Clark R. Wagner, 1941, Arlington, Ohio, Advertiser Press, Printers, Tiffin, Ohio, Page 116, 119
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John Waggoner Jr, second child and first son of John Waggoner Sr, and his wife, Elizabeth Leach Waggoner, was born in Frederick County, Maryland, January 15, 1790. He accompanied his parents in their migrations westward, first to Bedford County, PA in 1797, and to Perry County, Ohio in 1803.
Being the oldest son of the family, naturally much of the labor and responsibility incident to pioneer life on the Western frontier devolved upon him, assisting his parents in rearing a large family in the forests of Perry County, Ohio. He no doubt often listened to the narratives and stories told by his illustrious father relating his experiences in the American Army during the Revolutionary War, and when the Second War for American Independance, known as the War of 1812, came to an issue, we find the son filled with a desire to assist his country in this war as his father had served in the previous one.
In the "Roster of Ohio Soldiers who served in the War of 1812", we find his name as a private in various companies for periods of time from April 27, 1812, to January 11, 1815, serving under Captains George Gibson, Henry Ulney, Jeremiah Simms, Jacob Catterline, and Daniel Conner.
The name of "John Waggoner" appears on the rolls of the above companies at pages 11, 14, 16, 26, and 127, but may not always have been the same person, as we were not personally contacted by the Adjutant-General's office in the War Department at Washington, D C, to verify the records there as found in Volume One and Two of the "Records of the War of 1812". We know, however by tradition, that the subject of this sketch was enrolled as a private in this war, and that his enlistment was from some county in the vicinity of Perry County, as that county was not organized until 1818, and his enrollment would therefore be credited to some county other than Perry.
Return Jonathan Meigs was governor of Ohio at that time and on April 6, 1812, he received instructions from President James Madison, to assemble the militia at Dayton, Ohio, where the men were to be drilled and otherwise prepared for war, and all enrollments were to cease at the end of the month. Ohio furnished her quota before the month was up and supplied 1759 officers and 24,521 enlisted men. They left Dayton June 1, 1812, and many of them were not finally discharged until early in 1815, when the war was over. We also find the names of Jacob and David, twin brothers of John Jr, who were two years younger than John.
After the close of the war John Jr engaged in farming in Reading Township, Perry County, Ohio, and on January 16, 1816, was united in marriage with Mary Bowman; Philip Spohn, J P, Reading Township, officiating (Fairfield County Records, Volume One, Page 101). Mary Bowman was born April 7, 1798, at Lehigh Gap, Northamton County, PA; the daughter of Joseph and Magdalena
Seger Bowman. Her parents operated a tavern at Lehigh Gap, which was formerly owned and operated by his father, Barnhart Bowman, who was a lieutenant in his brother Henry Bowman's Company during the Revolutionary War. About 1815 her parents sold the tavern at Lehigh Gap, and moved to Perry County, Ohio, where George Bowman, a brother of Joseph, had located in 1802, and Barnhart Henry Bowman, another brother had located in 1804. In 1809, Barnhart had married Elizabeth "Betsey" Waggoner, the oldest sister of John Jr.
Mary Bowman Waggoner, wife of John Jr, was therefore a niece of Barnhart Henry Bowman, the husband of "Betsey" Waggoner, thus bringing the pioneer Bowman and Waggoner families into close relationship. George Bowman, above mentioned, a brother of Joseph, married Susannah Rugh, in Westmoreland County, PA, and emigrated to Perry County, Ohio in 1802 and their oldest daughter, Mary Bowman, born September 10, 1801, marriedGeorge L Overmeyer, May 16, 1816, just four months after the marriage of her first cousin, Mary Bowman, the daughter of Joseph; to John Waggoner Jr.
George L Overmeyer and Mary Bowman were the parents of twelve children, of which Barnhart B Overmeyer, the writer's father, was next to the youngest.
Mary Bowman Waggoner was also the mother of twelve children and the two families lived neighbors in Perry County and later in Sandusky County. Both were members of the Lutheran Church at the Four-Mile House, and both are buried in the cemetary there.
Mary, the daughter of Joseph and Magdalena Seger Bowman, was born April 7, 1798, and married the subject of this sketch, John Waggoner Jr. After the death of her father, Joseph, in September, 1822, her mother disposed of the farm in Reading Township, and purchased from the government on May 29, 1829, the East 1/2 of the Northeast 1/4 of Section Thirteen, consisting of 80 acres, in Washington Township, Sandusky County, Ohio; later known as the George Boyer farm, and located just west of the quarter section owned and occupied by her daughter, Mary Waggoner, and family. She died April 13, 1860, and her remains rest in a lot adjoining her daughter Mary and husband, John Waggoner Jr, while those of her husband, Joseph Bowman, are interred in Perry County, Ohio.
John Waggoner Jr and his wife Mary Bowman Waggoner, after their marriage in 1816, engaged in farming in Reading Township, Perry County, Ohio, and purchased lands, evidently intending to make their permanent home, but when the stories of the opening of the sale of government land in the "Black Swamp" area of Seneca and Sandusky Counties at $1.25 per acre became hearth-stone topic of conversation in every pioneer home in Perry County, and the fact that his sister, Nancy, and her husband, John Mackling, had purchased Pike Tracts Nos. 133 and 134 in Washington Township, Sandusky County as early as May 1, 1825, intending to locate there as soon as they could dispose of their lands in Perry County; and the further fact that his twin brothers, Jacob and David, had each entered land from the government in Seneca County, filled John Jr and his wife with a desire to sell their holdings in Perry County and locate in Sandusky County, Ohio.
On Christmas Day, 1827, they sold their land in Sections Twenty-eight and Twenty-nine in Reading Township to Nick Lyons.
His parents, John Sr and Elizabeth Leach Waggoner, at the same time sold lands in the same sections, which might indicate that they owned the tracts jointly, and at least two deeds of later date given by his parents in the sale of real estate bear the name of John Jr as a witness. One of these is under date of January 13, 1829, and the other March 28, 1829, and no doubt were executed just prior to the departure of John Jr and family for Sandusky County. On February 25, 1828, John Jr entered from the government the Northwest 1/4, Section Eighteen, Sandusky Township, containing 153.71 acres, and during the summer of 1829 they, with six or seven small children ranging from infancy to thirteen years of age, moved with team and wagon from Perry County to Sandusky County, Ohio, and settled in a log cabin on their quarter-section in Sandusky Township. This tract was adjacent to the three quarter-section tracts purchased by Michael and George L Overmeyer and Daniel Hensel SR, who entered them from the government in 1827. They moved from Perry
County in the autumn of that year and had cabins in the wilderness which they occupied when John Jr and his family arrived in 1829. The hardships endured by this pioneer family were not unlike those which all encountered and their coming to Sandusky County was no doubt the inspiration that
brought his parents to purchase the quarter-section to the north of theirs from Michael Overmeyer and locate there in 1830.
Magdalena Bowman, the widowed mother of Mary Bowman Waggoner, purchased eighty acres just west of the tract owned by John Jr, May 29, 1829. Solomon Waggoner, a brother of John Jr, purchased 240 acres in Section Two, Washington Township, May 28,1828. John Jr bought the Southeast 1/4 of Section Thirteen, Washington Townshi, 160 acres, July 15, 1829. This is located just south of the tract owned by his mother-in-law, Magdalena Bowman. John Jr also purchased 160 acres in the North 1/2 of Section Eleven, Washington Township, February 22, 1830, and February 17, 1834, he purchased 40 acres in Section Seven, lying just north of the original quarter-section he owned and occupied in Section Eighteen, Sandusky Township.
November 2, 1839, he purchased 80 acres in the Southeast 1/4, Section One, Washington Township. This was just south of the tract owned by his brother, Samuel. He also purchased 60 acres in the Southwest 1/4 of Section Six, Rice Township.
From the above brief record of the purchases of real estate by John Jr, from 1828 to 1839, amounting to 670 acres, it will be seen that he was quite active and prosperous after locating in Sandusky County. His homestead and place of residence, Section Eighteen, Sandusky Township, is known as the Samuel B Waggoner farm, and is still in the possession of the family (1940), while the tract in Section Eleven was transferred to his oldest son, Daniel; thence to Amos E, and is now owned by Clyde Waggoner, a great-grandson of John Jr.
The tracts in Section One, Washington Township, and Section Six, Rice Township, are now owned by Dr. Chester Waggoner, another great-grandson of John Jr. Thus it will be observed that nearly all of the lands owned by John Jr, and purchased by him from the government and previous owners, has descended for more than a century in the Waggoner family. The original family of John Jr and his wife, Mary, consisting of six or seven children when they located in Sandusky County, increased in number until 1842, when there were twelve children in the family; however, four of the older
children were married before the younger children of John Jr and Mary were born. One died in childhood, so the size of their family under the parental roof remained about the same during those years. The primative log cabin was replaced by a larger and more modern one and the brick house now occupying the site was erected by the son, Samuel B, after he acquired thehomestead farm from his brother, Jacob, in 1971.
John Jr, being the oldest son of John Sr, the common ancestor of the family in Ohio, and living on adjoining lands they owned respectively, naturally made him the main help and advisor to his father during his declining years and after the death of his father, December 15, 1842, it was found that his father in his will had named John Jr and David Engler, a neighbor, as executors of his estate.
The settlement of this estate was in every instance signed by John Jr, with his "mark" or "cross" only, which would indicate that he had very few or no educational advantages in his youth in the frontier settlements of western Pennsylvania and Perry County, Ohio. David Engler Sr, who came to Sandusky County from Frederick County, Maryland, the original home of John Sr, and perhaps knew the family in that state, apparently did the clerical work necessary in administering the estate of John Sr. John Jr only survived the death of his father about five years and passed to his reward November 7, 1847, aged 57. His widow, Mary Bowman Waggoner, continued to reside on the homestead farm in Section Eighteen until her death, twenty-six years after the death of her husband, She died November 2, 1873, aged 75 years, and her remains were interred in the Four-Mile Cemetary, beside those of her husband and her mother, Magdalena Bowman. A suitable and imposing monument marks their last resting place. The inscription for John Jr, however reads "John
Sr",which no doubt was made to distinguish him from his son, John, with no thought of his own father as "John Sr". The remains of John Sr at that time were resting in the Bowles Cemetary in Section Twenty-nine, Sandusky Township, and were not removed to the Four-Mile Cemetary until about 1900 or 1901.
John Jr and his family were members of the Lutheran Church and were among the pioneer members in that organization of the Lutheran congragation at the Four-Mile House, now known as the Salem congregation. The congregation was organized by Rev. A A Conrad as early as 1835, but the Constitution and By-Laws were not written and adopted until 1839. The first Confirmation Class consisting of twenty-one members was confirmed April 27 and 28, 1839, by Rev. Conrad and the four eldest of the twelve children born to John Jr and his wife, Mary Bowman, were members of this class, viz: Daniel, Salome, John B, and Nancy; although Salome was married in 1836 and her name as a member of this class is given as Salome Reed. Elizabeth and Harriet Waggoner were also members of the class, but they were daughters of Solomon and Elizabeth Stockberger Waggoner.
The sons and daughters of John Jr and Mary Bowman Waggoner grew to maturity and married into the pioneer families in the community and with their descendants form one of the principal and perhaps the largest chapter in the History of the Wagner-Waggoner-Wagoner Family. They were a thrifty, honest, industrious God-fearing people, with large families as a rule, and their descendants form a very important part of the community where this pioneer couple established a home in the unbroken forest of the "Black Swamp" 110 years ago, while others have gone into various walks of life into remote parts of the country.
Their descendants today are legion who can reflect over the deeds and accomplishments of their forebears with just and enviable pride to be able to trace their lineage to John Waggoner Jr, and his wife, Mary Bowman Waggoner, whose life-span over a period of about eighty-three years, from
January 15, 1790 to November 2, 1873, as briefly set forth in these pages, should be an inspiration to those now living and worthy of emulation by generations yet unborn.
History and Genealogy of the Wagner-Waggoner-Wagoner Family
Author: Clark R. Wagner, 1941, Arlington, Ohio, Advertiser Press, Printers, Tiffin, Ohio, Page 116, 119
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Also known as John B Waggoner. The son of John Waggoner, Sr. (Revolutionary War hero and a Life Guard of George Washington) and Elizabeth Leach Waggoner.
John Waggoner Jr, second child and first son of John Waggoner Sr, and his wife, Elizabeth Leach Waggoner, was born in Frederick County, Maryland, January 15, 1790. He accompanied his parents in their migrations westward, first to Bedford County, PA in 1797, and to Perry County, Ohio in 1803.
Being the oldest son of the family, naturally much of the labor and responsibility incident to pioneer life on the Western frontier devolved upon him, assisting his parents in rearing a large family in the forests of Perry County, Ohio. He no doubt often listened to the narratives and stories told by his illustrious father relating his experiences in the American Army during the Revolutionary War, and when the Second War for American Independance, known as the War of 1812, came to an issue, we find the son filled with a desire to assist his country in this war as his father had served in the previous one.
In the "Roster of Ohio Soldiers who served in the War of 1812", we find his name as a private in various companies for periods of time from April 27, 1812, to January 11, 1815, serving under Captains George Gibson, Henry Ulney, Jeremiah Simms, Jacob Catterline, and Daniel Conner.
The name of "John Waggoner" appears on the rolls of the above companies at pages 11, 14, 16, 26, and 127, but may not always have been the same person, as we were not personally contacted by the Adjutant-General's office in the War Department at Washington, D C, to verify the records there as found in Volume One and Two of the "Records of the War of 1812". We know, however by tradition, that the subject of this sketch was enrolled as a private in this war, and that his enlistment was from some county in the vicinity of Perry County, as that county was not organized until 1818, and his enrollment would therefore be credited to some county other than Perry.
Return Jonathan Meigs was governor of Ohio at that time and on April 6, 1812, he received instructions from President James Madison, to assemble the militia at Dayton, Ohio, where the men were to be drilled and otherwise prepared for war, and all enrollments were to cease at the end of the month. Ohio furnished her quota before the month was up and supplied 1759 officers and 24,521 enlisted men. They left Dayton June 1, 1812, and many of them were not finally discharged until early in 1815, when the war was over. We also find the names of Jacob and David, twin brothers of John Jr, who were two years younger than John.
After the close of the war John Jr engaged in farming in Reading Township, Perry County, Ohio, and on January 16, 1816, was united in marriage with Mary Bowman; Philip Spohn, J P, Reading Township, officiating (Fairfield County Records, Volume One, Page 101). Mary Bowman was born April 7, 1798, at Lehigh Gap, Northamton County, PA; the daughter of Joseph and Magdalena
Seger Bowman. Her parents operated a tavern at Lehigh Gap, which was formerly owned and operated by his father, Barnhart Bowman, who was a lieutenant in his brother Henry Bowman's Company during the Revolutionary War. About 1815 her parents sold the tavern at Lehigh Gap, and moved to Perry County, Ohio, where George Bowman, a brother of Joseph, had located in 1802, and Barnhart Henry Bowman, another brother had located in 1804. In 1809, Barnhart had married Elizabeth "Betsey" Waggoner, the oldest sister of John Jr.
Mary Bowman Waggoner, wife of John Jr, was therefore a niece of Barnhart Henry Bowman, the husband of "Betsey" Waggoner, thus bringing the pioneer Bowman and Waggoner families into close relationship. George Bowman, above mentioned, a brother of Joseph, married Susannah Rugh, in Westmoreland County, PA, and emigrated to Perry County, Ohio in 1802 and their oldest daughter, Mary Bowman, born September 10, 1801, marriedGeorge L Overmeyer, May 16, 1816, just four months after the marriage of her first cousin, Mary Bowman, the daughter of Joseph; to John Waggoner Jr.
George L Overmeyer and Mary Bowman were the parents of twelve children, of which Barnhart B Overmeyer, the writer's father, was next to the youngest.
Mary Bowman Waggoner was also the mother of twelve children and the two families lived neighbors in Perry County and later in Sandusky County. Both were members of the Lutheran Church at the Four-Mile House, and both are buried in the cemetary there.
Mary, the daughter of Joseph and Magdalena Seger Bowman, was born April 7, 1798, and married the subject of this sketch, John Waggoner Jr. After the death of her father, Joseph, in September, 1822, her mother disposed of the farm in Reading Township, and purchased from the government on May 29, 1829, the East 1/2 of the Northeast 1/4 of Section Thirteen, consisting of 80 acres, in Washington Township, Sandusky County, Ohio; later known as the George Boyer farm, and located just west of the quarter section owned and occupied by her daughter, Mary Waggoner, and family. She died April 13, 1860, and her remains rest in a lot adjoining her daughter Mary and husband, John Waggoner Jr, while those of her husband, Joseph Bowman, are interred in Perry County, Ohio.
John Waggoner Jr and his wife Mary Bowman Waggoner, after their marriage in 1816, engaged in farming in Reading Township, Perry County, Ohio, and purchased lands, evidently intending to make their permanent home, but when the stories of the opening of the sale of government land in the "Black Swamp" area of Seneca and Sandusky Counties at $1.25 per acre became hearth-stone topic of conversation in every pioneer home in Perry County, and the fact that his sister, Nancy, and her husband, John Mackling, had purchased Pike Tracts Nos. 133 and 134 in Washington Township, Sandusky County as early as May 1, 1825, intending to locate there as soon as they could dispose of their lands in Perry County; and the further fact that his twin brothers, Jacob and David, had each entered land from the government in Seneca County, filled John Jr and his wife with a desire to sell their holdings in Perry County and locate in Sandusky County, Ohio.
On Christmas Day, 1827, they sold their land in Sections Twenty-eight and Twenty-nine in Reading Township to Nick Lyons.
His parents, John Sr and Elizabeth Leach Waggoner, at the same time sold lands in the same sections, which might indicate that they owned the tracts jointly, and at least two deeds of later date given by his parents in the sale of real estate bear the name of John Jr as a witness. One of these is under date of January 13, 1829, and the other March 28, 1829, and no doubt were executed just prior to the departure of John Jr and family for Sandusky County. On February 25, 1828, John Jr entered from the government the Northwest 1/4, Section Eighteen, Sandusky Township, containing 153.71 acres, and during the summer of 1829 they, with six or seven small children ranging from infancy to thirteen years of age, moved with team and wagon from Perry County to Sandusky County, Ohio, and settled in a log cabin on their quarter-section in Sandusky Township. This tract was adjacent to the three quarter-section tracts purchased by Michael and George L Overmeyer and Daniel Hensel SR, who entered them from the government in 1827. They moved from Perry
County in the autumn of that year and had cabins in the wilderness which they occupied when John Jr and his family arrived in 1829. The hardships endured by this pioneer family were not unlike those which all encountered and their coming to Sandusky County was no doubt the inspiration that
brought his parents to purchase the quarter-section to the north of theirs from Michael Overmeyer and locate there in 1830.
Magdalena Bowman, the widowed mother of Mary Bowman Waggoner, purchased eighty acres just west of the tract owned by John Jr, May 29, 1829. Solomon Waggoner, a brother of John Jr, purchased 240 acres in Section Two, Washington Township, May 28,1828. John Jr bought the Southeast 1/4 of Section Thirteen, Washington Townshi, 160 acres, July 15, 1829. This is located just south of the tract owned by his mother-in-law, Magdalena Bowman. John Jr also purchased 160 acres in the North 1/2 of Section Eleven, Washington Township, February 22, 1830, and February 17, 1834, he purchased 40 acres in Section Seven, lying just north of the original quarter-section he owned and occupied in Section Eighteen, Sandusky Township.
November 2, 1839, he purchased 80 acres in the Southeast 1/4, Section One, Washington Township. This was just south of the tract owned by his brother, Samuel. He also purchased 60 acres in the Southwest 1/4 of Section Six, Rice Township.
From the above brief record of the purchases of real estate by John Jr, from 1828 to 1839, amounting to 670 acres, it will be seen that he was quite active and prosperous after locating in Sandusky County. His homestead and place of residence, Section Eighteen, Sandusky Township, is known as the Samuel B Waggoner farm, and is still in the possession of the family (1940), while the tract in Section Eleven was transferred to his oldest son, Daniel; thence to Amos E, and is now owned by Clyde Waggoner, a great-grandson of John Jr.
The tracts in Section One, Washington Township, and Section Six, Rice Township, are now owned by Dr. Chester Waggoner, another great-grandson of John Jr. Thus it will be observed that nearly all of the lands owned by John Jr, and purchased by him from the government and previous owners, has descended for more than a century in the Waggoner family. The original family of John Jr and his wife, Mary, consisting of six or seven children when they located in Sandusky County, increased in number until 1842, when there were twelve children in the family; however, four of the older
children were married before the younger children of John Jr and Mary were born. One died in childhood, so the size of their family under the parental roof remained about the same during those years. The primative log cabin was replaced by a larger and more modern one and the brick house now occupying the site was erected by the son, Samuel B, after he acquired thehomestead farm from his brother, Jacob, in 1971.
John Jr, being the oldest son of John Sr, the common ancestor of the family in Ohio, and living on adjoining lands they owned respectively, naturally made him the main help and advisor to his father during his declining years and after the death of his father, December 15, 1842, it was found that his father in his will had named John Jr and David Engler, a neighbor, as executors of his estate.
The settlement of this estate was in every instance signed by John Jr, with his "mark" or "cross" only, which would indicate that he had very few or no educational advantages in his youth in the frontier settlements of western Pennsylvania and Perry County, Ohio. David Engler Sr, who came to Sandusky County from Frederick County, Maryland, the original home of John Sr, and perhaps knew the family in that state, apparently did the clerical work necessary in administering the estate of John Sr. John Jr only survived the death of his father about five years and passed to his reward November 7, 1847, aged 57. His widow, Mary Bowman Waggoner, continued to reside on the homestead farm in Section Eighteen until her death, twenty-six years after the death of her husband, She died November 2, 1873, aged 75 years, and her remains were interred in the Four-Mile Cemetary, beside those of her husband and her mother, Magdalena Bowman. A suitable and imposing monument marks their last resting place. The inscription for John Jr, however reads "John
Sr",which no doubt was made to distinguish him from his son, John, with no thought of his own father as "John Sr". The remains of John Sr at that time were resting in the Bowles Cemetary in Section Twenty-nine, Sandusky Township, and were not removed to the Four-Mile Cemetary until about 1900 or 1901.
John Jr and his family were members of the Lutheran Church and were among the pioneer members in that organization of the Lutheran congragation at the Four-Mile House, now known as the Salem congregation. The congregation was organized by Rev. A A Conrad as early as 1835, but the Constitution and By-Laws were not written and adopted until 1839. The first Confirmation Class consisting of twenty-one members was confirmed April 27 and 28, 1839, by Rev. Conrad and the four eldest of the twelve children born to John Jr and his wife, Mary Bowman, were members of this class, viz: Daniel, Salome, John B, and Nancy; although Salome was married in 1836 and her name as a member of this class is given as Salome Reed. Elizabeth and Harriet Waggoner were also members of the class, but they were daughters of Solomon and Elizabeth Stockberger Waggoner.
The sons and daughters of John Jr and Mary Bowman Waggoner grew to maturity and married into the pioneer families in the community and with their descendants form one of the principal and perhaps the largest chapter in the History of the Wagner-Waggoner-Wagoner Family. They were a thrifty, honest, industrious God-fearing people, with large families as a rule, and their descendants form a very important part of the community where this pioneer couple established a home in the unbroken forest of the "Black Swamp" 110 years ago, while others have gone into various walks of life into remote parts of the country.
Their descendants today are legion who can reflect over the deeds and accomplishments of their forebears with just and enviable pride to be able to trace their lineage to John Waggoner Jr, and his wife, Mary Bowman Waggoner, whose life-span over a period of about eighty-three years, from
January 15, 1790 to November 2, 1873, as briefly set forth in these pages, should be an inspiration to those now living and worthy of emulation by generations yet unborn.
History and Genealogy of the Wagner-Waggoner-Wagoner Family
Author: Clark R. Wagner, 1941, Arlington, Ohio, Advertiser Press, Printers, Tiffin, Ohio, Page 116, 119
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John Waggoner Jr, second child and first son of John Waggoner Sr, and his wife, Elizabeth Leach Waggoner, was born in Frederick County, Maryland, January 15, 1790. He accompanied his parents in their migrations westward, first to Bedford County, PA in 1797, and to Perry County, Ohio in 1803.
Being the oldest son of the family, naturally much of the labor and responsibility incident to pioneer life on the Western frontier devolved upon him, assisting his parents in rearing a large family in the forests of Perry County, Ohio. He no doubt often listened to the narratives and stories told by his illustrious father relating his experiences in the American Army during the Revolutionary War, and when the Second War for American Independance, known as the War of 1812, came to an issue, we find the son filled with a desire to assist his country in this war as his father had served in the previous one.
In the "Roster of Ohio Soldiers who served in the War of 1812", we find his name as a private in various companies for periods of time from April 27, 1812, to January 11, 1815, serving under Captains George Gibson, Henry Ulney, Jeremiah Simms, Jacob Catterline, and Daniel Conner.
The name of "John Waggoner" appears on the rolls of the above companies at pages 11, 14, 16, 26, and 127, but may not always have been the same person, as we were not personally contacted by the Adjutant-General's office in the War Department at Washington, D C, to verify the records there as found in Volume One and Two of the "Records of the War of 1812". We know, however by tradition, that the subject of this sketch was enrolled as a private in this war, and that his enlistment was from some county in the vicinity of Perry County, as that county was not organized until 1818, and his enrollment would therefore be credited to some county other than Perry.
Return Jonathan Meigs was governor of Ohio at that time and on April 6, 1812, he received instructions from President James Madison, to assemble the militia at Dayton, Ohio, where the men were to be drilled and otherwise prepared for war, and all enrollments were to cease at the end of the month. Ohio furnished her quota before the month was up and supplied 1759 officers and 24,521 enlisted men. They left Dayton June 1, 1812, and many of them were not finally discharged until early in 1815, when the war was over. We also find the names of Jacob and David, twin brothers of John Jr, who were two years younger than John.
After the close of the war John Jr engaged in farming in Reading Township, Perry County, Ohio, and on January 16, 1816, was united in marriage with Mary Bowman; Philip Spohn, J P, Reading Township, officiating (Fairfield County Records, Volume One, Page 101). Mary Bowman was born April 7, 1798, at Lehigh Gap, Northamton County, PA; the daughter of Joseph and Magdalena
Seger Bowman. Her parents operated a tavern at Lehigh Gap, which was formerly owned and operated by his father, Barnhart Bowman, who was a lieutenant in his brother Henry Bowman's Company during the Revolutionary War. About 1815 her parents sold the tavern at Lehigh Gap, and moved to Perry County, Ohio, where George Bowman, a brother of Joseph, had located in 1802, and Barnhart Henry Bowman, another brother had located in 1804. In 1809, Barnhart had married Elizabeth "Betsey" Waggoner, the oldest sister of John Jr.
Mary Bowman Waggoner, wife of John Jr, was therefore a niece of Barnhart Henry Bowman, the husband of "Betsey" Waggoner, thus bringing the pioneer Bowman and Waggoner families into close relationship. George Bowman, above mentioned, a brother of Joseph, married Susannah Rugh, in Westmoreland County, PA, and emigrated to Perry County, Ohio in 1802 and their oldest daughter, Mary Bowman, born September 10, 1801, marriedGeorge L Overmeyer, May 16, 1816, just four months after the marriage of her first cousin, Mary Bowman, the daughter of Joseph; to John Waggoner Jr.
George L Overmeyer and Mary Bowman were the parents of twelve children, of which Barnhart B Overmeyer, the writer's father, was next to the youngest.
Mary Bowman Waggoner was also the mother of twelve children and the two families lived neighbors in Perry County and later in Sandusky County. Both were members of the Lutheran Church at the Four-Mile House, and both are buried in the cemetary there.
Mary, the daughter of Joseph and Magdalena Seger Bowman, was born April 7, 1798, and married the subject of this sketch, John Waggoner Jr. After the death of her father, Joseph, in September, 1822, her mother disposed of the farm in Reading Township, and purchased from the government on May 29, 1829, the East 1/2 of the Northeast 1/4 of Section Thirteen, consisting of 80 acres, in Washington Township, Sandusky County, Ohio; later known as the George Boyer farm, and located just west of the quarter section owned and occupied by her daughter, Mary Waggoner, and family. She died April 13, 1860, and her remains rest in a lot adjoining her daughter Mary and husband, John Waggoner Jr, while those of her husband, Joseph Bowman, are interred in Perry County, Ohio.
John Waggoner Jr and his wife Mary Bowman Waggoner, after their marriage in 1816, engaged in farming in Reading Township, Perry County, Ohio, and purchased lands, evidently intending to make their permanent home, but when the stories of the opening of the sale of government land in the "Black Swamp" area of Seneca and Sandusky Counties at $1.25 per acre became hearth-stone topic of conversation in every pioneer home in Perry County, and the fact that his sister, Nancy, and her husband, John Mackling, had purchased Pike Tracts Nos. 133 and 134 in Washington Township, Sandusky County as early as May 1, 1825, intending to locate there as soon as they could dispose of their lands in Perry County; and the further fact that his twin brothers, Jacob and David, had each entered land from the government in Seneca County, filled John Jr and his wife with a desire to sell their holdings in Perry County and locate in Sandusky County, Ohio.
On Christmas Day, 1827, they sold their land in Sections Twenty-eight and Twenty-nine in Reading Township to Nick Lyons.
His parents, John Sr and Elizabeth Leach Waggoner, at the same time sold lands in the same sections, which might indicate that they owned the tracts jointly, and at least two deeds of later date given by his parents in the sale of real estate bear the name of John Jr as a witness. One of these is under date of January 13, 1829, and the other March 28, 1829, and no doubt were executed just prior to the departure of John Jr and family for Sandusky County. On February 25, 1828, John Jr entered from the government the Northwest 1/4, Section Eighteen, Sandusky Township, containing 153.71 acres, and during the summer of 1829 they, with six or seven small children ranging from infancy to thirteen years of age, moved with team and wagon from Perry County to Sandusky County, Ohio, and settled in a log cabin on their quarter-section in Sandusky Township. This tract was adjacent to the three quarter-section tracts purchased by Michael and George L Overmeyer and Daniel Hensel SR, who entered them from the government in 1827. They moved from Perry
County in the autumn of that year and had cabins in the wilderness which they occupied when John Jr and his family arrived in 1829. The hardships endured by this pioneer family were not unlike those which all encountered and their coming to Sandusky County was no doubt the inspiration that
brought his parents to purchase the quarter-section to the north of theirs from Michael Overmeyer and locate there in 1830.
Magdalena Bowman, the widowed mother of Mary Bowman Waggoner, purchased eighty acres just west of the tract owned by John Jr, May 29, 1829. Solomon Waggoner, a brother of John Jr, purchased 240 acres in Section Two, Washington Township, May 28,1828. John Jr bought the Southeast 1/4 of Section Thirteen, Washington Townshi, 160 acres, July 15, 1829. This is located just south of the tract owned by his mother-in-law, Magdalena Bowman. John Jr also purchased 160 acres in the North 1/2 of Section Eleven, Washington Township, February 22, 1830, and February 17, 1834, he purchased 40 acres in Section Seven, lying just north of the original quarter-section he owned and occupied in Section Eighteen, Sandusky Township.
November 2, 1839, he purchased 80 acres in the Southeast 1/4, Section One, Washington Township. This was just south of the tract owned by his brother, Samuel. He also purchased 60 acres in the Southwest 1/4 of Section Six, Rice Township.
From the above brief record of the purchases of real estate by John Jr, from 1828 to 1839, amounting to 670 acres, it will be seen that he was quite active and prosperous after locating in Sandusky County. His homestead and place of residence, Section Eighteen, Sandusky Township, is known as the Samuel B Waggoner farm, and is still in the possession of the family (1940), while the tract in Section Eleven was transferred to his oldest son, Daniel; thence to Amos E, and is now owned by Clyde Waggoner, a great-grandson of John Jr.
The tracts in Section One, Washington Township, and Section Six, Rice Township, are now owned by Dr. Chester Waggoner, another great-grandson of John Jr. Thus it will be observed that nearly all of the lands owned by John Jr, and purchased by him from the government and previous owners, has descended for more than a century in the Waggoner family. The original family of John Jr and his wife, Mary, consisting of six or seven children when they located in Sandusky County, increased in number until 1842, when there were twelve children in the family; however, four of the older
children were married before the younger children of John Jr and Mary were born. One died in childhood, so the size of their family under the parental roof remained about the same during those years. The primative log cabin was replaced by a larger and more modern one and the brick house now occupying the site was erected by the son, Samuel B, after he acquired thehomestead farm from his brother, Jacob, in 1971.
John Jr, being the oldest son of John Sr, the common ancestor of the family in Ohio, and living on adjoining lands they owned respectively, naturally made him the main help and advisor to his father during his declining years and after the death of his father, December 15, 1842, it was found that his father in his will had named John Jr and David Engler, a neighbor, as executors of his estate.
The settlement of this estate was in every instance signed by John Jr, with his "mark" or "cross" only, which would indicate that he had very few or no educational advantages in his youth in the frontier settlements of western Pennsylvania and Perry County, Ohio. David Engler Sr, who came to Sandusky County from Frederick County, Maryland, the original home of John Sr, and perhaps knew the family in that state, apparently did the clerical work necessary in administering the estate of John Sr. John Jr only survived the death of his father about five years and passed to his reward November 7, 1847, aged 57. His widow, Mary Bowman Waggoner, continued to reside on the homestead farm in Section Eighteen until her death, twenty-six years after the death of her husband, She died November 2, 1873, aged 75 years, and her remains were interred in the Four-Mile Cemetary, beside those of her husband and her mother, Magdalena Bowman. A suitable and imposing monument marks their last resting place. The inscription for John Jr, however reads "John
Sr",which no doubt was made to distinguish him from his son, John, with no thought of his own father as "John Sr". The remains of John Sr at that time were resting in the Bowles Cemetary in Section Twenty-nine, Sandusky Township, and were not removed to the Four-Mile Cemetary until about 1900 or 1901.
John Jr and his family were members of the Lutheran Church and were among the pioneer members in that organization of the Lutheran congragation at the Four-Mile House, now known as the Salem congregation. The congregation was organized by Rev. A A Conrad as early as 1835, but the Constitution and By-Laws were not written and adopted until 1839. The first Confirmation Class consisting of twenty-one members was confirmed April 27 and 28, 1839, by Rev. Conrad and the four eldest of the twelve children born to John Jr and his wife, Mary Bowman, were members of this class, viz: Daniel, Salome, John B, and Nancy; although Salome was married in 1836 and her name as a member of this class is given as Salome Reed. Elizabeth and Harriet Waggoner were also members of the class, but they were daughters of Solomon and Elizabeth Stockberger Waggoner.
The sons and daughters of John Jr and Mary Bowman Waggoner grew to maturity and married into the pioneer families in the community and with their descendants form one of the principal and perhaps the largest chapter in the History of the Wagner-Waggoner-Wagoner Family. They were a thrifty, honest, industrious God-fearing people, with large families as a rule, and their descendants form a very important part of the community where this pioneer couple established a home in the unbroken forest of the "Black Swamp" 110 years ago, while others have gone into various walks of life into remote parts of the country.
Their descendants today are legion who can reflect over the deeds and accomplishments of their forebears with just and enviable pride to be able to trace their lineage to John Waggoner Jr, and his wife, Mary Bowman Waggoner, whose life-span over a period of about eighty-three years, from
January 15, 1790 to November 2, 1873, as briefly set forth in these pages, should be an inspiration to those now living and worthy of emulation by generations yet unborn.
History and Genealogy of the Wagner-Waggoner-Wagoner Family
Author: Clark R. Wagner, 1941, Arlington, Ohio, Advertiser Press, Printers, Tiffin, Ohio, Page 116, 119
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