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| The following is a history of the Wehneman family written by the reunion program committee consisting of Minnie Wehneman, Florence Wehneman and Simon Wehneman (ca. 1916): John Andrew Wehneman (our grandfather) was born in the province of Saxony near Erfert in Germany, May 5 in the year of 1789. He was married in Germany to Amelia Duehl, who was born in Gemany, and to this union of short duration was born one son, John Henry Wehneman (our father). He was born in Germany on May 22, 1817. Grandmother died when John Henry was but three years old. Grandfather Wehneman married a second time to Anna G. Trittschuh, who was born on February 6, 1800. (She died on February 21, 1855, and is buried at Friedens.) To this union two sons were born: John Christopher Wehneman and George Adam Wehneman, who was born January 26, 1833, and died July 5, 1849. (The cause of his death was scarlet fever, and he is buried at Friedens.) Grandfather Wehneman immigrated to America with his family in 1833, and located on an 80 acre farm in Newberry township in Miami County, Ohio, which was then covered with a forest. John Henry Wehneman was a soldier in the Mexican War. He was married April 19, 1850 to Anna Elizabeth Ficken. Mother was born on April 30, 1825 near Muelhausen, Germany. She with her parents and her sister Catherine immigrated to the United States in the year of 1846, and settled on a farm of 20 acres one-half mile west of the Range Line Pike. This land is now owned by Mrs. B. E. Mader. I am guessing that the Mrs. B. E. Mader mentioned in this article is Barbara Elizabeth Brehm Mader. If so, her granddaughter, Goldie, grew up to marry John Henry Wehneman's grandson, Lawrence. Both John Henry Wehneman and his wife Anna are buried in Houston, Ohio. My grandmother Goldie Wehneman once told me that Anna Ficken was Wehneman's second wife, and that he divorced his first wife because she refused to sleep with him. I can find no evidence to support this except for the fact that John Henry Wehneman was in his thirties when he married Anna. NOTE: Friedens is the name of a cemetery beside The Friedens Luthern Church in Newberry Township of Miami County Ohio. Friedens is a German word meaning Peace and/or Tranquility. FROM "1909 HISTORY OF MIAMI COUNTY, OHIO:" JOHN A. WEHNEMAN, one of the trustees of Newberry Township, Miami County, Ohio, is a prosperous farmer and owns and resides upon a farm of 140 acres lying in Section 35, about seven miles northwest of Covington. He was born on a farm in Shelby County, Ohio, October 22, 1859, and is a son of John Henry and Annie Elizabeth (Fichen) Wehneman, both natives of Germany. John Andrew Wehneman, grandfather of the subject of this record, was born in Germany and lived in that country until 1835, when he came to the United States. He in that year settled in Newberry Township, Miami County, Ohio, on the farm now owned by his grandson, John A. Wehneman, and lived there until his death. | ||||||
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