Susannah (Mueller) Wolfensberger (abt. 1757 - abt. 1800)

Born about 1757 in Pennsylvania [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Peter Wolfensberger — married 26 Jul 1777 in Shenandoah, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died about 1800 at about age 43 in Greenbrier, Virginia, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Susannah (Milly) Miller, Mueler, daughter of Jacob Pedersen Moller, Miller, Mueler, 26 Jul 1788 in Shenandoah Co., VA. Born 1759 in PA (possibly 1747?). Died 1800 in Greenbriar, W.V. She married Peter Wolfensbarger Born 1752 in PA. Died Before Jan 1834 in Knox Co., Tenn. ^[1]

The Wolfensbergers and the Muellers had met on the Thistle of Glasqow's ocean crossing. Johannes Wolfenberger's son, Peter, met Susannah, the daughter of Jacob Mueller, and they married in 1712. Peter's younqer brother, John, marri-ed Susannah's sister, also.

Name Susanna Miller^[2]

Birth 1755^[2]

Spouse: Peter Wolfensbarger^[2][3]

Marriage Date: 1788^[2][4]

--- Information about Susannah's husband, Peter Wolfenberger's FindaGrave.

Peter Wolfinbarger was born in 1751, place unknown – but unproven research indicates "probably Pennsylvania." Peter was the son of _____ Wolfenbarger Jr., born in Germany or Alsace, and Hannah Sumner. Peter married Susannah Miller (his first wife), date or place not stated. Peter and Susannah were living in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, by 1790. A marriage record from the records of Greenbrier County, [W] Virginia, show that Peter Wolfenberger and Milly Hanson (born in Tennessee, according to the 1860 census) married on February 27, 1807. (Peter would have been about 56 years of age and Milly about 17 years of age at the time of their 1807 marriage.) The date of death of his first wife, Susannah, is not known but would have occurred between 1797 and 1807. All that is known about Peter Wolfinbarger's Revolutionary War service is contained in his application for a pension (declaration), which was rejected (#R11770), dated August 24, 1832, Knox County, Tennessee.

A portion of that document appears below (verbatim): ". . .

He lived in Shenandoah County, Virginia at which place he was drafted as a private for three months of the year not recollected, but he thinks it was in the month of August he hired a substitute to serve said time by the name of Martin Miller under Captain George Rinker in Colonel Abraham Bird's Regiment said Miller served out the full term of three months for which brought me an honorable discharge which was signed by Colonel Bird which is lost.

Again while living at the same place in the fall of the year, but year not recollected he was drafted for three months under Captain Henry Daring in Colonel Abraham Bird's Regiment of Virginia Militia and he hired a substitute to serve said tour by the name of Henry Fetzer who served out his full term of three months and brought me an honorable discharged signed by the said Colonel Bird and is lost.

Again while living at the same place in the first of Sept. 1781 he was drafted to serve a three months tour against the British under Captain Darby Downey in Colonel John Tipton's Regiment.

We rendezvoused at Millerstown at the Courthouse of said Shenandoah County, marched to Fredericks Burgh thence towards Richmond.

We were met by an express and informed that Cornwallace was taken.

We were then honorably discharged for a three month's tour but we did not serve that length of time.

The true date of the discharge not recollected. The discharge was signed by Colonel Tipton, but is lost.

He has no documentary evidence and he knows of persons whose evidence he can procure who can testify to his service. . . ."

Peter Wolfinbarger died between August 24, 1832, and January 1834, in Knox County, Tennessee, and was buried in Clapp Cemetery (near Washburn, Grainger County, Tennessee).

His will, recorded in January 1834 in Knox County, listed 16 children.

FROM MARRIAGE TO SUSANNAH:

Andrew, Barbara (Merritt), Jonah, Joseph, Mary (Vansenhart), Peter, Philip, Rebeccka (James), Samuel, Sarah (Highnote), Susannah (McKinny)

FROM MARRIAGE TO MILLY:

Catharine, Elizabeth (Mrs. Samuel Merritt), Milly, Nancy, Rosanah

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry Message Board: Wolfenberger
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900' Birth, Marriage & Death
3. ↑ Peter Wolfenbarger, "West Virginia Marriages, 1854-1932" https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XRC1-KQ2 Citation "West Virginia Marriages, 1854-1932," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XRC1-KQ2 : accessed 9 November 2015), Peter Wolfenbarger and Milley Hanson, 27 Feb 1807; citing Greenbrier Co., West Virginia, reference 2:3K3M286; FHL microfilm 595,040.
4. ↑ "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FRXZ-W4D : accessed 9 November 2015), Peter Wolfenbarger and Milley Hanson, 27 Feb 1807; citing Greenbrier, West Virginia, v 1A p 161, county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 595,040.