SAMUEL WEISINGER
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The couple, along with her parents, brothers and sisters, migrated to Texas from Alabama in about 1849. Sam and Mary were enumerated with their three children in Walker County in 1850, next door to Michael and Elizabeth Wisinger. Sam's age was incorrectly given as twenty-two rather than thirty-two.
He first appeared on the Montgomery County Tax List in 1854, at which time he owned seventy-seven acres in the J. B. Tong Survey on the waters of Lindley's Creek. He also owned twenty-one acres in the Wm. Ware Survey on the San Jacinto River. This area was just south of the Walker County line in the vicinity of Danville. He paid taxes on one poll, but did not render any horses or livestock.
Mary died 8 February 1860 in Danville. It is possible she is buried in an unmarked grave in the Old Danville-Shepard Hill Cemetery, where Michael Weisinger was buried in 1854.
On March 6, 1861, in Walker County, Sam married Nancy Weatherly.
On May 4, 1861, Samuel joined the Danville Mounted Riflemen under Captain Samuel D. Wooldridge. This was a Montgomery County unit of the Seventeenth Brigade, Texas State Troops. There is no record of Samuel serving in the regular Confederate army. It is likely he did not join the CSA due to his being over-age.
After the War, he took the Amnesty Oath in Montgomery County. This was an oath of allegiance to the U. S. A. and allowed the signer to begin voting. It was required for any men who served in the State Troops, the CSA, or who held any office during the war.
In 1869, Sam served as a county commissioner of Montgomery County.
Sam Weisinger is listed as a Master Mason in the rolls of San Jacinto Masonic Lodge 106, in 1870 and 1873. In 1875, he was trustee of the Methodist Church in the town of Montgomery.
According to an article in the Montgomery County History, published 1981, Nancy was daughter of Jessie and Lucinda Weatherly; her birthdate and birthplace are given as March 27, 1848 in Alabama. The author of the article states that Samuel and Nancy settled on a farm west of what is now Conroe, their home place now covered by Lake Lorraine.
The couple was enumerated in the 1870 census of Montgomery County living in the town of Danville. In 1880 they were living in Precinct One with several of their children.
Sam died 1/16/1897, and Nancy died 8/18/1910. They are buried in the Montgomery City Cemetery.
The children of Samuel and Mary Ann were: James Edward, Sarah Ann Frances, Nancy Caroline, Samuel Henry, Robert Alexander. Samuel's great-grandson, John D. WEISINGER, Jr., runs Weisinger's Vineyard and Winery in Ashland, Oregon.
Sources for the above article include county and census records, the muster rolls of the Danville Mounted Riflemen, Texas State Archives, the Montgomery County History Book published 1981, the history of the San Jacinto Lodge, and descendant John Weisinger of Weisinger's of Ashland Winery.
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Samuel Weisinger--also spelled Wisinger--was born in Lexington District, South Carolina, (according to the Montgomery County Texas History), on 27 June 1818, said to be the son of John and Jessie Weisinger. He married his cousin, Mary Ann Rebecca Weisinger, in Dallas County, Alabama, 30 June (or 31 January) 1842. She was the daughter of Matthias Weissinger and Leah Caroline Hornsby and was born in South Carolina on 14 November 1825.
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