WANSTREET |
Beginning with my 5th great-grandparents: |
DESCENDANTS
OF JOANNES WANSTROET |
Child of Joannes Wanstroet and Anna Dorothea Westendorf Wanstroet is: JOANNES HERMAN
WANSTROTH b: December 4, 1729 in Wenstrup by Neunkirchen,
Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Germany d: November 24, 1796 |
Child of Joannes Herman Wanstroth and Anna Catherina Grapperhaus is: JOHANNES
HENRICUS WANSTROTH b: August 29, 1779 |
Children of Johannes Henricus Wanstroth and Anna Maria Gertrude Messman Wanstroth are: CATHERINE MARIA WANSTROTH b: June 21, 1817 in Neuenkirchen, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Germany ANNA MARIA GERTRUDE WANSTROTH b: September 17, 1819 in Neuenkirchen, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Germany JOHN GERHARD HENRY WANSTROTH b: September 5, 1821 in Neuenkirchen, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Germany d: September 6, 1821 in Neuenkirchen, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Germany ANNA MARIA WANSTROTH b: December 1, 1822 in
Neuenkirchen, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Germany d:
February 28, 1906 in St.
Clara, New Milton, Doddridge, WV GERHARD "JOHN" HENRY
WANSTREET (Squire) b:
November 18, 1824 in Neuenkirchen, Grand Duchy of
Oldenburg, Germany d: September 14, 1911 in Leopold,
Doddridge County, West Virginia 2nd Wife of Gerhard John Henry
Wanstreet married October 22, 1865 in Doddridge County,
West Virginia MARY ABEL b: Abt. 1837 in Germany
JOHN BERNARD HENRY WANSTREET b: January 21, 1827 in Neuenkirchen, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Germany MARIA CATHERINE WANSTREET b: May 14, 1830 in
Neuenkirchen, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, CATHERINE MARIA WANSTREET b: November 29, 1831 in Neuenkirchen, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Germany |
| From "Three Centuries of Wanstreets
(1703-1991)" "All
baptized at St.
Bonifacious Church, Neuenkirchen, |
| From "Three Centuries of Wanstreets
(1703-1991)" Family emigrated to America in 1834. |
GERHARD
JOHN HENRY WANSTREET |
Descendants
of |
| 1
[1] Gerhard John Henry Wanstreet b: November 18, 1824 d:
September 14, 1911 Leopold, Doddridge,WV .. +Mary Martha Greaser Grey b:Abt. 1832 d: January 29, 1865 ,Leopold, Doddridge,WV ..2 Josephine Wanstreet b: February 13, 1850 Leopold, Doddridge, (W)Va. d: February 28, 1864 . 2 Infant Son Wanstreet b: January 23, 1852 d: January 23, 1852 . 2 William Henry Wanstreet b: March 25, 1853 or 1854; d:September 21, 1882 married 1877 in Doddridge Co.,WV Buried: St. Clare Catholic Cemetery, St. Clara, WV ..... +Mary Catherine Severin b: May 7, 1858 . 2 John Alphonsus Wanstreet b: March 30, 1855 or March 3, 1855 in (W) Va. d:September 22, 1906 ........Buried: St. Clare Catholic Cemetery, St. Clara, WV ..... +Mary Agnes Kreyenbuhl b: January 20, 1859 in Germany married: February 18, 1879 ........d. October 15, 1932 Buried: St. Clare Catholic Cemetery, St. Clara, WV . 2 John L. Wanstreet b: Abt. 1856 . 2 George Bernard Wanstreet b: January 30, 1857 d:October 18, 1929 ..... +Catherine Theresa Nau m: April 3, 1883 in Westernport,, Maryland . 2 Samuel Peter Wanstreet b: May 24, 1859 Leopold, Doddridge, (W) Virginia .....d: September 19, 1860 Leopold, Doddridge, West Virginia . 2 Frederick Richard Wanstreet b: November 2, 1861 Leopold, Doddridge, (W)Va. d: August 21, 1946 ......buried in Pleasant Valley Cemetery (Spurgeon Cemetery), Spurgeon, Doddridge, West Virginia .....married December 5, 1886 in Ritchie County, West Virginia ..... +Martha J. Garrison b: November 9, 1866 West Virginia d: 1941 in Doddridge Co., West Virginia ...........buried in Pleasant Valley Cemetery (Spurgeon Cemetery) West Virginia ..... 3 Isabelle Wanstreet b: October 15, 1887 d: 1959 buried Pleasant Valley Cemetery (Spurgeon Cemetery) ......... +J. I. Spurgeon (Gladys' Spurgeon's father) b: 1873 buried Pleasant Valley Cemetery (Spurgeon Cemetery) West Virginia ..... 3 George Victor Wanstreet b: February 19, 1889 d: April 14, 1969 ......... +Gladys Spurgeon b: October 28, 1903 d: September 28, 1994, Auburn, Ritchie, WV ...............Father: J. I. Spurgeon Mother: Flora Czigan - both buried Pleasant Valley Cemetery (Spurgeon ...........................Cemetery) West Virginia .............both George and Gladys are buried Pleasant Valley Cemetery (Spurgeon Cemetery) West Virginia ..... 3 Josephine Isabelle Wanstreet b: September 20, 1893 Spurgeon, Doddridge, WV d: July 21, 1975 ..............Veto,,Ohio Buried at Brannon Cemetery near Troy or Conings, Gilmer, WV ...............married September 1912 ......... +Thurman Peter Brannon b: December 12, 1886 Rush Run near Troy, Gilmer, WV ...............d: April 1, 1978 Fordland, Webster,Missouri; Buried at Fordland, Missouri ..... 3 Roy C. Wanstreet b: 1906 d: January 9, 1974 in WV ........ Buried: South Fork Cemetery, Oxford, Doddridge, WV ......... +Monnie "Lucille" Maxwell . 2 Infant Son Wanstreet b: December 31, 1863 in Leopold, Doddridge, West Virginia . 2 Edward Henry Wanstreet b: June 8, 1865 Leopold, Doddridge, West Virginia d: August 15, 1865 . 2 Samuel Charles Wanstreet b: June 8, 1865 d: May 10, 1892 Buried: St. Clare Catholic Cemetery, .........St.Clara, Doddridge, WV *2nd Wife of [1] Gerhard John
Henry Wanstreet: *3rd Wife of Gerhard John Henry
Wanstreet: married May 3, 1870 |
Gerhard John Henry Wanstreet b: November
18, 1824 |
| 1. George Wanstreet, son - son by Mary Martha 2. Frederick Wanstreet, son - son by Mary Martha 3. Joseph Wanstreet, son - son by Lucy 4. Mary Severin, daughter - daughter by Lucy; [Mary Agnes Wanstreet, wife of John Peter Severin] 5. Silas L. Wanstreet, son - son by Lucy 6. Alphonsus Wanstreet, son - son of Lucy 7. Peter M. Wanstreet, son - son of Lucy 8. Frannie Murtz (aka Mertz) daughter - daughter of Lucy 9. John A. Wanstreet Heirs (predeceased son): son of Mary Martha - John A. died September 22, 1906 ....a. John H. Wanstreet, grandson ....b. George S. Wanstreet, grandson ....c. William J. Wanstreet, grandson ....d. Emma F. Wanstreet, grandaughter ....e. Henry S. Wanstreet, grandson ....f. Mary A. Wanstreet, granddaughter 10. William Wanstreet Heirs (predeceased son)-son of Mary Martha[spouse of Mary Severin, d/oFrederick] ......a. John W. Wanstreet, grandson ......b. Anna Wanstreet, granddaughter [My notation: Anna Wanstreet (later Heideman) could be the same person as Lucy Juliana Wanstreet] |
DEED |
| George Wanstreet and Catherine
Wanstreet, his wife, conveyed unto Silas L. Wanstreet and
Peter M. Wanstreet all the interest, share, and estate of
the said parties of the first part in and to the real
estate of John Wanstreet, the father of George Wanstreet,
died seized. [My notation: George
Bernard Wanstreet Catherine Theresa Nau Wanstreet] |
DEED |
| P. M. Wanstreet and Margaret Wanstreet, his wife, conveyed unto Maxine Rettig various mineral rights, including all of his interest in mineral rights and royalties underlying the John Wanstreet farm containing 215 acres. |
MARY AGNES WANSTREET SEVERIN |
| Mary Wanstreet Severin died
intestate on March 21, 1927 survived by the following
heirs at law: J. Peter Severin, her husband Clarence Severin, son - died testate July 22, 1975, Shawnee county, Kansas Lucy Myrtle Severin - died December 31, 1942 Helen C. Severin - died January 7, 1974, never married, without issue. Probably lived at Concordia, Kansas. Mary Alice Severin - died April 7, 1973. Probably lived in Concordia, Kansas. She probably had 6 children. |
The
History of the Emigration from the Former Amt Damme
(Oldenburg)..." For GRAPPERHAUS, MESSMAN AND
WANSTREET, Grapperhaus, Friedrich, Sohn
des Heinrich G. aus Schönfeldts Leibzucht 1 1844
Nellinghof Meßmann, Bernard, in der Heuer bei Kolon Thamann 1 1836 Nellinghof Meßmann, Elisabeth, Tochter der Wwe. M. bei Wanstradt 1 1844 Nellinghof Meßmann, Kolon mit Frau, Kind,
Vater und Mutter 5 1834 Wanstradt, Catharina, Tochter von Dirk W. vom Schierberge 1 1844 Nellinghof Wanstradt, Dirk, Sohn vom Kolonen Bernd Wanstradt 1 1835 Nellinghof Wanstradt, Friedrich, Sohn des Kolonen Wanstradt 1 1844 Nellinghof Wanstradt, Josef, Mann und Frau, bei Wanstradt 2 1844 Nellinghof Wanstrath, Dirk, Dienstknecht 1 1849 Nellinghof Wanstrodt, Heinrich mit Frau
und 6 Kindern, aus Gers zu Wenstrups Leibzucht 8 1834
Nellinghof Wessendorf, Anton, Sohn der Witwe Wessendorf, Nellinghöferbruch 1 1839 Nellinghof Wessendorf, Bernard, Sohn von Witwe Wessendorf, aus dem Bruche 1 1843 Nellinghof
Abel, Josef 1 1834 Damme This could be the father or
uncle of Mary Abel, who was "Emigrants From The Former
Amt Damme, Oldenburg (now Niedersachsen), Germany, Thank you, Peg, for sharing this information with me June 1, 2001. |
1850 Census
Doddridge County, (W) VA |
Henry
Wanstreet 59 M Farmer 300 Germany |
Three
generations of Wanstreet's. More information on J. H. Diss Debar. |
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Front Row: Frederick
Richard Wanstreet, my great- grandfather and Martha
Garrison Wanstreet, my great-grandmother. |
Frederick Richard Wanstreet
and Martha Garrison Wanstreet |
Roy and George both died of
a heart attack. |
| This is the house where my
great-grandparents, Frederick and Martha lived. I must
have been around 4 years old (1939) when we were on the
swing on the porch (see above) he gave me a doll in a
shoe box for my birthday. I recall that I wanted to swing
him to give him pleasure, but others told me that he was
too old to be swung. I didn't understand that concept at
the time. I recently learned that Frederick had another interest in shoe boxes; that he raised bees in shoe boxes, quite successfully. This must have been quite handy to have in the days of war rationing Abt.1941-1945. I have heard that Frederick has tuberculosis and he had moved to his home here from another state because it was a high altitude. I am not sure of the family residences during his father's life and whether the family all moved from Cumberland, Allegheny, Maryland at the same time. I have not checked the elevation of both places, but it would seem to me that Cumberland would have been a higher elevation. |
| I am told by a descendant that "Aunt Martha" usually went barefooted. She would make biscuits. They had fruit trees. |
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Dorothy Houser (Bus Brannon's wife), Isa Wanstreet Spurgeon (married Gladys' father) , Gladys Spurgeon Wanstreet (George's wife) , Lucille Maxwell Wanstreet (Roy's wife), George Wanstreet, Roy Wanstreet |
Silas
L. WANSTREET Home 1922 |
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| On March 13, 1871, John Wanstreet
(Silas' father) purchased property in St. Clare Colony
(Leopold) from J. H. dis Debar. John was married to Lucy
Kreyenbuhl. Of their children, silas remained at the home
place. He met Anna Grace Fahey from Lewis county when she
was teaching school at St. Clara and they were married in
November 1913. A new hom was built in 1936 to replace the
original family home. After Silas' death in 1954, Grace moved to Akron. She always kept in touch with friends and relatives at St. Clara and Leopold. The history of the community has always been import to Grace and the original deed form J. H. Dis Debar is in her possession. Although the farm was sold in 1972, the family has many cherished memories shared in the Wanstreet home. Written by Lucy Eileen (Wanstreet) Morris (d/o Silas and Grace Wanstreet) |
Descendants of Silas Lawrence Wanstreet 1 Silas Lawrence Wanstreet b:
November 18, 1881 in Leopold, Doddridge, West Virginia d:
January 12, 1954 in Leopold, Doddridge, West Virginia .... 2 Mary Veronica Wanstreet b:
October 9, 1914 d: October 14, 1914 |
WILL
|
| Silas devised all of his property to his wife, Anna Grace Wanstreet, for life, and at her death until his children. |
| Anna G. Wanstreet died testate in 1982, terminating her life estate in the property of Silas Wanstreet. Anna's Will is of record in Doddridge County, WV. Her heirs is recored with the Will |
DEED |
| JOHN
P. WANSTREET, an unmarried person,
conveyed unto Lucy E. Morris, his interest int he
property of which Silas Wanstreet died seized, said
interest being determined by the will of Silas Wanstreet. [My notation: John Patrick Wanstreet, b. 1931, must have married after 1973.] [My notation: Lucy E. Morris is John Patrick Wanstreet's sister.] |
DEED - Frances A. Mertz |
| Frances A. Mertz, a widow, upon
occasion int he past referred to as Fannie Murtz, Fannie
Mertz, Fannie Wanstreet Mertz, all being one and the same
person, conveyed unto ....... ,her son, all of her right,
title and interest in all the coal, oil, gas and other
minerals in and underlying the property of which John
Wanstreet died seized. [My notation: I have left her son's name out as he may still be living.] [My notation: Her son, by deed, transferred his same interest to his heir.] |
WILL - ISABELLE
WANSTREET SPURGEON |
| Various property to her brother George V. Wanstreet, and his wife, Gladys Wanstreet. |
WILL - GEORGE V.
WANSTREET |
| George V. Wanstreet devised all of his property unto his wife, Gladys Wanstreet. |
1984 |
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ROY
C. WANSTREET |
WILL OF |
| Emma Frances Wanstreet Stark devised all of her property unto her four children. |
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1954 |
Two sisters were named Isabelle. My mother, Rella's name was also Isabelle. Many times I have thought that I would like to change my name to Isabelle. It is a beautiful name. |
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My Uncle, Abt. 1939 I vaguely remember this roll of paper. I wonder what it could have been. I loved books and paper. It must have been a gift. |
| George and Gladys
Wanstreet had a farm near the Pleasant Valley Church near
Spurgeon, Doddridge, WV. George was a successful farmer,
raising beef. Their land was quite hilly. My mother and
dad and I would visit them in the springtime. They lived
off a road that you couldn't drive a car on until summer
came. Sometimes we would go too early. After you came off
the muddy road where once we got stuck, you would come
onto another road that went at the bottom of their house
and you would have to pass a stream that was sometimes
too high to cross. The Spurgeons (George's wife, Gladys
Spurgeon) lived even farther down the road from them with
roads even more treacherous. When we went to their house, Gladys Spurgeon, (George's wife) whose father J. I. Spuregon, married Isey, (George's sister) {Gladys had previously been Isey's step-daughter, but became Isey's sister-in-law when she married George) lived quite harmoniously together. They would have the largest table of food that I had ever seen to greet us and loved to feed us. Their house seemed quite large, but I know now that it was not. They had a pantry with row-upon-row of canned fruits and vegetables and canned beef. No one when I grew up ever ate beef other than well-done. I was so impressed with their use of a table-cloth to eat upon; that I to this day copy their style. I like to set a nice comfortable table and I often think of them for this reason. They had a bathroom (which was quite unusual for country folk in 1940) and a covered porch on the second floor of the house. I recall sleeping on this porch one night. I slept on a straw-filled "feather-tic." One other time I slept in the house on a straw-filled "feather-tic." I dont' know if Gladys, George and Isey slept on a straw-filled "feather-tick" or not. Their house always was clean and picked-up. They wore aprons all the time we were there. Since their house was on a hill, there was another hill beside them with a "holler" in between. George had made a clothes line for them coming off their porch with a pulley going to the other hill, so they could dry their clothes and reel them out and then in again. What a life! I recall an organ in the house, a deer-head with antlers on the wall, a black straw-filled leather divan and a couple of oriental rugs; one in the parlor and one in the first-floor bedroom. At Gladys' funeral, the preacher said that when he was a young man that he had lived with Gladys and George an Isey for a long time. They had given him a home while he was becoming a minister. He spoke highly of their Christian ways. I got to see their old homeplace in 1984 when I was in West Virginia, and it had been rented out and was in such a state of disrepair that it seemed that no one could possibly be living there, but there was. I heard later that the house had burned. That year I visited Gladys, she was already living in Auburn, WV, not too many miles from the old home place. I saw that she had many family pictures. It is too bad that I have no contact with the family to obtain some of the pictures to share with others on this website. I hope that her nephew who I saw at her funeral and I heard inherited her property will see this site someday and be able to provide some pictures for others to see. The last time I visited Gladys in 1993 I called her to let her know that I would be there and she said, "You didn't come to eat, did you?" When I saw her then, she noticeably had some dementia, but recognized me shortly after trying to figure out if it were me. The next time I saw her was at her funeral in 1994. |
| When I first saw Auburn,
Ritchie County, West Virginia in 1984, it had a post
office that only one or two persons could fit into. I
later talked to someone who said that their closest
relative had worked many years in that post office. Auburn seemed to me to be a little hill town. It seemed there might not be more than 30 people in the town. We had to drive 30 miles to the first very small grocery store. One of the boys on the street playing spoke with such an accent that we couldn't understand him after his repeating his sentences many time. The town was only a block or so long. From a Ritchie County history book, it said that Auburn was settled in 1829. It was a prosperous community raising fine cattle and pure-bred sheep. Among doctors born and raised there were Dr. Bernice Eddy, who worked with Dr. Jonas Salk in developing the polio vaccine and Dr. Ralph Eddy who achieved international fame as the first to perform an unusual operation. Dr. Joseph Gluck was the youngest chaplain to have a commander's rating in the US Navy in World War II. I am wondering if Dr. Harry Straley, retired Dean of Morris Harvey College from Auburn, is a Straley Family relation of mine. The book shows a picture of the Auburn House which was owned by emery Brown during the 1920's when the oil and gas boom was at its height. There are many other people of note in this article. I visited a woman in Auburn whom I don't know if she is a relative or not or if so, how; but she remains very dear in my memory, Mae Drain. She sat out on a porch and quilted in the nicest of daylight. What a lovely smile. I bought a postage stamp quilt from her and am still sitting on the couch under it on the slightest of cool days. |
| 1 William Henry Wanstreet b:
March 25, 1853 or 1854 d: September 21, 1882 Buried: St. Clare Catholic Cemetery, St. Clara, Doddridge, WV married Mary Catherine Severin b: May 7, 1858 m: September 5, 1877 in ,Doddridge, West Virginia Mary's Father: Frederick J. Severin; Mary's Mother: Julia A. Rahrig (or Reirlich) Severin [both buried St. Clare Catholic Cemetery] .... 2 Lucy Juliana Wanstreet b: October 9, 1878 .... 2 John William Wanstreet b: December 20, 1880 d. Abt. 1954 ....... +Catherine Francis Evans b: February 27, 1893 m: 1911 in Atchison,,Kansas |
Descendants of John Alphonsus Wanstreet |
| 1 John Alphonsus Wanstreet b:
March 30, 1855 in ,Virginia (West Virginia) d: September
22, 1906 ......Buried: St. Clare Catholic Cemetery, St. Clara, Doddridge, WV .. +Mary Agnes Kreyenbuhl b: January 20, 1859, Germany m: February 18, 1879 in , Doddridge, WV .......d. October 15, 1932 Buried: St. Clare Catholic Cemetery, St. Clara, Doddridge, WV Their children: ....... 2 John
Henry Wanstreet b: December 18, 1879
in Leopold, Doddridge, West Virginia d: October 31, 1969
in Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia Burial: St. Clara
Cemetery, New Milton, Doddridge, West Virginia ....... 2 George Silas Wanstreet
b: October 17, 1883 d: September 6, 1974 in
Pennsboro,,West Virginia Burial: Cemetery,
Harrisville,,West Virginia ....... 2 William Joseph
Wanstreet b: October 13, 1889 d: February 8, 1932 in
Clarksburg,,West Virginia Burial: Wooster,,Ohio ....... 2 Emma Frances Wanstreet
b: June 27, 1892 d: November 26, 1978 in Alum Bridge,,
West Virginia Burial: St. Boniface - Leading Creek
Cemetery, Camden, Lewis, West Virginia ....... 2 Henry Samuel Wanstreet b: March 8, 1898 d: April 20, 1929 in Stella,,Nebraska Burial: ,,Nebraska ....... 2 Mary Agnes Wanstreet b:
October 26, 1901 d: May 22, 1959 |
Descendants of Peter Michael Wanstreet |
| 1 Peter Michael Wanstreet b:
October 26, 1886 in Leopold, Doddridge, Virginia (West
Virginia) d: October 2, 1969 .. +Margaret Shearer b: November 25, 1886 m: February 13, 1917 d: October 31, 1983 Their children: ....... 2 Mary Maxine Wanstreet b: October 25,
1917 in Leopold, Doddridge, West Virginia d: March 1989
Burial: St. Mary's Cemetery, Ravenna, Portage, Ohio
....... 2 Michael Edward Wanstreet b: January
11, 1920 in Leopold, Doddridge, West Virginia
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CEMETERY
LOCATIONS |
| Feature Name: Saint Clara Cemetery
Feature Type: cemetery State: West Virginia County: Doddridge USGS 7.5' x 7.5' Map: New Milton 390733N 0804217W |
| South Fork
Cemetery WV Doddridge 391200N 0805142W Oxford |
| Until I
check further, I don't think this is the same as Pleasant
Valley Cemetery Feature Name: Pleasant Hill Cemetery Feature Type: cemetery State: West Virginia County: Doddridge USGS 7.5' x 7.5' Map: Big Isaac 391245N 0803707W Arial View of Pleasant Valley Cemetery [My notation: I call this sometimes Spurgeon Cemetery, as well as being located at Spurgeon, Doddridge, WV because it is located on the USGS at Spurgeon.] |
| Brannon Cemetery
(Private) Gilmer County, West Virginia Near Conings and Troy, West Virginia Latitude: 390559N Longitude: 0804619W USGS 7.5' x 7.5' Map: Auburn |
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