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Subject: Re: Zimmerly and Brown in Wells Co, IN
Date: 14 Sep 2005 10:24:48 -0600

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I have here listed the following five children: William, David, Ann, John, and Jacob as the children of George Zimmerly and Catherine Deck. This connection is tentative at best, and is made from circumstancial evidence.

The absence of a namesake leaves doubt as to the parentage of the children, but with a marriage date of 1794, and the oldest identified sibling (William b 1803), George and Catherine may have lost other children at a young age.

Documentation from Indiana indicate that these five children are siblings. According to various Census records they were born in either Virginia or North Carolina. Their parents died while the children were young. They were raised by Elizabeth Zimmerly, probably an Aunt. This Elizabeth appears to be the unmarried daughter of Jacob and Eve.

In 1819, Jacob Zimmerly Sr. names Elizabeth Zimmerly as his daughter. He also names granddaughter Suzannah Zimmerly, by all appearences already an adult too old to be Anna the child of George & Catherine. Neither is she a child of Jacob and Sarah, so she is possibly an illegitamate child of Elizabeth's.

In 1820, Elizabeth was living in Scott County, Virginia with five children.

In 1850 Elizabeth born in NC in 1780 is living with Jacob Zimmerlee. This Jacob was born in June of 1819.
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Indiana Marriages prior to 1850

Jacob Zimmerlee
m: December 20, 1844 - Wells Co., IN
Clarissa Brown
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Biographical sketch extracted from: Biographical and historical record of Adams and Wells counties, Indiana. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1887. pp. 765-766.

JACOB ZIMMERLEE, deceased, an early settler of Union Township, was born in Virginia. But little is known of the history of his parents, as they both died when he was a mere lad, and he found a home with his brother-in-law, Jacob Miller, who married his only sister, Ann. There were three other sons, John, William and David, who settled in Rush County, Indiana, while Mr. Miller came to Wells County, bringing Jacob with him. David afterward moved to and died in Adams County. Jacob was reared in this county, and without patrimony began the work of providing a home for himself. He drove a team for his brother-in-law several years between Bluffton and Cincinnati, from which city all the goods were transported. He was fourteen years of age when he came to the county, and at that time there were scarcely any settlements. December 25, 1845, he was married to Clara Brown, and they began housekeeping on the farm now belonging to the Fredrick Eichhorn heirs. Mrs. Zimmerlee was born !
in Wilks County, North Carolina, February 1, 1824, and was a daughter of Elisha and Elizabeth (Redding) Brown. The nationality of the Brown family cannot be ascertained, but the Zimmerlees are of German origin. When the event of their marriage occurred, $5 would have purchased all their united possessions. Four years after they were married he purchased on credit forty acres of land now owned by Daniel Fisher, and worked by the month to pay for it. During this time his good wife remained alone with her four children and managed to support them by weaving, so that her husband?s earnings could all apply on the purchase. After the land was paid for he commenced clearing it and had the task almost completed when he sold it, and in 1861 removed to the farm now owned by his wife. The following spring they went to the Robert. Miller farm on the Wabash, and returned in the fall to the farm of J. Roe, two of their children having died during their residence on the Wabash. Two years !
were spent on the Roe farm during which time he built the cabin that s
till stands in the door-yard. They removed to their new home in 1863, where they have since resided. Jacob was a shoemaker by trade and during his early married life worked at the bench during the winter season. Their first years of married life were full of hardships, but his last purchase of 110 acres made him a comparatively wealthy man, and after the timber was removed it made a fine farm. By will the property was bequeathed to his wife during her lifetime and then descends to her heirs. The death of Mr. Zimmerlee occurred October 15, 1885, and his remains were interred at Markle. They had eight children, five of whom are living. John, who married Caroline Platt; Martha A., wife of Peter C. Leavengood; Daniel, married Nancy A. McLure; Elijah, married Alice Ormsby, and Mary E., wife of Daniel Walter. Elijah is the only child that has engaged in a profession. He taught school previous to his marriage, and abandoned his profession to engage in farming. Later he established !
a tile factory with Daniel Walter near the home farm, which he sold at the death of his father, and he now has charge of the homestead. All are residents of Union Township, and all reside on section 33.
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Jacob's parents are listed on Ancestry.com as George & Catarina Deck Zimmerlee and Clarissa is the d/o (according to posting on ancestry.com) Elisha and Elizabeth Redding Brown. This family is living next door to Jacob Zimmerly in the 1850 Wells Co., IN census. Siblings to Clarissa are Nancy, John & Elisha Brown. As for Henry Brown (age 1) it is quite possible he is a nephew to Clarissa & Jacob. Hope this helps. Karen

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