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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgenwebarchives.org ************************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 78 Today's Topics: #1 [OH-FOOT] Oh-Lucas Co. Bios (Lemer [Archives ] #2 [OH-FOOT] Oh-Wood Co. Bios (Brim) [Archives ] #3 [OH-FOOT] Oh-Wood Co. Bios (Brim) [Archives ] #4 [OH-FOOT] obit: Wimmer, Anna - She [Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20030522103648.12550.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Oh-Lucas Co. Bios (Lemert) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Lucas County OhArchives Biographies.....Beverly Wirt Lemert ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Patrick McVicker Pat.McVicker@ProMedica.org May 22, 2003, 6:36 am Author: Patrick McVicker Beverly Wirt Lemert and his wife, Margaret (Peggy) Fleming Lemert lost three of their four sons during the Civil War. Thomas Jefferson Lemert died at the infamous Confederate Prison Camp at Andersonville, Georgia. He died there of starvation on September 14, 1864. He had only been in service for two months. John Lemert was a lieutenant in Company A of the 76th OVI under Capt. Thaddeus Lemert, a cousin, and was wounded at the battle of Ringold Gap, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, and was taken by wagon to Chattanooga, where he died. In a letter home, several months before, he had written, "I could with pleasure and delight beat my sword into plow shares and, Cincinnatus like, return to tilling the soul, for I hate everything connected with the service. But as much as I hate it and feel the privations of camp life, I will stay in the field my three years and more, rather than submit to a seperation." His brother, Nathan Lemert was attending Granville College (Dennison College, now) and when the confederates attack Fort Sumner a call went out for 75,000, for three months service. His family knew nothing of it until he came home for a visit, wearing his blue uniform. While in the Jefferson Barracks in Missouri, Nathan took typhoid fever and was very ill. Capt. Thrall wrote his family and advised them of his condition and that Nathan wanted to see some of his friends. His mother was the only person able to go and arriving at St. Louis was able to find the right Army Hospital but was unable to find the right officer to give her a pass to see Nathan. The guard in charge of the Ward told her that Nathan was dying, and in her desperation, convinced him that she was Nathan's mother and he allowed her to go in. Nathan knew her and asked her many questions but soon began to sink away. He died before midnight on November 11, 1861, holding his mother's hand until his last breath was gone. He died at nineteen years of age, homesick and broken hearted. His mother returned home with his body. Edward Leroy Lemert, their last son, joined the 42nd OVI, while still at Hiram College and was sent into battle. When his mother heard of his enlistment she went to the front lines with an order for the release of her son, Edward, because of the loss of three of her four sons. Edward refused to go home with her . He was wounded at the Battle of Champion Hills, Mississippi but recovered. After the War he attended the University of Michigan Law School. Additional Comments: Information submitted by Patrick McVicker 17 April 2003 Really Wood County This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 3.1 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: 22 May 2003 18:25:21 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20030522182521.22118.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Oh-Wood Co. Bios (Brim) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Wood County OhArchives Biographies.....Walter Williams Brim ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Patrick McVicker Pat.McVicker@ProMedica.org May 22, 2003, 2:25 pm Author: Portrait and Bio. Record of Toledo and Wood County, OH. qR977.113 Walter Williams Brim was born in Troy Township, Wood, Ohio, on December 9, 1843. He was the second of nine children born to his parents, George Brim and Betsy Marie Loop. Walter's older brother was James J. Younger brothers were George, Jr. and Gilbert B. Sisters were Emaline and Emily (twins, with Emily dieing in infancy), Laney, Betsy and Clara. His father was born in Berry Pomeroy, Devonshire, England and immigrated to this country in the spring of 1835., settling near Stoney Ridge in Wood County. First working in a brickyard and later working in lumbering, along the Maumee River. During the years 1837 to 1848, he labored in the building of the Western Reserve and Maumee Turnpike. Walter Brim's mother was born in New York State, March 13, 1813, the daughter of Peter Loop and Rebecca Gilbert Loop. Five years after Walter's birth, 1848, his father purchased forty acres of land in Sandusky County. It was here that Walter received his early education. Later he attended the seminary at Maumee, Ohio. The Seminary was a Methodist Episcopal denominational school and after completing three terms of study, left the school in the spring of 1863. He was nineteen years of age when he enlisted in Co. L, 3rd Cavalry, under Col Charles Seidell and Col. Howland. He served in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina, taking part in the battle of Mission Ridge and the siege of Knoxville (in which he was among the advance troops) and among the first to break through the lines and communicate with Burnside. After following Longstreet into North Carolina, he went with his regiment into winter quarters on the Hiawassee River. In the spring of 1864 followed Bragg into Georgia, charging the enemy at Dalton. In the Atlanta campaign he was in many skirmishes, and just before the march to the sea, in the fall of 1864, when the Cavalry force was divided, he returned to Louisville under Wilson. The next spring he took part in the Wilson raid through Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, also to Columbus and Macon, George. At Columbus, Wilson's command captured twelve hundred Confederates, with a loss of thirty men. Walter Brim's company was a portion of the force detailed to capture Jeff Davis and though he was not with the party that took possession of that noted leader, he rode over one hundred miles in pursuit of him. At the close of the War he held the rank of First Corporal, and was discharged at Edgefield, Tenn., August 4, 1865. Four years after returning from the South, Walter engaged in farming during the summer and teaching in the winter, after which he devoted himself entirely to the management of his father's homestead. In 1876 he moved to a farm near Millbury, and was a member of George Douglas Post No. 183, G.A.R., of Millbury. He served as Mayor and Councilman of Millbury and served as director of the school.. Walter Brim was married to Harriett S. Brahm, on February 4, 1875. Harriett was born in Loudon, Pennsylvania, on January 18, 1847, and was the daughter of David and Sarah Lookinbill Brahm, native of the Keystone State, and of Dutch descent. She moved to Fremont, Ohio with her parents, when she was about fourteen years of age. She became the mother of four children. Mary Emma (July 12, 1876), who was married to Edwin E. Dancer. Thomas Earl Brim (February 4, 1879) married to Gertrude Chambers. Walter Rolla (October 19, 1891) drown in stony quarry, September 3, 1898. and David Raymond (June 1, 1891) married to Esther C. Gross. Walter Brim died in Toledo, Lucas, Ohio on August 9, 1934 (at the age of ninety) and is buried in the Lake Township Cemetery, Walbridge, Ohio, along with his wife, Harriett, who died April 10, 1920, in Millbury, Ohio. Information compiled by Edward J. McVicker (Great Grandson of Walter W. Brim) using the following sources. "Portrait and Bio. Record of Toledo and Wood County, OH. qR977.113 Genealogy of George Brim and Mary Williams by Esther Brim 1970 and from personal knowledge of Walter. He lived with my family when I was about ten years of age. I remember him setting on our front porch swing and upon his tattered horse buggy seat. My mother and sister hid his buggy seat in our garage because it looked so bad. Grandpa Brim was so angry (and thinking that I had taken the seat) came to the play yard and led me home while holding on to my ear lobe) My impression at the time was that he was a mean old man but I changed my mind after working on his genealogy. Additional Comments: Information submitted by Patrick McVicker (Great-great grandson) 17 April 2003 This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 5.3 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: 22 May 2003 18:28:47 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20030522182847.22968.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Oh-Wood Co. Bios (Brim) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Wood County OhArchives Biographies.....Orville Gilbert Brim August 18 1883 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Patrick McVicker Pat.McVicker@ProMedica.org May 22, 2003, 2:28 pm Author: Patrick McVicker Orville Gilbert Brim was born , August 18, 1883, in Latcha, Wood County, Ohio. His parents were Gilbert Birchall Brim and Elizabeth Hahn. His birth place of Latcha, Ohio is a small rural community which is southwest of Toledo, Ohio, About twenty miles, as the crow flies.. He was the fourth child born to his parents with siblings being, George, Clara, Otto, James and Edna. He was educated at Tri-State University in Indiana, and Valparaiso University. He taught in a one room school house for two years before attending Valparaiaso where he earned his Bachelors degree in Education. He taught in Ohio schools. In the early twenties he became principal of Byrne High School, in Byrne, Indiana. He mentioned that was the first high school he was ever in. He did graduate study in Harvard and Columbia University. Married Helen Whittier of Elmira, New York, in June of 1912. Continued his career as a pioneer in rural education and teacher training at Hattiesburg State Normal College (now Mississippi Southern University) and later at Winthrop College in Rock Hill, South Carolina. In 1918, following the entry of the United States into World War I, he joined the YMCA Service in the Supplies Corps and served overseas in France and Italy. In 1919, after completion of his PHD at Columbia, he joined the faculty at Cornell, then spent a brief summer at the University of Michigan before settling at Ohio State University, where he taught Philosophy of Education for 18 years. In 1941, he retired to Lakeville, Connecticut farm home where he and Helen together created a place of beauty. A haven for family and friends, far and near. Though Helen died in 1975, the Lakeville home continued to be the family center with his loved presence to be welcome there. He was a family man. The father of three daughters and two sons; beloved also by seventeen grandchildren, twenty-eight great grand-children and five great great grandchildren. He was a farmer, gardener, seeker, teacher, counselor and friend. Scholar and author-genealogist and patriarch-world traveler who loved best his own hearthside, and view of fields and hills from his easy chair. He passed through the veil at 103 years of age. His body rests under the "Family Tree", a River Beech tree, planted on their 50th Wedding Anniversary, along side his wife, Helen. Additional Comments: Information submitted by Patrick McVicker (Great-great grandson) 17 April 2003 This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 14:39:14 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20030522193914.016c47c0@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] obit: Wimmer, Anna - Shelby Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" File contributed for use by Karen Kuntz Williams kjwilli5@cox.net *********************************************************************** IN MEMORIAM Mrs. Anna Wimmer Died, in Tuesday afternoon, May 3rd, 1892, after an illness of only one week, Mrs. W. Wimmer. The deceased, formerly Miss Anna Widerkin, was born in 1834, in the neighborhood of Munster, Germany, and was, therefore, at the time of her death, 58 years old. At a very early age she came to America with her parents, who settled near Piqua, Ohio, where they have since remained. The deceased was married about 40 years ago to Mr. Wendel Wimmer, which union was blessed with eight children, one son and seven daughters, who are all grown up, and several are married. Mrs. Wimmer was a diligent worker on the farm, never grumbling about too much work, but always looking to the welfare of her family. The funeral, which was attended by all her children and relatives, took place on Thusday morning, May 5th, 1892, with a solemn Requiem High Mass, at St. Boniface German Catholic Church, after which the remains were interred in the Catholic Cemetery, of Piqua. May she rest in Peace. Submitted by Karen Williams >From a copy provided to me kjwilli5@cox.net ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 14:43:56 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20030522194356.01718b10@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] obit: Wimmer, Wendel - Shelby county Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" File contributed for use by Karen Kuntz Williams kjwilli5@cox.net *********************************************************************** IN MEMORIAM Mr. Wendel Wimmer Died, with Bright's disease, on Friday morning, June 15th, 1894, at the home of his son-in-law, S. McDonald, near Kirkwood, Ohio, Wendel Wimmer, an old German pioneer of the county, aged 69 years, six months and 27 days. Until three weeks before his death he had lived with his son-in-law John Staphon, but as he felt his end approaching, he expressed the desire to die where his wife had died in May, 1892. Born in Germany, the deceased came to America at the age of twenty, and settled in the Southern part of Shelby county, Ohio, where he remained till his death. Eight children, one son and seven daughters, mourn their loss. The daughters are Mrs. Anthony Brinn, Sidney, Mrs. John Staphon, near Piqua; Mrs. Samuel McDonald, near Kirkwood; Mrs. Daniel Stauner, West Milton; Mrs. Jas. Burke, Dayton, Ohio. The funeral ceremonies took place on Sunday afternoon, June 17th, from the German Catholic Church from when the remains were interred in the Catholic Cemetery, of Piqua. Submitted by Karen Williams kjwilli5@cox.net ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 14:51:27 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20030522195127.0172e2ac@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] obit: Marshall, F.J. - shelby co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" File contributed for use by Sandy Newman Bubbysgal@aol.com *********************************************************************** F.J. MARSHALL Who Was Prominent Figure In Shelby County Succumbed At The Memorial Hospital In Piqua Last Tuesday Afternoon FORMER BANK PRESIDENT At Fort Loramie and Proprietor Of A Hotel in Home Village F.J. MARSHALL is dead at his home in Newport, Shelby county, and a wife and five sons are receiving messages of condolence from an untold number of persons who reside in all communities throughout this section of Ohio. He was one of the most widely known characters who had any part in the civic life during the past quarter of a century and his line of acquaintanceship reached into all channels, so that when he passed away men and woman throughout a vast area paused to contemplate. With the exception of a few months he spent all of his life in the village in the western section of Shelby county and there perhaps was no other person in the community who came into contact with as large a number of people, as they came and went, as did this man. During his entire life in Newport he was connected with a country inn where almost everybody made their headquarters while they took care of their interests in that locality. It was a popular place over a long span of time and very largely because of the fine characteristics of this man. Mr. MARSHALL was the proprietor and owner of the MARSHALL House at Newport which is situated along state route sixty-six. The building was erected by his father nearly seventy-five years ago and his son spent long years there. His early life was given to rendering such service as was possible for a boy to give at such a place and he was equipped to take over the management of the business when conditions forced him to become the head, as they did when he attained to his young manhood. Frank John MARSHALL was born on January 29, 1872, and he was the only son of Joseph and Philomena MARSHALL who located in the Newport community in their earlier years. The father erected the building in which the hotel business has been conducted in the year of 1860 and it was in this building where the subject of this narrative was born. Two sisters were also born into this family but they, as well as the parents, have been dead over a number of years. The father of John MARSHALL was born in France, while the mother was a native of Germany. They located in the Newport community when the village was a thriving center, made so because of the conveniences that were offered by the Miami and Erie canal. The early life of John MARSHALL was tempered by a very large extent by his association with the hardy men who were compelled to blaze their ways midst almost primitive conditions. Their courage made its impression on him and in his after years he too showed his metal in a very large measure. He passed away after a long and disturbing illness but he refused to be cast down by oppression and thus the element of courage that was beaten into his life by his companions of the yesteryears served him well. During his illness of many months he rested his case in the hands of experts of many schools and this courage did not fail although the situation seemed none too encouraging during many of the changes. Mr. MARSHALL's death occurred at 4:35 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, August 21, 1934, at the Memorial hospital in Piqua. His health began to give him concern some time during the year of 1928 and he submitted to an operation during that period. From that time on he passed through many unpleasant experiences and he was taken to the Piqua hospital on Monday afternoon. Mr. MARSHALL took an important place in the affairs of his community at an early age and his loyalty to the people who lived within the circle there was one of the oustanding attributes of his life. He wanted his neighbors and the people who ventured in the Newport community to be as happy as they would be in any other locality under the sun. Whenever some scheme was proposed that would enlarge on the conveniences of country life in his locality he offered his services to further such schemes so that his handprints can be seen in many places in and about Newport. He served the people in Cynthian township, Shelby county, as their public treasurer during a certain period but this was the extent of his ventures in public life. He affiliated with the democratic party during his life and was counseled regularly by the leaders of that party as to policies and plans. He bacame a stockholder in the Loramie bank, at Ft. Loramie, and served as the president of that institution for a time and up until the first of the current year when he refused to retain the place. On October 24, 1893, he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth MONNIER who was a member of a prominent family in the Russia community, the wedding mass being read in the St. Remy church in that village. The young people established their home in the hotel at Newport and lived there while six sons were born into the household. Because of new conditions throughout the country they left Newport and moved to Dayton several year's ago, but they resided in the city only a short while and returned to Newport to resume their former places in the community. One son, Bryan MARSHALL, died about twenty years ago while the five now surviving are: Wilford and Oswald who are living at the parents' home; Otto living at Piqua; Roger and Frank, the latter an attorney are living at Sidney. He was affiliated with the Elks lodge at Sidney and was a member of the SS. Peter and Paul parish at Newport. The funeral will be held at the church in Newport on Friday morning at nine o'clock and the interment will be made in the cemetery there. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V03 Issue #78 ******************************************