SENECA COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: ZIMMERMAN, John (published 1896)
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    From the "Commemorative Biographical Record of Sandusky and Ottawa
Counties Ohio" (Beers & Co.  Chicago, 1896) P. 785:
    John Zimmerman's Father came to Pennslyvania from Germany with his
parents at age 2 years.  They were farmers.  John married Rebecca in 1821
and in 1822 moved to Ohio settling in Stark County, Ohio.  13 years later
(?1835) they again moved, this time to Seneca County, Ohio.  In 1847, they
purchased the farm where William still resides in Green Creek Township,
Sandusky County, Ohio.  There in 1850, Rebecca died.  ...  John died in
1878 in Seneca county.
    Note:  There is no Josiah Zimmerman on the census in 1860...either his
given name is John Josiah and he went by John to cut down on confusion, or
he was living with some other relative, or the census missed him.  Josiah
would have been 13 years old during the 1860 census and Rebecca would have
been 45 years old when he was born.