From Neal Degner, Germantown, WI
His baptismal sponsor was Jakob Weber, a journeyman wall builder, in Forth represented by Johann Renz a dayworker in Forth. There was a note on the baptismal document stating when MIchael Weisner emigrated that he was registered as the father by the district court in Erlangen on September 8, 1842. He immigrated in 1844 with his parents. He served in the Civil War with the 48th Wisconsin Company E. His service papers indicate that he enlisted on 18 February 1865 for one year and was honorably discharged on 30 December, 1865, He applied for an invalid pension, numbered 512395 and 502901, on the 18th of September 1884 stating that he had been unable to support himself with manual work because of the injuries he suffered. In this Declaration of Invalid Pension he states, by reason of Rheumatism and results of disease of the heart and dizziness, disease of the urinary organs and disease of the digestive tract. The War Department stated that he was a Private in Company E, 48th Regiment Wis. Volunteers and enrolled on 18 Feb. 1865 in West Bend, WI. He is shown to be sick On November 29 to December 2, 1865. Jacob made the following affidavit regarding his application for a pension. He stated that during the Winter in near Fort Leavenworth, he suffered frost bite on his feet during a march. In his file are several affidavits from fellow soldiers and one from Phillip Hembel, who states that when Jacob let for service he was a sound man, but returned unable to work. One affidavit from an Albert Oberberger states the following, "I was a member of the aforesaid company (48th E Company) and regiment and served with the claimant and during his whole period of service we were bunk mates during the whole time while on the return march from the plains to Ft. Leavenworth sometime about the middle of December 1865, I can not give the exact date, we were overtaken by a sever snowstorm. The weather became very cold. The claimant froze both his feet, the right very severely, the left not so sever. ..he became so lame he could scarcely walk, a considerable portion of the flesh fell off near the big toe, so much so that the bone was exposed to view. He did not go to the hospital, was taken care of by his comrades in his quarters. He was quite lame in his right foot" This was signed on March 31, 1893. The other Affidavits tell a similar story.
He was married in St. Johns' Lutheran Church in West Bend, WI on 11 Dec. 1867 according to church records. Witnesses at marriage were August Erdmann and Johann Buechner. In his affidavit he states that they moved to Door County in the Fall of 1880. His death record in Volume 9, page 160 Door County states he last worked in 1906 his father was Michael Wiesner and his mother Margaret Buechner, he died of carcinoma of the stomach and prostrate. However in Jacob Wiesner's marriage record at St. John's Lutheran church it lists his mother as nee Man. In the death record it states he was born in New Jersey. However the 1850 census has him born in Prussia and the 1860, 1870 and 1880 census born in Bavaria, 1900, 1910 in New Jersey. His marriage record in St. John's states he was born in Koeingreich Bayern (Bavaria), Vater Michael Wiesner, Mutter Margaretha geb. Mau. Why the mother's last name is different is not known.
Obituary from Door County Advocate:
Jacob Wiesner, One of Three Remaining Vets, Dies Tuesday
Jacob Wiesner Sr. , 94, one of the three remaining Civil War veterans in Door County, died at the home of his son, Jacob Jr., in Nasewaupee Tuesday at one o'clock from old age complications. The two veterans still living are Nic. Kihl, formerly of Fish Creek and now of this city, and W.R. Lindsley, also of Sturgeon Bay but for the present residing in Iowa with his son. Members of the Archie Lackshire post of the American Legion will attend the funeral at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the St. Peter's Lutheran church in Sawyer and provide a firing squad and color guard for a military service at the grave in Schumacher's cemetery. The Rev. Schumann will officiate. Six of the grandsons will be pallbearers and the granddaughters the deceased will carry the flowers. The body lay in state at the Stoneman's funeral home until last night when it was taken to the residence. Mr. Wiesner is a native of New Jersey where he was born June 28, 1842, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Wiesner. He came west with his parents at the age of three, settling at Milwaukee where he lived at the time of his enlistment in the Union Army. He was married December 11, 1863, to Minne Erdmann and continued to reside in Milwaukee until 55 years ago when the family came to Door County, buying a farm in Nasewaupee which Mr. Wiesner developed into an excellent piece of agricultural property. The Wiesners had five children, two of whom Mrs. Henry Bushman and William, are deceased. Those living, besides Jacob Jr., are Mrs. Fred Sperber of Nasewaupee and Mrs. John Sperber of Sawyer Mrs. Wiesner died in 1910, the year of the couple's 57th wedding anniversary. Also surviving are 19 grandchildren and 33 great grandchildren.
Contributor: Neal Degner (49866412)
His baptismal sponsor was Jakob Weber, a journeyman wall builder, in Forth represented by Johann Renz a dayworker in Forth. There was a note on the baptismal document stating when MIchael Weisner emigrated that he was registered as the father by the district court in Erlangen on September 8, 1842. He immigrated in 1844 with his parents. He served in the Civil War with the 48th Wisconsin Company E. His service papers indicate that he enlisted on 18 February 1865 for one year and was honorably discharged on 30 December, 1865, He applied for an invalid pension, numbered 512395 and 502901, on the 18th of September 1884 stating that he had been unable to support himself with manual work because of the injuries he suffered. In this Declaration of Invalid Pension he states, by reason of Rheumatism and results of disease of the heart and dizziness, disease of the urinary organs and disease of the digestive tract. The War Department stated that he was a Private in Company E, 48th Regiment Wis. Volunteers and enrolled on 18 Feb. 1865 in West Bend, WI. He is shown to be sick On November 29 to December 2, 1865. Jacob made the following affidavit regarding his application for a pension. He stated that during the Winter in near Fort Leavenworth, he suffered frost bite on his feet during a march. In his file are several affidavits from fellow soldiers and one from Phillip Hembel, who states that when Jacob let for service he was a sound man, but returned unable to work. One affidavit from an Albert Oberberger states the following, "I was a member of the aforesaid company (48th E Company) and regiment and served with the claimant and during his whole period of service we were bunk mates during the whole time while on the return march from the plains to Ft. Leavenworth sometime about the middle of December 1865, I can not give the exact date, we were overtaken by a sever snowstorm. The weather became very cold. The claimant froze both his feet, the right very severely, the left not so sever. ..he became so lame he could scarcely walk, a considerable portion of the flesh fell off near the big toe, so much so that the bone was exposed to view. He did not go to the hospital, was taken care of by his comrades in his quarters. He was quite lame in his right foot" This was signed on March 31, 1893. The other Affidavits tell a similar story.
He was married in St. Johns' Lutheran Church in West Bend, WI on 11 Dec. 1867 according to church records. Witnesses at marriage were August Erdmann and Johann Buechner. In his affidavit he states that they moved to Door County in the Fall of 1880. His death record in Volume 9, page 160 Door County states he last worked in 1906 his father was Michael Wiesner and his mother Margaret Buechner, he died of carcinoma of the stomach and prostrate. However in Jacob Wiesner's marriage record at St. John's Lutheran church it lists his mother as nee Man. In the death record it states he was born in New Jersey. However the 1850 census has him born in Prussia and the 1860, 1870 and 1880 census born in Bavaria, 1900, 1910 in New Jersey. His marriage record in St. John's states he was born in Koeingreich Bayern (Bavaria), Vater Michael Wiesner, Mutter Margaretha geb. Mau. Why the mother's last name is different is not known.
Obituary from Door County Advocate:
Jacob Wiesner, One of Three Remaining Vets, Dies Tuesday
Jacob Wiesner Sr. , 94, one of the three remaining Civil War veterans in Door County, died at the home of his son, Jacob Jr., in Nasewaupee Tuesday at one o'clock from old age complications. The two veterans still living are Nic. Kihl, formerly of Fish Creek and now of this city, and W.R. Lindsley, also of Sturgeon Bay but for the present residing in Iowa with his son. Members of the Archie Lackshire post of the American Legion will attend the funeral at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the St. Peter's Lutheran church in Sawyer and provide a firing squad and color guard for a military service at the grave in Schumacher's cemetery. The Rev. Schumann will officiate. Six of the grandsons will be pallbearers and the granddaughters the deceased will carry the flowers. The body lay in state at the Stoneman's funeral home until last night when it was taken to the residence. Mr. Wiesner is a native of New Jersey where he was born June 28, 1842, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Wiesner. He came west with his parents at the age of three, settling at Milwaukee where he lived at the time of his enlistment in the Union Army. He was married December 11, 1863, to Minne Erdmann and continued to reside in Milwaukee until 55 years ago when the family came to Door County, buying a farm in Nasewaupee which Mr. Wiesner developed into an excellent piece of agricultural property. The Wiesners had five children, two of whom Mrs. Henry Bushman and William, are deceased. Those living, besides Jacob Jr., are Mrs. Fred Sperber of Nasewaupee and Mrs. John Sperber of Sawyer Mrs. Wiesner died in 1910, the year of the couple's 57th wedding anniversary. Also surviving are 19 grandchildren and 33 great grandchildren.
Contributor: Neal Degner (49866412)
From Neal Degner, Germantown, WI
His baptismal sponsor was Jakob Weber, a journeyman wall builder, in Forth represented by Johann Renz a dayworker in Forth. There was a note on the baptismal document stating when MIchael Weisner emigrated that he was registered as the father by the district court in Erlangen on September 8, 1842. He immigrated in 1844 with his parents. He served in the Civil War with the 48th Wisconsin Company E. His service papers indicate that he enlisted on 18 February 1865 for one year and was honorably discharged on 30 December, 1865, He applied for an invalid pension, numbered 512395 and 502901, on the 18th of September 1884 stating that he had been unable to support himself with manual work because of the injuries he suffered. In this Declaration of Invalid Pension he states, by reason of Rheumatism and results of disease of the heart and dizziness, disease of the urinary organs and disease of the digestive tract. The War Department stated that he was a Private in Company E, 48th Regiment Wis. Volunteers and enrolled on 18 Feb. 1865 in West Bend, WI. He is shown to be sick On November 29 to December 2, 1865. Jacob made the following affidavit regarding his application for a pension. He stated that during the Winter in near Fort Leavenworth, he suffered frost bite on his feet during a march. In his file are several affidavits from fellow soldiers and one from Phillip Hembel, who states that when Jacob let for service he was a sound man, but returned unable to work. One affidavit from an Albert Oberberger states the following, "I was a member of the aforesaid company (48th E Company) and regiment and served with the claimant and during his whole period of service we were bunk mates during the whole time while on the return march from the plains to Ft. Leavenworth sometime about the middle of December 1865, I can not give the exact date, we were overtaken by a sever snowstorm. The weather became very cold. The claimant froze both his feet, the right very severely, the left not so sever. ..he became so lame he could scarcely walk, a considerable portion of the flesh fell off near the big toe, so much so that the bone was exposed to view. He did not go to the hospital, was taken care of by his comrades in his quarters. He was quite lame in his right foot" This was signed on March 31, 1893. The other Affidavits tell a similar story.
He was married in St. Johns' Lutheran Church in West Bend, WI on 11 Dec. 1867 according to church records. Witnesses at marriage were August Erdmann and Johann Buechner. In his affidavit he states that they moved to Door County in the Fall of 1880. His death record in Volume 9, page 160 Door County states he last worked in 1906 his father was Michael Wiesner and his mother Margaret Buechner, he died of carcinoma of the stomach and prostrate. However in Jacob Wiesner's marriage record at St. John's Lutheran church it lists his mother as nee Man. In the death record it states he was born in New Jersey. However the 1850 census has him born in Prussia and the 1860, 1870 and 1880 census born in Bavaria, 1900, 1910 in New Jersey. His marriage record in St. John's states he was born in Koeingreich Bayern (Bavaria), Vater Michael Wiesner, Mutter Margaretha geb. Mau. Why the mother's last name is different is not known.
Obituary from Door County Advocate:
Jacob Wiesner, One of Three Remaining Vets, Dies Tuesday
Jacob Wiesner Sr. , 94, one of the three remaining Civil War veterans in Door County, died at the home of his son, Jacob Jr., in Nasewaupee Tuesday at one o'clock from old age complications. The two veterans still living are Nic. Kihl, formerly of Fish Creek and now of this city, and W.R. Lindsley, also of Sturgeon Bay but for the present residing in Iowa with his son. Members of the Archie Lackshire post of the American Legion will attend the funeral at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the St. Peter's Lutheran church in Sawyer and provide a firing squad and color guard for a military service at the grave in Schumacher's cemetery. The Rev. Schumann will officiate. Six of the grandsons will be pallbearers and the granddaughters the deceased will carry the flowers. The body lay in state at the Stoneman's funeral home until last night when it was taken to the residence. Mr. Wiesner is a native of New Jersey where he was born June 28, 1842, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Wiesner. He came west with his parents at the age of three, settling at Milwaukee where he lived at the time of his enlistment in the Union Army. He was married December 11, 1863, to Minne Erdmann and continued to reside in Milwaukee until 55 years ago when the family came to Door County, buying a farm in Nasewaupee which Mr. Wiesner developed into an excellent piece of agricultural property. The Wiesners had five children, two of whom Mrs. Henry Bushman and William, are deceased. Those living, besides Jacob Jr., are Mrs. Fred Sperber of Nasewaupee and Mrs. John Sperber of Sawyer Mrs. Wiesner died in 1910, the year of the couple's 57th wedding anniversary. Also surviving are 19 grandchildren and 33 great grandchildren.
Contributor: Neal Degner (49866412)
His baptismal sponsor was Jakob Weber, a journeyman wall builder, in Forth represented by Johann Renz a dayworker in Forth. There was a note on the baptismal document stating when MIchael Weisner emigrated that he was registered as the father by the district court in Erlangen on September 8, 1842. He immigrated in 1844 with his parents. He served in the Civil War with the 48th Wisconsin Company E. His service papers indicate that he enlisted on 18 February 1865 for one year and was honorably discharged on 30 December, 1865, He applied for an invalid pension, numbered 512395 and 502901, on the 18th of September 1884 stating that he had been unable to support himself with manual work because of the injuries he suffered. In this Declaration of Invalid Pension he states, by reason of Rheumatism and results of disease of the heart and dizziness, disease of the urinary organs and disease of the digestive tract. The War Department stated that he was a Private in Company E, 48th Regiment Wis. Volunteers and enrolled on 18 Feb. 1865 in West Bend, WI. He is shown to be sick On November 29 to December 2, 1865. Jacob made the following affidavit regarding his application for a pension. He stated that during the Winter in near Fort Leavenworth, he suffered frost bite on his feet during a march. In his file are several affidavits from fellow soldiers and one from Phillip Hembel, who states that when Jacob let for service he was a sound man, but returned unable to work. One affidavit from an Albert Oberberger states the following, "I was a member of the aforesaid company (48th E Company) and regiment and served with the claimant and during his whole period of service we were bunk mates during the whole time while on the return march from the plains to Ft. Leavenworth sometime about the middle of December 1865, I can not give the exact date, we were overtaken by a sever snowstorm. The weather became very cold. The claimant froze both his feet, the right very severely, the left not so sever. ..he became so lame he could scarcely walk, a considerable portion of the flesh fell off near the big toe, so much so that the bone was exposed to view. He did not go to the hospital, was taken care of by his comrades in his quarters. He was quite lame in his right foot" This was signed on March 31, 1893. The other Affidavits tell a similar story.
He was married in St. Johns' Lutheran Church in West Bend, WI on 11 Dec. 1867 according to church records. Witnesses at marriage were August Erdmann and Johann Buechner. In his affidavit he states that they moved to Door County in the Fall of 1880. His death record in Volume 9, page 160 Door County states he last worked in 1906 his father was Michael Wiesner and his mother Margaret Buechner, he died of carcinoma of the stomach and prostrate. However in Jacob Wiesner's marriage record at St. John's Lutheran church it lists his mother as nee Man. In the death record it states he was born in New Jersey. However the 1850 census has him born in Prussia and the 1860, 1870 and 1880 census born in Bavaria, 1900, 1910 in New Jersey. His marriage record in St. John's states he was born in Koeingreich Bayern (Bavaria), Vater Michael Wiesner, Mutter Margaretha geb. Mau. Why the mother's last name is different is not known.
Obituary from Door County Advocate:
Jacob Wiesner, One of Three Remaining Vets, Dies Tuesday
Jacob Wiesner Sr. , 94, one of the three remaining Civil War veterans in Door County, died at the home of his son, Jacob Jr., in Nasewaupee Tuesday at one o'clock from old age complications. The two veterans still living are Nic. Kihl, formerly of Fish Creek and now of this city, and W.R. Lindsley, also of Sturgeon Bay but for the present residing in Iowa with his son. Members of the Archie Lackshire post of the American Legion will attend the funeral at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the St. Peter's Lutheran church in Sawyer and provide a firing squad and color guard for a military service at the grave in Schumacher's cemetery. The Rev. Schumann will officiate. Six of the grandsons will be pallbearers and the granddaughters the deceased will carry the flowers. The body lay in state at the Stoneman's funeral home until last night when it was taken to the residence. Mr. Wiesner is a native of New Jersey where he was born June 28, 1842, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Wiesner. He came west with his parents at the age of three, settling at Milwaukee where he lived at the time of his enlistment in the Union Army. He was married December 11, 1863, to Minne Erdmann and continued to reside in Milwaukee until 55 years ago when the family came to Door County, buying a farm in Nasewaupee which Mr. Wiesner developed into an excellent piece of agricultural property. The Wiesners had five children, two of whom Mrs. Henry Bushman and William, are deceased. Those living, besides Jacob Jr., are Mrs. Fred Sperber of Nasewaupee and Mrs. John Sperber of Sawyer Mrs. Wiesner died in 1910, the year of the couple's 57th wedding anniversary. Also surviving are 19 grandchildren and 33 great grandchildren.
Contributor: Neal Degner (49866412)
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