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Have you tried a death certificate or a marriage record? Sometimes they
have parents names on them. If not at the state level, how about the
county level?
Debbie
Sandston, VA
At 10:15 AM 01/31/2002 +0100, you wrote:
Dear Listers,
I am new to this list. I am an American living and working in Germany and
can help
with queries here in Germany if someone needs help. Here is the
problem which I hope some kind soul out there will please help me with.
My great-grandfather Thomas Jefferson Ziegler was born in Carlisle,
Pennsylvania in
1845, I believe on 4 June. He had a brother named John (I
think with middle initial F.) and a sister named Mary (whose married name
was Benton, but doesn't this begin to sound like a brick wall...). I
believe, but can't confirm yet, whether these two siblings were older or
younger, I believe however that they were probably older.
I believe I have finally found Thomas Ziegler in the 1850 census, but he
is no
longer in Cumberland Co. but in Bucks Co. with the family of Henry
and Sophia Freed. There he is, five years old. There are no other Thomas
Zieglers in the 1850 census who fit.
Before the Civil War he moved to Washington Co., Pennsylvania. He
volunteered for
the Union Army, was badly wounded in the elbow at the
Battle of the Wilderness and was an invalid for the rest of his life. In
June, 1878 he moved to Savannah, Ashland Co., Ohio, where he died in
January 1903. I have found him and his wife on the 1880 census, and his
widow on the 1900 and 1910 censuses. His Civil War Pension File is 130
pages long, and it is a goldmine of information -- only no where are any
parents' names mentioned.
For this reason I do not know his parents' names and this is where I am
hoping
someone out there might be able to help me. It looks a lot as
though he were an orphan and farmed out to a new family. But this is all
speculation.
For any help, I would be very, very grateful.
Jeff Richards
Muenster, Germany
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