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Surnames: ZIMMERMAN-UNSEL-MCCOY-BECK-SCHUYLER-HOOVER
Classification: Query
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My gggm Catherine(?middle name Elizabeth) Zimmerman married my gggf Balthasar Unseld aka
Baltus Unsel-their first child was born in 1855. They lived in Utica, NY. She died in
1893. He was killed in 1860.
Her sister Rosa married a Schuyler and she died after 1893. They lived I believe in Utica
or possibly the Rochester or Erie Co. area. My gggm's other sister married Lawrence
Beck in Utica but he was from the Erie Co. area. I believe they had a child named Ernest
who lived in Chicago.
After my gggf died she married a man named Hoover. We believe the marriage was
short-lived and unhappy. Don't know if they divorced but she kept his surname until
her death. Catherine and Baltus' children were John who married Mary Catherine McCoy,
Mary who married Willard Webster and Michael who died unmarried at age 30 of TB. We
believe the Zimmermans came to the US in 1853 but not sure. They came from Baden. We
believe she had a brother Matthew or the German equivilent who moved "west"
according to family lore. In those days west could have meant Illinois, Ohio, or Oklahoma
or California.
I found a baptism and a death entry linking the family to a family named Furman. Is
there any link with our Zimmermans? I have my fingers crossed as I am at a dead end.
Kathy