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Note N2836
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Obit in the Sand Hill Church records reads as follows: August 1, 1797. Margaret Salome Blessing nee Wackerin, born September 29, 1718 in Niefern, Germany near Pforzheim. Baptized, confirmed in the Evangelical Lutheran Religion and admitted to Holy Communion. Married to the surviving Anton Blessing, had 9 children of whom 8 are alive, 6 sons and 2 daughters. Sickness was consumption with which whe was afflicted nearly 4 years.
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Note N2837
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Margaret's obit was found at Sand Hill Church, as follows: August 1, 1797: Margaret Salome Blessing nee Wackerin, born September 29, 1718 in Niefern, Germany near Pforzheim. Baptized, confirmed in the Evangelical Lutheran religion and admitted to Holy Communion. Sickness was consumption with which she was afflicted nearly four years.
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Note N2838
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Church records from Evangelische Kirchengemeinde, 7532 Niefern an der enz state that Margaret (usually referred to as Salome) was a foundling, and that she was raised by Johannes and Anna Wacker of Niefern, Germany.
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Note N2839
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Soldier and scout French and Indian War.Soldier and scout French and Indian War. Lived at Hadley in 1665, at Hatfield in 1668 in western Mass. He was engaged in various Indian wars, and was slain in the battle between the colonists and the French and Indians at Deerfield in 1704. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Marshall Field's Genealogy of the Field Family of Conway, Craft's History of Whately, and numerous local records, tell of the exploits and heroism of this intrepid Indian fighter. One of the most interesting of his experiences, recounted in prose and verse, is the story of the Indian attack upon Hatfield, September 19, 1677, the capture of Benjamin Wait's wife and children by the Indians, who took them to Canada, his long and determined pursuit, and final recovery of them. The mother gave birth to a daughter while in captivity who was named 'Canada', and one of whose descendants founded Smith College, at Northampton, Massachusetts. Several generations of the family remained at Hatfield, Whately and vicinity, various members serving in the colonial wars and the War of the Revolution.
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Note N2840
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Occupation was cooper, farmer, merchant. John was the seventh generation . Born in NY where he followed farming and afterward learned the cooper's trade. Mr. Waite afterward engaged in the marble business and took contracts for the construction of railway water tanks. In 1867 he removed to Burlington, Iowa, and became senior member of the grocery firm of Waite, Trenor & Company, while later he conducted a commission business under the firm style of Waite & Leebrick. He afterward turned his attention to farming in Fint River township and there resided until his death, which occured while he was visiting a daughter in Peru, Kansas, June 11, 1894. He was a Methodist in religious faith, a republican in his political belief, and his influence and aid were always on the side of progress, reform and improvement.
John was a farmer and stock-raiser, resided on section 14, Flint River Township, Des Moines county, Iowa. John recieved his education in his native (NY) county, and there followed various occupations until eighteen years of age, when he learned the cooper's trade, which vocation he followed for about thirty years. About the year 1830 he removed to Ravenna, Portage Co., Ohio, there carrying on the cooper's business, and remaining until 1867. In the mean time, in that city, he was united in marriage to Miss Martha A. Clark. On their arrival in DesMoines County, Mr. and Mrs. Waite took up their residence in Burlington, where he embarked in the grocery business, which he carried on for a year, then formed a partnership with John P. Leebrick, and later, in connections with a Mr. Lockwood, engaged as a commission merchant. In 1870 he removed to the farm on section 14, Flint River Township, consisting of eighty acres of fine land, with many good improvements, and here he has since made his home. Mr. and Mrs. Waite have, for almost a half-century, been active and devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Waite has held various minor offices of his township, in which he is one of the leading citizens. He takes his stand strongly in favor of the temperance movement, and the enforcement of prohibition laws, and is an ardent Republican in politics.---Portrait and Biographical Review of Des Moines County (1888).
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After his birth in Whatley, lived at Norwich and Oaks Corners, NY and Chesterfield, Michigan. He served in the war of 1812.