Weible, Catherine

Birth Name Weible, Catherine
Gramps ID I6873
Gender female

Events

Event Date Place Description
Sources Notes
Birth 1834 Ohio, USA  
 
Census 1850 Dover Twp, Tuscarawas Cty, Ohio, USA  
1a
Census 1860 Dover Twp, Tuscarawas Cty, Ohio, USA  
2a
Census 1870 Dover Twp, Tuscarawas Cty, Ohio, USA  
3a

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Weible, William [I0719]1811
Mother Kretzer, Christina [I6872]1812
         Weible, Catherine [I6873] 1834
    Sister     Weible, Ann [I6936] 1836
    Sister     Weible, Elizabeth [I6937] 1841

Families

    Family of Schear, Adam and Weible, Catherine [F2240]
Married Husband Schear, Adam [I6613] ( * 1830-02-20 + 1902-07-23 )
   
Event Date Place Description
Sources Notes
Marriage 1852-10-12 Tuscarawas Cty, Ohio, USA  
4a
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Schear, Martha E. [I6945]1858
Schear, Augustus Alvan [I6940]1860-06-041946-11-16
Schear, Anna Rachael [I6941]1862-04-121936-07-03
Schear, Clara Catherine [I6939]1864-02-241947-02-14
Schear, Alice Mary [I6938]1866-10-141922-10-10
Schear, Leroy J. [I6942]1870-01-241943-03-11
Schear, Matilda E. [I6943]1872-03-051924-11-17

Narrative

Note: Researching Catherine Weible

Excerpted from the text Christian Metzger: Founder of an American Family 1682-1942, p177, under the section for her father William Weible:

He had a daughter, Catharine Weible who was the first wife of Adam Schear.
(See Lydia Jane Weible, dau. of Frederick Weible.) Catharine Weible Schear
was the mother of two sons and four daughters who are lineal descendants of
Christian, Frederick, and Nancy Metzger.

This is the only information given for Catherine in that text, and the only mention made of any of William's children at all that I have found in that same text. I have not yet found confirmed vital dates for her, though she is included in her father's household in the 1850 US Census as a teenager, indicating that her birthdate was about 1834. I also believe she must have died sometime between 1872 (the approximate birthdate of her youngest known child, Matilda) and early 1877, when her widowered husband Adam remarried to Catherine's younger cousin Lydia Jane Weible.

Additionally, the text gives that she was the mother of two sons and four daughters, but it appears there were actually seven children total (two sons and four daughters) born to Catherine and Adam. I suspect the text's author (or her source for this family's information) might have been unaware of Martha, the eldest known child, born about 1858 and for whom I have not been able to find any record after the 1870 US Census (when she was twelve years old). Whether Martha died young or married prior to 1880 is unknown at this time.

In the 1880 US Census, five of Catherine's children can be found counted in Adam's household with his new wife Lydia and their first child, two-year-old Albert. Missing from the household are Catherine's daughters Martha (as noted above) and Anna Rachael, who was living with her mother's first cousin Franklin Eli Weible and his wife and children.

Of the six of Catherine's children that are known to have reached adulthood, all married, though two of those adult daughters are believed to have died without having any children:

- Augustus married Alta Benner, and had seven children and at least eight grandchildren.

- Anna Rachael married Benjamin Wesley Ginther, and appears to have died without children.

- Clara Catherine married Isaiah Fisher, and had four children and at least four grandchildren.

- Alice Mary married Austin Stull, was widowed in her early forties, and appears to have died without children.

- Leroy married Henrietta Crites, and had four children and at least eleven grandchildren.

- Matilda married Charles Baer, and had five children and at least ten grandchildren.

Pedigree

  1. Weible, William [I0719]
    1. Kretzer, Christina [I6872]
      1. Weible, Catherine
        1. Schear, Adam [I6613]
          1. Schear, Martha E. [I6945]
          2. Schear, Augustus Alvan [I6940]
          3. Schear, Anna Rachael [I6941]
          4. Schear, Clara Catherine [I6939]
          5. Schear, Alice Mary [I6938]
          6. Schear, Leroy J. [I6942]
          7. Schear, Matilda E. [I6943]
      2. Weible, Ann [I6936]
      3. Weible, Elizabeth [I6937]

Ancestors

Source References

  1. US Census of 1850 [S0046]
      • Date: 1850-10-18
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX3Z-G42 : 9 November 2014), William Weible in household of William Weible, Dover, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States; citing family 1422, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

        Event Year 1850
        Event Place Dover, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States
        William Weible M 38 Pennsylvania
        Christina Weible F 37 Ohio
        Catharine Weible F 16 Ohio
        Ann Weible F 14 Ohio
        Elizabeth Weible F 9 Ohio
        William Weible M 14 Ohio

  2. US Census of 1860 [S0044]
      • Date: 1860-06-07
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCPC-6YS : 30 December 2015), Adam Sheer, 1860.

        Event Date 1860
        Event Place Dover Township, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States
        Adam Sheer M 30 Germany
        Catherine Sheer F 20 Ohio
        Martha E Sheer F 2 Ohio
        Jacob Sheer M 0 Ohio
        Mary C Sheer F 60 Germany

  3. US Census of 1870 [S0020]
      • Date: 1870-06-20
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6LY-P1L : 17 October 2014), Adam Shear, Ohio, United States; citing p. 69, family 497, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,772.

        Event Year 1870
        Event Place Ohio, United States
        Adam Shear M 40 Bavaria
        Catherine Shear F 36 Ohio
        Martha E Shear F 12 Ohio
        Augustus A Shear M 10 Ohio
        Rachael A Shear F 8 Ohio
        Clara Shear F 6 Ohio
        Mary A Shear F 4 Ohio
        Levi J Shear M 0 Ohio

  4. Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013 [S0291]
      • Confidence: High
      • Citation:

        "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZVX-R5W : 8 December 2014), Adam Shear and Catherine Weibel, 12 Oct 1852; citing Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States, reference 6429; county courthouses, Ohio; FHL microfilm 890,364.