Weible, Magdalena

Birth Name Weible, Magdalena
Nick Name Maggie
Gramps ID I6602
Gender female
Age at Death 80 years, 1 month, 5 days

Events

Event Date Place Description
Sources Notes
Birth 1831 Ohio, USA  
 
Census 1850 York Twp, Tuscarawas Cty, Ohio, USA  
1a
Census 1860 Dover Twp, Tuscarawas Cty, Ohio, USA  
2a
Census 1870 Van Wert, Van Wert Cty, Ohio, USA  
3a
Census 1900 Union Twp, Wells Cty, Indiana, USA  
4a
Census 1910 Lafayette Twp, Allen Cty, Indiana, USA  
5a
Death 1911-02-06 Lafayette Twp, Allen Cty, Indiana, USA  
6a
Burial   Hoverstock Cemetery, Zanesville, Wells Cty, Indiana, USA  
 

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Weible, John Jacob [I0717]18081895-10-27
Mother Thomas, Anna [I0654]18031887
         Weible, Magdalena [I6602] 1831 1911-02-06
    Sister     Weible, Christina [I6513] 1832-08-25 1917-03-20
    Sister     Weible, Anna Mary [I1685] 1836-03-04 1917-03-08
    Sister     Weible, Sarah C. [I6515] 1838 1883-01-28
    Brother     Weible, Isaac S. [I6514] 1845-05-22 1889-06-29

Families

    Family of Salter, George H. and Weible, Magdalena [F2154]
Married Husband Salter, George H. [I6603] ( * 1827 + 1895 )
   
Event Date Place Description
Sources Notes
Marriage 1877-09-11 Van Wert Cty, Ohio, USA  
7a

Narrative

Note: Researching Magdalena Weible

Finding records and connections pertaining to Magdalena has been somewhat difficult owing mostly to her late marriage, her nickname, and her absence from some of the pertinent households in the US Census records over the years. I believe I have found as much as I can in my initial searches, and that the ultimate determination I've made as to her fate is correct.

The 1850 US Census record for her parents' household in York Twp, Tuscarawas Cty, Ohio is highly faded and difficult to read, but the third entry in his household listing does appear to be a name that looks like "Magdalena," age nineteen. She appears clearly named in both the 1860 and 1870 Census records with her parents, age given as thirty-one and thirty-six, respectively - the first in Dover Twp, Tuscarawas Cty, the second in Van Wert, Van Wert Cty, Ohio.

There is a marriage record for a George H. Salter and Magdalene Weible on 11 Sep 1877 in Van Wert Cty, with no additional information given for the pair, but as her parents and other family were living in that area at the time I believe this record applies to her. Further research into George shows that he had married Philena Bump in 1854, and was recorded in the 1860 and 1870 US Census with Philena and their children in Union Twp, Wells Cty, Indiana. Philena died in 1874, a few years prior to the marriage that is presumed to be his and Magdalena's, and left George a widower with children ranging from teenagers down to a five-year-old.

While Van Wert and Union Twp are not exactly next door, there is only one county between the two locations and they sit barely forty miles apart. Additionally, Union Twp was home to some of Magdalena's first cousins - specifically her double-first cousins by her aunt Anna (Weible) Thomas and uncle, the Rev. David F. Thomas, my fourth-great-grandparents. I would find it quite possible that word of a middle-aged widower with children was passed through extended family to Magdalena and her parents, possibly starting from parishioners of the United Brethren congregation with which David was associated. The Salters themselves may even have attended that church.

For some reason, Magdalena is absent from the 1880 US Census listing for George's household in Union Twp, though his status is given as married. I have not found her as of yet in either Wells Cty or Van Wert Cty as of 1880, though I have not yet performed an exhaustive search of the visual records yet. George died in 1895.

In the 1900 US Census, there is an Ohio-born "Magalena Salters" in Union Twp as a widowed sixty-nine-year-old boarder in the household of Alex and Delila Firl or Fearl (or similar). In the 1910 US Census, "Maggie Salter," seventy-nine-year-old widow born in Ohio, is listed as the stepmother in the household of Mary (Salter) Walker in nearby Lafayette Twp, Allen Cty, Indiana. Following that is a death record from early 1911 for "Magdalina Salter" in Lafayette Twp, Allen Cty.

George, his first wife Philena, and "Maggie" are all three buried with a shared monument in Hoverstock Cemetery, Zanesville, Wells Cty. The monument also carries the inscriptions for five of George and Philena's children - four of them infant deaths and one of them a young boy. As best I can determine, Magdalena had no children of her own, as she was unmarried until she was forty-six.

Pedigree

  1. Weible, John Jacob [I0717]
    1. Thomas, Anna [I0654]
      1. Weible, Magdalena
        1. Salter, George H. [I6603]
      2. Weible, Christina [I6513]
      3. Weible, Anna Mary [I1685]
      4. Weible, Sarah C. [I6515]
      5. Weible, Isaac S. [I6514]

Ancestors

Source References

  1. US Census of 1850 [S0046]
      • Date: 1850-07-30
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX3C-RW3 : 9 November 2014), John F Weible, York, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States; citing family 13, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

        Event Year 1850
        Event Place York, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States
        John F Weible M 43 Pennsylvania
        Ann Weible F 47 Pennsylvania
        Weible F 19 Ohio
        Weible F 16 Ohio
        Weible F Ohio
        Weible F 12 Ohio
        Isaac Weible M 5 Ohio
        Ann Weible F 54 Pennsylvania
        Frederick M 25 Pennsylvania

  2. US Census of 1860 [S0044]
      • Date: 1860-06-10
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCPC-FZ7 : 30 December 2015), John Weible, 1860.

        Event Date 1860
        Event Place Dover Township, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States
        John Weible M 50 Ohio
        Anna Weible F 52 Ohio
        Magdalena Weible F 31 Ohio
        Anna Weible F 22 Ohio
        Sarah Weible F 20 Ohio
        Isaac Weible M 16 Ohio

  3. US Census of 1870 [S0020]
      • Date: 1870-06-03
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6GM-K4M : 17 October 2014), John J Weible, Ohio, United States; citing p. 26, family 192, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,774.

        Event Year 1870
        Event Place Van Wert, Van wert, Ohio, United States
        John J Weible M 61 Pennsylvania
        Anna Weible F 65 Pennsylvania
        Magdalena Weible F 36 Ohio
        Levi Roland M 50 Ohio

  4. US Census of 1900 [S0039]
      • Date: 1900-06-26
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M99G-NTQ : accessed 1 June 2017), Magalena Salters in household of Aleck Firl, Union Township, Wells, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 155, sheet 15A, family 225, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,413.

        Event Year 1900
        Event Place Union Township, Wells, Indiana, United States
        Aleck Firl Head M 62 Ohio
        Delila Firl Wife F 53 Ohio
        Magalena Salters Boarder F 69 Ohio

  5. US Census of 1910 [S0040]
      • Date: 1910-04-19
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKL5-NLS : accessed 1 June 2017), Maggie Salter in household of James Walker, Lafayette, Allen, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 9, sheet 3A, family 56, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 338; FHL microfilm 1,374,351.

        Event Date 1910
        Event Place Lafayette, Allen, Indiana, United States
        James Walker Head M 56 Indiana
        Mary A Walker Wife F 54 Indiana
        Murlie Walker Daughter F 20 Indiana
        Maggie Salter Stepmother F 79 Ohio

  6. Indiana, Death Index, 1882-1920 [S0108]
      • Confidence: High
      • Citation:

        "Indiana Death Index, 1882-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZ7N-WQQ : 3 December 2014), Magdelina Salter, 06 Feb 1911, Lafayette Township, Indiana; from "Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2003); citing "The source of this record is the book CSS-2 on page 113 within the series produced by the Indiana Works Progress Administration." County Health Office, Fort Wayne.

  7. Ohio, Marriages, 1800-1958 [S0095]
      • Confidence: High
      • Citation:

        "Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDHC-5NT : 8 December 2014), George H. Salter and Magdalene Weible, 11 Sep 1877; citing Van Wert, Ohio, reference 2:3M01NKH; FHL microfilm 1,015,860.