Tombstone Tuesday-Jacob & Elizabeth (Ulrich) Weismann

Weismann, Jacob & Elizabeth (Ulrich) Weismann, St. Paul UCC Cemetery, Mercer County, Ohio (2024 photo by Karen

This is the tombstone of Jacob and Elizabeth (Ulrich) Weismann, located in row 5 of St. Paul CC Cemetery, Liberty Township, Mercer County, Ohio. The marker is inscribed:

Mother–Father
Elizabeth
His Wife
1844-1926

Jacob
1840-1927
WEISMANN

Jacob Weismann was born in Rheinpfalz, Bavaria, Germany, on 16 December 1840, the son of Philip and [?] (Eichler) Weismann. [1] Jacob’s wife Elizabeth (Ulrich) was born in Yettin Bach [Jettenbach, Rheinland, Bavaria?], Germany on 28 July 1844, the daughter of Philip and Maggie (Hatter) Ulrich. [2]

Jacob and Elizabeth married in Germany in about 1868 and at least four of their children were born there. In the spring of 1883 the Jacob Weismann family, consisting of Jacob, 42, wife Elizabeth, 39, and children Anna, 10, Caroline, 9, Carl, 3, and Edward, 3 months, departed Antwerp Belgium on the ship Waesland and arrived in New York City on 4 May 1883. [3]

In 1900 the Jacob Weismann family resided in Liberty Township, Mercer County, Ohio. Jacob, 60, a farmer, and Elizabeth, 56, had been married 32 years and four of their seven children were living. Two of their children had left home but Charles, 20, and Edward, 18, still lived at home with their parents. All the members of the household were born in Germany and all immigrated in 1883. [4] 

The family resided in Section 12 of Liberty Township, on Oregon Road, very near the Liberty-Hopewell Township line.

The 1910 enumeration of the Jacob Weismann family repeats much of the same information as the 1900 census. Two of their children resided with them in 1910, Annie, 39, single, and Edward, 28, single. [5]

Their daughter Anna Weismann died in Liberty Township on 15 January 1914, at the age of 43. [6]

In 1920, Jacob and Elizabeth lived very near to their son Edward and his family and near Jacob and Effie Bollenbacher in Liberty Township. Jacob, 79, was now a retired farmer. [7]

Elizabeth (Ulrich) Weismann, age 82, died in Liberty Township, Mercer County, on 22 September 1926. She was buried on the 25th. [2]

Widower Jacob Weismann, 86, died in Liberty Township, Mercer County, from bronchial pneumonia and heart disease, on 25 November 1927. He was buried on the 27th. [1]

Jacob and Elisabeth Weismann had the following children. Two other children may have died in infancy:
Anna Weismann (1870-1914)
Caroline Weismann (1872-1949), married Jacob Miller
Charles Weismann (1879-1933), married Catherine Siebert
Edward Weismann (1882-1959), married Myrtle Brough
Ludwig Weismann (1887-1887)

[1] “Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953,” Mercer, Jacob Weismann, 25 Nov 1927; FamilySearch.org

[2] “Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953,” Mercer, Elizabeth Weismann, 22 Sep 1926; FamilySearch.org.

[3] Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897, Records of the U.S. Customs Service, RG 36, NAID M237, Jacob Weissmann; Ancestry.com.

[4] 1900 U.S. Census, Ohio, Mercer, Liberty, ED 85, dwelling 267, family 272, Jacob Weismann; Ancestry.com. 

[5] 1910 U.S. Census, Ohio, Mercer, Liberty, ED 119, p.13B, dwelling 294, family 251, Jacob Weiseman [sic]; Ancestry.com.

[6] “Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953,” Mercer, Annie Weismann, 17 Jan 1914; FamilySearch.org.

[7] 1920 U.S. Census, Mercer, Liberty, ED 140, p.7A, dwelling 124, family 137, Jacob Weisman [sic]; Ancestry.com.

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