Wunderlich Family

GENEALOGICAL RECORD OF THE WUNDERLICH FAMILY IN AMERICA SEVENTEEN BRANCHES Compiled by CHARLFS ALBERT CORNMAN [A-8; B-1; C-8; D-3; E-2.] Auiated by DANIEL WUNDERLICH NEAD, N. D. [A-8; B-10; C-7; D-7.] 1911 CORNMAN PRINTING CO., CARLISLE, PA. r~~r,-. f:;,_·. ;;;-.:~\-:;._ ~ -. CHARLES ALBERT CORN MAN FOREWORD. The family record of the descendants of Johannes and Dan iel Wunderlich herewith given represents the work of many years. It contains the records of the descendants of these two brothers in seventeen distinct family lines. There were twenty children: four sons and seven daughters of Jo hannes and seven sons and two daughters of Daniel. One son of Johannes a~d one son and one daughter of Daniel left no descendants. The other seventeen families have been, as far as possible, followed down· to date, and in nearly every case the dates of birth, marriage and death are given. From the original homesteads in Pennsylvania and Virginia these children and grandchildren of the emigrants have multiplied and spread out in widely extended ramifications until they are scattered throughout the United States. In this record no attempt has been made to give any bio graphical sketches, as such an undertaking would have de layed for some years the publishing of the work and would have increased its size to such an extent that it · could -not have been compressed within the limits of one volume, how ever large that volume might have been made. It is.· purely a genealogical record, and as such it is issued in the ho_pe · that the many members of the family may find in it some . things that will be new to them, as well as much that -'will interest them. CHARLES ALBERT CORN·MAN. INTRODUCTORY. The preparation of a genealogical record as complete as the one given in the following pages, is a work, the magnitude of which is reali~ed by few who have not had experience in such work. In the collection of the material necessary to make up this record Mr. Cornman has spent about forty years. It has necessitated the writing of thousands of letters and the deciphering and translation of hundreds of old docu ments. In prosecuting a work of this kind one of the discourage ments one meets with is the failure of those interested to answer letters seeking information, and the information thus sought at first hand frequently has to be obtained from some other source. This indifference on the part of many .increases the actual work to be done and it also increases the possibility of errors creeping in. No doubt there will be some who will be disappointed because the record of their families is not given in more complete form, or because of errors in it; but · in almost every instance of this kind the reason for such omission or error will be found in the failure of those inter ested to answer letters of inquiry. But viewing the work as a whole one cannot but be sur prised at the completeness that is everywhere apparent, and the writer is confident that the members of this large ''Freund schaft" will unite in bestowing upon its compiler the credit that is due him, as well as their thanks for preserving in lasting form the record of the family before the destroying hand of Time had rendered such a record impossible. DANIEL WUNDERLICH NEAD, M.D. TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS. Johannes Wunderlich the Emigrant and his Wife Elizabeth. HIER RUHEN DIE HIER RUHEN DIE GEBEINE VON GEBEINE VON JOHANNES- WUNDER: !LISABETH WUNDER LICH-ER WAR GEBOREN LICH EHEGATTIN ZU WITTENBERG IN VON JOHANNES EUROPA DEN 14 DEN WUNDERLICH EINE APRIL 1733 UND 1ST GEBORNE SICHLEIN - SIE GESTORBEN DEN 13TEN 1ST GEBOREN DEN 3 SEPTEMBER 1818 DECEMBER 1739 UND PRACHTE ALTSO SEIN GESTORBEN DEN 23 ALTER AUF 85 IAHR NOVEMBER 1818 4 MONAT UND 19 TAG BRACHTE ALSO IHR ALTER AUF 79 IAHR 11 - M - UND 20 DAG John Dietrich Wonderlich the Eldest Son. In MEMORY of JOHN. D. WONDER.LICH BORN. 11. DAY. OF NOVEMBER 1757. AND. DIED. 10 of. DECEM BER. lN. THE. YEAR. of OUR LORD. 1829. AGED. 72 YEARS AND. 30 DAYS. V TABLE OF CONTENTS. John Wunderlich Branch. Pages B. 1. John Dietrich, married Anna M. Yetter 2- 39 B. 2. Rosanna, married Melchoir Miller . 40- 50 B. 3. Catharine, married Michael Hoover . 51- 58 B. 4. Anna Margaret, married George Smith . 59- 89 B. 5. Barbara, married John Carmany_. 90-104 B. 6. Christopher, married Eleanor Imboden . 104 B. 7. Regina, married Christian Ensminger . 105-118 B. 8. John George, married Nancy Ellis. 119-125 B. 9. Susannah, married Samuel Rheem . 126-131 B. 10. Daniel, married Anna Catherine Kissecker . 132-139 B. 11. Elizabeth, married (1st) Christian Solander (2d) Frederick Wise . 140-144 Daniel Wunderlich Branch. B. 1. Eva Barbara . 146 B. 2. John Daniel, married Susanna Saunders . 146-165 B. 3. John, Sr., married Catherine Brechbill . 166-174 B. 4. John Jacob . • . 174 B. 5. John David, married Mary Heckendom . 175-183 B. 6. Elizabeth, married Baltzer Lutz . 184-196 B. 7. Jacob, married (1st) Catharine Young; (2d) Christine_ Cassidy; (3d) Anna Graham . 197-202 B. 8. Simon, married Catherine Crane . 203-208 B. 9. Gottleib, married Catherine Hamsher . 209 . vi HISTORICAL. HE WUNDERLICH family is a very ancient one and one that has numerous representatives at the present T time throughout Germany, as well as in America. The origin of the family name is not known. Family tra dition has it that the progenitor of the family was a certain Heinrich der Wunderlich; but who he was, when and where he lived, and why he was "der wunderlich," history does not relate. It can easily be seen how the name might have origi nated from the strange or peculiar act1ons of some individual whose associates would naturally say ''John is peculiar or strange"-that is, wunderlich. The earliest record of one of the name is found in 1448, when Hans Wunderlich, who was born in Kotelen, in the mar gravate of Baden, came to Neuburg with the Margrave Rudolph von Hochberg, who later made him his treasurer. He subsequently translated his name into French, calling himself Merveilleux. Some of his descendants continued to call themselves by the French appellation, while others resumed the name of Wunderlich. The family became one of considerable distinction and took a prominent part in the affairs of different cities. In 1476 Heinrich and Rudolph Wunderlich, of Zurich, participated in the battle of Murten. From 1489, for over two hundred years, different members of the family were members of the Great Council at Zurich, the honor apparently descending from fat her to son. Other positions of trust and honor held by different representatives of the family were Major Butler of the Monastery of the great Cathedral, in 1553 and 1606; Chief Bailiff of Maennedorf, Heinrich, in 1559; another Heinrich in 1578 and 1601; Hans Felix in 1607, and Rudolf in 1611, and towards the close of the seventeenth century Jacob was Prebendary of the Monas- .. viz . viii Hiatorical . tery of the great Cathedral. In 1562 Hans Wunderlich was governor of the province of Kronau, and in 1578 Heinrich Wunderlich was Justice at Cappel. Of the descendants of Hans Wunderlich who went to Neu burg in 1448, a great many occupied positions of honor. Johannes, a grandson of Hans, was appointed by Francis I, of France, as his official interpreter with the Helvetian Con federacy, an_d Henry II appointed him administrator of the embassy to the same. The son of Johannes, also named Jo hannes, was commandant of the relief troops sent to the city of Berne, in 1610. David, another son of Johannes, had a son, also David, who was interpreter for Duke Henry von Longueville at the great Peace Congress at Munster, in 1648-the Peace of Westphalia. This second son David left a son, David Franciscus, who as Captain of Engineers served in the United Netherlands service. He published an Introduction to Universal Geography. David Franciscus left four sons, all of whom served as officers in the Netherlands. One of them, Carolus Friedrich, as Lieutenant-Colonel, in 17 41, participated in the campaign in Louisiana, in America. In 1670 George Wunderlich, of this family, was governor of the province of Tscherlitz. The destruction of all records, private as well as public, which occurred during the Thirty Years' War and the wars which fallowed, makes it impossible to establish the connec tion between these W underlichs and Johannes Wunderlich, of Ludwigsburg, Wurtemburg, who was the ancestor of the Wunderlichs in America, but there is no doubt that the lat ter was descended from the same stock. Johannes Wunderlich was born in the year 1700. In 1720 he married Anna Barbara Densler, of Oswail. She was born in 1702 and died February 1, 1765. Their home was in Lud wigsburg, in the Kingdom of ,vurtemberg, where Johannes Wunderlich was the Overseer and General Foreman in the King's workyard. There were thirteen children born to them, of whom seven died in infancy. Two of their sons, John and Daniel, emigrated to America, the former arriving at Phila delphia on the ship "Duke of Wurtemburg," October 16, 1751, and the latter on September 26, 1753, on the ship "Brothers." John was eighteen years of age when he came to America and Daniel sixteen. In connection with John's coming to America there is a curious family tradition for which, however, no corroborative evidence can be found. According to the story, when John Wunderlich came to America he was accompanied by a sister and her husband.

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