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Hi Gloria,
I have a copy of an article from the History of Marshall Co., IL that suggests maybe there was another son born to Conrad and Mary Ann Meyers. The article below states that Conrad and Mary Ann Meyers had ten children, six boys and for girls, Andrew Jackson being on of the six boys. . Maybe we are talking the same family line. Andrew Jackson Wabel, b. August 11, 1850, is my gggrandfather. I have good information leading up to Andrew Jackson Wabel, but when it comes to Conrad and Mary Ann Meyers it gets a little confusing. I would be interested in the information you have about Conrad and Mary Ann Meyers family line. I am willing to share what I have about Andrew Jackson Wabel line. I will also email you this information.
Reference: History of Marshall County, IL
ANDREW JACKSON WABEL/WABLE
Andrew Jackson Wabel, the son of Conrad, Jr. and Mary Ann Meyers Wabel, was born September 28, 1819, in Somerfield, Somerset County, Pennsylvania into a family of ten children. The Wabel family originated in the Palatine area of Germany, and were farmers and vinedressers around the village of Herborn. Hans Conrad, a twin born April 10, 1706, and a brother, Nicholas, began their trip to the United States in the early 1700’s. Although Nicholas, after his wire’s death in England, returned to Germany with his five children. Conrad continued the trip settling in New York State near earlier Palatine emigrants in the Stone Arabia area. The family were members of the Stone Arabia Lutheran Trinity Church, and early church records show many baptisms and marriages of the Wabel family.
In their quest for land ownership, his son Conrad, moved into the Turkeyfoot Creek, Somerset County, Pennsylvania area taking up a land patent of two hundred acres in 1788. The land was near the village of Addison, Pennsylvania, and lay along both sides of the National Pike Highway.
Conrad Wabel, born 1770, married Mary Ann Meyers in Somerset Count, Pennsylvania. To this union were born ten children, six boys and four girls, Andrew Jackson being one of these six boys. He grew to maturity in Somerset, County. In 1839 he made a trip to Pekin, Illinois, but returned to Pennsylvania in 1840 to begin driving on the old National Pike Highway. At first he drove light freight wagons for the “Shake Gut” Line, and later the passenger stagecoach on the “Good Intent” Line from Somerfield to Keyser’s Ridge; from Keyser’s Ridge to Piney Grove; from Washington to Wheeling; and from Uniontown to Farmington. In addition to his stagecoach driving, since he had an excellent singing voice, he became a singing teacher in the old-fashioned Singing School near his home.
On August 11, 1850, Andrew J. married Mary Ann Dean, the daughter of John and Sarah Jane Hamilton Dean, at Farmington, Pennsylvania. During the first year of their marriage they lived in the old Rush House on the National Pike, Pennsylvania. In 1851 he stopped driving stagecoaches and worked as a stone and brick mason, helping to build the old Methodist Sansom Chapel on the old Pike near Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania. His six older children, James H. May 21, 1851; Emily J. May 2, 1853; Sarah C. March 9, 1855; John Robert March 18, 1857; Clarissa A. July 25, 1860; William H. December 1, 1862; George Lewis February 14, 1865; and Mary Alice May 2, 1867; were born in Pennsylvania, and two of them, Emily and William are buried in the Sansom Chapel cemetery.
In 1867 Andrew, his wife, Mary Ann, and their sic children moved to Marshall County. They came with a group of friends and relatives from Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and joined a brother of Mary Ann’s, John Dean and his wife, Rachel Hager Dean, who had come to Illinois two years earlier. They settled on eighty acres of land in Section 31, a short distance from Toluca, Illinois. He also owned fourteen acres of land in Putnam County, Illinois, and 160 acres of land in Nebraska. Here in Marshall County, Illinois, the two younger children, Franklin January 5, 1869 who died in infancy, and Thomas Jefferson November 3, 1871, were born. In 1865 he and his wife became members of the Methodist Church, a faith he retained until his death at his home near Toluca, July 9, 1903 at the age of 83 years. Mr. Wabel farmed this original eighty acres and acquired an additional eighty acres of land near Toluca. His children grew to maturity, raised their families, and lived part or all of their lives on nearby Marshall County farms.
Mary Ann Dear Wabel suffered a stroke at the age of 49, and remained in very poor health until her death December 17, 1881. After her death Andrew Jackson married Mary Elizabeth Ensley Kemp of Somerfield, Pennsylvania, a widow from his home area. Both Andrew J. and Mary Ann, with their son Franklin, are buried in the Magnolia Cemetery, Magnolia IL.
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