Ohnmeiss Family Genealogy - 2008

 Tuesday,  1 April 2008
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Description of website: A place to research, archive and share genealogy information about the Ohnmeiss family name.
Updated monthly.


Some variations of this name are:

• Ohnmeiss
• Ohnmeis
• Ohnmais
• Ohmneis
• Ohmnies
• Ohmeis
• Ohnmeiß (This is the German spelling. The "ß" is the German letter for the hard "S" sound.)

Welcome to my genealogy page. I have been researching the Ohnmeiss family name since 1975 and have accumulated much information about the people with this surname. The goal of this website is to share information about the research. I am hoping that you are a visitor who discovered this site from one of the many internet search engines out there.   The bulk of the research originates from Clinton county and Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, United States of America.  I also have information regarding the descendants of Daniel OHNMEISS and his wife Clara Anna WREN from Jamestown, North Dakota.  The Ohnmeiss families of New York state  and Ohio have also been big contributors to this web site.  And of course, let us not forget where it all began . . . Wangen, Germany.  There will be some genealogy information about our Ohnmeiss ancestors across the Atlantic Ocean too. Note: Wangen is the small suburb of Stuttgart (Würtemberg) not to be confused with Wangen in the bavarian Allgäu.

I will be adding to this website on a monthly basis.  You will notice, that I have kept the number of graphic images and Java scripts/applets to a minimum so that your down load time is minimized. The site began in the Fall of 1998. Years 1999 and 2000 have been removed as references to save space. Search engines could uncover these earlier Ohnmeiss web pages.  There have been suggestions to have multiple pages (e.g. Photos, Announcements, Links, etc.). A survey conducted in the Fall of 2000 indicated that many of you wanted the existing format to remain. Everything, for the year is on one page. The most current month is near the top and the first month entered (e.g. January) is at the bottom.  You will just need to scroll down through the document.  Most of it is narrative with some photographs interspersed.

Some of the associated names that I've encountered in my research are:

• BRUNGARD/BRUNGART, Sophia; b. 24 June 1851 d. 23 March 1931. ¹  [w/o Henry Wren.]
• CALVERT, Peter G. & his wife Hilda Sophia (PETERSON) CALVERT.
• CORBETT, Clarence A. & his wife Alta May (OHNMEISS) CORBETT.
• FOULKROD,William & his wife Louisa (OHNMEIS) FOULKROD.
• FOX, William B. & his wife Margaret Jessie (OHNMEISS) FOX.
• PETERSON, August  b. 8 Sept. 1844  d. 17 July 1914 (Father of Hilda Sophia PETERSON).
• REHM, Pauline Friedrika; b. 11 July 1865  d. 8 Jan 1945  d/o Gottlieb H. Ohnmeiss. ²
• REHRER  RAHRER ROHRER, Christiana; b. 17 Nov 1835 d. 30 June 1917. ³ (2nd wife of Jonathan Alexander OHNMEISS?)  d/o John REHRER and Elizabeth BICKSLER BIXLER. ⁴
• VON KERKER, Sophia Regina; believed to be the 1st wife of Jonathan Alexander OHNMEISS. [ We're still trying to corroborate this one! ]
• WREN, Henry   b. 6 March 1837  d. 5 Feb 1923 ⁵-- A corporal in Company K, 143rd PA Volunteers. ⁶
   Two of his daughters, Susan Ellen Wren and Clara Anna Wren ⁷, married two OHNMEISS brothers.⁸

¹  Death certificate, File No. 29127, Registered No. 8, Pennsylvania Dept of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Registration Dist. #650, Copy in possession of web page author.
²  Stammbaum der Familie Ohnmeiss, 1993, by Martin Dolde. Stuttgart, Germany.
³  Death certificate, File No. 68917, Registered No. 473, Pennsylvania Dept of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Registration Dist. #679, Copy in possession of web page author.
⁴  Same as endnote number 2 above.
⁵  Death certificate, Registered No. 3, Pennsylvania Dept of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Registration Dist. #402, Copy in possession of of web page author.
⁶  Historical and Biographical Work, or Past and Present of Clinton County, By J. Milton Furey, Published by Pennsylvania GRIT Printing House, Williamsport, PA, 1892, p. 291.
⁷  Dept of Interior, Bureau of Pensions Questionnaire, Form 3-389, Signed by Henry Wren on 14 Jan. 1895. Copy in possession of web page author.
⁸  Ohnmeiss Family Genealogy Book, Written in 1933.

Some of the websites I visit in my research are:

Baden-Würtemberg	Fred and Anna's Homepage
Cyndi's Genealogical List	Genealogy's Most Wanted
Clinton county, Pennsylvania	German - English Dictionary
Distant Cousin	LCGS Homepage
Family Search (LDS website)	Surname Helper Search

OHNMEISS Information for the month of:
April 2008

SOFTWARE & HARDWARE PROBLEMS CAUSED A DELAY IN THE DATA ENTRY FOR THIS WEB SITE.
SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.

March 2008

The following is from the Williamsport Sun-Gazette newspaper, March 23, 2008, Lifestyle section, p. E4.  The newspaper article included a photograph of the couple.  Cameron E. Fike is the son of of Beverly Mae (Ohnmeiss) Fike and Paul Fike, Sr.  His mother was the daughter of Raymond Ohnmeiss.

Fikes observe 30th anniversary

Mr. and Mrs. Cameron E. Fike, Williamsport, observed their 30th wedding anniversary March 18, 2008.  They were married by the Rev. Ray W. Schloyer at Faith United Methodist Church, Montoursville.  Mrs. Fike, the former Patricia Ann Harner, is a native of Williamsport.  She is the daughter of Dorothy Harner, DuBoistown, and the late Robert Harner.  She graduated from Williamsport High School in 1968 and retired in 2007.  Mr. Fike, a native of Williamsport, is the son of the late Beverly and Paul Fike Sr.  He attended Williamsport schools and has been employed by Unique Industries, Montoursville, since 1993.  They are the parents of three daughters, Angela Lengle, Schuylkill Haven, Traci Houtz, Farrandsville, and Mecca Miron, Muncy, and a son, Robert Marcusky, South Williamsport.  There are nine grandchildren.  In honor of their anniversary, a dinner celebration was held March 22 at the Triangle Tavern.

February 2008

HEINRICH OHNMEISS -- RESEARCH BETWEEN 2003 AND 2008

Date:    Feb. 19, 2008
From:    Helmut Zondler
In your web page you had the following text, which came up in a Google search: 

"Helmut Zondler e-mailed the following information to me on Thursday, 9 October 2003. Helmut was wondering if anyone has done any research of the Hochberg church records regarding ..."

In the last months I tried to find out some more about the Heinrich Ohnmeiss b. 9 Dec. 1836 in Ludwigsburg, who emigrated to America; application date May 1854. He is mentioned somewhere in your older web pages. I tried to find him in the Mormon-films Hochberg and also Aldingen. These places are close to Ludwigsburg and also Stuttgart. He is not in these records. It says however at immigration that he was born in Ludwigsburg. To search in Ludwigsburg is a major job, because there are several churches in Ludwigsburg to search the records, and I will not continue. I am however confident that there is the solution. I still think he is of the Hochberg branch because of the vicinity of places.

In searching Hochberg and Aldingen films I found descendants of Johann Jacob Ohnmeiss (# 525255 in tree). These are not in the printed tree. His son Jacob Albrecht is not from a marriage; the pastor wrote "Spur" at birth. I send you a FTW file separate. In it please look into all the sources and also notes for more detailed information. Parts are in English, parts in German. If you need translations please ask.

 1   Johann Jacob Ohnmeiss geb.: 13.2.1730 Hochberg (bei Ludwigsburg)  gest.: 22.5.1797 nicht Hochberg
..  +Magdalena Escher geb.: ca. 1730 Aldingen (O. A. Ludwigsburg) verh.: Aldingen 
...... 2   Jacob Albrecht Ohnmeiss geb.: 27.9.1769 Aldingen (O. A. Ludwigsburg)  gest.: 20.11.1845 Hochberg
..........  +Eva Rosina Feilenschmid geb.: 3.3.1768 Neckargemünd verh.: 10.1.1798 Hochberg gest.: 17.10.1798 Hochberg
............... 3   Karl Albrecht Ohnmeiss geb.: 20.11.1795 Hochberg  gest.: 24.11.1795 Hochberg                                        1795 before marriage, see sources
............... 3   Anonyma Ohnmeiss geb.: 17.9.1798 Hochberg  gest.: 17.9.1798 Hochberg
......  *second Ehefrau von Jacob Albrecht Ohnmeiss:   
..........  +Charlotte Catharina Lächner geb.: 30.1.1766 Aldingen ? verh.: 22.5.1799 Hochberg gest.: 13.1.1825 Hochberg
............... 3   Jacob Friedrich Ohnmeiss geb.: 28.2.1800 Hochberg  gest.: 7.11.1808 Hochberg
............... 3   Johann Albrecht Ohnmeiss geb.: 30.1.1803 Hochberg  gest.: 11.12.1840 Hochberg
............... 3   Anonyma Ohnmeiss geb.: 17.2.1807 Hochberg  
............... 3   Jacob Friedrich Ohnmeiss geb.: 9.6.1811 Hochberg  gest.: 2.7.1811 Hochberg
......  *third Ehefrau von Jacob Albrecht Ohnmeiss:   
..........  +Ernestine Margarethe Lächner geb.: 19.2.1777 Hochberg verh.: 13.9.1825 Hochberg gest.: 19.4.1852 Hochberg
  *first Ehefrau von Johann Jacob Ohnmeiss:   
..  +Anna K Dorothea Klein geb.: 1734 Höpfigheim (bei Marbach) verh.: 12.2.1770 Höpfigheim? gest.: 21.5.1806 nicht Hochberg

 Höpfigheim is taken from the Ohnmeiss tree, and I don't know the exact source for that. It might be that Jacob Albrecht b. 1969 had children in Höpfigheim; he was 40 years old at marriage in 1770!  Is Heinrich b. 1836 somehow from there? I will not continue searches in Höpfigheim. It might be a good lead however. The Mormons have the films:

Best regards,
Helmut.

OBITUARY

Annabelle L. Ohnmeiss, 92, formerly of 498 Glade Run Road, Muncy, died Friday, February 8, 2008, at the Muncy Valley Hospital Skilled Nursing Unit, where she resided the past five years.

Born June 25, 1915, in Williamsport, she was a daughter of the late Clyde and Helen (Pepperman) Ohnmeiss.

Annabelle was a homemaker who also enjoyed the challenge of a good jig saw puzzle, producing a beautiful work of embroidery, and practicing her cursive penmanship.

She is survived by one son and daughter-in-law, Jerry L. and Judy Ohnmeiss of Muncy; one brother and sister-in-law, Berdell and Toot Ohnmeiss of Muncy; four sisters and one brother-in-law, Nina Houseknecht and Maxine and Earl Loudenslager, all of Williamsport; Vivian Heller of New York and Betty Bastian of Georgia; two granddaughters, Lois Charles and Regena Koch; seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were one grandson, Jerry L. Ohnmeiss, Jr.; four brothers, Dan, Max, Charles and Stanley; and two sisters, Helen and an infant sister.

The funeral will be at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 12, at Grenoble’s, 121 S. Main St., Muncy. Officiating will be Pastor Max L. Walters, Jr. of Lairdsville Faith Church. Burial will be in Montoursville Cemetery.

Friends will be received at the funeral home prior to the service on Tuesday from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.

Source:  Williamsport Sun-Gazette newspaper

January 2008

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