Elizabeth (Leach) Waggoner (abt. 1762 - abt. 1831)

Born about 1762 in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland

Wife of John B. Waggoner Sr. — married 18 Jul 1785 in Washington County, Maryland

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Died about 1831 at about age 69 in Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio

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Born 1762 Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland ^[1] Died 1831 Fremount, Sandusky County, Ohio ^[1]

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1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Source: S1738993486 Ancestry Record 62476 #5825773308

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John S Waggoner Sr Biography Written and compiled by John C Overmeyer, Columbus, Ohio June, 1937 Transcribed for the Internet by Paul H Andree III June, 1997

John Wagner came from the town of Wasselone, Alsace, France and located in Maryland. We know he had a brother, Jacob, in Berks County, PA. The first authentic record we have of him in America; he was a resident of Washington County, Maryland, which was formerly a part of "Old Frederick County", founded in 1748 and in the vicinity of Hagerstown, which until 1814 was known as Elizabethtown. This section of Maryland was settled by Pennsylvania Germans and a strip of country 20 miles wide, now included in northern Maryland, was a part of Pennsylvania until 1776, when the Mason and Dixon into Maryland. In this territory we find John Wagner or Waggoner a young man, single, enlisting for service in the Revolutionary War in Valentine Creager's Company as a private on October 3, 1776; then about nineteen years of age.

This company was composed of the captain, first and second lieutenants, an ensign, four sergeants, four corporals, a drummer, a fifer, and sixty-eight privates, and was to be enrolled until December 1, 1776. This company marched forthwith to camp at New York. John and Adam Waggoner were two of the sixty-eight privates (Maryland Archives, Volume Eighteen, Pages 71 and 72).

John Waggoner, as now spelled, no doubt served with this company until the term of enrollment expired and after that time he joined Captain Bartholemew Von Heer's Company. Von Heer was in the artillery from March 3, 1777 to June 1, 1778, when he became Captain of Provost, which was established by resolution of Congress May 27, 1778. (Volume Three, Fifth Series, Page 973, Pennsylvania Archives; Page 917, same volume; also Letter of General Washington, Volume Nine, Page 486, Old Series, Pennsylvania Archives.)

The Command was known as "Von Heer's Light Dragoons"; also as "The Troop of Marchausse" and consisted of a captain, four lieutenants, clerk, quarter master sergeant, two trumpeters, two sergeants, five corporals, and forty-three privates. They were mounted and accounted as "Light Dragoons", which is a name applied to soldiers serving on horseback or on foot, as the occasion requires. Their duties were to apprehend deserters, rioters, and stragglers. In battle they are posted in the rear to secure fugitives, and in general to be a provost or guard.

The men were all recruited in Pennsylvania according to a letter from General Washington to President Moore of the state of Pennsylvania, to which reference has been made (page 486) in which it was suggested that "if the men are taken for cavalry, thirty-two dollars per man would be proper pay for this service.

A letter from the War Department and another from the Pension Bureau at Washington, D.C. states that the following data taken from Pension Claim W-27855 is a record of his service, as follows: "John Waggoner enlisted at or near Peading, Pennsylvania, and served as a private in Captain Von Heer's Troop of Horsemen and in General Washington's Life-Guard, his services terminated at the close of the war".

After the close of the war he no doubt returned to southern Pennsylvania and northern Maryland and engaged in agricultural pursuits, for the next authentic record we have of him is his marriage at the age of twenty-seven years. Volume Two, Page 529, of "Maryland Records", published by G.M. Brumbaugh, contains the following entry under "Maryland Records of Washington County", as taken from "Maryland Marriages", pages 226-241: John Waggoner to Elizabeth Litch, July 18, 1785; by Rev. Jacob Weimer,Lutheran minister, from 1776 to 1786". (The name "Leach" occurs frequently in the records rather than Litch.)

From the date of their marriage in 1785 for a period of twelve years they resided in the vicinity of Hagerstown, MD. In 1797, they moved to Bedford County, Pennsylvania (Everett's History of Sandusky County, Ohio).

Bedford County is one of the southern tier of Pennsylvania and joins the Maryland state line, of which Bedford, the county seat, lies between Cumberland, MD. and Altoona, PA; located in the mountainous section of Pennsylvania. Here the family resided for about six years and in 1803 emigrated to Perry County, Ohio. The family at that time consisted of the parents and five or six children, and from the incomplete records at hand, at least three and possibly four of their ten children were born in Perry County, Ohio.

John Waggoner and family moved to Perry Co when John Sr. was forty-five years old and John Jr. was about thirteen of age, and just at the time when Ohio became a state in 1803. They settled in Section Five, Reading Township, about two and one half miles northwest of the present village of Somerset. The government sold this land at $2.00 per acre, one third down, one third in one year, and one third in two years. The ten children grew to manhood and womanhood, and most of them married into other pioneer families of Perry County during the twenty-five years of their residence there.

In addition to the mentioned one half section of land, he made other entries until he owned 1127 acres; either separately or jointly with other family members. It is a fact worthy of note that members of the Waggoner family sold their holdings in Perry County between the dates of 1812 and April 27, 1829 when John and Elizabeth signed the last deed for South 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section Seven, Pike Township, located about one mile southwest of New Lexington. Elizabeth was evidently taken by the hand of death sometime between 1829 and 1832, for the last record we have of her is when she signed the 1829 deed.

The children of John Sr. and Elizabeth Leach Waggoner are here given:

Elizabeth Waggoner, born February 25, 1788; married Barnhart Bowman. He was born April 3, 1784, in Northhampton County, Pennsylvania.

John Waggoner Jr, born January 15, 1790; married January 16, 1816, to Mary Bowman, by Philip Spohn, J.P., Hopewell Twp, Perry Co., Ohio.

Jacob Wagner (twin to David), born September 15, 1792; married Susannah C. Heck in Perry Co., Ohio.

David Waggoner (twin to Jacob), born September 15, 1792; married first Susan Fry on July 28, 1813 in Licking Co., Ohio. David married second on March 2, 1819 to Susan Opp (or App) in Perry Co., Ohio

George Waggoner, born November 30, 1795; married Margaret Klingler of Perry Co., Ohio.

Nancy Waggoner, born April 7, 1798; married John Mechling on May 8, 1824 in Perry Co., Ohio

Daniel Wagoner, born October 24, 1800; married Sarah Stockberger, in Perry Co., Ohio

Catharine Waggoner, born in 1804; married Christian Dersham on September 15, 1822 in Perry Co., Ohio.

Solomon Wagoner, born in 1807; married first Elizabeth Stockberger on August 16, 1827 in Perry Co., Ohio. Elizabeth died and he married second Harriet Kratzer in February, 1839. Harriet died and he married third Anna Eberts on December 16, 1876.

Samuel Waggoner, born November 10, 1809; married Anna Smith on March 23, 1834 in Sandusky Co., Ohio

After the death of his wife Elizabeth, he no doubt had his home in Sandusky Township with his oldest son, John Jr., on what is the Samuel B Waggoner farm in Section Eighteen until his second marriage, which occurred on June 30, 1833 at Somerset, Ohio; when he was married to Sarah Minic by John E. Linn, J.P., Reading Twp., Perry Co., Ohio (Volume One, Page 145, Marriage Records, Perry County). She was born April 11, 1778 and was married to J. Smith when about eighteen years of age. They apparently had three daughters: Catharine Smith, born May 7, 1797, died single January 31, 1852 . Eve Smith, born November 2, 1803, died single August 2, 1865. Anna Smith, born March 25, 1813, died December 11, 1877; and apparently married John Waggoner's youngest son Samuel.

These daughters and their mother Sarah are buried in the Four-Mile Cemetery, west of Fremont, Ohio.

John Waggoner's health evidently began to fail about 1840, where records showed that he required medical services until his death on December 15, 1842 at eighty-five years of age. The funeral accorded him was no doubt in keeping with his military service, for we are quite sure his body was attired in Revolutionary costume and in accord with the times and station in life which he occupied. His coffin was carried by men about two miles to the Bowles Cemetery, located on the bank of the Muscalongue Creek in Section twenty-nine, on the pioneer farm of the Bowles family. His body remained there for more than a half century when his descendants decided to the same to the lot of one of his grandsons, Daniel Waggoner, eldest son of John Jr., in the Four-Mile Cemetery in Fremont, Ohio. In more recent years, a suitable monument has been erected to his memory by his descendants.

The source for this information is: "THE WAGNER - WAGGONER - WAGONER FAMILY" History -

Genealogy, 1941 by Clark R. Wagner; Arlington, Ohio Advertiser Press, Printers; Tiffin, Ohio Researcher and Contact Person: Paul Howard Andree III 1306 Old Eustis Rd Mt Dora, FL 32757 See also:

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