Peter Wickerham (1756 - 1841)

Born 11 Mar 1756 in Washington Co., Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Maria Magdalena (Platter) Wickerham — married about 1787 in Washington, Pennsylvania, United States

Descendants

Died 4 Apr 1841 at age 85 in Peebles, Adams Co., Ohio, United States

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Biography

Son of George Adam Wickerham and Mary Elizabeth Riegel

Married Maria "Mary" Magdalene Platter in 1787 in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

Peter Wickerham was a soldier of the Revolution and was wounded in one o the battles of war. He was a member of Capt. Zadoch Wright's Company of Pennsylvania Militia.

Peter Wickerham and his wife Mary in the company with her older brother, Peter Platter and his family migrated to Kentucky, and a few years later to Ohio.

Peter Wickerham built the first brick and plastered house erected in the Virginia Military Reservation, on his farm on the present site of Palestine, in Adams County, Ohio.

The old Covenanter Meeting House, the first churh built in the Virginia Military Reservation, was also erected on the Wickerham farm. Peter Wickerham and his wife Mary, were people of influence amoung the pioneer settlers.

Together they had 9 children: Joseph, John, Jacob, Elizabeth, Mary, Nancy, Peter, Susan & Barbara.

Sources

• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 03 December 2020), memorial page for Peter Wickerham (11 Mar 1756–4 Sep 1841), Find A Grave: Memorial #46121321, citing Locust Grove Cemetery, Peebles, Adams County, Ohio, USA ; Maintained by John V. Burns (contributor 47138859) .
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