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Posts about my paternal lineage, the Deweese and Zimmerman families.
Proavus meus Parker L. Zimmerman ter accepit. Post duos menses matrimonium Victoriae Harris in 1897 in Franklin County, Missouri, Parker ad Bollinger Comitatus, Missouri propius esse ad familiam suam. parentes eius, Samuel et Sarah Zimmerman, habitabat in Dongola, Bollinger, Missouri. On March 31, 1902, 27-annos Parker duxit in secunda uxore, 22-annos Mellie Bollinger.
1909 est forsit pessimum anno vitae Parker Lonzo Bator Zimmerman. Et ipse periit, et decem menses, et ex secunda uxore, filia Ida May Zimmerman Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman. Ante mortem Parker in Capo de Giraurdeau Turbo 1949, he would bury two more of his children. Both of them were adults. I can only imagine how hard 1909
Ollie J. Zimmerman was the third son born to my great-grandfather Parker L. Zimmerman and his second wife Mollie Bollinger. Ollie and his twin sister Dollie were born on either April 27, 1906 or April 27, 1907. Since Ollie’s headstone says “1906”, I’m going with April 27, 1906 as his birthdate. In 1909, Ollie would lose his mother, cum Mellie
Gilford Dudley Story (1797 – 1870) is my third great-grandfather. There are six generations between the two of us. Ego nuper potui informationes invenire in familia Historiae, one of the branches of the family my research had not turned up as much information on. Per multos annos, Non potui invenire meam proaviam Dollie Zimmerman nec
My great grandmother Lydia Margaret “Dollie” Story Zimmerman’s youngest sister Hattie May Story was born on August 20, 1896. Hattie was Dollie’s half-sister as she was the daughter of George Washington Story and his second wife Margaret Sweat. Dollie’s mother was George Story’s first wife Malinda Davis. Margaretha mater Hattie aut Hattie peperit aut mortua est
My second great-grandfather George Washington Story was born in August 1843 to Gilford Dudley Story and his second wife Nancy Jane Story nee Womack. George was born in Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Illinois, USA. He was the fourth of Dudley’s and Nancy’s nine children. George Washington Story married his first wife and my second great-grandmother Malinda Davis on November 26, 1863,
Many Zimmermans always believed my great-grandfather Parker L. Zimmerman was married five times. Autem, Parker was married three times to Victoria Harris, Mellie Bollinger and Lydia Margaret “Dollie” Lorem ipsum. It was actually Parker’ sister-in-law Amanda Isabelle “Mandy” Lorem ipsum, who was married five times. Mandy was born in Illinois on July 16, 1877 to George Washington Story and Malinda Davis although
Avus Marcus: O. Haraldus frater ejus Robertus Zimmerman vetustissima “Harry” Zimmerman. Habuit quattuor seniores fratres et dimidia dimidium defuncto Henricus primus sororis filius L Parker. Zimmerman uxore sua, et Dolly. Grandpa ut nasceretur 28, 1913. Harry is a bit of a mystery as he died around the
My second great-grandfather John Riley Deweese served as Welch Township Republican Committee Chairman in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri for most of his adult life. Besides holding party caucuses in his home, John Riley served as Road Commissioner in the 1910s. Residents mostly traversed the roads by horse and buggy. Una machinarum imperia ad colligendas mercedes pro via
My great grandfather Parker was the victim of one of the largest natural disasters to hit Cape Girardeau, MO, in 1949 tornado. It hit the city on Saturday, Jube 21, 1949 at 06:54 p.m. By 7:00 p.m., Parker Zimmerman was dead at 74 annorum aetatis,. I always found my great grandfather interesting because he led such a varied life