EXCERPTS FROM TWO WILLS: 1802 & 1823
OBITUARY: HON. MICHAEL ZIMMERMAN (1798-1878)
HUNTING OUR COMMON ZIMMERMANN ANCESTOR:
Combining 21st century genetics with 16th & 17th century church records
by Larry Zimmerman from Mennonite Family History
HISTORY OF QUEMAHONING TOWNSHIP, SOMERSET CO, PA
OLD RECORDS – ZIMMERMAN (Mt. Tabor) CHURCH
THE STORY OF THE WEALTHY D. B. ZIMMERMAN (.pdf)
D.B. ZIMMERMAN STABBED (.pdf New York Times 1911)
Last revised 3/17/18
Color codes by Main Families –
Pearce (green)
Gray (red)
Miller (gold)
Krause (blue) or
General (gray)
New 2/17/25: Cancer at Conemaugh: A Medical Memoir Addendum #2
NEW 2/16/25: An Interesting Family Connection to the Pow-wow
NEW 2/10/25; A Visit to the Enon Valley, Home of our Marshall Ancestors and Amish
NEW 2/6/25: Hill Family History Stories by Grace Hill TeSelle
NEW 2/5/25: Cousins’ Corner: Grace Hill TeSelle Obituary
NEW 3/1/24: Cancer at Conemaugh: Two Medical Memoir Addenda
NEW 2/11/24: Upon This Rock: Pt. IV – Modern Lit & Drama Pearces
NEW 2/9/24: Happy Birthday Brother Butch, the Bridge Builder
NEW 1/10/24: Renee Fleming – Are we Related?
NEW 12/23/23: Bark in a Barrel – Surviving the Winter
NEW 8/29/23: The Story of Clemens Krauss (1893-1954)
DRAFT ONGOING BEGINNING 1/1/22: Every Breath a Gift: a Memoir by Larry Pearce
NEW 12/9/21: Your Foot Shape & Your Genealogy from AncestralFindings.com
NEW 10/29/21: Ten Short Meditations on our Faith & Nature
NEW 5/3/21: Annie Pearce: Outstanding VA Tech Graduate Faculty Mentor & IDR Inductee 2021
NEW 5/1/21: Getting Kids Into Genealogy from AncestralFindings.com
NEW 4/21/21: What a Somerset County, PA, Amish Meetinghouse Looks Like
NEW 4/19/21: Getting to Know RootsTech, FamilySearch, & Other Family History Sites
NEW 4/15/21: Do You Have Irish Genealogy?
NEW 4/14/21: Cousins’ Corner: Brodieheg, the Blogger
NEW 4/2/21: Writing Your Own Family Narrative: A Short Bibliography
NEW 3/31/21: A Family History Book Review
NEW 3/30/21: Family Names in Churchhill’s Historical Anthology
NEW 3/11/21: The Life of Dowling Norris (1823-1858)
NEW 3/6/21: Deaths in the Charles Krause Family – 2021
NEW 3/5/21: The Pearces of Wiltshire: The Way They Talked
NEW & REVISED 2/25/21: WWII Letters from Home: Dick & Hilda Miller & Family (in 3 parts)
NEW 2/21/21: How Closely Related are the English and the Irish?
NEW 2/20/21: The Ten Oldest Amish Settlements, by Erik Wesner
NEW 2/4/21: Before, During, & After the World Wars: Moon-Hill Family Letters & Cards, Parts I , II, III, IV, & V
REVISED 1/31/21: Five Short Moon-Davis Family Letters from the 1920s
NEW 1/27/21: Reunions of the Joseph & Alice (Moon) Families: 1960-1968
NEW 1/26/21: Deaths in the Charles Krause Family – 2020
NEW 1/23/21: Our Pearce Families Come to America: A Four-Centuries Celebration, 1620-2021
NEW 1/18/21: The Life & Times of Ralph & Rachel Krause
NEW 1/15/21: Biking into History on the Great Allegheny Passage
NEW 1/13/21: The 4 Capt. John Dixon Hill & Sons’ Farms of Butler & Allegheny Counties, PA
REVISED 1/12/21: Our Nonconformist Pearces & The Rev. John Wesley
NEW 12/25/20: Susan & Larry Pearce Celebrate 50 Years Together
REVISED 12/7/20 (with personal note from Dr. Cyril Wecht):Our Moon Family Morticians: Joseph Daniel & Son
NEW 10/3/15: Look for links, re-postings, & summaries of articles fromTHE HISTORIAN, THE LAUREL MESSENGER, THE CASSELMAN CHRONICLE, GARRETT CO, MD, MUSEUMS, and MENNONITE FAMILY HISTORY
What are my favorite Original Family Narratives? PEARCE-AUSTEN, LESLIE, “INDIAN JOHN” MILLER, and “TOMMY” LEE
Do you have in your Zimmerman genealogy a Roland Zimmerman b 25 Oct 1794 Union,
Schuylkil Co, PA; died there 16 Aug 1883. I very much would like to learn names of his parents.
Ruth, we have at least two lines of Zimmermans in Somerset Co. As you can see from my writing, I’ve concentrated on the northern ones from Quemahoning Twp. Coming from Germany very early, ours center around the Mt. Tabor German Reformed Church, which came to be called the Zimmerman Church. I’ll keep you informed as I find more. Hope you’ll do the same. Larry
I have been tracing my family back and have hit a wall with Henry or Heinrich Zimmerman born 1780 in Minden, Prussia. He married Mary Wallager. Do you have any info that might help?
Michael,
Sorry to say that I have not encountered your Zimmermans, but then I haven’t done any Vitals on mine as they were back quite a ways. Please check back. Thanks for your interest,
Larry
Hi I am a Zimmerman and have been trying to trace back the history as it is very interesting that my great grandfather Vincent Farley Zimmerman was a twin and got separated at a young age during WW1. Do you perhaps know anything about him or any other information?
Hi Tayla. You don’t say where your Zimmermans were from. My wife’s Somerset County, PA, family came from the eastern counties. As I do “straight line” family history, I haven’t encountered your names. Perhaps a cousin will read your inquiry and be able to help. Thanks for your interest. Larry
I am researching Mathias Zimmerman born bet. 1750-1760 and spouse Sara/Salamah/Solome of Somerset County. I have the records of seven of their children baptized in the Berlin Reformed Church between 1784-1793. Would you have any more information on this Zimmerman family?