Wetter-Miller-Schneider-Riedesel Families


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Georg Gabriel Wetter (1793-1864), son of Georg Ludwig Wetter (1770-1803) and Elisabeth Homrighausen, was born in Wunderthausen, Germany. He married Elisabeth Florentine Schneider (1805-1884), daughter of Georg Ludwig Schneider (1783-1837) and Elisabeth Gertraud Riedesel, in 1828. They had eight children. They emigrated in 1831. He died in 1864 in Sherrill, Iowa. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Iowa and Nebraska.




The Miller Family


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Jacob Miller (b.1702) immigated in 1714 from Germany to Philadelphia. On the journey to America, he met a young lady, whom he would later marry, whose surname was also Miller but they were not related. " ... In the year 1725 they were married. For many years they lived together on a farm about thirty miles from Philadelphia near a place called Falkner's Swamp."--P. 7. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Michigan, California, Texas, Ohio, Florida, Idaho, Missouri, Washington and elsewhere.




The Riedesels in America


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The Miller Family


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The Riedesels in America


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