All the children listed below may not belong to Henry and Anna butwere placed here by other researchers and will remain until correctlineages h ave been determined.
Residences & events in his life:
1757 Donegal Twp, Lancaster Co, PA. In the tax list, he owed 9s forhis property. He and his widowed mother, Anna, were the only Wisslersin that twp and one can only assume that he, being the youngest at 18,stayed behind with his mother until her death while the rest of thefamily moved on. Neighbors were the Seegrist family, relatives of hiswife .
1772 Earl Twp, Lancaster Co, PA. He was listed among the freemen ofthe county, he owed taxes of 15.0, his property was not listed.
1773 Breaknock Twp, Lancaster Co, PA. He was again among the countytaxpayers, this time he had 17 acres and 3 cattle for which the taxwas 3 .0.
1783 Newbrittain Twp, Bucks Co, PA. Having moved sometime within thepast 10 years, he then owned 50 acres, 1 horse and 1 cattle but noservants at tax time. The amount of tax was not recorded.
1790 Donegal Twp, Lancaster Co, PA. By census time Henry's householdincluded: 1 male over 16, 1 male under 16, and 2 females. Next doorwas brother Benjamin.
Berks Co, PA. (Did Henry really live there at all?)
1806 Pickaway Co, OH. Recorded in local history is:
" In 1806 John Reichelderfer and family and his son John and familycame to this township from Berks County, Pennsylvania. John Rarmon,Henry Wissler (Whisler, as the name is now spelled)"
And in the 1880 History of Franklin & Pickaway Co, OH, Salt Creek Twp,is:
"Henry Wissler came from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, with hisfamily, consisting of his wiffe and ten children in August, 1806. Hehad purchased over eleven hundred acres of land from John Shoemaker inthe southwest part of the twp for five dollars per acre. He movedinto a cabin which stood just across the road from where the residenceof Samuel Wissler now stands, and which was occupied by a squatterfamily by the name of Sweigert. In a few months Mr. Wissler bu ilt atwo story log house on the location of the former shanty, and residedthere until he death about the year 1830. His wife died in 1811. Onechild was born to them after their settlement. To each of his elevenchildren he gave one hundred and five acres of land. There are eightsurviving children. Henry lives in Iowa; George lives i n Illinois;Barbara (now Mrs. Weldy) in Indiana; Samuel resides in this township,in section thirty-two--he married Margaret Bunn, and had fivechildren, one being deceased; Jacob also lives in Salt Creek;Magdalene (now Mrs. Biechler) in Iowa; Mary (Mrs. Wolf) in Marioncounty; Michael, who is deceased, married Rebecca Vangundy, and, afterliving in several places, settled where his son, Amos, now lives, andresided there until his death, June 30, 1865, aged seventy-five years.His wife preceded him a few years. The had a family of ten children,seven of whom are living. (Some of the descendants write itWhisler.)"
1830 Salt Creek Twp, Pickaway Co, OH. At census time he and sons,George, John, and Samuel, were neighbors while Jacob and Michael livedjust down the road.
Researcher Mary Ann Atencio wrote:
"The Whistler school was on land donated by the Wisslers. The town ofWhistler is located in the lower left-hand corner of Salt CreekTownship , Pickaway County, Ohio. Birdie Jordan, granddaughter of JohnHarlan Welty, was in Whistler, Ohio in 1987 and reported, 'The PrairieView cemetary is well-cared for and is a beautiful cemetary situatedon the outskirts of the town and up on a hill. One can stand in thiscemetary and see for miles around. There are many Wissler anddescendent famillies buried in this cemetary. I was in Whistler in1987 and talked to some of the older people in the town, and therewere no people with the Wissler name left in the area, but there couldhave been descendents of the Wissler family.' A copy of the text ofthe original federal land transfer from John Shoemaker to HenryWissler is given in the Whisler book by Olive Taylor and Sarah TaylorSunderland. The original was apparently signed by both ThomasJefferson and James Madison."
There is a conflict between Henry's birthdate as posted and that ofhis c hildren, he should be much older.
Henry's will, dated 4/2/1831, was probated 6/11/1832. Son, Michael,wa s named executor, Aaron Jones and John T. Martin were witnesses.The wi ll mentions daughters, Catherine, wife of Isaac Worline,Barbara Welty w idow, Anna Van Gundy, Magdaline Biegler and Mary Wolf;sons, Michael, J ohn, Henry, George, Samuel, and Jacob.
Two grandchildren were buried beside Henry and Anna, a third was a fewplots down. All were children of Jacob "Cob" and Sarah Whisler.
