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0 @I1@ INDI
1 NAME J /Wemple/
2 GIVN J.C.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 MAR 1873
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 APR 1940
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford Cemetery, Milford, CA
1 FAMC @F31@
1 FAMS @F1@
1 NOTE At his funeral the compiler, aged 9 at the time, heard a community mem
2 CONC ber saying, He never had an enemy in his whole life.  He was loved b
2 CONC y his whole family and his family sadly missed and mourned him when h
2 CONC e died at the young age 67 in 1940.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jay was given the name J.C. at birth. After he and Libby were married
2 CONC , Libby had him change his name to Jay C. to end the confusion over th
2 CONC e mail (with Jay's father, Joseph C). Jay was a farmer in Milford, CA
2 CONC . DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT A tribute to J.C. & Libby Wemple from DFD
2 CONT by Dave F. Dozier, M.D.:
2 CONT 
2 CONT This tribute is written for the descendants of two of the most wonderf
2 CONC ul parents anyone could ever know of.  Often it is difficult for child
2 CONC ren to write with the freedom which others may use in telling of a pre
2 CONC cious home and the life therein. Having known the family for seventy y
2 CONC ears, I want to tell of the life in this blessed home.  Such was was t
2 CONC he home of Jay and Libby.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jay Wemple and Libby Decious both grew up in Milford and attended th
2 CONC e Milford School.  Grandfather Joseph Wemple named the town and in fac
2 CONC t bought the land which became the base of all the Wemple ranches fro
2 CONC m Peter Lassen himself.*  Truly, this is the story of the beautiful lo
2 CONC ve between husband and wife which thrived as long as life permitted
2 CONC .  Every child was wanted, made welcome and secure within the family a
2 CONC nd the older brothers and sisters.  No one knowing the family ever beh
2 CONC eld a more close knit, happy and affectionate family group - all for e
2 CONC ach and each for all!  There were ten children - five boys and five gi
2 CONC rls.  God called one little fellow early in life and one fine son wa
2 CONC s called in the full glow of manhood.  As this is written, in 1984, th
2 CONC e eight surviving are all known to be fine men and gracious ladies who
2 CONC se friendship is cherished by all who know them. In the early years i
2 CONC t was Jay's great joy after chores were done, to come into the house a
2 CONC nd pick up the youngest, bringing coos and laughs from the infant whil
2 CONC e Libby and the daughters, who were learning priceless cooking skills
2 CONC , readied the evening meal.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The home was a large two story ranch home with generous room for all
2 CONC . And what living and what wonderful food, most of which came right fr
2 CONC om the ranch itself, with chickens, eggs and milk; beef, pork, and lam
2 CONC b; hams, bacon, and sausage expertly prepared by Jay and the boys.  Th
2 CONC ere was a large garden behind the house from which came berries an
2 CONC d a large variety of vegetables which were used fresh, put into dozen
2 CONC s of glasses and jars, or in large bins in the basement cellar.  Fro
2 CONC m the orchard came cherries, apricots, peaches, and a variety of apple
2 CONC s all to be handled in a similar manner.  There was always fresh bake
2 CONC d bread, biscuits, hot cakes, cakes, pies, and doughnuts as only Libb
2 CONC y and her daughters could turn out.  Of course jams, jellies and prese
2 CONC rves to match.  Butter churned on the ranch, plenty of cream, plus ic
2 CONC e from Honey Lake** stored and brought out from the icehouse for the m
2 CONC aking of glorious ice cream in the summer.
2 CONT 
2 CONT What a wonderful life replete with so many products of the land and al
2 CONC l under the mantle of parental, filial and sibling love seen but rarel
2 CONC y. In these later years it is truly wonderful to see the genuine affec
2 CONC tion within all members of the families, the happy friendships and lov
2 CONC e, each and every one for the others.  To have been born a child of Ja
2 CONC y and Libby is to have been truly blest.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Compiler's note: * (1) Joseph C. Wemple bought land from Fairfield an
2 CONC d Whiting, not Peter Lassen.
2 CONT ** (2) Ice was not cut off Honey Lake, as the water was always murky
2 CONC . Rather, it was cut off the reservoirs and saved in ice houses insula
2 CONC ted with saw dust. (3)The author of this note, Doctor Dave Dozier, a
2 CONC s a high school boy, spent a summer with Jay and Libby working on th
2 CONC e ranch for Jay. Doctor Dozier later married Jay and Libby's daughter
2 CONC , Marjel in 1981, after both their spouses had died. (4) The garden th
2 CONC at the author noted was raised largely by Jay. DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from the Susanville LASSEN ADVOCATE, Tuesday, 16 April 1940
2 CONC , page 1c6:
2 CONT 
2 CONT JAY C. WEMPLE PASSES AWAY AT LOCAL HOSPITAL
2 CONT 
2 CONT At the Riverside Hospital Friday night, Susanville lost another of he
2 CONC r old time residents, Jay C. Wemple, who passed away at about 8 p.m. a
2 CONC t the age of 67 years and 12 days, of a very industrious and eventfu
2 CONC l life.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jay C. Wemple was well known about Lassen county, having been born an
2 CONC d raised here. He was born in the home farm, March 31, 1873, and in co
2 CONC mmon with his brothers and sister was educated, principally in the dis
2 CONC trict school. As soon as he was old enough to be of use, he began work
2 CONC ing on the ranch, and has been actively engaged in agricultural labo
2 CONC r since. His farm is northeast of Milford, and shows well how his syst
2 CONC ematic methods and excellent judgement brought satisfactory results.
2 CONT 
2 CONT On February 17, 1894, Mr. Wemple married Elizabeth Decious, a daughte
2 CONC r of Irvin Decious, of Modoc county, and into their home 11 children w
2 CONC ere born. Living are Claude C. Wemple of Milford, Mrs. Olga Burrough
2 CONC s of Sacramento, Miss Narnia Wemple and Joseph Irvin Wemple, both of M
2 CONC ilford, Mrs. Marjel Edwards and Raymond J. Wemple of Westwood, Mrs. Ma
2 CONC rguerite Hallowell of Susanville, Mrs. Deesse Theodore of Litchfield a
2 CONC nd Neil Wemple of Susanville.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was a member of Honey Lake Parlor No. 198 N.S.G.W. (Native Sons o
2 CONC f the Golden West), of Janesville.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He is survived by his wife and the above mentioned children and also 1
2 CONC 6 grandchildren and one great granddaughter. One sister, Mrs. Elizabet
2 CONC h Harris of Elko, Nevada and Judge N.V. Wemple and F.O. Wemple, brothe
2 CONC rs, of Susanville.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Reverand R.G. Green officiated at services in the Methodist churc
2 CONC h at 2 p.m. Tuesday.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Martha Torry and Ardith O'Dell sang, while Alfreda Cunningham accompan
2 CONC ied them at the piano.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Members of the Janesville Masonic Lodge, of which he was a member, an
2 CONC d the Susanville Masonic Lodge attended in a body to act as honorary g
2 CONC uests.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Pallbearers were all nephews: Lyle Wemple, Fred Wemple, Paul Wemple, O
2 CONC rville Wemple, Lawrence [sic] Wemple, and Guy Wemple.
0 @I2@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth Adelia /Decious/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 07 DEC 1874
2 PLAC Lake City, Modoc County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 04 JUN 1960
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford Cemetery, Milford, CA
1 FAMS @F1@
1 NOTE Grandma was a strong Christian who lived her faith. DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from the Susanville LASSEN ADVOCATE, Wednesday, 8 June 1960
2 CONC , page 1c3:
2 CONT 
2 CONT FINAL RITES HELD FOR LIBBY WEMPLE
2 CONT 
2 CONT Funeral services for Mrs. Libby A. Wemple, 85, of Milford, who died a
2 CONC t a local hospital last Saturday afternoon, were held in the Rogers Fu
2 CONC neral Home on Monday afternoon at two o'clock with the Reverand Russel
2 CONC l Van Alen officiating. Interment was in the Milford Cemetery.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mrs. Alfreda Cunningham played three organ selections, In the Garden,
2 CONC  Beautiful Garden of Prayer and Open Mine Eyes That I may see.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Pallbearers were Don Wemple, Glenn Wemple, David Wemple, David Edward
2 CONC s, Jr., Trent Burroughs and John J. Theordore.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The deceased was born in California on December 7, 1874 and was marrie
2 CONC d at Milford in 1894.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Surviving are three sons, Claude, Milford; Raymond, Dorris; and Col. N
2 CONC eil, March AFB, and five daughters, Mrs. Olga Burroughs, Sacramento; N
2 CONC arnia Wemple, Milford; Mrs Marjel Edwards, Anderson; Mrs. Marguerite H
2 CONC allowell; Susanville; and Mrs. Deesse Theodore, Wendel.
0 @I3@ INDI
1 NAME Infant /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 06 DEC 1894
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 06 DEC 1894
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford Cemetery, Milford, CA
1 FAMC @F1@
0 @I4@ INDI
1 NAME Claude Clement /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 03 APR 1896
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 21 DEC 1993
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford Cemetery, Milford, CA
1 FAMC @F1@
1 FAMS @F2@
1 NOTE The above photo is a composite made up of Henrietta and Claude's gradu
2 CONC ation photos. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT A man of local prominence.  He was a successful rancher and farmer. Du
2 CONC ring the Great Depression, he took over his father's property when th
2 CONC e bank was threatening to foreclose and take over the family farm. Hi
2 CONC s father had obtained the property from Claude's grandfather, Joseph C
2 CONC rawford Wemple. After taking it over, Claude built this farming busine
2 CONC ss up from about 500 acres of farm land to over 1000 acres of tilled f
2 CONC arm land and another 3900 acres of grazing land.  At the height of hi
2 CONC s operation, he ran about 400 head of cows and another 300 head of hei
2 CONC fers and steers he was readying for market.  His business practices we
2 CONC re beyond reproach his entire life.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Above all, Claude was a horseman.  He loved his horses and  was an act
2 CONC ive rider throughout most of his life.  When he was aged 77, he rod
2 CONC e a ten hour day riding after cattle with the rest of the cowboys.
2 CONC   At this age, his legs began to fail him and riding became too painf
2 CONC ul for him, so he hung up his spurs.   But, he continued actively t
2 CONC o run his ranch for the next several years. His love of horses continu
2 CONC ed for the rest of his life and he would talk horses to any willin
2 CONC g ear until the day he died.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He had artistic skills and during the Depression, he made silver mount
2 CONC ed horse bridles, which he sold for a small profit.  It was during thi
2 CONC s time that he engraved a Thoroughbred horse on a flat piece of Germa
2 CONC n silver. This piece of art was never sold, but was kept as a family t
2 CONC reasure.  It is presently in the possession of his grandson, Daniel C
2 CONC . Wemple.
2 CONT 
2 CONT After he retired, at about age 85, he wrote a book about his grandfath
2 CONC er, Joseph Crawford Wemple, which he simple titled Joseph Crawford We
2 CONC mple: A Pioneer of Lassen County, California, 1830-1921.  Then when h
2 CONC e entered his nineties, he wrote a second book, an autobiography title
2 CONC d Memories of a Rancher From the Land of the Never Sweats.  Joseph C
2 CONC rawford Wemple, and other early Lassen County pioneers called the are
2 CONC a they lived in The Land of the Never Sweats because it took littl
2 CONC e labor to live off the land that they had moved onto.
2 CONT 
2 CONT At various times in his lifetime he served on about twelve different a
2 CONC dvisory boards, the most prestigious being the Advisory Board of the B
2 CONC ank of America from 1949-1975 in Susanville, California.  He was a sch
2 CONC ool trustee on the Milford Elementary School, Lassen Union High Schoo
2 CONC l and Lassen Junior College running from 1937-1949, and he was a chart
2 CONC er member and had a thirty year membership in the Lassen County Sherif
2 CONC f's Posse.  He was given recognition by seven different community an
2 CONC d organizational awards, the most notable being recognized as the Far
2 CONC mer of the Year by California Soil Conversation District in 1982.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He died while living on his beloved ranch in 1993 at age 97 in his hom
2 CONC e not far from the house where he was born.  He had spent his entire l
2 CONC ife span in the community in which he was born, save a brief six month
2 CONC s which he spent living with his son, David, in Orland, CA. DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following article was sent to the compiler by Lynn Hallowell McDon
2 CONC ald, niece of Claude Wemple, shortly after its publication. DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT Article from the NEVADA STATE JOURNAL, May 11, 1985:
2 CONT 
2 CONT PLAQUE NOTES HISTORIC PAST OF TINY CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY
2 CONT 
2 CONT Milford, California - Motorists along busy Highway 395 between Reno an
2 CONC d Susanville may never have noticed when they passed through the histo
2 CONC ric Lassen County community of Milford.
2 CONT 
2 CONT But Milford, one of the oldest settlements in the Honey Lake Valley, w
2 CONC ill go unnoticed no longer.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Neversweats Chapter of E Clampus Vitus has dedicated a rock plaqu
2 CONC e that recognizes the community at the site of the first important flo
2 CONC ur mill in northeastern California.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Milford, about 25 miles southeast of Susanville, was registered in 197
2 CONC 9 as a state historical point in interest, the first in Lassen County.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Still, the town's historical significance was generally unrecognized u
2 CONC ntil E Clampus Vitus decided to erect the marker.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Milford got its start in 1856 when Robert T. Scott staked a claim ther
2 CONC e. Joseph Wemple named the town in 1861, taking note of a sawmill an
2 CONC d flour mill there.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Claude Wemple, 89-year-old patriarch of the Wemple family, was on han
2 CONC d when the marker was dedicated last week.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Honey Lake Valley has seen seven generations of Wemples.  Many sti
2 CONC ll live here.  Claude Wemple has lived in a cluster of homes in the We
2 CONC mple Ranch since 1903.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Records say Robert Scott's first developments - including a cabin, fiv
2 CONC e fenced acres and water for farming - were sold to Peter Lassen, th
2 CONC e county's pioneer settler, in 1859.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Thomas Fairchild of Massachusetts and Frederick Washburne of Pennsylva
2 CONC nia acquired Milford from Lassen's estate.  They built a sawmill alon
2 CONC g Mill Creek in 1860.
2 CONT 
2 CONT A flour mill was constructed a year later by Joseph Wemple and his bro
2 CONC ther-in-law Judson Dakin.  The site of the flour mill is about 200 yar
2 CONC ds from the new historical plaque.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Milford's business district is limited to a store and post office.  I
2 CONC t once featured a saloon, hotel, blacksmith shop, store, butcher shop
2 CONC , school and several mills.
2 CONT 
2 CONT According to Claude Wemple, it was known for crops of apples that wer
2 CONC e shipped along Honey Lake to the railroad.
2 CONT 
2 CONT McClatchy News Service
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from the Susanville LASSEN COUNTY TIMES, Tuesday, 28 Decembe
2 CONC r 1993, page 1c2-4 & 10c6:
2 CONT 
2 CONT MILFORD PIONEER DEAD AT 97
2 CONT 
2 CONT Lifelong Milford resident Claude Clement Wemple, 97 died at his home o
2 CONC n Tuesday, December 21.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The first born son of Jay and Libby Wemple, he was born in Milford o
2 CONC n April 3, 1896. A third generation California native, Claude operate
2 CONC d the Wemple Ranch in Milford for 51 years.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He married Henrietta Winchester shortly after graduating from Lassen H
2 CONC igh School in 1916. The couple raised a family of three sons and one d
2 CONC aughter. Henrietta died in 1984.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Claude worked for his father at farming and ranching from 1915 to 1932
2 CONC . Then, in 1932, he started to realize his lifelong goal of owning an
2 CONC d operating a cattle ranch. It was in this year that he purchased hi
2 CONC s father's ranch, part of which was originally owned by Peter Lassen
2 CONC . At the time he purchased it, the ranch consisted of approximately 50
2 CONC 0 acres.
2 CONT 
2 CONT By the time Claude retired, he had increased the size of his ranch t
2 CONC o more than 4,700 acres. During his active ranching years, Claude prim
2 CONC arily raised beef cattle, but on various occasions he also raised dair
2 CONC y cattle, hogs and Thoroughbred horses, as well as producing grain, ha
2 CONC y and alfalfa seed as cash crops.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Claude also developed artistic skills, producing over the years severa
2 CONC l paintings, engravings and pen in ink sketches many of them focusin
2 CONC g on life as it was lived on his ranch.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Another of Claude's passions was the preservation of history. He wa
2 CONC s a founding member of the Lassen County Historical Society and, follo
2 CONC wing his retirement from active ranching, he devoted his life to recor
2 CONC ding his own experiences of growing up in Lassen County.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The result is a book entitled MEMORIES OF A RANCHER FROM THE LAND OF T
2 CONC HE NEVER SWEATS. Published by Bornet Books in 1992, Claude's book adde
2 CONC d a whole new chapter to local history and has been praised as a dyna
2 CONC mic and entertaining chronicle of the life as it was really lived i
2 CONC n the vast American west.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Claude was a member of numerous local organizations, including: Lasse
2 CONC n County Cattlemen's Association (charter member and president from 19
2 CONC 49-1955); Lassen County Farm Bureau (charter member and former Chairma
2 CONC n of the Janesville/Milford Center); Lassen County Fair Board, 1952-19
2 CONC 74; Lassen County Historical Society (charter member and president for
2 CONC m 1963-1967); Advisory Board of the Bank of America; Susanville Branch
2 CONC , 1949-1975; School Board Trustee, Milford Elementary, Lassen Union Hi
2 CONC gh School and Junior College, 1937-1954; the Farmers Home Administrati
2 CONC on Advisory Board, late 1940's; Lassen County Sheriff's Posse (charte
2 CONC r member, 30-year member); and the United Methodist Church of Susanvil
2 CONC le.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Claude is survived by his sons Glenn of Milford and David of Orland; h
2 CONC is brother Neil W. Wemple of Tucson, Arizona; sisters Olga Burroughs o
2 CONC f Sacramento, Marjel Dozier of Anderson, Marguerite Rypkema of Paradis
2 CONC e and Deesse Theodore of Susanville.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Also surviving are eight grandchildren, seventeen great-grandchildren
2 CONC , fourteen great-great-grandchildren and one great-great-great-grandch
2 CONC ild.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Funeral services are scheduled to be held at 11 a.m., December 28, wit
2 CONC h interment to follow in the Milford Cemetery.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Snippites from various newspapers sent to the compiler by Phyllis Met
2 CONC z on May 20, 2000:
2 CONT 
2 CONT From the LASSEN ADVOCATE September 12, 1912:
2 CONT 
2 CONT High School Athletics - Claude Wemple was hit in the eye with a baseba
2 CONC ll while practicing at the grounds Wednesday. He was taken to his hom
2 CONC e in an automobile after the accident. Claude promises to develop int
2 CONC o a good player and it is hoped that his injury will not long keep hi
2 CONC m off the diamond.
2 CONT 
2 CONT From the LASSEN ADVOCATE April 25, 1913:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Doings at the High School:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Tryouts for Reno meet - . . .high hurdles, Wemple.  . . .220 dash, Wem
2 CONC ple.  . . .low hurdles, Wemple
2 CONT 
2 CONT From the LASSEN ADVOCATE April 3, 1914:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Lassen High School Notes:
2 CONT 
2 CONT 16 Annual Academic Field Meet at Reno.  . . .Two new records were esta
2 CONC blished, one of them by Claude Wemple of Lassen in the broad jump cove
2 CONC ring a distance of 20'4. Wemple's efforts brings to him a gold metal
2 CONC . In the 120 hurdles 17 2/5 second.  . . .Wemple ran ran a tie for sec
2 CONC ond place and was given the third place award. He also tied in the hig
2 CONC h jump for second place 5'7 1/2.  . . .320 hurdles Wemple 29 1/5 seco
2 CONC nds. . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT From the LASSEN ADVOCATE February 19, 1915:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Alumni and High School Debate - Resolved that the United States shal
2 CONC l establish a Protectorate over Mexico until a stable government is es
2 CONC tablished. For the negative . . . Claude Wemple . . .
0 @I5@ INDI
1 NAME Olga Adelia /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 SEP 1897
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 JUL 2000
2 PLAC Sacramento County, CA
1 BURI
2 DATE 05 AUG 2000
2 PLAC Old Susanville Cemetery, Susanville, CA
1 FAMC @F1@
1 FAMS @F32@
1 NOTE Obituary from the Sacramento Bee, July 19, 2000, page B5, c2:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Burroughs, Olga Wemple 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Passing away quietly on July 17, 2000. She was born September 13, 1897
2 CONC , at the family ranch in Milford, Lassen County, California, the thir
2 CONC d of eleven children born to early pioneers Jay C. and Libby Decious W
2 CONC emple. Mrs. Burroughs was married for 29 years to Spencer E. Burroughs
2 CONC , a veteran of WW I and the Chief Attorney for the California Departme
2 CONC nt of Water Resource until his death in November 1948. Mrs Burroughs w
2 CONC as predeceased by her son Spencer Burroughs who was killed in action i
2 CONC n the Pacific in WW II. She is survived by two sons: Trent Burroughs a
2 CONC nd Geoffrey Burroughs, both of Sacramento, a daughter: Brooke Van Zand
2 CONC t, of Phoenix, Arizona, and five grandchildren, and nine great-grandch
2 CONC ildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. She is also survived by he
2 CONC r sister: Margarite Rypkema of Reno, Nevada, and a brother: Neil Wempl
2 CONC e of Tucson, Arizona. Mrs. Burroughs attended the University of Califo
2 CONC rnia at Berkeley, and was a well-known Sacramento artist who had exhib
2 CONC ited her award winning oil paintings at the Crocker Art Gallery. She w
2 CONC as President of the Kingsley Art Club from 1937 to 1939, and was found
2 CONC er and Past President of the World Affairs Council of Sacramento, an
2 CONC d active in many other social events. A private memorial service wil
2 CONC l be held later in Susanville. Remembrances may be made to the charit
2 CONC y the doner's choice, or to the Crocker Art Museum, 216 'O' Street, Sa
2 CONC cramento, CA 95814, or to the Kingsley Art Club's Educational Fund, 21
2 CONC 6 'O' Street, Sacramento, CA 95814. Arrangements by Harry A Nauman an
2 CONC d Son.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from the Sacramento Bee, July 21, 2000, page B5, c1,2,3:
2 CONT 
2 CONT (With picture and the following caption)
2 CONT She started her own business after her husband died and she had to rai
2 CONC se three children.
2 CONT 
2 CONT AD PIONEER OLGA BURROUGHS
2 CONT 
2 CONT Her display panels for city trash cans drew praise nationwide
2 CONT By Steve Gibson, Bee Staff Writer
2 CONT 
2 CONT Olga Wemple Burroughs, a member of a pioneer Lassen County family wh
2 CONC o later settled in Sacramento, reared a family and operated her own ou
2 CONC tdoor advertising firm, is dead at 102.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She died in a nursing home Monday of complications from pneumonia, sai
2 CONC d her son, Geoffrey Burroughs.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Her firm, Emerson & Burroughs, had a franchise from the city during th
2 CONC e late 1940s and early 1950s to display advertising panels on trash co
2 CONC ntainers on downtown street corners.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mrs. Burroughs advertising techniques - attaching weatherproof panel
2 CONC s covered with color photos on the containers - were considered so inn
2 CONC ovative that she gained national recognition.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In 1951, the Advertising Federation of America presented her with th
2 CONC e Erma Proetz Award for pioneering a new type of outdoor advertising.
2 CONC 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Trash cans have long been ugly and dirty, Mrs. Burroughs wrote at th
2 CONC e time. I have designed a waste unit of almost classic dignity (with
2 CONC ) . . . beautiful colored pictures . . . which arouse civic pride an
2 CONC d give people a warm feeling toward the advertiser whose name and cop
2 CONC y is below the picture.
2 CONT 
2 CONT But, as Mrs. Burroughs recalled later, to win the franchise she firs
2 CONC t had to overcome strenuous opposition from the City Council and Sac
2 CONC ramento's two daily newspapers, both of which editorialized against th
2 CONC e concept.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Most of the criticism was based on the hypothesis that our waste unit
2 CONC s would be unsightly, she said later. But once samples were placed o
2 CONC n sidewalks, opposition waned.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mrs. Burroughs entered the advertising business out of necessity afte
2 CONC r her husband, Spencer E. Burroughs, a lawyer for the state of Califor
2 CONC nia, died in 1948, her son said.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Her oldest son, a Navy officer, had been killed in action, in the Paci
2 CONC fic Theater during World War II, but at the time of her husband's deat
2 CONC h, she still had three children at home and little insurance money, ac
2 CONC cording to her son Geoffrey.
2 CONT 
2 CONT We went from being real comfortable to being on a real tight budget,
2 CONC  her son said. She had to work to support us.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Nonetheless, Mrs. Burroughs found time for other interests.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was a Democrat, a political liberal who was active during the 1950
2 CONC s and 1960s in the local chapter of the World Affairs Council of North
2 CONC ern California, serving as president of the group.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In addition, she was an accomplished artist, whose oil paintings wer
2 CONC e displayed in the Crocker Art Gallery. She was a past president of th
2 CONC e Kingsley Art Club.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Olga Wemple Burroughs was born September 13, 1897, on the family ranc
2 CONC h in Milford, Lassen County, the third of 11 children of Libby Deciou
2 CONC s Wemple and Jay C. Wemple. Her father was a rancher in Milford.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was a 1915 graduate of Lassen High School in Susanville, and studi
2 CONC ed art for one year at the University of California, Berkeley. She ret
2 CONC urned home the next year after her mother gave birth to her 11th chil
2 CONC d and needed help caring for the family.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In 1919 she married Spencer E. Burroughs, a Lassen County lawyer who s
2 CONC erved in the Navy during World War I.
2 CONT 
2 CONT According to her family, she was 13 when became interested in art an
2 CONC d painting, an interest that continued into her 90s.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In addition to her son Geoffrey, who resides in Sacramento, survivor
2 CONC s include a daughter, Brooke Van Zandt of Phoenix; another son, Tren
2 CONC t Burroughs of Sacramento; sister Marguerite Rypkema of Reno; brother
2 CONC , Neil Wemple of Tucson; five grandchildren; nine great-grandchildre
2 CONC n and two great-great-grandchildren.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The family is planning a memorial service in Lassen County.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following are excerpts from Olga's daughter, Brooke (Olga)'s, lett
2 CONC er which was available at the reception following Olga's memorial serv
2 CONC ice in Susanville:
2 CONT 
2 CONT (Elegance) was truly Mother on those evenings when she would descend t
2 CONC he stairs, dressed in brilliance for a party; her eyes shining with ex
2 CONC citement, her hair and gown lovely, looking like a girl on her first d
2 CONC ate.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She entertained often in her home, and had many elegant friends who in
2 CONC vited her to their homes.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mother understood sophisticated hospitality. She knew what the menu sh
2 CONC ould be - and what it should not be - and was never ruffled or ill a
2 CONC t ease.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Her parties were lovely; her guests those of the art world and those o
2 CONC f politics. Her home was charming; her husband, dynamic, and she ha
2 CONC d a gracious manner of enjoying people.
2 CONT 
2 CONT For years, no liquor was served at her home, and yet a society, who cu
2 CONC stomarily enjoyed cocktails and wine, appeared and stayed the evening.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Even after Dad died, at a much too early age, Mother continued to ente
2 CONC rtain, both the same collection of friends, and new ones she met in ou
2 CONC tside activities.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Although a widow, Mother never seemed interested in finding a second h
2 CONC usband. In fact, she discouraged any would-be suitors. Either she foun
2 CONC d Spencer Senior too difficult on act to supplant, or she enjoyed he
2 CONC r personal freedom. Mother was a very independent person.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Ten words describe Mother to me: Elegant, Mercurial, Hospitable, Arbit
2 CONC rary, Aspiring, Admiring, Artistic, Undecided, Emotional, Determined.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Amidst these ten words are a lot of contradictions!
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mother had a wacky sense of humor, yet she was a most prim and traditi
2 CONC onal lady. For example: she thought it VERY FUNNY when a longtime male
2 CONC -friend of the family, who lived in the southern part of the State, ar
2 CONC rived, unannounced, in the middle of the night - climbed through an un
2 CONC locked downstairs window and went upstairs to an extra bedroom to slee
2 CONC p - showing up suddenly at the breakfast table the next morning.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mother liked kookie antics in her friends, thus gathering a number o
2 CONC n the Avant-Garde around her, although her own behavior was strictl
2 CONC y conventional, and she preferred that her own children's behavior b
2 CONC e conventional also.
2 CONT 
2 CONT As a matter of fact, she had a sense of possession about her own child
2 CONC ren, and even a sense of possession about their possessions. Mother wa
2 CONC s very much a matriarch.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Yet, as a mother, she did not enter into her children's activities. Sh
2 CONC e never looked at a report card, or entered a school a child her her
2 CONC s attended, or sought a teacher's advice, or helped with homework. He
2 CONC r expectations for scholarship and behavior were high, and that was th
2 CONC at.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She had many too many outside activities in her life to be bothered wi
2 CONC th such details.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She had two main interests in her life: art and politics. Art was an o
2 CONC utstanding talent given her as a gift from Above. Her special talent w
2 CONC as in the oil painting of portraits. With very little training, her po
2 CONC rtraits were truly exquisite and exact images of her subject. She spen
2 CONC t some years in painting family members and friends, generally, anyon
2 CONC e she could get to pose for her. Mother never thought in terms of busi
2 CONC ness or making money.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was really a lady of the old school, and felt that women shoul
2 CONC d be allowed to stay out of the grubby world of making a living.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Her other great interest was politics. From the moment she rode all th
2 CONC e way home from Cal, Berkeley, on the train with Spencer Burroughs, wh
2 CONC o was going all the way home from Stanford University, and Spencer ast
2 CONC ounded her by talking nothing but politics the whole trip, Mother wa
2 CONC s captivated by politics.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She learned all her politics from Spencer, and was a rabid Democrat
2 CONC . I often though that, as he grew older, and the world changed, Dad mi
2 CONC ght have mellowed in his politics. But, not so, for Mother. She stoo
2 CONC d by the family point of view, and only progressed past Dad to becom
2 CONC ing, on many issues, absolutely radical.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Her intense interest in art and politics brought her some Awards in bo
2 CONC th fields. Among other things, she was President of the elite Kingsle
2 CONC y Art Club of Sacramento, and Founder and President of the World Aff
2 CONC airs Council of Sacramento, which, as I am sure you know, is a Rockef
2 CONC eller gift to the world.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In 1945, I recall, she dragged me to the first meeting of the United N
2 CONC ations, which was held in San Francisco. It was a gathering of severa
2 CONC l days and very potent with power. I recall being quite blase' about t
2 CONC he event, but now I am quite impressed.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mother also introduced me, at a luncheon, to the Moral ReArmament, Oxf
2 CONC ord Group, whom I later visited in Los Angeles, and some of whom I cor
2 CONC responded with for years.
2 CONT 
2 CONT This was the sort of atmosphere in which I grew up, and, of course, wh
2 CONC en Dad was alive, it was multiplied by Dad, who was, indeed, a uniqu
2 CONC e life in himself.
2 CONT 
2 CONT But, mother, took a long pause after Spencer Jr.'s death, and three ye
2 CONC ars later, after Dad's death, disconnecting the telephone for some tim
2 CONC e. But when she recovered, she took up her activities with even more d
2 CONC etermination.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mother wanted to BE everything, and to KNOW everything, and she did va
2 CONC lue her own acumen.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Therefore, not so very long ago, she was disappointed when she receive
2 CONC d a form in the mail from Who's Who in America, and discovered tha
2 CONC t she could not fill in a single requirement!
2 CONT 
2 CONT Well, what I say is, She RECEIVED the FORM, didn't she? That is bett
2 CONC er than most of us do.
2 CONT 
2 CONT HOWEVER, if Who's Who had a form for Eccentricity in a Restrained L
2 CONC ady-like Manner . . . or Ratings For The Top Tea-Pourer In America
2 CONC  . . . or Ratings For The Woman Who Presented The Same Salad At Dinn
2 CONC er For Well Over Umpteen-Years In A Row . . . or, Ratings For Someon
2 CONC e Who Tried To Be Everything To Everybody And Always, In Her Opinion
2 CONC , Was Right, SURELY, Mother could have filled THAT form to overloadin
2 CONC g and more!
2 CONT 
2 CONT I remember Mother mentioning once, in the early days, that someone s
2 CONC hould write a book just about the daily life of an ordinary person
2 CONC . I got the impression that the someone she was thinking about was her
2 CONC self.
2 CONT 
2 CONT NEVER! NEVER could she have done it!
2 CONT 
2 CONT ANYONE  who knew Mother well, knew that she could not have done it! Sh
2 CONC e could NEVER have become an ORDINARY person.  . . .
0 @I6@ INDI
1 NAME Hazel Narnia /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 07 AUG 1899
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 06 DEC 1984
2 PLAC Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
1 FAMC @F1@
1 NOTE Obituary from THE SACRAMENTO BEE, 8 December 1984, page A19c1:
2 CONT 
2 CONT NARNIA HAZEL WEMPLE
2 CONT 
2 CONT Narnia Hazel Wemple, a descendant of Lassen County settlers, died Thu
2 CONC rsday in Sacramento after a long illness.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Miss Wemple, 85, moved to Sacramento from Susanville 10  years ago.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was for many years the post-mistress of her native Milford, Lasse
2 CONC n County.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Miss Wemple raised an orphaned nephew and cared for her elderly mothe
2 CONC r.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She is survived by her brothers, Claude Wemple of Milford, retired Ar
2 CONC my Col. Neil Wemple of Tucson, Arizona, and Ray Wemple of Weed, Siskiy
2 CONC ou County; and sisters, Marguerite Rypkema of Paradise, and Deesse The
2 CONC odore of Susanville, and Olga Burroughs and Marjel Dozier, both of Sac
2 CONC ramento.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was the granddaughter of Joseph Wemple, who settled in Lassen Cou
2 CONC nty in 1859.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Her ashes will be interred next spring in the family plot in the Milf
2 CONC ord Cemetery.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The family requests that any remembrances be sent to a charity of th
2 CONC e donor's choice.
0 @I7@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph Irvin /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 DEC 1900
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 02 DEC 1948
2 PLAC Johnstonville, Lassen County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F1@
1 FAMS @F33@
1 NOTE Sammy was killed in an automobile accident near Johnstonville, CA. H
2 CONC e was an excellent horseman and truly enjoyed to ride race horses.  I
2 CONC t has been said that he had the skill to ride race horses on any trac
2 CONC k and could have competed with the best of jockeys. He was a conservat
2 CONC ive Christian who loved his Lord. He worked at various times as a mil
2 CONC l worker, farmer, and security guard. DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary & article from the Susanville LASSEN ADVOCATE, Friday, 3 Dece
2 CONC mber 1948, page 1c7-8:
2 CONT 
2 CONT WELL-KNOWN LOCAL MAN DIED AS CAR SKIDS INTO BRIDGE
2 CONT 
2 CONT Irvin (Sammy) Wemple Killed As Car Skids Into Bridge Near Johnstonvil
2 CONC le
2 CONT 
2 CONT Irvin (Sammy) Wemple, 48, of Milford, was killed when his car skidde
2 CONC d into the bridge over the Lake Leavitt Slough this side of Johnstonvi
2 CONC lle Wednesday about 7:45 a.m.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Earl Allison of Buntingville, office manager of the Susanville Loggin
2 CONC g company, a passenger in the front seat of the car, is recovering fro
2 CONC m face, head cuts and bruises at Riverside hospital.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Frank Kliewer of Milford, who worked at Lassen Lumber and Box compan
2 CONC y with Wemple, was riding in the back seat of the car, and was not inj
2 CONC ured.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Funeral services are scheduled Monday at 1:30 p.m. at the Methodist c
2 CONC hurch, with the Reverand E.E. Wilson officiating. Burial will be in Mi
2 CONC lford cemetery.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Ivan Hudson of Janesville, driving a red pickup immediately behind We
2 CONC mple's car, skidded and struck the bridge, missing the other victims
2 CONC , when he tried to stop, according to highway patrolmen. He was not in
2 CONC jured.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jay Wemple, Irvin's son, was following by about 100 yards of his fath
2 CONC er's car. Seeing the accident, he tried to stop and his car made a sli
2 CONC ding turn through the bridge, striking only a piece of broken guard po
2 CONC st in the road.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The highway was icy when the accident occurred. The victim's car, a 1
2 CONC 946 Dodge sedan, skidded first into the right end of the cement bridge
2 CONC , whirled around and hit the back of the car along the bridge. Wempl
2 CONC e was thrown out of the door which was knocked open and skidded abou
2 CONC t 150 feet on the icy pavement according to the highway patrol. He wa
2 CONC s dead on admittance to the hospital, presumably from skull fractures
2 CONC . The car landed in the ditch.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Survivors include three sons, Jay, Tremain and Nolan Mark, from abou
2 CONC t 20 to 5; his mother, Mrs. J.C. Wemple of Milford; brothers, Claude o
2 CONC f Milford, Raymond of Redding and Lt. Col. Neil Wemple of Spokane, Was
2 CONC hington; sisters, Mrs. Nolan Hallowell of Susanville, Mrs. Olga Burrou
2 CONC ghs of Sacramento, Miss Narnia Wemple of Milford, Mrs. D.I. Edwards o
2 CONC f Westwood and Mrs. John Theodore of Wendel. His wife, the former Emm
2 CONC a Grayce Tremain, died several years ago.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Lt. Col. Wemple flew in by bomber to Reno Thursday night. Other broth
2 CONC ers and sisters are expected to come to the funeral.
2 CONT 
2 CONT This is the tragedy which has struck the family in a week; the funera
2 CONC l of Spencer Burroughs, who was a brother-in-law of Irvin Wemple, wa
2 CONC s last Saturday.
0 @I8@ INDI
1 NAME Marjel May /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 MAR 1904
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 DEC 1996
2 PLAC Redding, Shasta County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford Cemetery
1 FAMC @F1@
1 FAMS @F34@
1 FAMS @F35@
1 FAMS @F36@
1 NOTE Compiler's Note: Marjel was a faithful friend when I needed a friend
2 CONC . I shall ever be grateful to her. DRW
0 @I9@ INDI
1 NAME Raymond Jay /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 02 OCT 1907
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 APR 1988
2 PLAC Weed, Siskiyou County, CA
1 FAMC @F1@
1 FAMS @F5@
0 @I10@ INDI
1 NAME Marguerite /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 SEP 1909
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 03 FEB 2005
2 PLAC Reno, NV
1 FAMC @F1@
1 FAMS @F37@
1 FAMS @F38@
0 @I11@ INDI
1 NAME Deesse Decious /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 SEP 1911
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 APR 1998
2 PLAC Burney, Shasta County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Janesville Cemetery
1 FAMC @F1@
1 FAMS @F39@
1 NOTE Wedding announcement from the Susanville LASSEN ADVOCATE, Friday, 29 M
2 CONC ay 1931, page 8c5:
2 CONT 
2 CONT TWO PROMINENT VALLEY FAMILIES UNITED SUNDAY
2 CONT 
2 CONT On Sunday morning, May 24th, Miss Deesse Wemple was married to John T
2 CONC heordore, son of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Theodore of Litchfield.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The marriage was solemnized at eight o'clock at the home of the bride
2 CONC 's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jay C. Wemple of Milford, the Reverand Mark P
2 CONC ike of Susanville officiating in the presence of relatives and friends
2 CONC .
2 CONT 
2 CONT For the wedding music Mrs. J. Irvin Wemple played the favorite select
2 CONC ion from Mendelsohn.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The bride, the youngest daughter of the family, wore the dress of cre
2 CONC am-white satin and lace worn before her by three of her sisters. Her v
2 CONC eil was of tulle, and short, fastened with tiny clusters of orange blo
2 CONC ssoms, and her bouquet was a shower of cream-white roses and lillies o
2 CONC f the valley. Miss Narnia Wemple, her sister's only attendant, wor
2 CONC e a lavender flowered dress and carried Rose Marie roses.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Raymond Wemple acted as best man.
2 CONT 
2 CONT A lovely mass of flowers formed the background for the wedding servic
2 CONC e, and about the house tulips and pastel shades of columbine were used
2 CONC , and spays of hawthorne.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Following the ceremony breakfast was served with the wedding party an
2 CONC d near relatives seated at the bride's table.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The young couple are spending their honeymoon at Sacramento, San Fran
2 CONC cisco and cities south.
0 @I12@ INDI
1 NAME Lowell Stanford /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 03 AUG 1913
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 SEP 1925
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F1@
1 NOTE Lowell S. Wemple was a very sensitive boy, who became depressed and di
2 CONC scouraged rather easily.  His parents had gone to visit Libbie's broth
2 CONC er, Frank and his wife Blanche in Lemoore, CA and Lowell wanted to g
2 CONC o very much, but was refused.  This refusal started a series of event
2 CONC s which led to tragedy.  Soon thereafter, he got into trouble in schoo
2 CONC l over little or nothing.  Just before this, but after he missed the L
2 CONC emoore trip, he and a friend of his, Claude (Bud) Harwood, were caugh
2 CONC t stealing cigarettes from the local store and Lowell's older brother
2 CONC , Claude had remarked to him, You'd better be careful.  You could en
2 CONC d up in prison.   When Lowell got into trouble at school, he came hom
2 CONC e at noon sobbing his heart out. Some of the family were gathered in t
2 CONC he kitchen.  When they heard Lowell come in the front door sobbing, Ma
2 CONC rjel Wemple, later Marjel Edwards, Lowell's sister, went to see Lowel
2 CONC l and told him that she would get him something to eat.  Fixing someon
2 CONC e something to eat was always the family cure all for depression, sadn
2 CONC ess and sickness.  Marjel probably had said to Lowell, I'll fix yo
2 CONC u a sandwich.  That'll make you feel better.  Lowell went on upstairs
2 CONC .  It wasn't long before Claude, Irvin, Marjel and a family friend wh
2 CONC o were all sitting about the kitchen, heard a report from a .22 rifle
2 CONC .  Irvin (Sammy), Lowell's brother, bounded up the stairs, two at a ti
2 CONC me, followed closely by Claude.  They found Lowell mortally wounded
2 CONC .  Shortly thereafter, a phone call was placed to Lowell's parents. J.
2 CONC C. and Libby in Lemoore and they hurried home to a sadden and broken h
2 CONC earted family. The pain and heartache of this tragedy still haunts thi
2 CONC s family, even after all these seventy-one years. DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT Lowell died in September of 1925 and he wrote a couple of stories in t
2 CONC he spring of that same year that his sister, Deesse Theodore, has kep
2 CONC t and treasured these many years.  The stories are as follows:  A STO
2 CONC RY.  Once Claude, Heavy (Orville Wemple), Guy (Wemple) and Murph (Fre
2 CONC d Wwmple) bilt (sic) a raft and put it on the lake. Then they got on i
2 CONC t and went out on the lake.  When they got out a little way, the win
2 CONC d came up and drifted them on down to that fense (sic) between Harwood
2 CONC s and Humphries.  Guy got sea sick and Heavy was frightened to death
2 CONC .  Claude and Murph got a hold of the fense (sic) and pulled them in t
2 CONC o shore.  When they got in, it was dark.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The second story is titled: TUMMY BUNNY.  Once there was a bunny name
2 CONC d Tummy.  This was a funny name.  The reason why his name was Tummy wa
2 CONC s because he was a funny bunny.  One day Tunny was running down the pa
2 CONC th merrily, when out jumped Rocket the old hound dog.  Rocket jumped r
2 CONC ight on Tummy.  Hey, what's the  big idea? said Tummy.  I'm catchin
2 CONC g rabbits, said Rocket.  Well, said Tummy, you're going the wron
2 CONC g way because I'm a bunny.  What's the difference? said Rocket.  
2 CONC A rabbit has a black tail and a bunny has a white tail, answered Tumm
2 CONC y.  Oh all right, said Rocket, as he walked down the path. Whow (sp
2 CONC ), that was close, said Tummy, because I have a black tail.  THE END
2 CONC 
0 @I13@ INDI
1 NAME Neil Waldon /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 FEB 1918
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 31 OCT 2002
2 PLAC Tucson, AZ
2 SOUR E-mail from David Wemple to Alan Salls dated 11/8/2002.
1 BURI
2 DATE 11 NOV 2002
2 PLAC Tucson, AZ
2 SOUR E-mail from David Wemple to Alan Salls dated 11/8/2002.
1 FAMC @F1@
1 FAMS @F40@
1 NOTE Farm raised in California, he joined the Army Air Corps in 1940.  He s
2 CONC erved for the next 36-37 years with the flying arm of the U.S. militar
2 CONC y and he retired with the rank of full colonel. Early on during WW II
2 CONC , Helen met with Neil at Neil's assigned base in Latin America and the
2 CONC y flew to Tapachula, Mexico in a O-47A to get married.  During his ten
2 CONC ure with the air force, he mostly flew bombers and was one of the orig
2 CONC inal pilots for the B-29's that were stationed in India.  He flew ove
2 CONC r the hump on many occasions, flying fuel and bombs from India to Ch
2 CONC ina for their own raids over Japan.  He was promoted to major early o
2 CONC n during the war and was known as the boy major by his men, becaus
2 CONC e of his young appearance.  Before his retirement, he was Commander 39
2 CONC 74th Combat Support Group Zaragoza Air Base, Spain.  They presently re
2 CONC side in Tucson, AZ.  DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT Service decorations:
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1. Distinguished Flying Cross, with one Oak Leaf Cluster
2 CONT 2. Bronze Star Medal
2 CONT 3. Air Metal, with three Oak Leaf Clusters
2 CONT 4. Commendation Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters
2 CONT 5. Meritious Service Medal
2 CONT 
2 CONT Medals, Citations, and Campaignes
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1. Distinguished Unit Citation with two Oak Leaf Clusters
2 CONT 2. American Defense Campaign Metal with Bronze Star
2 CONT 3. American Campaign Medal with Bronze Star
2 CONT 4. Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with four Bronze Stars
2 CONT 5. World War II Victory Metal
2 CONT 6. National Defense Service Medal
2 CONT 7. Phuilippine Liberation Ribbon
2 CONT 9. Phillippine Independence Ribbon
2 CONT 10. Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
2 CONT 11. China War Memorial Medal
2 CONT 
2 CONT Total Flying Time 5710:45 hours
2 CONT 
2 CONT Instructor Pilot     586 hours
2 CONT First Pilot           3852 hours
2 CONT Night                    567 hours
2 CONT Instrument           500 hours
2 CONT Command Pilot    147 hours
2 CONT Co Pilot                878 hours
2 CONT 
2 CONT Instrument and Night also included in other catagories.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Aircraft in which most flying performed:
2 CONT B29                   1500 hours
2 CONT B-17                    750 hours
2 CONT B-47                    600 hours
2 CONT T-33                    400 hours
2 CONT B-24                   250 hours
2 CONT 
2 CONT Command Positions
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1. Aircraft Commander
2 CONT 2. Commander, 44th Bomb Sq.
2 CONT 3. Commander, 327th Bobm Sq.
2 CONT 4. Deputy Commander, 6th Bomb Wing
2 CONT 5. Deputy Commander, 509th Wing
2 CONT 6. Commander, 3974th Combat Support Group
2 CONT 7. Commander, 3973rd Combat Support Group
2 CONT 8. Deputy Commander, 3800th Air Base Wing
2 CONT 9. Commander, 6592nd Support Group
2 CONT 
2 CONT Promotions
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1. Flying Cadet                25 November 1940
2 CONT 2. Second Lieutenant      12 July 1941
2 CONT 3. First Lieutenant           1 February 1942
2 CONT 3. Captain                        27 July 1942
2 CONT 4. Major                           15 October 1943
2 CONT 5. Lt. Colonel                   18 June 1945
2 CONT 5. Colonel                        19 January 1951
2 CONT 
2 CONT Retired                             01 August 1969 
2 CONT 
2 CONT A great deal of information on Neil can be found on the following webs
2 CONC ite, <a href=http://www.40thbombgroup.orgtarget=#>http://www.40thb
2 CONC ombgroup.org</a>.  When you get to the site, search on each page for t
2 CONC he word wemple. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT From <a href=http://classified.tucson.com/index.php?action=view_obit&
2 CONC ticket_id=0001153499-01802target=#>Tuscon.com</a> 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Neil Waldon Wemple, Colonel, USAF Retired, died October 31, 2002 in Tu
2 CONC cson, AZ.  He was born February 26, 1918 in Milford, Lassen County, CA
2 CONC , the 11th child of Jay C. Wemple, a cattle rancher and Libby A. Wempl
2 CONC e (both deceased). He attended elementary school in Milford and gradua
2 CONC ted from Lassen High School and Junior College in Susanville, CA. He c
2 CONC ompleted his education at San Jose State University with a degree in C
2 CONC ommerce. His love of airplanes and flying encouraged him to apply fo
2 CONC r pilot training in the Army Air Corps. On July 11, 1941 he graduate
2 CONC d from flying school at Brooks Field, Texas. Neil was commissioned a 2
2 CONC nd Lt, leading to a 30 year career in Military Service. During his car
2 CONC eer he accumulated 7000 hours of flying. Col. Wemple flew a total of 3
2 CONC 6 different military aircraft, the last being the B-52. His war year
2 CONC s included stations in Puerto Rico and Guatemala, flying submarine pat
2 CONC rol in B-17-E's and B-240's. He served in the CBI (China, Burma, India
2 CONC ) Theater and on Tinian Island, completing a total of 42 months overse
2 CONC as duty. His war record included 28 combat missions against Japan an
2 CONC d in the Asiatic Theater. He returned to CA at war's end, having circl
2 CONC ed the globe and having visited 60 countries. His autobiography is chr
2 CONC onicled in two volumes, written by him for his children, family and fr
2 CONC iends. Col. Wemple is survived by his loving wife of 59 years, Helen
2 CONC ; daughter, Forrest W. Levely; sons, Stephen S. (Linda) Wemple, Neil T
2 CONC . Wemple and grandchildren, Karah L. (Frank) Rinaldi, Thomas Scott Lev
2 CONC ely and Krystal Carter; great-granddaughters, Alexis and Kaia Rinaldi
2 CONC . Memorial services with Military Honors will be held Monday, Novembe
2 CONC r 11, 2002 at 5:00 p.m. in the East Lawn Palm Mortuary Chapel, 5801 E
2 CONC . Grant Rd.
0 @I14@ INDI
1 NAME Henrietta /Winchester/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 JAN 1897
2 PLAC Standish, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 01 SEP 1984
2 PLAC Susanville, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford Cemetery, Milford, CA
1 FAMS @F2@
1 NOTE The above photo is a composite made up of Henrietta and Claude's gradu
2 CONC ation photos. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from the LASSEN ADVOCATE, 3 September 1984 page 7c3:
2 CONT 
2 CONT HENRIETTA WEMPLE
2 CONT 
2 CONT Funeral services for Mrs. Henrietta Wemple, 87, who died in a local h
2 CONC ospital, will be held at the Susanville United Methodist Church on Tue
2 CONC sday at 2 P.M. with interment to follow in the Milford Cemetery.  At h
2 CONC er request there will be no visitation.  Arrangements are under the di
2 CONC rection of the Lucero-Carlson Colonial Mortuary.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The deceased was born in Standish on Jan. 16, 1897, and had resided i
2 CONC n Lassen County all her life. Her grandfather and great-grandfather Wi
2 CONC nchester settled in Lassen County in 1863 and her great-grandfather fo
2 CONC ught in the Civil War.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mrs. Wemple was a member of the United Methodist Church and a charte
2 CONC r member of the Lassen County Cowbells and was selected as Mom of th
2 CONC e Year by the Cowbells.  She was also a member of the Native Daughters
2 CONC .  She was married to her husband, Claude, for 68 years.  For many yea
2 CONC rs they owned and operated the Wemple ranch near Milford.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Survivors include her husband, Claude, of Milford; three sons Donal
2 CONC d and Glenn Wemple of Milford and David Wemple of Orland; a daughter
2 CONC , Myra Hunt of Milford, nine children, 16 great-grandchildren and eigh
2 CONC t great-great-grandchildren.
0 @I15@ INDI
1 NAME Donald Jay /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 SEP 1917
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 APR 1991
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford Cemetery, Milford, CA
1 FAMC @F2@
1 FAMS @F3@
1 NOTE Don was a rancher in Milford, CA. He enjoyed chewing tobacco, visiting
2 CONC , riding horses and working cattle, just possibly in that order. DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from the Susanville LASSEN COUNTY TIMES, Tuesday, 16 April 19
2 CONC 91, page 1c4-6:
2 CONT 
2 CONT AREA RANCHER DIED SUDDENLY
2 CONT 
2 CONT Lifelong Milford resident Donald J. Don Wemple died at his home in M
2 CONC ilford April 12. As of press time, no cause of death was immediately k
2 CONC nown.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The death of Wemple came unexpectedly and within weeks of Joe Roberts
2 CONC , another long time Milford resident and neighbor of Wemple.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was born in Susanville, September 16, 1917, and worked on the famil
2 CONC y ranch for 44 years. The Wemple family settled in the Honey Lake Vall
2 CONC ey in the late 1800's.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Among Wemple's many associations were the Lassen County Cattlemen's As
2 CONC sociation, the Farm Bureau, the Lassen County Sheriff's Posse, and th
2 CONC e Plumas Sierra Rural Electric Board.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Survivors include his wife, the former Gay Corder, son Ken of Milfor
2 CONC d and daughter Donna McClelland of Standish, his father Claude Wempl
2 CONC e of Milford, brothers Glenn of Milford and David of Orland, four gran
2 CONC dchildren and two great grandchildren.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Services were scheduled for April 15 at Lucero Carlson Mortuary Chape
2 CONC l with burial at the Milford Cemetery.
0 @I16@ INDI
1 NAME Myra Dozier /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 JUL 1919
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 MAR 1987
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford Cemetery, Milford, CA
1 FAMC @F2@
1 FAMS @F4@
1 NOTE Obituary from the Susanville LASSEN COUNTY TIMES, Tuesday, 24 March 19
2 CONC 87, page 7c1:
2 CONT 
2 CONT MYRA WEMPLE HUNT
2 CONT 
2 CONT Myra Wemple Hunt, 67 died March 11 at the Lassen Community Hospital.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was born July 20, 1919 in Susanville and had lived in this area un
2 CONC til 1956 when she and her husband moved then returning in 1980 to th
2 CONC e Milford area to retire. She was also a member of the Episcopal Churc
2 CONC h of Susanville.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Myra Hunt was survived by her husband, Leroy Hunt of Milford; son, Sco
2 CONC tt Hunt of Cornwall-On-Hudson, NY; daughter, Claudia Oliver, of Eureka
2 CONC ,  CA, father, Claude C. Wemple and brothers, Donald and Glenn Wempl
2 CONC e of Milford and David of Orland, eight grandchildren and eleven great
2 CONC -grandchildren.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Services were held March 14 at the Lucero-Carlson Colonial Mortuary wi
2 CONC th burial in the Milford Cemetery. Family and friends gathered at th
2 CONC e home of Martha and Ardel Torrey after the service.
0 @I17@ INDI
1 NAME Infant /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 02 JAN 1925
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 03 JAN 1925
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford Cemetery, Milford, CA
1 FAMC @F2@
0 @I18@ INDI
1 NAME Glenn Harlen /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 MAY 1926
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F2@
1 FAMS @F7@
1 NOTE Upon his retirement from the Lassen College board of trustees, he wa
2 CONC s given the honor of having a the main enterence to the college name
2 CONC d Glenn H. Wemple Boulevard.
0 @I19@ INDI
1 NAME David Raymond /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 JUN 1931
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F2@
1 FAMS @F8@
1 NOTE The above photo of David and Donna was taken in 1991. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT A friend and family member, Robert Preston Wemple of Albuquerque, Ne
2 CONC w Mexico, wrote our father and mentioned that there was no biography o
2 CONC f the man who put in the many hours writing letters, making phone call
2 CONC s and following any lead that might add to our knowledge of our famili
2 CONC es. In addition to making inquiries, hundred of hours were spent in fr
2 CONC ont of a computer screen entering the data.  Thanks to Bob's observati
2 CONC on, this short biography is written by his children, Daniel C. and Deb
2 CONC ra S.
2 CONT 
2 CONT David Raymond Wemple was born in Susanville, California on June 13, 19
2 CONC 31 to Claude and Henrietta Wemple.  He is the youngest of four, two br
2 CONC others and one sister.  He has the distinction of being the first on
2 CONC e in his family born in a hospital and not at the family home, or thei
2 CONC r maternal grandmother's home.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He married Donna L. Rogers on January 2, 1951.  They lived with David'
2 CONC s parents while a house was being built by David's father, Claude.  Cl
2 CONC aude watched David pace and stake off the rooms for the future home, h
2 CONC e  was heard to say, I knew by the way he paced off those rooms it wa
2 CONC s going to be a big house.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He left the family ranch in January 1957 to join the California Highwa
2 CONC y Patrol.  His first assignment was in Alturas, California as a Traffi
2 CONC c Officer.  He made sergeant in November 1966 and moved the family t
2 CONC o Ukiah, California.  Five years later in 1971, he was transferred t
2 CONC o Culver City, California (Los Angeles area) when he promoted to Lieut
2 CONC enant and requested a transfer back to northern California the same da
2 CONC y he reported to the Culver City office.  He was transferred less tha
2 CONC n a year later to Red Bluff, California and finally in 1976 to Willows
2 CONC , California where he was Officer in Charge of the area office.  He re
2 CONC tired seven years later in 1983 and is still living just north of Will
2 CONC ows in Orland, California with his bride of 45 years.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Our father is, as other fathers, many things.  As a provider he held t
2 CONC wo jobs on numerous occasions to provide us those extra things like br
2 CONC aces for our teeth, a home and of course Christmas presents.  As a fat
2 CONC her he was strict but fair.  He said on many occasions that the two th
2 CONC ings he couldn't abide were a liar or a sneak thief.  Our father is di
2 CONC rect and honest and if you don't want to hear the truth, don't ask hi
2 CONC m the question.  He said that cops either start drinking, chasing wome
2 CONC n or find a hobby.  Our dad had a lot of hobbies.  When our dad take
2 CONC s up a hobby he throws his whole being into it.  He started findin
2 CONC g a few pennies on the floor of our home that we had neglected to pu
2 CONC t in our piggy banks.  Dad didn't look at the pennies as a problem bu
2 CONC t as a source of entertainment.  He started a penny collection.  He bo
2 CONC ught a book about coins and folders to put the pennies in.  He got s
2 CONC o wrapped up collecting pennies that he would take five dollars to th
2 CONC e bank and get five dollars in pennies, return to the house and go thr
2 CONC ough them.  He would then wrap them and return to the bank for five mo
2 CONC re dollars in pennies.  He planted roses and raised them to glorious b
2 CONC looms.  We believe his favorite is the Peace rose.  There have been ot
2 CONC her hobbies but learning our family ancestry holds a special place i
2 CONC n his heart.  He loves to meet family and visit. The genealogy of th
2 CONC e Wemple family has been a passion of his for over 30 years.
2 CONT 
2 CONT We know one thing that our dad takes great comfort in is his Christia
2 CONC n belief.  Through all life's struggles our dad has felt like Abraha
2 CONC m Lincoln who said, I've been driven to my knees many times with th
2 CONC e overwhelming conviction that I had no place else to go.  During hi
2 CONC s visit to Albuquerque in 1996, Dad told Bob that, I only had to dra
2 CONC w my gun once in a 26 year career with the California Highway Patrol
2 CONC , and I thank the Lord I didn't have to shoot.  Dad also told Bob, W
2 CONC hen I started this genealogy project, I sent out many letters to know
2 CONC n family members but got very little response.  I was downhearted.  Do
2 CONC nna and I prayed about this situation, and shortly new doors opened an
2 CONC d leads started to come to me.  This describes our dad.  A honest, ca
2 CONC ring, Christian man who loves his family and cherishes his wife Donna.
2 CONT 
2 CONT We hope this gives you, the reader, a little insight into the compile
2 CONC r of this latest version of the genealogy of our various lines.   If y
2 CONC ou happen to meet Dad, visit with him and tell him a little about you
2 CONC r family.  He will thoroughly enjoy it.
0 @I20@ INDI
1 NAME Gay Victoria /Corder/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 APR 1918
2 PLAC Snowville, Pulaski County, VA
1 DEAT
1 FAMS @F3@
0 @I21@ INDI
1 NAME Kenneth Jay /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 SEP 1940
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F3@
1 FAMS @F41@
1 NOTE Kenneth Wemple is a rancher and cattleman. He enjoys visiting, ropin
2 CONC g cattle and branding calves. DRW
0 @I22@ INDI
1 NAME Donna Gay /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 DEC 1942
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 AUG 1991
2 PLAC Standish, Lassen County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford Cemetery, Milford, CA
1 FAMC @F3@
1 FAMS @F42@
1 NOTE Wedding announcement for the Susanville LASSEN ADVOCATE, Friday, 1 Sep
2 CONC tember 1961, page 6c4:
2 CONT 
2 CONT DONNA GAY WEMPLE IS RECENT BRIDE OF THOMAS McCLELLAND
2 CONT 
2 CONT Miss Donna Gay Wemple, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Wemple of Milfo
2 CONC rd, became the bride of Thomas Pierce McClelland, son of Mr. and Mrs
2 CONC . Pierce McClelland of Standish, in a ceremony performed by the Revera
2 CONC nd Ralph H. Carleton at the Park Wedding Chapel in Reno on Sunday, Jul
2 CONC y 30.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The bride, given in marriage by her father, wore a white chiffon gow
2 CONC n and a short circular veil with a fluted head band. She carried a bou
2 CONC quet of white carnations and pink roses.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Miss Kathryn French was the bridesmaid and wore an aqua chiffon gown w
2 CONC ith a white carnation corsage.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Charles Shere was the best man.
2 CONT 
2 CONT For her daughter's wedding the bride's mother was dressed in pink an
2 CONC d wore a white carnation corsage. The groom's mother wore blue and als
2 CONC o wore a white carnation corsage.
2 CONT 
2 CONT A dinner hosted by the bride's father followed in the Shore Room of th
2 CONC e Holiday Hotel. The table was centered with a tiered wedding cake top
2 CONC ped with a miniature bride and groom and encircled with an arrangemen
2 CONC t of pink roses, stock, fern and corn flowers.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dinner guests included the bride and groom, Mrs. Ester McClelland, Mrs
2 CONC . Edna Johnston, Messrs. and Mesdames Claude Wemple, Pierce McClelland
2 CONC , Donald Wemple, Elliot Cann, Messrs. Charles Shere, Kenneth Wemple, R
2 CONC onald Farwell, Rodney Cann, Misses Nancy McClelland, Helen McClelland
2 CONC , Kathyrn French and Corrine Cann.
2 CONT 
2 CONT For her going away outfit the bride wore a navy blue ensemble with whi
2 CONC te accessories. Following a honeymoon trip through Oregon, the newlywe
2 CONC ds are now at home in Standish.
0 @I23@ INDI
1 NAME Paul Leroy /Hunt/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 MAR 1915
2 PLAC Salem, Marion County, IL
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 JUL 1990
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford Cemetery, Milford, CA
1 FAMS @F4@
1 FAMS @F6@
1 NOTE Committed suicide by shooting himself due to ill health. He was a part
2 CONC icle board mill superintendent. DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from the Susanville LASSEN COUNTY TIMES, Tuesday, 31 July 199
2 CONC 0, page 7Cc3-4:
2 CONT 
2 CONT PAUL LEROY HUNT
2 CONT 
2 CONT Paul Leroy Hunt, 75, died July 15, 1990, in Mifford. He was born Marc
2 CONC h 18, 1915, in Salem, IL, and lived in Lassen County for 60 years comi
2 CONC ng from southern California.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Survivors include his wife, Vivian Mary Hunt, of Milford; son, Scot
2 CONC t Hunt, of Cornwall-On-Hudson, NY; daughter, Claudia Oliver, of Eureka
2 CONC , sister, Bernice Grismore of San Jose; and eight grandchildren.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Memorial services were held July 19, 1990, at Lucero-Carlson Colonia
2 CONC l Mortuary Chapel.
0 @I24@ INDI
1 NAME Claudia Wemple /Hunt/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 09 MAR 1938
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F4@
1 FAMS @F9@
0 @I25@ INDI
1 NAME Scott Edwin /Hunt/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 JAN 1946
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F4@
1 FAMS @F10@
1 NOTE Scott's first 10 years were spent in Susanville before the family move
2 CONC d to Eureka due to cutbacks in the lumber industry. In 1963 he graduat
2 CONC ed from Arcata High School. He graduated from the University of Califo
2 CONC rnia at Davis with a B.S. in mechanical engineering in 1968. He immedi
2 CONC ately went to work in Phoenix, Arizona as an engineer for General Elec
2 CONC tric. In January of 1970 he was transferred by GE to Schenectady, Ne
2 CONC w York. This is where he met his wife-to-be, Carole Clark.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In 1973 he changed employers and went to work for Saint Regis Paper Co
2 CONC mpany as a process control engineer.  He reentered school and receive
2 CONC d his Master's degree in electrical engineering in 1977.  Saint Regi
2 CONC s was acquired by Champion International in 1984.
0 @I26@ INDI
1 NAME Vivian Mary /Preppernau/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 OCT 1911
2 PLAC Kent, King County, WA
1 DEAT
1 FAMS @F5@
1 FAMS @F6@
0 @I27@ INDI
1 NAME Joan Rae /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 01 JAN 1939
2 PLAC Westwood, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 04 AUG 1996
2 PLAC Redding, Shasta County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Weed, Siskiyou County, CA
1 FAMC @F5@
1 FAMS @F11@
0 @I28@ INDI
1 NAME Nancy Vivian /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 01 SEP 1941
2 PLAC Westwood, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F5@
1 FAMS @F12@
0 @I29@ INDI
1 NAME Verna Rae /Fraley/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 APR 1932
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMS @F7@
1 NOTE Wedding Announcement from the Susanville LASSEN ADVOCATE, Thursday, 2
2 CONC 0 September 1951, page 5c2-3:
2 CONT 
2 CONT VERNA FRALEY AND GLENN WEMPLE MARRIED SUNDAY
2 CONT 
2 CONT On the lawn at the home ranch home of the Ray Fraleys at Litchfield
2 CONC , their daughter Verna Fraley became the bride of Glenn Wemple, Sunday
2 CONC , September 16, at 3 p.m. The Reverand E.E. Wilson read the double rin
2 CONC g ritual in the presence of immediate members of both families and a f
2 CONC ew close friends.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Decorations for the ceremony consisted of white satin streamers conne
2 CONC cting short white poles which formed an aisle leading to the improvise
2 CONC d altar. White circular trellises decorated with Virginia creeper an
2 CONC d white asters, formed the background. At each side of the trellis wer
2 CONC e tall baskets of large white chrysanthemums.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Their only attendants, the bride's sister, Mrs. Robert Katen, matro
2 CONC n of honor, and Norman Mosier, best man, walked informally to the alte
2 CONC r and waited as Verna was escorted by her father, who gave her in marr
2 CONC iage.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The bride was attired in a gray wool suit and gray and white accessor
2 CONC ies. She carried white gladioli and stephanotis.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mrs. Katen wore a Maroon colored suit, brown accessories and a corsag
2 CONC e of white mums.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The reception was held in the home where the dining table was centere
2 CONC d with a three tiered wedding cake, partly surrounded by small white m
2 CONC ums and fern; tall white tapers stood on each side of the cake, whic
2 CONC h was cut by the bride and bridegroom in the traditional manner. The r
2 CONC oom decor was in white with bouquets of carnations, asters and mums.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The couple left for a short motor trip to the coast. They will make t
2 CONC heir home in Milford, where Glenn is engaged in farming.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Invited to the wedding and reception were: Messrs. and Mesdames Claud
2 CONC e Wemple, Don Wemple, Ken and Donna, David Wemple and small son Dannie
2 CONC ; Leroy Hunt, Claudia and Scott; Robert Katen and son Bobby; Robert Pi
2 CONC neo; Mrs. Fannie Winchester, Mrs. Jay Wemple, Norman Mosier and Jim Fr
2 CONC aley.
0 @I30@ INDI
1 NAME William Neil /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 NOV 1952
2 PLAC Susanville, CA
1 OCCU ,
1 FAMC @F7@
1 FAMS @F43@
1 NOTE He owns and operates a beauty parlor, with about a dozen operators i
2 CONC n it, in Susanville, CA. DRW
0 @I31@ INDI
1 NAME Glenda Fern /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 06 JUN 1954
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F7@
1 FAMS @F44@
1 NOTE Wedding announcement from the Susanville LASSEN ADVOCATE, Wednesday, 1
2 CONC 4 February 1973, page4c1-3:
2 CONT 
2 CONT GLENDA WEMPLE RECENT BRIDE OF RANDY AZEVEDO
2 CONT 
2 CONT Miss Glenda Fern Wemple became the bride of Randall Robert Azevedo i
2 CONC n a double ring ceremony performed at the Sacred Heart Catholic Churc
2 CONC h in Susanville by Father John Hannan on Saturday, December 16. Gilber
2 CONC t Azevedo, father of the groom, assisted as commentator.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The theme colors of the wedding were chosen to coordinate with the tra
2 CONC ditional purple of the Advent season. Bouquets of lavender star chrysa
2 CONC nthemums against a background of white flowers, decorated the sanctuar
2 CONC y of the church. The family pews were marked with lavender satin bow
2 CONC s which matched the delicate draperies the nuns had made to cover th
2 CONC e tabernacle doors on each altar.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Wemple of Milford, was give
2 CONC n in marriage by her father. She was dressed in modern bridal origina
2 CONC l designed with empire waistline, high collar, and long bouffant sleev
2 CONC es fastened tightly at the wrist. The traditional floor length gown o
2 CONC f satin had scattered bouquets of embroidered appliqued flowers center
2 CONC ed with tiny seed pearls. The skirt ended in a flounce which extende
2 CONC d into a long train. The elbow length illusion veil was held in plac
2 CONC e by a head piece of satin and lace with appliques matching those of h
2 CONC er dress. The bride chose to carry the prayer book she received at th
2 CONC e time of her confirmation. Her prayer book was covered with bridal la
2 CONC ce and a cascade of stephanotis and white roses centered with a cattel
2 CONC eya orchid. For something old she carried a handmade lace handkerchie
2 CONC f made by her great-grandmother. For something borrowed she wore a pai
2 CONC r of opal earrings belonging to her aunt, Mrs. David Wemple. For somet
2 CONC hing blue she wore the traditional blue garter.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Miss Debra Wemple, cousin of the bride, served as maid of honor. She w
2 CONC ore a floor length dress of purple velvet and white nylon trimmed wit
2 CONC h tiny pastel flowers. Her head piece was of purple ribbon trimmed wit
2 CONC h flowers, matching those of her dress, secured in place with a whit
2 CONC e velvet ribbon. To complement her gown, the maid of honor carried a c
2 CONC olonial bouquet of azalea and pink feathered carnations with gypsophil
2 CONC ia and daisy chrysanthemums accented with purple satin.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Also in the bridal procession were the two demure little flower girls
2 CONC , Kristine Wemple and Rebecca McClelland, cousins of the bride. Thei
2 CONC r gay nosegays of multicolored carnation petals and tiny white daisy c
2 CONC hrysanthemums with baby breath accented their tip-toe length dresses o
2 CONC f purple and white styled exactly like that of the maid of honor's. Th
2 CONC e flower girls' head pieces were styled of lavender ribbon trimmed wit
2 CONC h the pastel flowers matching their dresses.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Fred Wemple served as ring bearer for his sister.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Serving as best man was Fred Mallery. Ushers were Terry Azevedo, broth
2 CONC er of the groom with Bill Wemple, brother of the bride.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The bride's mother wore a lime green floor length long sleeved dress o
2 CONC f polyester knit. The groom's mother was attired in a blue floor lengt
2 CONC h long sleeved dress also of polyester knit. Both mothers wore cymbidi
2 CONC um orchid corsages.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Each one of the four gracious grandmothers, Mrs. Rose Azevedo, Mrs. Fr
2 CONC ed White, Mrs. Ray Fraley and Mrs. Claude Wemple, were complimented wi
2 CONC th a corsage of white jappette orchids.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mr. and Mrs. Randy Azevedo were honored at a reception immediately fol
2 CONC lowing the ceremony in the Pyrenees Room at the St. Francis Hotel. Th
2 CONC e luscious wedding cake with each of its four tiers, edged with fres
2 CONC h lavender chrysanthemums and fern, topped with bride and groom, stoo
2 CONC d in all its glory on a crocheted table cloth handmade by the bride'
2 CONC s great-grandmother, Mae Waldorf of Soquel.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In charge of the guest book were Mrs. Renelle English and Fred Wemple
2 CONC . Serving the wedding cake were Ginger Pinneo, Debra Azevedo and Rond
2 CONC a Mallery. Those serving punch and hors d'oeuvre were Melanie Brines
2 CONC , Rita Mallery and Cheri Flux.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Following a short honeymoon in the Reno-Lake Tahoe area, the bride an
2 CONC d groom are now at home in Milford. The groom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gil
2 CONC bert Azevedo of Doyle, is engaged in ranching with his father.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Out of town guests included Mrs. Rose Azevedo, Mr. and Mrs. Fred White
2 CONC , Mr. and Mrs. David Wemple and Debi, Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Peacock, Mr. a
2 CONC nd Mrs. Dibbie Azevedo and Debbie, Mr. and Mrs. Randy Settlege, Mr. an
2 CONC d Mrs. Tony Welander, Robert Leavell, Mr. and Mrs. Mike English, Mr. a
2 CONC nd Mrs. David Ross and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Machado.
0 @I32@ INDI
1 NAME Frederick Paul /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 DEC 1960
2 PLAC Susanville, CA
1 FAMC @F7@
1 FAMS @F45@
1 NOTE The following article came from the CHESTER PROGRESSIVE, WESTWOOD PIN
2 CONC E PRESS dated September 11, 1996.
2 CONT 
2 CONT THE WEMPLE RANCH
2 CONT by Joseph Kriss, Staff Writer
2 CONT 
2 CONT What's kept the Wemple family in business was their willingness to ch
2 CONC ange, explains Fred Wemple as he and his wife, Lena (actually Dena DR
2 CONC W), bounce around in the cab of their old pickup truck while crossin
2 CONC g a field of alfalfa.
2 CONT 
2 CONT With a tank trailer of diesel fuel in tow, the couple heads out to a f
2 CONC ar corner of their 1,000-acre Milford ranch to gas-up a large green an
2 CONC d yellow tractor operated by Fred's dad, Glenn.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The senior Wemple, now 70, is the last of the family actually born o
2 CONC n the ranch.  He's supposed to be retired, says Lena.  It's hard t
2 CONC o keep him off a tractor.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Wemple Ranch, located in Milford along Highway 395, is a househol
2 CONC d name in south Lassen County.  Most school-age children know about th
2 CONC e ranch, having had the opportunity to get pumpkins during October fie
2 CONC ld trips to the well known pumpkin patch.
2 CONT 
2 CONT There have been many changes and many memories made on this sandy, alk
2 CONC aline patch of dirt over the past 100 years.  Originally, the Wemple
2 CONC s used the property as a dairy farm and horse ranch.  Then they went i
2 CONC nto the cattle business.  The cattle operation lasted until the proper
2 CONC ty was split (abt. 1989 DRW).  The Wemples still run cattle but now le
2 CONC ase about 3,000 acres for grazing in the desert near Herlong.
2 CONT 
2 CONT We had to diversify, Fred said, when asked how the ranch stays solve
2 CONC nt during these hard economic times for agriculture.  We're always lo
2 CONC oking for new ideas, and we're willing to accept change.  We might no
2 CONC t like it, but we have to be more business minded.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In 1998, the ranch will celebrate its 100 year anniversary.  The prop
2 CONC erty has changed hands many times, Fred said, but it's always been (
2 CONC sold) to a Wemple.
2 CONT 
2 CONT J.C. Wemple (Sr. DRW), Glenn's great-grandfather, originally bought th
2 CONC e property back in 1859.  He came to California from Michigan where h
2 CONC e had operated a grist mill.  (This is an error.  He operated the gris
2 CONC tmill in Milford.  It was his first business venture after moving to C
2 CONC alifornia and highly successful.) He had to give up the gristmill beca
2 CONC use of failing lungs and he went into farming, mostly  raising vegetab
2 CONC les, and then branched off into other farming as time passed.  DRW)
2 CONC .  When the pioneering Wemple ended up in northern California, he boug
2 CONC ht a parcel of land from Peter Lassen.  On closer inspection of the de
2 CONC ed, Wemple found the purchased property, supposed to be in Susanville
2 CONC , ended up actually being in Milford where the ranch is today.  The or
2 CONC iginal ranch stretched from Highway 395 to the shores of Honey Lake.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The ranch is now split in two with Fred's cousin, Kyle Wemple, an ex-p
2 CONC ro rodeo saddle bronc rider, now working the land adjacent to his. (Ac
2 CONC tually Kyle's father, Kenneth is the owner of this part of the ranch
2 CONC .  DRW).
2 CONT 
2 CONT The elder Wemple's memories of the place he has called home for 70 yea
2 CONC rs are many.  Most are good, some bring back times that were not so pl
2 CONC easant, like the big fire that raced through Milford.  September 2, 1
2 CONC 950, Glenn says, recalling the date like it was last week.  I rememb
2 CONC er we were gathering cattle off (the) summer range when the fire start
2 CONC ed. It was real close to where we were.  The fire started on the sout
2 CONC hwest side of the mountain and quickly burned over the ridge (and int
2 CONC o the valley). Wemple motions across the valley towards the mountains
2 CONC , still showing the scars of wildfire.  Once it hit the top of the hi
2 CONC ll, it took only 20 minutes to burn all the way down to the lake.
2 CONT 
2 CONT All the barns and out buildings on the ranch were destroyed. Miraculou
2 CONC sly, the old farm house(s) was saved from the flames.  It just abou
2 CONC t wiped us out completely, added Fred.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Wemples were grazing cattle in the valley long before the Forest Servi
2 CONC ce and grazing allotments were in existence, according to Glenn.  The
2 CONC y used to run horses in the valley, too.  Old Tom Doyle ran hogs ove
2 CONC r the hill at one time, Wemple recalls.  But he had a heck of a tim
2 CONC e getting them back home.  Cattle - they'll find their way back, but n
2 CONC ot hogs.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The most significant change he has seen over the years is the switch f
2 CONC rom horse power to tractor power.  I saw it change from horse to al
2 CONC l tractors, said Glenn.  It used to take seven men to put up the hay
2 CONC , and we only we only put up a third of what we do now.  Generally, w
2 CONC e use just three men now, he said.  One tractor is equal to four tea
2 CONC ms of horses.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Making the slow transition to mechanized farming, Glenn's father, Clau
2 CONC de Wemple, bought a Fordson tractor back in 1930.  He had quite a tim
2 CONC e keeping the tractor running, he remembers.  My most vivid memory i
2 CONC s seeing that tractor tipped over on its side in the field with him ge
2 CONC tting a team of horses to pull it upright again, he said with a chuck
2 CONC le.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Another big change in farming is the high cost of the equipment.  Th
2 CONC e cost of machinery now - it'll take your breath away, says Glenn.  
2 CONC We bought a John Deere tractor in 1936 with a plow and mower for $1,20
2 CONC 0. Now a small garden tractor can cost $6,000 and a large farming trac
2 CONC tor can cost up to $100,000 or more.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Wemples buy used equipment and make repairs at the ranch.  Repairi
2 CONC ng farm equipment is a constant, on-going project.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Even back in the days of horse-drawn plows and mowers, repairs were al
2 CONC ways cause of tearing out one's hair.  Glenn remembers how a team o
2 CONC f horses got spooked in the field one day and ran off.  There was mow
2 CONC ing machine parts scattered from here to the barn, 'cause that's wher
2 CONC e the team always ended up.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Fred now collects the old Poppin' Johnny style tractors.  One of th
2 CONC e restored old timers is used to pull school children around the far
2 CONC m when the pumpkin patch is open.
2 CONT 
2 CONT To help keep the earth producing high quality alfalfa - there's a bi
2 CONC g difference in dollar value between the quality levels of hay - the W
2 CONC emples use wheat and carrot seed as rotation crops.  It's pretty inte
2 CONC resting to try different crops, said Glenn.  Sometimes you make mone
2 CONC y, sometimes you don't.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Rotating crops in between a six-year cycle of alfalfa planting help
2 CONC s get the ground broken up and cleaned of weeds and unwanted pests, s
2 CONC ays Fred.  The rotation is usually planted for two years.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Carrot seeds are harvested from carrot plants that are left to flowe
2 CONC r and seed.  This crop accounts for 15 acres on the ranch right now
2 CONC .  The seed is shipped to a seed company in Woodland, Calif.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The farming seems to agree with the Wemples.  I'd have a hard time i
2 CONC f I had to get up to go to work everyday, Fred states.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Born in Susanville, he attended Janesville School and Lassen High Scho
2 CONC ol.  My college education consisted of horse shoeing and rodeo, he s
2 CONC ays.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Lena, also a Susanville native, now works on the ranch full-time wit
2 CONC h her husband.  Her main passion this time of year is readying the man
2 CONC y varieties of pumpkins for their annual pumpkin patch.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Fred, 35, says he never thought about doing anything else but ranchin
2 CONC g and farming.  This is all I could think about since I was old enoug
2 CONC h to walk.  Fred and Lena have been married for 10 years and have a s
2 CONC ix-year-old son, Matt.
2 CONT 
2 CONT They enjoy the farming lifestyle.  We're always busy, but it's a rela
2 CONC xed pace, Lena says.  Sometimes, we can take for granted the lifesty
2 CONC le we enjoy, she said.
0 @I33@ INDI
1 NAME Donna LaRue /Rogers/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 JUN 1932
2 PLAC Manassa, Conejos County, CO
1 FAMS @F8@
1 NOTE The above photo of David and Donna was taken in 1991. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT This family file is dedicated to the compiler's wife, who unselfishl
2 CONC y gave of herself for many years while he confined himself in front o
2 CONC f the computer for hours at a time. Thanks millions, Donna. I love you
2 CONC . DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT In November of 1938, when Donna was six, Donna, her sister Betty and h
2 CONC er mother and father moved from Colorado to Westwood, California. Gold
2 CONC ie, Donna's mother, started working at what was called The Club almo
2 CONC st immediately. Heber (also called Ricky) apparently couldn't find emp
2 CONC loyment and even tried finding work in Redding at Shasta Dam, which wa
2 CONC s in its early beginnings of construction. Unable to find employment
2 CONC , and discouraged by summer's end, Ricky returned to Westwood and anno
2 CONC unced to Goldie that he was going back to Colorado. Goldie and Ricky a
2 CONC greed upon an amiable separation. Ricky went his way taking Donna wit
2 CONC h him and they returned to Colorado with the understanding that when s
2 CONC chool took up in the fall, Donna would return to Westwood.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Ricky soon took up with a second lady and went to Telluride to work i
2 CONC n the Silver mines. Donna was placed with her paternal grandmother an
2 CONC d grandfather Rogers. She began the second grade in Manassa, while sti
2 CONC ll living with her grandparents. Donna had little or no contact with h
2 CONC er father while she was in Colorado, except she did spend one weeken
2 CONC d in Telluride. It was not a pleasant experience and, since she was se
2 CONC nt to bed before the sun was down, she felt that she was more in the w
2 CONC ay than wanted.
2 CONT 
2 CONT When school started, Donna was not returned to Goldie as agreed upon b
2 CONC y everyone. Several times Goldie appealed to have Donna returned to he
2 CONC r. She could see that her daughter was never going to be returned to h
2 CONC er, unless she took matters into her own hands. So Goldie borrowed $50
2 CONC .00 from the local Westwood credit union, $50.00 from her mother, Jose
2 CONC phine Hartley and as Goldie was getting ready to leave Westwood for Co
2 CONC lorado, a friend gave her another $20.00. So with $120.00 at her dispo
2 CONC sal, she headed for Colorado to retrieve her daughter.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Before leaving California, Goldie consulted with a Susanville attorney
2 CONC , named Finn Berry. Finn gave Goldie a signed letter explaining the ci
2 CONC rcumstances and explicit instructions on how to handle the situation a
2 CONC nd charged her $10.00 for the legal advise.
2 CONT 
2 CONT A friend drove Goldie to Reno, where she bought train tickets for Alam
2 CONC osa. When she arrived at Alamosa, she stayed with her aunt, Nellie Win
2 CONC ters. Early the next morning, Goldie sought out a local attorney and p
2 CONC ounded on the door of his house until it was finally answered. After a
2 CONC n explanation the attorney signed Finn Berry's letter and charged he
2 CONC r another $5.00 for his signature.
2 CONT 
2 CONT It was early on Sunday morning when Goldie hired a local taxi in Alamo
2 CONC sa to drive her to Manassa, with plans to drive onto Santa Fe, New Mex
2 CONC ico. When Goldie arrived in Manassa, she went to the local Morman chur
2 CONC ch with the certainty Donna would be there for Sunday school. Disguise
2 CONC d with a bandanna and dark glasses, Goldie had the driver pull up to t
2 CONC he front of the church and tipped a child .25c and asked her to tell D
2 CONC onna Rogers to come to the car that was waiting. Donna's grandparents
2 CONC , who she was with at church, were upstairs at service, while Donna wa
2 CONC s downstairs attending Sunday school.  Not having the slightest idea o
2 CONC f who wanted her, Donna immediately went out and innocently got into t
2 CONC he taxi with this strange lady in the bandanna and dark glasses. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT When Donna got in the car, Goldie immediately gave the order to driv
2 CONC e away. When they got over the state line into New Mexico, Goldie ha
2 CONC d the taxi driver stop by a phone and called back to Manassa and tol
2 CONC d Ella Haynie, Donna's cousin, that she was taking Donna home with he
2 CONC r to Westwood. The three of them, Donna, Goldie and the taxi driver ar
2 CONC rived in Santa Fe, where Goldie paid the taxi driver $25.00 for the ri
2 CONC de. This was in a day when lots of men were working for a dollar a day
2 CONC .
2 CONT 
2 CONT After arriving an Santa Fe, Goldie immediately got Donna out of her M
2 CONC orman clothes which consisted of silk stockings, with the runs sown u
2 CONC p, and a plain, print cotton dress and bought her a pink slack suit fo
2 CONC r the trip home. Now Donna felt all dressed up for the trip home.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Donna and Goldie did arrive in Susanville with no further difficulty
2 CONC . Finn Berry was waiting for them. He immediately took Goldie's purs
2 CONC e from her and looked into it. He finally found where the money was ke
2 CONC pt and all that was left was $2.00. Finn commented, Just as I thought
2 CONC .   It's not every child who can say that they were kidnapped by thei
2 CONC r mother.
0 @I34@ INDI
1 NAME Daniel Calvin /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 02 AUG 1951
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F8@
1 FAMS @F27@
1 NOTE The above photo of Dan and Donna was taken around 1985. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Daniel Calvin Wemple was born to David R. and Donna LaRue Rogers Wempl
2 CONC e on August 2, 1951 in Susanville, Lassen County, California.  He rece
2 CONC ived his first nine years of education in the public schools of Altura
2 CONC s, Modoc County, California. At this time in his life his parents move
2 CONC d to Ukiah, Mendocino County, California, so Daniel finished his publi
2 CONC c education in Ukiah, graduating from Ukiah high school in 1969. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Soon after graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT His Naval assignments were: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1969 to 1970 Boot training at Great Lakes, Ill. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1970 Machinist Mate A School at Great Lakes, Ill. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1970 to 1972 the USS Buck DD 761. MMFA TO MM2 (E-2 to E5) 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1972 to 1973 the USS Southerland DD 743. MM2 (E5) 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1973 to 1975 USS Berkeley DDG 15.  MM2 to MM1 (E5 to E6) 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1975 to 1979 Recruit Training Command, San Diego (MM1 (E6) 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1979 to 1982 the USS Marvin Shields FF 1066. MM1 to MMC (E6 to E7) 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1982 to 1987 COMNAVSURFPAC Mobile Training Team, San Diego. MMC to MMC
2 CONC S (E7 to E8) 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1988 to 1991 Fleet Training Center, San Diego. MMCS to MMCM (E8 to E9
2 CONC ) 
2 CONT 
2 CONT On February 17, 1971, he married Constance Arlene Hass in Reno, Nevada
2 CONC . After their marriage, their naval assignment was to San Diego, wher
2 CONC e they spent the balance of their career, with Dan's assignments as de
2 CONC scribed above. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dan returned to college by attending Chapman University in San Diego i
2 CONC n the early 1980's. He graduated from Chapman with Magna Cum Laude hon
2 CONC ors in 1991. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dan and Connie have a daughter, Alison Lynne, who was born July 1, 197
2 CONC 6 in a suburb of San Diego. On May 23, 1998, Alison married Michael Jo
2 CONC seph Kelley in Chula Vista. They also live in Chula Vista, right nex
2 CONC t door to Dan and Connie. Michael was in the Marines when he married A
2 CONC lison but is presently working for G. Scott Asphalt, Inc. Michael an
2 CONC d Alison have been blessed with a daughter, Mackenzie Ailis, who was b
2 CONC orn January 13, 2002. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT After retiring from the Navy on a Friday, Dan went to work for Gerry S
2 CONC cott, owner/operator of an asphalt paving company on the next Monday
2 CONC . Dan was hired as an estimator for this paving company and worked i
2 CONC n that capacity until March 2, 1998, at which time he and his partner
2 CONC , Lionel Kahn, bought Gerry Scott's company. Dan and Lionel's compan
2 CONC y is known as G. Scott Asphalt, Inc., with Dan acting as CEO and Lione
2 CONC l as CFO. The company has flourished under the leadership of Dan and L
2 CONC ionel and now grosses more than $3,000,000.00 a year. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
0 @I35@ INDI
1 NAME Debra Susan /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 JAN 1956
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F8@
1 FAMS @F28@
1 FAMS @F29@
1 NOTE Debra Susan Blanchette was born to David R. and Donna LaRue Wemple o
2 CONC n January 11, 1956 in Susanville, Lassen County, California. Debra wa
2 CONC s educated in the public schools in Alturas, Ukiah and Red Bluff, Cali
2 CONC fornia. While attending high school in Red Bluff Debra was chosen to r
2 CONC epresent Red Bluff High School as delegate to the State convention i
2 CONC n 1973. She graduated from Red Bluff high school in 1974.  Upon her hi
2 CONC gh school graduation, Debra traveled to England where she worked for a
2 CONC bout three months at a hotel in Brighton, which is a resort town on En
2 CONC gland's south Atlantic shore. After finishing her work contract, she a
2 CONC nd a high school friend traveled by rail throughout Europe, includin
2 CONC g Germany, France, Holland, Switzerland and Italy.  After about a six-
2 CONC month stay in England and Europe, Debra returned home and moved to Nap
2 CONC a, California where she attended Napa Community College training a
2 CONC s a psychiatric technician. After graduation from psychiatric technici
2 CONC an school and obtaining her California State license, Debra went to wo
2 CONC rk for the state mental hospital in Napa. It was here that Debra met D
2 CONC aniel James Cox, her first husband. They were married in Napa's Episco
2 CONC pal church on May 20, 1978. Their daughter, Ashley Christine, was bor
2 CONC n June 10, 1980 in Vallejo's Kaiser Hospital. Debra and Daniel Cox div
2 CONC orced in September of 1983.  Debra was a single mom for the next twelv
2 CONC e years. It was during this time that she moved from Napa State Hospit
2 CONC al to Sonoma Developmental Center. After working at Sonoma for few yea
2 CONC rs she promoted to shift lead. In a few more years she was promoted t
2 CONC o Unit Supervisor and was placed in charge of her own unit. A this tim
2 CONC e she was responsible for about 30 clients and 30 support personal. Sh
2 CONC e held this position for the next several years and received memos o
2 CONC f recognition for her outstanding service. She also received a Sustain
2 CONC ed Superior Accomplishment Award from the State for her outstanding wo
2 CONC rk for the years of 1994-1995.  The summer of 1994 Debra was asked b
2 CONC y her aunt, Betty Rogers Murphy, to take Kelly Murphy, her granddaught
2 CONC er in and to give her a home. In December of 1994 out of love Debra re
2 CONC ached out and provided Kelly a secure home. Kelly was fourteen years o
2 CONC ld at this time.  On October 7, 1995, Debra and Tom Blanchette were ma
2 CONC rried in Del Mar, California at Tom's mother's home. Debra quit her St
2 CONC ate job and moved along with Ashley and Kelly to Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii
2 CONC . Tom is employed by the US Department of Defense as a welder.  Sinc
2 CONC e living in Hawaii, Debra worked in a variety of sales jobs. This is s
2 CONC omething she has always been interested in. She has discovered she lov
2 CONC es sales and working with people.  Tom and Debra plan on moving back t
2 CONC o the contingent forty-eight when Tom retires from federal employmen
2 CONC t in 2006.  Shortly before Debra's divorce became final to Daniel Cox
2 CONC , she and Ashley, who was about two and a half at the time, were drivi
2 CONC ng from Napa, California to Orland, California to visit her parents. A
2 CONC shley was asleep on the front seat, next to Debra. As they were travel
2 CONC ing along the deserted I-505, an older car passed Debra and Ashley, pu
2 CONC lled right in front of them, and slowed down to about 35 mph. Debra pa
2 CONC ssed this car and the older car passed them again and slowed down agai
2 CONC n, but even slower to about 25, then 15 miles an hour. This man did th
2 CONC is same thing several more times, when finally anger weld up inside De
2 CONC bra. She got out paper and pen and wrote down everything she could abo
2 CONC ut this car traveling so slow in front of her. She then pulled up alon
2 CONC g side of this car and looked directly at the driver. Debra saw this m
2 CONC an clearly, with his right eye appearing to droop lower than the lef
2 CONC t eye and looking as though he had two different faces put together a
2 CONC s one; his hair was ugly and graying. By this time, Debra was not onl
2 CONC y very angry, but determined to get this man to stop harassing her an
2 CONC d her baby. She looked directly into his eyes and mouthed, Come on yo
2 CONC u son-of-a-bitch, I'll kill you! With this the guy in the older car b
2 CONC acked off and Debra drove onto her parents house and reported this inc
2 CONC ident to them.  Within days of this incident, Debra saw a picture of H
2 CONC enry Lee Lucas and positively identified him as the man she had an enc
2 CONC ounter with. He was convicted of ten murders in Texas and confessed o
2 CONC f murdering over 100 women across America. On June 27, 1998 Governor G
2 CONC eorge W. Bush spared Henry's life by commuting his sentence to life. H
2 CONC e is still serving his life sentence in Texas.  It was in 1959 that He
2 CONC nry Lee Lucas killed his mother and in interviews that followed, he ad
2 CONC mitted to killing many other women, including his former live-in gir
2 CONC l friend, Frieda Becky Powell, who was only fifteen at the time.  He h
2 CONC as a glass eye from an injury when he was a child. This caused his ey
2 CONC e to look as if it is drooping as it appeared to Debra on that day. La
2 CONC ter investigations have revealed Lucas may have exaggerated the numbe
2 CONC r of women he killed, but this doesn't change the fact that he tried t
2 CONC o assault Debra on this encounter she had with him.
0 @I36@ INDI
1 NAME Richard Calvin /Oliver/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 06 MAR 1930
2 PLAC Rudy, AR
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 MAY 1997
2 PLAC Eureka, Humboldt County, CA
1 FAMS @F9@
1 NOTE Richard was a lumber mill worker living in Eureka, CA. DRW Rest in pe
2 CONC ace, Brother.
0 @I37@ INDI
1 NAME Diana Kay /Oliver/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 07 APR 1955
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F9@
1 FAMS @F2459@
1 FAMS @F2460@
1 FAMS @F2461@
1 FAMS @F2462@
0 @I38@ INDI
1 NAME Cassie Denise /Oliver/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 07 JUN 1956
2 PLAC Redding, Shasta County, CA
1 FAMC @F9@
1 FAMS @F2463@
1 FAMS @F2464@
1 FAMS @F2465@
0 @I39@ INDI
1 NAME Michael Richard /Oliver/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 MAR 1958
2 PLAC Redding, CA
1 FAMC @F9@
1 FAMS @F2467@
1 FAMS @F2468@
0 @I40@ INDI
1 NAME Darla Jeanne /Oliver/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 MAY 1959
2 PLAC Redding, Shasta County, CA
1 FAMC @F9@
1 FAMS @F2469@
1 FAMS @F2470@
1 FAMS @F2471@
1 SOUR E-mail from David Wemple to Alan Salls dated 1/2/2003.
0 @I41@ INDI
1 NAME Carole Catherine /Clark/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 MAY 1947
2 PLAC Saratoga Springs, NY
1 FAMS @F10@
1 NOTE Graduated from Wagner College with a B.S. in elementary education. Wor
2 CONC ked as a case worker in Schenectady County, New York, working with dis
2 CONC advantaged children. After her marriage worked as a case worker in Har
2 CONC lem and South Bronx sections of New York City. in 1998 she received he
2 CONC r Master's degree in guidance & counseling. DRW
0 @I42@ INDI
1 NAME Kevin Roy /Hunt/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 JAN 1976
2 PLAC Westwood, NJ
1 FAMC @F10@
0 @I43@ INDI
1 NAME Elaine Stephanie /Hunt/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 MAR 1978
2 PLAC Englewood, NJ
1 FAMC @F10@
0 @I44@ INDI
1 NAME Kyle David /Hunt/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 07 JUN 1981
2 PLAC Newburgh, NY
1 FAMC @F10@
0 @I45@ INDI
1 NAME Darren Timothy /Hunt/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 SEP 1984
2 PLAC Newburgh, NY
1 FAMC @F10@
0 @I46@ INDI
1 NAME Sydney Decatur /Smith/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 09 MAY 1937
1 FAMS @F11@
0 @I47@ INDI
1 NAME Stephen Decatur /Smith/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 04 OCT 1964
2 PLAC Siskiyou County, CA
1 FAMC @F11@
0 @I48@ INDI
1 NAME Dana Denise /Smith/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 MAR 1966
2 PLAC Siskiyou County, CA
1 FAMC @F11@
1 FAMS @F459@
0 @I49@ INDI
1 NAME John Henry /Chipman/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 01 DEC 1941
1 FAMS @F12@
0 @I50@ INDI
1 NAME John Henry /Chipman/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 01 SEP 1964
2 PLAC Napa County, CA
1 FAMC @F12@
1 FAMS @F460@
0 @I51@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah Jane /Chipman/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 OCT 1965
2 PLAC Napa County, CA
1 FAMC @F12@
1 FAMS @F461@
0 @I52@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Vivian /Chipman/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 JAN 1970
2 PLAC Solono County, CA
1 FAMC @F12@
1 FAMS @F462@
0 @I53@ INDI
1 NAME Dorothy Ann /Chipman/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 JUL 1973
2 PLAC Alameda County, CA
1 FAMC @F12@
0 @I54@ INDI
1 NAME Johannes Reyer /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 APR 1732
2 PLAC probably Schenectady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 OCT 1814
2 PLAC Woestine, NY
1 FAMC @F101@
1 FAMS @F13@
1 FAMS @F16@
1 FAMS @F17@
1 NOTE The following will was sent to the compiler by Bernard Woods, of Eurek
2 CONC a, CA about 1995: DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Last Will and Testament of John Wemple
2 CONT 
2 CONT IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN:      I, JOHN WEMPLE, of the third ward of th
2 CONC e City and County of SCHENECTADY and STATE OF NEW YORK being weak in b
2 CONC ody but of perfect mind, memory and understanding, praised be God fo
2 CONC r the same, do make and publish and declare this as and for my Last Wi
2 CONC ll and Testament, and I do hereby revoke and annul all and every forme
2 CONC r will and testament heretofore by me made, hereby declaring this, an
2 CONC d no other to be my last will and testament.
2 CONT FIRST:  I resign my immortal soul into the hands of God my creator hop
2 CONC ing for mercy and pardon of my sins through the merits and mediation o
2 CONC f Jesus CHRIST my REDEEMER.
2 CONT ITEM:  I give devise and bequeath unto my well beloved wife, Ester, th
2 CONC e lowest part of my farm so called whereon I now live the said lowes
2 CONC t part to be bounded by what is called the foot of the Sandt Hooghti
2 CONC n with the rent or income from my Tan Yard for and during her widowhoo
2 CONC d, also a colt called the White Stocking and such personal propert
2 CONC y as she brought with her at our intermarriage, which devise to my sai
2 CONC d wife is to be in lieu and bar of her dower out of my estate.
2 CONT ITEM:  I give devise and bequeath unto my son NICHOLAS V. WEMPLE ALL T
2 CONC HE REST AND RESIDUE of my said farm and real estate situate in the Cou
2 CONC nty of Schenectady (excepting) THERE OUT Twenty-five acres situate i
2 CONC n the town of Princetown and which I have herein divided to my grandso
2 CONC n JOHN W. PEEK to have and to hold the same to my said son NICHOLAS fo
2 CONC r his Natural life and my will is that the said estate so divided fo
2 CONC r life to my said SON shall not by subject to any encumbrances whatsoe
2 CONC ver to be caused by or though my said SON, and in case my said son, NI
2 CONC CHOLAS, shall in the opinion of my executors by remiss and inattentiv
2 CONC e to his business and shall not manage and husband the real estate her
2 CONC eby demised to him in a discreet and prudent manner for his family's i
2 CONC nterest, I do hereby authorize and empower my said executors to rent o
2 CONC ut the said estate from year to year and during such period of my sai
2 CONC d SON'S life estate therein as they may deem necessary and proper an
2 CONC d to apply the proceeds thereof the support of my said SON, and his fa
2 CONC mily.
2 CONT ITEM: From and immediately after the decease of my said son, NICHOLAS
2 CONC , which he now has or may have by his present wife, NANCY VEEDER, an
2 CONC d to their heirs and assigns forever the West half or moiety of the fa
2 CONC rm whereon I now live (excepting) the twenty-five acres about mentione
2 CONC d.
2 CONT ITEM: From and immediately after my son, NICHOLAS, decease, I give dev
2 CONC ise bequeath the East half or moiety of the farm whereon I now live un
2 CONC to my grandson, JOHN WEMPLE, son of NICHOLAS V. WEMPLE, for and durin
2 CONC g his natural life, and from and immediately after his decease to hi
2 CONC s lawful issue (if he should die leaving Lawful Issue) and to their he
2 CONC irs and assigns forever share and share alike.  But in case of the dea
2 CONC th of said grandson, JOHN WEMPLE, without issue then my will is, an
2 CONC d I do hereby give devise and bequeath the East half or moiety of my s
2 CONC aid farm to granddaughter, MARIA WEMPLE, daughter of my said son, NICH
2 CONC OLAS V. WEMPLE for and during her natural life and from in immediatel
2 CONC y after her decease to her lawful issue (if she should die leaving Law
2 CONC ful Issue) and to their heirs and assigns forever share and share alik
2 CONC e.  But in case my said granddaughter, MARIA WEMPLE, should die withou
2 CONC t lawful issue then my will is and I do hereby give devise and bequeat
2 CONC h the said easterly half or moety of my said farm to such children m
2 CONC y said son, NICHOLAS V. WEMPLE, as he now had or may have by his prese
2 CONC nt wife, NANCY VEEDER, and to their heirs and assigns forever.
2 CONT ITEM: I give devise and bequeath unto my grandson, JOHN W. PEEK, provi
2 CONC ded it shall be ascertained that he shall be living at any time withi
2 CONC n seven years after my decease to his heirs and assign twenty-five acr
2 CONC es of land situate in Princetown and being part of the farm whereo
2 CONC n I now live and subject to the payment of one supply of winter whea
2 CONC t annually forever after my decease in and upon the 25th day of Marc
2 CONC h in each year to the heirs of my son, Nicholas, by his present wife
2 CONC , NANCY VEEDER.  But in case it should not be ascertained within seve
2 CONC n years after my decease that my said grandson, JOHN W. PEEK, shall st
2 CONC ill be alive, then my will is, and I do in such case give devise and b
2 CONC equeath the said twenty-five acres of land to the children my said son
2 CONC , NICHOLAS, now had or may have by his present wife, NANCY VEEDER, o
2 CONC r to their heirs and assigns forever.
2 CONT ITEM: I give devise and bequeath to DEBORAH FREYMIRE, daughter of Mich
2 CONC ael Freymire, fifty acres of land out of the lot in the Town of Lysand
2 CONC er, which was granted to Moses Styles and one cow to help her, the sai
2 CONC d DEBORAH, and to her heirs and assigns forever.
2 CONT ITEM: I give and bequeath to MARIA, my granddaughter, and daughter o
2 CONC f Christopher Peek, MARIA, my granddaughter, and daughter of George He
2 CONC wson (Heuston), and MARIA, my granddaughter and daughter of Christia
2 CONC n Haverly, all my household furniture to be divided equally between th
2 CONC em share and share alike.
2 CONT ITEM: I give and bequeath unto my son, NICHOLAS V. WEMPLE, a span of h
2 CONC orses, at his own choice out of my horses, and all of my implements o
2 CONC f husbandry.
2 CONT ITEM: I give and bequeath unto my grandson, JOHN, son of my son, Nicho
2 CONC las V. Wemple, my gun and silver watch to be delivered to him by my ex
2 CONC ecuters here-in-after named when he should arrive at the age of twenty
2 CONC -one years of sooner if they shall deem it proper.
2 CONT ITEM: The rest and residue of my personal property (slaves excepted) a
2 CONC nd horses and cows I give and bequeath to my following grandsons, to w
2 CONC it: JOHN W. PEEK, JOHN HAVERLY, John HEWSON (Heuston), and JOHN WEMPLE
2 CONC , son of my son, Nicholas V. Wemple, to be divided equally between the
2 CONC m share and share alike, excepting that if my grandson, JOHN W. PEEK
2 CONC , should not return in time that this my request takes effect, that pa
2 CONC rt of share hereby bequeathed to him, I then give and bequeath unto b
2 CONC y grandson, JOHN, son of my said son, Nicholas V. Wemple.
2 CONT ITEM: It is my will and I devise that my Negro man (BOLT) shall remai
2 CONC n on the farm with my son, NICHOLAS V. WEMPLE, during his life as a sl
2 CONC ave or servant, but not to be disposed of and as to the rest and resid
2 CONC ue of my slaves not mentioned, I order to by free(d) if they or eithe
2 CONC r of them can furnish security to indemnify the city or my representat
2 CONC ives and if not my Executors hereinafter named shall have power to sel
2 CONC l them and to appropriate the avails to the benefit and best advantag
2 CONC e of my estate.
2 CONT ITEM: I recommend that my Executers cause me to be directly interred o
2 CONC ut of my estate, and I do earnestly desire that they cause a tombston
2 CONC e to be put to my grave with the inscription of the time of my decease
2 CONC , my age and that of my three wives, MARIA VISSCHER (or Visher), VOLK
2 CONC E WEMPLE, and if I should survive my present wife, ESTER VAN ARNHAM (A
2 CONC rnhem) to cause her name with what shall be necessary to be added an
2 CONC d to inscribed on the same, and to collect and receive all monies du
2 CONC e to me by note or otherwise and to appropriate the same to the benefi
2 CONC t and best advantage of my estate as aforesaid.
2 CONT LASTLY, I do hereby nominate and appoint GERRET L. VEEDER JR., esquire
2 CONC , JACOB DELLEMONT and JOHN DELLEMONT, Executors of this my Last Will a
2 CONC nd Testament, hereby revoking all and every former will by me made.  I
2 CONC n witness thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
2 CONT thirteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hund
2 CONC red and twelve (1812).
2 CONT Signed,
2 CONT John Wemple
2 CONT 
2 CONT Signed, sealed, published and declared by the Testator to be his Las
2 CONC t Will and Testament in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribe
2 CONC d our names as witnesses in the presence of the Testator.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Will was offered for Probate Oct. 1812 (1814?)
2 CONT This Will is recorded in Book A of Wills, Page 202
2 CONT 
2 CONT In the office of Surrogate Court, County of
2 CONT Schenectady, N.Y.
2 CONT 
2 CONT From THE HISTORY OF SCHENECTADY DURING THE REVOLUTION,  Individual Rec
2 CONC ords of Service:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Wemple, John R.: Born at Fort Hunter, April 18, 1731; died September 1
2 CONC 4, 1814 (note discrepancy with his Family Page. DRW).  He served a
2 CONC s a private and a sergeant in the 2nd Albany County Militia.  On may 2
2 CONC 0, 1777, he testified before the Committee of Safety that his shoulde
2 CONC r had been put out of joint and that he was therefore unfit for milita
2 CONC ry duty.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was baptized in Schenectady April 18, 1732. Married, first, to Mari
2 CONC tie Visscher, daughter of Nicholas Visscher of Schenectady, and for wh
2 CONC ich a bond was issued May 7, 1764. He was next married to Volkje Wempl
2 CONC e, (daughter of Barent and Debora Wemple), May 29, 1800, in Schenectad
2 CONC y, who was at that time the widow Dellamont,  . . . ; she was baptize
2 CONC d January 4, 1741. Johannes third wife was Esther Van Arnham, who wa
2 CONC s born in 1734, made her will March 22, 1821, which is on file in th
2 CONC e Surrogate's office of Schenectady County, and died January 2, 1822.
2 CONT 
2 CONT On January 5, 1758, he was commissioned an Ensign in Captain Andrew Tr
2 CONC uax's company at Schenectady and so reported on the original muster-ro
2 CONC ll of May 1767, which is preserved in volume 14, page 214 of SIR Wm. J
2 CONC OHNSON MANUSCRIPTS in the State Library, Albany, NY.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He served through the Revolutionary War as a private and sergeant in t
2 CONC he regiment of Colonel Abraham Wemple, under captains John Van Pette
2 CONC n and Jelles Fonda.  . . .
0 @I55@ INDI
1 NAME Maritie /Visscher/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 02 SEP 1744
2 PLAC NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1800
2 PLAC NY
1 FAMS @F13@
0 @I56@ INDI
1 NAME Debora /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 12 FEB 1769
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1864
1 FAMC @F13@
1 FAMS @F102@
0 @I57@ INDI
1 NAME Anaatje /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 09 JUN 1771
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1866
1 FAMC @F13@
1 FAMS @F103@
0 @I58@ INDI
1 NAME Catalyntje /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 JAN 1777
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 FEB 1812
1 FAMC @F13@
1 FAMS @F104@
0 @I59@ INDI
1 NAME Nicholaas Visscher /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 MAY 1780
2 PLAC probably Schenectady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 JAN 1826
2 PLAC Rotterdam Junction, NY
1 FAMC @F13@
1 FAMS @F18@
1 FAMS @F19@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was born May 28, 1780. Married Maria Toll, who was baptized in Sche
2 CONC nectady, November 22, 1778 and was the daughter of Johannes Toll and C
2 CONC atherine Vedder. He married, secondly, Nancy Veeder on January 14, 180
2 CONC 9, who was born May 9, 1794 and died July 5, 1876. He lived near Rotte
2 CONC rdam Junction, Schenectady County, NY and died there January 18, 1826.
0 @I60@ INDI
1 NAME Susannah /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 14 APR 1782
1 DEAT
2 DATE 02 JUN 1842
2 SOUR E-mail from David Wemple to Alan Salls dated 11/1/2002.
1 FAMC @F13@
1 FAMS @F105@
0 @I61@ INDI
1 NAME Johannes Arentsen /Bratt/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE (22 MAR 1740/41)
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1781
1 FAMC @F107@
1 FAMS @F14@
0 @I62@ INDI
1 NAME Volkje /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE (BEF. 4 JAN 1740/41)
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1812
1 FAMC @F109@
1 FAMS @F14@
1 FAMS @F15@
1 FAMS @F16@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was baptized January 4, 1741, in Schenectady. Married first on Mar
2 CONC ch 4, 1761, Johannes Bradt, in Schenectady. He was Captain of a compan
2 CONC y of Rangers at the time of the Revolution and was killed during the w
2 CONC ar. She married, second, June 30, 1782, Abraham Delemont, who marrie
2 CONC d for his first wife Annatje Vedder, December 4, 1766; Annatje died Ju
2 CONC ly 21, 1779. After Abraham's death on December 23, 1792, Volkje marrie
2 CONC d for her third husband John Reyer Wemple, as his second wife, on Ma
2 CONC y 29, 1800. She died between 1800 and 1812.
0 @I63@ INDI
1 NAME Debora /Bratt/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1760
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1855
1 FAMC @F14@
1 FAMS @F110@
0 @I64@ INDI
1 NAME Andries /Bratt/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 06 DEC 1761
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 03 JUL 1763
1 FAMC @F14@
0 @I65@ INDI
1 NAME Andries /Bratt/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 03 JUL 1763
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 14 OCT 1768
1 FAMC @F14@
0 @I66@ INDI
1 NAME Andries /Bratt/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 OCT 1768
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1858
1 FAMC @F14@
0 @I67@ INDI
1 NAME Abraham /Dellamont/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1740
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 DEC 1792
1 FAMS @F15@
0 @I68@ INDI
1 NAME Esther /Van Arnhem/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1734
1 DEAT
2 DATE 02 JAN 1822
1 FAMS @F17@
0 @I69@ INDI
1 NAME Maria Vedder /Toll/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 22 NOV 1778
2 PLAC NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 1808
2 PLAC probably Rotterdam Junction, NY
1 FAMS @F18@
0 @I70@ INDI
1 NAME Maria Ann /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 JUN 1800
1 DEAT
2 DATE 01 AUG 1876
1 FAMC @F18@
1 FAMS @F20@
0 @I71@ INDI
1 NAME Catharina /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 05 AUG 1802
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1812
1 FAMC @F18@
0 @I72@ INDI
1 NAME John N. /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 04 JUL 1805
2 PLAC Rotterdam Junction, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 05 DEC 1841
2 PLAC Rotterdam Junction, NY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Rotterdam Junction, NY
1 FAMC @F18@
1 FAMS @F21@
1 NOTE Nothing is known about him, his occupation, etc., except that he die
2 CONC d young at age 34. The compiler's cousin, Joseph Jay Wemple visited hi
2 CONC s grave about 1993 in Rotterdam Junction. After his death his widow an
2 CONC d six children eventually moved on to Michigan, where his widow marrie
2 CONC d John C. Haynes. DRW
0 @I73@ INDI
1 NAME Aaron Toll /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 SEP 1807
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1811
1 FAMC @F18@
0 @I74@ INDI
1 NAME Annatje Nancy /Veeder/
1 NAME Nancy Veeder
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 09 MAY 1794
1 DEAT
2 DATE 05 JUL 1876
1 FAMC @F4286@
1 FAMS @F19@
1 SOUR E-mail info from David Wemple to Alan Salls dated 10/16/2002.
0 @I75@ INDI
1 NAME Jane Helen /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 DEC 1809
1 DEAT
2 DATE 01 NOV 1876
1 FAMC @F19@
1 FAMS @F22@
0 @I76@ INDI
1 NAME Catherine /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 DEC 1812
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 OCT 1870
1 FAMC @F19@
1 FAMS @F23@
0 @I77@ INDI
1 NAME Peter Vrooman /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 MAY 1815
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 04 NOV 1870
2 PLAC Orchard Grove, Lake County, IN
1 BURI
2 PLAC Orchard Grove Cemetery, Lowell, Cedar Twp., Lake County, IN
1 FAMC @F19@
1 FAMS @F24@
1 NOTE In 1850, Peter V. Wemple removed from New York State to Lake County, I
2 CONC N, and on June 10, 1850, purchased 40 acres of school land @@ $1.25 pe
2 CONC r acre from the Auditor of Lake County, Indiana.  He then returned t
2 CONC o New York State.  In 1855, he removed with his wife from New York Sta
2 CONC te to his farm in Indiana, situated on the Robinson Prairie, in the ar
2 CONC ea commonly referred to as Orchard Grove, located about 5 miles east o
2 CONC f the town of Lowell, Indiana. GJW
0 @I78@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret Veeder /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 DEC 1817
2 PLAC Rotterdam Junction, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 NOV 1894
2 PLAC Columbia, SC
1 FAMC @F19@
1 FAMS @F25@
0 @I79@ INDI
1 NAME Harmon /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 FEB 1820
2 PLAC Rotterdam, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 OCT 1885
2 PLAC Rotterdam Junction, NY
1 FAMC @F19@
1 NOTE The following is from an unpublished manuscript, written by William Ba
2 CONC rent Wemple II,  compiler of the first part if this genealogy from 188
2 CONC 5-1913 and grandson of William Barent Wemple I, sent to the compiler o
2 CONC n September 28, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was born February 19, 1820,  in Rotterdam, Schenectady County, NY
2 CONC , where he lived and died; made his will April 13, 1882, in which he s
2 CONC peaks of his sister Rebecca; never married.
0 @I80@ INDI
1 NAME Rebecca /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 SEP 1822
2 PLAC Rotterdam, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 APR 1887
2 PLAC Rotterdam Junction, NY
1 FAMC @F19@
1 NOTE The following is from an unpublished manuscript, written by William Ba
2 CONC rent Wemple II,  compiler of the first part if this genealogy from 188
2 CONC 5-1913 and grandson of William Barent Wemple I, sent to the compiler o
2 CONC n September 28, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was born September 28, 1822, in Rotterdam, Schenectady County, NY
2 CONC , where she always resided. In her will, made, she speaks of her siste
2 CONC r Margaret V. Magill and of her brother Myndert and his daughter Anna
2 CONC . Never married.
0 @I81@ INDI
1 NAME Myndert Veeder /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 SEP 1824
2 PLAC Rotterdam Junction, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE AFT 1895
2 PLAC West Plains, MO
1 FAMC @F19@
1 FAMS @F26@
1 NOTE The following is from an unpublished manuscript, written by William Ba
2 CONC rent Wemple II,  compiler of the first part if this genealogy from 188
2 CONC 5-1913 and grandson of William Barent Wemple I, sent to the compiler o
2 CONC n September 28, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was born September 12, 1824, in Rotterdam, Schenectady County, NY
2 CONC ; married Sarah C. Dakin, September 24, 1847, who was born August 28
2 CONC , 1830 and died June 25, 1894; he resides with his daughter Jane in We
2 CONC st Plains, Howell, County, MO.
0 @I82@ INDI
1 NAME John Baptist /Van Horst/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1800
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1895
1 FAMS @F20@
0 @I83@ INDI
1 NAME Nancy /Crawford/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 OCT 1809
2 PLAC NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1883
2 PLAC MI
1 BURI
2 PLAC MI
1 FAMS @F21@
0 @I84@ INDI
1 NAME Nicholas Visscher /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 05 FEB 1829
2 PLAC Rotterdam Junction, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 05 AUG 1905
2 PLAC Dansville, MI
1 FAMC @F21@
1 FAMS @F72@
0 @I85@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph Crawford /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 DEC 1830
2 PLAC Rotterdam Junction, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 MAR 1921
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford Cemetery, Milford, CA
1 FAMC @F21@
1 FAMS @F31@
1 NOTE After his father died in 1841, he left New York as a young man, alon
2 CONC g with his mother and older brother, Nicholas Visscher.  Sometime befo
2 CONC re this Joseph worked on the Erie Canal as a mule driver, pulling th
2 CONC e ships, boats and barges through the canal.   Before they moved he al
2 CONC so taught school in the Schenectady area for a short time.  After leav
2 CONC ing New York, the family moved to Michigan. Joseph married there in 18
2 CONC 55.  In 1857 or '58, leaving a wife and baby daughter home, he moved o
2 CONC n looking for gold. He first stopped at Pikes Peak, Colorado.  He me
2 CONC t more men coming down the mountain than going up, all of whom told hi
2 CONC m that there was not a bit of gold in that thar hill.  He headed fo
2 CONC r California, and according to his granddaughter, Marjel Wemple Edward
2 CONC s, coming by way of the Lassen Trail.  He arrived in Honey Lake Valley
2 CONC , the Land of the Never Sweats, in 1859.  He was one of the first 50
2 CONC 0 settlers in what is now Lassen County, California.  After working a
2 CONC t carpentering and in a sawmill near what is now Janesville on Parke
2 CONC r Creek, he and James Christie, his brother-in-law, started a the firs
2 CONC t gristmill in Lassen County which was located in Milford.  He was on
2 CONC e of the first settlers in Milford and is credited with being instrume
2 CONC ntal in naming the village.  He did well and accumulated property in a
2 CONC nd around Milford, numbering about 400 to 600 acres.  He was a man wh
2 CONC o was very generous to his sons and had given all his property away t
2 CONC o them long before his death, except his son, John, who had used up hi
2 CONC s portion of his inheritance long before this time.  In his old age h
2 CONC e always carried a dime in his pocket, So that I'll never be broke.
2 CONC  DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from the Susanville LASSEN ADVOCATE, Friday, 1 April 1921:
2 CONT 
2 CONT JOSEPH CRAWFORD WEMPLE
2 CONT 
2 CONT Last Monday morning, March 28, 1921, Joseph Crawford Wemple died at hi
2 CONC s home at Milford where for more than sixty years past he had been a c
2 CONC ontinuos resident. He was on of the few remaining pioneers of Lassen C
2 CONC ounty, and one who had written his personal activities and influence i
2 CONC n living letters upon the early-day history of the country. Few men ha
2 CONC ve surpassed Joseph Crawford Wemple in length of days or in his recor
2 CONC d of service to his fellow men.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mr. Wemple was the third Assessor of Lassen County, filling that offic
2 CONC e for two terms, and it is a rather significant fact that two of his s
2 CONC ons have served in the same capacity, former Assessor N.V. Wemple, an
2 CONC d present Assessor Frank O. Wemple. Later he represented his distric
2 CONC t as Supervisor for some ten years.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Coming to this valley in 1859, Mr. Wemple was one of the builders of t
2 CONC he first grist mill in Lassen County and for many years of this life h
2 CONC ere he was prominent as a stock raiser and rancher. He was born in Sch
2 CONC enectady, N.Y., December 30, 1830, and was within a day or two of thre
2 CONC e months over 90 years of age at the time of his death.
2 CONT 
2 CONT There are six surviving children, Mrs. Thomas Harris of Elko, Nevada
2 CONC ; and five sons, John B. Wemple of Standish,, N.V. and Jay C. of Milfo
2 CONC rd, and Frank O. and Orlo E. of Janesville. There are numerous grand a
2 CONC nd great-grandchildren.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The funeral took place from the late residence of the deceased Wednesd
2 CONC ay March 23, and was largely attended by people from all parts of Hone
2 CONC y Lake Valley and other localities.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is from an unpublished manuscript, written by William Ba
2 CONC rent Wemple II,  compiler of the first part if this genealogy from 188
2 CONC 5-1913, sent to the compiler on September 28, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemp
2 CONC le of Bay City, MI.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was born December 20, 1830, nine miles west of the city of Schenect
2 CONC ady, NY on the south side of the Mohawk river; went to Michigan in 184
2 CONC 7, crossed the plains to California in 1859; married Eliza J. Christie
2 CONC , March 25, 1855; owns 617 acres of land near Milford, CA, and is a we
2 CONC althy farmer; was elected County Assessor in 1869 for six years; was e
2 CONC lected supervisor in 1882 for six years; was re-elected to the latte
2 CONC r office in 1894 for four years.
0 @I86@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Ann /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 JAN 1833
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 SEP 1883
1 FAMC @F21@
1 FAMS @F73@
0 @I87@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 05 AUG 1836
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1931
1 FAMC @F21@
1 FAMS @F74@
0 @I88@ INDI
1 NAME Jane H. /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 JUN 1839
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 APR 1857
1 FAMC @F21@
0 @I89@ INDI
1 NAME Catherine /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 05 JUN 1842
1 DEAT
2 DATE SEP 1857
1 FAMC @F21@
0 @I90@ INDI
1 NAME Martin /Gardinier/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1805
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1895
1 FAMS @F22@
0 @I91@ INDI
1 NAME Aaron /Crawford/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1810
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1900
1 FAMS @F23@
0 @I92@ INDI
1 NAME Adeline Louise /Van Slyck/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 08 MAR 1837
2 PLAC Montgomery County, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 APR 1926
2 PLAC Crown Point, IN
1 FAMS @F24@
0 @I93@ INDI
1 NAME Melisse /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 MAY 1857
2 PLAC Orchard Grove, Cedar Creek Twp. Lake County, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 MAY 1931
2 PLAC Crown Point, IN
1 FAMC @F24@
1 FAMS @F111@
1 FAMS @F112@
0 @I94@ INDI
1 NAME Anna /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 JAN 1859
2 PLAC Orchard Grove, Cedar Creek Twp. Lake County, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 05 JAN 1934
2 PLAC Hebron, IN
1 FAMC @F24@
1 FAMS @F113@
1 FAMS @F114@
0 @I95@ INDI
1 NAME Susan Ida /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 APR 1861
2 PLAC Orchard Grove, Cedar Creek Twp. Lake County, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 05 JAN 1938
2 PLAC Crown Point, IN
1 BURI
2 PLAC Hebron Cemetery, Hebron, IN
1 FAMC @F24@
1 FAMS @F115@
0 @I96@ INDI
1 NAME Emma Alelia /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 APR 1863
2 PLAC Cedar Creek Twp., Lake County, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 JUL 1953
2 PLAC Crown Point, IN at home of daugher, Nellie S.
1 BURI
2 PLAC Maplewood Cemetery, Crown Point, IN
1 FAMC @F24@
1 FAMS @F116@
0 @I97@ INDI
1 NAME Edwin /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 07 SEP 1865
2 PLAC Orchard Grove, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake County, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 01 SEP 1955
2 PLAC Oneida County, Rhinelander, WI
1 BURI
2 PLAC Northland Memorial Park, Rhinelander, WI
1 FAMC @F24@
1 FAMS @F117@
0 @I98@ INDI
1 NAME Jesse Vrooman /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 04 FEB 1868
2 PLAC Orchard Grove, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake County, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 DEC 1940
2 PLAC Logansport, IN
1 FAMC @F24@
1 FAMS @F118@
0 @I99@ INDI
1 NAME Clara /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 JUL 1870
2 PLAC Cedar Creek Twp., Lake County, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 AUG 1870
1 FAMC @F24@
0 @I100@ INDI
1 NAME William /Magill/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 MAY 1803
2 PLAC Georgetown, SC
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 FEB 1865
2 PLAC Athens, GA
1 FAMS @F25@
0 @I101@ INDI
1 NAME Irvina /Magill/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE (BET. 1845 - 1865)
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1960
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I102@ INDI
1 NAME Mamie /Magill/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE (BET. 1845 - 1865)
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1960
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I103@ INDI
1 NAME Florence /Magill/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE (BET. 1845 - 1865)
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1960
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I104@ INDI
1 NAME John /Magill/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE (BET. 1845 - 1865)
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1955
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I105@ INDI
1 NAME Albert /Magill/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE (BET. 1845 - 1865)
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1955
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I106@ INDI
1 NAME Agnes /Magill/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE (BET. 1845 - 1865)
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1960
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I107@ INDI
1 NAME Lilla /Magill/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 JAN 1849
2 PLAC Georgetown, SC
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 NOV 1929
2 PLAC Dinwiddle County, VA
1 FAMC @F25@
1 FAMS @F119@
0 @I108@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /Dakin/
2 GIVN Sarah C.
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 AUG 1830
2 PLAC NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 JUN 1894
2 PLAC Detroit, MI
1 FAMS @F26@
1 SOUR Place of death: Lorie Okel via email 26 March 2005.
0 @I109@ INDI
1 NAME Elliot /Wemple/
2 GIVN Elliot V.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 MAR 1850
1 DEAT
2 DATE AFT 1895
2 PLAC last living with father and sister in Little Rock, AR
1 FAMC @F26@
0 @I110@ INDI
1 NAME Mahala /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 05 JUN 1851
2 PLAC Ingham County, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE 06 JUN 1862
1 FAMC @F26@
0 @I111@ INDI
1 NAME Anna Theresa /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 JUL 1853
2 PLAC Dansville, Ingham County, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 FEB 1938
2 PLAC Eldon, Miller County, MO
1 BURI
2 DATE FEB 1938
2 PLAC Eldon Cemetery, Eldon, Miller County MO
1 FAMC @F26@
1 FAMS @F120@
0 @I112@ INDI
1 NAME Harmen /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 05 APR 1855
2 PLAC Ingham County, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE 06 JUL 1917
2 PLAC Dansville, MI
1 FAMC @F26@
1 FAMS @F121@
0 @I113@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Ellen /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 08 OCT 1857
2 PLAC Dansville, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 JUL 1936
2 PLAC Eureka, CA
1 FAMC @F26@
1 FAMS @F122@
1 NOTE The following is from an unpublished manuscript, written by William Ba
2 CONC rent Wemple II,  compiler of the first part if this genealogy from 188
2 CONC 5-1913 and grandson of William Barent Wemple I, sent to the compiler o
2 CONC n September 28, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI.
2 CONT 
2 CONT . . . married Wm. Perry Coffee, July 9, 1881, a cousin of Jane's husba
2 CONC nd; live in Coffeeville, KS
0 @I114@ INDI
1 NAME Jane Helen /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 08 OCT 1857
2 PLAC Ingham County, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1952
1 FAMC @F26@
1 FAMS @F123@
1 NOTE The following is from an unpublished manuscript, written by William Ba
2 CONC rent Wemple II,  compiler of the first part if this genealogy from 188
2 CONC 5-1913 and grandson of William Barent Wemple I, sent to the compiler o
2 CONC n September 28, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI.
2 CONT 
2 CONT . . . married Wm. Taylor Coffee, June 9, 1878; a cousin of Mary's husb
2 CONC and; live in West Plains, MO
0 @I115@ INDI
1 NAME Constance Arlene /Hass/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 FEB 1952
2 PLAC Healdsburg, Sonoma County, CA
1 FAMS @F27@
0 @I116@ INDI
1 NAME Alison Lynne' /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 01 JUL 1976
2 PLAC National City, San Diego County, CA
1 FAMC @F27@
1 FAMS @F30@
0 @I117@ INDI
1 NAME Daniel James /Cox/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 NOV 1950
2 PLAC Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, OK
1 FAMS @F28@
0 @I118@ INDI
1 NAME Ashley Christine /Wemple-Cox/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 JUN 1980
2 PLAC Vallejo, Solano County, CA
1 FAMC @F28@
0 @I119@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas Paul /Blanchette/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 SEP 1949
2 PLAC Eagle Lake, Aroostook County, ME
1 FAMS @F29@
0 @I120@ INDI
1 NAME Kelly Ann /Murphy/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 08 SEP 1981
2 PLAC San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
1 FAMC @F29@
0 @I121@ INDI
1 NAME Michael Joseph /Kelley/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 JUL 1976
2 PLAC Okinawa, Japan
1 FAMS @F30@
0 @I122@ INDI
1 NAME Mackenzie Ailis /Kelley/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 JAN 2002
2 PLAC Chula Vista, CA
1 FAMC @F30@
0 @I123@ INDI
1 NAME Eliza Jane /Christie/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 03 MAR 1839
2 PLAC Ingraham County, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE 01 APR 1909
2 PLAC Johnstonville, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford Cemetery, Milford, CA
1 FAMS @F31@
1 NOTE Grandma Jane filed a petition in Lassen County Superior Court trying t
2 CONC o get Grandpa Joe committed to an insane asylum which reads as follows
2 CONC :
2 CONT Case #555 Plaintiff: Wemple, J.C., etal
2 CONT Defendant: Insane 1891
2 CONT Complaint and Commitment: Insane
2 CONT Filed January 7, 1891  A.J. Long, Clerk by F.W. Ward, Deputy
2 CONT To Hon. W.T. Masten, Judge of Superior Court
2 CONT Eliza J. Wemple respectfully represents that there is now in said Coun
2 CONC ty a person named J.C. Wemple who is insane and by reason of insanit
2 CONC y dangerous to be at large and  is a proper subject for the Insane Asy
2 CONC lum and the said Eliza Jane Wemple being duly sworn deposes and says t
2 CONC hat the foregoing statement is true; wherefore she prays that such act
2 CONC ion may be had as the law requires and that the said J.C. Wemple may b
2 CONC e sent to the Asylum of California.
2 CONT (signed) Eliza Jane Wemple
2 CONT 
2 CONT Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of January, 1891.
2 CONT 
2 CONT (signed) J.C. Pardee, District Attorney
2 CONT 
2 CONT Phyllis Metz, granddaughter of Joseph C. Wemple, found this in the Las
2 CONC sen County records and sent me her hand drafted copy on March 15, 1995
2 CONC . Phyllis' letter had the following paragraph: Anywhere I looked I co
2 CONC uldn't find anything else on Jane's complaint.  I guess it was just dr
2 CONC opped with no action taken, or if any, it wasn't recorded where I coul
2 CONC d find it.
2 CONT It's this compiler's opinion that no action was taken.  I suspect tha
2 CONC t Grandpa Joe had enough influence with the Lassen County officials t
2 CONC o just get this thing dropped as the action of an angry, vengeful woma
2 CONC n.  I would guess that Grandma Jane, after filing the complaint, jus
2 CONC t let it go with no further action on her part, except she moved out o
2 CONC f his home and moved in with her son, Frank, about 6-8 years later.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from the Susanville LASSEN ADVOCATE, Friday, 2 April 1909, pa
2 CONC ge 3c4:
2 CONT 
2 CONT DEATH OF MRS. J.C. WEMPLE
2 CONT 
2 CONT Another of the pioneer mothers of Honey Lake Valley passed away yeste
2 CONC rday morning, April 1st, at the home of her son F.O. Wemple, at Johnst
2 CONC onville. The aged lady had been in poor health for a long time, and he
2 CONC r departure hence had been looked for any times before. She came to th
2 CONC is valley, if we are correctly informed, in the early sixties, possibl
2 CONC y in 1862, and has made her home here ever since that time. She was a
2 CONC n exemplary woman, highly respected by all who knew her, and loved fo
2 CONC r her many estimable qualities by those who knew her best. She was a d
2 CONC evoted wife and mother, and by her death she leaves bereaved and age
2 CONC d husband, one daughter, Mrs. Libbie Harris of Elko, Nevada, and fiv
2 CONC e sons - John, N.V., J.C., F.O., and O.E. Wemple, all of whom 'rise u
2 CONC p and call her blessed,' and with whom her memory will remain enshrine
2 CONC d as a heritage of love.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Funeral services will be held at the old home in Milford, Saturday.
0 @I124@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth Jane /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 APR 1856
2 PLAC Adrian, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 OCT 1942
2 PLAC Elko, NV
1 BURI
2 PLAC Elko, NV
1 FAMC @F31@
1 FAMS @F46@
1 NOTE Member of Rebekahs, the Order of Eastern Star, and Dorcas Society of t
2 CONC he Presbyterian Church. GJW
0 @I125@ INDI
1 NAME John Barton /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 JUL 1864
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 APR 1931
2 PLAC Susanville, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Janesville Cemetery, Janesville, CA
1 FAMC @F31@
1 FAMS @F47@
1 NOTE John was a man who lived his entire life and never really got things g
2 CONC oing in any satisfory direction.  Everything he touched turned to vine
2 CONC gar. He tried a mired of several things like logging, hauling freigh
2 CONC t and any other job that involved horses, but liquor and a want for ze
2 CONC stful living always got in his way. He officially died of suicide at a
2 CONC ge 66 by shooting himself with a pistol, but many family members wonde
2 CONC red if it wasn't a family member who murdered him. DRW
0 @I126@ INDI
1 NAME Cora /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 MAR 1868
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 01 AUG 1870
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 FAMC @F31@
0 @I127@ INDI
1 NAME James /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 04 FEB 1870
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 26 JUL 1870
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 FAMC @F31@
0 @I128@ INDI
1 NAME N /Wemple/
2 GIVN N.V.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 07 MAY 1871
2 PLAC Milford,  Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 JAN 1942
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 FAMC @F31@
1 FAMS @F48@
1 NOTE Yes, his name was simply N.V. It is said that when N attended college
2 CONC , he had quite a time with a professor convincing him that N.V. was hi
2 CONC s only and correct name. Claude C. Wemple always referred to him simpl
2 CONC y as Uncle N. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT N.V. Wemple  was judge of the Justice Court in Susanville from 1933 un
2 CONC til the time of his death.  He represented the Second District in th
2 CONC e California State Assembly from 1924-1928 and he was Lassen County As
2 CONC sessor for several years before that.   He graduated from San Jose Sta
2 CONC te Normal College about 1875. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT N.V. hired his brother-in-law, Will Bronson in 1905 to build him a hou
2 CONC se in Milford.  Nearby, N also had Will build a small single room hom
2 CONC e for his father, Joseph Crawford Wemple. Joseph died in this small ho
2 CONC me. For several years about 1940-1955, Hazel Wemple, niece of N, use
2 CONC d this building for the Milford Post Office. Donald Jay Wemple, grand-
2 CONC nephew of N. lived in N's big house until his death in 1995. As of thi
2 CONC s writing his widow, Gay is living in this house. DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT An article from the special edition of the LASSEN ADVOCATE CENTENNIA
2 CONC L EDITION, July 9, 1965:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Wemple, N.V. (1871-1942) Engaged in farming in Honey Lake Valley. Asse
2 CONC ssor of Lassen County 1906-1914, judge of the Honey Lake judicial Dist
2 CONC rict 1934-1942, member of the State Assembly from the Second Distric
2 CONC t 1924-1928.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from THE LASSEN ADVOCATE, January 20, 1942:
2 CONT 
2 CONT DEATH TAKES LASSEN PIONEER - JUDGE N. WEMPLE Dies Monday; Brief Illnes
2 CONC s - Life is Paralleled to History of County. N.V. Wemple, member o
2 CONC f a pioneer family of Lassen County which is closely connected with th
2 CONC e very growth of this section of California, died at the Riverside Hos
2 CONC pital last night near 10:30 o'clock. leaving the community saddened wi
2 CONC th the knowledge that it had lost one of its best known and useful cit
2 CONC izens. Wemple, who was nearing his seventy-first birthday, was born i
2 CONC n Milford, Lassen County on May 7, 1871, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Josep
2 CONC h Crawford Wemple. Joseph was one of the sturdy pioneers who came to L
2 CONC assen County and aided in developing his adapted town and county.
2 CONT 
2 CONT EDUCATION 
2 CONT 
2 CONT N.V., as he was know to so many, received his elementary education i
2 CONC n the public schools of Milford and graduated from San Jose State Norm
2 CONC al College. On August 14, 1892, he and Pearl Bronson were united in ma
2 CONC rriage. To this happy union were born the following children: Orvill
2 CONC e E., Guy B., Fred, Lyle E. Maude, Percy N. and Bernice M. Wemple. Wem
2 CONC ple was engaged in farming and livestock business until 1903. At tha
2 CONC t time he was elected to the Assessor's office of Lassen County in whi
2 CONC ch capacity he served for two four-year terms. He retired from publi
2 CONC c life at the end of the second term and took up ranching at Milford
2 CONC . In 1920 Wemple started the Wemple Lumber and Warehouse Company at Li
2 CONC tchfield. It was while in this business that he was elected to the Ass
2 CONC embly of the California State Legislature in 1925, serving his count
2 CONC y well for two terms. Always active in civic and lodge circles, he wa
2 CONC s a past master of Janesville Lodge No. 232 of the F. and A. M. (Fre
2 CONC e and Accepted Masons) and a member of the Knights of Templar. Followi
2 CONC ng his service in the Legislature, he returned to Lassen County and wa
2 CONC s appointed to the office of Justice of the Peace of Honey Lake Townsh
2 CONC ip in 1933. Wemple was still faithfully carrying on his duties in thi
2 CONC s capacity at the time of his death.
2 CONT 
2 CONT SURVIVORS
2 CONT 
2 CONT He leaves, of his immediate family, his wife, Pearl, one daughter Bern
2 CONC ice, who is now employed in Sacramento, three sons, Guy of Fallon, Fre
2 CONC d of Milford and Lyle of Susanville, one brother, Frank O. Wemple, wh
2 CONC o is now Lassen County Assessor and one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Ha
2 CONC rris of Elko, Nevada. He is also survived by six grandchildren: Naom
2 CONC i and Nadene Wemple, Gynith, Phyllis,  Frank and Dana Wemple. Funera
2 CONC l services will be conducted from the Methodist Church by the local lo
2 CONC dge of Masons Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Internment will be in t
2 CONC he family plot at the Milford Cemetery. Morrill Mortuary is in charg
2 CONC e of the funeral arrangements.
0 @I129@ INDI
1 NAME Frank Orville /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 04 APR 1875
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 OCT 1953
2 PLAC Susanville, CA
1 FAMC @F31@
1 FAMS @F49@
1 NOTE A man of local respect and he was well known locally. He served as Las
2 CONC sen County Assessor for many years. As a young man, he thought he'd li
2 CONC ke to be a lawyer. He had the ability, but his brothers got to kiddin
2 CONC g him so heavily that he gave this notion up for being an independen
2 CONC t businessman and eventually entering into local politics. DRW
0 @I130@ INDI
1 NAME Orlo Edmund /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 FEB 1877
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 JUN 1928
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford Cemetery, Milford, CA
1 FAMC @F31@
1 FAMS @F50@
0 @I131@ INDI
1 NAME Ephraim Spencer /Burroughs/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 JUN 1894
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 26 NOV 1948
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Old Susanville Cemetery, Susanville, CA
1 FAMS @F32@
1 NOTE Obituary from THE SACRAMENTO BEE,  26 November 1948, page 1c2:
2 CONT 
2 CONT HEART ATTACK IS FATAL TO STATE WATER ATTORNEY
2 CONT 
2 CONT Spencer E. Burroughs, 54, Principal Attorney for the State Division o
2 CONC f Water Resources and recognized authority on water law in California
2 CONC , died early today in Susanville, Lassen County, after a heart attack.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He died in the home of his mother, Mrs. Gladys Burroughs. He and his f
2 CONC amily had gone to Susanville for a Thanksgiving Day reunion with his w
2 CONC ife's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Wemple, who reside near Susanville.
2 CONT 
2 CONT DOCTOR WAS CALLED
2 CONT 
2 CONT With his wife, Olga, and their children, Trent, Jeffrey and Olga, he h
2 CONC ad returned to the home of his mother shortly after midnight when he c
2 CONC omplained of feeling ill and lay down on a bed. His wife summoned a do
2 CONC ctor but Burroughs was dead when the physician arrived.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mrs. Gladys Burroughs had resided in Sacramento until recently when sh
2 CONC e moved to Susanville. She was in Sacramento at the time of her son'
2 CONC s death.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Burroughs was the son of the late Superior Court Judge H.D. Burrough
2 CONC s of Lassen County. His mother succeeded her husband as Superior Cour
2 CONC t Judge upon the his death and later served as a Deputy Attorney Gener
2 CONC al (of California). She lives in Susanville.
2 CONT 
2 CONT STANFORD GRADUATE
2 CONT 
2 CONT A native of Chico, Butte County, Spencer Burroughs was educated in th
2 CONC e public schools of Susanville and studied law at the University of Ca
2 CONC lifornia and Stanford University. He was a graduate of the Stanford La
2 CONC w School.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In 1920 he entered the private practice of law and in 1922 was named A
2 CONC ttorney for the Division of Water Rights, predecessor to the Divisio
2 CONC n of Water Resources. He had been in state service every since and ha
2 CONC d offices in the Public Works Building at Eleventh and N Streets.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was active during recent sessions of the Legislature in drafting an
2 CONC d interpreting the law creating the State Water Resources Board.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Only 10 days ago he appeared at a budget hearing in the State Departme
2 CONC nt of Finance offices to appeal for more legal help, emphasizing tha
2 CONC t water problems have increased tremendously in recent years, principa
2 CONC lly because of the Central Valley Project.
2 CONT 
2 CONT ENSIGN IN NAVY
2 CONT 
2 CONT Burroughs was an ensign in the Navy in World War I. During World War I
2 CONC I his son, Spencer, Jr. also an ensign, was killed at Okinawa.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Funeral services will be held Monday in the White Mortuary* in Susanvi
2 CONC lle. The Burroughs residence in Sacramento is at 2748 Curtis Way.
2 CONT 
2 CONT *I can clearly remember that Spencer's funeral was held at his brother
2 CONC -in-law, Albert G. Breitweiser, home. DRW
0 @I132@ INDI
1 NAME Spencer /Burroughs/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 AUG 1920
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 05 MAY 1945
2 PLAC Okinawa, Japan
1 BURI
2 PLAC Arlington National Cemetery, VA
1 FAMC @F32@
1 FAMS @F51@
1 NOTE From the LASSEN ADVOCATE 14 June 1945 page 1c6:
2 CONT 
2 CONT ENSIGN BURROUGHS IS KILLED IN ACTION
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Navy Department has officially notified Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Burro
2 CONC ughs of Sacramento that their son Ensign Spencer Burroughs, Jr., had b
2 CONC een killed in action in the vicinity of Okinawa.
2 CONT 
2 CONT A native of Susanville, Ensign Burroughs graduated from Sacramento Hig
2 CONC h School, attended Stanford University, following which he enlisted i
2 CONC n the Navy V12 training program at the University of California and re
2 CONC ceived his commission at Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind.  He was 24 year
2 CONC s old.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Besides his parents, Attorney and Mrs. Spencer Burroughs, he leave
2 CONC s a wife Elaine, a sister Miss Olga Burroughs, brothers, Trent and Geo
2 CONC ffrey Burroughs all of Sacramento.  Also surviving are grandmothers Mr
2 CONC s. J.C. Wemple of Milford and Judge Gladys S. Burroughs of Sacramento
2 CONC ; numerous aunts, uncles and cousins in Lassen County and Sacramento.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Note from the compilers: Spencer is buried at Arlington National Cemet
2 CONC ery, Arlington, VA.
0 @I133@ INDI
1 NAME Olga /Burroughs/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 NOV 1925
2 PLAC Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 04 AUG 2008
2 PLAC Denver, CO
1 BURI
2 PLAC Maui, HI
1 FAMC @F32@
1 FAMS @F52@
1 FAMS @F53@
1 FAMS @F54@
1 NOTE Obituary from the Sacramento Bee dated August 19, 2008. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT (This obiturary was written by her brother, Geofrey.) 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Nov 15, 1925 - Aug 4, 2008 Brooke was an eclectic. There were few thin
2 CONC gs in life she chose not to explore and, as she would have said, thos
2 CONC e left unturned were not important. As a young woman she rode horses a
2 CONC t a stable in East Sacramento and later during her days at McClatchy H
2 CONC igh School challenged the august Principal, Sam Pepper, to allow stude
2 CONC nts to enter the high school through the front doors; a battle she los
2 CONC t but a war she won. While she could be an iconoclast, she was als
2 CONC o a traditionalist, belonged to Manana, a high school sorority, was ed
2 CONC itor of the school year book, and took high school sartorial eleganc
2 CONC e to a new level. She attended UCLA, and worked as a page on the MGM l
2 CONC ot (the high point she once said was a kiss on the cheek from Frank Si
2 CONC natra after delivering a message). She traveled alone whenever possibl
2 CONC e, observing that it's the only way to meet people. She lived in Sacra
2 CONC mento; Palm Springs; Montana; New York; New Jersey; Guadalajara, Mexic
2 CONC o; Honolulu; Arizona and Colorado. She was an accomplished photographe
2 CONC r and social entertainer of the first magnitude. She did a lot in he
2 CONC r life, had fun and left nothing on the table. Brooke passed away whil
2 CONC e under the care of some wonderful people at the Julia Temple facilit
2 CONC y in Englewood, Colo. A memorial service will be held in Hawaii in Jun
2 CONC e of 2009. She was predeceased by her parents Olga and Spencer Burroug
2 CONC hs, her loving husband Robert Van Zandt, son Burne Dougherty, stepso
2 CONC n Keith Van Zandt, brothers Spencer Burroughs Jr. and Trent Burrough
2 CONC s (Maria Luisa). She is survived by daughter Erin O'Brien (Michael), s
2 CONC tepson Mark Van Zandt, granddaughters Caitlin O'Brien, Emerald O'Brien
2 CONC , Karen Dougherty (Todd), grandson Patrick Moore, (Michele), two great
2 CONC -grandchildren, brother Geoffrey Burroughs (Mollie). nieces Francesca
2 CONC , Lisa, Megan, nephew Spencer and numerous cousins.
0 @I134@ INDI
1 NAME Trent /Burroughs/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 APR 1930
2 PLAC Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 04 JAN 2008
2 PLAC Sacramento, CA
1 FAMC @F32@
1 FAMS @F55@
1 NOTE Obituary from the Sacramento Bee, January 10, 2008 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Trent Burroughs 
2 CONT 
2 CONT A native Sacramentan, Trent was born on April 11, 1930. He passed peac
2 CONC efully into God's care on January 4, 2008. A loving husband and father
2 CONC , he is survived by MarlaLuisa, his wife of 43 year, his daughter Fran
2 CONC cesca and son-in-law Robert Pearson of Livermore; his sister Brooke Va
2 CONC nZandt of Colorado, his brother Geoffrey and sister-in-law Mollie Burr
2 CONC oughs of Sacramento, and many nieces and nephews and dear cousins. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Trent's parents, Olga and Spencer Burroughs moved to Sacramento from S
2 CONC usanville in 1922 to the Curtis Park area. Trent graduated from C. K
2 CONC . McClatchy High School and California State University, Sacramento. <
2 CONC br
2 CONT After serving in the U.S. Army as an artillery fire control coordinato
2 CONC r, he worked for the U.S. Post Office for 32 years. Trent was a gifte
2 CONC d Chess player; so much so that a disgruntled neighbor, having found n
2 CONC o one to better him in Sacramento, went to San Francisco and brought b
2 CONC ack a highly rated chess player to challenge him -- after an ardious b
2 CONC attle on the chess board they drew. Trent also had an interest in high
2 CONC er mathematics taking such abstruse courses as non-Euclidian geometr
2 CONC y and abstract algrebra. As an athlete he was a superlative tennis pla
2 CONC yer and in his younger days an ace receiver for once famous Curtis Par
2 CONC k Clippers football team. In his later years he became an accomplishe
2 CONC d bowler winning a number of local tournaments. He often bowled a 60
2 CONC 0 series and once was eleven strikes toward the perfect 300 game whe
2 CONC n he got a nasty split. His only comment was, Mmmm, a high on that on
2 CONC e, I think. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT A mass of Christian buriai will be held at Immaculate Conception Paris
2 CONC h, 3263 First Avenue, Sacramento at 10:00am on Monday, Januray 14, 200
2 CONC 8. In lieu of flowers, please donate to the charity of your choice.
0 @I135@ INDI
1 NAME Geoffrey /Burroughs/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 AUG 1936
2 PLAC Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
1 FAMC @F32@
1 FAMS @F56@
0 @I136@ INDI
1 NAME Emma Grayce /Tremain/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 04 MAR 1910
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 JAN 1945
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMS @F33@
1 NOTE Obituary from the Susanville LASSEN ADVOCATE, Thursday, 25 January 194
2 CONC 5, page 1c5:
2 CONT 
2 CONT EMMA GRAYCE WEMPLE, AGE 34, DIES
2 CONT 
2 CONT Funeral services were held Monday afternoon, January 22, for Mrs. Emm
2 CONC a Grayce Wemple, age 34, well known local matron, who died Friday morn
2 CONC ing at the Riverside Hospital, following a short illness.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mrs. Wemple, born March 10, 1910, was the former Emma Grayce Tremain
2 CONC . She married Irvin Wemple in November, 1926.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Besides her husband, she leaves three son, Joseph Jay, 16, Tremain, 6
2 CONC , and Nolan Mark, 1 year; two sisters, Mrs. H.R. Swain, Lancaster, Cal
2 CONC ifornia; Mrs. Carl Adrian, San Jose and a brother, S.A. Tremain of Lo
2 CONC s Angeles, California.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The funeral services were held in the Methodist Church, with Dr. H.D
2 CONC . Helwig of Herlong, the Reverand P.C. Knudson and the Reverand G.J.E
2 CONC . Keetch of Susanville officiating.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Interment was in the Milford Cemetery under the direction of the Whit
2 CONC e Memorial Chapel.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following birth notice from the LASSEN ADVOCATE dated 4 March 191
2 CONC 0 was sent to the compiler on 29 May 2000 by Susan L. Decious:
2 CONT 
2 CONT BORN.
2 CONT 
2 CONT TREMAIN.--In Susanville, Cal., Mar, 4, 1910, to the wife of R. J. Trem
2 CONC ain, a daughter.
0 @I137@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph Jay /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 AUG 1928
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F33@
1 FAMS @F57@
1 FAMS @F58@
1 NOTE He worked for Santa Clara County, first in the survey crew and then a
2 CONC s a traffic accident analyzer, for many years. Retired and moved to La
2 CONC keport, CA. DRW
0 @I138@ INDI
1 NAME Tremain Wemple /Adrian/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 FEB 1940
2 PLAC Westwood, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 JAN 1959
2 PLAC San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA
1 FAMC @F33@
1 NOTE After the death of Tremain's father, which left him an orphan, he wa
2 CONC s adopted by his aunt and uncle, Carl and Theo Adrian. He changed hi
2 CONC s last name to Adrian after the adoption. He died at age 19 from polio
2 CONC , after he had spent five or so years in an Iron Lung. DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from the SAN JOSE MERCURY, Friday, 16 January 1959, page 4c4-
2 CONC 5:
2 CONT 
2 CONT ADRIAN - In San Jose January 14. Tremain Adrian, devoted son of Mr. a
2 CONC nd Mrs. Carl Adrian; dear brother of Joseph Jay Wemple of San Jose an
2 CONC d Mark Wemple of Milford, California; loving grandson of Mrs. Libbie W
2 CONC emple of Milford, California. A native of Westwood, California. Age 1
2 CONC 9 years.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Services Saturday, January 17, at 11 a.m. at the Darling-Fischer Gard
2 CONC en Chapel, 471 E. Santa Clara Street, San Jose.
0 @I139@ INDI
1 NAME Nolan Mark /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 NOV 1943
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F33@
1 FAMS @F59@
1 NOTE He first worked for the USFS and then switched and worked as a logge
2 CONC r for many years. He moved from Milford, CA to Moscow, ID about 1970
2 CONC . It was in Idaho that he became a logger, rather than working for th
2 CONC e USFS. DRW
0 @I140@ INDI
1 NAME Harold /Woods/
2 GIVN Harold C.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1900
2 PLAC Probably Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1990
1 FAMS @F34@
0 @I141@ INDI
1 NAME David Irvin /Edwards/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 MAR 1891
2 PLAC Los  Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 DEC 1968
2 PLAC Redding, Shasta County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford Cemetery
1 OCCU ,
1 FAMS @F35@
1 NOTE Obituary from the REDDING SEARCHLIGHT, Monday, 16 December 1968, pag
2 CONC e 17c5:
2 CONT 
2 CONT DR. DAVID EDWARDS
2 CONT 
2 CONT Anderson dentist David Irvin Edwards, Sr., 77, died Sunday in Mercy H
2 CONC ospital.
2 CONT 
2 CONT An Anderson resident since 1950, Dr. Edwards was born March 20, 189
2 CONC 1 in Los Angeles. He was a graduate of the College of the Pacific an
2 CONC d the University of California.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He served as a captain in the U.S. Army Dental Corps during World Wa
2 CONC r I and remained in the service for three years following the end of t
2 CONC he war.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dr. Edwards was a member of the Anderson Rotary Club, the Methodist C
2 CONC hurch and a 50-year member of the Westwood Masonic Lodge 501.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He leaves his widow, Marjel of Anderson; two daughters, Betty Frankli
2 CONC n of Fairfax and Jane Koffard of Red Bluff; a son, David Jr. of Oaklan
2 CONC d; and four grandchildren.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Trinity Metho
2 CONC dist Church in Anderson. The Reverand Grant Allen will officiate and b
2 CONC urial will be at 2:30 p.m. at the Milford Cemetery in Milford under th
2 CONC e direction of McDonald's Anderson Chapel.
0 @I142@ INDI
1 NAME David Irvin Jr. /Edwards/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 03 JUN 1932
2 PLAC Westwood, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F35@
1 FAMS @F60@
0 @I143@ INDI
1 NAME Marjel Jane /Edwards/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 09 JUL 1939
2 PLAC Westwood, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F35@
1 FAMS @F61@
1 FAMS @F62@
0 @I144@ INDI
1 NAME David F. /Dozier/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 06 JUN 1899
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 SEP 1986
2 PLAC Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
1 TITL M.D.
1 FAMS @F36@
0 @I145@ INDI
1 NAME Nolan /Hallowell/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 JUN 1909
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 08 FEB 1958
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F63@
1 FAMS @F37@
1 NOTE Obituary from the Susanville LASSEN ADVOCATE, Wednesday, 12 February 1
2 CONC 958, page 1c5:
2 CONT 
2 CONT FINAL SERVICES HELD MONDAY FOR NOLAN HALLOWELL
2 CONT 
2 CONT Funeral services for Nolan Hallowell, 48, who died suddenly of a hear
2 CONC t attack at his Susanville home at about 6:30 Saturday morning, were h
2 CONC eld in the Susanville Methodist Church Monday afternoon at two o'cloc
2 CONC k with the B.P.O.E (Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks) officiati
2 CONC ng, assisted by the Reverand Russell Van Alen. Lassen Lodge 149, F
2 CONC . & A.M. (Free and Accepted Masons), conducted services at the grave s
2 CONC ide in the Susanville Cemetery. Arrangements were in charge of the Kno
2 CONC bel Funeral Home.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Pallbearers were Dale Soule, Ardel Torrey, W.L. Andrews, Merlyn Mulro
2 CONC ney, all of Susanville, Milton Zimmerman, Reno, and Lindley McClure, S
2 CONC acramento.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The deceased was born in Susanville June 26, 1909, attended the loca
2 CONC l schools and the University of Oregon, where he was affiliated with P
2 CONC hi Kappa Psi fraternity. He had been in the appliance business since 1
2 CONC 936 and a partner with James E. Mc Kahan since 1945. In 1948 the two p
2 CONC artners established radio station KSUE.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The deceased was active in many community affairs and organizations
2 CONC . He was a member of the Rotary Club of Susanville, of which he wa
2 CONC s a past president, Masonic and Shrine organizations and the Elks Lodg
2 CONC e. He was an outstanding sportsman with interests in every sporting fi
2 CONC eld and his greatest relaxation was a weekend spent on some near or fa
2 CONC r fishing stream.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He is survived by his wife Marguerite Hallowell, Susanville, two daug
2 CONC hters, Mrs. Edward Thomas McDonald, now in Germany, where her husban
2 CONC d is stationed with the U.S. Army,and Miss Kay Hallowell, a sophomor
2 CONC e at Stanford University; two sisters, Mrs. Harold Bausch of San Loui
2 CONC s Obispo and Mrs. C.L. Wemple of Millbrea, his grandmother, Mrs. Ralp
2 CONC h Strong, Susanville and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.
0 @I146@ INDI
1 NAME Lynn /Hallowell/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 AUG 1931
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 04 OCT 1985
2 PLAC Paradise, Butte County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Susanville, CA
1 FAMC @F37@
1 FAMS @F64@
1 NOTE Obituary from the Chico ENTERPRISE-RECORD, Tuesday, 8 October 1985, pa
2 CONC ge 4Ac1-2:
2 CONT 
2 CONT PARADISE - A grave side service for Lynn H. McDonald, 54, of Paradis
2 CONC e will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in Susanville Cemetery in Susan
2 CONC ville. She died Friday in her home of natural causes.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Born August 15, 1931, in Susanville, she was a homemaker.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Survivors include two sons, Stephen J. of Palo Alto and Jon R. of Sa
2 CONC n Francisco; a sister, Kay McDonald of Reno, Nevada; and her mother, M
2 CONC arguerite Rypkema of Paradise
2 CONT 
2 CONT Contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society or Hospice o
2 CONC f the Ridge.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Local arrangement are being handled by Rose Chapel.
0 @I147@ INDI
1 NAME Kay /Hallowell/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 JUL 1938
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F37@
1 FAMS @F65@
1 NOTE Article from the LASSEN ADVOCATE, Susanville, California, 26 August, 1
2 CONC 959, page 10c5-7:
2 CONT 
2 CONT KAY HALLOWELL BECOMES BRIDE OF ROBERT T. McDONALD
2 CONT 
2 CONT KAY HALLOWELL AND ROBERT T. MCDONALD MARRIED ON AUG. 15
2 CONT 
2 CONT Miss Kay Hallowell and Robert Taylor McDonald were married at home Sat
2 CONC urday, Aug. 15, at 8 p. m. by Rev. Donald Conklin of the First Baptis
2 CONC t  of Susanville. The bride was given away by her uncle, Kenneth Clar
2 CONC k Ables of Modesto, Calif.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The candlelight ceremony was held at an altar improvised at the firepl
2 CONC ace which was banked with white gladiolas and snapdragons.  Above th
2 CONC e mantle hung an oval, antique, gold framed mirror.  Antique, brass ca
2 CONC ndelabra were placed on either side of the mirror.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The wedding march was played by Mrs. Albert Gustav Breitweiser of Susa
2 CONC nville,
2 CONT 
2 CONT The bride was proceeded down the aisle by her sister, Mrs. Edward Thom
2 CONC as McDonald, of Lakeview, Ore.  The matron of honor wore a gold, sil
2 CONC k taffeta gown with a full skirt, fitted bodice, and the new bouffan
2 CONC t sleeves -- with headpiece and shoes matching the gold gown.  She car
2 CONC ried a French bouquet
2 CONT of yellow rosebuds.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The bride wore an ivory-white, Italian silk gown with a chapel train
2 CONC , featuring a dropped waistline and trimmed only at the neck with reem
2 CONC broidered chantilly lace.  A chantilly lace crown embroidered with
2 CONT pearls held in place her fingertip length, illusion silk veil.  She ca
2 CONC rried stephanotis centered with a single, white orchid and a lace bord
2 CONC ered handkerchief of her father's grandmother.  She wore pearl earring
2 CONC s, a gift from the bridegroom.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The best man was the bridegroom's brother, Edward Thomas McDonald, o
2 CONC f Lakeview, Ore.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The bridegroom is the son of Mrs. Paul Wemple of Susanville and the la
2 CONC te James Robert McDonald of Chester.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The bride's mother wore a Dior blue, silk, sheath dress with a contras
2 CONC ting blue, chiffon cumberbund.
2 CONT The bridegroom's mother wore an embroidered, tailored, white-blue sil
2 CONC k dress.
2 CONT 
2 CONT After the marriage ceremony, the couple received their guests -- abou
2 CONC t 100 relatives and close friends -- in the yard.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The bride's table, set with an old, hand embroidered, linen tablecloth
2 CONC , was decorated with white carnations wreathing the bride's cake.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The bride's going-away outfit was a black, silk suit with a black, vel
2 CONC vet, cloche hat and patent leather accessories.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The couple planned to go directly to San Francisco, where the bridegro
2 CONC om is presently attending Golden Gate College and reviewing for the Ce
2 CONC rtified Public Accountant examination.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The bride attended local schools, Stanford University and graduated fr
2 CONC om Reno Business College.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The bridegroom, after graduating from high school in Chester, attende
2 CONC d Oregon State College, where he was affiliated with Delta Upsilon fra
2 CONC ternity, and graduated in accounting from Golden Gate College in San
2 CONT Fransicso.
0 @I148@ INDI
1 NAME Peter Dick /Rypkema/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 05 MAR 1909
2 PLAC Long Island, KS
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 MAR 2000
2 PLAC Magalia, Butte County, CA
1 FAMS @F38@
1 NOTE Obituary from the Chico ENTERPRISE-RECORD/MERCURY-REGISTER, Saturday
2 CONC , 1 April 2000, page 2Dc3:
2 CONT 
2 CONT MAGALIA -  A memorial service for Dick Rypkema, 91, of Magalia will b
2 CONC e 2 p.m. Monday April 3 at the Paradise Elks Lodge. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT He died Thursday March 30, 2000 at home. He was born March 5, 1909 t
2 CONC o Henry and Antonia Rypkema in Long Island, Kansas, where he was raise
2 CONC d until moving to California in 1935.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In 1940, Rypkema received his contractor's license. He owned and opera
2 CONC ted a machine shop during World War II that manufactured parts for th
2 CONC e military. He moved to Paradise in 1955 and became a real estate agen
2 CONC t.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Rypkema was the general contractor for the building for the Paradise E
2 CONC lks Lodge 2026, of which he was a charter member and the first exalte
2 CONC d ruler. In 1961, he was appointed to the Butte County Planning Commis
2 CONC sion, where he served until 1973. He was also a member of SIRS.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He enjoyed hunting, fishing and woodworking.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Along with his wife, Marguerite of Reno, survivors include a daughter
2 CONC , Mary Mays of Magalia; and three grandchildren, seven great-grandchil
2 CONC dren and two great-great-grandchildren.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Memorial contributions may be made to Paradise Hospice in care of Bidw
2 CONC ell Chapel, which is handling the arrangements.
0 @I149@ INDI
1 NAME John Hartson /Theodore/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 OCT 1908
2 PLAC Monterey, Monterey County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 NOV 2004
2 PLAC Mayers Memorial Hospital Burney Annex, Burney, Shasta County, CA
1 FAMS @F39@
1 NOTE John was a farmer and drag line owner/operator and served on the Lasse
2 CONC n County Board of Supervisors for a number of years. DRW 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from the Redding Record Searchlight, dated 23 November 2004
2 CONC : 
2 CONT 
2 CONT John Theodore 
2 CONT 
2 CONT BURNEY -- Services for John Hartson Theodore, 96, of Burney will be a
2 CONC t 11 a.m. Saturday at Walton's Colonial Mortuary in Susanville. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Rev. Tony Loubet of Standish Bible Church in Standish will officia
2 CONC te. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mr. Theodore died Friday, Nov. 19, 2004, at Mayers Memorial Hospital'
2 CONC s Burney Annex. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Born in Oct. 27, 1908, he moved to Shasta County in 1994 from Susanvil
2 CONC le. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was a rancher for 60 years. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Survivors include daughters Mary Tashiro of Burney and Ann Weir of Pla
2 CONC cerville; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Memorial contributions can be made to Standish Bible Church, P.O. Bo
2 CONC x 267, Standish, CA 96128, or to a favorite charity. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Arrangements are being handled by McDonald's Burney Chapel.
0 @I150@ INDI
1 NAME Ann /Theodore/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 08 NOV 1933
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F39@
1 FAMS @F66@
1 NOTE Article from the LASSEN ADVOCATE, Susanville, California, 24 Novembe
2 CONC r 1952, page 3c1-2:
2 CONT 
2 CONT EXCHANGE MARRIAGE VOWS ANN THEODORE, JOHN WEIR
2 CONT 
2 CONT Ann Theodore and John Graham Weir, Saturday afternoon November the fif
2 CONC teenth, at three, were married at the Theodore home at Wendel.  The lo
2 CONC ng living room was warm with candle light, and just at the pause befor
2 CONC e the processional music, the bride's young brother, John Jay Theodor
2 CONC e lighted
2 CONT the tall white floor tapers at either side of the mantle. Mantle-highb
2 CONC askets of giant white mums crossed between the candles.
2 CONT 
2 CONT During the ceremony the wedding party stood all gravely unaware that
2 CONT grandmother, grandfather, uncle, cousin, friend, at the farther end o
2 CONC f the
2 CONT room, were enjoying a perfect front view reflection in the broad mirro
2 CONC r
2 CONT above the fireplace.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Ann was given in marriage by her father, John Hartson Theodore.  The b
2 CONC eautiful double-ring ceremony was performed by the Reverend Carl H. Si
2 CONC sson, and Mrs. Sisson was at the piano.
2 CONT 
2 CONT At the close of the ritual, Sargent Harry Weir on leave to act as bes
2 CONC t man for his brother, proposed a toast to the happy pair, and since t
2 CONC heir plans were for an early leave-taking, attention was directed to t
2 CONC he tea table and collation centered by the sparkling bell capped weddi
2 CONC ng cake.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Kay Hallowell looked after the punch bowl; Jackie Weir, the guest book
2 CONC .
2 CONT 
2 CONT Guests noted the bride's pearl ear rings, a gift from the groom, whic
2 CONC h were the something new.  For the something old, she had the lace han
2 CONC dkerchief handed down from her great-grandmother, Sarah Hartson.  Th
2 CONC e thing borrowed was a coin lent by her mother, to be worn in the shoe
2 CONC . TheWedding Shop gave the garter for the blue.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The wedding gown was white; the skirt ballerina length and full, shee
2 CONC r net over heavy satin, the bodice, chiffon velvet, long, pointed slee
2 CONC ves, the neck high; the tiny Peter Pan collar, and the tiny pearl stud
2 CONC ded bit of a juliet cap with fingertip veil, the only concessions to t
2 CONC he bride's youth.
2 CONT 
2 CONT With her white prayer book she held her bouquet of three white orchid
2 CONC s and cascade of phalanopsis orchids.
2 CONT 
2 CONT To complete the wedding party, Margaret Bailey, bridesmaid, wore emera
2 CONC ld green velvet with satin, patterned after the bride's gown, and fo
2 CONC r her hands, green net mitts, and she held a bouquet of yellow mumelli
2 CONC as with streamers of green and gold and Mary Elizabeth Theodore, as fl
2 CONC ower girl for
2 CONT her sister, wore a little ruby-red velvet dress and carried a French b
2 CONC ouquet, a miniature white orchid framed in pink baby roses.
2 CONT 
2 CONT For her young daughter's wedding, Mrs. Theodore wore champagne lace; h
2 CONC er flower, a bronze orchid.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mrs. John Weir, the groom's mother chose a fine black lace, a mauve or
2 CONC chid was her flower.
2 CONT 
2 CONT For her going away outfit Ann changed to a red knit suit, with shoes a
2 CONC nd bag of flecked white cobra.  Her beret was white.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The just-marrieds both were graduated from Lassen Union high school i
2 CONC n Susanville, and both went to junior college.  Ann is now enjoying he
2 CONC r job as chief deputy in the office of the county treasurer, John is f
2 CONC inishing his special course in forestry.  Their new home has a west vi
2 CONC ew in the Bangham apartments in Susanville.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Weir parents are Mr. and Mrs. John G. Weir of Susanville, and on t
2 CONC he bride's side, Mr. and Mrs. John Hartson Theodore.
0 @I151@ INDI
1 NAME John Jay /Theodore/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 OCT 1940
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 OCT 1986
2 PLAC Emeryville, Alameda County, CA
1 FAMC @F39@
1 NOTE Obituary from the Susanville LASSEN ADVOCATE,  Wednesday, 5 November 1
2 CONC 986, page 3Ac4-5:
2 CONT 
2 CONT JOHN THEODORE
2 CONT 
2 CONT Memorial services for John J. Theodore, 46, who died in Oakland, Cali
2 CONC fornia on Wednesday, October 29, will be held at the Lucero-Carlson Co
2 CONC lonial Mortuary on Saturday at 1 p.m.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The deceased was born in Susanville on October 15, 1940, and went t
2 CONC o work at the United California Bank at the age of 19. For the past 1
2 CONC 8 years he had been employed as a bank examiner for the Federal Reserv
2 CONC e Bank.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Survivors include his parents, John and Deesse Theodore of Susanville
2 CONC , two sisters, Ann Weir of Placerville and Mary Fletcher of Burney, an
2 CONC d two nieces and two nephews.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The family requests that memorial donations be made to a favorite cha
2 CONC rity.
0 @I152@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Elizabeth /Theodore/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 DEC 1944
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F39@
1 FAMS @F67@
1 FAMS @F68@
0 @I153@ INDI
1 NAME Helen Jane /Hidden/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 09 FEB 1921
2 PLAC Portland, Multnomah County, OR
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 SEP 2004
2 PLAC Tucson, AZ
1 FAMS @F40@
1 NOTE Sent to the compiler by his cousin, Beth Bornet, of Ashland, OR: Obitu
2 CONC ary from the Oregonian, September 26, 2004: . . .  Helen Hidden Wempl
2 CONC e  February 9, 1921 - September 17; 2004 Helen Hidden Wemple, born Feb
2 CONC ruary 9, 1921 in Portland. OR to Charles E. and Evan U. Hidden (deceas
2 CONC ed) who resided in Tucson, AZ for several years. Mrs. Wemple died Sept
2 CONC ember 17, 2004. After attending schools in Oregon, Nevada, and Lasse
2 CONC n College in Northern California (where Mrs. Wemple met her future hus
2 CONC band) she moved to Southern California with her family. Marrying Capt
2 CONC . Neil W. Wemple in 1943 led to an interesting and eventful life. Afte
2 CONC r thirty years in the Air Force, Colonel and Mrs. Wemple retired to Tu
2 CONC cson in 1969. Mrs. Wemple is survived by her daughter Forrest W. Level
2 CONC y; sons Stephen S. Wemple (Linda) and Neil T. Wemple; grandchildren Ka
2 CONC rah L. Rinaldi (Frank), Thomas Scott Levely; and great-grandchildren A
2 CONC lexis, Kaia and Carter Rinaldi. A memorial service will be held 3:00 P
2 CONC M Saturday, October 16 at East Lawn Palms Mortuary, 5801 E. Grant Rd.
2 CONC , Tucson AZ.
0 @I154@ INDI
1 NAME Forrest Leigh /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 06 SEP 1944
2 PLAC Torrance, Los Angeles County, CA
1 FAMC @F40@
1 FAMS @F69@
0 @I155@ INDI
1 NAME Stephen Scott /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 MAY 1947
2 PLAC San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA
1 FAMC @F40@
1 FAMS @F70@
1 FAMS @F71@
0 @I156@ INDI
1 NAME Neil Todd /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 MAY 1962
2 PLAC Wiesbaden, Germany
1 FAMC @F40@
0 @I157@ INDI
1 NAME Kathryn /French/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 06 MAR 1942
2 PLAC Reno, Washoe County, NV
1 FAMS @F41@
1 NOTE Wedding announcement from the Susanville LASSEN ADVOCATE, Friday, 11 A
2 CONC ugust, 1961, page 2c1:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Kathryn French and Kenny Wemple will be united in marriage Saturday, A
2 CONC ugust 12, at Park Chapel in Reno.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Invited guests are parents of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh French of L
2 CONC itchfield, the groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Don Wemple, and grandpare
2 CONC nts, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Wemple of Milford, Miss Vickie Johnson of Lit
2 CONC chfield, Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Cann and children, Corine and Rod of Reno
2 CONC .
2 CONT 
2 CONT A bridal shower announcement from the Susanville LASSEN ADVOCATE, 29 S
2 CONC eptember 1961, page 2c3:
2 CONT 
2 CONT A bridal shower honoring Kathryn Wemple nee Kathryn French was given b
2 CONC y Donna McClelland, Elburna McClelland and Vickie Johnson in the McCle
2 CONC lland home Friday evening, September 22.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Making the evening a gala event were Dilys Doyle, Patty Mulroney, Sher
2 CONC ri Johnson, Nancy Amesbury, Janet Beard, Karyn Alway, Anna Winchell, H
2 CONC enriette Hardy, Caroley Powell, Eaelene and Karen Johnson, Sandra Hans
2 CONC en, Dianna Chappuis, Janet Naye, Helen and Nancy McClelland, Lucille F
2 CONC rench, Gay Wemple, Ester McClelland, Sheila Creyer, Lynn Wilton, Ann
2 CONC a Rae Arjo, Norma Cordoba, Barbara Ott, Inesse, Ethel, and Harriet Mar
2 CONC r, Donna Nicholas, and Joyce Sutherlin.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Games played during the evening were won by Helen McClelland, Karen Jo
2 CONC hnson and the honoree.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Refreshments topped off the evening.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Bridal shower announcement from the LASSEN ADVOCATE, 29 September 1961
2 CONC , page 2c3:
2 CONT 
2 CONT A bridal shower honoring Kathryn Wemple nee Katheryn French was give
2 CONC n by Donna McClelland, Elburna McClelland and Vickie Johnson in the Mc
2 CONC Clelland home Friday evening, September 22.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Making the evening a gala event were Dilys Doyle, Patty Mulroney, Sher
2 CONC ri Johnson, Nancy Amesbury, Janet Beard, Karyn Alway, Anna Winchell, H
2 CONC enriette Hardy, Caroley Powell, Eaelene and Karen Johnson, Sandra Hans
2 CONC en, Dianna Chappuis, Janet Naye, Helen and Nancy McClelland, Lucille F
2 CONC rench, Gay Wemple, Ester McClelland, Sheila Creyer, Lynn Wilton, Ann
2 CONC a Rae Arjo, Norma Cordoba, Barbara Ott, Inesse, Ethel and Harriet Marr
2 CONC , Donna Nicholas, and Joyce Sutherlin.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Games were played during the evening were won by Helen McClelland, Kar
2 CONC en Johnson and the honoree.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Refreshments topped of the evening.
0 @I158@ INDI
1 NAME Keith Jay /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 04 APR 1962
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F41@
1 FAMS @F305@
1 NOTE Keith is a cattle rancher. For a few years he sold automobiles in Susa
2 CONC nville, CA. DRW/SLD
0 @I159@ INDI
1 NAME Kristine Ellen /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 01 DEC 1964
2 PLAC Susanville, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 26 OCT 1976
2 PLAC Reno, NV
1 FAMC @F41@
1 NOTE Kristine died from a brain tumor. DRW  Rest in peace, sweet Niece.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from the Susanville LASSEN ADVOCATE, Friday, 29 October 1976
2 CONC , page 7c4:
2 CONT 
2 CONT KRISTINE ELLEN WEMPLE
2 CONT 
2 CONT Grave side services for Kristine Ellen Wemple, 11, who died in a Ren
2 CONC o hospital on Tuesday, will be held in the Milford Cemetery today at 1
2 CONC 1 a.m. under the direction of the Lucero-Carlson Colonial Mortuary.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The deceased was born in Susanville on December 1, 1964, and is survi
2 CONC ved by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Wemple, and two brothers, Kei
2 CONC th and Kyle all of Milford, her grandmother, Lucille French, Litchfiel
2 CONC d, grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Don Wemple, and great-grandparents, Mr
2 CONC . and Mrs. Claude Wemple, all of Milford.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The family requests that memorial donations be made to St. Jude's Res
2 CONC earch Foundation for Children, Memphis, Tennessee, the Shriner Crippl
2 CONC e Children's Hospital, San Francisco, or the Lassen County 4-H Youth C
2 CONC ouncil.
0 @I160@ INDI
1 NAME Kyle Theodore /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 01 JUN 1967
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F41@
1 FAMS @F306@
1 FAMS @F307@
1 NOTE From the LASSEN COUNTY TIMES, December 1, 1987
2 CONT 
2 CONT MILFORD COWBOY PICKED AS ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
2 CONT 
2 CONT by Curt Asher, City Editor
2 CONT 
2 CONT Rank broncs are nothing new to Kyle Wemple.  He grew up on a cattle r
2 CONC anch and he's been a rodeo hand for as long as he can remember.
2 CONT 
2 CONT But the rank broncs he faced this year were something a little specia
2 CONC l; they were the toughest in the nation.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Kyle Wemple turned pro this past year and not, at 20, the Milford cow
2 CONC boy is professional rodeo's top rookie saddle bronc rider and will b
2 CONC e competing in the National Finals in Las Vegas, Nevada this week.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association's Rookie of the Year, Wempl
2 CONC e said he isn't particularly concerned about competing in the finals a
2 CONC nd riding against some of the world's best cowboys.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 'It'll be the same guys I've been competing against all year long,' h
2 CONC e said.  'I think I'm probably the youngest one in the bronc riding i
2 CONC n the finals.'
2 CONT 
2 CONT Wemple, a Lassen High graduate, competed in the National High Schoo
2 CONC l Rodeo finals in his senior year.  Riding for the Lassen College rode
2 CONC o team, he went to the national collegiate rodeo finals twice and in 1
2 CONC 986 was second in the nation at the college finals in Bozeman, Montana
2 CONC .
2 CONT 
2 CONT Wemple started his rodeo career competing in area junior rodeos, a
2 CONC s a roper as well as a rider of rough stock.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 'I pretty much been doing it (rodeoing) all my life, he said.  'Ridi
2 CONC ng broncs was something that I always really liked.  It came pretty na
2 CONC tural for me.'
2 CONT 
2 CONT Wemple, who claims that growing up on a ranch helped his career, trai
2 CONC ns when he can on a neighbor's broncs with his father riding the pick-
2 CONC up horse.  He said the training helped him a lot.
2 CONT 
2 CONT That training, combined with his natural ability and the experience h
2 CONC e's received from regular competition, has made him the leading rooki
2 CONC e money winner in saddle bronc riding.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Wemple won $29,185 this year, putting him at 13th in the world standi
2 CONC ngs in saddle bronc competition, said spokesman for the PRCA in Colora
2 CONC do Springs, Colorado.  The 1987 rodeo season ended November 1.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The fifteen top money winners in each event qualify for the nationa
2 CONC l finals which run December 4-12.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The national finals is by far the richest rodeo, offering over $2 mil
2 CONC lion in total prize money.  This year's leading saddle bronc rider i
2 CONC s Clint Johnson of Spearfish, S.D.
0 @I161@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas Pierce /McClelland/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 08 NOV 1940
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMS @F42@
1 NOTE Thomas is a cattle rancher and lives winters in Payne Creek and summer
2 CONC s in Eagle Lake, CA. SLD/DRW
0 @I162@ INDI
1 NAME Janice Marie /McClelland/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 SEP 1962
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 07 MAY 1980
2 PLAC Standish, Lassen County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford Cemetery, Milford, CA
1 FAMC @F42@
1 NOTE Died in a farm tractor accident.  It turned over on her and pinned he
2 CONC r under it in an irrigation cannel causing her to drown. DRW  Rest i
2 CONC n peace, sweet Neice.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from the Susanville LASSEN ADVOCATE, Friday, 9 May 1980, pag
2 CONC e 1c1-2:
2 CONT 
2 CONT JANICE McCLELLAND KILLED IN ACCIDENT
2 CONT 
2 CONT Janice McClelland, a 17-year-old Lassen High School Senior, was kille
2 CONC d Wednesday evening when a tractor she was driving fell into an irriga
2 CONC tion ditch on a Standish ranch, pinning her under water.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The accident occurred at about 7 p.m., according to the Lassen Count
2 CONC y Coroner's Office. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses sa
2 CONC id the tractor rolled over into the water when the ground near the ban
2 CONC k collapsed. Bystanders were reportedly unable to push the machine of
2 CONC f the girl.
2 CONT 
2 CONT McClelland was active in 4-H projects and was a member of the Future F
2 CONC armers of America at the Lassen High School. She was also a member o
2 CONC f the Honey Lake Valley Riders group and served last year as queen o
2 CONC f the Lassen County Junior Rodeo. She was a lifelong resident of Stand
2 CONC ish.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She is survived by her parents, Tom and Donna McClelland and two siste
2 CONC rs, all of Standish and grandparents,  also of the area.
0 @I163@ INDI
1 NAME Rebecca Susan /McClelland/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 MAR 1965
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F42@
1 FAMS @F308@
1 FAMS @F309@
0 @I164@ INDI
1 NAME Burna Gay /McClelland/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 FEB 1968
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F42@
1 FAMS @F310@
1 FAMS @F311@
0 @I165@ INDI
1 NAME Janelle Ruth /Butner/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 JAN 1953
2 PLAC Susanville, CA
1 FAMS @F43@
0 @I166@ INDI
1 NAME Randall Robert /Azevedo/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 JUL 1951
2 PLAC San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA
1 FAMS @F44@
0 @I167@ INDI
1 NAME Kimber Rae /Azevedo/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 AUG 1975
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F44@
0 @I168@ INDI
1 NAME Kelley Kristine /Azevedo/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 07 FEB 1977
2 PLAC St. Mary's Hospital, Reno, Washoe County, NV
1 FAMC @F44@
1 FAMS @F458@
0 @I169@ INDI
1 NAME Robert Randall /Azevedo/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 APR 1980
2 PLAC St. Mary's Hospital, Reno, Washoe County, NV
1 FAMC @F44@
0 @I170@ INDI
1 NAME Dena Ellen /Devlyne/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 09 AUG 1960
2 PLAC Susanville, CA
1 FAMS @F45@
0 @I171@ INDI
1 NAME Matthew John /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 MAR 1990
2 PLAC Souix Fall, SD
1 FAMC @F45@
0 @I172@ INDI
1 NAME Callie E. /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 MAY 1998
2 PLAC Red Bluff, Tehama Couny, CA
1 FAMC @F45@
0 @I173@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas Thumb /Harris/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 08 JUN 1849
2 PLAC Missouri
2 SOUR 1910 Elko County Census, per e-mail from Megan Harris to David Wemple dated 11/24/2002.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 JUL 1922
2 PLAC Elko, NV
1 BURI
2 PLAC Elko, NV
1 FAMS @F46@
1 NOTE Tom killed a man named Winters over a dice game in the Milford Hotel i
2 CONC n 1874. A few days later, during a court hearing in Janesville he esca
2 CONC ped by horseback and fled to Nevada. After spending a few hours wit
2 CONC h a sheepherder in Nevada, Tom pressed on and eventually arrived and s
2 CONC ettled near Pike's Peak in Bolder, Colorado. After a short time, he se
2 CONC nt for his bride of only a few months. Tom's wife, Elizabeth or Libb
2 CONC y for short, had no one to take her to Tom, so her brother, John, wh
2 CONC o was only 10* at the time, took her to him by horse and buggy. This t
2 CONC rip was about 900 miles long and it took them several weeks to make th
2 CONC e jaunt. The Harris' oldest child was born in Boulder.
2 CONT 
2 CONT A few years later, Tom and Libby moved onto Fort Collins where their t
2 CONC wo middle children were born. They stayed in Fort Collins until abou
2 CONC t 1881. At this time Tom and Libby were notified that if they returne
2 CONC d home to Honey Lake Valley, Tom would in all probably be exonerated f
2 CONC or the killing of Winters because it could be proven that the Grand Ju
2 CONC ry which Indited him was prejudiced.
2 CONT 
2 CONT While living in Fort Collins, Tom had a armed man come into a bar he o
2 CONC wned. The man pulled a pistol on Tom and it is said that Tom grabbed t
2 CONC he pistol by the barrel, jumped over the bar and disarmed the man with
2 CONC out incident.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Tom and Libby did return to Honey Lake Valley where Tom was exonerate
2 CONC d for the killing of Winters. They moved and settled for a short tim
2 CONC e in Reno, where their youngest child was born. A few years later, the
2 CONC y again moved to Elko, Nevada where Tom first ranched and raised cattl
2 CONC e. Several years later, he bought a hotel and bar in Elko, which he ra
2 CONC n until retirement.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The escape itself is an interesting story. After a day long hearing, T
2 CONC om was placed under arrest and was leaving the courtroom in the compan
2 CONC y of a deputy sheriff named Parks. Joseph C. Wemple got a couple of ne
2 CONC ighbors to feign a fight and during the fracas, Tom ran and jumped o
2 CONC n Joseph's favorite horse, named Bally. Bally was an excellent horse a
2 CONC nd the pursuing officers couldn't keep up with him. Tom simply outra
2 CONC n his pursuers and made a clean escape.
2 CONT 
2 CONT *As hard as it might be to believe that a 10 year old boy would make s
2 CONC uch a long trip with his 17 year old sister, this fact was verified b
2 CONC y two completely different sources. First, the compilers brother, Dona
2 CONC ld, related this. He said that he had heard it from N's family. A fe
2 CONC w years later, Murray Wemple, grandson of John, told the compiler th
2 CONC e same thing. Murray said that his other grandfather, David Raker, ha
2 CONC d told him the story of John taking Libby to Tom in Colorado when he w
2 CONC as only 10. DRW
0 @I174@ INDI
1 NAME Cora Belle /Harris/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 JUN 1876
2 PLAC Boulder, CO
1 DEAT
2 DATE SEP 1953
2 PLAC Boise, ID
1 FAMC @F46@
1 FAMS @F75@
0 @I175@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph Crawford /Harris/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 01 MAY 1878
2 PLAC Fort Collins, CO
1 DEAT
2 DATE 01 MAR 1936
2 PLAC Elko, NV
1 BURI
2 PLAC Masonic Cemetery, Elko, NV
1 FAMC @F46@
1 FAMS @F77@
1 NOTE NORTHEASTERN NEVADA HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY 90-3 sent to the comp
2 CONC iler by Thomas Udell Harris, grandnephew of Joseph C. Harris, on Septe
2 CONC mber 27, 2000. The first half of the quarterly was dedicated to the me
2 CONC mory of Joseph C. Harris:
2 CONT 
2 CONT THE SHERIFF-JOE HARRIS
2 CONT by Carol Hendershot
2 CONT 
2 CONT This court will convene as a Court of Sorrow . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT Thus began the minutes of the Fourth Judicial District Court convene
2 CONC d in Elko, Nevada on March 3, 1936. The Court of Sorrow convened becau
2 CONC se of the untimely death of Joseph Crawford Harris, who had been Sheri
2 CONC ff of Elko County for 26 impressive years. He was 57 years and ten mon
2 CONC ths old at the time of his death.
2 CONT 
2 CONT By order of the Board of County Commissioners, the courthouse and al
2 CONC l county offices closed on March 4 for the funeral. Every business i
2 CONC n Elko closed at least two hours, many the entire day. In an unheard o
2 CONC f move, the post office, a federal agency, locked its doors for two ho
2 CONC urs so employees could attend the funeral.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Hundred of Elko County residents jammed the Masonic Hall for the servi
2 CONC ces. There was not room for everyone who came. Among the out-of-town a
2 CONC rrivals was U.S. District Attorney Edward P. Ted Carville from Reno
2 CONC . Following the services, one of the longest funeral procession ever s
2 CONC een locally accompanied the casket to the cemetery.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Ironically, after a lifetime of law enforcement work in a remote rura
2 CONC l county in a western state where law and order were not always top pr
2 CONC iority, Joe Harris died of uremic poisoning a bout with pneumonia, whi
2 CONC ch he had beaten.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was born at Fort Collins, Colorado on May 1, 1878. His father, To
2 CONC m Thumb Harris, moved his family to  Huntington Valley, south of Elko
2 CONC , to ranch. Joe was two years old. He attended Huntington Valley Schoo
2 CONC l where he, at least once, finished a perfect grade in deportment an
2 CONC d 98 in scholarship. He finished his education in Elko schools.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Once out of school, he went to work for Reinhart Clothing Store. Whe
2 CONC n the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898, he enlisted in Troop M
2 CONC . 2nd U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. There was a gigantic party at H
2 CONC arris Hall and much hoopla at the train station. After a presentatio
2 CONC n of flowers by young ladies, he left for Carson City, Nevada. He wa
2 CONC s billeted at the race track, newly christened Camp Sadler, with othe
2 CONC r Elko County volunteers.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Cavalry regulations excluded men over 5'6 and 165 pounds. Nevada Gove
2 CONC rnor Reinhold Sadler made the final selection. He simply had them al
2 CONC l line up and county in threes and eliminated every third man until h
2 CONC e had the required number. All but one of the Elko county volunteers m
2 CONC ade the roster.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The group elected Harris was acting sergeant. Almost immediately, the
2 CONC y boarded a train for Fort Russell, Wyoming. Colonel Jay L. Torrey me
2 CONC t the train in Cheyenne and escorted the men to the camp three miles f
2 CONC rom town.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Calling themselves Torrey's Terrors and  Torrey's Rough Riders, Tr
2 CONC oop M experienced a continuous run of bad luck. After outfitting, dril
2 CONC ling, and combat training, they discovered the unit was short 100 hors
2 CONC es. Destined for Puerto Rico, the troops, given a choice of immediat
2 CONC e shipment as infantry or wait for the missing mounts, voted to wait f
2 CONC or the horses.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Typical of the military, Troop M shipped by rail, still short of horse
2 CONC s, to Jacksonville, Florida. The train had an accident in St. Louis, M
2 CONC issouri on June 24th. None of the troops was injured, but tow train cr
2 CONC ew members died. Two days later, at Tupelo, Mississippi, their train w
2 CONC as rear-ended by another train, while stopped to take on water. Colone
2 CONC l Torrey and one trooper received injuries.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Finally arriving in Jacksonville, the soldiers went to nearby Camp Cub
2 CONC a Libre. True to most military operations, they waited and waited. Har
2 CONC ris spent much of his free time reading morning and evening newspapers
2 CONC .
2 CONT 
2 CONT Conditions at the camp, already bad, got even worse. Casualty statisti
2 CONC cs for the short war reveals, between May 1 and September, 1898, 200 m
2 CONC en killed in action, while 2,505 died of various diseases. Typhoid fev
2 CONC er and other illnesses raged through the men of Troop M. Finally, must
2 CONC ered out in October, most of the unit left for home. They had not lef
2 CONC t the United States and never fired a shot at the enemy. Harris brough
2 CONC t his illness and Army tent home with him. The tent is now in the coll
2 CONC ections at the Northeastern Nevada Museum at Elko.
2 CONT 
2 CONT After several months recuperation in the hospital and at home, Harri
2 CONC s took a job with the Southern Pacific Railroad for two months. He the
2 CONC n became a guard at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City. He staye
2 CONC d for three years. There, he met and married Ora Ellen Bright. The cou
2 CONC ple to Elko a short time after their wedding.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In 1907, Elko County Sheriff L.G. Clark appointed Harris as undersheri
2 CONC ff. Two years later, he became steward of Elko County Hospital turnin
2 CONC g it from a disgrace of an institution the county could be proud of.
2 CONC  In 1910, he was elected Elko County Sheriff for the first time.
2 CONT 
2 CONT This was the real beginning of a law enforcement career that encompass
2 CONC ed 16 years of hard and often dangerous work over more that 17,000 squ
2 CONC are miles of territory. Elko County is the fourth largest area in th
2 CONC e nation. It is larger than many states.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He covered his territory any way he could, usually by horseback or bug
2 CONC gy and by train when possible. The county was, and still is, sparsel
2 CONC y populated with many miles between ranches and towns. This made his j
2 CONC ob difficult, especially in bad weather.
2 CONT 
2 CONT A good illustration of his travel difficulties in the mail stage robbe
2 CONC ry in Jarbidge on December 5, 1916. When notified of the crime and mur
2 CONC der of driver Fred M. Searcy, he and the district attorney, Ted Carvil
2 CONC le, said they would come to Jarbidge right away. Right away turned i
2 CONC nto a three-day trip.
2 CONT 
2 CONT They first boarded the eastbound train for Ogden, Utah. Then they chan
2 CONC ged trains to go north to Pocatello, Idaho where they boarded anothe
2 CONC r bound for Twin Falls, Idaho. From there they went to Rogerson, Idah
2 CONC o to catch the mail stage to Jarbidge. The crime occurred in the dea
2 CONC d of winter and that meant foul weather all the way.
2 CONT 
2 CONT There are four unusual aspects of the killing and robbery. It was th
2 CONC e last armed robbery of a horse-drawn stage in the United States. A do
2 CONC g provided some of the evidence. A bloody palm print, found on an enve
2 CONC lope at the crime scene, helped convict the murderer. The same man wh
2 CONC o prosecuted him paroled the killer almost 28 years later.
2 CONT 
2 CONT There is only one open road into Jarbidge in the winter. The stage an
2 CONC d driver, sighted only a few hundred yards from the post office, disap
2 CONC peared into a raging snowstorm. Several hours passed and Postmaster Sc
2 CONC ott Fleming formed a search party. He telephoned Rose Dexter who live
2 CONC d on the outskirts of town and she told him that the stage passed he
2 CONC r house around 6:30 p.m. It was now after nine o'clock.
2 CONT 
2 CONT About eleven p.m., the searchers found the stage a short distance of
2 CONC f the main road. Searcy, shot in the back of his head, was dead. The s
2 CONC hivering horses were tied to willows near a bridge. There were print
2 CONC s in the snow, some made by a large dog.
2 CONT 
2 CONT There weren't many big dogs in town. One of the men followed a large y
2 CONC ellow stray known to hang around a man named Ben Kuhl. Nose to the gro
2 CONC und, the animal led the man to  nearby bridge. The searcher found a bl
2 CONC ack overcoat stuffed between timbers. It was later identified as Kuhl'
2 CONC s. In the same area, searchers found a bag of money and a shirt.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Kuhl stood trial along with an accomplice, Ed Beck. Beck, also known a
2 CONC s Cut-Lip Swede, secured the murder weapon for Kuhl. The bloody pal
2 CONC m print and Kuhl's palm print were flashed, side by side, on a curtai
2 CONC n in the court room. Harris had contacted C.H. Stone, head of the Bake
2 CONC rsfield, California police identification unit, to examine the prints
2 CONC . He brought another expert, O.W. Bottoroff, from Fresno. Both verifie
2 CONC d that the prints were made by the same man. This was the first use o
2 CONC f a palm print, anywhere in the world, to convict a man of murder. Kuh
2 CONC l received a death sentence from the judge.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Beck given a life sentence in a separate trial, served only six year
2 CONC s before parole.
2 CONT 
2 CONT One week before Kuhl's date with death, the Board of Pardons commute
2 CONC d his sentence to life. In 1945, Governor Ted Carville, who had prosec
2 CONC uted him in the first place, signed his parole papers. Kuhl went to Sa
2 CONC n Francisco, where he died of Tuberculosis the following year.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Another well known case involved an unusual rustling scheme of the U
2 CONC C Ranch in northeastern Elko County.   . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Bob White case was another Harris investigation and perhaps, one o
2 CONC f his most mentally painful. He believed the convicted killer was inno
2 CONC cent.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Robert H. White owned and operated a restaurant in Elko, ran a taxi se
2 CONC rvice, and drove the school bus. He often made special trips to delive
2 CONC r sick students to their homes. A huge man, over six-feet tall, he wei
2 CONC ghed 280 pounds. He was genial and well-liked. White was also an activ
2 CONC e part of gambling and bootlegging businesses - that flourished in Elk
2 CONC o in 1928.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In spite of these lucrative pursuits, all was not roses with Bob. Whe
2 CONC n his wife, Kathryne, wanted to take a trip to Ireland, he was short o
2 CONC f funds. One of his closest associates was Louis Lavell, called Loui
2 CONC s the Greek.  A third man, Mike Connis, was in partnership with Whit
2 CONC e and Lavell. The three ran crooked card games at local hotels.
2 CONT 
2 CONT On Sunday, May6, 138 Connis and White knew that Lavell had over a thou
2 CONC sand dollars in cash on him and a cashe of expensive jewels at his hom
2 CONC e. Connis saw Lovell and White getting into White's car about eleven p
2 CONC .m.. It was the last time Louie the Greek was seen alive.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gale and Mr. and Mrs. Opal Richardson left the mov
2 CONC ie theater that night and took a short drive. They saw White sitting i
2 CONC n his car near the Hesson powder house east of town. As they approache
2 CONC d, he sped off.
2 CONT 
2 CONT On Monday, May 7, Kathryne White caught the eastbound train for New Yo
2 CONC rk. She carried a large roll of bills ad a passport for Ireland.
2 CONT 
2 CONT At 8 p.m. that same day, unable to locate Lavelle, Connis contacted Sh
2 CONC eriff Harris who started a search. They eventually went to the Ryan pl
2 CONC ace near Secret Pass which White had leased. Mysteriously, the cabin h
2 CONC ad burned to the ground the night before leaving smoldering ruins, a f
2 CONC ew pieces of metal harness buckles, an iron bedstead and five empty, c
2 CONC harred gasoline cans.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following afternoon, Emerson Elliott and two friends were east o
2 CONC f Elko hunting rabbits. Near the powder house, they discovered a gra
2 CONC y hat and a small pool of dried blood. Nearby was  a larger of blood
2 CONC . When they returned to town, the ELKO INDEPENDENT was on the newsstan
2 CONC ds with the story of Lavell's disappearance. Elliott immediately tol
2 CONC d Harris of his discovery. The hat belonged to Lavell.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Harris went back to the Ryan cabin early Wednesday and dug through th
2 CONC e charred debris. He found a belt buckle bearing the name Louis alon
2 CONC g with partially burned platinum dental plates and several bones.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Returning to Elko, Harris saw White nervously filling his car's gas ta
2 CONC nk at a service station. Harris picked up a warrant at the District At
2 CONC torney's office and went to the gas station, only to find White gone
2 CONC . He eluded search parties in Elko. Joe issued a nationwide bulletin f
2 CONC or his arrest.
2 CONT 
2 CONT White was captured a week later, hiding out in a bunkhouse 25 miles so
2 CONC uth of Chicago. His wife had been arrested a few hours earlier in Ne
2 CONC w York City, and police located him from an address on a telegram sh
2 CONC e sent to him. Sheriff and Mrs. Harris traveled to Chicago too bring W
2 CONC hite back to Elko.
2 CONT 
2 CONT A large, unruly crowd gathered to see White taken from the train to th
2 CONC e courthouse. A drunken member of the crowd yelled, There goes the bl
2 CONC oody murderer now! Someone kicked him in the seat of his pants and h
2 CONC e retaliated. General fighting broke out, resulting in the arrest of t
2 CONC hree men. Harris, aware of the crowd's mood, approached the courthous
2 CONC e steps with White.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Veteran newsman, Chris Sheerin said, The train stopped and the Sherif
2 CONC f came out with White. We decided to use a flash on our camera so we'
2 CONC d be sure to get a good picture of them, but we hadn't cleared this wi
2 CONC th the Sheriff, which we should have done.
2 CONT 
2 CONT As White and the lawman started into the courthouse, people shouted an
2 CONC d brawlers were subdued by deputies and local police. Suddenly, the ca
2 CONC mera flash went off. White ducked and Harris went for his gun.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The picture was a fiasco, Sheerin says. It was a mess all the way a
2 CONC round. We never got a picture and Joe Harris was disturbed. However, t
2 CONC he editor of the ELKO INDEPENDENT did a whole column about the photogr
2 CONC apher from the ELKO DAILY FREE PRESS taking a picture that didn't tur
2 CONC n out.
2 CONT 
2 CONT White was sentenced to die in the gas chamber in Carson City. He becam
2 CONC e the second man in the United States executed in this manner. Nevada
2 CONC , in 1921, was the first state to use lethal gas as capital punishment
2 CONC .
2 CONT 
2 CONT Ruthe Gallagher of Elko, Harris' niece recalled, My Uncle Joe was s
2 CONC o distressed over this execution. He always felt that Bob White woul
2 CONC d have told him some things when they were talking the night before th
2 CONC e execution. But then the warden came in and he wouldn't talk any more
2 CONC .
2 CONT 
2 CONT On June 2, 1930 White was calm and offered no resistance when strappe
2 CONC d into the chair. Warden M.R. Penrose asked if he had any last minut
2 CONC e requests. Bob smiled, then said, Yes, would you please bring me a g
2 CONC as mask?
2 CONT 
2 CONT His body, claimed by friends, was taken from the prison. Some time lat
2 CONC er, an article in a national magazine reported that Bob had been resto
2 CONC red to life and was seen in Alaska. Before Kathryne died in January, 1
2 CONC 934, she had insisted she knew nothing of any plans her husband made a
2 CONC bout Lavell. She also said she had his body cremated in San Francisco
2 CONC , thereby ending the resurrection stories.
2 CONT 
2 CONT All the sheriff's cases were not this spectacular, but they were certa
2 CONC inly interesting.
2 CONT 
2 CONT One February, he searched for Alta Peters. She stripped of her clothes
2 CONC , crawled out a basement window at the hospital and went for a walk. H
2 CONC e and forty searchers found her three miles east of town at the Gree
2 CONC n Ranch. She asked Harris if he had an overcoat. She borrowed it and a
2 CONC sked him to take her to jail. She didn't want to go back to the hospit
2 CONC al because they were trying to kill her.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Another time, Harris went to South Fork to recover some cattle. In th
2 CONC e caller's words, the cows were attached. He took his son, Jesse, wi
2 CONC th him. The cattle got away and they had to hunt them on foot.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jesse later reported that they walked 20 miles in the dark, stumblin
2 CONC g into ditches, badger holes and willows. He said the Sheriff's usua
2 CONC l jovial disposition underwent a distinct change in the process
2 CONC .  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT In 1917, Harris went to Shafter to investigate a runaway train report
2 CONC . An inebriated railroad employee, J. Wells Brown, decided to go fo
2 CONC r a train ride. He practiced backing and going forward until he derail
2 CONC ed a passenger coach. he panicked, opened the throttle, and leaped of
2 CONC f the engine. It jumped the track and plowed through 400 yards of sage
2 CONC brush before finally stopping.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Brown, unarmed when Harris approached him, submitted to arrest. His wi
2 CONC fe, though, had an automatic weapon concealed in her bosom. She gav
2 CONC e the gun to Joe and he asked her to leave the room where he and deput
2 CONC y were questioning her husband. She left and returned almost immediate
2 CONC ly with a loaded, cocked rifle. She herded the two lawmen into an adjo
2 CONC ining room. She pointed the rifle at Joe and pulled the trigger. Fortu
2 CONC nately, she had forgotten to press the ejector in and the gun didn't f
2 CONC ire.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The two lawmen struggled with her and she fought like a wildcat, kicki
2 CONC ng and screaming. She then attacked Harris with a pair of scissors. Di
2 CONC sarmed a third time, she and her errant husband finally were hauled of
2 CONC f to jail.  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT On August 15, 1933 Harris and a deputy drove to the UC Ranch. They wer
2 CONC e looking for Steven Smith, a fugitive named on a warrant from Califor
2 CONC nia. They contacted the ranch foreman, Archie Bowman, and the three we
2 CONC nt to a field where the suspect was running a mowing machine. They app
2 CONC roached him and talked about the warrant. Smith said he would tie th
2 CONC e horses and come along peacefully. He tied his team to a fence at th
2 CONC e edge of the field, suddenly whirled around and began shooting.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Harris, hit in the neck, ended up in a ditch after dropping his gun. S
2 CONC mith took a ranch hand hostage and stole a car for his getaway. He wa
2 CONC s apprehended about four days later and returned to California.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The day after the encounter, (John) Oldham (of Elko), noticed Joe limp
2 CONC ing and commented, Mr. Harris, I heard you fell in a ditch.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The lawman growled, Fell in a ditch? Like hell! I jumped in. I'd rath
2 CONC er be a live coward than a dead hero.  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT Harris turned down an offer of the warden's job at the State Prison i
2 CONC n Carson City in 1923. IN 1935, Reno officials asked him to be Chief o
2 CONC f Police. At the time, Reno was a wide open western town and city fath
2 CONC ers wanted a strong, proven lawman to clean it up. Harris refused th
2 CONC e job. He wanted to stay in Elko County where he knew everyone by firs
2 CONC t name.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He never wore a uniform. According to Chris Sheerin, he usually wor
2 CONC e a big hat and western garb - light tan shirt and pants. (Sheerin sai
2 CONC d,) He was a personable and fine looking man. He looked like a sherif
2 CONC f.  . . . 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Truly, the Court convened as Court of Sorrow in 1936. The sentence o
2 CONC f the court was that The Sheriff will still be remembered with affect
2 CONC ion and respect more than fifty years from now.  He is remembered, af
2 CONC fectionally and with respect, 56 years later.
0 @I176@ INDI
1 NAME Jessie Mae /Harris/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 DEC 1879
2 PLAC Fort Collins, CO
1 DEAT
2 DATE 08 APR 1962
2 PLAC Elko, NV
1 FAMC @F46@
0 @I177@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas Reay /Harris/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 MAR 1882
2 PLAC Reno, NV
1 DEAT
2 DATE 04 OCT 1936
2 PLAC Idaho Falls, ID
1 BURI
2 PLAC American Legion Cemetery, Idaho Falls, ID
1 FAMC @F46@
1 FAMS @F78@
0 @I178@ INDI
1 NAME Abigail Ellen /Winslow/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 FEB 1866
2 PLAC VT
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 FEB 1933
2 PLAC Susanville, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Janesville Cemetery, Janesville, CA
1 FAMS @F47@
0 @I179@ INDI
1 NAME Ina J. /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 NOV 1883
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 07 FEB 1964
1 FAMC @F47@
1 FAMS @F79@
0 @I180@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph Edmund /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 AUG 1886
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 FEB 1946
2 PLAC San Francisco, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Marysville, CA
1 FAMC @F47@
1 FAMS @F80@
1 NOTE He worked as a city policeman in Marysville, CA and, according to hi
2 CONC s son, Murray Wemple, the day of his funeral all the town's stores an
2 CONC d shops closed from 1-3 o'clock in honor of him. Also, the town's fir
2 CONC e siren sounded every fifteen minutes for a solid minute during this s
2 CONC ame period. DRW
0 @I181@ INDI
1 NAME Laurence Allen /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 MAY 1887
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 NOV 1966
2 PLAC Susanville, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Janesville, CA
1 FAMC @F47@
1 FAMS @F81@
1 NOTE The following biographical sketch about Laurence was sent to the compi
2 CONC ler by Susan Decious on November 25, 1998. This sketch was written whe
2 CONC n Laurence was 27 years old:
2 CONT 
2 CONT HISTORY OF MENDOCINO AND LAKE COUNTIES by Aurelius O. Carpenter and Pe
2 CONC rcy H. Millberry, 1914:
2 CONT 
2 CONT LAURENCE A. WEMPLE - Among the prominent hustling young business men i
2 CONC n Laytonville is Laurence A. Wemple, postmaster at Laytonville, who i
2 CONC s also engaged in the blacksmithing, carriage-making and automobile re
2 CONC pairing business under the firm name of Downing & Wemple, and in als
2 CONC o the manager of the Willits Telephone and Telegraph Company. He was b
2 CONC orn at Milford, Lassen county, California, May 21, 1888, the grandso
2 CONC n of Joseph Wemple, who came from Michigan across the plains with ox t
2 CONC eams to California in 1860, locating in Lassen county. There he improv
2 CONC ed a farm at Milford, on which he still resides. One of his sons, Joh
2 CONC n B., was born at Milford, where he in turn became a farmer and marrie
2 CONC d Abbie E. Winslow, who came from Vermont to California. They now resi
2 CONC de at their ranch at Standish, Lassen county.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Of their family of six children, Laurence A. is the third oldest, an
2 CONC d his boyhood was spent on the farm at Milford. There he received hi
2 CONC s education in the public schools, after which he attended the Santa R
2 CONC osa Business College, graduating in 1908 with a standing of ninety-eig
2 CONC ht and five-eights per cent. The same year his father had brought catt
2 CONC le and horses from the home ranch to Santa Rosa for sale, but the sal
2 CONC e was so slow that he and his son brought them to Long Valley, where t
2 CONC he latter looked after them until they were disposed of.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Laurence A. Wemple then started to learn the blacksmith trade with J.R
2 CONC . Downing, continuing for three years; meantime, April 1, 1911, he wa
2 CONC s appointed postmaster at Laytonville and has since held the position
2 CONC . After being appointed postmaster, he quit blacksmithing for the tim
2 CONC e being, but September, 1914, he formed a partnership with his forme
2 CONC r employer, and as Downing and Wemple they are engaged in the genera
2 CONC l blacksmith business, including carriage making, as well as automobil
2 CONC e repairing. As manager of the Willits Telephone and Telegraph Company
2 CONC , Mr. Wemple has charge of all the lines of the company from Laytonvil
2 CONC le as a center, the three lines running to Willits, Westport, and Cove
2 CONC lo.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mr. Wemple was married in Ukiah, being united with Miss Alma N. Clifto
2 CONC n, a native daughter of Mendocino county, born in Covelo, who ably ass
2 CONC ists him in the post office. They have one child, Clifton L. Fraternal
2 CONC ly Mr. Wemple is an active member of Cahto Lodge No. 206. I.O.O.F., i
2 CONC n which he is the present vice grand.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Note from the compiler:
2 CONT 
2 CONT A few years after this above article was written, Laurence returned t
2 CONC o Honey Lake Valley and set up a blacksmith shop in Standish and helpe
2 CONC d his father on his farm, which was within five miles of Standish. Eve
2 CONC ntually, he closed the blacksmith shop and in addition to farming, h
2 CONC e went to work for the Lassen County Road Department, where he worke
2 CONC d for the next 30 years or so, until he retired. Laurence and Alma wer
2 CONC e close friends to the compiler's parents and they socialized for man
2 CONC y years, including having Thanksgivings together.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Alma called the compiler's parents one evening and asked them to com
2 CONC e over because Laurence was very sick and she felt that he was dying a
2 CONC nd wanted them with her. As Claude was helping Laurence out to the ca
2 CONC r in which he was driven to the hospital, Laurence took one last loo
2 CONC k around the room he was in, which was their kitchen, as if he knew h
2 CONC e would never see it again.  DRW
0 @I182@ INDI
1 NAME Gladys /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 NOV 1892
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 DEC 1964
2 PLAC Susanville, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Janesville, CA
1 FAMC @F47@
1 FAMS @F82@
0 @I183@ INDI
1 NAME Earl Raymond /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 MAY 1894
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 FEB 1954
2 PLAC Santa Rosa, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Santa Rosa, CA
1 FAMC @F47@
1 FAMS @F83@
1 FAMS @F84@
0 @I184@ INDI
1 NAME Myrtle Mildred /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 MAY 1899
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 09 DEC 1976
2 PLAC Yuba County, CA
1 FAMC @F47@
1 FAMS @F85@
0 @I185@ INDI
1 NAME Martha Pearl /Bronson/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 APR 1874
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 MAY 1968
2 PLAC Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 FAMS @F48@
1 NOTE Obituary from THE LASSEN ADVOCATE, May 22, 1968:
2 CONT 
2 CONT SERVICES HELD FOR PEARL M. WEMPLE 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Funeral services for Mrs. Pearl M. Wemple, 94, who died in the Sutte
2 CONC r General Hospital in Sacramento on Thursday of last week were held a
2 CONC t the United Methodist Church on Monday afternoon at two o'clock wit
2 CONC h (the) Reverand Stanley Read officiating. Interment was in the Milfor
2 CONC d Cemetery. The organist for the services was Mrs. Alfreda Cunningham
2 CONC . Pall bearers were Marlyn (sic) Mulroney, Don Wemple, Glenn Wemple, F
2 CONC red Bangham, John Theodore, and Don Conrad. The deceased was born in M
2 CONC ilford on April 19, 1874, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hose (sic) A. B
2 CONC ronson, Lassen County pioneers. She was married on August 14, 1892, t
2 CONC o N.V. Wemple, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Crawford Wemple, also pionee
2 CONC rs of Lassen County. Her husband, who died in 1942, served as Lassen C
2 CONC ounty assessor, justice of peace, and two terms as state assemblyman
2 CONC . To the couple were born seven children, Orville E., Guy B., Fred, Ly
2 CONC le E., Maude, Percy N. and Bernice, three of whom survive. They are Be
2 CONC rnice Ohnimus, Sacramento, Guy Wemple, Fallon, and Lyle E. Wemple, Sus
2 CONC anville. Also surviving are a brother, Benton Sifford, Oakland, an
2 CONC d a sister, Mrs. Grace Raker, Chico, six grandchildren, 18 great-grand
2 CONC children and two great-great-grandchildren. Two of the grandchildren
2 CONC , Mrs. Naomi Netzorg of Charlotte, N.C. and Mrs. Nadene Kayser of Alam
2 CONC eda are identical twins whom Pearl Wemple raised from infancy. Other g
2 CONC randchildren are Mrs. Gunth (sic) Cersola (sic) of Wadsworth, Nevada
2 CONC , Mrs. Phyllis Metz, Susanville, Dr. Dana Wemple, Burlingame and Fran
2 CONC k Wemple, Red Bluff.
0 @I186@ INDI
1 NAME Orville Earl /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 SEP 1893
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 04 NOV 1940
2 PLAC Fallon, Churchill County, NV
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford Cemetery, Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F48@
1 FAMS @F86@
1 FAMS @F87@
1 NOTE From the LASSEN ADVOCATE, 5 November 1940:
2 CONT 
2 CONT ORVILLE E. WEMPLE DIES OF INJURIES
2 CONT BRIDE BADLY HURT
2 CONT CAR DRIVEN BY MRS. WEMPLE ON HONEYMOON HITS STALLED TRUCK
2 CONT 
2 CONT Susanville was shocked early this morning with the news of the tragi
2 CONC c death of Orville E. Wemple, 47, state sales tax collector here, an
2 CONC d the very serious injury of his bride of two days, the former Miss Ma
2 CONC ry Vail Cook of Alturas; when the car she was driving, sideswiped a st
2 CONC alled truck, 12 miles south of Fallon, Nevada, last night.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Wemple was killed instantly, according to United Press dispatches to t
2 CONC he Advocate, while Mrs. Wemple suffered a broken leg, serious body cut
2 CONC s and bruises and possible internal injuries.  She was moved to the Ha
2 CONC ndley Hospital in Fernley, Nevada, where late this afternoon it was le
2 CONC arned her condition was grave.
2 CONT 
2 CONT MARRIED LAST SUNDAY NIGHT
2 CONT 
2 CONT According to the message to the Advocate Wemple and his bride were mar
2 CONC ried in Reno Sunday evening at 9 o'clock, leaving later for Fallon t
2 CONC o visit Guy Wemple, brother of the deceased.
2 CONT 
2 CONT It was learned after a pleasant visit in Fallon they left for a honeym
2 CONC oon trip which was to have taken them to Boulder Dam and on to Arizona
2 CONC .
2 CONT 
2 CONT TRUCK MAN SENSED ACCIDENT
2 CONT 
2 CONT It was while bound south that the car driven by Mrs. Wemple encountere
2 CONC d a truck, which had pulled to the side of the highway, where the driv
2 CONC er and assistant were changing tires.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Lights were burning on the truck, and the press dispatch states that t
2 CONC he driver of the truck frantically waved a flashlight to attract atten
2 CONC tion.
2 CONT 
2 CONT AUTOMOBILE IS DEMOLISHED
2 CONT 
2 CONT As Mrs. Wemple came within range of the truck she is reported to hav
2 CONC e swerved her car, but too late.  Her automobile was completely demoli
2 CONC shed.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Whether or not Wemple was thrown from the car was not indicated, but i
2 CONC t was learned that his death was instantaneous.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The body of the respected Susanville resident and Lassen County native
2 CONC , was being moved to this city for funeral services which will be cond
2 CONC ucted under the auspices of the Susanville Lodge of Elks Thursday afte
2 CONC rnoon from the Methodist church.  Interment will be made in the famil
2 CONC y plot in Milford cemetery with C.W. Morrill in charge of the arrangem
2 CONC ents.
2 CONT 
2 CONT BORN IN MILFORD, EDUCATED HERE
2 CONT 
2 CONT The deceased was born in Milford, this county, September 28, 1893, an
2 CONC d attended the elementary schools there, later attending Lassen high s
2 CONC chool where he was prominent and active in all student body affairs.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Following his schooling he went to San Francisco to round out his busi
2 CONC ness education, obtaining employment there.  Later he migrated to Reno
2 CONC , Nevada to enter the employ of his cousin, Paul T. Wemple, who conduc
2 CONC ted a haberdashery in the Nevada metropolis.  When Paul Wemple establi
2 CONC shed a a store in Susanville, the deceased returned to this center an
2 CONC d became identified with him in its management.
2 CONT 
2 CONT When the state legislature directed the levying of sales tax to equali
2 CONC ze the burden of state expenditures, creating a Sales Tax Division o
2 CONC f the State Board of Equalization, Orville was given the appointment o
2 CONC f auditor and collector for the organization in Lassen county area
2 CONC , a position he held with credit to the time of his tragic and untimel
2 CONC y death.
2 CONT 
2 CONT LEAVES MANY PROMINENT KIN
2 CONT 
2 CONT The deceased, who had scores of friends and great influence in this lo
2 CONC cality, is survived by his shocked parents, Justice and Mrs. N.V. Wemp
2 CONC le, very esteemed and widely known residents of Susanville, three brot
2 CONC hers - Guy Wemple of Fallon, Nevada, Fred Wemple of Wendel and Lyle We
2 CONC mple, young business man of Susanville and one sister, Miss Burnice We
2 CONC mple of Sacramento.
2 CONT 
2 CONT There are also surviving, four nieces - Gynith Wemple of Fallon, Naom
2 CONC i and Nadene of Susanville, Phyllis Wemple of Wendel, two nephews - Fr
2 CONC ank Wemple of Wendel and Dana Wemple of Susanville; Frank O. Wemple, L
2 CONC assen County Assessor, an uncle of, and William Benson (sic) of Reno a
2 CONC nd Benton A. Sifford of Oakland, also surviving uncles.  There are als
2 CONC o four surviving aunts - Mrs. Libby Harris of Elko, Nev., Mrs. Zebno
2 CONC r Johnson of Wendel; Mrs. Drew Raker of Chico and Mrs. Lottie Byer o
2 CONC f Fallon.  There are also surviving 32 cousins.
2 CONT 
2 CONT From the LASSEN ADVOCATE, 8 November 1940:
2 CONT 
2 CONT O. WEMPLE TO REWARD
2 CONT 
2 CONT One of the largest and most solemn funerals in the history of Susanvil
2 CONC le Orville E. Wemple, son of Justice and Mrs. N.V. Wemple, esteemed pi
2 CONC oneer residents of Lassen County, was placed to rest in the family plo
2 CONC t beside two other children of the Wemples, in Milford cemetery, Thurs
2 CONC day afternoon following services at the Methodist church in this city.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The rites were largely attended by friends of the family and the decea
2 CONC sed from all sections of Northern California and the Sacramento Valle
2 CONC y where he was widely known and respected.  The untimely and tragic de
2 CONC ath of the deceased was in an automobile accident near Fallon, Nevada
2 CONC , last Monday evening shocked  friends and business acquaintances alik
2 CONC e.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The services were most impressive, being under the direction of the of
2 CONC ficers of Susanville lodge of Elks of which the deceased was an honore
2 CONC d member.  The Elks, headed by Exalted Ruler A.G. Breitweiser were ass
2 CONC isted in the ritual by Rev. E.D. Spaulding, with Mrs. Morrill renderin
2 CONC g sacred music, accompanied by Mrs Ben Cunningham of the console.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Elks and the local post of the American Legion attended the rite
2 CONC s in a body, forming an honorary escort.  The Elks ritual was employe
2 CONC d in the dismissal services at the grave side.  Legionnaires made a pr
2 CONC esentation of Arms while Taps were sounded as all that was mortal of t
2 CONC he young resident went to his final reward.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The pall bearers were all close associates of the deceased, being conn
2 CONC ected with the State Board Equalization with which he had been connect
2 CONC ed as Lassen county sales tax collector, since the organization of th
2 CONC e division.  They were Senator Harold J. Powers, Clarence Shearin, Dew
2 CONC ey Eagan, Clarence E. Lowe, W.A. McIntosh and Peter Donnelly.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The floral offerings were beyond compare and so many that the last res
2 CONC ting place was a great bank of the season's most gorgeous blooms.  Th
2 CONC e C.W. Morrill service had charge of the arrangements.
0 @I187@ INDI
1 NAME Guy Bronson /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 07 OCT 1895
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 09 DEC 1982
2 PLAC Hospital, Reno, Washoe County, NV
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F48@
1 FAMS @F88@
1 FAMS @F89@
1 NOTE Guy resided in Fallon, NV and managed Consolidated Warehouse for man
2 CONC y years. DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT Wedding announcement from the LASSEN ADVOCATE, 24 May 1918:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Well Known Susanville Couple Married. Miss Dorothy Carman and Guy Wem
2 CONC ple, a well known young couple of Susanville were married last Saturda
2 CONC y in Reno at the Baptist Church, the Reverand Brewster Adams officiati
2 CONC ng. The ceremony was performed at noon and several Susanville people w
2 CONC ere among the guests, including Mr. and Mrs. Wes Emerson, Mr. and Mrs
2 CONC . William Long, Miss May McShane and Mr. Arthur Barrett. The bride i
2 CONC s the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Carman of Susanville and is popul
2 CONC ar among the younger set. Young Wemple holds a position in a local ban
2 CONC k and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. N.V. Wemple of Milford. They will mak
2 CONC e their home in Susanville. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from the EAGLE STANDARD, Fallon, NV Sunday 12 December 1982
2 CONC , page 4c2:
2 CONT 
2 CONT GUY B. WEMPLE, 87-years-old, died Wednesday at a Reno hospital. He wa
2 CONC s born October 7, 1895, in Milford, California, and had resided in Chu
2 CONC rchill County for the past 51 years.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was a retired manager for the Consolidated Feed and Lumber Compan
2 CONC y of Fallon and was a member of the Elks Club of Fallon. Mr. Wemple wa
2 CONC s a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served during WW i>
2 CONT 
2 CONT He is survived by his wife, Josephine of Fallon, daughter Gynith Spoo
2 CONC n of Wadsworth, sister Bernice Crutcher of Applegate, California; gran
2 CONC dsons, Mitchell Ceresola of Reno, and Tracy Ceresola of Sparks; grandd
2 CONC aughter Dana Maher of Winnemucca; seven great grandchildren; and numer
2 CONC ous nephews, nieces and cousins.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Visitation is scheduled from 7 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the Austin, Matso
2 CONC n and Smith Funeral Home. A funeral service will be conducted at 10 a.
2 CONC m. Monday at the funeral home with members of the Church of Jesus Chri
2 CONC st of Latter Day Saints officiating. Graveside services will be conduc
2 CONC ted at 2 p.m. Monday at the Milford Cemetery in Milford. Pallbearers w
2 CONC ill be Dana, Don, Glenn, David, Fred and Frank Wemple.
2 CONT 
2 CONT All arrangements are under the direction of the Austin, Matson and Sm
2 CONC ith Funeral Home.
0 @I188@ INDI
1 NAME Fred /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 MAR 1898
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 05 MAY 1956
2 PLAC Janesville, Lassen County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F48@
1 FAMS @F90@
1 FAMS @F91@
1 FAMS @F92@
1 NOTE Murph was first and foremost a cowboy and horseman. His most favorit
2 CONC e thing to do was run wild horses, where several cowboys would run w
2 CONC ild mustangs and capture them in corrals. He ranched and farmed fo
2 CONC r a period and he worked for the county road crew for a short time.  H
2 CONC e resided in Milford, Spoonville and Janesville. At the of his death h
2 CONC e was managing a warehouse for Bronson and Doyle in Litchfield. Bronso
2 CONC n and Doyle's main business was in Susanville. They primarily farm equ
2 CONC ipment dealers, but also dealt in buying and selling grain and sellin
2 CONC g cattle feed. DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from the Susanville LASSEN ADVOCATE, 9 May 1956, page 1c7:
2 CONT 
2 CONT SERVICES ARE HELD HERE YESTERDAY FOR FRED WEMPLE, 58
2 CONT 
2 CONT Fred Wemple, 58, a native of Lassen County, died at his home in Janes
2 CONC ville on Saturday, May 5 at 9:30 p.m. Funeral services were held at th
2 CONC e Susanville Methodist Church yesterday afternoon at two o'clock wit
2 CONC h members of the Susanville Elks Lodge officiating. Glenn Long acted a
2 CONC s exalted ruler. Elk members assisting Long were Frank Corson, Carl Co
2 CONC bel, Murray Doyle, Lester Coffin, Ben Cunningham, Frank Maurina and Iv
2 CONC or Lanigar. Interment was in the family plot in the Milford Cemetery.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mrs. J.C. McQueen sang 'End of a Perfect Day' with Mrs. Alfreda Cunni
2 CONC ngham accompanying at the organ.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The pallbearers were Kenneth Barham, H.T. French, Edmund Dunn, Jack W
2 CONC . Humphrey, Eddie Ferris and Tiffin Cannon.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The deceased was engaged in farming. He was a member of the Susanvill
2 CONC e B.P.O. (Benevolent and Protective Order) of Elks 1487.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Survivors include his wife, Edna M., Janesville; a son Frank N., Re
2 CONC d Bluff; three daughters, Mrs. LeRoy Kayser, Alameda, Mrs. Gordon Netz
2 CONC org, Alma, Michigan, and Mrs. Fred Metz, Susanville; His mother, Mrs
2 CONC . Pearl Wemple, Susanville, two brothers, Lyle E., Susanville, and Gu
2 CONC y B., Fallon, Nevada, and a sister, Mrs. Arthur A. Ohnimus, Sacramento
2 CONC . Also surviving are 11 grandchildren.
0 @I189@ INDI
1 NAME Lyle Elmer /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 04 AUG 1900
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 OCT 1980
2 PLAC Reno, Washoe County, NV
1 BURI
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F48@
1 FAMS @F93@
1 NOTE Dan sold cars for Barron Chevrolet for many years. He was well respect
2 CONC ed by the community. DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from the Susanville LASSEN ADVOCATE, 27 October 1980, page 3c
2 CONC 3:
2 CONT 
2 CONT LYLE E. WEMPLE
2 CONT 
2 CONT Funeral services for Lyle E. Wemple, 80, who died in Reno on Saturday
2 CONC , will be held at the Lucero-Carlson Mortuary on Tuesday at 1 p.m. wit
2 CONC h interment to follow in the Milford Cemetery.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The deceased was born in Milford on August 4, 1900, the son of N.V. a
2 CONC nd Pearl Bronson Wemple and had resided in Lassen County all of his li
2 CONC fe. He was employed as an automobile salesman for Barron Chevrolet fo
2 CONC r 37 years. He was a 54 year member of Susanville Elks Lodge 1487 an
2 CONC d a member of the Lassen County Sheriff's Posse and Lassen Lodge 147
2 CONC , F. & A.M. (Free and Accepted Masons).
2 CONT 
2 CONT Survivors include his wife, Nadene of Susanville, a son, Dana Wemple
2 CONC , Burlingame; a brother, Guy Wemple, Fallon, Nevada; a sister Bernic
2 CONC e Crutcher, Applegate, California, and three grandchildren, Timothy, L
2 CONC ynn and Beth Wemple of Burlingame.
0 @I190@ INDI
1 NAME Maude /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 SEP 1907
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 NOV 1919
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F48@
1 NOTE An obituary from the LASSEN ADVOCATE, dated 5 December 1919:
2 CONT 
2 CONT LOSE LITTLE DAUGHTER
2 CONT 
2 CONT The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. N.V. Wemple of Milford are sympathiz
2 CONC ing with them over the rather sudden and unexpected death of the eldes
2 CONC t daughter, Maud, which occurred last Saturday night.  The little girl
2 CONC , a bright and lovable child, suffered during the influenza epidemic o
2 CONC f last year, and has not been in very good health since that time.  He
2 CONC r death is thought to have been brought about as an after result or co
2 CONC mplications resulting from the influenza.  The funeral took place Mond
2 CONC ay and was largely attended by friends and others who knew and loved t
2 CONC he little girl.
0 @I191@ INDI
1 NAME Percy Nolan /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 03 SEP 1910
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 JAN 1922
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F48@
1 NOTE Article and obituary from the LASSEN ADVOCATE, dated 27 January 1922:
2 CONT 
2 CONT BOY DROWNED AT FRUIT GROWERS' POND
2 CONT 
2 CONT N.V. WEMPLE'S SON SKATES IN OPEN WATER-LOCAL MAN'S HEROIC ACTION FUTI
2 CONC LE
2 CONT 
2 CONT Percy N. Wemple, eleven-year-old son of N.V. was drowned Monday nigh
2 CONC t while skating at the Fruit Growers' pond.
2 CONT 
2 CONT About 8:30 on Monday night while a crowd of about twenty-five peopl
2 CONC e were scattered around the pond he skated into open water. O.O. Winn
2 CONC , without a moment's hesitation, jumped in after him and succeeded i
2 CONC n getting hold of the boy, but had great trouble getting out himself
2 CONC .  F.L. Shanklin, employment agent for the Fruit Growers' Supply Compa
2 CONC ny, who was about 100 feet from the hole saw what had happened and thr
2 CONC ew a wooden spool to Winn.  He then ran for a pike pole, but gave ou
2 CONC t before he could reach the scene of the accident and the pole was tak
2 CONC en to Winn by another skater.  By this time Winn had become so cold an
2 CONC d numb that he had been unable to any longer hold young Wemple and ha
2 CONC d him securely held between his legs.  Shanklin started to work over y
2 CONC oung Wemple, but stated at the coroner's inquest that there was no sig
2 CONC n of life.  Winn was in a very serious condition and both he and the b
2 CONC oy were rushed to the Riverside hospital where the doctors worked ove
2 CONC r young Wemple for an hour, but without success.
2 CONT 
2 CONT There was no water in the boy's lungs and it was the doctor's opinio
2 CONC n that he died from drowning in cold.  The shock of the cold water wa
2 CONC s severe and it is believed he was dead before Winn reached him.  Mr
2 CONC . Winn was in very serious condition for several days at the hospital
2 CONC , but is now on the rapid road to recovery.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Too much cannot be said of the heroism of Winn, who at the risk of hi
2 CONC s life and without a moment's hesitation jumped to the rescue of the d
2 CONC rowning boy.  Winn is the father of three little children.  His wife d
2 CONC ied a year ago.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The funeral of young Wemple took place yesterday from the Methodist C
2 CONC hurch of Susanville, the Rev. Ira E. Price officiating.  The student
2 CONC s of the lower grades of the grammer school turned out en masse.  Mast
2 CONC er Wemple was beloved by all and his loss is keenly felt.  Many were t
2 CONC he people who came in from the surrounding country to pay their last r
2 CONC espects. Interment was in the Milford Cemetery.
0 @I192@ INDI
1 NAME Bernice Marguerite /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 FEB 1913
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 SEP 2007
2 PLAC Apple Gate, CA
1 FAMC @F48@
1 FAMS @F94@
1 FAMS @F95@
0 @I193@ INDI
1 NAME Bessie /Theodore/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 SEP 1881
2 PLAC Susanville, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 07 JAN 1978
2 PLAC Oakland, CA
1 FAMS @F49@
0 @I194@ INDI
1 NAME Paul Theodore /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 MAR 1902
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 DEC 1972
2 PLAC Reno, NV
1 FAMC @F49@
1 FAMS @F96@
1 FAMS @F98@
0 @I195@ INDI
1 NAME Erma /Holland/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 09 JAN 1877
2 PLAC San Francisco, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 MAY 1961
2 PLAC San Francisco, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Grave SO1/2, Lot 101, Section C, Cypress Lawn Cemetery, Colma, CA
1 FAMS @F50@
1 NOTE The following article from the LASSEN ADVOCATE, 21 September 1899 wa
2 CONC s sent to the compiler by Susan L. Decious of Roseville on 29 May 2000
2 CONC :
2 CONT 
2 CONT MARRIED.
2 CONT WEMPLE--LINDSAY.--In San Francisco September, 12th 1899, Orlo E. Wempl
2 CONC e of Milford, and Miss Erma D Lindsay of San Francisco.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The San Francisco Examiner gives the following account of the wedding.
2 CONT 
2 CONT A very pretty wedding took place at noon yesterday at the home of Mr
2 CONC . and Mrs. O. A. Lindsay, the contracting parties being their only dau
2 CONC ghter, Miss Erma D. Lindsay, and Orlo E. Wimple [sic], a cattleman o
2 CONC f Milford, Lassen County. Only the immediate relatives of the young co
2 CONC uple witnessed the ceremony, but at the reception which followed in th
2 CONC e evening their friends were present to offer congratulations.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Miss Clara M. Dobbins of Rio Vista was bridesmaid and the groom was at
2 CONC tended by his brother, Frank O. Wemple.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The bride was attired in rich organdie over silk, with corsage bouque
2 CONC t of orange blossoms, and a spray of the same flowers in her hair. He
2 CONC r bouquet was of bride's roses.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The bridesmaid wore pink organdie over silk and carried pink carnation
2 CONC s.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mr. and Mrs. Wemple leave next week for their home in Milford.
0 @I196@ INDI
1 NAME Elaine /Baker/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 MAR 1923
2 PLAC Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
1 DEAT
1 FAMC @F4364@
1 FAMS @F51@
0 @I197@ INDI
1 NAME James R. /Dougherty/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 JUL 1922
2 PLAC Hubtigton, IN
1 FAMS @F52@
0 @I198@ INDI
1 NAME Burne /Dougherty/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 JAN 1953
2 PLAC Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 AUG 1993
2 PLAC Phoenix, AZ
1 FAMC @F52@
1 FAMS @F427@
0 @I199@ INDI
1 NAME Erin /Dougherty/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 JUL 1959
2 PLAC Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
1 FAMC @F52@
1 FAMS @F428@
1 FAMS @F429@
1 FAMS @F430@
0 @I200@ INDI
1 NAME Juan Jose /Herrera/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1925
1 FAMS @F53@
0 @I201@ INDI
1 NAME Robert /Van Zandt/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1925
1 FAMS @F54@
0 @I202@ INDI
1 NAME Marialuisa Sanabria /Ortega/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 MAY 1940
2 PLAC Chatala, Jalisco, Mexico
1 FAMS @F55@
0 @I203@ INDI
1 NAME Francesca Sanabria /Burroughs/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 AUG 1966
2 PLAC Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
1 FAMC @F55@
0 @I204@ INDI
1 NAME Mollie Edna /Arnold/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 03 JUL 1937
2 PLAC Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
1 FAMS @F56@
0 @I205@ INDI
1 NAME Lisa Catherine /Burroughs/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 04 MAR 1957
2 PLAC Augsburg, Germany
1 FAMC @F56@
1 FAMS @F431@
0 @I206@ INDI
1 NAME Spencer Eric /Burroughs/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 07 DEC 1961
2 PLAC Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
1 FAMC @F56@
1 FAMS @F432@
0 @I207@ INDI
1 NAME Megan Christine /Burroughs/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 05 JUN 1965
2 PLAC Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
1 FAMC @F56@
1 FAMS @F433@
0 @I208@ INDI
1 NAME June Hazel /McClellan/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 JUN 1926
2 PLAC Anniston, Calhoun County, AL
1 DEAT
2 DATE 09 JUL 1997
2 PLAC Lakeport, Lake County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMS @F57@
1 NOTE Obituary from the Lakeport LAKE COUNTY RECORD-BEE, Saturday, 12 July 1
2 CONC 997, page A2c4:
2 CONT 
2 CONT JUNE WEMPLE
2 CONT 
2 CONT June H. Wemple, 71, of Lakeport, died July 9, 1997 at Sutter Lakesid
2 CONC e Hospital.
2 CONT 
2 CONT A native of Anniston, Alabama, she was born June 22, 1926. She was a h
2 CONC omemaker for 45 years, who had lived in Santa Clara and in Lakeport fo
2 CONC r the past eight years. She was a member of St. John's Episcopal Churc
2 CONC h.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Survivors include her husband, Joseph J. Wemple of Lakeport; her son a
2 CONC nd daughter-in-law, Alan and Elaine Wemple of Phoenix, Oregon; her dau
2 CONC ghter and son-in-law, Cristine and Paul Giannetto of San Jose; her gra
2 CONC ndson, John Wemple of Phoenix, Oregon; her sister, Helen Leonard of Lo
2 CONC s Angeles and several nephews.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Memorial services, officiated by Father Harry Allagree, will be 1 p.m
2 CONC . Saturday at St. John's Episcopal Church, 1190 N. Forbes Street, Lake
2 CONC port. Cremation will be preformed by the Lake County Memorial Cremator
2 CONC ium, Lakeport, followed by burial at the Milford Cemetery in Milford
2 CONC , at a later date.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Donations can be sent to the National Kidney Foundation of Northern Ca
2 CONC lifornia, 553 Pilgrim Drive, Suite C, Foster City, California 94404.
0 @I209@ INDI
1 NAME Infant /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 AUG 1954
2 PLAC San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 AUG 1954
2 PLAC San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA
1 FAMC @F57@
0 @I210@ INDI
1 NAME Alan Jay /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 AUG 1955
2 PLAC San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA
1 FAMC @F57@
1 FAMS @F435@
0 @I211@ INDI
1 NAME Cristine Ann /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 JUN 1958
2 PLAC San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA
1 FAMC @F57@
1 FAMS @F436@
0 @I212@ INDI
1 NAME Susan Mozelle McCamish /Reesor/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 07 APR 1929
2 PLAC Lafaette, IN
1 FAMS @F58@
0 @I213@ INDI
1 NAME Carolyn Louise /Brooks/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 MAY 1945
2 PLAC Alturas, Modoc County, CA
1 FAMS @F59@
0 @I214@ INDI
1 NAME Michael Tremain /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 APR 1970
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F59@
0 @I215@ INDI
1 NAME Shawn Irvin /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 NOV 1971
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F59@
1 FAMS @F437@
0 @I216@ INDI
1 NAME Beverly /Speer/
2 GIVN Beverly D.
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 03 JUN 1932
2 PLAC San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
1 FAMS @F60@
0 @I217@ INDI
1 NAME Gregory Speer /Edwards/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 OCT 1956
2 PLAC Oakland, Alameda County, CA
1 FAMC @F60@
0 @I218@ INDI
1 NAME Curtis Jay /Edwards/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 OCT 1957
2 PLAC Oakland, Alameda County, CA
1 FAMC @F60@
1 FAMS @F224@
0 @I219@ INDI
1 NAME William Lowell /Kofford/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 AUG 1939
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 JUL 1973
2 PLAC Yreka, Siskiyou County, CA
1 FAMS @F61@
0 @I220@ INDI
1 NAME Jeffery David /Kofford/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 DEC 1958
2 PLAC Redding, Shasta County, CA
1 FAMC @F61@
1 FAMS @F438@
1 FAMS @F439@
0 @I221@ INDI
1 NAME Kristen Rene' /Kofford/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 03 FEB 1961
2 PLAC Redding, Shasta County, CA
1 FAMC @F61@
1 FAMS @F440@
0 @I222@ INDI
1 NAME Jimmie Ted /Murray/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 JAN 1937
2 PLAC Ada, OK
1 FAMS @F62@
0 @I225@ INDI
1 NAME Kathryn /Hallowell/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 04 MAY 1914
2 PLAC Susanville, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 31 DEC 1999
2 PLAC Milbrae, CA
1 FAMC @F63@
1 FAMS @F228@
0 @I226@ INDI
1 NAME Edward Thomas /McDonald/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 APR 1933
1 FAMC @F97@
1 FAMS @F64@
0 @I227@ INDI
1 NAME Stephen /McDonald/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 01 NOV 1958
2 PLAC Lakeview, Lake County, OR
1 FAMC @F64@
0 @I228@ INDI
1 NAME Jon Rowland /McDonald/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 NOV 1960
2 PLAC Lakeview, Lake County, OR
1 FAMC @F64@
0 @I229@ INDI
1 NAME Robert Taylor /McDonald/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 NOV 1934
2 PLAC Baker City, OR
1 FAMC @F97@
1 FAMS @F65@
0 @I230@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /McDonald/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 AUG 1960
2 PLAC San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
1 FAMC @F65@
1 FAMS @F441@
0 @I231@ INDI
1 NAME Jill Emerson /McDonald/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 APR 1963
2 PLAC Reno, NV
1 FAMC @F65@
1 FAMS @F4478@
0 @I232@ INDI
1 NAME John Graham /Weir/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 OCT 1932
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMS @F66@
0 @I233@ INDI
1 NAME Melissa /Weir/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 03 SEP 1960
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F66@
1 FAMS @F298@
0 @I234@ INDI
1 NAME Jack Graham /Weir/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 DEC 1966
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F66@
0 @I235@ INDI
1 NAME Kenneth Orlo /Fletcher/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 JAN 1938
2 PLAC Lodi, San Jauquin County, CA
1 FAMS @F67@
0 @I236@ INDI
1 NAME Kevin Kenneth /Fletcher/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 MAR 1961
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F67@
1 FAMS @F299@
1 FAMS @F300@
0 @I237@ INDI
1 NAME Heidi Ann /Fletcher/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 APR 1966
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F67@
1 FAMS @F301@
0 @I238@ INDI
1 NAME Brian /Tashiro/
1 SEX M
1 DEAT
1 FAMS @F68@
0 @I239@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas Floyd /Levely/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 03 JUL 1941
2 PLAC Pontiac, MI
1 FAMS @F69@
0 @I240@ INDI
1 NAME Karah Forrest /Levely/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 AUG 1973
2 PLAC Burke, VA
1 FAMC @F69@
1 FAMS @F442@
0 @I241@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas Scott /Levely/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 SEP 1978
1 FAMC @F69@
0 @I242@ INDI
1 NAME Susan /Day/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1945
1 FAMS @F70@
0 @I243@ INDI
1 NAME Linda /Duffy/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1950
1 FAMS @F71@
0 @I244@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Robbins/
2 GIVN Mary L.
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 AUG 1836
2 PLAC New York State
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 OCT 1916
2 PLAC Dansville, MI
1 FAMS @F72@
0 @I245@ INDI
1 NAME Infant /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 01 AUG 1857
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1859
1 FAMC @F72@
0 @I246@ INDI
1 NAME Edgar /Wemple/
2 GIVN Edgar V.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 02 SEP 1861
1 DEAT
2 DATE 07 OCT 1861
1 FAMC @F72@
0 @I247@ INDI
1 NAME George A. /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 FEB 1864
2 PLAC Dansville, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 FEB 1942
2 PLAC Dansville, MI
1 FAMC @F72@
1 FAMS @F99@
1 NOTE The following is from an unpublished manuscript, written by William Ba
2 CONC rent Wemple II,  compiler of the first part if this genealogy from 188
2 CONC 5-1913, sent to the compiler on September 28, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemp
2 CONC le of Bay City, MI.
2 CONT 
2 CONT . . .; is an adopted son and was adopted when one day old; married Lil
2 CONC ly J.Glynn, March 26, 1884; lives in Danville, MI
0 @I248@ INDI
1 NAME Frank /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 07 MAY 1867
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 MAY 1867
2 PLAC Ingham County, MI
1 FAMC @F72@
0 @I249@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph /Wemple/
2 GIVN Joseph C.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 JUN 1875
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 OCT 1879
1 FAMC @F72@
0 @I250@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph /Graves/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1830
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1925
1 FAMS @F73@
0 @I251@ INDI
1 NAME William Ed /Wessels/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1829
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1930
1 FAMS @F74@
0 @I252@ INDI
1 NAME Frank Short /Gedney/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 NOV 1873
2 PLAC Ruby Valley, NV
1 DEAT
2 DATE 09 APR 1954
2 PLAC Elko, NV
1 FAMS @F75@
0 @I253@ INDI
1 NAME Ralph Douglas /Gedney/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1896
2 PLAC Riddle, ID
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1986
1 FAMC @F75@
1 FAMS @F251@
0 @I254@ INDI
1 NAME Ruthe Milicent /Gedney/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 MAY 1897
2 PLAC Elko, NV
1 DEAT
2 DATE 02 AUG 1991
2 PLAC Elko, NV
1 FAMC @F75@
1 FAMS @F252@
0 @I256@ INDI
1 NAME Ora Ellen /Bright/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 OCT 1878
2 PLAC of Carson City, NV
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 SEP 1954
1 FAMS @F76@
1 FAMS @F77@
0 @I257@ INDI
1 NAME Harold Bright Kinkead /Harris/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 NOV 1898
1 DEAT
2 DATE 03 DEC 1960
1 FAMC @F76@
0 @I258@ INDI
1 NAME Jess Crawford /Harris/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 JAN 1903
2 PLAC Elko, NV
1 DEAT
2 DATE 08 MAR 1980
2 PLAC Elko, NV
1 FAMC @F77@
1 FAMS @F253@
1 NOTE NORTHEASTERN NEVADA HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY 92-2 sent to the comp
2 CONC iler by Thomas Udell Harris, first cousin, once removed to Jess Harris
2 CONC , on September 27, 2000:
2 CONT 
2 CONT JESS HARRIS
2 CONT THE FLYING SHERIFF
2 CONT by Carol Hendershot
2 CONT 
2 CONT On January 30, 1903 the ELKO DAILY INDEPENDENT printed a small. prophe
2 CONC tic birth announcement: Joe Harris is the proudest man in town. The c
2 CONC ause of it all is the arrival of a young voter at his house yesterday
2 CONC . May the youngster grow up to be as good a man as his father.  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT This young voter was Jesse Crawford Harris, son of Sheriff and Mrs
2 CONC . Joseph C. Harris, and he did fulfill the wish expressed in his birt
2 CONC h announcement. He grew up to be an aircraft mechanic, a motorcycle po
2 CONC lice officer, a test pilot and, following in his father's footsteps, E
2 CONC lko County Sheriff for more than twenty years. He also became known na
2 CONC tionally as The Flying Sheriff.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jess preferred to spell his name without the final e and called hims
2 CONC elf Joos as a child, a nickname which stayed with him all his life a
2 CONC nd was especially appropriate during his young adult years.
2 CONT 
2 CONT he began an independent lifestyle early. When Jess was six years old
2 CONC , he told his dad he didn't want to go to school because, I don't kno
2 CONC w nuthin'. He wrapped his arms and legs around a piano stool and hel
2 CONC d on. Unable to pry him loose, Sheriff Joe Harris carried him and th
2 CONC e piano stool to Rose Gardene's first grade class.  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT When Jess was 17, he went with his father to meet the first air mail p
2 CONC lane to fly into Elko and that experience fired his lifelong love of a
2 CONC irplanes. He even perfected his signature so the J in Jess looked lik
2 CONC e a propeller. He was offered a job at he airport and for he next seve
2 CONC n years, worked as a mechanic with a group of young people.  . . . 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Pilot William Blanchfield flew into Elko in an open cockpit U.S. Mai
2 CONC l plane and left it with Jess to be serviced. (John) Oldham (of Elko
2 CONC ) borrowed a car and took Blanchfield to the Mayer Hotel to eat, leavi
2 CONC ng Jess to work on the plane. During the meal, they heard a plane buzz
2 CONC ing the hotel. Knowing his was the only plane in Elko at he time, Blan
2 CONC chfield rushed out and saw his plane flying in the direction of the ai
2 CONC rport. Without finishing dinner, they returned to the field in time t
2 CONC o see Jess make a perfect three-point landing. Jess had never been u
2 CONC p in  a plane before but explained to Blanchfield that he wanted him t
2 CONC o know the plane was serviced and ready to go.  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT In 1928, Jess delivered a stolen car to Santa Barbara, California fo
2 CONC r his dad. While there, he met some friends who asked if he was intere
2 CONC sted in a job as a motorcycle cop in Burbank. He was and when he joine
2 CONC d the force he received his brand new uniform. He daughter, Jodi, says
2 CONC , The second day after receiving his new uniform, the cycle slid ou
2 CONC t from under him. When the smoke cleared he had to buy a new uniform a
2 CONC nd wasn't quite as smart as he thought he was. Jess told her he event
2 CONC ually left a little skin on every intersection in the San Fernando Val
2 CONC ley.  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT In 1940, a friend suggested that Jess apply for a job as a pilot wit
2 CONC h Lockheed and he began ferrying planes in August. Jess said, One da
2 CONC y I was ferrying a P-38 to Palmdale (California) when Tony LeVier pull
2 CONC ed in on my wing until our wings overlapped. We were playing a game o
2 CONC f chicken out.  Jess stayed right with him until they began putting d
2 CONC ents in the aluminum and then punched the mike button and asked LeVie
2 CONC r if he thought they'd proved everything they wanted to prove.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jess later checked out as a production test pilot with Lockheed, a jo
2 CONC b he held until June, 1945. He flew everything that Lockheed built. Je
2 CONC ss said, Test flying was interesting. I had my share of engines blowi
2 CONC ng up on takeoff, but never used a chute.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jess met Florence Gorny, a cashier and hostess in a restaurant near Lo
2 CONC ckheed and they were married July 1. 1944. When Lockheed began experim
2 CONC enting with jets soon after their marriage, Jess left the company. H
2 CONC e and Florence moved home to Elko. Their only child, Joellen Carol
2 CONC e (Jodi) was born September 28, 1946.
2 CONT 
2 CONT That same year, Jess ran for sheriff against Charles Smith and was def
2 CONC eated. Smith immediately appointed him undersheriff, launching Jess o
2 CONC n his second law enforcement career.  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT In 1950, Jess was elected Elko County Sheriff for the first time. he w
2 CONC as never defeated after that, sometimes running against several oppone
2 CONC nts and sometimes unopposed. In a turnabout from the election in 194
2 CONC 6 when Charlie Smith defeated him, he immediately appointed Smith a
2 CONC s a deputy.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Florence is intensely proud of the years Jess spent as Sheriff and was
2 CONC , herself, an unfailing source of strength, support and encouragemen
2 CONC t to him. She says he was on duty 24-hours a day of often got calls i
2 CONC n the middle of the night. When he left. she never knew for sure whe
2 CONC n he would be back. She kept water, survival gear and lunch packed s
2 CONC o no matter when he had to go, or what the weather was like, he was al
2 CONC ways ready. She often served as matron when female prisoners were invo
2 CONC lved and as a temporary mother in cases involving juveniles.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She says Jess, like his father, did not wear a uniform, but he did pi
2 CONC n on with much joy the solid gold star that was custom-made for Joe
2 CONC . He carried a gun, but seldom drew it, relying instead, on courtesy a
2 CONC nd his ability to talk people into doing what he wanted them to do
2 CONC .  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT He could fly into Jarbidge, for instance, in 30 minutes, a trip that o
2 CONC nce took his father three days by train, wagon and horseback
2 CONC .  . . .  More than once he flew in and picked up a sick or injured re
2 CONC sident after landing on top of a rocky, sagebrush covered plateau at t
2 CONC he edge of town. The plateau sat in a narrow valley between steep, hig
2 CONC h mountains that showed no mercy for pilot error. If he had to come i
2 CONC n after dark, the residents would line up their cars with the headligh
2 CONC ts on so he could see the landing field. They bought an old car and le
2 CONC ft it parked at the airfield so Jess wouldn't have to walk into town
2 CONC .
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jess could talk people into anything. In all the years I worked wit
2 CONC h him, I never did see him lose his temper,  Stenovich said. There w
2 CONC eren't any shootouts and nobody ever got away from Jess and me when w
2 CONC e were together. The only time he ever saw Jess almost lose his tempe
2 CONC r was when Jodi took his loaded .38-caliber pistol to school for sho
2 CONC w and tell when she was nine years old.  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jess investigated a grisly murder the day after Christmas in 1965. Th
2 CONC e emasculated body of a man eventually identified as John Russell Blai
2 CONC r was discovered by sledders on Adobe Summit. he had been shot three t
2 CONC imes in the head. The legend Born to Raise Hell was tattooed on on
2 CONC e arm and the dead man was at first incorrectly identified by a Reno w
2 CONC oman. Jess said his office had reports of at least eight missing men w
2 CONC ith the same tattoo. There was more than one suspect in the case whic
2 CONC h was not solved until two years later, when Neil Phillips of Carlin s
2 CONC urrendered to Jess after a warrant was issued for his arrest. Phillip
2 CONC s was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT Owen Barton, a rancher from the Diamond A Desert, had been searching o
2 CONC n horseback and by  truck for several days for some lost cattle and as
2 CONC ked Jess to help him with an air search. He was so impressed with Jess
2 CONC 's help in locating his cattle my airplane that he bought one himself
2 CONC . Barton wrote and recited a poem about Jess at the 1988 Cowboy Poetr
2 CONC y Gathering in Elko. Titled ELKO LAWMAN - JESS HARRIS it begins:
2 CONT 
2 CONT There's been some famous lawmen
2 CONT Who bought law and order to the West,
2 CONT For twenty-five years in Elko County
2 CONT There was one of the best.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp and Matt Dillon
2 CONT All were men of fame, 
2 CONT But here in Northern Nevada,
2 CONT Jess Harris was the name.  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jess earned many honors during his years of service. Some of his case
2 CONC s were written up in national magazines: INSIDE DETECTIVE, TRUE DETECT
2 CONC IVE (twice), STARTLING DETECTIVE, and the FBI LAW ENFORCEMENT BULLETIN
2 CONC . MASTER DETECTIVE MAGAZINE named him Police Officer of the Month i
2 CONC n 1970. Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt presented the award. NATIONAL GEOG
2 CONC RAPHIC asked Jess to participate in their film segment, The Haunted W
2 CONC est,  which featured his use of an airplane in law enforcement
2 CONC .  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jess decided not to run for re-election when his term expired in 1974
2 CONC . To clear up all leftover business, he left Elko on the morning of De
2 CONC cember 14, 1974 in a snowstorm to deliver two prisoners to Carson City
2 CONC . The weather got worse and soon Jess was flying below power lines t
2 CONC o see the road. He flew into a blind canyon and, in turning, clippe
2 CONC d a wing on a mountain side, and crashed.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was severely injured, lost consciousness, and was trapped in the co
2 CONC ckpit of the wrecked plane. The two prisoners, Ivan Dambrowskie (aka D
2 CONC onald Mentel) and Jack Lindsey, were also injured.
2 CONT 
2 CONT At the time of the crash, were were over $200 and a loaded gun in th
2 CONC e plane. Lindsey, who was not severely injured, could have easily aban
2 CONC doned Jess and Dambrowskie. Instead, he helped Dambrowskie to a nearb
2 CONC y shack and tried to free Jess, but could not. He covered him with hi
2 CONC s own jacket and returned to the shack where he built a fire. Througho
2 CONC ut the stormy night, he continually went back and forth between the fi
2 CONC re and Jess, where he lay down against him trying to keep him warm.
2 CONT 
2 CONT They were rescued in the early morning hours of December 15, after the
2 CONC ir electric beeper was finally traced. The two prisoners were hospital
2 CONC ized and then turned over to prison authorities. Lindsey was later par
2 CONC doned as a result of his actions at the crash site.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jess sustained chest injuries and suffered a severe stoke because of h
2 CONC is terrible head injury. He later said his head got bent up a little.
2 CONC   He was hospitalized in Reno and Elko for several months and then Fl
2 CONC orence brought him home where he made a remarkable partial recovery.
2 CONT 
2 CONT August 29, 1975 was proclaimed J.C. Harris Day, and a well-attende
2 CONC d ceremony was held changing the name of Elko's airport to J.C. Harri
2 CONC s Field, in honor of Jess and his father. Mayor George Corner, in anno
2 CONC uncing the name change said, Jess C. Harris, son of Joe C. Harris, ..
2 CONC .Served with distinction and dedication and...exhibited an exceptional
2 CONC ly high degree of dedication, unselfish service, good citizenship an
2 CONC d family life.
2 CONT 
2 CONT A huge retirement dinner had been held August 22, 1975.  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jess and Florence spent their next few winters visiting Jodi and her f
2 CONC amily in Yuma, Arizona where Jess's storytelling was a favorite form o
2 CONC f entertainment.  . . . Jess died March 8, 1980. After the funeral Flo
2 CONC rence wrote:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jess C. Harris was cremated and his ashes scattered over his belove
2 CONC d Ruby Mountains between the Pyramid and the Dome. His duties carrie
2 CONC d him over these mountains on many, many flights. He requested his las
2 CONC t flight be over these mountains. He will fly forevermore. God watche
2 CONC d over him. I love you, Jess,  Florence.
0 @I259@ INDI
1 NAME Raymond /Harris/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 04 MAY 1909
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1990
1 FAMC @F77@
0 @I260@ INDI
1 NAME Sara /Dunlop/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1882
2 PLAC of Quincy, IL
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1977
2 PLAC Carson City, NV
1 BURI
2 PLAC Carson City, NV
1 FAMS @F78@
0 @I261@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Elizabeth /Harris/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1903
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 1963
2 PLAC Reno, NV
1 BURI
2 PLAC Carson City, NV
1 FAMC @F78@
0 @I262@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas Raymond /Harris/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 05 FEB 1905
2 PLAC Elko, NV
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 DEC 1984
2 PLAC Reno, NV
1 BURI
2 PLAC Mt. View Cemetery, Reno, NV
1 FAMC @F78@
1 FAMS @F254@
0 @I263@ INDI
1 NAME James W. /Ferris/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 JAN 1875
2 PLAC of Holt County, MO
1 DEAT
2 DATE APR 1966
1 FAMS @F79@
0 @I264@ INDI
1 NAME Dorothy F. /Ferris/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 APR 1908
1 DEAT
2 DATE MAR 1982
2 PLAC Dunsmuir, CA
1 FAMC @F79@
1 FAMS @F215@
0 @I265@ INDI
1 NAME Grace Edith /Raker/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 JAN 1888
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 NOV 1965
2 PLAC Sacramento, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Marysville, CA
1 FAMS @F80@
0 @I266@ INDI
1 NAME Carol /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 05 AUG 1911
2 PLAC Standish, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 AUG 1970
2 PLAC Sacramento, CA
1 FAMC @F80@
1 FAMS @F225@
0 @I267@ INDI
1 NAME Murray David /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 JUN 1913
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 JUL 1994
2 PLAC Paradise, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Paradise, CA
1 FAMC @F80@
1 FAMS @F226@
1 NOTE He was a California Highway Patrolman and worked Auto Theft out of Sac
2 CONC ramento Headquarters. On one occasion, he was questioning a car thie
2 CONC f and when he reached in to get the car keys out of the ignition, he w
2 CONC as dragged by the car thief and injured his back forcing him to retire
2 CONC . After retirement, he worked in the State Legislature as a Sergeant o
2 CONC f Arms. DRW
0 @I268@ INDI
1 NAME Duane Lester /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 FEB 1916
2 PLAC Standish, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 07 AUG 2000
2 PLAC Oroville, CA
1 BURI
2 DATE 11 AUG 2000
2 PLAC Sutter Cemetery, Sutter, CA
1 FAMC @F80@
1 FAMS @F227@
1 NOTE He worked for the Teamsters Union as a field representative and late
2 CONC r as secretary-treasurer for many years. DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from the local Yuba City newspaper sent to the compiler on Au
2 CONC gust 22, 2000:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Duane L. Wemple, 84, a longtime Marysville - Yuba City area resident
2 CONC , died August 7, 2000 at Olive Ridge Care Center in Oroville.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Born in Standish in Lassen County, he was the forth generation of a pi
2 CONC oneer family in California and the son of Grace and Ed Wemple who wa
2 CONC s a Marysville Policeman for 20 years. Duane attended Marysville Hig
2 CONC h School and Yuba College. Affectionally known as Jump, he was a key p
2 CONC layer on the semi-pro championship basketball teams of Marysville duri
2 CONC ng the 1930's.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He served in the U.S. Navy for 5 years with honor and special recognit
2 CONC ion in the South Pacific during WW II.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He worked as a Business Agent for the area Teamsters Union Local #13
2 CONC 7 for 22 years and was its Secretary-Treasurer at the time of his reti
2 CONC rement in 1973. He was a member of the Marysville Elks Lodge #783 an
2 CONC d a longtime member of the Plumas Lake Golf Club.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Duane was preceded in death by his sister, Carol Wilcoxon, his brother
2 CONC , Murray Wemple, and two of his children, Edd Wemple and Laurie Wemple
2 CONC . He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Lauralu Fairlee Wemple of Yu
2 CONC ba City; his daughter, Carol Ann Mannix of Yuba City; grandchildren No
2 CONC ah, Laura and Alex Wemple of Cottage Grove, Oregon, and Christopher an
2 CONC d Lauren Mannix of Yuba City; and one great-grandchild, Zara Wemple o
2 CONC f Cottage Grove, Oregon.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Funeral services will be conducted 2 PM Friday, August 11, at Ullrey
2 CONC s Memorial Chapel in Yuba City, followed by interment in the family pl
2 CONC ot at Sutter Cemetery.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The family suggests memorials in Duane's name to either the local Amer
2 CONC ican Diabetes Association or the Shrine Children Hospital in Sacrament
2 CONC o.
0 @I269@ INDI
1 NAME Alma Norah /Clifton/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 02 APR 1890
2 PLAC Covelo, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 05 JUN 1969
2 PLAC San Mateo, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Janesville, CA
1 FAMS @F81@
0 @I270@ INDI
1 NAME Clifton /Wemple/
2 GIVN Clifton L.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 OCT 1911
2 PLAC Covelo, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 OCT 1982
2 PLAC Millbrae, CA
1 FAMC @F81@
1 FAMS @F228@
1 NOTE He was dentist for many years with an office in San Francisco. DRW
0 @I271@ INDI
1 NAME Clarence H. /Price/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 DEC 1892
2 PLAC probably San Francisco, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 FEB 1960
2 PLAC Susanville, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Janesville, CA
1 FAMS @F82@
0 @I272@ INDI
1 NAME Ila /Cain/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1895
1 DEAT
1 FAMS @F83@
0 @I273@ INDI
1 NAME Shirley Raymond /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE OCT 1913
1 DEAT
1 FAMC @F83@
1 NOTE Left home about 1930 and was never heard of again. DRW
0 @I274@ INDI
1 NAME Norah /Pinches/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 07 OCT 1897
1 DEAT
2 DATE 08 JUL 1977
2 PLAC Santa Rosa, CA
1 FAMS @F84@
0 @I275@ INDI
1 NAME Marcus Ray /Barham/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 APR 1899
2 PLAC Johnstonville, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 07 JUN 1948
2 PLAC Oroville, Butte, County, CA
1 FAMS @F85@
0 @I276@ INDI
1 NAME Marie /Dotson/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1895
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1990
1 FAMS @F86@
0 @I277@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Vail /Cook/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1900
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1995
1 FAMS @F87@
0 @I278@ INDI
1 NAME Dorothy H. /Carman/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 JUL 1899
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 09 FEB 1970
2 PLAC Fallon, Churchill County, NV
1 BURI
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMS @F88@
1 NOTE Obituary from the LASSEN ADVOCATE, February 11, 1970, page 1c2:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Services Today for Dorothy Wemple. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Grave side services for Mrs. Dorothy H. Wemple, 70, who died in Fallo
2 CONC n, Nevada, on Monday, will be held in the Susanville Cemetery this aft
2 CONC ernoon at two o'clock. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The deceased was born July 28, 1899 in Susanville, and had been a res
2 CONC ident of Fallon since 1931. She is survived by her husband, Guy B. Wem
2 CONC ple, owner of Consolidated Feeder and Lumber Company in Fallon, a daug
2 CONC hter, Mrs. Leslie Ceresola of Wadsworth, three grandchildren and one g
2 CONC reat-grandchild.
0 @I279@ INDI
1 NAME Infant /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE MAR 1919
2 PLAC Died in infancy.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 APR 1919
1 BURI
2 PLAC Susanville, CA
1 FAMC @F88@
0 @I280@ INDI
1 NAME Gynith Gwen /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 JUL 1922
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F88@
1 FAMS @F262@
1 FAMS @F263@
0 @I281@ INDI
1 NAME Hazel Josephine /Sedgwick/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 SEP 1920
2 PLAC Beaver, Beaver County, UT
1 DEAT
1 FAMS @F89@
0 @I282@ INDI
1 NAME Carrie Ellen /Houghton/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 MAY 1896
2 PLAC CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 MAY 1920
2 PLAC Milford, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMS @F90@
1 NOTE THE LASSEN ADVOCATE, 28 May 1920, page 1c3:
2 CONT 
2 CONT YOUNG MOTHER AND CHILD SUCCUMB
2 CONT 
2 CONT A most deplorable termination to the hopeful anticipations of a youn
2 CONC g couple came last Sunday morning when Mrs. Fred Wemple and her chil
2 CONC d both responded to the imperative summons of Death.  Mrs. Wemple wa
2 CONC s a native of California, aged 24 years and 9 days, and was the daught
2 CONC er of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Houghton of Westwood.  She had been marrie
2 CONC d about two years. The funeral took place at Milford Tuesday, May 25th
2 CONC , and the mother and the little one for whom she gave her life were la
2 CONC id together in the same coffin.  The services were conducted by Rev. R
2 CONC owe of Susanville, and the obsequies were under the direction of Under
2 CONC taker Philbrook of Susanville.
0 @I283@ INDI
1 NAME Infant /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 MAY 1920
2 PLAC Lassen County, CA - Died in infancy.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 MAY 1920
2 PLAC Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F90@
0 @I284@ INDI
1 NAME Grace /Durfee/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 JUN 1900
2 PLAC Bieber, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 JUN 1923
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMS @F91@
1 NOTE Obituary from the BIG VALLEY GAZETTE, Bieber, Lassen County, CA, 14 Ju
2 CONC ne 1923, page 1c1:
2 CONT 
2 CONT DEATH OF MRS. WEMPLE
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mrs. Grace Durfee-Wemple of Milford, died at the Riverside Hospital
2 CONC , in Susanville last Monday June 11th, from the result of child birth
2 CONC .  Mrs. Wemple was the third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Durfee of B
2 CONC ieber, a sister of Mrs. B.G. Gassaway, and Mrs. Kelly Crews of Fall Ri
2 CONC ver, and Miss Dorothy Durfee of this place.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Not only Bieber and Honey Lake Valley but the whole County of Lassen
2 CONC , has suffered a severe loss in the death of Mrs. Wemple.  Her fine ch
2 CONC aracter, clear, logical mind, great learning and above all, the lovabl
2 CONC e nature of the woman, made her not only a strong personality whereve
2 CONC r known, but has been a benefit to the whole county, through her clear
2 CONC , and just interpretations of the school room. She was aged 22 years
2 CONC , 11 months, and 26 days.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Funeral was held in Susanville, on Wednesday, June 13th.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Parents of Mrs. Wemple, and two sisters, Mrs. Gassaway and Mrs. Crews
2 CONC , were at her bedside at the time of her passing, Miss Dorothy being o
2 CONC bliged to remain in the post office.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Remaining relatives of the deceased have the sympathy of the entire c
2 CONC ommunity.
0 @I285@ INDI
1 NAME Nadene /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 05 JUN 1923
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 SEP 1999
2 PLAC Alameda, Alameda County, CA
1 FAMC @F91@
1 FAMS @F264@
1 NOTE Article from the LASSEN ADVOCATE, Susanville, California, Thursday, Au
2 CONC gust 20, 1942 page 7c1-2:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Nadene Wemple Becomes Bride of Leroy Kayser in Reno Ceremony. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Miss Nadene Wemple, 19, and Leroy Kayser, 22, were married in Reno, Ne
2 CONC vada, Thursday, August 18, at 8 o'clock p.m. at the home of the Revera
2 CONC nd Brewster Adams. The ceremony was preformed by the Reverand Willia
2 CONC m K. Sempey in the presence of a few close friends and relatives of th
2 CONC e couple. Miss Naomi Wemple, twin sister of the bride and Eugene Kayse
2 CONC r, brother of the bridegroom, were their only attendants. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT This lovely and attractive bride chose to be married in a navy blue su
2 CONC it with matching accessories, and an orchid corsage, while her siste
2 CONC r wore a brown outfit.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Immediately following the ceremony a wedding supper was served at th
2 CONC e Colombo Cafe to the entire wedding part which included: Mr and Mrs
2 CONC . Leroy Kayser, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wemple, Phyllis and Frank Wemple o
2 CONC f Wendel, Mr. and Mrs. G.E. Kayser and Eugene Kayser of Stockton, Mrs
2 CONC . N.V. Wemple and Mrs. Naomi Wemple of Sacramento, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle W
2 CONC emple and Dana, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Davis, Fred Deal, Marion Larrea an
2 CONC d Jack Marden, all of Susanville, Mr. and Mrs E.H. Shoupe, Mr. and Mrs
2 CONC . William Bronson and Mrs. Myron Bronson, all of Reno, Mr. and Mrs Har
2 CONC ry Maritzen of San Francisco. 
2 CONT Mr. and Mrs. Kayser are graduates of the Lassen Union High School an
2 CONC d were among the most popular members of Susanville's younger set. Th
2 CONC e new Mrs. Kayser has been employed by the Board of Equalization in Sa
2 CONC cramento, but has now accepted a government position. The bridegroom e
2 CONC nlisted in the Maritime Service and will return to his duties on Septe
2 CONC mber the first, his bride will remain in Sacramento. The couple are ho
2 CONC neymooning at Lake Tahoe.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from the ALAMEDA TIMES/OAKLAND TRIBUNE, Oakland, California
2 CONC , 29 September 1999, page 6c1:
2 CONT 
2 CONT KAYSER
2 CONT 
2 CONT Nadene W. Kayser, a longtime resident of Alameda and member of a pione
2 CONC er Northern California family passed away on September 26, 1999.  Sh
2 CONC e was born in Susanville, California.  She is survived by her husban
2 CONC d of 57 years, Leroy Kayser and her two children, Lindsay and Steven
2 CONC , six grandsons and
2 CONT many loving family members.  She was preceded in death by her identica
2 CONC l
2 CONT twin, Naomi.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Friends are invited to attend memorial to celebrate her life on Friday
2 CONC , October 1st, at the Bay Fairway Hall, 300 Island Drive, Alameda fro
2 CONC m 2 - 4 PM.  In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the char
2 CONC ity of your choice.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Refer to web site http://www.plumasnews.com/obit/obits/obit/578.html
2 CONT 
2 CONT Nadene Wemple Kayser, 76, a member of a prominent Susanville Calif., p
2 CONC ioneer family, died in Alameda, Calif. on Sept. 26, 1999. She is survi
2 CONC ved by her husband of 57 years, Leroy Kayser, her two children, Lindsa
2 CONC y Hendricks and Steven Kayser; sister Phyllis Metz; brother Frank Wemp
2 CONC le; brother-in-law Fred Metz, sister-in-law Nancy Wemple, son-in-law P
2 CONC eter Hendricks, grandsons Louks and Kyle, daughter-in-law Terri Kayser
2 CONC , grandsons Andrew, Beau, Christian and Daniel, and many loving famil
2 CONC y members. She was preceded in death by her identical twin, Naomi Netz
2 CONC org in October 1978. A memorial to celebrate her life will be at 11 a.
2 CONC m., Saturday, Oct. 9 at Walton's Colonial Mortuary, 15 South Lassen St
2 CONC . in Susanville. A reception follows at the St. Francis Hotel on Mai
2 CONC n Street. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the charit
2 CONC y of your choice. Burial services will be private.
0 @I286@ INDI
1 NAME Naomi /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 05 JUN 1923
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 04 OCT 1978
2 PLAC Houston, Harris County, TX
1 FAMC @F91@
1 FAMS @F265@
1 NOTE THE LASSEN ADVOCATE, Thursday, August 26, 1943 page 13c8: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT NAOMI WEMPLE BRIDE 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Sacramento Bee of August 23, carries the following news item of mu
2 CONC ch interest in Susanville, where the bride was a popular member of th
2 CONC e younger set. After the wedding in Reno, August 14th, Lieutenant an
2 CONC d Mrs. Gordon M. Netzorg have returned to Sacramento and will make the
2 CONC ir home here. The bride was Miss Naomi Wemple and is the daughter of M
2 CONC rs. N.V. Wemple, 1500 Fifteenth street and the late Judge N.V. Wemple
2 CONC . For the wedding, she wore a beige gabardine tailored suit with choco
2 CONC late brown accessories and a corsage of gardenias. A small brown hat
2 CONC , veil trimmed, completed her costume. She is the graduate of Lassen U
2 CONC nion High School, Lassen County, and is employed by the Sacramento Ai
2 CONC r Depot. Lieutenant Netzorg, whose home is in Alma, Michigan, is a gra
2 CONC duate of the University of Michigan, where he received his bachelor o
2 CONC f science degree, and studied law at the University of Wisconsin. He i
2 CONC s stationed at Mather Field with the Army Air Forces.
0 @I287@ INDI
1 NAME Edna Mary /Prothero/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 09 JUN 1890
2 PLAC Douglas Flat, Calvareras County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 FEB 1978
2 PLAC U.S. 395 about 3 miles west Standish, Lassen County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Milford, CA
1 FAMS @F92@
1 NOTE From the Susanville  LASSEN ADVOCATE, 27 February 1978, page bc6:
2 CONT 
2 CONT EDNA MARY WEMPLE
2 CONT 
2 CONT Final services for Mrs. Edna Mary Wemple, 87, who was killed in the s
2 CONC eniors bus-pickup truck collision on Highway 395 near Standish on Thur
2 CONC sday, were held at the Lucero-Carlson Colonial Mortuary this morning a
2 CONC t 11 o'clock with Rev. James Profitt officiating.  Internment was in t
2 CONC he Milford Cemetery.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Ivor French was the organist and played 'The Old Rugged Cross' and 'R
2 CONC ock of Ages.'
2 CONT 
2 CONT The deceased was born in Douglas Flats, Calif., June 9, 1890, the dau
2 CONC ghter of Frank and Martha Prothero.  She had resided in this county fo
2 CONC r 56 years and in California all her life.  Prior to retirement she wa
2 CONC s a school teacher in Lassen County for 24 years.  She was a member o
2 CONC f the Susanville Senior Citizens Club, the Janesville Grange, Social R
2 CONC ebekah Lodge 101 of Susanville, the National Retired Teachers' Associa
2 CONC tion and the California Retired Teachers' Association.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Surviving are a son, Frank of Reno, three daughters, Phyllis Metz, Su
2 CONC sanville, Nadene Kayser, Alameda, and Naomi Netzorg, Huston, Tex., tw
2 CONC o sisters Lola M. Prothero, Oakland, and Eva Cunn, Castro Valley and 1
2 CONC 1 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
0 @I288@ INDI
1 NAME Phyllis Fred /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 OCT 1926
2 PLAC Oakland, Alameda County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 21 OCT 2005
2 PLAC Susanville, CA
1 FAMC @F92@
1 FAMS @F266@
1 NOTE The compilers hereby acknowledges the valuable assistance that Cuzzin
2 CONC  Phyllis provided in  compiling this genealogical record. SLD/DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT Wedding announcement from the Susanville LASSEN ADVOCATE, Tuesday, 8 J
2 CONC une 1948, page 3c4-6:
2 CONT 
2 CONT PHYLLIS WEMPLE WED TO FREDDY G. METZ AT CHURCH NUPTIALS
2 CONT 
2 CONT In a setting of white calla lilies and palms at the Methodist Church i
2 CONC n Susanville, Saturday, June 5, at 4 o'clock p.m. 100 guests witnesse
2 CONC d the wedding of Phyllis Fred Wemple and Freddy G. Metz.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The bride, given in marriage by her father Fred Wemple, wore an attrac
2 CONC tive gown of white lace over taffeta, fashioned with a tight bodice an
2 CONC d full skirt. A coronet of orange blossoms held the fingertip length v
2 CONC eil, and her carry bouquet was of white stephanotis and white gladiol
2 CONC i tied with moline.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The maid of honor, Marilyn MacDonald of San Francisco, wore a gown o
2 CONC f pink organdy made with a tight bodice and full draped skirt. She wor
2 CONC e pink carnations in her hair, and carried white gladioli and pink car
2 CONC nations tied with white moline.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dale Porter was best man and ushers were Bill McIntosh and Jim Uptegro
2 CONC ve.
2 CONT 
2 CONT A reception followed in the social hall of the church. When the newl
2 CONC y wedded pair left for a month's honeymoon in Niagra Falls, the brid
2 CONC e wore a white gaberdine suit with gold accessories.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The new Mrs. Metz is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wemple of Janes
2 CONC ville. She graduated from Lassen Union High School and attended the Un
2 CONC iversity of California for a year. She has been teaching for the pas
2 CONC t three years, two at Bridgeport school and one year at Willow Creek s
2 CONC chool.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The benedict, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Metz of Susanville, also gradua
2 CONC ted from the local high school after which he enlisted in the Navy. h
2 CONC e spent three years in the South Pacific where he saw active duty. Lat
2 CONC er he attended Chico State University for a year.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obiturary from the Lassen County News, Tuesday October, 25, 2005: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT PHYLLIS WEMPLE METZ 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Phyllis Wemple Metz, 78, died Friday, Oct. 21, 2005, in Susanville. Sh
2 CONC e was born Oct. 29, 1926, in Oakland, Calif. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Metz is survived by her husband, Fred Metz, of Susanville; four grandc
2 CONC hildren and two great-grandchildren.
2 CONT 
2 CONT  A viewing will be held at 4-8 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2005, at Walton
2 CONC 's Chapel in Susanville. A chapel service is planned at 11 a.m. on Wed
2 CONC nesday, Oct. 26 at the United Methodist Church, with burial to follo
2 CONC w at Milford Cemetery.
0 @I289@ INDI
1 NAME Frank N. /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 09 AUG 1929
2 PLAC Oakland, Alameda County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 FEB 2004
2 PLAC Reno, NV
2 SOUR E-mail from David Wemple to Alan Salls dated 2/20/2004.
1 FAMC @F92@
1 FAMS @F267@
1 NOTE He retired and lived in Reno, NV until his death in 2004. He was a but
2 CONC cher and resided in Susanville, Red Bluff, Yreka, and in Reno. As a yo
2 CONC ung man he rode bucking horses in local rodeos. With his grace as an a
2 CONC thletic, it was a thing of beauty to watch him ride these wild horses
2 CONC . DRW/SLD 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Obituary from the Red Bluff Daily News, February 26, 2004: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT FRANK N. WEMPLE 
2 CONT 
2 CONT August 9, 1929-February 19, 2004. Frank N. Wemple, 74 years old  of Re
2 CONC no, Nevada, passed away at his home on Thursday, February 19, 2004. H
2 CONC e is survived by his wife of fifty-four years, Nancy French Wemple an
2 CONC d four daughters, Cindy Heffren of Chico, CA., Frankie and Larry Mullo
2 CONC y of Yreka, CA., Susan and Rich Colwell of Manteca, CA., Nancy and Joh
2 CONC n Foster of Yreka, CA., nine grandchildren, four great-grandchildren
2 CONC , and a sister and brother-in-law, Phyllis and Fred Metz of Susanville
2 CONC . A gathering of friends at the Milford Community Center to follow. Re
2 CONC no Memorial is in charge. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
0 @I290@ INDI
1 NAME Nadene Frances /Tombs/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 05 JUN 1901
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 JAN 1992
2 PLAC Burlingame, San Mateo County, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMS @F93@
0 @I291@ INDI
1 NAME Dana Lyle /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 SEP 1930
2 PLAC Susanville, Lassen County, CA
1 FAMC @F93@
1 FAMS @F268@
1 NOTE He practiced dentristry in San Francisco for many years and resides i
2 CONC n Burlingame, CA. DRW
0 @I292@ INDI
1 NAME Arthur Allen /Ohnimus/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 03 JUN 1895
2 PLAC San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 MAR 1965
2 PLAC Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
1 FAMS @F94@
0 @I293@ INDI
1 NAME Anson H. /Crutcher/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 AUG 1913
2 PLAC Williams, Colusa County, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 OCT 1970
2 PLAC Elko, Elko County, NV
1 FAMS @F95@
0 @I294@ INDI
1 NAME Kathryn /Breitwieser/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 06 SEP 1902
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 JAN 1949
2 PLAC Susanville, CA
1 FAMS @F96@
0 @I295@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah Virginia /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 MAY 1929
1 FAMC @F96@
1 FAMS @F296@
1 FAMS @F297@
0 @I297@ INDI
1 NAME Wilma Ruth /Taylor/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 MAY 1909
2 PLAC Hamilton, AL
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 DEC 1978
2 PLAC Reno, Nevada
1 FAMS @F97@
1 FAMS @F98@
0 @I298@ INDI
1 NAME Lillie J. /Glynn/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE MAR 1868
1 DEAT
2 DATE 02 JAN 1909
1 FAMS @F99@
0 @I299@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Rosella /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 03 AUG 1887
2 PLAC Dansville, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE 09 MAR 1969
2 PLAC Phoenix, AZ
1 FAMC @F99@
1 FAMS @F447@
0 @I300@ INDI
1 NAME Nina Fay /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 AUG 1890
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1985
1 FAMC @F99@
1 FAMS @F448@
0 @I301@ INDI
1 NAME Arthur /Wemple/
2 GIVN Arthur V.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 MAR 1892
2 PLAC Dansville, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 JUL 1993
2 PLAC Lansing, MI
1 FAMC @F99@
1 FAMS @F449@
0 @I302@ INDI
1 NAME Glenn J. /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 SEP 1900
1 DEAT
2 DATE 08 NOV 1950
1 FAMC @F99@
1 FAMS @F450@
0 @I303@ INDI
1 NAME Douw /Fonda/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1700
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1726
1 FAMS @F100@
0 @I304@ INDI
1 NAME Deborah /Veeder/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 17 JAN 1703
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE AFT 1743
2 PLAC probably Schenectady, NY
1 FAMC @F124@
1 FAMS @F100@
1 FAMS @F101@
0 @I305@ INDI
1 NAME Reyer /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 17 OCT 1703
2 PLAC probably Schenectady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1796
2 PLAC probably Schenectady, NY
1 FAMC @F125@
1 FAMS @F101@
1 NOTE From THE HISTORY OF SCHENECTADY DURING THE REVOLUTION, Individual Reco
2 CONC rds of Service:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Wemple, Reyer: Baptized October 17, 1703; died in 1796.  His name appe
2 CONC ars on the rolls of the 2nd Albany County Militia, Land Bounty Rights.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Through his grandfather, Reyer Schermerhorn, he obtained land on bot
2 CONC h sides of the Mohawk River at Hoffman's Ferry. DRW
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is from an unpublished manuscript sent to the compiler o
2 CONC n September 28, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manus
2 CONC cript was written by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first par
2 CONC t if this genealogy from 1885-1913.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was baptized in Schenectady October 17, 1703. Married Debora Veeder
2 CONC , his first cousin, who was a daughter of Johannes Veeder and Susann
2 CONC a Wemple, and was baptized January 17, 1703.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was devised property by the will of his grandfather Reyer Schermerh
2 CONC orn, after whom he was named, in 1717, which was located near Huffman'
2 CONC s Ferry and he afterwards moved upon it.
2 CONT 
2 CONT On August 8, 1727, by deed recorded in DEEDS F --- No. 6, page 145, Al
2 CONC bany County Clerk's office, Albany, NY, his brother, Myndert conveys t
2 CONC o him land at Huffman's Ferry which their grandfather Reyer Schermerho
2 CONC rn, had devised to Myndert, Reyer and Ariantje Wemp; it being his shar
2 CONC e of the one just sixth part of the easternmost half of the Seavent
2 CONC h fflatts, lying and being on the North side of the Maques River, abou
2 CONC t six miles above said Town of Schenectady and also a sixth part o
2 CONC f a tract in New Jersey about twenty-seaven miles above Amboy.
2 CONT 
2 CONT On May 22, 1733, he was a freeholder in Schenectady and named as suc
2 CONC h in A list of the Freeholders of the City and County of Albany. pre
2 CONC served in volume 70, page 58, of COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS, in the State Li
2 CONC brary, Albany, NY.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He died in 1796, after reaching the exceedingly ripe age of 93 years.
2 CONT 
2 CONT His will, which was made May 20, 1791 and proven December 23, 1797, i
2 CONC s filed in WILLS, volume 2, page 329, Albany County Surrogates office
2 CONC , Albany, NY and portions are quoted below:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Reyer Wemple of the town of Schenectady, in the county of Albany, yeo
2 CONC man, leaves to my eldest son, John my fowling piece, with my large lo
2 CONC w Dutch family Bible for his primogeniture; besides other land, he al
2 CONC so gives John his orchard lying and being in the Woestyne, town and c
2 CONC ounty aforesaid, on the south side of the Mohawk River.
2 CONT 
2 CONT To Alida, widow and relict of his son Myndert, he leaves his house-ba
2 CONC rn, Homestead, Orchard and five morgens of land where said house-bar
2 CONC n and orchard now stand . . . situate, lying and being in Woestyne afo
2 CONC resaid, whereon and wherein I have last lived during or in the lifetim
2 CONC e of my deceased wife Deborah, just as the same was conveyed to me b
2 CONC y my father, John Wempel deceased, but if she remarried it was to g
2 CONC o her children by Myndert. He speaks of his daughter Susanna, wife o
2 CONC f Harmanus Mabie, and of his grandchildren, Ryer, Abraham, John, Wal
2 CONC ter Vrooman, Myndert and Deborah, children of my deceased son Mynder
2 CONC t R. Wempel and his said wife Alida, also of his niece Catalina, daug
2 CONC hter of Isaac Wemple, deceased.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Pearson in his GENEALOGIES OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF SCHENECTADY says t
2 CONC hat Reyer's widow, Debora, married Douw Fonda of Caughanwaga, on Augus
2 CONC t 19, 1757, but that statement is wrong, as Reyer's will says she die
2 CONC d before he died.
0 @I306@ INDI
1 NAME Myndert /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 23 APR 1736
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1742
1 FAMC @F101@
0 @I307@ INDI
1 NAME Susanna /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1738
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1833
1 FAMC @F101@
1 FAMS @F127@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was married on January 5, 1761, to Harmanus Mabie; the record bein
2 CONC g in Schenectady.
0 @I308@ INDI
1 NAME Myndert R. /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 SEP 1742
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1837
1 FAMC @F101@
1 FAMS @F128@
1 NOTE From THE HISTORY OF SCHENECTADY DURING THE REVOLUTION, Individual Reco
2 CONC rds of Service sent to the compiler by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City
2 CONC , MI: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Wemple, Myndert R.:  Born September 30, 1742.  He served as an ensig
2 CONC n in the 2nd Albany County Militia.  In 1777 he is mentioned as captai
2 CONC n of a company of batteauman performing service in transporting provis
2 CONC ions and stores for the troops on the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is from an unpublished manuscript sent to the compiler o
2 CONC n September 28, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. and writte
2 CONC n by William Barent Wemple II, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was born September 30, 1742 and baptized in Schenectady October 24
2 CONC , 1742.  August 21, 1768 was Alida Wemple married Myndert R. Wemple
2 CONC , son of Reyer Wemple, by the Reverand Barent Vrooman. (Old Family Bi
2 CONC ble). Alida, his wife, was a daughter of Abraham Wemple and Rachel Vro
2 CONC oman; she was baptized April 30, 1749 and died December 17, 1796. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The original muster-roll of May 7, 1767, preserved in volume 14, pag
2 CONC e 215, of SIR Wm. JOHNSON MANUSCRIPTS, in the State Library, Albany, N
2 CONC Y mentions him as a private in the company of Captain John Glen, Jr.
2 CONC , at Schenectady.
2 CONT 
2 CONT During the Revolutionary War, he was an Ensign under captains Schermer
2 CONC horn and Van Petten in Colonel Abraham Wemple's regiment.
0 @I309@ INDI
1 NAME Christoffel /Peek/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1770
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1865
1 FAMS @F102@
0 @I310@ INDI
1 NAME John Wemple /Peek/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 JAN 1786
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1876
1 FAMC @F102@
0 @I311@ INDI
1 NAME Christopher Yates /Peek/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 JUL 1787
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 JUN 1861
2 PLAC Woestyne
1 FAMC @F102@
0 @I312@ INDI
1 NAME Cornelius /Peek/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 JUL 1789
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1879
1 FAMC @F102@
0 @I313@ INDI
1 NAME Nicholaas /Peek/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 02 AUG 1791
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1881
1 FAMC @F102@
0 @I314@ INDI
1 NAME Jacobus /Peek/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 06 MAR 1793
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1883
1 FAMC @F102@
0 @I315@ INDI
1 NAME Catalina /Peek/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1795
1 DEAT Y
1 FAMC @F102@
1 FAMS @F129@
0 @I316@ INDI
1 NAME Myndert /Peek/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 NOV 1797
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1887
1 FAMC @F102@
0 @I317@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph /Peek/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 04 MAY 1800
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1890
1 FAMC @F102@
0 @I318@ INDI
1 NAME Marytje /Peek/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 08 APR 1802
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1897
1 FAMC @F102@
0 @I319@ INDI
1 NAME George /Heuston/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1770
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1820
1 FAMS @F103@
0 @I320@ INDI
1 NAME Marie /Heuston/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 AUG 1796
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1895
1 FAMC @F103@
0 @I321@ INDI
1 NAME John /Heuston/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1800
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1890
1 FAMC @F103@
0 @I322@ INDI
1 NAME Daniel /Toll/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1775
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1865
1 FAMS @F104@
0 @I323@ INDI
1 NAME Christian /Haverly/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1780
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1875
1 FAMS @F105@
0 @I324@ INDI
1 NAME Nicholas Wemple /Haverly/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 09 AUG 1802
1 DEAT
2 DATE 09 FEB 1866
1 FAMC @F105@
1 FAMS @F4312@
0 @I325@ INDI
1 NAME Anna Maria /Haverly/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1805
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1900
1 FAMC @F105@
0 @I326@ INDI
1 NAME John C. /Haverly/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1805
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1895
1 FAMC @F105@
0 @I327@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret /Haverly/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 APR 1809
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 NOV 1856
2 PLAC Deerfield, IL
1 FAMC @F105@
1 FAMS @F4313@
0 @I328@ INDI
1 NAME Cathaline Toll /Haverly/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1810
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1905
1 FAMC @F105@
0 @I329@ INDI
1 NAME Susannah /Haverly/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1812
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1907
1 FAMC @F105@
0 @I330@ INDI
1 NAME Christiana /Haverly/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 02 DEC 1813
2 PLAC Glenville, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1908
1 FAMC @F105@
1 FAMS @F130@
0 @I331@ INDI
1 NAME Deborah /Haverly/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1815
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1910
1 FAMC @F105@
0 @I332@ INDI
1 NAME Matilda /Haverly/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1817
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1912
1 FAMC @F105@
0 @I333@ INDI
1 NAME Malvina /Haverly/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1820
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1915
1 FAMC @F105@
0 @I334@ INDI
1 NAME William /Haverly/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1822
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1912
1 FAMC @F105@
0 @I335@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Haverly/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1825
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1920
1 FAMC @F105@
0 @I336@ INDI
1 NAME Andries Arentse /Bratt/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE (4 MAR 1704/05)
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 06 APR 1748
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 FAMC @F164@
1 FAMS @F106@
1 FAMS @F107@
0 @I337@ INDI
1 NAME Ariaantje /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 09 NOV 1707
1 DEAT
2 DATE 04 MAY 1739
1 FAMC @F125@
1 FAMS @F106@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was baptized in Schenectady, November 9, 1707, and married in th
2 CONC e same place to Captain Andries Bratt November 28, 1728, who was bapti
2 CONC zed March 4, 1705. Captain Bratt, married for his second wife Elizabet
2 CONC h Wemple in 1740.
0 @I338@ INDI
1 NAME Catalina /Bratt/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE (5 MAR 1728/29)
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1824
1 FAMC @F106@
0 @I339@ INDI
1 NAME Arent /Bratt/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 03 SEP 1732
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1822
1 FAMC @F106@
1 FAMS @F165@
0 @I340@ INDI
1 NAME Cathalyntje /Bratt/
1 NAME Catarina Bradt
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 07 JUN 1735
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1793
1 FAMC @F106@
1 FAMS @F166@
1 SOUR E-mail from David Wemple to Alan Salls dated 11/13/2002.
0 @I341@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 24 SEP 1719
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1814
1 FAMC @F168@
1 FAMS @F107@
1 FAMS @F108@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was baptized in Schenectady on September 24, 1719. She was married
2 CONC , in 1740, to Captain Andries Arentse Bratt, who was baptized March 4
2 CONC , 1705, and was his second wife; his first wife was Ariaantje Wemple (
2 CONC daughter of Johannes Myndert Wemple).
2 CONT 
2 CONT Captain Bratt made his will April 6, 1748, at which time Elizabeth wa
2 CONC s living. Their daughter, Helena Bratt, baptized July 14, 1745, marrie
2 CONC d Andries Wemple. Elizabeth married secondly, Henry Veeder, of Schenec
2 CONC tady, August 18, 1750.
0 @I342@ INDI
1 NAME Jannetje /Bradt/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 AUG 1743
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 22 FEB 1801
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 FAMC @F107@
1 FAMS @F169@
0 @I343@ INDI
1 NAME Helena /Bratt/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 14 JUL 1745
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1840
1 FAMC @F107@
1 FAMS @F163@
0 @I344@ INDI
1 NAME Ariaantje /Bratt/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 DEC 1747
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1842
1 FAMC @F107@
1 FAMS @F170@
0 @I345@ INDI
1 NAME Hendricus /Veeder/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 03 AUG 1698
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1793
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 FAMS @F108@
0 @I346@ INDI
1 NAME Gerrit Symonse /Veeder/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 04 JUL 1751
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1841
1 FAMC @F108@
0 @I347@ INDI
1 NAME Abraham /Veeder/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 27 DEC 1753
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 09 APR 1758
1 FAMC @F108@
0 @I348@ INDI
1 NAME Catharina /Veeder/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 29 JUN 1755
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1850
1 FAMC @F108@
1 FAMS @F171@
0 @I349@ INDI
1 NAME Abraham /Veeder/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 09 APR 1758
1 DEAT Y
1 FAMC @F108@
0 @I350@ INDI
1 NAME Volkje /Veeder/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 05 AUG 1759
1 DEAT Y
1 FAMC @F108@
0 @I351@ INDI
1 NAME Barent B. /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 29 OCT 1704
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1799
1 FAMC @F172@
1 FAMS @F109@
1 NOTE In 1743, he resided near Fonda, Montgomery County, NY being one of th
2 CONC e first settlers of that locality; was a first lieutenant in the 3rd R
2 CONC eg. of Militia, Col. Guy Johnson, prior to the Revolution; was one o
2 CONC f the 100 Patentees to whom were granted 100,000 acres on the south si
2 CONC de of the Mohawk River, and also one of 39 who received the Hyde gra
2 CONC nt of 40,000 acres on the Hudson River; belonged to the Associated Ex
2 CONC empts, Captain Jelles Fonda, during the Revolution War and saw activ
2 CONC e service; lost much property in the two Sir John Johnson raids, of 17
2 CONC 80, on the Mohawk Valley. WBW
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was born in Schenectady and baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church o
2 CONC f that place on October 2 9, 1704, the record of the same being record
2 CONC ed on page 155 of MINUTES ACCOUNTS, MARRIAGES, BAPTISMS, 1683-1728 an
2 CONC d in the following form, to wit:
2 CONT 
2 CONT October 29      Namen       Ouders (parents)          Getuygen (witne
2 CONC sses)
2 CONT Barent Wemp Epharim Wemp
2 CONT Barnhardus   Volkije Symon             Gesina Beekman
2 CONT 
2 CONT Although he was baptized Barnhardus, he was always called and wrot
2 CONC e is name in the shorter form of Barent; the latter name was no doub
2 CONC t really given him and the former appearing in the record, was in al
2 CONC l probability due to a license taken by the minister when inscribing i
2 CONC t on the record.
2 CONT 
2 CONT On page 173 of the same record is found the registry of the baptism o
2 CONC f his wife Debora Wemple, daughter of Jan Wemple and Ariaantje Swits
2 CONC , on October 30, 1710, as follows:
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1710             Kinderen      Ouders                     Getuygen
2 CONT Ober                                   Jan Wemp and          Barent We
2 CONC mp and
2 CONT Debora        Adriana Swits            Susanna Swits
2 CONT 
2 CONT They were married at Schenectady, September 2, 1723, it being entere
2 CONC d on the Dutch Reformed Church book entitled RECORD OF BAPTISMS 1730-1
2 CONC 783, on page 327, and they are designated as young man and young da
2 CONC ughter, these being the terms then used to show that neither had eve
2 CONC r before contracted a marriage.
2 CONT 
2 CONT After the old Schenectady church has outgrown its capacity and usefuln
2 CONC ess, a paper was circulated in July 1730 to solicit subscriptions fo
2 CONC r the erection of a new church and to Barent Wemp, junior, signs fo
2 CONC r two pounds (Pearson's HISTORY OF THE SCHENECTADY PATENT, PAGE 354).
2 CONT 
2 CONT His brother, Jan Barentsen, deeded to him a lot in Schenectady on Febr
2 CONC uary 27, 1728, which was conveyed by the Trustees of the Town to thei
2 CONC r father, Barent, on February 11, 1703, and by the latter transferre
2 CONC d to his son, Jan Barentsen, March 9, 1709, (see document No. 48). Th
2 CONC e above mentioned lot was on the east corner of State and Center stree
2 CONC ts and the front of the lot is now occupied by the Carley House. The d
2 CONC eed conveying this lot is valuable for several reasons. It proves tha
2 CONC t Barent and Jan were brothers, and sons of Barent, besides, identifyi
2 CONC ng Barent Jr.) as a resident in after years, of another locality. On M
2 CONC arch 22, 1743, Barent (Jr.) and his wife Debora, who are designated a
2 CONC s of the Mohawk Country, in the County of Albany, convey the some lo
2 CONC t in Schenectady, together with other property, to Ava van Driessen, o
2 CONC f Albany (see document No. 50). This deed effectually proves that, i
2 CONC n 1743, he had moved with his family out to the Mohawks Country, whi
2 CONC ch was the designation given to that part of the valley of the Mohaw
2 CONC k River lying west of Amsterdam (Pearson's HISTORY OF THE SCHENECTAD
2 CONC Y PATENT), and as he also at this time in the same deed conveys proper
2 CONC ty on Van Slyck's Island, just west of the city of Schenectady, whic
2 CONC h came to him through his grandfather, Jan Barentsen Wemp, to whom hal
2 CONC f of the island was granted on November 123, 1662 (document No.15). i
2 CONC s establishes fully the identity and descent of this one time residen
2 CONC t of Schenectady but subsequent pioneer of the Mohawk Valley.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was among the first settlers of the them wilderness surrounding th
2 CONC e vicinity of the present village of Fonda, NY locating on a good size
2 CONC d tract of land about one mile below the village. The left his propert
2 CONC y to his two sons Barent and Johannes, the latter living on his portio
2 CONC n the remainder of his lifetime (see document No. 64).
2 CONT 
2 CONT In the SIR Wm. JOHNSON MANUSCRIPTS, volume 1, page 44, State Library
2 CONC , Albany, NY is the following letter written to General Johnson at Mou
2 CONC nt Johnson:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Hon'd Sir,
2 CONT 
2 CONT This evening Meheart Van Dusen agoing home, in Corle Van Eapses pastu
2 CONC re saw the two Seneka Indians that left your Hon'd house yesterday, on
2 CONC e of them being murdered, returned and made report of it.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Captain Cornyne and I summonsed several of the neighbors as jury, bu
2 CONC t on our coming to Barents Wemple's we examined the Indian, he calle
2 CONC s himself Tom, who confessed that he had murdered the other. We examin
2 CONC ed the corpse and found several cuts with a hatchet in the same place
2 CONC s he had confessed. We summonsed such of the neighbors as understood I
2 CONC ndian. We have desired them to certify that they understood the Indian
2 CONC , and would be glad to know what your honor would have done further i
2 CONC n the affair. Mr. Hendrick Wemple will receive your commissions.
2 CONT 
2 CONT We are Hon'd Sir, your faithful humble servants, Saturday evening.
2 CONT 
2 CONT (signed)
2 CONT John Butler.
2 CONT Piter Conyn.
2 CONT Jelles Fonda.
2 CONT Avert Van Eps.
2 CONT Barent Wemple.
2 CONT . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was one of the one hundred patentees to whom one hundred thousand a
2 CONC cres of land was granted November 30, 1769, lying on the south side o
2 CONC f the Mohawk Rover (see document No. 53), and with thirty-nine other p
2 CONC ersons participated in a grant of forty thousand acres, on the Hudso
2 CONC n River, with which a new township was to be erected called HYDE. Thi
2 CONC s second grant is recorded in volume 16, BOOK OF PATENTS, at page 409
2 CONC , on file in the office of the Secretary of State, Albany, NY
2 CONT 
2 CONT In both of the raids made by Sir John Johnson, on the Mohawk Valley, M
2 CONC ay 22, 1780 and October 18, 1780, he suffered the loss of property t
2 CONC o the value of  L222.5.0, and a certified copy if his loss may be see
2 CONC n by examining document No. 62.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Prior to the Revolutionary War, he was first lieutenant under Captai
2 CONC n Henry Hansen, in the third Regiment of the Militia Foot, commanded b
2 CONC y Col. Guy Johnson. The famous Revolutionary patriot Col. Frederick Vi
2 CONC sher, was second lieutenant of this company. The original return of th
2 CONC e officers of this regiment for the year 1761 is preserved in the Stat
2 CONC e Library, Albany, NY, in the SIR Wm. JOHNSON MANUSCRIPTS, volume 16
2 CONC , page 83 (for certified copy see document No. 67).
0 @I352@ INDI
1 NAME Debora /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 30 OCT 1710
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1805
1 FAMC @F126@
1 FAMS @F109@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was baptized October 30, 1710, and it recorded on page 173 of MINU
2 CONC TES, ACCOUNTS, MARRIAGES, BAPTISMS 1673-1728, of the Schenectady Refor
2 CONC med Church, . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT She married Barent Wemple on September 2, 1732, the record of the sam
2 CONC e being on page 327 of RECORD OF BAPTISMS, 1730-1783, of the Schenecta
2 CONC dy Dutch Reformed Church.
0 @I353@ INDI
1 NAME Barent B. /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 03 JUN 1733
2 PLAC Fonda, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 MAR 1813
2 PLAC probably Fonda, NY
1 FAMC @F109@
1 FAMS @F173@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was baptized June 3, 1733, in Schenectady; married Sarah Smith, Jan
2 CONC uary 6, 1759, and this record is also in the Dutch Reformed Church a
2 CONC t Schenectady; Barent died March 13, 1813 and his wife, Sarah, died Ap
2 CONC ril 18, 1793.
2 CONT 
2 CONT They were early residents of the Mohawk Valley, living on a farm a sho
2 CONC rt distance below the present village of Fonda.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He enlisted as a private in the Tryon County Militia, under Captain Jo
2 CONC hn Fisher, of Colonel Fred'k Fisher's regiment, at the beginning of th
2 CONC e Revolution ,and toward the close of the conflict, we promoted to th
2 CONC e position of corporal.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In Mary 1780, when Sir John Johnson raided the Mohawk Valley, he suffe
2 CONC red loss of property, with other patriots, and Simms in his HISTORY O
2 CONC F SCHOLARIE COUNTY, page 357, says, the enemy proceeded to the dwelli
2 CONC ng of Barney Wemple, a little farther up  the river --- which  was rif
2 CONC led and burnt with the out-buildings attached. Wemple had sent a slave
2 CONC , before daylight, to catch horses, who hearing the firing, and discov
2 CONC ering the light of the burning buildings down the valley, ran to the h
2 CONC ouse and gave the appalling intelligence that a sleepless for was near
2 CONC . Thus alarmed, the family fled, almost naked, into a small swamp, jus
2 CONC t in time to escape the tomahawk. Wemple erected a building on the sit
2 CONC e of his former one, soon after it was burnt, which shared a similar f
2 CONC ate during Johnson's invasion of the valley the following October. Si
2 CONC mms says also on page 429, after his dwelling was burnt in May, he we
2 CONC nt to Tribes Hill, tore down a Tory dwelling, and erected it upon th
2 CONC e ruins of his former one.
0 @I354@ INDI
1 NAME Johannes /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE (BEF. 16 FEB 1734/35)
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1745
1 FAMC @F109@
0 @I355@ INDI
1 NAME Susannah /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 09 OCT 1737
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1832
1 FAMC @F109@
1 FAMS @F174@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was baptized in Schenectady October 9, 1737. Married William Phill
2 CONC ips in 1761. They lived near the present village of Fonda, NY.
0 @I356@ INDI
1 NAME John Barent /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 01 DEC 1745
2 PLAC one mile east of Caughnawaga, NY
1 BAPM
2 DATE 01 DEC 1745
2 PLAC Dutch Reformed Church, Schenectady
1 DEAT
2 DATE 01 MAR 1787
1 FAMC @F109@
1 FAMS @F175@
1 FAMS @F176@
1 NOTE He and 99 others were granted 100,000 acres on the south side of the M
2 CONC ohawk River, 1769; was made 1st lieutenant, August 25, 1775, Captain J
2 CONC ohn Fisher's Company, Col. F. Fisher's Regt.; advanced to Captain of t
2 CONC he Company, 1780, serving throughout the Revolution; was in the battle
2 CONC s of Oriskany,  August 6, 1777, and Johnstown, October 24, 1781; his n
2 CONC ame is on the Oriskany Battlefield monument; suffered large property l
2 CONC oss in the two raids of Johnstown, May, 1780, and October, 1781. WBW
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was born about one mile east of Caughnawaga (now Fonda) and was bap
2 CONC tized in the Reformed Dutch Church at Schenectady on December 1, 1745
2 CONC , the same being recorded on page 37 of the book entitled RECORD OF BA
2 CONC PTISMS, 1730-1783,  . . . 
2 CONT 
2 CONT He married November 1, 1767, to Maria Veeder, a daughter of Johannes V
2 CONC eeder and his first wife, Catherine Mabie, of Caughnawaga the record o
2 CONC f their marriage being inscribed on page 369 of a book labeled RECOR
2 CONC D OF BAPTISMS, 1730-1783, in the Reformed Dutch Church, Schenectady, t
2 CONC he entry being written in Dutch . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT Maria, his wife, was born November 10, 1750, at Caughnawaga, and bapti
2 CONC zed December 9, 1750, at Schenectady, in the Reformed Dutch Church, th
2 CONC e record being on page 51 of RECORD OF BAPTISMS, 1730-1783 . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT Maria died April 17, 1785 and is buried on the farm where they lived
2 CONC , the grave being located on the hillside just back of the house now i
2 CONC n the possession of William Stube, situated about one and  one quarte
2 CONC r miles below the present village of Fonda. A gravestone still marks t
2 CONC he spot and is in a fair state of preservation (circa 1893). A photogr
2 CONC aph taken of it in the summer of 1893, is appended.  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT John married for his second wife, December 18, 1785, Alida Wemple, dau
2 CONC ghter of Hendrick Wemple and Aelfie Van Epps. The ceremony was preform
2 CONC ed at Caughnawaga (now Fonda) and the fact is recorded in the Reforme
2 CONC d Dutch Church of that place . . . Alida was baptized in Schenectady D
2 CONC utch Reformed Church on March 7, 1756.  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT The farm on which John B. Wemple was born was owned and occupied fro
2 CONC m an early day by his father, being situated about one mile east of Ca
2 CONC ughnawaga (now Fonda), and five hundred acres of which his father subs
2 CONC equently deeded to him; 375 acres were held by him the remainder of hi
2 CONC s lifetime and here he always resided. His property was next east of t
2 CONC hat belonging to Major Jelles Fonda and at which point the latter live
2 CONC d , doing there the bulk of his very extensive business, until late i
2 CONC n his life, when he removed to the extreme western part of the Town; t
2 CONC his this locality was quite a busy center, although the village of Cau
2 CONC ghnawaga was situated about a mile to the westward. Here John, in addi
2 CONC tion, to his industry of farming, plied the trade of blacksmith and fo
2 CONC r this purpose erected a shop and forge (see document No. 57).
2 CONT 
2 CONT Of the 500 acres of land deeded to him by his father, he sold 125 acre
2 CONC s to his brother-in-law, Dirk Philip Groot.
2 CONT 
2 CONT On the 19th November 1776, he was compelled to mortgage the remainin
2 CONC g land to John Sanders, of Schenectady, for L567, and being unable t
2 CONC o pay it, was forced to renew it by giving, on March 6, 1783, a new mo
2 CONC rtgage which included the original one with accrued interest and was i
2 CONC n the sum of L617. 10. 0. Both mortgages are recorded in the Montgomer
2 CONC y County Clerk's office at Fonda in BOOK OF MORTGAGES No. 1, the firs
2 CONC t on page 18 and the second on page 28 (see document Nos. 52 and 53).
2 CONT 
2 CONT What a mirror of the times these two mortgages are ---- the first give
2 CONC n at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, no doubt in consequence o
2 CONC f the generally depressed condition of finances and commerce attendan
2 CONC t on the anticipated strife; the second, made necessary after more att
2 CONC ention to field duties than the home work, the endeavor for liberty fr
2 CONC om a dominant foreign power, the loss of fireside, buildings, crops an
2 CONC d utensils as the result of two fiendish raids, and he utter worthless
2 CONC ness of money and absence of business had rendered it impossible for t
2 CONC he ordinary man to secure sufficient means of a negotiable character t
2 CONC o liquidate a claim of this nature.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Particular attention is called to these two mortgages, because they bo
2 CONC th especially mention the mortgagor as John Barent Wemple, thus conc
2 CONC lusively showing him to be the son of Barent; and the fact is also rec
2 CONC orded in both that his property was conveyed to him by Barent Wemple (
2 CONC his father).
2 CONT 
2 CONT The house now owned and occupied by William Stube is on the site of hi
2 CONC s former dwelling and he front doors of the old house, which is very h
2 CONC eavy and broad and cut in halves, Dutch style, is now in use on the wa
2 CONC gon house, the massive lock and hinges being still on them.     . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT At the commencement of the Revolutionary struggle, John B. Wemple imme
2 CONC diately arrayed himself on the side of liberty and native land, enlist
2 CONC ing in the fourth company of the third battalion of the Tryon County M
2 CONC ilitia and at its very establishment, August 26, 1775, was commissione
2 CONC d first lieutenant, under Captain John Fisher, in Colonel Frederick Fi
2 CONC sher's regiment, thus serving under these two patriot brothers who wer
2 CONC e his neighbors of a mile and a half east. In a book labeled MILITAR
2 CONC Y RETURNS,  1775-76. in the State Library, Albany, NY, under date of A
2 CONC ugust 26, 1775, is the record of his appointment as first lieutenant
2 CONC ; in another book labeled COUNCIL OF APPOINTMENT --- CIVIL AND MILITAR
2 CONC Y, A, 1777-1786, also in the State Library, his reappointment as firs
2 CONC t lieutenant, dated June 25, 1778, is  noted on page 98. His captain
2 CONC , John Fisher, having been massacred on May 21, 1780, he was immediate
2 CONC ly advanced to the rank of captain and received L1. 4. 4. as his firs
2 CONC t pay in that grade for previous rendered from date of appointment t
2 CONC o and including May 23, 1780 --- probably about two days. On page 21
2 CONC 4 of COUNCIL OF APPOINTMENT  --- CIVIL AND MILITARY, A, 1777-1786, i
2 CONC n the State Library, it is recorded that he was still captain of the c
2 CONC ompany on March 8, 1781and he continued in that capacity to the clos
2 CONC e of the Revolution; after the war was at an end this regiment and com
2 CONC pany preserved its organization, without any material change in office
2 CONC rs, for a number of years. In a record labeled NEW YORK MILITARY APPOI
2 CONC NTMENTS, 1786-1802, in the State Library, Albany, NY on page 31, unde
2 CONC r the heading APPOINTMENTS FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY, is shown the fact th
2 CONC at John B. Wemple was still captain of the same company on October 2
2 CONC , 1786. It is to be remarked that this last record contains the middl
2 CONC e letter B of his name, thus proving that Captain John Wemple was re
2 CONC ally John B. Wemple. He served with valor and distinction at every cal
2 CONC l of his company and especially in the famous battle of Oriskany, Augu
2 CONC st 6, 1777, as well as in the battle of Johnstown, October 24, 1781. T
2 CONC he last mentioned record contains after his name, the letters Dd, me
2 CONC aning deceased, and conveys the intelligence that he died between tha
2 CONC t date and the next record. The succeeding record shows another perso
2 CONC n at the head of the company/ 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The original pay-roll of Colonel Frederick Fisher's regiment is deposi
2 CONC ted in the office of the State Comptroller and contained in volume 1
2 CONC 0 of MANUSCRIPTS OF THE COLONY AND  STATE OF NEW YORK IN THE REVOLUTIO
2 CONC NARY WAR, at folio 106, page 12, where he receipts for his pay as lieu
2 CONC tenant and captain for services rendered in the Revolution.  . . . (se
2 CONC e documents Nos.55, 56).
2 CONT 
2 CONT Services were not paid for in cash but in interest bearing certificate
2 CONC s and the Militia was not even paid these until 1784. Each certificat
2 CONC e was issued in payment for services rendered within the various perio
2 CONC ds and the account of all certificates was kept by the State Treasure
2 CONC r in books are now deposited in the State Library, Albany, NY. From th
2 CONC eses books can be ascertained quite accurately the number of days in e
2 CONC ach period that as lieutenant and captain he performed military duty
2 CONC , when it is known that according to law a lieutenant received $26 2/
2 CONC 3 and a captain #40.00 per month, ana a pound was worth about $2.50
2 CONC .  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT At the time of the awful raid made by Sir John Johnson on the Caughnaw
2 CONC aga settlement along the Mohawk River, May 21, 1780, John B. Wemple, o
2 CONC n account of his loyalty to the principles of freedom and his allianc
2 CONC e with the resisting forces to English occupation, was the target fo
2 CONC r bitter revenge and the object on which to vent royalist and tory hat
2 CONC red. Although he and his family escaped with their lives from the comb
2 CONC ined British, tory and Indian forces, yet they were unable to save any
2 CONC thing in their flight and upon the approach of the raiders his dwellin
2 CONC g, with all its contents, was destroyed, as were also he tenant house
2 CONC , blacksmith-shop, barns, barracks and in fact everything that could b
2 CONC e possibly be burned. After their departure, the spot presented a scen
2 CONC e of utter desolation and when he returned to the ruins of his home, t
2 CONC o add to his further discomfiture, he found himself even deprived of t
2 CONC he former assistance of two Negro servants, four cows, and three horse
2 CONC s which were either stolen of killed at the time.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Notwithstanding all the disheartening events and conditions, he manage
2 CONC d to erect  an unpretentious dwelling to shelter the family, a blacksm
2 CONC ith-shop, barn and barrack, at the same time endeavoring to do his dut
2 CONC y in the home work and serving his country whenever the militia was ca
2 CONC lled to arms, until the third decent by Sir John Johnson on the Mohaw
2 CONC k Valley, which occurred October 18, 1781, when again he was one of th
2 CONC e persecuted the extent of the fire brand being applied not only to th
2 CONC e modest buildings he had erected in place of the former, larger and b
2 CONC etter ones, but also lost by fire all the hay and grain which was th
2 CONC e result of the summer harvest. He and his family were again fortunat
2 CONC e enough to escape the blood-thirsty assassins; but without the actua
2 CONC l experience who can appreciate the terror attendant on these two drea
2 CONC dful raids, when they knew not if their every moment was their last, a
2 CONC nd after the danger to life was finally past, to return to their desol
2 CONC ated farm and be compelled to almost start their lives anew, starvatio
2 CONC n staring them in the face by reason of the destruction of their winte
2 CONC r stores at such a season, yet, through all this dire calamity, neve
2 CONC r swerving from the purpose to throw the yoke of thralldom. Such men a
2 CONC nd women too, are heroes and heroines indeed and a cause upheld by suc
2 CONC h a people could not fail.
2 CONT 
2 CONT A (record of loss) . . . which John B. Wemple sustained during both ra
2 CONC ids, (along with) a great many similar claims, against the State in th
2 CONC e hope that provision would be made for reimbursement, but nothing wa
2 CONC s ever accomplished in that direction. The original account is in th
2 CONC e office of the State Comptroller, Albany, the package containing it b
2 CONC eing labeled LOSSES SUSTAINED BY THE ENEMY and a copy of it, certifie
2 CONC d by Hon James A. Roberts, Comptroller, under the official seal of hi
2 CONC s office, is also shown (see document No. 57).
2 CONT 
2 CONT During the latter part of the Revolutionary War, it was necessary fo
2 CONC r the State of New York to raise two regiments to go into the Continen
2 CONC tal service and, in order to complete them, each regiment of the Stat
2 CONC e Militia was divided in classes containing a specified number of me
2 CONC n. Every class was obliged to either select one of their own number, o
2 CONC r procure one man, to be mustered in the United Stares army; in retur
2 CONC n for doing this, the class was given a certain number of acres of l
2 CONC and by the State.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Captain John Wemple was the head of the class to which he belonged a
2 CONC nd the majority of the class transferred to him all their right, tit
2 CONC le and interest in the 200 acres bounty land received for procuring Jo
2 CONC hn Casselman to represent them in the Continental service. One third o
2 CONC f this bounty he conveyed to Isaac Vrooman and gave power to the latte
2 CONC r to locate the land in his own name. Vrooman located 9400 acres, in w
2 CONC hich this was included, north of the Mohawk River and on the east sid
2 CONC e of Canada Creek, the tract was granted him on December 15, 1789, alt
2 CONC hough upon its being surveyed it was found to contain 9767 acres
2 CONC .  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT John B. Wemple died March 1, 1787, while still a young man.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In November 1900, the compiler submitted proof to the Oneida Historica
2 CONC l Society, Utica, NY, custodians of the Oriskany Battlefield Monumen
2 CONC t showing that John Barent Wemple participated in the Battle of Oriska
2 CONC ny, August 6, 1777. The proofs were considered convincing and accepte
2 CONC d by the Society. A resolution was adopted authorizing the name of tho
2 CONC se who served in that famous fight, and which is now truly looked upo
2 CONC n as a roster of heroes names. The name John Barent Wemple was therefo
2 CONC re placed on the tablet in February 1902, at the upper right hand corn
2 CONC er. In recognition of a slight favor done (for) the Society by the com
2 CONC piler, the Society had the name plate cast in Chicago and riveted to t
2 CONC he large tablet at its own expense, which was not a slight one. The ac
2 CONC t is very greatly appreciated. In document No. 68 will be found a cert
2 CONC ificate, under seal of (the) Society, setting forth the facts as abov
2 CONC e stated.
0 @I357@ INDI
1 NAME Maria /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1748
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1843
1 FAMC @F109@
1 FAMS @F177@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was born in Caughnawaga about 1748, and was married February 7, 17
2 CONC 68 to Harmanus Smith, of Caughnawaga, their marriage being recorded i
2 CONC n the Reformed Church of Schenectady. They both always resided near Ca
2 CONC ughnawaga.
0 @I358@ INDI
1 NAME Ariaantje /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1750
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1840
1 FAMC @F109@
1 FAMS @F178@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was born in Caughnawaga about 1750; married, December 10, 1773, Di
2 CONC rk Groot, of Schenectady, at which latter place their marriage in on r
2 CONC ecord. They lived about on and a half miles below the village of Caugh
2 CONC nawaga on a farm purchased just previous to the Revolution, of her bro
2 CONC ther John B. Wemple.
0 @I359@ INDI
1 NAME Abraham /Dellamont/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1760
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1850
1 FAMS @F110@
0 @I360@ INDI
1 NAME Jeremiah Warren /Sprague/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 07 MAY 1852
1 DEAT
2 DATE 22 DEC 1904
2 PLAC Lowell, IN
1 FAMS @F111@
0 @I361@ INDI
1 NAME Merritt Peter /Sprague/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 DEC 1880
2 PLAC Lowell, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 JAN 1968
2 PLAC Crown Point, IN
1 FAMC @F111@
1 FAMS @F1754@
0 @I362@ INDI
1 NAME Alice /Sprague/
2 GIVN Alice M.
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 NOV 1882
2 PLAC Lowell, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE MAY 1897
2 PLAC Lowell, IN
1 BURI
2 PLAC Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, IN
1 FAMC @F111@
0 @I363@ INDI
1 NAME Ethel May /Sprague/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 FEB 1888
2 PLAC Lowell, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 SEP 1971
2 PLAC Baroda, MI
1 BURI
2 PLAC Niles, MI
1 FAMC @F111@
1 FAMS @F1755@
0 @I364@ INDI
1 NAME Charles Roy /Sprague/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 04 JUL 1893
2 PLAC Lowell, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1915
2 PLAC Reynolds, IN
1 BURI
2 PLAC Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, IN
1 FAMC @F111@
1 FAMS @F1756@
0 @I365@ INDI
1 NAME Frank /Steiner/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1859
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 APR 1930
2 PLAC Crown Point, IN
1 FAMS @F112@
0 @I366@ INDI
1 NAME Charles Wesley /Snyder/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 05 MAR 1851
1 DEAT
2 DATE 06 OCT 1879
1 FAMS @F113@
0 @I367@ INDI
1 NAME Elsie Florence /Snyder/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 NOV 1878
2 PLAC Hebron, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 06 JAN 1947
2 PLAC Owosso, MI
1 FAMC @F113@
1 FAMS @F1757@
0 @I368@ INDI
1 NAME Frederick William /Marsden/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 JUN 1866
2 PLAC Birmingham, England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 NOV 1952
2 PLAC Winchester, VA
1 FAMS @F114@
0 @I369@ INDI
1 NAME Beatrice Oakley /Marsden/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 OCT 1889
2 PLAC Hebron, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 JAN 1910
2 PLAC Hebron, IN
1 BURI
2 PLAC Hebron Cemetery, Hebron, IN
1 FAMC @F114@
0 @I370@ INDI
1 NAME Bertram Astley /Marsden/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 09 MAY 1892
2 PLAC Hebron, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 FEB 1968
2 PLAC Jerseyville, IL
1 BURI
2 PLAC Oak Grove Cemetery, Jerseyville, IL
1 FAMC @F114@
1 FAMS @F1758@
0 @I371@ INDI
1 NAME Fern Winifred /Marsden/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 AUG 1894
2 PLAC Hebron, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 JUL 1989
2 PLAC VA
1 FAMC @F114@
1 FAMS @F1759@
0 @I372@ INDI
1 NAME Lora Antoinette /Marsden/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 JUL 1896
2 PLAC Hebron, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 JAN 1910
2 PLAC Hebron, IN
1 BURI
2 PLAC Hebron Cemetery, Hebron, IN
1 FAMC @F114@
0 @I373@ INDI
1 NAME Herbert Arthur /Marsden/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 FEB 1899
2 PLAC Hebron, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1989
1 FAMC @F114@
1 FAMS @F1760@
1 FAMS @F1761@
1 FAMS @F1762@
1 FAMS @F1763@
0 @I374@ INDI
1 NAME Emma Ruth /Marsden/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 APR 1902
2 PLAC Hebron, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 JAN 1910
2 PLAC Hebron, IN
1 BURI
2 PLAC Hebron Cemetery, Hebron, IN
1 FAMC @F114@
0 @I375@ INDI
1 NAME Wilber /Doty/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 APR 1858
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 NOV 1927
2 PLAC Crown Point, IN
1 FAMS @F115@
0 @I376@ INDI
1 NAME Chandos Ray /Doty/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 AUG 1885
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 FEB 1890
1 FAMC @F115@
0 @I377@ INDI
1 NAME Blanche Lera /Doty/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 OCT 1887
2 PLAC Preston, KS
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 AUG 1967
2 PLAC Valparaiso, IN
1 FAMC @F115@
1 FAMS @F1764@
0 @I378@ INDI
1 NAME Archie Raymond /Doty/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 DEC 1889
2 PLAC Preston, KN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 27 SEP 1944
2 PLAC Lowell, IN
1 BURI
2 PLAC Fuller Cemetery, Lowell, IN
1 FAMC @F115@
1 FAMS @F1765@
0 @I379@ INDI
1 NAME Clarence Aldus /Doty/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 JUN 1893
2 PLAC Lowell, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 NOV 1970
2 PLAC Lowell, IN
1 FAMC @F115@
1 FAMS @F1766@
0 @I380@ INDI
1 NAME Cecil Guy /Doty/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 02 DEC 1901
2 PLAC Lowell, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE JUL 1977
2 PLAC IN
1 FAMC @F115@
1 FAMS @F1767@
1 FAMS @F1768@
0 @I381@ INDI
1 NAME Charles G. /Dillabaugh/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 MAY 1862
2 PLAC Rolling Prairie, LaPorte County, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 05 JUN 1940
2 PLAC Crown Point, IN
1 FAMS @F116@
0 @I382@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Louise /Dillabaugh/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 SEP 1885
2 PLAC Lake County, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1980
1 FAMC @F116@
1 FAMS @F1769@
1 FAMS @F1770@
0 @I383@ INDI
1 NAME Ida S. /Dillabaugh/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 MAY 1888
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 APR 1912
1 FAMC @F116@
1 FAMS @F1771@
0 @I384@ INDI
1 NAME Ruby /Dillabaugh/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 JUL 1891
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1986
1 FAMC @F116@
1 FAMS @F1772@
0 @I385@ INDI
1 NAME Ellis Grant /Dillabaugh/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 JUL 1893
2 PLAC Crown Point, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 OCT 1975
2 PLAC Crown Point, IN
1 BURI
2 PLAC Calumet Park Cemetery, Crown Point, IN
1 FAMC @F116@
1 FAMS @F1773@
1 FAMS @F1774@
0 @I386@ INDI
1 NAME Bessie /Dillabaugh/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 02 DEC 1895
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1896
1 FAMC @F116@
0 @I387@ INDI
1 NAME Nellie S. /Dillabaugh/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 JUL 1898
2 PLAC Crown Point, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE MAY 1979
1 FAMC @F116@
1 FAMS @F1775@
0 @I388@ INDI
1 NAME Walter /Dillabaugh/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 04 DEC 1900
2 PLAC Crown Point, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE SEP 1985
2 PLAC IL
1 FAMC @F116@
1 FAMS @F1776@
0 @I389@ INDI
1 NAME Olive /Geddes/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 MAR 1866
2 PLAC of Toto, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 01 APR 1915
2 PLAC Oneida County, Rhinelander, WI
1 FAMS @F117@
0 @I390@ INDI
1 NAME Clara Belle /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 APR 1893
2 PLAC Crown Point, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 AUG 1966
2 PLAC Milwaukee, WI
1 FAMC @F117@
1 FAMS @F1777@
0 @I391@ INDI
1 NAME Lucy Jane /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 JAN 1897
2 PLAC Crown Point, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE OCT 1977
1 FAMC @F117@
1 FAMS @F1778@
0 @I392@ INDI
1 NAME Carrie Etta /Crawford/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 AUG 1867
2 PLAC Cedar Creek Twp., Lake County, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 JUN 1928
2 PLAC Crown Point, IN
1 FAMS @F118@
0 @I393@ INDI
1 NAME Mabel Bernice /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 07 NOV 1890
2 PLAC Orchard Grove, Cedar Creek Twp. Lake County, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 FEB 1973
2 PLAC North Chicago, IL
1 BURI
2 PLAC North Shore Garden of Memories, North Chicago, IL
1 FAMC @F118@
1 FAMS @F1782@
1 FAMS @F1783@
0 @I394@ INDI
1 NAME Claude Aaron /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 01 FEB 1892
2 PLAC Orchard Grove, Cedar Creek Twp. Lake County, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 03 AUG 1967
2 PLAC Gary, IN
1 FAMC @F118@
1 FAMS @F1784@
1 NOTE In 1920, after farming in various locations in Lake County, Indiana, h
2 CONC e removed to Rhinelander, Wisconsin, where he operated the Edwin Wempl
2 CONC e farm.  In 1924 he removed from Wisconsin to Lake County, Indiana, an
2 CONC d engaged in trucking and operation of retail coal business.  His fath
2 CONC er- in-law, Frederick Hagedorn, was a Crown Point cigar manufacturer a
2 CONC nd masonry contractor. GJW
0 @I395@ INDI
1 NAME Myrtle Edith /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 05 MAR 1894
2 PLAC Orchard Grove, Cedar Creek Twp. Lake County, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 APR 1967
2 PLAC Gary, IN
1 FAMC @F118@
1 FAMS @F1785@
0 @I396@ INDI
1 NAME Neil Harold /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 03 MAR 1897
2 PLAC Cedar Creek Twp., Lake County, IN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 MAR 1979
2 PLAC Crown Point, IN
1 BURI
2 PLAC Calumet Park Cemetery, Merillville, IN
1 FAMC @F118@
1 FAMS @F1786@
0 @I397@ INDI
1 NAME Harmon /Bradt/
1 SEX M
1 DEAT
1 FAMS @F119@
0 @I398@ INDI
1 NAME Charles Wesley /Godfrey/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 DEC 1849
2 PLAC Fulton County, IL
1 DEAT
2 DATE 06 DEC 1936
2 PLAC Eldon, Miller County, MO
1 BURI
2 DATE DEC 1936
2 PLAC Eldon Cemetery, Eldon, Miller County MO
1 FAMS @F120@
0 @I399@ INDI
1 NAME Guy Tressalian /Godfrey/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 DEC 1873
2 PLAC Russellville, Cole County, MO
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 MAY 1941
2 PLAC Eldon, Miller County, MO
1 BURI
2 DATE MAY 1941
2 PLAC Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Miller County, MO
1 FAMC @F120@
1 FAMS @F4511@
0 @I400@ INDI
1 NAME Adolph /Godfrey/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1879
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1900
1 FAMC @F120@
0 @I401@ INDI
1 NAME Bertha Tempest /Godfrey/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 SEP 1884
2 PLAC Russellville, Cole County, MO
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 JUN 1950
2 PLAC Eldon, Miller County, MO
1 FAMC @F120@
1 FAMS @F4512@
0 @I402@ INDI
1 NAME FNUK /Godfrey/
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 DEC 1887
2 PLAC Springarden, Miller County, MO
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1900
1 FAMC @F120@
0 @I403@ INDI
1 NAME Marble Sunshine /Godfrey/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 DEC 1887
2 PLAC Springarden Miller County, MO
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 SEP 1967
2 PLAC Mexico, Audrain County, MO
1 BURI
2 DATE SEP 1967
2 PLAC Rosehill Cemetery, Tulsa, OK
1 FAMC @F120@
1 FAMS @F4513@
0 @I404@ INDI
1 NAME Eudora /Boone/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 MAR 1862
2 PLAC NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 06 FEB 1918
2 PLAC Dansville, MI
1 FAMS @F121@
0 @I405@ INDI
1 NAME Cecil /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 JAN 1880
2 PLAC Dansville, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 FEB 1961
2 PLAC Williamston, MI
1 FAMC @F121@
1 FAMS @F1793@
0 @I406@ INDI
1 NAME Arthur /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 JUN 1881
2 PLAC Otsego County, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE 06 JUN 1937
2 PLAC Holt, MI
1 BURI
2 PLAC Maple Ridge Cemetery, Holt, MI
1 FAMC @F121@
1 FAMS @F1794@
0 @I407@ INDI
1 NAME Charles A. /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 MAR 1884
2 PLAC Otsego Coutny, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 MAY 1943
2 PLAC Lansing, MI
1 BURI
2 PLAC Subdivision 7, Lot 265, Section Z, Mt. Hope Cemetery, Lansing, MI
1 FAMC @F121@
1 FAMS @F1795@
1 FAMS @F1796@
0 @I408@ INDI
1 NAME Lulu /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 MAY 1886
2 PLAC Dansville, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE 22 MAY 1958
2 PLAC Riverside, CA
1 FAMC @F121@
1 FAMS @F1797@
0 @I409@ INDI
1 NAME Maude Effie /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 APR 1888
2 PLAC Dansville, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 DEC 1932
2 PLAC Lansing, MI
1 FAMC @F121@
1 FAMS @F1798@
0 @I410@ INDI
1 NAME Harmen /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 JUN 1891
2 PLAC Dansville, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 NOV 1968
2 PLAC Traverse City, MI
1 FAMC @F121@
1 FAMS @F1800@
1 FAMS @F1801@
0 @I411@ INDI
1 NAME Eudora /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 07 APR 1894
2 PLAC Dansville, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1989
2 PLAC Lansing, MI
1 FAMC @F121@
1 FAMS @F1802@
1 FAMS @F1803@
1 FAMS @F1804@
0 @I412@ INDI
1 NAME Mildred /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 JAN 1896
2 PLAC Dansville, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1991
1 FAMC @F121@
1 FAMS @F1805@
0 @I413@ INDI
1 NAME Beatrice /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 JUL 1902
2 PLAC Leslie, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE 06 OCT 1976
2 PLAC probably Leslie, MI
1 BURI
2 PLAC Summit Cemetery, Williamston, MI
1 FAMC @F121@
1 FAMS @F1799@
0 @I414@ INDI
1 NAME Bernice /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1904
2 PLAC probably Leslie, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1999
1 FAMC @F121@
0 @I415@ INDI
1 NAME William Perry /Coffey/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 09 JUN 1857
2 PLAC West Plains, Howell County, MI
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 SEP 1926
1 FAMS @F122@
0 @I416@ INDI
1 NAME Samuel Wemple /Coffey/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 MAR 1883
2 PLAC West Plains, MO
1 DEAT
2 DATE 31 DEC 1950
1 FAMC @F122@
1 FAMS @F1816@
0 @I417@ INDI
1 NAME Lulu /Coffey/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 OCT 1884
2 PLAC West Plains, MO
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 FEB 1955
1 FAMC @F122@
1 FAMS @F1817@
0 @I418@ INDI
1 NAME Minnie /Coffey/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 05 DEC 1887
2 PLAC West Plains, MO
1 DEAT
2 DATE 09 AUG 1888
2 PLAC West Plains, MO
1 FAMC @F122@
0 @I419@ INDI
1 NAME Rosettie /Coffey/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 JAN 1889
2 PLAC Newport, AR
1 DEAT
2 DATE 06 SEP 1961
2 PLAC Eureka, CA
1 FAMC @F122@
1 FAMS @F1818@
0 @I420@ INDI
1 NAME George Washington /Coffey/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 FEB 1892
2 PLAC Briertown, OK
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 OCT 1958
2 PLAC Fresno, CA
1 FAMC @F122@
1 FAMS @F1819@
0 @I421@ INDI
1 NAME Victor Lee /Coffey/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 07 AUG 1893
2 PLAC Talala, OK
1 DEAT
2 DATE 27 DEC 1970
2 PLAC Denver, CO
1 FAMC @F122@
1 FAMS @F1820@
0 @I422@ INDI
1 NAME Sidney /Coffey/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 01 NOV 1895
2 PLAC Coffeyville, KS
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 AUG 1897
1 FAMC @F122@
0 @I423@ INDI
1 NAME William Adolph /Coffey/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 05 JUL 1898
2 PLAC Coffeyville, KS
1 DEAT
2 DATE (BET. 1915 - 1988)
2 PLAC Eureka, CA
1 FAMC @F122@
1 FAMS @F1821@
0 @I424@ INDI
1 NAME Andrew Jackson /Coffey/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 APR 1901
2 PLAC Coffeyville, KS
1 DEAT
2 DATE (BET. 1918 - 1991)
2 PLAC Sacramento, CA
1 FAMC @F122@
1 FAMS @F1822@
0 @I425@ INDI
1 NAME William Taylor /Coffee/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1850
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1940
1 FAMS @F123@
0 @I426@ INDI
1 NAME Johannes Simonse /Veeder/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1670
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 19 MAY 1746
2 PLAC NY
1 FAMC @F140@
1 FAMS @F124@
1 NOTE He resided on Norman's Kill, where he had a portion of his father's la
2 CONC nd.  His will was dated 19 May 1746.
0 @I427@ INDI
1 NAME Susanna /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1677
2 PLAC Albany, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 1717
2 PLAC NY
1 FAMC @F131@
1 FAMS @F124@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She married Johannes Simonse Veeder, Nov. 19, 1697. in Schenectady. Sh
2 CONC e died before 1718.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Their marriage is recorded in the Dutch Reformed Church of Albany, a
2 CONC s follows:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Nov. 1697
2 CONT 
2 CONT XIX Were married after the previous proclamation of three banns
2 CONT 
2 CONT Johannes Simonez, Y.M. (young man)
2 CONT &
2 CONT Susanna Wimp, Y.D. (young daughter)
2 CONT both living at Schenectady.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Their daughter Debora, baptized Jany 17, 1703, married Reyer Wemple, h
2 CONC er first cousin.
0 @I428@ INDI
1 NAME Deborah /Veeder/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 20 JUN 1698
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1702
1 FAMC @F124@
0 @I429@ INDI
1 NAME Engeltje /Veeder/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 27 OCT 1700
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1795
1 FAMC @F124@
1 FAMS @F141@
0 @I430@ INDI
1 NAME Maria /Veeder/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 01 APR 1705
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1800
1 FAMC @F124@
1 FAMS @F142@
0 @I431@ INDI
1 NAME Myndert /Veeder/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 APR 1707
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1797
1 FAMC @F124@
1 FAMS @F143@
0 @I432@ INDI
1 NAME Simon Johannes /Veeder/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 OCT 1709
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1799
1 FAMC @F124@
1 FAMS @F144@
1 FAMS @F145@
1 FAMS @F146@
1 FAMS @F147@
1 FAMS @F148@
0 @I433@ INDI
1 NAME Johannes Myndert /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 AUG 1684
2 PLAC Albany, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 OCT 1749
2 PLAC Fort Hunter, NY
1 FAMC @F131@
1 FAMS @F125@
1 FAMS @F126@
1 NOTE At the massacre of Schenectady, February 9, 1690, he was carried priso
2 CONC ner to Canada, along with two of his father's slaves.  Upon returnin
2 CONC g to Schenectady, he acted in his father's stead as Trustee of the Sch
2 CONC enectady Patent.  In 1711, he and four others built Fort Hunter at th
2 CONC e junction of the Mohawk River and the Scheris Creek.  He was a lieute
2 CONC nant in Captain Glen's Company in 1715.  He removed to the vicinity o
2 CONC f Fort Hunter in 1733 and became one of the first settlers of that loc
2 CONC ality.  He was granted 430 acres there in 1737, part still being owne
2 CONC d and occupied by some of his descendants. He was also granted 1935 ac
2 CONC res near Schenectady in 1737. WBW
2 CONT 
2 CONT Excerpts from papers sent to me by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, M
2 CONC I on September 5, 1996.  From THE MOHAWK VALLEY: ITS LEGENDS AND ITS H
2 CONC ISTORY, 1609-1780   W. Max Reid pg 299: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Myndert, the eldest son of Jan Barentse Wemp, had a son Johannes, als
2 CONC o called Jan, or John, who, in 1711, lived in the 'Mohawk's country, o
2 CONC n the Mohawk River.'  On the 11th day of October of that year, Governo
2 CONC r Hunter made a contract with John Wemp, Garret Symonse, Barent Vroman
2 CONC , Hendrick Vroman, and Arent Van Patten, of Schenectady, to build th
2 CONC e fortification called Fort Hunter, at the mouth of the Schoharie Rive
2 CONC r, and Queen Anne's Chapel, which was situated inside the palisade o
2 CONC r fort. The fort and chapel were completed in 1712.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jan Wemp, as he was called by his Dutch neighbors, owned part of the f
2 CONC ourth flat of the Schenectady patent, which was located at Pattersonvi
2 CONC lle.  On December 16, 1737, he obtained a patent of 450 acres of lan
2 CONC d in the town of Florida, located east of Queen Anne's Chapel glebe, a
2 CONC nd adjoining the same on the west, and the Babbington patent of 1717
2 CONC , on the east.  He died October 14, 1749.  He married first, Catalina
2 CONC , daughter of Reyer Schermerhorn, June 15, 1700, and second, Ariaantje
2 CONC , daughter of Isaac Swits, October 6, 1709, and had twelve children; s
2 CONC ix sons and six daughters.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Johannes Myndert Wemple's will as recorded in THE WEMPLE FAMILY, by Wi
2 CONC lliam C. Wemple and sent to me by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI o
2 CONC n September 5, 1996:
2 CONT 
2 CONT In the name of God, Amen, I, Jan Wemple, of the Mohawk Country, on th
2 CONC e Mohawk River, in the County of Albany, being of perfect, sound min
2 CONC d and memory, blessed be God, wherefore but considering the frailty o
2 CONC f this life, and certainty of death, and the uncertain time and hour t
2 CONC hereof, do therefore this fifth day of March, in the 21 year of the re
2 CONC ign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, and the year of our Lor
2 CONC d Christ one thousand seven hundred and forty seven and eight, make or
2 CONC dain and publish this my last will and testament -
2 CONT 
2 CONT That is to say principally and first of all I give and commend my immo
2 CONC rtal soul after its departure our this frail body, into the merciful h
2 CONC ands of God that gave it me. Hoping and trusting for the pardon of m
2 CONC y sins and transgressions, in and thru the meritorious death and passi
2 CONC on of the Blessed Son of God, Jesus Christ, our Saviour and Redeemer.
2 CONT 
2 CONT As my body, I recommend it to the earth to be interred in a Christia
2 CONC n like and decent manner, at the discretion of my wife and children.
2 CONT 
2 CONT And, as for such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bles
2 CONC s me with in this life, after my just debts and funeral charges be pai
2 CONC d and satisfied, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the followi
2 CONC ng manner and form.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Imprimis - I give to my son Myndert Wemple, deceased, his oldest son J
2 CONC ohn Wemple, my small Island containing about 1 acre of land, situate
2 CONC , lying and being in the Township of Schenectady in the Mohawk River
2 CONC , on the south side of the foremost island as also my full, true and j
2 CONC ust Eighth part in the saw mill, Dam, Saws, Utensils and grounds and p
2 CONC rivileges to said mill belonging, situate, standing and being with th
2 CONC e limits and bounds of the Township of Schenectady, on the east side o
2 CONC f the Mohawk river, about 4 miles from Schenectady, north east on a ce
2 CONC rtain creek called 'The Mill Creek.'  To hold for him, the said John W
2 CONC emple and his heirs an assigns forever, wherewith he must be satisfie
2 CONC d and make no further pretense to any part of my estate for being my h
2 CONC eir at law.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item - I give my son Reyer Wemple and to his heirs and assigns I do gi
2 CONC ve and devise all that my messsuge of tenement with Appurtenances ther
2 CONC eunto belonging, situate, lying and being on the south side of the Moh
2 CONC awk River, in the limits and bounds of the town of Schenectady, in th
2 CONC e County of Albany where he, the said Reyer, lived on so as it now bel
2 CONC ongs to me, commonly called Damhauer and Warmoes Gadt at a place call
2 CONC ed Woestine. To hold to him and my said son Reyer Wemple, his heirs a
2 CONC nd assigns forever.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item - To my sons Isaac Wemple and Ephraim Wemple and to their heirs a
2 CONC nd assigns forever I do give and devise my westerly part of my Low ara
2 CONC ble land, being my great flats situate, lying and being on the south s
2 CONC ide of the Mohawk river, in the Mohawks country, lying to the west o
2 CONC f my house and homestead where I now live and beginning by the cross f
2 CONC ence which stands a little to the west of a small creek about 200 yard
2 CONC s westerly up the river and so taking in all my arable land which lie
2 CONC s to the west of the cross fence, being my great flats aforesaid.  T
2 CONC o hold them my said sons, Isaac Wemple and Ephraim Wemple, their heir
2 CONC s and assigns forever, to be equally divided and shared by them and am
2 CONC ong them share and share alike, to the one no more nor better thereo
2 CONC f than to the other.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item - To my son John Wemple, Jr. and to his heirs and assigns forever
2 CONC , I do give and devise my easterly part of arable low land, situate, l
2 CONC ying and being on the south side of the Mohawk River, in the Mohawks c
2 CONC ountry, lying to the east of my dwelling house and homestead beginnin
2 CONC g at the cross fence about 200 yards to the west of my said dwelling h
2 CONC ouse, and so taking in my houses, barns, orchard, homestead, togethe
2 CONC r with my arable land lying to the east of my said house called Rober
2 CONC t En Haihge as also my island lying in the Mohawk river just opposit
2 CONC e my house in the Mohawks country called 'island to hold to him, m
2 CONC y son John Wempel his heirs and assigns forever.
2 CONT 
2 CONT To my three sons Isaac Wempel, Epharim Wempel and John Wempel, and t
2 CONC o their heirs and assigns forever, I do give and devise all my woodlan
2 CONC d, pastures ground, and premises and appurtenances thereunto belonging
2 CONC , situate, lying and being in the Mohawks country, adjoining to the so
2 CONC uth of the low land and homestead herein about devised to them, to hol
2 CONC d to them their heirs and assigns forever, all to be equally shared an
2 CONC d divided by them, and among them, share and share alike to the one n
2 CONC o more nor better than to the other.
2 CONT 
2 CONT To my loving wife Arejaentje Wempel, I do give and bequeath all the re
2 CONC st and residue of real estate all my Negro slaves young and old, all m
2 CONC y household goods and furniture, linen and woolen bedding, palte, catt
2 CONC le, etc, during her widowhood for her maintenance and livelihood and i
2 CONC mmediately after my said wife Arejaentje decease, if she remains unmar
2 CONC ried or immediately after her remarriage which shall happen first,
2 CONT 
2 CONT I do then devise and dispose of the same in manner and form following
2 CONC , to wit:
2 CONT To my daughter Arejaentje, deceased her son Arent Bradt and her daught
2 CONC er Catollientje Bradt, children of Captain Andries Bradt, and to thei
2 CONC r heirs and assigns forever, I do give and devise two morgans of arabl
2 CONC e lowland, situate lying and being on an island which lies near the to
2 CONC wn of Schenectady to the bounds of said township to the west of side o
2 CONC f the town, in the Mohawk river, on the southerly half of said island
2 CONC , is bounded west by two morgans of land, which I some time past conve
2 CONC yed to Widow van Driesen and north by the northerly half of the said i
2 CONC sland now belonging to Captain Jacobus Van Sleyck and south by the cre
2 CONC ek and so running along the said creek and partition of fence of Capta
2 CONC in Jacobus Van Sleyck, easterly till it takes in the full quantity o
2 CONC f two morgans (about 4 acres) of arable land to hold to them their hei
2 CONC rs and assigns forever, all to be equally shared and divided by them a
2 CONC nd among them, share and share alike, to the one no more or better the
2 CONC reof than to the other.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. To my daughter, Maria Butler, the wife of Lieutenant Walter Butl
2 CONC er, Jr. and to her heirs and assigns forever, I do give and devise tw
2 CONC o morgans of arable lowland situate lying and being in the bounds of t
2 CONC he town of Schenectady on the above named island, on the south side th
2 CONC ereof, bounded west by the two morgans of arable land herein above giv
2 CONC en and devised to my grandchildren Arent Brandt and Catolintje Brandt
2 CONC , children of my daughter Anjentje late deceased; as above state nort
2 CONC h by Captain Jacobus Van Sleyck above named and south by the creek an
2 CONC d running so along the creek and the partition fence of Captain Jacobu
2 CONC s Van Sleyck till it takes in the full quantity of two morgans of arab
2 CONC le land, to have to her, my said daughter Maria, and to her heirs an
2 CONC d assigns forever.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. To my daughter, Rebecca Coneyn, the wife of Peter Coneyn and t
2 CONC o her heirs and assigns forever, I do devise two morgans of arable low
2 CONC land situate, lying and being in the bounds of the town of Schenectad
2 CONC y on the above island on the south thereto bounded west by two morgan
2 CONC s of arable land herein above given and devised to my daughter, Maria
2 CONC , south by the creek, north by Captain Jacobus Van Sleyck as above nam
2 CONC ed an so running along the creek and the partition fence of Captain Ja
2 CONC cobus Van Sleyck till it takes in full quantity of two morgans of arab
2 CONC le land, to hold to her my said daughter, Rebecca, and to her heirs an
2 CONC d assigns forever.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. To my son Myndert Wempel deceased, his two sons, John Wempel an
2 CONC d Myndert Wempel and to their heirs and assigns forever, I do give dev
2 CONC ise all the rest and residue of said island situate, lying and being i
2 CONC n the bounds of the township of Schenectady just southwesterly of th
2 CONC e said town, called the first or foremost island, bounded west by th
2 CONC e two morgans of land herein last above given and devised to my daught
2 CONC er, Rebecca, south and east by the creek, north by Captain Jacobus Va
2 CONC n Sleyck, as also my house and lot of ground lying in the town of Sche
2 CONC nectady bounded east by the street, south by Daniel DeGraaf, north b
2 CONC y the lot of Seymons Johan Veeder and west by the creek to held to the
2 CONC m, their heirs & assigns forever, all to be equally shared and divide
2 CONC d by them and among them, share and share alike, to the one no more no
2 CONC r better thereof than to the other.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. It is  my will and I do order and direct my four sons to wit; Re
2 CONC yer Wempel, Isaac Wempel, Ephraim Wempel and John Wempel, or their hei
2 CONC rs or assigns to pay or cause to be paid all my just debts and funera
2 CONC l charges, which I shall have paid at the time of my decease.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. It is my will and express order that if my two grandchildren her
2 CONC ein above named John Wempel, and Myndert Wempel , sons of my son Mynde
2 CONC rt Wempel deceased, as above named do or shall happen to die without l
2 CONC awful issue of their body or bodies, Then what I have herein above giv
2 CONC en and devised him or them, so died as aforesaid with out lawful issue
2 CONC , shall descend and devolve on all my sons and daughters herein name
2 CONC d equally and share and share and divide by them and among them, and s
2 CONC hare and share alike, to the one no more nor better thereof than to th
2 CONC e others, anything herein contained to the contrary thereof not withst
2 CONC anding.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. It is my will if one or more of my three sons it wit; Isaac Wemp
2 CONC el, Ephraim Wempel, or John Wempel shall die without lawful issue of h
2 CONC is or their bodies that the survivor or survivors of my said three son
2 CONC s last named shall then have what I herein above have given & devise
2 CONC d him or them so deceased as aforesaid, paying thereof in my just debt
2 CONC s he or they so died without lawful issue was herein above directed an
2 CONC d obliged to pay and perform.
2 CONT 
2 CONT I give and bequeath unto my son Isaac Wempel, my Negro boy named Caspe
2 CONC l. I give and bequeath unto my son Ephraim Wempel, my Negro named Char
2 CONC les. I give and bequeath unto my son John Wemple, my Negro boy named T
2 CONC obie. I give and bequeath unto my granddaughter, the daughter of my da
2 CONC ughter, Arrantie wife of Captain Andries Bradt late deceased Catalient
2 CONC je, my Negro wench called Rood. I give and bequeath unto my daughter D
2 CONC eborah, the wife of Barent Wemple, my Negro wench named Hen.  I give a
2 CONC nd bequeath unto my daughter Maria the wife of Lieutenant Walter Butle
2 CONC r, my Negro wench named Saar.  I give and bequeath unto my daughter Re
2 CONC becca my Negro girl named Mary.  I give and bequeath unto my son Joh
2 CONC n Wempel, my Negro man named Ned and my Negro wench named Gin, he to p
2 CONC ay therefor to my grandson Myndert Wempel, above named the sum of twen
2 CONC ty pounds, current money of New York, seven years after my wife's dece
2 CONC ase. I give and bequeath unto my son Ephramim Wemple, my Negro man nam
2 CONC ed Prince, he paying therefor my grandson, John Wempel about named th
2 CONC e sum of twenty pounds current money of New York seven years after m
2 CONC y wife's decease.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Lastly, I make and ordain my brother Jacob Glen and my good friend Rob
2 CONC ert Sanders Executers of this my last will and testament, and do desir
2 CONC e them to execute the same for me according to my true intention and m
2 CONC eaning. Lastly I do hereby disannul and revoke all former wills by bef
2 CONC ore this time made, willing that this and no other heretofore made t
2 CONC o be my last will and testament.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In witness whereof I the said Jan Wempel have to this my last will an
2 CONC d testament set my hand and seal the day and year first above written.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Johannes Wemp was born in Schenectady about 1675 but now document ca
2 CONC n now be found which definitely gives the date, because the church rec
2 CONC ords as well as nearly all other papers were lost in the destruction o
2 CONC f Schenectady on Feb. 9 1689/90.
2 CONT 
2 CONT At the time of this occurrence, Jan was captured and taken to Canada a
2 CONC s a prisoner, along with two of his father's slaves. An official repor
2 CONC t of the attack and its result was made to the Alderman of Albany whic
2 CONC h mentions Jan Wemp, son of Myndert Wemp, with two negers as among t
2 CONC hose made prisoners. This report is bound in a book entitled MORTGAG
2 CONC E BOOK, 1753-1765, in the Albany County Clerk's office and is include
2 CONC d in the minutes of that date.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jan was finally restored to liberty and returned to his home but jus
2 CONC t how long he was retained as a prisoner is not known.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Notwithstanding the loss of his birth record and his subsequent captur
2 CONC e, there is no trouble to easily prove the Jan Wemp, who for so many y
2 CONC ears occupied such a prominent and influential position on the Mohaw
2 CONC k Valley and was the owner of a great deal of very valuable land, to t
2 CONC he son of Myndert Janse Wemp and the person claimed.
2 CONT 
2 CONT His father, as has been elsewhere shown, was one of the original trust
2 CONC ees of the Schenectady Patent, by virtue of the Dongan grant made Nov
2 CONC . 1, 1684, and upon Myndert's death in 1690 his son Jan acted in his s
2 CONC tead. as soon as the law would permit, in the capacity of eldest son a
2 CONC nd heir,in all matters concerning the administration of the affairs re
2 CONC lating to the Patent. In DEEDS D-No. 4, Albany County Clerk's office
2 CONC , is recorded a conveyance dated Feb. 27,1689/90. wherein Jan Myndert
2 CONC se Wemp, son of Myndert Wemp, deceased, unites with the other trustee
2 CONC s of the Schenectady Patent in granting to Gysbert Marceelis some isla
2 CONC nds in the Mohawk river at Schenectady. Although the body of the dee
2 CONC d mentions him as Jan Myndertse Wemp he signs it simply as Jan Wemp
2 CONC  and which was ever his customary signature, with two exceptions.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In the same office, a similar deed in recorded in DEEDS E-No. 5 -DEED
2 CONC S AND WILLS 2, on page 106, dated June 3, 1701, which reads as follows
2 CONC :
2 CONT 
2 CONT TO ALL CHRISTIAN PEOPLE to whom the present writing shall come Reye
2 CONC r Schermerhorn, Jan Baptist Van Eps, eldest son of Jan Van Eps decease
2 CONC d, and Jan Wemp, eldest son of Myndert Wemp, deceased on behalfe of th
2 CONC e Town of Schanegtde & places adjacent, Trustees, Seneth Greeting, Whe
2 CONC reas Pynier Schaets was heretofore in his live time in peaceable posse
2 CONC ssion of a certain Lott of ground at Schanegtade town aforesaid whereo
2 CONC f as yet no Patent nor Transport on the name of s'd Ryer Shaets can b
2 CONC e found, so that we can believe the writeings thereof among others wer
2 CONC e burned when the french of Canada distoryed s'd town of the 9th day o
2 CONC f Feb. 1689/90 and whereas the s'd lott afterwards was sold by Gideo
2 CONC n Schaets, eldest son of Rynier Schaets Dec'd., to Albert Ffedder, wh
2 CONC o now desires that the same may be conveyed to s'd Ffedder, KNOW YEE t
2 CONC hat we the said Ryer Schermerhorn, Jan Baptist Van Eps and Jan Wemp, o
2 CONC n the behalf as afores'd, having by virtue of the generall patent gran
2 CONC ted by governor Tho: DDongan, the first day of November 1684, conveye
2 CONC d, transported & confirmed into s'd Albert Vedder.  . . . 
2 CONT 
2 CONT On 11th October, 1711, he and four others made a contract with Governo
2 CONC r Hunter for the erection of two forts --- one at Fort Hunter (named i
2 CONC n honor of the governor), the other at Onondage; the were to be comple
2 CONC ted by July 1, 1713 and the price stipulated was was 1000 pounds. Th
2 CONC e Chapel which they built within the enclosure of Fort Hunter was th
2 CONC e famous QUEEN ANNE'S CHAPEL renounced in local history. The origina
2 CONC l contract is preserved in Volume 56, page 124, of COLONIAL MANUSCRIPT
2 CONC S OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, State Library, Albany.
2 CONT 
2 CONT According to the roster of Captain Johannes Sanders Glen's company o
2 CONC f Schenectady in 1715, contained in volume 60, page 53, of COLONIAL MA
2 CONC NUSCRIPTS, above mentioned, he was the Lieutenant of the company and h
2 CONC e signs the return certifying to its correctness (for certified copy s
2 CONC ee document No. 66).  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT A list of Freeholders of the City and County of Albany, dated May 22
2 CONC , 1733 preserved in volume 70, page 58 COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS,  . . . en
2 CONC umerates him as a freeholder living in Schenectady. This was only a fe
2 CONC w months prior to his being a resident of the Mohawks County, as alr
2 CONC eady shown in mention of deed dated September 24, 1733, so it must hav
2 CONC e been between these two dates that he removed to the latter locality
2 CONC . 
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was on of the very earliest residents of Montgomery County, of th
2 CONC e Mohawks Country as it was then called.
2 CONT 
2 CONT August 5, 1736, he petitions for a license to purchase a tract of lan
2 CONC d from the Indians, lying on the south side of the Mohawk River, begin
2 CONC ning by a certain rock called Astaghrogon by the native Indians, on th
2 CONC e bank of the said river,containing about 540 acres, also three smal
2 CONC l islands in said river opposite the land of Wouter Swart, containin
2 CONC g together about fourteen acres. (LAND PAPERS, volume 12, page 38, Sec
2 CONC retary of State's office, Albany.)
2 CONT 
2 CONT He at once moved upon this property and resided upon it the remainde
2 CONC r of his life-time, in his will devising it ot his children, who hav
2 CONC e successively handed it down, a portion sill being held by his descen
2 CONC dants and occupied by them to the present day.  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT The original will of Ryer Schemerhorn is on file in the office of th
2 CONC e Clerk of the Court of Appeals, Albany, NY and a portion relating t
2 CONC o Jan Wemp's three children by Catalina Schermerhorn is quoted below:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item, From and after the determination of the said estate to my wif
2 CONC e as above said, I give and devise to my said eldest son, John Scherme
2 CONC rhorne and his heirs and assigns forever all my reale estate, lands, t
2 CONC enements and herditaments where I now live in Schenectady, Provided al
2 CONC lways and it is my true intent and meaning that if my said son John Sc
2 CONC hermerhorne doth possess and enjoy the aforesaid estate of the aforesa
2 CONC id devise made unto him. then and in such case he may said son John Sc
2 CONC hermerhorne shall transport and convey and confirme into John Wemp's t
2 CONC hree children, Myndert, Reyert and Ariaentje, procreated on the body o
2 CONC f my deceised daughter Cataline late wife of John Wemp, and their heir
2 CONC s and assigns forever, the one half or morjety of the house and land w
2 CONC here he my said son John now lives on the north side of the Maques Riv
2 CONC er, above the Town of Schonectady, and the other half to my daughter J
2 CONC anneke, wife of Volkert Symononsen, and her heirs and assigns foreve
2 CONC r otherwise the aforesaid gift an devise to my said son John and his h
2 CONC eirs and assigns to be utterly void and none effect.
0 @I434@ INDI
1 NAME Catalina /Schermerhorn/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1681
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 1708
2 PLAC probably Schenectady, NY
1 FAMS @F125@
0 @I435@ INDI
1 NAME Myndert /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 09 NOV 1701
2 PLAC probably Schenectady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE NOV 1739
2 PLAC Baltimore, MD
1 FAMC @F125@
1 FAMS @F133@
1 NOTE Ella Kate Wemple Wilson, Myndert's fourth great-granddaughter, submitt
2 CONC ed this paper to the Schenectady County Historical Society.  It is tit
2 CONC led Myndert Wemple 1701-1738 and dated August 1, 1988, prepared by Mrs
2 CONC . Ella-Kate Wemple Wilson:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Myndert Wemple was baptized in the Schenectady Reformed Church Novembe
2 CONC r 9, 1701, the first born son of Johannes Wemp and Catalina Schermerho
2 CONC rn. (1-1)  Both parents belonged to families with large landholdings a
2 CONC nd they held positions of influence in the community.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Three more children were born in the household and when Myndert was ab
2 CONC out age 7 his mother died.  In 1909 his father married again, to Ariaa
2 CONC ntje Swits. (2-1)
2 CONT 
2 CONT Myndert's grandfather, Reyer Schermerhorn, died February 1719 and bequ
2 CONC eathed farmland to the four children of Catalina, on the Seventh Fla
2 CONC t on the north side of the Mohawk River.  This land they held until 17
2 CONC 33. (3-1)
2 CONT 
2 CONT Myndert left home and went to Boston to work for his cousin, Jacob Wen
2 CONC dell.  Jacob was born in Albany in 1691 and moved to Boston where he b
2 CONC ecame a well known merchant and ship owner.  A nephew, John Wendell, b
2 CONC ecame associated with him in business. (4-1) In time, Jacob Wendell pr
2 CONC omoted Myndert Wemple to be the captain of his sloop Albany for trad
2 CONC ing along the eastern seaboard and Caribbean ports.  Boston newspaper
2 CONC s reported the arrivals and departures of all trading vessels as show
2 CONC n on (the) enclosed page, and thus we have a list of Voges made.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Ben Franklin's PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE reported a hurricane in the port o
2 CONC f Charleston, SC on August 27, 1730.  He lists eleven vessels in port
2 CONC ; he lists the the ships which were lost, and he lists others which ro
2 CONC de out the storm.  In the latter group was the Sloop Albany of Boston
2 CONC , Mindert Wemple, Master. (5-1)
2 CONT 
2 CONT Myndert was probably on his way to his wedding.  The entry in the Sain
2 CONC t Peters Parish Register of Talbot County, MD shows Captain Mangret Wi
2 CONC mple married Sarah Mills October 22, 1730.  One wonders if that was th
2 CONC e way he pronounced his name?  According to the same Parish Register
2 CONC , Sarah Mills was baptized there December, 1707, the daughter of Davi
2 CONC d and Mary Mills. (See enclosure)
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Captain took his bride to Boston to live and he continued his coas
2 CONC twise trading.  The Maryland Historical Society has the original recor
2 CONC d of the Port of Oxford on the eastern shore of Maryland showing tha
2 CONC t on December 13, 1731 Cap'n Mindert Wimple in the Sloop Albany, pai
2 CONC d the fees and duties of 19 pounds, 14 shillings and 8 Pense for his c
2 CONC argo of English goods, rum and Madera wine, and he left the port agai
2 CONC n on March 23. (See enclosure)
2 CONT 
2 CONT The master of a ship trading in the Chesapeake was obliged not only t
2 CONC o navigate his ship, but also to dispose of the cargo, purchase tobacc
2 CONC o and engage freight.  From activity of this sort it was a short ste
2 CONC p to settle down and become a merchant in his own right.
2 CONT 
2 CONT On October 21, 1735 Mindert Wymple, mariner, bought from Anthony Richa
2 CONC rdson, gent. of Talbot County for 60 pounds current money of Marylan
2 CONC d 250 acres of land in Dorchester County on the Great Choptank River
2 CONC . (1-2)  This was an excellent site for his purpose.  The Choptank wa
2 CONC s navigable from the Chesapeake Bay up to Cabin Creek, and the surroun
2 CONC ding farm lands were already cultivated for commercial production of t
2 CONC obacco.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Myndert died in March 1738.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The next record is an Inventory of the goods and chattels of Minder
2 CONC t Wimple, late of Dorchester County, Deceased, 8th day of November Ann
2 CONC o 1739 (1-3)
2 CONT 
2 CONT The inventory reflects a man who was well dressed, lived conformably
2 CONC , had settled down to become a merchant in his own right, and a plante
2 CONC r of tobacco and farm products like his neighbors.  He had 3 cows, a s
2 CONC mall bull and a heifer, 2 large oxen, 10 head sheep, 2 horses, 6 hea
2 CONC d hogs and 1 servant man called Thomas who had 1 year and 5 months t
2 CONC o serve.  The oddest thing was that the inventory contains 20 chairs
2 CONC .  He must have lived in a large house.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In Chancery Court a suit was filed: On November 22, 1739 came Jacob W
2 CONC endell, John Wendell and Edmund Quincy, of the New England Merchants o
2 CONC f Boston, who exhibited their suit against John Harris and Sarah his w
2 CONC ife. Sarah had remarried immediately! (2-3)
2 CONT 
2 CONT The suit brings out the story.  Before 1736 Mindert Wimple made voyage
2 CONC s to and from Boston, representing the New England merchants.  On eac
2 CONC h voyage from Boston before 1736 he used to bring a cargo of goods, an
2 CONC d the effects which such cargo purchased here to carry with him to Bos
2 CONC ton and there settle his accounts on the completion of each voyage.  A
2 CONC fter he moved to Maryland he continued to receive goods and effects, a
2 CONC s a factor, for sale.  He also had good from other persons in Boston a
2 CONC nd in his books little distinction was made.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The complainants alleged that Mindert owned them an unpaid balance amo
2 CONC unting to 5,000 pounds New England currency.  The defendants were sur
2 CONC e this couldn't be true, but they had trouble understanding the accoun
2 CONC ts. A commission was appointed by the court to make a study and they r
2 CONC esolved that the amount due to Jacob Wendell and company was 199 pound
2 CONC s.
2 CONT 
2 CONT From the Chancery Suit there are lists of goods which were traded, an
2 CONC d they are worth perusing.
2 CONT 
2 CONT From Boston, sent to Cap'n Wimple for sale in Maryland were fabrics su
2 CONC ch as Dowles, fine and course, Cambrics, Wide Garlic, Blew Calico, Cot
2 CONC ton Rabalais, and Rushis Linen.
2 CONT 
2 CONT And there are Oznabrigs, one time quoted in yards, one time in pounds
2 CONC , and one in half bushels. (1-4)
2 CONT 
2 CONT There were bricks, axes, pots and kettles, jugs and chamber pots.  The
2 CONC re was rum, wine, molasses, cheese, salt, pepper, ginger, allspice an
2 CONC d sugar.
2 CONT 
2 CONT From Maryland to Boston went wheat, corn, walnut timber, and pork.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Even in that day court action was not speedy.  The deliberations of th
2 CONC e court started in 1739, and the final decision was not reached unti
2 CONC l February, 1745.
2 CONT 
2 CONT What about the children of Myndert and Sarah?  According to The Wempl
2 CONC e Genealogy there were three boys and a girl who died young.  (2-4) T
2 CONC he boys were named Johannes, Myndert and Andrew.  When their grandfath
2 CONC er Johannes Wemple wrote his will in 1748 he named the two sons of m
2 CONC y deceased son Myndert - John and Myndert. (3-4)  What happened to An
2 CONC drew? I do not know.  According to tradition the boys left Maryland an
2 CONC d moved to the Schenectady area in 1759.  It was Myndert, son of Mind
2 CONC ert Wimple of Dorchester County, deceased who sold the 250 Maryland a
2 CONC cres in 1767.
2 CONT 
2 CONT (1-1) Schenectady Reformed Church Baptisms, 1694-1811
2 CONT (2-1) Genealogies of the First Settlers of Schenectady. pg. 289
2 CONT (3-1) History of the Schenectady Patent. Pearson. pg. 143
2 CONT (4-1) N.E.H.G.R. July 1882. pg. 246
2 CONT (5-1) Abstracts from Ben Franklin's PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE. 1728-1748 p
2 CONC p 31-32
2 CONT (1-2) Dorchester County Land Records. Libra Old #9, Fol. 324-5 MD Stat
2 CONC e Archives.
2 CONT (1-3) Inventories Liber 24, Fol. 389-90 MD State Archives.
2 CONT (2-3) Chancery Record. Vol. 7, pp 513-30 MD State Archives.
2 CONT (1-4) Osnabury.  A kind of course linen originally made in Osnabruck
2 CONC , North Germany.
2 CONT (2-4) NYG&B July 1904. pg 195.
2 CONT (3-4) Dorchester County Land Records. Old Vol. 22 pp. 360-363.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT SOME OF THE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN MINDERT WIMPLE
2 CONT Abstracted from the Boston newspapers, THE BOSTON GAZETTE and THE WEEK
2 CONC LY NEWSLETTER.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1730
2 CONT Apr. 29   Entered inwards from South Carolina.
2 CONT May 6     Cleared out for South Carolina.
2 CONT July 1    Entered inwards from South Carolina.
2 CONT July 8    Outward bound for New York.
2 CONT Aug. 27   In hurricane, Port of Charleston, SC.
2 CONT Oct. 12   Entered inwards from South Carolina.
2 CONT Nov. 11   Cleared out for Virginia.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1731
2 CONT Apr.28    Entered for Newfoundland.
2 CONT May 5     Entered inwards from Newfoundland.
2 CONT July 21   Cleared out for New York and Albany.
2 CONT Oct. 6    Entered inwards from New York.
2 CONT Nov. 27   Cleared out for Virginia.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1732
2 CONT Apr. 12   Entered inwards from Maryland.
2 CONT Apr. 12   Outbound for Newfoundland.
2 CONT June 21   Entered inwards from South Carolina.
2 CONT Aug. 9    Cleared out for Newfoundland.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1733
2 CONT June 6    Entered inwards from the Isle of May.
2 CONT June 27   Outward bound for Barbados.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1734
2 CONT July 17   Cleared out for London.
2 CONT Dec. 5    Entered from New Castle.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1735
2 CONT Jan. 15   Cleared out for Leeward Islands.
2 CONT Jul. 5    Entered inwards for Antigua.
2 CONT Jul.16    Cleared out for Maryland.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1736 Outward for West Indies.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was baptized November 9, 1701, in the Reformed Chruch, Schenectady
2 CONC ; married Sarah Mills. He was not living in 1748, when his father's wi
2 CONC ll was made.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In DEEDS F --- No. 6, page 145, Albany County Clerk's office, Albany
2 CONC , NY is a deed, dated August 8, 1727, in which Mindert Wimpel, of Bos
2 CONC ton, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, mariner, deed to his broth
2 CONC er Reyer Wemp, land at Hoffman's Ferry, which his grandfather, Reye
2 CONC r Schermerhorn, had devised to Myndert, Reyer and Arientie, it bein
2 CONC g his share of one just sixth part of the eastermost half of the seav
2 CONC enth fflatts, lying and being on the north side of the Marques River
2 CONC , about seven miles above the said Town of Schonectady and also a six
2 CONC th part of a tract in New Jersey about twenty-seven miles about Amboy
2 CONC .
2 CONT 
2 CONT His marriage was somewhat romantic. He was the captain of a vessel an
2 CONC d on one of the voyages from Scotland, he had as a passenger a young S
2 CONC cotch woman by the name of Sarah Mills. They fell in love and the pass
2 CONC age across the Atlantic in those days consuming several months, they h
2 CONC ad ample opportunity for courtship and ascertaining their true feeling
2 CONC s, so that when they landed they were prepared to become man and wife
2 CONC , which they at once did.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He finally settled with his family in Baltimore, MD, where he died, a
2 CONC s evidenced by a letter still in possession of Miss Sarah Wemple, of C
2 CONC harlton, NY, which was written in 1760 by his widow, who had at that t
2 CONC ime married a Harris, for her second husband, and is directed as follo
2 CONC ws: Mr John Wempell, son of Captain Myndert Wempell deceased in Maryl
2 CONC and, living in Schenectady.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Myndert's children all moved North and settled close to the old home
2 CONC , in or near the Mohawk Valley.
2 CONT 
2 CONT On November 3, 1767 his son Myndert sells to Philip Walker, 250 acre
2 CONC s of land in Dorchester County, Maryland, on Great Choplank River; th
2 CONC e deed recites that Mindart Wimple (son of Mindart Wimple, late of Do
2 CONC rchester County, deceased) is the grantor. A copy of this deed is i
2 CONC n possession of the above mentioned Miss Sarah Wemple.
2 CONT 
2 CONT From his roving disposition, the common error has crept in that he wa
2 CONC s born in Holland, England, or some other foreign country and emigrate
2 CONC d to America. Many are the stories on this basis that have been relate
2 CONC d by some of his descendants, but they are all illusions and the abov
2 CONC e facts can be implicitly relied upon, for great care has been taken o
2 CONC n that account.
0 @I436@ INDI
1 NAME Johannes /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 28 OCT 1705
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1716
1 FAMC @F125@
0 @I437@ INDI
1 NAME Ariaantje /Swits/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1690
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE AFT 1732
2 PLAC Fort Hunter, NY
1 FAMS @F126@
0 @I438@ INDI
1 NAME Barent /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 13 NOV 1712
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1748
1 FAMC @F126@
0 @I439@ INDI
1 NAME Isaac /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 28 AUG 1715
2 PLAC Bethleham Center, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1810
1 FAMC @F126@
1 FAMS @F134@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was baptized in Schenectady, August 28, 1715. Married Elizabeth Nie
2 CONC uwkerk, for which a bond was entered into October 31, 1738 and recorde
2 CONC d in volume 1, page 11 of MARRIAGE BONDS, in the State Library, Albany
2 CONC , NY
2 CONT 
2 CONT In a tax list of the MOHAWKS COUNTRY, dated January 31, 1745, being do
2 CONC cument No. 1354 of the Van Rensselaer Papers, owned by Mr. Wm. Bayar
2 CONC d Van Rensselaer, Albany, NY, he is classed as an inhabitant of that l
2 CONC ocality.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In the SIR Wm. JOHNSON MANUSCRIPTS, in the New York State Library, vol
2 CONC ume 1, page 81, John B. van Epps informs Sir William, under the date o
2 CONC f June 4, 1749, that some things have seen sent up from Schenectady t
2 CONC o the latter by Eysack Wempell. In volume 7, page 19, is a letter da
2 CONC ted April 4, 1763, from Wm. Corry to Sir Wm., in which he states tha
2 CONC t he has received of Isaac Wemple estate L7. 10. 3., hence is to suppo
2 CONC sed that he died about that time.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He resided on land along the Mohawk River, devised to him by his fathe
2 CONC r's will.
0 @I440@ INDI
1 NAME Maritie /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 05 DEC 1718
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1813
1 FAMC @F126@
1 FAMS @F135@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was baptized December 5, 1718, in Schenectady. Married Lieutenan
2 CONC t Walter Butler, Jr. He husband was the son of Lieutenant Walter Butle
2 CONC r and Mary, daughter of Thos. Harris and granddaughter of Captain Dani
2 CONC el Wethereil of New London, CT; was born in New London, CT, May 27, 17
2 CONC 18 and removed with his parents to the Mohawk Valley November 6, 1742
2 CONC ; was a half brother of Colonel John Butler, who was baptized in New L
2 CONC ondon, CT, April 28, 1728. Maritie was alive in 1763 and perhaps for s
2 CONC everal years after.
0 @I441@ INDI
1 NAME Rebecca /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 29 SEP 1721
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 1777
1 FAMC @F126@
1 FAMS @F136@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was baptized September 29, 1721, in Schenectady. Married Pieter Co
2 CONC nyn. They early removed and resided near Fonda, NY. When Pieter's will
2 CONC , made in 1773, was proved on September 5, 1774, his wife Rebecca wa
2 CONC s still living.
0 @I442@ INDI
1 NAME Ephraim /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE (BEF. 16 FEB 1723/24)
2 PLAC Fort Hunter, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 23 OCT 1814
2 PLAC Montogmery County, NY
1 FAMC @F126@
1 FAMS @F137@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was baptized February 16, 1724,  in Schenectady. Married to Angenit
2 CONC a Brouwer, on May 18, 1750, in Schenectady. He lived always near For
2 CONC t Hunter on land inherited from his father. During the Revolutionary W
2 CONC ar, he served as private in Colonel Frederick Fishers's regiment of th
2 CONC e Tryon County Militia.
2 CONT 
2 CONT His wife, Agnes, made her will September 3, 1804, and the same is reco
2 CONC rded in the SURROGATE'S COURT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. In it she mention
2 CONC s her sons William and John E. and her daughters Ariaantje Vedder, Deb
2 CONC ora Hansen, Sarah Huganan, Catharine Garrot, and Elizabeth Ten Eyck, b
2 CONC ut does not speak, for some reason, of her son Cornelius, who was aliv
2 CONC e at the time.
0 @I443@ INDI
1 NAME Cornelius /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 19 APR 1726
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1747
1 FAMC @F126@
0 @I444@ INDI
1 NAME Johannes B. /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 18 APR 1731
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1826
1 FAMC @F126@
1 FAMS @F138@
1 FAMS @F139@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was baptized April 18, 1731, in  Schenectady. He was married first
2 CONC , in 1754, to Annatje Smith, who died in 1756 and by whom he had one c
2 CONC hild. He married for his second wife Margaret Mabie, November 22, 1757
2 CONC , in Schenectady, who was the daughter of Peter Mabie and Susanna Vedd
2 CONC er and was baptized in Schenectady, October 13, 1734, and died Februar
2 CONC y 11, 1762.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He lived always on land about a mile below Fort Hunter devised to hi
2 CONC m by his father's will and a good sized portion of the original farm i
2 CONC s still in the possession of his descendants at the present time.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was commissioned first lieutenant in Captain Henry Hanson's compan
2 CONC y at Schenectady, on March 28, 1760, and recorded in the company's mus
2 CONC ter roll of May 1767, which is preserved in volume 14, page 214, of SI
2 CONC R Wm. JOHNSON MANUSCRIPTS in the State Library, Albany, NY.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is copied from a book labeled SALES BY COMMISSIONERS O
2 CONC F FORFEITURES,  1784, on file in the office of the County Clerk of Mon
2 CONC tgomery County.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Page 16
2 CONT 
2 CONT 45 acres of Caughnawaga patent forfeited by John Butler sold Septembe
2 CONC r 16, 1784, conveyed February 8th, 1786 to Henry Hart of Albany (L310)
2 CONC , situate in Butlersbury, County of Montgomery, District of Caughnawag
2 CONC a, bounded on the North by rear line of Caughnawaga patent, on the Wes
2 CONC t by land known by name of old land, on South by land of John B. Wim
2 CONC ple, on East by land of heirs of Pete Conyne, deceased.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Page 50
2 CONT 
2 CONT Sold on the seventeenth of September, one thousand seven hundred and e
2 CONC ighty-five unto John B. Wemple of Caughnawaga District, Innholder, fo
2 CONC r the consideration of the sum of seventy eight pounds, all those cert
2 CONC ain six lots of ground situate, lying and being in Johnstown, in the c
2 CONC ounty of Montgomery, being each in length from east to west five chain
2 CONC s and in breath from north to south on chain, being particularly know
2 CONC n by the names of Lots numbers 23, 24, 25, 48, 59 and 64 agreeable t
2 CONC o a map made by said commissioners and filed in the office of the cler
2 CONC k of said county, forfeited by the attainder of Sir John Johnson, lat
2 CONC e of the county of Tryon, Knight and Baronet.
0 @I445@ INDI
1 NAME Harmanus /Mabie/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 09 OCT 1737
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1827
1 FAMS @F127@
0 @I446@ INDI
1 NAME Pieter H. /Mabie/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 03 OCT 1762
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1852
1 FAMC @F127@
1 FAMS @F156@
0 @I447@ INDI
1 NAME Deborah /Mabie/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 22 DEC 1765
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1860
1 FAMC @F127@
1 FAMS @F157@
0 @I448@ INDI
1 NAME Margarita /Mabie/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 08 OCT 1769
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1864
1 FAMC @F127@
1 FAMS @F158@
0 @I449@ INDI
1 NAME Catalyntje /Mabie/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 SEP 1773
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1868
1 FAMC @F127@
0 @I450@ INDI
1 NAME Susanna /Mabie/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 04 JUN 1777
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1872
1 FAMC @F127@
1 FAMS @F159@
0 @I451@ INDI
1 NAME Reyer /Mabie/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 OCT 1778
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1868
1 FAMC @F127@
1 FAMS @F160@
0 @I452@ INDI
1 NAME Catalyntje /Mabie/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 JAN 1783
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1873
1 FAMC @F127@
0 @I453@ INDI
1 NAME Alida /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 30 APR 1749
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 DEC 1796
1 FAMC @F149@
1 FAMS @F128@
0 @I454@ INDI
1 NAME Catalina /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 SEP 1770
1 DEAT
2 DATE 27 SEP 1770
1 FAMC @F128@
0 @I455@ INDI
1 NAME Ryer /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 04 JUN 1772
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1862
2 PLAC Canojoharie, NY
1 FAMC @F128@
1 FAMS @F150@
0 @I456@ INDI
1 NAME Abraham A. /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 06 JUN 1775
2 PLAC Montgomery County, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 MAR 1814
2 PLAC Canajoharie, NY
1 FAMC @F128@
1 FAMS @F151@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was born June 6, 1775 (family Bible). Married Maria Loucks, who wa
2 CONC s born January 1, 1781. They resided in Canajoharie where he died. Thi
2 CONC s widow moved in 1818 to Schenectady with the family of her husband'
2 CONC s brother Myndert Wemple. She died in Troy, December 27, 1848.
0 @I457@ INDI
1 NAME Johannes /Wemple/
2 GIVN Johannes M.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 OCT 1778
1 DEAT
2 DATE 21 DEC 1840
2 PLAC Canajoharie, NY
1 FAMC @F128@
1 FAMS @F152@
0 @I458@ INDI
1 NAME Walter Vrooman /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 DEC 1782
1 DEAT
2 DATE 26 JAN 1808
1 FAMC @F128@
1 FAMS @F153@
0 @I459@ INDI
1 NAME Myndert /Wemple/
2 GIVN Myndert M.R.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 JUL 1785
1 DEAT
2 DATE 01 JUL 1846
2 PLAC Canajoharie, NY
1 FAMC @F128@
1 FAMS @F154@
1 NOTE Myndert was Sheriff of Schenctady County in 1837 and was a major in th
2 CONC e State Militia. WBW
0 @I460@ INDI
1 NAME Deborah /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 AUG 1788
1 DEAT
2 DATE 03 MAY 1835
1 FAMC @F128@
1 FAMS @F155@
0 @I461@ INDI
1 NAME UNKNOWN /Oothout/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1795
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1885
1 FAMS @F129@
0 @I462@ INDI
1 NAME John Albert /Van Eps/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 DEC 1813
1 DEAT Y
1 FAMS @F130@
0 @I463@ INDI
1 NAME George Albert /Van Eps/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1836
2 PLAC Glenville, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1926
1 FAMC @F130@
1 FAMS @F4138@
0 @I464@ INDI
1 NAME Christian /Van Eps/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1837
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 JUN 1904
2 PLAC Stephensen, IL
1 FAMC @F130@
1 FAMS @F4139@
0 @I465@ INDI
1 NAME James William /Van Eps/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 03 AUG 1839
1 DEAT
2 DATE 31 AUG 1927
2 PLAC Webster, IA
1 FAMC @F130@
1 FAMS @F4140@
0 @I466@ INDI
1 NAME Myndert Janse /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1649
2 PLAC Albany, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 09 FEB 1690
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 FAMC @F161@
1 FAMS @F131@
1 NOTE He was killed in the massacre of Schenectady, February 9, 1690.  He mo
2 CONC ved to Schenectady about 1669; was one of the five first trustees of t
2 CONC he Schenectady Patent, granted November 1, 1684, which embraced 16 mil
2 CONC es along the river, and 4 miles inland on both sides; appointed Justic
2 CONC e of the Peace, 1689; was Elder of the Dutch Reformed Church. WBW
2 CONT 
2 CONT From a paper titled THE WEMPLE FAMILY by William C. Wemple sent to m
2 CONC e be Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Myndert Wemple was one of the first five trustees to receive the Roya
2 CONC l Grant of land for the town of Schenectady.  He was then a young ma
2 CONC n of 25 years of age and the fact of being chosen for so a responsibl
2 CONC e position would speak well of the training of his early life by his p
2 CONC arents Jan Barentsen Wemp and his wife Maritie.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is from an unpublished manuscript sent to the compiler o
2 CONC n September 28, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manus
2 CONC cript was written by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first par
2 CONC t if this genealogy from 1885-1913.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Myndert was born in Albany in 1649. He married Diewer daughter of Ever
2 CONC t Janse Wendel of Albany. He was killed in the massacre of Schenectady
2 CONC , February 9, 1689/90, and his widow, on June 21, 1691 was married, i
2 CONC n Albany, to Captain Johannes Glen, of Schenectady; she died April 10
2 CONC , 1724. She was born in 1653.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In the property settlement made by his mother, Maritie Mynderts, upo
2 CONC n her children, June 12, 1664, his age was stated as being 15 years a
2 CONC t that time (see document No. 23).
2 CONT 
2 CONT He removed to Schenectady about 1669, with his step-father, Van Velsen
2 CONC .
2 CONT 
2 CONT On January 15,167 1/2, Pieter Pieterse Van Woggleum executes a bond t
2 CONC o secure to Myndert the payment of 250 beavers ($800.00), payable in s
2 CONC ix installments, and mortgages into Myndert the farm lands which he ha
2 CONC d purchased of Myndert that same day (see document No. 32)
2 CONT 
2 CONT Ludovicus Cobes, schout of Schenectady, sold to Gerrit Van Schaick, De
2 CONC cember 15, 1677, a house and lot in Albany. There remained two last pa
2 CONC yments on it December 29, 1677, and in that date Cobes conveys these t
2 CONC wo last installments of Myndert Janse Wemp, in payment of a house an
2 CONC d lot situated in Schenectady , which Cobes bought of Wemp (see docume
2 CONC nt No. 35).
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was named the first Patent of Schenectady, granted by Thomas Dong
2 CONC an, November 1, 1684 (see document No. 40), as one of the five trustee
2 CONC s to whom this grant was made. The territory embraced within the confi
2 CONC nes of the patent extended sixteen miles along the river and four mile
2 CONC s inland on both sides. After his death in 1690, his eldest son Johann
2 CONC es succeeded him, hereditary right, to the trusteeship in his stead.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In 1689 , Liesler appointed him a Justice of the Peace for Schenectady
2 CONC . His commission as such is in volume 36, page 142, of COLONIAL MANUSC
2 CONC RIPTS, in the State Library, Albany, NY and is commission No. 101 on t
2 CONC hat page. It reads as follow:
2 CONT 
2 CONT By the Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief:
2 CONT 
2 CONT By virtue of y'e authority unto me derived I doo constiture authoriz
2 CONC e and appoint you Myndert Wemp to be Justice of y'e Peace for towne o
2 CONC f 'Shenegtade giving you full power and authority to act therein as Ju
2 CONC stice of y'e Peace for y'e good & welfare of y'e government and due ad
2 CONC ministration of Justice according to Law & all persons whome it may co
2 CONC ncerne are strictly charged and required to give you due respect & obe
2 CONC dience accordingly & this to continue untill I receive orders from hi
2 CONC s majestie King William. Given under my hand and seal at Fort William
2 CONC s this 28th day of December, 1689.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jacob Leisler.
2 CONT (For certified copy of the above see Document No 64).
2 CONT 
2 CONT In the year 1689 he was an elder of the Dutch Reformed Church in Schen
2 CONC ectady and probably also during other years.
2 CONT 
2 CONT A few days after the destruction of the village of Schenectady by th
2 CONC e French and Indians, February 9, 1689/90, an official report of the e
2 CONC vent, with a list containing the names of persons massacred and made p
2 CONC risoners, was communicated to the Alderman of the city of Albany and i
2 CONC t mentions Myndert Wemp as among the killed. It also says that Myndert
2 CONC 's son Johannes, together with two Negroes, was captured and taken a
2 CONC s prisoners. This report is recorded in a book labeled MORTGAGE BOOK
2 CONC , 1753-1765, deposited  in the County Clerk's office in Albany, NY.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In Pearson's HISTORY OF THE SCHENECTADY PATENT the following concernin
2 CONC g Myndert is found:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Myndert inherited his father's village lot on Washington Street. Afte
2 CONC r his death it was divided into two parcels, - the northerly part; emb
2 CONC racing the lots of Mssrs. Thompson and Swortfiguer, falling to the dau
2 CONC ghter Susanna, wife of Johannes Symonse Veeder, and the southerly port
2 CONC ion having a front of 66 feet, to his son Johannes. In 1748 the latte
2 CONC r bequeathed his lot to two grandsons, Johannes (Wemple) and Myndert (
2 CONC Wemple); the latter became the sole owner in 1784, conveyed it to Will
2 CONC iam Scott, who in 1816 sold it to Nathaniel Burdick.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The northerly portion, comprising about 100 feet on the street, was di
2 CONC vided into two lessor lots of 50 feet each. and after their mother's d
2 CONC eath allotted to her two sons, Simon and Myndert Johannes Veeder, th
2 CONC e northerly half to the latter and the southerly half to the former. I
2 CONC n 1802, Myndert disposed of his lot to Samuel McWilliams; and in 1761
2 CONC , Symon conveyed his parcel to his son-in-law, Colonel John Glen, wh
2 CONC o in 1802 disposed of it to James Murdock; finally in 1803, Murdock so
2 CONC ld it to Mrs. Ann Constable. the ancient house standing on this lot an
2 CONC d occupied by George Swortfiguer was built by 'Quartermaster John Glen
2 CONC '.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Captain Johannes Sanders Glenn, who married Diewer Wendell, widow of M
2 CONC yndert Wemp, 'built the present Sanders mansion' in Scotia, in 1713 an
2 CONC d occupied the same until his death. His property was spared when Sche
2 CONC nectady was burned, by order of the Governor of Canada, for kindness s
2 CONC hown to French prisoners captured by the Mohawks. (Pearson's GENEALOGI
2 CONC ES OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF SCHENECTADY).
2 CONT 
2 CONT Excepts from the book MOHAWK FRONTIER: The Dutch Community of Schenect
2 CONC ady, New York, 1661-1710 by Thomas E. Burke, Jr.
2 CONT The author is addressing the divided community of Schenectady which wa
2 CONC s caused by Jacob Leisler leading a foment against the established gov
2 CONC ernment at New York:
2 CONT 
2 CONT . . . Equally divided were the family and political relations of th
2 CONC e Wemp brothers, Myndert and Barent. Both held offices under Jacob Lie
2 CONC sler, but their sister Antje had married Sander Glen, Jr., and their s
2 CONC tepfather was Sweer Teunissen van Velsen. Sons of a proprietor (Jan Ba
2 CONC rentsen Wemp), stepsons of one magistrate and related by marriage to a
2 CONC nother, the apprearance of the Wemp brothers in the Lieslerian camp i
2 CONC s puzzling. The explanation may lie in a prior (1683) dispute betwee
2 CONC n the brothers and their stepfather, van Velsen, concerning the distri
2 CONC bution of the inheritance of a deceased sister to the remaining Wemp o
2 CONC ffspring. In pressing their claim, the brothers were aided by Arount C
2 CONC ornelissen Viele, also a future Liesler adherent and, since the deat
2 CONC h of Jan Barentsen Wemp, the children's guardian.  . . .
0 @I467@ INDI
1 NAME Diewertje /Wendel/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1653
2 PLAC Fort Orange, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 APR 1724
2 PLAC probably Schenectady, NY
1 FAMC @F4284@
1 FAMS @F131@
1 FAMS @F132@
0 @I468@ INDI
1 NAME Ephraim /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1686
1 DEAT
2 DATE AFT 1705
1 FAMC @F131@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT A power of attorney (document No. 46), given July 28, 1705, by certai
2 CONC n inhabitants and freeholders of Schenectady to Jacob Reynier and Abra
2 CONC ham Gouvermeur of the transaction of a certain business in connectio
2 CONC n with difficulties over administration of the trusteeship of the Sche
2 CONC nectady Patent was signed by Ephraim.
2 CONT 
2 CONT His name never again appears in any record and it is very evident tha
2 CONC t he died unmarried and soon after.
0 @I469@ INDI
1 NAME Johannes Sanderse /Glen/
1 SEX M
1 DEAT
1 FAMS @F132@
1 SOUR E-mail info from David Wemple to Alan Salls dated 10/16/2002.
0 @I470@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /Mills/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 DEC 1707
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1798
1 FAMS @F133@
0 @I471@ INDI
1 NAME Johannes /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1730
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1760
1 FAMC @F133@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was born about 1730. He left Maryland in 1759 and was living in Sch
2 CONC enectady in 1760 where he died of Small pox. He was never married.
0 @I472@ INDI
1 NAME Maria /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 DEC 1731
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 DEC 1731
1 FAMC @F133@
0 @I473@ INDI
1 NAME Myndert /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 DEC 1737
2 PLAC MD
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 DEC 1821
2 PLAC West Glenville, NY
1 FAMC @F133@
1 FAMS @F162@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was born December 26, 1737; married November 10, 1764 to Sara, daug
2 CONC hter of Simon Vedder. His wife was baptized in Schenectady May 13, 174
2 CONC 4, and died in West Charlton, NY November 7, 1828. He came from Maryla
2 CONC nd in 1759 and settled in Schenectady where he remained until after hi
2 CONC s marriage, when he removed to West Charlton, NY, residing there up t
2 CONC o the time of his death which occurred December 18, 1821.
2 CONT 
2 CONT According to the original muster roll of May 7, 1767, preserved in vol
2 CONC ume 14, page 215, of SIR Wm. JOHNSON MANUSCRIPTS, in the State Library
2 CONC , Albany, NY, he was a private in the company of Captain John Glen, Jr
2 CONC . at Schenectady.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In the Revolutionary War he was a private in Colonel Abraham Wemple'
2 CONC s regiment, under Captains Van Petten and Mynders.
0 @I474@ INDI
1 NAME Andrew /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1739
2 PLAC Baltimore, MD
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1834
2 PLAC Canada
1 FAMC @F133@
1 FAMS @F163@
1 NOTE Birth unknown; removed from Maryland to Schenectady, NY, 1759; m. Hele
2 CONC na, daughter of Andries A. Bratt and Elizabeth Wemple, November 4, 176
2 CONC 5; she was baptized July 14,1745; was large property owner at Fonda, N
2 CONC Y, where be became an early settler; in (the) Revolution; was (a) Capt
2 CONC ain in Col. F. Fisher's Reg., but became a Loyalist, fled to Canada le
2 CONC aving his family behind and was a Lieutenant in Butler's Rangers, an
2 CONC d his property here was confiscated; did not return to the U.S.
2 CONC ,  . . . WBW
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT One of his descendants has furnished the following:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Andries Wemple is termed in the history of the Wemples as being an ad
2 CONC herent of the King, in the Revolutionary War, and his property was con
2 CONC fiscated. The true history of him is as follows, he was a captain o
2 CONC f a troop, as they called it in those days, serving under Sir. Wm. Joh
2 CONC nson during the French and Indian Wars and until the breaking out of t
2 CONC he Revolutionary War, he was in continuous intercourse with Sir Wm. Jo
2 CONC hnson up to the point of the latter's death and afterwards with Sir Jo
2 CONC hn Johnson, the son, being an officer under both of these men. It ca
2 CONC n be readily seen why he followed the advice of Sir John Johnson and w
2 CONC ent with him and his party to Canada. Sir John told him that the outbr
2 CONC eak would be of short duration, and if he allowed himself to be mixe
2 CONC d up with it, his property would be confiscated by the King after th
2 CONC e Rebellion was suppressed, therefore, he, with most of the others wh
2 CONC o had served previously under the Johnsons, accompanied Sir John to Ca
2 CONC nada, first having sent his wife and children to Chrisopher Yates, he
2 CONC r brother-in-law, in Schenectady, who reared her entire family along w
2 CONC ith his own.
2 CONT 
2 CONT It was afterwards known to his family that upon arriving in Canada, h
2 CONC e and some others who went with him were much dissatisfied with thei
2 CONC r position and condition. Andries fought a duel with a British office
2 CONC r who cast reflections on the military courage of the Dutch whigs, inc
2 CONC luding General Philip Schuyler; shortly after this he, with a party o
2 CONC f others, attempted to return home but all are supposed to have been m
2 CONC assacred, for not one of them was ever heard from again. His wife die
2 CONC d broken-hearted.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was a large land owner and farmer. The homestead built by him, wit
2 CONC h its large elms which he set out, still stands being latterly know a
2 CONC s the James Lansing property about half way between Caughnawaga, on th
2 CONC e Mohawk and Johnstown. In olden times his property joined that of Si
2 CONC r Wm. Johnson's.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Prior to his removal to Canada he was, during the early part of the Re
2 CONC volutionary War, a captain in the Tryon County Militia under Colonel F
2 CONC red'k Fisher.  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT The article A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE THIRD BATTALION by James F. Morriso
2 CONC n was sent to me by William W. Wemple of Newport, OR via internet on O
2 CONC ctober 30, 2000. The following is an excerpt from that article:
2 CONT 
2 CONT . . .  On May 15th, 1780, Captain Andrew Wemple with several men in hi
2 CONC s company
2 CONT deserted from the Third Battalion and fled to Canada in the wake of an
2 CONT invasion soon to be launched by Colonel Sir John Johnson from Canada i
2 CONC nto
2 CONT the Mohawk Valley.  . . .
0 @I475@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Nieuwkerk/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 01 NOV 1719
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1814
1 FAMS @F134@
0 @I476@ INDI
1 NAME Ariaantje /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1740
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1835
1 FAMC @F134@
1 FAMS @F179@
1 FAMS @F180@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was born in 1740. Married William Deline. They had several childre
2 CONC n. (They were all) baptized at Caughnawaga.
0 @I477@ INDI
1 NAME Annatje /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 27 MAR 1747
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1775
1 FAMC @F134@
1 FAMS @F181@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was baptized in Schenectady March 27, 1747. Married Francis Pruy
2 CONC n November 11, 1770, the record is in the Stone Ababia Reformed Church
2 CONC . It is stated that she died two or three years after marriage.
0 @I478@ INDI
1 NAME Johannes Isaac /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 OCT 1749
2 PLAC Fort Hunter, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 05 MAY 1836
1 FAMC @F134@
1 FAMS @F182@
1 NOTE Notes from THE HISTORY OF SCHENECTADY DURING THE REVOLUTION, Individua
2 CONC l Service Records:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Wemple, John: Born at Fort Hunter, October 15, 1949.  He was living i
2 CONC n Schenectady in 1755 when he enrolled under Captain John Mynderse, 2n
2 CONC d Albany Count Militia.  In January, 1776, he took part in the expedit
2 CONC ion to Johnstown.  In the fall of 1776 he served at Skeenesborough an
2 CONC d Fort Ann for the purpose of guarding boats.  In the spring of 1777 h
2 CONC e went to Jessup's Patent in pursuit of Tories.  He served five month
2 CONC s during the campaign against Burgoyne, taking part in the battle of S
2 CONC nookkill.  He was at Ballston in 1780 when it was burned and at Warren
2 CONC 's bush in 1781 under Colonel Willet.  He performed considerable guar
2 CONC d and garrison duty at Fort Plain, Fort Plank, Fort Paris and at the S
2 CONC choharie Forts.  A pensioner under the Act of June 7, 1832.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was born in May 1749. Married Maria Swits, for which a bond was exe
2 CONC cuted February 23, 1771, and it speaks of him as being a tailor. He ma
2 CONC de his will June 4, 1827, which is on file in the Schenectady County S
2 CONC urrogate's office, and (he) died May 5, 1836, aged 86 years. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT He enlisted as a private in the regiment of Colonel Abraham Wemple a
2 CONC t the breaking out of the Revolutionary War and before its close was p
2 CONC romoted to sergeant.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Maria, his wife, was baptized April 4, 1752, and made her will Septemb
2 CONC er 27, 1779, it also being filed in Schenectady County.
0 @I479@ INDI
1 NAME Catalyntje /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 JUN 1753
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 AUG 1807
1 FAMC @F134@
1 FAMS @F183@
0 @I480@ INDI
1 NAME Walter /Butler/
2 SURN Butler Jr.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 27 MAY 1718
2 PLAC New London, CT
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 08 SEP 1775
1 TITL Lieutenant
1 FAMS @F135@
1 NOTE Walter was the half-brother of John Butler, the famous Tory.
0 @I481@ INDI
1 NAME Pieter /Conyn/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1717
2 PLAC of Caughnawaga, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1807
1 FAMS @F136@
0 @I482@ INDI
1 NAME Alida /Conyn/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE (BEF. 8 JAN 1742/43)
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1837
1 FAMC @F136@
1 FAMS @F184@
1 FAMS @F185@
0 @I483@ INDI
1 NAME Arientie /Conyn/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE (BEF. 16 FEB 1744/45)
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1840
1 FAMC @F136@
0 @I484@ INDI
1 NAME Deborah /Conyn/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 30 SEP 1750
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1845
1 FAMC @F136@
1 FAMS @F186@
1 FAMS @F187@
1 FAMS @F188@
0 @I485@ INDI
1 NAME Peter /Conyn/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 07 MAR 1753
1 DEAT
2 DATE 06 MAY 1832
1 FAMC @F136@
1 FAMS @F189@
1 NOTE Peter's name is in the Congressional Record regarding his war pension
2 CONC . He was Adjutant serving in Colonel Fisher's Regiment. He was wounde
2 CONC d in the Battle of Stillwater, NY in 1777 in which Bourgoyne and his a
2 CONC rmy were captured. Allen Albright
0 @I486@ INDI
1 NAME John /Conyn/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1757
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1838
1 FAMC @F136@
1 FAMS @F190@
0 @I487@ INDI
1 NAME Abraham /Conyn/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 17 MAY 1763
2 PLAC Caughnawaga, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 JUL 1838
1 FAMC @F136@
1 FAMS @F191@
1 NOTE He was the Tax Collecter for Montgomery City, NY in 1800. Before 1905
2 CONC , he moved his family to Lowville, NY. He served in the Revolutionar
2 CONC y War under Captain John Fischer. He was taken prisoner, but escaped f
2 CONC rom the Indians on the way to Canada. In 1782m he was a volunteer unde
2 CONC r Captain Harrison in Colmarinas Willit attack on Oswego. He froze hi
2 CONC s toes and suffered from the cold; the snow was 4 ft. deep. Allan Albr
2 CONC ight
0 @I488@ INDI
1 NAME Agnietje /Brouwer/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1725
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1819
1 FAMS @F137@
0 @I489@ INDI
1 NAME Ariaantje /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1745
1 DEAT
2 DATE (BET. 1804 - 1814)
2 PLAC Florida, NY
1 FAMC @F137@
1 FAMS @F192@
0 @I490@ INDI
1 NAME Johannes E. /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 23 MAY 1756
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1762
1 FAMC @F137@
0 @I491@ INDI
1 NAME Deborah /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 25 FEB 1760
2 PLAC Caughnawaga, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1837
2 PLAC Cherry Valley, NY
1 FAMC @F137@
1 FAMS @F193@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was baptized at Caughnawaga February 25, 1760; married at that pla
2 CONC ce to Nicholas Hansen, Decemeber 2, 1778.
0 @I492@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 25 FEB 1760
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1855
1 FAMC @F137@
1 FAMS @F194@
1 FAMS @F195@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was baptized at Caughnawaga, married to Cornelius Wemple (son of J
2 CONC ohannes B. Wemple), who was her first cousin. After his death she marr
2 CONC ied, secondly (David) Huganan.
0 @I493@ INDI
1 NAME Johannes E. /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 19 SEP 1762
2 PLAC Montgomery County, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 AUG 1842
2 PLAC Fort Hunter, NY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Enders Farm Cemetery, Fort Hunter, NY
1 FAMC @F137@
1 FAMS @F196@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was baptized in Caughnawaga September 19, 1762. Was also married th
2 CONC ere March 27, 1796, to the widow Jane Turk, who was the daughter of Ni
2 CONC cholas N. Anthony and Susanne Roome; Jane died January 15, 1853, age
2 CONC d 85 years.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He resided about one and a half miles below the village of Fort Hunter
2 CONC , on the south side of the river, spending his entire life on a farm w
2 CONC hich came into his family through his grandfather, Johannes Myndert We
2 CONC mple.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He served as a private under Captain Harmanus Mabee, of Colonel Freder
2 CONC ick Fisher's regiment, in the Tryon County Militia, at the time of th
2 CONC e Revolutionary War. He died August 25, 1842, in his 79th year.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Both he and his wife are buried in a graveyard located on land formall
2 CONC y owned by him, but now in the possession of the Voorhees family, belo
2 CONC w Fort Hunter.
0 @I494@ INDI
1 NAME William /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 AUG 1764
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1854
1 OCCU ,
1 FAMC @F137@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was born August 18, 1764, and was baptized at Stone Arabia Septembe
2 CONC r 23, 1764. He was a merchant and resided in the present town of Flori
2 CONC da, Montgomery County, NY
2 CONT 
2 CONT During the latter part of the Revolutionary War he served as a privat
2 CONC e in the regiment of Colonel Fred'k Fisher, under Captain Harmanus Meb
2 CONC ee.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He never married and died in the early part of the nineteenth century.
0 @I495@ INDI
1 NAME Cornelius /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1766
2 PLAC Florida, Montgomery County, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 08 JAN 1820
2 PLAC Florida, Montgomery County, NY
1 FAMC @F137@
1 FAMS @F197@
1 FAMS @F198@
1 NOTE The following file was submitted by William Westbrook Wemple, Jr. on A
2 CONC pril 28, 1996.  Quoting William, I'm sending you another file of Wemp
2 CONC le miscellany that I picked up during my Sacramento research.  As yo
2 CONC u can see it involves a land dispute, and is not especially flatterin
2 CONC g to the Wemples.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Cornelius Wemple, deceased: Petition of Jane Wemple, verified by her a
2 CONC ffidavit.  Citation, issued to William Wemple, the tenant in possessio
2 CONC n of the land, requiring him to show cause why petition should not b
2 CONC e granted.
2 CONT 
2 CONT To Charles Eaton, William Rob and John M. Hubbs: Whereas Jane Wemple
2 CONC , widow of Cornelius Wemple, late of the town of Florida, Montgomery C
2 CONC ounty, deceased.  By her petition filed in this office set forth tha
2 CONC t she was legally married to the said Cornelius Wemple, in his lifetim
2 CONC e and that before his death he seized of a certain lot of land in th
2 CONC e town of Florida, Montgomery County and described in a deed bearing t
2 CONC he date of June 3, 11807 executed by John Freeland to said Cornelius W
2 CONC emple a lot, #19, in a certain partition made by John R. Bleeker, Esqu
2 CONC ire of a tract of 2000 acres of land granted to Anne Wilmont by his la
2 CONC te majesties Letters Patent, dated August 27,1735 lying in the Count
2 CONC y of Montgomery, on the south side of the Mohawk River.  Description o
2 CONC f the boundaries follows: Containing 99 acres on one rod of land, mor
2 CONC e or less, and that possession of said lands and as William Wemple i
2 CONC s ordered to show cause why said Dower should not be admeasured, appea
2 CONC red but offered no cause. Therefore you the said Charles Easton, Willi
2 CONC am Rob and John M. Hubbs are ordered to admeasure the one third part o
2 CONC f the lands which Cornelius Wemple, died, seized of, and are require
2 CONC d to make a full report of your proceedings.  Registered August 8,1826
2 CONC .
2 CONT FOOTNOTE
2 CONT Vital Records from Surrogates Office [p. 170?], as quoted in Tree Talk
2 CONC s, Vol. 13, No. 3, September 1973, p. 41.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was born about 1766. Married Jane Vreeland, at Caughnawaga, Februar
2 CONC y 19, 1797. He was married, secondly, to Jane Bradt, September 17, 181
2 CONC 6, in Schenectady. No children were born of the second marriage.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He owned and lived upon a farm situated about four miles from the cit
2 CONC y of Amsterdam, in the easterly part of the Town of Florida, and abou
2 CONC t one mile from the Erie Canal, on the range of hills overlooking th
2 CONC e Mohawk Valley.
0 @I496@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 NOV 1772
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1867
1 FAMC @F137@
1 FAMS @F199@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was born November 22, 1772, and  was married, at Caughnawaga, to J
2 CONC ohn S. Ten Eyck, son of Myndert S. Ten Eyck, July 10, 1799.
0 @I497@ INDI
1 NAME Catherine /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1775
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1870
1 FAMC @F137@
1 FAMS @F200@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was born about 1775. Married Garret Roberts, May 20, 1798, at Caug
2 CONC hnawaga.
0 @I498@ INDI
1 NAME Annatje /Smith/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1730
1 DEAT
2 DATE 22 NOV 1756
1 FAMS @F138@
0 @I499@ INDI
1 NAME Annatje /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 04 MAR 1755
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 04 MAR 1755
1 FAMC @F138@
0 @I500@ INDI
1 NAME Margrietje /Mebie/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1731
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1826
1 FAMC @F201@
1 FAMS @F139@
0 @I501@ INDI
1 NAME Cornelius /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1760
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1791
1 FAMC @F139@
1 FAMS @F194@
1 NOTE The following is from an unpublished manuscript, written by William Ba
2 CONC rent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this genealogy from 1885-19
2 CONC 13, sent to the compiler on September 28, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple o
2 CONC f Bay City, MI.
2 CONT 
2 CONT . . .  Cornelius served during the Revolutionary War in the Tryon Coun
2 CONC ty Militia under Colonel Frederick Fisher and with captains Fisher an
2 CONC d Mabee.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In the Montgomery County Clerk's office, at Fonda, a deed is recorded
2 CONC , bearing date November 22, 1786, in which he conveys to Vincent Quack
2 CONC enbush, lots 3, 4 and 5, which were heired of his late father, John W
2 CONC emple's estate.
2 CONT 
2 CONT His will was made July 19, 1791; it is on file in the Montgomery Count
2 CONC y Surrogate's office and in it he speaks of his only son Ephraim' hi
2 CONC s two daughters Nancy and Agnes, both of whom he provides for when the
2 CONC y reach the age of eighteen; his sister Yany (Ariaantje) Horn; he appo
2 CONC ints his two friends William Wemple and Nicholas Hansen executors o
2 CONC f his will; John I. Wemple, Cornelius Wemple, and Cornelius Smith, Jr.
2 CONC , are witnesses.
2 CONT 
2 CONT On June 28, 1810, William Wemple, of the town of Florida, conveys an u
2 CONC ndivided interest in a certain lot of John Wemple's patent, held by Wi
2 CONC lliam Wemple and his brother, John E. Wemple and the heirs of Jacob En
2 CONC ders, deceased, and the heirs of Cornelius Wemple, deceased. Cornelius
2 CONC ' heirs were no doubt entitled to the interest in the particular piec
2 CONC e of property though Cornelius' wife, who was a sister of William an
2 CONC d John E. Wemple.
2 CONT 
2 CONT After the death of Cornelius, his wife married a Mr. Huganan.
0 @I502@ INDI
1 NAME John /Wemple/
2 GIVN John I.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1760
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1855
1 FAMC @F139@
1 NOTE He was in Col. F. Fisher's Regt. during the Revolution; lived at Johns
2 CONC town; not known to have married. WBW
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was born near Fort Hunter. Was a private and corporal in Colonel Fr
2 CONC ederick Fisher's regiment of the Tryon County Militia.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In the Montgomery County Clerk's office is the record of a deed give
2 CONC n by him April 17, 1798, in which he speaks of himself as a resident o
2 CONC f Johnstown, NY.
0 @I503@ INDI
1 NAME Ariaantje /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1760
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1855
1 FAMC @F139@
1 FAMS @F202@
1 NOTE The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She was born near Fort Hunter on her father's farm; married Matthias H
2 CONC orne and had several children; (all of them) baptized in the Caughnawa
2 CONC ga Church. Her brother, Cornelius, mentions her in his will.
0 @I504@ INDI
1 NAME Symon Volkertse /Veeder/
1 SEX M
1 DEAT
1 FAMS @F140@
0 @I505@ INDI
1 NAME Engelite /UNKNOWN/
1 SEX F
1 DEAT
1 FAMS @F140@
1 SOUR E-mail info from David Wemple to Alan Salls dated 10/16/2002.
0 @I506@ INDI
1 NAME Volkje Symonse /Veeder/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1662
2 PLAC Albany, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1760
1 FAMC @F140@
1 FAMS @F172@
0 @I507@ INDI
1 NAME Jacobus /De La Grange/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 23 APR 1692
2 PLAC Albany, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 09 AUG 1765
1 FAMS @F141@
0 @I508@ INDI
1 NAME Susanna /La Grange/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1720
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1723
1 FAMC @F141@
0 @I509@ INDI
1 NAME Bernardus /La Grange/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE (BEF. 11 MAR 1720/21)
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 DEC 1798
2 PLAC Westminister, England
1 FAMC @F141@
0 @I510@ INDI
1 NAME Debora /La Grange/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF AUG 1720
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1825
1 FAMC @F141@
1 FAMS @F3667@
0 @I511@ INDI
1 NAME Susanna /La Grange/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 15 SEP 1723
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1818
1 FAMC @F141@
1 FAMS @F3668@
0 @I512@ INDI
1 NAME Omie /La Grange/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 10 APR 1726
2 PLAC Albany, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1816
1 FAMC @F141@
1 FAMS @F3669@
0 @I513@ INDI
1 NAME Antje /La Grange/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 21 APR 1728
1 DEAT
2 DATE AFT 1796
1 FAMC @F141@
1 FAMS @F3670@
0 @I514@ INDI
1 NAME Christiana /La Grange/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 10 DEC 1732
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 OCT 1756
1 FAMC @F141@
1 FAMS @F3671@
0 @I515@ INDI
1 NAME Johannes /La Grange/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 JUN 1737
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1827
1 FAMC @F141@
1 FAMS @F3672@
0 @I516@ INDI
1 NAME Myndert /La Grange/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 12 NOV 1738
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1828
1 FAMC @F141@
1 FAMS @F3673@
0 @I517@ INDI
1 NAME Arie /La Grange/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1740
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1830
1 FAMC @F141@
1 FAMS @F3674@
0 @I518@ INDI
1 NAME Evert Evertsen /Jansen/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1700
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1790
1 FAMS @F142@
0 @I519@ INDI
1 NAME Maria Evertsen /Jansen/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1733
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1828
1 FAMC @F142@
1 FAMS @F3675@
0 @I520@ INDI
1 NAME Elisabeth /Douw/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1710
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1805
1 FAMS @F143@
0 @I521@ INDI
1 NAME Johannes /Veeder/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 29 JUN 1734
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1824
1 FAMC @F143@
1 FAMS @F4285@
0 @I522@ INDI
1 NAME Volkert /Veeder/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 03 OCT 1736
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1826
1 FAMC @F143@
0 @I523@ INDI
1 NAME Symon /Veeder/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 20 FEB 1738
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1828
1 FAMC @F143@
0 @I524@ INDI
1 NAME Abraham /Veeder/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 18 OCT 1741
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1831
1 FAMC @F143@
0 @I525@ INDI
1 NAME Susanna /Veeder/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 29 APR 1744
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1839
1 FAMC @F143@
0 @I526@ INDI
1 NAME Myndert /Veeder/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 14 DEC 1746
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1836
1 FAMC @F143@
0 @I527@ INDI
1 NAME Margarita /Veeder/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 14 JAN 1753
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1858
1 FAMC @F143@
0 @I528@ INDI
1 NAME Jacob /Veeder/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 14 JAN 1759
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1849
1 FAMC @F143@
0 @I529@ INDI
1 NAME Catherine /Van Petten/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1710
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 20 DEC 1741
1 FAMS @F144@
0 @I530@ INDI
1 NAME Catharina /Veeder/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 DEC 1741
1 DEAT
2 DATE 22 OCT 1799
1 FAMC @F144@
1 FAMS @F3027@
0 @I531@ INDI
1 NAME Maria /Van der Volgen/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1710
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1805
1 FAMS @F145@
0 @I532@ INDI
1 NAME Susanna /Veeder/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE (BEF. 24 FEB 1744/45)
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF JUL 1752
1 FAMC @F145@
0 @I533@ INDI
1 NAME Geesje /Vrooman/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1710
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 1805
1 FAMS @F146@
0 @I534@ INDI
1 NAME Annatie /Bratt/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1710
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1805
1 FAMS @F147@
0 @I535@ INDI
1 NAME Catalyntje /Veeder/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE (BEF. 1 JAN 1715/16)
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1810
1 FAMS @F148@
0 @I536@ INDI
1 NAME Susanna /Veeder/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 26 JUL 1752
1 DEAT Y
1 FAMC @F148@
0 @I537@ INDI
1 NAME Johannes Simonse /Veeder/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 12 MAR 1755
2 PLAC Albany, NY
1 DEAT Y
1 FAMC @F148@
0 @I538@ INDI
1 NAME Lucas Wyngaard /Veeder/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 JUL 1757
2 PLAC Albany, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 03 JUN 1811
2 PLAC Guilderland, NY
1 FAMC @F148@
1 FAMS @F3676@
0 @I539@ INDI
1 NAME Volkert /Veeder/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 JUN 1760
2 PLAC Albany, NY
1 DEAT Y
1 FAMC @F148@
0 @I540@ INDI
1 NAME Abraham /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 JUN 1726
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 JUL 1758
1 FAMC @F208@
1 FAMS @F149@
1 SOUR E-mail from David Wemple to Alan Salls dated 3/8/2003.
1 NOTE The HISTORY OF SCHENECTADY DURNING THE  REVOLUTION, Individual Record
2 CONC s of Service has the following about Abraham Wemple: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Born about 1728; died near Albany in 1799.  On September 7, 1775, th
2 CONC e Committee of Safety applied to the Albany Committee to assign hi
2 CONC m a commission as captain of militia.  On October 5 he was recommende
2 CONC d to the Provincial Congress for the office of colonel among the fiel
2 CONC d officers to be assigned to the 2nd Albany County Militia, and on Oct
2 CONC ober 20 he was commissioned colonel, being reappointed on June 20, 177
2 CONC 8, and serving in this capacity until near the end of the war, when h
2 CONC e resigned from the service.  On November 7, 1775, he was elected a me
2 CONC mber of the second Committee of Safety and on December 29 was appointe
2 CONC d deputy chairman of the Board.  On July 26, 1779, he was again electe
2 CONC d a member of the Committee.  Colonel Wemple served with his regimen
2 CONC t on the various occasions when called out and was throughout the wa
2 CONC r a zealous and active adherent of the American cause. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was born about 1728; married Antje van Denbergh, of Albany, Augus
2 CONC t 19, 1758. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT On August 27, 1757, he was appointed second lieutenant of the 3rd comp
2 CONC any, at Schenectady, commanded by Captain Harmanus Bratt, (see SIR Wm
2 CONC . JOHNSON MANUSCRIPTS, volume 4, page 149) and October 23, 1759, he wa
2 CONC s commissioned second lieutenant of the second battalion of the New Yo
2 CONC rk Militia under Captain Gerrit A. Lansing (Ditto, volume 6, page 98 a
2 CONC nd volume 14, page 213) 
2 CONT 
2 CONT During the Revolutionary War he was Colonel of the Schenectady Divisio
2 CONC n of the second regiment of the Albany County Militia, and served wit
2 CONC h very great distinction throughout the entire war. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT When General George Washington paid a visit to Schenectady June 30, 17
2 CONC 82, a banquet was tendered the FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY and seated abou
2 CONC t the table were the most distinguished people of the vicinity, amon
2 CONC g them being Colonel Abraham Wemple, who was given a seat very close t
2 CONC o the guest of honor.  . . . 
2 CONT 
2 CONT His will, which was dated August 7, 1798, and recorded March 14, 179
2 CONC 9 in volume 2, page 355 of WILLS in the Surrogates Court, Albany, spea
2 CONC ks of him as of the Normanskill in the County of Albany and in it h
2 CONC e mentions his wife Antie, son John, daughter, Helana, wife of Wm. Va
2 CONC n Arnum, Rachel wife of John A. De Witt. Besides the farm on which h
2 CONC e lived, he owned real estate in Schenectady. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is from a book titled THE BLOODIED MOHAWK, by Ken D. Joh
2 CONC nson, Fort Plank Historian sent to the compiler by Michael Lee Wempl
2 CONC e on June 18, 2002: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Bloodied Mohawk 
2 CONT 
2 CONT On the evening of the 2nd, Colonel Wemple wrote:
2 CONT Fort Plank Aug't 2d 1780. 7 O'Clock.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Sir, Yesterday I detached two officers & thirty men of mine & Collo. C
2 CONC uyler's Regt. at the Willigas to wait the arrival of a Convoy of Boat
2 CONC s at that place & with the rest of our men we proceeded to Caughnawaga
2 CONC , where we arrived last Evening & at four this morning we began our ma
2 CONC rch & arrived at Caugnawaga opposite to Mr. Frey's about eleven, wit
2 CONC h an Intention to halt till they arrived with the Batteaza, which we
2 CONC , expect tomorrow about noon; immediately after we had cantoned as com
2 CONC pact as possible our men, we were alarmed with a heavy smoke between J
2 CONC ohn Abeails & Fort Planck about four miles distant from where we had t
2 CONC aken up our Quarters. This immediately was confirmed in the Eye of ou
2 CONC r whole Body & found the Enemy were bussy employed to burn & destroy
2 CONC . 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Instantly I did order both Regiments to be formed & proceed against th
2 CONC e Enemy, who were at that time in their full Carear and tho our Number
2 CONC s were not equal, yet I can assure you I should be void of Justice i
2 CONC f I omitted mentioning their Prudence & cool behaviour without Distinc
2 CONC tion to all Rancks. An altho they had been in full march since early i
2 CONC n the morning they came up with such Vigor that the Enemy on our appro
2 CONC ach gave way & tho in sight we had no opportunity to give them Battl
2 CONC e they retired in the usual way. Our first Halt was at a Fort erecte
2 CONC d near Mr. Abeals House. The Inhabitants happy to see us. Directly aft
2 CONC er we had refreshed the men a few minutes, a Number of Volunteers wh
2 CONC o were least fateigued joined me with the Field officers of both Regim
2 CONC ents to see the Fate of this Fort, which we found as full of sorrowful
2 CONC l weomen & Children for their Husbands & Friends which were missing. T
2 CONC hey had, however, not made any Attempt to attack this Place. Such a Sc
2 CONC ean as we beheld since we left the River, passing dead Bodies of Me
2 CONC n & Children most cruelly murdered, is not possible to be described. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT I cannot ascertain at present the Number of poor Inhabitants killed an
2 CONC d missing but believe the Loss considerable as the People were all a
2 CONC t work in the Fields. I have endeavoured to obtain the Strength of th
2 CONC e Enemy; the accounts differ so much that I cannot asscertain their Nu
2 CONC mber, but from the many Places they sat on Fire, as in one Instant
2 CONC , & from parties out in a large Circuit of Country collecting & drivin
2 CONC g off Cattle, I am lead to believe that their Number is not small; ou
2 CONC r men are much fateigued. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT We propose to remain here this Night. In the Morning we shall procee
2 CONC d and act as Circumstances shall turn up & will inform you more partic
2 CONC ular. Some Persons pretend to say not less then one hundred dwelling H
2 CONC ouse are burnt; as so on as I can any ways collect the more particula
2 CONC r Facts, I shall not hesitate one Moment to leI you know. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Page 45 
2 CONT 
2 CONT As to General Rensselaer, I have no other accounts from him but that h
2 CONC e left Fort Herkimer on Monday last in the afternoon; he then by the b
2 CONC est accounts I have been able to collect, besides the Convoy of Capt
2 CONC . Hicks, with about 50 Head of Cattle & that his party consisted of ab
2 CONC out five hundred men. I have great reason to believe he has got safe i
2 CONC nto Fort Schuyler. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The enemy began setting fire & destroying some way near this place & p
2 CONC roceeded on to Canajohary; near the River burnt their Church, Abeals H
2 CONC ouse & its Neighbourhood & upwards, where they I am lead to believe go
2 CONC t sight of us & then retreated. You will please to observe that very g
2 CONC reat Devestation is committed south west of this place; excuse my Hast
2 CONC e & the Distressed Situation & Circumstances & hope will sufficientl
2 CONC y appologise. I am, D'r Genl. &c.
2 CONT Ab'm Wemple.
2 CONT [To General Ten Broeck.)
2 CONT (Copy)
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT A postwar statement by Thomas Sammons supports Colonel Wemple's accoun
2 CONC t: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT . . . the militia from Albany and Schenectady arrived before the enem
2 CONC y returned were yet burning buildings and destroying property about Fo
2 CONC rt Plain and marched into the river flatts formed their men with som
2 CONC e cannon they had for battle. Brant who commanded the enemy had no wis
2 CONC h to make an attack with his Indians on a superior formed on the rive
2 CONC r flatts with cannon very soon finished his business and returned bac
2 CONC k the way of Plank Lake in the afternoon the militia then marched som
2 CONC e distance in his rear that evening about three miles to Fort Plank st
2 CONC ayed in the fort that night. . . 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The horror seen by these men as they approached Fort Plank is best tol
2 CONC d in the words of Private Robert H. Wendell: ... we found that the Ene
2 CONC my had just burned Canajoharie, Fort Plain, and the adjioning places a
2 CONC rrived at Fort Plain while the church was burning which was surrounde
2 CONC d by 7 or 8 Indians who fled at our approach. Found a girl Woman ther
2 CONC e lying on the ground who was scalped but yet living. She said she ha
2 CONC d been knocked down with a stone by one Hans Richter a Tory and that a
2 CONC nd Indian had scalped her, we took care of her a number of houses wer
2 CONC e then burning among them John Abeels. >From thence we proceeded to Fo
2 CONC rt Plank a short distance further several houses on the road were cons
2 CONC umed at one of the houses we found a boy scalped and his feet in the f
2 CONC ire we took him out but he was dead on arriving at Fort Plank we colle
2 CONC cted 9 children and an old woman who had all been murdered by the enem
2 CONC y and we buried them in one grave. . . 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The forces under Colonel Wemple spent the night of August 2, 1780 with
2 CONC in Fort Plank. On the morning of the 3rd, ColoneI Wemple sent out a sc
2 CONC out to the Geisenburgh settlement . . . 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Refer http://www.curtisit.com/curtis/wgu2.html: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Of the Schenectady militia who had marched under Colonel Wemple on th
2 CONC e first alarm some were almost immediately obliged to return for wan
2 CONC t of provisions. The remainder, however, hastened towards Johnstown an
2 CONC d, joined by troops from Fort Hunter under Colonel Harper and others u
2 CONC nder Colonel Volkert Vedder, swelling their force to about four hundre
2 CONC d and fifty men, determined to engage the enemy should Sir John, who h
2 CONC ad rendezvoused there, show any disposition to fight. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Sir John, although his force, swelled by the addition of many Tories w
2 CONC ho had hastened to join him, now outnumbered the American troops abou
2 CONC t two to one, did not offer an engagement, but almost immediately with
2 CONC drew and, eluding the troops which Governor Clinton sent to intercep
2 CONC t him, made his way safely back to Canada. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The opportunity afforded by the dispirited condition of soldiers and s
2 CONC ettlers alike had early been seized upon by the British, who with no s
2 CONC mall success endeavored through their emissaries to stir up mutinies i
2 CONC n the ranks of the main army or induce those holding Tory sentiments t
2 CONC o take up arms in their behalf. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Many Tories had joined Sir John Johnson during his raid, and from tim
2 CONC e to time small bands from Albany and Tryon counties left to join th
2 CONC e enemy. That a large party so inclined were assembled at Beaverdam wa
2 CONC s reported to the Schenectady Committee on July 18. Colonel Vrooman a
2 CONC t Schoharie was at once apprised of the fact that he might order ou
2 CONC t a detachment in an endeavor to intercept them, while in Schenectad
2 CONC y a party was at once organized for the same purpose. Although the Sch
2 CONC enectady detachment after having marched all night arrived at the rend
2 CONC ezvous at daybreak, they were successful in securing but three of th
2 CONC e band who had secreted themselves in a barn, while the main body, hav
2 CONC ing undoubtedly been alarmed, succeeded in making their escape. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Late in July the enemy under Joseph Brant appeared in force before For
2 CONC t Schuyler. This movement was probably a feint, for while the troops w
2 CONC ere hastening to the defense of the post, leaving the lower valley wit
2 CONC hout adequate means of protection, Brant and his followers quietly wit
2 CONC hdrew and, advancing by way of the Unadilla and Susquehanna Rivers o
2 CONC n August 2, fell upon Canajoharie. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Albany and Schenectady militia, who had turned out with alacrity u
2 CONC nder orders previously given, had just gone into camp at Caughnawaga o
2 CONC pposite Mr. Frey's at about eleven o'clock on the morning of the secon
2 CONC d, when they were alarmed by the heavy smoke between John Abeails an
2 CONC d Fort Plank about four miles distant. . . . 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Excerpts from a book written by Arthur B. Gregg dated reprint 1975, ti
2 CONC tled Old Hellebergh, sent to the compiler by Michael L. Wemple on Febr
2 CONC uary 24, 2003: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT CHAPTER X
2 CONT ABRAHAM WEMPLE, REVOLUTIONARY COLONEL 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT If you were to ask a Schenectady historian to name the great Leaders o
2 CONC f that locality during the Revolution, he would unquestionably place a
2 CONC t the very top of his list, the name of Abraham Wemple, who commande
2 CONC d as colonel the regiment recrulted about Schenectady known as the 2n
2 CONC d Albany Co, Militia. With all his military duties, the colonel also a
2 CONC ctively served for two years on the Schenectady Committee of Correspon
2 CONC dence as a very valued member. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT But we of the Hellebergh lay claim to him a1so, because for over a thi
2 CONC rd of a century he owned a farm In our locality, purchased In 1765, t
2 CONC o which during the war he came whenever his duties permitted. This far
2 CONC m was described briefly in a previous article, and the large part of I
2 CONC t today Is beneath the Watervliet reservoir. Again we claim him becaus
2 CONC e he was for years a member and later an elder In the old Dutch congre
2 CONC gation of the Hellebergh, and also sponsor witness, or as it Is writte
2 CONC n In the Dutch, Getuy-gen, at several baptisms, and because he flnall
2 CONC y died here and was burled on the high ground, overlooking his belove
2 CONC d meadows. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT At the very outbreak of the war we find him taking outstanding leaders
2 CONC hip, The proceedings of Aug. 28, 1775, Schenectady Commlttee of Corres
2 CONC pondence, read as follows: Resolved to meet this Evening at 6 O'Cloc
2 CONC k and send for all the former Captains of militia and desire them to a
2 CONC ssemble all their respective Companys at the Dutch Church on Saterda
2 CONC y the 2nd Septr. In order to be formed Into Companys agreeable to a re
2 CONC solve of Congress to be then red to them. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT On the 6th Sept. 1775, a Sub Committee is appointed to attend the nex
2 CONC t general meeting of the Committee at Albany and lay a list of the Cap
2 CONC tains Appointed for the five Companys of minute men and militia befor
2 CONC e the Board and Apply for their Cummlsslons. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT On the 27th of Sept. 1775 Received a letter from the provincial Congr
2 CONC ess dated 9th of Aug. requesting that all the Districts who Could rais
2 CONC e five Companys of Militia should recomend such persons as they though
2 CONC t proper to be field officers. Resolved to Recommend the following per
2 CONC sons, vlz- Abraham Wemple to be Colonel. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT From the Minutes of Oct. 5 of the General Board at Albany, we find hi
2 CONC m recommended to the Provincial Congress, and In the Minutes of Nov. 2
2 CONC 2, 1775 he Is shown to have received & his commission from that body a
2 CONC s Colonel of Militia of New York State. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Meanwhile on Nov. 7th - An election having been held in the presenc
2 CONC e of the above named members, the following persons were legally Elect
2 CONC ed and Chosen to be a Committee of Correspondence, safety and protecti
2 CONC on for this Township (Schenectady) . . . and Abraham Wemple.. Again o
2 CONC n July 26, t779--Coll. Abraham Wemple elected to the Board. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT It will be impossible to give In full all the references to Col. Wempl
2 CONC e in the records of the Committees of Correspondence of Schenectady an
2 CONC d of Albany, the Committee for Detecting Conspiracies. the Governor Cl
2 CONC inton Papers, etc. We shall try to select the most interestIng and imp
2 CONC ortant. tbat show the influence of this old patriot during the critica
2 CONC l years from 1775 to 1784. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Before the Mohawk river enters Into the Hudson, it Is divided Into fou
2 CONC r mouths by three rocky islands one of whicb was called Van Schalck'
2 CONC s or Cohoes. It is generally supposed that Henry Hudson, who discovere
2 CONC d the river which bears his name, ascended as far as thls point in 160
2 CONC 9. The mouth of tbe Mohawk was a point of great interest toward the cl
2 CONC ose or tbe summer of 1777, when Van Schaick's Island was fortified b
2 CONC y Gen Schuyler, then in command of the northern division of the Contln
2 CONC ental Army. This was done as a special safeguard if Burgoyne, who wa
2 CONC s advanclng from the north broke through. It was at this Island that G
2 CONC en. Schuyler resigned his command on the 19th of August and turned th
2 CONC e commission over to Gen. Gates, who before many weeks was to reap th
2 CONC e benefit of Schuyler's plans and enjoy the laurels of Saratoga, one o
2 CONC f the decisive battles of all history. And so with this setting, the l
2 CONC etter which follows is especially Interesting, and we give it In part
2 CONC : 
2 CONT 
2 CONT (No. 743, Clinton Papers) V'n Schayks Island, Sept. 7, 1777. D'r Slr
2 CONC :  As there Is a Dispute between ColI Wample and myself Respecting ou
2 CONC r Ranck and Genl. Gates Declines Determining it without your Instructi
2 CONC on, I therefore am under the necessity of Calling upon your Excellenc
2 CONC y for what you Conceive to be my Just Right.  . . . I think It very ha
2 CONC rd to submit to be Commanded by a man that Is Intirely unacquainted wi
2 CONC th service and an utter stranger to the Rules and Regulations of a Cam
2 CONC p. When I Entered this Campaign I LittIe Expected that any Coll, of Ma
2 CONC litia of this State that was never In actual service would assume Comm
2 CONC and of us that Had bin. Morris Graham (Col) His Excellency George Cli
2 CONC nton. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT This proves that Col. Wemple was connected with the general plan ot th
2 CONC e battle of Saratoga and probably actually In It. In fact, shortly aft
2 CONC erward Gov. Clinton writes Gen. Gates that he has ordered all reglment
2 CONC s of the state except two, Tryon County and the Schoharry Regiment, t
2 CONC o join his army, and so our own Helleberg militia must have been ther
2 CONC e as well as those of Col. Wemple. After the battle under date of Oct
2 CONC . 9th, the Albany Co. Militia Is ordered down from Saratoga. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT On May 30 of the next year, 1778, is found a letter in which Col. Wemp
2 CONC le is urged to push on with the militia and ammunition after the attac
2 CONC k on Cobleskill. That he did this is shown by the letter dated Schohar
2 CONC ie, 2nd June, 1778, reporting to Gen. Ten Broeck at Albany: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Sir--This morning I had Sent a Party to CobusKill of about 150 men wi
2 CONC th Lieut. CoIl Gates at the head of them: After they had been gone som
2 CONC e time I received information of a large Party coming down to destro
2 CONC y the Settlement of Breakabeen, upon which I ordered them to return th
2 CONC eir course to the upper Settlement of Schoharie where I am now Just Go
2 CONC ing to reinforce them;  if I am lucky Enough to meet them them I hop
2 CONC e to give them a Trimming. The ammunition is not yet arrived for whic
2 CONC h we are in great want. I hope you will send some provisions of the me
2 CONC at kind, and send me some writing paper as I have not so much as to ma
2 CONC ke a return thereon, and here is none to be had. Ab'm Wemple 
2 CONT 
2 CONT N.B. Sealing wax or wafers are much wanting. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT He must have scraped up enough paper In Schoharie for he makes his ret
2 CONC urn on the same date showing he had 1 Colonel (himself), 1 Lt. Col.
2 CONC , 1 Major, 5 captains, 9 Lieut., 3 Enslgns and 119 Rank and File. In a
2 CONC ll 139 men at Schoharie. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Part of the letter he wrote June 6th reporting on the Massacre at Cob
2 CONC usKill and of the Destitution of Survivors, we gave In an earlier art
2 CONC icle which referred to our own Captain Groot, but another note writte
2 CONC n on the same day Is as follows: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Schoharry, 6th June, 1778. D'r Slr: I forgot to mention In mIne of t
2 CONC his date that the people of CobusKill whose houses and Effects are bur
2 CONC nt only came off with what they had upon their Backs, have applyd to m
2 CONC e for provision. I should be glad to know wether they can draw out o
2 CONC f the public Stores or no. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Militia complain much that they cant live upon 1 lb. of Bread an
2 CONC d 1 Ib. of Beef. I was with the Commissary - he tells me it is Genera
2 CONC l Orders not to Issue more for a Ration. I should be glad If you wil
2 CONC l mention It to the General and let me know. I am Dr Sir, Your Ob't H
2 CONC um Serv'l. Ab'm Wemple. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT In September of 1778 we read of his being up the Mohawk with an expedl
2 CONC tion; in November he Is present after the massacre at Cherry Valley. I
2 CONC n May, 1780 he Is at Johnstown when Johnson and Brandt made their raid
2 CONC . He arrives shortly after his Captain Vrooman got to the fort with th
2 CONC e 30 men. After Johnson had made the escape we previously described, G
2 CONC en. Van Schaick reports to Gov. Clinton: I have given him (Col. Wempl
2 CONC e) command with orders to remain In the present Situation until he rec
2 CONC eives your further orders. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT We should expect him to be In the thickest of the activities of 1780
2 CONC , and so the following letter proves he has been keeping his eyes on t
2 CONC he Tory activities of Helleberg. Wrltlng to Col. Peter Vroman at Schoh
2 CONC arie, he says: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Schenectady, July 18. 1780. Sir - we have just now Rec'd Informatio
2 CONC n and from good authority that a party of Tories from the Hellebergh
2 CONC , Niskitha and Beaverdam, to the amount of a near hundred, Is Set to g
2 CONC o and join the Enemy at Niagara, and that their is an Express along wi
2 CONC th them who is lately come from New York. They were to meet last Nigh
2 CONC t at Captain Palls at the Beaverdam and to proceed from thence to Unan
2 CONC dilla; we will Emedlately order a party of men from here to go in purs
2 CONC ute of them but belng aprehenslve that they may have got too much th
2 CONC e Start on us we would Request that on Recipt of this you will order o
2 CONC ut a party to Indeavor to intersept them on theIr Rout. 
2 CONT We Remain, Sir, your most Humbl. Servt. 
2 CONT Slgned, Ab'm Wempel.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT In August of 1780, Joseph Brant, the great Indian ally of the BrItIsh
2 CONC , led another attack on the Mohawk valley. Before troops could reach t
2 CONC he scene in defense, many Inhabitants of the locality about Canajoharl
2 CONC e had been slaughtered, prisoners taken, and crops and buildIngs burne
2 CONC d. Colonel Wemple, advancIng from below with the Schenectady and Alban
2 CONC y Militia, proceed.ed to the scene of the conflagration, and the follo
2 CONC wIng letter Is hIs report to his superIor offlcer: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Fort Plank (PlaIn),  Aug. 2nd, 1780, 7 o'clock. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Slr:- Yesterday I detached two officers and thirty men of mine to Co
2 CONC llo. Cuyler's Regt. at the WiIIigas to walt the arrival of a Convoy o
2 CONC f Boats at that place, and with the rest of our men we proceeded to Ca
2 CONC ughnawaga (Fonda), where we arrived last Evening, and at four this mor
2 CONC ning we began our march and arrived at Caughnawaga opposite to Mr. Fre
2 CONC y's about eleven, with an Intention to halt till they arrlved wIth th
2 CONC e Batteaux which we expect tomorrow about noon. Immediately after we h
2 CONC ad cantoned as compact as possible our men, we were alarmed with a hea
2 CONC vy smoke between John Abeal's and Fort Planck about four miles distan
2 CONC t from where we had taken up our quarters. This immediately was confir
2 CONC med In the Eye of our whole Body and found the Enemy were bussy employ
2 CONC ed to burn and destroy. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Instantly I did order both Regiments to be formed and proceed agains
2 CONC t the Enemy, who were at that time In their full Carear, and tho our N
2 CONC umbers were not equal, yet I can assure you I should be void of Justic
2 CONC e If I omitted mentioning their Prudence and cool behavior without Dis
2 CONC tinction to all Rancks. An although they had been In full march sinc
2 CONC e early In the morning they came up with such Vigor that the Enemy o
2 CONC n our approach gave way, and tho In sight we had no opportunity to giv
2 CONC e them Battle they retired In the usual way. Our first Halt was at a F
2 CONC ort erected near Mr. Abeal's House. The Inhabitants happy to see us. D
2 CONC irectly after we had refreshed the men a few minutes, a Number of Volu
2 CONC nteers who were least fateigued joined me with the Field Officers of b
2 CONC oth Regiments to see the Fate of this Fort, which we found as full o
2 CONC f sorrowfull weomen and Children for their Husbands and Friends whic
2 CONC h were missing. They had, however, not made any Attempt to attack thi
2 CONC s Place. Such a Scean as we beheld since we left the River, passing de
2 CONC ad Bodies of Men and Children most cruelly murdered, Is not possible t
2 CONC o be described. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT I cannot ascertain at present the Number of poor Inhabitants killed a
2 CONC nd missing, but believe the Loss considerable as the People were all a
2 CONC t work In the Fields. I have endeavoured to obtain the Strength of th
2 CONC e Enemy; the accounts differ so mucb that I cannot ascertain their Num
2 CONC ber, but from the many Places they set on Fire, as In one Instant, an
2 CONC d from parties out In a large Circuit or Country collecting and drivIn
2 CONC g off Cattle, I am lead to believe that their Number is not small. Ou
2 CONC r men are much fateigued. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT We propose to remain here this Night. In the Morning we shall procee
2 CONC d and act as Circumstances shall turn up and will inform you more part
2 CONC icular. Some persons pretend to say not less than one hundred dwellin
2 CONC g House are burnt. As soon as I can any ways collect the more particul
2 CONC ar Facts I shall not hesitate one Moment to let you know. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT As to General Rensselaer, I have no other accounts from him but tha
2 CONC t he left Fort Herkimer on Monday last in the afternoon; he then by th
2 CONC e best accounts I have been able to collect, besides the Convoy of Cap
2 CONC t. Hicks with about 60 Head of Cattle, and that his party consisted o
2 CONC f aboul five hundred men. I have great reason to believe he has got sa
2 CONC fe into Fort Schuyler. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Enemy began setting Fire and destroying some way near this plac
2 CONC e and proceeded on to Canajohary; near the River burnt their Church, A
2 CONC beal's House, and its Neighborhood and upwards, where they I am lead t
2 CONC o believe got sight of us and then retreated. You will please to obser
2 CONC ve that very great Devastation is committed south west of this place
2 CONC ; excuse my Haste and the Distressed Situation and Circumstances, an
2 CONC d hope will sufficiently appologise. I am, D'r Genl., etc. Ab'm Wemple
2 CONC . 
2 CONT 
2 CONT To General Ten Broeck. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The letter has been given In full because one cannot read It without g
2 CONC etting a fair idea of the character of the man and the problems he ha
2 CONC d to face. Often times an Insight is gained from personal corresponden
2 CONC ce that can be secured in no other way; so especially do we grasp suc
2 CONC h rare documents of the period when very little else is left by whic
2 CONC h we may judge our old Colonel. I believe this letter satisfactorily a
2 CONC nswers the criticism of the Colonel's action made by Stone in his Lif
2 CONC e of Brant, when he says: Indeed, it is intimated by good authority t
2 CONC hat although the Colonel's forces were superior to those of Brant, th
2 CONC e former was nevertheless by no means anxious to arrive in the immedIa
2 CONC te vicinity of the IndIans too soon. And LossIng has contInued the Id
2 CONC ea, for he quotes Stone frequently In his Field Book of the Revolution
2 CONC , Lossing says: The Colonel seemed to be one of those men who deeme
2 CONC d prudence the better part of valor, and was oppossed to forced marche
2 CONC s, particularly when in pursuit of such fierce enemIes as were just th
2 CONC en attracting his attention He managed to reach Fort PlaIn in tIme t
2 CONC o see the smouldering embers of the conflagratIon and to rest securel
2 CONC y wIthin Its ramparts that nIght. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT These opinions are, no doubt, the result of conversatIons whiIch Stone
2 CONC . the author, had with certain residents of the sectiIon who were stil
2 CONC l living In 1838 when his work was published. They felt, perhaps, righ
2 CONC tfully that their own militia had been ordered away to open up communi
2 CONC cation with Fort Schuyler (Rome) and that they had been left defensele
2 CONC ss, an easy prey to the Great Captain of the Six Nations, They too
2 CONC k out their spite on the Colonel who had nothlng to do wIth the orders
2 CONC , and who we believe dId everythIng In his power under the circumstanc
2 CONC es. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT I am lead to believe their number is not small; our men are much fate
2 CONC lgued, writes Colonel Wemple. What generalship would he have dlsplaye
2 CONC d In advancing on an unknown force led by the greatest of Indian capta
2 CONC ins, with an army of men exhausted from a day's march through the wild
2 CONC erness? We feel that once and for all this Insinuation of cowardlce ag
2 CONC ainst the fair name of our old hero should be burled. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Finally the war was over and the difficult years of early independenc
2 CONC e had to be met. Among the problems were satisfactory treaties with th
2 CONC e Indian tribes of the Six Nations. As the Commissioners expressed i
2 CONC t in CouncIl: Brethern at the conclusion of the late War with Great B
2 CONC ritain which terminated in a glorious Peace, the Legislature of this S
2 CONC tate thought It right to reestablish the antlent harmony and friendshi
2 CONC p which had so long subsisted between thIs State and the Six Nations r
2 CONC esiding within Its limits. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The meeting of the Commissioners for Indian Affairs was held at Fort S
2 CONC chuyler Aug. 31, 1784. Col. Wemple was highly honored by being selecte
2 CONC d as one of a committee sent to invite the Oneida Nation to attend. Th
2 CONC en he was present, as shown by the record, at most of the sesslons o
2 CONC f this very Important council. The records of this council may be foun
2 CONC d in full In Document No. 5490 of the Clinton Papers. Governor Clinton
2 CONC 's own concluding speech to the Oneidas and Tuscaroras is worthy of re
2 CONC peatlng:
2 CONT Brothers, we now conclude with fullest confidence that our chain of f
2 CONC riendship will not contract any rust, but that it will always remain s
2 CONC o bright throughout every part of the State that our posterity may se
2 CONC e their faces In it and that it will be their object, as it has been o
2 CONC urs, to promote each other's happiness, and as a pledge thereof we no
2 CONC w give you this belt. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT To have merited appointment to this important council, Is evldence o
2 CONC f the high esteem In which Col. Wemple was held. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT This is the last public activity of the Colonel we find recorded. It I
2 CONC s assumed that at the close of the war he devoted the remaining year
2 CONC s of his life to his farm and the Dutch Church of the Helleberg. Direc
2 CONC t reference will be made in future articles to the service of the Colo
2 CONC nel as elder in the consistory. The exact date of his birth Is unknown
2 CONC , but is placed about 1728. He died in 1799 and is buried on the hig
2 CONC h knoll back of his house.  . . . Climb the hill that rose behind th
2 CONC e great house and part the grass in search of the brown grave stones t
2 CONC hat once marked the last resting place of this great leader, but not e
2 CONC ven a trace will you find. His farm, his home, his grave have gone th
2 CONC e way of the world, but the records of Col. Wemple's achievements rema
2 CONC in, and today we ar honored that such a man has lived. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
0 @I541@ INDI
1 NAME Rachel /Vrooman/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 MAY 1724
1 DEAT
2 DATE 05 AUG 1791
1 FAMS @F149@
0 @I542@ INDI
1 NAME Walter Vrooman /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE (BEF. 10 MAR 1750/51)
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 AUG 1798
2 PLAC Claverack, NY
1 FAMC @F149@
1 FAMS @F520@
1 NOTE During the Revolution, he was senior surgeon, general hospital, Northe
2 CONC rn Department, and was also in the Fifth (Spencer's) NJ Battalion; set
2 CONC tled in Claverack, NY and practiced his profession; was the Treasure o
2 CONC f Columbia Company for several years, and a prominent man; May 1, 1767
2 CONC , he was a private in Captain Abraham Cuyler's Grenadier Company of Al
2 CONC bany County Militia. WBW
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is from a manuscript sent to the compiler on September 2
2 CONC 8, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. This manuscript was wri
2 CONC tten by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913. The manuscript was never published.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was baptized in Schenectady, March 10, 1751. Was Senior Surgeon Gen
2 CONC eral, General Hospital, North Department, during the Revolutionary War
2 CONC . Was in Spencer's, also called the Fifth New Jersey Battalion and wa
2 CONC s credited to New York State (FERNOWS COLONIAL HISTORY OF THE STATE O
2 CONC F NEW YORK, volume 15, page 247).
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following portion of his original petition to the Legislature fo
2 CONC r bounty lands, dated January 28, 1798, now deposited in the State Lib
2 CONC rary, Albany, NY, shows part of his army service:
2 CONT 
2 CONT THE PETITION OF WALTER VROOMAN WIMPLE OF THE TOWN OF CLEVERACK IN TH
2 CONC E COUNTY OF COLUMBIA
2 CONT 
2 CONT HUMBLY SHEWETH
2 CONT 
2 CONT That your petitioner in the year 1775 entered the General Hospital a
2 CONC s Senior Surgeon and that he was at the time of his so entering into t
2 CONC he service and hath been ever since a Citizen of this State, that he w
2 CONC ent with the Army into Canada and remained there until the Summer of t
2 CONC he ensuing year and that while he remained in Canada he had the care o
2 CONC f the General Hospital under the direction of Doctor Stringer, the the
2 CONC n Director and Surgeon General of the Northern Department, that he con
2 CONC tinued to act as Senior Surgeon until some time in the year 1777 and u
2 CONC ntil the aforesaid Director was superceded by the appointment of Docto
2 CONC r Johannes Potts as Director of the Hospital in the Northern Departmen
2 CONC t.
2 CONT 
2 CONT (Apparently, he never got any bounty lands for WBW doesn't cover th
2 CONC e subject. DRW).
2 CONT 
2 CONT After the Revolution, he settled in Claverack, where he was married Ma
2 CONC y 29, 1785 to Polly (Mary) Hogeboom, the second daughter of Stephen Ho
2 CONC geboom of that place. Here he practiced his profession during the rema
2 CONC inder of his lifetime. He was for several years the treasurer of Colum
2 CONC bia County and was a man of great dignity and importance in the commun
2 CONC ity, being also possessed of considerable wealth.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He is buried in the old portion of the Claverack cemetery and his grav
2 CONC estone contains this inscription: Dr. Walter Vrooman Wemple, died Au
2 CONC g 10, 1789 in the 47th year of his age, after his death, his widow ma
2 CONC rried General William Thomas, a Troy lawyer; she resided in Troy unti
2 CONC l the death of her second husband, when she returned to Claverack an
2 CONC d lived with her widowed sister, Mrs. Russell,  on the old Hogeboom ho
2 CONC mestead. She lies buried, by her first husband and the inscription o
2 CONC n her gravestone reads as follows: Mary Thomas, second daughter of St
2 CONC even Hogeboom, Esq., died June 3, 1843, aged 76 yrs., 5 mos., 13 days
2 CONC . She had no children by Gen'l. Thomas.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dr. Wemple and Mary Hogeboom had but two children, who both died ver
2 CONC y young. The gravestones of these two children are, at the present tim
2 CONC e (1896), in the Cellar of the old house formerly owned and occupied b
2 CONC y Steven Hogeboom, the father of Dr. Wemple's wife, and which still st
2 CONC ands. The inscription read as follows: Stephen Walter V. Wemple, die
2 CONC d Oct. 11, 1793, aged 3 yrs. and 16 days; Rachel Hiltjye Wemple, dau
2 CONC ghter of Walter and Mary Wemple, died Sept 26, 1798, aged 16 days. Wh
2 CONC ere the bodies lie is unknown, but probably they are buried beside the
2 CONC ir parents in the family, and why the gravestones are deposited in th
2 CONC e cellar, where they apparently have been for years, is an unsolved my
2 CONC stery.
2 CONT 
2 CONT (The following letter was written by Milton A. Fowler. He was of no re
2 CONC lation to the Wemples. DRW
2 CONT )
2 CONT The privilege of publishing the following letter relating to the Docto
2 CONC r, his residence and life, has been granted:
2 CONT 
2 CONT #255 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, March 21, 1891.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Randall N. Saunders,
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Sir:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Your letter to my father was received this morning and I have promise
2 CONC d him to answer it. I do not care to have you quote me or mention me
2 CONC , but am ready to give you all the facts as far as we know them, so th
2 CONC at you can write an article of your own upon the subject.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The old deeds of the property I gave to Mr. Nichols last fall but I t
2 CONC hink I can remember sufficiently to set you right. I saw last week a s
2 CONC tatement in reference to the finding of a marked brick which would ind
2 CONC icate that the house was more than 100 years old. Such is not the fac
2 CONC t as I am thoroughly satisfied from the following. These old deeds whi
2 CONC ch, as I recollect, were dated some time in 1790, I think about 1798
2 CONC . One by the grandfather of John Miller who resided just west of thi
2 CONC s place, and the other by a brother of his who resided where Mr. Van R
2 CONC ensselaer now resides.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The two parcels of irregular shape made up the lot as it was owned b
2 CONC y my father, containing about one acre, and subsequently he bought ano
2 CONC ther quarter of an acre lying just west of the place proper from Mr. J
2 CONC ohn Miller. The deeds were given to Dr. Walter Vrooman Wemple, commonl
2 CONC y known as Dr. Vrooman, who built the house and barn now on the premis
2 CONC es. The house originally had a short roof sloping toward the street, a
2 CONC nd another longer one sloping back; the back part of the house being o
2 CONC nly about one story high. This had been changed before my father bough
2 CONC t the property so as to be two stories in height in the back, but stil
2 CONC l in roofs sloped as before, In 1847 my father took off the whole of t
2 CONC he roof and put on a new one in its present shape. The title to the pr
2 CONC operty passed from Dr. Wemple to his widow, whether by deed or wil
2 CONC l I do not know. She afterwards married a Mr. Thomas and was living, w
2 CONC hen I was a little boy, with a Mrs. Russell, her sister, who resided w
2 CONC here Peter Best afterwards resided. When Mrs. Thomas died, which mus
2 CONC t have been about 1845, the property passed, either by will or heirshi
2 CONC p, to her sister Mrs. Russell, and Mrs. Russell deeded it to my father
2 CONC . Thus, you will see that the title has never passed through many hand
2 CONC s.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The barn, when we went there in 1847, had in it in the east end fou
2 CONC r finished rooms. Two on the main floor and two above with stairways
2 CONC , and still above that and reaching over the four rooms and the stairw
2 CONC ay was a large room finished for pigeons and showed that there must ha
2 CONC ve been an immense stock of pigeons kept there. The west end of the ro
2 CONC om had been somewhat remodeled before we went there, but my father cha
2 CONC nged it so as to have his slaughter-house in that end and made a stabl
2 CONC e and hay-mow of the east end, leaving one of the four rooms as a gran
2 CONC ary, which, as I understand it, is still there. The old cellar under t
2 CONC he barn of which you speak, was to me as a little boy, a great curiosi
2 CONC ty.
2 CONT 
2 CONT My father took up the whole of the old floors and removed an immens
2 CONC e accumulation of barn refuse, cleaning out the old cellar and the arc
2 CONC hed addition thereto. of which you speak. At that time the old doors s
2 CONC eparating the arched part from the main cellar, were still in part the
2 CONC re. We understood this arched part, which you think must have been a t
2 CONC omb, to have been a wine cellar.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dr. Wemple was a man of means, had a number of slaves, and as my fath
2 CONC er and understand it, his slaves slept in these rooms in the barn and
2 CONC , as we always supposed, used this large cellar as a vegetable cella
2 CONC r and the small one as a wine vault.  . . .
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mr. Jeremiah Race who gave my father and myself a good deal on inform
2 CONC ation about this Dr. Vrooman, as he was called, said that he was a ma
2 CONC n of luxurious tastes and who lived in much style, having a very larg
2 CONC e practice and being very independent.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Yours truly,
2 CONT 
2 CONT Milton A Fowler.  . . .
2 CONT 
0 @I543@ INDI
1 NAME Myndert A. /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 09 FEB 1753
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 NOV 1804
1 FAMC @F149@
1 FAMS @F521@
1 NOTE From THE HISTORY OF SCHENECTADY DURING THE REVOLUTION, Individual Reco
2 CONC rds of Service:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Wemple, Myndert A.: Baptized February 9, 1753; died November 10, 1804
2 CONC . On May 27, 1775, he was appointed second lieutenant in Captain Jelli
2 CONC s J. Fonda's company, 2nd Albany County Militia.  On July 10 he refuse
2 CONC d an offer of a recruiting warrant from the Provincial Congress, and o
2 CONC n June 20, 1779, was reappointed second lieutenant.  On February 25, 1
2 CONC 780, he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant and assigned to t
2 CONC he company of Captain John Mynderse.
0 @I544@ INDI
1 NAME Nicholas /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 16 MAR 1755
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1850
1 FAMC @F149@
0 @I545@ INDI
1 NAME Maria /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 27 NOV 1757
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1852
1 FAMC @F149@
0 @I546@ INDI
1 NAME Willempie /Peek/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 02 FEB 1772
2 PLAC Woestine, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1867
1 FAMS @F150@
0 @I547@ INDI
1 NAME Myndert /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 AUG 1796
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1798
1 FAMC @F150@
0 @I548@ INDI
1 NAME Myndert /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 04 JAN 1798
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 1818
1 FAMC @F150@
0 @I549@ INDI
1 NAME Alida /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1799
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1894
1 FAMC @F150@
1 FAMS @F734@
0 @I550@ INDI
1 NAME Nancy /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1800
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1895
1 BURI
2 PLAC Mexico, NY
1 FAMC @F150@
1 FAMS @F735@
0 @I551@ INDI
1 NAME Rebecca /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 JAN 1801
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 NOV 1885
2 PLAC Middlesex, Yates County, NY
1 FAMC @F150@
1 FAMS @F736@
0 @I552@ INDI
1 NAME Maria /Loucks/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 01 JAN 1781
2 PLAC Palatine, Montgomery County, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 27 JAN 1848
2 PLAC Troy, NY
1 FAMS @F151@
0 @I553@ INDI
1 NAME John Barentse /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 08 JAN 1808
2 PLAC Canajoharie, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 04 JUN 1891
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 FAMC @F151@
1 FAMS @F737@
0 @I554@ INDI
1 NAME Henry Myndert /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 OCT 1809
2 PLAC Canajoharie, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 01 MAY 1888
2 PLAC Mexico, Oswego County, NY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Mexico Village Cemetery, Mexico, NY
1 FAMC @F151@
1 FAMS @F738@
0 @I555@ INDI
1 NAME Walter Yates /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 09 NOV 1811
2 PLAC Canajoharie, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1833
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 FAMC @F151@
1 FAMS @F739@
0 @I556@ INDI
1 NAME Abraham A. /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 FEB 1814
2 PLAC Canajoharie, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 AUG 1896
2 PLAC Wampsville, NY
1 FAMC @F151@
1 FAMS @F740@
1 NOTE The following is from an unpublished manuscript, written by William Ba
2 CONC rent Wemple II,  compiler of the first part if this genealogy from 188
2 CONC 5-1913, sent to the compiler on September 28, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemp
2 CONC le of Bay City, MI.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He was born in Canajoharie, NY, February 12, 1814; married, in Schenec
2 CONC tady, Mary Sabine Avery, January 15, 1835; died in Wampsville, NY, Aug
2 CONC ust 13m 1896; his wife resides with her son Lyman A. (Wemple) in Wamps
2 CONC ville, NY. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT In response to a request made by the compiler for a personal sketch o
2 CONC f his life, he furnished the one which follows, on June 13, 1894, ever
2 CONC y word of which was written by himself in a beautiful, strong hand wri
2 CONC ting, which would have done great credit to a person one half his age
2 CONC . He was a charming correspondent and the compiler had many delightfu
2 CONC l letters from him. He had always taken a deep interest in his famil
2 CONC y history, therefore, on this account and his age he was most valuabl
2 CONC e in clearing up many vague points regarding his branch. The compile
2 CONC r was indeed fortunate and favored in knowing him through corresponden
2 CONC ce and regrets exceedingly the obstacles that prevented making a perso
2 CONC nal acquaintance.
2 CONT 
2 CONT As regards a history of myself, I have to say that perhaps forty year
2 CONC s ago I commenced to write a history of myself, beginning with my birt
2 CONC h and following along the lines of childhood and youth to early manhoo
2 CONC d, and the events or incidents occurring not omitting my marriage to M
2 CONC ary S. Avery, my present wife, January 15, 1835. The record alluded t
2 CONC o covers several years after my marriage but at present, I cannot la
2 CONC y my hand upon the document but may in a few day. That history is a re
2 CONC minder to me of events in early boyhood and youth while with my widowe
2 CONC d mother, to whom I was lovingly attached and sought to make her lif
2 CONC e joyous by rendering such aid in our as was in my power. These effort
2 CONC s to aid my mother are now a perpetual benison to me and therefore bri
2 CONC ght spots in my life. When my mother came to reside with me in 1845 o
2 CONC r a little before, she found a home indeed till she died in 1847. He
2 CONC r memory is cherished. The mother of my wife - a widow also - became a
2 CONC n inmate of my house also and lived with us till death and then her re
2 CONC mains were borne to Wampsville and laid by the side of her husband, Jo
2 CONC hn Avery. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Now, it occurs to me that if I can furnish you a history dating fro
2 CONC m my marriage it will give you something of an idea of my manner of li
2 CONC fe for the past 60 years. My marriage opened or suggested a phase of l
2 CONC ife which has afforded my much delight. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT However, the beginning of my wedded life was being employed in a stor
2 CONC e, groceries, etc., not omitting intoxicating liquors, but by an expre
2 CONC ss agreement with my employers, I had nothing to do with waiting on cu
2 CONC stomers calling for liquor, such callers were referred to a son of on
2 CONC e of the proprietors. I have no doubt it seemed rather odd to imbiber
2 CONC s of the intoxicant that a clerk standing in front of the bottles, dec
2 CONC lined to pass the same to them. but such was the case. My abhorrence o
2 CONC f the traffic was deep-seated and I will here say that I have not los
2 CONC t my detestation of the cause of the most of the distress in the world
2 CONC . Further on I will tell you of my efforts to influence humanity to de
2 CONC sist from the use of intoxicants. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Well, my clerkship became so distasteful that I left the store altoge
2 CONC ther. I needed the pittance of a salary of $250.00 a year with which t
2 CONC o support my wife. I was out of employment two months. In the middle o
2 CONC f September, 1835, an old friend and a resident with my mother and sel
2 CONC f in the same building, a few years previous but then a resident of Tr
2 CONC oy and in charge of shipping for a large transportation company, wrot
2 CONC e to me to come to Troy. I went at once and found he had a place for m
2 CONC e. I at once entered upon the particular duties - that of tallyman an
2 CONC d any other service that tended to aid my employers. I remained at Tro
2 CONC y until navigation closed, receiving of my services $50.00 per month
2 CONC , a sum my employers did not demur to. Before I left Troy to return t
2 CONC o Schenectady and my wife, the latter was delivered of a girl baby. M
2 CONC y employers, G. P. Griffith & Company, engaged me for the next season
2 CONC , 1836, at a compensation of $400.00; such salaries at that time wer
2 CONC e considered quite large. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT I will go back a few years to 1832, which was the year, and the distr
2 CONC ess it occasioned. In October of that year I was converted - for whic
2 CONC h I have ever expressed gratitude to my Redeemer - and united with th
2 CONC e Baptist church, having been baptized in the Mohawk river by the Reve
2 CONC rand A. D. Gillette, our pastor. This change in life opened to me ne
2 CONC w views and new experiences. These views and experiences borne by me t
2 CONC o Troy, induced me to seek affiliation and association with the Firs
2 CONC t Baptist Church in Troy, then under the pastorate of the Reverand Ben
2 CONC jamin M. Hill, a noble Christian and man. He was a councillor indeed
2 CONC , to who I attached myself as with hooks of steel during my two month
2 CONC s stay in Troy. After navigation of 1835 closed I returned to Schenect
2 CONC ady and engaged in such pursuits as availed to help my wife, baby an
2 CONC d myself through the winter. I also devoted the time usually occupie
2 CONC d by the church, in service thereof. A little before the opening of na
2 CONC vigation in 1836, I went to Troy to fill the position for which I wa
2 CONC s employed. I took my wife and baby with me and went to board with Mr
2 CONC . Leonard Crocker and family, the superintendent of the company by who
2 CONC m I was employed. During 1836 I endeavored to make myself useful to th
2 CONC e company, and leisure time, when the opportunities favored, devoted t
2 CONC o church service. The winter of 1835 & 6 was of service to Mr. Crocker
2 CONC , he becoming a converted man and a decided Christian. Sunday previou
2 CONC s to the opening of navigation in 1836 was about as much a working da
2 CONC y on the docks as other days. The conversion of Mr. Crocker had the go
2 CONC od effect of stopping Sunday work. Instead of work, a bethel meeting w
2 CONC as held under our dock sheds where seats were provided for the dock fo
2 CONC rces and others. These services were well attended and continued throu
2 CONC gh the season, when the weather permitted and had the effect to caus
2 CONC e a discontinuance of Sunday work during the years of my employment o
2 CONC n the docks, which ended with 1847. At the close of 1847 I declined t
2 CONC o re-engage to my employers and also decided the offer of $1000.00 fo
2 CONC r the season of 1847 by a neighboring transportation company. At the c
2 CONC lose of 1847 business life presented a new phase.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mr. Crocker our superintendent informed Messrs. G. P. Griffith & Comp
2 CONC any of his purpose to discontinue service with them and move to Buffal
2 CONC o. Of this change I was not made aware until after navigation closed
2 CONC . At this time Mr. Crocker informed me of his purpose and, I think, i
2 CONC t was Mr. Crocker (who) informed me that Messrs. G. P. Griffith & Comp
2 CONC any wished me to fill Mr. Crocker's place and also to continue in th
2 CONC e position of tallyman. I hesitated to undertake the responsibility o
2 CONC f the two positions, but insistence to comply was enforced by the offe
2 CONC r of $800.00 for the season.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Well, I consented to assume the two positions. I returned to Schenect
2 CONC ady to remain thro' the winter of 1836 and in the spring of 1837 retur
2 CONC ned to Troy, taking wife and little daughter with me and began house k
2 CONC eeping  in a very moderate way but happy in the little humble home bu
2 CONC t was made desolate ere the year ended by the death of the little daug
2 CONC hter Selinda at the age of 2 years and 4 months. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT As we had become residents of Troy, it accorded with my mind to ident
2 CONC ify myself with interests congenial to my Christian sentiments. This c
2 CONC ondition of mind brought me to the church and Sunday-school and afford
2 CONC ed me great delight. My position in the company opened up to me new so
2 CONC ures of pleasure; business naturally led me to business houses and fri
2 CONC endships were formed with businessmen of high standing. These friendsh
2 CONC ips were my delight in succeeding years. I interested myself in organi
2 CONC zations intended for the betterment of men. The Firemenn's Division o
2 CONC f the Sons of Temperance was a favorite organization. The office of se
2 CONC cretary afforded me pleasure and not infrequently my lot was to offici
2 CONC ate on the introduction of new members. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT My close friendship with the church and its pastor, Mr. Hill, led m
2 CONC e to ask for a letter of dismission from the church in Schenectady t
2 CONC o unite with the church in Troy, which was done in the winter of 183
2 CONC 7 & 8. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Now I had become a resident of Troy. I gave time to promote her inter
2 CONC ests as abilities and age availed. In 1843 I was elected Alderman of t
2 CONC he 5th ward, having been elected by Democrats and Republicans dissatis
2 CONC fied with the nominations of the candidates of their respective partie
2 CONC s. Of the Board of Alderman in that year, I believe but two yet live
2 CONC , viz., Russell Sage of New York, and the writer. A phase of life at t
2 CONC hat distance from the present, fifty-one years, still clings to me - i
2 CONC t was, and is, decided opposition to the principle of licence to pursu
2 CONC e a business KNOWN to be detrimental to the mental, physical and spiri
2 CONC tual well-being of humanity. At the time of my Aldermanship, the Boar
2 CONC d alone was the authority to grant licenses. Whenever an application w
2 CONC as presented and motion to grant was called, I did not fail of a negat
2 CONC ive, which gave offence, but I could not conscientiously vote for a wr
2 CONC ong. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT This same year, 1843, fifty members of the First Baptist Church obtai
2 CONC ned letters of dismission for the purpose of forming a new Baptist Chu
2 CONC rch which latter service was accomplished on the 23rd of June of tha
2 CONC t year, 1843. At the constitution of the church, I was elected clerk a
2 CONC nd continued in the office till December 1847.
2 CONT 
2 CONT A little history, at the latter date, is evidence of an over-ruling P
2 CONC rovidence. At the close of navigation of 1847, my then employers, Mess
2 CONC rs Ide, Coit & Company, they having become the successors of G. P. Gri
2 CONC ffith & Company, made application to me to continue in their employ
2 CONC ; I was also sought by James H. Hoske to enter his employ but to neith
2 CONC er gave assent, why, I did not know, but one evening just at the clos
2 CONC e of a prayer meeting, a brother informed me that a person in vestibul
2 CONC e wished to see me. I answered the call and was informed the Mr. L. R
2 CONC . Sargent, Superintendent of the Schenectady & Troy R.R., wished to se
2 CONC e me. I went with the messenger to the Troy House, where I met Mr. S
2 CONC . and was asked by him how I would like to go to Schenectady? I aske
2 CONC d for the cause. He replied, to take charge of the road at that place
2 CONC . I said, I will go and ready at once. We went to the Bank of Troy t
2 CONC o see John Paine, the president of the road, the preliminaries were se
2 CONC ttled and I at once prepared to leave Troy for Schenectady. Here, I re
2 CONC cognize Providence. The Baptist Chruch in Schenectady occupied a war
2 CONC m spot in my heart and this unexpected opening is again associate wit
2 CONC h that body made me very happy indeed for I was well aware of the pove
2 CONC rty of that body and thought the opportunity for rendering such aid a
2 CONC s was in my power would give me joy. My separation from the church for
2 CONC med in 1843 was regretted by the church and efforts were instituted t
2 CONC o change my mind, but I said to the church, I have consented to go an
2 CONC d I cannot withhold, although a tempting offer was made in a lucrativ
2 CONC e business. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT I went to Schenectady and at the first meeting - a meeting of praye
2 CONC r - I said to the meeting, Now know I that the Lord has blessed me fo
2 CONC r your sakes. (Gen. 3 chap., part of 23rd verse). I had no recollecti
2 CONC on of ever having read the sentence but I uttered it, nevertheless. No
2 CONC w that I had returned to the city of my early residence and the churc
2 CONC h of my choice, I gave heed, as I was able, to her needs and care. On
2 CONC e of the greatest of her needs was a house of worship. In her earlie
2 CONC r years she lost her house from poverty. In 1851 a vacant lot, part o
2 CONC f an estate, located on Union Street, a street in the center of the ci
2 CONC ty leading to Union College, was to be sold at auction. I attended an
2 CONC d on my personal responsibility, bid for it. At the time of biddin
2 CONC g I was accosted by Judge Platt Potter to know my purpose in bidding
2 CONC . I said to the Judge, I am bidding in the interest of the church. H
2 CONC e said, I bid no more. The lot with other real state was bought fo
2 CONC r $700.00. I have ever entertained great respect for his readiness t
2 CONC o give way for a noble purpose. At once we set about preparation for b
2 CONC uilding a house of worship. This, of course, taxed our energies and ou
2 CONC r pockets, as it did also the pockets of our friends. When the trenche
2 CONC s were dug for the foundation and the masons were ready to lay the fou
2 CONC ndation (by previous arrangement with the boss-mason) I went for a col
2 CONC ored sister, the contribution of the first dollar. I have her return w
2 CONC ith me to the yard, having informed her of my purpose, the boss led he
2 CONC r way down into the trench on there with strong arms and weeping eyes
2 CONC , Mrs. Wendell laid the first stone, a corner stone indeed, in the fou
2 CONC ndation. But three persons, other than the Masons, witnessed the cerem
2 CONC ony. In 1852 the basement of the house (of worship) was occupied by th
2 CONC e church with great joy. Now we had a domicile for ourselves and all o
2 CONC thers desirous to mingle with us.
2 CONT 
2 CONT My stay in Schenectady continued till the late Autumn of 1853 when th
2 CONC e consolidation of the roads forming the New York Central R.R. was acc
2 CONC omplished. This latter act closed my office and I returned to Troy t
2 CONC o take charge of the freight business. In 1855 I was called to Alban
2 CONC y and informed that my services were desired to take charge of the fre
2 CONC ight business. I consented, the president, Erastus Corning and genera
2 CONC l Superintendent Chauncey Vibberd fixing my salary at $1200,00. I arra
2 CONC nged to go at once on my return home (Troy). I bethought myself of a m
2 CONC atter not Broached on my visit at first, and at once I wrote  Genera
2 CONC l Superintendent a note saying, if Sunday work was expected of me, I m
2 CONC ust decline the position. An answer was speedily returned, favoring m
2 CONC e freedom from Sunday services of the ordinary kind. This decision le
2 CONC d to freedom of our men for Sunday, except watchmen.
2 CONT 
2 CONT During my connection with the freight department I was not interfere
2 CONC d with by any in authority, but at once, there was an Assistant Superi
2 CONC ntendent coming to me and ordering a force of men for the following Su
2 CONC nday to unload cars. I informed the Assistant Superintendent that I sh
2 CONC ould not order men to work on the morrow. He stamped and said, Well
2 CONC , we will see about it. Whether he did or not see about it, I never h
2 CONC eard any complaint of my decision. Mr. Corning was a good friend; I ne
2 CONC ver appealed for an increase of salary, He and his subordinated had ab
2 CONC undant knowledge of the necessities of the service and the first incre
2 CONC ase was $300.00; total 1500.00; the next, an additional $500.00, tota
2 CONC l $2000.00 per annum. In 1866 &7 I left the road and came to Wampsvill
2 CONC e, purchased a dwelling and took up our residence. The first or secon
2 CONC d year of living in Wampsville,  I was informed by letter from Charle
2 CONC s B. Redfield of his wish to have me go to New York City and take char
2 CONC ge of his barge-tow at a salary of $2500.00. I did not wish to rejec
2 CONC t the offer. I went the following spring. After a stay in New York Cit
2 CONC y till the first of July, I was invited by Dean Richmond, then the pre
2 CONC sident of New York Central R. R., to visit him at the St. Nicholas
2 CONC . I went and saw Mr. Richmond, and was informed by him of his wish t
2 CONC o have my return to Albany and resume the care of the freight busines
2 CONC s of a salary of $2500.00. I informed Mr. Richmond of my relationshi
2 CONC p to Mr. Redfield. He says, We will fix that. On this condition I co
2 CONC nsented to go and did go, displacing the two men appointed after I lef
2 CONC t a year or two previous. I had from the first objected to an assistan
2 CONC t; one was enough.
2 CONT 
2 CONT I remained with the company about two years, at which I began to expe
2 CONC rience the effect of overtaxing and resigned. Since that time, now abo
2 CONC ut 28 years, I have been engaged in business - groceries,coal, lumbe
2 CONC r and postmaster. In 1874 I was taken sick and confined to my bed by r
2 CONC heumatism and other ills and a council of physicians decided that I co
2 CONC uld not live. I did not believe the decision to be true, at least th
2 CONC e time, a year, fixed the the principal physician. I feel at this tim
2 CONC e of my life, 80 years, competent for my business of 30 years ago, bu
2 CONC t sight and inability to get about, hinder me from active service. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT I went to Canastota right after leaving Albany the second time and en
2 CONC gaged in the coal and lumber business. While in Canastota I labored i
2 CONC n the Baptist Church, doing what I could.
2 CONT 
2 CONT I must not omit to say, while a resident in Albany I was a member o
2 CONC f the Board of Alderman, also a member of the Board of Supervisors, an
2 CONC d very happily identified with George Dawson in the Tabernacle Baptis
2 CONC t Church, of which he was a useful and much honored member. His dutie
2 CONC s in the editorial department of the Evening Journal were never allowe
2 CONC d by him to detract from his service in the church and Sunday-school
2 CONC . 
2 CONT 
2 CONT A LITTLE incident and yet NOT a little incident occurred the first se
2 CONC ason of my Troy occupation. I was much tried and tempted, my associati
2 CONC ons and surroundings were not always of such character (that) I, a you
2 CONC ng Christian, needed for association. On one occasion, riding alone i
2 CONC n a buggy from Troy to Schenectady I prayed earnestly to my Father, Go
2 CONC d, that if it would be consistent, I would be glad to have Him open u
2 CONC p for me a source which would free me from (the) associates of the kin
2 CONC d surrounding me. I received an answer to my prayer which silenced al
2 CONC l complaints of evil surroundings. The answer was this, and it was a
2 CONC s distinct as I give it to you, I have you where it pleaseth me. Th
2 CONC e prayer and answer, made nearly 60 years ago, are fresh in memory. Fo
2 CONC r the past four years and a half I have not been physically able to g
2 CONC o up the hill to our Presbyterian sanctuary but absence from private o
2 CONC r the prayer meeting has not led to indifferences to my spiritual inte
2 CONC rests. I am hoping for attendance at the prayer meeting, Providence pe
2 CONC rmitting. It was in the spring of 1893 I arranged with pastor George N
2 CONC icholls that on the occasion of the meeting for prayer, if he deemed i
2 CONC t weather suitable for me to venture; although the day bid fair fo
2 CONC r a pleasant evening the latter was not. With the present supply, I ha
2 CONC ve a similar arrangement. What the future will divulge we wait to lear
2 CONC n.
2 CONT 
2 CONT I omitted to state, that during my last residence in Schenectady, I w
2 CONC as a member of the Board of Alderman. While a member our city clerk an
2 CONC d clerk of the Board died, he, Stephen S. Riggs was poor and his salar
2 CONC y as clerk of some importance to his family. (Our) sympathies were rou
2 CONC sed and I made known to the Board that I would volunteer to fill the o
2 CONC ffice during the balance of his year and attend to my duties as Alderm
2 CONC an.
0 @I557@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Stilwell/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 JAN 1786
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1881
1 FAMS @F152@
0 @I558@ INDI
1 NAME Myndert /Wemple/
2 GIVN Myndert I.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 08 SEP 1806
2 PLAC NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 APR 1855
2 PLAC Canajoharie, NY
1 FAMC @F152@
1 FAMS @F741@
0 @I559@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret Eliza /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 JAN 1809
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 JUN 1886
2 PLAC Canajoharie, NY
1 FAMC @F152@
0 @I560@ INDI
1 NAME Deborah Ann /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 JUL 1811
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1895
2 PLAC Lynn, Walworth, WI
1 FAMC @F152@
1 FAMS @F742@
0 @I561@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah Cornelia /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 01 MAY 1814
1 DEAT
2 DATE 04 SEP 1892
2 PLAC Batavia, NY
1 FAMC @F152@
1 FAMS @F743@
0 @I562@ INDI
1 NAME Alida Van Dorn /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 08 JUN 1817
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 MAY 1893
2 PLAC Canajoharie, NY
1 FAMC @F152@
1 FAMS @F744@
0 @I563@ INDI
1 NAME Infant /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 MAY 1820
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 MAY 1820
1 FAMC @F152@
0 @I564@ INDI
1 NAME Silas Vrooman /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 03 AUG 1821
2 PLAC Montogmery County, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 JAN 1873
2 PLAC Canajoharie, NY
1 OCCU ,
1 FAMC @F152@
1 FAMS @F745@
0 @I565@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Catharine /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 SEP 1824
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1896
2 PLAC Canajoharie, NY
1 FAMC @F152@
0 @I566@ INDI
1 NAME Lucinda /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 DEC 1828
1 DEAT
2 DATE AFT 1905
1 FAMC @F152@
1 FAMS @F746@
0 @I567@ INDI
1 NAME Hester /Newkirk/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1785
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1880
1 FAMS @F153@
0 @I568@ INDI
1 NAME Alida /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 01 DEC 1804
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1896
1 FAMC @F153@
1 FAMS @F747@
0 @I569@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Van Schaick/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 06 OCT 1789
1 DEAT
2 DATE 06 SEP 1854
1 FAMS @F154@
0 @I570@ INDI
1 NAME Walter Vrooman /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 09 MAY 1809
2 PLAC Montgomery County, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 04 MAY 1868
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 FAMC @F154@
1 FAMS @F748@
1 FAMS @F749@
0 @I571@ INDI
1 NAME Alida Ann /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 01 JAN 1812
1 DEAT
2 DATE 03 NOV 1813
1 FAMC @F154@
0 @I572@ INDI
1 NAME Eleanor /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 09 AUG 1815
1 DEAT
2 DATE OCT 1871
1 FAMC @F154@
1 FAMS @F750@
0 @I573@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Ann /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 SEP 1817
1 DEAT
2 DATE 08 JUN 1879
2 PLAC Schenectady, NY
1 FAMC @F154@
1 FAMS @F751@
1 NOTE The following is from an unpublished manuscript sent to the compiler o
2 CONC n September 28, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI. and writte
2 CONC n by William Barent Wemple II, compiler of the first part if this gene
2 CONC alogy from 1885-1913.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following sketch was furnished by the Reverand Denis Wortman, D.D
2 CONC . who was at one time (Mary Wemple's) pastor in Schenectady, NY, and p
2 CONC reached at her funeral sermon, an extract from which is included in th
2 CONC e sketch.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mrs. Myers was a woman in whom the intellectual, social and sympathet
2 CONC ic blended in an unusual degree, all largely developed as naturally t
2 CONC o make large draught on a constitution never rugged. And yet though ne
2 CONC ver strong, her desire to help others nearly always kept her above an
2 CONC y particular prostration. She was deeply religious without any semblan
2 CONC ce of cant or formalism, intensely faithful to her church (the First D
2 CONC utch Reformed) and her successive pastors. She was one of the warmes
2 CONC t of friends, eminently sympathetic and wise in councel, with a magnet
2 CONC ic, that drew an unusual number to her confidence and love. Her litera
2 CONC ry taste was eminently refined and occasionally she indulged in poeti
2 CONC c composition by tender and beautiful. Her poem, read a the dedicatio
2 CONC n of the Vale Cemetery, in Schenectady, was peculiarly fine in though
2 CONC t and diction. Her many sad bereavements she bore with beautiful resig
2 CONC nation to the will of God, and in every circumstance of life evinced f
2 CONC irm faith in the wise love of her Savior, humble resignation to His wi
2 CONC ll, and a never failing effort to do all the good she could.
2 CONT 
2 CONT EXTRACT FROM FUNERAL SERMON
2 CONT 
2 CONT It was a singular sympathetic power of hers that drew so many towar
2 CONC d her in her lovely life, a life spent in earlier years in what neare
2 CONC d affluence, but as we mostly knew her, in more humble ways; not poor
2 CONC , not rich, simply and honorable humble. I say it was a singular magne
2 CONC tism of - what shall I call it, after all? A singular magnetism of int
2 CONC ellect? Yes, but that was not all; of a deep religious spirit? Yes, bu
2 CONC t that was not all; it was these all combined - a penetrative insigh
2 CONC t into human motive, a wonderful ready sympathy, with sorrowful souls
2 CONC , a most Christian wishing always to give some help, a marvellous wisd
2 CONC om in choosing how it should be done, and a faculty of impressing othe
2 CONC rs with the profound assurance that a confidence reposed in her was sa
2 CONC fe. So she drew men to her; some to give their help to one show neede
2 CONC d it, others - many more - that they, stronger almost every way (missi
2 CONC ng text) councel, her judicious co-operation. And, strange spectacle i
2 CONC t was - this humble, gifted woman, the trusted confidant of young an
2 CONC d of old, more of the old and experienced than even of the young, mor
2 CONC e of the educated and refined than of those less cultured, the one wh
2 CONC o received and never betrayed the confidences of physician, or pastor
2 CONC , college teacher of simple friend. I think how he trusted her - the b
2 CONC eloved physician whom, on the day the new year was inaugurated, you bo
2 CONC re amid a city's sorrow, from this church to his silent tomb. I thin
2 CONC k how he esteemed her - the scholar and the eminent Christian whom thi
2 CONC s city and its college shall ever be rightly proud of, and whose nam
2 CONC e is forever identified with the reconciliation of science and religio
2 CONC n.
2 CONT 
2 CONT I know that should I name one of her former pastors - who, by the wa
2 CONC y pronounced the dedication address of the opening of your own beautif
2 CONC ul Vale Cemetery, as this beloved woman wrote the dedication poe
2 CONC m - I know should I mention his name, the assemblage would recognize w
2 CONC ith pleasing interest the fact, that sustaining the honors and dutie
2 CONC s of his high position in a New England college, and slowly consentin
2 CONC g at times to bear the responsibilities imposed by the Commonwealth, h
2 CONC e numbers the kindness and the help he, as the then youthful pastor o
2 CONC f this church, received from this wise and faithful friend.
2 CONT 
2 CONT My thoughts traverse at wide range, and I think of the scores and hun
2 CONC dreds, among you men and women of Schenectady, who recognized her wort
2 CONC h, who went to her often and found her weary, yet never so weary but s
2 CONC he could patiently hear your story through, and you went away happie
2 CONC r and better. She perhaps makes you stronger. For myself, I cannot spe
2 CONC ak. The words of cheer I received from her in days of feebleness and d
2 CONC espondency, the honest criticism that I coveted, the thoughtful encour
2 CONC agement she knew how to give when else wise I had almost shrunk from p
2 CONC ressing labors and so imperfect accomplishment of good plans, for he
2 CONC r good words, good counsels, good wishes, and good prayers, I simply c
2 CONC rave the privilege at this moment of deeply blessing God.
2 CONT 
2 CONT If I do not err, the life that now has ended has to greater or less e
2 CONC xtent pervaded at times, life a certain unseen tonic in the air, no
2 CONC t a few of the multitudinous activities of this city. It was a quiet w
2 CONC oman's quiet life - yet through the encouragement and the wise counse
2 CONC l so frequently and never vainly sought by others, that life has smoot
2 CONC hed the pillows of the many, has been physician to the invalid, has mi
2 CONC nistered in yonder pulpit, has taught the youth in yonder seat of lear
2 CONC ning. If we be wise we shall learn the lesson that may prove of valu
2 CONC e to us, of blessed help to others.
0 @I574@ INDI
1 NAME John /Wemple/
2 GIVN John V.S.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 DEC 1820
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 AUG 1822
1 FAMC @F154@
0 @I575@ INDI
1 NAME William H. /Wemple/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 SEP 1823
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 JAN 1848
1 FAMC @F154@
0 @I576@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Wemple/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 04 MAY 1828
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 FEB 1855
1 FAMC @F154@
1 FAMS @F752@
0 @I577@ INDI
1 NAME Philip /Van Antwerp/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 FEB 1787
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 MAY 1841
1 FAMS @F155@
0 @I578@ INDI
1 NAME Simon /Van Antwerp/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 JUL 1811
2 PLAC Schenctady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 SEP 1842
2 PLAC Niskayuna, NY
1 FAMC @F155@
0 @I579@ INDI
1 NAME Myndert Henry /Van Antwerp/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 DEC 1814
2 PLAC Schenctady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 05 APR 1853
2 PLAC Schenctady, NY
1 FAMC @F155@
1 FAMS @F753@
0 @I580@ INDI
1 NAME John /Van Antwerp/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 09 MAR 1818
2 PLAC Schenctady, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 21 AUG 1899
2 PLAC Niskayuna, NY
1 FAMC @F155@
1 FAMS @F754@
0 @I581@ INDI
1 NAME Abram Wemple /Van Antwerp/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 08 DEC 1829
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 11 NOV 1889
1 FAMC @F155@
1 FAMS @F755@
0 @I582@ INDI
1 NAME Maria /Quackenboss/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1765
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1860
1 FAMS @F156@
0 @I583@ INDI
1 NAME Harmanus /Mabee/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 NOV 1801
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1891
1 FAMC @F156@
1 FAMS @F3974@
0 @I584@ INDI
1 NAME Hendrick /Mabie/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 OCT 1804
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1894
1 FAMC @F156@
1 FAMS @F3975@
0 @I585@ INDI
1 NAME Martin B. /Schuyler/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1760
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1850
1 FAMS @F157@
0 @I586@ INDI
1 NAME Eva /Schuyler/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 SEP 1791
1 DEAT Y
1 FAMC @F157@
0 @I587@ INDI
1 NAME Zuzanna /Schuyler/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 APR 1798
1 DEAT Y
1 FAMC @F157@
0 @I588@ INDI
1 NAME Ezechiel /Gordon/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1765
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1855
1 FAMS @F158@
0 @I589@ INDI
1 NAME Pieter /Gordon/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 NOV 1793
1 DEAT Y
1 FAMC @F158@
0 @I590@ INDI
1 NAME James /Gordon/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 06 APR 1796
1 DEAT Y
1 FAMC @F158@
0 @I591@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Gordon/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 JUL 1799
1 DEAT Y
1 FAMC @F158@
0 @I592@ INDI
1 NAME Schyler /Gordon/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 09 OCT 1801
1 DEAT Y
1 FAMC @F158@
0 @I593@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Jones/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1775
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1865
1 FAMS @F159@
0 @I594@ INDI
1 NAME Ester /Jones/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 AUG 1798
1 DEAT Y
1 FAMC @F159@
0 @I595@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /Jones/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 JUL 1804
1 DEAT Y
1 FAMC @F159@
0 @I596@ INDI
1 NAME Debi-Ann /Jones/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 JUL 1807
1 DEAT Y
1 FAMC @F159@
0 @I597@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret Marie /Jones/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 JUN 1812
1 DEAT Y
1 FAMC @F159@
0 @I598@ INDI
1 NAME John Schuyler /Jones/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 JUN 1812
1 DEAT Y
1 FAMC @F159@
0 @I599@ INDI
1 NAME Rachel /Newkirk/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1780
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1875
1 FAMS @F160@
0 @I600@ INDI
1 NAME Deborah /Mabie/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 JAN 1803
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1898
1 FAMC @F160@
1 FAMS @F3976@
0 @I601@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Mabie/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 JAN 1805
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1900
1 FAMC @F160@
0 @I602@ INDI
1 NAME Susanna /Mabie/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 JAN 1805
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1900
1 FAMC @F160@
1 FAMS @F3977@
0 @I603@ INDI
1 NAME Jan Barentse /Wemple/
1 NAME Jan Wemp
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1620
2 PLAC Holland
1 DEAT
2 DATE AFT 18 MAY 1663
2 PLAC Albany, New York
1 FAMS @F161@
1 NOTE As of this date nothing is known about Jan Barentse Wemp before his mi
2 CONC gration to the Rensselaer Dutch colony in the new world, other than hi
2 CONC s father's name was Barent. This colony was located near the present t
2 CONC own of Albany, NY. There are some indications that he may have saile
2 CONC d on the Dutch ship den Houttuyn, which arrived in at Schuyler Flatt
2 CONC s on the Hudson River on in 1640, but no records verifying this can b
2 CONC e found. There are other ships that sailed from Holland to the new wor
2 CONC ld during this time period on which he could have sailed. There are al
2 CONC so some indications that Jan may have served as an indentured servan
2 CONC t for Killean Van Rensselaer on his farm as a herder of livestock fro
2 CONC m 1640 to 1645. This is partially based on his nickname of Poest, whic
2 CONC h had a variety of meanings in the Dutch language, including noisy-her
2 CONC der. Of course, Jan could have worked for wages during these years o
2 CONC f working for Killean Van Rensselaer. In any event our forefather wa
2 CONC s from a humble beginning. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The first recordation of Jan Wemp a record called the Van Rensselaer M
2 CONC anuscripts. This record is discussed in an article written by Willia
2 CONC m C. Wemple, and originally published in the MOHAWK VALLEY DEMOCTAT i
2 CONC n 1938. This article says that the immigrant was placed in charge of t
2 CONC he farm at Rensselaerwyck on April 10, 1645 for L300 a year. The artic
2 CONC le continues that on June 11. 1646, Jan was relieved of his duties bec
2 CONC ause of, as stated in the Dutch language,  sportlingh met de Wilden  o
2 CONC r translated into English  trouble with the Indians.  William C. Wempl
2 CONC e s article does not clearly say why Jan Wemp was relived on his dutie
2 CONC s, and his article does not go into any detail of what the  trouble wi
2 CONC th the Indians  exactly was. In speculation, it could have been his la
2 CONC ck of ability to get along with the local natives, or it could have be
2 CONC en that the natives simply could not get along with Jan Wemp. In any e
2 CONC vent, Killean Van Rensselaer felt it was to his interest that Jan be r
2 CONC elieved of his duties. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Records of Jan Wemp s life are available for research in the New Yor
2 CONC k State Library and elsewhere in New York and continue on to past hi
2 CONC s death in 1663 as his widow remarries and continues on with her life
2 CONC . 
2 CONT 
2 CONT A sad, side note: In all my research have I been able to find that th
2 CONC e Wemple name is connected in any way with van or von. Nowhere in Holl
2 CONC and or Germany is there a village, town, city or province by the nam
2 CONC e of Wemple, so the wish that we are somehow named Van Wemple is incon
2 CONC gruous. It is simply not possible, so we ll just have to content ourse
2 CONC lves with being plain old Wemps/Wemples. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is from the work of William Barent Wemple, the origina
2 CONC l compiler of the family s genealogy who worked on the family tree fro
2 CONC m about 1885 to 1913. The main subject of what immediately follows i
2 CONC s about the two names that Jan went by, Wemp and Poest, and that Jan i
2 CONC s in fact both Wemp and Poest: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Of the large number of public records on file in the office of the Cou
2 CONC nty Clerk, Albany, N.Y., in the New York State Library, Albany, N.Y.
2 CONC , and in possession of the Van Rensselaer family, Albany, N.Y., relati
2 CONC ng to Jan Barentsen Wemple, they all, with three or four exceptions, g
2 CONC ive his name as  Wemp.  The very few and unimportant exceptions give h
2 CONC is name as  Poest.  While it has always been assumed and stated by suc
2 CONC h historians as Pearson, Munsell, and those following them, that Wem
2 CONC p and Poest were the same person, there has never been any actual proo
2 CONC f of this fact until the compiler discovered among the Rensselaerwyc
2 CONC k papers, owned by Mr. William Bayard Van Rensselaer, Albany, N.Y., th
2 CONC e following original bill (written in Dutch and translated): 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jan Barentsz Wemp is indebted this day, April 19, 1659, at Amsterdam
2 CONC : hired for him a boy, named Christiaen Christiaensz, to whom I have a
2 CONC dvanced (the following) which shall be deducted from his wages in Ne
2 CONC w Netherlands,
2 CONT 
2 CONT First a suit of clothes, at: f 4 10
2 CONT 
2 CONT also bought and paid for him a straw-bed, a blanket, a pillow, and a r
2 CONC ed cap, together: f 2 16
2 CONT 
2 CONT also, 3 pairs of shoes at 30 stivers a pair, and 3 shirts at 28 st
2 CONC . a piece, together: f 8 14
2 CONT 
2 CONT also, 2 pairs of stockings at 14 st. a pair, a chest at 32 st., also 1
2 CONC 4 st. worth of thread and lacing-strings: f 3 14
2 CONT 
2 CONT Total: f19 14
2 CONT 
2 CONT  (here) follow the expenses advanced by me and which must not be deduc
2 CONC ted from the boy's (wages) for the contract: f1 4
2 CONT 
2 CONT for the passport and bringing on board of his chest and straw-bed: f
2 CONC 1 0
2 CONT 
2 CONT expenses in hunting up the boy and the labors who returned the handmon
2 CONC ey, or godspenny and, (for) my trouble: f5 0
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Total: f26 18
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Please pay this sum of f 26 18 with one percent (advance) to my broth
2 CONC er, Jeremias in N(ew) Netherland. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jan Baptist Van Rensselaer. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT (Reverse Side) 
2 CONT 
2 CONT No. 7
2 CONT Account of Jan barentsz poest
2 CONT (His mark)   X 
2 CONT 
2 CONT I hereby certify that the above is a true and correct translation of t
2 CONC he original and was made by me.
2 CONT (signed) Arnold J.F. van Laer
2 CONT Archivist, N.Y. State Library. Albany, N.Y., June 29, 1904 
2 CONT 
2 CONT William Barent Wemple continues his account of how, in his opinion, th
2 CONC e immigrant came by his name of Wemp: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The above original account is proof positive that Wemp and Poest wer
2 CONC e one and the same person, because the face of it was made out in Amst
2 CONC erdam, Holland, at the home-office and headquarters of the Rensselaerw
2 CONC yck Colony, and there they would be very careful to write the name a
2 CONC s nearly correct as possible and it is borne out by the records in th
2 CONC e Colony itself that it was so done.  The account was sent over to th
2 CONC e Colony at Albany, from Holland, for collection against Wemp's accoun
2 CONC t.  When received at the Colony, it was folded for filing away, and o
2 CONC n the back of the account was endorsed its number (7) and the name o
2 CONC f the debtor.  Instead of endorsing the debtor's correct name of the b
2 CONC ack, the clerk endorsed the nickname by which Wemp was sometimes known
2 CONC , being that of  Poest.   From the evidence of the records, it is appa
2 CONC rent he was not called that to the exclusion of his correct name, as w
2 CONC as the case in many instances.  It was customary at that period in ou
2 CONC r history, when patronymics were comparatively rare excepting among th
2 CONC e more prominent families, to give a man a name that derived its signi
2 CONC ficance from his occupation, place of residence in the mother countr
2 CONC y or here, prominence or defect of some mental or physical characteris
2 CONC tic, and in fact, jokes and unusual situations have contributed to fas
2 CONC ten names upon men that have descended to the present generation.  I
2 CONC n other cases men have borne a regular family name and have been give
2 CONC n an additional one derived from some of the above-mentioned sources
2 CONC . 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Others have different observations.  As an example, a Nancy M. Zeller
2 CONC , who was Assistant to the Translator in the New Netherland Project ha
2 CONC d the following to say in some papers she sent to David R. Wemple on F
2 CONC ebruary 18, 1987.  One genealogy says he came from Peest in Drethe, (H
2 CONC olland), but  poest is an old Dutch word meaning  stable boy.  Wemp o
2 CONC r wemple (wimple) has something to do with cloth; he (the immigrant) p
2 CONC robably took the surname after migrating to distinguish from other Bar
2 CONC entszs  (that were in the colony.) 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Let us continue with the writing of William Barent Wemple: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Another record which indicated that he was from Holland is one on fil
2 CONC e in Albany, (N.Y.) County Clerk's office in a book labeled  Mortgages
2 CONC , No. 1, 1652-1660, on page 158 thereof dated July 15, 1659, wherei
2 CONC n is recorded a suit brought by Wemp against Adrian Symonson for the r
2 CONC ecovery of 15 beavers  which the deft. has taken with him to Holland t
2 CONC o deliver to plaintiff's wife but which she has not received.   This s
2 CONC hows that Wemp's wife was on a visit to Holland in 1659 and presumptiv
2 CONC e evidence that they were Netherlanders. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Although in the records relating to the first ancestor of this famil
2 CONC y in America the name is universally written  Wemp  there is good reas
2 CONC on for believing that the correct form was  Wemple  as used at the pre
2 CONC sent day by the majority of the family.  Commencing with the grandchil
2 CONC dren of the immigrant, the records sometimes speak of the same perso
2 CONC n as  Wemp  and at others as  Wemple.   With the next generation the n
2 CONC ame is almost always written  Wemple.   A more convincing proof, howev
2 CONC er, is a very old silver cup which belonged to the immigrant and now i
2 CONC n the possession of Mrs. B. Lansing Wagner, Baltimore, Md., which bear
2 CONC s the date 1657 and his name in full  Jan Baerensen Wimpel:   . . . 
2 CONT 
2 CONT While it is thought by many in the family that Jan Barentse Wemp was D
2 CONC utch and came from Holland, there is no proof of this. There is some e
2 CONC vidence that he came from one of the German proveniences, such as Bava
2 CONC ria. One thing that happened to the latest compiler is years ago he ha
2 CONC d contact with a German immigrant who exclaimed when he found his las
2 CONC t name was Wemple,  Oh, you are German. I served in World War I unde
2 CONC r a Lieutenant Wemple.  Today in looking through phone books of German
2 CONC y one will find Wemples and Wemps listed. However, the name Wempe seem
2 CONC s to be from a different root than ours. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following are Excerpts from THE MOHAWK VALLEY: ITS LEGENDS AND IT
2 CONC S HISTORY, 1608-1780, author W. May Reid, pg. 298 sent to the compile
2 CONC r by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City, MI on September 5, 1996: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT One of the most noteworthy of those sturdy Dutchmen, next to Van Curle
2 CONC r (or Van Corlear), was Jan Barentse Wemp, who arrived in this countr
2 CONC y and located in Beverwyck, in 1643 or 1645. . .  The suffix, SE, to t
2 CONC he name Barent, indicates that he was the son of Barent.  . . . 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Page 299 of the same article continues: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jan Barentse Wemp, the elder, was one of the original fourteen pioneer
2 CONC s who settled in Schenectady in 1662.  It is said that Governor Stuyve
2 CONC sant granted the first patent of land (an island at the town of Schene
2 CONC ctady) in 1662, to Jan Barentse Wemp and Jacques Cornelise Van Slyck
2 CONC , a half-breed. This island was sometimes called Wemp's Island, and i
2 CONC s now known as Van Slyck's Island.  Jan's name is connected very close
2 CONC ly with the early history among many of the prominent families of th
2 CONC e whole Mohawk Valley. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Michael Lee Wemple also submitted the following paper to the compile
2 CONC r on the same date: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT THE WEMPLE FAMILY
2 CONT Manuscript furnished by William C. Wemple, Amsterdam, NY and originall
2 CONC y published in the MOHAWK VALLEY DEMOCRAT newspaper. 1938-1939 
2 CONT 
2 CONT . . . It has been stated by such historians as Pearson and Munsell, th
2 CONC at Jan Barentse Wemp and Poest were one and the same person. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT This, however, does not prove that Poest was the surname, for a larg
2 CONC e number of reco