Waggy/Kiser/DeFroehn (DeFrain)/Kiessling/Wise Ancestry
Sources:
- The History of Pendleton County -- Morton (c) 1910
- Ancestors of Lillie Lieu Smith by Warren Berlin Crummett
- A History of the Descendants of Christopher S. Eye of Pendleton County, Va. (W. Va.) by Walter L. Eye
- A History of the Descendants of John Michael Propst of Pendleton County, Va. (W. Va.) by Walter L. Eye
- The Family of Adam and Susan Kiser Waggy of Sugar Grove, Pendleton Co., W. Va. compliled by Clarence D. Mulkin
- Marriages PENDLETON CO. WV (Partial) from USGenWeb Archives
- Births various PENDLETON CO. WV (Partial) from USGenWeb Archives
- Shenandoah Valley family data, 1799-1813, from the memorandum book of Pastor Johannes Braun, by John Brown (Johannes Braun); translated and annotated by Klaus Wust, edited in cooperation with Joseph H. Meyerhoeffer; published by Edinburg, VA, 1978
- Anne (Waggy) Dyvig, DNA cousin discovered on 23andMe, to whom I am third cousin, once removed. She is daughter of John R. Waggy (see below source), son of Harman Waggy, son of Daniel Waggy, son of John and Alice "Allie" (Propst) Waggy, our common ancestors. She provided stories about Adam and Susan (Kiser) Waggy. Information used with permission.
- Waggy, John R. From West Virginia to Alaska Via Europe and Asia, © 2004 by John R. Waggy. Revised 2005. Printed in the United States of America by Dehart's Media Services Incorporated.
- Find-A-Grave Memorial
- Shank, Thomas Lee. Schenck, Shenk, Shank: History of the Descendants of Andreas Schenck in America, 1732-1984 : Including Chapters on the Related Families of Biehlmajer, Hertzog, Weis, May, Seitz, Seip, Hicks, Hart, Bandy, and Notes on Many Others (FamilySearch, Google Books)
- U.S. National Park Service: Soldier Details: The Civil War: John A. Waggy
- Kiser Family Genealogy: Descendants of Jacob Kiser [#2] & Elizabeth Kissling, Generations 1-5 by Mark B. Arslan
- Karl Kiser
- Rocktown History - burial place for Jacob and Elizabet (Kissling) Kiser
- Others noted below.
Click HERE for more information about the Waggys. Waggy also had spellings Wagey, Wagy, Wage, Wege, and Waga. "There were WEGE/van der Wege/van de Wege families in Dutch Flanders, the part of Zeeland that is the south bank of the Scheldt and connected to the Belgian landmass. . . . Don't know if there's any connection, but the Licking Co., OH, history did suggest that the Waggy's came through Amsterdam, and Zeeland was a famously tolerant location for all kinds of people, including Huguenots and other refugees" (Gordon Seyffert, E-mail dated March 11, 2003).
Milton Wagy has announced his discovery of the Waggy-Wagy family in Montgomery Co., PA, around 1760. He has found information in Montgomery Co., PA, at the New Hanover Lutheran Church. Gordon Seyffert shared this in a March 11, 2003, e-mail, and cited Milton Wagy's message dated August 20, 1999.
Click HERE for Waggy/Wagy Family History.
The name DeFrain has also been spelled DeFroehn, DeFrehn, du Frene, Frehn, Frain, Froehn, Frene, and is Huguenot in origin. It is the maiden name of Susannah, wife of Phillip Waggy, Sr. (Reference: Gordon Seyffert's research of the DeFrain family in Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania).
Click HERE to read more on the Kiser family that settled Rockingham Co., VA, in 1832. Or click on Jacob Kiser below.
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b. 1704 in Saxony, Germany d. 14 January 1740 or 1741 in Wurtenburg, Germany |
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"In 1783, Phillip Waggy purchased 220 acres of land and recorded it at the Rockingham Courthouse in Virginia. This is the first record that we have of the Waggy family name. According to oral reports the family came from Switzerland through Philadelphia in th early 1700's. They later moved down into the Shenandoah Valley.
"Since all the work was manual labor some farmers owned slaves. That is true of ... the Ruleman. The land that [the Waggys] owned was in an area called Lick Run Ridge and on Hoover Mountain. Since their land was hilly and mountainous and not adaptable to large scale agriculture, the Waggys did not own slaves." (Waggy, p. 23). By 1800, Phillip's six daughters were married. Four of his sons "went west" [with Abraham moving just over the mountain to Pendleton Co.]." (Waggy, p. 9) Philip Waggy, Sr., settled in 1796 in the South Branch 8 miles above what is now Franklin, WV. He was from the Palatinate region of Germany in the Rhine River Valley. Susannah was not a Nebergall according to Gordon Seyffert's reporting on Milton Wagy's data. |
Philip Waggy, Sr. Revolutionary War Patriot "Due to the Scarcity of the preserved records, we have only a partial knowledge of the soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War.... Philip Waggy and two of his sons appear on the mustering-out rolls but that is the only information that can be found. Since they lived in the Shenandoah Valley at the time, we can only assume they served in the 8th Regiment" in which Reverend Muhlenberg, a Lutheran pastor, recruited German-speaking men in the Shenandoah Valley" (Waggy, p. 24). The 1810 US Census lists "Philip Waggie" living in Harrisonburg, Virginia, on August 6, 1810, with 1 free wite male aged 16 to 25 and with a free white female categorized as age 45 and over (Source: 1810 Census, Ancestry.com). |
Susannah DeFroehn | Christopher Kiesling (Kiessling/Kissling) | Christina Lingel | John/Johan Michael Weiss/Weis (Wise) Correspondence about Weiss History: March 3, 2005 March 5, 2005 Wise is also spelled Weisz, Wees, Wies, Weaase, Weaze and Weese. One source has him as John Adam Weiss who came from Basil, Switzerland to America in 1748. He bought land in what is now Page Co., Virginia, in 1771; he was later in Shenandoah Co., VA, tax lists 1782-1789 and Rockingham Co., VA, tax 1790-1799; his widow Barbara appears in the 1801 tax list (p. 264, Shank). |
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| Celebrity singer Kelly Clarkson is my (James "Jamie" Arthur Johnson's) 7th cousin, once removed, according to Geni.com, our common ancestor being Philip Waggy, Sr.). Kelly is daughter of <private> Taylor (Rose), daughter of Mary Gladys Rose, daughter of Ocie Lena George, daughter of Alonso McClaurel Shipman, son of Nellie Ann Shipman, daughter of Sarah Elizabeth Wilfong, daughter of Isaac Waggy, son of Philip Waggy, Jr., son of Philip Waggy, Sr. | b. ca. 1735 Germany d. 1812, Rockingham Co., VA |
m. | b. ca. 1739 - 3 February 1745, Austria? d. |
Christopher and Christina (Lingel) Kiesling arrived at Philadelphia in 1753 aboard the ship Neptune and came to Rockingham County, VA, in 1763. | b. ca. 1724, Dresden, Saxony, Germany d. 1774 |
m. | b. ca. 1726, Dresden, Saxony, Germany d. |
b. ca. 1723-1724 d. 15 October 1799 |
m. | b. ca. 1725 d. ca. 1801-1807 |
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| Abraham Waggy lived adjacent to George Rexroad. "Abraham Waggy was a latecomer to the area so all the level fertile 'bottom' land in the South Fork Valley had been claimed. He obtained land on the west edge of the valley and up over Hoover Mountain and down the other side. He build a log house at a ever flowing spring." (Waggy, p. 10). |
Abraham Waggy, Sr. | Mary (maiden name?) | DNA proof: I have a DNA match with whom I share Jacob and Elizabeth as common ancestors. Sue Marsjanik who is the great-great-great-great granddaughter of Jacob and Elizabeth. I am their great-great-great-great-great grandson. So, I am Sue's 5th cousin, once removed. | Elizabeth Kiesling (Kiessling/Kissling) | ↑ Jacob Kiser |
Adam Wise, Sr. (Johannes Adam Weis/Weiss) | info about Adam Wise, Sr. | Barbara Pfeiffer Also seen as Barbara Pieferin and Pieter (the latter speculated by Shank, p. 400). |
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| DNA proof: I have a DNA match with whom I share Abraham Waggy as a common ancestor. Lois Hagerty. |
b. 1772 d. 1821 |
m. | b. ca. 1772 d. before 1853 |
Further, I have multiple AncestryDNA matches who share common ancestors Jacob Kiser and Elizabeth Kisling (Kiessling) Kiser. Stephanie Shank, Cameron Van Buskirk, Elizabeth Dornblaser, Debbie Stoll, Merri Goodrow, Linda Olsson, Charles Clark, Michael Clark, David Matthews, Herbert C. Covey and David Maddocks. | b. 2 June 1759 Lick Run, Augusta Co., Virginia d. 13 October 1836 Rockingham Co., Virginia Find-A-Grave Memorial |
m. 15 June 1787 Rockingham Co., Virginia Both Jacob and Elizabeth Kiser are buried at Mt. Crawford Cemetery, Rockingham Co., VA (Source: Rocktown History). |
b. 6 April 1763 in Heidelberg Twp., Berks Co., PA d. 23 June 1823 Find-A-Grave Memorial |
b. 1 April 1761 d. 14 July 1839 Find-A-Grave Memorial, in Rockingham Co., VA. Shank indicates he died between ca. April 1839 and the census of 1840 and concludes in the appendix (new information discovered) 14 July 1839 and is buried at Weiss (no St. Michael's) Lutheran Church (pp. 269, 400). |
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DNA: There are multiple matches with whom I share common ancestors Adam Weiss and Barbara Pieferin Weiss. Cathy Hall, Joe Wise, Shirley Borden, Sandra Martin, Roxanna Bolton, Bryan Craun, Dean Reeves, Megan Gorman, Jim Eubank, Carlton Simmers, Randy Iseminger, Betty Miller, Karen Ursel, Juanita Stover, Ed Kennedy, Kelly Marchal, Charlotte Holt and Debbie Y. Jose. |
b. ca. 1765, Somerset Co., PA d. 1823, Rockingham Co., VA Find-A-Grave Memorial Geni.com and Karl Kiser's research from pp. 264-283 (Weis) and Appendix to Weis chapter pp. 400-402 in Schenk/Shenk/Shank des of Andreas Schenck in America 1732-1984 by Thomas L. Shank (1985) indicate Barbara's father was Augustine Pfeiffer and she was first married to John Landes. An UNSOURCED tree on Ancestry shows her parents as Ferdinand Augustus Pfeiffer (1725-1801) and Ann Mary (Stumbach/Staumbach) Pfeiffer (d. 1806). |
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"The Waggys were pro-Union hence Republican. The Propst ... gave 35 men and boys to the Confederate Army which is more than any other family in the county. For a hundred years they were stanch Democrats.... That does not mean that they were slave owners. Records do not show that any Propst owned slaves. Only one out of ten Confederate soldiers came from a family that was a slave owner." (Waggy, p. 35). John Waggy's house built ca. 1830 near Sugar Grove (VA/WV) with interlocking ends of logs as painted by J.T. Rexrode in 1970 (Waggy, p. 13). |
John Waggy (USGenWeb shows him as John K. Waggy.) |
1870 Census showing John and Allie Waggy |
↑ Alice (Allie/Ally) Helena Propst |
William Kiser (Wilhelm/Willhelm Kayser) | I have a few DNA matches with whom I share William and Barbara (Wise) Kiser as ancestors. Amy Crider, Lynda Browell and Willmott Dodds Olson. |
Barbara Wise (Weis/Weiss) |
Barbara Wise was a descendant of the Weiss German family that settled before 1787 in North Mill Creek and Brushy Run in the Mill Run District of what is now Pendleton County, West Virginia. |
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| John Waggy was both born in and died in Rockingham County, Virginia. Allie Propst was born at the old Propst Church, the first church in Pendleton County, just south of Brandywine on the road to Sugar Grove.
I have multiple DNA matches sharing John and Allie (Propst) Waggy as ancestors. Anne Waggy Dyvig, Laura Waggy, Paula Ruter and Jacquelyn Wine Cool. |
b. 16 March 1807 d. 16 March 1882 Find-A-Grave Memorial |
m. 21/25 August 1830, Pendleton Co., VA/WV | b. 15 February 1807 d. 3 February 1887 Find-A-Grave Memorial |
On August 6, 2017, I found via 23andMe Rebecca "Becky" (Waggy) Allen to whom I am multiply related via both my Waggy and Propst to the left. Becky is daughter of Ted Waggy, son of Jacob and Pernina (nee Propst) Waggy. I am related to both of her paternal grandparents: Jacob Waggy and Pernina (nee Propst) Waggy. Jacob Waggy is son of Daniel J. Waggy, son of John and Allie (Propst) Waggy to the left. Pernina (nee Propst) Waggy is daughter of David Propst, son of Samuel Propst, Sr., son of George Propst, Sr., son of Leonard Propst, son of Johann "John" Michael Propst, Sr., who is a common ancestor of both lines! | b. 16 September 1787 d. 4 December 1853 Find-A-Grave Memorial |
m. May 4, 1813 (USGenWeb and Shenandoah Valley family data). According to Shank, they were not in Rockingham Co., VA, in 1830 and had migrated to Pendleton Co. in what is now West Virginia (p. 278). | b. 11 April 1793 in Wise Hollow, Rockingham Co., VA. Baptized 3 August 1793 in Weiss (St. Michael's) Lutheran Church, Rockingham Co., VA (p. 278, Shank) Confirmed 21 October 1810 at Salem Church (Lutheran Reformed), Seawright Springs, Augusta County, VA (Shenandoah Valley family data) d. 12 December 1858 Find-A-Grave Memorial |
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Adam Waggy was a renown fox hunter with blue eyes, dark hair and beard. He hunted with horse, gun, and hound and lived in Pendleton County (of what is now West Viriginia) in 1831. Adam was a member of Board that founded Mt. Hall School. He was also a cofounder of the Union Church in Sugar Grove. He was born and he died in Pendleton County, West Virginia. There is more information available about Adam, John, and Abraham Waggy by clicking here. Anne (Waggy) Dyvig, to whom I am third cousin, twice removed, shared a story her father had about Adam and Susan: "Adam was my paternal great grandfather Daniel's brother. Adam married Susan Kiser. Adam was called 'Add' and was 10 years older than Daniel. He loved plants and animals There is a story that he found a bear cub whose mother had been killed so the family cared for it until it was mature. Add was against slavery. Susan 'was a neat, clean, hard-working woman with the qualities and abilities for which the Pennsylvania Germans are noted. She was deeply religious. She loved to sing especially at church and at local gatherings.' Their house was on the 'road leading west out of Sugar Grove at the sharp turn of the road starting up the east side of Hoover Mountain' in what is now West Virginia. Add also liked to sing 'It is said that Add could raise the roof of the old Union Church.' He fought with one of his sons, Douglas, who left and went west to Nebraska. Add had a temper and was 'more indulgent to his daughters than to his sons.' I guess Douglas was fed up and just left. Add missed his son and would ask his daughters to play the organ and sing 'Where is my Wandering Boy Tonight.' As they sang, he would sit and cry.' When as a child, we moved from Colorado to California. My maiden name was Waggy and my father was John Waggy. It just so happened that when we moved to the Bay Area, we met another John Waggy who was in 1974, 15 years. Turns out he and his sister Linda were the great grandchildren of Douglas." (Further source for these stories: Waggy, pp. 43-45). |
Adam "Add" Waggy  (colorized version) Enhanced colorized close-up versions: |
Adam Waggy Family picture Photograph of the couple (colorized) Barbara Jane Waggy Eye and Susannah (Kiser) Waggy 1870 Census showing Adam and Susannah Waggy There are two DNA matches with whom I share Adam and Susanna (Kiser) Waggy as ancestors. Jenny Butler and Ashley Butler. |
Susan (Susannah) Kiser 
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"According lo Aunt Sue and Aunt Florence, Daniel's [Daniel Waggy] youngest daughters, 'Our father, and his two brothers, Uncle Add (Adam) and Uncle Lewis (Wm. Lewis) were helping boil maple sugar water at their parents' home. A squad of soldiers from the Confederate Army came to take them. Our father and his brothers took off up the mountain running so fast that they reported that sparks flew from their boots as their heels were hitting the rocks. Our father said that when they reached the top of Hoover Mountain, "fire was flying out his mouth." (Waggy, p. 34) "Add was opposed to slavery and in favor of West Virginia becoming a separate state and joining the Union. This caused great stress in the family especially since his mother came from the Propst family. He had uncles and many cousins fighting and dying for the Confederacy" (Waggy, pp. 43-44). |
b. 30 May 1831 (USGenWeb Births and Eye (Eye book), p. 9, and Eye (Propst book), p. 16 all say 20 May 1831) d. 24 January 1906 Find-A-Grave Memorial Adam Waggy and Reuben Eye Cemetery, Moyers Gap Road, Hoover Mountain, WV |
m. 26 September 1850, Pendleton County, in what is now West Virginia Register of Marriage (source: West Virginia Division of Culture and History via FamilySearch) USGenWeb gives the marriage date as 8 December 1850 as does Shank (p. 279). |
b. 19 January 1831 (USGenWeb Births) d. 23 February 1907 (Eye, p. 26, says 1906), Pendleton County terminal dementia (obituary larger version) (death register entry) Find-A-Grave Memorial Tombstone Close-up of tombstone at Eye & Cemetery on Moyers Gap Rd., west of Sugar Grove, WV. |
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| In addition to my Martha Jane Waggy, "Adam and Susan had the following children: William, John (died as an infant), Barbara Jane, Harvey, Adam Douglas, Louisa (Lou), Caroline (Carrie), Eliza, Susan Birdie, Nora Belle and Cora Belle" (Waggy, p. 44). | | | ↓ descendants through daughter Martha Jane Waggy via her marriage to David R. Smith |
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John Waggy served as a Private in Co. C, 1st Regiment, WV Veteran Infantry, for the Union during the Civil WarWAGGY/KISER/DEFRAIN ANCESTRY Click HERE for more information about the Waggy's. Waggy also had spellings Wagey, Wagy, Wage, Wege, and Waga. "There were WEGE/van der Wege/van de Wege families in Dutch Flanders, the part of Zeeland that is the south bank of the Scheldt and connected to the Belgian landmass. . . . Don't know if there's any connection, but the Licking Co., OH, history did suggest that the Waggy's came through Amsterdam, and Zeeland was a famously tolerant location for all kinds of people, including Huguenots and other refugees" (Gordon Seyffert, E-mail dated March 11, 2003). Milton Waggy has announced his discovery of the Waggy-Wagy family in Montgomery Co., PA, around 1760. He has found information in Montgomery Co., PA, at the New Hanover Lutheran Church. Gordon Seyffert shared this in a March 11, 2003, e-mail, and cited Milton Waggy's message dated August 20, 1999. Click HERE for Waggy/Wagy Family History. The name DeFrain has also been spelled DeFroehn, DeFrehn, du Frene, Frehn, Frain, Froehn, Frene, and is Huguenot in origin. It is the maiden name of Susannah, wife of Phillip Waggy, Sr. (Reference: Gordon Seyffert's research of the DeFrain family in Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania). Click HERE to read more on the Kiser family that settled Rockingham Co., VA, in 1832. Or click on Jacob Kiser below. John DeFrehn + Catherine Jacob Kiesling + Barbara | (Kissling) | Ursula | +------------------+ Herter | |b. 1704 in Saxony,| | |GERMANY; d.14 Jan +-------+ | |d. 14 Jan 1740/41 |b. 1702| Phillip Waggy, | |in Wurtenburg, |d. 1789| Sr., settled | |GERMANY | | 1796 in the | +------------------+-------+ South Branch | | 8 miles above | | what is now | | Franklin, WV. | Susanna was | He was from the | not a Nebergall | Palatinate | according to | region of | Gordon Seyffert's | Germany in the | reporting on Milton | Rhine River | Waggy's data. | Valley. | | | | | Correspondence about Weiss History: | | March 3, 2005 | | March 5, 2005 | | | | | Philip Susannah John Christopher Christina Waggy, Sr. + DeFroehn Adam + ? Kiesling + Lingel +----------+-----------+ Weiss | (Kissling) | |b. about |b. about | +---------+ +-----------+----------+ |1735 in | 1739 | |b. about | |b. about |b. about | |GERMANY | She was | | 1723 | |1724 d.1774| 1726 | |d. 1812 | from | |d. about | +-----------+----------+ |Rockingham| AUSTRIA? | | 1790 | |Both born in Dresden, | |Co., VA | | +---------+ |Saxony, GERMANY. | +----------+-----------+ Wise also | +-----------+----------+ | spelled | |Arrived @ Philadelphia| | Weisz, | |in 1753 aboard Neptune| | Wees, | |Came to Rockingham Co | +----+ Wies, | |VA in 1763. | | Wease, | +-----------+----------+ | Weaze, | | | Weese | | | | | | Instead of John | | | Adam Weiss, some | +----+ | sources have | | | Michael Weiss | | | (b. ca 1723; | | | d. ca 1790) | | | married to a | | | Barbara b. ca | | | 1725. John Adam | | | Weiss came from | | | Basil, | | | Switzerland to | | | America in 1748. | | | | | | Adam (info) | Abraham Mary Wise, Barbara Jacob Elizabeth Waggy,+ (maiden (Weiss) + Pieferin Kiser + Kiesling Sr. | name?) Sr. | | (Kissling) Abraham +------+--------+ +-------++-----+ +----------+--------+ Waggy lived |b.1772|b. about| |b. 1761 |b. | |b. 6 Apr. |b. 2 Jun| adjacent to |d.1821| 1772 | | |about| |1763 in | 1769 | George | |d. pre | |d. about|1752-| |Heidelberg|d. 13 | Rexroad. | | 1853 | | 1835 |1762 | |Township, | October| +------+--------+ +--------+-----+ |Berks Co.,| 1836 | | | |PA | | | | |d. 1 Aug. | | | +---+ | 1828 | | +-----+ | +----------+--------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | John + Alice Barbara | Waggy | (Allie) Wise William (Wilhelm) (b. 16 | Propst (Weiss) + Kiser +-------+-----+ +----------+------+ John Waggy was born and |b. 16 |b. 15| |b. 1793 in|b. 16 | he died in Rockingham |March |Feb. | |Wise |Sept. | County, Virginia. |1807 |1807 | |Hollow, |1787 | Allie Propst was born at |d. 16 |d. 3 | |Rockingham|d. 4 | the old Propst Church, |March |Feb. | |County, VA|Dec. | the first church in |1882 |1887 | |d. 12 Dec |1853 | Pendleton Co., just south +-------+-----+ |1858 | | of Brandywine on the road | +----------+------+ to Sugar Grove. | | | | | +-------+ | | | | Adam Susan (Susanna) (b. 30 May 1831) Waggy + Kiser (b. 19 Jan. 1831) (d. 24 Jan 1906) (m.1/8 Dec 1850) (d. 23 Feb. 1907 - obituary) Picture of Adam Picture of Susan Adam Waggy was a reknown fox hunter with blue eyes, dark hair and beard. He hunted with horse, gun, and hound and lived in Pendleton County (of what is now West Viriginia) in 1831. Adam was a member of Board that founded Mt. Hall School. He was also a cofounder of the Union Church in Sugar Grove. He was born and he died in Pendleton County, West Virginia. There is more information available about Adam, John, and Abraham Waggy by clicking here. Barbara Wise was a descendant of the Weiss German family that settled before 1787 in North Mill Creek and Brushy Run in the Mill Run District of what is now Pendleton County, West Virginia.