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Generation I · Married Augustus Weppner

Barbara Stumpf

Dec 1797 – 17 Sep 1858

Facts

Born
Dec 1797, Zell, Rhine-Bavaria
Died
17 Sep 1858, Buffalo, New York
Also known as
Barbara Stump; Barbara Stumph

Their story

Born at Zell in December 1797, one of at least nine children of Peter Stumpf and his wife, Maria Barbara. The Stumpfs fill the Catholic registers of Zell. She married Augustus about 1817 and bore their children at Zell and Pfeddersheim before the family sailed for America in the summer of 1834. In 1850 the family lived in Buffalo's fourth ward. She died in Buffalo on 17 September 1858, eleven years before her husband, and is named with him on their headstone: “His wife Barbara Weppner, died Sept. 17, 1858, aged 60 y's 9 mo.” A family announcement printed in 1900 gives her birth year as 1799.

Their lifetime

  1. 1797Barbara Stumpf is born in Zell, Rhine-Bavaria.
  2. 1811Augustus marries Maria Margaretha Winter in Mainz. She dies the next year, aged twenty.
  3. 1818Anna Maria, Augustus and Barbara's first child, is born at Zell on 10 July.
  4. 1820Jacob Weppner is born in Zell, Rhine-Bavaria, on 29 October.
  5. 1823Mathaeus Weppner is born.
  6. 1825Arnold Weppner is born in Zell on 5 September.
  7. 1825The Erie Canal opens, with Buffalo as its western terminus. Buffalo
  8. 1828John Weppner is born at Zell on 19 July.
  9. 1829The family moves from Zell to Pfeddersheim, near Worms.
  10. 1829St. Louis Church is founded for the city's French, German and Irish Catholics. Buffalo
  11. 1831Barbara Weppner is born at Pfeddersheim on 28 June.
  12. 1832Mathaeus Weppner dies at Pfeddersheim, aged nine.
  13. 1832Buffalo is chartered as a city; cholera kills more than 120 people by July. Buffalo
  14. 1834The Weppners sail from Le Havre on the François I, land at New York on 23 August and reach Buffalo on 18 September.
  15. 1834Augustus sells his farm at Pfeddersheim to the town's new Jewish congregation, which plans to build its synagogue there.
  16. 1834Cholera returns to a city of nearly 15,000, and people who can afford to leave do. Buffalo
  17. 1835Francis Weppner is born on 23 June and christened at St. Louis Church, the only one of Augustus's children born in America.
  18. 1836Augustus opens a butcher business at Genesee and Ash streets.
  19. 1837Der Weltbürger, Buffalo's first German-language newspaper, begins publishing. Buffalo
  20. 1840Anna Maria Weppner marries her cousin Philip Born at St. Louis Church on 3 March.
  21. 1842A treaty gives up the Seneca's Buffalo Creek Reservation, which bordered the city. Buffalo
  22. 1845The family meat market is established; Catherine Dantzer arrives from Alsace-Lorraine at about seven.
  23. 1845The Elk Street Market opens; butchers come to fill most of its stalls. Buffalo
  24. 1848Jacob marries Emma Lambert at St. Louis Church on 1 September.
  25. 1849Philip Born dies on 26 January, and Jacob leaves his father's meat business to run Born's brewery for his widowed sister.
  26. 1849Barbara Weppner marries Joseph Fougeron, a Niagara Street grocer, on 23 October.
  27. 1852Arnold marries Blandina Doll at St. Boniface Church on 17 February.
  28. 1853John Weppner marries Susanna Germain on 21 July.
  29. 1855Nearly half of Buffalo's 74,000 residents are German-speaking. Buffalo
  30. 1858Barbara (Stumpf) Weppner dies on 17 September.
  31. 1858Francis Weppner marries Catherine Dantzer on 16 February.