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Generation II · Married John Weppner

Susanna Germain

Aug 1834 – 10 Sep 1922

Facts

Born
Aug 1834
Died
10 Sep 1922
Also known as
Susanna Germann; Susanna Weppner Illig

Their story

Married John Weppner at St. Boniface Church on 21 July 1853. The register spells her name Germann and gives her parents as Johann Christian Germann and Christina Barbier of Habkirchen, “in Bavaria,” meaning the Bavarian Palatinate. Widowed by the Civil War with three young children, she later married again, and WikiTree records her as Susanna Weppner Illig. She outlived John by more than half a century.

Their lifetime

  1. 1834Susanna Germain is born.
  2. 1834The Weppners sail from Le Havre on the François I, land at New York on 23 August and reach Buffalo on 18 September.
  3. 1834Cholera returns to a city of nearly 15,000, and people who can afford to leave do. Buffalo
  4. 1837Der Weltbürger, Buffalo's first German-language newspaper, begins publishing. Buffalo
  5. 1842A treaty gives up the Seneca's Buffalo Creek Reservation, which bordered the city. Buffalo
  6. 1845The Elk Street Market opens; butchers come to fill most of its stalls. Buffalo
  7. 1853John Weppner marries Susanna Germain on 21 July.
  8. 1854John F. Weppner is born.
  9. 1855Nearly half of Buffalo's 74,000 residents are German-speaking. Buffalo
  10. 1859German and French Catholics open the United German & French Cemetery. Buffalo
  11. 1861John Weppner volunteers on 8 August and joins Company I of the 64th New York Infantry.
  12. 1862John Weppner is wounded at the Battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia, on 1 June.
  13. 1863Julia Weppner Schmerring is born.
  14. 1864John Weppner is taken prisoner at Reams Station, Virginia, on 25 August.
  15. 1865By March, John Weppner has died, either a prisoner at Salisbury, North Carolina, or in a Washington hospital after his release.
  16. 1870German Jesuits found Canisius College. Buffalo
  17. 1896The Ellicott Square Building opens, the largest office building in the world at the time. Buffalo
  18. 1901The Pan-American Exposition; President McKinley is shot at the Temple of Music. Buffalo
  19. 1904The German Bank, controlled by the same Boston promoter, fails in December. Buffalo
  20. 1918The German-American Bank renames itself Liberty Bank. Buffalo
  21. 1922Susanna Germain dies.