A question about the Zieglers suggests that a review would be desirable.
Johann Leonhart Ziegler was born in 1711 in Germany.
He came in 1732 to Philadelphia at the age of 21.
In the Mt. Pony area of Virginia (in today's Culpeper Co.) he married Barbara Zimmerman, the daughter of Christopher Zimmerman.
Leonard and Barbara had five children:
1. Christopher, m. Elizabeth _____,
2. Leonard, m. Ann _____,
3. Elizabeth who received 200 acres from her mother,
4. Ann, m. Bohannon Rice, and
5. Susanna.
Christopher and Elizabeth had perhaps three children:
A. Leanna, who m., in 1788, Elisha Thomas,
B. Elizabeth who m., in 1783, Reuben Zimmerman, and
C. James who married Susanna Zimmerman.
Leonard, Jr., died in 1772, and his will does not mention any children (who were all minors). Instead he left everything to his wife Ann. Leonard (Jr.) and Ann had two children who are known:
A. Leonard (III) b. 1762, who married, in 1783, Nancy Zimmerman, and
B. Elizabeth, who never married.
Leonard III (or his widow) made a pension application (W4107), in which he says he was born 2 Jul 1762.
He married Nancy Zimmerman, the daughter of John, in 1783/4, and in 1789 moved to Surry Co., NC, to an area which became Stokes and Forsyth.
They had fourteen children:
- Elizabeth (b. 1786),
- John,
- Anna,
- Christopher,
- William,
- Leonard (IV), who married Elizabeth Gates Smith,
- Susanna,
- Mary,
- Reuben,
- Michael,
- Zimmerman (?),
- James,
- Daniel, and
- Benjamin.
(The latter two had died before 1849.)
In 1851 these people lived in Forsyth County:
Elizabeth Ziglar, b. ca 1765, the sister of Leonard III, never married,
James Ziglar, b. ca 1771, a cousin of Leonard III,
Susanna Ziglar, b. ca 1776, a sister of Nancy, and
Nancy Ziglar, the wife of Leonard III.
In preparing these notes on the Ziglars, I have used work from Margaret James Squires, Gene Dear, and Kathy Sullivan. The last person was introduced to me accidentally as my wife was attending a talk by Kathy on quilts. She mentioned some old quilts in her family, giving some names, which my wife brought home to me, and I recognized the family, which led to a short correspondence with Kathy. Unfortunately, quilts won out over genealogy and there is still a void in documentation for the Ziglar family. Contributions would be welcomed.
We gratefully acknowledge the work of John Blankenbaker who published over 2,500 Germanna History Notes via the Germanna-L@rootsweb.com email list from 1997 to 2008. We are equally thankful to George Durman (Sgt. George) for hosting the list and republishing the notes via rootsweb.com.