Register Report for Anna Catharina Virtz Generation 1 1. Anna Catharina Virtz-1. She was born on 10 May 1776 in Frederick County, MD. She died on 22 Feb 1854 in Loudoun County, VA. Burial in Middleburg, VA. Philip John Frye. He was born on 13 Aug 1775 in Oley, PA. He died on 20 Nov 1841 in Loudoun County, VA. Burial in Middleburg, VA. Philip John Frye and Anna Catharina Virtz. They were married on 05 May 1796 in Loudoun County, VA [1]. Marriage Fact in Min. - John Littlejohn (Methodist). They had 12 children. 2. i. Sarah Frye. She was born on 10 Feb 1797 in Loudoun County, VA. Baptised on 26 Mar 1797 in New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville, VA. She married Henry Wintz. They were married on 03 Jun 1824 in Loudoun County, VA [1]. She died on 28 Sep 1846 in Preble County, OH. Burial in Frame Cemetery, Jackson Township, OH. Sponsors in Anna Maria. Fact 5 in Anna Maria. ii. Elizabeth Frye. She was born on 24 Jan 1799 in Loudoun County, VA. She died on 07 Sep 1866 in Loudoun County, VA. Burial in Sharon Cemetery, Middleburg, VA. iii. Margaretha Frye. She was born on 12 Dec 1800 in Loudoun County, VA. Baptised on 22 Mar 1801 in New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville, VA. She died 1844. Sponsors in Peter Wirtz, Christina. Fact 5 in Peter Wirtz, Christina. 3. iv. Daniel Frye. He was born on 11 Apr 1802 in Loudoun County, VA. He married Christina Axline. They were married on 01 Dec 1825 in Lovetsville, VA. v. Henrich Frye. He was born on 20 Apr 1803 in Lovettsville, VA. Baptised on 09 Oct 1803 in New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville, VA. He died 1848 in Indiana. Sponsors in Henrich Wertz. Fact 5 in Henrich Wertz. vi. Joseph Frye. He was born on 29 Nov 1805 in Loudoun County, VA. He died on 02 Jul 1876 in Loudoun County, VA. Burial in Sharon Cemetery, Middleburg, VA. 4. vii. Conrad Frye. He was born on 14 May 1809 in Lovettsville, VA. Baptised on 14 Sep 1809 in New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville, VA. He died on 29 Sep 1882 in Butler County, OH. Sponsors in Conrad Wirtz, Barbara. Fact 5 in Conrad Wirtz, Barbara. 5. viii. Philip Frye. He was born on 09 Aug 1811 in Loudoun County, VA. Baptised in New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville, VA. Sponsors in Adam Wertz, Catharina. Fact 5 in Adam Wertz, Catharina. ix. Anna Catharina Frye. She was born on 30 Apr 1814 in Lovettsville, VA. She married Townsend Howell. They were married on 19 Nov 1835 in Loudoun County, VA [1]. She died on 09 Feb 1886 in Clark County, IL. x. Christina Frye. She was born on 27 Dec 1816 in Loudoun County, VA. She died on 07 Apr 1877 in Loudoun County, VA. xi. Evaline Frye. She was born on 12 Mar 1821 in Loudoun County, VA. She married James W. Lawson. They were married on 01 Dec 1840 in Loudoun County, VA [1]. She died on 23 Mar 1899 in Maryland. Page 1 of 16 Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:01:47 AM Register Report for Anna Catharina Virtz Generation 1 xii. George P. Frye. He was born on 30 Oct 1823 in Loudoun County, VA. He died 1838 in Loudoun County, VA. Generation 2 2. Sarah Frye-2 (Anna Catharina Virtz-1). She was born on 10 Feb 1797 in Loudoun County, VA. Baptised on 26 Mar 1797 in New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville, VA. She died on 28 Sep 1846 in Preble County, OH. Burial in Frame Cemetery, Jackson Township, OH. Sponsors in Anna Maria. Fact 5 in Anna Maria. Henry Wintz. He was born on 17 Apr 1788 in Culpeper, VA. He died on 27 Oct 1833 in Preble County, OH. Burial in Frame Cemetery, Jackson Township, OH. Henry Wintz and Sarah Frye. They were married on 03 Jun 1824 in Loudoun County, VA [1]. They had 5 children. i. Peter Wintz. He was born on 05 Sep 1825 in Culpeper, VA. He married Catharine Fry. They were married on 08 Apr 1852 in Preble County, OH. He died on 10 Mar 1908 in Carlock, IL. ii. Philip J. Wintz. He was born on 04 Nov 1826 in Rappahannock County, VA. He married Mary Fry. They were married on 08 Apr 1852 in Ohio. He died on 19 Jan 1912 in Henry County, IL. Burial in Fair View Cemetery, Annawan, IL. Notes for Philip J. Wintz: General Notes: Philip J. Wintz was born in Rappahannock County, Virginia, November 4, 1826, and is a son of Henry and Sarah Frye Wintz. His paternal grandfather came from Germany, and his father was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, April 17, 1788. On the 3rd of June, 1824, in Loudoun County, Virginia, he was married, by Rev. S.G. Raszell, to Miss Sarah Frye, who was born February 10, 1797. Her father was born August 13, 1755, and came to America in 1793. He died November 20, 1841, and is buried in Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, where he farmed for some years. During the war of 1812 he was drafted into the army but by the time he had received his accouterments and had reached Middleburg, the war was closed and his services were not needed. On the 7th of April, 1796 he was united in marriage by Rev John Littlejohn to Miss Catherine Vertz. Of the family born to this union Mrs. Henry Wintz was the eldest, the others being: Elizabeth, born January 24, 1799, died unmarried, September 7, 1866; Margaret, born December 12, 1800, became the wife of David Daly, of Preble County, Ohio and died in Indiana in 1848; Joseph, born May 14, 1809, remained unmarried and died on the old homestead, July 2, 1876; Conrad, born May 14, 1809, married Susannah Thomas and died in Butler County, Ohio, September 29, 1882; Ann C., born April 30, 1814, wedded Townsend Howell, of Virginia, and died in Clark County, Illinois, February 9, 1886; Christina, born December 27, 1816, died, unmarried, in Loudoun County, Virginia, April 7, 1877; Evaline, born March 12, 1820, became the wife of James Lawson, of Fauquier County, Virginia, and died in Maryland, March 23, 1899; and George P., born October 30, 1823, died in Loudoun County at the age of fifteen. After his marriage Henry Wintz farmed in his native state until 1828, when he moved to Warren County, Ohio, and then to Preble County, Ohio, where near New Hope he rented a farm for six years. He died, however, before the expiration of the lease, October 27, 1833, and his wife passed away September 18, 1846. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wintz were the parents of five children: Peter, born September 5, 1825, married Catherine Frye and died March 10, 1908; Philip J. is the next in order of birth; Mary Ann, who was born August 22, 1828, became the wife of Samuel Frye and passed away May 25, 1891; Daniel, born June 15, 1831, married Miss Sabina Trucksess, who lived near Converse, Howard County, Indiana, where he died April 13, 1904; and Elizabeth, born March 23, 1833, is the widow of George Lowman of Sedgwick County, Kansas. Philip J. Wintz is not only one of Annawan's wealthiest and most widely known citizens, but also enjoys the distinction of being the oldest settler in Annawan Township, for when he came to Illinois and for four or five years after his advent of the Winnebago tribe of Indians were still in the neighborhood of the town. During a period of more than six decades he has been an eye-witness of the changes that have transformed the character of the country, has taken part in them, in fact, and in the great struggle that almost wrecked the nation. Endowed by nature with a retentive memory, he had been able to write many accounts of those early days, of his experiences on the battlefield, and of the travels which have occupied part of his later years. His life of activity and deeds of valor are but the just conclusion of the records of his ancestors who braved the perils of a new country in the days of its infancy.   Philip Wintz was but six years of age when his father died and only nineteen when his mother was taken from him. He received a very slight education in the district schools of Preble County, Ohio a month a year for fourteen years. The schoolhouse was a log building in which even the desks and seats were made of split logs set up on pegs. At the age of twenty-four he went to Springboro, Warren County, Ohio were he secured work on a farm for ten dollars per month and then took up carpenter work and the trade of millwright. In April 1852, he came to Illinois, locating in Sheffield, Bureau County, where the Rock Island and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroads were then building and where he bought eighty acres of land for three hundred and sixty-seven dollars in cash. It was an unfortunate investment, however, for because of defect in the title, he lost his right to possession. Although somewhat discouraged by this incident, he went to work to make a fortune, borrowing one hundred dollars, with which he went to Chicago to get tools and a carload of lumber. On March 2, 1855, he came to Annawan, and after a short visit in the east he built what is now the kitchen of his present residence. For a year he worked at carpentry and then opened a blacksmith shop, the first in Annawan, on the lot adjoining his present home. He also helped to build the first mill here, which he sold a year later. Until 1884, he devoted his energies to the carpenter's and millwright's trades, constructing the majority of buildings in the southern part of the township, including a church, which he erected in 1858, and a second mill. The last residence which he built was that of James MacChesney in 1877. During the period between 1854 and 1862 he made the greater number of coffins in Henry County, two dollars being the smallest price received for one and twenty-five dollars the highest. Being a man of very methodical habits he has kept a record of all the coffins he made and the name of the person for whom it was intended, and the price paid for each.   After the inauguration of the Civil War, Mr. Wintz enlisted at Princeton, Bureau County Illinois, as a musician in a regimental band which had started from St. Louis to join Burgess' sharpshooters at Alton. They were arrested before they reached their destination, however, for the reason that the colonel of the regiment they were going to join had reported that they were deserters from the ranks and were going to join the rebels. Upon finding these statements untrue, Governor Yates ordered them to Springfield, and then, after two weeks spent in Camp Butler, sent them to Camp Douglas, Chicago, where the band was assigned to the fifty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was sent to Cairo, then to Paducah, Kentucky, whence they went by boat to Fort Henry, arriving there just after the battle, in time to cook their suppers upon the fires which the rebels had left. Returning to Paducah, they went up the Ohio and Cumberland rivers to Fort Donelson and took part in the engagement at that place. Thence they marched fourteen miles to Fort Henry, up the Tennessee River to Krump's Landing, where Mr. Wintz was discharged and mustered out of service, April 20, 1862. Returning home to Annawan he enlisted August 20 of the same year, in Company A, 112th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which was mustered in at Peroria. John L. Dow was captain, but Tristram T. Dow was first captain and was subsequently made colonel of the regiment and took his men to Cincinnati, then to Covington, Kentucky, where they remained two weeks, and then to Lexington. After a few skirmishes Mr. Wintz was detailed for six months to Captain Low's howitzer battery to follow Morgan's band on their raids through Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana to Buffington's Island, where they captured Morgan's guns, in 1863. This campaign being closed he rejoined his old company and went to Kingston and Athens, Tennessee, and later to Loudoun, where in a skirmish on November 18, 1863, Captain Asa H. Lee, commander of Company A, was killed, and Mr. Wintz received a gunshot wound behind his right ear, making a total of four of the company killed and two wounded. When Mr. Wintz regained consciousness after having received his wound he found that the Confederate line had advanced beyond him, thus cutting him from his companions. Making his way through a small vineyard he got into a barn, and when this was struck by a rebel gun, crawled in a corn crib. This too was torn to pieces by a shell and the man forced to continue his painful way outdoors. He staggered through the timber to his company, but on the way to the field hospital fell exhausted on the bank of Second creek, where the ambulance corps found him. Mr. Wintz was then confined to the hospital at Knoxville, Tennessee, until January 18, after which he was given a thirty days' furlough. In March, at Mt. Sterling, he rejoined his company and participated in the skirmishes at Rocky Face, Georgia, and the battle of Resaca, in which he received a gunshot wound in his right arm, which necessitated his being sent to Louisville, Kentucky, where he remained until July, when having contracted smallpox, he was sent to a hospital near Louisville, in which he was confined until October, 1864. Starting then to rejoin his regiment at Atlanta, he spent a couple weeks in Chattanooga, where he was on duty in the convalescent camp and was then detailed with orders to drive a thousand head of cattle to Atlanta for Sherman's army. At Atlanta he met his company returning and joining them he went to Nashville, December 1864, and followed Hood for one month to Columbia, Tennessee. At Clifton, on the Tennessee River, they boarded a steamer and went to Cincinnati, thence by rail to Alexandria, Virginia, by way of Columbia and Bellaire, and then by Steamer to Fort Fisher. During a storm in the last stage of his journey the vessels were blown sixty miles to sea. After one month spent in Fort Fisher, the company went to Smithville, North Carolina, taking part in the skirmish at that place and in the siege and capture of Fort Anderson, and going then to Wilmington and Kingston, North Carolina. At the last named place Mr. Wintz sprained his ankle and was sent to the hospital for the third time, remaining there for a month, or until he was honorably discharged June 14, 1865. Since the close of the war Mr. Wintz has been a member of the Grand Army and has attended more than a dozen of the national encampments, the last having been at Salt Lake City, Utah in 1909. In these where the soldiers from the whole country congregate, he revives with his comrades the stories of the camp fires and the events of the battle.   On returning from the war, Mr. Wintz worked at the carpenter's and millwright's trades as in the days before the struggle. But more and more time he has given to his literary labors. Possessed of a fine style and relying upon his excellent memory for the facts which are not recorded in his notebooks he has written very readable histories of Annawan township and of the old settlers. Of recent years he has been compelled to use a typewriter, though not so formerly, for he wrote a beautiful clear English hand, unsurpassed by few of his generation and unequaled in this. He kept a record of all his contracts, of his war experiences, of his travels, and of his church. A copy of his history of Annawan and Albion townships he sent to the Old Settlers Association in Geneseo, where it is accounted as a work of value.   On April 8, 1852, Mr. Wintz married Mary Frye of Springboro Ohio. There were no children from this union. Although a woman who never enjoyed the best of health, Mary was very active, a great sewer, and of a bright disposition. She was a good wife, a kind neighbor and beloved by all. With her husband she belonged to the United Brethren Church and has been greatly missed since her death, and is buried in Fair View Cemetery. Mr. Wintz is the only son-in-law of his wife's parents not living, and is himself without offspring. Since his wife's demise he has lived alone in the house he built, a good structure, twenty-eight by eighteen feet, with eighteen foot studding for two full stories, with a large kitchen of one story, sixteen by twenty-one feet. It is located on Depot and Second Streets. He now conducts a shop for the repair of furniture, organs, sewing machines, parasols and everything that can be repaired, for he is almost a genius at this kind of work. He is also engaged in superintending the building of the new town hall, a brick construction with cement foundation, of which Howard Fritzkee is the contractor. A member of the United Brethren Church, he has been secretary and treasure of their quarterly conferences, of which he has written the histories. In politics he is a republican and cast his first ballot for Zachary Taylor in 1848, the day before he became twenty-one, all the voters in the locality having agree to accord him that privilege. Mr. Wintz presented to the American's Yeoman League a lot adjoins his own fifty-four by one hundred and fifty feet in the town of Annawan, on which will be built a chapter house. Though eighty-two years of age he still retains the love of music that inspired him as a young man. In other ways also the years have not affected him, for he sees without the use of glasses and is not troubled by his hearing. He is a self-made man, and this may be emphasized, for almost with any schooling he has become a good, fluent writer, a master in the repair shop, and a man of wealth in the community, owning considerable property, including one hundred and seventy acres in Wilson County, Kansas. His judgment is regarded so highly and his memory is so accurate that the citizens of Annawan have become accustomed to referring dubious points and questions to him for settlement. Yet he is modest as regards his accomplishments, and in his chery way disclaims any undue praise for what he is, and for what he has done, either for himself or his country.         Page 2 of 16 Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:01:47 AM Register Report for Anna Catharina Virtz Generation 2 Notes for Philip J. Wintz: General Notes: Philip J. Wintz was born in Rappahannock County, Virginia, November 4, 1826, and is a son of Henry and Sarah Frye Wintz. His paternal grandfather came from Germany, and his father was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, April 17, 1788. On the 3rd of June, 1824, in Loudoun County, Virginia, he was married, by Rev. S.G. Raszell, to Miss Sarah Frye, who was born February 10, 1797. Her father was born August 13, 1755, and came to America in 1793. He died November 20, 1841, and is buried in Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, where he farmed for some years. During the war of 1812 he was drafted into the army but by the time he had received his accouterments and had reached Middleburg, the war was closed and his services were not needed. On the 7th of April, 1796 he was united in marriage by Rev John Littlejohn to Miss Catherine Vertz. Of the family born to this union Mrs. Henry Wintz was the eldest, the others being: Elizabeth, born January 24, 1799, died unmarried, September 7, 1866; Margaret, born December 12, 1800, became the wife of David Daly, of Preble County, Ohio and died in Indiana in 1848; Joseph, born May 14, 1809, remained unmarried and died on the old homestead, July 2, 1876; Conrad, born May 14, 1809, married Susannah Thomas and died in Butler County, Ohio, September 29, 1882; Ann C., born April 30, 1814, wedded Townsend Howell, of Virginia, and died in Clark County, Illinois, February 9, 1886; Christina, born December 27, 1816, died, unmarried, in Loudoun County, Virginia, April 7, 1877; Evaline, born March 12, 1820, became the wife of James Lawson, of Fauquier County, Virginia, and died in Maryland, March 23, 1899; and George P., born October 30, 1823, died in Loudoun County at the age of fifteen. After his marriage Henry Wintz farmed in his native state until 1828, when he moved to Warren County, Ohio, and then to Preble County, Ohio, where near New Hope he rented a farm for six years. He died, however, before the expiration of the lease, October 27, 1833, and his wife passed away September 18, 1846. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wintz were the parents of five children: Peter, born September 5, 1825, married Catherine Frye and died March 10, 1908; Philip J. is the next in order of birth; Mary Ann, who was born August 22, 1828, became the wife of Samuel Frye and passed away May 25, 1891; Daniel, born June 15, 1831, married Miss Sabina Trucksess, who lived near Converse, Howard County, Indiana, where he died April 13, 1904; and Elizabeth, born March 23, 1833, is the widow of George Lowman of Sedgwick County, Kansas. Philip J. Wintz is not only one of Annawan's wealthiest and most widely known citizens, but also enjoys the distinction of being the oldest settler in Annawan Township, for when he came to Illinois and for four or five years after his advent of the Winnebago tribe of Indians were still in the neighborhood of the town. During a period of more than six decades he has been an eye-witness of the changes that have transformed the character of the country, has taken part in them, in fact, and in the great struggle that almost wrecked the nation. Endowed by nature with a retentive memory, he had been able to write many accounts of those early days, of his experiences on the battlefield, and of the travels which have occupied part of his later years. His life of activity and deeds of valor are but the just conclusion of the records of his ancestors who braved the perils of a new country in the days of its infancy.   Philip Wintz was but six years of age when his father died and only nineteen when his mother was taken from him. He received a very slight education in the district schools of Preble County, Ohio a month a year for fourteen years. The schoolhouse was a log building in which even the desks and seats were made of split logs set up on pegs. At the age of twenty-four he went to Springboro, Warren County, Ohio were he secured work on a farm for ten dollars per month and then took up carpenter work and the trade of millwright. In April 1852, he came to Illinois, locating in Sheffield, Bureau County, where the Rock Island and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroads were then building and where he bought eighty acres of land for three hundred and sixty-seven dollars in cash. It was an unfortunate investment, however, for because of defect in the title, he lost his right to possession. Although somewhat discouraged by this incident, he went to work to make a fortune, borrowing one hundred dollars, with which he went to Chicago to get tools and a carload of lumber. On March 2, 1855, he came to Annawan, and after a short visit in the east he built what is now the kitchen of his present residence. For a year he worked at carpentry and then opened a blacksmith shop, the first in Annawan, on the lot adjoining his present home. He also helped to build the first mill here, which he sold a year later. Until 1884, he devoted his energies to the carpenter's and millwright's trades, constructing the majority of buildings in the southern part of the township, including a church, which he erected in 1858, and a second mill. The last residence which he built was that of James MacChesney in 1877. During the period between 1854 and 1862 he made the greater number of coffins in Henry County, two dollars being the smallest price received for one and twenty-five dollars the highest. Being a man of very methodical habits he has kept a record of all the coffins he made and the name of the person for whom it was intended, and the price paid for each.   After the inauguration of the Civil War, Mr. Wintz enlisted at Princeton, Bureau County Illinois, as a musician in a regimental band which had started from St. Louis to join Burgess' sharpshooters at Alton. They were arrested before they reached their destination, however, for the reason that the colonel of the regiment they were going to join had reported that they were deserters from the ranks and were going to join the rebels. Upon finding these statements untrue, Governor Yates ordered them to Springfield, and then, after two weeks spent in Camp Butler, sent them to Camp Douglas, Chicago, where the band was assigned to the fifty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was sent to Cairo, then to Paducah, Kentucky, whence they went by boat to Fort Henry, arriving there just after the battle, in time to cook their suppers upon the fires which the rebels had left. Returning to Paducah, they went up the Ohio and Cumberland rivers to Fort Donelson and took part in the engagement at that place. Thence they marched fourteen miles to Fort Henry, up the Tennessee River to Krump's Landing, where Mr. Wintz was discharged and mustered out of service, April 20, 1862. Returning home to Annawan he enlisted August 20 of the same year, in Company A, 112th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which was mustered in at Peroria. John L. Dow was captain, but Tristram T. Dow was first captain and was subsequently made colonel of the regiment and took his men to Cincinnati, then to Covington, Kentucky, where they remained two weeks, and then to Lexington. After a few skirmishes Mr. Wintz was detailed for six months to Captain Low's howitzer battery to follow Morgan's band on their raids through Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana to Buffington's Island, where they captured Morgan's guns, in 1863. This campaign being closed he rejoined his old company and went to Kingston and Athens, Tennessee, and later to Loudoun, where in a skirmish on November 18, 1863, Captain Asa H. Lee, commander of Company A, was killed, and Mr. Wintz received a gunshot wound behind his right ear, making a total of four of the company killed and two wounded. When Mr. Wintz regained consciousness after having received his wound he found that the Confederate line had advanced beyond him, thus cutting him from his companions. Making his way through a small vineyard he got into a barn, and when this was struck by a rebel gun, crawled in a corn crib. This too was torn to pieces by a shell and the man forced to continue his painful way outdoors. He staggered through the timber to his company, but on the way to the field hospital fell exhausted on the bank of Second creek, where the ambulance corps found him. Mr. Wintz was then confined to the hospital at Knoxville, Tennessee, until January 18, after which he was given a thirty days' furlough. In March, at Mt. Sterling, he rejoined his company and participated in the skirmishes at Rocky Face, Georgia, and the battle of Resaca, in which he received a gunshot wound in his right arm, which necessitated his being sent to Louisville, Kentucky, where he remained until July, when having contracted smallpox, he was sent to a hospital near Louisville, in which he was confined until October, 1864. Starting then to rejoin his regiment at Atlanta, he spent a couple weeks in Chattanooga, where he was on duty in the convalescent camp and was then detailed with orders to drive a thousand head of cattle to Atlanta for Sherman's army. At Atlanta he met his company returning and joining them he went to Nashville, December 1864, and followed Hood for one month to Columbia, Tennessee. At Clifton, on the Tennessee River, they boarded a steamer and went to Cincinnati, thence by rail to Alexandria, Virginia, by way of Columbia and Bellaire, and then by Steamer to Fort Fisher. During a storm in the last stage of his journey the vessels were blown sixty miles to sea. After one month spent in Fort Fisher, the company went to Smithville, North Carolina, taking part in the skirmish at that place and in the siege and capture of Fort Anderson, and going then to Wilmington and Kingston, North Carolina. At the last named place Mr. Wintz sprained his ankle and was sent to the hospital for the third time, remaining there for a month, or until he was honorably discharged June 14, 1865. Since the close of the war Mr. Wintz has been a member of the Grand Army and has attended more than a dozen of the national encampments, the last having been at Salt Lake City, Utah in 1909. In these where the soldiers from the whole country congregate, he revives with his comrades the stories of the camp fires and the events of the battle.   On returning from the war, Mr. Wintz worked at the carpenter's and millwright's trades as in the days before the struggle. But more and more time he has given to his literary labors. Possessed of a fine style and relying upon his excellent memory for the facts which are not recorded in his notebooks he has written very readable histories of Annawan township and of the old settlers. Of recent years he has been compelled to use a typewriter, though not so formerly, for he wrote a beautiful clear English hand, unsurpassed by few of his generation and unequaled in this. He kept a record of all his contracts, of his war experiences, of his travels, and of his church. A copy of his history of Annawan and Albion townships he sent to the Old Settlers Association in Geneseo, where it is accounted as a work of value.   On April 8, 1852, Mr. Wintz married Mary Frye of Springboro Ohio. There were no children from this union. Although a woman who never enjoyed the best of health, Mary was very active, a great sewer, and of a bright disposition. She was a good wife, a kind neighbor and beloved by all. With her husband she belonged to the United Brethren Church and has been greatly missed since her death, and is buried in Fair View Cemetery. Mr. Wintz is the only son-in-law of his wife's parents not living, and is himself without offspring. Since his wife's demise he has lived alone in the house he built, a good structure, twenty-eight by eighteen feet, with eighteen foot studding for two full stories, with a large kitchen of one story, sixteen by twenty-one feet. It is located on Depot and Second Streets. He now conducts a shop for the repair of furniture, organs, sewing machines, parasols and everything that can be repaired, for he is almost a genius at this kind of work. He is also engaged in superintending the building of the new town hall, a brick construction with cement foundation, of which Howard Fritzkee is the contractor. A member of the United Brethren Church, he has been secretary and treasure of their quarterly conferences, of which he has written the histories. In politics he is a republican and cast his first ballot for Zachary Taylor in 1848, the day before he became twenty-one, all the voters in the locality having agree to accord him that privilege. Mr. Wintz presented to the American's Yeoman League a lot adjoins his own fifty-four by one hundred and fifty feet in the town of Annawan, on which will be built a chapter house. Though eighty-two years of age he still retains the love of music that inspired him as a young man. In other ways also the years have not affected him, for he sees without the use of glasses and is not troubled by his hearing. He is a self-made man, and this may be emphasized, for almost with any schooling he has become a good, fluent writer, a master in the repair shop, and a man of wealth in the community, owning considerable property, including one hundred and seventy acres in Wilson County, Kansas. His judgment is regarded so highly and his memory is so accurate that the citizens of Annawan have become accustomed to referring dubious points and questions to him for settlement. Yet he is modest as regards his accomplishments, and in his chery way disclaims any undue praise for what he is, and for what he has done, either for himself or his country.         Page 3 of 16 Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:01:47 AM Register Report for Anna Catharina Virtz Generation 2 (con't) Notes for Philip J. Wintz: General Notes: Philip J. Wintz was born in Rappahannock County, Virginia, November 4, 1826, and is a son of Henry and Sarah Frye Wintz. His paternal grandfather came from Germany, and his father was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, April 17, 1788. On the 3rd of June, 1824, in Loudoun County, Virginia, he was married, by Rev. S.G. Raszell, to Miss Sarah Frye, who was born February 10, 1797. Her father was born August 13, 1755, and came to America in 1793. He died November 20, 1841, and is buried in Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, where he farmed for some years. During the war of 1812 he was drafted into the army but by the time he had received his accouterments and had reached Middleburg, the war was closed and his services were not needed. On the 7th of April, 1796 he was united in marriage by Rev John Littlejohn to Miss Catherine Vertz. Of the family born to this union Mrs. Henry Wintz was the eldest, the others being: Elizabeth, born January 24, 1799, died unmarried, September 7, 1866; Margaret, born December 12, 1800, became the wife of David Daly, of Preble County, Ohio and died in Indiana in 1848; Joseph, born May 14, 1809, remained unmarried and died on the old homestead, July 2, 1876; Conrad, born May 14, 1809, married Susannah Thomas and died in Butler County, Ohio, September 29, 1882; Ann C., born April 30, 1814, wedded Townsend Howell, of Virginia, and died in Clark County, Illinois, February 9, 1886; Christina, born December 27, 1816, died, unmarried, in Loudoun County, Virginia, April 7, 1877; Evaline, born March 12, 1820, became the wife of James Lawson, of Fauquier County, Virginia, and died in Maryland, March 23, 1899; and George P., born October 30, 1823, died in Loudoun County at the age of fifteen. After his marriage Henry Wintz farmed in his native state until 1828, when he moved to Warren County, Ohio, and then to Preble County, Ohio, where near New Hope he rented a farm for six years. He died, however, before the expiration of the lease, October 27, 1833, and his wife passed away September 18, 1846. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wintz were the parents of five children: Peter, born September 5, 1825, married Catherine Frye and died March 10, 1908; Philip J. is the next in order of birth; Mary Ann, who was born August 22, 1828, became the wife of Samuel Frye and passed away May 25, 1891; Daniel, born June 15, 1831, married Miss Sabina Trucksess, who lived near Converse, Howard County, Indiana, where he died April 13, 1904; and Elizabeth, born March 23, 1833, is the widow of George Lowman of Sedgwick County, Kansas. Philip J. Wintz is not only one of Annawan's wealthiest and most widely known citizens, but also enjoys the distinction of being the oldest settler in Annawan Township, for when he came to Illinois and for four or five years after his advent of the Winnebago tribe of Indians were still in the neighborhood of the town. During a period of more than six decades he has been an eye-witness of the changes that have transformed the character of the country, has taken part in them, in fact, and in the great struggle that almost wrecked the nation. Endowed by nature with a retentive memory, he had been able to write many accounts of those early days, of his experiences on the battlefield, and of the travels which have occupied part of his later years. His life of activity and deeds of valor are but the just conclusion of the records of his ancestors who braved the perils of a new country in the days of its infancy.   Philip Wintz was but six years of age when his father died and only nineteen when his mother was taken from him. He received a very slight education in the district schools of Preble County, Ohio a month a year for fourteen years. The schoolhouse was a log building in which even the desks and seats were made of split logs set up on pegs. At the age of twenty-four he went to Springboro, Warren County, Ohio were he secured work on a farm for ten dollars per month and then took up carpenter work and the trade of millwright. In April 1852, he came to Illinois, locating in Sheffield, Bureau County, where the Rock Island and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroads were then building and where he bought eighty acres of land for three hundred and sixty-seven dollars in cash. It was an unfortunate investment, however, for because of defect in the title, he lost his right to possession. Although somewhat discouraged by this incident, he went to work to make a fortune, borrowing one hundred dollars, with which he went to Chicago to get tools and a carload of lumber. On March 2, 1855, he came to Annawan, and after a short visit in the east he built what is now the kitchen of his present residence. For a year he worked at carpentry and then opened a blacksmith shop, the first in Annawan, on the lot adjoining his present home. He also helped to build the first mill here, which he sold a year later. Until 1884, he devoted his energies to the carpenter's and millwright's trades, constructing the majority of buildings in the southern part of the township, including a church, which he erected in 1858, and a second mill. The last residence which he built was that of James MacChesney in 1877. During the period between 1854 and 1862 he made the greater number of coffins in Henry County, two dollars being the smallest price received for one and twenty-five dollars the highest. Being a man of very methodical habits he has kept a record of all the coffins he made and the name of the person for whom it was intended, and the price paid for each.   After the inauguration of the Civil War, Mr. Wintz enlisted at Princeton, Bureau County Illinois, as a musician in a regimental band which had started from St. Louis to join Burgess' sharpshooters at Alton. They were arrested before they reached their destination, however, for the reason that the colonel of the regiment they were going to join had reported that they were deserters from the ranks and were going to join the rebels. Upon finding these statements untrue, Governor Yates ordered them to Springfield, and then, after two weeks spent in Camp Butler, sent them to Camp Douglas, Chicago, where the band was assigned to the fifty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was sent to Cairo, then to Paducah, Kentucky, whence they went by boat to Fort Henry, arriving there just after the battle, in time to cook their suppers upon the fires which the rebels had left. Returning to Paducah, they went up the Ohio and Cumberland rivers to Fort Donelson and took part in the engagement at that place. Thence they marched fourteen miles to Fort Henry, up the Tennessee River to Krump's Landing, where Mr. Wintz was discharged and mustered out of service, April 20, 1862. Returning home to Annawan he enlisted August 20 of the same year, in Company A, 112th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which was mustered in at Peroria. John L. Dow was captain, but Tristram T. Dow was first captain and was subsequently made colonel of the regiment and took his men to Cincinnati, then to Covington, Kentucky, where they remained two weeks, and then to Lexington. After a few skirmishes Mr. Wintz was detailed for six months to Captain Low's howitzer battery to follow Morgan's band on their raids through Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana to Buffington's Island, where they captured Morgan's guns, in 1863. This campaign being closed he rejoined his old company and went to Kingston and Athens, Tennessee, and later to Loudoun, where in a skirmish on November 18, 1863, Captain Asa H. Lee, commander of Company A, was killed, and Mr. Wintz received a gunshot wound behind his right ear, making a total of four of the company killed and two wounded. When Mr. Wintz regained consciousness after having received his wound he found that the Confederate line had advanced beyond him, thus cutting him from his companions. Making his way through a small vineyard he got into a barn, and when this was struck by a rebel gun, crawled in a corn crib. This too was torn to pieces by a shell and the man forced to continue his painful way outdoors. He staggered through the timber to his company, but on the way to the field hospital fell exhausted on the bank of Second creek, where the ambulance corps found him. Mr. Wintz was then confined to the hospital at Knoxville, Tennessee, until January 18, after which he was given a thirty days' furlough. In March, at Mt. Sterling, he rejoined his company and participated in the skirmishes at Rocky Face, Georgia, and the battle of Resaca, in which he received a gunshot wound in his right arm, which necessitated his being sent to Louisville, Kentucky, where he remained until July, when having contracted smallpox, he was sent to a hospital near Louisville, in which he was confined until October, 1864. Starting then to rejoin his regiment at Atlanta, he spent a couple weeks in Chattanooga, where he was on duty in the convalescent camp and was then detailed with orders to drive a thousand head of cattle to Atlanta for Sherman's army. At Atlanta he met his company returning and joining them he went to Nashville, December 1864, and followed Hood for one month to Columbia, Tennessee. At Clifton, on the Tennessee River, they boarded a steamer and went to Cincinnati, thence by rail to Alexandria, Virginia, by way of Columbia and Bellaire, and then by Steamer to Fort Fisher. During a storm in the last stage of his journey the vessels were blown sixty miles to sea. After one month spent in Fort Fisher, the company went to Smithville, North Carolina, taking part in the skirmish at that place and in the siege and capture of Fort Anderson, and going then to Wilmington and Kingston, North Carolina. At the last named place Mr. Wintz sprained his ankle and was sent to the hospital for the third time, remaining there for a month, or until he was honorably discharged June 14, 1865. Since the close of the war Mr. Wintz has been a member of the Grand Army and has attended more than a dozen of the national encampments, the last having been at Salt Lake City, Utah in 1909. In these where the soldiers from the whole country congregate, he revives with his comrades the stories of the camp fires and the events of the battle.   On returning from the war, Mr. Wintz worked at the carpenter's and millwright's trades as in the days before the struggle. But more and more time he has given to his literary labors. Possessed of a fine style and relying upon his excellent memory for the facts which are not recorded in his notebooks he has written very readable histories of Annawan township and of the old settlers. Of recent years he has been compelled to use a typewriter, though not so formerly, for he wrote a beautiful clear English hand, unsurpassed by few of his generation and unequaled in this. He kept a record of all his contracts, of his war experiences, of his travels, and of his church. A copy of his history of Annawan and Albion townships he sent to the Old Settlers Association in Geneseo, where it is accounted as a work of value.   On April 8, 1852, Mr. Wintz married Mary Frye of Springboro Ohio. There were no children from this union. Although a woman who never enjoyed the best of health, Mary was very active, a great sewer, and of a bright disposition. She was a good wife, a kind neighbor and beloved by all. With her husband she belonged to the United Brethren Church and has been greatly missed since her death, and is buried in Fair View Cemetery. Mr. Wintz is the only son-in-law of his wife's parents not living, and is himself without offspring. Since his wife's demise he has lived alone in the house he built, a good structure, twenty-eight by eighteen feet, with eighteen foot studding for two full stories, with a large kitchen of one story, sixteen by twenty-one feet. It is located on Depot and Second Streets. He now conducts a shop for the repair of furniture, organs, sewing machines, parasols and everything that can be repaired, for he is almost a genius at this kind of work. He is also engaged in superintending the building of the new town hall, a brick construction with cement foundation, of which Howard Fritzkee is the contractor. A member of the United Brethren Church, he has been secretary and treasure of their quarterly conferences, of which he has written the histories. In politics he is a republican and cast his first ballot for Zachary Taylor in 1848, the day before he became twenty-one, all the voters in the locality having agree to accord him that privilege. Mr. Wintz presented to the American's Yeoman League a lot adjoins his own fifty-four by one hundred and fifty feet in the town of Annawan, on which will be built a chapter house. Though eighty-two years of age he still retains the love of music that inspired him as a young man. In other ways also the years have not affected him, for he sees without the use of glasses and is not troubled by his hearing. He is a self-made man, and this may be emphasized, for almost with any schooling he has become a good, fluent writer, a master in the repair shop, and a man of wealth in the community, owning considerable property, including one hundred and seventy acres in Wilson County, Kansas. His judgment is regarded so highly and his memory is so accurate that the citizens of Annawan have become accustomed to referring dubious points and questions to him for settlement. Yet he is modest as regards his accomplishments, and in his chery way disclaims any undue praise for what he is, and for what he has done, either for himself or his country.         Page 4 of 16 Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:01:47 AM Register Report for Anna Catharina Virtz Generation 2 (con't) Notes for Philip J. Wintz: General Notes: Philip J. Wintz was born in Rappahannock County, Virginia, November 4, 1826, and is a son of Henry and Sarah Frye Wintz. His paternal grandfather came from Germany, and his father was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, April 17, 1788. On the 3rd of June, 1824, in Loudoun County, Virginia, he was married, by Rev. S.G. Raszell, to Miss Sarah Frye, who was born February 10, 1797. Her father was born August 13, 1755, and came to America in 1793. He died November 20, 1841, and is buried in Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, where he farmed for some years. During the war of 1812 he was drafted into the army but by the time he had received his accouterments and had reached Middleburg, the war was closed and his services were not needed. On the 7th of April, 1796 he was united in marriage by Rev John Littlejohn to Miss Catherine Vertz. Of the family born to this union Mrs. Henry Wintz was the eldest, the others being: Elizabeth, born January 24, 1799, died unmarried, September 7, 1866; Margaret, born December 12, 1800, became the wife of David Daly, of Preble County, Ohio and died in Indiana in 1848; Joseph, born May 14, 1809, remained unmarried and died on the old homestead, July 2, 1876; Conrad, born May 14, 1809, married Susannah Thomas and died in Butler County, Ohio, September 29, 1882; Ann C., born April 30, 1814, wedded Townsend Howell, of Virginia, and died in Clark County, Illinois, February 9, 1886; Christina, born December 27, 1816, died, unmarried, in Loudoun County, Virginia, April 7, 1877; Evaline, born March 12, 1820, became the wife of James Lawson, of Fauquier County, Virginia, and died in Maryland, March 23, 1899; and George P., born October 30, 1823, died in Loudoun County at the age of fifteen. After his marriage Henry Wintz farmed in his native state until 1828, when he moved to Warren County, Ohio, and then to Preble County, Ohio, where near New Hope he rented a farm for six years. He died, however, before the expiration of the lease, October 27, 1833, and his wife passed away September 18, 1846. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wintz were the parents of five children: Peter, born September 5, 1825, married Catherine Frye and died March 10, 1908; Philip J. is the next in order of birth; Mary Ann, who was born August 22, 1828, became the wife of Samuel Frye and passed away May 25, 1891; Daniel, born June 15, 1831, married Miss Sabina Trucksess, who lived near Converse, Howard County, Indiana, where he died April 13, 1904; and Elizabeth, born March 23, 1833, is the widow of George Lowman of Sedgwick County, Kansas. Philip J. Wintz is not only one of Annawan's wealthiest and most widely known citizens, but also enjoys the distinction of being the oldest settler in Annawan Township, for when he came to Illinois and for four or five years after his advent of the Winnebago tribe of Indians were still in the neighborhood of the town. During a period of more than six decades he has been an eye-witness of the changes that have transformed the character of the country, has taken part in them, in fact, and in the great struggle that almost wrecked the nation. Endowed by nature with a retentive memory, he had been able to write many accounts of those early days, of his experiences on the battlefield, and of the travels which have occupied part of his later years. His life of activity and deeds of valor are but the just conclusion of the records of his ancestors who braved the perils of a new country in the days of its infancy.   Philip Wintz was but six years of age when his father died and only nineteen when his mother was taken from him. He received a very slight education in the district schools of Preble County, Ohio a month a year for fourteen years. The schoolhouse was a log building in which even the desks and seats were made of split logs set up on pegs. At the age of twenty-four he went to Springboro, Warren County, Ohio were he secured work on a farm for ten dollars per month and then took up carpenter work and the trade of millwright. In April 1852, he came to Illinois, locating in Sheffield, Bureau County, where the Rock Island and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroads were then building and where he bought eighty acres of land for three hundred and sixty-seven dollars in cash. It was an unfortunate investment, however, for because of defect in the title, he lost his right to possession. Although somewhat discouraged by this incident, he went to work to make a fortune, borrowing one hundred dollars, with which he went to Chicago to get tools and a carload of lumber. On March 2, 1855, he came to Annawan, and after a short visit in the east he built what is now the kitchen of his present residence. For a year he worked at carpentry and then opened a blacksmith shop, the first in Annawan, on the lot adjoining his present home. He also helped to build the first mill here, which he sold a year later. Until 1884, he devoted his energies to the carpenter's and millwright's trades, constructing the majority of buildings in the southern part of the township, including a church, which he erected in 1858, and a second mill. The last residence which he built was that of James MacChesney in 1877. During the period between 1854 and 1862 he made the greater number of coffins in Henry County, two dollars being the smallest price received for one and twenty-five dollars the highest. Being a man of very methodical habits he has kept a record of all the coffins he made and the name of the person for whom it was intended, and the price paid for each.   After the inauguration of the Civil War, Mr. Wintz enlisted at Princeton, Bureau County Illinois, as a musician in a regimental band which had started from St. Louis to join Burgess' sharpshooters at Alton. They were arrested before they reached their destination, however, for the reason that the colonel of the regiment they were going to join had reported that they were deserters from the ranks and were going to join the rebels. Upon finding these statements untrue, Governor Yates ordered them to Springfield, and then, after two weeks spent in Camp Butler, sent them to Camp Douglas, Chicago, where the band was assigned to the fifty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was sent to Cairo, then to Paducah, Kentucky, whence they went by boat to Fort Henry, arriving there just after the battle, in time to cook their suppers upon the fires which the rebels had left. Returning to Paducah, they went up the Ohio and Cumberland rivers to Fort Donelson and took part in the engagement at that place. Thence they marched fourteen miles to Fort Henry, up the Tennessee River to Krump's Landing, where Mr. Wintz was discharged and mustered out of service, April 20, 1862. Returning home to Annawan he enlisted August 20 of the same year, in Company A, 112th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which was mustered in at Peroria. John L. Dow was captain, but Tristram T. Dow was first captain and was subsequently made colonel of the regiment and took his men to Cincinnati, then to Covington, Kentucky, where they remained two weeks, and then to Lexington. After a few skirmishes Mr. Wintz was detailed for six months to Captain Low's howitzer battery to follow Morgan's band on their raids through Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana to Buffington's Island, where they captured Morgan's guns, in 1863. This campaign being closed he rejoined his old company and went to Kingston and Athens, Tennessee, and later to Loudoun, where in a skirmish on November 18, 1863, Captain Asa H. Lee, commander of Company A, was killed, and Mr. Wintz received a gunshot wound behind his right ear, making a total of four of the company killed and two wounded. When Mr. Wintz regained consciousness after having received his wound he found that the Confederate line had advanced beyond him, thus cutting him from his companions. Making his way through a small vineyard he got into a barn, and when this was struck by a rebel gun, crawled in a corn crib. This too was torn to pieces by a shell and the man forced to continue his painful way outdoors. He staggered through the timber to his company, but on the way to the field hospital fell exhausted on the bank of Second creek, where the ambulance corps found him. Mr. Wintz was then confined to the hospital at Knoxville, Tennessee, until January 18, after which he was given a thirty days' furlough. In March, at Mt. Sterling, he rejoined his company and participated in the skirmishes at Rocky Face, Georgia, and the battle of Resaca, in which he received a gunshot wound in his right arm, which necessitated his being sent to Louisville, Kentucky, where he remained until July, when having contracted smallpox, he was sent to a hospital near Louisville, in which he was confined until October, 1864. Starting then to rejoin his regiment at Atlanta, he spent a couple weeks in Chattanooga, where he was on duty in the convalescent camp and was then detailed with orders to drive a thousand head of cattle to Atlanta for Sherman's army. At Atlanta he met his company returning and joining them he went to Nashville, December 1864, and followed Hood for one month to Columbia, Tennessee. At Clifton, on the Tennessee River, they boarded a steamer and went to Cincinnati, thence by rail to Alexandria, Virginia, by way of Columbia and Bellaire, and then by Steamer to Fort Fisher. During a storm in the last stage of his journey the vessels were blown sixty miles to sea. After one month spent in Fort Fisher, the company went to Smithville, North Carolina, taking part in the skirmish at that place and in the siege and capture of Fort Anderson, and going then to Wilmington and Kingston, North Carolina. At the last named place Mr. Wintz sprained his ankle and was sent to the hospital for the third time, remaining there for a month, or until he was honorably discharged June 14, 1865. Since the close of the war Mr. Wintz has been a member of the Grand Army and has attended more than a dozen of the national encampments, the last having been at Salt Lake City, Utah in 1909. In these where the soldiers from the whole country congregate, he revives with his comrades the stories of the camp fires and the events of the battle.   On returning from the war, Mr. Wintz worked at the carpenter's and millwright's trades as in the days before the struggle. But more and more time he has given to his literary labors. Possessed of a fine style and relying upon his excellent memory for the facts which are not recorded in his notebooks he has written very readable histories of Annawan township and of the old settlers. Of recent years he has been compelled to use a typewriter, though not so formerly, for he wrote a beautiful clear English hand, unsurpassed by few of his generation and unequaled in this. He kept a record of all his contracts, of his war experiences, of his travels, and of his church. A copy of his history of Annawan and Albion townships he sent to the Old Settlers Association in Geneseo, where it is accounted as a work of value.   On April 8, 1852, Mr. Wintz married Mary Frye of Springboro Ohio. There were no children from this union. Although a woman who never enjoyed the best of health, Mary was very active, a great sewer, and of a bright disposition. She was a good wife, a kind neighbor and beloved by all. With her husband she belonged to the United Brethren Church and has been greatly missed since her death, and is buried in Fair View Cemetery. Mr. Wintz is the only son-in-law of his wife's parents not living, and is himself without offspring. Since his wife's demise he has lived alone in the house he built, a good structure, twenty-eight by eighteen feet, with eighteen foot studding for two full stories, with a large kitchen of one story, sixteen by twenty-one feet. It is located on Depot and Second Streets. He now conducts a shop for the repair of furniture, organs, sewing machines, parasols and everything that can be repaired, for he is almost a genius at this kind of work. He is also engaged in superintending the building of the new town hall, a brick construction with cement foundation, of which Howard Fritzkee is the contractor. A member of the United Brethren Church, he has been secretary and treasure of their quarterly conferences, of which he has written the histories. In politics he is a republican and cast his first ballot for Zachary Taylor in 1848, the day before he became twenty-one, all the voters in the locality having agree to accord him that privilege. Mr. Wintz presented to the American's Yeoman League a lot adjoins his own fifty-four by one hundred and fifty feet in the town of Annawan, on which will be built a chapter house. Though eighty-two years of age he still retains the love of music that inspired him as a young man. In other ways also the years have not affected him, for he sees without the use of glasses and is not troubled by his hearing. He is a self-made man, and this may be emphasized, for almost with any schooling he has become a good, fluent writer, a master in the repair shop, and a man of wealth in the community, owning considerable property, including one hundred and seventy acres in Wilson County, Kansas. His judgment is regarded so highly and his memory is so accurate that the citizens of Annawan have become accustomed to referring dubious points and questions to him for settlement. Yet he is modest as regards his accomplishments, and in his chery way disclaims any undue praise for what he is, and for what he has done, either for himself or his country.         6. iii. Mary Ann Wintz. She was born on 25 Aug 1829 in Preble County, OH. She married Samuel Fry. They were married on 30 Nov 1849. She died on 25 May 1891 in Sedgwick County, KS. 7. iv. Daniel Wintz. He was born on 16 Jun 1831 in Preble County, OH. He married Sabina Trucksess. They were married 1855. He died on 13 Apr 1904 in Howard County, IL. Burial in Converse Cemetery, Richland Township, IN. v. Elizabeth Wintz. She was born on 23 Mar 1833 in Preble County, OH. She married William Fry. They were married on 06 Mar 1856 in Preble County, OH. She died on 23 Feb 1912 in Horey County, KS. 3. Daniel Frye-2 (Anna Catharina Virtz-1). He was born on 11 Apr 1802 in Loudoun County, VA. Page 5 of 16 Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:01:47 AM Register Report for Anna Catharina Virtz Generation 2 (con't) Christina Axline is the daughter of David Axline and Eve Householder. She was born on 11 Aug 1804 in Loudoun County, VA [2]. She died on 26 Jul 1877 in Loudoun County, VA [2]. Burial in New Jerusalem Lutheran Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Daniel Frye and Christina Axline. They were married on 01 Dec 1825 in Lovetsville, VA. Marriage Fact in Married NJLC. They had 2 children. 8. i. Noah E. Fry. He was born on 28 Nov 1828 in Loudoun County, VA. He married Susannah Catherine Crim. They were married on 16 Dec 1851 in Loudoun County, VA. He died on 17 Aug 1903 in Loudoun County, VA. Burial in New Jerusalem Lutheran Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. 9. ii. Ophelia Juliette Christiana Frye. She was born on 31 Jan 1841 in Loudoun County, VA [3]. She married Jacob Daniel Virts. They were married on 18 Oct 1864 in Frederick County, MD. She died on 13 Oct 1920 in Gaithersburg, MD [4]. Cause of Death was Carcinoma. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA [3]. 4. Conrad Frye-2 (Anna Catharina Virtz-1). He was born on 14 May 1809 in Lovettsville, VA. Baptised on 14 Sep 1809 in New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville, VA. He died on 29 Sep 1882 in Butler County, OH. Sponsors in Conrad Wirtz, Barbara. Fact 5 in Conrad Wirtz, Barbara. Susannah Thomas. She was born Abt. 1815 in Ohio [5]. Conrad Frye and Susannah Thomas. They had 1 child. i. Joseph Frye [5]. He was born Abt. 1859 in Ohio. 5. Philip Frye-2 (Anna Catharina Virtz-1). He was born on 09 Aug 1811 in Loudoun County, VA. Baptised in New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville, VA. Sponsors in Adam Wertz, Catharina. Fact 5 in Adam Wertz, Catharina. Ann Catharina Fry. She was born 1814 in Ohio. She died 1886. Philip Frye and Ann Catharina Fry. They had 1 child. i. Robert Frye [5]. He was born Abt. 1840 in Indiana. Generation 3 6. Mary Ann Wintz-3 (Sarah Frye-2, Anna Catharina Virtz-1). She was born on 25 Aug 1829 in Preble County, OH. She died on 25 May 1891 in Sedgwick County, KS. Samuel Fry. He was born on 07 Mar 1828 in Clear Creek Township, OH. He died on 19 Mar 1912 in Wichita, KS. Samuel Fry and Mary Ann Wintz. They were married on 30 Nov 1849. They had 12 children. i. Henry Fry. He was born on 01 Nov 1850 in Grant County, IN. He died on 01 Nov 1919 in Wichita, KS. ii. Christopher Fry. He was born on 24 Aug 1852 in Logansport, IN. He died in Sedgwick, KS. Page 6 of 16 Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:01:47 AM Register Report for Anna Catharina Virtz Generation 3 iii. Sarah Elizabeth Fry. She was born on 08 Jun 1855 in Indiana. She died on 11 Oct 1930 in Bentley, KS. iv. Albert Fry. He was born on 07 Aug 1857 in Cass County, IN. He died on 24 Mar 1884 in Sedgwick County, KS. v. Amanda Fry. She was born on 05 Dec 1857. She died on 24 Jan 1936. vi. Thomas Michael Fry. He was born on 19 Aug 1859 in Cass County, IN. He died on 26 Apr 1930 in Wichita, KS. vii. Aaron Daniel Fry. He was born on 23 Mar 1861 in Illinois. He died on 26 Apr 1930 in Wichita, KS. viii. Eli Fry. He was born on 18 Apr 1863 in Illinois. He died on 14 Mar 1940 in Wichita, KS. ix. George Philip Fry. He was born on 28 Sep 1865 in Clinton County, IN. He died on 02 Oct 1938 in Sedgwick County, KS. x. Joseph Felix Fry. He was born on 19 Jun 1869 in Clinton County, IN. He died on 24 Jan 1887 in Sedgwick County, KS. xi. Anna Catherine Fry. She was born on 15 Nov 1871 in McLean County, IL. She died on 26 Dec 1953 in Clearwater, KS. xii. Jonas Fry. He was born on 23 Nov 1873 in McLean County, IL. He died on 22 Oct 1958 in Sedgwick County, KS. 7. Daniel Wintz-3 (Sarah Frye-2, Anna Catharina Virtz-1). He was born on 16 Jun 1831 in Preble County, OH. He died on 13 Apr 1904 in Howard County, IL. Burial in Converse Cemetery, Richland Township, IN. Sabina Trucksess. She was born on 28 Apr 1825 in Germany. She died on 03 Oct 1911. Burial in Converse Cemetery, Grant Co, IN. Daniel Wintz and Sabina Trucksess. They were married 1855. They had 4 children. i. Charles Wintz. ii. Mollie Wintz. 10. iii. Minerva Wintz. She was born on 20 Aug 1854 in Preble County, OH. She married Henry C. Powell. They were married on 19 Oct 1876. She died on 09 Mar 1929. Burial in Converse Cemetery, Richland Township, IN. iv. Effie Wintz. She was born on 22 Feb 1864. She died on 17 Jan 1952. Burial in Converse Cemetery, Richland Township, IN. 8. Noah E. Fry-3 (Daniel Frye-2, Anna Catharina Virtz-1). He was born on 28 Nov 1828 in Loudoun County, VA. He died on 17 Aug 1903 in Loudoun County, VA. Burial in New Jerusalem Lutheran Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Page 7 of 16 Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:01:47 AM Register Report for Anna Catharina Virtz Generation 3 (con't) Susannah Catherine Crim. She was born on 04 Aug 1827 in Loudoun County, VA. She died on 27 Dec 1901 in Loudoun County, VA. Burial in New Jerusalem Lutheran Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Noah E. Fry and Susannah Catherine Crim. They were married on 16 Dec 1851 in Loudoun County, VA. They had 9 children. i. Infant Son Frye [2]. He was born Abt. 1852. He died on 11 Oct 1852 in Loudoun County, VA. Burial in New Jerusalem Lutheran Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. ii. Daniel C. S. Fry [6]. He was born on 18 Feb 1854 in Loudoun County, VA. He died on 02 May 1864 in Loudoun County, VA [2]. Burial in New Jerusalem Lutheran Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. 11. iii. George Henry E. Fry [6]. He was born on 18 Feb 1854 in Loudoun County, VA. He married Cornelia Catherine Stone. They were married on 30 Jan 1877 in Loudoun County, VA. He died on 13 Jun 1933 in Loudoun County, VA [2]. Cause of Death was Sclerosis. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. iv. Julius F. Fry [6]. He was born on 03 Oct 1855 in Loudoun County, VA [6]. He died on 12 Oct 1855 in Loudoun County, VA [2]. Burial in New Jerusalem Lutheran Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. 12. v. James William Fry [6]. He was born on 04 Feb 1857 in Loudoun County, VA [2]. He died on 17 Aug 1915 in Loudoun County, VA. Cause of Death was Cancer. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. vi. Joseph W. Fry [6]. He was born on 04 Feb 1857 in Loudoun County, VA. He died on 30 Oct 1857 in Loudoun County, VA [2]. Burial in New Jerusalem Lutheran Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. vii. Unamed Female Fry [6]. She was born on 13 Mar 1859 in Loudoun County, VA. viii. Unamed Female Fry [6]. She was born on 13 Mar 1859 in Loudoun County, VA. 13. ix. Josephus M. Fry. He was born on 02 Apr 1863 in Lovettsville, VA [3]. He died on 09 Mar 1938 in Lovettsville, VA [7]. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. 9. Ophelia Juliette Christiana Frye-3 (Daniel Frye-2, Anna Catharina Virtz-1). She was born on 31 Jan 1841 in Loudoun County, VA [3]. She died on 13 Oct 1920 in Gaithersburg, MD [4]. Cause of Death was Carcinoma. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA [3]. Jacob Daniel Virts is the son of Peter Wirts and Leah Ann Potterfield. He was born on 03 Dec 1840 in Loudoun County, VA [3]. Baptised on 30 May 1841 in New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville, VA. He died on 20 May 1914 in Loudoun County, VA [3]. Cause of Death was Paralysis. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA [3]. Jacob Daniel Virts and Ophelia Juliette Christiana Frye. They were married on 18 Oct 1864 in Frederick County, MD. Marriage Fact in Frederick County MD Marriage Records. They had 6 children. Page 8 of 16 Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:01:47 AM Register Report for Anna Catharina Virtz Generation 3 (con't) 14. i. Lilly Malcora Virts [8]. She was born on 11 Sep 1865 in Loudoun County, VA. Baptised on 20 Apr 1866 in New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville, VA. She married Clayton I. Cooper. They were married 1882. She died on 26 Nov 1929. Cause of Death was Accident. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. 15. ii. Charles Elmer Virts [8]. He was born on 03 Oct 1867 in Lovettsville, VA. Baptised on 31 May 1868 in New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville, VA. He married Susie Blanche Virts. They were married on 22 Nov 1898. He died on 26 Aug 1954 in Hillsboro, VA. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. 16. iii. Lucy Kate "Nannie" Virts [8]. She was born on 10 Sep 1869 in Loudoun County, VA. She married John William Wiley. They were married on 26 Dec 1894. She died on 03 Jul 1951 in Bethesda, MD. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Baptised in New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville, VA. 17. iv. David Elton Virts [8]. He was born on 06 Jun 1872 in Lovettsville, VA. He married Ella Virginia Boger. They were married on 31 Dec 1890. He died on 27 Feb 1947 in Hamburg, NJ. Cause of Death was Heart Attack. Burial in Hamburg, New Jersey. v. Unamed Male Virts [6]. He was born on 23 Dec 1872 in Loudoun County, VA. vi. William "Bey" Benjamin Ward Virts [6]. He was born on 30 Jun 1874 in Loudoun County, VA. He died on 24 Jan 1939 in Orlando, FL. Cause of Death was Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Burial in Orlando, FL. Notes for William "Bey" Benjamin Ward Virts: General Notes: Loudoun Times Mirror, February 2, 1939   Funeral services were held at Orlando, Florida, January 26 for "Bey" Virts, who died at his home at Orlando January 24 after a lingering illness. Interment was in Orlando. Mr. Virts was the son of the late Jacob and Mrs. Julia Smith Virts of Lovettsville. He left the county when a young man was for many years engaged in the real estate business in Chicago, moving to Orlando, about 20 years ago, being engaged there in the orange industry. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Katherine Virts of Orlando; two brothers, Charles E. of Lovettsville, D. Elton of Augusta, N. J.; one sister, Mrs. J. W. Wiley of Gaithersburg, Md.; three nephews, Keth Virts, New York City; Orion Virts, Brunswick.; Carroll Wiley of Gaithersburg, Md.; a niece, Mrs. C. M. Beatty, Lovettsville, Va.       Generation 4 10. Minerva Wintz-4 (Daniel Wintz-3, Sarah Frye-2, Anna Catharina Virtz-1). She was born on 20 Aug 1854 in Preble County, OH. She died on 09 Mar 1929. Burial in Converse Cemetery, Richland Township, IN. Henry C. Powell. He was born on 19 Mar 1852 in Converse, IN. He died on 07 May 1925. Burial in Converse Cemetery, Richland Township, IN. Henry C. Powell and Minerva Wintz. They were married on 19 Oct 1876. They had 4 children. i. Hesket Earl Powell. He was born on 15 Aug 1877. He died on 03 Sep 1877. Page 9 of 16 Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:01:47 AM Register Report for Anna Catharina Virtz Generation 4 ii. Homer E. Powell. He was born on 16 Feb 1879 in Xenia, IN. He married Etta E. Speck. They were married on 03 Mar 1901. He died on 22 May 1955. iii. Lula M. Powell. She was born on 17 Nov 1880. She married Curtis J. Riggs. They were married on 18 Oct 1904. She died on 19 Feb 1970. Burial in Converse Cemetery, Richland Township, IN. iv. Ethel Dorothy Powell. She was born on 16 Apr 1888 in Sycamore, IN. She married Charles Edwin Cates. They were married on 02 Feb 1910. She died on 14 Jan 1948. Burial in Converse Cemetery, Richland Township, IN. 11. George Henry E. Fry-4 (Noah E. Fry-3, Daniel Frye-2, Anna Catharina Virtz-1) [6]. He was born on 18 Feb 1854 in Loudoun County, VA. He died on 13 Jun 1933 in Loudoun County, VA [2]. Cause of Death was Sclerosis. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Martha E.. She was born on 17 Dec 1878. She died on 30 Mar 1925. Cause of Death was Obstruction of the bowel. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. George Henry E. Fry and Martha E.. They had no children. Cornelia Catherine Stone. She was born on 26 Jan 1854. She died on 16 Mar 1897 in Loudoun County, VA. Burial in New Jerusalem Lutheran Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. George Henry E. Fry and Cornelia Catherine Stone. They were married on 30 Jan 1877 in Loudoun County, VA. They had 7 children. i. Georgia Fry. She died 1897 in Loudoun County, VA [2]. Burial in New Jerusalem Lutheran Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. ii. Nellie Malcara Fry. She was born on 18 Oct 1879 in Loudoun County, VA. She died on 09 Apr 1950 in Frederick, MD [9]. Burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, MD. iii. Mary Fry [10]. She was born on 15 Sep 1884 in Loudoun County, VA. iv. Viola V. Fry [10]. She was born on 01 Mar 1886 in Loudoun County, VA. v. David W. Fry [10]. He was born on 20 Jul 1891 in Loudoun County, VA. vi. Carroll W. Fry [10]. He was born on 20 Apr 1893 in Loudoun County, VA. vii. Unamed Fry. 12. James William Fry-4 (Noah E. Fry-3, Daniel Frye-2, Anna Catharina Virtz-1) [6]. He was born on 04 Feb 1857 in Loudoun County, VA [2]. He died on 17 Aug 1915 in Loudoun County, VA. Cause of Death was Cancer. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Mary Virginia Baker. She was born on 11 Nov 1852 in Lovettsville, VA. She died on 04 Apr 1951 in Lovettsville, VA [11]. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Notes for Mary Virginia Baker: General Notes: Obituary:   Mary V. Fry Blue Ridge Herald, April 12, 1951   Funeral services were held on Saturday, April 7, for Mrs. Mary V. Fry, 98, of Lovettsville. The Rev. William T. Yingling, assisted by Dr. William A. Wade, officiated at the final rites at New Jerusalem Church. Burial was in Union Cemetery near Lovettsville. Mrs. Fry, a widow of James W. Fry, was the oldest resident of the Lovettsville community. She was a daughter of Daniel and Lydia Bitzer Baker of Lovettsville. Mrs. Fry died at her home after a short illness. She was a ember of the Lutheran church. Surviving her are two daughters, Mrs. Brooksie Wynkoop, Washington; and Miss Jessie Fry at home; five sons       Page 10 of 16 Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:01:47 AM Register Report for Anna Catharina Virtz Generation 4 (con't) Notes for Mary Virginia Baker: General Notes: Obituary:   Mary V. Fry Blue Ridge Herald, April 12, 1951   Funeral services were held on Saturday, April 7, for Mrs. Mary V. Fry, 98, of Lovettsville. The Rev. William T. Yingling, assisted by Dr. William A. Wade, officiated at the final rites at New Jerusalem Church. Burial was in Union Cemetery near Lovettsville. Mrs. Fry, a widow of James W. Fry, was the oldest resident of the Lovettsville community. She was a daughter of Daniel and Lydia Bitzer Baker of Lovettsville. Mrs. Fry died at her home after a short illness. She was a ember of the Lutheran church. Surviving her are two daughters, Mrs. Brooksie Wynkoop, Washington; and Miss Jessie Fry at home; five sons       James William Fry and Mary Virginia Baker. They had 7 children. i. Brooksie M. Fry. She was born on 07 Jan 1883 in Lovettsville, VA [10]. She died on 07 Jan 1971. Burial in Hillsboro Cemetery, Hillsboro, VA. ii. Jessie Pearl Fry [10]. She was born on 13 Feb 1884 in Loudoun County, VA. She died on 15 Apr 1969 in Winchester, VA. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Notes for Jessie Pearl Fry: General Notes: Obituary:   Frederick News, April 17, 1969   Miss Jessie Pearl Fry, 85, a former resident of Lovettsville, died Tuesday at Shawnee Nursing Home, Winchester, Va. She was the daughter of the late James and Mary Baker Fry. She was a member of the Church of the Nazarene of Leesburg, Va. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Brooksie Wynkoop of Washington, D. C.; four brothers, Rex Fry of Washington, Elbert Fry of Greenville, S.C., Chester W. Fry of Waterford, Va., and Ralph Fry of Hillsboro, Va. Friends may call at the Brown Funeral Home in Lovettsville, where services will be conducted Friday at 2:30 p.m. by the Rev. David Cox. Burial will be in Union Cemetery in Lovettsville.       iii. Willard James Fry. He was born on 15 Jun 1885 in Lovettsville, VA [10]. He married Docia A. King. They were married 1913. He died 1969. iv. Elbert David Fry. He was born on 06 Sep 1887 in Loudoun County, VA [10]. v. Ralph Mclinn Fry. He was born on 01 Sep 1889 in Loudoun County, VA [10]. vi. Benjamin Rex Fry. He was born on 12 Oct 1894 in Loudoun County, VA. He died on 10 Aug 1973. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. vii. Chester Waring Frye. He was born on 25 Nov 1896 in Loudoun County, VA. He married Lucille Mason. They were married on 05 Jun 1918 in Washington, DC. He died on 31 Mar 1986 in Riesel, TX. Page 11 of 16 Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:01:47 AM Register Report for Anna Catharina Virtz Generation 4 (con't) 13. Josephus M. Fry-4 (Noah E. Fry-3, Daniel Frye-2, Anna Catharina Virtz-1). He was born on 02 Apr 1863 in Lovettsville, VA [3]. He died on 09 Mar 1938 in Lovettsville, VA [7]. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Mary Virginia Wenner. She was born on 11 Nov 1863 in Loudoun County, VA. She died on 15 Jan 1944 in Lovettsville, VA [12]. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Notes for Mary Virginia Wenner: General Notes: Obituary:   Blue Ridge Herald, January 20, 1944   Mrs. Mary Virginia Frye, aged 80, widow of Josephus M. Frye of near Lovettsville, died at Schnauffer's Hospital, Saturday, January 15 from the infirmities of age and a heart attack. She was a daughter of the late John W. and Louise Vincelle Wenner of near Lovettsville, and had made her home with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Danner near Lovettsville since the death of her husband in 1938. She was a member of the Mt. Zoin Lutheran Church near Lovettsville. Besides her daughter, Mrs. Grace Danner, she is survived by one granddaughter, Blanche Danner. Funeral services were held from the Danner home Monday afternoon, Rev. A. F. Tobler officiating. The pall-bearers were Elbert Virts, Elbert Everhart, Wilmer Baker, Cluade Jacobs, William Orrison, and Irvin Heskett. Burial was in Union Cemetery near Lovettsville.       Josephus M. Fry and Mary Virginia Wenner. They had 1 child. i. Grace Virginia Fry. She was born on 28 Sep 1890 in Loudoun County, VA [10]. She died on 07 May 1974 in Leesburg, VA [13]. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. 14. Lilly Malcora Virts-4 (Ophelia Juliette Christiana Frye-3, Daniel Frye-2, Anna Catharina Virtz-1) [8]. She was born on 11 Sep 1865 in Loudoun County, VA. Baptised on 20 Apr 1866 in New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville, VA. She died on 26 Nov 1929. Cause of Death was Accident. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Clayton I. Cooper. He was born on 23 Oct 1860 in Lovettsville, VA. He died on 04 Dec 1931 in Lovettsville, VA. Cause of Death was Intestitis. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Notes for Clayton I. Cooper: General Notes:   Obituary:   Loudoun Times Mirror, December 10, 1931. Mr. Clayton I. Cooper died December 4 at his home near Lovettsville. His wife Mrs. Cora Virts died two years ago. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. C.M. Beatty, two grandsons, James and C.M. Beatty, Jr. at home and one brother, William Cooper near Lovettsville. Interment was in the Union Cemetery, Lovettsville.     Clayton I. Cooper and Lilly Malcora Virts. They were married 1882. They had 1 child. i. Ocal Cooper. She was born on 30 Oct 1881. She died on 26 May 1958. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Notes for Ocal Cooper: General Notes:   Obituary:   Loudoun Times Mirror, May 29, 1958. Graveside services were conducted for Mrs. Ocal Cooper Beatty, 76. She was a daughter of Clayton and Cora Virts Cooper of Lovettsville. She lived all of her life in Lovettsville until seven years ago. Mrs. Beatty is survived by her husband, Chester M. Beatty, two sons, C. M. Beatty, Jr. at Afton, James W. Beatty of Alexandria. Interment was in the Union cemetery, Lovettsville.     Page 12 of 16 Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:01:47 AM Register Report for Anna Catharina Virtz Generation 4 (con't) Notes for Ocal Cooper: General Notes:   Obituary:   Loudoun Times Mirror, May 29, 1958. Graveside services were conducted for Mrs. Ocal Cooper Beatty, 76. She was a daughter of Clayton and Cora Virts Cooper of Lovettsville. She lived all of her life in Lovettsville until seven years ago. Mrs. Beatty is survived by her husband, Chester M. Beatty, two sons, C. M. Beatty, Jr. at Afton, James W. Beatty of Alexandria. Interment was in the Union cemetery, Lovettsville.     15. Charles Elmer Virts-4 (Ophelia Juliette Christiana Frye-3, Daniel Frye-2, Anna Catharina Virtz-1) [8]. He was born on 03 Oct 1867 in Lovettsville, VA. Baptised on 31 May 1868 in New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville, VA. He died on 26 Aug 1954 in Hillsboro, VA. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Notes for Charles Elmer Virts: General Notes:   Obituary:   Loudoun Times Mirror, September 2, 1954. Mr. Charles E. Virts, 86, died on Thursday in Manuel Rest Home at Hillsboro. He had been a patient there for several months.. Mr. Virts, served as postmaster at Lovettsville for eight years prior to 1936. A native of Loudoun, he was a son of the late Jacob and Julia Frye Virts. His wife Mrs. Susie Virts died in 1942.     Susie Blanche Virts is the daughter of George Washington Virts and Frances Ellen Mock [6]. She was born on 18 Jun 1877 in Waterford, VA. She died on 15 Jul 1942 in Lovettsville, VA. Cause of Death was Heart Attack. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Notes for Susie Blanche Virts: General Notes:   Obituary:   Loudoun Times Mirror, July 16, 1942. Funeral Services for Mrs. Susie Blanche Virts, 65, wife of Charles E. Virts will be held from the home in Lovettsville. Mrs. Virts died from a heart attack late Wednesday. She had however, been sick for about twelve days. Mrs. Virts was a daughter of the late G.W. and Frances Ellen Mock Virts and was born near Waterford. Besides her husband she is survived by one brother, G. H. Virts, Lovettsville. Interment was in the Union Cemetery, Lovettsville.     Charles Elmer Virts and Susie Blanche Virts. They were married on 22 Nov 1898. They had 2 children. i. C. Ellmore Virts. He was born on 27 May 1905 in Loudoun County, VA. He died on 03 Apr 1908. Cause of Death was Diptheria. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. ii. Female Infant Virts. She was born on 15 Jul 1913 in Loudoun County, VA. She died on 17 Jul 1913 in Loudoun County, VA. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Page 13 of 16 Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:01:47 AM Register Report for Anna Catharina Virtz Generation 4 (con't) 16. Lucy Kate "Nannie" Virts-4 (Ophelia Juliette Christiana Frye-3, Daniel Frye-2, Anna Catharina Virtz-1) [8]. She was born on 10 Sep 1869 in Loudoun County, VA. She died on 03 Jul 1951 in Bethesda, MD. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Baptised in New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville, VA. Notes for Lucy Kate "Nannie" Virts: General Notes: Blue Ridge Herald, July 12, 1951   Mrs. Nannie Virts Wiley, Gaithersburg, Md., who would have celebrated her 82nd birthday in September, died July 7 at the Montgomery county hospital where she had been a patient for several weeks. Mrs. Wiley had been in failing health about two years. She was the widow of John William Wiley, and the daughter of the late Jacob and Julia C. Virts, Lovettsville. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning in Gaithersburg. Graveside services were held at Union Cemetery, Lovettsville. Mrs. Wiley was a member of the Gaithersburg Methodist church. Surviving are her son, Carroll Virts of Gaithersburg and a brother Charles E. Virts, Lovettsville.       John William Wiley. He was born 1865. He died on 20 Sep 1938 in Baltimore, MD [14]. Cause of Death was Artercolselerotis. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA [3]. Notes for John William Wiley: General Notes: News, Frederick, MD, September 22, 1938   J. William Wiley, 73, former deputy clerk of the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, died yesterday in a Baltimore hospital after a long illness. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Nannie Virts Wiley, and a son, Carroll V. Wiley, both of Gaithersburg. Funeral services will be held at the home here at 11 a.m. tomorrow, with burial in Lovettsville, Va. Mr. Wiley, a native of Virginia had lived her more than 35 years.       John William Wiley and Lucy Kate "Nannie" Virts. They were married on 26 Dec 1894. They had 1 child. i. Carroll Virts Wiley [15]. He was born Jan 1896 in Hillsboro, VA. He died on 31 Dec 1954 in Gaithersburg, MD [16]. Cause of Death was Cancer. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Notes for Carroll Virts Wiley: General Notes: World War I     17. David Elton Virts-4 (Ophelia Juliette Christiana Frye-3, Daniel Frye-2, Anna Catharina Virtz-1) [8]. He was born on 06 Jun 1872 in Lovettsville, VA. He died on 27 Feb 1947 in Hamburg, NJ. Cause of Death was Heart Attack. Burial in Hamburg, New Jersey. Notes for David Elton Virts: General Notes:   Obituary:   Blue Ridge Herald, March 6, 1947. D. Elton Virts, Lovettsville born resident of Hamburg, N. J., died Thursday, February 27, at his home of a heart attack. At the time of his death, Virts a retired dairyman, was 74 years old. He was the son of the late Jacob D. and Julia C. Virts. Mr. Virts is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lula Hopkins Virts; two sons, Keith of Long Island, and Orion, of Brunswick; a brother, Charles E. Virts of Lovettsville; a sister, Mrs. Nan Wiley, Gaithersburg. Mr. Virts was buried in Hamburg.     Page 14 of 16 Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:01:47 AM Register Report for Anna Catharina Virtz Generation 4 (con't) Notes for David Elton Virts: General Notes:   Obituary:   Blue Ridge Herald, March 6, 1947. D. Elton Virts, Lovettsville born resident of Hamburg, N. J., died Thursday, February 27, at his home of a heart attack. At the time of his death, Virts a retired dairyman, was 74 years old. He was the son of the late Jacob D. and Julia C. Virts. Mr. Virts is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lula Hopkins Virts; two sons, Keith of Long Island, and Orion, of Brunswick; a brother, Charles E. Virts of Lovettsville; a sister, Mrs. Nan Wiley, Gaithersburg. Mr. Virts was buried in Hamburg.     Ella Virginia Boger. She was born on 29 Apr 1873 in Lovettsville, VA. She died on 19 Apr 1941 in Frederick, MD [17]. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Notes for Ella Virginia Boger: General Notes:   Obituary:   Loudoun Times Mirror, April 24, 1941. Mrs. Ella Virginia Virts died at Frederick City Hospital on Saturday, April 19. She had been in declining health for several years but was not removed to the hospital until Friday. She was a resident of the Lovettsville community until several years ago when she purchased a home in Frederick. Her parents were the late Jacob and Virginia Boger. She is survived by two sons, Keith B. Virts of New York and Orion J. Virts of Brunswick, and the following half brothers and sisters: Harry Coates of Lovettsville, Mrs. Bessie Spalding of Point of Rocks, Lewis Coates of Pittsburgh, Mrs. Mamie Lewis of Cumberland, Mrs. Mollie Cage of Clarksburg, Robert Coates of Brunswick and Simon Coates of Taylorstown.     David Elton Virts and Ella Virginia Boger. They were married on 31 Dec 1890. They had 3 children. i. Keith Bogar Virts [10]. He was born on 20 May 1893 in Lovettsville, VA. He died on 20 Nov 1958 in Frederick, MD [18]. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Notes for Keith Bogar Virts: General Notes:   Obituary:   Loudoun Times Mirror, December 4, 1958. Keith Bogar Virts, 65, of Baldwin, NY, formerly of Lovettsville, died Thursday in Frederick hospital. The son of Elton D. and Ella Virginia Boger Virts. He is survived by his widow Mrs. Cleo P. Smith Virts, one daughter, Kaybe Virts, one son J. K. Virts, both at home, another daughter by a previous marriage, Mrs. Thurbie A. Markoe of Frederick, Md., one brother Orion J. Virts of Brunswick. Interment was in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville.     ii. Orion Jacob Virts. He was born on 20 Sep 1904 in Lovettsville, VA. He married Madeline Captolia Moler. They were married on 02 Nov 1928 in Gettysburg, PA. He died on 28 Dec 1989 in Frederick, MD [19]. Burial in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA. Notes for Orion Jacob Virts: General Notes:       iii. Female Infant Virts. She was born 1905. Page 15 of 16 Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:01:47 AM Register Report for Anna Catharina Virtz Generation 4 (con't) Lulu Clara Rue is the daughter of Charles Rue and Martha Johnson. She was born on 15 Jan 1889 in Sussex County, NY. She died Nov 1970 in Sussex, NJ. Notes for Lulu Clara Rue: General Notes: 1. Living in Augusta, NY at the time of her marriage.     David Elton Virts and Lulu Clara Rue. They were married on 31 Aug 1938 in Lovettsville, VA. They had no children. Sources 1 Loudoun County Virginia Marriages 1760-1850 by John Vogt & T. Wm. Kethley, Jr. 2 New Jerusalem Lutheran Cemetery Records. 3 <unknown> 4 The Frederick News, October 18, 1920. 5 1880 Ohio Census. 6 Loudoun County Virginia Birth Register 1853-1879. 7 Frederick News obituary, March, 16, 1938. 8 1880 Census. 9 The Frederick News, April 10, 1950, obituary. 10 Loudoun County Virginia Birth Register 1880-1896. 11 Blue Ridge Herald obituary, April 12, 1951. 12 Blue Ridge Herald obituary, January 20, 1944. 13 The Frederick Post, May 9, 1974, obituary. 14 News, Frederick, MD - September 22, 1938, obituary. 15 Loudoun County Virginia Birth Register 1880-1896. 16 The Frederick News-Post, January 6, 1955. 17 Louddoun Times Mirror, April 24, 1941. 18 The Loudou Times Mirror, December 4, 1958. 19 The Frederick News, December 29, 1989. Page 16 of 16 Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:01:47 AM