Re: Wahlen family in Buffalo, NY
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Re: Wahlen family in Buffalo, NY
Deborah Friedrichs 8/17/04
George Joseph Zenner, b. 25JUN1860 in Buffalo, married Christine Campbell 02JAN1883 in Rochester NY. George died 22MAY1897 in Buffalo; Christine thereafter moved to Bradford PA with her two daughters, presumably to be near her sister, a Mrs. Monroe. Christine worked in Bradford as a domestic for a wealthy oil family. I do not know her date of death.
George and Christine had 6 children, all born in Buffalo NY: Mary Barbara, b. 26JUN1884, m. Ernest Carl O'Tander 28APR1914, d. 04SEP1919 in Jamestown NY; Margaret, b. 06MAR1886, married John Joseph Denning 05JUL1911; Charles George, b. 12JUL1887, married Sarah Johnston 22OCT1913; Frank Joseph (my grandfather), b. 20JAN1889, m. Flora Mae Beckwith 09MAR1909, d. 05OCT1939; Joseph, b. 07MAY1891, d. 28JAN1893; Albert William, b. 07MAR1894, m. Mary Catherine Higgins 24SEP1924.
When George Joseph Zenner died, his three sons were put in an orphanage: Father Bakers Home in Buffalo NY.
I suspect that Frank Joseph Zenner, my grandfather, was born George Francis Zenner, but changed his name in adulthood to Frank Joseph, after his uncle who might have acted in loco parentis after the death of his brother George.