Biographical Sketch (1989):1451, p. 137-138. "Joseph Hemmert was born December 31, 1802, in Unterebersbach, Bavaria, Germany, and married Katherine Seller from the nearby village of Grossenbrach, on January 8, 1837 in the Petersburg, Ohio, Catholic Church. In 1838 they bought an eighty acre farm on Taylor Road, two miles north of present day Botkins. The farm extended to Santa Fe-New Knoxville road. He died in 1877 at the age of 75 years."

1837 Marriage:720 "Joseph Hemmert of Eversbach and Catherina Seller of Groshenbrach," on 8 January 1837. Recorded at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Minster by F. J. Bartels. [Note: Presume this was performed at the Petersburg church, but recorded by the travelling clergy at St. Augustine’s.]

1840 U.S. Census:1017
Auglaize County, Ohio (Pusheta Township)
Joseph Hemmert
male 30-40 •• 1 << Joseph, age 37
females under 5 •• 2 << Margaret [and another who did not survive?]
female 30-40 •• 1 << Catharine, age 31
Total of 4; 1 employed in agriculture

1849 Baptism Sponsor:24, p. 26. Joseph Hemmert, along with Margaret Hemmert, sponsored the infant Maria Margaret Seler (baptismal date 5 Nov. 1849) in the Congregation of St. Peter and Paul.

1850 U.S. Census:1013
Auglaize County, Ohio (Pusheta Township)
Enumerated 11 September 1850
Joseph Hemmert •• 47 male, farmer, value of real estate: $800, born in Germany
Catharine •• 41 female, born in Germany
Joseph •• 9 male, born in Ohio, in school within the year
Margaret •• 11 female, born in Ohio, in school within the year
John •• 7 male, born in Ohio, in school within the year
Michael •• 5 male, born in Ohio, in school within the year

Descendant Information

Biographical Sketch (1989):1451, p. 137-138. "They had four children:

A) Margaret married Francis Wehner, son of one of the Bavarians. They had a butcher shop in the nearby town of St. Marys.

B) Joseph married Katherine (Katie) Schipper, daughter of one of the Rhine ‘Dutch’ German immigrants. They lived on the home farm on Taylor Road. Joseph died in 1924 and Katherine in 1930. They had adopted two children who had left the Botkins area years earlier and the old farm was sold. Joseph’s cousin William lived nearby and his family often worked on shares for Joe and Katie in their later years. [Note: Hemmert’s The Story of Bavarian Immigrants has a picture of Joseph and Katie on p. 137.]

C) John married Joseph Ziegenfelder and lived on a sixty acre farm on the Auglaize-Shelby County Line, one mile north of Botkins.

D) [Page p. 138 not copied.]"