The Ste. Genevieve and Pilot Knob, Missouri, Wehners originated in Hesse Germany, near and in the town of Fulda. Ed Wehner, son of Peter (operators of the Ste. Genevieve Lumber Co), use to say that the Southeastern Missouri Wehners could join the SAR or DAR, because their Hessian ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War―on the British side. He could have been right, though there is no evidence of this.
The
earliest known German ancestors of the Southeastern Missouri Wehners were
Kaspar and Margaretha (Zimmer) Wehner, who around 1789 had a son Johann Georg Wehner, born in Dietershan, a village (really, a neighborhood) in the northern part of Fulda.
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Half-timbered
buildings near the Catholic Church in Dietershan, Fulda, Hesse, Germany,
2016 (Wikimedia Commons).
Johann had six children from his first marriage, the two youngest immigrating to Missouri, USA, Nicholas in 1847 and Lorenz in 1848. There, the
year of his arrival, Nicholas married Clara Schneider and went on to establish
the Ste. Genevieve Wehners. A year later, Lorenz married Flora Glisner, and the
couple launched the Pilot Knob Wehners.
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