CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - Johann Phillipp Ziegler family

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Submitted by: Paul Nickens  NickensPR@aol.com   3/25/2010

William Louis Dickinson's wife was Mary Angeline Ziegler (the family in 
VA spells it Zeigler).  The Johann Phillipp Ziegler family immigrated from 
Groetzingen, Wuerttemburg, Germany, in 1746, landing at Philadelphia, PA, 
on Sept. 27 of that year.  They settled first in the Susquahanna Valley of PA. 
About 1790, Johann Jacob Ziegler (went by Jacob), son of the original immigrant, 
his wife, Esther Buckwalter, and family moved to Franklin County, VA, where they 
became successful farmers and built and operated a mill on the Pigg River.  
Their oldest son, John Ziegler, married Mary Ann Brock in Franklin County.  
Their son, Joshua, was the father of Mary Angeline Ziegler.
 
Joshua married Eveline White on 4 Nov 1839. The Civil War was hard on the Joshua 
Ziegler family as three sons were lost to the cause.  Eveline White Ziegler died 
in 1867, after she had two more sons who were named for the two killed at Gettysburg.  
Joshua moved to Elk Point, SD, in 1867 with the remaining children.  One of Joshua's 
daughters, Lucy Eveline, met and married Byron Townsend in Elk Point at that time.  
Joshua, a blacksmith by trade, was kicked by a horse and died there in 1868.  William 
L. Dickinson and wife Mary Angeline Ziegler (married in 1860 in Franklin County and 
sister of the now orphaned children) came from Virginia to Elk Point.  All soon moved 
across the river to St. James where William and Mary built the hotel.  The Ziegler 
children lived in the hotel for awhile.  Byron and Lucy Ziegler Townsend also moved to 
St. James then.
 
I have portrait photographs of Joshua Ziegler and some of his children, including Mary 
Angeline Ziegler, along with William L. Dickinson.