THE SAUTTERS
The Sautters. I was born of German Parentage. Father was born in Wutenburg, Germany, August 23, 1823. Mother was born in Hesse, Germany on March 7, 1837. They both emigrated to America - Father in 1853 and Mother a few weeks later. Neither had known the other before coming to America. Father was thirteen weeks and Mother was eleven weeks sailing across the Atlantic both families settled in Ross County, Ohio.
I was born of German Parentage. Father was born in Wutenburg, Germany, August 23, 1823. Mother was born in Hesse, Germany on March 7, 1837. They both emigrated to America - Father in 1853 and Mother a few weeks later. Neither had known the other before coming to America. Father was thirteen weeks and Mother was eleven weeks sailing across the Atlantic both families settled in Ross County, Ohio.My Father, Jacob SAUTTER, was the youngest of the family. I often heard him tell about his Mary being a beautiful singer. My sister, Barbara and brothers, George and John remember them telling of his Mother having thirteen children, including triplets that died in infancy.
Father’s Mother maiden name was HOMMELL. Mother’s Mother maiden name was Anna Christena BOTT.
Mother maiden name was Anna Martha SALZMANN. Parents were John and Anna Christina SALZMANN. She had two brothers, John and George; sisters who married were Elizabeth to Frederic BURKHART of Warrenburg, Missouri, Dorothy to William SMITH of Illinois. These two men were German too.
My Father, Jacob SAUTTER and my Mother, Ann Martha SALZMANN were married August 10, 1857 at Chillicothe, Ohio. They had their first home in Greenfield, Ohio and later they moved to the vicinity of Pisgah Church in Ross County on the Good Hope and Lyndon Pike. In 1861, they rented a farm in Pike County near Waverly. In 1862, they bought a farm near there and I was born and raised there. There were seven children, five girls and two boys, namely; Mary Elizabeth who married Edward E. BERRY of Warrensburg, Missouri; Margaret Anne who married Richard H. BROWN of Woodsfield, Monroe County, Ohio. Christena married Samuel H. CUTLER OF Piketon, Ohio, Lucy Rebecca married John WIPERT of Summit, Ohio, Jacob Conrad married Anna PEIFFER of Waverly, Ohio; John Frederck married Rose HARTLEY of Waverly, Ohio; Rosene E. married Peter P. HOWARD of Washington Court House, Ohio.
These parents were both true and loyal citizens of America, living up to all of it’s principles. They were Protestants, affiliating themselves with the German Episcopal Church.
Father was called into the service of his Country in the Civil War and I was eight weeks old. He enlisted and entered the service of Company "D", 126th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry on May 13, 1864, at the age of 40. He was wounded October 19, 1864, in the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia. Home on Furlough in February 1865. Grandmother SALZMANN died during this time. He was mustered out of service July 5, 1865, at Columbus, Ohio, by order of the War Department. He had been wounded in the right leg just below the knee. He died of heart failure at the age of seventy years and two weeks. Mother died at the age of seventy years, five months and twenty-one days on August 29, 1907 from complications.
By Lucy Rebecca Sautter Wiper and contributed by Mrs. Marion Hartley
P.C.O.G.S. Newsletter Book - Sept 1975
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P.O.G.C.S. Newsletter
Pike Co. Genealogy Society a Chapter of O.G.S.
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