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FRED WACHTMANN.  A life of quiet and useful industry has been that of Fred Wachtmann of Henry County.  Farming has been his occupation, and by the application of hard common sense and persistent hard work he has gained a competence.      All his life has been spent in Henry County.   He was born in Napoleon Township Feb. 22, 1865.  With an education from the common schools he applied his early years to training himself as a farmer, and for the past twelve years has occupied his present home of 79½ acres in section 4 of Napoleon Township.  During his lifetime he has witnessed many changes in Henry County.  The land has been cleared, the swamps have been drained, beautiful fields have replaced the wilderness, and he himself has borne an effective part in those changes.  Mr. Wachtmann's farm is accounted one of the best in Napoleon Township.  One of its improvements is a splendid barn 70 by 40 feet, surrounded with other equally good structures for the housing of his grain and stock.  His home is a ten room residence.      Mr. Wachtmann represents the sterling Hanover German people of Henry County.  His parents were John and Mary (Sash) Wachtmann.  They were of old Lutheran stock and came to this country when young.  John Wachtmann made the journey by sailing vessel from Bremen to New York in ten weeks, and when his wife came she was eleven weeks on the ocean.  They came on to Henry County and in the latter part of the '50s were married.  They then located on a forty acre farm in Napoleon Township, for which they paid $40.00 an acre.  Their first home was a log cabin, and yokes of oxen were employed in the heavy task of clearing up the land.  Their home was on section 6, and after many years of productive labor they had a fine farm.  They lived there in comfort during their later years, and John Wachtmann died in 1901 at the age of eighty-three.  His widow passed away in 1904, she being about twelve years younger than her husband.  They were among the thrifty and substantial German pioneers of Henry County, and were early members of the Lutheran Church.  They are buried side by side in the cemetery which is part of the farm of their son, Fred Wachtmann.  There were five children:  William, who formerly owned the farm now owned by his brother, Fred, and died there, leaving a widow and children; Fred, who is the second in age; John, Jr., who is a farmer in Adams Township of Defiance County and has children by his marriage to Anna Ashemeyer; Dietrich, who lives on the old homestead and married Anna Miller of Defiance County; Clara, who died leaving a daughter by her marriage to Frank Rearick of Napoleon Township.      In Henry County Fred Wachtmann married Anna Badenhop, who was born in Germany in 1868 and when thirteen or fourteen years of age came from Hanover to the United States, her parents, Henry and Mary Badenhop, locating in Freedom Township.  Her father died in January, 1916, at the age of eighty-four years and three months, and her mother passed away seven years prior to that date.  They were German Lutherans and are buried in St. John's churchyard in this county.      Mrs. Wachtmann first married William Wachtmann, a brother of Fred.  By that marriage there are seven children, and those still living are Helen, Anna, Vernon, Amelia, Mary, and Carl.  Mr. and Mrs. Wachtmann have two children of their own:  Bernhart and Caroline, both of whom are in the public schools.  Fred Wachtmann married for his first wife Dora Rosebrook, who died in the prime of his life, leaving two children; Clara, wife of Henry Plassman, and they live in Napoleon Township on a farm and have an infant son; and Alvin who is still unmarried and on the farm with his parents.  Mr. Wachtmann and all the members of his family belong to St. Paul's Lutheran Church, and he is a democrat. Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ Publ. 1917 - Page 776

WILLIAM E. WILSON Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ Publ. 1917 - Page 881 NOTE:  William E. Wilson died in 1941 and is buried at Spring Hill Cemetery, Fort Recovery, Mercer Co., OH with his wife Ella E. Wilson who was born in 1861 and died in 1911. - Section D, Row 7  (Copy of Stone at www.findagrave.com)

 

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