Fay Elizabeth King

Family/Spouse: Living Neal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frederick married Anna Elizabeth Wurm on 8 Nov 1905 in home of John Wurm, Bingham Township, Michigan. Anna (daughter of John Wurm and Katherine Hoffmeyer) was born on 28 Oct 1884 in Bingham Township, Huron County, Michigan; died on 20 Apr 1977 in Marysville, St. Clair County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Sarah Armstrong. Sarah was born about 1838 in Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1851, Berlin, Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Census: 1871, Stanley Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Emigration: 1871
• Census: 1880, Bingham Township, Huron County, Michigan
• Residence: 10 Jun 1905, Ubly, Bingham Township, Huron County, Michigan
• Census: 1990, Bingham Township, Huron County, Michigan

Notes:

John Wurm and Katherine Hoffmeyer were married at his parent's house, on the south side of Purdy Road, Bingham Township, Huron County, Michigan.

Like his father, John Wurm was a farmer. In the 1890's he built the large farmhouse that currently sits abandoned on the Wurm farm, on the south side of Purdy Road 1/4 east of M-19.

From his Obituary in the Port Huron Times Herald: "John Wurm was of sturdy German descent, and his sterling character and strict integrity were stamped upon his every transaction with his fellow men. He will be sadly missed not only by the splendid family which he has raised and trained to a useful manhood and womanhood, but by the communities where he has been widely known and generally respected."


Birth:
WURM, Johann
Born 30 Dec 1850
Baptized 16 Feb 1851
Parents Daniel Wurm and Catherine Erb, Waterloo
Sponsors Henry Wurm Jr, John Becker, Catharine Wurm.

Source: Records of St. Paul's Lutheran Evangelical Church, Berlin, Ontario

John married Katherine Hoffmeyer on 17 Feb 1876 in at Daniel Wurm farm, Bingham Township, Huron Co., Michigan. Katherine (daughter of John Hoffmeyer and Elisabeth H. Becker) was born in Dec 1859 in Strathroy, Ontario; died on 11 Sep 1948 in Schilling Nursing Home, Pigeon, Michigan; was buried in Colfax Cemetery, Bad Axe, Huron County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1861, Hay Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Census: 1880, Bingham Township, Huron County, Michigan
• Census: 1920, Reed City, Osceola County, Michigan
• Census: 1930, Bad Axe, Huron County, Michigan
• Residence: 1935, Michigan Avenue, Pigeon, Winsor Township, Huron County, Michigan
• Census: 1940, Michigan Avenue, Pigeon, Winsor Township, Huron County, Michigan

Notes:

Mary (Elden) Kittendorf researched the "Wurm" and "Hoffmeyer" Family genealogy. She interviewed Katherine (Hoffmeyer) Wurm in the late 1940's when Katherine was living at a nursing home in Pigeon, Michigan, and wrote the following:

John and Katherine Hoffmeyer were living with their two children (Kate 4 and John 2) in a log cabin built in the woods east of Ubly in 1881. Though partly cleared, the land was still marked by stands of large trees. Behind their land was a large swamp, beyond which lived their closest neighbors, a young couple with five children. On Monday morning, September 5, 1881, John Wurm hitched his horses to a wagon and set off to help a neighbor harvest his fields. Meanwhile, Katherine's friend came from across the swamp to visit by jumping from log to stone, leaving her five children home alone.

The fire raged up from the south. Word of it came to John as he worked and he arrived home barely ahead of the flames. It was too late for Katherine's friend to return home and she became quite frantic. John set all of his livestock free to fend for themselves, then shut his family and the neighbor in the milkhouse. The milkhouse was a sort of storehouse and was partially underground. With the help of another neighbor, a bachelor, who joined them, John wet down the door of the milkhouse repeatedly with water from his well. Together the group waited out the fire, frightened but reasonably safe. They emerged hours later to find that they were among the lucky ones. The flames had skipped over their log cabin, leaving it standing and still intact. Most of the livestock was found alive, huddled on small patches of unburned ground and surrounded by smouldering forest. Best of all, Katherine's friend returned home to find her five children safe and unharmed also.

After John's death in 1914, Katherine sold the homestead and moved first to Bad Axe and then later to Pigeon, Michigan. She owned homes in Bad Axe at 1646 Irwin and in Pigeon at 7319 Paul before entering the nursing home in the 1940s.

Other Events:

• Census: 1851, Berlin, Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Census: 1871, Stanley Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Census: 1880, Bingham Township, Huron County, Michigan
• Census: 1900, Ubly, Bingham Township, Huron County, Michigan

Notes:

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
about Daniel Wurm
Name: Daniel Wurm
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1823
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Occupation: Carpenter
Port of Departure: Bremen, Germany
Ship Name: Hermine
Search Ship Database: Search the Hermine in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Line: 4
Microfilm Serial: M237
Microfilm Roll: M237_63
List Number: 620



The 1851 census of Waterloo Township, Ontario shows that a Matthew Worm, age 17, labourer was living with Daniel and his family. This Matthew Wurm would likely have been Mathias Wurm born 29 Dec 1834 in Bleidenrod, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, son of Henry Wurm and Elisabetha Lein.

WORM,Daniel,carpenter, age 28, carpenter, born in Germany, Lutheran
WORM, John, age 2, born in Canada, Lutheran
WORM, Katharine, age 24, born in Germany, Lutheran
WORM, Matthew, age 17, labour, born in Germany



Photo of Daniel Wurm's farmhouse, Ubly Michigan.

Daniel married Catherine | Christina | Carolina Erb on 17 Aug 1847 in Preston, Waterloo County, Ontario. Catherine (daughter of Joh. Wilhelm Erb and Anna Dorothea Lauer) was born on 05 Feb 1827 in Bleidenrod, Homberg (Ohm), Vogelsbergkreis, Hessen, Deutschland; died on 26 Mar 1907; was buried in Bingham Township Lutheran Cemetery, Purdy Road, Bingham Township, Huron County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1851, Berlin, Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Census: 1871, Stanley Township, Huron County, Ontario
• Census: 1880, Bingham Township, Huron County, Michigan
• Census: 1900, Ubly, Bingham Township, Huron County, Michigan

Notes:

Researchers have suggested that Daniel Wurm married Catherine Kruger. Baptism records of St. Paul's Lutheran Evangelical Church, Berlin, Ontario indicate that Daniel's wife was Catherine Erb. Information from Bleidenrod, Germany provides name as Christina Erb.

Notes:

Married:
Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West - Wellington District, 1840-1852 p. 54

Daniel WURM, to Carolina ERB, both of Waterloo. 17 Aug. 1847, Preston, by banns. Rev. HUTTNER.

[Baptism records of eldest children list mother's name as Catherine Erb.]

John married Elisabeth H. Becker. Elisabeth was born in 1831 in Germany; died in 1911; was buried in Bingham Township Lutheran Cemetery, Purdy Road, Bingham Township, Huron County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]