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1. NICHOLAS5 ZAHM (PIERRE4, JEAN3, JOHANNE PAUL2, NICHOLAS1) was born April 02, 1787 in OLSBURG, WOLMINSTER COUNTY, GERMANY, and died April 02, 1874 in SOMERSET, READING TOWNSHIP, PERRY COUNTY, OHIO. He married (1) ELIZABETH GARHART in OLDENBERG, daughter of MATTHIAS GARHART and CATHERINE WIESS. She was born Abt. 1790 in URBACH, LORRAINE, and died April 21, 1842 in PERRY COUNTY, OHIO.
Notes for NICHOLAS ZAHM:
WILL OF NICHOLAS ZAHM
I, NICHOLAS ZAHM OF THE COUNTY OF HUNTINGTON, STATE OF INDIANA, DO MAKE AND PUBLISH THIS, MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT TO WIT.
I GIVE, BEQUEATH, AND DEVISE TO MY BELOVED CHILDREN OR THEIR HEIRS ALL MY PERSONAL PROPERTY, OR THE PROCEEDS AT TIME OF REMAINING UNCONSUMED AND UNEXPENDED AT MY DEATH, AFTER PAYING MY JUST DEBTS, TO BE DIVIDED AS FOLLOWS.
ITEM 1. TO MY DAUGHTER ANNIE OR HER HEIRS I GIVE AND BEQUEATH ONE DOLLAR TO BE PAID BY MY OTHER CHILDREN CONJOINTLY AFTER MY DEATH.
ITEM 2. TO MY OTHER CHILDREN NICHOLAS, MARGARET, CATHERINE, PETER, JACOB, MARY, GEORGE, AND THE HEIRS OF MY SON JOHN, FOR HIS SHARE, I GIVE AND BEQUEATH THE REST OF MY PERSONAL PROPERTY TO BE DIVIDED AMONG THEM IN EQUAL SHARES; MY SONS JACOB AND GEORGE TO BE EXECUTORS OF THIS WILL.
I HEREBY SO MAKE WELL AND VOID ANY AND EVERY FORMER WILL AND TESTAMENT, OTHER INSTRUMENT REGARDING MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.
IN TESTIMONY WHERE I HAVE HEREUNTO SET MY HAND AND SEAL THIS 26TH DAY OF AUGUST 1870.
NICHOLAS ZAHM
NICHOLAS ZAHM WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN A SOLDIER IN NAPOLEON'S ARMY. One source says Nicholas moved to the United States in 1829, stopped in PA and moved on to Wooster, Ohio before moving on to Perry County, Ohio near Somerset in 1839. In 1864 He was said to have moved to Huntington, IN., remaining there for 9 years before returning to Perry County, Ohio where he died on his birthday on April 2, 1874.
Somerset Press
Friday, April 10, 1874 Page 3
DIED, after a lingering illness, on Thursday morning, at half past 8 o'clock, at the residence of Mr. George Green, near St. Joseph's Perry Co., Ohio. Mr. Nicholas Zahm, aged 87 years.
The subject of this notice was born at Olsburg, in Wolminster County, Germany, on the 2nd day of April, 1787, and moved to this country at the age of 42 years. After landing at New York City, he purchased a horse and wagon and in his humble way, he moved his little family across the mountains to Wayne County, Ohio, where he resided till the year 1838, when he moved to Perry County, Ohio, where he purchased a small farm near St. Joseph's, on which he lived for many years. Becoming old and feeble, he sold his farm to his daughter, Mrs. Beber, and chose his home with his son-in-law Mr. George Green, where he died, as will be seen, on the morning of his 87th birthday. Mr. Zahm was a quiet, inoffensive man; honest and industrious; a strict member of the Catholic church; without an enemy on earth, he has left an example worthy of imitation. He left four sons and four daughters together with one hundred grand and great grand children to mourn his loss.
More About NICHOLAS ZAHM:
Burial: ST. JOSEPH'S CEMETERY, SOMERSET, OHIO
Notes for ELIZABETH GARHART:
also Elizabeth Capart poss.
More About ELIZABETH GARHART:
Burial: ST. JOSEPH'S CEMETERY, SOMERSET, OHIO
More About NICHOLAS ZAHM and ELIZABETH GARHART:
Marriage: OLDENBERG
Children of NICHOLAS ZAHM and ELIZABETH GARHART are:
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1787 - 1874 (87 years)