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BIOGRAPHY: Charles and Lydia Wagner show up in the 1840 census of Elk Lick Twp., Somerset Co., PA. Records from Salt Lake City, Utah copied from Somerset County Orphan's Court Records page 122, Book 5, prove that his wife's name was Lydia Schultz. She is listed on childrens death certificates as Rachel ?. Her father was Adam Schultz, mother was Margaret Schirer. She was the daughter of Peter Schirer of Salisbury. This record states that Lydia Schultz intermarried with Charles Wagner and later died leaving four children under the age of fourteen. They were Ann Marie, 2nd Matilda, 3rd Rachel, 4th Elizabeth. It is believed that Charles Wagner and the family had left for Wisconsin about this time, after 1842, and that he children's Grandfather filed papers with the Court for them. The Court appointed Elijah Wagner, (is there a relationship) to be guardian. This was filed May 3, 1847. Another petition in Book 8, page 480 of April 1861: Matilda Bechtoldt, Elizabeth Ault, Ann Marie Wagner, and Rachel Wagner, children of Charles Wagner charging Elijah Wagner of Salisbury, who was appointed May 3, 1847, with neglecting to exhibit and file his account. The court was asked to make a citation against Elijah Wagner . The first land record of Charles Wagner in Wisconsin was Feb 1848. Charles Wagner remarried to a woman named Leah. It is thought that her last name could be Deal. She had a nephew named Frank Deal, and a niece named Rosa Deal. She died in Woonsocket, Sanborn Co., SD, she was living with her daughter Harriet (Wagner) Grace.
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