Life History

Other facts

Notes

• 1850 Federal Census, Perry County, Ohio, 21 September, Hopewell, page 389B, Hse/Fam #972
  Theadore [sic] Weast 66 M Farmer $1500 Real Estate Value b France [b abt 1784]
  Cecilia Weast 56 F b France [b abt 1794]
  Mary Weast 24 F b France [b abt 1826]
  Wililam Weast 18 M b Ohio [b abt 1832]
  Sarah Weast 15 F b Ohio [b abt 1835]
  
  Mary got married about 1855, according to the age of her oldest child in the 1860 census.  In her household is a a 66-year-old female named Z Wüst matching Mary's mother Cecilia, with b irth in France and abotu 1794, same as in 1850.  This Z would represent the German spelilng of the name as Zezilia or similar.  Though most genealogies and the 1850 census spell her name Cecilia, as common in English, on her gravestone, which is otherwise in German, it is spelled Caecilia.
  
  That surname appears to be the French form of the German surname of Mary's father, spelled Wiest and Weast in other forms.  But I found that this spelling exists in Bavaria as well.  Theodore is missingt, so we can conclude he died since the 185 census.
  
  1860 Federal Census, Dubois County, Indiana, 1 June, Township 13, Ferdinand Township, PO Ferdinand, page 15 (scan 783), Hse/Fam #106
  John Metzger 36 M Farming $100 Real Estate $300 Personal born Ohio [b abt 1824]
  Mary Metzger 36 F born France [b abt 1824]
  John Metzger 4 M born Indiana [b abt 1856]
  William Metzger 2 M born Indiana [b abt 1858]
  Z Wüst 66 F born France [b abt 1894]
  Xavier Prottet 18 M born Indiana [b abt 1842]
  Helena Müller 4 F born Indiana [b abt 1856]
  Mary Müller 2 F born Indiana [b abt 1858]
  Catharine Müller 1 F born Indiana [b abt 1859]

Sources

• 1. 1850 Federal Census, Perry County, Ohio
  • 21 September, Hopewell, page 389B, Hse/Fam #972
• 2. 1860 Federal Census, Dubois County, Indiana
  • 1 June, Township 13, Ferdinand Township, PO Ferdinand, page 15 (scan 783), Hse/Fam #106