This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JaB.2ACI/406 Message Board Post: JOHN WILLIAM WEIDNER WAS BORN JUNE 24, 1851, IN IOWA. HIS PARENTS WERE THOMAS JEFFERSON WEIDNER SR. AND ELIZABETH C. FOWLER WEIDNER. THIS COUPLE MARRIED MORGAN CO. INDIANA, 1844, DAUGHTER MARY JANE BORN 1845, MINERVA ,DATE NOT CERTAIN, AND JOHN WILLIAM WEIDNER, MADE UP THIS FAMILY. ELIZABETH DIED IN 1851. THOMAS JEFFERSON WEIDNER SR. REMARRIED MARY ANN MCKINLEY WEIDNER AND THEY WERE PARENTS OF SEVEN CHILDREN. GEORGE W. BORN 1853, THOMAS J. JR., BORN 1856, MARTHA ELLA, 1860 IN ILL., PHILLIP, MAY 1866, MAY FRANCES, DATE UNKNOWN, ALEXANDER, 1869, ANOTHER CHILD DATE AND SEX UNKNOWN. MARY ANN DIED ABOUT 1871. INFO FOR ANYONE WHO MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN RESEARCHING THIS FAMILY. THEY ARE HARD TO FIND, ALWAYS ON THE MOVE. THOMAS JEFFERSON SR WAS THE SON OF WILLIAM AND FRANCES KENYON WEIDNER, MARRIED CLARK CO. INDIANA, 1821. TOM BORN 1823. THOMAS SR. BURIED SIDNEY CEMETERY, SIDNEY, IOWA.