lebanon co. history zimmerman, peter, schaefferston, died 1887. he was born in 1802, s/o george zimmerman, a native of germany and supposed to be the founder of the family in berks co. henry zimmerman had 10 children, and peter was the youngest. peter zimmerman married mary rex, who was born in 1802 in schoneck, lancaster co, and died in 1880. she was the sister of cyrus rex of rexmont. 6 children were born to peter zimmerman and his wf.. 5 reached maturity, viz; edmond died in kansas, mary ann married jacob rhoads of lancaster co., susan amanda married dr. alfred bucher of rexmont, anna matilda, rebecca, w/o e.r. illig of millbach zinn, george of cornwell twp. the zinn family is an old one in this county having been founded by george zinn, the great-grandfather of the present george zinn. his son george was born in lebanon co. his children were; john, mary, w/o john zimmerman, of lebanon co., rose w/o seth royer, sarah w/o christian bachman, catharine, w/o j.m. mark and veronica, w/o joseph ulrich. john zinn, father of george, he married sarah shimp, d/o jon and eliza (stewart) shimp. they became the parents of 6 children, george, catharine, wf of aaron vogt of jackson twp, mary ann, wf of henry klick of bethel twp., john of cornwall twp., married hannah hoke. cyrus died age 12, elias of cornwell married clara messner. the mother lived to the age of 76, the father dying 18 years earlier. george zinn was born 1847 and in 1872 he married mary e. bowman, d/o oliver and mary (light) bowman. rex, cyrus, of lebanon co. the rex family was established in lebonon co., by abraham and samuel rex from chestnut hill, germantown, pa., and located at schaefferstown, formerly lancaster co. where samuel, left no issue. abraham rex, father of cyrus of rexmont. came to lebanon co prior to his marriage to elizabeth schaeffer, d/o henry and eva, and granddaugther of alexander schaeffer, the founder of schaefferstown. mr. and mrs rex ha 7 children; mary w/o peter zimmerman, samuel s., married lucetta shultz, d/o peter, franklin, killed in a railroad accident when returing from his graduation as a physican, ann, w/o w.m. weigley of schaefferstown, abraham married amanda horter of germantown, george was born dec. 1, 1815, who read medicine with dr. gloninge, practiced at jonestown and later at south bend, ind., and also at phla., and cyrus. dr. george rex on dec. 26, 1861, nominated by pres. lincoln, brigadier surgeon of vols. dr. rex married henrietta harper. Best Wishes, Geri -----Original Message----- From: Donna Heller Zinn Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:18 PM To: geri brennan Subject: Re: rex-arner Good Afternoon Geri! It sure does beat housework!!!!! I'd have to agree with you there! Not sure if I shared how I found out that I was a descendant of the REX family or not.... it was totally by surprise. We have Belgian Draft Horses and we used to go to Schaefferstown - to the Alexander Schaeffer homestead - for their Harvest Festival & Plowing Match & Horse Pull. During one of our ventures there, quite a number of years ago, I toured the house and seen that a fellow by the name of Bob Bucher, had a genealogy of Georg REX (aka Reuger or what ever the various spelling) laying on the table along side other interesting historical papers on the area and Schaefferstown. He had mainly copied the multiple pages to show that one of the daughters or granddaughters had married into the Alexander Schaeffer family. I had asked if I could get him to make copies of these papers for me and I would gladly pay for the copying and postage, etc.. He agreed and about a month went by and the papers arrived in the mail. I read over them and put them in my HELLER File because my father's Heller great-aunts married a Rex and I had got the copies to show my dad who was going to take the papers to show one of the descendants of that family. I then put them away for a few years until one day I learned that I was descended from the ORNER (aka ARNER) family. I then pulled the papers back out and started to do a little more research and found that I (myself) traced back to the REXs twice! This was after my father had passed away... I would have loved to been able to share this info with him personally... he would have laughed at the whole ordeal. So THANK YOU again for posting the information to the county lists.... I'm subscribed to quite a few that you post to! ... and NO, I don't mind getting duplicate postings! On the HELLER side, I can't get them out of Adams Co., PA.! A fellow in Biglerville, quite a while ago told my father that he had heard that the HELLERs in Adams Co. are "from" the Hellers of Hellerstown.... I've tried for years to attach my "folks" to those Hellers, but nothing as of yet. Donna ----- Original Message ----- From: "geri brennan" <gerifelker@webtv.net> To: "Donna Heller Zinn" <djzinn@pa.net> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [PACARBON] rex-arner-bastain-peter > Hi, as i said before, it sure beats housework. > my great-aunt married an arner. and i do think someone married a rex. but heller, we have a ton of them. no zinn > > Best Wishes, Geri > >