General Information

Birth
4 APR 1854
St. Joseph, Andrew County, Missouri
Death
29 NOV 1924
Speiser Precinct, Richardson County, Nebraska

Notes

History of Richardson County, Spicer Township, NE

Mary Luginbill ws born in Andrew County, Missouri, in April 1854. Mary, the first white girl in Richardson County, Missouri, came with her parents, John and Elizabeth Welti Luginbill, to their farm along the banks of the Four Mile Creek. Her father had waiteduntil her birth to bring his family to the area he had selected for their home, in1853.

She attended a country school near her home. Mary learned to keep house and weave the cloth needed for their clothes.

Occasionally a traveling missionary or circuit rider would come through and hold services for the pioneers living in the area. The neighbor would meet at the Luginbill home, where church services were conducted. It was on such an occasion that she was baptized in the water of the Four Mile Creek. She was confirmed in 1880, becoming a member of the German Evangelical Church Society, later to be the Four Mile Reformed Church.

In 1873 she was united in marriage to John Edward "Ed" Wissler. They established their home south of what ws to become Humbuldt, Nebraska.

Parents

John Thomas Johanncs Luginbill
- Father
1824 - 1897
Birth
18 NOV 1824
Bowil, Bern, Switzerland
Death
29 JUN 1897
Speiser Precinct, Richardson County, Nebraska
Burial
30 JUN 1897
Four Mile Cemetery - Humboldt, NE
Anna Elizabeth Welte
- Mother
1825 - 1904
Birth
28 OCT 1825
Walkrintgen, Bern, Switzerland
Death
8 FEB 1904
Speiser Precinct, Richardson County, Nebraska
Burial
Four Mile Cemetery - Humboldt, NE

Spouse

John Edward Ed Wissler
- Husband
1854 - 1937
Birth
27 APR 1854
Lugelfu, Bern, Switzerland
Married
21 AUG 1873
Richardson County, NE
Death
26 SEP 1937
Burial
Four Mile Cemetery - Speiser Precinct, Richardson County NE, nearHumboldt, NE

Children

Rudolph Wissler
- Son
1894 - 1942
Birth
OCT 1894
Speiser Precinct, Richardson County, Nebraska
Death
13 JUL 1942
Peoria, Peroria County, Illinois
Marie Wissler
- Daughter
1891 - 1961
Birth
20 JAN 1891
Speiser Precinct, Richardson County, Nebraska
Death
25 DEC 1961
Magdalene Wissler
- Daughter
1888 - 1966
Birth
11 JAN 1888
Speiser Precinct, Richardson County, Nebraska
Death
8 SEP 1966
Pawnee County, NE
William Wissler
- Son
Birth
JAN 1886
Speiser Precinct, Richardson County, Nebraska
Henrietta Wissler
- Daughter
Birth
FEB 1884
Speiser Precinct, Richardson County, Nebraska
Julianna Elizabeth Wissler
- Daughter
1879 - 1945
Birth
28 JUN 1879
Speiser Precinct, Richardson County, Nebraska
Death
20 MAR 1945
John Wissler
- Son
Birth
6 FEB 1876
Speiser Precinct, Richardson County, Nebraska
Edward Wissler
- Son
Birth
DEC 1881
Fred Wissler
- Son
Birth
JAN 1874
Speiser Precinct, Richardson County, Nebraska
Charles Wissler
- Son
Birth
17 MAY 1896
Speiser Precinct, Richardson County, Nebraska