| Home Surname List Name Index Sources | Fifth Generation43. John ZIMMERMAN21 was born on 11 April 1711 in Bietigheim, Wurttemberg.18 23 July 1747 The eldest son of Christopher Zimmerman, the immigrant, was John who was born in 1711. In Virginia he married Ursula Blankenbaker, the sister of Zacharias Blankenbaker who was also born in Germany. Both John and Zacharias lived until Madison County was formed so they lived in Germany, Essex County, Spotsylvania County, Orange County, Culpeper County, and Madison County yet they moved only twice (John may have moved three times). John died in 1796, the father of seven children. In giving the children here, I am following Margaret James Squires who was a reputable researcher and who spent some time on this family. The eldest child of John was John, Jr. who was born about 1737. The second child was Dorothy, b. ca 1742, who married Jacob Tanner. The third child, Elizabeth, has a similar estimate for her birth year and she married Joseph Holtzclaw after his first wife, a Thomas, died. About 1746, Christopher was born and he married Mary Tanner. The next child was Mary, born ca 1752 and she never married. Another girl, Margaret, has an uncertain marriage. She was born about 1755. Rosanna, born ca 1757, married Moses Samuel. Dorothy Zimmerman had a hard life in that she lost her husband, Jacob, when she was about forty years old with six youngsters in the home. I believe she was also physically handicapped. Jacob had been drafted in 1781 and died while he was in the army, just after the victory at Yorktown. In 1794, Dorothy filed a petition with the House of Delegates of Virginia asking for a pension which was granted. Two of the Zimmerman children, a brother and a sister, married two Tanner children, a sister and a brother, respectively. The Tanner and the Zimmerman families lived not far from each other, a couple of miles north of the German Lutheran Church. Perhaps John Zimmerman outlived Ursula, his wife, by about ten years for the last year she appears at the church is 1787. Rosina (Zimmerman) Samuel appears at church with the Samuel surname name starting in 1789 and extending through 1796. She appeared as Rosina Zimmerman in 1775. A Rosina Zimmerman appeared as late as 1787 which is probably her. In the civil records, women who had the name Rosina at church usually were called Rosanna. John Blankenbaker 3. John ZIMMERMAN. Born ca 1715 in Germany. John died in Culpepper Co.,Va. ca 1787, he was 72. John was a Revolutionary Patriot in Virginia. John took out naturalization papers in Virginia in 1742. In 1748 he patented land which he later deeded to his children as deeds of gift as follows: 18 Oct 1759, 200 acres to son John Zimmerman,Jr[C:226], 16 Sept 1776, 150 acres to daughter Mary Zimmerman [H:243], 16 Sept 1776, 150 acres to son Christopher Zimmerman [H:242], 16 Sept 1776, 150 acres to daughter Margaret Zimmerman [H:239], 16 Sept 1776, 150 acres to daughter Rosanna Zimmerman [H:245], 16 Sept 1776, 200 acres to daughter Dorothy and Jacob Tanner, her husband,[H:240], 16 Sept 1776, 200 acres to daughter Elizabeth Holtzclaw and Jacob(Joseph) Holtzclaw [H-246].1 NOTE: The county this land is in is not mentioned, but may be Culpepper Co.,Va. ca 1736 when John was 21, he married Ursula BLANKENBEECKLER, daughter of John BLANKENBEECKLER & Appellonias ???, in Culpepper Co.,Va. They had the following children: Source Shoron e-mail Ursula BLANCKENBüHLER (private). John ZIMMERMAN and Ursula BLANCKENBÜHLER had the following children:
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