DAVID & PHILIPPINA(E) WERNER FAMILY
For a picture of the Werner family go to the Worms web site
DAVID WERNER:
Born: Worms-(Rohrbach/Beresan Parish-4mi): Black
Sea region, Odessa area, S. Russia Oct. 20, 1841 Parents: Barbara Stauss-b. Baden, Germany
Johannes Werner-b. Prussia
Married to Philippina Nagel-Worms, Dec. 10, 1865
Emigration: July 7, 1879-by ship to New York
With Wilhelm/David/Friedrich/Christina/Jakob
Lived 10yrs -near Yankton, South Dakota-railroad
ended here then=gateway to Dakota territory
spring/summer 1889-1yr near Eureka, S. Dakota
?1890-Mound City, South Dakota
1892-95 E of Herreid-SW of Artas (Campbell Co)
Mar-1896-homesteaded farm SW of Herreid
(area settled-1880’s-town founded in 1901 when
the new “Soo” railroad line arrived)1st house sod-
as most were-no trees nearby-1902 house built
Lived in the town of Herreid after early 1900’s
Edward had the farm them and then Katie/Oscar
Died: Herreid, SD-April 17, 1920
PHILIPPINA(E) NAGEL WERNER:
Born: Worms, S. Russia -Jan. 12, 1844
?Parents: C(K)atharina Scherer-b. Russia
Philipp Nagel-b. 1-1807 Wurttemberg/Graben
d. 10-1884-Worms
Married David Werner 12-10-1865 Emigrated 1879
Died: Herreid, SD-Oct. 11, 1926
CHILDREN: 13 total-some died young/during emigration
1. Wilhelm (William-Will): b. 9-6-1866- Worms, Russia
married Caroline (?Lang b. 1872-1949)
d. 1-25-1967 Mobridge, SD-Bur.St. Peter’s Cong
Church Cemetery-N. of Glenham SD
Children: Emma-‘92, Magdalena (Maggie)-’93,
John-1899, Ida & Alvin-twins-‘02, Edwin-‘08
2. David: b. Jun. 21, 1868 in Worms-
died in Yankton (teenager per Eunice)
3. Friedrich (Fred): b. May 13, 1870-Worms, Russia
left home after a fight with his parents never
saw him again-went to AK & Canada, worked on
freighters-visited SD in 1940’s back to Vancouver,
BC-Died soon after ~1947. Never Married.
4. For a picture of the Sayler family go to the Worms web site.
Christina: b. 1-21-1874-Worms, S. Russia
d. 8-4-1982-Wishek, ND (108 yrs-oldest in ND)
Married: 1/1894-Friedrich Sayler: in Napoleon ND
(lived in McIntosh Co.-Wishek, farm then town)
Children-(Plus her husband had 5 from 1st wife:
Barbara,Kathrine,Jacob,William,Maggie)
-Henry (1-21-1895) -Edward (6-17-1896-1961)
-Frederick(11-9-1897d.1984) -Lydia (1899)
-Emma (10-7-1899d.1977) -Martha(12-27-1901)
-Bertha(2-29-1904) -Christian(7-31-1905d.1982)
-Albert(7-24-1908d.1926) -Ida(5-14-1910)
-Christina(12-4-1914) (2 above died as infants)
5. Heinrich: b. Sept. 23, 1875-Worms-died 2/’77-Worms
6. Jakob: b. Dec. 20, 1877-Worms-died before 1880
7. Jakob: b. 12-1879 or 1-1880 (5mo old on 1880 census)
first child born in Dakota territory-Yankton
?d. Oct. 18, 1883
8. Heinrich (Henry): b. 8-15-1881-Yankton, SD
US Army 1901-1904, 1907 farm by Gale
d. 10-21-1934 at Hot Springs, SD
Buried in Gale Cemetery (near Mound City)
Married: Bertha Wessel (died 1921)
Children: Herbert ‘10, Earl ’12, August ’16
invalid after 1919-lived with his sisters-Minnie &
Bertha then to Hot Springs, SD Veterans Sanitorium
9. Edward David: b. 10-20-1883-Yankton, SD
d. 9-8-1917: Scaffolding broke when building a
barn and two men fell on him-Herreid farm
that his parents originally homesteaded
1st marriage: 1903 to Ida Wessel-d.12-1906
Child: Martha B. (Jungers-lived in Richardton, ND)
b. 12-4-1906 (later raised by Bertha-her
husband John was Ida’s brother-also
Martha’s grandparents John&Wilhelimina
Wessel-lived by their farm)
2nd marriage: 12-20-1910 Katheryn (Katie) Green
Children: Wilmer Alfred: b.12-14-1913 d.10-31-98
(Next generation to run family farm
with wife Ester-children Marlene&Dick)
Alma Ester (Trucano): b. 1-6-1916
Moved to Juneau,AK’37-married’39-Joseph
Trucano-Children: Carolyn, Douglas&James
10. Margaretha (Maggie): b. 1-10-1886-Yankton, SD
Married: 1910-Fred Deibert-d. 1924
Farmed NW Mound City then N Mound City
D. 1-16-1972-Mobridge-Bur.Mound City Cemetery
Children: Ervin ’12, Raymond (Ray) ’15, Edna ’16,
Ruth ’19, Milton ’22 (bur Mound City)
11. Bertha: b. 11-17-1888-Yankton, SD
Married: 1908 John Wessel
Lived on Wessel parent’s farm, NE Mound City
Except 1911-16 in Mound City & 1945 to Mobridge
d.12-31-1980-Mobridge,SD bur Mound City Ceme
Children: Hilmer’12, Alpha’17 & raised Martha
And Henry’s kids Herbert, Earl, & August
12. Wilhelmina (Minnie): b. 12-14-1892 Campbell Co.
(before Herreid was a town)
Living with Edward in 1910 (after his wife died)
Married: 1915 Henry Suess (d. 1949)
Farm South of Herreid-Worked in Ellensburg
Wa summer of 1937(depression & dustbowl)
Eunice stayed in Seattle-they moved after
There in 1943or44
d. 1-1985 in Seattle, WA
Children: Vernon ‘19
Eunice (Bell) ’17-children: Connie & Jeannie