Peter WAGER

 

 

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1810 - 1876

 

 

Father:  Benjamin I. WAGER

Mother:  Fanny BURLINGAME

 

Family 1 : Eliza D. WOOD

 

 

Family 2 : Ursula NOYES

 

 

Family 3 : Harriet BENTLEY

 

 

1.  Emma Viola WAGER

2.+George Arthur WAGER

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                               _____Charles WAGER________+

                                                                                                    ___ Andrew WAGER__|          (1693 - ....)  m 1713

                                                                                                    |      (1720 - 1788)  m 1743 |____Sarah EADES___________+

                                                   ___ Ezra WAGER._______|                                                      (1691 - 1736)  m 1713

                                                  |       (1748 - after 1810)  m      |                                             ____Thomas DICKERSON____+

                                                  |                                                 |_ Elizabeth DICKERSON|            (1686(98) - 1725)  m 1715

                                                  |                                                            (.... - ....) m 1743      |_____Abigail REEVE_________+                             

 __ Benjamin WAGER.____|                                                                                                         (before 1686 - 1750)  m1715

|     (1793/4 - 1865)  m             |                                                                                                   ___John SWAYZE________+

|                                                 |                                                    _Jabez Mapes SWAYZE_|   (ca1677 - 1761)  m 1707

|                                                 |                                                    |       (.... - 1788)  m                |___Sarah RAMSEY_______

|                                                 |___Mary SWAYZE_______|                                                  (.... - before1754)  m 1707

|                                                      (.... - before1801)  m             |    

|                                                                                                     |___Mary ?????______

|                                                                                                       

|                                                                                                                                                 

|- - Peter WAGER

|   (1810 - 1876)  m 1854                                                                                                           _____John BURLINGAME_____+

|                                                                                                  _ David BURLINGAME__|            (1664 - 1719)  m 1688

|                                                                                                 |    (1706 - 1755)  m 1728       |_____Mary Knowles LIPPITT____+

|                                               _ Benjamin BURLINGAME |                                                             (ca1666 - 1708/9)  m 1688

|                                              |           (1753 - 1820)  m            |                                               ______Hosanna BROWN_______ +

|                                              |                                                  |__ Mary BROWN______|        (ca1685 - before1769) m ca1705

|                                              |                                                      (1709 - 1794)  m 1728       |______Mary HAWKINS________+

|_ Fanny BURLINGAME_|                                                                                                           (???? - ????)  m ca1705

      (1790 - 1854)  m             |                                                  

                                               |                                               

                                               |                                                   

                                               |____ Rebecca READ__                                                      

                                                         (1753 - 1823)  m

 

 

 

TIMELINE

 

1810

1811

1812

1813

1814

1815

1816

1817

1818

1819 - moved to Brookline, Indiana

1820

1821

1822

1823

1824

1825 - moved to Ionia, New York

1826

1827

1828

1829

1830

1831

1832

1833

1834

1835

1836

1837

1838

1839

1840 - DEATH of Eliza

1841 - moved to Fairport, New York

1842

1843

1844

1845

1846

1847

1848

1849

1850

1851

1852

1853 - DEATH of Ursula

1854 - MARRIAGE 3

1855 - Emma is born

1856

1857

1858

1859 - George is born

1860

1861

1862

1863

1864

1865

1866

1867 - moved to Waterford, Michigan; 9 APR - bought house from Adam Hottslander

1868

1869

1870

1871

1872

1873

1874

1875

1876

 

 

INDEX

 

PEDIGREE

 

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A local history of Ionia, New York, Unmasking the Past (New York: Heart of the Lakes Publishing, 1989) relates an interesting story on page 135 that had been passed down orally generation after generation. A famous Seneca Indian named Red Jacket (ca1750-1830) gave a gift of a carefully designed peach tree sapling to a newlywed couple described only as "Ben Wood's daughter" and "Mr. Wager." The sapling had been created by Red Jacket combining several varieties of peach tree saplings into one tree. The fruit it and subsequently thriving orchards produced was dubbed the "Wager Peach" and is still called that today. At first glance, this gift of the special sapling might appear to have been in honor of Peter's brother Charles who married Cornelia Wood, one of Ben Wood's daughters, but that marriage took place in 1847, 17 years after Red Jacket's death. Meanwhile, there has always been controversy in family discussions about the grave of Eliza D. Wager in the Ionia Cemetery, buried with the other Wagers who died while residents of Ionia, formerly known as Millers Corners. Her gravestone describes Eliza as a wife of Peter Wager. Details about Peter's marriage to Ursula Noyes, who was buried in neighboring Monroe County, gave the family discussions further controversy, since Peter's granddaughter Etta remembered that although Peter had been married once before he married Harriet Bentley, she did not remember yet another previous wife. A large spoon engraved with the name "Noyes" still exists among the Wager family silverware. There is also an early photograph of Peter with another woman, described only as "Peter's first wife," who is presumably Ursula, since Eliza died in 1840 when such photography was especially rare. In order to get the stories of Peter's three wives to consistently and plausibly align with the Red Jacket tale, Peter must be the "Mr. Wager" in the family tale and Eliza was the daughter of Ben Wood. The Wager Peach is therefore named after Peter Wager, who moved his third wife and their two children to Michigan after the Civil War and died there in 1876.  

 

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