Robert Thomas Hoag Junior
Robert Thomas Hoag Junior was born on October 5, 1933, in Monessen, Pennsylvania. Please note: There are variations in his DOB. Some sources say October 5, 1933, while other official government documents state May 10, 1933. I will continue my research on this and let you know when I know 100% for sure what his birthday […]
Minerva Pearl Wegley
Minerva Pearl Wegley, aka Minnie Pearl was born on March 20, 1887 and died on July 22, 1938. She was the eldest child of John Wesley Wegley and Helen Elizabeth Swanson. She was born in Kane Pennsylvania and lived in Pennsylvania her entire life. She died on July 22, 1938 in Kitanning. She had high […]
Valentin Assel
My mother’s grandmother was a lady named Emma Marie, who she loved dearly. It is for this reason I began to look into the maternal side of my family tree. This led me to Valentin Assel, the first member of his family line to come to America from Germany. Valentin Assel was born on March 1, […]
Raymond Edward Wegley

My grandfather, Raymond Edward Wegley, was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas on December 15, 1925. He died on December 4, 1992, in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, just before his 67th birthday. My grandfather was born during the height of the Roaring Twenties, a decade marked by economic prosperity, cultural change, and modernization in the U.S. Society was […]
Frederick Wegley
Frederick Wegley is my great-grandfather. He was born on August 20, 1887, in Kane, Pennsylvania, and died on November 28, 1950, in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. Frederick Wegley married Tillie Blanch Edwards on February 4, 1920, when he was 32 years old. They married in Huntington, West Virginia. Together, they had at least six children, including my […]
John Wesley Wegley
June 29, 1858 – December 15, 1927 John Wesley Wegley was born on June 29, 1858, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and passed away on December 15, 1927, in Shade, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, at the age of 69. His death certificate confirms that he succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage caused by high blood pressure—a stroke. The document […]
Jonathan George Wegley
Jonathan George Wegley was born on September 3, 1836, in Somerset Pennsylvania. He died on March 1, 1892, in Lockington, Shelby County, Ohio. We know this date of death from his gravestone. Jonathan George Wegley is my 2nd great grand uncle Jonathan George Wegley married Sarah Circle in Mercer County, Ohio on November 21, 1857, when […]
Joseph William Wegley
October 14, 1802 – June 1880 Joseph William Wegley was born on October 14, 1802, in Brothersvalley, Pennsylvania, and passed away in June of 1880 in McKean, Pennsylvania. He holds a unique place in family history as the first recorded use of the “Wegley” spelling of the family name, making him the patriarch of this […]
Johan Frederik Weigley
Johan Frederick Weigley was best known as Fred Weigley or Johan Fridrich Wegerlein. He was born on May 22, 1773, in Brothersvalley, Somerset, Pennsylvania and he died in 1836 also in Brothers Valley, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, when he was around 63 years old. Fred’s parents were Philip Wagerline and Anna Dorothea Krafft, aka Fronica. His mother was born […]
Philip Weigley
Philip Weigley (aka Philip Wagerline aka Philip Wegerline aka Philipp Waegerlein) is my 5th great grandfather. He is not to be confused with Georg Philipp Waegerlein from Germany who is married to Anna Katharina who had a daughter named Anna Katharine Waegerlein – Hoeppel (born in 1818). Georg Philipp Waegerlein is a different person. What makes tracing the […]
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