Anna Maria Pfrank

FemaleMarch 1827–12 March 1905

Brief Life History of Anna Maria

Anna Maria Pfrank was born in March 1827, in Germany. She married John Weiss on 13 September 1853, in Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Walnut Creek, Holmes, Ohio, United States in 1880 and Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States in 1900. She died on 12 March 1905, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Weiss
1820–1873
Anna Maria Pfrank
1827–1905
Marriage: 13 September 1853
Anna Maria Weiss
1854–1902
Theresia Weiss
1855–1897
Barbara Weiss
1857–1940
Caroline R. Weiss
1859–1905
Maria Magdalena Weiss
1861–1925
Michael Weiss
1863–1927
Catherine Apollonia Weiss
1868–1964
John Weiss
1869–1881

Sources (13)

  • Annie M Weiss, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Anne Mary Pfrank, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
  • Anna Mary Weiss, "Ohio, Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    13 September 1853Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States
  • Children (8)

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    World Events (8)

    1830 · The Second Great Awakening

    Age 3

    Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

    1836 · The Bridge War

    Age 9

    On Halloween, tension between Cleveland and Ohio City began to boil over. Both sides of the river armed themselves with muskets and a cannon over the Columbus Street Bridge. These tensions were brought about because the bridge's location was diverting commercial attention away from Ohio City completely and the way that their concerns were being treated. Cleveland's mayor tried to reason with the enraged citizens but was greeted with a volley of rocks. No deaths were recorded but three men were injured.

    1851 · Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad

    Age 24

    The Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad started running in February 1851, 15 years after it was charted for construction. It later absorbed a small bankrupt railroad in 1861 to help expand its services beyond just Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. In May 1868, the railroad merged with the Bellefontaine Railway to connect the current cities with Indianapolis.

    Name Meaning

    German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Slovenian, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): ethnic or habitational name for someone from Franconia (German Franken), a region of southwestern Germany so called from its early settlement by the Franks, an ancient Germanic people who inhabited the lands around the River Rhine in Roman times. In the 6th–9th centuries, under leaders such as Clovis I (c. 466–511) and Charlemagne (742–814), the Franks established a substantial empire in western Europe, from which the country of France takes its name.

    English (of Norman origin), Dutch, and German: from the personal name Frank (Norman French Franco, ancient Germanic Franko), in origin an ethnic name for a Frank, or from German Franke ‘Frank(ish), Franconian’ (compare 1 above). This also came to be used as an adjective meaning ‘free, open-hearted, generous’ (Middle English and Old French franc ‘free’, i.e. not a serf or slave), deriving from the fact that in Frankish Gaul only people of Frankish race enjoyed the status of fully free men. As a surname of German origin it is also found (in both possible meanings; see 1 above) in France (Alsace and Lorraine). Compare Franc and Franck .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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