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Dr. George Carpenter or Zimmerman
NAME: Zimmermann is a German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) occupational name for a carpenter -- Zimbermann in Middle High German. Sometimes our ancestors used the English-version of their surnames after they immigrated.
RESEARCHER: Information received by T.Mason from Betty Moses [BMoses4999@aol.com] on 13 Apr 2003. "On July 18, 1778 last will and testament of George Zimmerman, alias Carpenter, was returned to court and approved."
REFERENCE: George Zimmerman, the Immigrant and his Zimmerman - Carpenter Descendants. Jan 1984. Virdie Hodnett Egger
HYPERLINK: [ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~carpenter/manuscript.html ]
HYPERLINK: [ http://valleyforgemusterroll.org/QueryMSAccess.asp ]Valley Forge Muster Rolls:
Personal ID: VA29279
Last Name: CARPENTER First Name: GEORGE Suffix:
Rank: Private Rank Type: Rank and File Ethnicity:
Brigade: Muhlenburg Company: Capt Thomas Hamilton
State: VA Regiment: 1 VA Division: 5th Division
Monthly Muster Roll Status
December 1777: Present
January 1778: Present
February 1778: Present
March 1778: Died
Death certificate - California 3329. Read by Jim Canada to T. Mason in April 1987. She died of Sclaraderma (a condition where the body turns stone like.) Mr. Canada indicated he was Lorraine's second husband, and he now resided in Oceanside, California with his second wife.
Mr. Canada thinks Lorraine's first husband was named Nowlan.
The following conclusions are built on information from Linda Sue Williams sent on 23 Feb 2012 to T.Mason.
"Lorraine was born in Galveston Texas, 1920 at St. Marys Orphanage. She was adopted at six months by Richard and Anna Held and lived on Western Ave. in Los Angeles, Calif. Milton Hunter was listed on her birth certificate but she never believed he was her father. She was convinced for many reasons that her real father was one John Suman who was the son-in-law of the Helds. In the 1900 U.S. census Emma E. Brown and Homer Brown lived in Tucson, Arizona. He worked as a conductor for the railroad. They had two daughters - Jeannette, age 4 and Grace age 2. In the 1920 census Emma Brown is married to Richard P. Held, a policeman, in Los Angeles with daughter Jennette Brown, age 21 who works as a stenographer for the R.R. In the 1930 U.S. Census, Richard P. Held and Anna E. Held (age 50) live in Los Angeles with their daughter Loraine age 10.
"John Suman was married to Grace Brown (Anna's daughter), but it seems that John (Jack) Suman had two children with Betty Mason - John Peterson and Lorraine Hunter Held.
"Anna Brown and her daughters along with the Sumans and the Masons were all residents of Tuscon and worked for the Railroad.
"Betty Mason kept John and gave up Lorraine. Lorraine's birth name was Mary Elizabeth Hunter but she always longed to know her parents. She felt that there would be no other reason for this older couple who had already raised children to have adopted this child from so far away if there weren't closer family ties involved."
Despite mom's history, her lifestyle was very social and she had lots of friends. Everyone seemed to like her.
Death certificate - California 3329. Read by Jim Canada to T. Mason in April 1987. She died of Sclaraderma (a condition where the body turns stone like.) Mr. Canada indicated he was Lorraine's second husband, and he now resided in Oceanside, California with his second wife.
Mr. Canada thinks Lorraine's first husband was named Nowlan.
The following conclusions are built on information from Linda Sue Williams sent on 23 Feb 2012 to T.Mason.
"Lorraine was born in Galveston Texas, 1920 at St. Marys Orphanage. She was adopted at six months by Richard and Anna Held and lived on Western Ave. in Los Angeles, Calif. Milton Hunter was listed on her birth certificate but she never believed he was her father. She was convinced for many reasons that her real father was one John Suman who was the son-in-law of the Helds. In the 1900 U.S. census Emma E. Brown and Homer Brown lived in Tucson, Arizona. He worked as a conductor for the railroad. They had two daughters - Jeannette, age 4 and Grace age 2. In the 1920 census Emma Brown is married to Richard P. Held, a policeman, in Los Angeles with daughter Jennette Brown, age 21 who works as a stenographer for the R.R. In the 1930 U.S. Census, Richard P. Held and Anna E. Held (age 50) live in Los Angeles with their daughter Loraine age 10.
"John Suman was married to Grace Brown (Anna's daughter), but it seems that John (Jack) Suman had two children with Betty Mason - John Peterson and Lorraine Hunter Held.
"Anna Brown and her daughters along with the Sumans and the Masons were all residents of Tuscon and worked for the Railroad.
"Betty Mason kept John and gave up Lorraine. Lorraine's birth name was Mary Elizabeth Hunter but she always longed to know her parents. She felt that there would be no other reason for this older couple who had already raised children to have adopted this child from so far away if there weren't closer family ties involved."
Despite mom's history, her lifestyle was very social and she had lots of friends. Everyone seemed to like her.
DIED: On ship from Ireland to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Buried at sea. Left wife with 7 children, oldest age 21.
LETTER: (see Richard Henry Leeson). Was Baron of Russborough, Earl of Miltown Seat, Russborough Manor, Blessington County, Wicklow, Ireland. Created Baron-5 May 1756; Viscount-8 Sept 1760; Earl-10 May 1763. Made fortune in brewery business. Collected fine art.
At age 23 was in the 1920 census with his cousin, John Calvin Mason whose wife had just died.
No children
Living in Chicago in 1909.