Biographical Note

Henry Wysor (or Wiser, Weiser, Wyser) was born to Adam and Elizabeth Beck (or Turnipseed) Wysor on April 15, 1755, probably in Pennsylvania. He was an American Revolutionary War soldier, who served as a sergeant in the Continental Army, possibly in the 8th Virginia Regiment, known as Muhlenburg's German Regiment.

Wysor married Barbary An Ripseed [also Barbara Ann Rübsamen] on April 21, 1777. Barbary was born to Johann George and Eva Rübsamen on February 20, 1758, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They had several children, including George, Mary, Elizabeth, Henry, John, [Catharine?], Jacob, William, and James.

Barbary died on May 10, 1837, and Henry died on January 12, 1844. Henry is buried alongside several family members in the Wysor Cemetery in Dublin, Virginia.

Sources:

Henry Wysor Family Papers, Ms2015-026 (this collection)

"Henry Wysor", Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/196972812/henry-wysor

"Henry Wysor" in the U.S., Revolutionary War Pensioners, 1801-1815, 1818-1872, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/search/collections/1116/records/6951, accessed Nov. 6, 2024.

Frederick Sheely Weiser, ed., The Weiser family: a genealogy of the family of John Conrad Weiser the Elder (d. 1746), pp. 875-876, [Mechanicsburg, Penn.]: John Conrad Weiser Family Association, 1960, available online from HathiTrust at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005774730, accessed Nov. 6, 2024.

William Wirt Wysor and Frank J. Klingberg, Old Sherry ; Portrait of a Virginia Family, p. 11, Richmond, Va.: Garrett and Massie, incorporated, 1938. (Available in SCUA under call number CS71 .W428 1938 SCUA Large.)

Mark Edward Steinke, The Early Wysor Family : With Variant Spellings Weiser and Wiser and Associated Families of Trinkle, Anderson, Cecil, Shufflebarger, and Peck, p. 12-13, Cincinnati, Ohio: Mark E. Steinke, 1998. (Available in SCUA under call number CS71 .W97 1998 SCUA Ready Reference.)

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