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Note: , and the Ackermanns in Oberweissach. According to his marriage record, John worked at the same profession as his father- a brick maker- German word in records is Ziegler. All of this information comes from verified records, unlike the story below that was found in The House of Mansur. More than likely, that information was created by a paid researcher who mixed up family histories-witness the wife's name, Elizabeth Margaret von Ackerman--definitely not our Eva Katharina.
According to The House of Mansur, p. 155, John Adam Wieland was a graduate of Bonn and Heidelberg Universities. He was a part of the student insurrections of 1848-49 and was forced to flee the country. He came to America, leaving behind his wife, who joined him three years later at Sandusky, Ohio. The German government confiscated his portion of the von Wieland estate. This information has not been verified. Other family remembrances say he opposed Bismarck's plan for unification. The House of Mansur says his wife's name is Elizabeth Margaret von Ackerman, however census records and family record her name as Catherine Ackerman (Katie).This source is a family history published by relatives of Carl Jacob Wieland's wife and is rather suspect in my view. Judging from birth records of John and Catherine's children, John came over in 1853, with his family following in 1854. This does not correspond with the idea of flight from the 1848 revolutions. There is no indication of the use of von Wieland, indicating some form of nobility, on any records found so far.
The following names appears in the Wuerttemberg Emigration Index coming from Unterweissach (Backnang):
NameBirth DateBirth PlaceApplication DateDestinationNumber
Wieland, Karl Gottlieb10 Jul 1840 Unterweissach Jul 1866 North America 555959
Wieland, Carl Gottlob10 Jul 1847 Unterweissach bef.1867 North America 555959
Wieland, Friederike Caroline1 Sep 1849 Unterweissach bef.1867 North America 555959
Wieland, Johannes & F27 Aug 1818 Unterweissach bef.1867 North America 555959 his birthplace is also listed as Backnang
Wieland, Eva Catharina15 Oct 1822 Unterweissach bef 1868 North America 555959
Wieland, Jacob Friedrich5 May 1852 Unterweissach bef 1868 North America 555959
Wieland, Ludwig Wilhelm1 Sep 1853 Unterweissach bef 1868 North America 555959
(Unterweissach was a small town near Backnang and Stuttgart. Today it is called Weissach in Tal, which means Weissach in the Valley. Eva Katharina was born in Oberweissach, which is about 1 and 1/2 miles from Unterwiessach. Unterweissach was a parish (Gemeinde) village, and Backnang was the Oberamt (which would be the next step up the political ladder, like a local capitol.)
John Weeland, age 33, from Germany, brickmaker, traveling alone, came to America on a ship named Margaret Evans. It's last port before New York was London. It arrived on May 19, 1853. Eva Catharina and family followed the next year, arrived December 1, 1854. The eldest son was not with her. According to his records, he did not come over until 1866.
Family History Center of the Church of Latter Day Saints has the microfilm of the Wuerttemberg records. On film #555959 it shows that the family sent back to Wuerttemberg the information about their settling in Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio. They went to a notary public in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Wuerttemberg consulate there to send back the documents. The various documents are dated from 1866 to 1868. The children above are the ones who were born in Germany. Also listed in these documents are the children born in America. These documents pull all the other documents found in ship passages and church records in Unterweissach and Backnang together. They also show the German names given to the children in America, and include some children not known before now, who must have died early.
Although on some census and tax records, the name Wieland is spelled as Weiland, Wealand, and Wheeland, the correct German spelling is Wieland and that is the spelling the family settled on by the time of the first burials at Clarksville Cemetery, and that is the spelling in all German records. At present, this family has not been located in the 1860 census in Erie County, Ohio. I have gone through page by page but to no avail as yet.
John moved to Marshall township, Clark County, Illinois sometime before 1869. He purchased 77 acres of land from Lewis Behner for $700. (Clark Co. Land Deeds, Vol. 5, p. 309.) He also purchased around 11 acres for $500. from Christian Behner on the same day. Vol. 5, p. 310. Christian seems to be the father of Lewis, and on the 1870 census Christian is now the next door neighbor to John Wieland's family, and Lewis has moved to Edgar County, Illinois. Christian, 66, and his wife Dortha, 63, were also natives of Wuerttemberg. Another son, Gottlieb, 39, born in Pennsylvania, lives nearby.
Cemetery tombstone reads: Died May 15, 1892, aged 73 y, 9 m, 18 d. This would put his birth date at July 27, 1818, not August 27, 1818. Probably a counting error. Catharina's side of the tombstone reads: Died June 23, 1880, aged 58 y, 2 m, 7 d. This would put her birthdate at April 16, 1822, instead of Oct. 15. Jacob's side says: April 14, 1876, aged 23 y, 11 m. This would put his birth date as May 1852, which is correct. I cannot explain why John and Catherine's are not correct.
Notes from the Bible of Frances Wieland, daughter of William Louis Wieland. "My grand father's name was John Adams wieland. My grand mother's maiden name was Catherene Ackansan. My great grand father's name was John Wieland. My great grand mother's name was Misa Harlen. They were from Stuggart town, Wuttenberg, Germany." I have not found these names anywhere in the German records, and tend to think that Misa Harlen must be from the Swartz side of the family.
Note: Mary Helen Haines research: I am not sure how Johannes becomes John Adam unless Johannes translates to that. I have not seen the name Adam on any German records. The Wielands were mostly in Backnang
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