Descendants of Johann
Georg Wageman,
Data from The Beroth
Roots, by Irene Beroth and Harvey Lineback,
Self published in
Yadkinville, NC , 1987; (Beroth info submitted by Lawrence
G Lewis)
1
Johann Georg Wageman b: 05 April 1760 Broad River, South Carolina d: 22
December 1800
Burial: Winston-Salem, Moravian Church, Graveyard, God's Acre
+Anna Rosanna or Rosina Beroth b: 02 April 1765 Bethania, NC d: 04 May
1849 Hamilton Co, IN
2 Christian Wageman b: 10 March 1787 near Salem, NC d: 17 September
1828 Salem, NC
+Mary Folz
3 George Washington Wageman b: 26 September 1813 near Salem,
NC d: 05 September 1815
3 William Francis Wageman b: 21 January 1816 Near Salem, NC
3 John Henry Wageman b: 11 March 1818 Near Salem, North Carolina
+Lisetta Shouse b: 31 March 1820 Bethania, North Carolina d: 12 June 1851
Salem, North Carolina
3 Robert Benjamin Wageman b: 10 October 1820 Near Salem, North
Carolina
3 Elisa Albertina Wageman b: 02 June 1823 near Salem, NC d:
28 August 1896 Salem, NC
3 Sanford Folz Wageman b: 01 November 1825 Near Salem, North
Carolina
3 Anna Rebecca Wageman b: 12 July 1828 Near Salem, North Carolina
2 Johann Wageman b: 27 September 1788 near Salem, North Carolina
d: 17 September 1828 ,Clermont, Ohio
2 Samuel Benjamin Wageman b: 29 April 1791 Bethabara, NC d:
15 June 1881 Hamilton Co, IN
Burial: Little Eagle Creek Cem, Family Homestead, IN
+Margaret (Miller) Hine d: 25 August 1880 Burial: Little Eagle Creek
Cemetery, Family Homestead, IN
3 Catherine Rosalin Louisa Wageman b: 28 Sept 1822 ,Stokes,
NC d: 27 January 1912 Westfield, IN
+Samuel Kinder d: 1884
*2nd Husband of Catherine Rosalin Louisa Wageman:
+Allden Ermer Burton b: 12 June 1814 New Hampshire d: 18 July 1851 Hamilton
Co, IN
3 Caroline Minerva Wageman b: 20 March 1824 ,Stokes, North
Carolina d: Oxford, Indiana
+Andrew M. Smith
3 Emeline Hedwig Wageman b: 03 August 1827 Stokes Co, NC d:
29 January 1877
+Eleazer Wilson b: 23 September 1821 d: 06 March 1911
3 Harrison Miller Wageman b: 03 February 183 , Stokes Co, NC
d: 21 April 1833, Stokes Co, NC
3 Mary Ann Wageman b: 03 April 1834 ,Stokes, North Carolina
d: 04 Sept, 1925 Muncie, Indiana
+George Harden b: 1830 d: 1912
3 Susan S. Wageman b: 28 March 1838 Hamilton Co, Indiana d:
20 February 1873
+James Harvey Stewart
Samuel Benjamin
Wageman, son of Johan George Wageman
From The Moravian
Potters in North Carolina by John Bivins, Jr. published for Old Salem,
Inc. Winston-Salem,
North Carolina
by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N. C.
P. 36-37
Christ continued to
expand the pottery during the 1790s, adding another potter’s wheel to the
three which formerly had been used by Aust, and building a half-timbered
wing on the south side of the pottery building in 1797 to increase working
space. Meanwhile, he had taken Johann Frederic Holland, Joseph Stockburger,
and a few years later, Benjamin Wagemann, as apprentices. Holland was later
to become Master of the Salem pottery, and Wagemann became the master of
his own shop. .
P. 54
All the known potters
working in Wachovia during the period 1755-1900 are included in this chapter.
Some of the apprentices described here such as Gottlob Krause and John
Butner, became pottery masters; other pottery apprentices, such as Benjamin
Wagemann moved to the satellite communities and opened their own potteries.
Although Wagemann would have consid-ered himself a master, probably correctly,
he would not necessarily have been judged a master by the Moravian elders.
. .
P. 66-67
Samuel Benjamin Wagemann,
b. 1791 (Apprentice, 1802-ca. 1810; Journeyman, ca. 1810-15). Wagemann’s
father died in 1800 leaving no support for the child, and young Benjamin
was placed in the Boys School under community support. In 1802, Christ
decided to pay Wagemann’s board with the idea that the child would in the
future become an indented apprentice. Accordingly, Wagemann began to work
in Christ’s shop during the afternoons, while attending school in the morning.
The boy’s part-time work in the pottery was considered to be satisfac-tory,
and sometime during the summer of 1803, Wagemann was formally apprenticed
to Christ.
Wagemann was accepted
into the Single Brothers Choir in 1809, and probably completed his apprenticeship
the following year. He worked as a journeyman for Christ until 1815 when
he became dissatisfied with his position: “On account of his discontent
the single Br. Benj. Wagemann has left his job in the pottery of Br. Christ.
His behavior there was conspicuously bad during the last weeks. .
In order to be able to make his living with some kind of a trade he suggested
and wishes to be permitted to work here in Salem in a pottery shop of his
own, we were entirely convinced that he would never be permitted to do
so.” Wagemann left in August, 1815, having made the decision to “move
to his brother in Baggestown,” which is now known as Waughtown.
It was noted that Wagemann intended to “establish a pottery in his new
place of residence” and that he wanted to remain a member of the Moravian
church.
Wagemann was still
in the Waughtown section in 1829, when it was noted in the Bethania Diary
that the potter Thomas Krause was moving to that section to help Wagemann
in the pot-tery. It was also mentioned that Wagemann “looks after the sales
of the pottery.” It is not known how long after this date Wagemann
continued in the pottery trade.