born in Holland in 1824, and was brought to this country at the age of eight years by his parents, who located near Cumberland, Maryland. He grew up there, was married at Tunneltown, West Virginia, and then went into a new and unbroken section of West Virginia at Leopold, where he engaged in farming. He was a man of considerable influence in his community, held various township offices, and was justice of the peace thirty years. He was a democrat and a member of the Catholic Church. During the Civil war he served as a soldier, most of the time along the border. He was three times married. The maiden name of his second wife was Mary Abel. For his third wife he married Lucy Kreyenbeuhl, who was born, reared and educated near Lucerne, Switzerland, and was living at Leopold, West Virginia. She was born in 1849. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Wanstreet were: Joseph, who was a locomotive engineer and died at Murfreesboro, Illinois; Henry, who died at Leopold, West Virginia, in 1895: Mrs. Severin; Edward, who died at the age of seventeen; Frank, who died at Leopold aged seventeen; James, who was working as a clerk at St. Joseph, Missouri, when he died at the age of twenty-one; Silas, an oil gauger with home at New Milton, West Virginia; Fonce, a Iocomotive fireman living at St. Louis, Illinois; Peter, a farmer at Leopold, West Virginia; and Frances, wife of Jacob Mertz, a painter and decorator living at Omaha, Nehraska.
born in Holland in 1824, and was brought to this country at the age of eight years by his parents, who located near Cumberland, Maryland. He grew up there, was married at Tunneltown, West Virginia, and then went into a new and unbroken section of West Virginia at Leopold, where he engaged in farming. He was a man of considerable influence in his community, held various township offices, and was justice of the peace thirty years. He was a democrat and a member of the Catholic Church. During the Civil war he served as a soldier, most of the time along the border. He was three times married. The maiden name of his second wife was Mary Abel. For his third wife he married Lucy Kreyenbeuhl, who was born, reared and educated near Lucerne, Switzerland, and was living at Leopold, West Virginia. She was born in 1849. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Wanstreet were: Joseph, who was a locomotive engineer and died at Murfreesboro, Illinois; Henry, who died at Leopold, West Virginia, in 1895: Mrs. Severin; Edward, who died at the age of seventeen; Frank, who died at Leopold aged seventeen; James, who was working as a clerk at St. Joseph, Missouri, when he died at the age of twenty-one; Silas, an oil gauger with home at New Milton, West Virginia; Fonce, a Iocomotive fireman living at St. Louis, Illinois; Peter, a farmer at Leopold, West Virginia; and Frances, wife of Jacob Mertz, a painter and decorator living at Omaha, Nehraska.
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