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The Zimmerman Bury Octagon House

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The Zimmerman Bury Octagon House, 10095 Wadsworth Road, Marshallville, OH 44645


Genealogy
No photo would be available as his death predates photography.

Nathan Zimmerman, Grandfather of builder
B: 1780 Germany
D: 1811 in Centre, PA, USA

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Ezekial Zimmerman, Father of builder
B: 30 JAN 1808, Centre, PA USA
M: 10 AUG 1843 Wayne County, Ohio to Rachel Ann McClelland
D: 8 OCT 1876, Chippewa Twp, Wayne County, Ohio, USA

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Ezekial B Zimmerman, Builder
B: 30 SEP 1848 Chippewa Twp, Wayne County, Ohio, USA
M: 14 MAR 1877 to Frances Bliss Hess
D: 23 SEP 1935 Marshallville, Ohio, USA

When Ezekiel B. Zimmerman was born on September 30, 1848, in Chippewa, Ohio, his father, Ezekiel, was 40 and his mother, Rachel, was 27. He married Frances Bliss Hess on March 14, 1877, in Marshallville, Ohio. They had five children in 10 years. He died on September 23, 1935, in Marshallville, Ohio, at the age of 86, and was buried there. Ezekiel was the builder of his Octagon House in Marshallville. He built the house in little over a year, completed in 1883. The house boasts 3 bricks thick, has a gabled Russian Tin roof, and he had indoor plumbing and electricity before all neighboring towns. He built his house using all of the lumber off the property and made and fired all of the bricks in the field south of the house. His property included an orchard north of the house, and his main crop was asparagus.

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Ernest Zimmerman, Son of builder
B: 3 JAN 1888 Wayne County, Ohio, USA
M: 4 APR 1916 to Alta Orpha Redinger in Wayne, Ohio, USA
D: 06 OCT 1974 in Marshallville, Wayne County, Ohio, USA

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The Bury Family purchased the Octagon House from Ernest.


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