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Wagner Descendant’s Guide to Canton, Missouri
Canton, Missouri is where multiple generations and branches of our ancestors were born and lived and are buried. I’ve visited several times during my life, and it was the Homeplace for several generations. We have so many ancestors, cousins, aunts and uncles who lived here I cannot mention them all for this. DOWNLOAD PDF Here's a travel report from a recent trip my cousin Ben Wagner took to Canton. The Wagner house on Lewis Street…
Forest Grove Cemetery, Canton, Missouri
Forest Grove Cemetery is where my grandparents, Homer Henry Wagner and Louise Adelaide Weiler, and other family, are buried. It is in Canton, Missouri, our Wagner hometown, high on the bluff overlooking the Mississippi River. Numerous generations and extended family were born, lived, and died there. Above: Paul Wagner at his parents' (Homer and Louise Wagner) grave. The location site is circled: Articles about some of our ancestors and relatives buried here: I found…
[neat photo] Biplane over Canton
I posted this a couple years ago. Then I found a second photo Biplane that stopped in Canton, Missouri from time to time to offer rides. From my grandfather Homer H. Wagner's collection. Taken ca. 1924. Kind of looks like it's hung up on a barbed wire fence. Then I found this pic taken FROM the plane. I think that is Canton, definitely nearby along the Mississippi River.
Pearl Plank’s Roadtrip 1967
Pearl Plank was born in 1902 in Canton, Missouri. She was Henrietta Wagner’s granddaughter (Henrietta was Old Bill’s sister). Trip Summary: Pearl left Canton, Missouri by bus on July 23, 1967 to Washington, Pennsylvania, where her 2nd cousin Homer Wagner met her. She stayed with Homer and his wife Louise at their home in Houston, Pennsylvania, and then they drove to their trailer camp on Cheat Lake near Morgantown, West Virginia. She slept in their…
Wagner Children Memorial Service and Family Gathering
Forest Grove Cemetery — Canton, Missouri | June 2026 When my mom, Lois Thornton, passed away in May 2025, I knew I wanted to her stone to be in Forest Grove Cemetery on the bluff overlooking Canton, Missouri and the Mississippi River alongside her parents Homer and Louise, her grandparents William and Lilly (Giegerich) Wagner, and her brother David. Even though David died of leukemia at just six years old when Lois was only 18…
Lois Ann Wagner Thornton – 1938-2025
My incredible mother, Lois Ann Wagner Thornton, born on October 7, 1938, in Bellevue, Pennsylvania, passed away on May 15, 2025, at home with me and her cat. My mom was a nurse through and through, dedicating her entire life to caring for others. She started out at Presbyterian Hospital nursing school in Pittsburgh, worked decades of night shift, and cared for her parents and uncle in their final years. For her last 15 years…
Mystery Heirs of Frederick Herman Barth
How an old debt helped me put a big crack in a brick wall My third great grandfather Frederick Herman Barth was born in Hanover, Germany in 1816. I had very little information about his parents or anything about him before he moved to Canton, Missouri. There was also confusion about his wives, and the family stories didn’t provide much more than the fact that they came to Canton from Maryland after immigrating from Hanover.…
1943 Wagner Family Recordings
Ben Wagner recently found some 78-RPM 8-inch records in his late father Arnold’s collection. On them are the voices of our ancestors - my great grandparents William C. Wagner and wife Lilly Giegerich, along with their son William F and Lilly's aunt Tillie Eckert Henry. The recordings were made on Saturday, June 5, 1943, during a trip home by William and Arnold to visit their parents in Canton, Missouri. Other recordings are of the brothers…
Are we related to Barack Obama?
The short answer is: sort of. President Barack Obama's maternal GGGG grandfather Thomas L. Clark settled in Canton, Missouri around 1835. All of Thomas' 11 children were born there and they lived there at the same time our family (Surnames: Wagner, Eckert, Hetzler, Giegerich, Vesper). Obama's ggg grandfather Christopher Columbus Clark is buried in the same cemetery (Forest Grove) in Canton as our ancestors. By searching through the Canton newspaper, I found multiple connections that…
Are we related to John Philip Sousa?
Yes! We ARE related to the famous American conductor and composer John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). Sousa is best known for composing the marches "The Stars and Stripes Forever" (National March of the USA) and "Semper Fidelis" (official march of the United States Marine Corps). John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, , the third of ten children of João António de Sousa (John Anthony Sousa) who was born in Spain, though of Portuguese ancestry, and…