Johannes Katronnes Wilhelm

The story starts to fall apart, however, when you consider that Johann Andreas Wilhelm likely came to America with his parents when he was very young, based on existing family group sheets for his parents Justus and Clarissa[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/family_group_record.asp?familyid=4539342].  If he came to America as a toddler, then it is very unlikely he was a member of the Prussian Army.  More research needs to be done to determine if, in fact, he did immigrate with Justus and Clarissa.  There always remains the possibility that he was left behind for a time, and later joined the Prussians, or possibly was a part of the Hessian forces sent to America during the American Revolution.  For that matter he could have been a member of the American forces, as he would have been 16 in 1776.  He did marry Mercy Farrington, but she is not an Englishwoman.  Her family did come from England, but they arrived in Massachusetts in the 1600s.  Not much is known about his early life, or any fortunes he may have amassed, but he was indeed a farmer in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York.  John's son John Benjamin did indeed join the Mormon Church shortly after John died, but John Benjamin had married Clarissa nearly fours years before that, so that part of the story is not entirely accurate.  As for any family fighting over inheritance, Clarissa's journal mentions nothing.

The story starts to fall apart, however, when you consider that Johann Andreas Wilhelm likely came to America with his parents when he was very young, based on existing family group sheets for his parents Justus and Clarissa[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/family_group_record.asp?familyid=4539342].  If he came to America as a toddler, then it is very unlikely he was a member of the Prussian Army.  More research needs to be done to determine if, in fact, he did immigrate with Justus and Clarissa.  There always remains the possibility that he was left behind for a time, and later joined the Prussians, or possibly was a part of the Hessian forces sent to America during the American Revolution.  For that matter he could have been a member of the American forces, as he would have been 16 in 1776.  He did marry Mercy Farrington, but she is not an Englishwoman.  Her family did come from England, but they arrived in Massachusetts in the 1600s.  Not much is known about his early life, or any fortunes he may have amassed, but he was indeed a farmer in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York.  John's son John Benjamin did indeed join the Mormon Church shortly after John died, but John Benjamin had married Clarissa nearly fours years before that, so that part of the story is not entirely accurate.  As for any family fighting over inheritance, Clarissa's journal mentions nothing.

'''Roy:''' Well, the furthest I know is tradition about this old man, now it was handed down that his name was Johannes Katronnes, but I don't think there ever was such a man.  I think he was trying to be funny, for his grandkids, making up a name for himself see because John A. Wilhelm is the old man that is buried back there.

'''Roy:''' Well, the furthest I know is tradition about this old man, now it was handed down that his name was Johannes Katronnes, but I don't think there ever was such a man.  I think he was trying to be funny, for his grandkids, making up a name for himself see because John A. Wilhelm is the old man that is buried back there.