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- The Lake Shore Commercial Record Newspaper, for the Saugatuck-Douglas, Michigan Area, Pub. every Saturday morning:
. 1884 May 9 - WALTER BUT LITTLE AHEAD:
G. W. Wanner budded, at the Peach Belt Nursery, for A. Hamilton, 26,516 peach trees in 12 days of nine hours each, which would be an average of 2,455 for each ten hours work.
The wood was taken out of buds & each one inserted as soon as removed from the stick of buds. Gilbert Dresser did the tying, John Jones, a boy 14 years of age, put in 1050 to 1,200 per day & did it nicely. Saugatuck township has made a good record this year & there are still 2 nurseries yet to be heard from.
. 1885 Dec 18 - "Moloch" colts* are being broken to harness & coming out well. Among the best ones we have seen are those of S. Wanner of Ganges.
Note" *'Muley Moloch" big, impressive colt, better than average racehorse with both stamina & speed.
. 1900 Mar 30 - Ganges Glimpse: Lew Wanner, nurseryman, has just been connected with the Ganges central. His phone number is 134. Mr. Wanner will plant 25 acres to peach pits this spring.
. Illustrated Atlas of Sauatuck, Allegan Co., Mich. shows A. Hamilton's property is beside his brother-in-law, Sam'l Wanner. 40 acres each. Two concessions from Lake Michigan. The school house was situated on the neighbours connecting the backside of Alex Hamilton's property. A church was just two lots away.
. 1895 Also just three lots over was Geo. F. Wanner, 40 Acres, Ganges.
. Atlas & Directory of Lapeer County, Michigan, Burnside Twp. IX & X North Range 12 East
S. Wanner, 160 Acres Lot Fra. Dist. No. 6.31, 1893.
Obituary:
SAMUEL WANNE DIES WHILE IN THE SOUTH. Samuel Wanner was born in Bern, Switzerland, Oct. 24, 1840 & died in Roseland, La. Dec 13 1903. He came with his parents to New York in 1846. Here he spent his young & early manhood coming to Michigan at the age of 25 & settling in Ganges, Allegan Co., where he resided save as his work called him to Saugatuck) until a few months before he died.
May 15, 1873 he was united in marriage to Miss Mary J Hamilton & soon thereafter moved to their home in Ganges where they continued to resided until his failing health compelled him last Oct. to give up his fruit farm to which he was greatly attached & to which he had devoted his energies for more than 30 years.
After making a round of visits among relatives & friends, in company with Alexander Hamilton & wife, he turned his face toward the Southland, attended by his faithful & loving companion hoping that the balmy air of that favored region might improve his health.
The disease, however could not be successfully combated either by medical skill or change of climate. He lingered but a few days in the warm sunshine & under the bright skies of that Southern climate & then wearily fell asleep to open his eyes in the fields elysian. The Paradise of God. Samuel Wanner was a good man of a most kind & sympathetic nature. It hurt him to witness pain or suffering of any kind & would have grieved him still more to have been the cause of grief or pain to others. He was in a word a devoted & faithful follower of the meek & lowly Nazarene & when sickness & death came it found him ready, nay! anxious to depart & be with Christ which is better. In his last hour, as well as at an earlier date, his pray was come for me Jesus! Come for me Jesus! Thus lived & died one of Christ's meek & lowliness. His funeral services was held in Ganges M. E. Church. Sat. Dec.19 at 2:30 P.M. & his body was laid at the rest in the Taylor Cemetery, Ganges, there to await the resurrection of the just.
Further Research, sister ? to Sam. Wanner:
. 1928 Jan 2 - Death of Mrs. Sophia Hirner, d. Thursday last. Born Mar. 6, 1846, Germany. Came to Mich. in her teens, during the closing of Civil War. ...married John Hirner, a soldier, Married 1870. Returned to Germany for 6 years. Husband died 1905 of heart disease. Four children: Mary d. 1908, Mrs. Sophia, August Pfaff, Herman & Mattie, village of Ganges, Brother Conrad Wanner, resides in Stuggart, Germany. Lutheran. - - -
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1840 - 1903 (63 years)