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John Rudolph Waymire (originally Johann Ludolph Wehmeyer) was born July 15, 1721 in Duederode, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany. The son of Andreas Valentin Wehmeyer (1697-1757) and Anna Elisabeth Asmus (1700-1753), he fought with the allied German-English armies in the Battle of Dettingen am Main against the French (June 27, 1743), the last and final battle in a series of clashes caused by the wars of the Austrian succession. In the summer of 1753 John Rudolph, along with his parents, his sister Dorothia Maria (b.1732),his wife Dorothea Elisabeth Loock (1723-1772), and his four children, took passage from Hamburg, Germany aboard the ship "Leathley", arriving in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 19, 1753. John Rudolph's mother died enroute and was buried at sea. Upon arrival in America John Rudolph's sister was sold as an indentured servant to pay for her passage and was never seen again. The family first settled in rural Allegheny County, Pennsylvania where the father died in 1757, but afterwards migrated to Pender County, North Carolina and finally to Randolph County, North Carolina. John Rudolph Waymire was known as a patriot and a supporter of the American Revolutionary War effort. John Rudolph's wife died about 1772 in Guilford (now Randolph) County, North Carolina, and he took a second wife in 1775, Mary Elizabeth Louck (b.1754 Randolph Co., NC). John Rudolph Waymire died on July 26, 1801 in Randolph County, North Carolina. Family tradition states that after their patriarch's death, opposition to slavery incited the entire remaining Waymire family to leave North Carolina and migrate to Ohio and Indiana where the family multiplied and spread out over the United States. Children of John Rudolph & Dorothea Elizabeth Loock Waymire Children of John Rudolph & Mary Elizabeth Louck Waymire Sources: Note: John Rudolph Waymire is an ancestor of the late Star Trek: Enterprise actress Kellie Waymire.
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