The biggest reason the Wagner family gets its own page is because
of the magnitude of people it encompasses. Barbara Anna (Wagner)
Delfelder was born in Saxe Weimar (Saxony) Germany and came to the
US about 1850 with her parents John and Mary (Gliem or Gleim) Wagner.
Also
immigrating
at
the same
time
were four of Mary's siblings and their families for a total of about
30 people. They only lost one child to illness along the way.
The families made their way up the Mississippi (and other rivers)
to land at Des Moines, Iowa. They lived in that area until 1857 when
most of the families purchased land near Arrington, Kansas in Atchison
County. In the late 1800s, the names Wagner and Gliem were well known
in the Atchison County farming community. Barbara Anna had dozen's
of first cousins in and around that area and there are still many
of their descendants there today.
