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West Unity Reporter ObituariesCompiled by Pamela Pattison Lash This collection of obituaries is gleaned from a book found in the Williams County Public Library in Bryan, Ohio. Some of the material is not dated. It would appear that this was a random collection and does not contain all obituaries from this newspaper. Researchers are encouraged to check this original source for further data. Females are cross-filed by maiden and married names. · denotes picture p131-132 Fern
Beatrice Acker d/o Douglass
& Anna Acker b West Unity
20 Sept 1899 d 24 Apr 1900
@7M 4D rel of M/M HC Jones p100-101
William M. Aldrich s/o Timothy & Mary Aldrich b Troy Twp, DeKalb Co, IN 29 Feb 1870 d 8 May 1903 sanitarium in Battle Creek, MI m 10 Oct 1901 Rebecca Hobbs of Van Wert, OH 1893 joined UB Church survived by wife, little dau, parents, 2sis, 3bro funeral at West Zion Church, Troy Twp, DeKalb Co, IN information from Mrs. Cecelia a. Hagaman p33 - Josiah
Alleman s/o John
Alleman b Dauphin Co,
PA 5 Feb 1830 moved 1831
w/parents to Stark Co, OH, then Richland Co, OH moved March
1865 to Wms Co d 19 Nov 1903
@73Y 9M 14D m1 16 Oct 1851
@21Y Sarah Gilmer, d 30 Sept 1874 11 ch - 5s/6d,
5d dec m2 15 Apr
1875, Julia Basback, d 10 Nov 1891 2ch - 1s/1d m3 2 July 1892
Mary Barnhart survived by
wife, 2sis, 3s, 5d, 22 gr-ch, 4gr-grand member of
Church of christ 42Y funeral Hamer
Presbyterian Church bur Franklin
Cem p211 Nell
Ratalczak Allen d c 19 July
(no year) @61Y husb Guy S.
Allen who survives along w/dau Patricia at home, bros PJ Ratalczak & James
of Stryker, sis Mrs. Agnes Goll & Marie Ratalczak of Stryker, Mrs. Dorothy
Manor of Archbold, Mrs. Florence Zigler of West Unity funeral
St. Peters Catholic Church at Archbold under Rev Francis Miller p195 Mrs
Altaffer incomplete
obit m Eugene
Altaffer 2ch George
3Y age and little son joined Bunker
Hill Reformed Church survived by
husb, parents, 3bros, 3sis funeral
Bunker Hill Church under Rev hawk bur
Shiffler Cem p169-170 Julia
A. Altman b 19 May 1822
Ulmet, Knsel Rheinpfalz, Bavaria, Germ came to US
1844 m John B
Altman 24 Nov 1846 Lycoming Co, PA, d Dec 1898 moved to
Summit Co, OH; Feb 1847 to Wms Co d 21 Mar 1902
at home funeral
Rev Henry Lenz of Goshen, IN with Rev Philpott survived by 2d
1s 8grch 1gr grch 2sis p174-175 Rebecca
Held Altman d home of son
AW Baer se of West Unity 17 Sept 1900 @69Y 1M 4D funeral
German ME Church under Rev Clark bur Floral
Grove Cem b Lebanon Co,
PA 13 Aug 1831 m Jacob
Altman; moved to Wms Co survived by
2s( AW Baer, HE Altman) 2bro 2sis member of
Evangelical Church; 4Y ago joined Lockport UB Church p160 Hiram
D. Alvord telegram of
death to bro HD Alvord d Camden,
Hillsdale Co, MI rheumatism @75Y funeral
home se of Camden under Rev Tuthill of ME Church bur ME
Church Cem b MA at foot
of Mt. Tom moved as
youngster to western NY; 1841 w/parents to NW OH went to MO; in
search of gold journeyed to CA p105 Florence
Aliene Anderson d cholera 24
Aug (no year) @8M wanting 5D funeral
attended by mother, 2sis of Mr. Anderson, Dr. and Mrs. Lamson of Bridgewater p214 Charles
L. Arnold * b Ft.
Wayne, IN July 1841 s/o Lucinda & George W. Arnold d 11 Apr
1935 home West Unity @73Y 9M 26D moved to
West Unity 1856 m Clara
Yesbera 14 Dec 1882 ch
George Adam of Dayton, Frank Leroy of West Unity, Charles Jr who d at birth;
also survived by sis Mrs. Flora Nye of Webb City, MO, bro Lee of Toledo, 7
grch member of
First Presbyterian Church lomg list
of funeral attendees p89-90 Henry
Arnold b Alsace,
France 15 Feb 1825 d 20 Dec 1896
@71Y 10M 5D came to
America 1840 to NY and then Stark Co, OH blacksmith
w/older bro George parents moved
to Wms Co and Henry & bro Christian came in 1845; bro-in-law Jacob Teems;
bought brewery in Bryan; then livery w/son Christian m1 Caroline
Jacobs 28 Mar 1848; d 15 Dec 1889 5 ch 3
survive: Christian Arnold, Mrs. Gus Lutz of Lima, Mrs. Fred Klein of Bryan m2 Mrs. Addie
Willis Oct 1893; she mother/o Mrs. Harry Keck funeral at
Universalist Church under Rev ED Jacobs p160 Charity
Elizabeth Emmeline Owen Augustine b 4 Jan 1865
NW Twp, Wms Co, OH c1869 parents
d; lived w/uncle Lewis Clark; 1878 lived w/uncle George Betts m 17 Jan 1885
Joseph Augustine lived for 5Y
German Twp, Fulton Co, OH d 15 Mar 1905
@40Y 2M 11D home in Lockport, Wms Co, OH survived by
husb, 2sis, 3bro funeral
German ME Church under Rev Money bur Floral
Grove Cem p92 see Margaret
Augustine Barkdoll p70 Frank
M. Ayers d home (no
date) lived in Rich
Hill, MO survived by
wife, son Wilber aged 5, daus Bertha 10Y, Grace 12Y funeral at
Presbyterian Church under Dr. JH Miller burial Green
Lawn Cem obit from Rich
Hill Review, Rich Hill, MO p29 - Mariamene
Warner Ayres d 17 Dec 1896
@88Y 27D, paralysis b Barnard Twp,
Windsor Co, VT, 18 Nov 1806 1836 moved to
Peru, Huron Co, OH m Samuel Ayres
Sr, 4 June 1843, Ganges, Richland Co, OH; he d 1873 1847 to
Huntington, IN; 1848 to West Unity 2 sons, George
Warner, d 4Y and Samuel C of West Unity survives; step son William member of
Universalist Church funeral from
Presbyterian Church under Rev Stockton bur Floral
Grove Cem p34 - Samuel
Clark Ayres d Sat morning
(no date - 1900), blood poisoning b Ganges,
Richland Co, OH, 14 Sept 1847 moved to
Huntington Co, IN when 6 weeks old; then farm now owned by Daniel McLaughlin,
3 May 1848; then 1872 West Unity now owned by JV Collamore m Mary E.
Vogelsong, 21 June 1868 only son
Warner C, survives with mother funeral ME
Church, Masonic rites; relatives as pallbearers: Robert Tucker, WJ Ayres, EJ
Muleare, UA Wynn, Chas Wilson, AW Vogelsong bro WC Ayres
of Kearney, NE, Mrs, Whitney & Miss Jess Swancy of Hudson, MI, WJ Ayres
& wife and UA Wynn & wife of Bryan, Robert Tucker & wife of
Toledo, EJ Mulcare & wife & son of Marion, OH, Mrs FK Young & son
of Van Wert, SW Yeagley & Mrs. Losetta Berlin of Waldron, MI, Charles
Wilson of Bowling Green p211 Warner
C. Ayres funeral
Beach Funeral Home d home West
Unity Thurs (no date) @69Y grfather
Samuel Ayres settled here 1848 m1897 Anna
Kissell funeral
services Rev Reitz & Rainsberger of Fayette bur
Floral Grove Cem p81 Asa
Badger aka Doc Badger d North
Yakima, WA 19 Jan 1903 of sciatic rheumatism letter to Mrs.
JH Fidler (his sis) from Mrs. PA Badger Sloat of WA s/o Robert
Badger who once owned Shipman farm sw of West Unity moved west, m
Miss Perkins of Pulaski, lived near Panora, IA survived by
wife, sis, bros member of KP
and Woodmen who took charge of funeral at ME Church survived by
William Badger, James Badger, Mrs. Sloat & son Robert p101 Nancy
Phinney Bailey b Hillsdale,
MI 29 Nov 1856 d home in
Ainger, OH 7 Nov 1904 @47Y 11M 9D mother of 2
sons by dec 1st husb Mr. Phinney m2 John Bailey
8 Dec 1896 funeral at
home under Rev George Long bur
Hillsdale, MI survived by
husb, mother, 2s p56 Nancy
Reynolds Baker b VA 11 Nov
1822 d 21 Oct 1900
@77Y 11M 10D m Peter O.
Baker 4 Nov 1840; he d 2 June 1894 9 ch 4s,
5d, all survive except one son d CW vet 1865 funeral at
home conducted by Rev CM Eberly p24 - John
Henry Baltosser b Andersonburg,
Perry Co, PA, 25 Nov 1831 d 27 Mar 1901
@ 69Y 4M 2D to Wms Co Nov
1856; bro-in-law HS Kunkle m 1 Mar 1859,
Charlotte F Caywood; then moved to Kunkle; she d 18 Apr 1892 lived w/dau
Mrs JB Eberly CW vet 68th
OVI 24 Dec 1863-end of war member of
German Reform Church; 1868 ME Church; 1892 Presbyterian at Kunkle; then few
years ago Beaver Creek Reform Church survived by
1s/1d/ 2 sis. 1 bro; not surviving him son William, and bro Samuel &
George bur Franklin
Cem, Fulton Co, OH P70-71,
103-104 William Baltosser b Perry Co, PA
28 Aug 1842 d 3 Sept 1902
@60Y 7D CW vet Co H
208th Regiment of PA Volunteer Infantry until 2 Sept 1865 moved here
spring 1866 as partner of HS Kunkle, his bro-in-law m1 Sara Fina
Young 4 July 1867, she d 17 Oct 1869, or Sept 1869 m2 Mary Jones
17 Oct 1875 2 ch of Mary
Jones, Charles & Fina plus 2 sis survive joined
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Blain, Perry Co, PA 16 May 1863 later joined
Presbyterian Church of Kunkle 7 Apr 1889 funeral by Rev
JP Stockton; Masonic rites bur Franklin
Cem p73 Josephus
Whitley Barger b Jefferson
Twp 4 Jan 1844 d home in
Montpelier 31 July 1903 @59Y 6M 27D m 4 Feb 1864
Hannah Thompson of Wms Co 2 ch 1 son
dec, 1 dau Mrs. Delia Cutshall moved to
Montpelier Oct 1884 funeral
from home under Rev TG Smith & Rev WW Landis bur
Riverside Cem, Montpelier p190 see Julia
A. Barger Kirk p92 Margaret
Augustine Barkdoll b Baden,
Germany 12 Aug 1820 d home near
West Unity 26 July 1902 @82Y 11M 14D came to US
1827 w/parents to Ringold, MD, then Mansfield, OH, lived in West Unity for
54Y; mother d when subject was young m Joseph
Barkdoll 1840, d more than 20Y ago (1818-1883) 10 ch 6s,
4d of whom 2d, 1s dec; has 2bro, 1s living; oldest 2s CW vets; son Frank
nursed her joined
Methodist Church; attended Fountain ME Church funeral at
Immanuel ME Church under Rev EG Brumbaugh & Rev WS Philpott (bur
Floral Grove Cem, West Unity) p200 Peter
Barkdoll b Ringold,
Washington Co, MD 8 Apr 1836 s/o George
& Susanna Barkdoll moved
w/parents to Richland Co, OH 1837 m Mercy
Steward 1856 5ch 2s 3d moved to Wms
Co fall 1863 to West Unity member of ME
Church 1894 survived by
wife, sons Carey of West Unity, George, dau Mrs. Clara Crabbs of Seneca Co,
OH, Mrs. Lizzie Oberlin of Leatherwood, 9grch, 1sis Mrs. Mary Schambs of
Mansfield, 1bro Dr George Barkdoll of Toledo d 20 Feb 1907
@70Y 10M 12D funeral
home under Rev Hartman & Money bur Floral
Grove Cem list of
out-of-towners p102 see Ellen
Barkley Rittenhouse p154-155
see Lavina Barnes Sanford p74 Eve
Vicker Barnhart b Wayne Co, OH
5 Aug 1823 d home of son
Frank 22 Dec 1901 @78Y 4M 17D m A. Barnhart
1845 5 ch 3s,
2d of whom 2s, 1d dec along with husb lived at home
near Kunkle until 9 Jan 1892 when she moved to son Franks home in Hamilton,
Steuben Co, IN 1862 converted
to German Reformed Church funeral at
sons home and Beaver German Reformed Church under Rev JP Stockton bur in cem
near church p43-44 - Margaret
Barnhart d near
Pioneer, OH 20 Sept 1901 @81Y 11M 19D b Wayne Co, OH
1 Oct 1819 m 1842 John
Barnhart, Richland Co, OH, dec ch - 4s/3d;
six survive; came to Wms Co 1863 member of
Madison Church of God of Bethel bur Floral
Grove, Pioneer under Rev JF Slough p90-91 see
Eliza Barr Held p61 John
Barr d 29 Apr 1904
@ 68Y 6M 3D home near Beaver Creek Church b near
Olivesburg, OH 26 Oct 1835 m Lydia Bly 7
Feb 1861 in Richland Co, OH where 3 ch b Ida Belle, d 6M, William, Jennie
(Mrs. Wasnich); 2 gr-ch Willie and Alma Wasnich also survived
by 2 sis (1 in Shelby, OH; 1 in Clare Co, MI), 1 bro near Greenwich, OH moved to Van
Wert, OH 1873; 1879 to Wms Co funeral from
Beaver Creek Church with Rev Chenot officiating bur - Floral
Grove Cem, West Unity p93 see Matilda
Barr Keith Fisher p55 Etta
Hall Barrett b 13 Feb 1870
Evansport, Defiance Co, OH d 15 Dec 1902
@32Y 9M 22D m Daniel E.
Barrett 1887; her mother d 1880 lived in
Kunkle ch 3s, 2d,
all survive funeral at UB
Church in Kunkle bur Barrett
Cem p163 Jacob
Lyum Bates s/o Dr.
Charles Bates & Sarah Reeves b Columbia,
OH 4 Mar 1871 d 28 May
1903 @32Y 2M 25D survived by
mother, 2bro funeral
ME Church of Columbia under Rev Carey of Edon bur
Columbia Cem p63 John
Bavin s/o John and
Ann Bavin b Sleaford,
Lincolnshire, Eng 30 Jan 1828 d home of dau
Mrs. Simon Gelger, Millcreek Twp 16 May 1905 @79Y 3M 16D came to
America 1852 to NY; 1854 to OH m 1860 Lydia
Ann Loutsenhizer, d 8 Oct 1899 4 ch 1s/3d
survive funeral from
Immanuel Church conducted by Rev JP Stockton burial Floral
Grove Cem p23 - Samuel
Bryant Baxter b Franklin
Twp, Fulton Co, OH, 5 May 1850 d 28 Feb 1899
@48Y 9M 23D one of 9
children; a bank partner w/bro Daniel in Fayette, OH m 5 Aug 1880,
Mrs. Sarah Morrison 1890 member of
Christian church under Dr. SM Cook survived by
wife, aged mother, dau Edith, step dau Lena, 3 sis, 3 bro bur Fairview
Cem; Fayette Record obit p56-57 David
Beach * b near Coburn
Station, Lycoming Co, PA 21 Feb 1843 d no data 7th
of 10 children, 5 of whom survive 3sis/2 bro; 2 sis 1 bro live in Lycoming
Co, PA 1851 father
died in Lycoming Co, PA 1860
apprenticed as wagonmaker at Warrensville, Lycoming Co, PA moved to Wms
Co 1 Jan 1863 to work for John Eyer; then partnered with Abner Stoner m 24 May 1866
Elizabeth Smith 11 ch 5s,
6d those who are dec Georgie, Nettie, Nora, bertha, Minnie member of
German ME Church Feb 1872 then to ME Church in West Unity 1895 funeral from
ME Church under Rev WS Philpott, WC Coslet, JP Stockton bur Floral
Grove Cem, West Unity p15
- Samuel Beard b. 29 Jan
1838, Washington Co, MD d. 18 Oct 1903
@65Y 8M 20D, near Pioneer; Bright's disease to Seneca Co,
OH when 14Y w/parents; 5-6Y later here near Montpelier; few yrs ago bought
farm near Pioneer m. Melissa A.
Davis, 13 Dec 1864 children - 5:
2s/3d survived by
wife, 1s, 2d, 3grand, 3bro, 1 sis member of
Evangelical Lutheran Church 1875 funeral from
Dunker church under Rev West bur Pioneer
Cem p91 Dora
A. Rolland Beaty d. home West
Unity 8 July 1902 @26Y 11M 13D childbirth b 25 July 1875
se of West Unity m 11 Feb 1897
JA Beaty 3 ch son
4Y, dau 2Y, son 6D funeral at
Emanuel ME Church under Rev FM Money bur Floral
Grove Cem traveling
distance for funeral Alfred Beaty & wife, Lemuel Beaty, Mrs. Laura
Beaty-Borton of South Have, MI; Mrs. Ada Thomas of Adrian, MI, aunt of dec,
cousins Willis Cunning & wife of Bryan p107, 109 Adam
Lorenzo Beatty b Wms Co 1 Dec
1852 d heart
trouble at home near Grinnell, IA 15 Oct 1901 @48Y 10M 14D m 31 Aug 1879
Sarah S. Gaddis moved to IA
1881 4 ch 1 dec member of UB
Church 1885 survived by
wife, 3 ch funeral
conducted by Rev AT Wright bur
Hickory Grove Cem p96 Addie
Myers Beatty b Chicago, IL
22 Aug 1858 m Chas. Beatty
8 June 1890 mother of 2
little girls d at 41Y 8D funeral on 10
Aug 1900 under CM Eberly at her home p54 George
Beatty * b Berks Co, PA
8 Dec 1809 d home near
West Unity 13 June 1900 @90Y 6M 5D m Jane Wiser,
15 Mar 1838 9 ch 5s/4d
with 4 of them dec. survived by
almost sightless wife, 4d, 1s, 12 gr-ch, 1 sis member of
Disciples Church funeral at ME
Church by Rev WC Coslet bur Floral
Grove Cem of West Unity moved to Brady
Twp 1834 but returned briefly to Stark Co, OH to marry p201 Martha
Dean Bender b Stark Co,
OH 17 Mar 1820 d home of
son Reading Twp, Hillsdale Co, MI (no dates) @86Y 10M 29D d/o Thomas
& Sarah Dean moved 1831 West Liberty, Richland Co, OH m 1844 John
Bender, d 16 Nov 1886 10ch
4dec; living Mrs. Wm Nill of Alvordton, Mrs. David Miller of Pioneer, Mrs. OL
Gamber of Toledo, Mrs. LE Jacoby of Hamer, Mrs. William Strayer of Morenci,
MI, WA Bender of Allen, MI; bro CK Dean of Alvordton bur
Olive Branch Cem under Rev Stockton p144 Jermina
Partee Benner b Defiance Co,
OH 9 Apr 1835 m George W.
Benner 14 Aug 1856 5 ch 3s,
2d settled in
Tiffin Twp, then Washington Twp, Defiance Co member of
United Brethren Church; 15Y ago joined Prairie Creek class of UB d 23 Dec 1902
@67Y 8M 14D survived by
husb, 5ch, 24 grch funeral
Bethel Church at Ney under Rev Lilly & Millere p173, 177 Judge
S. S. Bigelow b Ticonderoga,
NY 23 Feb 1835 d Farmer, OH
29 May 1903 @68Y 3M 6D spring 1839
w/parents to NW Ohio to Farmer Twp (then Wms Co) m 16 Aug 1855
Roby N, Chapman ch 2s (AL
of Bryan, CC of Farmer), 1d (Mrs. AM Blosser of Farmer) who survive w/widowed
mother; they had 3s 2d 1880 went to
Aspen, CO w/mining concern spring 1892
Police Judge & City Magistrate of Aspen until Mar 1903 moved to Bryan
Apr 1903 and then to Farmer funeral
Union Church of Farmer under Rev Ashworth bur Farmer
Cem p58-59 see
Barbara Bilistine Whetro p140 William
Billings d home of son
Frank Billings, publisher of Reformer of Butler, KY (no date) @81Y June 1857
brought by air Line Railroad from Middleburg Station to Bryan CW vet went to live
w/son a few years ago p196-197
see Sarah Ann Billman Felger p46-47 see
Margaret Billow Neichter p9 see Mary
Ann Bistline-Laser p152 Eliza
Jane Roseborough Blydenburg d/o JW &
Rebecca C. Roseborough b near Canton,
OH 12 May 1853 d 29 May 1903
@50Y 17D Eldora, IA survived by
husb, father, 3sis moved to
Fulton Co w/parents Oct 1855 attended
Oberlin College & Delaware University; teacher joined
w/parents ME Church in Burlington, OH fall 1866 lived in Bryan
until 1902 when moved to Eldora, Harden Co, IA m ES
Blydenburg 9 Oct 1902 funeral
fathers home in Burlington under Rev Coslet & Lucy bur
cemetery on bank of Bean Creek p114, 173
see Arminda Bohner Landaw Van Horn p53 see Catherine
Bohner Mohr p130 131
Lemuel M Boothman d 22 Oct 1901
home in Bryan b Trumbull Co,
OH 17 Dec 1818 m 9 Apr 1844
Melisendra Hart, survives him 1843 moved to
Jefferson Twp; 1873 moved to Bryan great friend
of Wms Co resident Alexander Bodel, dec p117 Flo
Arwilda Clementine Borton youngest d/o
Wendell & Lettie Borton b 3 Apr 1897 d 31 Jan 1900
@2Y 9M 27D survived by
parents, 2bro, 1sis funeral at
home under Rev Helms of Fayette bur
Franklin Cem p45-46 - John
Borton, Jr b Millcreek
Twp, Wms Co, OH 27 Sept 1874 d home 22 Aug
1899 @24Y 10M 26D baptized Aug
1893 Franklin ME Church m 30 Sept 1894
Dora Gehring funeral at ME
Church 23 Aug 1899 under Rev Money & JA Lucy bur Franklin
Cem p153, 169 Mary
G. Butcher Borton Borton d/o Samuel
Borton & Bashaba Butcher b
Philadelphia, PA 6th month 5th day 1816 (15 June 1816) d home of dau
Mrs NS Leonard of Franklin Twp, Fulton Co, OH 2nd month 7th
day 1899 (7 Feb 1899) @82Y 8M 2D m1 1834
Bethuel Borton; moved to OH 1836; he d 1847 ch 2s 3d m2 Nathan
Borton 12th month 21st day 1850; he d 1889 ch 4d;
total of 9ch 7 survive Quaker; ruling
elder for many years funeral
Franklin ME Church under Rev Stockton & Montgomery bur
Friends Cem p179-183
see Japheth Leeds Prickitt & Phoebe S. Borton Prickitt * p101 Samuel
C. Borton s/o Bethuel
& Rebecca Borton b NJ 2nd
day Jan 1824 d home of son
BB Borton 18 Sept 1902 @78Y 8M 16D funeral at
Franklin ME Church under Rev Money Gordon bur
Friends Cem 16Y of age
came to Fulton Co, OH w/bro Nathan m Sarah Jane
Brown d/o Benjamin & Ruth Brown 10 ch
survived by 1s 3d p48 see Leah
Rebecca Bowman Hutchison p141-142
Walter H Boyer switchman for
Paris Marquette RR d accident at
rr at Muskegon, MI @30Y (no date) enlisted in
army 1891 survived by
wife, 2Y old son, parents M/M Enos Boyer, bro Charles, 1sis p77 see Mary
Alwilda Bradrick Cook p97-98 Paul
Allen Bradrick * d home in West
Unity, OH 2 Oct 1901 @77Y 5M 23D b Belmont Co,
OH 9 Apr 1824, 4th of 9 ch of Paul &
Sarah Bradrick, Quakers father moved
family to Richland Co, OH Oct 1833 moved to Wms
Co Oct 1853, lived w/bro Isaac m 20 June 1858
Louisa Weaver 5s
surviving sons George, Joseph, Zira funeral German
ME Church under Rev Money bur Floral
Grove Cem p39-40 see
Rebecca Bradrick Green p161 Conrad
Brandeberry b Columbiana
Co, OH 24 Aug 1818 d home
Montpelier 6 Oct 1902 @84Y 1M 12D survived by
wife, 7ch, 15grch, 3 gr grch 1842 joined
United Brethren church funeral UB
Church in Montpelier under Rev wm Clark bur
Heritage Cem p154 Alice
Gaskill Brannan b Columbiana
Co, OH 13 Dec 1832 d 2 Dec 1898
at home moved
w/parents to Superior Twp 1852 m 30 Dec 1852,
Martin Brannan 8 ch 6s
2d; Maggie oldest dau m Andrew Swaney 25 Dec 1879, lives in Pulaski; Retta
youngest dau m Charlies Wineland 17 Jan 1895 lives in Bryan OW H oldest
son of Wauneta, Nebraska; John W of Huley, MO, Daniel of Palisade, Neb,
Joseph, James, Homer all live on fathers farm had 18 grch,
17 survive; 3sis, 4bro 2bro and Mrs Johnson, oldest sis, survive joined ME
Church, later West Bethesda Presbyterian Church funeral ME
Church in Pulaski under Rev Miller bur
Shiffler Cem p97 Cora
Brannan d 16 May (no
year) @38Y 20D lived in
Toledo, OH survived by
parents, 2bro Chester W Brannan of Toledo, Harmon E Brannan of Freedom, IL p108-109 Martin
Brannan b Columbiana
Co, OH 2 Sept 1824 d home of son
James Brannan near West Unity 8 Feb 1905 @80Y 5M 6D came to Wms Co
1844 w/mother & 2bro, John W. Brannan d 1859, Francis Brannan of Central
City, NE wo w/his dau Louisa attended funeral m Alice
Gaskill 30 Dec 1852, dec 2 Dec 1898 2d 6s 3s
reside in West, son Daniel of Palasade, NE attended funeral; dau Mrs. Betta
Wineland ill joined West
Bethesda Presbyterian Church 1849 where funeral conducted by Rev Stockton bur
Shiffler Cem p57-58 see
Anna Brown Newcomer p178 Charles
N. Brown d 16 July 1898
@32Y memorial poem
by mother & aunt p25 - John
Thompson Brown b Stark Co, OH
21 Oct 1833 d home on
Jonesville St, Montpelier, 14 Oct 1901 @67Y 11M 23D early age
moved to Wms Co w/parents m1 Margaret
Lesnet, d 3 Oct 1893 8 children =
living 4s/3d m2 Irene C.
Neil, 17 Apr 1894 Vet of CW 47th
OVI Co H; Hiram Louden Post GAR;
US pension agent bur Riverside
Cem, Montpelier p108,162 Mary
Araminta Rosenborugh Brown d home New
Haven, Huron Co, OH 20 Sept 1902 dropsy @71Y 3M 22D only dau of
John Rosenborough & Jane Ewing b 28 May 1831
Canaan Twp, Wayne Co, OH near Burbank m Canton, OH
Dr. Thomas E. Brown Mar 1854, d 1864 Lucas Co, IA 4ch 2s 2d,
sons dec Benton Ewing, Thomas Eugene; dau survive Alice Janetta of New Haven,
OH, Mrs. Adelia Araminta McClelland of Portland, MI funeral
New Haven ME Church under Rev SL Stewart of Clyde, OH survived by
2dau, 1bro of Elmira bur Green
Lawn Cem, Plymouth, OH p109 see Mary
Harrington Brown Young p10 - John
A. Bryner s/o John &
Lucinda Bryner b. Hancock Co,
OH, 17 Feb 1853 d. 2 Oct 1901
@48Y 7M 15D c1859 to Wms
Co with parents m Ida Ault, 1
Nov 1880 3 sons member of
United Brethren Church under Rev SH Yager survived by
wife, 3 sons, 2 brothers, 2 sisters bur Riverside
Cem p30 see Emma
Buck Maneval p149-150 JH
Burgoyne d 24 Oct 1901
or 1904 home of dau-in-law Mrs. Sarah Burgoyne near Bowling Green, KY @88Y 7M
23D b Lingeltown,
PA 1 Mar 1816 1829 moved
w/parents to Richland Co, OH where lived until spring 1849 m Susan M.
Dennings of Stark Co, OH; then moved to Wms Co; Susan d 15Y ago bur
Shiffler Cem funeral at
Bunker Hill Church by Rev Frank Money p86, 87 Emery
P. Burkholder nephew of W.
Ervin d home north
of Kunkle 11 Mar 1902 @25Y 8M 25D b near
Gardner, Grundy Co, IL 14 June 1876 7th
of 8 ch; father d 1879, a Menonite, and mother moved to her fathers farm
near West Unity; 1880 mother & sis Ida d taken in w/sis
Lula by uncle & aunt Joseph & Catherine Burkholder formed
partnership w/bro-in-law William Krisher near Kunkle uncle Joseph
Burkholder, Menonite minister funeral at
Presbyterian church near Kunkle under Rev JP Stockton & Rev Turner of UB
Church bur Floral
Grove Cem, West Unity p205 Nancy
Greek Burkholder b Lancaster
Co, PA 26 Feb 1842 d home
Jefferson Twp 10 Feb 1907 @64Y 11M 16D survived by
husb, 3ch, 9grch, 2sis Mary J Throne, Maggie A Oxenger, 6bro John Greek of
Tiffin, OH, George of Nezperce, ID, Joseph Wesley, Elias, William near Kunkle moved to
Richland Co, OH as infant w/parents, then to Hancock Co, OH; 1854 moved to
Madison Twp, Wms Co m Abraham
Burkholder 29 Nov 1864 4ch
Ella Eberly (David), Frederick, Joseph, Fannie (dec on 21 Dec 1882 @6Y 7M 28D) p169 Ann
Dunlap Burns d home of dau
Mrs Robert Scott 6 Feb 1899 @75Y 8M 20D b near Salem,
OH 16 May 1823 m Robert L.
Burns, d 15 Dec 1880 5ch all
survive except 1dau, Mrs. JH Fenimore, d 1892 joine Baptist
Church 1844 survived also
by 13 grch, 5gr grch, 3bro, 2sis funeral
Pleasant Grove UB Church under Rev WW Landis bur
Shiffler Cem p153, 169
see Mary G. Butcher Borton Borton p116-117 Jane
Ann Gordanier Butts b Montgomery
Co, NY 29 June 1827 d home of son
AL Butts in Kunkle, OH 23 Aug 1902 @75Y 1M 24D came to Lucas
Co, OH 1832 m 12 Sept 1847
William B. butts 6 ch 1d 5s husb b 14 Jan
1822, d 3 Oct 1879 @57Y 8M 19D funeral at
sons home under Rev WF Kring of West Unity remains taken
to Sylvania, OH; services at ME Church under Rev Keller p12 - Andrew
Jackson Cain d. 1 Jan 1901
@63Y 11M 4D, West Unity, stroke b. Scipioville,
Cayuga Co, NY, 26 Jan 1837 m1 Nancy J.
Merryfield, 1853; she d. 1885 moved to
Wisconsin 1866; 1871 to West Unity m2 Lucy
Loveless, 1886 ch - 1s/1d -
dau Mrs. Mandana Merryfield of Chicago survived by
wife, children, 3 brothers &1 sis in NY member of ME
Church under Rev FM Money bur Floral
Grove Cem p23-24 - Smith
Calvin d Bryan, OH of
paralysis (no date) b Portage Co,
OH, 21 Dec 1829 shoemaker to
Wms Co 1850; 1863 to Center Twp m1 26 Aug
1862, Mary M Miller, d 12 Oct 1868 m2 19 Sept
1869, Elizabeth Bush, d 28 Aug 1880 3 children m3 2 June
1882, Jane Bush, survives p29 - Dr.
JG Cameron b Steuben Co,
IN, 15 Jan 1844 d 21 Feb 1899,
paralysis m Hannah Webb,
6 Feb 1868, Decatur, IL 3 children -
Edna, Blanche, Beulah college at
Hillsdale, MI; teacher; medical college at Cincinnati, Rush Medical College of
Chicago; oldest professional in Edon p160-161 Dr.
John Steyer Cameron d home
Evansport, OH heart failure 9 Oct 1902 s/o John
Cameron & Lydia Steyer b Tiffin Twp,
Defiance Co, OH 30 Jan 1836 1855 studied
medicine vet CW Co D 38th
OVI of Defiance Co m 26 Aug 1858
Elizabeth Snider 7ch all
survive w/wife: Edwin R of Kansas City, MO, Mrs. Ella Ferris of Denver, CO,
James of Kansas City, MO, John of Evansport, Mrs. Jennie Ray of Denver, CO,
Donald & Grace at home p164 Amanda
Cassel memorial poem
by M A C, no data but appears to have been married p190 Mr
Charpiot first part of
obit missing wife d 30 June
1876 m2 26 Nov 1876
Louise Charpiot, 2nd cousin dau Alice m
Charles P. Grisier of Wauseon; his bro Emile lives in Toledo member of
Lutheran Church funeral
home in Stryker under Rev Delepine long list of
out-of-town attendees p16 - Sarah
Ann Hall Churchman d/o Jacob and
Susanna Hall - one of 8bro/2 sis b Green Co,
OH, 24 Feb 1828 moved
w/parents to Tiffin Twp 1831 along Bean Creek w/6 other families d. 7 Nov 1901
@73Y 8M 13D m. William
Churchman, 21 Oct 1847 7 ch - 6s/1d survived by
husband, 3s, 12 grand, 1gr-grand, 4 bro funeral at UB
Church under Rev WE Fuller bur Evansport
Cem p118-119 Fred
Forest Clark 5th
of 8 ch of M/M CM Clark b 26 June 1880 d 11 Jan 1903
@22Y 6M 15D tuberculosis joined Oak
Grove ME Church funeral at
home under JA Snyder p16 see Mary
Clark Wheeler p45 - Ora
Clark b Richland Co,
OH 17 Jan 1880 d home of
parents 11 Dec 1900 @20Y 10M 24D funeral at
Bethel under Rev JW Keiser p77 see Rosella
Clark Stoner p195-196 Anna
Mary Gerver Clay b York Co, PA
1 Apr 1828 moved
w/parents to Richland Co, OH; 1848 to Wms Co w/parents m George Clay
June 1863; he dec 3ch Rev NJ
Clay of Leo, IN, Elmer E, dau d infancy d 27 June 1906
@78Y 2M 26D joined
Methodist Church then later to Evangelical Church survived by 2s
3grch 9 step-ch 24 step grch 2bro 2sis funeral
Hamer Church under Rev McDivitt bur
Franklin Cem p138-139 Henry
Clay b Richland Co,
OH 18 Dec 1840 moved to Wms
Co 1846 w/parents m 24 Mar 1864 CW vet Co C 38th
OVI d Sacramento,
CA 18 May 1902 @62Y 5M survived by
wife, 3s, 1d, 5bro, 2sis funeral at ME
Church under Rev Stockton & Money p142 see Ella
May Cline Laser p36-37 - Andrew
J. Clingaman b 10 June
1838, Seneca Co, OH d 9June 1902
@63Y 11M 29D, crushed by timber came to Fulton
Co, OH c1851 w/parents m1 Mrs.
Johnson, 1861; d leaving infant dau m2 Catharine
Rodgers, 1865 10 children,
survived by 9 plus their mother & 15 grandch, 2bros, 3 sis joined ME
Church, Burlington, OH under Rev Frank Money, 1892 CW vet Co D
195th OVI funeral at
Burlington, 11 June under Rev WC Coslet, Mr. Richner bur in cem on
banks of Tiffin River p186 Lizzie
Sturgis Collamore b 12 Sept 1879 d 16 Oct 1906
@27Y 1M 4D most of life
at home Hudson, MI m TH Collamore
9 Oct 1904 joined ME
Church of Hudson, later to this place survived by
husb, mother Mrs AL Sturgis, bro Charles E Sturgis funeral ME
Church under Rev Hill, Hawk, Stockton, Money bur- Shiffler
Cem p 130 Alta
Edith Colon d home of
parents se of West Unity; oldest dau of CW Colon, 26 Jan 1903 @14Y 6M 7D consumption
for 1Y funeral
German ME Church under Rev Money bur Floral
Grove Cem p39 - Moses
Colon b Chittendon
Co, VT 1 Mar 1818 d West Unity
31 Jan 1902 @83Y 11M m1 Aurilla
Rena 1843, later she d ch - 2s/4d
with 2s/2d dec came to West
Unity aft wife's death c1858 m2 Mrs. Maria
Munson 27 Mar 1860 survived by
wife and daus Mrs. Sarah J King of Watertown, NY & Mrs. Mary Munson of
West Unity, several grch funeral
conducted by Rev Coslet at home but member of ME Church bur Floral
Grove Cem Republican,
temperance advocate p20, 71 - Amelia
Combs b Canada, 8
Aug 1808 d 10 June 1902
at home of son WW Combs, W. Unity, @93Y 10M 2D to OH
w/parents 1819; m Benjamin F. Combs 1828 11 child - 5
remain 1867
Evangelical Church member funeral at ME
Church under Rev Kring & Money bur Floral
Grove, 13 July 1902 p43/45 - Barret
Elias Conkling b Horsehead,
PA 10 Feb 1836 d home near
Shephard, MI 18 Mar 1900 lived first 8Y
Seneca Falls, NY where mother d; went to grandpar M/M Elias Barrett of Union
Co, PA came to Wms Co
1864 enlisted1861
Co H 38th OVI; wounded in left hand; dischared 1865 moved here
w/sis; 2 terms as county recorder; moved 1883 to Isabella Co, MI p52-53 Martha
Lois Shepardson Connell b Lenawee Co,
MI 5 Mar 1838 m James
Connell 28 Mar 1860 d 26 Sept 1900
@62Y 6M 21D of stroke sec ch born to
fam of 6, all girls: Mrs. DC Baxter of Bryan, Sophia Shepardson of Tecumseh,
MI, Mrs. Minerva Koon of Medina, MI, Mrs. Elvira Briggs of Harper, KS, Mrs.
Laura Seitz of Anthony, KS, all survive plus younger half-bro Newell K.
Shepardson of Toledo, OH 3 ch Lewis
E and Edwin E of Fayette, OH, and Clare V of Decatur, IN lived in West
Unity while husb in army for 3 yrs, lived 3 yrs in Fayette, 4 yrs in Wauseon
whil husb Sheriff of Fulton Co, rest of time in Wms Co p175 Elizabeth
Greek Connolly eldest dau of
Frederick & Martha Greek b Lancaster
Co, PA 22 July 1838 d home of
youngest dau Mrs. Fred Wiley of Montpelier 19 Jan 1905 @66Y 5M 27D 1845 came
w/parents to Richland Co, OH; 1848 Hancock Co; 1854 to Wms Co m James
Connolly 5 Mar 1855, d 8 Nov 1885 joined
Presbyterian Church in West Unity but later to Kunkle Church 14ch 2 d
infancy 3 d later young adults funeral
Kunkle Presbyterian Church under Rev Stockton and Rittenhouse pallbearers
included 4 bro 2 bro-in-law survived by 9
ch 29 gr ch& gr grch bur Kunkle
Cem p18 - Daniel
Cook * b. Lehigh Co,
PA, 20 Aug 1820 age of 12
moved to Wayne Co, OH w/parents age 21 to Knox
Co, OH where m. Caroline Keller, 19 Oct 1854 dau Mrs. Ella
Stahl born there; then moved to Fulton Co, OH where dau Mrs. Jennie Shaffer
born; moved to Missouri where son Charles born; moved to farm w. of Pulaski
for 10 years; moved to farm e. of Pulaski 10 children -
7d/3s: Charles, OD, Mrs. Jennie Shaffer, Mrs. Alma Altaffer, all of Pulaski;
Mrs. Ella Stahl of Port Huron, MI, Mrs. Josie Barrier of Kunkle, Mrs. Orpha
Christy of Evansport, Sherman of W. Unity, Mrs. Minnie McGrew formerly of
Huron, MI, Jennie Cook of Angola, IN bur Shiffler
Cem p10-11 - Frank
P. Cook b. near West
Unity, 21 Nov 1852, one of the Cook triplets d. 23 Jan 1899
@46Y 2M 2D brothers
John Cook & Theodore Cook, dec; sis Ada Fyke, only remaining
triplet; sis Hannah Gilbert m. 27 Dec
1883, Alwilda Bradrick, dec 2 dau -
Rebecca & Theodosia member of ME
Church, West Unity p68 Henry
Cook b Lehigh Co,
PA 20 Dec 1832 d home near
West Unity 15 May 1902 @69Y 4M 25D moved to Wms
Co 1854 m 15 Oct 1856
Catherine Holtzberg 10 ch 5s,
5d joined
Reformed Church 20Y ago enlisted Co H
197th OVI 1865 end of CW survived by
wife, 4s, 3d, 4 bro, 3 sis bur Beaver
Creek Cem funeral by Rev
A. Klinger p77 Mary
Alwilda Bradrick Cook d/o Isaac
&Lucinda A. Bradrick b Wms Co 22
Apr 1857 d 13 May 1894
@37Y 21D m Frank P.
Cook 27 Dec 1883 joined ME
Church under Rev John Colgan/baptized 13
June 1873 funeral from
home with Rev AF Ayres bur Floral
Grove Cem p99 William
Cook b Holmes Co,
OH near Fredericksburg 7 Mar 1842 d home in West
Unity 4 May 1906 @64Y 1M 27D moved to Wayne
Co, OH w/parents; later to Wms Co, OH CW vet 1862 M 1 jan 1871
Rosanna Critchfield 5 ch 4s 1d 1878 joined
Beaver Creek Church then Reformed Church in Pulaski survived by
wife, 5 ch, 4 sis & bros funeral at
Bunker Hill Reformed Church under Rev JF Hawk, Stockton, Hill, Coslet bur
Shiffler Cem p28 - Elizabeth
Cronrath Spotts Cooper wid of late
Dr. JC Cooper; d/o Daniel & Barbara Cronrath d residence at
Kelly Cross Roads, PA, 19 Sept 1902 @77Y 9M 28D m1 Samuel
Spotts, 25 Mar 1851; d 21 May 1864 m2 30 Sept
1869, Dr. JC Cooper, d 11 Mar 1895 survived by
son, Charles C funeral White
Drive Lutheran Church bur White Deer
Church Cem p152 see Phoebe
A. Crabbs Grimes p67-68 Sammy
Crawford s/o GA &
Margaret Crawford b Madison Twp
20 Apr 1886 d 7 Oct 1900
@14Y 5M 17D mother d 1890;
new mother Cassie Huffman joined
Presbyterian Church Feb 1896 funeral at
home on North Main St by Rev WJ Geriach, Waterville, OH survived by
father, mother, 1 sis Lesta bur beside
mother at West Franklin Cem p28 see Elizabeth
Cronrath Spotts Cooper p125 Mary
Emma Stewart Crow b Jefferson
Twp 16 Oct 1855 d home near
Montpelier 1 Dec 1902 @47Y 1M 15D survived by
husb, 1s, 1d, aged father, 1bro, 1 sis member of
Pleasant Ridge UB Church of Montpelier funeral by Rev
William Clark, Wm Hagaman at Pleasant Ridge Church bur
Shiffler Cem p56 Rebecca
A. Holden Crow d/o Rev PB and
Nancy Holden b Clarksburg,
VA 26 Oct 1825 m Jason Crow
at home of parents in Kalida, OH 26 June 1844 moved to
Jefferson Twp, Wms Co, OH until summer of 1877 when moved to Hillsdale, MI;
1882 returned to Jefferson Twp; 1886 moved to Bryan d. 12 July
1899 Bryan, OH @73Y 8M 12D 6 ch, 5
survive Mrs. ML Mason, Pearson Crow of Bryan, Jason N of Jefferson Twp,
John A of Mitchell, SD, Mr. William Eisenman of Roann, IN funeral at
home by Rev TL Wiltsee member of ME
Church p146 Alfred
Crum b Olivesburg,
Richland Co, OH 15 June 1824 d Wednesday
(no date) @78Y 11M 12D m 15 June 1848
Clarissa Chapman, d 20 Nov 1898 @73Y 5M 5D 7ch 2s, 5d
Emma, b 27 Mar 1849, w/o Rev B. Baldwin of Montpelier; Hattie B b 25 Nov
1850, w/o John Rings & d 10 Mar 1874; Morrison H b1852 of St. Louis, MI;
Calista d infancy; Loren V b1858 of Garden Plains, KS; Mary b July 1862 w/o
Willis Opdycke of Melvern, KS; Belle b Sept 1866 w/o Jos. Reed member of UB
Church 1851 moved to
Crown Point, Lake Co, IN moved Apr 1852
to north of Hamer; later d home of dau in Montpelier CW vet Co C
111th OVI funeral
Hamer Presbyterian Church under Rev Stockton p166-167 Annette
Ely Crum b 3 Feb 1838
Brady Twp m Lewis H.
Crum 13 May 1858 lived on farm
near Hamer; moved 1876 to home 1 mile east of West Unity 9ch 3s 6d;
1s 2d dec survived by
husb, 6ch, 3grch 1870 joined
Franklin ME Church w/husb; 1880 transferred to ME Church West Unity d 4 Sept 1898
@60Y 7M 1D at home funeral
home under Rev Money, Roberts, Stockton bur
Franklin Cem p17 - Jennie
McGraw Culbertson b. Reeding,
Wayne Co, OH, 28 Sept 1854 d. Bryan, OH,
4 Aug 1904 came to West
Unity when child, few years after father died m. WF
Culbertson, 25 April 1878, Bryan, OH 11 children, 2
of whom dec as infants survived by
husband, 6s,3d, 1 bro, 1 half-bro, 1 half-sis, moth-in-law bur Shiffler
Cem by side of her parents and infant children p27 see Mary
Ann Cummins Hollington p164 Henry
F. Dailey b Fulton Co,
OH 1 May 1847 d home east of
Stryker 15 Nov 1901 @54Y 6M 14D member of ME
Church wife & 1
ch dec survived by
6ch 4d 2s funeral
German ME Church, West Unity bur Floral
Grove Cem p125 Rufus
Thomas Darby b Montgomery
Co, MD 13 May 1831 d home of dau
Mrs. Alvertis Hendricks at Kunkle 24 Dec 1902 @71Y 7M 11D m Emily F.
Matthews 10 Apr 1862, d 16 Jan 1876 6ch
Francis dec infant, Clarence V d 20 Aug 1890 @21Y, 1s, 3d, 5grch, 1bro, 2sis
survive; son Frank M of Toledo and youngest dau Blanche of Wash DC unable to
attend funeral moved near
Bryan 1878 joined Baptist
Church 1896 funeral at
home/dau Mrs. Hendricks under Rev Stockton bur Bryan
Cem p41-42 William
Eli Davidson b Lisbon,
Columbiana C. OH 9 July 1828 d 30 July 1903
@ 75Y 21D m1 Sarah C.
Morrison, 18 Apr 1850 Columbiana Co, OH; d 24 Oct 1864 child - Frank
E of West Unity moved to
Findlay, OH 1853; winter 1853 w/parents Mr & Mrs JP Davidson, bro Edward
& John, adopted bro Wm C. Connell, sis Mrs DC Hamilton & husband came
to West Unity 3 Jan 1854 by wagon to Bonner farm owned by George Rings; later
moved to West Unity fall 1860 summer 1862
enlisted Co C 100th OVI, served 3 years m2 Sarah
Ferris 11 Oct 1867 child - Anna L funeral from
residence under Rev Philpott & Stockton bur Floral
Grove Cem pallbearers
David Burns, Geo Hart, Geo Moudy, IA Bradrick, WW Combs, ET Tule p99-100
see Helen Lutz Dawson Warren p201 see Martha
Dean Bender p36 see Elizabeth
D. Degroff May p67 Samuel
Olen DeGroff s/o Elsworth
& Vinnie DeGroff of Lockport, OH b 6 Oct 1893 d 21 Jan 1903
@9Y 3M 15D taken to Ann
Arbor, MI for operation for appendicitis, dying shortly after funeral at
German ME Church of West Unity by FG Hall of Stryker bur Floral
Grove Cem, West Unity p32 see Eliza
Delcamp Haviland p187 Israel
Delcamp d home in
Alvordton 3 Mar (no year) @82Y 19D b Medina Twp,
Ashland Co, OH 12 Feb 1825 m Julia Ann
Lawsown there; she dec 6Y ago no ch moved to Wms
Co 1860 ne of Pioneer funeral
Lutheran Church bur
Pioneer Cem p210 Dr.
William M. Denman d home c Oct
21 (no year) @82Y funeral
Presbyterian Church b Knox Co, OH
16 Sept 1845 moved
w/parents to West Unity 1851 m 30 Sept 1875
Mary Skiles, d 17 Oct 1923 member of
Presbyterian Church, Mason, charter member of Toledo Temple Shriners p58 Constance
Desbeouffs b France 6 May
1823 d 11 Oct 1900
@ 77Y 5M 5D, home of Mr. Thouro near Farmer, OH services at
that home by Rev WM Habey buried beside
husband in Farmer Cem joined English
Lutheran Church of Bryan 1886 p22-23 - Abraham
Dick b Artisbaugh,
Kussel Co, Bavaria, 19 Apr 1818 d 20 Apr 1904
@86Y 1D to US Mar 1836
at Buffalo, NY; later to Richland Co, OH where m Lucy A. Altaffer, 5 June
1845; she d 7 Nov 1889 3 children b
Richland Co - George, John, Catherine dec 24Y birthday moved to Wms
Co where children b Sarah Ellen, William, Jacob, 2 sons dec infancy survived by
George & Sarah Ellen of Pulaski, Wm of Kunkle, Jacob of Montpelier; 22
grand. 5 gr-grand, 1 bro Philip of Bryan and Philip's child Wilson, Andrew,
Jonathan, George, Elizabeth, Lucretia Walters, Eva Miller of Defiance Co member of
Reformed Church at Pulaski under Rev Geo F Chenot bur Shiffler
Cem p128 Raymond
Dierk s/o Will &
Lizzie Dierk b 3 Oct 1902 d 10 Dec 1902
@2M 8D funeral
Rev Wean bur
Shiffler Cem P25 - Henry
Divert B
Northumberland Co, PA, 1810 D 3 Jan 1901
@90Y 7M 3D M Rebecca
Fickle, 3 July 1839 9 children -
survived by 7 children & wife bur Brown Cem p26-27 - William
Donley d Ney, OH 25
Sept 1901, Tuberculosis b Athens Co,
OH 11 Dec 1833 to Defiance
w/parents 1834 in Washington Twp m1 Permelia
Cummins, d/o Isaac & Sarah Cummins, 6 Jul 1862; she d 8 Jan 1875 children -
John Donley and Lillie McFetters m2 29 Oct
1876, Lucy McFetters, d/o Harvey & Mary J McFetters 4 children -
Arie Berman, Charles, Lottie Walker, Peter CW vet Co F
48th OVI; Republican funeral Ney ME
Church bur Ney
Cemetery p184 Benson
Ebenezer Doolittle b Madison Co,
NY 29 July 1832 d home
Pioneer, OH 14 Jan 1907 @74Y 6M 14D moved to Wms
Co 1848, then to Kansas; returned to Wms Co 1859 m Nancy Weaver
of Richland Co, OH member of UB
Church @18Y age survived by
wife, 6ch, 1bro, 5 grch funeral UB
Church under Rev Sharp bur Floral
Grove Cem p148-149 Merideth
H. Doty d 18 Dec
(no year) funeral ME
Church under Rev Stockton, Philpott, Coslet bur Floral
Grove Cem b 7 Aug 1842
near Mt. Gilead, Morrow Co, OH moved 1848 to
Wms Co w/parents; father stopped at Hotel Darby on Bean Creek to cast first
vote for Pres Taylor; visited w/families of Ezekiel Masters & Nathan
Oliver; rented house of Peter Vanderveer near John Bortons home during
winter of 1848-Jan 1849 went to school
on farm of Joseph Bates, owned recently by Jacob Shenk w/teacher Charlie Dean;
1849 took shelter in home of Bonaparte Nichter; Mrs. Nichter could speak
English but not German; Gideon Pierce was supt of school on home lot now owned
by William Clay 1850 moved to
West Unity in home built 1835 by John Rings 1851 father
built house now known as Mrs. John Moudy property w/Rev Money as architect fall 1859 sold
town property for 80A east and north of Pioneer, but moved to home of old
Judge Ayres then owned by AJ Tressler vet of CW Co C
100th OVI uncle to Herma
Newcomer survived by
wife p51 see Sarah
B. Doty Raymond p28 - William
Douglas res w/son
north of Ottokee d chocking,
Wed evening (no date) @98Y interested in
beekeeping p214 Willo
B. Douglas b 22 Feb
1895 d 12 Apr
1935 home Alvordton @40Y 1M 20D m 1910
Russell G. Douglas, d 7 Aug 1920 3ch
Gerald, Viola, Lowell member of
UB Church of Alvordton survived by
husb, 3ch, mother, uncles, aunts funeral
home under Rev Rhinehart bur
Pioneer Cem p196
see Mary Melissa Hutchison Downer Hutson Hutchison p14-15 - Adam
Drum * b. Bavaria,
Germany 10 Mar 1827 d. 7 Oct 1900
@73Y 6M 27D, Brady Twp came to US
1845 to Lycoming Co, PA; 1847 herefor 3 months then back to PA; 1863 here m. June 1852,
Mary Ba*h children - 12
with 9 surviving along with widow and 3 sis 1853 joined
Evangelical Church; 1864 joined German ME Church where funeral conducted by
Rev J Kern of Detroit bur Floral
Grove, West Unity p184 Adam
Drum b 14 Jan 1843
Lycoming Co, PA d 24 June 1906
@63Y 5M 10D vet CW 47th
reg PA m Lizzie Kem
1869; moved to West Unity 4ch 1s
Frank of West Unity, 3d Mrs. Ida Crum of Homer, MI, Mrs. Etta Martin of
Archbold, OH, Mrs. Rose Moore of West Unity
also survived
by 5 grch 1bro 3sis funeral
home under Rev Money p76 Catherine
Fisher Drum d. home of dau
Mrs. Aaron maneval 9 Mar 1899 @76Y b 1823
Wurtemburg, Germany came to US
w/parents 1825 to Williamsport, PA m 1839 Peter
Drum, d 18Y ago 7 ch 5
survive moved to Wms
Co 32Y ago to farm south of West Unity, home of dau Mrs. Peter Maneval joined German
Methodist Church funeral by Rev
Money of Pioneer p93 see Elizabeth
Drum Money p210 Jacob
Drum d home in
West Unity c18 Oct (no year) b PA; moved to
Wms Co 1879 settled on
farm near Pioneer; 1912 moved to Pioneer wife d Mar
1935 m2 July 1937
Mrs. Edith Armstrong survived by
wife, 4sis Mrs Katherine Shilling of Swaneetown, IL, Mrs susanna Wolverton
of Toledo, Mrs Elva Miller & Mrs Edith Stipe of West Unity member of UB
Church funeral UB
Church under Rev Linebrink bur Floral
Grove, West Unity p113 Mary
Moyer Drum d home east of
West Unity 7 Dec 1905 @54Y 10M 29D w/o Adam Drum d/o Charles D
& Anna Moyer b Mifflin Twp,
Lycoming Co, PA 9 Jan 1851 came to Wms Co
Aug 1904 m 24 Aug 1904
Adam Drum lived German
Twp, Fulton Co, OH survived by
husb, 5bro, 1sis funeral at
home under Rev WS McDiuitt remains taken
to Saliadsburg, PA to cem there by same name p200 201
Rachel Jane Dunlap Drum b Lycoming Co,
PA 22 Feb 1844 when 9Y of age
left orphan and 11Y of age lost foster mother m John Drum 30
Nov 1865 8ch one
died infancy, Ella d 24 Dec 1903 moved from PA
Mar 1867 to Wms Co joined ME
Church 1884 funeral
Immanuel ME Church under Rev Money bur Floral
Grove Cem p169 see Ann
Dunlap Burns p200 201
see Rachel Jane Dunlap Drum p150 see Mary
Dunkle Hummel p52 Bruce
Holt Durrie d 2 Sept 1899
Bismarck, ND of cerebral meningitis youngest son
of Rev and Mrs Archibold Durrie (Ida Cunningham) formerly of Bryan p19 - Catharine
Zigler Dustin b West
Lebanon, OH, 11 Dec 1819 d 26 Dec 1901,
Madison Twp @82Y 15D moved as child
w/parents to Wayne Co, OH where mar Samuel Dustin, 1 June 1845 8 children -
6s/2d, with 2 of sons dec 1845 to Wms
Co; husb d. 1892 united with
German Baptist Church, 1 Sept 1851 funeral at
Bethel Church by Rev Jacob Keiser, Rev Wm St. John & Rev Baldwin of
Montpelier bur Jefferson
Cem; thanks from M/M IF VanNortwich p67 George
W. Dustin b Wms Co 12
July 1848 d home in
Defiance Co, OH 25 Jan 1903 @54Y 6M 13D s/o Samuel
& Catherine Dustin of Wms Co grad Normal
College of Bryan 1872; began teaching 1868 and taught for 34 1/2Y in Defiance
& Williams and 1Y in Butler, IN m Esther A.
Poast 14 Nov 1875 4 ch; 3ch and
wife survive him bur Farmer Cem,
Defiance Co, OH p208 Joseph
Dustin d Tacoma, WA
28 Dec 1914 as carpenter on Northern Pacific funeral CC
Mellinger & Co Funeral Home bur Tacoma
Cem moved West
July 1902; was at Sand Point, ID July 1905 niece &
nephew Mrs. JR Thomas & Archie Van Nortwick of North Yakima, WA p71 Guy
Delafield Eaton memoriam poem
(no particulars) p84 see Anna
C. Eberly Suter p33 - Edward
Eberly s/o Henry
& Emma Eberly; fath d for 10Y b Kunkle, OH 6
Sept 1887 d 21 Oct 1902,
peritonitis, @15Y 15D moved to
Fayette, OH Oct 1898 w/moth & sus bapt Church of
Christ 24 Dec 1901 funeral
Presbyterian Church by Rev Cook of Fayette bur Floral
Grove Cem p84 Henry
Eberly d west of West
Unity 16 Dec 1892 @35Y 11M 25D b where he d m 1881 Emma
Smith survived by 5
ch, mother, 3bros, 2sis member of
Beaver Creek Reform Church for 14Y where funeral under Rev Clayton & JP
Stockton fun Floral
Grove Cem p73 Mary
Suter Eberly b 28 Dec 1847
Wayne Co, OH d 9 Jan 1902
home near Kunkle @54Y 12D one of family
of 10 children, 8 survive m 12 Dec 1890
Samuel Eberly 4 ch survive
w/ 2 more infants dec joined
Reformed Church; later Presbyterian Church p205 Samuel
B. Eberly b 15 Feb
1854 Jefferson Twp, Wms Co, OH d home
Pioneer, OH 12 Jan 1916 @60Y 10M 28D m1 12 Dec
1880 Mary Sater, 9 Jan 1902 ch 2s
3d, 2d dec m2
Catharine Osborne 3 Feb 1903 ch 1s
1d, s dec @1 1/2Y of age survived by
wife 4ch 4stepch 2bro 1sis joined
Beaver Creek Church, later joined Presbyterian Church at Kunkle funeral
Beaver Creek bur
Pleasant Hill Cem beside 1st wife & ch p164-165 Christiana
Schulltheis Eithel b
Baltmansweiler, Wurtemburg, Germany 7 July 1809 came to US
1832 to Baltimore m Jacob Eithel
spring 1833, d Aug 1862 moved to
Liverpool, Medina Co, OH; moved to Wms Co Apr 1846 to Wm Urfer farm; sold to
Urfer & moved to Lockport 10 ch 8
survive; youngest dau d infancy; William the eldest d Feb 1894 member of
German Lutheran Church d home of
eldest dau Mrs. PM Shaw 29 Sept 1901 @92Y 2M 22D funeral
daus home under Rev Habey bur German
Cem near West Unity survived by
8ch, 34grch, 34 gr grch p201 Franklin
Elder b
Harrisburg, PA 20 Mar 1843 d home near
Bryan 9 Sept 1906 @63Y 5M 10D moved as
infant w/parents to Stark Co, OH m Caroline
Arnold 18 Mar 1866 ch- 1s 3d,
1dau Carrie Belle dec vet CW Co H
3rd OH Cavalry survived by
wife, 3ch James A of Bryan, Mrs Carrie Blanche Lindsey & Luella
Catharine McKarnes of Bryan, 3bro, 2sis funeral
home under Rev Hawk bur
Fountain Grove Cem p64-67 Thomas
Garretson Elliott * b York Co, PA
near Gettysburg 1 Sept 1813 d West Unity
27 Oct 1897 @84Y 1M 28D second child
and oldest son of 4 ch 2s, 2d mother died
when he was young and father mar again w/family of 2s, 2d moved w/father
and new family to Stark Co, OH near Massillon; father d 1858 @80Y moved to Canal
Fulton as clerk in general store m Narcissa
Pearce 13 Mar 1842 ch 3s, 1
of whom d early moved from
Canal Fulton to Massillon 1848-1851 then to Cleveland; then 1860 to West Unity
when partnered w/Dr. Morrison until 1865 funeral at ME
Church under Rev Roberts and Stockton bur Floral
Grove Cem, West Unity p166-167
see Annette Ely Crum p142-143
see Catherine Ely Marks Moss p13 see Hannah
Ely McIntire (Mrs. JH McIntire) p130 Joseph
Warren Ely b Fulton Co,
OH 28 Dec 1839 d 1 Feb 1903
@63Y 1M 3D m1 Ruth
Leacock 28 Sept 1862, dec 5 Feb 1873 2s Francis
Marion d 4 Feb 1898, William of Hillsdale, MI m2 Agnes
Grice 9 Apr 1894, survives 2 stepdau
Mrs Libbie Kilner of Montana, Mrs. George Keiser of West Unity; also 8 grch,
4bro, 3sis funeral
Hamer Presbyterian Church under Rev WF Kring & EG Brumbaugh bur
Franklin Cem p85 Matilda
Ann Engle b Holmes Co,
OH 1 Apr 1834 d 5 Sept 1901
@67Y 5M 5D m Christopher
Engle p82 Armstrong
Ervin * b 25 Apr 1814
Stark Co, OH d home in West
Unity 14 June 1891 @77Y 1M 19D p82-83 Mary
Ann Mowery Ervin * d home in West
Unity @87Y 13 Jan 1900 b Chester Co,
PA 25 Sept 1814 1828 joined ME
Church 1832 w/parents
moved to Wayne Co, OH m Armstrong
Ervin 18 Oct 1836 moved to
Crawford Co, OH where she joined Presbyterian Church 1855 moved to
West Unity 9 ch 5d,
4s, 5 survive, 16 gr-ch, 10 gr-gr-ch funeral at
home by Rev JP Stockton & WS Philpott p59 Martha
Jane Esterline w/o Andrew
Esterline b PA; to OH
when 4Y; 44Y in Wms Co d 20 Nov 1899
@80Y 7M 24D, home of son in Alvordton 11 ch but 3
survive, 1d, 2s; husb dec bur - Olive
Branch Church with Rev Rittenhouse officiating p167 Alonzo
D. Ewan s/o David
& Edith Ewan b 26 July 1836
Columbiana Co, OH moved to Wms
Co 12 Oct 1842 to Pulaski Twp; father also bought farm in Jefferson Twp where
they moved joined Lick
Creek Church m1 1857 Lavisa
Gaskill, dec 1858 m2 27 May 1860
Docia Snyder d 1 Sept 1900
cancer funeral
home on West High St, Bryan under Rev Oldacre bur
Fountain Grove Cem survived by
wife, 3sis, 1bro; his parents, 2sis, 4bro dec p20 - Prisilia
Markle Faust/Foust b 7 Dec 1815,
Berks Co, PA d 18 May 1898 m Benjamin
Faust, 6 Apr 1843 (see below) 7 children -
one dec CW vet, 2 dec infancy, survived by 1s/4d member of
Lutheran Church since 17Y p59-61, 62
Henry Felger* b Westmoreland
Co, PA 14 Dec 1820 d home in
West Unity 25 June (no year)@ 82Y 6M 11D father was
hatter in Greenburg, PA; grandparents natives of Switzerland 1832 moved
w/parents to Wayne Co, OH to farm near Lattasburgh about 10 miles nw of
Wooster 1848 went
to CA for gold; 1849 returned home; intersting story of his travels m Susan
Herman Feb 1851 5s, 1d, all
survive; has 11 gr-ch ch
William w/ch Edwin J, Charles H, Mabel V; Conrad w/ch Merle H, George E, Ruth,
Vincent; Frank L w/ch Grace, Helen G; Simon w/son Clyde J; John A; Sarah (Mrs.
David Laser) w/dau Zella moved to
Wms Co 1852 funeral
from Presbyterian Church w/Rev JP Stockton and Rev Money officiating 2nd
of 10 ch of M/M Jacob Felger; only 5 survived to adulthood: Henry, Mary (Mrs.
John Barnhart) of Stryker then Cleveland then NY City where both died,
Elizabeth (Mrs. Henry Harman) of Congress, Wayne Co, OH, Lavina (Mrs. William
Christman) of Massillon, OH, Jacob (Sarah Keiffer/Lou Fike) of Smithville,
Wayne Co, OH p196-197 Sarah
Ann Billman Felger b Wooster,
Wayne Co, OH 5 Dec 1855 d home West
Unity 8 July 1906 @50Y 7M 3D m 2 Nov 1876
William Felger 3ch 2s 1d,
all survive moved 6Y ago
from Wayne Co to Allen Co, MI; then later to Wms survived by
husb, 2s EJ Felger of Orrville, OH & Charles Felger of Quincey, MI, dau
Mabel, 1sis funeral
home under Rev Hawk and Stockton p62-63 Susanna
Hermon Felger * b Wayne Co,
OH 30 May 1825 d home of
dau Mrs. David Laser 6 Mar 1904 @ 78Y 9M 6D m Feb 1851
Wayne Co, OH Henry Felger, d 25 June 1903 6 ch
5s, 1d: William, Conrad, John, Sarah of West Unity area; Simon near Waldron,
MI; Frank of Fayette, OH, all survive moved to
Wms Co 1852to West Unity Mar 1902 bur Floral
Grove Cem, West Unity p41 see Mary
E. Ferguson Smithley p96-97
see Eliza Fickle Spidle Graves p76 see
Catherine Fisher Drum p95 Mary
Jane Fisher d/o Philip
R & Mary M Walter Fisher b home in
Millcreek Twp, Wms Co, OH (now Franklin Twp, Fulton Co, OH) 23 Nov 1847 d Buffalo,
NY 4 May 1902 @54Y 6M 19D joined Mt.
Salem Presbyterian Church injured in
train wreck at Ft. Wayne, IN 24 Dec 1883 after dec
parents she lived in Bryan, OH visited
eldest bro in Wrights Corners near Buffalo, NY 26 Aug 1901 survived by
4bros of family of 9 ch funeral at
Franklin Methodist Church under Rev Stockton bur Mt.
Salem Cem p93 Matilda
Barr Keith Fisher b 11 Nov
1836 near Mansfield, Richland Co, OH d Betzer,
Hillsdale Co, MI 8 May 1902 @65Y 5M 27D m1 1860
Lewis Keith, d 1861 ch- 1s m2 Solomon
Fisher 1865, d 24 Sept 1884 ch 2s,
2d funeral at
Betzer under Rev JM McMillan bur
Burt Cem card of
thanks w/names M/M Jos. Towne p47 - Nancy
E. Pifer Fisher b West Unity,
OH 20 Apr 1847 d 17 Apr 1905
@57Y 11M 27D m Joseph
Fisher 3 Oct 1866 2 child -
Elnora d 12 Oct 1877; Joseph Ernest funeral from
Presbyterian Church under Rev JP Stockton bur Floral
Grove Cem p114 Samuel
Fisher Mrs. JC
Miller learned from her bro Joseph fisher of Mansfield, OH of dec of bro
Samuel who lived w/Jesse martin near Mansfield Body of old
soldier floating in bay bearing name Samuel Fisher, been in water several
weeks, evidence of foul play Samuel
intended to travel to Wms Co to visit relatives Bur
Sandusky, OH city cem Dec was about
60Y of age, mar 2x, his 2nd wife who died 10Y ago was sis of MH
Doty formerly of West Unity and Mrs. SC Raymond of Wms Co p164 William
O. Fisher d 2 Oct 1900
@28Y 1M 6D memorial poem
by Mrs JS Fisher, Pioneer p188 William
Cicelar Flagg b Marietta,
Washington Co, OH 8 Apr 1843 d Bryan 24 Feb
1907 diabetes @63Y 10M 16D moved w/father
1853 Delaware Co, OH vet CW Co G 96th
OVI and Co D 96th OVI m Paulding Co,
OH 2 Apr 1868 Dora Latimore, still lives 9ch 7
survive: Vina V DeGroff & Jennie DeGroff of West Unity, Charles of
Fayette, James of Toledo, Joseph w of Kunkle, Will of Hudson, Carl at home funeral ME
church under Rev Money bur
Shiffler Cem p135 Marian
Miller Flower d 13 Feb 1899
home b Richland Co,
OH 15 July 1834 m Samuel
Flower 1854 8 ch 4 dec 17Y of age
joined Evangelical Association funeral
German Methodist Church under Rev Hexemer & Miller p82 Mary
Anna Elizabeth Fortney b Wms Co, OH
21 May 1878 d 21 Nov 1900
@22Y 6M joined German
ME Church 6Y ago survived by
mother, 8bros; father & 1sis dec bur Beaver
Creek Cem funeral by A
Klinger p76 William
Ellis Foss infant s/o M/M
William Foss d 15 May 1894
@2M 7D funeral by Rev
JP Stockton at home p20 - Benjamin
Shoemaker Foust b 11 Apr 1824,
Berks Co, PA d. home of dau,
Mrs. Adam Sucher, 26 July 1902 @78Y 3M 14D wife,
Prescilia Foust d May 4Y ago survived by 3
d, 1s, 11 gr-chil, 1gr-gr: children besides Mrs. Adam Sucher -
Mrs. Mont Turner of W. Newton, OH, Mrs. Wm Hartle of Ft. Wayne, IN,
John Foust of Defiance, OH moved to
Jefferson Twp 1845; 1868 to Bryan funeral from
home of Mrs. Adam Sucher by WM Habey bur Fountain
Grove Cem p20-21 - Mary
L. Held Snyder Freeman b Strassburg,
Germ, 22 June 1815, d/o Henry & Catherine Miller Held d La Otto, IN,
24 Jun (no date) @87Y 2D m1 John
Snyder, 17 Nov 1836, Mansfield, Richland Co, OH; he d May 1852 children -
5s/4d; 1s dec CW vet m2 Francis C.
Freeman, c1856, Allen Co, IN children - 2 -
William D & Jennie 58 gr-child,
55 gr-grand dau Mrs.
Sophia Kniss of Chichisha, I.T. not at funeral p206 Christian
Freese b 6 Feb 1850
near ney, Defiance Co, OH d Alvordton 14
Jan 1917 @66Y 11M 8D m Florence
Hanna 6 Feb 1870 ch 5s 2d,
all survive joined Church
of God at Union Chapel in Wms Co 1897 survived by
wife, 5s 2d 21 grch 2 gr grch 1bro 3sis p146 George
Wesley Gamber s/o George
& Mary Ann Gamber b Millcreek
Twp 19 Jan 1856 d 14 Apr 1898
@42Y 2M 26D m Martha Netz
1 Jan 1880 4ch 2s, 2d member of UB
Church survived by
wife, 4ch, 4bro, 2sis funeral
Walnut Grove Church under Rev Slaybaugh bur Walnut
Grove Cem p36 - William
H. Gardner b 14 Sept
1831, PA d 29 Dec 1903,
home West Unity @72Y 3M 15D m1 Hannah Eyer children -
Mrs. Alice Davies, San Diego, CA; Mrs. Clara Zuver, d 14 Sept 1888 m2 Mrs.
Harriet Purdy, 28 Sept 1865 children -
Freddie d scarlet fever as infant; Lottie oldest dau d maidenhood; Mrs. Bertha
Bentley survives along with her mother funeral at
home conducted by Revs Stockton, Philipot, Stipe, Coslet p75 Vera
June Garrison d home of
parents William P & BE Garrison, their youngest dau, 17 Dec 1901 @10Y 8M
15D b 2 Apr 1891 funeral from
home under Rev BF Gordon of Franklin ME Church bur Fayette
Cem p154 see Alice
Gaskill Brannan p104 Nancy
Ann Johnson Gaskill d 13 Aug
(no year) at home of dau Mrs. George Perry near Dupont, IN @80Y 10M 9D b
Williamsport, PA 4 Oct 1822 m Daniel
Gaskill 1843, dec 39Y ago 5ch, 14 grch,
4gr-grch survive ch Caleb
Gaskill of Madison, John Gaskill of Elwood, Ed Gaskill of Dupont, Mrs.
Margaret Knowles of Madison, Mrs. Ella Perry of Dupont; 1ch d infancy 1856 moved to
Dupont joined Friends
Church in youth funeral by Rev
FB Ward of ME Church bur Graham
Cem obit from Madison
Indiana Herald p98 99 Perry
Geesey b German Twp,
Fulton Co, OH 18 Mar 1872 d Brady Twp,
Wms Co, OH 13 July 1901 @29Y 3M 25D m 19 Dec 1894
Elva Drum survived by
wife, parents, 3 small ch, 1sis, 1bro funeral at
German ME Church under Rev Stockton bur Floral
Grove Cem p195-196
see Anna Mary Gerver Clay p91 Captain
Henry Gilbert d Osseo, WI
home 1 Aug 1901 @81Y father/o Mrs.
George W. Myers b Portage Co,
OH 5 Sept 1820 m Fidelia C.
Darling 24 Jan 1843 moved to Osseo
fall of 1867 captain in CW 4 ch
Thomas J Gilbert, Mrs. Jennie E. Myers, William H. Gilbert, James P. Gilbert
survive along w/wife, 3sis, 1bro funeral under
Masonic Lodge service p78 David
Gill d home near
West Salem, Wayne Co, OH 24 July 1905 @89Y 6M 20D b Somerset Co,
PA 4 jan 1816 moved to
Chester Twp, Wayne Co, OH m1 Leah
Zimmerman 1836 8 ch 3d,
5s: Henry dec, Jacob dec, Margaret dec, Daniel d West Unity 1885 @27Y, William
C West Unity 1894 @50Y 3 surviving ch
John D of Montpelier, Mrs. Sarah Gardner St. louis, MO, Mrs. Lovina Gill
of Hubardston, Ionia Co, MI moved to West
Unity 1863; wife d 1864; moved back to Wayne Co m2 Melvina
Painter 1867; moved back to West Unity; then again to Wayne co where his
mother-in-law died enlisted in
Mexican-Am War member of
German Reformed Church for 35Y funeral at
home under Rev elsbauch bur
Mennonite Cem John Gill of
Montpelier only ch present p10 - Martha
L. Greek Gill b. Hancock Co,
OH, 3 Oct 1852 d. 13 Nov 1899
@47Y 1M 10D moved here
1854 w/parents m John D.
Gill, 24 Apr 1873 5 ch - son
Daniel F. Gill d. 9 Dec 1884 @4Y member of
Presbyterian Church at Kunkle 1889 under Rev JP Stockton survived by
husband and 4 children bur cemetery
south of Kunkle p26 - David
Barnet Gillis b Morrow Co,
OH, 16 June 1847 to Wms Co 1847
w/parents c1854 1899 moved to
Harvey, IL where he d 13 Aug 1903 @56Y 1M 27D m Fane Logan,
22 Sept 1874 children -
1d/3s member of
Presbyterian Church since 1876 then after Harvey, IL member of ME Church funeral at
Edgerton, OH p133 Horace
D Ginter d home in
Lima, OH 20 June (no year) remains
brought back to Bryan funeral
Baptist Church CW vet Co E 21st
OVI; member of Evans Post GAR p172 Mary
A. Githens b 8 June 1822 d 26 May 1903 p126 128 - Jerome
Gleason popular grocer
who died in a rr accident near Port Clinton, OH partner of Wm
McNary; later Joseph B. Jones funeral under
Rev Gobiet by Evans Post GAR 2nd
son of Plietus S. Gleason, settler in Springfield Twp Oct 1835 b 3 May 1839
Springfield Twp; no death date CW vet Co H 38th
OVI M Sarah Newman
2 Nov 1865 5 ch Henry
N, Frerd S, Vera E, Olin W, George, all survive member of
Presbyterian Church p105 Frank
Glenn s/o Samuel
& Caroline Glenn b Olivesburg,
Richland Co, OH 10 June 1867 d near Pulaski
19 Aug (no year) @33Y 2M 9D typhoid bapt Reformed
Church 6 Aug 1900 1bro dec survived by
parents, 1bro, 1sis funeral by A.
Klinger bur
Shiffler Cem p48-49 Samuel
Glenn b Olivesburg,
Richland Co, OH 25 July 1835 d daughters
home near Pulaski 15 June 1901 @65Y 10M 20D moved to Bryan
1880; later to Pulaski member first
of Disciple Church 1876 then Methodist here but preferred Reformed Church m Caroline Bly,
6 Dec 1860 4 ch 1s/1d
died survived by
wife, 1s, 1d, 4 sis, 2 bro bur - Shiffler
Cem funeral
conducted by Rev A Klinger p116-117
see Jane Ann Gordanier Butts p161-162 Cyrus
Gordon b sommerset,
NJ 18 Sept 1822 d 22 Sept 1902
Pioneer, OH @80Y 4D m Sarah
Coddington Feb 1842, d 22 Feb 1901 ch 4d 3s;
2dau dec, one Mrs. Delia Yocum 1848 moved to
Amboy, MI; 1864 to 100A farm Pioneer p152-153
see Eliza J. Gorham Park p32 - Arthur
C. Gorsuch s/o Jacob
& Katherine Gorsuch b Chesterville,
Morrow Co, OH, 27 June 1852 d 26 July 1901
@49Y 29D, absess of appendix, Navarre bur Franklin
Cem funeral from
Franklin ME Church under Rev Fred K. Gamble moth dec when
he babe; fath to Wms Co m1 Martha
Leonard, 1874; d 6 Mar 1889 son Leonard J,
enlisted 1st US Volunteer Signal Corps; d Manila, Philippines, 25
Aug 1898 m2 1889 Mrs.
Sarah A. Warner; she survives along with 3 step-ch, 2s, 4 sis, 3bro p96-97 Eliza
Fickle Spidle Graves d/o Michael
& Phoeba Fickle b Center Twp
29 July 1843 d 13 Oct (no
year) @58Y 2M 4D bapt Baptist
Church when 16Y m1 Jacob
Spidle 1869, d1880 m2 Jared
Graves 1882, d 1888 3 ch Mrs. LK
Stevenson of West Unity, Mrs. JA Cameron & Charles Spidle of Bryan also survived
by bro Michael Fickle of Montpelier, Mrs. Hannah Beavers of Lennox, MI, 2 grch funeral under
HE Oldacker bur
Fountain Park Cem p175 see Elizabeth
Greek Connolly p135-136 Clyde
Ernest Greek b Kunkle, OH
29 July 1880 d Albion,
Nebraska 9 Dec 1899 @19Y 4M 10D only ch of
Elias & Martha Greek of Kunkle went to Albion
to clerk for his uncle EW Persing funeral at
Kunkle Presbyterian Church under Rev Stockton bur new
cemetery near Kunkle p10 see Martha
L. Greek Gill p205 see
Nancy Greek Burkholder p39-40 Rebecca
Bradrick Green b Belmont Co,
OH 10 Mar 1833 d Wms Co 21
Jan 1903 @69Y 10M 11D came w/parents
to Richland Co, OH Oct 1833; m George W. Green 23 Sept 1868 moved to Wms
Co Dec 1868 4 ch - 2s/2d survived by
2s/1d. 5grch. 2bro became
Christian Mar 1869 funeral German
ME Church under Rev Wm Clark and Rev Money p118 see Rose
Melvina Green Koch p152 Phoebe
A. Crabbs Grimes b Richland Co,
OH 24 Feb 1825 d home in
Stryker 6 Dec 1900 @75Y 8M 13D one of 13 ch joined
Presbyterian Church m Isaac Grimes
c1850 1853 moved to
Wms Co 175A south of Fountain Chapel joined ME
Church of Fountain Chapel; then moved to Stryker 6ch 2s 4d,
5 dec as well as husb, son James A. survives funeral ME
Church at Stryker under Rev Shreves bur
Shiffler Cem those from
distance Benjamin Crabbs of Crawfordsville, IN * Mrs. Ed Kerr of Chicago p44 - Lemuel
E. Grisier d Frankfort
(no state, no date) of stomach hemorrhages; lived there since 1 Sept 1891;
businessman funeral under
Rev ED Jacobs of Ithaca at family residence; body shipped to Bryan p35 - Peter
Grim d Archbold, OH
23rd (no date) @75Y p37-38 - Charles
F. Grisier b 12 Mar 1851,
Stryker (no death date) m1 1872 Alice
Lloyd, dec m2 Frances E.
Weitz, 6 July 1884 res of West
Unity except few months in Prattville, MI since spring 1878; ran West Unity
Eagle w/bro James W; later changed name to Chief until 1 Jan 1889 when sold to
ET Runnion; also had merchandise store until Sept 1896 when sold to LD Colvin funeral at
Presbyterian Church bur Lockport
Cem relatives:
Henry Grisier & sisters Adell & Eugenia; Mrs. Gray & dau Mrs.
Betts; Charles & Albert Vernier; Mrs. Wm Grisier; Mrs. Louisa Hayes; Paul
Jacquin, all of Stryker; Charles Grisier of Wauseon; Henry Shamberger &
wife, IM White, wife & son, Dr. Weitz, wife & dau, Geo Farley &
wife of Montpelier; John Casebere, wife & daus, Hattie and Mrs. Williams
of Arctic, OH; W Weitz & daus Maud and Myra, Mrs. C Stoops of Edgerton;
Mrs. Sarah Clark of Galesburg, IL p13 see Margaretta
Grubaugh Lantz p140 see Elizabeth
Haddix Meacham p50-51 see
Magdalena Hagelberger Traxler p94 Magdalena
Wotley Hagelberger b Wert Co,
Weisenberg, Germany d home Wms Co,
OH 21 Mar 1906 @80Y 3M 25D came to US
1840 landing at NY m 22 Jan 1850
Caspar Hagelberger dec 16Y ago 4 ch 2s
2d, one dau Magdalena d 2Y ago joined German
Lutheran Church age 13Y funeral Beaver
Creek Reformed Church under Rev JF Hawk bur Beaver
Creek Cem p115 Spencer
Hagerty b Spring Hill,
Fulton Co, OH 30 May 1844 d Montpelier
16 Nov 1904 @60Y 6M 14D CW vet 128th
IN regt M 14 Apr 1883
Viola Sheldon 1 son dec as
infant, bur Amboy, MI survived by
wife, 1bro Dr. Hagerty, 2sis Mrs. Britton of Hillsdale, MI, Mrs. Kanauer of
Pioneer p52 Fred
Hake d.
Montpelier (no date), taken to barn of Hersey Purdy due to intoxication; later
died in barn fire; 2 horses also perished p55 see
Etta Hall Barrett p16 see
Sarah Ann Hall Churchman p129 130
Daniel Culberson Hamilton b Wellsville,
Columbiana co, OH 18 June 1827 d home 27 Jan
1903 North Street, West Unity m Matilda A
Davidson 29 June 1851 7 ch 4
survive, Mrs. FE Fay of Los Angeles, CA, Mrs EA Wisner of Toledo, JJ Hamilton
of Auburn, IN, WC Hamilton of Chicago; wife survives moved to Wms
Co w/wife and child joined ME
Church 1858 funeral ME
Church under Rev SL Roberts p16 -17 - George
Hamilton b. 3 Oct 1856,
NW Twp d. 6 Nov 1901,
Jonesville St, Montpelier @45Y 1M 3D; complications from lockjaw which set in
after stepping on wire nail m. 23 Nov
1888, Bianca Mercer survived by
wife, 1 dau, 1 grand, 1 bro, 1 sis funeral from
LUB Church under Rev WW Landis and Rev GW Long; Knights of Pythias bur Riverside
Cem p178 Rebecca
J. Hamilton b West Unity 6
Nov 1854 d 16 Oct 1902 bur Floral
Grove Cem p74 see Mary
Hamlin Jones p96 see Edith
Hannum Spangler p110 see Nancy
Jane Hannaman Martin p37 see Emaline
Harden Hudnett Reader p123-125 Mary
Harmer b 20 Feb 1839,
Herstmonceux, Sussex, England, direct desc of Sir Christopher Wren only dau /John
& Depha Page Harmer mother dec
when Mary was young; reared by grparents William & Martha Page who came to
US Oct 1855 first came to
Stryker, then to West Unity to live/M/M George H. Nitchie, dec 1885, 1887
respectively jobs were in
charge of woolen mill, attendant at insane asylum in Toledo, 1896-1901 keep
house for Rev JP Stockton went to
Colorado w/cousins Emma & Della Page and their bro James Page of
Whitewater, CO where she died 19 Mar 1905 funeral at
Presbyterian Church under Rev George Miller & Rev Money bur Floral
Grove Cem p109 see Mary
Harrington Brown Young p215 see Lena
Mae Hart Prouty p147 Orley
Evrett Hartman b near Wms
Center 10 June 1853 d home in West
Unity 18 Dec 1899 @46Y 6M 8D m 20 Aug 1887
Etta A. Harrington became
photographer; joine ME Church 1895; member of Masons funeral ME
Church under Rev Philpott, Stockton, Hill bur Floral
Grove Cem p110-111 Dr.
Nathan W. Hartshorn b Knox Co, OH
20 Jan 1822 d Ney,
Defiance Co, OH 13 Nov 1901 @79Y 9M 24D moved to Allen
Co, OH near Lima w/parents 1826; then Putnam Co 1865; then Georgetown (now Ney)
1862(yes thats what it says) m1 Jane Mason
1840, dec m2 Emmeline
Garver 23 Mar 1901 studied
medicine in Peru, IN 1842; JP, mayor of Ney funeral at ME
church at Ney under Rev Charles Bennett of Bryan & CR Davenport bur Ney
Cem p32 - Eliza
Delcamp Haviland b Medina Co,
OH, 4 May 1859 d Pioneer, OH
17 Mar 1903 @43Y 10M 13D funeral home
under Rev Elmer E Vaughen bur Burt's Cem p186-187 Almon
W. Hayes eldest of 5ch
of Almon & Esther Betts Hayes, natives of Hartford Co, CT b 13 Sept 1821
Jackson Twp, Richland Co, OH moved fall
1845 to Brady Twp m Angeline
Warren 4 Mar 1846; she nat of Geuaga Co, OH moved from
Richland to farm where they lived for almost 60Y d 28 Sept 1906
@85Y 15D funeral
German ME Church under Rev McDivitt & Money pallbearers
bros Horace, Charles, Lewis; nephews Rufus Hayes, Ezra & Lester Warren bur Floral
Grove Cem survived by
wife, 1d 2s 9 grch, 1 gr grch, 3bros p203 Horace
Betts Hayes d home
Battle Creek, MI pneumonia 30 Jan 1915 @87Y 10M 1D b near
Shelby, OH 29 Mar 1827 m1 1860
Sarah Ellen Campbell, dec ch 2s
1d: Albert D d 11 Jan 1885, Charles E of Crockett, TX, Cordie H Wood of
LaCross, WI vet CW Co C
100th Ohio tortured by Rebels 1880 moved
from OH to Battle Creek m2 13 June
1888 Mary Olmstead of New Canaan, CT survived by
2bro of Shelby, OH, 2ch, 4 grch funeral
home under Rev Potter bur Oak
Grove Cem p163 Lewis
Orville Hefner s/o Robert
& Anna Hefner b 11 Oct
1879 LaGrange Co, IN 1886 moved
w/parents to Arkansas where father died; moved back to Wolcotville, IN m 11 Oct
1902 Coral B. Brown of Adrian, MI where they lived d 7 June
1903 @23Y 5M 27D erysipelas survived by
wife, mother, 3sis, 1bro p90-91 Eliza
Barr Held d home of
dau Mrs. Mary Esterline near Fayette 15 July 1903 @68Y 1M 19D b Richland Co,
OH 26 May 1835 m JH Held 27
Oct 1857; he had wagon & blacksmith shop at Primrose; then 13Y at
Hillsdale, MI, then moved back to Wms Co near Bunker Hill 6 ch 4d,
2s, 2 dec Minnie d 14 Sept 1862 @3Y 8M 19D, Harriet d 26 Aug 1864 @ 9M survived by
husb, ch Mrs. Laura Bavin of Toledo, Dr WA Held of Wms Co, Charles L. Held of
Toledo, Mrs. Mary Esterline of Fayette joined church
of Christ, later w/husb joined Dunkards or German Baptist funeral at
Clays Evangelical Church under Rev Jacob Keiser of primrose bur Floral
Grove Cem p167 see Harriet
Held Stoner p20-21 see
Mary L. Held Snyder Freeman p174-175
see Rebecca Held Altman p188 Anna
Mary Stock Hellem b 9 Dec 1821,
PA d 9 Jan 1907
@85Y 1M moved
w/parents as child to Stark Co, OH m 22 Feb 1838
Joseph Hellem 9ch 5s 4d,
3 survive: John, David, Amanda also had 24
grch 40 gr grch p62-63
see Susanna Hermon Felger * p69 Walter
L. Heyd d home of
parents near Nadeau, MI 21 May (no year pos 1904) diabetes @2Y 6M s/o Henry
& Gertrude (Stipe) Heyd p197-198 George
Harold Fred Hickman d West Unity
27 May 1906 @9M 27D s/o M/M Bert Hickman funeral
Church of Christ under Rev Money & Stockton bur Floral
Grove Cem p209 Emma
Hinkle Wms Co oldest res
funeral
Hollingshead Funeral Home West Unity d Aug 1907 b Hickory
Corners, MI 21 July (no year) m 4 July 1876
John Hinkle, d 19Y ago res Baw Besse
Lake survived by
sis Mrs Hattie Oberlin 90Y of Hillsdale, MI 2s
Theodore of West Unity & Orrin B of Montpelier, dau Mrs. Olivia Jackman of
Delaware, OH, 10grch, 13 gr grch funeral
under Rev Limbert of Methodist Church West Unity bur West
Buffalo Cem p102-103
Catharine May Hoffman appears May
is surname b Somerset
Co, PA 16 May 1828 d home
Kunkle, OH 13 Dec 1901 @73Y 6M 27D 1842 to Wms
Co w/parents m 1844
Daniel Hoffman, dec 4 May 1892 ch 3s
3d 2s 2d survive; dau Catharine d 21 May 1860, son Andrew d 10 Mar 1872 survived
also by 1bro 2sis, 7 grch, 1gr-grch united w/ME
Church; 1872 w/United Brethren Church funeral LUB
Church under Rev JG Turner bur
Franklin Cem p56 see
Rebecca A. Holden Crow p27 - Mary
Ann Cummins Hollington no death date
but Friday morning, 2 years after paralysis wid of RP
Hollington, d 7 Aug 1892 b 15 Dec 1826,
Cuyahoga Co (no state), d/o John & Lucy Cummins of New England m Richard P.
Hollington, 14 Feb 1849, Richland Co, OH children - 3s,
2 of whom dec and John A Hollington to West Unity
fall 1860 member of ME
Church for lifetime funeral 5 July
from ME Church bur Floral
Grove p9 - Charles
Hollstein b. Bremen,
Grand Duchy of Hesse, Germany, 4 Aug 1843 d. 30 Aug 1898
@55Y 26D to US
w/parents spring 1854 to NY, then Baltimore, then here father d. 1
year after arrival eldest of his
family m Mary
Elizabeth Fenicle, 16 Feb 1869 3 ch - John
Wesley, William Abner, dec, Harvey Leroy survived by
wife, 2 sons, 1 brother, 3 sisters p90 Mary
Eliza Kehlemire Holly d home/o son
John se of West Unity 15 July 1903 @69Y 6M 26D b Prussia,
Germany 19 Dec 1833 came w/parents
& 5bro/sis to Defiance Co, OH 1849 m John W.
Holly 24 Feb 1862 survived by
2bro, 1sis, 2s funeral at
German ME Church under Rev FM Money bur Floral
Grove Cem p32-33 - David
Holtzberg, Sr d home of dau
Mrs. S. Landlaw, West Unity, 10 Oct 1808(yes that's what it says) b Lebanon Co,
PA 6 Nov 1808 m1 Margaret
Shuey there 1830; d1844 moved to Wayne
Co, OH 5 ch - 4d/1s later took
2d/1s to West Unity m2 Sarah
Livingston, 1847; d 1876 member
Lutheran Church oldest of fam;
survived by 5 ch, 20 gr-ch, 9gr-grand p105 Mary
Jane Roddy Holtzberg d home in West
Unity 1 Dec 1904 b 29 Oct 1844
Pleasant Home, Wayne Co, OH m David
Holtzberg 24 May 1860 7ch 3 of
whom dec joined ME
Church p37 see Emaline
Harden Hudnett Reader p150 Mary
Dunkle Hummel b Pickaway Co,
OH near Adelphi 19 May 1848 d 8 Nov 1904
near West Unity m 8 Apr 1869
Sylvester Hummel lived in
Pickaway until 11 Mar 1903 to be near son Ira in Wms Co 3ch 2s 1d,
dau d infancy; son Ira, John survived by
husb, 2s, 2 grch, 2sis member of
Beaver Creek Reformed church funeral
home under Rev Chenot bur
remains taken to Circleville pallbearers
Jos Smith, W Wasnich, Jas Bly, Jos Eberly, Calvin Laser, Wm Bly p131 Elizabeth
Hunter d home near
Edgerton 6 Oct (no year) @71Y 10M 13D heart disease bur
Edgerton Cem m Daniel
Hunter for nearly 50Y funeral
Fish Creek Church survived by
husb, 2s, 3d; 1s dec p48 Leah
Rebecca Bowman Hutchison b 6 Dec 1837 d 8 Oct 1900
@62Y 10M 2D m William
Hutchison, 4 Aug 1854 8ch 4s/4d,
2died before her in infancy joined German
Reformed Church 1855 in Pulaski; moved membership to Beaver Creek Church;
moved to Kunkle where she remained bur - Shiffler
Cem funeral by Rev
IN Warfield of UB Church survived by
husband, 3s, 3d p196 Mary
Melissa Hutchison Downer Hutson Hutchison b Lenawee Co,
MI 17 Feb 1848 d 19 Dec 1906
@57Y 10M 2D consumption lived in
alvordton, West Unity & Kunkle m1 Jerome
Downer 30 May 1877, dec m2 John Hutson
of Alvordton 7 Jan 1885; d Apr 1899 dau Lillie M m3 24 Sept
1904 William Hutchison of Kunkle who survives member of UB
Church of Kunkle survived by
husb, 1 dau, 12 stepch, 2bros funeral UB
Church under Rev Sharp of Pioneer bur
Shiffler Cem p101 Vearl
Lawrence Hutchison b 27 May 1891
s/o Dell & Ella Hutchison d 30 Sept 1905
@14Y 4M 3D p196 see Mary
Melissa Hutchison Downer Hutson Hutchison p75-76 Henry
Smalley Hyatt d home in West
Unity 22 Apr 1897 of heart trouble @68Y 7M 25D b Allegheny
Co, NY 27 Aug 1828 moved
w/parents when age 5 to Washtenaw Co, MI until 1851 m Libbie M.
Brown 24 May 1848 6 ch 2 of
whom dec survived by
wife, dau Mrs. Fannie Wickham of Adrian, MI, dau Mrs. Ella Moore of Pulaski,
dau Mrs. Electa Brindle of West Unity, son George W of Enterprise, OR 1854 moved to
Wms Co survived by
wife Sallie, 4ch, 2bro, 3sis funeral at
Presbyterian Church under Rev JP Stockton bur Floral
Grove Cem bro J Hyatt of
Adrian, MI, sister-in-law Mrs. Eliza Henry of Toledo, bro Orlando Brown of
Bryan p176-177 Nicholas
Jacob d home e of
West Unity 30 Sept 1902 @78Y 8M 2D b Minichwiess,
New Prussia, Germany 28 Jan 1824 2nd
of 8 ch of Nicholas & Margaret Jacob 1834 moved to
US settling in Hancock Co, OH; 1852 went to CA, then 1854 returned to Hancock
Co m1 Rachel
Hoffmaster, d 15 Feb 1865 moved to Wms
Co 1863 m2 amelia
Felkley of Columbiana Co, OH survived by
wife, 3d funeral
German ME Church under Rev Stockton bur Floral
Grove Cem p166 Hannah
Voce Jacobs b Stoughton,
MA 28 June 1812 d Bryan 13 Mar
1901 @88Y 8M 15D moved to near
Syracuse, NY 1814 w/parents; one of 7ch m Elias Jacobs
1836; moved to Elbrige, NY, dec 11 Feb 1891 ch 4s,
eldest 2 dec moved to
Byron, MI 1860 bur beside
husb in Byron, MI Cem funeral
home of Mr. L. Swift under Bro WL Gibbs of Concord, MI p163 John
Jacoby, Sr. d home of
son Fremont Jacoby, Gorham Twp, Fulton Co, OH 21 Sept (no year) @77Y b s/o John
& Sallie Jacoby of Seneca Co, NY 5 Mar 1822 moved to
Fulton Co, OH 1844 m 14 June
1846 Nancy Severence, d 9Y ago 8ch 6
survive funeral
Presbyterian Church under Rev Stockton & Robison bur
Franklin Cem p21-22
see Margaret McCormick Morrow Jameson Minser p51-52 Samuel
Jarvis b Holmes Co,
OH 28 May 1822 d daus home
(Mrs. Bowersox) in Bryan 18 Sept 1899 @77Y 3M 20D millwright and
mercantile business in Wilmot, Stark Co, OH and bef 1867 in West Lebanon,
Wayne Co, OH; 1868 to Westerville, OH where son and dau graduated from
Otterbein University wife died Aug
1886 and he moved to daus home in Bryan member of UB
Church p104 see Nancy
Ann Johnson Gaskill p83 Estella
May Jones b 29 Nov 1881
near West Unity d 15 June 1904
West Unity @22Y 6M 17D survived by
parents, 3bros, 3sis member of
Ridge class of Montpelier UB Church funeral by Rev
William Clark in ME Church of West Unity with Revs Philpott, Stockton, Chenot p74 Mary
Hamlin Jones b Stark Co, OH
10 May 1821 d 17 Aug 1900
@79Y 3M 7D m 15 June 1842
Ansalem Jones of Columbiana Co, OH soon moved to
Wms Co where he d 25 Feb 1891 6 ch 3s,
3d, of whom 2s, 1d dec funeral at
German Methodist Church under Rev Mason bur Floral
Grove Cem, West Unity p149 see Sarah
Jones Mann p170 Sarah
Webster Jones * b Ross Co, OH
2 Feb 1816 d 3 Nov 1903
@87Y 9M 1D Jefferson Twp home m Cass jones 1
Jan 1837, d May 1901 moved to Wms
Co 1845 10ch 6s
4d, 7 survive; also 23 grch (21 live), 14 gr grch, bro John Webster of Convoy,
Van Wert Co, OH (only sibling of 13) joined Bunker
Hill Church 1903 where funeral under Rev Chenot & Stockton bur
Shiffler Cem p98 Francis
E. Kast b Richland Co,
OH 27 Aug 1853 d West Unity,
OH 11 Oct 1898 @45Y 1M 14D survived by
wife, 5ch, 3bro funeral under
Rev Lucy p11 see Lottie
Kaumeyer Mattox p90 see Mary
Eliza Kehlemire Holly p93 see Matilda
Barr Keith Fisher p74 Jacob
Kelly d 26 Apr (no
year) @76Y 4M b Stark Co, OH
3 Jan 1822 began milling
in Wayne Co, OH 1840; 1850 trip to CA; 1851 purchased farm in Pulaski Twp m 1855 Elvira
J. Shorthill 9 ch 7s,
2d enlisted 10
Sept 1861 Co H 38th OVI 22 Dec 1864 1872 elected
auditor in Wms Co p85 Clyde
Keener b 18 Oct 1879 d 20 Dec 1900
@21Y 2M 2D accident w/falling tree survived by
father, 3bros, 2sis funeral at
home of Josiah Smith under Rev JF Coss & Disciples Church bur Floral
Grove Cem p190 Julia
A. Barger Kirk b Portage Co,
OH 29 Mar 1830 d Montpelier
home of dau Mrs. Mary Gunnion @76Y 8M 19D (no dates) 4ch 2
survive plus stepch Nathan Kirk, his sis, & Mrs. Sadie Smith survived by
2ch 18grch 3gr grch moved to Wms
Co 1843 m Nathan Kirk
1853 funeral
RUB Church at Kunkle under Rev Baldwin bur Kunkle
Cem p177-178 Myrtle
Dorothea Knapp dau of Charles
W & Emma L Knapp b 17 Feb 1902 d 4 Oct 1903
@1Y 7M 17D funeral
Bunker Hill Church bur
Shiffler Cem pallbearers
Ruth Gross, Lulu Wineland, Letha Shaffer, Ethel Burns p134 Dr.
William Knoff d daus home
in Edon, Mrs. WF Myers @72Y 8M *D (no date) b Coshocton
Co, OH 11 Feb 1831 moved to
Richland Co, OH when 17Y age 1863 moved to
Wms Co, Primrose village m 27 Oct 1864
Elizabeth Alleman, d 28 Oct 1900 8 ch 2s,
6d, 3d & 1s survive, WL Knoff of Alvordton, Mrs Effie Myers of Edon, Mrs
Della Nicolen of Delray, MI, Mrs Meda Ozmun of alvordton funeral
Church of God Bethel under Rev Bower of Edon bur Edon
Cem p115 William
Knox b Beaver Co,
PA 6 Sept 1819 d 15 Feb 1902
@82Y 5M 9D moved to
Richland Co, OH w/parents 1833 m Anna Sprotts
29 Nov 1855 moved to Wms
Co 1864 north of West Unity on Ervin farm 1868 moved to
Kunkle, OH ch 3s 3d
1d dec infant, 1 son dec @9Y, 1dau dec @5Y survived by 2s
3d, wife, 1bro, 1sis p24 - Barbara
Wineland Koch b Knox Co, OH,
15 May 1833 d 9 Apr 1905
@72Y 10M 24D m Samuel Koch,
1849 moved to
Defiance Co, OH 1854; later to Wms Co 8 ch - 3s/5d
with 3s/2d surviving plus husband joined German
Baptist Church 1877 p81 Daniel
B. Koch funeral by Rev
OE Knepp of UB Church bur
Fountain Grove Cem, Bryan b 27 Jan 1833 d 7 Sept 1901
@68Y 7M 11D survived by
2s, 1d p118 Rose
Melvina Green Koch d/o George
& Rebecca Green b Jefferson
Twp 1 july 1876 d home in West
Unity 9 Jan 1903 @26Y 6M 8D m Frank Koch 8
Oct 1896 1 son not
quite 1Y of age survived by
husb, 1sis 2bro aged mother funeral at ME
Church in West Unity under Rev William Clark bur Floral
Grove Cem of West Unity p134 Dr.
William Knoff d daus home
in Edon, Mrs. WF Myers @72Y 8M *D (no date) b Coshocton
Co, OH 11 Feb 1831 moved to
Richland Co, OH when 17Y age 1863 moved to
Wms Co, Primrose village m 27 Oct 1864
Elizabeth Alleman, d 28 Oct 1900 8 ch 2s,
6d, 3d & 1s survive, WL Knoff of Alvordton, Mrs Effie Myers of Edon, Mrs
Della Nicolen of Delray, MI, Mrs Meda Ozmun of alvordton funeral
Church of God Bethel under Rev Bower of Edon bur Edon
Cem p118 see Lydia
Kreiger Oxenrider p87 Cynthia
Mabel Kunkle d/o M/M Israel
Kunkle b 5 May 1870 d 16 Feb 1906
@35Y 9M 11D survived by
parents, 1sis attended
church at Bunker Hill p120-123 Henry
S. Kunkle * b near New
Bloomfield, Perry Co, PA 23 Dec 1823 4th
son and 5th ch/Henry & Mary Storm Kunkle; had 1 younger bro mother died
when he was 5Y; bound out to farmer William Anderson followed bro
John to Richland Co, OH Sept 1844 but found his bro left for West Unity, so
followed again and reunited w/bro after many years apart went to CA in
search of gold 1850; back and forth 2x m Matilda J.
Baltosser back in Perry Co, PA 7 Feb 1856 4 ch daus
Mary Alice & Martha Jane ( Mrs. Peter Stiving) dec, sons John & Ira H,
dec established
Kunkle, OH (this is a
biographical sketch and not an obit; lots of local info) p114, 173
see Arminda Bohner Landaw Van Horn p207 Samuel
P. Landaw oldest s/o
Charles & Mary Landaw b
Northumberland Co, PA 3 Mar 1831 d home of dau
Mrs LA May of West Unity 27 Sept 1912 @81Y 6M 24D moved to Wayne
Co, OH where mar Rebecca Holtzberg Oct 1852, she d 28 Feb 1893 6ch 3
survive: David O of Lawrenceburg, TN, Mrs TJ Coslet of Hillsdale Co, MI, Mrs
LA May of West Unity moved to West
Unity 5 Apr 1878 bro Charles of
Wooster, OH, 7 grch funeral - from
home of Mrs May under Rev Money, Stockton, Coslet bur Floral
Grove Cem p13 - Margaretta
Grubaugh Lantz b. 29 Nov
1819, Richland Co, OH d. 8 Aug 1901
@81Y 8M 9D m Solomon
Lantz, 5 Apr 1842 7 ch -
4d/3s;survived by 4d/1s member of ME
Church since 16Yat Ashland, OH funeral in
Pulaski under Rev Charles Bennett of Bryan bur Shiffler
Cem p142 Ella
May Cline Laser d/o Standard
& Esther Cline b Richland Co,
OH 2 July 1871 d homein West
Unity 13 Dec 1900 @29Y 5M 11D member of
Methodist Church in Pulaski 1886 m Chas. Laser
21 Dec 1892; lived w/her parents on Mann place; then sw of West Unity survived by
husb, son, parents, 3sis, p100 George
W. Laser b Plymouth
Twp, Richland Co, OH 3 Feb 1836 d Central
Soldiers Home, Dayton, OH 24 Oct 1902 @66Y 8M 21D m1 12 Mar 1857
Levina Bricker, Richland Co, OH; dec w/infant ch 2 Aug 1858 m2 10 Nov 1859
Matilda A. Crowl 4 ch 2s
2d, Anna Etta, John Sherman, William Allen, Clara May, 2 younger survive moved to
Defiance Co, OH; 1880 to Wms Co CW vet Co F 48th
OVI survived by
wife, 2 ch, 1 grch funeral from
Presbyterian Church under Rev Stockton bur Floral
Grove Cem p76-77, 110
Jefferson Earl Laser d 13 July 1902
@16Y 3M 25D south of town of Jefferson, lockjaw b 19 Mar 1886
Coumbia, Wms Co, OH, s/o Alfred & Etta Laser accidentally
discharged blank cartridge in left hand; d several days later from tetanus survived by
parents, 4sis, 2bro funeral from
Emanuel ME Church with Rev Money officiating p9 - Mary
Ann Bistline-Laser b. 7 Jan 1845,
Cumberland Co, PA d. 21 Nov 1899
@54Y 10M 14D moved to OH
1854; one of 12 children with 8 surviving her m John Laser,
21 Jan 1866 3 ch - 1s/2d;
3gr-children: 1 dec moved here
1867; joined Reformed Church 1878 under Rev Skinner bur beautiful
cem near West Unity p161 see Catharine
Lees Maltby p126 Abraham
Lehman b 17 Jan 1824
Franklin Co, PA d 5 Jan 1900
@75Y 11M 10D 1829 moved
w/parents to Waterloo Co, Ontario, Canada 1839 to Wms Co m 1858
Elizabeth Christophel ch 6s 4d,
1s dec 10Y ago joined
Mennonite Church w/wife 1861; minister 1862-10 Sept 1899 funeral
Pleasant Grove UB Church bur
Mennonite Cem on Jos Burkholders farm services under
Rev Sellers from near Bryan & Rev Fryerlarg of Fulton Co, OH p140 see Mary
Elizabeth Leonard Mack p115-116 Charles
Wilson Lindersmith s/o Joseph
& Ellen Lindersmith b Montpelier 7
Nov 1869 d Lakeside
Hosp, Cleveland, OH 13 June 1903 @33Y 7M 6D apendicitis moved to
Toledo 1890 m 2 Jan 1895
Flora Tattersall of Toledo moved to
Elyria, OH Apr 1899 survived by
wife, adopted son Earl, mother, 4sis, 4bro funeral at
home in Elyria remains
brought back to Montpelier w/service at Union chapel bur- beside
father in Union Chapel Cem p11 - Vera
Lindsay 9 Y d/o Wilson
N. Lindsay and wife lived on North
Lynn St fall from
hatchway of father's stable, 3July (no year) suffered for 4
weeks bef death funeral from
Methodist Church p68 see Catharine
Lippy Sturgeon Mitchell p107 Judge
George E. Long d runaway
accident Tuesday (no date) home in Bryan;
farm in St. Joseph Twp where on route the horse & buggy met w/accident funeral in
charge of Masonic Lodge obit from Bryan
Press p199-200
see Isabelle V. Long Runnion p117-118 Nancy
Wineland Long b Knox Co, OH
20 May 1844 d amboy, MI 13
Jan 1903 @58Y 8M 3D moved to Wms
Co w/parents 1853 m Jesse Long
1864, dec 2M ago 8 ch 5s
3d, 3s 2d survive joined
Brethren Church as youth survived by
5ch, 5grch, 6bro, 6sis funeral under
Elder Jacob Keiser & DM Rittenhouse bur beside
husb at Floral Grove Cem p58 Magdalene
March Lorah b Defiance Co,
OH 21 June 1854 d 13 Oct 1900
@ 46Y 3M 22D m DB Lorah 19
Nov 1876 joined UB
Church survived by
husband, dau, son, 5 sis, 4 bro funeral at UB
Church by Rev CM Eberly and Rev JS Tedrow p28 - Rachel
Lozier b Morrow Co,
OH 1 Apr 1840 d son's home,
Lyons, OH 18 Sept 1902 @61Y 5M 17D m Jacob Lozier,
fall 1861 5 children, 2
dec; survived by 3 children, 4 step-ch funeral at
home near Ransom Center, MI bur Bert Cem p185 see
Eliza Lutz Stahl p99-100
see Helen Lutz Dawson Warren p140-141 Nathaniel
M Lyons d 7 Apr 1900
at home east of Alvordton b Huron Co, OH
7 Jan 1846 m Martha A
Borton 31 Jan 1867 ch 6d 1s,
2d dec funeral
Hamer Presbyterian Church under Rev Montgomery bur
Franklin Friends Cemetery p140 Mary
Elizabeth Leonard Mack b Biglick Twp,
Hancock Co, OH 28 June 1840 1872 came
w/parents to Franklin Twp, Fulton Co, OH d home 25 Jan
1902 @61Y 6M 28D m 1851 Orlando
L Mack survived by
husb, 1bro, 1sis funeral
Franklin ME Church under Rev Gordon bur Mount
Salem Presbyterian Cemetery p161 Catharine
Lees Maltby b Long Eaton,
Derbyshire, England 8 Aug 1827 m Joseph
Maltby 1846 of Long Eaton, d 15 Sept 1879 moved to US
1871 moved 1893
Nordaway Co, MO w/ son Joseph and w/dau Hannah d 8 Sept (no
year) at dau Hannahs home in MO 7ch
Thomas, Sarah, Catharine w/o John Daft d 1881, Annie, Joseph, Samuel, Hannah member of
Methodist Church funeral
home of Chester Clark under Rev JA Snyder p30 - Emma
Buck Maneval d home in West
Unity, 29 June 1903 @42Y 8M 9D b Lycoming Co,
PA, 22 Oct 1861 1877 to Seneca
Co, OH where m Dec 1885, William Maneval 5 ch - 2 dau
Florence & Alia; 3s Vernon, Howard, Herman; all survive her plus husb, 1
sis, 3 bro member of
Methodist Church under WS Philipott bur Floral
Grove Cem, West Unity p47 - Lawrence
Mann s/o Orren
& Ellen Mann b Wms Co 4 Apr
1876 d 15 Dec 1899
@23Y 8M 11D m Myrtle
Burns, 8 Apr 1896 child - 1s survived by
wife, parents, son, bro, sisters funeral Bunker
Hill Church under Rev WW Landis bur Shiffler
Cem p149 Sarah
Jones Mann d home West
Unity 6 Nov 1904 @81Y 4M 13D b 10 miles
east of Newark, Licking Co, OH m Joseph Mann
26 Sept 1843 by Rev Wickham of Baptist Church ch Orrin,
Orville, Candice; lived in Waterford, OH spring 1850
husb bought 80A in Millcreek Twp west of Omeys Corners ch Lloyd,
Leora Sayers, Ella Spade, Ezekiel 4 ch dec joined ME
Church as young girl last of family
of 12 survived by
husb, 2s, 1d, 17 grch, 27 gr grch; 6 grsons were pallbearers funeral
home under Rev Hill & Stockton bur
Franklin Cem p12 - Frederika
Rausch March d. 25 June
1898, @57Y 6M 7D, Stanley, Henry Co, OH b 18 Dec 1840,
Moelchbach, Bavaria m Henry March,
3 June 1858; dec for 14Y survived by
3d/6s funeral at
Reformed Church under Rev Frederick Schaad p58 see Magdalene
March Lorah p44-45 - Jonathan
Markel no dates @75Y b 1 Jan 1825
Adelphia, OH came to Wms Co
as young man member of ME
church of Pulaski; Republican funeral under
Rev IE Surfice of Stoney Ridge bur Shiffler
Cem p20 see Prisilia
Markle Faust/Foust p142-143
see Catherine Ely Marks Moss p72 George
Herman Martin d home near
Pioneer 10 Oct 1901 @20Y 6M 26D b 14 Mar 1881 survived by
parents, M/M Daniel Martin, 1 sis, 2 bro funeral
Hickory Grove Church by Revs George Mahler, William St. John bur Floral
Grove Cem, Pioneer p123 Howard
Thompson Martin s/o Frank
& Maggie Martin b Jefferson
Twp 5 Sept 1898 d 22 Mar 1905
@6Y 6M 17D survived by
parents, 2bro 1sis funeral at
Bunker Hill Reformed Church by Rev Money bur
Shiffler Cem p110 Nancy
Jane Hannaman Martin b Harrisburg,
PA 24 Sept 1822 d 16 Sept 1896
@73Y 11M 22D m 2 Aug 1846
Abraham Martin of Cumberland Co, PA, dec 2 May 1888 moved to Stark
Co, OH 1851, then Crawford Co, OH came to Wms Co
1861 settling in Bridgewater Twp moved to
Montpelier, OH 1890 7 ch 5
survive survived by 5
ch, 16 grch, 2 gr-grch, 1 bro of Centervillle, IA member of
Mennonite Church funeral at
Union Chapel under Rev DM Marshman bur cem
adjoining church p12 - Susannah
Shoemaker Martin b. Armstrong
Co, PA, 23 Mar 1818 d. 4 Jan 1901,
@82Y 9M 11D, home of dau Minda Eberly moved to Wayne
Co, OH w/parents 1823 m John Martin,
1835, Wayne Co, OH moved here
1861 ch - 8/3
survive plus 2 sisters, 1 brother, 21 gr-children, 28 gr-gr, 1gr-gr-gr member of
German Baptist Church w/husb 1835 funeral
Bethesda Church under Rev DM Rittenhouse bur Pioneer
Cem p17 - John
C. Mason b. Burlington
Co, NJ, Quaker, 10 Oct 1836 d. 8 July
1902, Franklin Twp, Fulton Co, OH s/o Charity
and John Mason came to Fulton
Co, OH w/parents 1839 m1. Sarah Jane
Stockton, 1862; dec ch - 4; 3
survive: Josiah of Frontier, MI, Caroline Eldridge of Chesterfield, OH, Mrs.
Charity Money of area m2 Mrs. Emma
Webster, 28 Aug 1901, of NJ veterinarian relatives at
funeral: Alfred Beaty & wife, Lemuel Beaty-Borton of near S. Haven, MI,
Mrs. Ada Thomas of Adrian, MI, an aunt of dec, and cousins, Willis Cunning
& wife of Bryan p116 Isabell
Mercer Mattocks b Wms Co 19
Dec 1845 d 15 July 1902
@56Y 6M 26D m William
Mattocks 25 Apr 1862 13 ch 8s
5d 4s dec survived by
husb, 4s, 5d, 1sis, 1bro, 7grch funeral at
home under WM Habey bur
Fountain Grove Cem p173 Judson
S. Mattox b Adams Twp,
Defiance Co, OH d 20 May (no
year) @ 55Y; res Hemlock City, MI funeral
old home in Defiance Co under Rev JA Spyker of Stryker p11 - Lottie
Kaumeyer Mattox d. 6 Jul (no
year), 28Y w/o Mel Mattox; d/o John Kaumeyer, consumption res. South
Lynn St funeral by Rev
Thomas Doggett p147, 153-154
James Hammon Maxwell b Adams Co, PA
22 Aug 1825 d home of dau
Mrs Irey 15 Mar 1901 @75Y 6M 23D moved
w/parents to Wayne Co, OH 1826, then Wms Co 1840 m 1853 Sarah
Davis, d 18Y ago 4ch 1 dec survived by
3ch, 1sis funeral
Bunker Hill Church under Rev Klinger bur
cemetery in Bryan p35 - Anna
May d/o LA May d Sunday (no
date) of consumption @19Y 7M 5D funeral at
Presbyterian church under Rev JP Stockton and Rev GF Chenot b West Unity,
16 July 1884 bur Shiffler
Cem p36 - Elizabeth
D. Degroff May d West Unity,
4 Mar 1899 @40Y 4M 2D, consumption b Jeff Twp,
Wms Co, OH 2 Nov 1858 moved
w/parents to West Unity 1874 m 5 May 1878,
Alexander A. May 5 dau, 1 dec;
survived by Myrta D, Nina B, Anna M, Frankie L plus husb, parents, bros,
sisters funeral from
Presbyterian Church under Rev Stockton bur Shiffler
Cem p43 - Mary
McClain b Allen Co, IN
18 Feb 1846 d 8 Apr 1898
@46Y 1M 21D joined UB
Churcch 1868 under Rev T Osman survived by
parents, 2sis, 1bro funeral ME
Church of Pulaski under Rev TL Wiltsee of Bryan p21-22 see
Margaret McCormick Morrow Jameson Minser p93 Robert
McCoy b Springboro,
Crawford Co, PA 26 Sept 1826 d home in Wms
Co 11 July 1901 @74Y 9M 15D moved to OH
1865, east of Edon, then moved to farm (no site) m Mary A.
Stanford 1859 3 ch 2s,
1d; 3grch joined
Methodist Church 1846 bur
Shiffler Cem with Rev FK Gamble officiating p141 George
Bennett McDaniel b Paris,
Portage Co, OH 29 Aug 1844 d @53Y 11M 26D
(no date) 1854 moved to
Wms Co w/parents, later to Farmer Center in Defiance Co 1876 mother d 1889;
he came to Pulaski to live w/bro Martin McDaniel, dec survived by
2bro; 1bro 1sis dec p95 George
Leroy McDaniel b Jefferson
Twp 26 Oct 1873 d home
Springfield Twp 27 May 1903 #29Y 7M 1D m Minnie E.
Benner 26 Mar 1896 survived by
wife, parents, 1bro funeral at ME
Church of Pulaski under Rev JA Spyker p26 - Mrs.
SG McFarland d Bryan, home
over grocery store of FH Clark; spasmodic contraction of glottis; @44Y 9M 11D sis Mrs. Harry
Towne bur Peru, IN p17 see Jennie
McGraw Culbertson p28 see Lizzie
McGrew Sharples p96 Myrtle
Adele McGuire d/o MC McGuire
of Edgerton d 31 Aug 1900
@23Y, a teacher p13 Hannah
Ely McIntire (Mrs. JH McIntire) no data
included; but d. Easter morn funeral at
Presbyterian Church under Rev JP Stockton [J.H. McIntire
of West Unity d. prolonged attack of diabetis; b. Plainsfield, NJ 12 Dec 1833;
d. 7 June 1900; moved to OH 1849; m. 1857 Hannah E. Ely; age of 29 enlisted Co
C 100th OVI; discharged 1865; first degree mason 1864; member of
Presbyterian Church, Knights of Pythias, GAR] p119-120 John
H. McIntire * came to NW
Ohio 1849 m 3 Sept 1857
Hannah Ely 3 ch son
Joseph, dau Cora and Nellie, all dec CW Vet Co C
100th OVI joined
Presbyterian Church 5 Mar 1893; see info under Mrs. JH McIntire p102 Nellie
D. McIntire b West Unity,
OH 12 Aug 1878 d/o Wm McIntire d home 14 July
1902 @23Y 11M 2D funeral at ME
Church under Rev Money, Philpott, Klinger bur Floral
Grove Cem p73-74 Elizabeth
Rogers McLaughlin d/o Ellis
& Sarah Rogers b near
Wooster, Wayne Co, OH 25 Oct 1829 d 24 Feb 1903
@73Y 3M 29D moved
w/parents to Fulton Co, OH 1838 m Fulton Co,
OH 1 Jan 1847 David McLaughlin, d 1856 1872 moved to
Defiance Co; her dau married there moved back to
Madison Twp w/son 1893 survived by
Ellis McLaughlin of Pioneer, Mrs. Mary Beightler of Sherwood, OH, 3 bro (JS
Rogers of Waldron, MI, Eli Rogers of Kunkle, AM Rogers of Morenci, MI), 1 sis
Mrs. NA Gish of Pioneer, 5 gr-ch, 2 great-gr-ch member of
Protestant methodist Church; 1863 joined Disciples Church at West Franklin funeral
Immanuel Church in Pioneer by Rev E. Vaughen p140 Elizabeth
Haddix Meacham b near
Clarksburg, Harrison Co, VA 20 Nov 1827 d 19 May 1902
@74Y 5M 29D one of 12 ch;
moved to Richland Co, OH w/parents 1835 m 1856 Samuel
Merchant moved to
Summit Co, OH; 1861 came to Wms Co ch 5s 3d;
survived by 1s 3d, 1sis 3bro; 3stepch member of ME
Church p97 Henry
Mercer b Ravenna,
Portage Co, OH 30 Nov 1829 d 11 May 1903
@73Y 5M 11D m1 Margaret
Ritchie 1853, dec 1855 2 ch 1s 1d
dau dec infant, son dec at 27Y m2 Mary Barger
25 Oct 1857 8 ch Eliza
Mercer, George, Isaac E, Francis J, Mrs. E Altaffer, Mrs. F Strayer, William
H, Mrs. C Gilbert survived by
wife, 8 ch, 8 grch, 1 gr-grch, 1bro, 1sis funeral at
Madison Bethel Church under Rev JF Slough bur Floral
Grove Cem p116 see Isabell
Mercer Mattocks p71 (Mrs.)Clara
Miller d Toledo
Hospital 13 Nov (no year) remains taken
to home of her father south of Alvordton funeral at
Hamer Presbyterian Church bur Franklin
Cem p86 Ephraim
Miller d dau Mrs.
John Douglass home 28 Feb 1906 @79Y 3M 16D s/o Henry
& Mary Miller b York Co, PA
12 Nov 1826 moved
w/parents to Richland Co, OH 1833 m Sarah Keller
3 June 1853; she of Fulton Co, OH, d/o William & Sarah Keller 8 ch 4s,
4d of whom 1 son dec joined
Evangelical Lutheran church 1879 funeral at
Primrose bur Walnut
Grove Cem survived by
wife, 7ch, 10gr-ch, 1bro, 1sis p92-93, 164
see Harriet L. Miller Willett p111-112, 168
see Laura E. Miller Vogelsong p135 see Marian
Miller Flower p111, 113-114
Mary Miller d home @18Y
9M 26D (no date) d/o M/M George
Miller survived by
parents, 3sis, 2bro funeral at
home by Rev Vaughen bur- Walnut
Grove Cem p21-22 - Margaret
McCormick Morrow Jameson Minser b Carlisle,
Cumberland Co, PA, 4 Jan 1820 of Irish par who d when she was 12Y d home of
son-in-law John C. Duncan, near Millersburg, OH, 3 Feb 1905 1838 to
Mansfield, Richland Co, OH w/stepfather James Skelly, then to Millersburg helped prepare
meal for Pres Wm H. Harrison 1840 m1 John
Jameson, PA nat 1842; early settler of Holmes Co, OH, b1800 6 ch - 4s/2d:
Robert of Plimpton, David, dec, Daniel of Trumbull Co, OH, Mrs JC Randels of
W. Unity, Mrs. John C. Duncan & William at Millersburg; 21 grand member of
United Presbyterian m2 1878
Charles Minser of Wms Co funeral by Rev
Beers of Kilback bur Oak Hill
Cem; obit from Holmes Co, OH Farmer p68 Catharine
Lippy Sturgeon Mitchell b Richland Co,
OH 15 Jan 1823 d home east of
Primrose, OH 6 Oct 1900 @77Y 8M 21D m1 John W.
Sturgeon 20 Feb 1845, d 25 July 1886 moved to Wms
Co 1847 east of Primrose ch 2s, 2d;
youngest son d 1876 survived by
1s, 2d (Ella Keith, Sarah Snow, John W. Sturgeon, Jr.) m2 Edward
Mitchell who survives p53 Catherine
Bohner Mohr d 20 Jan 1903
home on North Street b.
Northumberland Co, PA 31 Jan 1831 moved to
Richland Co, OH 1832; 1836 to Brady Twp then Jefferson Twp, Wms Co, OH; then
1839 back to Brady Twp w/parents m 1852 GH Mohr 9 ch 2d/4s
survive and husb joined ME
Church in West Unity 1895 p93 Elizabeth
Drum Money w/o rev FM
Money d home 2 Sept
1905 breast cancer @45Y b Wms Co (no
date) survived by
husb, 4dau, aged mother Mrs. Drum, 6sis, 2bro funeral at
MEChurch under Rev Philpott and Stockton p103 Angeline
Rhodes Moore b near Kunkle,
OH 30 Mar 1850 d 1 Feb 1900
@49Y 10M 1D m SH Moore 8
Feb 1870 13 ch 8
survive; 3 d infancy, Oada Angeline d 1876 @1Y 9M, James C b 1880 d 1891 @10Y
8M joined
Presbyterian Church of Kunkle 1876 survived by
husb, 8ch, 2bro, 1sis, 2grch p63 Charles
Obadiah Morfoot b Columbiana
Co, OH 7 Aug 1857 d 9 May 1905
@47Y 9M 2D (pos Milnor, ND no place mentioned) m Adelain
Beaty 17 Jan 1880 1 dau Bertha
of Milnor, ND came to Fulton
Co when small child w/parents 1885 moved to
Iowa and in 1902 to ND survived by
wife, dau, aged father, bro, sis p21-22 see
Margaret McCormick Morrow Jameson Minser p142-143 Catherine
Ely Marks Moss b Knox Co, OH
13 Mar 1836 d 14 Dec 1900
@64Y 9M 1D moved to Wms
Co w/parents 1839; youngest of 12; 8 sib dec m1 1852 George
Marks, d Apr 1875 ch Mrs JW
Moss of Fayette, MW Marks dec m2 Thomas Moss
1876 ch- Edna grch Samuel
& Ella Moss member of Mt.
Salem Presbyterian Church for more than 40Y where funeral conducted by Rev
Montgomery & Stockton p172-173 Joseph
W. Moss b Millcreek
Twp, Wms Co, OH 7 July 1854 near West Unity d 18 May 1903
hospital in Toledo, OH m1 22 Jan 1874
Rachel Jones of Fulton Co, OH son Willard b
16 May 1875; wife died shortly after m2 17 Nov (no
year) Hattie Marks 4ch 2 died
infancy funeral
Hamer Presbyterian Church under Rev Stockton bur
Franklin Cem survived by
wife, son (Samuel C), dau (Eleanor), father, 1sis, 1bro p31-32, 79-80,
212 - Samuel Moss * b Brooke Co,VA
(now WVA) 4 Feb 1811 d 25 Feb 1901
@90Y 21D 8th
of 12 children, all dec; s/o Thomas & Eleanor Moss gr-father
Thomas Moss b Ireland, m Miss Ross of Ireland; came to USA and settled in
Philadelphia, PA known as Legoneer Valley; then aft war they sold farm and
moved to Washington Co, PA father Thomas
was 3rd of 9 ch, 6s, 3d, all b PA; he b 1759; later went into Rev
War as substitute for bro; m Eleanor Swearengen 1792, Washington Co, PA; then
Brooke Co, VA, then Steubenville, OH, then back to Brooke Co, VA until 1823
when moved to Richland Co, OH; had 12 ch, those mentioned in obit were James
who went to CA and d. Pacific Ocean, William of PA, Daniel of Montpelier and
Angola, IN, later Arkansas d 1871, John, Joseph d Richland Co, OH, Polly of
MI, Rebecca d Richland Co, OH, Samuel, Sarah of MI, Ross d Richland Co, OH fall 1823 to
Richland Co, OH w/parents; moved spring 1853 to Wms Co and bought out Thomas
Spencer, Addison McNabb, & Benjamin Hagermans land; had fire 23 Aug
1893 when lost most of his belongings and money ($700) m 1833,
Priscilla Turbett of Richland Co, OH, dec 13 June 1882 5 children -
3s/2d; son Joseph dec 12Y of age; Thomas of Hamer, Mrs Crawford & Mrs.
Hollenbaugh of Kunkle, William of West Unity; 16 gr-ch, 14 gr-grand fall 1900
joined Hamer Presbyterian Church under Rev JP Stockton bur Floral
Grove Cem; daus ill at time, couldn't attend p202 William
Moss b near
Rome, Richland Co, OH 13 Dec 1852 d 26 Jan
1921 @68Y 1M 13D s/o Samuel
& Priscilla Moss came to Millcreek Twp 1853 m 29 Apr
1875 Malinda Clay 6ch 4
living: George Samuel of Toledo, Thomas Earl of Millcreek Twp, Mary Allorah
Raymond (Frank) of Millcreek, William Denman of Cincinnati; sis Sarah
Hollenbaugh, 6 grch joined Mt.
Salem Presbyterian Church then West Unity Presby Church funeral
Presbyterian Church under Rev Schiek, Stockton, Money bur
Floral Grove Cem p82-83
see Mary Ann Mowery Ervin * p113
see Mary Moyer Drum p112 Della
Viola Smith Murphy eldest ch of
M/M GA Smith b 11 Dec 1872
Van Wert, OH d 25 Aug 1902
@29Y 8M 14D grew up in
Paulding, OH m guy Murphy
25 June 1896 bapt by Rev
Stockton during last illness survived by
husb, small dau, parents, 4sis, 2bro p54-55 Grace
Emma Murphy d home of
M/M Charles T. LaCoast where she worked, strychnine poisoning by accident
thinking it was headache powder; Mr. LaCoast bought this to kill rats mother lived
in Edon and sis worked in Bryan p96 see Addie
Myers Beatty p46-47 - Margaret
Billow Neichter b Nordheim,
Hesse-Darmstadt, Germ 28 Nov 1819 d 8 Apr (no
year) home of dau Mrs. Levi Kunkle @80Y 4M 10D came to US
1844 w/parents m Bonaparte
Neichter 28 Nov 1848; d 1891 4 ch survive:
3d/1s (Jacob Neaster), 2bro, 1sis joined German
ME church spring 1849 p89 SW
Neill obit from Ottawa
Gazette s/o John &
Ann (Crow) Neill b Greensburg
Twp 8 Mar 1836 d 8 Sept 1899
@63Y 6M survived by
wife, 8 ch, 21 grch, 2bros, 2sis active in
Mennonite Church 1870-1889; then joined Christian Church at Forest Grove enlisted Ci I
99th Reg 10 Aug 1862 24 Jan 1865 funeral at
Forest Grove Church under Elder Oldacre & Horning bur Crow
Cem p57-58 Anna
Brown Newcomer had visited
son Dan and dau Mrs. Ellen Rhineholt at Danbury, IA when she d.(no date);
remained shipped back to Wms Co funeral at
Dunkard Church bur at
Brown Cem moved to
Hancock Co, OH near Fostoria when young woman m Christian
Newcomer 28 Mar 1847; d spring 1881 fell and broke his neck while trimming
apple trees lived w/son
Joseph 6 ch; one
of dau Mrs. Elizabeth Shouf dec survived by
5 ch, 23 gr-ch, 7 gr-grandch she was
mother to 4 ch her husband had by a former marriage moved to
Wms Co the next spring later 3
bros Dan, Henry, John Brown plus cousin Jacob Brown moved here b Stark Co, OH
27 Feb 1826, younger child in fam of 21 ch P27 see Rebecca
Newcomer Platt p38-39 - David
North b Cumberland
Co, PA 3 Feb 1819 d home West
Unity 21 Sept 1898 @79Y 7M 18D m1 Margaret
Whistler 1837 7 ch - 2s/5d;
1s/3d dec m2 Nancy
Light, 1857, dec 1869 m3 Ellen
Miller 1871, survived him member of
Evangelical Church funeral from
Bunker Hill Reformed Church conducted by Rev G Heximer p43 - Susannah
Wilhelm Oldfield b Franklin Co,
PA 24 Dec 1829 d Bryan, OH 8
Apr 1898 @68Y 3M 14D m David B.
Oldfield 27 Nov 1845 Canton, OH ch - 1s/3d who
survived along with 19 grch, 4sis member of
Lutheran Church; after coming to Wms Co joined ME Church p35 see Ellen
Oliver Wineland p160 see Charity
Elizabeth Emmeline Owen Augustine p118 Lydia
Kreiger Oxenrider b near Melbern,
OH 4 Apr 1880 d home 11 Jan
1903 @22Y 9M 7D m Clayton
Oxenrider 7 Mar 1900 son Carmon
Dale joined UB
Church at Williams Center survived by
husb, son, parents, 5bro, 2sis funeral at
home under Rev MR Ballinger bur Brown
Cem p197 Adah
May Page d home sw
Woodbridge of pneumonia 17 Dec 1906 @18Y 4M 28D b Alvordton 19
July 1888, d/o William Page survived by
father, stepmother, 1sis 3bro 2 halfbro 1stepsis 2 stepbro p152-153 Eliza
J. Gorham Park d/o Mary &
Ralph Gorham b Ashland Co,
OH 22 Feb 1840 d 17 Jan 1904
@63Y 10M 25D home in Ransom, MI m Ralph J Park
29 Aug 1860 moved to
Superior Twp 1866; 1873 to Bridgewater; 1881 to Madison Twp; 1896 to Ransom,
MI survived by
husb, 1s, 2d, 9 grch, 2sis, 3bro joined
Disciples Church, later joined UB Church p83 Henry
Parsel b Marion Co,
OH 1837 d Alvordton,
OH 13 Apr 1903 @66Y survived by
2sis, he never married funeral from
UB Church in Alvordton under Rev EG Brumbaugh bur
Pioneer, OH p144 see Jermina
Partee Benner p174 see Elizabeth
Paxton Pettit Vogelsong p107 Cora
Peach w/o WL Peach b Litchfield,
MI 14 Feb 1882 d Alvordton,
OH 3 Dec 1902 @20Y 9M 19D m WL Peach 18
Dec 1898 lost infant
child; Cora had typhoid fever as did her husb survived by
husb, mother, sisters funeral at
alvordton ME Church under pastor EG Brumbaugh bur
Emanuel German Cem near West Unity p30-31 - John
Peach d Thurs (no
date) of Bright's disease @68Y 4M 27D b Summit Co,
OH, 30 May 1830 m1 Leah Lents,
dec 4 ch - 2s
William & Frank, dau Mary, son Lewellyn, dec m2 Amanda
Landis, d/o Jacob & Mary Miller Landis, 20 Sept 1866 ch: Trelah,
Nina, Arthur dec, Warrie father W1812
vet; he CW vet Co H 3rd OVC from West Unity, 4 Mar 1864 bro Samuel
& son William CW Vets went to Pike's
Peak for gold for 2 years then back to West Unity; spring 1867 to Millcreek
Twp funeral
conducted by Rev Rittenhouse bur Floral
Grove Cem, West Unity p8 - infant
daughter of Warie L. and Cora Peach b. 17 Oct 1899 d. 22 Oct 1899
@5D bur Floral
Grove, West Unity p143-144 John
H. Pennock d 28 Oct (no
year) at home on North Cherry St, Bryan @80Y 9M 29D b Alliance,
Stark Co, OH 29 Dec 1820 m 28 Aug 1844
Mary A. Painter, dec 22 Mar 1898 2d Mrs.
Elizabeth Carson, dec 19Y of age, Mrs Sadea(Hugh) McPhail member of
Quakers survived by
dau, aged bro & sis p78 Franklin
Peoples d 4 Nov 1899
at home in Chicago, IL; res 30Y survived by
wife, bros, sis funeral at
home (554 East 50th St) bur Rose
Hill Cem b Bryan, OH 6
May 1848 p128 129 -
Hiram H Peppard * b Washington
Co, PA moved @age 6
w/parents to Wayne Co, OH apprenticed
@age 12 to tailor m Araminta
Smurr moved to West
Unity 1847 CW vet Co D
195th OVI d West Unity 6
Jan 1900 apoplexy moved here
1847 member of Free
Masons; 1st Mason in NW Ohio funeral
First Presbyterian Church under Superior Lodge F & AM w/Rev Stockton bur Floral
Grove Cem p104, 112-113
W. Frank Pepple d home of
mother Mrs. Wm Buck, Stryker, OH 5 Sept 1902 @33Y 8M 1D father WI
Pepple b Brady Twp;
when young moved to Stryker w/parents; later to Defiance, OH w/father
manufactured bricks and tile funeral at
Stryker bur
Shiffler Cem p174 see Elizabeth
Paxton Pettit Vogelsong p101 see Nancy
Phinney Bailey p90 Stephen
Pierson b Eaton,
Madison Co, NY 23 Oct 1811 d home of dau
Mrs. HA Osbourne of Bryan 21 Dec 1896 @85Y 1M 29D dau was
manager of Park Hotel and he came w/her 1Y ago wife d
Jonesville, MI 1886 p114-115 Elinor
Whisler Pifer b 4 June 1816
Berks Co, PA d home of
grdau at Ambrose, OH 15 Feb 1902 @85Y 8M 11D moved
w/parents to Richland Co, OH 1822 m George Pifer
1846 5 ch 3s 2d husb, 3s, 1d
all dec member of
Mennonite Church survived by
1d, 10grch, 6 gr-grch funeral at
Fayette under Rev DM Rittenhouse bur
Fayette Cem p47 see Nancy
E. Pifer Fisher p95 Nathan
Pifer b Rome,
Richland Co, OH 20 Dec 1839 d 15 June 1888
@48Y paralysis bur
Oakland Cem obit from Shelby
Times baptized at 9M
by Rev Samuel Leiter of German Reformed Church CW vet of Co E
3rd Reg OVC M Mrs. Lydia
Miller 12 Jan 1873 and lived in Shelby, OH p178 William
Boyd Piper only ch of
Hugh & Nellie Piper b 20 Nov 1897 d 13 Feb 1899
@1Y 2M 23D funeral
Christian Church at Fayette, OH under Rev Money bur
Fayette Cem P27 - Rebecca
Newcomer Platt b 27 Dec 1819,
Chambersburg, PA d 29 Sept 1901
@81Y 9M 2D moved to
Richland Co, OH w/parents 1830 m JW Platt, 18
Oct 1837 3 ch, son
David Platt dec 1882; survived by Mrs. Lewis Beard & Mrs. William Clum of
Montpelier where dec lived and died to Wms Co 3
Aug 1841 funeral at
home of dau Mrs. Clum on East Ave, Montpelier conducted by Rev GW Long bur Riverside
Cem p7 see
Talitha A. Poulsen Rogers p131 see Mazina
Poynter Smith p179-183 Japheth
Leeds Prickitt & Phoebe S. Borton Prickitt * biographical
sketch Phoebe 11th
of 12 ch of Josiah Borton & Margaret Sharpe, who had 6s 2d bNJ and 3ch
near Lumberton, Clinton Co, OH b 5 Aug 1815
Clinton Co, OH, Quaker d near West
Unity 26 Jan 1901 @85Y 5M 21D father Josiah
w/family came to OH 1812; mother d1819; father m1820 Hannah Fairfield of VA,
had 2s, d1824; fahter m1828-29 Sarah Pendry of Charleston, SC later KY, d1846 Japheth 2nd
of 7s & 4dau of Isaac & Dorothea Joyce Prickitt b Medford,
Burlington Co, NJ d 14 Apr 1893
@77Y 8M9D worked for
grpa Daniel Joyce in sawmill moved to
Clinton Co, OH Mar 1838 m Phoebe S.
Borton 27 Dec 1838 moved to
Gorham Twp, Fulton Co, OH; lots of info on other settlers p215 Dr.
Horace Lyman Prouty * d 12 Aug
1962 @87Y Browns Nursing Home, Alvordton s/o Horace
& Jane Conn Prouty b Hebron,
IL 30 Sept 1874 wife Lena
May Hart, d/o Dr Frank O. Hart, m 28 July 1903; d 12Y ago survived by
2 sons Frank of Troy, OH & Lewis of West Unity, dau Mrs. Charles K
Anderson of Dearborn, MI, 10 grch, bro Edgar of Richmond, IL funeral
Hollinghead Funeral Home under Rev Campbell of Presbyterian Church bur
Floral Grove Cem p215 Lena
Mae Hart Prouty d/o Dr and
Mrs Frank O. Hart b West
Unity 1 Jan 1882 d 30 June
1950 @66Y 6M member of
Presbyterian Church 1893 m 28 July
1903 Dr. horace Lyman Prouty 3ch
Frank & wife Rosemary of Troy, OH, Lewis of West Unity, Dorothea &
husb CK Anderson of Dearborn, MI, 5 grch funeral
Presbyterian Church under Rev Stevens p69-70 William
H. Radabaugh b Jackson Co,
OH 31 Sept 1826 d home near
West Unity 24 Mar 1906 @79Y 5M 24D enlisted in
Union army 1862-1865 m 1865 Minerva
Teal 4 ch 1d,
3s funeral at
Evangelical Church under Rev McDivit bur Shiffler
Cem p211 see Nell
Ratalczak Allen p12 see Frederika
Rausch March p187-188 Nathan
Ray b Holmes Co,
OH 24 Sept 1836 one of 12ch;
moved to Whitley Co, IN 1840 w/father moved to Wms
Co 17Y ago wife dec July
1900; bur Alvordton Cem; lived w/son 3ch 1s
living survived by
1s(Simon) 1 adopted dau(Mrs. Maggie Poulson) 3bro 2sis joined
Hicksville Church of Christ funeral under
Rev Grant Spear of Hicksville p51 Sarah
B. Doty Raymond b Morrow Co,
OH 23 June 1845 d home in West
Unity 26 Mar 1902 @56Y 9M 3D moved to Wms
Co w/parents fall 1848, then West Unity 1850; w/parents to Pioneer 1859 school teacher
for 19 terms m 20 Jan 1876
Samuel C. Raymond 4 ch 2s/2d
with husb survive funeral at
Franklin ME Church by Rev BF Gordon of Pulaski bur Franklin
Cem funeral
attendees from distance Wm Raymond of Galion and bro MM Doty of Greenwich p37 - Emaline
Harden Hudnett Reader b 18 Mar 1818,
Guernsey Co, NJ d 10 Aug 1901
res of son William E. Harden, Ft. Wayne, IN @83Y 4M 22D moved
w/parents to Chesterville, Morrow Co, OH; m1 William Harden there, d 1-2 yrs
later ch - 1 son
William m2 William
Hudnett, 14 Feb 1861; moved to Stryker; tailor; d summer 1871 m3 Henry
Reader 23 Aug 1872; d 6 Sept 1892 West Unity moved to son's
home Jan 1901 joined
Presbyterian Church 1856, Fredericktown, OH; later Mt. Salem funeral
Presbyterian Church under Rev JP Stockton bur Mt. Salem
Cem, Franklin Twp p15 - Cludia
Wagman Rempp b.
Switzerland, 13 Oct 1813 d 2 Apr 1900
@86Y 5M 19D, near Kunkle to US 1841 to
Ashland Co, OH m Michael
Rempp, 1841; he d. 15 Aug 1893 2 children,
both dec; she survived by 3 grand and 5 gr-grand 1854 moved
here; joined Beaver Creek Reformed Church funeral by Rev
A Grether of Archbold bur Beaver
Creek Cem p171 Charlie
A. Resler b Springfield
Twp, Wms Co 29 Mar 1861 d Montpelier
home of bro George 17 June 1903 @42Y 2M 18D m Anna
VanFossen 17 Nov 1889 s/o Robert
& Margaret Resler; father d 17 Mar 1891 survived by
wife, mother, 4bro, 5sis funeral
Strayer UB Church under Rev Yantis of Pioneer & Landis of Montpelier p56 see Nancy
Reynolds Baker p103 see Angeline
Rhodes Moore p93 Henry
Richards funeral at
Methodist church in Bryan under Rev WM Habey & Rev FK Gamble dec was few
days over 80Y (no date) p184-185 John
Richardson b Ashland Co,
OH 30 Sept 1853 d home Kunkle,
OH 23 June (no year) @52Y 8M 23D m1 Julian
Bodine 25 Dec 1873 7ch 22Y ago lost
wife when moved to Kansas; later returned to Wms Co m2 Julia
Haines 1 july 1893 survived by 2s
1d aged father 3bro 1sis p211 George
C. Rings b West
Unity 4 Dec 1872 s/o George & Catherine Casebere Rings d home West
Unity 14 Feb 1942 @69Y 2M 10D m 1 Mar
1896 Nettie Mae Allen of West Unity; m Baton Rouge, LA survived by
wife, ch Margaret Alice Weber of Cleveland, Catherine Anna Rings at home,
George Edward Rings of Findlay, 3 grch, 1sis Mrs. Wm Holtengton of Findlay;
preceded in death by parents, bro Edward, half-bro JH Miller, sis Mrs. William
Stockton, son James Allen Rings joined
Presbyterian Church in 1896 funeral
Beach Funeral Home under Rev Trubee bur
Floral Grove Cem p209,211
George T. Rings d home on
Catherine St @75Y Wednes (no date) funeral
Hollingshead Funeral Home bur
Franklin Cem last local
desc of grfather John Rings who platted West Unity 1842 p198-199 Clark
H. Ritchey obit from Shelby
Daily 18 Jan 1907 b Shelby, OH 5
June 1870 moved
w/parents to Wms Co m 13 May 1890
Lois G Webb 2ch Lloyd,
Ruth moved to West
Unity; Aug 1899 to Shelby d apoplexy worked at
Shelby Electric Co funeral
Presbyterian Church under Rev Stockton, Money bur Floral
Grove Cem p102 Ellen
Barkley Rittenhouse d/o Samuel
& Elizabeth Barkley b Ashland Co,
OH 17 Jan 1849 d 9 Nov 1904
Hillsdale, MI apoplexy m Samuel
Rittenhouse 21 Feb 1869 5 ch 2 dec survived by
husb, 2s Charles, Earl of Hillsdale, 1d Corra Orr of Garret, IN, aged
father, 3 sis Mrs. Harvey Maurer, Mrs. Geo Mercer, Mrs. John Dustin, 1 bro
Bishop HL Barkley of Oregon funeral
conducted by Wm & CA Hagaman at UB Church in Pioneer bur Floral
Grove Cem p214 Mr.
Rhoades partial
obit wife d 16
June 1931 came to
West Unity to live 1922 preceded in
death by parents, 3sis, 3bro survived by
son Leland, dau Lottie, 2 stepdau Alymira of West Unity & Gertrude Snyder
of Naperville, IL, 2 step grch, 1 bro Rev Edward F. Rhoades of Nashville, MI,
1 aunt Mrs. Alleman of Kunkle, 6 nieces 9 nephews p145 Joseph
Armstrong Robison b
Chambersburg, Franklin Co, PA 22 June 1812 d 8 Mar 1901
@88Y 8M 16D moved to Stark
Co, OH as young man, then Columbiana Co, OH where m1 Margery Ann Schrock, d
1846 5ch 3s,
2d, 1s dec m2 1850
Prudence McCloud moved to West
Unity 1851; he kept first library in Brady Twp spring 1857
moved to Monroe Co, IN; then 8Y ago aft death of wife came to daus home (Mrs
BS McGrew); carpenter, cabinetmaker member of
Seventh day Adventist funeral
home of dau under Rev Stockton bur
Shiffler Cem p77-78 see Jane
Rockwell Spencer p105 see Mary
Jane Roddy Holtzberg p73-74 see
Elizabeth Rogers McLaughlin p191 Minerva
Rogers b near
Fayette, OH 29 Apr 1858 d home West
Unity 2 Mar 1907 @48Y 10M 4D moved
w/parents to Plymouth, IN m 11 Apr 1888
John T. Rogers survived by
husb, father of Madison, AL, bro of Argus, IN funeral
home under Rev Hawk, Stockton, Coslet bur
Shiffler Cem p7 -
Talitha A. Poulsen Rogers d. 20 Jan 1897 b. Harrison
Co, OH, 8 Jan 1839 m. Eli Rogers,
21 Dec 1858; came here shortly afterward near Alvordton; lived in Fulton Co,
OH for 10 years 5 ch, 5s/1d, 1
son died infancy member of
Clay's Evangelical Church for over 20Y; pastor EM Renner bur Franklin
Cemetery p91 see Dora
A. Rolland Beaty p152 see Eliza
Jane Roseborough Blydenburg p108,162
see Mary Araminta Rosenborugh Brown p19 - John
Randolph Roth b Switz, 22
Mar 1822 d 29 July
1902, home of Joseph Leek, Wms Center @80Y 4M 7D to US 1850 to
Wooster, Wayne Co, OH where mar 4Y later, Serene Motter, d 26 Mar 1898 aft mar to Wms
Center funeral at UB
Church, Wms Center by Rev MR Ballinger bur Farmer Cem p199-200 Isabelle
V. Long Runnion b Knox Co, OH
12 Dec 1842 d 22 Feb (no
year) @64Y 2M 10D m Dr. JN
Runnion 17 Feb 1874, d 26 Feb 1892 4ch Edna
of Pittsburgh, Nella & Bessie, Earl of Mt. Vernon, OH, 2nd
mother to ET Runnion of Van Wert, OH, Mrs. Mary B. Long of Mt. Vernon, Joseph
Runion d 7 Apr 1884 @17Y member of
Methodist Church funeral
Methodist Church under Rev Hill, Money, Stockton bur Floral
Grove Cem p40 see Catherine
Rutledge Warner p154-155 Lavina
Barnes Sanford d 17 Nov 1898
home of North Defiance paralytic stroke funeral
Brunersburg ME Church under Mrs. Boggs & Dr Latchaw bur
Brunersburg Cem d/o Jesse
& Lucy Barnes b St Lawrence
Co, NY 10 Mar 1825 m WP Sanford
11 Aug 1844 moved to St.
Joseph Twp, Wms Co 3 miles from Edgerton shortly after mar, later to Infirmary
Farm of Defiance Co 9 ch 6
survive: Marian L (Mrs. William Scott) of Dennis, KS, Mary E (Mrs James A
Miller) of Joplin, MO, Kate Z (Mrs. BF Bostater) d 1 July 1895, Sheldon E of
Noble Twp, Defiance Co, Nettie H (Mrs. BF Bostater of Ney, OH), Orpha D (Mrs
FA Goddard of Defiance), Seneca A of Hicksville, OH, Mason P d infancy,
Virginia M (Mrs. JH Fortney of Fayette, OH) d 16 Apr 1887 p13 - Cora
Severence d. 21 Feb
1899, @34Y at home of Stephen Stucker; appendicitus; single funeral from
ME Church under Rev Cook, Disciple Church of Fayette [d/o David and
Esther Knapp Severence] p183 -184 N.
Inez Scannel only dau of WH
& ME Scannel b 18 May 1880 d 13 June 1898
@18Y 26D Gary, IN funeral ME
Church under Rev Gilchrist, Shepersky, Knight p40 - John
Schaffer b Franklin Co,
PA 19 Jan 1821 d home West
Unity 4 Nov 1896 @75Y 10M 15D came to Oh
w/parent 1839 and settled in Richland Co close to Mansfield near Spring Mills;
m1 25 Feb 1846 Leah Stock, d 4 Oct 1876 9 ch - 2 died
infancy & Charles @28Y moved to Wms
Co 1864 at site of Alvordton m2 19 Jan 1881
Elizabeth Bricker in Shelby, OH; moved to West Unity joined German
Reformed Church and later Lutheran Church funeral at
Presbyterian Church under Rev JP Stockton bur Primrose
Cem p208 Charles
Schuch d home of
son Herdie east of West Unity 19 Dec 1940 @76Y 3M 2D s/o Jacob
& Rebecca Schuch b
Williamsport, PA 17 Sept 1864 m 22 Feb 1887
Nettie Case, d 6M ago 2ch survived by
son Herdie, dau Mabel, 2bro William of Union City, MI & Harry of Anaconda,
MT, 3 sis Emma Bastian, Phoebe Williamson, Harriet Lusk of Williamsport, PA funeral
Beach Funeral Home under Rev AC Rainsberger bur Floral
Grove Cem p164-165
see Christiana Schulltheis Eithel p132 David
Shafer b 14 Feb 1819
Carroll co, MD d home 31 Jan
1899 @79Y 11M 17D m Mary Ann
Smith 4 Apr 1843 11 ch 7
survive funeral
Pulaski Reform Church under Rev RV Gilbert p68-69 Ida
Shafer obit from Daily
Globe, Shelby, OH, 16 Feb 1904 d home of half
brother RP Bricker prior to death
visited by Misses Hazel Crawford, Muriel Smith, Venetta McCaskey dau of Mrs.
Elizabeth Shaffer survived by
mother, 3 half-bro, 1 half-sis: RP Bricker, John Bricker, Henry Bricker, Mrs.
JW Chamberlain of Toledo, OH funeral from
home of RP Bricker by Rev Parks of Reformed Church bur Oakland
Cem p59 infant
child of M/M Ora Shaffer d 20 Nov 1899 bur Primrose
Cem w/ Rev Mason officiating p28 - Lizzie
McGrew Sharples b Metz, IN 14
May 1879 d 14 Sept 1902
@23Y 4M, home in Montpelier bur former
home Pleasant Lake, IN m 28 Mar 1899,
Charles E. Sharples at Christian Church survived by
husb, dau Lilliam Mae, parents, 3 sis, 8 bro p134-135 Henry
Shawley d 5 Jan 1899
@67Y 7M 23D b Carlisle,
Cumberland Co, PA 12 May 1831 age 16Y
apprenticed to chair, cabinetmaker & painter age 21Y w/2sis
& bro-in-law moved to Richland Co, OH m Ann
Elizabeth Wise 28 Aug 1854 Mansfield, OH moved to
Crestline, Crawford Co, OH, 2 oldest sons Solomon & William born spring 1859
moved to Gorham Twp, Fulton Co, OH; ch b Adelbert & Army spring 1862 to
West Unity; rest of ch b 12 ch 7s
5d, 2 dec Daisy & Laura joined Me
Church at 17Y age, later Crestline Baptist Church, then West Unity ME Church
where funeral took place under Rev Stockton bur Floral
Grove Cem ch
Solomon, William, Army of Bryan, Thomas E of La Crosse, WI, Adelbert, Jacob,
John, Mrs. Louise Baum, Mrs. Jennie Collamore, Mary also present
M/M Charles McGowan of Munson, MI (Mrs. Shawleys sis), other relatives p45 - Jacob
Shelly s/o Jacob
& Mary Shelly b Quakertown,
Bucks Co, Pa 13 Dec 1813 d 22 Jan 1899
@85Y 1M 9D moved
w/parents to Westmoreland Co, PA m1 Catharine
Myers, 24 Sept 1835; d Hancock Co, OH 15 Feb 1851 ch - 4s/5d;
2s/2d dec m2 Susan
Stuckslager, 1851; d Sept 1892, Montpelier 1 son dec 4
May 1873 moved to
Jefferson Twp 1863; 1880 to West Unity, then Montpelier m3 Catharine
Bechtel, 30 Sept 1894 member of RUB
Church under Rev Wm Hagaman bur Shiffler
Cem relatives
Samuel **** & wife of Grand Ledge, MI, dau; M Shelly & wife of Carson
City, MI, son; S. Shelly of Findlay, OH, son; Grace Shelly, Bryan, grdau; Rev
CS Bolton, Cameron, Neb, son-in-law; Harry G Shelly of Defiance, nephew; David
Neil & wife of Bridgewater, dau p67 John
Shepard d Hicksville,
Defiance Co, OH @67Y; lived there for 40Y 25Y @ grain
elevator CW vet in 1864
in 13th Indiana Infantry 30Y member of
ME Church survived by
wife, 3ch p52-53 see Martha
Lois Shepardson Connell p176 William
Sheridan, Jr. b Greensburg,
Westmoreland Co, PA 20 Oct 1825 moved to Wms
Co w/parents 1840 near Bryan; helped organize Bryan Presbyterian Church 1850 set up
store w/Col. William Miller; 1865 w/Col. Chase in Stryker m 1851 Martha
A. Stubbs, d/o Judge William M. Stubbs; she d 1875 3ch
William, dec; Mrs. Una Knapp of Defiance; Mrs Myra Ray of Vicksburg, Miss d Stryker 5
Sept (no year) @72Y 10M 5D funeral
under Rev ED Jacobs of Bryan p84-85 Barbara
A. Shipman b
Northumberland Co, PA 28 Mar 1835 d home near
West Unity 23 Jan 1903 @67Y 9M 25D m Ely Shipman
15 Mar 1853, d 18 Aug 1897 5 ch 2s,
3d joined
Presbyterian Church in PA; here joined Mt. Salem Presbyterian funeral
Presbyterian church under Rev JP Stockton bur Floral
Grove Cem p174 Samuel
Shirren d home near
West Jefferson 20 Nov 1904 @87Y funeral
Lutheran Church b High Ham,
Somersetshire, England m Elizabeth
Gaylor 1839, d 25 Nov 1882 2 dau moved to US
1847 to NY, then New London, OH, then West Jefferson p78 Elizabeth
Shoe b 15 Apr 1820
York Co, PA d 6 Nov 1899
@79Y 6M 21D 1826 w/parents
came to Holmes Co, OH; 1832 w/parents to Wood Co, OH m 1842 David
Shoe 1852 moved to
Wms Co 4 ch 3s,
1d, 3 of whom survive joined UB
Church funeral at
home under Rev CM Eberly & JS Tedrow p12 see Susannah
Shoemaker Martin p92 Catharine
Talley Shook b near
Wooster, Wayne Co, OH 24 Feb 1845 d Wms Co 1 Mar
1902 @57Y 5D m Eli Shook 21
June 1866 9 ch 4d,
5s survived by
husb, 3s, 2d, 3bro, 4grch p143 Allie
Wise Showalter youngest dau
of John & Sarah Wise b Bryan 8 Jan
1857 m 25 Jan 1885
William Showalter 3ch Don,
Earl, & Rose Bud, dec survived by
husb, 2ch, 4sis(Mrs. Amanda Wilson, Mrs. Mairia Shiffler, Mrs. Mary Hootman,
Mrs. Arminda Neff) d 28 Oct 1901
@44Y 9M 20D member of ME
Church w/husb Aug 1889 funeral ME
Church bur
Fountain Grove Cem, Bryan p70, 130 Andy
J. Shultz s/o George
& Emma Shultz b Jefferson
Twp 10 Dec 1890 d 1 Mar 1902
@11Y 2M 21D peritonitis survived by
parents, 2 bro, 4 sis funeral at
home by Rev WW Landis p171, 185 Jacob
Shultz b Richland Co,
OH 1 Jan 1835 d home West
Unity 19 May 1906 @71Y 4M 18D 1844 moved
w/parents to Jefferson Twp, Wms Co on Robert Burns farm m 21 Dec 1856
Catharine Miller, d/o neighbor John H Miller 8ch 2dec
as youngster and son Todd @32Y; others John of Shelby, Bert of Jackson, MI,
Mrs Nellie Webb of Bryan, Mrs Cora Wisner of West Unity other
survivors 1 bro Joseph of Jefferson Twp, 1sis Mrs Henry DeGroff, 2halfbro
William of West Unity, George of Hamer lived in West
Unity 34Y member of ME
Church, Odd Fellows funeral
home under Rev Money, Stockton, Hill bur
Shiffler Cem p112 see Della
Viola Smith Murphy p106 see Ella
Smith Snow p69 James
Smith b south of
West Unity 6 June 1855 d home in
Fulton Co, OH 25 Apr 1905 @49Y 9M 19D m Susie Strock
7 Nov 1878 ch 2d, 3s;
1 son Johnny died in infancy bur Floral
Grove Cem, West Unity p55 Lena
Smith d/o M/M Samuel
Smith b 2 Sept 1901 d 28 Sept 1901
@3 weeks 5 days p131 Mazina
Poynter Smith d/o M/M Nat
Poynter d home of
parents in Pioneer 15 Nov (no year) @29Y 9M 6D consumption b Pioneer 10
Feb 1870 m 27 Oct 1892
Joseph F Smith of West Unity joined First
Presbyterian Church of West Unity left for
Colorado for 1Y to seek cure for health; returned 6M ago p96 William
Smith b Fulton Co,
OH 6 aug 1844 d 27 Mar 1900
@55Y 7M 21D moved
w/parents to Wms Co 1848 CW vet 38th
OVI when 18Y Survived by
dau, 2s, 1sis, 2bro Funeral at
home of dau Mrs. Barnhart under Rev DC Hollinger p41 - Mary
E. Ferguson Smithley b 3 Apr 1849
Shelby, OH d 13 Feb 1899
@ 49Y 10M 10D Shelby, OH home m JH Smitley,
10 Nov 1879 West Unity ch - 3, all d
at early age joined
Presbyterian Church when 16Y funeral
Presbyterian Church under Rev JP Stockton bur Floral
Grove Cem survived by
Mrs. Vina C. Perkins of New London, sister & Mrs. OM Denman and Miss Cora
Smitley, sis of husband p86-87 Mary
Jane Smitley b Salem,
Columbiana Co, OH 9 Feb 1847 d home north
of west Unity 27 Feb 1905 moved to West
Unity 1863 w/parents survived by
2bros, 5sis; one bro JH Smitley p106 Ella
Smith Snow d home in West
Unity 21 Nov 1903 @27Y 6M 19D w/o Charles W.
Snow, m 26 Nov 1896 b Brady Twp 2
May 1876 funeral at ME
Church under Revs Philpott & Stockton bur Floral
Grove Cem p187 Elma
J. Snow b Lysander, NY
1 Aug 1828 d home West
Unity 13 Nov 1906 @78Y 2M 12D moved to
Pioneer, OH 1843 as teacher m OP Snow 1853 lived last 15Y
w/dau Mrs. Mary Snow Holt(WC) survived by 1d
3s 2bro 2sis; 1dau dec p43 - Jonas
Snyder b York Co, PA
26 Oct 1826 d 26 July 1903
@ 77Y 9M moved
w/parents to Morrow Co, OH 1835 m 24 Sept 1848
Sarah Held, d 30 June 1903 ch - 2s/2d moved to
Fulton Co, OH 10 Oct 1861; 5 May 1862 to Wms Co moved due to
failing health 17 Apr 1902 to dau Mrs. Isaac Lester joined German
Lutheran Church as child survived by
2s, 2d, 18 grch, 6 gr-gr p20-21 see
Mary L. Held Snyder Freeman p203 CC
Spade 5th
of 7ch of Christopher & Ann Margaret Spade b Hamer, OH
16 Apr 1856 d Toledo 15
Dec 1914 @58Y 7M 29D member of
UB Church; had buggy accident survived by
5 nieces 10 nephews 3 sis-in-laws funeral
home of nephew George Spade of Pioneer under Rev Money bur
Franklin Cem p113 Cornelius
Spade b north of
West Unity 6 Feb 1859 d 31 Jan 1905
@45Y 11M 25D joined UB
Church at West Unity as youth; later joined Franklin ME Church, then later ME
Church in West Unity m1 Emily A.
Mann 24 Sept 1882 dau Daisy,
survives m2 30 Oct 1894
Eunice Ely of Fulton Co, OH ch 3s 1d
dau dec at 5M of age survived by
wife, 3s, 1d, 1bro CC Spade funeral at ME
Church in West Unity under Revs Hill, Money, Coslet, Stockton bur
Franklin Cem p93-94 see
Anna Spangler Yhalkee p96 Edith
Hannum Spangler d home in NW
Twp 28 Sept 1903 @41Y 6M 19D last and only
ch of widowed mother b NW Twp (no
date) m WO Spangler
14 Dec 1882, still living funeral at NW
UB Church under Rev GW Long bur Rogers
Cem p28 - Jacob
Speed d 20 Sept 1902
@77Y 2M 20D, paralysis survived by
wife, several children, grch p166 Ira
Howard Spencer d home
Hicksville, OH 9 Sept 1898 @29Y 6M 4D b east of West
Unity 5 Mar 1869 m 5 June 1890
Nellie Burr of Hicksville 2ch dau
age 7Y, son 4Y moved to
Hicksville 1890 funeral
home under Rev DE Linsey bur
Hicksville Cem survived by
wife, 2ch, father, 1sis, 1bro p81 James
Allen Spencer d home of
cousin Mrs. William Ehrat of Stryker, OH 13 Sept 1901 @6Y 6M 10D b Rawlings,
WY 23 Feb 1895; mother d 1896; gr-ma Mrs. Allen Spencer of West Unity brought
him to Wms Co; she d 3Y ago; taken in by Mrs. Ehrat and husb funeral
Presbyterian Church of West Unity under Rev JP Stockton bur
- Floral Grove Cem p77-78 Jane
Rockwell Spencer funeral at
Presbyterian Church under Rev JP Stockton bur Floral
Grove Cem out of towners
M/M Levy, Mrs. Charles McLaughlin, Mrs. AJ Vernier, RH Betts, Jacob Ehrat
Jr, L Vernier of Archbold p96-97 see
Eliza Fickle Spidle Graves p28 see Elizabeth
Cronrath Spotts Cooper p106 John
Sprelling b Germany 6
Dec 1818 d 15 July 1902
@82Y 7M 9D member of
German Reformed Church m2x in Germany survived by 2nd
wife, 1st
wife had 8 ch, 5 survive, 2 in Germany 3 in US; 2nd wife had 7 ch
5 survive funeral at
church near his home (no location) under WM Habev bur Bryan
Cem p169 Charley
Stahl kill by rr
engine ne of Primrose 16Y old s/o
Samuel Stahl; making hay that day (no dates) coroner Dr. SS
Frazier rendered decision Loren Treat, bro-in-law took
body to fathers home in Primrose
p185 Eliza
Lutz Stahl d home of dau
Mrs. Richard Gamble (no date) b Seneca Co,
NY 29 Sept 1830 m Michael
Stahl fall 1846 3ch Mrs.
Gamble, 2s one dec 20Y ago, Reuben of Fayette joined when
young German Reformed Church moved to
Fulton Co, OH 1856 south of Fayette survived by 1d
1s 5grch 5 gr grch funeral ME
Church at Fayette under Rev Huffman bur next
to husb Fayette Cem p49-50 Robert
Starr b Richland Co,
OH 18 June 1818 d 10 Jan 1899
@80Y 6M 22D parents from
Ireland early years
worked in IL at stone quarry m after 30Y of
age to Rebecca Wilson 4 ch 2 of
whom dec elected to
Ohio State Senate moved to Brady
Twp, Wms Co 1864 bur Shiffler
Cem funeral
conducted by Rev Lucy of Fountain Chapel p24 - Levi
Stauffer b 2 Oct 1823 d 22 Mar 1899
@75Y 5M 20D m Mary Myers,
2 Oct 1845 6 ch - 1s/5d
with 1d dec to Wms Co 1875 member of UB
Church at Beaver Creek bur Beaver
Creek Cem funeral at
Disciples Church in Bryan p125 see Mary
Emma Stewart Crow p13 see Anna
S. Steyer Zigler p188 see Anna
Mary Stock Hellem p117 Robert
Stockdale b 23 Oct 1826
Green Co, PA d 16 Aug 1902
@75Y 9M 23D moved to
Morrow Co, OH w/parents 1832 m 1849 Lottie
Conger 5 ch 2s
3d, 2 dec survived by
wife, 1s 1d 6grch 2gr-grch 4bro 1sis joined Baptist
church 1858 moved to
Fulton Co, OH 1861 p46 - Abner
Stoner d 14 Mar 1900,
Garrett, IN; previously at Battle Creek Sanatarium until 2 days of d b 21 Feb 1835
Mansfield, OH moved
w/parents to LaGrange, IN where father d moved to West
Unity w/mother m 1854 Jane A
Cox of West Unity children -
4s/1d survived by
wife, 2s, 1d, 2bro funeral ME
Church at Garrett under Rev Haines bur Butler, IN
16 Mar 1900 p146-147 Gracie
May Stoner only dau of
Dr. Ira J & Rose E. Stoner b Bradford, OH
4 Nov 1895 d 19 Mar 1898
@2Y 4M 13D mother
recently dec bur
Shiffler Cem p167 Harriet
Held Stoner d home of
nephew Henry Snyder north of West Unity 16 Mar (no year) @74Y 3M 4D b
Schaeffersstown, Lebanon Co, PA 12 Dec 1824 moved
w/parents to Richland Co, OH 1833 m William
Stoner bet1840-1849, d 20 Apr 1897 1 dau who d
@3Y came to Wms Co
1861 funeral
Walnut Grove Church under Rev Miller p77 Rosella
Clark Stoner d/o M/M
William Clark of Jefferson Twp b 8 Apr 1872 d Clark home
24 Jan 1898 survived by
husb, dau, parents, 2bro, 2sis funeral at
Pleasant Ridge Church under Rev William Hageman p80-81 William
Stoner b 7 Nov 1824
Berks Co, PA d home ne of
Primrose 20 Apr 1897 @72Y 4M 13D left PA
w/parents 15 June 1825 for Franklin Twp, Richland Co, PA m Harriet Held
in 1840s dau d @3Y 1861 moved to
Millcreek Twp survived by
wife, 3 sis, 1 bro funeral from
Walnut Grove Church under Rev Smith bur Walnut
Grove Cem p40-41 - Joseph
C. Strock d 23 March (no
year) @ 67Y 10M of consumption s/o John &
Susan Strock b Franklin Co,
PA 28 May 1830 came to OH
w/parents 1832; apprenticed age 18 w/Miller & Emerson harnessmakers of
Shelby, OH m Rebecca
Bargahiser, 17 June 1852; b Richland Co, OH 9 June 1830, d/o Levi & Susan
Bargahiser of VA; Rebecca d 2Y ago children -
Charles, Samuel, Susan, Levi moved to Brady
Twp 1857 Aug 1862
enlisted Co C 100th OVI; discharged 1865 survived by
father aged 94Y, 3 sis, 2 bro, 1s, 1d funeral German
ME Church under Rev Money bur Floral
Grove Cem p68 see Catharine
Lippy Sturgeon Mitchell p186 see Lizzie
Sturgis Collamore p84 Anna
C. Eberly Suter b Jefferson
Twp, Wms Co, OH 8 Mar 1861 d 23 Nov 1896
@35Y 8M 15D m 10 Oct 1880
Jacob Suter 5 ch 4s,
1d, of whom 1s, 1d dec survived
mother, husb, 3s, 3bros, 1sis funeral at
Reformed Church at Beaver Creek bur Floral
Grove Cem with Rev Frank G. Bogart officiating p73 see Mary
Suter Eberly p92 see Catharine
Talley Shook p105-106 Margaret
Talley b Brownsville,
Licking Co, OH d home near
Bryan 26 Sept 1901 injured as
youth and lived w/aunt grad Ironton
HS, seminary for young ladies in Norristown, PA, devoted life to music joined ME
church aunt dec 12Y
ago; spent 10Y in West Unity funeral at
home under Rev Stockton survived by
mother, 3sis p35 - Gottlieb
Tanner d before 22nd
(no date) near Ambrose, Franklin Twp, Fulton Co, OH @pos 30Y decayed
remains found by men in woods & bloody razor nearby, treated as suicide wife left him
6 weeks ago survived by
wife & child near West Unity p165 Reverend
J. S. Tedrow b Delta,
Fulton Co, OH 10 Nov 1851 member of UB
Church at age 13Y 1876 license
to preach m1 Phoebe
Osborne 10 Nov 1874, dec 5Y ago m2 Dora E.
Shiffler 29 June 1897 d 11 Mar (no
year) @49Y 4M 1D funeral UB
Church under Bishop JW Hott of Dayton p103 Elizabeth
Thompson d near West
Unity 26 Dec 1890 @93Y b VA 1796 came to OH
1833 member of UB
Church p50 Emanuel
Throne b York Co, PA
1 July 1827 d home in West
Unity 8 May 1906 @78Y 10M 7D moved to Wms
Co 1849 m1 Margaret J.
Taylor, d 25 Apr 1888 4ch
Jefferson of Alvordton, Warren of Montpelier, Mrs. Falkner of West Unity, Mrs.
Victor Campbell of Mansfield m2 Mrs.
Harriet Zuver, 1 Sept 1890 2s Ernest,
Leslie funeral from
Primrose Church by Rev WS McDivitt bur Primrose
Cem p85 Charles
Tomlinson only s/o WS
Tomlinson of Farmer Twp, Defiance Co, OH d Sat (no
date) @27Y typhoid fever contracted when at Chickamauga, GA visiting soldiers p50-51 Magdalena
Hagelberger Traxler sec d/o Caspar
and Magdalena Hagelberger b 13 Feb 1853
Genessee Co, NY d 11 Oct 1903
@50Y 8M 23D survived by
husb, son, mother, sis, bros; father d 1890 moved to
Fulton Co 1858; later to Wms Co m 1880 Simon
Traxler and lived in Kunkle son Frank member of old
Center Church but funeral at Kunkle by Rev Vaughen p8 - David
Tressler b. Stark Co,
OH, 4 Mar 1832 d. 16 Dec 1898
@66Y 9M 12D, heart failure moved here
w/parents 1839 to W. Jefferson m Elizabeth
Schaull, 25 May 1856 ch - 6s/9d;
survived by wife, 9children, 2 brothers, 1 sister member of
Lutheran Church since 13 Feb 1859; Rev Exline bur West
Jefferson Cem p114, 173 Arminda
Bohner Landaw Van Horn d home of
consumption @35Y 7M 15D (no date) youngest dau
of M/M John Bohner b West Unity
15 Oct 1868 moved
w/parents to Hicksville, OH m1 3 Sept 1885
William H. Landaw, Hicksville, dec 3 Jan 1897 3 ch
Estella of Toledo, Harrison, Dale moved to
Alvordton shortly after 1st mar m2 SA Van Horn
23 Dec 1901 1898 converted
to Disciple Church under Rev Draper funeral at
Disciples Church under Rev Stockton of Presbyterian Church bur Floral
Grove Cem p74 see
Eve Vicker Barnhart p166 see Hannah
Voce Jacobs p174 Elizabeth
Paxton Pettit Vogelsong b Columbiana
Co, OH 15 Sept 1816 d 5 Feb 1904
@87Y 4M 20D m Charles
Vogelsong 16 May 1839, d 1889 8 ch 4 dec survived by 2d
2d 6 grch 4 gr grch moved to West
Unity Apr 1866 funeral ME
Church under Revs Coslet, Stockton, Philpott bur Floral
Grove Cem p111-112, 168
Laura E. Miller Vogelsong b Jeromeville,
OH 13 Sept 1852 d home in West
Unity 31 July 1902 @49Y 10M 18D m AW Vogelsong
3 Sept 1872 2 ch son
Arthur L who d 18Y ago, dau Grace A joined ME
church 1886 funeral at ME
Church under Rev Coslet & Stockton bur Floral
Grove Cem p15 see Cludia
Wagman Rempp p211 Jacob
E. Walcott s/o Henry
& Sarah Ashcraft Walcott b Coshocton
Co, OH 17 Oct 1866 d Flower
Hosp, Toledo, OH 11 Oct 1928 @61Y 11M 24D 4th
ch of 8, all of whom dec plus parents moved to
Freedom Twp, Henry Co, OH w/parents 1875 m Adah
Greek 18 Apr 1889 no ch but
adopted Adabelle & Winnifred who mar bro Ralph & Ruell Foraker of
Chicago; grson Robert Walcott Foraker; 2 wards Mrs. Arthur Warner(Ione Murray)
& Loretta Alberry joined
Kunkle church long list
of those attending funeral p132 George
William Walt b Burkley Co,
VA 29 May 1822 d 25 Aug 1898
@76Y 2M 26D m susan greene
14 Oct 1839 Circleville, OH 2 ch Emmet,
Alice 1842 joined
Circleville Lutheran Church came to Bryan
1851; tailor shop 1853 appointed
postmaster joined
Fountain City Lodge of Odd fellows Dec 1856 p161 Roy
W. Wantzig s/o Henry
& Laura Wantzig b 21 Apr 1894 d 10 Oct 1902
@8Y 5M 19D survived by
father, 1bro, 1sis; mother d 2 1/2Y ago funeral
Lutheran Church at Karle under Rev West bur Karle
Cem p40 - Catherine
Rutledge Warner b 15 Mar 1837
Richland Co, OH d 18 Aug 1896
@ 59Y 4M 3D m William
Warner 1 Oct 1858 2 children
(William Francis & Henry) moved to Wms
Co 1860 res West Unity
and Hamer became
Christian c1865 p29 - see Mariamene
Warner Ayres p99-100 Helen
Lutz Dawson Warren b Hocking Co,
OH near Tarlton 21 Oct 1818 d home of son
Peter L Warren in West Unity 2 May 1906 @87Y 6M 11D father Peter
Lutz, mother Barbara Eby m1 Israel
Dawson spring 1835; journeyed to Peoria, IL where he died 1838 m2 William H
Warren 1 Apr 1845 moved fall
1846 Wms Co; he d June 1876 10 ch 4s,
6d; 2s, 2d dec 39 grch, 6 dec;
50 gr grch, 5 dec, 8 gr-gr-grch, 1dec also survived
by 2 sis, 6ch, 91 grch funeral at
Fountain Chapel ME Church under Rev Hill bur
Shiffler Cem those who came
from a distance M/M Thomas Towers, M/M Harrison Rutledge & dau Nina of
Waldron, MI; George Towers of Prattville, MI, Willis Towers of Morenci, MI,
Mrs. Hattie Beggs of Toledo, M/M Sylvester Hillard of Pioneer, Mrs Mary Davis,
Mrs. Nancy Simpson, M/M JG Holmes of Bryan, M/M Ray Warren of Alvordton, M/M
Carl Beach of Montpelier p151 Alexander
Waterston b Dalkeith,
Scotland 6 Apr 1805 s/o Simon Waterston & Elizabeth Thorburn parents died
young so Alex reared by grparents age of 20
became baker m Janet Forest
20 Aug 1829, dec moved to US
May 1832 w/ch Simon & Alex Jr, to New York on 4 July 1832 visited aunt
in Wheeling, WVA Aug 1832 fall 1832 to
Belmont Co, OH 1841 moved to
Richland Co, OH; bought land in Bridgewater Twp 27 Oct 1852 sec 28 240A fall 1853
moved there ch Simon,
Thomas, James, David, William, Mary, Elizabeth; was family of 9 w/dec David,
Thomas, James Simon vet CW
Co H 38th OVI and Co C 196th OVI p150-151 James
G. Waterston d home in
Bridgewater Twp @ 66Y 7M 4D b Belmont Co,
OH 6 Mar 1837 m 26 May 1863
Emily Brandebery 5ch 2s 3d;
Emmor dec survived by
wife, 1s 3d 2grch 2bro 2sis funeral
home under Rev Wm Clark bur
Heritage Cem member of ME
Church; res of Bridgewater for over 50Y p185-186 Robert
Watson b 15 May 1824
Copley, Summit Co, OH d home of dau
Mrs AE Hall 8 Mar 1907 @82Y 9M 21D went to Allen
Co, IN @20Y of age m Electa L
Wells 1 apr 1849 7ch 3s 4d,
1d and wife dec member of UB
Church 1903 at Kunkle survived by
6ch 24 grch 11 gr grch funeral at
Presbyterian Church at Kunkle under Rev Rittenhouse bur cem
south of town p7 -
Sarafina D. Young Weaver d. Kunkle, OH
15 Aug 1898, @ 84Y 13 D home of son-in-law George Weidner b. 2 Aug 1814,
VT m1 Jacob
Young, 22 Dec 1833; he d. 2 June 1860 to OH 1837 11 ch, only 3
survive: Mrs. Adaline Rutler of Camden, MI; Mrs. George Weidner of Kunkle;
Jacob Young of Pulaski m2 Elisha
Weaver, May 1861; later moved to West. Unity where he died 1862 she
joined Beaver Creek Reformed Church p168 George
Washington Webb b near Salem,
OH 1 May 1825 moved to Iowa
where he enlisted in CW 2nd IA Cavalry made home w/dau
Mrs. Samuel Currieand then w/grdau Edith Currie one of 9bros
& 4sis ch Mrs.
Currie of Park River, Jesse Webb of Seattle, WA funeral
Episcopal Rectory under Rev WJ Hutcheson bur
Euclid, Minnesota Cem family plot obit from Park
River, ND Gazette News p170 see Sarah
Webster Jones * p210 Alvin
H. Wheeler d 28 Dec 1936 had children;
no other data p16 - Mary
Clark Wheeler b. Cumberland
Co, PA 19 Aug 1824 d. 11 Aug 1903
@79Y 11M 23D moved at 2Y of
age w/parents to Richland Co, OH m. William
Wheeler when she was 18Y; 2Y after m moved near West Unity; later moved to
Kunkle 13 children;
one son David d. @12Y survived by
6s/2d, 47 grand(there were 49), 23 gr-grand(there were 25), 1 bro, George
Clark member of
Evangelical Church funeral at
Presbyterian church under Rev George F. Chenot of West Unity bur Kunkle Cem p58-59 Barbara
Bilistine Whetro b Germany 18
Feb 1846 d 7 July 1902
@ 56Y 4M 19D came to US
w/parents 1849 to Mansfield, OH m Henry Whetro
8 Dec 1866 Mansfield, OH moved to Wms
Co 1885 5 ch 3s,
2d, all survive her joined
Clays Church, 1892 joined Radical UB Church at Kunkle survived by
husband, 5 ch, 5 gr-ch, 2 sis, 1 bro p114-115
see Elinor Whisler Pifer p94-95 Frank
White s/o Edward
& Christina White b Wms Co, OH
20 Oct 1867 d home
Jefferson Twp 10 May 1902 @34Y 6M 20D m Allie
Lattanner 1 Jan 1889 served as twp
trustee & assessor survived by
wife, 3ch, aged father, 5 bros, 4 sis funeral at
home under Revs Turner & West bur
Shiffler Cem p43 see Susannah
Wilhelm Oldfield p92-93, 164
Harriet L. Miller Willett d parlor of
Williams Hotel when she boarded (no date) @64Y 2M 12D b 4 Nov 1838
d/o John & Rebecca Miller, early settlers of Wms Co m OD Willett
18 Jan 1856, dec 1 Mar 1902 funeral at
home of Mandana Willett of Bryan under Rev Kohr bur
Fountain Grove Cem, Bryan p25 /48- OD
Willett d Bryan home 1
Mar 1902 @almost 67Y b Richland Co,
OH 23 Mar 1835 youngest of
huge family to Wms Co 1851
w/parents grocery store
in West Unity c1856 m
Harriet E. Miller bro Benjamin
Willett fall 1870 went
to Kendalville, IN for marble and granite trade to Bryan 1881 p144-145 Edna
D. Williams d 2 Jan 1903
home of cousin Mrs. Dr. Hathaway of Edon bur
Fountain Grove Cem, Bryan funeral at
home of Mrs. JD Gleason under Rev Wean of ME Church & Rev Thomas Kohr of
Presbyterian Church b Farmer,
Defiance Co, OH 26 Jan 1858 parents moved
to Bryan when she was child consumption
led her to visit Colorado 1890s millinery
business in Ypsilanti, MI survived by
mother & sis p213 Dr.
RB Wilson d 14 Feb
19*8 once pastor
of West Unity & Kunkle Presbyterian Church 1914-1920 had dau
Lena May missionary lived near
Westerville, OH p24 see Barbara
Wineland Koch p63-64 Cora
Esther Zigler Wineland b Jefferson
Twp, Wms Co, OH 5 Jan 1872 d home 24 Feb
1903 @31Y 1M 19D, scarlet fever youngest d/o
Reuben & Catherine Zigler m Jay Wineland
1 Nov 1894 ch 2s. 1d,
son Harold d 5Y ago @18 M; son Daniel E b 5 Apr 1902 d 5 Mar 1903 @11M survived by
husb, dau Ruth, aged mother, 1 bro, 2 sis; father d 8Y ago memorial
service at Bunker Hill Church by Rev Chenot and West p35 - Ellen
Oliver Wineland b Jeff Twp,
Wms Co, OH 7 Nov 1835 d 25 Jan 1903
@ 67Y 2M 18D m John
Wineland, 14 Feb 1858 7 ch - 5s/2d,
2s/2d dec survived by
James of Bryan, Samuel & Charles of W. Unity, husb, 1gr-ch, Grace Wineland
of Bryan joined Bunker
Hill Reformed Church under Rev Skinner Ladies Aid of
church as pallbearers: Maggie Jones, Lucinda Burns, Tibby Leinard, Ollie Stipe,
Anna Altaffer, Mellie Tressler funeral at
home & church under Rev Geo Chenot bur Shiffler
Cem p117-118
see Nancy Wineland Long p18-19 - James
Wirick d. dau's home,
Mrs. GD Kunkle of heart trouble (no date) b. Richland
Co, OH, 3 Apr 1817, eldest of 16 child of Peter and Deborah Huntsman Wirick,
nat of PA; Peter to Richland Co when young man and mar there; W1812 vet; Peter
d. 1882; Mrs. D.1880, both in Richland Co 1849 came to
Brady Twp w/wife & family m. 1841, Mary
Shaffer, nat of Bedford Co, PA, d/o Henry & Catherine Shaffer, also of PA 10 children not church
member but sympath. w/Universalists; Repub; one of oldest Brady Twp settlers p143 see Allie
Wise Showalter p132-133 Herman
A. Wolff b Malchin near
Hamburg, Germany 20 Feb 1850 d Bryan 18
June 1898 @49Y accidental
shooting; taken to home of bro David A Wolff funeral
by Rabbi Julius Meyers of Toledo and Rev Doggett & Jacobs bur
Fountain Grove Cem father
intended him to be a rabbi came to US Dec
1869 to bro Davids home p94 see Magdalena
Wotley Hagelberger p147 Archbold
Wright d home near
Edgerton on Friday (no date) typhoid fever young man he
leaves wife, son p191 Joseph
Wright b 5 Mar 1828
near Wakefield, Yorkshire, England 1853 moved to
US in Richland Co, OH for 3Y then returned to England for 1Y m 1861 Hannah
Runnion, sis of Dr. Runnion of Wms Co, she d Aug 1893 d 12 Feb 1907
@78Y 11M 7D funeral
Presbyterian Church under Rev Stockton; uncle to LL and Belle Barnett bur Floral
Grove Cem p191 Telemachus
Wynn b Knox Co, OH
27 July 1826 d Bourbon, IN
27 Feb 1907 @70Y 7M moved
w/parents to West Unity 1863 m Martha Boon
1861, she d 12 Dec 1894 moved to
Wauseon to work w/Henry Bachman in ag implements and lived in Morenci, MI in
employ of CA Packer & CA Howe remains
brought back to Wms Co for burial p175-176 A.
Yesbera d West
Unity; apoplexy in store of CL Arnold; later d (no data) funeral
home under Rev Stockton & Coslet p93-94 Anna
Spangler Yhalkee d home ne West
Unity 8 Dec (no year) @41Y 4M 14D b Fulton Co,
OH 4 Aug 1859 parents live
in Burlington, OH m George
Yhalkee 18 Aug 1877 5d one of whom
dec; one living Mrs. WE Stipe survived by
4dau, husb, parents 3sis, 6bro, 1grson joined
Evangelical Church but also Mennonite funeral at
Mennonite Church of Burlington under Revs Allion & Bender bur cem at
church p29-30 - Henry
Elwood Young s/o Jacob
& Nancy Young b 23 Mar 1869 d 22 Oct 1898
@29Y 6M 29D grew up on
farm of mother 41/2 miles south of Montpelier member of West
Bethesda Presbyterian Church under Rev Miller p109 Mary
Harrington Brown Young b 11 Jan 1820
Eastern PA d 1 Dec 1902
@83Y to OH 1838 at
Trumbull Co where m James Brown; dec fall 1866 moved to Bryan
aft marriage 9 ch all
dec m2 John Young,
dec funeral by Rev
Thomas H Kohr bur
Pulaski Cem (see Native
Sons Gone Wrong, Pamela Pattison Lash, 2001, for more details on this family) p7 see
Sarafina D. Young Weaver p83 Thomas
Young obit from Toledo
Times d bef 19
June (no year) @67Y in barn construction accident at farm of WE Stough, Bryan once mentioned
as candidate for mayor of Bryan survived by
wife, 3s, 1d p13 - Anna
S. Steyer Zigler d/o George
& Sophia Steyer b. 6 May 1862,
near West Unity d. 24 Nov 1900
@38Y 6M 18D, Karle, OH m. Jacob
Zigler, 3 Feb 1881 ch - 4s, one
of whom dec member of West
Jefferson Lutheran Church, 9 Feb 1879 survived by
husband, 3 sons, 3 sis, 2 bro funeral West
Jefferson Lutheran under Rev WM Habey of Bryan p19 see Catharine
Zigler Dustin p63-64 see
Cora Esther Zigler Wineland p84 Ephraim
Zolman d 14 Dec 1892
@81Y 4M b Maryland 14
Aug 1811 moved
w/parents to Knox Co, OH 1813 m1 1836
Elizabeth Heron, d 1842 2 ch 1s,
1d - Mary m2 1843
Melinda Stockdale, d 25 May 1877 3 sons fall of 1861
moved to Wms Co survived by 5
ch, 4bros, 1sis funeral at Mt.
Salem Presbyterian Church in Franklin under Rev DM Rittenhouse p72 Velma
Myrtle Zolman eldest dau of
M/M William Zolman b 15 Mar 1896 d 24 Mar 1906
@10Y 5D survived by
parents, 1 sis, 1 bro funeral
Hamer Presbyterian Church by Rev WS McDivitt bur
Franklin Cem p173 Henry
Zuver s/o George
& Lydia Zuver b near Bryan
23 Aug 1866 d home of
parents 25 May 1903 @36Y 9M 2D tuberculosis survived by
aged parents, 4bro, 7sis moved to West
until 2 Nov 1903 funeral under
Rev CH Burgener and K of P
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