COLUMBIANA COUNTY OHIO - BIO: WALTER, DANIEL (published 1887)
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BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887
Page 685-686

        DANIEL WALTER, farmer, section 20, Wabash Township, came to this
county in October, 1839, with his parents and ten other children. He was
born in Columbiana County, Ohio, December 24, 1833, and was but six years
old when his parents removed to the county. The family located on Section
22, Wabash Township, where the father bought the right of entry of the land
for twenty dollars, of a man who had entered eighty acres the day before
the father reached Fort Wayne. At that time the roads were poor, and they
had to cut away brush to enable them to reach their future home. They moved
from Columbiana County with a two-horse team and covered wagon, camping out
a part of the time and sleeping in houses the rest of the time. The father
had to go to Pickaway to mill, a distance of fifty miles, a few times,
before a mill was built any nearer. They used to take their wheat to
Bremen, a distance of twenty-eight miles, and sell it for thirty-seven and
a half cents a bushel. Daniel married December 11, 1856, to Miss Margaretta
Smith, born April 4, 1836, in Portage County, Ohio, and when three years of
age was taken by her parents to Bremen, Fairfield County, Ohio. When eight
years of age her parents removed to Canton, Stark County, where she was
reared to womanhood. In  1836 she came to Jay County to live with a
brother, George Smith. She was accompanied by her sister Elizabeth, who
afterward became the wife of Adam Stolz. Mrs. Walter's parents, George and
Ann (Donoworth) Smith, were born, reared and married in Alsace, Germany.
They lived there six months after marriage, then emigrated to America and
settled in Portage County, Ohio. The father died in 1843, aged about thirty
years. He was killed by the falling of a limb when felling a tree. The
mother died in 1854, aged fifty-one years. They were the parents of seven
children -George, Margaretta and Elizabeth are living, and Ann, Michael,
Jacob and Barbara are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Walter have had ten children,
six of whom are living -William F., born November 5, 1857, and died March
3, 1860; Susanna E., born February 7, 1859, died June 12, 1862; Alla M.,
born January 8, 1861, married J.W. Burke; David S. and Daniel Sherman,
twins, born January 9, 1865; Edwin H., born June 7, 1867; Clarence W., born
January 19, 1870, died February 9, 1873; Frederick W., born May 12, 1872;
Orlando H., born May 5, 1875, died January 21, 1877, and Catherine A., born
February 9, 1877. Mr. Walter is a Republican in politics, and himself and
wife are members of the United Brethren church. Mrs. Walter's maternal
grandparents came to America with Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and both died in
Stark County, Ohio; they were born in Germany. Mr. Walter enlisted, July,
1861, in Company C, Thirty-ninth Indiana Infantry, with Captain Wilson,
First Lieutenant John Q. Lewis, and Second Lieutenant Curtis H. Clark. The
regiment joined General Buell's Corps at Louisville, Kentucky. His first
battle was the last day's fight at Shiloh. He was in all the engagements of
the regiment, being with General Sherman of his march from Chattanooga to
Rome, Georgia. Here the regiment veteranized and were mounted, and after
that were called the Eight Indiana Mounted Artillery.


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