HANCOCK COUNTY, OHIO - Biography: Sarah Funkhouser ***************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. ***************************************************************************** Submitted to the Ohio USGenWeb Archives by: Jane Hunter Hodgson Tucson, Arizona hodgson@azstarnet.com http://208.199.40.215/genealogy/index.html January 12, 1998 ***************************************************************************** Sarah Funkhouser ________________________________________________________ ________ 10 May 1827 Born in Pickaway County, Walnut Twp, Ohio to Daniel & Catherine (Deisinger) Funkhouser 1826-1829 Father died in Pickaway County, Ohio 1830 Census Pickaway County, Ohio with John Treece & mother 1830 Mother married John Treece, Pickaway County, Ohio, age 3 1831 Half-sister, Elizabeth born & died, age 4 1832 Half-sister, Rachel born, age 5 1833 Brother Amos thrown from horse and died, age 6 1834 Half-sister, Susan born, age 7 1835 Farm (inheritance) sold Pickaway County, Ohio, age 8 16 Apr 1836 Guardian Henry Treece purchased land Hancock County, Ohio, age 9 1840 Census, Hancock County, Jackson Twp, Ohio with John Treece, age 13 1841 Guardian Edgar Goit, age 14 7 Jul 1844 Sister, Eliza married John Thompson, age 17 26 Nov 1846 Married Joseph Barnhill, Hancock County, Ohio, age 19 8 Apr 1847 Sister Mary Jane married Edward Sparks, age 20 21 Sep 1847 Robert Daniel born, Wayne County, Paint Twp, Mount Eaton, Ohio, 20 9 Jul 1849 Laura Jane born, Wayne County, Paint Twp, Ohio, age 22 14 May 1850 Laura Jane died, Wayne County, Paint Twp, Ohio, age 23 1850 Wayne County, Paint Twp, Ohio, age 23 5 May 1851 Tobias Gabriel born, Ohio, age 24 1853 Moved to Hancock County, Liberty Twp, Ohio, age 26 14 Nov 1854 Flora Anne born, Hancock County, Liberty Twp, Ohio, age 27 3 Mar 1856 Mary Isabel born, Hancock County, Liberty Twp, Ohio, age 29 18 May 1858 Sarah Catherine born, Hancock County, Liberty Twp, Ohio, age 31 25 Sep 1860 William A. Douglas born, Hancock county, Liberty Twp, Ohio, age 33 1860 Census, Hancock County, Liberty Twp, Ohio, age 30 or 33 SE corner Sec 19 21 Feb 1863 Infant son born & died same day, age 36 24 Apr 1864 John Sherman born, Hancock County, Liberty Twp, Ohio, age 37 28 Oct 1868 Jacob Wheaton born, Hancock County, Liberty Twp, Ohio, age 41 1870 Census, Hancock County, Liberty Twp, Ohio, age 43 27 Jun 1872 Flora Anne married Pearson B. Holden, age 45 6 Sep 1874 Mary Isabel married James Madison Radebaugh, age 47 1879 Mother died, living with Sarah, age 52 1880 Census, Hancock County, Liberty Twp, Ohio, age 53 26 Aug 1886 Sarah married George Kramer, age 59 11 Apr 1888 William married Ella Jones, age 61 1892 Daughter Sarah Catherine died of typhoid fever leaving 2 small children 17 Jan 1894 Jacob married Alice Victoria Smaltz, age 67 21 Jul 1895 Husband died, age 68 31 Jul 1899 Died in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio, buried Maple Grove Cemetery age 72 ________________________________________________________ _______ Descendants of Sarah * FUNKHOUSER Generation No. 1 1. SARAH *15 FUNKHOUSER (DANIEL *14, JACOB *13, JOHN *12, CHRISTIAN *11 FANKHAUSER, DAVID *10, HANS *9, HEINRICH *8, HANS *7, NIKLAUS *6, HANS *5, CLEWI *4, CLAWIN ZUM *3 FANCKHUSS, HANSEN ZUM *2 VANGHUS, HANS ZUM *1) was born 10 May 1827 in Pickaway County, Walnut Township, Ohio, and died 31 July 1899 in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio. She married JOSEPH * BARNHILL 26 November 1846 in Hancock County, Ohio, son of GABRIEL BARNHILL and NANCY MCCURDY. Children of SARAH FUNKHOUSER and JOSEPH BARNHILL are: i. ROBERT DANIEL16 BARNHILL, b. 21 September 1847, Mount Eaton, Wayne County, Ohio; d. Seneca Falls, New York; m. ELIZABETH ELLEN SCHWAB, 25 November 1869, Hancock County, Ohio. ii. LAURA JANE BARNHILL, b. 09 July 1849, Mount Eaton, Wayne County, Ohio; d. 14 May 1850, Mount Eaton, Wayne County, Ohio. iii. TOBIAS GABRIEL BARNHILL, b. 05 May 1851, Wayne County, Ohio; d. 31 May 1929, Findlay, Hancock County, Liberty Township, Ohio; m. MARY JANE REININGER, 15 January 1874, Hancock County, Ohio. iv. FLORA ANNE * BARNHILL, b. 14 November 1853, Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio; d. 14 April 1903, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; m. (1) PEARSON BUNYAN * HOLDEN, 27 June 1872, Hancock County, Ohio; m. (2) WELLINGTON BENNETT, 1897, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. v. MARY ISABEL BARNHILL, b. 03 March 1856, Hancock County, Liberty Township, Ohio; m. (1) JAMES MADISON RADEBAUGH, 06 September 1874, Hancock County, Ohio; m. (2) SYLVESTER SIDDALL, 31 March 1881; m. (3) DOWNEY O. ELLIOTT, 12 May 1923. vi. SARAH CATHERINE BARNHILL, b. 18 May 1858, Hancock County, Liberty Township, Ohio; d. 26 September 1892, Rawson, Ohio; m. GEORGE KRAMER, 26 August 1886. vii. WILLIAM A. DOUGLAS BARNHILL, b. 25 September 1860, Findlay, Hancock County, Liberty Township, Ohio; m. (1) ELLA JONES, 11 April 1888; m. (2) GERTRUDE JANE KNISELY, 10 December 1918. viii. INFANT BARNHILL, b. 12 January 1863, Findlay, Hancock County, Liberty Township, Ohio; d. 21 February 1863, Findlay, Hancock County, Liberty Township, Ohio. ix. JOHN SHERMAN BARNHILL, b. 24 April 1864, Hancock County, Liberty Township, Ohio; d. 24 April 1864, Hancock County, Liberty Township, Ohio. x. JACOB WHEATON BARNHILL, b. 28 October 1866, Hancock County, Liberty Township, Ohio; d. 06 March 1945, Toledo, Ohio; m. ALICE VICTORIA SMALTZ, 17 January 1894. ________________________________________________________ ________ SARAH FUNKHOUSER was just two years old when her mother married JOHN TREECE. Sarah's father had died while her mother was pregnant with her and she and her two sisters and one brother were considered orphans who had a court appointed guardian. HENRY TREECE, JOHN's brother, was the guardian to the children when John married SARAH's mother. The family then moved to Findlay, Ohio. SARAH met her future husband, JOSEPH BARNHILL in Findlay, Ohio. ________________________________________________________ ________ GUARDIANSHIP (age 9) Pickaway County, Ohio Guardianships Know all men by these Presents that Whereas at the July Time of the Court of Common Pleas of Pickaway County 1835 in a certain suit in said court pending wherein Henry Tres, as Guardian of ELIZA, MARY and SARAH FUNKHOUSER minor children of DANL FUNKHOUSER decd was Petitioned and the said Minors and JOHN TRES and wife were defendants; the said Petition was by said Court ordered to sell at Public Sale certain Real Estate hereinafter described being the property of said minors subject to the right of Dower of the Wife of the said JOHN TRES, therein she being the late Widow of said DANIEL FUNKHOUSER decd and wherein the said Henry Trees, Guardian as aforesaid in presence of said Order did on the 5th day of September AD 1835 on the previous sell said Real Estate subject to the Dower right aforesaid at Public Auction to SAMUEL and JOHN RECTOR for the sum of Sixteen Dollars and 18 3/4 cents per acre which said sale and the proceedings relative thereto being Reported to said Court at the proceedings relative thereto, being Reported to said Court at the November term thereof in the year last aforesaid were by the said Court approved and confirmed, and the said Petitioner was by said Court ordered to execute and deliver to the said purchasers a deed in fee simple for said Real Estate, all of which will more fully appear by reference to the Records of the proceedings of said Suit in said court remaining and to which references is here made. Now Therefore be it known that I the said HENRY TREES, Guardian as aforesaid in consideration of the previous and by virtue of the Power and Authority in me Vested by the aforesaid orders of the Court and the law of the land do give grant convey and confirm unto the said SAMUEL and JOHN RECTOR the aforesaid Real Estate so sold to them as aforesaid. Being the West half of the North West Granter of Section No Twenty two (22) of Township No Nine (9) in Range No Twenty one (21) Mathews Survey Situate in said County of Pickaway and State of Ohio estimated to contain Eighty nine acres be the same more or less, Subject to the Dower right aforesaid. To Have and to Hold the said premises with all the improvements and appurtenances (except as aforesaid) to them the said SAMUEL and JOHN RECTOR and to their heirs and assigns forever. In Testimony whereof the said HENRY TREES as Guardian of the said ELIZA, MARY and SARAH FUNKHOUSER do hereto set my hand and seal this 16th day of April 1836. Signed Sealed and Delivered in presence of Joseph Olds & John Ludwig HENRY TREES, Guardian, His Mark The State of Ohio Pickaway County Before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Henry Trees, this 16th day of April AD 1836 and acknowledged the signing and sealing of the foregoing instrument of conveyance to be his Voluntary act and deed as Guardian of ELIZA, MARY and SARAH FUNKHOUSER. Sworn under my hand and seal the day and year above witness. John Ludwig JP Received for Record April 16, 1836 ________________________________________________________ ______________ THE FUNKHOUSER FAMILY by Jacob Funkhouser Page 60 The subject of this sketch was the youngest of Uncle Daniel Funkhouser's children. It is regretted that the information relating to her descendants is not as full and complete as desired. Her appreciative son says: "I think of my mother's life as a graceful stairway, with seventy two steps gently rising into the seventy-third, and it seemed that each new step more of Christ and more of all the good and beauty of this world was breathed in by all the good and beauty of this world was breathed in by this climbing soul, and when Death's angel came to call her home, that messenger found this child of mortality already part of the way up, for she said just before she died, 'O, I hear such sweet music.' This climber did not need to look down and weep, but can still look up and find the step changed to a diviner marble, and see the Power, the Kingdom and Glory of God, forever." ________________________________________________________ ________ FAMILY HISTORY History of the Descendants of John Hottel. P.722 Sarah Funkhouser, youngest child of Daniel, b in Walnut Twp, near Circleville, Pickaway Co., O., May 10, 1827; d July 31, 1899; she was reared and educated in her native county and m Nov 26, 1846, Joseph Barnhill, son of Gabriel and Nancy Barnhill, b at Eaton, Wayne Co., O., May 29, 1825; d July 25, 1895. They were schooled in the hardships of pioneer days, and were industrious, frugal and hard working farmers residing six miles west of Findlay, O., where they died. Presbyterians. Robert Daniel Barnhill, b Sept. 21, 1847 Laura Jane Barnhill, b July 9, 1849; d May 14, 1850 Tobias Gabriel Barnhill, b May 5, 1851 Flora Ann Barnhill, b Nov 14, 1856 Mary Isabel Barnhill, b Mar 3, 1856 Sarah Catherine BArnhill, b May 18, 1858; d Sept 26, 1892 William A. Douglas Barnhill, b Sept 25, 1860 Infant Son Barnhill, b Jan 12, 1863; d Feb 21, 1863 John Sherman Barnhill, b Apr 24, 1864 Jacob Wheaton Barnhill, b Oct 28, 1866 ________________________________________________________ __________________ A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE FUNKHOUSER FAMILY by Jacob Funkhouser Page 63 Miss Sarah Funkhouser, the third daughter of Uncle Daniel Funkhouser, was born near Circleville, Pickaway county, Ohio, May 11th 1827. She was reared and educated in her native county. She married Joseph Barnhill, Nov 26th, 1846, and located at Finley, Hancock county, Ohio, where she died July 31st, 1899. They had ten children -- three died in infancy. Living: Robert Daniel, Tobias, Flora, Mary, Sarah, William and Jacob Barnhill. ________________________________________________________ ________ MARRIAGE (age 19) 218 Joseph Barnhill to Sarah Funkhouser Vol 2 page 59 License Issued November 26th 1846 certificate Returned as follows to wit The State of Ohio Hancock County I Mark Delaney a minister of the Gospel within and for said county do hereby certify that on the 26th day of November AD 1846 by virtue of a License issued by the clerk of the court of common pleas of the county aforesaid I joined together in Marriage Joseph Barnhill and Sarah Funkhouser. Witness my hand officially. Mark Delaney. Recorded March 29, 1847. M.L. Henderson Clerk By F.P. Henderson Dept Clk ________________________________________________________ ________ FEDERAL CENSUS 1830 Federal Census (age 3) ________________________________________________________ ________ 1830 FEDERAL CENSUS Pickaway County, Walnut Twp, Ohio Page 57 John Trees ___ Amos Male 10-15 ___ John Male 30-40 ___ Sarah Female 5-10 (Age 3) ___ Mary Jane Female 10-15 ___ Eliza Female 10-15 ___ Catherine Female 40-50 ________________________________________________________ ________ 1840 FEDERAL CENSUS (age 13) TREECE, John Jackson Twp, Page 41 ________________________________________________________ ___ 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS 1850 Federal Census, Ohio, Wayne County, Paint Township, page 46b or 92 Barnhill, Joseph 25 M Farmer OH Sarah 23 F OH (age 23) Robert 27 M Oh Wm. Montgomery 8 M OH Barnhill, Nancy 60 F PA Nancy 30 F OH Margaret 19 F OH Shaffer, Nancy J. 11 F OH Barnhill, David 27 M OH ________________________________________________________ ________ 1860 FEDERAL CENSUS, Ohio, Hancock County, Liberty Township, page 15 & 16 Barnhill, Joseph 35 M OH Sarah 38 F OH (age 33) Robert D. 17 M OH Tobias G. 9 M OH Flora Ann 6 F OH Mary E. 4 F OH Sarah C. 2 F OH ________________________________________________________ ________ 1870 FEDERAL CENSUS, Ohio, Hancock County, Liberty Township, page 13 Barnhill, Joseph 45 M Farmer OH Sarah 43 F Keeping house OH (age 43) Robert D. 18 M Farm Laborer OH Flora A. 16 F OH Mary I. 14 F OH Sarah C. 12 F OH William O. 10 M OH Jacob 3? M OH Barnhill, Tobias 23 M Farm laborer OH Ellen E. 18 F OH Funkhoser, Catherine 74 F VA ________________________________________________________ ________ 1880 FEDERAL CENSUS, Hancock County, Liberty Township, page 408 Barnhill, Joseph W M 53 Farmer OH PA PA Sarah W F 53 Keep house OH VA VA (age 53) Sarah C. W F 22 OH OH OH William D. W M 19 Laborer OH OH OH Jacob W M 13 OH OH OH ________________________________________________________ ________ Barnhill, Joseph husband Delaney, Mark minister Funkhouser, Daniel father Funkhouser, Jacob grandfather Goit, Edgar guardian Henderson, F.P. Deputy Clerk of Court Henderson, M.L. Clerk of Court Holden, Pearson B. son-in-law Hottel, Dorothy grandmother Jones, Ella daughter-in-law Kramer, George son-in-law Radebaugh, James Madison son-in-law Recktor, John & Samuel Smaltz, Alice Victoria daughter-in-law Sparks, Edward brother-in-law Thompson, John Woodward brother-in-law Tisinger, Catherine mother Tisinger, Peter grandfather Treece, John step-father Waggoner, Elizabeth grandmother ________________________________________________________ ________ ----