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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 631 Today's Topics: #1 Krebs-Rufenacht Families in Tuscar [MWilli1008@aol.com] #2 Tuttle Cem Inscriptions, Palmyra t ["Mark & Sheri Nye" Subject: Krebs-Rufenacht Families in Tuscarawas County, OH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Krebs- Rufenacht Families in Tuscarawas County, Ohio 1. Samuel Krebs b. 10 Feb 1781 Niederwichtrach, Canton Bern, Switzerland d. 1856 Clay City, IN m. 28 Apr 1826 m. Magdalena Liechti b. 1777 Niederwichtrach, Canton Bern, Switzerland d. abt. 1845 Walnut Creek, Holmes County, OH Children and garndchildren: 11. Anna Krebs b. 26 Mar 1803 Oberstahl, Hochstein, Canton Bern, Swit. d. 26 Sep 1876 m. 28 Apr 1826 m. Peter Kurcher b. 14 May 1797 d. 20 Dec 1881 111. John Zurcher b. 25 Oct 1826 d. 14 May 1898 m. Rozina Steinbach 112. Peter Zurcher b. 17 Feb 1829 d. 1886 m. Anna Elisabeth Steiner 113. Christian Zurcher b. 13 Nov 1831 d. 27 Sep 1896 m. 21 Apr 1870 m. Rosetta Fankhauser 114. Anna Elizabeth Zurcher b. 19 Nov 1833 d. 1905 115. Andreas/Andrew Zurcher b. 17 Nov 1835 d. 17 Oct 1865 m. Mary Croft 116. Joseph Zurcher b. 2 Sep 1837 d. 13 May 1875 m. Margaret Croft 117. Rozina Zurcher b. 14 Sep 1839 m. 4 Apr 1862 m. James Malone 118. Anna Maria Zurcher(Mary) b. 5 Mar 1842 m. 28 Feb 1867 m. Edward Studer 119. Lydia Zurcher b. 18 Nov 1844 d. 7 May 1898 m. 31 Mar 1867 m. John C. Studer 110. Sophia Zurcher b. 13 Jan 1847 d. 15 May 1862 12. Magdalena Krebs b. 23 May 1805 Niederwichtracht, Canton Bern, Swit d. 7 Apr 1882 York Twp., Tuscarawas Co., OH bur. Jerusalem Ref. Cemetery, York Twp., Tusc. Co., OH m. Nicholas Rufenacht b. 21 Apr 1804 Switzerland d. 13 Sep 1873 York Twp., Tusc. Co., OH bur. Jerusalem REf. Cem. 121. Ann Rufenacht b. 1829 Swit. m. 14 Mar 1852 Evaan. Lutheran, Stone Creek, Tuscarawas Co., OH m. John Studer 122. Christian Rufenacht b. 1830 Swit. m. 26 Oct 1865 Tusc. Co., OH m. Margaret Winklepleck 123. Samuel Rufenacht b. 1833 Swit. d. 12 Jun 1894 Shanesville, Tusc. Co., OH m. 23 Jan 1856 Dover, Tusc. Co., OH m. Mary Horrisberger 124. Elizabeth Rufenacht b. 1837 Ohio d. 25 Oct 1912 bur. Dover, Tusc. Co., OH m. 30 Aug 1856 Dover, Tusc. Co., OH m. Jakob Horrisberger b. 1833 Swit. d. 1906 bur. Dover, Tusc Co., OH 125. Mary Rufenachr b. 1840 Ohio m. 23 Aug 1866 Tusc. Co., OH m Christian Esher 126. Susanna Rufenacht b. 13 Nov 1838 Ragersville, Tusc. Co., OH d. 7 Jul 1914 m.I 1 Jun 1856 Zion Church, Auburn Twp., Tusc. Co., OH m.I John Keyser m.II Christian Stoller b. 23 Sep 1816 Canton Bern, Swit. d. 7 Jul 1914 Tusc. Co., OH bur. Stone Creek, Tusc. Co., OH 127. John Rufenacht b. 25 Jul 1841 Shanesville, Tusc. Co., OH m. 13 Oct 1862 Goshen Twp., Tusc. Co., OH m. Catherine Balder b. 5 Nov 1823 New Philadelphia, Tusc. Co., OH d. 5 Jun 1913 Walnut Creek, Holmes Co., OH 128. Catherine Rufenacht m. 9 Aug 1866 m. Emil Welty 129. Magdaline Rufenacht b.c. 1846 m. 11 Mar 1867 Tusc. Co., OH m. John Schmitt 120. Daniel Rufenacht b. 15 Jan 1848 Ragersville, Tusc. Co., OH d. 10 Oct 1906 Tusc. Co., OH bur. East Avenue Cemetery, New Philadelphia, Tusc. Co., OH m. 15 Sep 1868 m. Elizabeth Liseser d/o Jacob Lieser and Margaret Fetzer b. 8 Jul 1848 Bavaria, Germany 17 Jan 1926 bur. EAst Avenue Cemetery. 13. Katharina Krebs b. Swit. m. 17 Nov 1836 Tusc. Co., OH m. Jacob Isley 14. Elisabeth Krebs b. 11 Oct 1834 Swit. m. 11 Oct 1834 Tusc. Co., OH m. John Speicher 141. Samuel Speicher b. 21 Sep 1835 142. Christian Speicher b. 1 Sep 1836 143. John Speicher b. 19 Oct 1837 144. Frederick Speicher b. 12 Nov 1838 145. Maria Magdalena Speicher b. 20 Jan 1840 146. Joseph Speicher b. 25 Mar 1841 147. Elizabeth Speicher b. 25 Mar 1842 148. Wilhelm Fridolin Speicher b. 13 Aug 1843 149. Catherine Speicher b. 6 Nov 1844 140. George Henry Speicher b. 23 Apr 1846 14A. David Speicher b. 10 Sep 1847 14B. Rosa Spseicher b. 26 Mar 1850 14C. Simon Peter Speicher b. 18 Mar 1852 14D. Daniel Speicher b. 10 May 1854 14E. Philip Speicher b. 8 Nov 1856 15. Maria Krebs b. Apr 1820 Niederwichtrach, Canton Bern, Swit. d. 16 Jul 1890 bur. Enterprise, WAyne Co., IL m. 8 Dec 1837 Zion Church, Winesburg, Holmes Co., OH m. Jacob Feller b. 25 Nov 1811 Canton Bern, Swit. d. 8 Dec 1863 Clay Col. IN 151. Christian Feller b. 14 Sep 1838 Holmes Co., OH d. 16 Sep 1928 bur. Kokomo. Howard Co., IN m. 22 Nov 1863 Miami Co., IN m. Elizabeth Berger 152. Maria Magdalene Feller b. 23 Jan 1840 Holmes Co., OH d. 24 Oct 1909 Clay City, Clay Co., IN m. 30 Mar 1866 m. Lorenz Schafer 153. Rosina Feller b. 26 Jun 1841 Holmes Co., OH d. 29 Dec 1904 Enterprise, Waynse Co., IL m. 17 Sep 1878 Enterprise m. Gottlieb Barth 154. Marie Feller b. 16 Oct 1842 Holmes Co., OH d. 15 Feb 1931 Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN m. 20 Oct 1859 Clay Co., IL m. George Smith 155. Samuel Feller b. 24 Jan 1844 walnut Creek Holmes Co., OH d. 17 Dec 1915 bur. Evangelical Cem., Enterprise, WAaynse Co., IL m. 19 May 1868 Bowling Green, Harriosn Twp., Clay Co., IN m. Elizabeth Miller 156. Elias Feller b. 7 Jul 1848 Holmes Co., OH d. 20 Jan 1882 bur. Evangelical Cem., Enterprise. m. 19 Oct 1867 Clay Co., IN m. Rosa Martha Siegle 157. Elizabeth Feller b. 31 Aug 1846 Holmes Co., OH d. Apr 1930 Kinmundy, IL m. 20 Oct 1870 Enterprise m. Christian Hiller 158. Caroline Feller b. 3 Nov 1847 Holmes Co., OH d. 17 Mar 1931 Chicago, Cook Co., IL m. 5 Nov 1874 Enterprise m. John Michael Hiller 159. Henry Feller b. 10 Feb 1849 Holmes Co., OH d. 7 Aug 1868 Clay Co., IN 150. Sophia Feller b. 7 Aug 1851 Holmes Co., OH d. 21 Jan 1886 Enterprise m. 21 Dec 1870 m. John Michael Miller 15A. Jacob Feller b. 11 Feb 1854 Clay City, Clay Co., IN d. 9 Nov 1926 Enterprise m. 21 Dec 1879 Ransom,l IL m. Anna Mary Schroeder 15B. Julia Feller b. 11 Jun 1855 Clay Co., IN d. 26 Aug 1892 Carmi, IL m. 4 Dec 1874 m. Emanuel Fhsein 15C. Adolphina Feller b. 3 May 1857 Clay Co., IN d. 25 Feb 1917 Enterprise m. 1886 to John Daniel Miller 15D. Paulena b. 17 Nov 1859 Clay Co., IN d. 1919 Fairfield, IL m. 13 Jan 1880 Grayville,l IL m. Louis Barth 15E. Theodore Ferdinand Feller b. 15 Jul 1861 Clay Co., IL d. 5 Dec 1920 Farina, IL m. 28 Nov 1886 Fairfield, IL m. Margaret Walz 15F. Amelia Matilda Feller b. 23 Jan 1864 Clay Co., IN d. 20 Feb 1942 Moweaqua, IL m. 19 Feb 1884 Enterprise m. Conrad Zindel August 1831: Anna Krebs and her husband, Peter Zurcher were the first family to come to America. sailing on the "Romulus von Braunschweig" and arriving in New York in August 1831. Anna was pregnant at the time with Christian. June 1835: Elizabeth appears to have migrated next, as there is a record in Switzerland of her having obtained a passport for travel to America on 30 Jun 1834. Sep. 1835: On the ship "Albany", leaving Havre, arrived in New York September 19, 1835. On this ship were: Rufenacht, Nicolas age 33 Farmer " Magdalena 26 " Susana 7 " Christian 5 Krebs, Christian 50 Farmer " Elisabeth 52 " Christian 23 Farmer " Daniel 22 Farmer " Samuel 54 Farmer " Magdalena 57 " Catherine 22 " Marie 22 Entered by Mary Meyers Williams ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 17:11:40 -0400 From: "Mark & Sheri Nye" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <007101beece2$eed5b6e0$3642b0d1@default> Subject: Tuttle Cem Inscriptions, Palmyra twp. Portage Co. Ohio Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" West Palmyra Cem. Palmyra twp. Portage Co. Ohio TUTTLE Cemetery Inscriptions Wealthy, died May 31, 1861 age 60 years. 7 mos. Joseph, died Aug. 1, 1850 age 56 years Thomas Omera, son of Joseph & Wealthy, died Feb. 22, 1842 James, died Nov. ??, 1869 age 79 yrs. Elizabeth, his wife, died Aug. ??, 18??, age ? "In Memory of John Tuttle" died Jan. 13, 1829 age 60 yrs. Phebe I., wife of I.D. died Sept. 7, 1876 age 21 Isaac, died Dec. 11, 1900 Martha L. Oct. 12, 1820- Mar. 17, 1908 Children of Isaac & Martha Sarah, Sept. 28, 1856 - Jan 1, 1859 Tibbals, jan. 27, 1862 - May 18, 1862 Mary, died Aug. 24, 1866 One Monument " Three darling children side by side. In the cold grave are laid. In our small flock the breach is wide. Deaths darts what not could be saved." John, died Aug. 5, 1845 age 2 yrs., 3 mos., 12 days Charles, died July 24, 1845 age 21 days Lydia, died July 29, 1945 age 4 yrs. 8 mos. Nellie Fisher Tuttle, June 9, 1887 - July 17, 1955 Sheri Nye, msnye@suite224.net ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 16:58:18, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908222058.QAA14246@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: SELF Look up Would the person who contacted me asking for a look up of the name Self please contact me. Gina aupq38a@prodigy.com ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 20:48:23 EDT From: Fldollfin@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Charles McKee b. 1857, Birmingham, Ohio Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Vol. ll of " The History of Allegheny Coungy Pennsylvania" 1889 pg. 523 Charles I. McKee, commission-merchant, Allegheny, was born Sept. 7, 1857, in Birmingham, Ohio, son of Daniel and Amelia (Evans) McKee, later of whom was born at New Castle, Pa. Daniel McKee, who was a native of Salem, Ohio, and a blacksmith by trade, moved, when Charles L. was quite young, to New Castle, where the latter was educated untill thirteen years of age. He (Charles I.) then came to Pittsburgh, where he worked for a grocer for a time; then entered the office of Brace Bros. laundry, as office boy, where he rose step by step until he was placed in charge of their office on Sixth street. At the end of nine years Mr. McKee resigned to accept a position as collector for William Moyle, Allegheny. Here he served three years, and then, in 1888, opened a commission-store at 33 East Diamond street, that city. Mr. McKee was married May 26, 1884 to Mattie E. Lloyd , sister of Mrs. Thomas Armstrong (see sketch of Thomas H. S. Armstrong), and they have one child, Margaret M. Mr. McKee is a member of the R.A. , A.O.U.W. , and Select Knights. Mrs McKee is a member of the M. E. Church. Their home is in Emsworth. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 21:59:09, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908230159.VAA14028@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: OTTAWA COUNTY PART 5 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 HAMILTON COUNTY PART 5 TRAVELLING NOTES A VISIT TO LAKESIDE AN OHIO CHAUTAUQUA -Lakeside is a peculiar place, a summer resort on the northeast shore of the Peninsula, about ten miles from Sandusky, with which there is constant communication by steamers passing to and from the islands. It is modelled after Chautauqua, and is owned by an association of gentlemen connected with the Methodist Episcopal church. It was founded in 1873 for the renovation of health and moral and religious instruction. The location is in a forest, on a level site, with an expansive lake view, the nearest prominent visible object being Kelley's Island, rising from the water four miles farther out in the lake. The grounds contain 175 acres, fronting the lake with a wharf. It is enclosed by a high barb fence, the entrance gates guarded, and it is under stringent police regulations. Neither tobacco nor liquors are allowed to be sold. The visitor is taxed for the use of the grounds; it is 25 cents for a single day, $1 for a week, and $2 for the season. I came here Saturday, by steamer, from Sandusky, to rest over the Sabbath. In the evening the police brought into the business office a neighboring farmer who had evaded paying entrance fee by crawling, snake-like, under the fence. The tongue-lashing he received from the gentleman in charge showed "the way of the transgressor is hard" -that is, when caught. A WHOLESOME COMMUNITY. -The place has a large hotel, a business office with a post-office, bathing houses on the shore, about 400 cottages, and an auditorium - a huge open shed with seats for 3,000. The cottages are scattered about in the woods, generally are mere shells, externally painted, internally not so; built usually at a cost of from $350 to $400 each; some, from $1,000 to $1,600. Then, tents are brought here and some go into camp. On rare occasions 6,000 have slept on the grounds. The visitors are largely school marms, mothers with children, and boys camping out. The cost of living and boarding is cheap. Some females hire cottage rooms and do their own cooking. I felt it good to pass a Sabbath in a place from whence unwholesome people were excluded, and the moral air was so good. The Methodists, from their eminently social nature, are the best of all religionists to manage such a retreat. On my trip over we passed Marblehead light-house, which is about two miles from Lakeside. Near that point are the famed Marblehead limestone quarries, which supply the best of limestone. The light-houses on the lakes are largely built with it, while a large portion of northern Ohio gets its lime from there. PREACHING TO THE WYANDOTS. -On the boat with me was an old gentleman, Rev. William Runness, a superannuated Methodist minister, who began his life in Portland, Maine, in 1802. He preached among the Wyandots once a quarter the last four years they remained in Ohio, he being the presiding elder in the district embracing them. As the Wyandots had no written language, he preached to them through an interpreter. This was Jonathan Pointer, a colored man, taken prisoner when a youth in the war of 1812 and adopted by them. The Wyandots were very emotional and excellent singers. Some of their members were prone to prolixity in speaking, and "sometimes," said he, "they had to choke them off. On one occasion I saw one of the sisters get very much excited during one of their meetings, when 'Between-the-Logs,' an ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a native Wyandot, struck up a tune and put her down. Then several speakers spoke and without interruption. 'Between-the-Logs' followed them, and had uttered but a few words, when the squelched sister, who had a loud, ringing, voice, began, at the top of her register, singing- "How happy are they Who their Saviour obey." 'Between-the-Logs' was fairly drowned out, and took his seat, as much overcome by the merriment as the music." SAVED ENOUGH TO BURY HIMSELF. -On the boat with us was an old gentleman whose talk was lugubrious. He was lamenting the degeneracy of the young men. "In old times," said he "boys were bound out to trades, and boarded with their employers, who looked after their habits, required them to keep good hours, and watched them with a father-like interest. With the introduction of machinery this is now all gone by. The young men are largely careless of money and dissolute. In my village of 1,000 people there are not three young men who do not drink and smoke; not one who has saved enough money to pay his funeral expenses, and yet there is not one who could not have saved enough to bury himself three times over." Considering the profession of my informant, his illustration was exactly in his line, and shows how prone mankind are, when they open their mouths, to introduce the shop -he was the village undertaker. When the old gentleman thus spoke, it was doubtless under a dreadful sense of great depression from the memory of unpaid bills. He had my sympathy. SOLDIERS REUNION. -At Lakeside was recently held one of those soldiers' reunions that have been so frequent since the war. These, with thinning, dissolving ranks of the old veterans -now fast getting into the sere and yellow leaf -will soon pass away and he held no more. Photography will preserve for posterity views of many of these meetings, and so help to keep alive and cherish the memory of those brave men who perilled all to save our beautiful country. The reunion that was lately held here was that of the Twenty-third Ohio, Gen. Hayes' old regiment. I have recently seen a photograph of it by Mr. Oswald, photographer, of Toledo. In the background, near together, are Mrs. Hayes, Stanley Matthews, Gen. Comly and Gen. Hayes. And it is a sad reflection that the ex-president is the only one of the four named at this present writing living. MRS. HAYES' SYMPATHY FOR THE SOLDIER. -On their left is the drum-major, a very old man, then up in the eighties, having enlisted at the age of 60 years. Mr. Oswald himself is shown in the foreground, holding a child. The interest in this picture is greatly enhanced by the presence of Mrs. Hayes. Indeed, without her, it could not be the Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Mr. Oswald tells me that when the regiment went into winter-quarters the general was wont to put his family into a hired house near by, when Mrs. Hayes became a sort of mother to the boys. Whenever any of them were sick her sympathies were keenly aroused and she was all attention. It is a precious time to the old soldiers -these reunions -the last of which, alas, is too near. The careless thinker, or observer, can have no conception of the sad joy of these men when they meet with more than brotherly affection and talk over their mutual experiences in that period of stupendous events -of bloody fields and agonizing hearts. The influence of these meetings upon these patriotic men, and the power of comradeship in the scenes through which they passed are beautifully delineated in a speech of Gen. Hayes at Cincinnati, August 10, 1889, before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion. From it we make this extract: SPEECH OF GEN. HAYES. COMMANDER AND COMPANIONS: Among our most cherished associates we have come to know that comradeship in the Union Army holds a place in the very front rank. It has given us a host of army societies, great and small.....From us and those who are nearest and dearest to us, what an addition the war for the Union has contributed to the attractiveness of our American society! Strike out from each of our lives, since the grand review at Washington, in May, 1865, all entertainments whose chief satisfaction, happiness and glory can be fairly traced to the comradeship of the war, and who does not see how meagre and barren those years would become? MEMORY'S REVIEW. -The interest which the war has imparted to our lives is not to be measured by the contemplation merely of assemblages that are marked by the turmoil and blare of multitudes marching with banners and gathered by music and cannon; but we must reckon, also, the ever-recurring hours of domestic and other quiet scenes, when in narrow and noiseless circles the tremendous events of our recent history, with their countless incidents, sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic and pathetic, are recalled, and pass and repass before us in never ending review. The pictures on our walls, the books we read with most delight, the magazines and newspapers, the collections of mementos and relics gathered in those golden years, all do their part to keep in fresh remembrance the good old times when we were comrades, and almost all seemed and were, true and brave. SOLDIERS' FRIENDSHIPS. -It is often said that, outside of the family, no tie is stronger, more tender, and more lasting than that of comradeship. This is not the time nor the place to compare as critics or philosophers the various sorts of friendship which grow up between men according to occupation and other circumstances. The fact we do know, and rejoice to know is that to meet our old commander, or the brave, good men we commanded, or the trusted comrade of many a camp and march and battle, is always like good news from home, and fills the heart to overflowing with happiness which no words can fully tell. ELMORE is nineteen miles west of Port Clinton, seventeen miles southeast of Toledo, on the L.S. & M.S. Railroad and Portage river. Newspapers: Independent, Independent, W. L. Foulke & Co., editors and publishers; the Elmore Tribune, Independent, Bradrick Bros., publishers. Churches: 1 Presbyterian, 1 Disciples, 1 German Methodist, 1 Methodist Episcopal, 1 United Brethren, 1 German Lutheran, 1 German Reformed, and 1 Catholic. Bank: Bank of Elmore, John H. McGee, president, Thomas E. Baynes, cashier. Population, 1880, 1,044. School census, 1888, 414. OAK HARBOR is ten miles west of Port Clinton, on the L.S. & M.S. Railroad and the W. & L.E. Railroad. Newspapers: Ottawa County Exponent, Democratic, J.H.Kraemer, editor; Press, Democratic, George Gosline, editor and publisher. Churches: 1 Disciples, 1 Methodist, 3 Lutheran, and 1 Catholic. MANUFACTURES AND EMPLOYEES. -Charles A. Leow, carriages, etc., 6 hands; H.H. Mylander, staves and headings, 33; J. Watts, planing mill, 5; Ampach Bros., saw mill and hoop factory, 55; Wash. Gordon, planing and saw mill, 25; C. Roose, staves and headings, 42; Portage Mills, flour, etc., 2. -State Report, 1887. Population, 1880, 987. School census, 1888, 551. Capital invested in manufacturing establishments, $127,000; value of annual product, $181,000. -Ohio Labor Statistics, 1888. Tile and brick are manufactured here of an excellent quality, and it is in a natural gas field. CARROLL, P.O. Lacarne, is six miles west of Port Clinton, on the L.S. & M.S. Railroad. School census, 1888, 227. GENOA is twenty-two miles west of Port Clinton, thirteen miles southeast of Toledo, on the L.S. & M.S. Railroad. It has six churches. Population, 1880, 930. School census 1888, 373; I.N. Sadler, school superintendent. PUT-IN-BAY is on an island in Lake Erie, twelve miles north of Port Clinton, twenty-two miles northwest of Sandusky. It is a famous summer resort, with daily steamers from Sandusky and Detroit during the summer season. Population, 1880, 381. School census, 1888, 231. LAKESIDE is a summer resort on Lake Erie, and on the L.S. & M.S. Railroad, ten miles north of Sandusky. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #631 *******************************************