OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 206 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org ************************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 05 : Issue 206 Today's Topics: #1 Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Snodgrass) [Archives ] #2 Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Steiner) [Archives ] #3 Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Stevenson) [Archives ] #4 Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Stevenson) [Archives ] #5 Oh-Defiance Co. Wills (Bauer) [Archives ] #6 Oh-Defiance Co. Wills (Bauer) [Archives ] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from OH-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to OH-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: 21 Nov 2005 03:13:25 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20051121031325.15750.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Snodgrass) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Snodgrass, David 1815 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com November 20, 2005, 10:13 pm Author: Warner, Beers & Co. HON. DAVID SNODGRASS, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Mercer County, Penn., February 23, 1815. He is a son of Jesse and Jane (Atchison) Snodgrass, natives of County Donegal, Ireland, and Washington County, Penn., respectively. His father was born February 1, 1784, emigrated to the United States about 1809, and settled in Mercer County, Penn., where he was married in 1812, and the same afternoon was called into the military service, to prevent the British troops from crossing Lake Erie. He served six months as private and then returned home and engaged in farming. He lived in Pennsylvania until 1825, when he removed to Muskingum County, Ohio: thence, in 1846, located in Monroe County, Iowa, where be followed farming for about ten years and in 1856, he sold his farm and went to Albia and engaged in merchandising. He died September 8, 1876, aged ninety-two years. He and his wife belonged to the United Presbyterian Church, of which he was an active and prominent member. Mrs. Snodgrass died in August, 1862, aged seventy years. Our subject was the second son of a family of eight children, and was brought up on a farm, and received a common school education. He helped his father in clearing two farms. He was married in Harrison County, Ohio, December 20, 1838. to Catharine, daughter of Enoch and Catharine (Anderson) Philips, a native of Washington County, Penn., born March 24, 1817. They have five children, four living-Jessie, Alfred P., Park, married to Jennie Bebout, of Washington County, Penn., and M. Maud, wife of B. Moore, of Kenton. Otis B. died, aged eight years and six months. In 1845, Mr. Snodgrass came with his family to Kenton, and resided there until 1864, then came to Buck Township on his present farm. He was engaged in the boot and shoe trade in Kenton until 1861. He and William Gilmore started the first boot and shoe store in Kenton. In 1851, he was elected to represent Hardin and Wyandot Counties in the Ohio Legislature, and served one term. He was solicited to be a candidate for a second term, but positively declined to serve. In 1870, he was elected member of the Board of County Commissioners, and served one term. In June of 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; served as Corporal, and was discharged in February, 1862, to receive a promotion. In January previous, he was home on thirty days' furlough, and recruited Company H, of the Seventy-fourth Regiment, going out as First Lieutenant, serving as such until the battle of Stone River, when he was promoted to the rank of Captain for "gallant and meritorious service on the field." He served until April 26, 1864, when he resigned on account of a wound received at Chickamauga. While in the Fourth Regiment, he fought at Rich Mountain and Romney, and in the Seventy-fourth Regiment he was at Stone River, and then Chickamauga, where he received his wound by an artillery wheel running over his right foot. On his return home, he took up the occupation of a farmer. He owns 168 acres of land, most of which has been cleared and improved. He and wife are members of the United Presbyterian Church. He is, politically, a Republican, and while serving as County Commissioner was one of the principal instigators of the pike enterprise, carrying the first pike petition that was circulated in Hardin County, and where the County Infirmary was being built. Additional Comments: Bucks Township Excerpt from "The History of Hardin County, Ohio" containing A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY; HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, ETC., ETC. CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO. 1883 Photo: http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/photos/bios/snodgras349bs.jpg File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/bios/snodgras349bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 4.5 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: 21 Nov 2005 03:14:33 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20051121031433.15937.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Steiner) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Steiner, Benedict 1828 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com November 20, 2005, 10:14 pm Author: Warner, Beers & Co. BENEDICT STEINER, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland, March 6, 1828. His father, John Steiner, was born in June, 1794; his mother, Anna Hani, in 1792, died in 1832; both were natives of the Canton of Berne, Switzerland. They were married in their native place in the year 1818. On the decease of his wife, Anna, Mr. Steiner married Anna Dick, and, in 1837, left Berne and crossed France to Havre in wagons, the journey occupying twenty-one days. He then embarked with his wife on the ship Albany, crossed the ocean, and landed at New York October 31. They went to Pittsburgh, where they remained till spring, then came to Hardin County and settled in Pleasant Township, where Mr. Steiner purchased and cleared eighty acres of land. He died in 1860; he had seven children by his first wife, and seven by the second. Our subject is the fifth child by the first marriage, and was brought up on a farm, obtaining a very limited education at the common schools. In the spring of 1850, in company with six others, he went to the gold mines of California. He followed mining, packing and farming in the Trinity Mountains until 1861, when he returned to his home; he made a trip to Switzerland in 1863, on account of ill health, and returned the same year. The next year he bought 158 acres of his present farm, and added to it until he has acquired 238 acres. In 1878, he built his barn, at a cost of $2,500, and in 1881 his residence, at a cost of $5,000. He was united in marriage August 24, 1865, to Mary A., daughter of Benedict Moy, and born in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland, December 17, 1833. To this union four children have been born, two living-Carl H. and Olga M. Laura M. and an infant son are deceased. Mr. Steiner is occupied in farming and stock-raising. In politics, he belongs to the Republican party. Additional Comments: Bucks Township Excerpt from "The History of Hardin County, Ohio" containing A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY; HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, ETC., ETC. CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO. 1883 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/bios/steiner350bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: 21 Nov 2005 03:15:15 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20051121031515.16034.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Stevenson) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Stevenson, Silas 1822 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com November 20, 2005, 10:15 pm Author: Warner, Beers & Co. SILAS STEVENSON, farmer, P. O. Kenton, is a son of James and Unity (New) Stevenson, and was born in Champaign County, Ohio, October 23, 1822. In 1827, his parents settled on the line between Logan and Hardin Counties. In 1834, they removed to Taylor Creek Township, Hardin County, where he bought a farm and resided until their deaths. Mrs. Unity Stevenson died March 10, 1864. Mr. Stevenson died June 6, 1865. The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm. On May 24, 1849, he was united in marriage to Ruby, a daughter of John H. and Selina Tyler. She was born in Orleans County, N. Y., October 27, 1827. Mr. Stevenson was married and lived there four years, and in 1858 removed to his present farm in Buck Township, Ohio. He has acquired good property, and is engaged in farming and stock-raising. He and his wife have been faithful workers in the Methodist Church for thirty-nine years. Additional Comments: Bucks Township Excerpt from "The History of Hardin County, Ohio" containing A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY; HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, ETC., ETC. CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO. 1883 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/bios/stevenso351bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: 21 Nov 2005 03:15:53 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20051121031553.16133.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Stevenson) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Stevenson, C. A. 1853 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com November 20, 2005, 10:15 pm Author: Warner, Beers & Co. C. A. STEVENSON, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Orleans County, N. Y , January 5, 1853; he came with his parents, Silas and Ruby Stevenson, to Hardin County in October, 1853, and lived on the homestead until of age; he is the second son of a family of nine children, and received his education from the common schools. On March 9, 1875, he was married to Miss Annie, a daughter of Clark L. and Sarah (Finity) Newcomb, and a native of Knox County, Ohio, born November 28, 1852. She obtained a common school education, and for four years was a teacher in Buck Township. She removed with her parents to Hardin County in 1853. Mr. Stevenson is employed in farming and stock-raising, and is a member of the Agricultural Society of Hardin County. In politics, he belongs to the Republican party, but has never held office. Additional Comments: Bucks Township Excerpt from "The History of Hardin County, Ohio" containing A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY; HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, ETC., ETC. CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO. 1883 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/bios/stevenso352bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: 21 Nov 2005 14:07:24 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20051121140724.1546.qmail@leaf3.bananic.com> Subject: Oh-Defiance Co. Wills (Bauer) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Defiance County OhArchives Court.....Bauer, Albin 1892 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sharon Hobart slhobart@sbcglobal.net November 21, 2005, 2:07 pm Source: Defiance County Records Center Written: 1892 Will & Estate of Albin Bauer – Bauer 6 Defiance County Records Center, 510 Court Street, Defiance, OH 43512 419-782-8918 #1 Albin Bauer Will In the name of the Benevolent Father of All: I Albin Bauer of the City of Defiance, Ohio, being about 59 years of age and being sound in mind and memory, and realizing the uncertainty of life and certainty of death, and desiring to arrange my worldly affairs, make publish and declare this to be my first and last will and Testament. Item First = It is my will and desire that my just debts and funeral expenses shall first be paid out of my estate. Item Second: After the payment of any just debts and funeral expenses as provided in Item first, It is my will and desire, and I hereby devise and bequeath to my beloved wife all the remainder of my property both real and personal, with full power to sell and dispose of the same as she may see fit. In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this 26th day of February AD 1892. Albin Bauer Signed and acknowledged by said Albin Bauer as his last will and testament in our presence and signed by us in his presence. Peter V. Ziegler Reside at Defiance O F. Waliffer “ “ “ “ #2 Application to Probate Will Application to Probate Will In the Probate Court of Defiance County, Ohio. Albin Bauer Deceased And now comes Joseph Bauer and produced for admission to Probate in said Court, the Last Will and Testament of Albin Bauer late a resident of the Township of Defiance in Defiance County, Ohio, who died on the 15th day of November A D 1892, leaving an estate in said Defiance County. Said Testator died leaving Elizabeth Bauer his widow and the following persons, all of his next of kin resident in the State of Ohio. _________________________________________________________________ Name Age of Degree of Kinship P.O. Address Minors _________________________________________________________________ Katherina Wyrsch daughter Defiance O Joseph Bauer son Defiance O Mary Schmucker daughter Omego, NY Lucy Schmucker daughter Omego NY Michael Bauer son Defiance O Sophia Lenskey daughter Toledo O Rosa Bauer daughter Defiance O Maggie Bauer daughter “ “ Elizabeth Bauer widow “ “ ___________________________________________________________________ The State of Ohio, Defiance Joseph Bauer County, $$: The above named Joseph Bauer having been first duly sworn says the statements of the foregoing application are true as he verily believes. Joseph Bauer Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 22nd day of November A. D. 1892. H. G. Baker, Probate Judge #3 Notice to Heirs Notice to Heirs. In Probate Court. The State of Ohio, Defiance County, $$. To Catharine Wyrsch, Joseph Bauer, Mary Schmucker, Lucy Schmucker, Michael Bauer, Sophia Lenskey, Rosa Bauer, Maggie Bauer & Elizabeth Bauer You are hereby notified that on th e 22nd day of Nov A.D. 1892, an instrument of writing purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Albin Bauer, late of Defiance Township, in said County, deceased, was produced in open Court, and an application to admit the same to probate was on the same day made in said court. Said application will be for hearing before this Court on the 2nd day of December A.D. 1892, at 2 o’clock P.M. Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this 22nd day of Nov A. D. 1892 H. G. Baker Probate Judge and Ex-Officio Clerk of said Court #4 Signing of Receipt We, the undersigned, persons within named hereby acknowledge service of the within notice this 22nd day of November A. D. 1892. Joseph Bauer Michael Bauer Mary Schmuker Lucy Schmuker Cathrin Wyrsch Rosa Bauer Maggie Bauer Sophia Lanskey Elizabeth Bauer (? possibly wrote Louise which may be her middle name?) Mrs. Lenskey, please sign the above and return to me at once and oblige. H. G. Baker Probate Judge #5 Probate of Will Probate of Will Revised Statues Secs 5926-5929 The State of Ohio Defiance County SS In Probate Court Personally appeared in open Court Peter V. Zeigler and F. Walsiffer the subscribing witnesses to the last Will and Testament of Albin Bauer late of Defiance Township in said Defiance County, deceased; who being duly sworn according to law, to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, in relation to the execution of said Will, depose and say: That the paper before them bearing date the 26 day February A. D. 1892, purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Albin Bauer now deceased is the Will of said deceased Albin Bauer that they were present at the execution of said Will, and at the request of the Testator, respectively subscribed their names to the same as witnesses, in his presence; that they saw the said Albin Bauer deceased, sign and seal said Will and heard him acknowledge the same to be his last Will and Testament, and that the said Albin Bauer at the time of making, signing and sealing said Will, was of full age, of sound mind and memory, and not under any restraint. Peter V. Ziegler F. Walsiffer Sworn to and subscribed by said witnesses, in open Court, this 2nd day of December A. D. 1892 H. G. Baker Probate Judge Additional Comments: This is a complete typed version of the Probate Record on the death of Albin Buaer. Albin is the brother of Joseph Bauer, Jr. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/defiance/court/bauer5nwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ohfiles/ File size: 6.3 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: 21 Nov 2005 14:09:01 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20051121140901.1967.qmail@leaf3.bananic.com> Subject: Oh-Defiance Co. Wills (Bauer) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Defiance County OhArchives Wills.....Bauer, Albin February 1892 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sharon Hobart slhobart@sbcglobal.net November 21, 2005, 2:09 pm Source: Defiance County Records Center Written: February 1892 In the name of the Benevolent Father of All: I Albin Bauer of the City of Defiance, Ohio, being about 59 years of age and being sound in mind and memory, and realizing the uncertainty of life and certainty of death, and desiring to arrange my worldly affairs, make publish and declare this to be my first and last will and Testament. Item First = It is my will and desire that my just debts and funeral expenses shall first be paid out of my estate. Item Second: After the payment of any just debts and funeral expenses as provided in Item first, It is my will and desire, and I hereby devise and bequeath to my beloved wife all the remainder of my property both real and personal, with full power to sell and dispose of the same as she may see fit. In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this 26th day of February AD 1892. Albin Bauer Signed and acknowledged by said Albin Bauer as his last will and testament in our presence and signed by us in his presence. Peter V. Ziegler Reside at Defiance O F. Waliffer “ “ “ “ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/defiance/wills/bauer6nwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ohfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V05 Issue #206 *******************************************