John Cummins Family

John Cummins was born in Crawford County, Ohio, on December 19, 1838, and died at the farm home of his son, John P. Cummins, on April 22, 1911, and was interred in Cole Cemetery, Flatrock Township.

John married, on January 3, 1861, Caroline Bordner who was born in Crawford County, Ohio, on March 17, 1842. Caroline was one of fourteen children born to John Philip and Mary Ann Guest Bordner. Four of the Bordner sons served in the Civil War and all came back home uninjured. John Philip Bordner was born in 1797 and died in 1895. His wife, Mary Ann, was born in 1802 and died in 1880.

John Cummins was a grandson of David Cummins who came with his family, including a son, Morgan Cummins, to Crawford County, Ohio from Virginia in 1818 and entered eighty acres and built a saw mill on Honey Creek in section 17, Auburn Township, about 1827.

Morgan Cummins married Elizabeth Smith in Auburn Township. She was from Virginia. Their children were: Abner, John, a child that died in infancy, and William. Morgan was born in 1813 and died June 16, 1906 in Hillsdale, Michigan, and is buried at Lake View Cemetery there. His wife, Elizabeth, was born in 1813 and died July 27, 1881 and is buried in Chatfield Township Cemetery, Crawford County, Ohio, in section 15.

John Cummins and Caroline Bordner Cummins had six children: William H., born January 23, 1862, died April 15, 1865; George W., born December 25, 1864; John Philip, born November 10, 1867; Oliver, born February 25, 1871; Rosetta, born May 9, 1873; all born in Crawford County. Their youngest child, Harry, was born on November 3, 1877, in Henry County, Ohio.

The family moved to Henry County, from Crawford County, in 1875, to section 28, Flatrock Township. The eighty acres was partly cleared with a log cabin located on the back forty acres. During the next twelve years more clearing was done and a frame barn and house were built on the front forty acres nearer the road.

John Cummins and his wife, Caroline, moved to Holgate about 1895, as their children were married and had families of their own.

Caroline died at their home in Holgate on April 22, 1901 and John died at the farm home of their son, John P. on April 22, 1911.

Submitted by: Clarence Cummins