Eckhart Family

John Eckhart was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, from Pennsylvania. He and his wife Elizabeth were residents of Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1806.

The Eckhart family came from Pennsylvania with a covered wagon drawn by oxen. The 1820 Census for Pickaway County, Ohio list the families of Motter, Ditto, LaBar, Harmon, and Eckhart. These families all had descendants that came to Henry County to live permanently.

Lewis Eckhart came to Fulton County, Ohio, in 1834. His brother, Samuel purchased land in 1834, his sister, Elizabeth Eckhart Ditto and husband purchased land in the same month. It is thought that they came together from Seneca County sharing the wagons and oxen.

Sophia Eckhart was born on February 14, 1833, daughter of Lewis and Catharine Eckhart. She married Francis D. Markley in 1851 in Fulton County. Their history is in the Markley history in this book. She was a little over a year old when the wagon trip to Fulton County was made by her parents. The Eckhart home in Clinton Township is still standing.

Her father, Lewis Eckhart, son of Lewis Eckhart, was born on May 12, 1810, in Maryland. He died on June 23, 1892 in Ingham County, Michigan. His wife, Catharine LaBar was born in Pennsylvania in February, 1810. She died in 1872 in Ingham County.

Mary Catharine Eckhart, daughter of Lewis and Catharine LaBar Eckhart, was born on February 28, 1849 in Fulton County, Ohio. She died on August 19, 1923 in Ridgeville Township, Henry County, Ohio. She married George Washington Motter on September 1, 1867. George was born September 11, 1844 in Ashland County, Ohio. Mary and George Motter history is included in the Motter history in this book.

The other Eckhart descendants live in Eaton and Ingham counties of Michigan.