John B. Okuly Family

Wedding picture of Squire Kimberly and Matilda Barnhart (between 1860-1864)

Family of Valentine and Catherine Okuley. Top, left to right: Frank, Mary, Wendell, Rose, Peter, Elizabeth; bottom row: John, Valentine, Catherine, William.

John Okuly came to America from Luxenburg about 1850. He built a log house in the forest on Pleasant Bend Road at the corner of 108. He married Margaret Mess; they had 2 sons, John B. and Fred. John B. was born in 1860. He married Cornelia Klear, and they had 6 daughters and 3 sons. The family lived in the log house shown in the sketch done by his son William. Mr. Okuly built a new frame house in 1897 at the same location.

One daughter, Matilda Okuly Schuller born in 1886 and one son, William L. Okuly, born in 1891, are still living. Matilda Okuly Schuller was supervisor of the laundry at Detwiller Memorial Hospital, Wauseon, from 1939 to 1961. It was while she was employed there that the laundry was one of five to receive "the whitest wash" award. After her retirement she and her husband, Frank Schuller moved to County Road Y, east of New Bavaria. Wm. L. Okuly, a retired R.R. telegrapher, and his wife, Minnie, live in Miller City, Ohio.

Submitted by Matilda Okuly Schuller

Art Okuley and Mary J. Klear wed May 8, 1917.

Matilda Okuly Schuller was born in this log house in 1886. Picture was sketched by Wm. Okuly.