Henry County Genealogical Society Newsletter
Volume 23, Number 3, May-June 2009
A PUBLICATION OF:
THE HENRY COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
P. O. BOX 231
DESHLER, OHIO 43516
www.henrycountyohiogenealogy.org
The Henry County Genealogical Society Newsletter is now published bi-monthly. The editor reserves the right to accept or reject any material submitted. The Newsletter is copyright protected, but the Society gives permission for material to be copied for personal research and to other chapter newsletters for their use. Any other use of this material should carry written permission from the Henry County Genealogical Society and acknowledge the source. Annual membership is $10.00 for 1-2 people at the same address.
Meetings will be held quarterly or as announced in the newsletter. Publications for sale are listed on the last page with the newest ones appearing on the first page.
We print all queries that are related to Henry County – membership is not required. Send queries to Henry Co. Genealogical Society, P. O. Box 231, Deshler, OH 43516 or to the editor as “Query” at wendypen@wcnet.org. After May 2016, queries may be directed to our website and will appear there.
Officers:
President – Jim Rebar
Vice President – None elected
Treasurer/Membership Chmn. – Lucille Van Scoyoc
Corresponding Secretary – Phyllis LaRue
Recording Secretary and First Families Chmn. – Kathy Bishop
News Reporter – Clara Ellen Courtney
Newsletter Editor – Karen Sunderman
Webmaster – Jim Rebar
Meetings
May 18, 2009, Monday, 7:00 p.m.
Weather permitting, we’ll be back to the cemeteries, recording and updating the books. Continuing work on Forest Hill Cemetery in Napoleon at Route 110 and Road 8, across from Campbell Soup. Come when you can.
June 15, 2009, Monday, 7:00 p.m.
Still working on cemeteries. We’ll probably still be in Forest Hill, but any change will be posted on the website.
July 20, 2009, Monday, 7:00 p.m.
Cemetery reading.
August, 2009, No Meeting
See you at the Fair!
New Members
#472 Marcella J. Hoffman, Cookeville, TN 38501
#473 Ruth M. Koons, Toledo, OH 43623
#474 Rose Ribble Bottorff, Iron River, MI 49935
#475 Lois I. Bolander, Sylvania, OH 43560
Membership is $10 per year. Dues are paid the first of each year and newsletters are mailed from that date. Please address correspondence to the website, the editor, or to our P. O. Box. Include your membership # (on address label). All Henry Co. queries are printed free.
Cemetery Project
We are still working to update our cemetery books. If you are willing to read and update a smaller cemetery near you, just contact Jim Rebar using our website. He’ll give you details. Work on your own time any nice day.
First Families of Henry County
If you have an idea for a project you would like to see the society tackle, we are open to ideas. Write to our website or to our P. O. Box. Please note that at the present time we have a limited number of people working on current ideas. Be prepared to help out!
First Families of Henry County
If you wish to apply to First Families of Henry County, see our website for information or write to Kathy Bishop.
For Your Information
Death records after 1909 are at the Health Dept., 1843 Oakwood Ave., Napoleon, OH 43545. Death records prior to that, birth, marriage, probate and most immigration records are in the Recorder’s Office at the Courthouse. Some immigration records are in the Clerk of Courts office (Address. Courthouse, Napoleon, OH 43545)
Queries
REIGER, RIEGER, SCHERER
Looking for info on The Rieger/Reiger family who moved to Henry Co. ca. 1860. Searching for info on 1st wife of Erhart and also names of wives and children of Erhart’s sons, William, Joseph, Marion and Thomas. Also, Joseph F. Scherer who lived Napoleon
– Ruth M. Koons, Toledo, OH 43523
KEEHN, DREHER, WIELAND
Looking for info on Martin KEEHN b. 6/7 Oct 1866 Baden, Ger. d. 12 Nov 1902 in Napoleon. Became US citizen 6 Sept 1888 He was a member of the Napoleon Fire Dept. “Star Hose Co.” Funeral at St. Augustine Church. He m. Anna Marie Dreher 17 Nov 1892. 5 ch: Grace Mane, Anna Clara, Peter Anthony, Andrew and Anna Marie. Anna Marie Dreher m2 Albert Wieland. Need info on Martin’s parents and/or siblings.
– Melinda Schall, Tipp City, OH 45371
WEAVER, MOHLER
Looking for parents of Mary B. Weaver b 1868 d. 1958 in Marion, IN, m. Robert A. Mohler in Deshler, OH 20 Feb 1887. Their ch: Victor b. 1889, Amy b. 1899, Elsie b. 1902 in Henry Co. Mary b. OH.
– Lee Craine, Ft. Myers, FL 33917
THOMAS
Looking for info on Samuel Henry Thomas b. NJ served with Co. H, 67 OV1 from 3 Dec 1863 to 7 Dec 1865. He had family in Henry Co. OH. Any info on this unit or other soldiers who served in the 67 ?
– Susan Keipp, Kansas City, MO 64114
Ed. Note: Susan sent a copy of a letter written by Samuel Thomas from a US Transport off Fort Derussy, LA 15 Mar 1864. He details a battle in which the 14th Iowa and the 24th Missouri
and 27th Ohio (to which he seems to have been attached) participated. The 67th Ohio consisted of men from Fulton, Wood, Lucas and Henry Cos. as well as other Ohio counties.
We print all queries pertaining to Henry County for free, regardless of membership. But, many of the queries received do not contain all required information: name of person being searched, approx, location/time period, writer’s name, e-mail address, and regular mailing address. Please give us all necessary information and unblock your e-mail for our return responses. It is to your benefit to follow the guidelines.
Diocese of Toledo Parish Records Online
Records of The Diocese of Toledo, which includes Henry County, are now online thanks to FamilySearch Labs (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints). They include baptisms, confirmations, marriages and deaths from 1796 (before 1910 part of Diocese of Cleveland) to 2004. There is a 70-yr. restriction access on christening and marriage records. Some records are in Latin, but most are in English.
Three ways to search the site are: 1) 2) [click on Record Search] and 30 [Search Records, Record Search Pilot]. To find records without an index, choose the county; then the city; then the parish; the record type and year range; and scan as you would read microfilmed records.
Also available are Ohio Death Records 1908-1953, Civil War Pension Index Cards, Freedman Bank Records, New York Passenger Records 1892-1924, and Irish Civil Registration Indexes from 1845-1958.
G.A.R. Records
Founded in 1866, the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) became the largest association of Civil War veterans. The following 3 books contain death records of more than 90,000 members: Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Illinois: Transcription of the Death Rolls, 1879-1947 contains records of 1,955 veterans of Ohio Civil War units. Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska Civil War Veterans: Compilation of the Death Rolls of the Depts. Of IQ, KN, and NE. G.A.R.. 1883-1948 contains death records of 3,591 veterans of OH units. Indiana Civil War Veterans; Transcription of the Death Rolls of the Dept, of IN. G.A.R. 1882-1948 contains death records of 1,859 veterans of OH units. To see if your ancestor is listed in one of these books, visit www.ngpublications.com. Each book is available for $30 + $4 shipping from the website or Dennis Northcott, P.O. Box 11801, St. Louis, MO 63105.
Henry County Genealogical Society Project List
Project 1: Cemetery Contact & Periodic Update Project
Purpose of Project: To develop a system of keeping track of ongoing interments in Henry County.
Project 2: Ohio Genealogical Society Church Records Project
Purpose of Project: To index all churches in Henry County and their available records
Project 3: Probate Birth Record Project
Purpose of Project: To record all remaining Probate Birth records in Henry County. Records from 1877-1908 need to be recorded.
Project 4: Cemetery Inventory Project
Purpose of Project: To database the entries in the currently existing cemetery books and add the information being gathered during the ongoing re-inventory of the cemeteries.
Project 5: Henry County Genealogical Research Guide Project
Purpose of Project: To create a basic guide for researchers doing Henry County Research to give them information on what records are available in Henry County and the location of the records.
Project 6: Facebook Project
Purpose of Project: To have an active internet webpage for HCGS on Facebook, a popular social networking website which includes groups, organizations and causes.
Project 7: Basic Genealogy Class Project
Purpose of Project: To develop a basic genealogical research class that can aid beginning researchers.
Project 8: Henry County Fair Project
Purpose of Project: To have a presence for HCGS at the Henry County Fair in order to get exposure for the organization and promote membership.
Project 9: Courthouse Discarded Record Project
Purpose of Project: To get the books that were given to the Henry County Genealogical Society by the courthouse into the possession of the Northwest State Community College’s historical library.
Project 10: Final Record Project
Purpose of Project: To extract and record (in a storable and reproducible format) the information found in the “Petition to Sell Real Estate to Pay Debts” books in the Probate Office of the Henry County Courthouse. (The books are marked Final Record.)
Project 11: Clerk of Courts Civil Court Cases Index Project
Purpose of Project: To extract and record (in a storable reproducible format) the information found in the Civil Court Case Log found in the Clerk of Courts Office at the Henry County Courthouse
Project 12: Henry County Records Center Project
Purpose of Project: To investigate the possibility of having a central record center for Henry County.
Project 13: Early Obituary Entry Project
Purpose of Project: To extract and record (in a storable reproducible format) the information found in the early obituaries published in Henry County newspapers.
Project 14: Later Obituary Entry Project
Purpose of Project: To extract and record (in a storable and reproducible format) and index to (and eventually the text) of obituaries published in Henry County newspapers, beginning in 1886.
Project 15: Active Research Project
Purpose of Project: To organize a group of individuals willing to do research for people contacting HCGS from out of town.
Project 16: Marriage Records Update Project
Purpose of Project: To add missing parent data to the existing Henry County Marriage database.
Project 17: Health Department Death Records Project
Purpose of Project: To record (in a searchable format) all of the HC Death records at the HC Health Department. These are all HC deaths from 1909 to 2004.
Project 18: Health Department Birth Records Project
Purpose of Project: To record (in a searchable format) all of the HC Birth records at the HC Health Department. These include those from 1909-2004.
Project 19: Securing Speakers Project
Purpose of Project: To secure speakers of genealogical and/or historical topics for special meetings and events.
Project 20: Project Development Team Project
Purpose of Project: To develop new projects for the Henry County Genealogical Society.
Project 21: Newsletter
Purpose of Project: To put out a bimonthly newsletter for society members that informs members of upcoming events and activities, promotes the society, encourages membership and gives members interesting and helpful genealogical information.
Project 22: Publications
Purpose of Project: To publish and print Henry County records of various types for the purpose of selling to profit the Society as well as helping to preserve the records and record the history of Henry County.
Project 23: First Families Project
Purpose of Project: To identify and honor the memory of the earliest pioneers of Henry County and to show the proved pioneer’s lasting mark on the county they helped develop, by honoring their descendents.
Project 24: Weatherproof Cemetery Indexes
Purpose of Project: To provide each cemetery in Henry County with a weatherproof index of individuals buried in their cemetery.
Project 25: Northwest Signal Annual Obituary Publication Project
Purpose of Project: To copy and publish the daily obituaries published in the Northwest Signal Newspaper to sell for profit for the Society.
Project 26: Deshler Flag Obituary Publication Project
Purpose of Project: To copy and publish the obituaries published in the Deshler Flag Newspaper to sell for profit for the Society.
Project 27: Old Photo Project
Purpose of Project: To help develop a historical view of Henry County by the use of old photographs of people, places, and events in Henry County history, particularly those of genealogical interest.
From HISTORY OF THE MAUMEE RIVER BASIN by Charles Slocum 1905
John VOGT, postmaster of Deshler, was bom in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, May 1, 1853, the son of John H. and Catharine (BERG) VOGT, both parents being also natives of that country, the father of Prussia and the mother of Hesse-Darmstadt. The father came to the United States in 1854, settling in Toledo, OH, and in 1857 his family joined him, the family home being maintained in Toledo during the parents’ lives. The mother died in 1864 and the father in 1893. They had four children: Conrad, John, Amelia and Henry.
John VOGT was reared in Toledo and secured his education in the Lutheran parochial school and the Toledo Business College. He served a three year apprenticeship at the trade of file cutting, but did not follow it. In 1869 he came to Custar, Wood County, and worked in a sawmill and in 1871 he came to Deshler (then Alma) and, in partnership with his brother Conrad, engaged in merchandising in April, 1874. This partnership was dissolved by the death of Conrad on December 23, 1879, and John then conducted the business alone until 1895, when he sold it.
That year he was elected to the state legislature, and in 1897 was re-nominated, but met defeat with the rest of the Republican ticket. In April, 1898, he was appointed postmaster at Deshler and was reappointed in 1902, being the present incumbent of that position. He was one of the organizers of the Deshler Mail Box Company, manufacturers of mail boxes and cream separators, and has been president of the company from the beginning. He has served as township and corporation treasurer and as a member of the school board. In the Masonic order he has taken all of the York rite degrees and those of the Scottish rite up to and including the 32nd.
In October, 1879, Mr. VOGT was married to Miss Elizabeth CANNEN, who was bom in Richland County, OH, May 20, 1861, the daughter of John CANNEN, and to them have been bom two children, Bessie and Jenevera. Mr. VOGT takes a deep interest in the general welfare of the community where he is one of the leading citizens.
Nicholas BAUER, the son of John and Margaretta BAUER, was bom in Bavaria, Germany, on June 28, 1842. When he was 7 yrs. old, the family came to the U.S., bringing their six children, one of whom, the baby, died and was buried at sea. The family came to Henry Co., by way of Toledo and Independence, and on the way another baby came to take the place of the one just lost. In this county they secured a farm of 80 A., on which log buildings had been erected, and here the children were reared and attended school. The children were Erhart, Peter, John W., Conrad, Mary, Nicholas and Margaretta. John Bauer died in 1855 and his widow later married John A. SAUERMAN, both being now deceased.
On November 30, 1865, Nicholas BAUER married Miss Catherine SCHALL, daughter of Henry and Margaret (HORNUNG) SCHALL, she being a granddaughter of the founder of New Bavaria. The young couple made their home with Mother BAUER at the homestead, where she died in 1873 and they still occupy the place, having successfully conducted the farm for many years. Thirteen children have been bom to them, twelve of whom grew to maturity: Charles, of Pleasant Twp.; Peter and John, in Washington Twp.; Maggie (Mrs. KEMMER), of Flat Rock Twp.; Lizzie (Mrs. COOPER), of Pleasant Twp.; Henry, deceased; Mary (Mrs. BE A VERSON), of Fort Wayne; Emma, a milliner; Andrew, Martin, Amelia, Laura and Albert, who are still at home. In 1887 Mr. BAUER built his splendid residence. For 3 terms he has served as township supervisor, two terms as trustee, being now township director and director of the common schools. He belongs to the German Reformed church, of which he is a trustee and deacon.
