Henry County Genealogical Society Newsletter
Volume 28, Number 1, January-February 2014
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 quarterly. 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 | Bill Latta | billatta8@gmail.com |
| Vice President | Jim Rebar | jamesrebar@roadrunner.com |
| Treasurer/Membership Chmn. | Lucille Van Scoyoc | elvrrv2c@centurylink.net |
| Corresponding Secretary | Phyllis LaRue | 409 W. Maple St. Deshler, OH 43516 |
| Recording Secretary and First Families Chmn. | Kathy Bishop | 10-292 Rd. E, Hamler, OH 43524 skbshp@embarq.com |
| News Reporter | Patricia Marshall | antiquepat@aol.com |
| Newsletter Editor | Karen Sunderman | wendypen@wcnet.org |
| Webmaster | Jim Rebar | jamesrebar@roadrunner.com |
Meetings
January 20, 2014, Monday, 7:00 p.m.
DVD night. “Faces of America.”
February 17, 2014, Monday, 7:00 p.m.
Discussion on how we can proceed with finding and recording church records of Henry County.
March 17, 2014, Monday, 7:00 p.m.
Unscheduled so far. We hope to have a speaker.
April 21, 2014, Monday, 7:00 p.m.
Joanne Allison will give a presentation on visiting Germany to her family’s ancestral homeland.
New Members
#510 Donna Deitrick Derstadt, Green Oaks, IL 60048
#511 Forest Lee PRICE, Jr.,
Travelers Rest, SC 29690
#512 Rita Marie Detrick Meimbold, Cedar Springs, MI 49319
#513 Theresa Ann Deitrick Alvarado, Dewitt, Ml 48820
#514 Gregory Lee Deitrick, Sugarland,
TX 77478
#515 David Henry Deitrick,
Muskegon, MI 49411
#516 John Christopher Deitrick, Richmond, VA 23236
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.
Recent Publications…
Record of Allowances from Soldiers’ Relief Fund 1888-1917 has been running as a feature in this
newsletter. It is now available as an entire indexed volume for $10.00 plus $3 shipping and handling.
Additional New Publications…
The librarians at Edwin Wood Memorial Library have dedicated time to compiling Northwest Signal Obituaries books, which we have available for $22 plus $3 shipping and handling each. These are for the years 1975, 1976, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, and 1986. Thank you, librarians.
Did You Know…
U.S. patent deed records are available at http://www.glorecords.blm.gov
Queries
No new queries this month.
2013 Henry County Genealogical Society Membership List
001 Mrs. Phyllis LARUE, Deshler, OH 43516
005 Lucille SUNDERMAN, Napoleon, OH 43545
008 Mrs. Clara Ellen COURTNEY, Deshler, OH 43516
009 Mrs. Louise BADEN, Hamler, OH 43524
013 Robert & Lucille VANSCOYOC, Deshler, OH 43516
016 Karen SUNDERMAN, Deshler, OH 43516
023 Mrs. Kathy BISHOP, Hamler, OH 43524
025 Mr. Elwood JONES, Grelton, OH 43523-3043
027 Mr. Robert BARNES, Fenton, Ml 48430
035 Bill LATTA, Napoleon, OH 43545-4449
043 Michael WAHL, Rose Valley, PA 19086-6729
048 Mrs. Lavonne HIPSHER, Fostoria, OH 44830-1842
107 Family History Library, 50 East North Temple St., Salt Lake, UT 84150
108 Mildred NORTHCUTT, Carlisle, AR 72024-8935
123 Arvis WEAKS, Liberty Center, OH 43532
148 Allen County Public Library, Acquisitions/Periodicals, P. 0. Box 2270, Ft. Wayne, IN 46801-2270
188 Sandy FANKHAUSER, Bucyrus, OH 44820
209 Carole LUBBERS, Marietta, GA 30060
211 Audrey H. COSPER, Kingsland, GA 31548
214 Shirley J. OBERLITNER MAYER, Toledo, OH 43614-2911
232 James M. & Carolyn J. REBAR, Bowling Green, OH 43402
233 Mary Ann ZACHRICH, Findlay, OH 45840
234 Dianne KLINE, 1Defiance, OH 43512
243 Janet E. BLAKE, East Brunswick, NJ 08816
251 Kenneth & Beverly SNYDER, Crossville, TN 38558
264 Rhoda WESSNER, P. 0. Box 937, Saylorsburg, PA 18353
268 Arnold MILLER, Napoleon, OH 43545
279 Elise A EPPLE, Olmstedville, NY 12857-0017
281 Bruce McGARVEY, Medford, OR 97504-6308
282 Robert R. LANGE, Clearwater, FL 33759
290 Debra HOLT, Galesburg, Ml 49053
330 Leslie C. CALVERT, La Porte, IN 46350
332 Mary C. STRAUSBAUGH, Bowling Green, OH 43402-2813
354 Earl S. OSBORN Jr., Palmyra, Ml 49268-0144 6377
355 Barbara HELBERG, Fort Wayne, IN 46845
363 Mark PETERSEN, Archbold, OH 43502
365 Esther OBERHAUS, Wauseon, OH 43567
383 Mary Catherine CRISLER, Dayton, OH 45440
380 Ronda Wickham, Midland, Ml 48640
386 Karen SZABO, Swanton, OH 43558
399 Joanne (RICHOLT) ALLISON, Bryan, OH 43505
404 Carola BROWN, Saint Louis, Ml 48880-9253
412 Cheryl CARLSON, Langley, WA 98260-9302
426 Anita M. BUTLER, Cincinnati, OH 45347
433 Jean F. ANDREWS, Aiken, SC 29803
436 Phyllis G. POWELL-WELCH, Mecosta, Ml 49332
437 Melissa HASKELL & Jeff GRABER,Dartmouth, MA 02747
439 Nina A. STIRLEN, Fremont, IN 46737
444 Julie (PAULAKES) MORIYAMA, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254-2257
446 Sharon K. SCOTT, White Lake, Ml 48386
451 Carolyn BOGE, Waterford, Ml 48329
453 Byron E. FISHER, Palmyra, Ml 49268
458 Linda SMITH, Walnut Creek, CA 94595
460 Patricia ROGERS, Napoleon, OH 43545
462 Betty ORY, Hershey, PA 17033-2371
463 Sandra A. DRABIK, Toledo, OH 43514
464 Steven LAUER, Waterville, OH 43566
473 Ruth M. KOONS, Toledo, OH 43623
475 Lois BOLANDER, Sylvania, OH 43560
478 Marva BLALOCK, Genealogical Society of Utah, 50 E. North Temple Rm. 545, Salt Lake City, UT
84150
483 Judy ZILKA BARFELL, Lake Mary, FL 32746
485 James W. KRONBERG, Whitehouse, OH 43571
486 Kathy WITTES, Chatsworth, CA 91311
487 Elizabeth POTTS, Elida, OH 45807-1898
492 Julia CHASE, Haskins, OH 43525
493 Patricia MARSHALL, Deshler, OH 43516
499 Judith BENSON, Partridge, Kansas 67566
500 Cynthis A. CORBETT, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
501 Peter B. TRAGGORTH, LaPlata, MD 20646
502 David G. HERR, 1Fullerton, CA 92835
503 Christina CORDES, Waterville, OH 43566
504 Joyce SCHUMACHER, Munith, Ml 49259
505 David A. WESTRICK, Maumee, OH 43537
506 Judy A. BEAL, Grand Rapids, OH 43522
507 Justin Crawfis, Bluffton, OH 45817
508 Kay BALDWIN, Defiance, OH 43512
509 Ron DIELMAN, Perrysburg, OH 43551
510 Donna DEITRICK DERSTADT, Green Oaks, IL 60048
511 Forest Lee PRICE, Jr., Travelers Rest, SC 29690
512 Rita Marie DEITRICK Reimbold, Cedar Springs, Ml 49319
513 Theresa Ann DEITRICK ALVARADO, Dewitt, Ml 48820
514 Gregory Lee DEITRICK, Sugarland, TX 77478
515 David Henry DEITRICK, Muskegon, Ml 49411
516 John Christopher DEITRICK, Richmond, VA 23236
Surnames Being Researched by 2013 Members
#008 COLDREN, COURTNEY, MILLER, BRINK, CULVER, LAZENBY, HENDERSON, JA COBS, GUTHRIE, MOLL, WRIGHT
#009 BADEN, BENIEN, EITZMAN, ELLING, ENGEL, HOY, KETTERER, KITTER, MAHNKE, MUELLER, ROHRS, UPP, WEDDELMAN
#013 Van SCOYOC, BROWN, STATELER, ROBINSON
#016 ALBERTSON, BADEN, GILSON, GRIBBELL (var. sp.), HANNA, HELMKE, HOLMES, HOUSE, KARN/S, ROSEBROCK, SUNDERMAN, TIETJE
#023 SCHWIEBERT, HAHN, MEYER, SCHROEDER, DREWES, BENIEN, KESTNER, GOBROGGE, HOOPS, SPRINGHORN, SUNDERMAN, HELMKE, TIETJE, CASTEEL, WITTE, BINDEMAN, SCHEELE
#025 JONES, BOULTON, SHULER, GENSEL
#027 BEATTY, CRAWFORD, HICKS, KING, MAERKER, MARTIN, MORAY, MOSES, POWELL, PRINGLE, RODMAN
#035 ARPS, FRAZIER, KINDER, LATTA, GRIM, WOLF, FOOR
#043 FRANZ, WAHL, BOYER, BARTON, BARTH, LEONHARDT, GEORGE
#048 BROWNING, HOOVER, LOWMASTER, WEAKS, BERRY/BEERY, MILLER, CALDWELL
#108 RETTIG, Y AICHNER, STAUBER, YAICHNER, PFEIFER, BRICKERS
#123 CLARK, WEAKS, SHULL, MYERS, MACKLIN, ANGEL, MASON, CHRONINGER, POPE, WHEELER, ARNOLD, ASH, STEVENS, ZOOK
#188 CLADY
#211 HARMAN/HARMON, BLAIR, MEYERS/MYERS
#214 OBERLITNER, WALTERS/WALTHERS,JONES,HERR, WREN,BROWN, ROWLEY, STEVENSON
#232 MILLER, SCHNABELE, YOGEL
#234 ELLING, SPOERING, ORDWAY, DELPH
#243 WEST, SPEIGLE
#251 KLEIN, HORNUNG, RETTIG, SNYDER
#264 MESS,KLEAR
#281 McGARVEY, La BARR,, MURPHY, KANE, DWYER, EDGAR
#290 RICKENBERG, GERKEN, HOYER/HEUER, GOBROGGE
#330 INMAN, WILSON, ROSE, RIVEL Y, LEWIS, ESTERBROOK, MORE/MOORE, GASKILL
#332 VOGEL
#354 OSBORN, DAMON, HAINES, REEL, HA YNES, HILL, SALISBURY
#355 HELBERG, SHARTZER, FACKLER, MENGERINK, ESKRIDGE, ARPS, SCHROEDER
#363 PETERSEN, TIETJE, DICKMAN, HAHN, FINTEL, BINGER, EIS, THAYER, CLADY, HOFFMAN, QUELL, MAHNKE, WHEELER, KLINE
#380 JOHNSON, FRANKFATHER, BONNER, CORNELL, SMITH
#383 BAUHAUS, CREESE/KRIES, DIBLING, DIEMER, DUDING, MESS, ROYAL
#386 GLANZ, GEIGER, KONZON
#399 Von LIENEN, BINGER, GOLBRIGGE, RICHHOLT, MEYER, KING, HOLMES
#404 BATTENFIELDS, LIGHTHISER
#412 MYRICE, OBERLIGHTNER, WALTMAN, BELL
#426 SANEHOLTZ, NELSON, GOTTSCHALK, YARNELL, NIEBEL, BRILLHART, DIETRICH, HATCHER, GUYER, KLINE
#433 ANDREWS, BARNES, CAMERON, NORDEN, ROHRS, RICKENBACKER
#436 POWELL, ROACH, TWIGG, McCRACKEN, HOOPER, WELCH, SANFORD, MACK
#437 DESGRANGES, DIRR, DECKROCH
#439 LAMPHIER, LONG, MYERS
#444 SIMMONS, BABCOCK, ROSE, WEBB, SMITH
#446 BOGER/BOOHER, FOX, MEASEL/MEASLE/MEASELL, PARKIN, THOMPSON, WESNER
#451 MURDOCK, SWARTZLANDER, TEMPLE, MOORE, ROSS, KEELER, STRAYER
#453 FISHER, RUSSELL, ROWLAND, CLANTZ, HARTZ, MYERS, JONES, WALSWORTH
#458 MOHR, WATSON, SHONDEL, DEITRICK
#460 WATSON
#462 WATSON, MOHR
#463
JENNINGS, SHINNERS, CONWAY, MURRAY, MOWERY, PACKARD, JEAKLE, KETTERING, LAZENBY, BIRRANE
#464 BRINKMAN, DEMLAND, FENDER, HORNING, RETTIG, WOLF
#473 RIEGER/REIGER, SCHERER
#475 HAUENSTEIN, EICHER, MOLL/MULL, KAUFMAN, ZIMMERMAN, BONNELL
#483 FOLEY, WELCH, WALSH, CAHILL
#485 STAUB,CLEVELAND,HOUSER
#486 GESSNER, MOWERY, LENOHARDT, LAMB, LIDDLE, HENRICKS, KUNS, OVERMEYER, WITTES, JOHNSTON(E), PIERSON, VESPER, SACHLTZER
#487 LOWREY, LOWE
#492 Von DEYLEN, BOTJER, DAMMAN, HOGREFE
#493 FRONK, KELLHOFER, KONZEN
#499 STOUT, HIGH, PALMER, ROW AN, BRAINARD/BRAINERD, MILLER, NEAL, ECKMAN, NICHOLS, EMERY, FAGY, HULL, STOUDT
#500 JOOST, SCHROEDER, ARPS, ARNOS, MAHNKE
#501 JAMESON, WALKER
#502 HERR, WATSON, HILL
#503 CORDES, IMBROCK, VORWERK, FREYTAG, BOONENBERG, BOCHOTZ, SEXTON, PASLEY, McGINNIS, CHILDRESS, PANNING, HAHN, MAHNKE
#504 JAMESON
#506 HARDY
#509 RETTIG, FRONCE, ARNEY DIELMAN
#510 #512-516 DEITRICK, JACKMAN, KEIBLE, SWARY
#511 BINGER, BECKER
From The Napoleon Star, 27 June 1857, a column titled “The Housewife”
MAKING PICKLES – Of all the modes of pickling, probably that of placing the vegetable in cold, strong vinegar is the best. The strongest vinegar of white wine is the best and cheapest.
CHEAP GUM ARABIC -Take the gum exuding from peach trees, dissolve it in water, and you have an article for sticking paper equal to the best gum Arabic. (Early Post-It Notes?)
The Genealogist
There is a thread still reaching
To a time I never lived
Where snowflakes fall in. simple silence Over leaning tombstones still
Softly whispering their names
Beyond the stones lie mists of
Dark around rough bony hands Raising up their ancient cups
With me in solemn toast
To Slavic homes of men
Who valued most their freedom
And then their wives and land
All buried in the snow,
Black dust, and shroud oflove
I weave for them who also
Patterned me.
– by Carolyn Young Rebar, written for her husband, Jim.
Konzen Family History by Pat Marshall
Franz Anton Konzen was born 9/24/1802 in Rheinbreitbach, Prussia, Germany. He married Anna Katharina Gilgan who was born 12/18/1803, about 1831 in Rheinbreitbach. They had 4 children: Frank Anton born 8/4/1832, Mary Magdalena, September 9, 1833, and Mary Margaret on 1/9/1839. Anna died in
Germany on January 14, 1840 and Franz Anton married Isabella born July 2 1816 about 1841 in Germany and had 6 children with him. Three were born in Germany and 3 in Ohio. All of his children from Isabella are buried in St. Augustine’s Cemetery except for Leonard who died in the Civil War. He was captured on the march from Atlanta to Savannah; no other record found.
Franz brought his family over to America on a ship named Leopold. It sailed from Antwerp, Belgium and arrived on Ellis Island on August 16, 1852. He went to Chillicothe, Ohio, then around 1854 he went to Henry County. His oldest son Frank met and married Anna Marie Kellhofer about 1859 in Chillicothe and then followed his father by going to Henry County. He didn’t go until at least 1864. He had 3 children who were born in Chillicothe. My great grandfather, Henry was his first child born in Napoleon in 1867. I had trouble finding his birth date in Napoleon. That was the first year that they started keeping birth records and I had to go to property taxes and census to determine that he did reside in Henry County in 1867. Henry was my great-grandfather and Frank’s 4th child. Frank and Anna had 10 children.
It was said in the family that Henry served as county commissioner of Henry County. I wanted to verify that, and as my husband serves on the board of the Senior Center of Henry County and the current commissioner Tom Van Deylon is on the board with him, Dave kindly asked Tom for me on how to
research this. Mr. Van Deylon took on the mission and had his secretary try to find out. It turned out
that those records are kept at the board of Elections office and we found out that Henry ran in the
primary race in 1914 but lost the vote.
Henry married Mary Agnes Fronk born 1/1/1867 Defiance, Ohio on September 3, 1888 and had 10 children. He was a farmer and lived in Marion Township. Their first daughter was Mary Agnes born 6/10/1892 and became my grandmother. She met and married Raymond Gordon born November 17, 1890 and married him on November 16, 1915 at St. Paul’s Catholic Church, Hamler, Ohio. They had to put off their wedding for 9 months due to her mother’s death on January 30, 1915 so she could take care of her brothers and sisters till their father found help. They had 11 children, 2 sets of twins, one set and a daughter died in infancy. They too were farmers and had a farm on Route 18 in Marion Township where my grandfather also farmed his father’s farm too. My mother was the eldest daughter, her name was Mary Beatrice and she was born September 28, 1916 in Henry County. She had to go and live with her grandparents in Hamler for her first 3 years of school until her sister was old enough to walk with her to the county school house. The same thing happened to her for high school; since there was no transportation to Deshler High School she stayed with her grandparents and went to Hamler High School. I have to give credit to my grandparents who never finished school and did not graduate from high school and were determined that their children were going to attend school.
My mother was working in a restaurant in Hamler where she met my father, Robert Haffner born August 2, 1914, who was born in Fort Wayne and now lived in Buffalo, NY, when he came to visit his first cousin. His first cousin turned out to be my mother’s third cousin. After a courtship, they married at St. Paul’s and moved to Buffalo, New York.
I was born in Buffalo on June 15, 1941 and was the oldest of 7 children. When I was a young girl, my mother would put me and my brother arid sister on a train every summer to visit our grandparents. We went back and forth from my grandparents’ home, which was now in Deshler, and my Aunt Helen Rita’s who lived in the country with her husband Sylvester Neiling and her children. My fondest childhood memories are those spent here in Ohio. I married my husband David Marshall on September 9, 1961 and we settled in a town of Depew, NY and raised 4 chlidren. When David reached retirement age we decided to bring my mother, who now was a widow, back to Ohio. David had been coming to Ohio with me during our marriage and knew what he was facing. We moved back in 2001 and my mother died in 2008, so she did get to spend some quality time here.
One funny thing happened when I was doing my research, I realized even though we were married 52 years I never had a copy of our marriage certificate. We were married at St. Aloysius Gonzaga Church in Cheektowaga, NY and I called the rectory to see if I could get a copy of our marriage certificate or did I have to go to the diocese. She stated that she could give me a copy and asked for my address. I told her I lived on Road G in Deshler, Ohio. There was silence on the phone and then she asked me to repeat what I said. I told her Road G and explained that the roads in Henry County east and west were letters and road north and south were numbers. She laughed then paused and said I guess nobody gets lost in that county.
As I close, I have to give thanks to my Aunt, Sister Madelyn Marie Gordon, who started this research. She started it a while back and I just tweaked it, put it on the computer and have been adding to it. She is the one who got me interested in genealogy and I have now done my father’s side as well.
Facts from the 1500s
Houses had thatched roofs which were thick woven straw, piled high, with no wood
underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm in the winter, so all the cats and other small animals ( mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying, “It’s raining cats and dogs.”
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem
in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice, clean bed. Hence, a
bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That’s how “canopy beds” came into existence. Not to mention that the canopy helped trap body heat in the winter.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt Hence the saying, “dirt poor.” The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added
more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way for a “thresh hold.”
