Huron County, Ohio, Queries Posted For

Huron County, Ohio

Queries Posted For November 2009 thru April 2010





Surnames: BROWN, CANTON
Researcher: Scott Phillips
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Friday, November 13, 2009

I have now found the obituaries for my great Aunt BROWN and her son. I have also found that her son, Jack BROWN, was buried in Edwards Grove Cemetery, Greenwich. Does anyone know if there is a listing of his wife anywhere? I know she predeceased him (Jack died in 2007). I imagine she may have been buried in Edwards Grove too, since Jack was and since his mother was buried elsewhere. Her name was Dorma (CANTON) BROWN.

Surnames: KELLER
Researcher: John Keller
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Friday, December 25, 2009

I came across copies of the�Huron County Kinologist� from 1991 at the Leesburg, Florida Library. In the Fall edition on page 201 was a listing for KELLER, John, 1840 in Henry and Martha Timman's article "Huron County Early Estate Index". I am fairly sure this relates to my Great Great Grandfather. I also found a listing for KELLER, John, Oct 1851 in the �Huron County Kinologist�, Volume 7, Number 2, Summer 1992, Page 225 in an article on guardianship. I believe this relates to my Great Grandfather. No other information was listed. Can anyone help me find these documents? I am not sure even where to write for copies.

Surnames: PRIDLE, WITTER
Researcher: Linda Reilly
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Sunday, January 17, 2010

I'm trying to help a friend find her sister that was adopted out. Child�s name at the time of birth was Sharon Rose WITTER, born on 26 Dec 1948 in Columbus, Ohio at 5:35am. The mother was in a unwed mother home in Columbus, Ohio at the time of the birth and was taken to the hosp for the delivery and back to the unwed mother home to care for the baby for about a week. When the day came for new parents too pick the baby up. The mother was told to dress the baby. As the family story goes, the mother was looking out the window as the new parents walked away with baby. The B-mother was in tears. She did not want to give the baby up. She was under age at the time. Marquerite WITTER and Cleetis B. WITTER split up and the children were awarded to the court and children services. B-Mother name at the time of the birth was Marjorie Louise WITTER.B-Father was Robert "Bob" PRIDLE. Both were from Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio. A few people went to visit Marjorie at the unwed home in Columbus, Ohio. Marquerite, the mother, Shirley WITTER, the sister, and a sister, Dorothy WITTER. Also a close friend, Lulu Mills, and her boy friend. The family believes the baby was adapted out to another family member. Possible to Roy Burton WITTER and his wife, Katie (MCVETTA) WITTER, or a sister�s family that may have lived in Ft. Major, Fla. Name unknown at this time. As another story was told the B-mother, Marjorie, may have seen her little girl later in life in Norwalk, Ohio when the family was on a visit to other family members. They say she looks just the father. There is a baby photo taken and given to mother, but unable to find it at this time. The photo was a small black and white photo with a little brownest tint to it. The baby had a lot of hair and dark. The baby just had a diaper on. Only the top half of the body and face was showing in the photo. The photo was taken only at a few days old.

Surnames: JOHNSON, KNIGHT, TAYLOR
Researcher: Susan Rezek
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Saturday, February 6, 2010

I would like to find out where William F. and Jane [nee JOHNSON] KNIGHT are buried. William died on 25 January 1901 in New Haven. He was born about 1913 in Massachusetts. I don't know when his wife, Jane, died. She was born about 1919 in Connecticut. William's parents were James Russel KNIGHT and Frances TAYLOR.

Surnames: JOHNSON, KNIGHT, TAYLOR
Researcher: Susan Rezek
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Saturday, February 6, 2010

Tom Hickey Look Up Results - The following is from the Huron County, Ohio Cemetery Inscriptions, pub 1997, Pg 393, New Haven Cemetery, New Haven Township: Row 7. 10 KNIGHT, Frederick W. s/o W.F. & J.E. KNIGHT d. Washington DC on 23 Aug 1864 age 22y 7m 8d GAR; 11 KNIGHT "Mother"; 12 KNIGHT, Wm. 1812 - 1901; Jane E. 1816 - 1894 Wife; 13 KNIGHT "Father"; 14 KNIGHT "Hermie R."; 15 KNIGHT "Mother". If you check the Huron County website, there is an index to the entries in this book. There are many other KNIGHTs in New Haven and in other places in Huron County, but this seems to be the grouping you are interested in.

Surnames: BRUGGEMAN, HUSS, VALE, WITTER
Researcher: Linda Reilly
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Andrew Waber Look Up Results - The WITTERs are very familiar to me. My grandmother was adopted into the BRUGGEMAN, VALE and WITTER families. Her adopted grandmother was Mary Arena (WITTER) VALE HUSS, whom she knew very well. My WITTER family lived in Castalia and Margaretta, Erie County for the most part but there was a couple branches of the family related to Mary HUSS' father, James Barden Witter (he had a brother Elijah and an uncle David WITTER who both had large families in Ohio). There used to be huge reunion of the WITTER family every year that my grandmother remembers fondly. Would you by any chance know Cleetis' father's name?

Surnames: GFELL, HIPP, SMITH
Researcher: Kathy Gould
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Thursday, March 4, 2010

I am researching the SMITH and GFELL families from Huron County, Ohio. I would be grateful if someone would look up in the marriage index and see when Christina (Tina) Wilhelmina GFELL married Carl Theodore SMITH. Their first child was born in 1911 in Norwalk so I am guessing it would have been in 1910 maybe. I am also looking for a marriage date for Christina's parents- Wilhelmina (or Philamina) M HIPP and Fridolin (Frederick) G. GFELL. Their first child was born in 1864 in Monroeville.

Surnames: GFELL, HIPP, SMITH
Researcher: Kathy Gould
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Thursday, March 4, 2010

Ken Shute Lookup Results- The Huron County, OH Marriages publication, 1815-1900, by Scheuer Publications, shows Fred GFELL m. Amelia HEPP 10 May 1864, Book 1, Page 435, The cut off date on this publication precludes checking for the marriage of Christina GFELL and Carl SMITH ca 1910.

Surnames: GFELL, HIPP, SMITH
Researcher: Kathy Gould
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Friday, March 5, 2010

Andrew Waber Look Up Results - The GFELL and HIPP families were two of the Huron County families that came from the village of Grissheim. The church family books are online at http://www.online-ofb.de/grissheim/. This book ends at the very late, very early 1800s but you can locate some transcribed records that will allow you to trace back your ancestry to this time by going to www.familysearch.org. Andreas HIPP was a half brother to Conrad SIMON and both of them left together with their large families in 1834. I am very distantly related to the HIPPs and SIMONs and one of Conrad SIMON's sons, Andrew SIMON, married my great-great grandmother's sister.

Surnames: LANDERMAN
Researcher: Gloria Ishida
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Friday, April 9, 2010

I need historical information concerning what kind of policing Bellevue had in the late 1880s, specifically 1888. A regular paid small force? Police chief? Are names available? I know the fire chief's name and I assume it was a volunteer fire fighting team. But would someone be on duty at the fire station at all times? Any information about Dr. G. LANDERMAN? I can only find him in the 1870 census in Huron County, age 23, already a doctor! Even with alternate spellings could not find him in 1880 and of course, 1890 census records are gone. He was in the Bellevue area in 1888.

Surnames: LANDERMAN, LANTERMAN, LAUTERMAN
Researcher: Gloria Ishida
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Friday, April 9, 2010

Ken Shute Look Up Results - I found a George S. LAUTERMAN/LANTERMAN, born in NY in 1846 and a resident of Bellevue, OH (the Sandusky County side of Bellevue) who appears to be the same as your person of interest. Details follow. 1. 1870 Feferal Census Index, Huron County, OH- G. LAUTERMAN, age 23, b. NY page 338A, Bellevue. OH. 2. Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, OH and Representative Citizens by Basil Meek, 1909, Chapter XIII, The Medical Profesion, Page 209. Bellevue Physicians, Past and Present- "Dr. Daniel A. LOTHROP came in 1835 from Pennsylvania and succeeded Dr. (Lauren G.) HARKNESS in the practice, which was extensive. Thereafter, in the early days, came Dr. Gay, W.W. STETSON.. and later, Drs. ROBINSON, SANDMEISTER and LANTERMAN." 3. Sandusky County, Ohio Index to Wills, Estates and Guardianships, 1820-1900. G. S. LANTERMAN, E- 1900, c5184. (E= Estate, c= case number). 4. Ancestry.com, American Civil War Soldiers. Name- George LAUTERMAN; Enlistment Date- 15 Mar 1864; Enlistment Place- Tully, New York; Side Served- Union; State Served- New York; Service Record- Enlisted as a Private on 15 Mar 1864 at the age of 18. Enlisted in Company Batty B 3rd Light Artillery Regiment New York on 15 Mar 1864. Mustered out Company Batty B, 3rd Light Artillery Regiment New York on 28 Aug 1865 at New York, NY. Source- 14. 5. Ancestry.com, Civil War Pension Index, 1861-1934. Name of Soldier- George S. LAUTERMAN; Widow- Emma J (or T); Service- F 109 N.Y. Inf, B 3 NY L.A.; Date of Filing- 1900 (?) Nov. 5, Application No. 929 420; State from (widow?) filed- Ohio. 6. Family Search. 1880 U.S. Census (Taken at York County, Sandusky, OH). Read Name, Relation, Age, Birthplace, Occupation, Father's birthplace, Mother's birthplace- Geo. S. LAUTERMAN, self, 33, NY, Doctor (MD), NY, NY. Emma LAUTERMAN, wife, 33, Eng, Keeps Milliner shop, Eng,, Eng. Mary E. SMITH, Other, 34, Eng, Works in Milliner's shop, Eng,, Eng. 7. Rutherford B. Hayes Obituary Index (index.rbhayes.org). Name- Emma LAUTERMAN; Spouse- George S. LAUTERMAN; Age at death- 55; Place of death- Bellevue (OH); Date of death- 5/20/1902; Parents first name- Enoch; Other family name for Emma- Emma HEAL. (Identifies 5 newspapers in which obit appears.) Name- Dr. George S. LAUTERMAN; Spouse- Emma HEAL; Age at death- 53; Place of death- Bellevue (OH); Date of death- 1/29/1900; Date of marriage- 9/26/1872; Parents first name- Johm nd Julia BROWN; Date of birth- 11/30/1846. ( Identifies 8 different newspapers in which obits appear).

Surnames: MITCHELL
Researcher: Dina Mitchell
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Saturday, April 10, 2010

I am trying to locate where a family will was filed. My husband's great uncle died in 1917 in Honolulu, Hawaii but no will was found there. He left five siblings and a lot of stock in the Alexander & Baldwin Company of Hawaii. Since they all lived in Willard Ohio, I am wondering where I would look in Huron county to see if it was filed there. His name was Benton David MITCHELL and I've also found him in one census as Benjamin.

Surnames: SHAFFER
Researcher: Gabriele Harkey-Bornkessel
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Saturday, April 10, 2010

Submitted by Nancy Plain- As seen reprinted in the Norwalk Reflector on Apr 2, 2010 A4. Blast from the Past, April 2, 1935, Norwalk Reflector-Herald. Is mortally stricken while son is boxing. While watching a son engaged in a boxing bout at Fremont last night, Harry G. SCHAFFER of East Norwalk suffered an attack of heart failure and died this morning in Community Hospital in Fremont. He is survived by his widow, six children, Mrs. Melvin TIBBOLES of Bellevue; Herbert of Norwalk; Mrs. Vernon WALDRON of Norwalk; Ambrose, Victor and Irvin at home; four brothers, Theodore of Cleveland; Henry of Huron; Arthur of Norwalk; two sisters, Mrs. August CATAHBLA and Mrs. Jacob ROTH, both of Peru. Two children are dead.

Surnames: ROTH, SCHAEFER, SCHONACKER, SHAFFER
Researcher: Gabriele Harkey-Bornkessel
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Saturday, April 10, 2010

This was a gem. Sure helped jump start my lame SCHAFFER data. Now I have information back to the first family, Peter and Catherine BURGER SCHAEFER. Mrs. Jacob ROTH was Lucy SCHAFFER and she is my children's great grandmother. (my ex-husband's grandmother) Anyone else working with this family or the SCHONACKER (and variations) family? I remember visiting Lucy in the late 70's. She was living in the nursing home in Norwalk which in 1956 was the hospital my ex was born in. I had snippets of data here and there, now I have quite a bit more just from knowing sibling names. Much of my data unfortunately still looks like the tangled mess of Christmas lights tossed into a box when pulled off the tree last season.

Surnames: CASE
Researcher: Pam Villafuerte
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010

I am looking for information on Perry CASE born March 1847 in Ohio or NY. His wife was dead by 1900 so I don't know her name yet. I did find the George CASE family with father Perry in Greenwich, Huron, OH -1900 and George and family in Troy (Nova), Ashland, OH -1910-1920-1930-in the census records.

Surnames: BAKER, CASE
Researcher: Pam Villafuerte
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010

I am looking for the parents of Flora A. BAKER who married George Nelson CASE before 1890. She lists birthplace as Ohio in all censuses. I have found George and Flora living in Huron county (1900) and Troy (Nova), Ashland, County in 1910-1920. Don't know when they died. I am looking for information on this George Nelson CASE born May 1867 in Ohio and his wife, Flora A. (BAKER) born March 1876. They were living in Troy (Nova) Ashland, Ohio in the 1910, 1920, and 1930 censues. Known children were Howard, born 1919; Archie; Alice; Gladys--married a man whose first name was Stowe; Louis; Elizabeth; Mable; Fannie (Frances). Anything on this family would be greatly appreciated.

Surnames: BROOKS
Researcher: Bonnie Walsh
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Thursday, April 29, 2010

Does anyone have a marriage date for Velma BROOKS born about 1927 in Willard, Ohio.She was in the Willard High school class of 1946. Probably married during the Korean War.

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