Cronemiller, Martin - Additional Notes

Cronemiller, Martin
Additional Notes



Please consider what I am sending along in respect to Martin Cronemiller, who is buried in Hazzard Cemetery - as are his daughters Margaret (w/o James Lee) and Mary Ann (w/o Jacob Keen - my grandmother's line).

Taken from these sources:
http://www.brigniagara.org/muster.htm http://www.ohiohistory.org/onlinedoc/war1812/expenditure/accounts.cfm and http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1497155&id=I83321638

Sincerely,
Dennis Coupe

[BVK: Also from this additional source:]
http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1497155&id=I83321638





Name: Martin CRONEMILLER
Given Name: Martin
Surname: Cronemiller
Sex: M
Birth: 11 Mar 1794 in Middletown,PA
Death: 8 May 1848 in Albion, OH (Perrysburg)
Occupation: Blacksmith
Religion: Lutheran 1794-1820's/Meth.Episcopal 1830's
Residence: 1838 Centre Co, PA/Perrysburg,Ohio (Albion)

Military: 10 Sep 1813 War of 1812 Hero/Battle of Lake Erie
Military: 1813-Penn.Militiaman marched to Erie, PA
Military: Served on board schooner "Tigress"
Military: Awarded silver medal for bravery in battle
Military: Knew Commadore Perry & General Harrison

Notes:

Martin Cronemiller was a Blacksmith by trade. Taught by his father, he
moved with the family from Middletown, PA, to Aaronsburg, PA where he
took up the trade. When the War of 1812 broke out he volunteered into the
Pennsylvania Malitia in the Spring of 1813. Captain Oliver Hazard Perry
was in need of protection from the British at Erie, PA, while he was
building the American Fleet. The harrassment from the British was causing
the boat building process to be delayed and Captain Perry needed
infantrymen to guard and fight if the British attacked. The Pennsylvania
Militia marched to Erie, and while they were there circumstances caused
Martin Cronemiller to volunteer aboard the schooner "TIGRESS". The fleet
was short-handed and several malitiamen were needed on board the fleet to
be ready to meet the British on Lake Erie in battle if, and when the
attack would come.

In August 1813, the boats were finished and Perry and the fleet moved
to Put-In-Bay, near present day Sandusky, Ohio. On September 10, 1913,
the British were sighted early in the morning on the horizon and the
American Fleet left the harbor to meet them in battle. The "Tigress" was
one of the last schooners out of the harbor and was assigned to protect
the "Niagra" and take on the smaller of the British Navy schooners. The
Tigress had only one cannon.

The battle started at about 10 AM and ended at about 2PM with the
American Fleet victorious. Apparently, Martin Cronemiller was involved in
the pursuit of the British into Canada because a biographical sketch of
one of his sons states that Martin knew General Harrison and Admiral
Perry personally. Martin was decorated for bravery with a silver medal
and apparently was so impressed with Perry that he named one of his sons
Oliver Hazard Perry Cronemiller.

After returning to Pennsylvania from the war he took up the Blacksmith
trade once again.

By 1819, he married Miss Sarah Armstrong and started a family at
Potter's Mills. Several of their children were baptized at the Penn's
Creek Lutheran Church. Martin and Sarah had eight children - William,
Susanna, O.H. Perry, James, Margaret, David, Daniel and Sarah. Sarah was
most likely named after her mother who likely died at her birth in March
of 1833. By September of the same year Martin married the widow of Samuel
Dale, Rebecca (Conkle) Dale, who had five children of her own. Martin and
Rebecca had three children together; Thomas, Mary, and John.
By 1838, the family moved from Pennsylvania to Perrysburg, Ohio
(current day Albion) where he was the town Blacksmith.

At his death in 1848, he was buried at Hazard Cemetery near
Perrysburg,(present day Albion, OH) and shortly afterward his wife also
passed away. His grave marker is still standing and is barely readable
without chaulk to highlight the letters. His wife's marker is broken and
not readable. Apparently, the family was Methodist Episcopal in religion
during those years in Ohio.

William and O.H. Perry Cronemiller moved to White Pigeon, Michigan, and
then on to Sutter's Mill California and eventually settling in San
Francisco. Suzanna Cronemiller died at age 12; James lived and died in
Ashland Co., OH; Margaret lived in Perrysburg, OH; David moved to the
Portland, OR Territory; Daniel served in the Civil War as a Major and
became a cattle rancher in Klamath Falls, OR; and Sarah lived and died in
Orangeville, IL. Thomas married three times and was a pr [clipped]

Father: Martin CRONMILLER b: 29 Jan 1761 in York, PA
Mother: Barbara MEYER b: 12 Jan 1760 in York, PA

Marriage 1 Sarah ARMSTRONG

* Married: Abt. 1819 in Aaronsburg, PA

Children

1. Has Children William CRONEMILLER b: 29 Dec 1820 in Potter's Mill, Centre Co., Pennsylvania
2. Has No Children Susanna CRONEMILLER b: 10 Mar 1822 in Potter's Mills, Centre Co., Pennsylvania
3. Has Children Oliver Hazard Perry CRONEMILLER b: 1 May 1823 in Centre County, PA
4. Has No Children James CRONEMILLER b: 1826 in Centre County, Pennsylvania
5. Has Children Margaret CRONEMILLER b: 1828 in Centre Co., PA
6. Has Children David CRONEMILLER b: 1830 in Centre Co., PA
7. Has Children Daniel CRONEMILLER b: 7 Aug 1831 in Potter Twp., Centre County, PA
8. Has No Children Sarah M. CRONEMILLER b: 24 Feb 1833 in Centre Co., PA




Schooner TIGRESS

Augustus H. M. Conkling (Conklin), Lieutenant Commandant
Alexander C. Stout, Midshipman
Hugh Nelson Page, Midshipman
James Lee, Pilot
John McIntire, Steward
Henry Griffith, Quarter Gunner
Peter Brown, Boatswains' Mate
Robert McGregor, Boy
Elisha Atwood, Seaman
Thomas Bradley, Seaman
John Lewis, Ordinary Seaman

Landsmen

Martin Cronemiller Alexander McClaskey
Robert Eakin Daniel Phillips
James Gray John Rupely
Jesse Taylor

United States Infantry and Marines

William Webster, Corporal

Privates

John Bates (Batis) John Martin
George W. Drake Alexander McCord
John Hall Joseph Pomeroy
H. C. Harrington Lewis Vanway
[Source: Dennis Coupe]