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Swan ~ Hartzell Family History
MARKLEY CHAPTER
  MÄRKLIN, SEBASTIAN 1     born 1540
  m  ANNA SCHMID    
  MÄRKLIN, JOHANNES 2     born 1570 Switzerland
  m  CORDULA BILLINGER     died 1620
  MÄRKLIN, MATTHIAS 3     baptised 1606 Switzerland
  m  ANNA ENG    
  MÄRKLIN, JAKOB 4     baptised 1635 Switzerland, died 1690
  m  BARBARA GAS     baptised 1633 Switzerland, died 1690
  MÄRKLIN/MÄRCKLIN, JOHANN JAKOB 5     baptised 1662 Switzerland, died 1734
  m  VERENA SOLAND     born 1661 Switzerland, died 1706
  MÄRCKLIN, HANS JACOB "JOGGI" 6     baptised 1702 Switzerland
  m  ELISABETH "ELSBETH" HEFELFINGER     baptised 1707 Switzerland
  MÄRCKLY/MARKLEY, HANS GEÖRG 7     born 1730 Switzerland, died 1799 Pennsylvania
  m  REGINA DORA BARBARA FRÖLICH     born 1740 Germany
  MARKLEY, GEORGE 8     born 1764 Pennsylvania, died 1828 Pennsylvania
  m  ELIZABETH LEIN     born 1766
  MARKLEY, GEORGE M. 9     born 1794 Pennsylvania, died 1848 Ohio
  m  SARAH ____     born 1799 Pennsylvania
  MARKLEY, AARON 10     born 1828 Pennsylvania, died 1915 Kansas
  m  MARY ALICE MITCHELL     born 1832 Pennsylvania, died 1910 Kansas
  MARKLEY, MARGUERITE "MAGGIE" 11     born 1875 Indiana, died 1949 Kansas
  m  JAMES ALBERT SWAN     born 1874 Wisconsin, died 1937 Kansas
INTRODUCTION
That our Markley line in this country originated in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania is documented in a note in my possession written by my great-grandfather Aaron Markley early last century. Census, court, and marriage records point to the town of Strasburg in that county as the place of residence of the family, starting with George Markley who appeared in the records there from 1753 through August, 1799. The details of three generations of Markleys in Strasburg will be given later.
We have from Ruth Markley [Markley, 1992] a genealogy by Solomon Markley entitled "Markley Descendants from Germany" [Markley, 1906]. It identifies the founding parents of his line in this country as Hans George Markle, born 1730 near Basel, Switzerland, and Regina Dora Barbara Frohlich, born 1740 in Württemberg, Germany, and he says they settled near Strasburg. The children he ascribes to this couple correspond to those listed in the will of the George Markley who died 1799. (I don't know who added the handwritten notes, nor when that happened.)
image: Solomon Markley Genealogy

Solomon Markley Genealogy

The text ends with the notation: "July 10, 1906, I, Solomon Markley, have copied this genealogy out[?] from an old record up to my father's family; from that time until the present date I have kept the record and it is correct". This genealogy gives the appearance of having come from a genealogical society or family newsletter. His statement that six of his twelve children were dead is in disagreement with the death dates recorded below, as I have the seventh of his children dying in 1892. One, at least, of my dates must be in error.
On 30 Aug 1749 the Crown arrived in Philadelphia, with passengers designated as "Switzers", among whom were Hans, Hans Jacob, and Hans George Markly [Strassburger and Hinke, 1934]. A detailed comparison was made of the names of all the male passengers on this ship with the emigrants who received permission to emigrate from Baselland, Switzerland that year [Faust and Brumbaugh, 1925]. We find in common from these two references three related families, one of which consisted of Hans Joggi Märcklin, 47, "Released from payment of dues", his wife Elizabeth Hefelfinger, 46, and four of their children (Hans Jacob, Hans Georg, Magdalen and Ursula), from Rothenfluh, Amt Farnsworth.
We turn next back to the Kirchenbücher, the church record book, of Rothenfluh, Baselland. There we find recorded the births of the children of Hans Joggi and Elizabeth Märcklin who came on the Crown, as well as the births of their siblings. The second son, Hans Georg Märcklin, was baptised 28 Jan 1731, in excellent agreement with the birth in 1730 ascribed by Solomon Markley to Georg Markle.
Although this history is written starting from the earliest ancestor in each line, the identification of each generation was of course accomplished working backwards in time. This was made relatively easy as the FHL IGI contains all of the records of these families translated from the filmed copies of the church records. Thus it was only necessary to scan the Swiss German language films to find already identified baptismal and marriage records in order to verify them. This process disclosed some serious errors in the FHL IGI, and these are footnoted in the appropriate places in the family histories. Nevertheless, the existence of the FHL IGI certainly facilitated this research, and it is only necessary to recognize that this secondary resource always needs to be checked against primary source documents. The practice in the German churches of providing the maiden name of the mother for every child's baptism should be noted as one of the best genealogical research aids available.
The most serious problem in using the Swiss birth records is the repetitive use of the same given names within contemporary families of the same surname. Thus the birth of a Jacob in 1633 in Rothenfluh, and one born in 1638 in the same town, leads to an ambiguity when one finds a marriage record for a Jacob in 1690. And it is just this situation which led me astray in the lineage I originally presented in this chapter.
An extensive discussion with Ken Regenos (Personal Correspondence, Nov 2008) uncovered and corrected my choice of the wrong Jacob Märcklin. Ken pointed out that all of the children of Jacob and Verena Soland had godparents with the surname Gaß, the name of Barbara Gaß, mother of the Johann Jakob baptised 5 Oct 1662. This is quite convincing, genealogically, and I have now revised my lineage to follow that of Ken Regenos. His published genealogy can be found at Regenass Relatives Report, which contains only information which he has personally verified from Swiss primary records.
Ken has also generously permitted me the use of as yet unpublished research results from his study of images of the original Kirchenbücher records (Personal Communications, Nov 2008). The sources he cites for this research are
Rothenfluh 01, "Taufen, Ehen," 1559-1625, Staatsarchiv Basel-Landschaft in Liestal.
Rothenfluh 02, "Taufen, Ehen, Tote Konfirmierte," 1625-1675, Staatsarchiv Basel-Landschaft in Liestal.
Rothenfluh 02a, "Taufen, Tote, Ehen, Konfirmierte," 1675 - 1757, Staatsarchiv Basel-Landschaft in Liestal.
Oltingen 01, "Ehen, Taufen, Tote, Konfirmierte," 1572-1791, Staatsarchiv Basel-Landschaft in Liestal.
The towns in which we find these families lived are shown on the Google satellite map below of the Canton of Baselland. In addition to the Märcklin and Hefelfinger lines which came from this region, several of our ancestors on the Hartzell side of the family also originated in this small area. Christian Schäublin's home was in Oberdorf, and his wife Barbara Spitteler was from Bennwil. Their son Ulrich married Elsbeth Thommen, daughter of Jacob and Barbara (Bär) Thommen from Zeglingen. All of these had emigrated in 1736, but there were also Thommens and Spittelers on the Crown with the Märcklins in 1749. As can be seen from the map, all of these towns lie within a circle of about five miles radius, to the southeast of the city of Basel.
image: Ancestral towns of Baselland

Ancestral towns of Baselland
Sebastian Märklin & Anna Schmid

Sebastian1

Sebastian was born about 1540.

Sebastian and Anna married 6 Jan 1563 in Rothenfluh, Baselland, Switzerland.

Anna's birth date and place are unknown.

The date of about 1540 for the birth of Sebastian is merely my estimate of 23 years as the most common age of a male at marriage, and of 24 years as the most common age of a father at the birth of his eldest child.
The three children of Sebastian and Anna (Schmid) Märklin were Samuel, Johannes and Jakob.
i     Samuel Märklin, son, born 1565 in Rothenfluh.
  Samuel was married 1595 in Rothenfluh to Küngold Gaß {born in Rothenfluh}.
  The five children of Samuel and Küngold (Gaß) Märklin:
1     Barbara Märklin, dtr., born 5 Dec 1599 in Rothenfluh.
2     Johannes Märklin, son, born 12 Jan 1601 in Rothenfluh.
3     Barbara Märklin, dtr., born 30 Jan 1603 in Rothenfluh.
4     Sebastian Märklin, son, born 26 Jan 1606 in Rothenfluh.
5     Johannes Märklin, son, born 31 Jul 1608 in Rothenfluh.
  Johannes was married in 1629 to Barbara Schaub.
  The children and grandchildren of Johannes and Barbara are given by Ken Regenos:
 

    Johannes Märklin, b 8 Jul 1632, Rothenfluh, d 8 Dec 1663, Rothenfluh 
    Barbara Märklin, b 10 Nov 1633, Rothenfluh 
    Jacob Märklin, b 23 Sep 1638, Rothenfluh, d 1 Oct 1697, Rothenfluh 
     m 1661 to Anna Erb, b 18 Sep 1636, Rothenfluh, d 10 Oct 1709, Rothenfluh 
    Margaretha Märklin, b 1 May 1642, Rothenfluh, d 25 Mar 1694, Rothenfluh 
     m Johannes Gass, b 7 Jan 1631, Rothenfluh, d 4 Mar 1696, Rothenfluh 
        Friedrich Gass, b 8 Nov 1663, Rothenfluh, d 6 Nov 1718, Rothenfluh 
         m 6 Feb 1703, Rothenfluh to Katharina Gass, 
                                     b 27 Aug 1676, Rothenfluh, d 1753 
        Heinrich Gass, b 11 Feb 1666, Rothenfluh 
         m 1692 to Barbara Weber, b Ormalingen 
        Johan Jakob Gass, b 1673, Rothenfluh, d 1700 
        Martin Gass, b 24 Dec 1682, Rothenfluh, d 18 Oct 1709, Rothenfluh 
        Margaretha Gass, b 1 Aug 1686, Rothenfluh, d 23 Mar 1745, Rothenfluh 
         m 7 Oct 1710, Rothenfluh to Abraham Weber, b 1686, Ormalingen, d 1755 
    Heinrich Märklin, b 13 Jul 1645, Rothenfluh 
    Küngold Märklin, b 25 Aug 1647, Rothenfluh, d 3 Aug 1685, Rothenfluh 

  Note that some of the descendants shown here also appear below in the descent from Johannes' uncle Jacob Märklin, born 1568, since Margaretha's husband Johannes Gaß, above, was a grandson of Jacob Märklin by his daughter Elizabeth who married Heinrich Gaß.
ii     Johannes Märklin, son, born in 1570.   
iii     Jakob Märklin, son, born in 1568.
  Jakob was married 9 Jul 1597 in Rothenfluh to Margaretha Gaß.
  The children and descendants of Jacob and Margaretha, as taken from original records by Ken Regenos, are shown here in descent form. The sources cited by Ken have been given above. No connection has been found between the Heinrich Gaß, below, born 18 Jan 1599 and Barbara Gaß, baptised 17 Nov 1633 in Rothenfluh, who married Jakob Märklin of our direct line. Since this Heinrich Gaß had a son born in Rothenfluh in December of 1633, he well could have been an uncle of Barbara.
 

    Märklin, Johannes, b 21 Aug 1597, Rothenfluh 
    Märklin, Barbara, b 31 Dec 1598, Rothenfluh 
    Märklin, Elisabeth, b 22 Apr 1601, Rothenfluh, d 22 Apr 1658, Rothenfluh 
     m 1 Mar 1625, Rothenfluh to Heinrich Gaß, b 18 Jan 1599, Rothenfluh 
        Gaß, Ursula, b 30 Dec 1627, Rothenfluh 
         m 1650 to Heinrich Buser, b 1624, Buckten 
        Gaß, Johannes, b 7 Jan 1631, Rothenfluh, d 4 Mar 1696, Rothenfluh 
         m Margaretha Märklin, b 1 May 1642, Rothenfluh, d 25 Mar 1694, Rothenfluh 
            Gaß, Friedrich, b 8 Nov 1663, Rothenfluh, d 6 Nov 1718, Rothenfluh 
             m 6 Feb 1703, Rothenfluh to Katharina Gaß, b 27 Aug 1676, Rothenfluh, d 1753 
            Gaß, Heinrich, b 11 Feb 1666, Rothenfluh 
             m 1692 to Barbara Weber, b Ormalingen 
            Gaß, Johan Jakob, b 1673, Rothenfluh, d 1700 
            Gaß, Martin, b 24 Dec 1682, Rothenfluh, d 18 Oct 1709, Rothenfluh 
            Gaß, Margaretha, b 1 Aug 1686, Rothenfluh, d 23 Mar 1745, Rothenfluh 
             m 7 Oct 1710, Rothenfluh to Abraham Weber, b 1686, Ormalingen, d 1755 
        Gaß, Fridlin, b 15 Dec 1633, Rothenfluh, d 7 Oct 1707, Rothenfluh 
        Gaß, Anna Maria, b 18 May 1637, Rothenfluh, d 13 May 1702, Rothenfluh 
         m 1658 to Heinrich Gaß, b 16 Oct 1631, Rothenfluh, d 28 May 1700, Rothenfluh 
            Gaß, Barbara, b 12 Feb 1665, Rothenfluh, d 8 Aug 1726, Rothenfluh 
             m 1691 to Friedlin Gaß, b 15 Oct 1667, Rothenfluh, d 30 Jul 1730, Rothenfluh 
            Gaß, Jakob, b 15 Oct 1667, Rothenfluh 
            Gaß, Martin, b 1669, d 28 Dec 1745, Rothenfluh 
            Gaß, Johan Jakob, b 1673 
            Gaß, Heinrich, b 1675, Rothenfluh, d 17 Oct 1745, Rothenfluh 
             m 16 Feb 1706, Rothenfluh to Barbara Märklin, b 25 Apr 1680, Rothenfluh, 
                                                            d 17 Oct 1745, Rothenfluh 
    Märklin, Barbara, b 30 Jan 1603, Rothenfluh 
    Märklin, Barbara, b 27 Jan 1605, Rothenfluh 
    Märklin, Johan Jakob, b 11 Feb 1610, Rothenfluh 
    Märklin, Barbara, b 26 Apr 1612, Rothenfluh 
    Märklin, Christian, b 6 Jan 1614, Rothenfluh, d 15 Feb 1680, Rothenfluh 
     m 29 Jan 1639, Rothenfluh to Elisabeth Tschopp, b 1608, Tenniken, 
                                                        d 15 Aug 1686, Rothenfluh 
        Märklin, Georg, b 24 Apr 1642, Rothenfluh, d 24 Apr 1705, Rothenfluh 
         m 1 May 1677, Rothenfluh to Elisabeth Gaß, b 2 Aug 1641, Rothenfluh, 
                                                    d 3 Jul 1705, Rothenfluh 
    Märklin, Matthias, b 28 Apr 1616, Rothenfluh 
     m 1646 to Verena Eng 
        Märklin, Barbara, b 13 Jan 1647, Rothenfluh, d 10 Apr 1714, Rothenfluh 
         m 1670 to Georg Gaß, b 15 Dec 1633, Rothenfluh, d 6 Oct 1689, Rothenfluh 
    Märklin, Anna, b 28 Jul 1618, Rothenfluh, d 5 Jun 1678, Rothenfluh 
     m Niklaus Itin, d 1678 

  Another Märklin/Gaß family in Rothenfluh contemporary to Jakob was that of Barbel Mercklin, born ca. 1567 and married 3 Aug 1584 in Rothenfluh to "Hans Jacob Gas or Gass", baptised 6 Apr 1567 in Rothenfluh, son of Martin Gass and Esther Hummel [Ancestral File of Charles Mark Chestnutwood]. Hans Jacob married over 30 years later, 28 Nov 1615, to Barbel Zender. His first wife Barbel could well have been a sister to Jakob but, if not, was surely a cousin.
Johannes Märklin & Cordula Billinger

Sebastian1, Johannes2

Johannes was born 1570 in Rothenfluh, Baselland, Switzerland.

Johannes and Cordula married 19 Jul 1589 in Rothenfluh.

Cordula died in 1620.

There were two families in Rothenfluh contemporary to Johannes and Cordula who bear mention.
There was a Barbara Billinger, daughter of Hans and Barbel (Gass) Billinger born 21 Oct 1565 in Rothenfluh, who married a Hans Wirz and died about 1620, as reported by Robert G. Wilson. These folk are surely related to Cordula, and could well be her sister and parents.
The only child of Johannes and Cordula (Billinger) Märklin was
i     Matthias Märklin, son, was born 17 Jul 1606.   
Matthias Märklin & Anna Eng

Sebastian1, Johannes2, Matthias3

Matthias was baptised 17 Jul 1606 in Rothenfluh, Baselland, Switzerland.

Matthias and Anna's marital data are not known.

Anna's birth date and place are unknown.

The Family History Library's IGI lists 147 Engs in Switzerland, those of the seventeenth century mostly from Canton Aargau, just a few miles down the road southeast from Rothenfluh, Baselland. Twenty eight of those 147 Engs were named Anna!
The only child of Matthias and Anna (Eng) Märklin was
i     Jakob Märklin, son, was born 4 Jan 1635.   
Jakob Märklin & Barbara Gaß

Sebastian1, Johannes2, Matthias3, Jakob4

Jakob was baptised 4 Jan 1635 in Rothenfluh, Baselland, Switzerland and died 21 Jan 1690.

Jakob and Barbara married 10 Mar 1657.

Barbara was baptised 17 Nov 1633 in Rothenfluh, the daughter of Johannes and Anna (Graf) Gaß, and died 5 Feb 1690.

Our line descends from this Jakob Märcklin though his son Johann Jacob and grandson Hanß Jacob "Joggi". The spelling of the surname with a "c" is first evidenced to my knowledge in the baptismal record of Johann Jacob, son of Jakob Märklin and Barbara Gaß.
Barbara's lineage is shown below, as synthesized from two sources, that of Ken Regenos, which provides the generational connections back through Johannes, Georg, and Johannes, supplemented with IGI submitted records, not sourced. These latter provided specific birth days, but they were more likely baptismal dates (which I have editorially corrected). All of the birth and marriage dates are in Rothenfluh, except for the birth of Adelheid Schaub in Wittinsburg, which is about 8 miles southwest of Rotherfluh. Both sources use the spelling Gass, not Gaß, which I retain.

    Gass, Michel 
    m ____ ____ 
    Gass, Johannes/Hans b ca 1548 
    m 30 Jun 1572 Adelheid Schaub, b ca 1552 Wittinsburg 
        Gass, Diebold/Theobald, bpt 6 Jun 1574, d 1639 
        m1) 21 Oct 1596 Chrischona Bräulin, d 1603 
        m2) 1604 Katharina Gass, b 1585, d 1639 
        Gass, Barbel, bpt 9 Dec 1576 
        m 27 Jan 1611 Mathys Keller 
        Gass, Georg/Joerg, bpt 27 Apr 1578, d 16 Jun 1639 
        m 15 Nov 1605 Barbara Meier/Meyer 
            Gass, Johannes, b 1610, d 1693 
            m Anna Graf, b 1615 
                Gass, Barbara, b 1633, d 1690 
                m 10 Mar 1657 to 
                Jakob Märcklin, b 1635, d 169 
        Gass, Michel, bpt 20 Sep 1579 
        Gass, Hans, bpt 1 Jan 1581 
        Gass, Hans Jakob, bpt 16 Jun 1583 
        m 15 Feb 1614 Margreth Graesser 
        Gass, Margreth, bpt 31 Oct 1585 
        Gass, Hans, bpt 12 Jan 1589, d 19 Jul 1637 
        Gass, Mathis, bpt 26 Jul 1590, [d bef 1594] 
        Gass, Eva, bpt 31 Jul 1592 
        Gass, Mathis, bpt 28 Jul 1594 
        Gass, Elsbeth, bpt 14 Mar 1596 

The marriage of Jakob and Barbara was not the first, nor the last, union between the Märklin and Gaß families in Rothenfluh. Here are six that I know of, indented to show approximate generations:

    ---------------------------------------------------- 
    Gaß, Margaretha, b est 1575 
    m 9 Jul 1597 to 
    Jakob Märklin, b 1568, 
    son of Sebastian and Anna Schmid 
        ------------------------------------------------- 
        Gaß, Heinrich, b 18 Jan 1599 
        m 1 Mar 1625 to 
        Elisabeth Märklin, b 22 Apr 1601, 
        dtr of Jakob and Margaretha Gaß 
            --------------------------------------------- 
            Gaß, Johannes, b 7 Jan 1631 
            m Margaretha Märklin, b 1 May 1642 
            dtr of Johannes and Barbara Schaub 
            --------------------------------------------- 
            Gaß, Barbara, b 1633 
                dtr of Johannes and Anna Graf 
            m 10 Mar 1657 to 
            Jakob Märcklin, b 1635, d 169 
            son of Matthias and Anna Eng 
            --------------------------------------------- 
            Gaß, Georg, b 15 Dec 1633 
            m 1670 to 
            Barbara Märklin, b 13 Jan 1647 
            dtr of Matthias and Verenna Eng 
            --------------------------------------------- 
                Gaß, Heinrich, b 1675, 
                son of Heinrich and Anna Maria Gass 
                m 16 Feb 1706 to 
                Barbara Märklin, b 25 Apr 1680 
    ---------------------------------------------------- 

The only child of Jakob and Barbara (Gaß) Märklin was
i     Johann Jakob Märklin, son, was born 5 Oct 1662.   
Johann Jakob Märklin/Märcklin & Verena Soland

Sebastian1, Johannes2, Matthias3, Jakob4, Johann Jakob5

Johann Jakob was baptised 5 Oct 1662 in Rothenfluh, Baselland, Switzerland and died 1 Jan 1734.

Johann Jakob and Verena married 25 Feb 1690 in Rothenfluh.

Verena was born 25 Jun 1661 in Oltingen, Baselland, Switzerland, the daughter of Mathias and Anna (Grif) Soland, and died 17 Mar 1706.

Here is the baptismal record of "J__aß Jacob Ja___ Marcklin" (as best as I can read it; if anyone familiar with the script can provide an accurate reading, I'd really appreciate hearing from you), son of Jacob Marcklin and Barbara Gaß.
image: Johann Jakob Märcklin baptism 1662

Johann Jakob Märcklin baptism 1662

Twenty-eight years later the Rothenfluh record appears for the marriage of Hanß Jacob Märcklin and Verena Soland:
image: Marriage Record for Hanß Jacob Märcklin and Verena Soland

Marriage Record for Hanß Jacob Märcklin and Verena Soland

Every one of the children in this family had at least one godparent surnamed Gaß, the maiden name of the mother of Hanß Jacob. Gaß (often written Gass in English, which is the equivalent of writing Hanss for a given name) seems to be one of the most common names in Rothenfluh, and there were many marriages recorded in the town between Märcklin and Gaß families in every generation.
The five children of Johann Jakob and Verena (Soland) Märklin/Märcklin were Hanß Jacob, Elsbeth, Hanß Heinrich, Adam and Hanß Jacob "Joggi".
i     Hanß Jacob Märcklin, son, baptised 24 Aug 1690 in Rothenfluh and died in Rothenfluh.
  This first Hanß Jacob is noted in the church record as having died early, as did the second child, Elsbeth. Both of their baptismal records have been marked with a Greek theta, the Swiss equivalent of the German cross to indicate death. Hanß Jacob's godfather was Jacob Gaß.
 
image: Hans Jacob Märcklin baptism 1690 and death

Hans Jacob Märcklin baptism 1690 and death

ii     Elsbeth Märcklin, dtr., baptised 6 Nov 1692 in Rothenfluh and died in Rothenfluh.
  Elsbeth's godmother was Margreth Gaß. Here is her baptismal record marked with a style variant of a Greek theta (beneath the month November) to indicate that she died young. Her parents names read "Hanß Joggi Märklin" and "Verna Soland". Her godfather was Jacob Soland, an uncle or her grandfather, and her godmother was Elsbeth (of course), but I cannot read the surname, nor the third name at the bottom right.
 
image: Elßbeth Märcklin baptism 1692 and death

Elßbeth Märcklin baptism 1692 and death

iii     Hanß Heinrich Märcklin, son, baptised 5 Apr 1696 in Rothenfluh.
  Hanß Heinrich's godfather was Hans Heinrich Gaß.
iv     Adam Märcklin, son, baptised 5 Nov 1698 in Rothenfluh.
  Adam's godfather was Adam Gaß.
v     Hanß Jacob "Joggi" Märcklin, son, was born 26 Nov 1702.   
Hanß Jacob "Joggi" Märcklin & Elisabeth "Elßbeth" Hefelfinger

Sebastian1, Johannes2, Matthias3, Jakob4, Johann Jakob5, Hanß Jacob "Joggi"6

Hanß Jacob "Joggi" was baptised 26 Nov 1702 in Rothenfluh, Baselland, Switzerland.

Hanß Jacob "Joggi" and Elisabeth "Elßbeth" married 8 Jan 1726 in Dietgen, Baselland, Switzerland.

Elisabeth "Elßbeth" was baptised 25 Apr 1707 in Diegten, Baselland, Switzerland, the daughter of Hans and Elsbeth (Fiechter) Hefelfinger.

Hanß Jacob, the youngest child of Johann Jakob and Verena (Soland) Märcklin, is our immigrant ancestor. His godfather was Heinrich Gaß, possibly the same man as the godfather to his brother Hanß Heinrich, and that Heinrich was identified as a metzger, or butcher.
Here is his baptismal record of 26 Nov 1702, son of Hanß Jacob Märcklin and Verena Soland:
image: Hanß Jacob Märcklin baptism 1702

Hanß Jacob Märcklin baptism 1702

In the record of his daughter Elsbeth's baptism, Hanß "Jogi" is identified as a borstenmacher, or bristlemaker. Evidently he was involved in the manufacture of brushes.
Hanß Joggi (a diminutive for Jacob, his baptismal name) was recorded as being 47 years of age when he received permission in 1749 to emigrate with his wife and four children from Rothenflu, Amt Farnsburg, Baselland, Switzerland [Faust and Brumbaugh, 1925]. He is noted as having been released from payment of dues, the practice when the emigrant had less than one hundred pounds. A further notation reads: "Did not live up to the reputation of honesty which he enjoyed with his pastor, but made use of the money of his wards (Vogtgelder) in his financial straits."
Also in that reference is a discussion of the difficulties created by the government as early as 1735 for those who wished to sell their property in order to emigrate. In describing the circumstances of the emigrants they cite a wry note from the records: "Hanß Jacob Märcklin from Dürnen has 1 wife, 4 children, and otherwise nothing (sonst nichts)." In 1738(?) permission to emigrate was given to the family of Hanß Jacob Marcklin, 56 years, wife Anna Hofmann, 39 years, children Anna baptised 1717, Catharina baptised 1720, Friedrich baptised 1723, and Anna Maria baptised 1730, from "Thurnen or Durnen". I could not locate Dürnen on a modern map, but Thurnen lies less than five miles to the west of Rothenfluh and is quite likely the modern name of that town. What relationship there was between this family and our ancestors who emigrated a decade later is not known. That Hanß Jacob was just 20 years older than our Hanß Jacob.
A second family of interest given by Faust and Brumbaugh received permission to emigrate from Frenkendorf, Amt Liestal, Baselland. This couple was Johannes Tschudin, cooper and son of Martin, baptised 26 Nov 1724, and his wife Anna Maria Märcklin, "daughter of Hanß Joggi M. of Rothenfluh above", baptised 23 Mar 1727. There is more to report below on the Tschudins in Anna Maria's part of this family history.
Also receiving permission to emigrate at that time from Rothenfluh were Jacob Hassler, cooper, about 30 years of age, his wife Maria Märcklin, about the same age, and three children under the age of four years. Maria is possibly a niece of Hans Joggi, but no relationship was specified in the record in this case, nor was I able to identify her in the church record. Jacob was also released from payment of dues, and is noted as "honest and industrious".
All of the men of these three families are listed as passengers on the ship Crown which arrived in Philadelphia 30 Aug 1749 via Rotterdam and Cowes, Michael James, Master [Strassburger and Hinke, 1934]. The first three signatures on the "C" list of the Crown are Hans Jacob Markly, Hans George Markly, and Hans Markly, with all three of the men signing with an "X".
Also on that passenger list were Martin Tschudi, a second Johannes Tschudi, and a Sepastian Hassler. None of these were mentioned in the Basel records of Faust and Brumbaugh, but they were undoubtedly relatives of the above mentioned families, even though the Tschudi surnames were recorded on the passenger list without the final "n".
The name of Hanß' wife was recorded at her birth as Elisabeth, daughter of Elisbeth Fiechter, but as Elsßeth at the birth of each of her own children. (These are the same name, the diminutive Elßbeth occasionally being used even in a birth record. The surname is spelled Hefelfinger in the record.)
One source [Faust and Brumbaugh,1925], whose researcher identified the wife and children of Hanß Joggi, spelled her name Elizabeth, and recorded her age as being 46 years when she emigrated 1749. That age, according to the researcher who recorded it, should be "almost correct". That there is a four year year discrepancy between that age and her birth record is of some concern, but I have found no other record of an Elßbeth or Elizabeth Hefelfinger who could have been the wife of Hanß Joggi.
Diegten, the home of the Hefelfingers, is about 12 miles by road from Rothenfluh. Here is a brief look at Elisabeth's ancestry, which includes the surnames Fiechter, Egli, Hëgler, Moler and (off of the chart) Vogt:
image: The Ancestry of Elizabeth Hefelfinger

The Ancestry of Elizabeth Hefelfinger

For a more detailed report on this lineage, see my Hefelfinger chapter.
We have no record of this family of Hanß Jacob and Elßbeth in America until their son Hanß Geörg appears in Strasburg, Lancaster, Pennsylvania (as George Markley) four years after their arrival here. Records of the parents' deaths, if located, might provide confirming evidence as to the identification of the immigrant Elizabeth as the daughter Hanß and Elsbeth (Fiechter) Hefelfinger.
The eight children of Hanß Jacob "Joggi" and Elisabeth "Elßbeth" (Hefelfinger) Märcklin were Anna Maria, Hanß Jacob, Hanß Geörg, Hanß, Elsbeth, Anna, Magdalena and Ursula.
i     Anna Maria Märcklin, dtr., baptised 23 Mar 1727 in Rothenfluh and died 1749/1750.
  Anna Maria was married in Baselland, Switzerland to Johannes Tschudi {baptised 26 Nov 1724 in Frenkendorf, Baselland, Switzerland, son of Martin and Elisabeth (Tschudi) Tschudi,}.
  Anna Maria's baptismal record:
 
image: Anna Maria Märcklin baptism 1727

Anna Maria Märcklin baptism 1727

  Johannes and his wife were from Frenkendorf, Amt Liestal, Basel, Switzerland. He "was released from payment of emigration dues because he claimed to have only one pound, 19 shillings, 2 pence left. Later on the papers of his father revealed however that he had been given 150 pounds before emigrating which enabled him to make such a start in Pennsylvania that he could undertake a business trip to Europe two years later", [Faust and Brumbaugh, 1925].
  Anna Maria emigrated 1749 with her parents, brothers and husband on the Crown. She died in 1749 or 1750, apparently just after she arrived in this country [Faust and Brumbaugh, 1925].
  After Anna Maria's death, Johannes was married in Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands on his second trip to America. His new wife was Maria Magdalena Schaffner, born 17 Apr 1729 in Tenniken, daughter of Johan Jakob Schaffner and Anna Maria Häfelfinger, born in Diegten, Baselland.
  The only child of Johannes and Anna Maria (Märcklin) Tschudi:
1     Elizabeth Tschudi, dtr., born 20 Jan 1760 in Fort Pitt, Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
  Elizabeth was married 1777 in Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania to Martin Tschudi {born Oct 1757 in Frenkendorf and died 2 Sep 1831 in Winchester, Clark, Kentucky}.
  As shown in the above descent, Elizabeth and Martin were first cousins.
  The most extensive WorldConnect web page listing the descendants of their nine children, all of whom apparently adopted the spelling Judy for their surnames, is that of Phillip Auth.
ii     Hanß Jacob Märcklin, son, baptised 3 Oct 1728 in Rothenfluh.
  Hanß Jacob was baptised 3 Oct 1728, as can be barely seen in the image of his record. Another readable part of the record is that his godfather was Adam Märcklin, his uncle.
 
image: Hanß Jacob Märcklin baptism 1728

Hanß Jacob Märcklin baptism 1728

  Hans Jacob emigrated 1749.
iii     Hanß Geörg Märcklin, son, born 28 Feb 1730.   
iv     Hanß Märcklin, son, baptised 24 May 1733 in Rothenfluh.
  Hans would have been 16 when his family emigrated, and is surely the Hans Markly on the Crown's list where he also signed immediately following his father and older brother Hanß George. I've found no further reference to this son, either as Hanß or as John Markley.
v     Elsbeth Märcklin, dtr., baptised 25 Sep 1735 in Rothenfluh.
vi     Anna Märcklin, dtr., baptised 11 Feb 1737 in Rothenfluh.
vii     Magdalena Märcklin, dtr., baptised 9 Oct 1740 in Rothenfluh.
  Here is the birth record for Magdalena, daughter of "Hans jogi Märcklin and Elßbeth Hefelfinger".
 
image: Magdalena Märcklin baptism 1740

Magdalena Märcklin baptism 1740

viii     Ursula Märcklin, dtr., baptised 21 Jul 1744 in Rothenfluh.
  Here is the baptismal record of Ursula, daughter of Hans Joggi Märcklin and Elßbeth Hefelfinger, born 21 Jul 1744.
 
image: Ursula Märcklin baptism 1744

Ursula Märcklin baptism 1744
Hanß Geörg Märckly/Markley & Regina Dora Barbara Frölich

Sebastian1, Johannes2, Matthias3, Jakob4, Johann Jakob5, Hanß Jacob "Joggi"6, Hanß Geörg7

Hanß Geörg was born 28 Feb 1730 in Rothenfluh, Baselland, Switzerland, and was baptised 28 Jan 1731. He died Aug 1799 in Strasburg, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Hanß Geörg and Regina Dora Barbara married 30 Oct 1761 in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Regina Dora Barbara was born 24 Dec 1740 in Württemberg, Germany, the daughter of Jacob Frölich.

The record of the baptism 28 Jan 1731 of "Hanß geörg Märckly", son of Hanß Joggi and Elizabeth Hefelfinger, appears in the Rothenfluh record:
image: Hanß Geörg Märckly baptism 1731

Hanß Geörg Märckly baptism 1731

As you can see, it is preceded by the record of the death of a child of another Hanß Yogi Märckly, and followed by the birth of an Elisabeth Märckly whose father's given name I cannot decipher (but it's not Hanß Joggi).
Hanß Geörg Märckly was eventually called George Markley in this country. (During his first forty years there, the Strasburg tax records spelled the name Markle, Markley, Markly, and Merckley, as well as aberrant Marchly and Martley on occasion. In Baselland, sometime after our ancestors left, the spelling of the name evolved to Merkel, Merkle, Merkli, and Merklin.) Hanß Geörg immigrated 1749 at the age of 18 with his parents and siblings. Twelve years later he married Barbara Frölich in the Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster. The marriage record reads "Georg Marcle of Lan. Co. & Barbara Frölichin, spinster", by license, Pastor Gerock [Smith, 1988)]. Jeremy Arment [Arment, 2008] places their marriage in the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster Township.
The records of Pennsylvania show that in 1752 he became the owner of one hundred acres of land [Jordan, 1935].
According to the records of Strasburg, George Markley was first taxed as a Freeman in 1753, and does not appear on the earliest and apparently complete record of 1751. From then through 1799, George appears on the almost yearly tax lists except those for 1754 and 1793. In 1759, the tax records included a list of young men in Strasburg who were not taxed, and on this list appeared the name George Markley. Since "young men" implies that these were not minor children, and hence were 14 years of age or older, this second George's birth was before 1745. I have as yet not identified this extraneous George Markley of early Strasburg. Also that year, our George's name was crossed out on the freeman list, and he was taxed on the regular roll.
During the revolutionary war George saw service in the Pennsylvania militia. There is record of a Militia Draught by the 7th Batt., Col. John Boyd commanding made in the west end of Strasburgh Township. Capt. James Brown's 1st Company, report dated 8 Dec 1777, [Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, Vol. VII, pg 637-641], recorded that George Markly served in the 7th class, and Jacob Feelick (see below regarding George's probable brother–in–law Jacob Frölich) in the 6th class. George was 49 at this time, and his son George was only 13, so it seems sure that this represents the drafting of the elder George. We have no further information as to just what that particular militia service entailed.
Also for Lancaster county are recorded a George Merkle, "removed" from Capt. Smuller's Co. in 1779 [op. cit., pg 903], and a George Merkol on 20 Dec 1780 in the 4th class of Capt. Reims Co., 3rd Batt., [op. cit., pg 225]. It is difficult to tell whether or not either of these are the Strasburg George Markley, or even by the latter date his son, as we know that there were other George Markleys in the county.
After a ten year gap in the tax records, George was again shown taxed 1769 as a Freeman, but thereafter on the regular rolls for the rest of his life. That year the tax inventory showed him as an inhabitant owning 100 acres (although a note indicates that it was poor land), of which 50 acres were improved, with two horses, two cows, and five sheep, and he paid a quitrent of four shillings. Starting in 1771, George no longer was listed as a Freeman of the town. Why this change occurred we don't know; about ten percent of the landowners were so designated, all of them paying a uniform tax about in the middle of the range of taxes paid by the other inhabitants. By 1789, George had increased his land holdings to 165 acres. A decade later, his name on the 1800 tax list had been crossed out, and no tax was assessed. He had died in August of 1799.
About a decade before George's death his sons began to appear also on the Strasburg tax rolls. In 1789 both John and George, Jr. were first listed, each with 10 acres of land. In 1793, when George, Sr. for some reason didn't appear, George Jr. was taxed 15 shillings, and may have been working his father's land, although both appear on the next list in 1796. At that time only George, Sr. was described as a farmer, and John was listed as an innkeeper. Jacob Markley appears for the first time that year, with the inventory showing "one cattle" for him. In 1797, George Jr. is listed as a carpenter, and in 1800, after his father's death, Henry Markley makes his first appearance on the list. By 1810 John was listed as a stiller, and in 1813 a distiller. That year he owned 9 acres of 1st rate land, George 25 acres, also 1st rate, and Jonathan owned 43 acres, but his were described as 3rd rate land.
Finally, in 1821, there were listed along with John and Jonathan both a George, Sr. a George, Jr., and a third George, a storekeeper. (The storekeeper was taxed 37¢, twice as much as George, Jr., but only one tenth that of George, Sr.). This not only marks the first appearance of the next generation of the Markley family, but, most importantly, provides a piece of vital documentation. This second George, Jr. (the first one now being "promoted" to Sr.) can only be the son of the George who was the son of the immigrant George. There is no record of any other George Markley in Lancaster county who could be father to a George, Jr. first appearing on the tax rolls in 1821. The third George listed that year was almost certainly the son of John, eldest brother in the first American born generation.
The Orphans' Court proceedings after George's death indicate that his 165 acres were valued at 3 £ 5 sh. per acres, with a total valuation of 590 £ 15 sh. On 11 Nov 1799 the court had appointed Henry Brenneman as guardian of the estates of Jonathan and David during their minorities, as they were then under the age of 14. On the same day, John as the eldest son and heir petitioned for an Inquest to "view the premises". On 21 Jan 1800, the Inquistion proceedings confirmed that the land could "Only accomodate one of the children without prejudice to & spoiling of the whole", and ordered that John on paying the other children their respective shares could "hold and enjoy the Estate in fee agreeable".
John was also to pay their mother 11 £ 16 sh 3 pence halfpenny out of a principal sum of 196 £ 18 sh 4 pence, "one third part of the said valuation" yearly for the rest of her life. Although law provided that the widow receive one third of her husband's estate, that money was in this case charged by the court against the premises as security, and the responsibility given to the eldest son and heir to administer a yearly allowance of 6 percent of the principal. The Inquistion action of the court ended with a notation by the court clerk:
John Markley Sent 1181 £ 10 sh 0 p
George Markley Sent 1181 £ 10 sh 0 p
To the Honorable John Joseph Henry, Esq. President of the Orphans Court for the use of the widow & children upon condition John Markley shall pay the shares … agreeable to the order… then this recognizance shall be void otherwise to be and remain in the full force & virtue.
This appears to be a bond in total amount of four times the value of the estate sent to the court by John and George to ensure that the widow and her other children be paid their rightful amounts.
In the Deed Book for Lancaster county under date 21 Apr 1801, "George Markley et al. to John Markley et al.", the children, all carefully named except John and Jacob ("Harry" Brenneman still appears at this time as guardian for Jonathan & David), were adjudged to be paid shares of 35 £ 16 sh halfpenny, totaling 322 £ 4 sh 5 pence, by John, "eldest son & heir at law". (This 322 £ represents 9/11 of 2/3 of the original evaluation of the estate, 590 £.) For this they released John and Jacob of all claims by them against the estate. Just how Jacob, the third son, became also liable for the estate is an intriguing question not answered by the dry, legal words of the court action. But two years later, Georg and Jacob were shown as Administrators of their father's "Goods & Chattles, Rights & Credits" when the court approved final distribution of the estate on 29 Mar 1803.
Our source for Barbara's complete name is the genealogy by Solomon Markley [Markley, 1906]. According to that article, she was born 1740 and was 14 years old when she emigrated from Watemberg [sic], Germany. Solomon's place name undoubtedly refers to Württemberg, a Duchy at the time of Regina's birth, now Baden-Württemberg, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. Jordan [1935] gives her birth date as 24 Dec.
If that birth and age are exactly correct, then she was not the daughter and sister of the Jacob Frohlichs, father and son, who came on the Phoenix in 1752, but the discussion above concerning Solomon's dates argues against an unquestioning aceptance of the age he gives for her at immigration. Therefore I have tentatively identified the Jacobs as her father and brother.
The WorldConnect post of Brenda Frazer [Frazer, 2008] and the Pedigree Resource File of Kathleen Michaels Peterson [Peterson, 2008] reverse Regina's middle names. In Switzerland records, Dora would probably appear as Dorothea.
I believe it probable that Barbara was in fact a sister of Jacob Frölich of Strasburg, and that he may well be the son on the Phoenix. He is the only one of that surname (which in the various Pennsylvania records was also spelled Fralich, Fralick, Freelich, Frelich, Froelich, and Frohlich) appearing
in the tax records of Strasburg from 1769 to 1805. The transliteration "oe", as in Froelich, is used for the German "ö", and pronounced approximately as a long "e".
Already in Lancaster city where Barbara and George were married were John Jacob and Elizabeth (Branner) Froelich who had a daughter Elizabeth born there born 8 Feb, baptised 6 Apr 1740 [FHL IGI], and these may be related to Barbara. If that mother's maiden name was actually Brunner, then this may also connect with the George Brunner who married George and Barbara's daughter Mary in 1799.
Jacob Froelich appears on the 1769 and 1770 Strasburg tax rolls as an "inmate", not "inhabitant", indicating that he rented or leased the property on which he was taxed. In 1772 he was taxed 2 shillings on 0 acres and 1 cattle. In 1779 Jacob was taxed as an innkeeper, with 1 acre of land, 1 horse, and "1 cattle". In the Lancaster County Orphans' Court, Jacob Frolich's name appears in an administrative account proceeding: Misc. Book 1784-1787, p. 197. Sep 6, 1785, John Masencope, Jr., Administrator of Jacob Frolich of Strasburg Township, reported a balance of 17-17-2 ["The Roots and Branches of the Jacob Snyder Family Tree" by Elizabeth Snyder Lowe, digitized by Google].
In 1793 the name Jacob Froelich again appears on the Strasburg tax list, and we may assume that this was a Jacob Jr., hence possibly a nephew to Regina. This appearance of this Jacob contemporary to George and Regina's eldest sons provides the evidence that the first Jacob in Strasburg was of Regina's generation, and not that of her father. In 1810, Jacob Frölich was listed as a blacksmith, and there was also a John Frölich, probably his brother, who was a wagonmaker.
There is an abstract of an Account book 1815-21 of Jacob Froelich in the "Guide to the Winterthur Library, digitized by Google. This Jacob was "a whitewasher and plasterer from southeastern Pennsylvania". Was he also the blacksmith of Strasburg?
There were two Jacob Froelichs born in Lancaster County around this time, one in 1776 (parents not mentioned) and one in 1799 to Jacob Froelich and Veronica Fritz, according to submitted IGI records. Also, a Jacob married Mary Hartman about 1813 in Lancaster County [similarly, an undocumented IGI submission].
Again, court proceedings starting about 1825 indicate that the second Jacob Frölich died in Lancaster county. And in the records of St. Michael's Lutheran Church of Strasburg, Barbara, wife of John Froelich, died 4 Dec 1828 ae 54 yr 8 mo (and was thus born ca. April, 1774). There are other Froelichs (of various spellings) mentioned in the History of Lancaster County [Ellis and Evans, 1883].
Hans Georg Märcklin had eighteen children. Undoubtedly the surname of these children was spelled Markley. The order of some of their births is provided by the court records of George's estate, and the estimated birth years given below have been inferred from the few census, court, and church records available.
However, the last four listed are known only from the David Markley Journal [Markley, 1855]. I have no information to place them in the proper sequence with their siblings.
A short biographical paragraph [Jordan, 1835] states that "George Markle evidently married a second time, as at his death, a guardian was appointed for two young sons of his". Although I do not see that that conclusion necessarily follows, it is certainly possible, even probable, that more than one mother bore these eighteen children. There is indeed a six year gap between Hannah and Jonathan, and a five year gap beteen Jonathan and David, either possibly a hint of the death of Regina around 1780 or 1786.
Most of the children of George and his wife/wives married in Pennsylvania before they moved west to Miami County, Ohio. Here is a Wikipedia map of the townships of Lancaster County which will be mentioned in the material that follows on the children of this family.
image: Lancaster County, PA, townships

Lancaster County, PA, townships

The eighteen children of Hanß Geörg and Regina Dora Barbara (Frölich) Märckly/Markley were John, George, Jacob, Daniel, Anna, Mary, Martin, Barbara, Elizabeth, Henry, Joanna, Hannah, Jonathan, David, Benjamin, Nancy, Rudy and Samuel.
i     John Markley, son, born 31 Jul 1762 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and died before 22 Nov 1836.
  John was married 29 Mar 1791 in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvnia to Catherine Bailey (1). He was married 19 Nov 1793 to Elizabeth Frey (2) {born in Pennsylvania?, dtr of Jacob and Maria Catharina (Wolfersberger) Frey}.
  John's marriage to Catharine Bailey of Martic was in the First Reformed Church of Lancaster, by Rev. Boehm [Irish, 1982]. His second, to Elizabeth Frey, daughter of Jacob of Muddy Creek, by Pastor John Caspar Stoever, was at the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in New Holland, some 8 miles north of Strasburg [Schwalm, 1977]. She was born before 1770 [1830 census], and a widow by 22 Nov 1836. There is an IGI submitted record of an Elizabeth Frey born 19 Apr 1768 in Lancaster County, father Jacob, but whether or not that was the Jacob of Muddy Creek I don't know.
  I have Catherine's surname as Bailey, op. cit., but I notice that Ken Regenos lists her as Reily [Regenos, 2008]. I have found nothing more concerning this first wife, although she must have died shortly after their marriage.
  A Jacob Frey died testate 1792 [Will Book F, v1, p340]. Another connection among the families is that a Jacob Frey, at that time of Cocalico, just a few miles from Muddy Creek, married ca. 1753 Mary Wolfersberger, daughter of John and Margaret. Mary's younger sister Anna married ca. 1756 Martin Hefelfinger who was baptised 22 Nov 1733, this date identifying him as the Martin from Dietgen, Baselland, Switzerland, the home town of John's paternal grandmother Elisabeth Hefelfinger.
  John was listed as eldest son, in the Orphans' Court proceedings for his father's estate. As a carpenter, he bought land jointly with his brother George, 18 Oct 1788. Again as a carpenter, he and wife Elizabeth sold half of their joint land back to George, 29 Mar 1794. A quit claim was signed to him by all his siblings for father's estate, proceedings 1799-1801.
  He was taxed from 1789 onward, as innkeeper 1793, distiller 1809 to 1813, as Esq. 1822 & 1825, and justice 1825 (end of tax records). John was censused in 1800, 1810, and 1830, but the 1820 Strasburg census is missing. (The censuses need to be analysed to see who all was living in his household.) The 1825 appellation "justice" was Justice of the Peace [Markley, 1855].
  The first Strasburg public election was held in April of 1816 when the following were elected to the borough council: James Whitehill, burgess; Jacob Miller, assistant burgess; Nathaniel W. Sample, Thomas Crawford, John Connolly, Robert Spencer, Peter Hall, Samuel Miller and William Hauge, councilmen; John Markley, constable; George Hoffman, treasurer, and Martin Foute, clerk ("A Brief History of Strasburg", http://www.horseshoe.cc].
  "1 Nov 1835 ... On Thurs 20th ult, at his res in the borough of Strasburg, John Markley, Esq. in his 75th yr" [Marriages and Deaths in the Newspapers of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ..., by F. Edward Wright]. Whether or not this is a record of the correct John Markley is hard to tell. The date is internally inconsistent, as the "20th ult", i.e., 20 Oct 1835, was a Tuesday, not a Thursday, and the age of 75 years places that man's birth before 20 Oct 1760. I'm inclined to conclude that this is another John of Strasburg, but cite the record here for future consideration.
  John's children, listed in order in his own estate proceedings in Orphans' Court, 1836, were probably all by his second wife Elizabeth, although without specific dates, it's not impossible that the elder one or two were by Catherine.
  Engel Bucher and his wife are listed as the sponsors for the 14 Oct 1759 baptism of the daughter of Jacob Frey at the Muddy Creek Reformed Church, East Cocalico Township, Lancaster, PA. The record was recorded by Rev. John Henry Decker [www.searchtrees.com/tree/425.htm]. Was that daughter Elizabeth?
  Jacob was one of the trustees of the Muddy Creek Lutheran and Reformed Church. The warrant for their land is from Henry Haller and Peter Frey in trust to Jacob Frey in trust for the Lutheran and Calvinist Reformation Congregations. Dated 16 May 1761 [www.lancasterhistory.org/].
  Elizabeth's mother's parents and ancestry are given by Janice Frank
  The four children of John and Elizabeth (Frey) Markley:
1     George B. Markley, son, born 1793/1794 in Pennsylvania? and died 10 Aug 1850 in Pennsylvania?.
  George B. married Elizabeth H. Hufnagle {born 1793/1794 in Pennsylvania, and died 27 Jan 1864}.
  George B. was over 14 years when his father was appointed his guardian 28 Nov 1808 in the matter of his inheritance from Rudy Frey of Brechnoch Twp. From this, we know his birth year was before 1794. If Elizabeth Frey was his mother, then he was born about 1793; however, it's possible that John's first wife Catherine died during childbirth or after George was born. This cannot be decided based on the evidence at hand, but I have listed him with John's other children, for lack of any other information.
  George was probably the man taxed as a merchant and storekeeper in 1821 and 1822, and he was administrator of his father's estate in 1836. He was censused as George B. in 1840, and in Lancaster CIty's North East Ward as a Medical Reformer in 1850, at age 55. With him were his wife Elizabeth, 56, and sons George B. (Jr.), 16 and Samuel 15. The younger George was working as a Grocer.
  Also in the household in 1850 was a Sarah Martin, 22, and this might be a lead to Elizabeth's maiden name. However, Sarah could also be a married daughter, so more research would be necessary to follow up on this young woman. According to David Markley [Markley, 1855], George lived in Lancaster, and was a merchant and later a doctor which confirms this identification of 1850.
  In 1860 Elizabeth H. Markley was censused, still in the North East Ward of Lancaster City, with her sons George H., 26 and Samuel B., 25. George was listed as a Doctor, and Samuel as a Printer, and all three were noted as born in Pennsylvania. Also in the home was an Elizabeth Brown, 14, working as a Domestic.
  The six children of George B. and Elizabeth H. (Hufnagle) Markley:
i     Amos H. Markley, son.
ii     George H. Markley, son, born 1833/1834 in Pennsylvania.
  George H. married Emma Snyder {born 1840/1841 in Pennsylvania, dtr of Charles A. and Barbara A. (Keller) Snyder}.
  Geo. H. Markley, of Lancasetr, PA, matriculated from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1857 [docs.google.com].
  G. H. Markley, Doctor, was censused 1870 at age 37 in the Third Ward of Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. With him were his wife Emma, 29, and daughters Willa and Georgina, ages 6 and 1 years. Also in the home waw Barbara Snyder, 61, May Snyder, 23 and May Galebrugh, 23, a servant.
  One would thing that the presence of these two Snyders almost certainly identifiies Emma's maiden name. And, indeed, looking for Emma and Barbara Snyder back in 1850, we find in the West Ward of Harrisburg the family of Chas. A. Snyder, a 51 year old Scrivener, with wife Barbara A., forty something (the blur of ink doesn't resemble any of the other numerals on the page), with eight children including Emma, age 9.
  Finally, looking forward to 1880, we find George H. and Emma in Harrisburg, ages 47 and 39, with Barbara A. Snyder, age 73, and the presence of the middle initial seems to identify her with the wife of the Scrivenor. George is now listed as a druggist, not a doctor (which happens), Nellie is now Helen L., and Georgina is Elva G., ,11. Added to the family since the previous census is Kate E., age 9
  A short biography of George is online at maley.net/transcription/Sketches/markley_george_h.htm, and cited as a 5 Nov 2000 transcription by Kathye Thornton for the Dauphin County Genealogy Transcription Project, but the original source is not identified.
  The three children of George H. and Emma (Snyder) Markley:
1     Helen L. "Nellie" Markley, dtr., born 1863/1864 in Pennsylvania.
2     Elva Georgina Markley, dtr., born 1868/1869 in Pennsylvania.
3     Kate E. Markley, dtr., born 1870/1871 in Pennsylvania.
iii     Samuel B. Markley, son, born 1834/1835 in Pennsylvania and died 17 Sep 1868.
  "In December, 1850, Martin M. Rohrer published the first newspaper in Strasburg, called the Strasburg Bee. ... The Bee was published afterwards by W. T. McPhail, Esq., until I855, when Samuel B. Markley became the proprietor for about one year, when the paper was discontinued." [www.horseshoe.cc/pennadutch/]
iv     Elizabeth M. Markley, dtr., died 8 Nov 1893.
v     Henry H. Markley, son, died 21 Sep 1868.
vi     John B. Markley, son.
2     John Markley, son, born 1791/1794 in Pennsylvania.
  John was married 21 Nov 1815 in Strasburg to Elizabeth Bushman {born 1833/1834 in Pennsylvania}.
  John, Jr. was taxed 1815 as a young man, 1816 as a wheelwright, 1817 as a constable, and in 1819. He had been elected high constable in the first town election in April, 1816. He was possibly the John, Esq. censused in Strasburg in 1830.
  There was a John Markley marriage to Elisabeth Bushman on 21 Nov 1815 in Strasburg, Lancaster County.
  David Markley [Markley, 1855] writes that John was a farmer in Halifax (a town in Dauphin County about 64 miles to the NW of Strasburg). That enables us to identify John in the 1860 Halifax census as the farm hand John Markely, 68, with wife Elizabeth, 64, and two sons, Uriah and Joseph, 44 and 42, both listed as Sadlers. They were all born in Pennsylvania, and also had in their house a Sarah Lontz, 16, working as a servant.
  I'm accepting the marriage record, the contemporary location given by David Markley, and the (loose) agreement of census ages to claim these records are all for the son of John and Elizabeth (Frey) Markley of Strasburg.
  The two children of John and Elizabeth (Bushman) Markley:
i     Uriah Markley, son, born 1815/1816 in Pennsylvania.
ii     Joseph B. Markley, son, born 1817/1821 in Pennsylvania.
  By 1870 Joe Markley, 49, was censused as head of household with his father John, 76, living with him. Joe was still a Saddler, and they had a Susan Miller, 33, keeping house for them, and she had a daughter Susan, age 6. The ages for Joe and his father imply significantly different birth years from those they reported ten years earlier, i.e., 1820/21 instead of 1817/18 for Joe, and 1793/94 for his father instead of 1791/92.
  in 1880, Joseph B. Markley , 61, was living alone in Halifax District 79, working as a Harness Maker.
3     Susan Markley, dtr., born 1794/1800 in Pennsylvania?.
  Susan was married 26 Dec 1820 to Daniel Holl.
  Susan's and Daniel's marriage was from the journal "Genealogical Gleanings from Lancaster", by Rita Mowrer, but I have lost the specific reference.
  There was an Adam and Ann Holl family in Strasburg in 1850, with three children ranging in age from 6 months to 6 years. Adam's age of 32 makes him a possible son of Damiel and Susan, but I've yet to find anything to connect him in that relationship. By 1860 his wife had died, but they had one more child born in 1850/51.
4     Jacob F. Markley, son, born 1800 in Pennsylvania? and died in 1854.
  Jacob is known from an antiques auction online database, www.prices4antiques.com which listed a Sheraton mahogany dressing table he made.
 
image: Jacob Markley dressing table

Jacob Markley dressing table

  In addition to describing the table, the accompanying text also gives a brief biographical note on Jacob's ancestry:
  J.F. Markley, Cabinet Maker(1800-1854) – Lancaster County, Columbia, Pennsylvania.
  An early 19th century Sheraton mahogany dressing table from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania having a top with veneered half-column mirror frame supported by turned stiles. The rectangular top is over three drawers, over two draws and above a single shelf supported by turned legs. The interior of the central drawer bears the stencil of "J.F. Markley Cabinet Maker Locust St., Columbia, Pa.
  The Columbia cabinetmaker Jacob F. Markley was the grandson of Hans Georg Markley (1730-1799) who came to American in 1749 and settled in Strasburg Township, Lancaster County. Hans Georg and his wife, Barbara Frohlich, had eleven children, one of whom was John Markley (1762-1836). He was a farmer, carpenter, and distiller as well as a Revolutionary War soldier and Justice of the Peace.
  Columbia is some 20 miles west of Strasburg on the east bank of the Susquehanna River. It seems unusual that a business man could avoid the censuses all of his life, but a diligent search leads to that conclusion.
  Another online paragraph is somewhat hard to interpret as to whether of not there were two Jacob F. Markleys in Strasburg : "ARTHUR D MARKLEY, M.D., was born in Columbia, Lancaster Co., Pa., April28, 1832. His father, Jacob F. Markley, was born in the borough of Strasburg, Lancaster Co., Pa., and in due time became a physician, he having in the meantime married a daughter of the late John Hamilton, Esq., of Leacock township, Lancaster Co. [files.usgwarchives.org/pa/montgomery/history/]. I suppose cabinetmaker and physician are not incompatible occupations for one man, but more research would be needed to clarify this situation.
ii     George Markley, son, born 4 Jun 1764.   
iii     Jacob Markley, son, born Aug 1765 in Strasburg and died 21 Feb 1829 in Strasburg.
  Jacob was married 26 Feb 1793 to Barbara Frey {baptised 15 Feb 1771, dtr of Rudy and Barbara (____) Frey,}.
  Jacob's marriage date came from the IGI, originally, although I cannot now find such a record. However, it is also reported by Ken Regenos [Regenos, 2008].
  Jacob was censused 1790, 1800, 1810. He was taxed 1793, missing 1796-1799, then from 1800 thru 1810 as farmer, as tenant 1813 and some years thru 1819. His death date (and inferred birth) are from St. Michael's Lutheran Church cemetery in Strasburg.
  He was both a farmer and a doctor, living about two miles from New Holland (a town about 14 miles by road to the NE of Strasburg), and had a large family, the eldest child being Jacob who lived near Mount Joy [Markley, 1855]. Mount Joy is a borough northwest of Lancaster City, about 22 miles from Strasburg.
  From a 19 Oct 1998 RootsWeb PADUTCH archive whichwhich is no longer freely available online, I found:
  Will of Rudy Frey, written 9 Sept. 1796 and probated 29 Nov. 1796. Wife, Barbara Frey. Children: John, Eve wife of John Detwiler, Veronica wife of Peter Ressler, Barbara wife of Jacob Marckle, Christiana wife of Conrad Orth, Anna wife of Dewald Powman, Magdalena wife of Philip Stober and Mathias.
  Executors: Philip Stober and John Lesher. Brecknock Township.
  This establishes the inlaws of Jacob, whom I had previously identified incorrectly. Rudy Frey ran a saw mill in Brecknock Twp.
  The relationship between Barbara and Elizabeth Frey, daughter of Jacob Frey of Muddy Creek and second wife of her brother–in–law John Markley, has not been established, but they were probably cousins.
  The only child of Jacob and Barbara (Frey) Markley:
1     Jacob Markley, son, born about 1794 in Pennsylvania?.
  The testimony of David Markley that Jacob was the eldest son of Jacob and Barbara Frey would ordinarily lead one to expect a son born shortly after their marriage date in 1793. However, if several children had died before he wrote his Journal, it might be that Jacob, Jr., was born somewhat later.
  In any event, a census search turned up only one candidate for this son, a Jacob Markley born 1802/1803 and living in Maytown, East Donegal Township, about 30 miles by road west of Strasburg. He was a farmer censused there in 1860 and 1870. His wife was Elizabeth, born 1807/1808, and they had at least two sons, Charles born 1830/31 and George born 1857/58, both living with them in 1870. Whether or not this Jacob is the "eldest son" of Jacob and Barbara I don't know, but it the only one who seems likely.
iv     Daniel Markley, son, born 10 Aug 1768 in Strasburg and died 29 Mar 1833 in Ephrata, Pennsylvania.
  Daniel was married about 1794 to Catharine Ressler {born 13 Apr 1768 in Earl Twp., Lancaster, Pennsylvania, dtr of John and Barbara (____) Ressler, and died 19 Dec 1843 in Ephrata Twp., Lancaster, Pennsylvania}.
  Daniel and his wife lived near Ephrata, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He is in the lineage of Solomon Markley [Markley, 1906] as obtained from Ruth Markley, whence came the children's names for this couple.
  Daiel was the executor of his brothe Martin's estate (see below).
  "Daniel, my uncle, ... lived about Dunkards Town in Lancaster Co. He was a small, stout, fine looking man. He accumulated some property belonged to some religious church. Died probably in 1826 or 1827." [Markley, 1855].
  Two identical IGI records, which I had originally accepted, name Daniel's wife as Buckhalter, but without any supporting details.
  Jeremy Arment, however, names the wife as Catharine Ressler, and provides complete details on both her, her parents, and the children, all of which I now adopt [Arment, 2008].
  The seven children of Daniel and Catharine (Ressler) Markley:
1     John Markley, son, born 2 Apr 1795 in Strasburg and died 11 Dec 1829.
  John married Mary Mohler {born 20 Jul 1793 in Cocalico, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, dtr of John and Anna (Bollinger) Mohler, and died 5 Sep 1849}.
  John's wife and children, except Susan and Anna, as given here are from an Ancestral File (AF) by Elizabeth Landis Carson citing St John's Cemetery, Lower Allen Twp, and Mohler Cemetery, Allen Twp., Cumberland Co., PA.
  John was a butcher in Cumberland County who died young [Markley, 1855]. Gladys Horvath reports that he and Mary are buried in Trindle Springs Cemetery, Cumberland Co., PA.
  The seven children of John and Mary (Mohler) Markley:
i     John Markley, son, born in 1817 and died before 1906.
  "John was a tinner" [Markley, 1855]. He died before his brother Solomon wrote his pedigree in 1906.
ii     Anna Markley, dtr., born 22 Feb 1818, died 13 Jun 1890 and was buried in St. John's Cem., Lower Allen Twp., Cumberland, Pennsylvania.
  Anna was married 10 Nov 1840 to John M. Rupp {born 17 Jan 1801, son of Martin and Anna (Schnebele) Rupp and died 14 Feb 1872 in at home, Hampden Twp., Cumberland, Pennsylvania}.
  I originally found the seven children of John and Anna, all born in Cumberland Co., PA, from Brenda Fraser [Frazer, 2008]. Lance Mohler [Mohler, 2008] also provided some details that I have incorporated into the Rupp branch of the family.
  Then, in November, 2009, Gladys Horvath contacted me and shared images of John's family Bible, which recorded the couples' marriage and the births of their seven children (with the signs under which they were born). Also given were the deaths, shown below, of the five youngest children who all died in their infancy.
  In 1850 John and Anna, 49 and 32, were censused in Hampton Twp., Cumberland, PA with children Mary, 8, John, 6, and Daniel, 2. Also in the home listed after the children were Solomon Rupp, 20, Abraham Rupp, 19, and Martha Rupp, 18. Gladys noted that these three children were, from her research, the children of John's brother Jacob Rupp who died in 1844.
  In 1860, same location, their ages were 59 and 42, with Mary 18 and John 16 in the home. In 1870, John and Anna were were censused in Hampden with their son John, 25. And in 1880, we find Anna living with her son John and his family in Hampden, Cumberland County.
  John was commonly known as the Honorable John Rupp, as he was elected a judge, "to avoid confusion among the many John Rupps". He and Anna lived in the homestead built, in the 1770s, by his immigrant grandfather, Jonas Rupp.
  The seven children of John M. and Anna (Markley) Rupp:
1     Mary Rupp, dtr., born 7 Oct 1841 in Cumberland, Pennsylvania, baptised 17 Apr 1842, died 15 Aug 1896 and was buried in St. John's Cem., Peace Church, Trindle Road, Cumberland Co.
  Mary was married 5 Jan 1869 to Charles Hertzler {born in 1844, died 24 Feb 1926 and was buried in St. John's Cem.}.
  Gladys Horvath reports that John and Mary had four children, John, Annie M., who married Joseph G. Zimmerman, Abraham and William, born 1871 through 1879. The two youngest died as infants and are buried with their parents in St. John's Cemetery behind Peace Church on Trindle Road.
2     John Martin Rupp, son, born 30 Mar 1844 in Cumberland, baptised 29 Jun 1845 and died in 1910.
  John Martin was married in 1873 to Ellen Speidel/Spidel {born 23 Aug 1857 in Pennsylvania and died 25 Sep 1930}.
  According to Gladys Horvath, John and Ellen's children were John Milton, Jacob Speidle, Maggie Estella, Naomi Annie (her grandmother who married Harvey Albright) and Edgar Franklin Rupp, born 1842 through 1889.
  John Rupp, age 36, was censused 1880 as a farmer in Hampden, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, with his mother Anna, wife Ellen, 22, and children John, age 6, Jacob, 4, Maggie, 2, and Naomi, 9 months old.
3     Martin Rupp, son, born 27 Jul 1845 in Cumberland, baptised 23 Sep 1846 and died 23 May 1851.
4     Daniel Rupp, son, born 26 Jul 1848 in Cumberland and baptised 25 Dec 1848.
5     Anna Rupp, dtr., born 11 Nov 1851 in Cumberland, baptised Nov 1852 and died 23 Mar 1854.
6     Elizabeth Rupp, dtr., born 8 Aug 1853 in Cumberland and died 10 Dec 1853.
7     Susannah Rupp, dtr., born 30 Oct 1854 in Cumberland and died 25 Dec 1854.
iii     Daniel Markley, son, born 10 May 1823 and was buried 26 Jan 1897 in Mohler Cemetery, Allen Twp., Cumberland, Pennsylvania.
  Daniel married Elizabeth ____ {born 24 Aug 1819}.
  The two children of Daniel and Elizabeth (____) Markley:
1     Mary Markley, dtr., born 27 Apr 1855 and died 9 Feb 1890.
2     Daniel Markley, son, born in 1858 and died in 1923.
iv     Mary Markley, dtr., born 18 Apr 1825, died 25 Dec 1895 in Cumberland and was buried in St. John's Cem., Peace Church.
  Mary married Martin Rupp {born 24 Feb 1817, son of Martin and Anna (Schnebele) Rupp}.
  Gladys Horvath, op. cit., confirms that Mary and her sister Anna married brothers.
  Martin, a retired farmer aged 63, and Mary, 55, were censused 1880 in 2nd Ward, Mechanicsburg, Cumberland, PA together with their son William and his family.
  The four children of Martin and Mary (Markley) Rupp:
1     Daniel M. Rupp, son, born 1 Jun 1847 in Cumberland.
  Daniel M. married Lusetta ____ {born 1849/1850 in Pennsylvania}.
  Daniel and Lusetta were censused 1880 in 1st Ward, Carlisle, Cumberland, PA, together with their sons John, born 1872/73 PA, and William, born 1876/77 PA.
2     Anna Mary Rupp, dtr., born 3 Sep 1848 in Cumberland.
3     Martin M. Rupp, son, born 1 Sep 1850/1851 in Cumberland.
  Martin M. married ____ ____ {died before 1900}.
  Martin M. Rupp, born Sep 1850, was censused 1900 in Mechanicsburg Boro, Cumberland County, with a son William born Jul 1881, age 8, and daughter Anna, born Apr 1890, age 10. I don't know whether William's age or birth year are incorrect by a decade, but he was listed before Anna. By 1910, Martin was living alone in the 2nd Ward, Mechanicsburg, except for a boarder, Willim W. Emerson, age 35.
4     William Henry Rupp, son, born 13 May 1852 in Cumberland and died before 1910.
  William Henry married Annie B. ____ {born Jun 1856 in Pennsylvania}.
  William H. and "Anna" were censused 1900 in Mechanicsburg Boro, Cumberland County, from which record we find her birth month. They had two daughers at home, Edith M., born Feb 1880 and Bertha, born Dec 1881.
  By 1910, Annie B. Rupp, age 53, was living with her daugher Bertha E., age 28, two households from her brother-in-law Martin M. Rupp in the 2nd Ward, Mechanicsburg.
v     Susan Markley, dtr., born 1825/1828 and died 1891 in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland, Pennsylvania.
  Susan married ____ Swartz {born before 1849}.
  I could not find Susan in the 1880 census index.
vi     Henry Markley, son, born 1825/1829 and died before 1870.
  Henry married Susan Raudabaugh {born in 1828 and died in 1891}.
  Henry died before his brother Solomon wrote his family history in 1906, and I was unable to find him in either the 1880 or 1900 censuses.
  In 1870 Susan was living with her daughter and son-in-law.
  The death and burial information for this family came from Lance Mohler.
  The only child of Henry and Susan (Raudabaugh) Markley:
1     Anna/Annie M. Markley, dtr., born 1850/1851 in Pennsylvania and died 13 May 1910 in Mechanicsburg.
  Anna/Annie M. married Alfred C. Koser {born 21 May 1847}.
  Alfred was censused as a butcher 1880 in 3rd Ward, Mechanicsburg, Cumberland, PA, with his wife Annie M., 29, daughter Grace E., age 10, and Bej. U. Kerr, 16, a butcher's apprentice.
  Anna's will, Cumberland Co Z-481, bequeathed her estate to daughter Grace Koser Schroeder and granddaughter Anna Koser Schroeder.
vii     Solomon Markley, son, born 27 Feb 1830 in Mechanicsburg and died 14 Dec 1908.
  Solomon was married 15 Dec 1850 to Sarah Ann Kaufmann {born 26 Mar 1831 in York, Pennsylvania, and died 17 Dec 1914}.
  Solomon was the author of the genealogy discussed and imaged in the introduction to this Markley chapter. Who made the handscript entries on this copy for the death dates of his children is unknown. From the dates themselves, it must have been done sometime after 1947.
  Solomon was a farmer 1880 in Silver Spring, Cumberland, PA, censused with Sarah A., 49, and eight of their children.
 

Solomon MARKLEY         Self  M  50  PA  Farmer 
Sarah A. MARKLEY        Wife  M  49  PA  Keeping House 
John K. MARKLEY         Son   S  19  PA  Farm Laborer 
Ann A. MARKLEY          Dau   S  15  PA  At Home 
Ellie E. MARKLEY        Dau   S  12  PA  At Home 
Levi B. MARKLEY         Son   S  10  PA  At Home 
Bertie L. MARKLEY       Dau   S   7  PA  At Home 
Tolbert G. MARKLEY      Son   S   4  PA 
William H. MARKLEY      Son   M  26  PA  Carpenter 
Francis Esther MARKLEY  Dau   S   2  PA  At Home 
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1880 Silver Springs, Cumberland, PA, T9-1122, 147A 

  Two mysteries appear in this census. Sarah E., born 29 Mar 1863 was censused as Ann A., age 15, and Tolbert G. Markley, age 4 and described as a son, is listed, but no such child appears in Solomon's own genealogy. Mohler notes that Tolbert was listed in the Solomon home in the 1895 Kansas state census, and I presume he was a grandson of Solomon, possibly a son of William H., since he was married but without a wife in 1880. It seems not unlikely that "Ann A." was a mis-recording of "Anna", but why Sarah E. would have been called that is difficult to imagine.
  Notice that William, 26, was followed by Francis Esther, age 2. The Solomon genealogy gives Williams's death as 31 Jul 1879, and Francis E.'s death as 5 Oct 1879, with their specified ages at death agreeing with their birth dates. Mohler [2008] notes that the "actual" census has William's and Frances Esther's names crossed off, and that the PA mortality index had his death as July 1880. This calls into question the accuracy of Solomon's dates, and I am guessing that the census cross-offs were made by someone relying on his genealogy, but not considering why the names would appear in the census in the first place.
  Solomon and Sarah moved to Abilene, Dickinson, Kansas sometime between 1880 and 1895, according to Mohler. The 1895 Kansas state census had Solomon, Sarah A., Levi K. & Tolbert. They were censused in Abilene in 1900 having been married 49 years. A grandchild, Mamie Marrett, born Sep 1884, was living with them that year, but I have not established who her mother might have been.
  The information I've recorded here for Solomon's children and grandchildren comes primarily from Solomon's own genealogy mentioned above. Some additional details are from Lance Mohler's RootsWeb WorldConnect post [Mohler, 2008].
  The twelve children of Solomon and Sarah Ann (Kaufmann) Markley:
1     J. Henry Markley, son, born 4 Oct 1851 and died 4 Mar 1852.
2     William H. Markley, son, born 9 Dec 1852 in Cumberland and died 31 Jul 1880 in Pennsylvania.
  See the discussion above concerning William's death date. It is possible that he was the father of Tolbert G. Markley, born 1875/76.
3     George W. Markley, son, born 12 Nov 1854 in New Market, York, Pennsylvania, died Aug 1910 and was buried in Chestnut Hill, Cumberland, Pennsylvania.
  George W. was married 1873/1874 to Mary A. M. Snyder {born Dec 1852, dtr of Peter and Susan (____) Snyder}.
  George and Mary were censused 1880 in York County, PA:
 

Geo. W. MARKLEY   Self  M  26  PA  Laboring 
Mary MARKLEY      Wife  M  27  PA  Keeping House 
Lizzie MARKLEY    Dau   S   4  PA 
Thyrsa MARKLEY    Dau   S   3  PA 
Geo. Roy MARKLEY  Son   S  9M  PA 
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1880 New Market, York, PA, T9-1205, 177D 

  Thyrsa is probably a slurred version of Teresa as heard by the census taker. New Market is about nine miles east of Mechanicsburg, on the bank of the Susquehanna River.
  In 1900 George and Mary were back in Mechanicsburg, censused with their two youngest children, Ella and Solomon. This census tells us quite a bit about the family. First, in their home was their married daughter Anna E. Morton, born Jun 1875, married two years, with one child. This has to be "Lizzie" from the 1880 census, and gives us her married name, but no Morton chlld appears there nor have I been able to find a record of her marriage or giving birth.
  Next listed after Anna was Ralph M. Cline, grandson, born in Apr 1892. Ella was too young to have been his mother, so Ralph was probably the son of Teresa, but I've found no marriage or birth record to confirm this.
  Finally, in the household, was a widower Peter Snyder, Father-in-law, born Nov 1824, which gives us Mary's maiden name.
  In 1910, George W. and Mary were living in the 5th Ward of Mechanicsburg, and she reported that she had borne 7 children, of whom 4 were living as of 26 April that year. They also reported, erroneously, that they had been married 31 years, rather than 36. Soloman, 19, was still at home that year.
  "There were 6 children buried with them, three were theirs and three siblings of George. George died intestate, Leroy G. Markley named Administrator of estate." Lance Mohler.
  Mary's father Peter Snyder we found in the 1900 census, and looking backward we find him censused 1870 in Silver Springs Twp., Cumberland County, PA,with wife Susan, Mary A., age 18, and four of her younger siblings, Susan, Louisa, Elizabeth and James B. Snyder, ages 16, 11, 9 and 8.
  Ten years earlier yet, we find "Mary A. M.", age 7, and in addition to the other siblings, an Amelia, aged 4, who apparently died before 1870.
4     David K. Markley, son, born 6 Oct 1856 and died 17 Jul 1862.
5     Mary E. Markley, dtr., born 27 Nov 1858 and died in 1935.
  Mary E. was married 2 Oct 1880 in Carlisle, Cumberland, Pennsylvania to J. Henry Bricker.
  There was a marriage of a Mary E. Markley and J. Henry Bricker on 2 Oct 1880 in the First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Carlisle, Cumberland, PA [IGI extracted record]. Solomon and Sarah's daughter would have been just under 22 years of age on that date, and Carlisle is just 11 miles west of Mechanicsburg.
  Mary was not in her parents' home in the 1880 census taken in June, so the Oct marriage would leave her missing for a few months. However, on the basis of this record, only, I'm tentively identifying J. Henry as Solomon's son-in-law, but must emphasize that I haven't found any corroborating evidence for this.
6     John K. Markley, son, born 23 Feb 1861 in Cumberland and died 26 Nov 1947.
  John K. married Ella M. ____ {born Oct 1864 in Pennsylvania}.
  In 1900 John, a traveling salesman, was censused in the 3rd Ward, Abiline, Dickinson, KS, with his wife Elan(sic), born Oct 1864, and their son Evan J., born Jan 1897.
7     Susan E. Markley, dtr., born 29 Mar 1863 in Cumberland and died 24 Apr 1865.
8     Sarah A. Markley, dtr., born 19 Sep 1865 in Cumberland and died 30 Dec 1892.
  There is an IGI record, described as "Extracted marriage record for locality listed", whih gives the marriage 29 Apr 1907 in Mechanisburg, Cumberland County, of "Sarah E. Markley", daughter of Geo. and Mary Markley. Presumable Solomon correctly recorded the death of his daughter Sarah A. in 1892, but the correspondance of names and places is eerie. The record source is idenified only by "batch" number, and seems to be a county wide compilation of over 200 births and deaths.
9     Ellen K. "Ellie" Markley, dtr., born 20 Mar 1868 in Cumberland and died 11 Aug 1938.
10     Levi B. Markley, son, born 16 Mar 1870 in Cumberland and died 27 Feb 1923.
  Levi B. married Alice H. Herr {born Nov 1876 in Pennsylvania}.
  Levi, a farmer, was censused with Alice in Newbern Twp, (HeritageQuest misidentifed the page as Lyon Twp. and the census taker recorded his middle initial as "K"), Dickinson Co., Kansas in 1900 with their first child. In 1910 he was "Levy B." in Logan Twp., Dickinson Co., in 1910 with three children, and in Logan Twp. with all four children in 1920.
  Lyon Twp. is in the extreme SW corner of Dickinson Co.; Newbern and Logan are adjacent six mile square townships south and southeast, respectively, of Abiline in the middle of the county.
  An Alice Herr of the right age, 3, appears in the family of John and Mary Herr of West Donegal Twp., Lancaser, Pennsylvania. That township is about 12 miles west of Strasburg. I think it likely that these were the parents of the Alice who married Levi, but some confirmation would be desirable.
11     Bertie L. Markley, dtr., born 3 Jul 1872 in Cumberland and died 22 Jun 1942.
12     Francis Esther Markley, dtr., born 30 Mar 1876 in Cumberland and died 5 Oct 1880.
  I've changed Francis' death date from 5 Oct 1879, given by her father in his genealogy, to 5 Oct 1880 since she appeared in the 1880 census. That correction is surely in the right direction, but nevertheless may not be correct.
2     Henry Markley, son, born 15 Apr 1799 in Ephrata Twp. and died 11 Feb 1871 in Lancaster.
  Henry was married 8 Sep 1839 in Reihers Reformed, Elizabeth Twp., Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Margaret Kleis {born 9 Feb 1806 in Lancaster, dtr of John and Margaret (Kean) Kleiss, died 14 Dec 1885 and was buried in Lancaster Cem.}.
  Most of the data given here for Margaret and Henry's family and descendants came from Jeremy Arment [Arment, 2008].
  This family was not found in PA census indexes for 1860 and 1870. Margret Markley, age 74 and born in PA of parents born in Germany, was censused as a widow with son David Markley, single, age 33, on West Walnut Street in Lancaster, Lancaster, PA [1880].
  "Henry ... was a fine man, dealing in lumber in Lancaster Co. I think a carpenter by trade." [Markley, 1855]
  There is probably an identification problem with the family I show here. Arment shows Margaret's parents, John Kleiss and Margaret Kean, both born in Lancaster Twp., 1774 and 6 Mar 1777, respectively, and in addition reports that John was baptised on 14 Dec 1774 in the First Reformed Church of that township. However, in 1880, Margret Markley, 74, and her son David Markley, 33, were censused in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. But the problem is that Margret reported to that census taker that both of her parents were born in Germany. Either the parents of Margaret have been misidentified by Arment, or the census record cited is for some other Markley mother and son of the same ages as the widow and son of Henry Markley. I have not been able to resolve these conflicting records.
  The four children of Henry and Margaret (Kleis) Markley:
i     Rebecca E. Markley, dtr., born 11 Aug 1840 in Lancaster Twp., Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
  There was a Rebecca Markley, age 21, working as a servant in the home of Isaac and Margaret Hoover in Strasburg Borough in 1860.
ii     Daniel H. Markley, son, born 27 Oct 1842 in Lancaster Twp.
  Daniel H. married Carrie M. ____ {born 1841/1842 in Maryland}.
  Carrie's father was born in England, her mother in Württemburg, according to the 1880 census in the city of Lancaster.
iii     Joseph W. Markley, son, born 19 Mar 1845 in Lancaster Twp.
  Joseph W. was married 1879/1880 to Mary E. Pyle? {born Aug 1845 in Ohio}.
  Joseph was censused 1880 as a retail grocer in Lancaster, Lancaster, PA with wife and 71 year old Philip Pyle, born PA, mother born VA. In 1900, Joseph, a grocer, and Mary were living on North Mulberry in Lancaster City with their three children. In the 1910 census they were on West Chestnut Street, and recorded that they had been married 30 years. By that time Walter was married, and he and his wife Rebecca, as well as Daniel, were still living with Joseph and Mary, as they were also in 1920.
  Mary's parents were both born in Ohioo [1880] or in Pennsylvania [1900 & 1910].
  The three children of Joseph W. and Mary E. (Pyle?) Markley:
1     Claude H. Markley, son, born Apr 1881 in Pennsylvania.
  Claude H. married Hatty H. ____ {born 1913/1914 in Pennsylvania}.
  Claude was an apprentice electrician when censused in his parents' home in 1900.
2     Walter R. Markley, son, born Jan 1886 in Pennsylvania.
  Walter R. was married 1907/1908 to Rebecca ____ {born 1884/1890 in Pennsylvania}.
  Walter was listed as a newspaper reporter in the 1910 census. Rebecca's age was given as 25 in 1910, and 30 in 1920.
3     Daniel R. Markley, son, born Dec 1892 in Pennsylvania.
iv     David K. Markley, son, born 27 Apr 1848 in Lancaster Twp. and baptised 6 Oct 1848 in First Reformed, Lancaster.
  David K. was married about 1869 to Emma D. Dorwart (1) {born 17 Sep 1850 in Lancaster Twp., dtr of Jacob and Catherine (Leonard) Dorwart, baptised 30 Jan 1852 in First Reformed, died 1 Sep 1888 in Lancaster}. He was married 1 Jan 1889 in Lancaster Twp. to Mary E. Stahl (2) {born Oct 1852 in Pennsylvania}.
  The basic information I've given here on David and his two wives and children has been taken from the WorldConnect page of Jeremy D. Arment. The census records add some interesting information.
  In 1880 David was censused at age 33 living with his mother Margret, 74, at 229 W. Walnut Street, Lancaster City. She indicated both of her parents were born in Germany. Several blocks away David's wife Emma, 29, and their two daughters, Margie 9 and Katie 7, were living at 15 Frederick Street in the home of widower Joseph Davidson, 46, a Boiler Maker. Also in that household was Louisa Dorwart, 34 and single, and both she and Emma were described as sisters-in-law of Joseph. This implies that there were (at least) three Dorwart sisters, one deceased, one single, and Emma, separated from her husband. And, in fact, looking back to 1860 we find in Lancaster City Jacob and Catharine Dorward (not "t") with two sons and daughters Margaret E., Louisa A. and Emma E, the latter 10 years old.
  In 1900 David was censused as a grocer living on East Marrion St. in Lancaster with his second wife Mary, to whom he had been married 10 years. That record stated that David was born in Apr 1848, and Mary E. in Oct 1852.
  In 1910 and 1920 they lived on North Mulberry St, David working as a laborer and then as a stock clerk in a cotton mill.
  The two children of David K. and Emma D. (Dorwart) Markley:
1     Margaret A. Markley, dtr., born 1870/1871 in Lancaster Twp. and died 1918 in Lancaster Twp.
2     Katie R. Markley, dtr., born 2 Nov 1872 in Lancaster Twp. and died 8 Aug 1904 in Lancaster Twp.
  Katie R. was married about 1892 in Lancaster to William H. Barber {born 5 May 1867 in Milton, Turbot Twp., Northumberland, Pennsylvania, son of William and Eliza A. (____) Barber, and died in 1937}.
  I had previously misinterpreted what little information I had about William's marriages. Thanks to Jeremy D. Arment [persional communications, Sep 1909], I believe I've now corrected my errors.
  William Barber's first wife, whom the 1900 census names as Kate, was born Nov 1872. They had been married 9 years, and she had born 3 children, all censused at home with them. William, a pattern maker, was born May 1867. This Kate is David and Emma's daughter Katie, undoubtedly baptised as Katherine or Catherine.
  William Barber was censused 1910 with "Lizzie" as his second wife, to whom he had been married six years. Jeremy tells me that this wife was Mary Elizabeth Erb, and that this was her second marriage. William was recorded as age 41, and worked as a pattern maker at a lock works. Lizzie, 28, reported having 3 children, all living. His previous four children by Katie Markley, as well as their own three, were all living with them, ages 1 through 16.
  To complete the record, William was censused in 1920 and 1930 with wife Mary, and an additional eight children. He was listed as a pattern maker for carbon steel. Here are his censuses, all in the city of Lancaster, with the red material emphasizing information that was explicit in the 1910 census.
 
image: William Barber censuses

William Barber censuses

  According to Jeremy Arment, William, Katie and Mary are all buried in Greenwood Cemetery, and all of the dates I give here are those which he transcribed directly from the tombstones. Katie's name there is given as Katie Markley Barber, this constituing a primary source for her marriage. Jeremy's ancestor is the daughter Erma, who married John H. Arment in 1925.
3     Anna Markley, dtr., born 12 Oct 1800 in Ephrata Twp. and died 31 Jul 1871.
4     Daniel Markley, son, born about 1803 in Ephrata Twp.
  "Daniel, the oldest, lived in 1835 in Cumberland Co., a large fine man. He belonged to the Unitarians. He had a large family and became wealthy." [Markley, 1855].
5     David Markley, son, born about 1806 in Ephrata Twp.
  "John ... married rich and lived at Dunkards Town in Lancaster Co." [Markley, 1855]
6     Mary Markley, dtr., born 1810 in Ephrata Twp.
7     Elizabeth Markley, dtr.
  Elizabeth was not listed as a child in this family by Jeremy Arment [2008].
v     Anna Markley, dtr., born 28 Feb 1767 in Strasburg.
vi     Mary Markley, dtr., born 1768/1773.
  Mary was married 22 Jun 1799 in Lancaster to George Runner.
  I originally had Mary's birth in 1768, but Karen Fugate gives the later date of 1773 [Fugate, 2008].
  The "Christian Stoner 1734" web page [www.stonergenealogy.com] records that Henry Stoner, son of Christian of West Lampeter Twp., first married Veronica Hostetter Herr, widow of abraham. He secondly married Mary Markley, "dau of immigrant George Markley", who after his death ca. Sep 1795, married as her second husband George Runner of Colerain Twp., Lancaster County.
  George's name was given, consistently, as Runner in the estate papers of his father–in–law George Markley. And a George Runner was censused 1800 in Colerain Twp., Lancaster County (40010-40010) indicating that he and his wife were born beween 1755 and 1775, and that they had four girls and four boys under the age of ten in their household. Colerain Twp. is about 10 miles south of Strasburg. In 1810 in that township, George Runner was censused (10010-30010), indicating their births between 1765 and 1784, and with one boy and three girls born after 1800, and none before. These two censuses narrow their birth years to 1765/1775, but the children in the household are difficult to explain. I didn't find George in the 1820 census index for Pennsylvania.
  David Markley names Mary's husband as a Stonner, of Pecqua, Lancaster County, a town and township about five miles west of Strasburg [Markley, 1855]. There was no Brunner or Runner on the Strasburg tax lists.
vii     Martin Markley, son, born 12 May 1770 in Strasburg and died after 28 Aug 1819.
  Martin was married 13 Mar 1798 in Earl, Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Anna Summe {born in Earl, dtr of Jacob and Margaret (Graff) Summe}.
  Martin was born after 1774 according to the 1790 census, before 1774 according to the 1800 census. This is probably the Martin censused 1810 near David in Earle Twp., and, according to Ramirez [2008], the Martin who died 1819 [Will Bk 1M).
  The will of Martin Markley of Earl Twp. was writen 5 Sep 1818 and registered for probate 28 Aug 1819. The abstract lists his wife as Anna, his child as Martin, and his brother Daniel as executor [Abstracts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Wills: 1786-1820, google books].
  "Mr. Summey gave him a farm near New Holland, adjoining the old homestead. It was secured to the children by Will. Thanks to grandfather for his care and foresight." [Markley, 1855].
  As mentioned above, Anna's surname is recorded as Summe, Summy, Sumi, Sommy, and probably other variants I haven't come across. I'm using Summe throughout this report as that was the spelling used in Margaret (Summe) Markley's book.
  David Markley writes [Markley, 1855] :
  "Ann married my uncle Martin Markley, a few years older than my father. He was a drinking man and I think finally died with the delirium tremons. ... [They had a good] farm 2 miles west or more north of New Holland. Joining grandmother's homestead, I'm not certain how many children they had but I think the oldest dtr, Elizabeth, married a Mr. Raganoss. They afterwards moved to Ohio."
  The Martin Markley whose widow Catharine married Michail Everly and filed for Revolutionary War benefits in Pennsylvania doesn't seem to be this Martin, as the latter was too young to have served during the war. His existence in the state, however, alerts us to be careful about assigning particular events when we have three men of the same name within two generations in Pennsylvania.
  Most of the information given below for Martin's family and descendants came from Ken Regenos [Regenos, 2008], with additions from the Federal censuses and the IGI.
  The eight children of Martin and Anna (Summe) Markley:
1     Anna Markley, dtr., born 1799/1800 in Earl.
2     Elizabeth Markley, dtr., born 10 Jan 1799 in Earl, died 4 Aug 1882 in Lawrence, Stark, Ohio, and was buried in Paris Cemetery.
  Elizabeth was married 21 May 1819 in Earl to Christian Regenos {born 29 Dec 1793 in Lampenberg, Bennwil, Switzerland, son of Johan Jacob and Barbel (Flubacher) Regenos, died 21 Jan 1867 in Paris Twp., Stark, Ohio, and was buried in Paris Cemetery}.
  Elizabeth Ragennos [sic] was censused 1870 in Paris Twp., Stark County, aged 71, with Frances, 30, and Henry, 7, at home.
  Elizabeth Regenas [sic] was censused 1880 in Paris, aged 81, with Henry Regenas, her grandson aged 17, born in Indiana. Henry, born 1862/63, wa the son of samuel and his second wife, Charity. Also in her home that year was Sarah Oswalt, 21, probably a servant.
  From the locations of their childrens' births, Christian and Elizabeth moved from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to Stark County, Ohio around 1825/26.
  Christian and Elizabeth were censused 1860 in Paris Twp., Stark County at ages 66 and 61, with Jacob, 30, Frances, 20, and Mellisa, 17, at home. His real estate was valued at $4400, and his personal at $480.
  The ten children of Christian and Elizabeth (Markley) Regenos:
i     Lucy Elizabeth Regenos, dtr., born 18 Apr 1820 in Lancaster and died 26 May 1896 in Paris, Stark, Ohio.
  Lucy Elizabeth was married 2 May 1841 in Stark, Ohio to Samuel Musser {born 1 Apr 1819 in Ohio, son of Peter and Nancy (____) Musser and died 20 May 1896}.
  The Stark County Probate Court record [IGI extraction] gives the name of Samuel's wife as "Lucy Ann Regenoss". Why this constrasts with Ken Regenos' record stating "Lucy Elizabeth" is not known. It should be pointed out that the extracted court records for four Regenos siblings spelled their surname four different ways.
  Lucy and Samuel were censused 1880 in Paris, Stark Co., Ohio. Because the easily available FamilyHistory census index for this family is completely hashed up (Samuel separated from his family, two other individuals missing and the rest interleaved with a second adjacent household ), I recreate here the transcription for the family reading from the census itself:
 

Samuel Musser       Self  M  60  OH  Farmer          PA  PA 
Lucy A. Musser      Wife  M  60  PA  Housekeeping Swiss  PA 
Jeremiah Musser     Son   M  26  OH  Shoemaker       OH  PA 
Sarah E. Musser     Dau   S  23  OH  Dressmaker      OH  PA 
Edward M. Musser    Son   S  20  OH  Farming         OH  PA 
Albert A. Musser    Son   S  18  OH  Farming         OH  PA 
Alice C. Musser     Dau   S  14  OH                  OH  PA 
August Melza    grchild   M  10  Michigan        France  OH 
Nancy Musser              F  81  PA  Housekeeping    PA  PA 
----------------------------------------------------------- 
1880 Census, Paris, Stark, Ohio, T9-1068, 302B 

  I think we can safely assume that Nancy Musser, born 1798/99 in Pennsylvania, is Samuel's mother, and this is confirmed by Ken Regenos, who identifies Samuel's father as Peter. Also, the birthplaces associated with grandson August evidence a marriage that we don't yet know about. But we do know there's a twelve year gap between Lucy's marriage and birth of the oldest child we know about, Jeremian.
  There was a couple, Augustus C. and Margaret, who had a son John Lonis Melza 1877 in Saginaw, Michigan [extracted IGI record]. In 1870 Peter and Louisa were censused on June 2nd with a son August, 19, in their home in Chesaning, Sainaw, Michigan. That August would be just old enough to have a son August later that same year, but he was born in Ohio and so doesn't fit the father of August in the census above. Peter, however, was born in France, so there surely is some kind of connection.
  The twelve children of Samuel and Lucy Elizabeth (Regenos) Musser:
1     Amanda Mary Musser, dtr., born 20 Jun 1843 in Paris Twp. and died 16 Feb 1927 in Louisville, Stark, Ohio.
  Amanda Mary was married 9 Aug 1862 in Stark to Louis G. Myers.
2     Simon Musser, son, born 1844 in Paris Twp.
  Simon married Catherine Maken.
3     Lyman Musser, son, born 1844 in Paris Twp.
  Lyman married Mary Elizabeth Mizer {born 14 Jun 1843 in Bucks, Tuscarawas, Ohio}.
  Lyman's 1880 census transcription at FamilySearch was on the same page as his father's, and messed up in the same way. Reading from the census itself for Paris Twp., we have:
  Musser, Lyman 34, a farmer, his wife Mary E., 32, and children Elsworth D., 14, Dora, 12, Ida M., 10, daughter Minelva, 7, son Meret, 5, Eva, 3, Sarah, 2 and Viola, 1.
4     Obediah Musser, son.
5     Deliah Musser, dtr., born 1848 in Paris Twp. and died in Paris Twp.
  Deliah married George Dallas Livelsberger {born 20 Jan 1846 in Ohio and died 16 Jan 1914 in Stark}.
6     Angeline Musser, dtr., born 1849 in Ohio.
7     Jeremiah Musser, son, born Jan 1853 in Paris Twp. and died 1944 in Paris Twp.
  Jeremiah was married 1877 in Paris Twp. to Rosalia Bair {born Feb 1859 in Ohio, dtr of Abram and Elizabeth (____) Bair}.
  Jeremiah and Rosella were censused 1900 in Paris Twp. with Earnest 20, Daisy 19 and Luleh 15.
8     Sarah E. Musser, dtr., born 10 Oct 1854 in Paris Twp. and died 6 Mar 1935 in Myers, Ohio.
  Sarah E. was married in 1885 to David M. Myers {born 9 Jan 1828 in Paris Twp., son of Jacob B. and Susanna (Miller) Myers and died 5 Nov 1902 in Paris Twp.}.
  Note that her census record, above, implies a birth year of 1856/57 for Sarah.
  Regenos gives David's birth date as 9 Jan 1828, which would make him 26 years older than Sarah. This year needs to be confirmed. There was a David Myers born 15 Feb 1852 in Stark County, son of John D. and Esther Myers, and that is a more likely date for the husband of Sarah.
9     William E. Musser, son, born about 1856 in Ohio.
  William E. was married 11 Feb 1880 in Cuyahoga, Ohio to Mary Louise Lane.
  There may be a problem with the marriage of William as reported by Ken Regenos. He has him married to a Mary Louise Lane on 11 Feb 1880 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, but does not identify either her age or parents.
  There was a William Musser censused as a medical student in Akron, Ohio, in 1880, living in a household with three families: Aaron and Emma Gould; Royal W. Lane, his wife Julian, and their daughter Emma; and WIlliam Musser, son-in-law aged 21 and born in Ohio with wife Mary, 19, born in England. This age for William implies a birth year of 1858/59, rather than 1856 as given by Ken Regenos, but that his wife was a Mary Lane agrees with Ken's record.
  However, the censused William reported his father as having been born in Pennsylvania, not Ohio, his mother in Connecticut, not Pennsylvania. This leads me to believe that the marriage of Samuel's son William to Mary Louise Lane may be in error. Of course, there could have been two William Musser and Mary Lane couples in Ohio of very nearly the same age.
  The IGI has a submitted record of the marriage about 1885 of a William Musser born about 1860 and Mary Lane born about 1864, essentially matching Ken Regenos' record. But there are two Pedigree Resource Files that have a William Musser born about 1859 in Ohio to a William and Mary (Young) Musser. And there were eight William Musser's born in the 1850's censused 1880 in Ohio. So there is room here for a misidentifcation.
10     Edward M. Musser, son, born 29 Nov 1859 in Paris Twp. and died 5 Aug 1939 in Strasburg, Tuscarawas, Ohio.
  Edward M. was married 22 Aug 1885 to Sarah Amelia Van Wagner {born 24 Oct 1860 in Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, dtr of Harlow and Huldah (Denman) Van Wagner, and died 5 Aug 1939 in Strasburg}.
11     Albert A. Musser, son, born 1861/1862 in Ohio.
  Albert A. was married 24 Feb 1880 to Hattie De Witt.
12     Alice C. Musser, dtr., born 1865/1866 in Paris Twp. and died in Canton, Stark, Ohio.
  Alice C. was married 19 Jan 1892 to John Gonser {born Dec 1847 in Ohio, son of William and Ann (____) Gonser}.
ii     Sarah Regenos, dtr., born May 1822 in Lancaster.
  Sarah married Lewis Koons {born 1814/1816 in Alsace, France}.
  In 1860, Lewis Koontz, 45, and Sarah, 34, were censused in Paris Twp., Stark County, OH, with Daniel, 16, and John, 13. Lewis, born in France, was a grocer with real estate valued at $4300, and personal estate at $500. The age of 34 for Sarah should have been 38.
  Lewis and Sarah were censused 1800 in Canton, Stark County, Ohio, with Mary and Edward still at home. There is an intervening township between Paris and Canton, so this indicates a move of from 6 to as much as 18 miles between 1860 and 1880.
  The four children of Lewis and Sarah (Regenos) Koons:
1     Daniel Koons, son, born Jan 1844 in Stark.
  Daniel was married in 1893 to Minnie M. ____.
2     John Koons, son, born 1846 in Ohio.
  John was married 21 Sep 1876 to Ella B. Shalters.
3     Mary K. Koons, dtr., born Feb 1861 in Ohio and died 23 Apr 1925.
  Mary K. married Samuel Burgert {born Jan 1861 in Ohio}.
4     Edward H. Koons, son, born 1862/1863 in Ohio.
iii     Samuel Regenos, son, born 19 Oct 1825 in Lancaster and died 26 Mar 1908 in Kosciusko, Indiana.
  Samuel was married 30 Jun 1852 in Kosciusko to Mary M. Snoke (1) {born about 1835 in Pennsylvania, dtr of ____ and Catherine (____) Snoke and died 13 Jan 1861 in Kosciusko}. He was married 30 Mar 1862 in Kosciusko to Charity A. Harris (2) {born 10 Nov 1842 and died 28 Mar 1863 in Kosciusko}. Samuel was married 11 Jul 1863 to Elizabeth Pontius (3) {born 11 Sep 1835, dtr of David and Anna M. (____) Pontius and died 18 Nov 1893}. He was married 8 Sep 1901 in Whitney County, Indiana to Drucilla Howard (4) {died 14 May 1916}.
  Samuel and his third wife Elizabeth were censused in Clay Twp., Kosciusko, Indiana in 1870 with four children at home, Wilson 16, William 14, Clara A. 5 and Tressie B., 2. Also in the home was Jane A. Pontius, 16, presumably either a young sister or a niece of Elizabeth's. Samuel was reported as a farmer with valuations of $3200 and $600.
  Samuel was censused as a 54 year old farmer in Clay Twp. in 1880 again with his third wife Elizabeth, their two daughters, and his son William by his first wife, Mary. By 1900, Samuel was widowed and had his daughter Clara and her three children living with him.
  The two children of Samuel and Mary M. (Snoke) Regenos:
1     John Wilson Regenos, son, born in 1853 and died in 1941.
2     William Regenos, son, born May 1857 in Silver Lake, Kosciusko, Indiana, and died in 1949.
  William was married 26 Mar 1881 to Anna Maria Bowman {born 30 Aug 1859 in Beaver Dam, Kosciusko, Indiana, and died 27 Apr 1934}.
  William was described as a Nursery Dealer when he was censused at age 24 in his father's home in 1880.
  The only child of Samuel and Charity A. (Harris) Regenos:
1     Henry Elmer Regenos, son, born Jan 1863 in Kosciusko County, Indiana, died in 1943 and was buried in Silver Lake, Lake Twp., Kosciusko, Indiana.
  Henry Elmer was married 12 Sep 1885 to Nannie Stevens {born Oct 1862 in Ohio and died in 1942}.
  The two children of Samuel and Elizabeth (Pontius) Regenos:
1     Clara Alice Regenos, dtr., born 28 Mar 1866 in Kosciusko and died 4 Jul 1949.
  Clara Alice was married 3 Oct 1883 in Kosciusko to George W. Wiley (1). She was married 18 Aug 1889 to Leonard Cherry Stoner (2).
  Clara A. Stoner was censused 1900 in her father's home in Clay Twp. with her daughters Orla H., born Apr 1890 amd Gladys G., born Sep 1893, and son Newell L., born Jul 1899.
2     Tressie B. Regenos, dtr., born 14 Mar 1868 in Indiana, and died 19 Jun 1893.
  Tressie B. was married 10 Feb 1889 in Kosciusko to Philip Brown.
iv     Isaac Regenos, son, born 1826 in Stark and died about 1838.
v     Martin Regenos, son, born 1 Dec 1827 in Ohio, died 3 Sep 1901 and was buried in Seward, Kosciusko, Indiana.
  Martin was married 14 Sep 1851 in Paris to Eliza Douglas (1) {born 1824/1825 in Ohio and died before 1880}. He was married Feb 1872 to Amanda F. Stauffer (2) {born 1818/1819 in Ohio}.
  Martin and Eliza were censused 1870 in Seward Twp., Kosciiusko, Indiana, with their daughter and twin sons. The wedding date given here is from an extacted IGI record; Ken Regenos gives the 21st instead of the 14th.
  Martin and his second wife were censused again in Seward Twp. with Madison, one of his twin sons, still at home working on the farm. Amanda reported that her father was born in Maryland and her mother in Virginia.
  The three children of Martin and Eliza (Douglas) Regenos:
1     Emeline Regenos, dtr., born 1 Jul 1852 in Stark and died 7 Jul 1917.
  Emeline was married 14 Jan 1872 to George W. Shoemaker {born 13 Jan 1848 in Fulton County, Indiana, and died 30 Aug 1903}.
2     Madison Regenos, son, born 19 Feb 1858 in Ohio and died 25 Jan 1937 in Mentone, Kosciusko, Indiana.
  Madison was married 18 Mar 1883 to Mary C. Anderson {born about 1862 in Indiana and died before 29 Jan 1947 in Kosciusko}.
3     Jefferson Regenos, son, born Feb 1858 in Ohio.
  Jefferson was married 4 Mar 1880 in Kosciusko to Mary Elizabeth Warren {born 10 Jul 1857 in Wabash, Indiana, dtr of Samuel and Marie (____) Warren, and died 30 May 1961 in Warsaw, Kosciusko, Indiana}.
  Jefferson and Mary E. were censused 1900 in Seward Twp., Kosciusko County with daughter Nellie E., born Jan 1881, son Harle R., born Jan 1883, and Showley H., born Jun 1889.
vi     Jacob Regenos, son, born 5 Jul 1830 in Stark, died 13 Apr 1897 in Kosciusko and was buried in Fairview Cem.
  Jacob was married 19 Mar 1857 in Stark to Julia Ann Brown {born 11 Nov 1836 in Ohio, died 5 Dec 1911 and was buried in Fairview Cem.}.
  A son Jack of age 30 was censused in his parents home in 1860, but no Jacob Regenos (of any spelling) could be located in Stark or Kosciusko Counties that year. I'm assuming, therefore, that Jack was a nickname for Jacob.
  The census taker spelled their surname as Regas when Jacob and Julia A. were censused 1870 in Seward Twp., Kosciusko, Indiana. They had four children by that time, Mary C., 12, Laura A., 7, Alice E., 5 and Ira E. 2. All were born in Ohio, so they must have moved on west to Indiana between 1868 and 1870. Their son Charles Melvin has the ealiest IGI recorded birth in Indiana, 1872, for any of the Regenos family.
  Jacob and Julia were censused 1880 in Seward, Kosciusko, IN, with all of their children except Henry at home.
  The five children of Jacob and Julia Ann (Brown) Regenos:
1     Mary C. Regenos, dtr., born 1857/1858 in Ohio.
2     Laura A. Regenos, dtr., born 1862/1863 in Ohio.
3     Alice E. Regenos, dtr., born 19 Dec 1866 in Stark, died 3 Apr 1943 and was buried in Palestine Cem.
  Alice E. was married 7 Mar 1888 to Lidner Kisinger (1) {born 8 May 1866 and died 17 Aug 1939}. She was married 2 Dec 1890 to John Philip Kurtz (2) {born 21 Sep 1869 in Ohio and died in 1949}.
4     Ira Elmer Regenos, son, born 17 Aug 1868 in Ohio, died 27 Dec 1937 and was buried in Niles, Berrien, Michigan.
  Ira Elmer was married 30 Jun 1889 to Rosa Leona Rhodes (1) {born 4 Mar 1870, dtr of Solomon and Elizabeth (Newton) Rhodes and died 13 Apr 1902}. He was married 24 Dec 1902 in Benton Harbor, Berrien, Michigan to Matilda Compky (2) {born 1874 in Canada}. Ira Elmer was married 16 Jun 1907 in St. Joseph, Michigan to Elizabeth Lauer Schutt (3) {born 1888 in Indiana and died in 1954}.
5     Charles Melvin Regenos, son, born 14 Jul 1872 in Seward Twp., Kosciusko, Indiana.
  Charles Melvin was married 24 Dec 1895 in Kosciusko to Rozella Belle Clink {born 23 May 1874 in Seward Twp., Kosciusko, Indiana, dtr of John Wesley and Caroline (Rhoades) Clink, and died 1 Dec 1947 in Warsaw}.
vii     William Regenos, son, born Apr 1832 in Paris and died in Seward.
  William was married 18 Sep 1859 in Paris Twp. to Susanna Snoke (1) {born 9 May 1840 in Ohio, dtr of Amos and Elizabeth (____) Snoke and died 21 Mar 1880}. He was married 5 Dec 1880 to Magdalena Crise (2) {born Oct 1833 in Switzerland, baptised 12 Sep 1833 and died 20 Jun 1901}. William was married 26 Jul 1902 to Nancy Jane Rupe (3) {born about 1840}.
  The only child of William and Susanna (Snoke) Regenos:
1     Alzines Castleman Regenos, son, born 6 Jun 1860 in Indiana and died 4 Apr 1939 in Kosciusko.
  Alzines Castleman married Abbie ____ {born 1852 in Illinois}.
  The only child of William and Magdalena (Crise) Regenos:
1     Charles H. Regenos, son, born 1872 in Indiana.
viii     Elizabeth Regenos, dtr., born 14 Jul 1835 in Paris and died 28 Dec 1913 in Michigan.
  Elizabeth was married 29 Nov 1855 in Paris to George W. Douglas {born Sep 1834 in Ohio, son of George W. and Polly (____) Douglas}.
ix     Frances Regenos, dtr., born 8 May 1838 in Ohio and died 15 Jan 1917 in Alliance, Stark, Ohio.
  Frances was married 26 Apr 1875 to Joseph Oswalt {born 1823 in Ohio and died in 1904}.
  Frances married Joseph as his second wife. In 1880, the census recorded their two children, and then listed the youngest two of his seven children by his first wife, Mary Grimes:
 

Joseph OSWALT       Self    M   57  OH  Carpenter       PA   PA 
Frances OSWALT      Wife    M   42  OH  Keeping House   SWIT PA 
Edward S. OSWALT    Son     S    4  OH  At Home         OH   OH 
Ona B. OSWALT       Dau     S    1  OH  At Home         OH   OH 
Joseph B. OSWALT    Son     S   14  OH  At Home         OH   OH 
Benjamin F. OSWALT  Son     S   12  OH  At Home         OH   OH 
--------------------------------------------------------------- 
1880 Census, Alliance, Stark, Ohio, T9-1067, 129A 

  The two children of Joseph and Frances (Regenos) Oswalt:
1     Edward C. Oswalt, son, born Feb 1876 in Stark Co., Ohio.
2     Leona B. Oswalt, dtr., born Jul 1878 in Stark Co., Ohio.
x     Malinda Regenos, dtr., born 15 Aug 1842 in Ohio and died 12 Jul 1883 in Minerva, Ohio.
  Malinda was married 16 May 1868 in Paris to Daniel Becher {was son of Andrew and Barbara (____) Becher. He died before 1880}.
  In 1880 Malinda, a widow, was living with her mother-in-law Barbara Becher in Paris, Stark, Ohio with her daughter Emma F. Becher, age 7.
  The two children of Daniel and Malinda (Regenos) Becher:
1     Adaline Becher, dtr., born about 1869.
2     Emma F. Becher, dtr., born 30 Dec 1872 in Paris and died 4 Jan 1940 in Warsaw.
  Emma F. married Edward Scherer {born 7 Nov 1865 in Lena, Stephenson, Illinois, and died 19 Sep 1938 in Warsaw}.
3     Samuel Markley, son, born 1802 in Earl and died before 1818.
4     Susanna Markley, dtr., born 1803/1805 in Earl and died after 1850.
  Susanna was married in 1825 to Henry Deimler/Dibler.
  The name of Susanna's husband was given by [Peterson, 2008].
5     Nancy Markley, dtr., born 1808/1810 in Earl.
6     Martin Markley, son, born 1808/1810 in Earl and died in 1869.
  Martin was married in 1832 to Rachael Lutz {born 1815 in Pennsylvania}.
  This family's information came from Kathleen Michaels Peterson's Pedigree Resource File [Peterson, 2008].
  The four children of Martin and Rachael (Lutz) Markley:
i     Uriah Markley, son, born 1836 in Pennsylvania.
  Uriah was married in 1859 to Carolina Lutz {born 1841 in Pennsylvania}.
  Uriah Markley was censused 1880 in Juniata Precinct, Adams County, Nebraska. That Uriah was 45 years old, so born 1834/35 in Pennsylvania. He had with him in the household a wife Caroline, 39, and children Lemon, Melvin and Lina, ages 20, 17 and 6. Both boys were born in Michigan, Lina in Indiana. Also boarding in their home was a Wm. Spade, 38, a Carpenter born in Pennsylvania.
  The Pedigree Resource File cited above for this family names the son of Martin Markley, Jr., as Urias, married about 1859 to Carolina Lutz. Although he was of the same generation as Uriah Markley, another great-grandson of Hanß Märckly and Regina Frölich, and so was his second cousin, he was twenty years younger, and I take his given name as evidence this man, identified online as Urias, was most probably named Uriah, also.
ii     Lewis Markley, son, born 25 Mar 1837 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and died 25 Mar 1909 in Juniata, Adams, Nebraska.
  Lewis was married 10 Apr 1864 to Corinda Elizabeth Garman.
iii     Jesse Markley, son, born 1839 in Pennsylvania.
  Jesse married Harriet Caughman.
iv     Samuel Markley, son, born 1841 in Pennsylvania.
  Samuel was married in 1864 to Mary Hagerman.
  Samuel was probably the 18 year old farmhand living with J. M. Brenneman in Manor Twp., Lancaster County in 1860. Manor Twp. is about 15 miles west of Earl Twp., and this was about two years before Samuel married.
7     Betsy Markley, dtr., born 1812 in Earl.
8     Sally Markley, dtr., born 1814 in Earl.
viii     Barbara Markley, dtr., born 8 Sep 1772 in Strasburg.
ix     Elizabeth Markley, dtr., born 8 Sep 1772 in Strasburg.
  Elizabeth was married 8 Aug 1797 to George Getz.
  "Jacob Rumple, a tinner, in Columbia, Lancaster Co., PA, married one of the daughters" of George and Elizabeth [Markley, 1855].
x     Henry Markley, son, born May 1776 in Strasburg.
  Henry married Margaret Summe {born 16 May 1776 in Earl, dtr of Jacob and Margaret (Graff) Summe and died 26 May 1849}.
  Henry and Margaret Summe, his wife, are the ancestors of Karen Fugate, who contacted me concerning our Markley ancestry [Fugate, 2008]. This was what sparked my current (2008/09) review and extension of the Markley Chapter of this Family History, and our collaboration has greatly extended the scope of my original research. Karen has graciously shared images of Margaret's book (below), and of the Journal of Margaret's son David, and I'm deeply appreciative of her generosity in doing this.
  Henry was over 14 years as of the Nov, 1799 Orphans Court proceedings, so born before 1785. He was taxed 1800 and 1802, only, in Strasburg.
  The 1850 censuses for Strasburg Borough and for Strasburg Township were searched without locating Henry.
  Margaret's surname is recorded as Summe, Summy, Sumi, Sommy, and probably other variants I haven't come across. I'm using Summe throughout this report as that was the spelling used in the inscriptions in her own book, as well as in the David Markley Journal of her son.
  Margaret was the owner of the book [Summe, undated] from which birth and death dates, including her own, have been extracted. The inscription on the inside of the cover, "My Mother's Book, D. Markley" indicates that her son David took possession of the book on his mother's death, and it has since been passed down from him to Karen Fugate's mother, Dorothy (Markley) Denning. Here is the title page of the book, with a partial translation (by my brother-in-law, Leo Thiessen and a German born neighbor of his), indicating that it was printed in 1742:
 
image: Margaret Summe Book Title Page

Margaret Summe Book Title Page

  This next image is of the facing pages where, on the left, David's inscription appears, and on the right, Margaret's inscription, in German, where she gives her birth record and finishes with her signature. Note that she spells her surname as Sümme, with an umlaut.
 
image: Margaret Sümme and D. Markley Inscriptions

Margaret Sümme and D. Markley Inscriptions

  Margaret's son David writes [Markley, 1855] :
  My mother, Margaret, was the youngest of the 3 dtrs. She married Henry, my father, before he was 21 years of age. Mother was 3 years older than father. He commenced his career by keeping a tavern - The Black Horse. Father was a shoemaker by trade but married in a rich family and he, young and inexperienced, led him to hotel keeping. ... [Margaret] returned home to her father. I think about this time, the first child, Samuel was born. But this broke up the hotel keeping. How long a time intervened I know not but finally grandfather [Jacob] gave her this farm of 80 acres of land and mill on it.
  The names and birth dates of the children of this famiy are from Margaret Summe's book. Here are the images of the pages recording Margaret's birth and death, and Henry's death, and of the births of Samuel, Ann and Elizabeth, of Sarah, Levina and David, and of the marriage of Elizabeth to John McClane.
 
image: Margaret Summe and Henry Markley Records

Margaret Summe and Henry Markley Records

 
image: Samuel, Ann and Elizabeth Birth Records

Samuel, Ann and Elizabeth Birth Records

 
image: Sarah, Levina and David Birth Records

Sarah, Levina and David Birth Records

 
image: Marriage Record of Elizabeth and John McCLane

Marriage Record of Elizabeth and John McCLane

  The six children of Henry and Margaret (Summe) Markley:
1     Samuel Markley, son, born 15 Aug 1802.
  There is recorded [USGenWeArchives] the marriage 18 Mar 1824 of Samuel Markley to Margaret Smith in Juniata County, Pennsylvania. We know some brances of our Markley lineage stayed for a while in that county before moving on west.
2     Ann Markley, dtr., born 24 Sep 1803.
  Ann was married in 1821 to John Stauffer.
  Ann's parentage and marriage are from Peterson [2008].
3     Elizabeth Markley, dtr., born 6 Nov 1809.
  Elizabeth was married in 1853 to John McClane {born 1813/1814 and died 25 Nov 1857}.
4     Sarah Markley, dtr., born 7 Jan 1811.
5     Levina Markley, dtr., born 12 Aug 1812 and died 27 Feb 1813.
6     David Markley, son, born 26 Jan 1814.
  David was married 23 Feb 1836 to Sarah Smullen (1) {born in 1817 and died 6 Sep 1840}. He was married 10 Oct 1848 to Mary Rebecca Smullen (2) {born 25 Dec 1820 in Pennsylvania and died 27 May 1897}.
  This was the David Markley who authored the David Markley Journal [Markley, 1855], transcribed and made available to me by Karen Fugate, his great-great-granddaughter. Dates in his journal were from 1851 through 1868. Here are two pages written just 150 years ago in which he starts a discourse on his Summey relatives:
 
image: <i>David Markley Journal</i>, 1858 Entry

David Markley Journal, 1858 Entry

  3/3/1858 -- I, David Markley, son of Henry and Margaret Markley, was born 1/26 or 27/1814 in Earl Township, Lancaster Co., PA about 300 yards south of the Harrisburg and Downingstown Turnpike, 4 miles east of New Holland, 2 miles east of the Blew Ball Tavern, near the Sorrel Horse Tavern. [Markley, 1855]
  David and Mary, ages 46 and 40, were censused 1860 in Hennepin, Putnam, IL, in 1860 with their two children.
  Essentially all of the details shown below for the descendants of David and Mary Rebecca were furnished to me by Karen (Denning) Fugate, his great-great granddaughter.
  The three children of David and Mary Rebecca (Smullen) Markley:
i     Mary C. Markley, dtr., born 8 Aug 1849 and died 8 Sep 1850.
ii     John Wesley Markley, son, born 30 Aug 1855 in Peoria/Hennepin, Illinois, and died 26 Dec 1892.
  John Wesley was married 11 Sep 1878 to Jennie M. Greiner {born 11 Sep 1860 in Illinois, dtr of Charles and Ida (Ehmler?) Greiner, and died 25 Nov 1945}.
  John Wesley was censused 1880 as a hardware merchant in Hennepin, Putnam, IL with his wife and daughter Essie.
  The three children of John Wesley and Jennie M. (Greiner) Markley:
1     Essie B. Markley, dtr., born 10 Nov 1880 in Illinois, and died 2 Nov 1965.
  Essie B. married Charles Robert Hamill {born 16 Oct 1872 and died 26 Mar 1945}.
2     Lotta Mae Markley, dtr., born 18 Apr 1888 and died 8 Jul 1970.
  Lotta Mae was married 10 Aug 1916 to John Stacker Van Leer {born 1 Jul 1890}.
3     Harold David Markley, son, born 15 Apr 1891 and died 6 Dec 1972.
  Harold David was married 15 Jun 1925 to Dorothea Marie Bauer {born 26 Oct 1895 and died 6 Mar 1989}.
  This is the lineage of Karen Fugate, who has provided me with so much of the genealogy of Henry Markley and Margaret Summe, including the latter's inscriptions in her book shown above [Fugate, 2008].
 

    Markley, Dorothy Marie 
    m Robert Francis Denning 
        Denning, Karen Dorothea 
        m  Michael W. Fugate 

iii     Emma Belle Markley, dtr., born 22 Mar 1858 in Illinois, and died about 1893.
  Emma Belle was married 16 Oct 1878 to Joseph Cory Moore {born in 1852}.
  The four children of Joseph Cory and Emma Belle (Markley) Moore:
1     David Cory Moore, son, born Oct 1879.
2     Ila May Moore, dtr., born Jul 1881.
3     John Clyde Moore, son, born Feb 1885.
  John Clyde was married in 1910 to Laura M. ____ {born in 1888}.
4     Eldred C. Moore, son, born 16 Apr 1888 and died 6 Jul 1965.
  Eldred C. married Hazel H. ____ {born in 1887}.
xi     Joanna Markley, dtr., born 12 Oct 1777 in Strasburg.
xii     Hannah Markley, dtr., born about 1778.
  Hannah married Hyronimous Miller.
  This daughter Hannah might be identical to Joanna.
  David Markley [Markley, 1855] gives the first name of Hannah's husband as "Cronimn".
  A Hieronimous and Catherine (Scultz) Miller appear in the Strasburg records during the 1750's and 60's, and are probably this Hyronimous' parents.
xiii     Jonathan Markley, son, born 1782/1784.
  Jonathan was married in 1805 to Catherine ____ {born 1781/1782 in Pennsylvania}.
  A minor (under 14) at his father's death in Nov 1799, and still represented by his guardian in 1801. Could not be identified in the census of any brother in 1800. Jonathan was taxed beginning 1808. He was surely the Jonathan censused 1810, 1830 and 1840 in Strasburg. The 1820 Strasburg census is missing.
  In 1850 Jonathan was censused at age 68 in the Strasburg household of his son John, while his wife was living with their son Joseph.
  The two children of Jonathan and Catherine (____) Markley:
1     Joseph Markley, son, born 1813/1814 in Strasburg.
  Joseph was married 1846 in Lancaster to Susan ____ {born 1803/1805 in Pennsylvania}.
  Joseph and Susan were censused 1850 on his farm in Strasburg Twp. with his mother Catherine and son George, who worked as a carpenter. In 1860 they had a Mary Wenger, 25, in their home working as a servant. That was often the designation give to a young sister or niece living with a married couple, so that might provide a clue to Susan's maiden name.
  The only child of Joseph and Susan (____) Markley:
i     George Markley, son, born 1823/1824 in Pennsylvania.
2     John Markley, son, born 1814/1815 in Pennsylvania.
  John married Elizabeth ____ {born 1814/1816}.
  John was censused 1850 in Strasburg with Jonathan, age 68 in his household. It is from this record that we infer John as son of Jonathan, and find the names of his wife and daughters. It's interesting, and fairly rare, to find two brothers each of whom has one of the parents living with them. In 1860 John was censused in Strasburg as a farmer, with his wife Elizabeth and faughter Ann M., age 17.
  An 1863 map of Strasburg Township, Lancaster County, shows Jos. and Jn. Markley residences abou seven miles apart in the southeast portion of the township.
 
image: Joseph and John Markley in Strasburg

Joseph and John Markley in Strasburg

  The two children of John and Elizabeth (____) Markley:
i     Elizabeth Markley, dtr., born 1839/1840.
ii     Ann M. Markley, dtr., born 1842/1843.
xiv     David Markley, son, born 1778/1789.
  David married an unknown person.
  David was a minor (under 14) at his father's death in Nov 1799, and still represented by his guardian in 1801. He could not be identified in the census of any brother in 1800. His father was nearly 60 years of age at his birth.
  David Markley, a farmer aged 70, born in PA, was censused 1860 in West Jersey Twp., Stark, IL. He had in his household Cornelias J. Stewart, 30, and Eliza Stewart, 26, both born in OH, and Mary Stewart, age 3, born in IL, as well as a Daniel Pembles, age 64, born in NY.
  "They had one daughter, Eliza Markley. She ... in 1838 or 1839 married a Mr. Koontz of Lancaster City. He was a man of a large family of some fortune. ... [They] had no children. After the death of her husband, she married again to, I think, a Mr. Shirts, of Lancaster City, a wealthy man. " [Markley, 1855]
  The only child of David Markley:
1     Eliza Markley, dtr., born 1833/1834 in Ohio.
  Eliza was married 1838/1839 to ____ Koontz (1). She married (2) Cornelias J. Stewart {born 1829/1830}.
  The only child of Cornelias J. and Eliza (Markley) Stewart:
i     Mary Stewart, dtr., born 1846/1857 in Illinois.
xv     Benjamin Markley, son.
  Benjamin and his siblings Nancy, Rudy and Samuel are known only from David Markley's Journal [Markley, 1855]. Since we have no dates of any kind for them, I've listed them as the "last" of the children of Hanß Georg and Regina, but in this case that does not mean the "youngest".
  "Benjamin F. was ... a Methodist more than 20 years ago. He moved to Ohio. I see him at Mansfield, Ohio in 1836. He was, then, a Drayman. Had a smart wife and smart girls and family. He belonged to the United Bretheren Church." [Markley, 1855].
xvi     Nancy Markley, dtr.
  Nancy married Archibald Dening.
  Nancy's husband was a weaver, they had several children, and moved to Ohio. One daughter married an Isaac Detwiler, a cooper, and lived near New Holland [Markley, 1855].
xvii     Rudy Markley, son.
  "Rudy was a heavyset, broad shouldered, dark complected, near sighted young man." [Markley, 1855].
xviii     Samuel Markley, son.
  "He boasted that he was a distiller" [Markley, 1855].
George Markley & Elizabeth Lein

Sebastian1, Johannes2, Matthias3, Jakob4, Johann Jakob5, Hanß Jacob "Joggi"6, Hanß Geörg7, George8

George was born 4 Jun 1764 in Strasburg, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and died 23 Nov 1828 in Strasburg.

George and Elizabeth married 12 Apr 1791 in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth was born about 1766, the daughter of Johanes "John" Lein.

George was married by the Rev. Boehm in the First Reformed Church, Lancaster city and county. The identification of Elizabeth as the spouse of this George is confirmed by Donna R. Irish [Irish, 1982] who records the marriage as "George Merckle of Strasburg and Elizabeth Lein of Martic". Irish also gives the first wife of George's brother John as Catharine Bailey "of Martic". George's birth and death dates are from the St. Michael's Lutheran Church records of Strasburg which say he died ae 64 yr 5 mo 19 da.
Described as a carpenter, George bought land jointly with his brother John, 18 Oct 1788. He was first taxed as a Jr. in 1789, as a carpenter 1797, and on tax lists continuously through 1802.
Again as carpenter, George bought half of their jointly owned land from John and his wife, 29 Mar 1794, but at this time no wife was mentioned for George. He reappears on tax lists 1813 thru 1820 with 25 ac. land, and it is unknown as to where he was from 1802 to 1813. Both George and George, Jr. were taxed from 1821 to 1825, the end of the extant tax records.
In the census of 1800 George appears with 1 male & 1 female born 1755-1774, 1 male & 2 females born 1790-1800. But in the census 1810 he was missing, just as he was from the tax records. The 1820 census records for Strasburg are missing.
It may be useful to review here the connections through three generations of George Markleys in Strasburg. These relationships are based in part on the very fortuitous preservation of most of the tax records for the town from 1751 through 1825. In addition, various probate and land court records help to identify the relevant family members.
The immigrant George was first taxed 1753. In 1789 he was called George, Sr., and George Jr. appeared on the rolls for the first time. After his father's death in 1799, George Jr. was then named simply George, until his son George in turn appeared in 1821 denoted as Jr. There are some unanswered questions which, however, don't seem to disprove the basic message of these tax rolls: The immigrant George was first taxed as a freeman. Then, in 1759 his name was crossed out on the freeman list, and he was taxed that year on the regular roll. After a ten year gap in the record, he was again shown taxed 1769 as a Freeman, but thereafter on the regular rolls for the rest of his life. Conceivably these could be different individuals, but the coincidence of only one being taxed in any one year would be fairly farfetched. Also, as mentioned earlier, there was an as yet unidentified George Markley named on the list of young men of the town, untaxed, in 1759, but his age seems to preclude any confusion of identity with our lineage of three Georges.
That the third George, below, is the father of Aaron seems to be soundly based on the fact that his wife was named as Sarah in the court records of their sale of land to his brother–in–law William Giles. No other George Markley of this age in Strasburg is unaccounted for (although his cousin George B., son of John, was there at that time). Aaron named one of his sons Otto Giles, after his aunt Mary's husband, which serves to confirm these family ties, but it would be desirable to find records of the births of George and Sarah's children in Strasburg.
As mentioned above, Eliabeth was described as "of Martic" in Irish's 1982 description of her marriage, in the First Reformed Church of Lancaster City, to Georg "Merckle" of Strasburg. Martic township lies about 13 miles south of the city; Strasburg Township is about 9 miles southeast of the city.
The four children of George and Elizabeth (Lein) Markley were George M., a daughter, a daughter and Mary.
i     George M. Markley, son, born in 1794.   
ii     Unnamed Markley, dtr., born about 1796.
iii     Unnamed Markley, dtr., born about 1798.
  This daughter from the1800 census, if it was taken before 24 August. Otherwise this may be a record of Mary, the next child listed here.
iv     Mary Markley, dtr., born 24 Aug 1800 in Strasburg and died before 1860.
  Mary was married 8 Aug 1819 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to William Giles {born 26 May 1795 and died 16 May 1867}.
  "Church records, 1749-1964" of the St. Michael's Lutheran Church in Strasburg provide births and deaths of several Markleys and Giles. In particular, John and Rebecca Giles were recorded as the parents of children born 1814 and 1816, and may well have been the father of William, as the new church, dedicated 1816, does not record earlier baptisms. The records of the baptisms of William's children from that church record spell his wife's name as Maria, and their surname as Giles.
  William Guiles came to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, about 1805 with his stepmother, worked as wagonmaker, and was a member of the M. E. Church [Beers, 1903]. He purchased land 24 Mar 1830 from his inlaws, George and Sarah, and was administrator 1829 for the estate of George Markley.
  Three of their eleven children died in infancy [Beers, 1903].
  In 1850 William was censused in Strasburg Borough (not township) as a 55 year old Waggen Maker, with his wife Mary M., 49. Children at home with them were David, 20, Elizabeth, 16, John, 14, Abraham, 9, and Charlott, 12 (listed in that order).
  In 1860 William was living in the home of Jacob S. Buckwalter, a pumpmaker, in Strasburg Borough, so Mary had probably died before that date.
  The ten children of William and Mary (Markley) Giles:
1     Sarah Ann Giles, dtr., born 22 Dec 1820, baptised 18 Feb 1825 and died before 1903.
  Sarah Ann was married about 1850 to David S. McElheney.
  David S. was of Quarryville, Lancaster, PA, [IGI] about five miles south of Strasburg, and of Marticville, Lancaster, PA, [source?], about six miles WSW of Strasburg.
  There was a David McElheney, possibly this David, a retired farmer born 1815/16, living with his brother Thomas in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland, PA in 1880.
  They had a son John W. born 15 Oct 1858 in Quarryville.
2     George Giles, son, born 6 Aug 1822 and baptised 15 Sep 1822.
3     William Giles, son, born 6 Apr 1824 in Strasburg, baptised 30 May 1824 and died before 1903.
  William was married 7 Mar 1847 to Mary E. Hess {born 13 Sep 1830 in Pennsylvania, dtr of Benjamin and Fanny (Light) Hess}.
  The History of Strasburg, Lancaster County, PA Until the Sesqui-Centenial Year, by the graduating class of 1926 of Strasburg High School lists William as a wagon maker in 1850. William was censused in Conestoga, Lancaster, PA, as a wheelwright in 1870 and 1880.
  That History also listed a Samuel B. Markley as proprietor of The Strasburg Bee in 1855, but I haven't identified which particular Samuel that was. And it recorded that John Markley was elected High Constable at the First Town election in April, 1816, and that John also might have been any one of several.
  From Ellis and Evans History of Lancaster County...", we find Benjamin Markley and William Guiles, Jr. in a list of Conestoga Twp. men who went into the field on the invasion of Pennsylvania.
  "The genealogy and history of the Guild, Guile and Gile family", B. Thurston & Co., 1887 [google books] reports that William was six years school director, trustee and steward of the M. E. church twenty years, and superintendent of the Sunday-school; by trad a wheelwright." It also lists their children as Albert W., Clara Ella Young, Martha Mylin Steighman, Benjamin Kendig and Charles Hess, born 1948 through 1873.
  The children of William and Mary, from the 1870 and 1880 censuses, were
  Albert, born 1848/49, a wheelwright Clara, born 1853/54 Anna M., born 1855/56 Martha, born 1857/58 Benjamin K., born 1866/67 PA Charles H., born 1872/73 PA
4     Mary Giles, dtr., born 10 Feb 1826, baptised 19 Feb 1826 and died before 1903.
  Mary married Rev. Albert G. Williams.
5     David Giles, son, born 18 Oct 1829 in Strasburg, baptised 24 Jan 1830 and died before 1903.
  David's birth information was from and IGI submitted record. He was at home with his parents 1850, but I could not find him (as Guiles or Giles) in 1860 or 1870.
6     Amos Giles, son, born 4 Dec 1831 and baptised 5 Feb 1832.
7     Elizabeth Giles, dtr., born 1834 in Strasburg.
  Elizabeth married John J. Long.
  Elizabeth's birth was from the IFI, as well, and she was at home with her parents in 1850.
  John J. Long, a carpenter, age 56 so born 1823/24, and Elizabeth T. Long, age 46 so born 1833/34, were censused 1880 in Freeport, Armstrong, PA with six children born 1855/1868. His middle initial correct, but Armstrong locale not known otherwise, so this identification can only be tentative. The family was also censused earlier in the same town, 1860 and 1870. Other John and Elizabeth Longs of nearly the right age (for Elizabeth) appear also in the census indexes.
8     John W. Giles, son, born 1836 in Strasburg and died before 1903.
  John W. married Mary Ann Tangart {born 1843 in Lancaster, dtr of Peter and Elizabeth (____) Tangart}.
  Birth from the IGI; at home with parents 1850. Censused 1860 in Martic, Lancaster County as a master Wheelright
  Mary Ann's parents from the IGI, which also list her children as
  Franklin, born 1860 Clara, born 1861 Mary, born 1863 Alva, born 1864 William, born 1865
9     Charlotte W. Giles, dtr., born 5 Mar 1839 in Strasburg and died 27 Jul 1872 in Sterling, Illinois.
  Charlotte W. was married after 1870 to Simon Groff {born 18 Sep 1840 in Strasburg, son of Simon and Barbara (____) Groff and died 16 Nov 1897 in Williamsville, New York}.
  Simon was censused in the home of his parents, Simon, a Blacksmith and Farrier, and Barbara Groff in Strasburg in 1860, age 19, and 1870, age 28. I could find neither Simon nor Charlotte in the 1880 US Census.
10     Abraham Groff Giles, son, born 3 Oct 1840 in Strasburg.
  Abraham Groff was married in 1861 to Rebecca K. Welsh {born 1840/1841 in Pennsylvania}.
  The Groff connection here is obscure, as his sister Charlotte later married Simon Groff. Abraham was at home with parents 1850, and censused in 3rd Ward, Columbia, Lancaster, PA, in 1870 working as a Shoe Manufacturer, and in a Dry Goods/Notion Store in 1880.
  Rebecca might possiby be the Rebecca Catharine Welsh, born 9 Apr 1841 in Orange Twp., Columbia, PA, daughter of Isaac and Sarah Mary Elizabeth (Kline) Welsh, but that's about 75 miles north of Lancaster Co. Their children from the 1880 census:
  Samuel W., born 1861/62 in PA Ida M., born 1863/65 in PA William M., born 1865/68 in PA
George M. Markley & Sarah ____

Sebastian1, Johannes2, Matthias3, Jakob4, Johann Jakob5, Hanß Jacob "Joggi"6, Hanß Geörg7, George8, George M.9

George M. was born about 1794 in Strasburg, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and died about 1848 in Casstown, Lost Creek, Miami, Ohio.

George M. and Sarah married 1818/1819 in Lancaster Co.?, Pennsylvania.

George and his family moved from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Ohio in 1847 according to a note in his son Aaron's hand which is in my files. However, no other record of George, Sr., in Ohio has been located. He died shortly after his move there, as Sarah was censused without him in 1850.
That 1850 census of Casstown, Lost Creek Twp., Miami County, Ohio, on the fourth of August, is particularly interesting in one aspect, that of the shoemakers of the town. Between households 520 and 532 there were no less than six shoemakers, half of them sons of George and Sarah.
Sarah Markley, Sr., aged 51, and Sarah Markley, Jr., aged 22, were living in household #524. Next door to his mother and sister, at #523, was Henry A. Markley, a shoemaker, with his wife Hannah and children Mary and William, aged 14 and 8, respectively. Also in that household was a Catherine Markley, 12, listed last and so undoubtedly a relative, not a daughter, but otherwise unidentified. Three households further in that direction, at #520, were Elijah Gorsuch, 55, from Massachusetts, and Jacob Hammond, 25, from Pennsylvania, both shoemakers. It could well be that Henry had apprenticed with Elijah, and settled near him while learning the trade.
In the other direction from the Sarah, at #530, were her son Daniel Markley with his wife Catherine and their first three children, and in his household his younger brother Aaron, our ancestor, both of the men working as shoemakers. Finally, two households further along was Jacob Zeigler, 54, yet another shoemaker. Aaron was destined to marry Mary Alice Mitchell,
Also nearby, some ten households further down the census list, lived Joseph Mitchell, 25, a printer born in Ohio. Whether he was related to Mary Alice Mitchell, whom Aaron was to marry the following month, we do not know. But two of her maternal uncles, George and Richard White, were also shoemakers. There had to be some way for her and Aaron to have met, as she was from a farm quite some way out of town, and either a professional connection amongh shoemakers, or a relative a few houses away might have sufficed to introduce the two.
Casstown lies in the east central part of Miami county, about eight miles southeast of Piqua, and the same distance northeast of Troy, the county seat. The marriage of Aaron and Mary Alice is registered in the latter town in the Probate Records [BkF, p385,1843-54]. Our own family records say that the couple were married in Piqua, possible the location of the church to which she belonged.
The Markleys were, for our family, comparative newcomers to Miami county. The Hartzells came in 1815, the Mitchells around 1832, and David Shively Deeter, brother to our ancestor John Shively Teeter, in 1812, having first moved to Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1805.
The sketch map below shows some of the towns of interest in Miami County, Ohio. Covington is the home of the Hartzells; the Mitchells lived out in the country to the northeast of Lost Creek. The dotted lines show the six mile square sections of the two adjoining surveys in Ohio. The early governmental learning process of just how to sell land to the settlers is reflected in that the first survey, east of the Miami River, doesn't have its range and townships aligned on the major compass directions.
image: Miami Co., OH and Principal Towns

Miami Co., OH and Principal Towns

The ten children of George M. and Sarah (____) Markley were Henry Augustus, Daniel, Sarah, Aaron, Eliza Ann, Susan, Mary, Katherine "Kate", Christine "Christie" and George W.

My daughter Deb Swan has been researching all of the families and descendants of George and Sarah. She has been able to work more broadly and deeply than I ever have, and has come up with some fascinating stories of these branches of our collateral ancestors.

When she is finished and places her results online, I'll insert a hyperlink here to her work.

For my part, I'm no longer adding any new material to that which I previously found for these families, except some material I found on a trip to Farmington, New Mexico. However, I'll continue to add individuals and their vital data to this web page as Deb discovers new descendants.

i     Henry Augustus Markley, son, born 18 Dec 1819 in Strasburg and died 18 Dec 1896 in Quincy, Adams, Illinois.
  Henry Augustus was married about 1939 to Hannah Weaver {born 4 Mar 1817 in Pennsylvania, dtr of John and Hannah (Mager) Weaver and died 5 May 1902 in Quincy}.
  In the Markley and Swan family Bible, there is mention of Henry with only a notation "Quincy, Illinois". That is all that the family knew of Henry after he left Ohio prior to my daughter Deb Swan undertaking research into his children and descendants.
  The children in this family have widely spaced birth dates, Juniata, in particular, being recorded as born seven years after Ella when her mother was 42. However, that 1880 census clearly lists her as a daughter. Three other children are buried in the Casstown Cemetery near John H. : Ann, "d. 2 Apr 1848, age 2 yrs"; Alice, " d/o H&A, d. ?"; Juanita, "d. Sept 1854". Also buried with them is "Markley, George W., s/o G&S, d. 24 Jun 1850, age 6-3-18", a young brother of Henry.
  Ann, Alice and Juanita are probably children of Henry and Hannah, and certainly are relatives. It is likely that the couple did have children in the early years in Pennsylvania who died young, since there is a six year gap after William Giles was born. In the 1910 census, Hannah (widow, living with her daughter Augusta Niemeyer) is recorded as having had 11 children, 4 still living.
  In her granddaughter Lillian (Markley) Chubb's mémoire, she relates that her grandmother Markley went to New Mexico with mother and siblings about 1882. Hannah must at some point have returned to Illinois, probably after William Giles Markley's death.
  The six children of Henry Augustus and Hannah (Weaver) Markley:
1     Kate M. Markley, dtr., born 12 Mar 1840 in Pennsylvania, died 29 Nov 1917 in Wabash, Wabash, Indiana, and was buried 1 Dec 1917 in Falls Cemetery, Wabash.
  Kate M. was married 13 Nov 1865 to Joseph W. Busick {born 22 Feb 1830 in Scott County, Kentucky, son of Levin and Charlotte (____) Busick, died 8 Mar 1897 in Indiana, and was buried 11 Mar 1897 in Falls Cemetery}.
  The only child of Joseph W. and Kate M. (Markley) Busick:
i     Marguerite L. "Maggie" Busick, dtr., born in Indiana and died after 1943.
  Marguerite L. "Maggie" married Robert Lee Bailey {born about 1870 in Kentucky, and died after 1930}.
2     William Giles Markley, son, born 8 Oct 1842 in Strasburg, died 6 Oct 1887 on Dale's Ranch, La Plata River, San Juan, New Mexico, and was buried in Greenlawn Cem., Farmington, San Juan, New Mexico Territory.
  William Giles was married 13 Aug 1867 in Peru, Miami, Indiana to Mary Jane "Minnie" Blake {born 4 Nov 1847 in Peru, dtr of Alexander Freelove and Mary Hutton (Todd) Blake, died 1 Oct 1906 in Durango, La Plata, Colorado, and was buried in Greenwood Cem., Farmington, San Juan, New Mexico Territory}.
 
image: William Giles Markley and Mary Jane (Blake) Markley

William Giles Markley and Mary Jane (Blake) Markley

  These portraits of William and Mary were provided by Debbie Doggett, Collections Manager at the Farmington Museum, and I wish to thank her for her gracious assistance in making them available to me. Although I've joined them here in one image, neither of the originals were dated, and may have been taken at different times.
  The next image, titled "The Markley Ladies", was published by Agnes Miller Furman in "Tohta, An Early Day History Of The Settlement Of Farmington And San Juan County, New Mexico, 1875-1900" [Nortex Press, Wichita Falls, Texas, c1977]. The copy in the Farmington Museum had identifications of the sisters, written on the back by Mary Jane's granddaughter Wilma (Markley) Riestad in 1980, which differed from the caption in the book. I've shown her identifications under the image. Guessing that Mary Ione was about 10 years old places the photograph in about 1892. At that time the youngest daughter, Lucille, would have been about five years old.
 
image: The Markley Ladies

The Markley Ladies

  The family was censused 1880 in Ellington, Adams, Illinois, adjacent to William's parents Henry and Hannah. Listed were: William Markly, 37, Minnie, 32, Maud, 10, Juny, 8, and Lillian, 6. However, we know from a Mémoire written by Lillian, many years later, that William had left for New Mexico Territory in 1879, and the family joined him there only in June of 1881. The family, however, was also censused in Farmington, Rio Arriba, New Mexico Territory in 1880 as W. G. Markley, 37, Minnie J., 33, Maud, 11, Junie, 8 and Lillie C., 5. (San Juan County was erected 1887 from the part of Rio Arriba County that included Farmington.)
  William was a farmer in Illinois, and a shoemaker in New Mexico Territory. Evidently both census takers listed the entire family, notwithstanding the fact that they were at that time separated in the process of moving to New Mexico Territory. Lillian was born in Illinois, according to her father, but in Kansas, according to her mother.
  While the rest of the family was still in Illinois, William built an adobe home for them in Farmington. This photograph of the home was given to me by Vickie Gurry of Farmington, who did a great job of restoring a very faded original. My thanks to Vickie for sharing the image with me. Unfortunately, the four ladies standing in front of the home are unidentified.
 
image: Markley Adobe Home

Markley Adobe Home

  After William's death, Mary Jane is known to have patented 160 acres in what is now the southwest part of Farmington, but which would have been open land at that time, probably planted with fruit trees or other crops. Here is a plat map of ca, 1895 showing her parcel within the 1901 incorporation ["Homesteads to Boomtown" by Marilu Waybourn] The next image shows that land, as well as the location of the adobe home on their original 60 acres homestead, and the cemetery where they are buried, located on a map of the city from the DeLorme "New Mexico Atlas & Gazetteer".
 
image: Farmington Plat Map

Farmington Plat Map

 
image: Markley locations in Farmington

Markley locations in Farmington

  Here is an image of the gravestone for Mary Jane and William Giles Markley, photographed Sep 2009 in Woodlawn Cemetery.
 
image: Markley gravestone, Farmington, NM

Markley gravestone, Farmington, NM

  The six children of William Giles and Mary Jane "Minnie" (Blake) Markley:
i     Maud Estelle Markley, dtr., born 24 Feb 1870 in Wabash and died Oct 1939.
  Maud Estelle was married 11 Mar 1889 in Farmington, San Juan, New Mexico Territory to Herbert Orlando Willis {born Nov 1851 in Erie, New York, son of Orlando H. and Ann Janette "Angenette" (Edgerton) Willis, died 30 Nov 1933 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico, and was buried in Durango}.
  According to a Pedigree Resource File, Maude and Herbert's wedding was on the Crystal Springs Ranch near Farmington. Maude's death date was either 8 or 10 Oct 1939.
  The seven children of Herbert Orlando and Maud Estelle (Markley) Willis:
1     Herbert Edgerton Willis, son, born Nov 1890 in New Mexico Territory, died 16 Oct 1918 in Camp Dodge, Johnston, Polk, Iowa, and was buried in Greenmount Cem., Durango, La Plata, Colorado.
  Herbert Edgerton was married 2 Dec 1915 in Telluride, San Miguel, Colorado to Lola Georgina Michelson {born 24 Dec 1895 in Iowa, and died 17 Aug 1985 in Riverside, California}.
  Herbert also died of the Influenza Epidemic while a soldier.
2     William Markley Willis, son, born 27 Oct 1894 in Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico Territory, died 11 Oct 1918 and was buried in Green Mt. Cem., , Boulder, Colorado.
  William died of the Influenza Epidemic while a soldier at a military academy near Lincoln, Nebraska.
  Another source gives Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kansas.
3     Edward Shields Willis, son, born Dec 1898 in Espanola, New Mexico Territory, and died 22 Jul 1976 in Lakewood, Jefferson, Colorado.
  Edward Shields was married 9 Oct 1924 in Brighton, Adams, Colorado to Alice O'Brian {born 22 May 1804 in , Denver, Colorado, dtr of Peter and Alice Amelia (Johnston) O'Brian, and died 28 Jan 1976 in Ft. Collins, Larimer, Colorado}.
  Española is about 30 miles north of the city of Santa Fe, and according to Wikipedia is now partly in Rio Arriba County and partly in Sante Fe County. What the county was in 1898 I don't know, as the boundaries between the two counties changed slightly between 1900 and 1910.
4     Alexander Blake Willis, son, born 2 Feb 1902 in New Mexico Territory and died 4 Oct 1976.
  Alexander Blake was married 1924/1925 to Mildred K. "Polly" ____ {born 1900/1901 in Wyoming}.
5     Paul Brooks Willis, son, born 3 May 1903 in Farmington, died 13 Oct 1981 in Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and was buried 22 Oct 1981 in National Cem., Santa Fe.
  Paul Brooks was married 9 Dec 1940 in Albuquerque to Helen Stevens Baker {born 20 May 1906, died 25 Aug 1993 and was buried 27 Aug 1993 in National Cem., Santa Fe, New Mexico}.
  Paul received Social Security retirement checks while living in Agua Fria, Canada De Los Alamos, Canoncito, Chupadero, Cuyamungue, Hyde Park Estates, Jacona, La Cienega, Nambe, Pojoaque Valley, San Ildefonso Pueblo, Santa Fe, Seton Village and Tesuque Pueblo, all in Santa Fe County, New Mexico.
6     Mary Janette Willis, dtr., born 1904/1906 in New Mexico Territory.
  Mary Janette married William "Bill" Lumpkins.
7     Ruth C. Willis, dtr., born 1906/1907 in New Mexico Territory.
  Ruth C. was married 27 May 1926 in Gallup, McKinley, New Mexico to Henry R. Smith.
  Ruth was censused as Ruth Smith, daughter, in the home of her parents Herbert and Maude Willis in Colorado Springs in 1930. She was listed as a 23 year old widow, and two year old Shirley Smith was listed as a "neice". Surely this was Ruth's daughter, but if so should have been listed as a granddaughter of Herbert.
ii     Juniata "June" Markley, dtr., born 27 Oct 1871 in Lyndon, Osage, Kansas, and died 13 Jan 1965 in Alexandria, Douglas, Minnesota.
  Juniata "June" was married 5 Aug 1891 in Farmington to Francis Elgin "Frank" Prewitt (1) {born Mar 1868 in Lincoln, Missouri, son of Francis and Mary Christianna "Kitty" (Tinsley) Prewitt}. She was married 16 Mar 1899 in New Mexico Territory to Joseph Robert Wilkin (2) {born 4 Apr 1859/1860 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, son of David and Jane (Easton) Wilkin}.
  A Pedigree Resource File shows that Juniata was also called Kate.
  The four children of Joseph Robert and Juniata "June" (Markley) Wilkin:
1     Robert David Wilkin, son, born 21 Feb 1900 in Farmington, died 28 May 1980 in Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, and was buried in Pioche, Lincoln, Nevada.
  Robert David was married 29 Dec 1917 in St. George, Washington, Utah to Olive J. Gray (1) {born 23 Jun 1900 in St. George, dtr of William Newell and Helen Francis (Judd) Gray, died 30 Mar 1988 in St. George and was buried 4 Apr 1988 in Rose Hills Cem., Whittier, Los Angeles, California}. He was married 25 Oct 1933 in Pioche to Della Faye White (2) {born 24 Aug 1910 in Summit, Iron, Utah, died 10 Apr 1983 in Calliente, Lincoln, Nevada, and was buried in Pioche}.
  The children of Robert David Wilkin, and their families, are given in this descent chart from the research of my daughter Deb Swan:
 

    His children with Olive J. Gray: 
     
        Wilkin, Howard D., d bef 2008 
        Wilkin, Joyce, d bef 2008 
        Wilkin, Robert Gray, b 9 Jun 1922 St. George, UT, 
                d 28 May 1980 
        Wilkin, Paul LaMar, b 12 Feb 1927 St. George, d bef 2008 
         m Margaret Chadburn, b 18 Dec xxxx St. George 
         
    His chidlren with Della Fay White: 
     
        Wilkin, Joseph D. "Joe" (Dr.), b 13 Dec 1934 Pioche, NV, 
                d 5 Feb 1997 
         m1) 10 Nov 1959 Betty DuFer 
            Wilkin, David 
            Wilkin, Robert "Bob" 
            Wilkin, Amy 
            Wilkin, Betina 
            Wilkin, Nick 
         m2) 1982 Susanne B "Susi" Clay 
            Wilkin, Tessa 
            Wilkin, Launa 
            Wilkin, Jenna 
        Wilkin, June, m ____ Pete 
        Wilkin, Lillian Faye "Faye", m ____ Odor 
        Wilkin, Bruce White (Dr.), b 2 Nov 1939, d 9 Aug 2008 
         m1) 21 Oct 1981 Caria Jo Thompson 
            Wilkin, Joni, b Murray, UT 
             m1) Todd Hougaard 
                Hougaard, Dallin 
                Hougaard, Adam 
                Hougaard, Ryan 
                Hougaard, Annika 
             m2) Panaca, NV to Lorrain Hansen Memory 
            Wilkin, Helen Louise 
             m1) Robert Potter 
             m2) Robert Duane Faircourt 
            Wilkin, James E. "Jim" 
             m Uvada ____ 
            Wilkin, Markley, of Salt Lake City 1980 
             m ____ ____ 
                Wilkin, Lorin James 
                 m in Panaca, NV to Amy Joe Elmer 
                    Wilkin, Erika Jo 
                    Wilkin, Aspen Lee 

2     Dorothy Wilkin, dtr., born 1901/1902 in New Mexico Territory and died after 1920.
3     Louise Elizabeth Wilkin, dtr., born 13 Jul 1907 in Farmington, died 13 Jul 2004 in Edina, Hennepin, Minnesota, and was buried 15 Jul 2004 in Union Cemetery, Mandan, Morton, North Dakota.
  Louise Elizabeth married Erwin Arnold Gussner {born 19 Mar 1906, son of Stephen and Jary (Johnke) Gussner and died 6 Feb 1990 in Freeborn, Minnesota}.
4     Lillian E. Wilkin, dtr., born 1909 in Utah, and died after 1930.
  Lillian was six months old in the census taken 11 May 1910, so born Oct/Nov of the previous year.
iii     Lillian C. "Lillie" Markley, dtr., born Jun 1873 in Illinois, or Kansas, and died after Apr 1919.
  Lillian C. "Lillie" was married after Oct 1906 to Erwin A. Chubb {born Dec 1871 in Glencoe, McLeod, Minnesota, son of Prentiss and Anna (____) Chubb}.
iv     Mary Ione "Mamie" Markley, dtr., born Jun 1882 in New Mexico Territory and died 1904 in New Mexico Territory.
  Mary Ione "Mamie" was married 14 Jun 1900 in Farmington to James Andrew Duff {born 1870 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and died 6 Jul 1909 in Farmington}.
  The three children of James Andrew and Mary Ione "Mamie" (Markley) Duff:
1     Baby Duff child, born in New Mexico Territory, died in Farmington and was buried in Greenlawn Cem.
2     Percival A. "Percy" (Dr.) Duff, son, born 13 Aug 1901 in Farmington and died 18 Sep 1989 in Texas.
3     Thomas Stewart Duff, son, born 1903/1904 in New Mexico Territory.
  Thomas Stewart was married about 1925 to Mary S. ____.
  Thomas and Mary and a daughter Eleanor J. Duff.
v     William Blake Markley, son, born 30 Jun 1884 in Farmington.
  William Blake was married in 1909 to Mabel L. Allen {born Aug 1886 in Missouri, dtr of Daniel and Adah (LaMar) Allen}.
  The two children of William Blake and Mabel L. (Allen) Markley:
1     Mary Allene Markley, dtr., born about 1911 and died after 1986.
  Mary Allene married ____ Brown.
2     Wilma Lois Markley, dtr., born about 1912 in Colorado, and died after 1980.
  Wilma Lois married ____ Reistad.
  Wilma is the granddaughter who identified the individuals in the Markley Ladies photograph, correcting the caption in the published version.
vi     Lucille M. Markley, dtr., born 1 Feb 1887 in New Mexico Territory and died 3 Jul 1974 in St. Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida.
  Lucille M. was married 28 Jun 1911 in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York to Paul Robert Hoppe {born 3 Aug 1880 in Prussia, Germany, and died Jun 1962 in Pinellas, Florida}.
  Lucille was counted in a census in 1910 in Manchester, Ontario, NY. She and Paul were censused in 1920 in Atlantic City, Alantic, NJ. He resided 6 in Sep 1956 in St. Petersburg, Pinellas, FL.
  The only child of Paul Robert and Lucille M. (Markley) Hoppe:
1     Harriet Lucille Hoppe, dtr., born xxxx/xxxx in New York.
  Harriet Lucille married George J. Walters.
3     John H. Markley, son, born 1848/1849 in Ohio, died 12 Sep 1849 and was buried in Casstown Cem., Lost Creek, Miami, Ohio.
4     Augusta H. "Gussie" Markley, dtr., born Sep 1852 in Miami, Ohio, and died after 1910.
  Augusta H. "Gussie" was married 1877/1878 to John C. Niemeyer {born Jan 1855 in Illinois}.
  Augusta and John were censused 1900 in Quincy, Adams, Illinois, with her mother Hannah Markley living with them. Both of John's parents were born in Germany.
5     Ella Markley, dtr., born Sep 1854 in Miami, Ohio, and died after 1920.
6     Juniata "Juny" Markley, dtr., born 1860/1861 in Illinois, and died after 1870.
  The children in this family have widely spaced birth dates, Juny, in particular, recorded as born when her mother was 42. However, that 1880 census clearly lists her as a daughter.
ii     Daniel Markley, son, born 9 Dec 1823 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, died 2 Jul 1905 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and was buried in Wabash.
  Daniel was married 9 Apr 1844 to Catherine Reddy {born 10 Jun 1826 in Mont Alto, Franklin, Pennsylvania, died 7 May 1895 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and was buried in Wabash}.
  Daniel was censused 1850 in Casstown, Lost Creek, Miami, Ohio as a shoemaker. There was a Christy Markley, male, censused in Daniel's household that year who was born 1840-1841 in Pennsylvania. However, this was in fact Daniel's sister Christine, nicknamed "Christie".
  In 1857 Daniel and Catherine sold Lot 37 in Troy [Miami Valley Genealogical Index], where his brother Henry also owned town lots. Daniel was then censused in Wabash, Noble Township, Wabash County, Indiana in June,1860 as was his younger brother Aaron. Daniel's personal and estate values were listed that year as $600 and $800.
 

Daniel MARKLEY     Self    M   56  PA  Owner Monument Fac. PA  PA 
Catherine MARKLEY  Wife    M   54  PA  House Keeper        PA  PA 
Jennie MARKLEY     Dau     S   28  OH  At Home             PA  PA 
Flora MARKLEY      Dau     S   23  IN  Teacher             --  -- 
Auguste MARKLEY    Dau     S   21  IN  Clerks In Store     --  -- 
Jesse MARKLEY       Dau     S   17  IN  At School           --  -- 
Gilbert L. FOX     SonL    M   29  IN  Buzz Sawyer         OH  CT 
Minnie FOX         Wife    M   30  OH  House Keeper        PA  PA 
---------------------------------------------------------------- 
1880 Census Wabash, Wabash, IN T9-0315; 429C 

  Minnie Fox is their daughter Merab Katherine, nicknamed "Minnie".
  The eight children of Daniel and Catherine (Reddy) Markley:
1     Mary A. Markley, dtr., born 1847 in Pennsylvania.
  Mary A. was married 17 Feb 1869 in Allen County, Indiana to Charles Beecher Beaver {born 17 Feb 1848 in Indiana, son of Daniel S. and Sarah A. (Lamb) Beaver, died 24 Jan 1923 and was buried 27 Jan 1923 in Lindenwood Cem., Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, Indiana}.
2     Merab Katherine "Minnie" Markley, dtr., born 27 Dec 1849 in Miami, Ohio, died 19 Jul 1913 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, and was buried in Lindenwood Cem.
  Merab Katherine "Minnie" was married 12 Jan 1876 in Wabash, Indiana to Gilbert L. Fox {born Jul 1850 in Indiana, son of Hiram and Mary (Miller) Fox, died 20 Dec 1926 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, and was buried in Lindenwood Cem.}.
3     Sarah Jane "Jennie" Markley, dtr., born 12 Jan 1852 in Casstown, Miami, Ohio, died 24 Sep 1925 in Wabash and was buried in Falls Cemetery.
4     Henry Oscar Markley, son, born 24 Dec 1853 in Miami, Ohio, died 24 Dec 1907 in Wabash and was buried in Falls Cemetery.
  Henry Oscar married (1) Emma M. ____ {born 1850/1851 and died 22 Feb 1884 in Wabash}. He was married 12 Aug 1885 in Deleware, Indiana to Florence I. Carpenter (2) {born Jun 1861 in Muncie, Delaware, Indiana, died 26 Oct 1909 in Wabash and was buried in Muncie, Indiana}.
5     Flora A. Markley, dtr., born Nov 1856 in Indiana and died 1913/1915 in Wabash.
  Flora A. married Jesse H. Kunse {born 25 Mar 1853 in Wabash, son of David and Maria (Crawford) Kunse and died 18 Jun 1915 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana}.
6     Susan Augusta Markley, dtr., born 17 Jun 1858 in Wabash and died 29 Mar 1930 in Franklin, Ohio.
  Susan Augusta was married 29 Dec 1881 in Wabash, Indiana to Edwin Eugene Stitt {born 22 Jun 1857 in Indiana, son of Alexander and Mahala (Miles) Stitt and died 2 Jul 1913 in Franklin, Ohio}.
7     Unnamed Markley, dtr., born May 1860 in Wabash, Indiana, and died before 1870 in Wabash, Indiana.
8     Jessie Markley, dtr., born Aug 1862 in Wabash, Indiana.
  Jessie was married May 1886 in Wabash to Charles Spencer Rose {born Mar 1862 in Indiana, son of Levi B. and Mary J. (Hunt) Rose, died 26 Sep 1918 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, and was buried in Wabash, Indiana}.
iii     Sarah Markley, dtr., born 1826 in Pennsylvania and died in 1875.
  Sarah was censused 1850 as "Sarah Jr.", 22, living with her mother, "Sarah Sr." in Lost Creek Township, Miami County, Ohio.
  Sarah appears in the 1870 census of Troy, Ohio, living with her remarried and widowed mother, Sarah Batty, age 69. A headstone in the Casstown, Ohio, Cemetery "Sarah A. Markley, 1826-1875", is probably hers, and I have accepted those two dates for her.
iv     Aaron Markley, son, born 9 Oct 1828.   
v     Eliza Ann Markley, dtr., born 18 Jan 1831 in Pennsylvania, died 16 Jan 1891/1892 and was buried in Casstown Cem.
  Eliza Ann was married 20 Oct 1847 in Miami, Ohio to Allen M. Walker (1). She was married 10 Sep 1850 in Miami, Ohio to Charles Parker Rogers (2) {born 18 Oct 1818 in Clermont, Ohio, son of Asa and Rebecca (Parker) Rogers, and died Oct 1892}.
  There is a dearth of records of Eliza Ann's first marriage to Allen Walker. The marriage itself is recorded in the Probate Court of Miami County, Ohio. And her tombstone is the only record of their daughter Ruth, who lived only about five and a half months. Neither Allen's parentage nor his death record have as yet been discovered.
  Charles P. Rogers, ... "on September 10, 1850, was united in marriage with Mrs. Eliza Ann Walker, a daughter of George and Sarah Markley". Charles was a blacksmith until 1863, when he became a farmer in Casstown for the rest of his life [Beers, 1880]. Charles had previously been married to Sarah Cox, who died 11 Aug 1849, leaving him with a son Firman, born in August, 1848.
  Charles father Asa had brought the family from New Jersey to Claremont County, Ohio, where Charles was born. When he was five, the family moved to the neighborhood around Addison (now Christiansburg). In 1847 Asa bought a Casstown lot from Henry Markley, Eliza Ann's eldest brother. This was a year after Charles married Sarah Cox, and about the time that Eliza married her first husband, Allen Walker. Whether or not Charles and Sarah came to Casstown with Asa at that time is not known.
  However, by 1850 the census of Casstown for Charles P. Rogers, 30, and his 2 year old son Firman Rogers, lists also Eliza Walker, age 20. Both Charles and Eliza were by that time widowed, and she had lost her daugher Ruth the year before. Also in the household was 19 year old Alonzo Sherman. (Note that 15 years later Eliza Ann named her youngest child Sherman.) Both men are listed as blacksmiths, with Charles' real estate valued at $650. The census was taken about a year after the death of Charles' first wife, Sarah Cox, and a month before he and Eliza married.
  Two households from this census entry is that of two Sarah Markleys, "Sr." and "Jr.", the mother and sister of Eliza, and the next household is that of Henry Markley, Eliza Ann's eldest brother, and his wife Hannah.
  In 1854 Charles Rogers bought two lots in Casstown, one from John Vance on April 4 (Lot #26), and one from Isaac Meeks on June 7 (#24). After moving to Addison (now known as Christiansburg) in neighboring Champaign County) to learn the blacksmith trade, he returned in 1864 and bought 100 acres north of Casstown. Two years later he sold that land and bought 193 acres on the Addison and Casstown Turnpike, where he took up farming again.
  By the time of the 1860 census, Charles and Eliza had wed and had five children, of whom only Irene and Theodore were still living. Lewis, Florence and Marion had died very young. Charles' son Firman was still at home at age 13, and they had another blacksmith as well as a well-to-do merchant living with them:
 

Charles P. Rogers   41  Black Smith 1400 3057  OH 
Eliza A.            29                         PA 
Firman              13                         OH 
Irene                3                         OH 
Theodore          4/12                         OH 
Gideon Sise         26  Black Smith 500  900   OH 
Ruleeni? Hiskey     46  Merchant    1300 925   PA 
------------------------------------------------- 
1860 Lost Creek Twp., Miami, Ohio, M653-1011, 239 

  By 1870, Gilbert, age 7, and Sherman, 4 months, had been added to the household. Firman (recorded variously as Ferman and Furman) was still there, working as a farmer, but he married the next year to Delia M. Cromer (1854-1936). In 1880, Theodore, 20, was still at home, with his two younger siblings Gilbert and Sherman.
 

Chas. P. Rogers  Self  62  OH  Blacksmith     NJ  NJ 
Eliza Rogers     Wife  49  PA  Keeping House  PA  PA 
Theodore Rogers  Son   20  OH  Farm Laborer   OH  PA 
Gilbert Rogers   Son   17  OH  At Home        OH  PA 
Sherman Rogers   Son   14  OH  At Home        OH  PA 
---------------------------------------------------- 
1880 Census, Lost Creek, Miami, OH, T9-1049, 121C 

  There are conflicting reports on the day of Charles' death, the Casstown Cemetery transcription give 30 Oct, while the 1909 Miami County History says he died 20 Oct 1892 "while at the home of his son, Dr. S. T. Rogers, at New Albany, Indiana". Similarly, the cemetery transcription gives 16 Jan 1892 for Eliza Ann's death, while the county history gives 16 Jan 1891.
  The children of Eliza Ann's second marriage were named in the History of Miami County, Ohio [Beers, 1880], but their exact birth and death dates as given here are taken from their tombstones. (Contributed IGI records that I previously quoted have many dates disagreeing with the tombstone data.)
  The only child of Allen M. and Eliza Ann (Markley) Walker:
1     Ruth Walker, dtr., born 26 Feb 1849, died 9 Aug 1849 and was buried in Smith Cemetery, Christiansburg, Champaign, Ohio.
  The tombstone in Smith Cemetery, Christiansburg, Champaign County, Ohio, is the only record we have of this child of Eliza Ann and Allen Walker.
 
image: Ruth Walker, daughter of Eliza Ann and Allen Walker

Ruth Walker, daughter of Eliza Ann and Allen Walker

  The seven children of Charles Parker and Eliza Ann (Markley) Rogers:
1     Louis/Lewis Walker, son, born 26 Jul 1851 in Casstown, Miami, Ohio, and died 4 Sep 1852.
  His tombstone age at death probably reads 1y 1m 9d, but the "9" is uncertain, so Louis' birth date is likewise possibly in error by a few days.
2     Florence Walker, dtr., born 21 Sep 1853 in Casstown, Miami, Ohio, and died 4 Oct 1854.
3     Irene R. Walker, dtr., born 31 Aug 1855 in Casstown, Miami, Ohio, and died 17 Nov 1920.
  Irene R. was married 16 Sep 1874 in Miami, Ohio to Albert B. Thackara {born Jun 1843 in Ohio, son of Charles and Catharine (____) Thackara, died in 1924 and was buried in Casstown Cem.}.
  Irene's marriage is from the Miami County Probate Court as listed in an extracted IGI record. Albert was from a family of five children, and worked as a farm laborer all of his life, being censused in his father's home thorugh 1870.
  In 1880, Albert and Irene were censused in their own home with their son whose name was recorded as Chas. R., age 1 year. They also had a Thomas Duke, 22, living with them. Twenty years later, in the 1900 census, their son's name was recorded as Rogers C. And on his tombstone, his name was engraved as Roger C. I'm inclined to believe that he was originally given his mother's maiden name of Rogers as his middle name, and that he later reversed the sequence and eventually dropped the final "s".
  In 1900 they were censused next to Firman and Delia Rogers, he being Irene's step-brother, and in 1910 next to Firman's son Eddie and family. That year and in 1920 Irene and Alert were somewhat imprecise (by four years) in reporting their ages, the last year they having moved to Troy.
  The only child of Albert B. and Irene R. (Rogers) Thackara:
i     Charles Rogers Thackara, son, born Apr 1879, died 21 Jul 1902 and was buried in Casstown Cem.
4     Marion Walker, son, born 22 Jun 1857 in Casstown, Miami, Ohio, and died 30 Sep 1859.
  Marion's name and dates come from her tombstone in the Lost Creek Cemetery which gives her age at death as 2y 3m 8d.
5     Theodore Lincoln Walker, son, born 6 Mar 1860 in Casstown, Miami, Ohio, and died 29 Dec 1911.
  Theodore Lincoln was married 6 Dec 1883 to Altazera "Alta" Sayres/Sayers {born Sep 1860 in Illinois, dtr of Ezekial F. and Caroline M. (French) Sayers}.
  Theodore lived at home until his marriage in 1883. He bought 128 acres of land in Elizabeth Township from his father-in-law and sold it back to him four years later. He then bought 130 acres of a parcel called Fairview Farm. He was censused 1900 and 1910 as a farmer with his wife and two sons, next to Albert and Lettie Kinders, whose daughter Mary would later marry his son Charles. The next adjacent census in 1900 was that of his sister Irene and her family, and then her brother-in-law Firman and Delia Rogers.
  In 1920, the widow Alta was living alone in Troy. In the Casstown Cemetery the tombstones of Theodore and Altazera, of their sons Charles P. and Albert M., and of Charles' wife Mary are grouped together.
  The two children of Theodore Lincoln and Altazera "Alta" (Sayres/Sayers) Rogers:
i     Charles P. Rogers, son, born Jun 1892.
  Charles P. married Mary E. Kinders {born 1890/1891, dtr of Albert and Lettie (____) Kinders and died in 1964}.
  The four children of Charles P. and Mary E. (Kinders) Rogers:
1     Caroline P. Rogers, dtr., born xxxx/xxxx in Ohio.
2     Theodore K. Rogers, son, born xxxx/xxxx in Ohio.
3     John S. Rogers, son, born xxxx/xxxx in Ohio.
4     Mary I. Rogers, dtr., born xxxx in Ohio.
  Mary's age was given on the 9 Apr 1930 census as 4 years, 6 months, so born Sep/Oct 1925.
ii     Albert Markley Rogers, son, born 5 Sep 1894 in Elizabeth, Miami, Ohio.
  Albert Markley married (1) Mary C. ____ {born 1894/1895 in Ohio}. He married (2) Cleo ____.
  The two children of Albert Markley and Mary C. (____) Rogers:
1     Pennie Rogers, dtr., born xxxx/xxxx in Ohio.
2     Robert M. Rogers, son, born xxxx/xxxx in Ohio.
  Robert M. married an unknown person.
6     Gilbert M. Walker, son, born 19 Oct 1862 in Casstown, Miami, Ohio, and died 2 Jul 1881.
  "Gilbert M. [Rogers], who was cut off in his brilliant youth, was a mechanical genius and the family preserves models that he had made for a phonograph before the Edison discovery was put on the market." [1909 History of Miami Co, p536].
7     Sherman Tecumseh Walker, son, born 9 Dec 1865 in Casstown, Miami, Ohio, and died 6 Feb 1947.
  Sherman Tecumseh was married 26 Jan 1888 in Casstown, Miami, Ohio to Lucy B. McPherson {born 23 Apr 1869 in Ohio, dtr of Cyrus M. and Mary Catherine (Knoop) McPherson}.
  "Sherman T. [Rogers] was a graduate of the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati [1909 History of Miami Co.] and was a practicing doctor in New Albany, Indiana, by the time of the 1900 census. Eclectic Medicine was the practice of using herbal remedies and physical therapy to treat patients, established in the first part of the nineteenth century as a reaction to the then standard medical treatments of blood letting and mercury purges.
  In 1910 and 1920 Sherman was also censused in New Albany as a physician, with wife Lucy and, in 1910, his daughter Mildred. New Albany is across the Ohio River from Louisville, Indiana, and is about 180 miles from Casstown.
  Sherman, Lucy and Mildred are buried in the Casstown Cemetery with his parents and his brother Gilbert.
  It is interesting that Lucy also had a brother by the name of Sherman Tecumseh.
  The only child of Sherman Tecumseh and Lucy B. (McPherson) Rogers:
i     Mildred Ruth Rogers, dtr., born 27 Mar 1891 in New Albany, Floyd, Indiana, and died 12 Oct 1979.
  Mildred Ruth was married 1 Jun 1912 in New Albany, Floyd, Indiana to Louis Meyers Hartman {born 25 Aug 1889 in New Albany, Floyd, Indiana, son of Edward Alexander and Henrietta Margarite (Meyers) Hartman, and died 27 Dec 1967}.
  Mildred, but not her husband Louis Meyers Hartman, was buried in the Casstown Cemetery with her parents and other family members. There were two other Hartman burials in Casstown Cemetery, William S., born 1915, and Mary Helmick, born1917, two and four years after the marriage of Mildren and Louis. I've not been able to find a birth record for these two, but by their birth years could have been her children.
vi     Susan Markley, dtr., born 1834 in Pennsylvania and died 2 May 1895 in Union, Montgomery, Ohio.
  Susan married George Lockhard {born 1829 in Pennsylvania and died 1882/1890}.
  The five children of George and Susan (Markley) Lockhard:
1     Ida Belle Lockhard, dtr., born Sep 1859 in Ohio.
2     Aurilla Lockhard, dtr., born 1861/1862 in Ohio.
3     Charles E. Lockhard, son, born Apr 1864 in Montgomery, Ohio, and died 27 Apr 1943 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio.
  Charles E. married (1) Nellie Todd {born Sep 1867 in Ohio}. He married (2) Bessie ____.
  The two children of Charles E. and Nellie (Todd) Lockhard:
i     Earl Todd Lockhard, son, born 21 Jan 1890 in Norwood, Hamilton, Ohio, died Aug 1944 and was buried 29 Aug 1944 in Oak Hill Cem., Lakeland, Polk, Florida.
  Earl Todd married Eloise G. ____ {born about 1895 in Tennessee, died May 1980 and was buried 13 May 1980 in Oak Hill Cem., Lakeland, Polk, Florida}.
ii     Hazel Lockhard, dtr., born Mar 1893 in Ohio.
  The only child of Charles E. and Bessie (____) Lockhard:
i     Gwendolyn Lockhard, dtr., born 1905 in Ohio.
4     George Lockhard, son, born 1867/1868 in Ohio.
5     Lulu Lockhard, dtr., born 1877 in Ohio.
vii     Mary Markley, dtr., born 1835/1836.
viii     Katherine "Kate" Markley, dtr., born Aug 1838 in Pennsylvania and died 19 Apr 1903 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana.
  Katherine "Kate" was married 10 Oct 1859 in Cass County, Indiana to Henry Charles Schrader {born Oct 1837 in Ohio and died after 1930}.
  The four children of Henry Charles and Katherine "Kate" (Markley) Schrader:
1     Caroline B. "Carrie" Schrader, dtr., born 1864 in Indiana and died after 1910.
  Caroline B. "Carrie" was married 8 Sep 1898 to Elmus R. Gesaman {born Jun 1863 and died 15 Aug 1909 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana}.
2     Nellie M. Schrader, dtr., born 1866 in Indiana and died 16 Apr 1889 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana.
3     Addie Lillian Schrader, dtr., born 23 May 1873 in Indiana and died 15 Feb 1973 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana.
4     L. Gertrude Schrader, dtr., born Aug 1881 in Indiana and died after 1930.
ix     Christine "Christie" Markley, dtr., born Oct 1841 in Pennsylvania.
  Christine "Christie" was married 4 Nov 1861 in Wabash County, Indiana to Solomon Wilson {born Feb 1832 in Rush County, Indiana, and died 21 Feb 1906 in Wabash, Indiana}.
  The four children of Solomon and Christine "Christie" (Markley) Wilson:
1     Franklin P. Wilson, son, born Aug 1862 in Wabash County, Indiana, and died 1910/1911.
  Franklin P. was married 26 Sep 1883 in Wabash County, Indiana to Ada M. Stratton {born Mar 1858 in Wabash County, Indiana, dtr of Mark and Mary (Shallenberger) Stratton, died 1950 in Wabash County, Indiana, and was buried in Hopewell Cem., Lagro, Wabash}.
  The four children of Franklin P. and Ada M. (Stratton) Wilson:
i     Merlin Stratton Wilson, son, born Sep 1885 in Wabash County, Indiana.
ii     Gladys Wilson, dtr., born 19 May 1887 in Wabash County, Indiana, and died 18 Apr 1974 in Los Angeles, California.
  Gladys was married 1 May 1912 in Wabash County, Indiana to James Sweetser Lawshe {born 15 Nov 1886 in Converse, Miami, Ohio, son of Abraham Lincoln and Anna (Sweetser) Lawshe, and died 2 Jun 1947 in Los Angeles, California}.
  The four children of James Sweetser and Gladys (Wilson) Lawshe:
1     Johanna May "Jo" Lawshe, dtr., born 4 Jul 1915 in Los Angeles Co., California, and died 17 Jan 1997 in Corona Del Mar, Orange, California.
  Johanna May "Jo" married George Edward Hoedinghaus.
2     Mary Hester Lawshe, dtr., born 30 Apr 1917 in Los Angeles Co., California, and died 1 Dec 1987 in San Diego, California.
  Mary Hester married George Edward Mayer.
3     James Sweetser Lawshe, son, born 4 Nov xxxx in California.
4     Henry Daniel Lawshe, son, born 3 Feb 1931 in California, and died 8 Feb 2003 in Maricopa County, Arizona.
  Henry Daniel was married 20 Aug 1976 in Los Angeles, California to Eleanor Gledhill Duffy.
iii     Roger Edward Wilson, son, born Sep 1888 in Wabash County, Indiana, and died 1920/1946.
  Roger Edward was married in Minneapolis?, Minnesota? to Hedwig S. ____ {born 10 Oct 1889 in Minnesota, and died 6 Jun 1976 in Berkeley, Alemeda, California}.
  The two children of Roger Edward and Hedwig S. (____) Wilson:
1     Hedwig Wilson, dtr., born xxxx in Minnesota.
  Hedwig was married 4 Apr 1940 to Moreland B. Falkell.
2     Jane Wilson, dtr., born in 1925 and died after 1971.
  Jane was married 9 Feb 1947 in Burlingame, San Mateo, California to R. Bok Reitzel and they were divorced.
iv     Donald Frank Wilson, son, born 12 Jul 1890 in Wabash County, Indiana, and died Mar 1961 in Kendallville, Noble, Indiana.
  Donald Frank was married 1 Jan 1921 to Phoebe Snavely (1) {born May 1892 in Indiana}. He was married 8 Aug xxxx to June Rupel (2) {born 5 Sep xxxx in Jay County, Indiana, dtr of Ezra E. and Kathryn (Egly) Rupel}.
2     George Arthur Wilson, son, born 17 Mar 1864 in Wabash County, Indiana, and died 5 Oct 1941 in North Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
  George Arthur was married 6 Aug 1902 in Hyannisport, Banstable, Massachusetts to Winifred Warren {born 3 Jan 1870 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, dtr of William Fairfield and Harriet Cornelia (Merrick) Warren, and died 16 Nov 1958}.
3     Edward Markley Wilson, son, born Sep 1867 and died 1941/1942.
  Edward Markley was married 4 Feb 1891 to Mary A. McCrea {born Aug 1866 in Wabash County, Indiana, and died 1944/1945 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana}.
  The two children of Edward Markley and Mary A. (McCrea) Wilson:
i     Trafford McCrea Wilson, son, born Feb 1892 and died 20 May 1917 in Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina.
ii     Mary Eleanor Wilson, dtr., born in 1901.
  Mary Eleanor was married 16 Jun 1927 to William Adams Telfer {born 23 Jul 1885 in Bedford, Lawrence, Indiana}.
  The only child of William Adams and Mary Eleanor (Wilson) Telfer:
1     William W. Telfer, son, born xxxx in Indiana.
4     Edith Wilson, dtr., born Aug 1873.
  Edith was married 16 Nov 1898 in Wabash County, Indiana to Marshall Payne {born Sep 1871}.
  The two children of Marshall and Edith (Wilson) Payne:
i     Christine Payne, dtr., born Sep 1899.
  Christine married ____ Kauffman.
ii     Margaret Louise Payne, dtr., born in 1903.
x     George W. Markley, son, born 6 Mar 1844 and died 24 Jun 1850.
Aaron Markley & Mary Alice Mitchell

Sebastian1, Johannes2, Matthias3, Jakob4, Johann Jakob5, Hanß Jacob "Joggi"6, Hanß Geörg7, George8, George M.9, Aaron10

Aaron was born 9 Oct 1828 in Strasburg, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and died 8 Jan 1915 in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas.

Aaron and Mary Alice married 15 Sep 1850 in Miami County, Ohio.

Mary Alice was born 11 Jan 1832 in Lower Makefield, Bucks, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Richard and Rachel (White) Mitchell, and died 15 Apr 1910 in Topeka.

According to the 1850 census, Aaron Markley, 22, was living with his brother Daniel and family in Lostcreek Twp.
By 1860, Aaron and his brother Daniel were both living in the town of Wabash in Nobel Twp., Wabash County, Indiana. At this time, Aaron's personal property was worth $650, and his real estate $1000. He was slightly better off than Daniel, but at that time he had only three children as compared to Daniel's seven, so may have been able to save a little more from their common occupation of shoemaker. This town, Wabash, is some 100 miles west of Miami County, Ohio, where Aaron and Mary Alice Mitchell were married.
A scan of the census record in 1860 provides an interesting glimpse of the neighborhood where Aaron and Mary Alice lived in Wabash. In order of the sequence of households censused immediately following Aaron were Supervisor, County Treasurer, County Clerk, Deputy Clerk, Clerk, Justice of the Peace, Carpenter, Mason, … .
In 1870 Aarn and Mary Alice were in Wayne Twp. in Allen County, Indiana, censused adjacent to his brother Daniel and family. Daniel's occupation was "keeps shoe store", and Aaron's was "shoe store", so it might be guessed that Aaron was working for his older brother. Wayne Twp encompasses what is now the southwest part of the city of Fort Wayne, but was not indicated in the census to be part of the city at that time. The move there from Wabash, whenever it took place, was about 45 miles to the northeast.
When their youngest child Marguerite was about four years old, Aaron and Mary Alice in 1879 came to Lawrence, Doublas County, Kansas, with all of their family except Viola, who remained in Fort Wayne with her husband, Lewis Hull. In Lawrence, Aaron and his sons Orren and Otto Guiles opened a shoe manufacturing plant, where the shoes were made by hand. The family were all living on Connecticut Street in Lawrence in 1880 — Otto and his three younger sisters with their parents, and Orren and his wife and first child in their own home. Aaron was a commercial agent, and Otto was working as a carpenter, as were the three youngest daughters. The adjacent census was for thier son Orren, also a carpenter, with his wife Mary and their daughter Ollie, age 4. Apparently the shoe business had not been established by that time.
Then, on 1 Jul 1885, Aaron purchased for $750 ten acres in Topeka (described as the W 1/2 of N 1/2 of NE 1/4 of NE 1/4 of Section17.T12.R16 [Shawnee County deeds v107 p574] ), so he moved sometime between those two dates. This ten acres was south of the present 29th Street, and extended between what are now Minnesota and Iowa Streets. Seven months later, 1 Feb 1886, Aaron bought an additional five acres in that section for $375 [153:374], and on 21 Feb 1888 he bought land in Tract 10 of William J. Fritz' subdivision [153:374], which further extended his original purchase.
Here Aaron and Mary Alice built their home, and in that house their daughter Marguerite married James Swan in 1898. As this land was on the south side of 29th, it was just outside the Highland Park addition which Joseph Kennedy Hudson bought in June 1886, and for which he filed a plat in March, 1887. In 1891 Aaron sold 2.5 acres of his land to his son Orren for $1000 [207:441]. This increase in price from $75 to $400 per acre probably indicates the general increase in land values due to the sale of lots in Highland Park. Aaron's timing of his land purchase could not have been much better.
By 1900 all of the children were gone from the home, and Aaron and Mary, 71 and 68, had a servant girl named Gertrude C. Smith, 14, living with them. In so far as I know, she was not a relative of the family.
For 21 May 1902 there is a record of Aaron and Mary Alice selling lot 151 and the west half of lot 153 on East Tenth in Halliday's Addition. This property, sold for $300 in hand and the balance of $1650 to be paid $50 per month, is on the south side of the street between Monroe and Madison, and is now covered over by Interstate 70. The record of their purchase of this land was not found.
About ten weeks after Mary Alice sold the dress making establishment and bought two lots further south on Buchanan (see below), she also purchased land in Highland Park. On 10 Oct 1906, in her own name, she bought the first six, empty lots 242 to 252 south of Eagle (28th) Street on the east side of Ohio [326:135]. Then, on 3 Dec of that year, Aaron purchased lots 254 and 256 [327:214] on which a house was located, and they had moved there by 1907. Aaron was by then almost eighty years old, and they probably did not want to keep up the larger home on 29th Street. (See the Swan family history for James and Margaret's purchase of lots on the west side of Ohio, and the story of the electric rail line that ran past this corner along 28th.)
Mary Alice died in 1910, and five weeks later Aaron was censused as a retired widower, living alone, and listed on the same page as his daughter and son-in-law Margaret and James A. Swan with their chldren, and Hamilton Swan, James' brother, with his family.
On 5 Aug 1908, Aaron's son Orren and his wife May sold for $4800 ten acres of the 29th Street property (described as 5 acres of the W 1/2 of the N 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of S17 T12 R16, and the W 1/2 of Lots 7 & 10 in the Fritz subdivision D, in all 10 acres [341:108] ). Apparently Aaron and Mary Alice had passed the home on to their eldest son to sell as part of their children's inheritance.
The six lots belonging to Mary Alice on Ohio were also inherited by the children at her death in 1910. On 8 Feb 1911 Otto and the other heirs quitclaimed to their father all of their rights to that land, so Aaron then held all eight lots in his name. However, he did not continue to live in the house at 2814 Ohio, but soon moved into rented rooms. We have a note written on tablet paper in his hand which reads:
Topeka Kns. August 29th 1913.
To whom it may consern.
This is to certify that I contracted with Miss Arlina Buell over two years ago for Room, Bard, Washing and mending at her hom Corner Virginia and Eagel Streets Highland Park for three dollars per week. Since then I valentarily proposed to ad one dollar per each week from the commencement to continue as long as I remain with her and Sister.
A Markley
These sisters, Arlina and Sadie Buell, were seamstresses living at 2803 Virginia, one block behind his daughter Maggie's home on Ohio. (Aaron's 1910 census was adjacent to Arlina Buell, although not in the same household.) The house at 2814 Ohio was apparently then rented out, as it was the address in 1914 of William and Cora Schlichter and their four boys. It was later inherited by Aaron's daughter Maggie, and sold to her brother-in-law Hamilton Swan in 1919.
Aaron invented a revolutionary dress making chart that became very popular and from which he derived quite a substantial income. He engaged in several business enterprises in Topeka and helped to promote others, including the woolen mills in Oakland. According to The History of Highland Park [Anon., 1956], Aaron had a small fruit farm between Wisconsin and California on 29th where he grew and sold cherries and raspberries. If this location is correct, this orchard must have been planted on the 1886 and 1888 additions to the original land purchase he made on 29th Street. In Radge's Topeka Directory for 1905 Mary Alice Markley is listed as proprietor of a glove fitting and dress-cutting system at 1255 Clay Street. In 1907 Aaron has the same listing, while their home address was given as the first block south of Eagle, i.e. 28th Street, on Ohio.
Aaron died of chronic valvular heart disease, and was buried in the Markley family plot in Topeka Cemetery, on California Avenue. He died "at his son-in-law's", probably James Swan "who will look after the account" of the burial, according to cemetery records. The details of the disposal of his estate are not known, but his daughter Margaret in 1919 sold the property on Ohio to her brother-in-law Hamilton Swan.
In the 1850 and 1860 censuses, Mary Alice was listed as having been born in Pennsylvania. Then in the 1880 census record in Lawrence, Kansas, she listed her birthplace as Ohio, and the census taker recorded that both of her parents were born in New York (which led me seriously astray in trying to trace her lineage). By 1900, she was censused in Topeka, Kansas, as having been born in Pennsylvania, with both of her parents indicated as being born in Pennsylvania, which from other sources was eventually found to be correct.
Finally, when she died in 1910, the registry of deaths in Topeka and her obituary both indicated that she had been born in Ohio. The Mitchells moved from Pennsylvania to Ohio just after her birth, and apparently the family did not distinquish carefully that she had actually been born in Pennsylvania. I accept the 1850 census, nearest to her birth, as definitive in regard to this question. But why the 1880 census shows her parents as being born in New York remains a mystery.
Mary Alice purchased five pieces of real estate in Topeka in her own name over a period of four days in October, 1892, for a total expenditure of nearly $5000. Whether this represented the use of her own money, or there was some advantage in having their joint property in her name, is not known. My sister Pat (Swan) Thiessen helped dig out these records from the court house basement, and I wish to thank her here for this field research. The five transactions involved were:
1) 13 Oct 1892, for $800, lot 164 on the east side of Tyler Street between 5th and Willow [208:349]. She and "husband Aaron" sold this property 28 Apr 1908 for $2000 [340:211]. Either land values increased considerably in those fifteen years, (but see the following item) or they in some way made improvements to this property.
2) 13 Oct 1892, for $1300, lot 440 on the east side of Clay between 12th and Munson [208:350]. This they sold 22 May 1908 for $1500 [340:414], not a particularly substantial profit.
3) 13 Oct 1892, for $1500, lots 499, 501, and 503 Clay in the middle of the block between Munson and 13th [208:341]. Here she located her dress making establishment listed at 1255 Clay in the 1905 City Directory. Mary Alice "and husband" sold this property 26 Jul 1906 for $5000 [326:125], although Aaron is still at this address in the 1907 City Directory, probably as an out-of-date listing. That same day Mary Alice bought for $2000 lots 642 and 644 on Buchanan, in the middle of the block south of 17th Street [326:136].
4) 15 Oct 1892, for $550, a half interest in lot 299 and the south half of lot 297 in Holliday's Addition on the west side of Jefferson Street between 9th and 10th [208:348].
5) 17 Oct 1892, for $500 and the assumption of half of a $600 mortgage, the north half of lot 299 and the south half of lot 297 on Jefferson [228:192]. This describes the same location as the previous item 4), and must have been the concluding part of a complicated transaction, but the deeds themselves hav not been examined to see exactly what transpired with this purchase. Mary Alice "and Aaron, husband and wife" sold this property 5 Apr 1898 for $1250 [261:379], making a profit of $450 in five and one-half years on an $800 investment.
Mary Alice died 2 p.m. 15 Apr 1910 of blood poisoning at age 78 years, 3 months, 4 days, according to the records of the Topeka Cemetery, where she was buried 17 April. A note under "Remarks" in those records says that she was "an old friend of D. O. Crane", a founder of the city of Topeka.
The information for each of Mary Alice and Aaron's children is given by George Mitchell Markley in his family history. He compiled it with the help of his niece Frieda Carter and our mother, Mildred Swan, using in part the Markley-Swan family bible which at that time was in mother's possession, and which is now owned by my sister Pat. In two instances where George's dates vary slightly from those in the family bible, published 1866, I have retained the latter, assuming typographical errors in his transcription.
On 8 Feb 1911, "Otto G. Markley and others" quitclaimed Mary Alice's six lots on the east side of Ohio to their father Aaron, as described above. The names in that transaction [373:85] are found to agree with those listed here, thus providing independent documentation for the names of the children who grew to adulthood, and of their spouses.
The eight children of Aaron and Mary Alice (Mitchell) Markley were Anna Eliza, Viola Candace, Orren Mitchell, Otto Giles, Emma Edna, Belle Eve, Ovid and Marguerite "Maggie".
i     Anna Eliza Markley, dtr., born 21 Jul 1851 in Indiana, and died 15 Dec 1853 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana.
ii     Viola Candace Markley, dtr., born 16 Feb 1853 in Indiana.
  Viola Candace was married 27 Oct 1875 in Fort Wayne to Lewis O. Hull {born Aug 1849 in Lucas, Richland, Ohio}.
  Viola was the only child who stayed behind in Indiana when the Markleys moved to Kansas.
  Lewis became a successful dry goods merchant in Fort Wayne. But before that, in 1880, he was censused, as L. O. Hull, as a painter in Fort Wayne with wife Viola and daughter Gracie. Apparently Lewis often preferred to use his two initials, rather than his first name, as that is the way he appears in the note below about his store.
  A short "local news" item in the Fort Wayne Sentinel of 11 Apr 1891 copied an item from the Kendallvile Sun: "Mr. Lewis Hull, of Fort Wayne, was called to Lisbon this morning by the sudden illness of his mother who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Frost. She is also the mother of Mrs. Whitbeck, of this city."
  In 1900 Lewis was censused (as Louis) as a wall paper merchant in Fort Wayne, and it is from this record I take the birth months and years of Lewis and his family, except for Grance who was no longer in his home.
  In 1901 an article appeared in the Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel about a chance meeting of Civil War veterans:
 
image: Lewis Hull as a Civil War drummer boy

Lewis Hull as a Civil War drummer boy

  By 1910 all of the daughters were out of their home, and "Louis" was censused as a wholesale and retail merchant. Viola reported that she had borne three children, of whom two were still living. This probably indicates that Grace had died, possibly before 1900.
  The three children of Lewis O. and Viola Candace (Markley) Hull:
1     Grace "Gracie" Hull, dtr., born 1876/1877 in Indiana.
  Grace died at age 20 years
2     Clara L. Hull, dtr., born Oct 1882 in Indiana and died in 1968.
  Clara L. married Norman E. Olds {born in 1881 and died in 1960}.
  The four children of Norman E. and Clara L. (Hull) Olds:
i     Jane Allison Olds, dtr.
  Jane Allison married Carl J. Harbert.
  The two children of Carl J. and Jane Allison (Olds) Harbert:
1     Norman Curl Harbert, son.
2     David Olds Harbert, son.
ii     Virginia Hull Olds, dtr.
  Virginia Hull married William R. Hough.
  The three children of William R. and Virginia Hull (Olds) Hough:
1     Steven Hedges Hough, son.
2     Nancy Olds Hough, dtr.
3     Patricia Hough, dtr.
iii     Nancy Elizabeth Olds, dtr.
  Nancy Elizabeth married Herbert G. Cannon.