Samuel Mock & Rachel S. Geiselman

Paul R. Swan February 2005

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The Lineage of

Samuel Mock & Rachel S. Giesaman

Samuel Descent

Samuel Y-DNA Descent

Samuel was born 7 Jun 1787 in Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, and died 10 Feb 1871 in Stark County, Ohio.

Samuel and Rachel S. married in Ohio.

Rachel S. was born 1792/1793 in Cumberland, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Johannes D. and Sabina Giesaman, and died about 1866.

The principal sources for Samuel Mock are the court documents in Maryland concerning his father’s estate, an Indiana history [Tyndall, John W and O. E. Lesh. [Standard History of Adams and Wells Counties Indiana, An Authenic Narrative of the Past, with an Extended Survey of Modern Developments in the Progress of Town and Country, Lewis Publishing Company, 1918], Ohio Genealogical Society postings on Prodigy by Helene Hawkins, and an undated manuscript entitled “Mock Records” by Melvin B. Summers written in the 1830’s [Summers, 1840]. [1] This was the record of a search for the ancestry of Melvin’s wife Clara Mock, great-granddaughter of Samuel, granddaughter of John. The manuscript contained a chart of Samuel and Rachael’s family, a short paragraph concerning Samuel in a section on Bedford County Mocks, a somewhat detailed letter from Summers to a D. E. Mock of Delta, Ohio dated 4 Apr 1934, and extracts from a letter Summers received from George S. Mock of Manhattan, Kansas dated 22 Mar 1934.

Samuel and his brother Abraham were living in Ohio in 1833, when the complaint was filed in Maryland Chancery Court to force the sale of the family land. Neither son ever appeared on a Maryland census or tax record, so must have left the state fairly soon after leaving the family home.

According to the George S. Mock letter, Samuel came to Stark County, Ohio with his brother and one sister, and located near North Lawrence in Tuscarawas Township, and the brother and sister married and settled eight or twelve miles west. This is a mysterious claim, as none of Peter Mock’s daughters moved to Stark County, Ohio. I haven’t a clue as to how George Mock could have come up with this belief, which he mentions twice in his letter.

At some unspecified time Samuel and Rachael and their “youngest child” moved to Brookfield, four miles west of Massillon. (Louisville and Brookfield, as well as the western portion of today’s Massillon, are all in Tuscarawas Township.) He writes: “My grandfather in an early day went near Fort Wayne, Indiana and bought 160 acres for each child. My father (John Mock) and Samuel Mock (another son, Samuel, Jr.) came back to Stark County.”

Tyndall and Lesh write: “Sarah Mock was born in Stark County near Masillon, June 1, 1825. Her grandfather, Peter Mock, was a native of Germany and died in Maryland. Her father, Samuel Mock, previously mentioned, was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, June 7, 1787, and moved to Stark County, Ohio as a pioneer in 1819. He spent most of his life in that section of Ohio. He died in Stark County, Ohio, February 10, 1871, when nearly eighty-four years of age. The maiden name of his wife was Rachel Geisaman, a native of Cumberland County, Maryland and she died at the age of seventy-three. Samuel Mock and wife were exemplary Christians and active members of the United Brethren Church.”

First of all, the authors probably meant Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Additionally, the surname Geisaman (spelled that way) doesn't seem to exist. (Summers spells it as Gesaman, Geseman and Geeseman.) One version, occuring often in Pennsylvania, Maryland and in Ohio, is Geiselman. However, her father's will uses the spelling Geesaman and Giesaman, and the Geesaman descendant who transcribed that will names him as Johannes D. Giesaman, which I adopt. Early on the Geiselman name occurs prominently in York and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, just adjacent to Maryland's Frederick County, and Cumberland is just north of those two counties. Tyndall and Lesh give no dates for Rachel, only her age at death, but from her age of 67 in the 1860 census, her birth would have been in 1792/93 and therefore her death around 1866.

The publisher of excerpts from the will of Rachel's father [archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GUESMAN/1999-02/0919193134] wrote: "This abstract was made from a typed transcription which John E. Geesaman of Quincy, PA made of a Xerox copy of the original will. Johannes D. Giesaman was born 19 Nov., 1767 and died 11 Sept. 1826". The will starts out "I, John Geesaman of the township of Guilford, County of Franklin, State of Pennsylvania ä" and ends with the signature "Johannes D. Giesaman". In it Johannes named his wife as Sabina, and his children as:

Joseph

Jacob

Margaret

Sally

Elizabeth

Sabina married John Shillan

Rachel married Samuel Mock

Catherine married David Melaker/Metzker

Samuel

More details on the children, as well as the parents and paternal grandparents, of Johannes are available on http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/?list=GUESMAN (search for Mock).

Summers lists as the children of Samuel and Rachel (where the dates at least in part are for marriage licenses):

1. John born May, 1820 d. Oct 8, 1893;

married Marietta Stickler [30 Oct 1845]

2. Samuel married Lydia Shissler 8 Oct 1850

3. Elizabeth married Phillip Houk 1 Feb 1844

4. Sarah married Benjamin Houk 29 Nov 1849

5. Mary S. married Samuel Robinson 31 Jan 1856

6. Rachael m1) Edward Kennedy 20 Aug 1878

m2) ____ Myers

7. Jacob married Charlotte Eyster 24 Aug 1843

8. Peter Unmarried

Samuel appears in the Tuscararas Township, Stark County, Ohio censuses from 1820 through 1870. There is, however, considerable disagreement among those records as to the ages of his family members. In 1840, all of the children were at home except the eldest child John and one of the three oldest daughters, and the age brackets can be taken to constrain the ages of those at home.

In 1850 only Mary and Rachel were still at home, in 1860 Rachel and Peter, and in 1870 only Rachel. But the ages are wildly discordant among these records. Here are the records for Rachel’s birth year(s):

1840 1835/40

1850 1838/39

1860 1826/27

1870 1834/35

1880 1828/29

1900 1828/29

where the last two records are of the widow Rachel Myers (see the discussion below regarding her marriages). According to the 1840 census, Samuel and Rachel had NO daughters born in the 1825 to 1830 period.

Son Peter must have been born before 1830 according to the 1840 census, but in 1860 his birth year was 1834/35. Since he was not at home in 1850, the earlier birth is more likely.

In 1860 he was censused as “S. Mock”, age 73, with Rachel, 67, in Tuscarawas Township, living with their daughter Rachel and son Peter in the home of a clergyman, but owning real estate worth $9600. Possibly Samuel should have been shown as head of household that year:

W Galwaith? 42 Clergyman 400 NY

?nle? 24 (female) OH

Frank 2 OH

S. Mock 73 Farmer 9600 1000 MD

Rachel 67 PA

Rachel 33 OH

Peter 25 OH

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1860 Series: M653 Roll: 1038 Page: 340

OH STARK TUSCARAWAS TWP

A decade later he was still in Tuscarawas, a retired widower, with his daughter Rachel keeping house for him:

Samuel Mock 83 Retired Farmer 500 100 PA

Rachel 35 keeping House OH

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1870 Series: M593 Roll: 1269 Page: 642

OH STARK TUSCARAWAS TWP

Samuel’s death year was given in a Prodigy posting 8 May 1993 by Helen Hawkins, citing records of the Ohio Genealogical Society of Adams Co. Ohio[2]. She reports that Samuel was born in Hagerstown, MD in 1787, married Rachael S. Geisaman, moved to Stark County in 1819, and died 1871. This information agrees in detail with the Tyndall and Lesh data cited above. Samuel’s grandson George S. Mock wrote: “Grandfather and wife Rachael, and the youngest child moved to Brookfield, 4 miles west of Massillon, and died there.” That town no longer exists, but would have been near the western border of Stark County. The youngest child was daughter Rachel, who lived with her parents for many years before her two marriages.

The children, except for Matilda, are in the order given in the Melvin Summers family group sheet, which also gives the marriage dates and names of the childrens’ spouses.

The nine children of Samuel and Rachel S. (Giesaman) Mock were John, Matilda, Elizabeth, Sarah, Samuel, Jacob “Jake”, Peter, Mary S. and Rachel.

i John, son, born May 1820 in Ohio and died in 1893. John was married 30 Oct 1845 in Wayne County, Ohio to Marietta Stichler {b 1826/1828 in Ohio}.

According to an IGI extraction from “Marriage records, 1813-1951 Ohio. Probate Court (Wayne County)”, John Mock and Mary Stichler were married 30 Oct 1845 in Wayne County, Ohio. Summers gives the surname as Stickler. Note that Marietta’s mother was a Row, married in 1823, and John’s uncle Abraham Mock married a Catherine Row in Stark County, Ohio (adjacent to Wayne), in 1826.

John and Mary moved to Indiana shortly after their marriage, but later returned to Stark County to live [Summers, 4 Apr 1934]. None of the censuses find him in Indiana, so the stay there could not have been too long. According to his son George, John moved the family back to Louisville about 1854 or 56. This town is in Stark County, east of Canton. However, see below, John was censused in Tuscarawas Township, on the west border of Stark County, in both 1850 and 1860.

Indiana land entry records show that John Mock entered land in the Cinncinati District (along the east border of Indiana) on 17 Oct 1836. His property, the NE 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 34, Township 21 North, Range 14 E of the 2nd Prime Meridian, lies in the northern part of Randolph County, approximately at the location of the present town of Saratoga. (This is some 30 miles south of Adams County, with Jay County intervening.) Note that this was 40 acres, not the 160 acres said to have been purchased by Samuel for each of his sons [Summers, 1975]. Since he had four sons, it’s possible that he in fact purchased a total of 160 acres for all of them, not for each. The other son’s portions may have been nearby, but John’s was at the very northern edge of the Cincinatti District, and the adjacent Fort Wayne District land records have not yet been examined. It is interesting that a Jesse Oyster, of the same surname as John’s sister-in-law, entered land the following year in the NW 1/4 of Section 1 of the same township and range, about five miles north of John’s land.

In 1850 John and Marietta first show in the census in Tuscarawas Township, Stark County, with two year old John and her relative, presumably a sister, living with them:

John Mock 30 Farmer all OH

Marietta 23

John 2

-arn- (male) 21

Lydia Shisler 21

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1850 Series:M432 Roll:731 Page:171

Ohio Stark Tuscarawas

In 1860 he was censused as a Book Seller in Tuscarawas Twp., some four pages distant from his father:

J. Mock 40 Book Seller 1600 OH

Marietta 32 OH

John F. 12 OH

George S. 7 OH

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1860 Series: M653 Roll: 1038 Page: 344

OH STARK TUSCARAWAS TWP

John’s census in Stark County for 1870 is difficult to read. Greentown, today, is in Lake Township northwest of Nimishillen Township, where his son John Franklin lived in 1880, but I don’t know whether or not that’s what is referred to by the Post Office in this census (see also 1880):

John Mock 50 Farmer

Mayett 44 keeping House

John F. 22 farm labor

------ 7 male

J-- M. 1 female

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1870 Series: M593 Roll: 1269 Page: 438

OH STARK GREENTOWN P O

John and his wife, she this time as Mary, were again censused 1880 in Stark County, he as a patent medicine manufacturer. Ida, 12, is surely the daughter censused above at one year of age whose name I couldn’t read.

John Sr. MOCK Self M Male W 60 OH Pat. Medicine Mf. MD PA

Mary MOCK Wife M Female W 53 OH Keeping House PA PA

Ida MOCK Dtr S Female W 12 OH At Home OH OH

Mary FERNIAR Other S Female W 17 IN Servant FRN FRN

Frank FERNIAR Other S Male W 15 IN Servant/Laborer/Farm FRN FRN

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1880 Census Place Nimishillen, Stark, Ohio, Greentown P. O.

Family History Library Film 1255068 FRN = France

NA Film Number T9-1068 Page 489A

I was unable to locate John’s wife, as Marietta or Mary, in the 1900 census. Summers gives 8 Oct 1893, in different places, as the death date both for John and for Mary, and in another place 1904 for both.

The five children of John and Marietta (Stichler) Mock:

1 John Franklin, son, born 29 Nov 1848 in Ohio and died 28 Jan 1904. John Franklin was married 22 Mar 1873 to Mary Ann Seefong {b 26 Sep 1850 in Nimishillen, Stark, Ohio, died 15 Mar 1921 in Stark County and was buried in Union Cemetery, Nimishillen, Stark, Ohio}.

The names of John Franklin’s children are from Summers. From John’s 1880 census I find the ages of the first three children:

John F. MOCK Self M Male W 30 OH Laborer PA PA

Mary A. MOCK Wife M Female W 27 OH Keeping House PA OH

Elmer MOCK Son S Male W 5 OH OH OH

Minnie MOCK Dau S Female W 4 OH OH OH

Clara A. MOCK Dau S Female W 1 OH OH OH

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1880 Census Nimishillen, Stark, Ohio

Family History Library Film 1255067

NA Film Number T9-1067 Page Number 247C

In 1900 John was censused as J. F., with an Emma Sefong boarding in his home, almost certainly a relative, probably a sister, of Mary:

J. F. Mock 1848 51 m 27 yrs farmer OH OH OH

Mary A. 1852 48 4ch/4living OH PA OH

Elmer 1814 26 farm laborer OH OH OH

Clara 1878 21 OH OH OH

Emma 1882 17 OH OH OH

Emma Sefong 1859 40 boarder, dressmaker OH PA OH

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1900 Series:T623 Roll:1322 Page:300

OH STARK NIMISHILLEN TWP

In the 1910 Nimishillen Township, Stark County census, in the household next following her son Elmer, but living alone:

Mary W. Mock, 58, Widow, four children borne, all living.

This Mary W. was born 1851/52 in Ohio, and is almost certainly Mary Ann, the mother of Elmer, as Summers gives a death date of 1910 for John Franklin.

Mary Ann’s name and dates come from Summers’ records. In various places in his papers, he gives 22 May?, Mar and Nov, 1873 for their marriage, and says they were married by the Rev. Samuel W. Koontz. From an IGI record, Mary Ann comes from a family of seven children, Samuel, Lydia, and Elizabeth older than her, John, George and Emma younger. All are buried in Union Cemetery. There is no source information available for this IGI record.

A few months before she was born, Mary Ann’s parents were censused in Stark County, which records another sibling, Sarah:

John SEEFONG Self M Male W 26 OH Farming PA OH

Mary SEEFONG Wife M Female W 22 OH Keep House PA PA

Sarah E. SEEFONG Dau S Female W 9M OH OH OH

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1880 Census Place Nimishillen, Stark, OH

Family History Library Film 1255067

NA Film Number T9-1067 Page Number 245D

After John Franklin’s death, Mary was censused adjacent to her son Elmer as a 68 year old widow in Nimishillen, with her sister Lizzie Seefong, 70, living with her. Both families were recorded as Mack that year.

The four children of John Franklin and Mary Ann (Seefong) Mock:

i Elmer, son, born 25 Apr 1874 in Ohio and died 20 Apr 1948. Elmer married Elsie Pearl Summers {b 16 Feb 1881 in Ohio}.

Elmer Mock 35 married 9 yrs OH

Elsie R. 28 1 child born OH

Beulah 5 OH

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1910 Series: T624 Roll:1232 Page:269

OH STARK NIMISHILLEN TWP

In 1920 his name got recorded as Mack, as did his widowed mother censused adjacent to him on the page:

Elmer E. Mack 46 Farmer,

Elsie P. 38

Beulah I. 15 all births & parents OH

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Mary A. Mack 68

Lizzie Seefong 70 sister

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1920 Series: T625 Roll: 1435 Page: 93

OH STARK NIMISHILLEN

From Jesse F. Davis of Lewistown, Pennsylvania

[www.familyorigins.com/users/d/a/v/Jesse-Franklin-Davis/FAMO2-0001/ d5857.htm] we find:

“Elsie Pearl Summers was born 16 Feb 1881. She was married to Elmer Mock. ... They had a daughter Beulah Irlene Mock”.

As to her parents:

“Angeline B. BRUMBAUGH was born on 11 JUL 1858 in Randolph Twp., Portage Co., OH. She was married to Sylvanus SUMMERS on 11 DEC 1875. Sylvanus SUMMERS was born on 2 NOV 1852. He died on 27 JAN 1908 in Canton, Stark Co., OH.”

The only child of Elmer and Elsie Pearl (Summers) Mock:

1 Beulah Irlene, daughter, born 1904/1905 in Ohio.

ii Minnie, daughter, born 24 Aug 1876 in Ohio. Minnie married Levi Stuckey.

Levi is most probably the son age 9 years in 1880 of Jacob and Sarah Stuckey of Washington, Stark County, Ohio. However, I haven’t researched this in enough detail to be sure.

Levi Stuckey 39 married 18 years OH

Minnie 33 bore 4 children, 3 living OH

Melvin 10 OH

Frederick 9 OH

Virgin 4 OH

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1910 Series:T624 Roll:1232 Page:270

OH STARK NIMISHILLEN TWP

In 1920 the family was censused still in Nimishillen, all ten years older except Virgal, they youngest son, was 13.

The three children of Levi and Minnie (Mock) Stuckey:

1 Melvin, son, born 1899/1900 in Ohio.

2 Frederick, son, born 1900/1901 in Ohio.

3 Virgal/Virgin, son, born 1905/1906 in Ohio.

iii Clara, daughter, born 22 Nov 1878 in Louisville, Stark, Ohio. Clara married Melvin Summers {b 1877/1879 in Ohio}.

There was a Melvin Summers and wife censused in 1910 and 1920 in Salt Creek Township, Holmes County, Ohio, she as Orra E. first, and then as Arra, both times with an age indicating birth in 1882/83. In the second census they had a daughter Gladys, 8. I’m don’t know whether or not these records represent Melvin and Clara. The northeast corner of Holmes County is pointwise contiguous to Stark County.

Clara M. Summers lived in Canton, Stark County, Ohio, in 1935, and was active in circulating her husband’s manuscript.

This is the Melvin Summers who carried out so much research in the 1930s on the ancestry of his wife Clara Mock. Marilyn Mock Pohlman transcribed most of his papers and posted them on the MOCK-GEN-L archives Oct through 1 Nov, 2004.

There were two Melvins in the 1880 census. Most probable is the Melvin B., aged 3 and born in Ohio, son of Sylvanus and Angeline Summer (without the “s”) censused in Nimishillen, Stark County, in 1880.

iv Emma, daughter, born 26 Oct 1882. Emma married ____ Slagle. Although Summer's had Emma's husband as a Slagle, his full name and those of their daughters come from the 1910 and 1920 censuses. They lived first in Nimishillen Township, although they were censused several pages away from Emma's mother and brother Elmer, who were censused adjacent to each other. By 1920 they had moved to Louisville.

George W. Slagle 30 m 5 yrs Lumber Planing Mill

Emma I. 27 2 ch, 1 living

Opal L. 2 all b OH of OH parents

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1910 Series:T624 Roll:1232 Page:285

OH STARK NIMISHILLEN TWP

George W. Slagle 39 Real Estate Salesman

Emma 37

Opal 12

Viola 5

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1920 Series:T625 Roll:1435 Page:112

OH STARK LOUISVILLE 1920

2 Sarya †, daughter, born Sep 1850 and died 18 Aug 1851.

3 George S., son, born 13 Apr 1852 and died 22 Jul 1934. George S. Mock of Manhattan, Kansas, wrote the letter to Melvin Summers, 22 March 1934, describing his family history back to his grandfather Samuel. Either the date of that letter, or the death date of 1924 for George, also given by Summers, must be incorrect, and I’m assuming the latter.

George first appears as a seven year old in his father’s 1860 Stark County census. Ten years later he was censused as a 15 year old farm worker in the home of James and Levina Rainey in Clinton Township, Wayne County, just west of Stark County.

I could not find George in the 1880 census, but believe this to be him 1900 in the very southeast county in Kansas, some 200 miles from Manhattan:

George Mock 1852 48 Single Poultry Raiser IN OH OH

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1900 Series:T623 Roll:474 Page:117

KS CHEROKEE LOWELL TWP

The record has this George born in Indiana, which conflicts with his birth in Ohio according to his father John’s 1860 census. But we know John owned land and spent some time in Indiana before returning to Ohio, so I feel this record can be accepted since the age and middle initial are correct, and we know from Melvin Summers’ corresondance that George was at one point in Manhattan, Kansas.

I was unable to find George in any subsequent census or in the various indexes of the FamilySearch web pages.

Here is the text of George’s letter as recorded by Summers in his papers and transcribed on the MOCK-GEN-L page by Marilyn Pohlman:

“Extract of Letter from George S. Mock, Manhattan, Kansas, March 22, 1934, Relative to Mock Family History”

“My grandfather was Samuel Mock, and his wife’s name was Rachel Gessman. He and one brother and one sister came from Benchester (?) County, Penna., and located in Tuscarawas Tp., near North Lawrence, Stark County, Ohio. The brother and sister married and settled 8 or 12 miles west. I never saw them. I cannot think where the sawmill or distillery was.” (This remark has reference to the sawmill that a certain John Mock, and to the distillery that a certain George Mock, built and operated in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and of which we wrote Uncle George).

“When I was 12 or 14 years old, father moved to Louisville. Grandfather and wife Rachael, and the youngest child moved to Brookfield, 4 miles west of Massillon, and died there. My grandfather in an early day went near Fort Wayne, Indiana and bought 160 acres for each child. May father (John Mock) and Samuel Mock (another son) came back to Stark County.”

“Uncle Jake Mock married a woman by the name of Oyster, 3 miles west of Brockfield, a village called Greenville. Uncle Jake Mock’s son, Frank Mock, address Decatur, Indiana. Cousin John Houk, same address. I ask you to write both of these cousins. They live close together all of these days.”

“Grandpa and wife passed over before Sister Ida was born. I was born April 13, 1852. My brother (John F. Mock) was about 3 years older than I.”

“Mr. Oyster had a large tannery, on white bark principles, and Abraham Mock and sister (apparently Samuel Mock’s brother and sister) got their boot and shoe leather there.”

“This is all that I can scare up, but I am proud that I am able to give some light”

“I wish you well, and let me hear from you. May God Bless you.”

4 Ira †, son, born 13 Jan 1862 and died 23 Dec 1868.

5 Ida M., daughter, born 1867/1869 in Ohio. Ida M. was married 3 Nov 1887 in Stark County to Levi Lautzenheiser {b 19 Jun 1866 in Nimishillen Twp., Stark, Ohio, and died 1948 in Louisville}.

I was unable to find either Ida or Levi in 1900 to 1920 censuses, either as Lautzenhiser (as spelled by Summers) or Lautzenheiser. The name seems to be most common in Indiana and Ohio.

The genealogy of the Lautzenheiser family is available on Ancestry.com Family Trees, submitted by Susan McMahan [awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=heinrichmeyer&id=I8451]. I’m acquainted with Susan, who provided much assistance to me on my Hartzell and Shively lines, so can vouch for the quality of her research. All of the Lautzenheiser information given here is from her work, except Winfield’s age comes from his 1920 census. It should be noted from the marriage date and available birth dates that the daughters are not listed in order of birth.

The six children of Levi and Ida M. (Mock) Lautzenheiser:

i Mary, daughter Mary married Homer Walker {b in 1889 and died in 1976}.

ii Esther, daughter Esther married Lemuel R. Archer.

iii Harrison M., son, born 2 Sep 1888. Harrison M. married Orsilda Sell {b in 1889 and died in 1957}.

iv Winfield, son, born 1893/1894. Winfield married Bertha M. Henning.

v Theodore, son, born 21 May 1896. Theodore married Ada Clapper {b in 1897 and died in 1982}.

vi Raymond C., son, born 23 Aug 1898. Raymond C. married Lorena Fork {b in 1890 and died in 1984}.

ii Matilda, daughter, born 1821 in Pennsylvania, and died 1908 in Douds, Van Buren, Iowa. Matilda was married 5 Jan 1841 to Daniel Shaffer {b 1813 in Pennsylvania}.

Matilda is not mentioned in any of Summers’ papers. She is included in this family based on correspondence received by Ron Moore [1996] from Frances Spees of Clarksville, Tennesee, a gr-gr-grandaughter of Matilda. Frances gave Matilda’s birth, marriage and death information, and says Matilda’s Iowa death certificate names her father as Samuel Mock, born in Maryland. The birth in 1821 is acceptable since that is matched within a year in two later censuses; the marriage year of 1841 might be a bit off, as there were only two daughters at home in 1840, when both Elizabeth and Sarah were in their mid-teens and married only several years later. However, a ten year hiatus before they began having children is considerably unusual.

Matilda and Daniel went to Van Buren County, Iowa ca 1850 “by way of Illinois and possibly Perry Co., Indiana”. She was a member of the Church of the Brethren or of the United Brethren Religion, it’s unclear which.

I was unable to find Daniel and Matilda in the 1850 or 1860 census in Van Buren County. It’s possible that they resided elsewhere in Iowa before they show up in Van Buren by 1870. Since I only find four children in 1870 and 1880, and Matilda’s 1900 census (below) reports that she had had seven children, it’s probably that the others were older and would show up in the 1850 and 1860 censuses for Danial and Matilda if those can be located.

Shafer, Daniel 58 married W Farmer 2700/1036 PA

Shafer, Matilda 50 F W Keeping House MD

Shafer, Jacob E. 19 married W Farm Laborer IA

Shafer, Samuel 15 married W IA

Shafer, Agnes J. 12 F W IA

Shafer, Elnora 10 F W IA

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1870 Series: M593 Roll: 421 Page: 217

IA VAN BUREN CHEQUEST TWP

Daniel SHAFER Self M Male W 66 PA Farmer PA PA

Matilda SHAFER Wife M Female W 59 MD Keeping House MD MD

Samuel E. SHAFER Son S Male W 24 IA Farms PA MD

Nora E. SHAFER Dau S Female W 19 IA PA MD

George GREEN Orphant S Male W 15 IA Farms OH OH

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1880 Census Place Chequest, Van Buren, Iowa

Family History Library Film 1254367

NA Film Number T9-0367 Page Number 405C

(The Family History Library, in a rare error, has Samuel indexed as a female and a sister.)

In 1900, Van Buren Township, Van Buren County, Iowa, Matilda was listed as mother-in-law in the household of Samuel and Jane A. Roush. Her age was given as 79, born in Pennsylvania in 1821, with both parents born in Maryland. Jane, her daughter, was aged 42, born in Iowa in 1858, with both parents born in Pennsylvania. The census also indicated that Matilda had borne seven children, of whom six were then living.

I originally had Daniel’s name as Shaffer, from some forgotton source, but the 1870 and 1880 Iowa censuses list him as Shafer. A search on the Van Buren County GenWeb page for Shafer burials [208.56.175.250/CemSurnames/cemeterylist.php] turned up Miller Chapel and Shafer Oaks - Russell Cemeteries. If they were buried as Shaffer, however, there were nine other cemeteries in which they might be found.

The four children of Daniel and Matilda (Mock) Shaffer:

1 Jacob E. [Shafer], son, born 1850/1851 in Iowa.

2 Samuel [Shafer], son, born 1854/1855 in Iowa.

3 Jane A., daughter, born 1857/1858 in Iowa. Jane A. married Samuel Roush {b 1853 in Iowa}. Jane A. is probably the Agnes J. censused as a twelve year old in 1870. From the 1900 census, Samuel and Jane Roush, still in Van Buren County, had five girls and a boy, Leonard, Matie, Mahella, Worthy, Wealthy and Ray, ranging in age from 17 to 5 years.

4 Nora E. “Elnora” [Shafer], daughter, born 1859/1860. Nora E. in the 1880 census, aged 19, is undoubtedly the Elnora aged 10 in 1870.

iii Elizabeth, daughter, born 1822/1823. Elizabeth was married 1 Feb 1844 in Stark County to Phillip Houk.

Elizabeth’s marriage is from Ankrum [1940], and appears also in the IGI [Patron Sheets, 1969-1991, Patron submitted forms], where Phillip’s name is spelled Hauk. Her sister Sarah married, five years later, a Benjamin Houk. It should be noted, also, that a Henry Hoke/Honk according to Ankrum, presumably Houk, married a daughter of Sarah (Mack) Longenecker, a descendant of Alexander Mack, founder of the Church of the Brethren.

Elizabeth's sister Sarah married a Benjomin Houk five years later, so this is probably a case of sisters marrying brothers, but I have no evidence for that.

iv Sarah, daughter, born 1 Jun 1825 in Masillon, Stark, Ohio. Sarah was married 29 Nov 1849 in Stark County to Benjamin Houk {b 28 May 1821 in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania}.

Helen Hawkins, citing records of the Ohio Genealogical Society of Adams Co. Ohio, says that Benjamin Houk married in 1849 Sarah Mock born 1 Jun 1825 in Stark Co., Ohio, daughter of Samuel Mock. She gives, as well, Benjamin’s lineage back to his great-grandfather Peter Houk who immigrated from Germany. The item was reported as from Adams County, in the southern part of the state.

Ankrum [1940] reports the marriage, which also appears in the IGI [Marriage Records, 1809-1916; Marriage Index, 1809-1972, Probate Court (Stark County) Ohio.]

Benjamin Houk, father of John C., was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, May 28, 1821, and was fourteen years of age when his mother removed to Stark County, Ohio, where he grew up and where he finished his early education. In that county on November 29, 1849, he married Miss Sarah Mock [Tyndall and Lesh, 1918].

v Samuel, son, born Mar 1829 in Ohio and died 1920 in North Lawrence, Ohio. Samuel was married 8 Oct 1850 in Stark County to Lydia A. or H. Shissler {b Aug 1828 in Pennsylvania and died 1912 in North Lawrence}.

Samuel and his brother John both moved back from Indiana to Stark County, Ohio [Summers, citing 22 Mar 1934 letter from George S. Mock of Manhattan, Kansas]. Samuel’s marriage data is from Ankrum [1940], and appears also in the IGI from “Patron sheets, 1969-1991, Patron submitted forms”.

Summers writes: “Lived on a farm in Wayne county, Ohio, near the Stark County line. He and his wife were faithful members of the United Brethern Church and he was one of the founders of Newman Creek Chapel, near North Lawrence (now Bowdill).”

At first I believed that the 1880 census in Wayne County which placed that Samuel’s parents’ births in Prussia meant that Summers had identified the wrong family for Samuel, Jr.:

Samuel MOCK Self M Male 52 OH Farmer PRU PRU

Lydia MOCK Wife M Female 53 PA Keeping House PA PA

Franklin MOCK Son S Male 25 OH Student OH PA

Ellen MOCK Dau S Female 21 OH At Home OH PA

Cora MOCK Dau S Female 14 OH At Home OH PA

Ida MOCK Dau S Female 11 OH At Home OH PA

Lydia SHISSLER MotherL W Female 79 PA PA PA

James SHRADER Other S Male 21 PA Works On Farm PA PA

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1880 Census Baughman, Wayne, Ohio PRU = PRUSSIA

Family History Library Film 1255076

NA Film Number T9-1076 Page Number 8C

However, it’s probable that the census taker entered the parents’ birthplace of Prussia (Prusia on the census) on the wrong line. Five out of the 48 Shisslers censused in Stark and Wayne counties that year had parents born in Prussia, and it seems reasonable that Lydia did also. Unfortunately Samuel’s mother-in-law is shown as born in Pennsylvania, as well as her parents. So this implies two egregious errors in the census return.

Twenty years later this was resolved by the 1900 census which shows Samuel born in Ohio and his parents in Maryland and Pennsylvania, as it should. There’s no occupation entered for Samuel that year. Their daughter Margaret and her husband Daniel Rohrer were censused adjacent to them.

I list for reference the children and their spouses as given by Summers, but cannot claim these as fully documented. Two of the three children who died as infants Summers says were buried in Newman Creek Chapel which is near North Lawrence, Tuscarawas Township, Stark County.

The nine children of Samuel and Lydia A. or H. (Shissler) Mock:

1 Harriett A., daughter, born 18 Sep 1851 in North Lawrence, Stark, Ohio, died 10 May 1883 in North Lawrence and was buried 13 May 1883. Harriett A. was married 7 Mar 1872 in North Lawrence to Cyrus Kirk Reinoehl {b 30 Nov 1848 in North Lawrence and died Jul 1913 in North Lawrence}.

Melvin Summers gives Harriett’s husband as Cyrun Reinochl, and reports that they lived on his father’s farm near Newman Creek Chapel, near North Lawrence, Stark County.

Cyrus’ surname is given by Summers as Reinochl, and appears in various IGI records as Reinoehl and Reinoeht, the latter in his marriage record as extracted from “Marriage records, 1813-1951, Ohio Probate Court (Wayne County)”, where her name was given as Hattie and his middle initial K. was given. The spelling Reinoehl appears often in the Ohio IGI, but Reinoeht only this one time, so I accept this former spelling.

Cyrus and Harriett were censused in 1880 but with an index entry riddled with errors:

Cyrus K REINOCHL Self M M W 30 OH Farmer PA PA

Harriet REINOCHL Wife M F W 27 OH Keeps House OH OH

Charles C REINOCHL Son S M W 7 OH OH OH

Maud E REINOCHL Dau S F W 4 OH OH OH

Nade REINOCHL Dau S F W 2 OH OH OH

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1800 Census Place Lawrence, Stark, Ohio

Family History Library Film 1255067

NA Film Number T9-1067 Page Number 35C

The index transcriber didn’t do too well in this case. The “c” in the surname clearly doesn’t have the loop that the census taker used, for instance, in the word “Occupation”, so is “e” as in the second letter of the name. However, the “N” in “Nade” doesn’t look at all like a “D”, as appears in “Daughter”, so this disagrees with Summers’ “Dade” for this daughter, as well as submitted IGI records which give Dade. Finally, there were three final entries, from a family and household on the next census page which is out of order on the film, which have no connection to Harriett’s family.

The five children in the family are given by Summers, using his order. Why Frank and Ray don’t appear in the 1880 census is unknown, unless they were considerably older than the other children and so gone from the home by 1880.

The five children of Cyrus Kirk and Harriett A. (Mock) Reinoehl:

i Charles Clement, son, born 9 Aug 1873 in North Lawrence and died 11 Dec 1949. Charles Clement was married 31 May 1899 in Canal Fulton, Stark, Ohio to Jennie M. Kunkle. Charles was at one time the Treasurer of Stark County.

There are several submitted IGI records which agree on Charles dates of birth, marriage and death, but I could not find an extracted IGI record for him.

ii Frank, son, born 7 Jan 1881 in Lawrence, Stark, Ohio, and died 1 Jul 1941. Frank was married 7 Aug 1907 in East Liverpool, Columbiana, Ohio to Eleanor Mary Carman. Frank became the Superintendant of Schools in South Dakota, according to Summers.

There are two IGI records for Frank’s birth each of which correctly identify his parents:

Frank Walter Reinoehl, born 13 Dec 1880 North Lawrence, Stark, Ohio, died 1 Jul 1941 [Submitted form, Patron sheets, 1969-1991].

Frank Reinoehl, born 7 Jan 1881 Lawrence, Stark, Ohio [Birth records, 1867-1908, Ohio Probate Court (Stark County)].

I’m accepting the second, extracted record, but point out that the submitted record is day-specific and also gives his death date. Another IGI record gives his marriage and death:

Frank Walter Reinoehl married Eleanor Mary Carman 7 Aug 1907 East Liverpool, Columbiana, Ohio, died 1 Jul 1941 [Submitted form, Patron sheets, 1969-1991].

iii Ray, son. Ray was a farmer near Canal Fulton

iv Maud Mae, daughter, born 19 May 1876 in North Lawrence and died 5 Jun 1949. Maud Mae was married 20 Mar 1900 in Canal Fulton to Edward Wesley Hardgrove.

v Dade Estella, daughter, born 27 Mar 1878 in Lawrence Twp., Stark, Ohio. Dade Estella married ____ Gross.

2 son †, born 1852/1853, died 16 Jan 1853 and was buried in Newman Creek Ch.

3 Daniel Franklin “Frank”, son, born 1854/1855 in Ohio, died 22 Mar 1903 in Ohio and was buried in Newman Ck. Chap. Daniel Franklin “Frank” was married 21 Jun 1884 in Stark County to Anna Melissa Daler {b 3 Jan 1860 in Canal Fulton, Ohio, died 6 Nov 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio, and was buried in Newman Ck. Chap.}.

Melvin Summers gives this son’s name as Frank, his wife as Adda Dailer, and provides the death information for both. Frank was censused as Franklin in his father’s Baughman Township, Wayne County, home in 1880. According to Summers, he was Superintendant of schools at Dalton, Shreve and West Galena, Ohio. (The first two are in Wayne County, Dalton lying just south of Baughman Township in the east, and Shreve in the southwest corner of the county; I haven’t located West Galena.)

Daniel Franklin was a 25 year old student, single and living in his father’s home in 1880. I have not been able to identify him in censuses of 1900 through 1920, as either Daniel, Franklin or Frank. Although there were several Franklin or Frank Mocks in Ohio, none fit as to age, birthplace and wife’s given name.

The identification of the children of this family comes from Barbara Dittig’s Working Chart on the descentdants of our immigrant Peter Mock [http://mock.rootsweb.com/Chart29.pdf]. Two of the sons, and possibly a third, have been found in census records given below.

The marriage date I adopt here comes from an extracted IGI record [Marriage records, 1809-1916; marriage index, 1809-1972 Ohio. Probate Court (Stark County)], Barbara Dittig’s chart gives 12 Jul 1884.

The information for Anna’s parents comes Barbara Dittig’s chart, and from their 1880 census in which the name was spelled as Dailer, and Anna, at age 20, was a school teacher:

Mathius DAILER Self M M W 52 BAD Farmer BAD BAD

Elisabeth DAILER Wife M F W 53 PA Keeping House PA PA

Anna M. DAILER Dau S F W 20 OH School Teacher BAD PA

Mary M. DAILER Dau S F W 16 OH At Home BAD PA

Emma S. DAILER Dau S F W 14 OH At Home BAD PA

Fannie HERSHEY SisterL S F W 50 PA Works By Week PA PA

Ward BURTERMORE Other M W 20 PA Servant PA PA

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1880 Census Place Lawrence, Stark, Ohio BAD = BADEN

Family History Library Film 1255067

NA Film Number T9-1067 Page Number 67D

The five children of Daniel Franklin “Frank” and Anna Melissa (Daler) Mock:

i Frank Carleton, son, born 1 Mar 1884 and died 13 Nov 1964. Frank Carleton was censused as Charlton in 1900 while living in a rooming house and going to school:

(Rooming house on North Market Street, Housekeepers

Zetta and Lulie Oller with 15 students.)

Charlton Mock Boarder Mar 1884 16 At School

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1900 Series: T623 Roll: 1332 Page: 159

OH WAYNE 3-WD WOOSTER

There was a Frank E. Mock censused in Wooster in 1920, but I’m not sure enough of the identifcation to accept this record of a wife and child. The age is only two years off, but the “E” is clearly written in the census. Of course, it could have just been misheard by the census taker. For now, I copy the record here, but wait for some verification before accepting it.

Frank E. 34 laborer at Rubber Co.

Hazel D. 30

Edith E. 8 all born OH, parents all OH

Catherine M. 6

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1920 Series: T625 Roll: 1448 Page: 70

OH WAYNE WOOSTER

Frank was living in Cleveland, Ohio, at the time of his brother Russell's death in 1956.

ii Ralph Daler, son, born 29 Feb 1888 and died in 1964. Ralph Daler married Margaret ____ {b 1889/1890 in Ohio}.

Ralph and his brother Russell were living together in 1920, Ralph the Vice President of a steel company, and Russell a soldier in the army:

Ralph Mock 32 Vice President, Steel

Margaret 30

Martha 5 all OH parents OH

Margaret 3 6/12

Russell L. Mock 28 Brother Soldier in the Army

Margaret _rune 25 Maid Servant ENG ENG ENG

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1920 Series: T625 Roll: 1374 Page: 288

OH CUYAHOGA CLEVELAND HEIGHTS

Ralph was living in Cleveland, Ohio, at the time of Russell's death in 1956.

The two children of Ralph Daler and Margaret (____) Mock:

1 Martha, daughter, born 1914/1915 in Ohio.

2 Margaret, daughter, born 1916/1917 in Ohio.

iii Russell Lowell, son, born 25 Mar 1892 in West Salem, Wayne, Ohio, and died 14 Oct 1956 in Tucson, Pima, Arizona. Russell Lowell was married 28 Feb 1921 in Flemingsburg, Fleming, Kentucky to Mabel Beckett {b 22 Jan 1893 in Kentucky, and died 15 Nov 1960 in San Fernando, California}.

There was a Russell L. Mock, single and of the correct age, 28, censused 1920 as a patient in the U. S. Army General Hospital in Deerfield Township, Lake County, Illinois. He held the rank of Sgt. in F Corps, and was born in Ohio.

A partially anonymous web page of Carla at the University of Minnesota, entitled Descendants of William Quaintance III [www.tc.umn.edu/~lienx004/q_gene.html], provided Mabel’s birth date and parentage, as well as Russell’s birthplace and their marriage. Mabel’s paternal grandmother was a Sarah Quaintance from Kentucky.

Her father’s 1900 census in Magisterial District No. 3, Fleming County, Kentucky, gives Mabel’s birth as Jan 1893 in Kentucky. She had four siblings, brothers Jesse and Raymond and sisters Frances “Frankie” and Mildred.

The obituaries of Russell and Mable were kindly supplied by Carrie, a genealogical lookup volunteer in Tucson:

Arizona Daily Star

Tucson, AZ

October 15, 1956

Russell Lowell Mock, 65, of 2470 N. Campbell Ave., died at his home yesterday. He came to Tucson 20 years ago from Buffalo, N.Y.

Mr. Mock was manager of People's Investment Corp. in Tucson and was a member of the American Legion.

He is survived by his wife, Mabel; one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth White, of North Carolina; and three brothers, Carleton, South Bend, Ind., Ralph, Cleveland, Ohio, and Clark, Baltimore, Md.

Arizona Daily Star

Tucson, AZ

November 18, 1958

Mrs. Mabel Beckett Mock, 65, of 2470 N. Campbell Ave., a World War I nurse, died last Friday in San Fernando Veterans Hospital in San Fernando, Calif. She had lived in Tucson for the past 20 years.

Surviving Mrs. Mock are two sisters, Mrs. Frances Ryan and Mrs. Elmer Foster of San Antonio, Tex., and two brothers, Jesse and Raymond Beckett of Louisville, Ky.

iv Clark Leslie, son, born 25 Feb 1896 in Stark County and died 1981 in Baltimore, Maryland. A web page entitled “Initial List of Rhodes Scholars” includes Clark Leslie Mock, RS19 [www.biblebelievers.org.au/]. It’s probable that the 19 means the year 1919, although this is never specified. But for a man born 1896, the age of 23 would be reasonable for receiving a scholarship to graduate study, and to be eligible for the scholarship, applicants had to be under 24 years of age.

Clark Mock is named as editor of “Sketlioi”, v2, 1920, an annual of Adelbert College, Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio [www.case.edu/ its/archives/

Buildings/adlgym1919src.htm].

The name Sketlioi is also found as that of a club founded 1914 at Western Reserve University (since 1967 Case Western Reserve University).

A biography of Clark Leslie Mock appears in a book entitled Representative Clevelanders, [edited by R. Y. McCray, The Cleveland Topics Co., 1927. www.ancestorinfo.com]. I haven’t yet read this biography, but it will most likely identify Clark as the son of Daniel Franklin and Anna Melissa Mock, as I find it improbable that two Clark Leslie Mocks of about the same age would be found in northern Ohio at the same time.

Clark was living in Baltimore, Maryland, at the time of his brother Russell's death in 1956.

v Elizabeth Frances, daughter, born 1898 in Ohio and died 1976 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Elizabeth Frances married Henry White.

4 Sarah Ellen, daughter, born 1858/1859 in Ohio. Sarah Ellen was married 30 Dec 1880 in Wayne County to Lemman Zimmerman {b 1855/1856 in Pennsylvania}.

The husband of Ellen (Ella according to Summers) farmed for a time and then moved to Canton and was employed at Denber-Hampden Watch Works, according to Summers.

A marriage is recorded in an extracted IGI record [Marriage records, 1813-1951, Ohio Probate Court (Wayne County) ] between Lemman Zimmerman and Sarah E. Mock, 30 Dec 1880, Wayne, Ohio. I’m accepting this as the record for this couple, thus supplying her first name and the spelling I accept for his first name (which also appears as Lemman in the record of the birth of their daughter Bertha May.)

He appeared in his father’s 1880 census as Lemon:

Jacob ZIMMERMAN Self M Male W 50 PA Farmer PA PA

Martha ZIMMERMAN Wife M Female W 45 PA Keeps House PA PA

Lemon ZIMMERMAN Son S Male W 24 PA Grocer PA PA

Ida ZIMMERMAN Dau S Female W 15 OH At Home PA PA

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1800 Census Place Marshallville, Wayne, Ohio

Family History Library Film 1255076

NA Film Number T9-1076 Page Number 17B

However, I was unable to find any of this family in the 1900 census. There was an Ira M. Zimmerman aged 32 censused in Lawrence Township, Stark County in 1910 whose father was born in Pennsylvania and mother in Ohio. However, neither Lemon nor Ellen was living with that man.

The three children of Lemman and Sarah Ellen (Mock) Zimmerman as given by Summers:

i Ira, son. There was another Ira Zimmerman born in Baughman, Wayne County, a few years earlier than this Ira. That man’s parents were Frank and Mary (Eschliman) Zimmerman [1880 census].

There are submitted IGI records for an Ira Zimmerman birth 23 Feb 1883 in Ohio, and another for 21 Jul 1883, this latter the son of David and Emma J. (Derrow) Zimmerman. If the first of these two is in fact a different man, he may be th son of Lemman and Sarah Ellen. That birth date comes from a Social Security Death Record for Jan 1972 in Germantown, Montgomery, Ohio.

Finally, there is a marriage record for an Ira Zimmerman and Elma Amsbaugh about 1902 in Ohio.

Whether any of these are relavant is at this point unknowable.

ii Bertha May, daughter, born 2 Nov 1884 in Baughm, Wayne, Ohio. Bertha May married Emerson Bates. I haven’t been able to locate this Wayne County town, recorded as Baughm, in which Bertha May was born.

There was an Emmerson Bates, age 4, son of Emma Bates, single, censused 1880 in Dresden, Weakley, Tennessee. Otherwise I haven’t been able to find a record of Bertha’s husband except as named by Summers.

iii Ethel, daughter Ethel married ____ Crider.

5 Margaret A., daughter, born 1861 in Ohio. Margaret A. was married 11 Mar 1880 in Wayne County to Daniel Rohrer {b 1850 in Pennsylvania and died about 1932}.

Summers gives Margaret’s husband as Daniel “Robmen?”, but her marriage record names them as Maggie Mock and Daniel Rohrer [IGI, citing Marriage records, 1813-1951, Ohio Probate Court (Wayne County)]. He was a railroad employee in Akron, Ohio, and died about 1932, according to Summers.

The couple were censused as few months after their marriage, living in Greene, Wayne County, which I haven’t been able to locate.

Daniel ROHRER Self M M W 22 OH Farm Labor PA PA

Maggie ROHRER Wife M F W 17 OH Keeping House OH OH

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1800 Census Place Greene, Wayne, Ohio

Family History Library Film 1255077

NA Film Number T9-1077 Page Number

Their implied birth years of 1857/58 and 1862/63 in 1880 contrast rather strongly with those given explicity twenty years later, when they were censused adjacent to her parents, with Daniel born in Pennsylvania instead of Ohio:

Daniel Rohrer 1850 50 20 yrs married PA PA PA

Margaret A. 1861 38 3 ch, 3 living OH OH PA

Perler C. son 1895 4 OH PA OH

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1900 Series: T623 Roll: 1322 Page: 118

OH STARK LAWRENCE TWP

However, I don’t find them censused in subsequent years in any state. However, the possible variations in surname spelling, as well as their son’s given name, make it difficult to know for sure whether or not they were censused.

6 Cora B., daughter, born 6 Aug 1865 in Ohio and died 24 Jul 1951. Cora B. was married 1884 in Marshallville, Wayne, Ohio to William Edwin Weygandt {b 1864 in Ohio and died 22 Apr 1931}.

William was an attorney and became successively County Prosecutor, Probate Judge, and Common Pleas Judge, according to Summers. The details of their births, marriage and death shown here, more detailed than given by Summers, are from a submitted IGI record.

In 1900 they were censused in the 3rd Ward in Wooster, he as a Prosecuting Attorney:

William Weygandt 1864 35 married 14 years OH OH

Cora 1865 34 4 ch, 3 living OH OH PA

Carl 1888 11 At School OH OH OH

Ross 1890 9 At School OH OH OH

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1900 Series: T623 Roll: 1332 Page: 160

OH WAYNE 3-WD WOOSTER

In 1910 William was not censused in Wooster Township (with any spelling of his surname that I could think of), but appeared in 1920:

William Weygandt 55 OH OH OH Lawyer

Cora 54 OH PA PA

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1920 Series: T625 Roll: 1448 Page: 91

OH WAYNE WOOSTER

The three children of William Edwin and Cora B. (Mock) Weygandt:

i Carl, son, born 1888 in Ohio.

ii Ross, son, born 1890 in Ohio.

iii Ola, daughter Ola married John McGee.

7 Ida, daughter, born 1868/1869. Ida married John Graham {b about 1871}.

Ida and Ada were twin sisters, but Ada died as a child. Ida and John lived in Canton where he was employed in the insurance business.

Although there are several IGI records for Ida Mock, none have a spouse named Graham, and none of the births seem to be for Ida.

The three children of John and Ida (Mock) Graham:

i Margaret, daughter

ii Joyce K., daughter

iii Howard, son.

8 Ada †, daughter, born 1868/1869 in Ohio and died about 1873.

9 Lydia Ann †, daughter, born in 1859, died 11 Aug 1860 and was buried in Newman Creek Ch.

vi Jacob “Jake”, son, born 1821/1829 in Ohio. Jacob “Jake” was married 24 Aug 1848 in Stark County to Charlotte Oyster {b 1823/1824 in Ohio}.

According to the letter from George S. Mock, “Uncle Jake Mock married a woman by the name of Oyster, 3 miles west of Brookfield, a village called Greenville”. Her father had a large tannery where Abraham Mock and his sister (Elizabeth Houk) got their boot and shoe leather.

The IGI records their marriage as Jacob Mock and Charlotte Eyster, 24 Aug 1848, Stark County, Ohio [Marriage Records, 1809-1916; Marriage Index, 1809-1972, Probate Court (Stark County) Ohio.].

This census record for 1870 is apparently for this couple, in Allen County, Indiana in 1870:

Jacob Mock 48 Farmer 4500/1800 OH

Charlotte 46 Keeping House OH

Elizabeth 16 IN

Wm 13 IN

Emma 11 IN

Franklin 7 IN

Lemuel E. 4 IN

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1870 Series: M593 Roll: 298 Page: 532

IN ALLEN MADISON TWP

The age for Jacob places his birth in 1821/22, awkwardly close to those of his siblings, but all are based on census records and so decidedly suspect. He may have wanted to appear older than his wife (see the next census). That he had a son Franklin corresponds to the son Frank attributed to Jacob and Charlotte by Summers, and that Frank was in Indiana late in life.

In 1880 Jacob reported to the census taker that his father (Samuel) was born in Germany. It’s strange how family details get mixed up when handed down orally.

Jacob MOCK Self M M W 56 OH Farmer GER PA

Sharlotte MOCK Wife M F W 57 OH Keeps House OH PA

Jacob H. MOCK Son M W 17 IN Wks. On Farm OH OH

Lemuel E. MOCK Son M W 14 IN Wks. On Farm OH OH

Mary C. GRESSLY Dau F W 27 OH At Home OH OH

Emma M. GRESSLY GDau S Fe W 9 IN OH OH

John F. GRESSLY GSon S M W 7 IN OH OH

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1800 Census Place Hoagland, Allen, Indiana

Family History Library Film 1254264

NA Film Number T9-0264 Page Number 399C

The childrens’ birth places indicated the family moved to Indiana around 1853, but I was unable to find their 1860 census in Ohio or Indiana.

Summers in one place spelled Charlotte’s surname as Eyster, but most records (except her marriage) examined give it as Oyster.

On 11 Apr 1838, German Reformed Church seminary funds were collected in Babscreek, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania from Paul Mack, $5 and Frederick Oster, $10 [Genealogical Abstracts from Newspapers of the German Reformed Church 1830-1839 by Barbara Manning, Heritage Books, Inc, 19??]

George S. Mock wrote: “Uncle Jake Mock married a woman by the name of Oyster, 3 miles west of Brockfield, a village called Greenville. ... Mr. Oyster had a large tannery, on white bark principles, and Abraham Mock and sister got their boot and shoe leather there.”

The six children of Jacob “Jake” and Charlotte (Oyster) Mock:

1 Mary, daughter, born 1852/1853 in Ohio. Mary married ____ Gressly. We don't know the given name of Mary's husband, but he had probably died before she and the children were found living with her parents in 1880.

The two children of ____ and Mary (Mock) Gressly:

i Emma M., daughter, born 1870/1871 in Indiana.

ii John F., son, born 1872/1873 in Indiana. The name including middle initial, age and birth state make it reasonably sure that the John Gresly in Nebraska in 1910 was the son of Mary (Mock) Gressly. Whilethe census listed his mother as born in Ohio, the family moved shorthly after her birth to Indiana, and he may not have realized the distinction. While they were in Nebraska that year, John's wife was from Kansas and their daughter was born in Washington, indicating he had moved around a bit in his life.

John F. Gresly 37 IN IN IN Wholesale Salesman

Mary G. 29 KS RI NY

Ruth M. 6 WA IN KS

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1910 Series:T624 Roll:845 Page:88

NE DOUGLAS DUNDEE PCT

2 Elizabeth, daughter, born 1853/1854 in Indiana.

3 William, son, born 1856/1857 in Indiana.

4 Emma, daughter, born 1858/1859 in Indiana.

5 Franklin, son, born 1862/1863 in Indiana. Jake’s son Frank was living in Decatur, Indiana, in 1934, according to Summers.

A generation later in Decatur I find this census of 1920, and wonder if that is a Frank, Jr., born 1885/86?

Frank Mock 34 IN IN IN

Jane 21 OH OH OH

Betty J. 2 2/12 OH IN OH

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1920 Series: T625 Roll: 429 Page: 164

IN DECATUR 3-WD; GREENSBURG; WASHINGTON TWP

(The index is incorrect -- the census, although faint, clearly reads 34 years for this Frank’s age.)

6 Lemuel E., son, born 1865/1866 in Indiana. Lemuel E. married Anna Louise Marquardt {b 1 Mar 1869 in Allen County, Indiana, and died 14 Jul 1925 in Monroeville, Allen, Indiana, daughter of Adam and Charlotte M (Kruse) Marquardt}.

Lemuel is found in Madison Township, Allen County, Indiana in 1900:

Lemuel Mock 1865 34 married 7 years IN OH PA

Anna 1869 31 no children IN IN GER

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1900 Series: T623 Roll: 358 Page: 31

IN ALLEN MADISON TWP

Anna is identified (Summers had only her first name) on a RootsWeb Family Tree:

Wed Oct 31 18:14:57 2001

Contact: Kenneth Johnson

* Name: Lemuel E. MOCK

* Birth: Abt. 1867

* Married: 6 Apr 1893

* Name: Anna Louise MARQUARDT

* Birth: 1 Mar 1869 in Allen Co. IN

* Death: 14 Jul 1925 in Monroeville, IN

Father: Adam MARQUARDT b 25 Nov 1835 in Pennsylvania

Mother: Charlotte M. KRUSE b 13 Jun 1841 in PRUSSIA

vii Peter, son, born 1826/1835 in Ohio.

viii Mary S., daughter, born 1830/1834. Mary S. was married 31 Jan 1856 in Stark County to Samuel Robison.

Summers had Mary’s husband’s name as Robinson, but the IGI [citing Marriage records, 1809-1916; marriage index, 1809-1972, Ohio. Probate Court (Stark County)] spells it as Robison (and her maiden name as Mocks).

ix Rachel, daughter, born 1835/1839 in Ohio. Rachel was married 20 Aug 1878 in Stark County to Edward Kennedy (1). She married (2) ____ Myers.

Rachel’s first marriage is recorded in the IGI [extracted from Marriage records, 1809-1916; marriage index, 1809-1972, Ohio. Probate Court (Stark County) ]. I was unable to find either spouse in the 1880 census.

However, by 1880 there was a widow Rachel Myers born 1828/29 living in Edon, Williams County, Ohio, with a son Charles, 21. If that was a stepson, then this could be a record of Rachel if she was widowed, married and widowed again in less that two years. This Rachel listed both of her parents as born in Pennsylvania, but Samuel and his wife were so recorded in 1850, so there may have been some carelessness or uncertainty in birth places entered by the family into census records.

Rachel MYERS Self W Female 51 OH Keeping House PA PA

Charles MYERS Son S Male 21 OH Clerk In Store MD OH

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1880 Census Eden [sic], Williams, Ohio [should be Edon]

Family History Library Film 1255077

NA Film Number T9-1077 Page Number 553B

Twenty years later the widow Rachel Myers was still living in Florence Township (in which Edon is located), Williams County:

Widow age 71, born 1829 OH, parents born PA, living alone

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1900 Series:T623 Roll:1332 Page:63

OH WILLIAMS FLORENCE

[1] Much of this manuscript was copied in the Canton, Ohio library by Pat Shemenski, who forwarded it to Steve Lapp in San Franciso in April, 1994. It went from him to Ron Moore who made paper copies for me and other Mock researchers. More recently (2004), Marilyn Pohlman has transcribed all of his papers which are now available in the MOCK-GEL-L Archives, home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/mock-gen-l.html. Now, 2005, I find that it is listed in the Family History Library Catalog, US/CAN Film 22229 Item 3, where the title is "Genealogical data of Brumbaugh, Pontius, Hoover, Houser, Miller, Mock, Buchtel, Seefong, Thomas, Shively, Stuckey, Snyder and Summer families".

[2] This was reported to me by Steve Lapp via Ron Moore, March 1994.