Johannes Niclaus
Kistler
A Research Report on
His Life and Some of His Descendants
by Patricia
St.Clair
Ostwald
Introduction:
My Kistler
research
began as an
attempt to learn more about the ancestry of my mother Hattie Kistler
St.Clair (1900-1994). Her father was
Charles Kistler
(1864/7-1927). Her grandfather Solomon
Kistler (1831-1903) had deserted his family after serving in the Civil
War, and
his wife Sarah and his children knew nothing more of him after that
time. Solomon and Sarah grew up and
married in a
neighborhood straddling the line between Clark
and Jefferson Counties
in Indiana, so this
was where research began. A book
published by the DAR, Roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the
American
Revolution Buried in Indiana, included Frederick Kistler of Clark
County.
This provided the clue needed to begin years
of interesting research. Frederick
Kistler applied for a pension based on his service in the Revolution,
giving
detailed information which made it possible to follow him as he moved
from Pennsylvania to Virginia
to Georgia
to Kentucky to Indiana.
Frederick Kistler
stated that he was
born in 1760 in Lancaster County Pennsylvania and enlisted for his
first term
of service from Northumberland
County in
1776. In searching for a family for Frederick
in this
area, I began to compile baptismal records for children of Johannes
Nicholas
Kistler and his wife Anna Maria Magdalena Brossman, but Frederick
was not
found among them.
As research
continued
in the various
locations where Frederick
lived
through his lifetime, I began to realize that he was associating with
Francis,
son of Johannes Niclaus Kistler, in Northumberland County Pennsylvania,
and
later in Kentucky and Indiana.
My research has
been an
attempt to
document these interactions. Through
this process, I have become convinced that Frederick Kistler was indeed
a
younger son of Johannes Niclaus Kistler, even though a baptismal record
has not
been found.
Please remember,
when
reading this
research report, that there is no one document which proves this
relationship. I will attempt to clearly
state my case by recounting the supporting events as I have found them. We may always have to say about Frederick
that he
was probably a son of Johannes Niclaus Kistler.
An additional
note
about militarymon's
Civil War pension application made it possible to track his life after
he left
his Missouri family
in 1870. Without these records, we would
have been able
pension records - Frederick's
son
John served in the War of 1812 from Georgia. His widow's pension gave valuable information
about this couple. Their son Solo to find
little information about my mother's Kistler ancestry.
This report
begins with
the life of
Johannes Niclaus Kistler, presented in timeline format, followed by
sources and
summary, and continues in like manner with selected descendants.
OUTLINE OF MAJOR
PEOPLE IN
JOHANNES NICLAUS KISTLER REPORT
Individual
identification numbers are assigned for this report only.
When known, a marriage date is given, with
name of spouse. Otherwise, an
approximate birth year is given in parenthesis.
In the outline below, the list of children is indented
below the
parent's name.
When the
individual is shown as a parent, their ID number appears at the
beginning of
their section. When the individual is a
child, look for their ID number in the list of children under the name
of the
parent. A plus sign before a child's
name indicates that more data will be shown for that individual as an
adult,
further on in the report.
In
numbering children in families, a few numbers between families are
intentionally skipped, allowing for the insert of additional names if
more
children are identified.
1
Johannes Niclaus Kistler m. 1743, Anna Maria Magdalena
Brossman
+
2
Maria Magdalena Kistler
m. 1764, Jacob Groshong
3
Johann Heinrich Kistler (b. 1745)
4
Anna Margaretha Kistler (b. 1748)
5
Johann George Kistler (b. 1753)
+
6
Frantz Bastian Kistler
(b. 1753)
+
7
Daniel Kistler m. ca
1776, Eva Sophia
24
Daniel Kistler (b. 1777)
25
Barbara Kistler m. 1796, Peter Zumwalt
26
Elizabeth Kistler m. 1808, Henry Zumwalt
+
8
Frederick Kistler
(probable son) m. 1787, Catherine Roller
30
Emanuel Kistler m. 1824, Minta Jones
+
31
John Kistler m. 1816, Elizabeth Hudgens
40 Matilda Kistler m.(1)
1833, Job
Eldridge
41 Martha Jane Kistler m.
1845,
Joshua Taylor
+
42 William J. Kistler m.(1)
1849, Elizabeth
Hays
50 John T. Kistler b. ca 1852)
51 Samuel H. Kistler m. 1880,
Nancy
Horner
52 Worcester
J.
Kistler m. 1881, Mary A. Black
53 Mary J. Kistler (b. ca
1859)
54 Martha Elizabeth Kistler
m.
1879, Azor
Charles
55 Andrew Jackson Kistler
m.1888,
Nettie
56 William M. Kistler m.
1881,
Luvenia Brandon
+
43 Solomon Kistler m.(1)
1850,
Sarah Rankins
60 Mary Jane Kistler m. 1871,
David
H. Allison
+
61 James Risley Kistler
m.1876,
Amanda J.
Faulkner
75 Ulla V. Kistler m. 1889,
Jane
Tollman
76 Charles Kistler
1881-1885
77 Frederick Kistler m. 1907,
Molly
Weidenkeller
78 William Warren Kistler (b.
1892)
62 Martha Ann Kistler m.
1871, John
F. Bishop
+
63 William Frank Kistler m.
1886,
Jane Ann
Clemmons
80 Grace Kistler m. Walter
Stewart
81 William Arthur Kistler m.
1811,
Nina Hurst
82 George Lee Kistler m.
1917,
Marion Clark
64 Elizabeth (Lizzie) Kistler
(b.ca
1861)
+
65 Charles Kistler m. 1893,
Hattie
Grace Denio
85 Wilbur Denio Kistler m.
Charlotte Ardery
86 Ruth Kistler
1896-1949, never married
87 Hattie Ethel Kistler m.
1923,
James A.
St.Clair
88 Charles Aaron Kistler m.
1926,
Virginia
Peeples
66 Larry Kistler (b.ca 1873)
possible son
+
43 Solomon Kistler m.(2)
1875,
Eliza Goben
67 Toney Kistler m. 1895,
Milla
Simmons
68 Noah Kistler m. 1899
Mollie
Gipson
69 Doney Kistler (b. 1886) m.
Nina
44 Elizabeth Kistler (b. 1837)
32
Susannah Kistler m. 1817, Andrew Giltner
33
Frederick Kistler (possible son) m. 1822, Sarah McCoy
34
Solomon Kistler m. 1829, Nancy Cain
35
Samuel Kistler (b. ca 1805) blind, never married
JOHANNES NICLAUS
KISTLER - AUGMENTED TIME LINE
In April of 1737,
a man
named
Johannes Kistler received permission from the authorities in Karlsruhe,
Province of Baden,
to
emigrate with his three minor sons. He
stated he was from Auerbach. (Auerbach is a small town, SE of
Karlsruhe, where
church records for this time period were destroyed by fire.)
On 5 October 1737, a ship, the
billender
Townshend, last from Amsterdam,
arrived
in Philadelphia, where a
passenger named Johannes Kistler then subscribed to the Declaration of
Allegiance. Passengers under 16 on this
ship were not listed by name, thus the names of the three sons are
unknown.
There are several
men
surnamed
Kistler in early Pennsylvania
records
who might be the above immigrant, or one of the "three minor
sons". The following timeline lists
the life events of one possible candidate for the position of "minor
son".
The
given
names of Johannes Niclaus
Kistler and his wife vary considerably from record to record - they are
given
here as spelled in the original source or professional translation. It is my personal decision to use the
complete form Johannes, even when coupled with a second name, because
Johannes
often is used alone in the records. I
have chosen the spelling Niclaus as it seems a reasonable combination
of the
variety of spellings found.
Information added
to
original
records is placed in brackets.
Johannes
Niclaus Kistler
1743,
19
April married Anna Tulpehocken
Twp, Lancaster Co,
PA. (As subdivisions occurred, area
became part of Berks Co. in 1752, and Marion Twp. 1843.) She was dau of
Frantz
and Anna Clara (Rudolph) Brossman of same place. Frantz
Brossman was buried there 18
Oct 1749.
1743,
12
May
Joh.
Kistler witnessed laying of cornerstone of Christ
Lutheran Church,
Stouchsburg, Tulpehocken Twp. PA, as did Franciscus Brossmann. (A
translation
of records of this church by Frederick S. Weiser, 1990, states the
names in the
list of 165 witnesses are all written in the hand of Tobias Wagner,
pastor.)
1744,
14
Jan
dau
born, Maria Magdalena. Father:
John Kistler
1744,
17
Feb
baptized
- at Tulpehocken, records of John Casper Stoever Sponsors:
Johannes Immel, Eliz. Lehman, Anna
Maria Kintzel.
(Maria
Magdalena married Jacob Grojean [Groshong] 30 May 1764 - recorded by Rev. J. C.
Bucher).
1745,
13
April
son born, Johann Heinrich. Father:
Joh. Niclaus Kistler, Mother: Anna
Maria ne Brossmannin
1745,
28
April
baptized Miseri[cordia] D[omi]ni -
(2nd Sunday after Easter, old calendar), Christ
Lutheran Church,
Stouchsburg. Sponsor: Heinrich Kettner. Tobias Wagner, pastor.
1746,
Easter
Joh.
Kistler and Ann. Magd. were communicants at Christ
Church,
Stouchsburg (only time Kistlers were listed in this record covering
1743-1746).
1747,
10
Oct
Johann
Kistler & wife Anna Maria Kistlerin announced intention to commune
at Trinity Lutheran
Church in Lancaster
(in a
list of 158 persons, including Johan Michael Stumpf).
1748,
18
Oct
dau born, Anna
Margaretha. Father: Johann Nicolaus,
Mother: Anna Magdalena.
1748,
30
Oct
baptized
Trinity Lutheran
Church, Lancaster
PA. Sponsor:
Michael Stumpft. (At this time, this
church was served as a
supply by John Nicholas Kurtz, the same minister who served Christ
Lutheran,
Stouchsburg, from Dec 1746 to 1770.)
1750,
14
April
Johannes Claus Kistler and Anna
Magdalena Kistlerin announced at the preparatory sermon at Trinity
Lutheran
Church, Lancaster, that they would take communion on the first day of
the
Easter Festival, April 15, 1750. (They
were #206 & 207 in a list of 242 names.)
1750
tax
list
A John Kistler
listed as inmate (renter) in Lancaster
borough.
1750,
3
June
Joh.
Kistler was listed with Michael Muller as someone who intended to go to
communion at Trinity on Pentecost, 3 June 1750, which he did.
1753,
21
Aug
twin
sons born, Joh. Georg and Frantz Bastian, father: John
Clauss
Kisler, mother Magdalena.
1754,
20
June
baptized
Christ Lutheran
Church,
Stouchsburg. Sponsors: Frantz Bastian
Brossman, Maria Katherina Keiserin, Justina Brossmannin.
Parents "live 50 miles from here across
the Susquehanna".
Note:
The proprietors of PA, in
1754,
purchased
from the Iroquois, a large tract of land on the west side of the Susquehanna
River extending northwest from the mouth of Penns Creek -
including Buffalo and White
Deer Townships. Settlers had already crossed the treaty line
seeking homesteads. This land was part
of Northumberland Co from 1772 until 1813 and is now Union Co. Buffalo
Township is where
Francis and Daniel Kistler and their brother-in-law Jacob Grojean later
settled, and where Francis and Frederick enlisted in Revolutionary
service in
1776. Johannes Niclaus Kistler may well
have attempted a settlement in this area by 1753. (See
source #8, on p5.)
After
Gen Braddock's defeat in 1755,
Indian attacks forced the new settlers to flee to safety in the older
settlements
to the east. This may explain, in part,
why the Johannes Niclaus Kistler family appears on record in several
different
locations. Also, there is often an
unusual gap of time between birth and baptism of the Kistler children -
they
may have been brought from some distance back to the Tulpehocken area
where
Brossman relatives continued to live, thus baptized on a visit home.
1755,
27
May
son
born, Daniel. Father: Johannes
Kistler, Mother: Magdalena
1756,
11
Jan
baptized
Christ Lutheran
Church,
Stouchsburg. Sponsors: Andrew Graf and
wife.
(Daniel
and wife Eva Sophia had son Daniel baptized 24 June 1777 at Killenger
Salem Evangelical
Lutheran Church,
in
Lykins Valley, Dauphin Co. PA. By 1783,
Daniel was on tax lists in Buffalo Twp. Northumberland Co (now Union
Co) and in
1786 he mortgaged his personal property to his brother-in-law Jacob
Groshong. Soon after this, Jacob
Groshong and Francis and Daniel Kistler moved to the Bourbon-Harrison
Co area
of Kentucky.
(For
more detail, see Daniel Kistler timeline.)
1758
tax
list
John Kistler,
Paxton, Lancaster, 1 lb; landlord's part
18s.
1760
born Frederick,
possibly also son of this couple.
Birthplace: Lancaster
County as per
Revolutionary War pension application, #S16177.
In 1760, Lancaster Co. included all of what is now Dauphin
and Lancaster,
and the
south tip of Northumberland. Frederick
associated throughout life with supposed "brothers" Francis and
Daniel, in PA, KY and IN. He served in
the PA 4th Battalion in 1776 under Capt. John Clark with Francis
Kistler. Frederick
lived
the last years of his life on a tract of land in Indiana,
originally belonging to Francis Kistler.
For
more detail, see Frederick Kistler timeline.
1772
Johannes
Kistler on tax list of Upper Paxtang Twp, Lancaster Co. PA.
1773,
13
April PA
Land Records, Lancaster Co.
warrant #K307, 100 acres, Paxtang Twp, issued to John Kastler. FHL film #1028748
1774,
15
Nov
same tract of land
deeded over to Francis Gissler [Kistler?]
1774,
24
Nov
Francis released and
quit-claimed it back to proprietors.
(Francis
Gistler had his own warrant #G392, for land in same area.)
1778,
fall
John
Kistler, late of Upper Paxton
township, deceased.
1778,
3
Oct
letters of
administration filed - Mary Kistler, widow of John Kistler,
administrator;
inventory. Lancaster
County Bond
Book #3
1779
and
1780 Widow
Kesler and
Daniel Kesler on tax list of Upper Paxtang Twp.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- JOHANNES NICLAUS KISTLER TIMELINE
(FHL
=
Church of Jesus
Christ of Later-Day Saints, Family History
Library)
1
Baden
Stadtarchuv, Karsruhe GER,
Source 61/1258 #41 - Kennf Cammer Protocolla vom 23 Apr 1737 biss
10 Aug
1737.
2
Strassburger,
Ralph B. &
Wm.J.Hinke - Pennsylvania German Pioneers, 3 Vols
Pennsylvania German Society Norristown,
NJ 1934.
3
Stoever,
Johan Casper, Rev. Record of Baptisms
& Marriages 1730-1779 LDS
film #0021595 item 8 p25, p60;
also #0021533 item 2; #0020436 item 7.
4
Weiser,
Frederick S., Records of
Pastoral Acts at Christ
Lutheran Church,
Stouchsburg, Berks County,
Pennsylvania,
Part I
- Baptisms, 1743-1819 PA German
Society 1989. (This
area was part of Lancaster
until
1752.)
5
ditto,
Part II Baptisms, 1820-1835,
Marriages, 1744-45, 1748-52, 1771-1851, Burials, Confirmations &
Communicants, etc PA German
Society 1990.
6
Bucher,
John Conrad Record of Marriages,
1763-1769 Pennsylvania Magazine of
History and
Biography V.26 (1902) p375. See also LDS
film #0504289 item 2 - marriages; film #0504290 item 2 - baptisms; LDS
film
#1294885 item 11.
7
Weiser,
Frederick S. The Earliest Records of
the Evangelical Lutheran
Church
of the
Holy Trinity, Lancaster,
Pennsylvania 1730-1744.
8
Snyder,
Charles M. Union
County, Pennsylvania - A
Bicentennial History, Chapters I and
II Lewisburg PA, 1976.
9
Linn,
John Blair Annals of Buffalo
Valley, 1755-1855 Harrisburg PA 1877 p122, Co 4 1776 Military list; p181, tax
list. LDS book 974.8 H2l or 1975 reprint
& index - f#0982246 item 5.
10
Annette K.
Burgert Eighteenth Century Emigrants,
Vol I, The Northern Kraichgau
PA German Society, 1983.
11
First
Record Book of Salem Evangelical
Lutheran Church at Killenger in the Lykins Valley, Dauphin County PA
1770-1859, LDS book 974.818 K1V2w, computer printout f#0933995 item 3.
12
Lancaster
County Pennsylvania tax lists,
original records read on microfilm at the Lancaster County Historical
Library. These records were very hard to
read.
13
Glatfelter,
Charles H. Pastors and
People, Vol I,
Pastors and
Congregations.
General history of Pennsylvania Lutheran
and Reformed churches,
1717-1793.
JOHANNES
NICLAUS KISTLER - FAMILY SUMMARY
1
Johannes
Niclaus Kistler,
birthdate and birthplace unknown. He was
married 19 April 1743,
by John
Casper Stoever, in Tulpehocken
Township, Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania to Anna
Maria Magdalena Brossman. She was
born in Waldangelloch, Baden, Germany
to Frantz
Brossman and Anna Clara Rudolph who emigrated from
Waldangelloch to Pennsylvania
in 1739.
children:
+ 2
i Maria
Magdalena Kistler was born 14
January 1744 and was baptized at Tulpehocken
Township, Lancaster
by John
Casper Stoever on 17
February, 1744.
3
ii Johann
Heinrich Kistler was
born 13 April 1745
and baptized 18 April 1745
at Christ Lutheran
Church in
Stouchsburg, Tulpehocken Township,
Lancaster County. Note: this location became part of Berks
County in 1752
and Marion Township
in 1843.
4 iii Anna Margaretha Kistler was
born 18 October 1748
and baptized 30 October 1748
at Trinity Lutheran
Church in the
town of Lancaster.
5 iv Johann George Kistler was born
21 August 1753,
twin.
+ 6
v Frantz
Bastian Kistler was born 21
August 1753, twin. The twins
were baptized 20 June 1754
at Christ Lutheran
Church in
Stouchsburg, Tulpehocken Township.
+ 7
vi Daniel
Kistler was born 27 May 1755 and baptized 11 January 1756 at Christ
Lutheran Church in Stouchsburg.
+ 8
vii Frederick
Kistler, possibly a child of this family, was born in Lancaster
County in 1760.
Note: The next four segments
offer
a break in the
family outline. The first two segments
are speculation and analysis of the Johannes Niclaus timeline, and the
baptismal record. The third segment
lists some information about unplaced Kistler people found in the same
general
area of Pennsylvania. The last one discusses clues to possible
relationships noticed in several baptismal records.
The
second generation in the account
of descendants of Johannes Niclaus Kistler then continues.
JOHANNES NICLAUS KISTLER -
SPECULATION BASED ON TIME LINE
He
came
to America
at
unknown time - perhaps as a minor son of Johannes Kistler who arrived
in Philadelphia 5 October 1737 on ship
billender
Townshend. [See manumission certificate,
source #1, on Bibliography list.]
First
public appearance of his name in Pennsylvania
is
record of marriage, 19 April
1743, recorded by Rev Casper Stoever at Stouchsburg, Tulpehocken
Township, then in
Lancaster County Pennsylvania, to Anna [Maria] Magdalena Brossman. This record calls him Johannes Kistler but
the middle name Niclaus was used in many subsequent church records. His wife's bracketed name - Maria - was not
used at the marriage but her name appears in subsequent records in
several
combinations of the three given names shown above.
Next
appearance on a public record was a few weeks later when he signed,
among some
166 others on 12 May 1743, as a witnesses to the laying of the corner
stone for
the new Christ Lutheran Church at Stouchsburg, Tulpehocken Township. His name was three names removed from that of
his new father-in-law Franciscus Brossman.
(See source #5)
Theory
-
if he arrived as a teenager, perhaps an orphan, he may have been
indentured or
apprenticed to Brossman (who arrived in PA in 1739) and married his
boss's
daughter.
The
young
couple may have lived with Brossman family.
First two children were baptized at Tulpehocken within a
few
weeks of
birth. Our Kistler couple are on record
as attending church there on Easter in 1746.
From
10
Oct 1747 to 3 June 1750
they are on records of Trinity
Lutheran Church
in town
of Lancaster - child
born during this period was baptized here about two weeks from birth.
Next
record is a 20 June 1754
baptism, again back in Tulpehocken, of twin sons born
nearly a year earlier on 21
August 1753. The baptismal
record states parents "live 50 miles from here across the Susquehanna". See note on time line about possible reasons
for this.
Last
recorded baptism yet found is again in Tulpehocken and takes place 11
Jan 1756
for a son born 27 May of the year before.
It is surmised that the Kistler family was still living
west of
the Susquehanna
at the time of this birth - therefore
the delay in the baptism.
They
may
have stayed east of the river from 1756 on, although their sons and
son-in-law
did return over the river to settle in what later became Buffalo
Township, Northumberland
County [now Union].
The
only
land records that might be attributed to this Johannes Kistler were not
entered
until 1772, when he might have been legalizing a long-time residence in
Upper Paxton
Township, Lancaster
County [now
Dauphin] - the estate had a nice farm inventory in 1778.
He is
thought to be the "John" Kistler late of Upper
Paxton Township
whose
widow "Mary" probated his estate in October 1778. She
and Daniel were taxed there in 1779 and
1780.
BAPTISMAL
SPONSORS FOR CHILDREN OF JOHANNES NICLAUS KISTLER AND HIS WIFE ANNA
MARIA MAGDALENA BROSSMAN
This
compilation is an attempt to find clues to the origins of Johannes
Niclaus by
studying his associates. His wife's
Brossman family were from Waldangelloch in the Kraichgau, Baden,
Germany. There were Kistler families in Richen, a town
about 7 miles southeast of Waldangelloch, but Johannes Nicholas has not
been
found in church records there.
The
records of baptism are given in the timeline of the life of Johannes
Nicholas
Kistler. Sponsor information follows:
Johannes
Immel
- possibly from Immelhauserhof which is about 2 1/2 miles northeast of
Waldangelloch and about 6 miles from Richen - a guess, because of the
town
name.
Eliz
Lehman
- possibly wife of George, nothing found about her.
Anna
Maria
Kintzel - nothing found about her identity.
Heinrich
Kettner - from Waldangelloch. source - *NK, p197
Kettner
and Immel were probably Brossman acquaintances.
Michael
Stumpft - he was baptized 16
Nov 1705 at Schwaigern, a town 5 1/2 miles southeast of
Richen, thus
about 12 1/2 miles from Waldangelloch. (This Kistler baptism took place
in Trinity Lutheran
Church, Lancaster
town -
the only Kistler baptism which took place away from the Brossman
homeplace.) Michael Stumpft married,
1731, Anna Margarethe Emmerich and had children baptized 1732-1742 in
Schwaigern, and again in 1748 in Lancaster
PA, where Michael
and Rosina Hubele were sponsors.
Another Hubele man, also a member of Trinity Lutheran
church, was J.Frederich Hubele who
sponsored a
child of Paul Geiger and wife Marie Eva Kistler - she from
Richen
Kistlers. J.Frederick Hubele was from
Adelshofen, another town near Richen.
Michael Stumpft is the only sponsor who seems to have a
Kistler
connection.
Sources - Stumpft: *NK, p364; Hubele:
*NK, p179/80; Geiger: *NK, p124/5
Note: A Wilhelm
Stumpft witnessed the will of Johannes Kistler of Albany Township,
Berks Co. in 1772. Is this a clue
that
Tulpehocken and Allemangel Kistlers are related?
Frantz
Bastian Brossman, Justina Brossmannin - brother and sister
of
Kistler's wife.
Maria
Katherina Keiserin - nothing found about her identity.
Andreas
Graf and wife - could this be Andreas Kraft from
Waldangelloch? If so, he was related to
the Brossmans through the Fessler family of Waldangelloch.
However, Andreas Kraft may have died prior to
the date of the Kistler baptism - January 1756.
sources - Brossman: *NK, p77/8; Kraft:
*NK, p217-220
*NK
=
Burgert, Annette K, Eighteenth Century Emigrants, Volume I, Northern
Kraichgau
MISCELLANEOUS
KISTLER RECORDS FROM THE SAME AREA AND TIME PERIOD
Additional
Kistler births from the records of Christ Lutheran Church at Stouchsburg
11
Oct 1753
born - Cath. Barb.
Father: Tobias Kistler, Mother: A. Ephro.
(Anna Ephrosina)
13 Oct 1753
baptized - Sponsors: Conrad
Rattenauer & wife
3
Aug 1756
born - Maria Magdalena. Father: Joh. Philip Kistler,
Mother: An. Margret.
5 Sept 1756
Sponsors: Joseph Fols
and
Magdalene Kützmüllerin
Note: Tobias
and Phillip are on Lancaster
list of
those taking oaths of allegiance, 5 Jan 1778. Could
they be two
of Johannes's "minor sons" along with Johannes Niclaus?
From
the
Marriage Records of John Conrad Bucher - 1763-1769
Pennsylvania
Magazine of History and Biography V.26 (1902) p375+
30
May
1764 Jacob
Grojean and Mary Magdalena Kistler
(identified
on their timeline as a daughter of Johannes Kistler and Anna Maria
Magdalena
Brossman)
9
Aug 1766
John Kistler and An: Marg:
Strieker
15
Oct
1766 "Josua"
Rhoddo and Magdalena Kistler
[Joseph
Roddy, 1790 Census, Cumberland Co PA]
31
Dec 1766
Johannes Langweyl and Maria Kistner
(indexed Kistler)
Emanuel
Lutheran Church, Warwick Township, Lancaster Co PA
1742,
13
Aug born a son Christian to
Johannes Kichler
1742,
14
Nov baptized,
Sponsors: Christian Balmer & wife.
(A Michael Balmer was on the Townshend, 1737)
John Casper Stoever, Pastor
baptized,
a daughter Ana Catherine - Sponsors: Adam Ulrich (on the 1743
Tulpehocken
witness list) and Ana Catherine Reyerin. (Adam was from Büchig -
just N of
Bretten, N of Pforzheim.)
Note:
This twin baptism took place at the Muddy Creek church in Cocalico
Township which is
not far from Tulpehocken and was re-recorded at the new church. Is this surname Kistler?
(Sources
& Documents of PA Germans VIII)
Additional
Kistler record from Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster
11
Feb 1765
born - Phillip. Father: Philipp Klug, Mother: Veronica
[Kistler].
3 Mar 1765
baptized -
Sponsors:
parents & Veronica
Kistlerin, grandmother.
(Who was
Veronica's husband? Veronica was a name
used by Kistlers in Richen, Germany.)
KISTLER-STUMPFF-HUBELE
CONNECTIONS
Trinity
Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Lancaster Co. PA
13 Nov 1748
Michael
Stumph and wife Anna Margaretha had baptized a son
Gottlieb.
Sponsors were Michael Hubele &
Rosina, his wife.
Michael Stumpff
and wife Anna Margaretha were sponsors just two weeks earlier for the
baptism
of Anna Margaretha, daughter of Johannes Niclaus and Anna Magdalena Kistler.
(see timeline)
[Johann Michael
Stumpff was born in Schwaigern, Baden, SE of
Richen, and married there Anna Margaretha, daughter of Joh. Phillip
Emmerich. The Stumpff couple emigrated
with 5 children in 1743.] (see
bibliography source #10)
Jacob Hubele of this
same church was from Berwangen, Baden, located
close NE of Richen in the Kraichgau.
(see source #10)
Joh. Frederick Hubele
(death recorded in Trinity Lutheran, Lancaster
PA records,
1769, aged 50) was also born in Berwangen.
(see source #10)
New
Hanover Lutheran Church records - Geiger, Kistler and Hubele
This church was in the
northwest part of Montgomery
County.
13
July 1756
Frederick Hubeli and wife were sponsors at baptism
of
child of Paul Geiger and wife Maria Eva Kistler who
were married
in Richen, 29 April, 1749.
Paul Geiger was born
in Berwangen, and Maria Eva Kistler was born in Richen, daughter of
Jacob
Kistler who was born in Richen 11 Jan 1685, son of Hans Kistler and
Veronica
Heuberger who were also parents of a son Johannes born 1 June 1692.
He is a Johannes Kistler who might possibly be the 1737
immigrant to PA
with 3 minor sons.
SPECULATION:
If
this Johannes Kistler, b
1692 in Richen, was the immigrant of 1737, and if Johannes
Niclaus was
one of his 3 minor sons, Johannes Niclaus would have been a first
cousin to
Maria Eva (Kistler) Geiger.
Could
this relationship explain why
these families from a small district in the Kraichgau, Baden,
all
seemed to know each other in Pennsylvania? Previous family friendship between the
Kistlers and Stumpffs may explain why Johannes Niclaus Kistler and wife
brought
a child to Lancaster for
baptism, and occasionally worshiped there as shown by church attendance
records. Of course, Lancaster
was the
county seat for an extended part of Pennsylvania
during
the years of these records - the Kistler's may have had business to
transact at
the courthouse.
Second
Generation, #2 MARIA
MAGDALENA (KISTLER) GROSHONG
1744,
14
Jan born to
Johannes
Niclaus Kistler and Anna Maria Magdalena Brossman
1744,
17
Feb baptized
- at Tulpehocken Township,
Lancaster County Pennsylvania, recorded in records of John Casper
Stoever. Sponsors: Johannes Immel, Eliz.
Lehman, Anna
Maria Kintzel.
1764,
30
May married
Jacob Grojean
(Groshong), recorded by John Casper Bucher.
Introducing
the groom - Jacob
Grojean/Groshong. Pre-marriage data:
1725,
18 Dec baptized,
Diedendorf Ref Church, Hellering les Fenetrange,
Alsace. Son
of Abraham Grosjean who m. 24
April 1713 Judith Vautrin, dau of Hans
Peter Vautrin. (Annette Burgert; Alsace
Immigrants)
1751,
4 8ber arrived
Philadelphia
- ship
Queen of Denmark (S&H)
1753,
19 Feb Warrant
for 147
acres N of Wiconisco Ck near the Susquehanna R
in Upper Paxton Twp, Lancaster Co PA
(Survey Book C-68, page 55).
1765,
10
Sept surveyed,
200 acres
joining his other lands in Upper Paxton Twp, Lancaster Co.
including improvements bought of Rob't
Watson, joining Edward Shippen SE, Geo Osburn & sd Grosjean's other
lands
(Survey Book F, page 296). He had large
land holdings and mill at Millersburg.
Lancaster County Deed Bk K, p18/19.
1769,
fall
was settler on
West side of the Susquehanna on Buffalo Ckeek [now Union Co.] at later
location
of Chambers-Hoffa-Grove Mill (Union
County, Pennsylvania, a Bicentennial History, Charles M. Snyder)
1773,
8
Jan
Northumberland
warrant G21; Survey Book D63, page 100, 94 acres on N side Buffalo
Creek, 26 April 1773 (area became Union in
1813)
1780,
83,
85 Northumberland
tax
lists - Buffalo Twp; horses, cows, mills.
1785,
15
May took
mortgage of
personal property of Daniel Kistler (bro-in-law) of Buffalo
Township.
Northumberland Co Deed Book C, p288.
1794
on tax list of
Harrison County Kentucky: 2 males +21, 2
horses, 4 cattle.
1794
three children of
Jacob Groshong married in Bourbon Co KY to three children of Johann
Gottfried
Kroh: (Bourbon Co. Marriage Records)
1794,
25
Feb Sarah
Groshong m John
Kroh
1794,
4
Mar
Jeremiah Groshong m
Mary Magdalena Kroh
1794,
6
May
Elizabeth Groshong m
Henry Kroh
1800
or
before related
families,
including Dan'l Kistlers, Zumwalts, Crows and McCoys, moved from Kentucky
to the
area now St.Charles County Missouri, which became part of the Louisiana
Purchase in 1803.
MARIA
MAGDALENA KISTLER
and JACOB GROSHONG
style="font-weight:
bold;">FAMILY
SUMMARY
style="font-weight: bold;">2
Maria
Magdalena Kistler2
(Johannes Niclaus1) was born 14 January 1743 and was baptized at Tulpehocken
Township,
Lancaster County Pennsylvania by John Casper Stoever on 17 February 1744. She married 30 May 1764 Jacob Grosjean/Groshong,
recorded in the register of John Conrad Bucher.
The groom was baptized as Johann Jacob Grosjean, 18 Dec 1725 son of Jean
Grosjean and Judith
Vautrin recorded in the churchbook of the Reformed church at
Diedendorf,
Hellering-les-Fenetrange, in the northern Alsace. Jacob emigrated to Pennsylvania
in 1751
on the ship Queen of Denmark and was often called French Jacob
in
records during his lifetime. At the time
of his marriage to Maria Magdalena Kistler, Jacob was a miller, living
at the
site of present day Millersburg, Dauphin County, on the east side of
the
Susquehanna River. The brides family, at
this time, probably resided in Paxton
Township to the
east of Millersburg. Rev. Bucher,
although he lived in Carlisle at this
time, preached at many other places along the Pennsylvania
frontier, including Dauphin County. (See bibliography list, sources #6 and #13.)
Note:
For information about the
ancestry of Jacob Groshong, see Annette K. Burgert Eighteenth
Century
Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America, Picton Press, 1992 -
#623
Grosjean, p587; #527-8 Vautrin, p514-516; #560 Wotring p552-53.
Family
information below has been compiled by Gwen Seefeld, 537 N. Fountain, Wichita KS, with
input from Schuyler Brossman and from many Groshong descendants. Sources listed are records from courthouses
in Sunbury and Lancaster PA,
marriage
records in Harrison and Bourbon Counties KY, land records in Pendleton
County KY. Gwen notes that order of birth of children is
not known, and some are not proven to be children, although the
surname, dates
and locations suggest relationship. Children
are ordered below by date of marriage, as that is the definitive record
available.
children:
12
i Abraham
Groshong
married 1793, Harrison
County Kentucky to Mary Hornbeck
13
ii Sarah
Groshong
married 20 Feb 1794,
Bourbon County
Kentucky to John
Kroh. He died in Franklin County
Missouri in 1810.
14
iii Jeremiah
Groshong
(born 1771)
married 4 March 1794
in Bourbon County Kentucky
to Mary Magdalena Kroh. He resided near
Moscow Mills, Lincoln County Missouri and died 17 May 1858 in Grant County Wisconsin.
15
iv Elizabeth
Groshong
married 6 May 1794
in Bourbon County
Kentucky to Henry
Krow.
16
v Judy Groshong
married 18 April 1796,
Harrison
County Kentucky
to James Hammersley. Bond by Daniel
McCoy
17
vi Jacob
Groshong Jr.
(born 1778)
married 20 January 1800,
Pendleton County Kentucky
to Catherine McCoy.
18
vii Peter
Groshong
married 1800 in
Chowan
County North Carolina to
Elizabeth Williams. (descendants now
living in Oregon)
19
viii Samuel
Groshong
married 1803
in Pike
County Illinois to
Elizabeth Buckalew. A Samuel Groshong
married 1804 in St.Charles County Missouri to Hester McCoy. There are two marriage records - same man?
20
ix Lewis
Groshong
- possible son. He had a son Jacob born on
Loutre
Island, Missouri - no
source
given.
21
x John Groshong
- possible son,
no data
given
22
xi George
Groshong
- possible
son, no data
given
Second
Generation, #6 FRANCIS
(FRANTZ
BASTIAN) KISTLER - TIME LINE
1753,
21
Aug born
to Johannes
Niclaus Kistler and wife Anna Maria Magdalena Brossman.
1754,
20
June baptized
at Christ
Lutheran Church, Stouchburg, Tulpehocken Twp. then Lancaster County,
now Berks,
Pennsylvania. Record stated that
"parents lived 50 miles from here across the Susquehanna".
Note: This
was probably the area of
Buffalo
Township in what is now Union County as
this area had just been opened up for settlement. The
next year, Indians forced settlers to
return east of the river. Francis'
father later took up land in Paxton Twp, Lancaster
County PA.
(This
area is now in Dauphin County).
1774,
17
Oct
Francis Gissler
(believed to be Francis Kistler) took out warrant for land on Armstrong
Creek,
Upper Paxton Twp, Lancaster County.
1774,
15
Nov
John Kastler
transferred to Francis Gissler his Lancaster County warrant K307 for
100 acres
in Upper Paxton Twp. (sounds like a transaction from father to son?)
1774,
24
Nov
Francis released
this land back to proprietors - noted on warrant.
1776,
26
Sept enlisted
in PA 4th
Battalion under Capt John Clark (same unit as his "brother" Frederick
- see Frederick's
pension application). This enlistment
took place from Buffalo Township,
then in
Northumberland County
(now in Union County.)
1783-1786
taxed in Buffalo Twp, Northumberland
County - same
list as brother Daniel.
1791
on Bourbon
County Kentucky tax lists (Harrison
County was
formed from Bourbon 1793)
1794
Apprenticeship
bonds, Bourbon County Kentucky - sons of Thomas Moor, deceased being
apprenticed:
George
and Thomas Moor to Francis Kistler of Harrison County, weaver - and
Frederick
and John Moor to Barney Giltner, weaver (A Jacob Giltner was a
land-owner in
Northumberland County PA.)
1794-1814
Francis on tax lists of
Harrison County Kentucky, created in 1793.
1794
with wife Mary,
sells 225 acres, South Fork of Licking river in Cynthiana, Harrison
County to
Godfrey Grey Deed Bk 1, page 35
1795
sells 100 acres
to Christopher Shuck - Deed Book 1 page 36
1796
sells 100 acres
to Daniel Kistler, "part of survey Francis now lives on".
Deed Book 1 page 192, [Keishler]
1803
or
so
About this time,
Francis followed his brother Daniel to St.Charles Missouri
where a
group of related families had moved about 1800. American State Papers,
V.17
(V.2 New Series), page 566, details Francis' experience taking up some
land -
he became sick after a month & a half and was unable to proceed any
further
with the land.
1804,
22
Sept
Francis of Harrison Co
KY
purchased land in Pendleton Co KY from Jacob Groshong (Jr?). Pendleton Co Deed Book B p45
1808,
16
May
bondsman and
guardian at marriage of John Giltner to Hannah Boggs.
[Keistler]
1810
US
Census, Harrison County
KY:
1m
16-25;
1m 26-44
[Keshler]
1f -10; 1f 16-25; 1f 45+
Note:
Francis should have been 57 - census error?
Also in 1810, US Commissioners rejected his claim for the
St.Charles Co MO
land. Maybe Francis went to Missouri
for the
hearing - therefore not in Kentucky
for
census. The young couple in the census above may have been John
Giltner, his
bride Hannah and child.
1815
sold to John
Wallace - 3 1/2 acres Harrison Co Deed
Bk 4, p310
1815
sold to John
Bedford - 185 1/2 acres Deed Bk 4 page
316
1815
court case -
Francis Kistler vs Reddington
1814-1816
Frederick Kistler
moved from Georgia
to
Harrison Co Kentucky -
was on
tax list very near Francis. In January
1817, Frederick's
daughter Susannah married Andrew Giltner.
1817,
23
June Francis
entered
land in Indiana at the
Jeffersonville Land Office:
160
acres SW 1/4 of section 25, township 2N9E, Clark Co
160 acres
NW 1/4 of section 25, township 2N9E, Jefferson Co
This
was one continuous tract of land, over a county line.
Francis
Kistler appears on no more tax lists or census records, and is presumed
to have
died.
1820
Census
Frederick
Kistler resided in Jefferson Co Indiana.
He paid
taxes on half of Francis's land - NW quarter of section 25. No transfer of this land from Francis to Frederick
has been
found, but it was in Frederick's
possession until near his death in 1836, when it went to his son-in-law
Andrew
Giltner. [December 1818, Frederick's
son
John entered land in Clark Co near land
of Francis Kistler.]
Note
inter-actions between Francis and Frederick Kistler: 1776 - same Rev.
War
service; 1814-1816 - same KY location; and ownership of the same land
in Indiana
-
brothers?
Second
Generation, #7 DANIEL
KISTLER - TIME LINE
1755,
27
May
born to Johannes
Kistler and wife Magdalena
1756,
11
Jan
baptized at Christ
Lutheran Church, Stouchburg, Tulpehocken Township then Lancaster
County, now
Berks, Pennsylvania. Sponsors: Andrew
Graf and wife.
1777,
8
June
Son Daniel born
to Daniel and Ev. Sophia.
1777,
24
June baptized
at Salem
Ev. Lutheran Church,
Killenger now Dauphin County. Sponsors: Jacob Bickel & Catherine. Salem
Church is in Lykins
Valley, 2 miles
NE of Millersburg. Michael Enderlein
pastor ca 1770-1793. [Father and brother
Francis Kistler had land in this area of Upper
Paxton Township.]
1779-1780
Upper "Paxtang"
Township, Lancaster County
tax
lists - Daniel Kesler and Widow Kesler (after the death of "John"
Kistler in 1778).
1783-4;
1785-6 Buffalo
(Valley), Northumberland County
tax
lists - 300 acres + animals. [Brother Francis taxed for 100 acres.] Next list - animals, no land.
1785,
15
May
mortgaged personal
property to his brother-in-law Jacob Groshong of Buffalo Township,
Northumberland County PA 95lbs. [Jacob married Mary Magdalena Kistler
1764.] Northumberland County Deed Bk C,
p.288.
1796
bought land in
Harrison County Kentucky from brother Francis Kistler, 100 acres on
Licking
Creek. Harrison County Deed Bk 1, p.192.
1797-1799
on Harrison County, Kentucky
tax
lists
pre
1804
moved to Callaway
Township,
St.Charles County Missouri, with group of related families - Groshong,
Kroh,
Zumwalt
1822
part of land
sold for taxes [99 arpens out of 520) St. Charles County Missouri Deed
Bk G,
p.338
ca
1844
St.Charles Co Deed
Bk Q, p.192 Henry Zumwalt and
Elizabeth
[daughter of Daniel Kistler] sell land "confirmed to Eva, wife of
Daniel" to John Journey.
1848,
7
Nov
St.Charles Co Deed
Bk U, p.369 Jacob Kishler & Sarah of
Jackson Co MO sell land to John Journey, original land survey #418 to
Daniel
Kistler [1850 Census, Jackson Co
Missouri p.336 shows Jacob born 1813 - probably a grandson of Daniel
Kistler]
1854,
26
Feb
St.Charles County
Deed Bk R, page 176, Peter Zumwalt and
Barbara [daughter of Daniel Kistler] sell land granted to Daniel
"Kishler" and confirmed to Eva Kishler and heirs of Daniel
"Keishler", to John Journey.
DANIEL
KISTLER - FAMILY SUMMARY
7
Daniel
Kistler2
(Johannes Niclaus1) was born 27 May 1755 and was baptized 11
January
1756 at Christ Lutheran Church, Stouchburg, Tulpehocken Township, then
Lancaster County, now Berks County, Pennsylvania. No
marriage record has yet been found. Daniel's
wife's name Eva Sophia was learned
from the baptismal record of a son Daniel in 1777.
This family resided in Upper
Paxton Township
in Lancaster County,
now Dauphin County,
for
several years. By 1783 Daniel had moved
his family across the Susquehanna River to Buffalo Township,
Northumberland
County, now Union County, where his brother Francis and his sister and
brother-in-law, the Jacob Groshong family resided.
There Daniel acquired land and farm animals.
In 1785, he mortgaged personal property to
Jacob Groshong - this was released, but provides us with a valuable
insight
into Daniel's equipment and lifestyle.
In
1796, Daniel bought land on
Licking Creek in Harrison County Kentucky from his brother Francis
Kistler. With this move, Daniel was also
joining the related Groshong family.
Daniel's next move, before 1804, and again with or
following a
group of
relatives and friends, was to what became Callaway
Township,
St.Charles County Missouri. Daniel's
tract of land, survey #418 for 600 Arpents of land on Dardene Creek,
was
surrounded by land of Zumwalt
and Krow
families, in which Daniel's daughters found spouses.
About
1844, we begin to see deeds
recorded transferring land originally belonging to Daniel Kistler and
"confirmed to his wife Eva" now going to his heirs.
Known
children are listed below - there may be others not yet
identified.
children:
24
i Daniel
Kistler
was born 8 June
1777 and
baptized 24 June 1777 at Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church at
Killenger,
Lancaster, now Dauphin County. Sponsors
were Jacob Bickel and Catherine. Salem
church
is in Lykins Valley,
2 miles
NE of Millersburg. This Daniel may have
died before his father, and had a son Jacob, born 1813 who inherited
land of
his grandfather, Daniel Kistler, Sr. See
Daniel's timeline, 1848.
25
ii Barbara
Kistler
was born about
1780. She married 3 October, 1796, in Harrison County
Kentucky to Peter Zumwalt.
26
iii Elizabeth
Kistler
was probably
born prior
to 1790. She married 20 September 1808 in St.Charles County
Missouri to Henry Zumwalt Jr. as his second wife.
Second
Generation, #8 FREDERICK
KISTLER
- TIMELINES
LANCASTER/DAUPHIN
and NORTHUMBERLAND
COUNTIES, PA 1760 - ca1780
1760
Born, Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, (thought to be son of Johannes Niclaus Kistler and wife
Anna
Maria Magdalena Brossman)
1776
Began service in
Revolutionary War - Source: Pension Application #S16177.
1776,
26
Sept Enlisted in
Northumberland
County militia for 3 months under Capt John Clark, 1st Co of 4th
Battalion, Lt.
Wolf, Col Potter - to Philadelphia, battle of Trenton 26 Dec - to
Morristown -
wintered at the Dell near Franktown on Jersey line.
Discharged after 3 months. Francis
Kistler same service.
1777
Second enlistment, Lancaster
County, substitute for Johnson in Gen James Potter's Pennsylvania
troops, Capt
John Rutherford - to Chestertown near Philadelphia - marched to
Brandywine -
Battle of Brandywine - retreated to Chestertown - marched up Schuylkill
to
Trappe. Discharged - 2 months term.
1778
Third enlistment, Northumberland
County PA,
seven
months to guard frontier. Capt John
Dougherty, Lt. Wm. Hedding. To Blacks
Fort on western branch of Susquehanna, Northumberland
County - at
Freelands Fort when burned - discharged after seven months.
1781,
1
April Fourth
enlistment, Staunton, Augusta
County Virginia
for
duration of war. Capt. Thos Boyer
recruiting officer, Capt. Johnson, Lt. Stover.
Marched to Winchester Barracks - marched to Point de Forks
Barracks on James River - remained here until
November - after surrender of Cornwallis
at Little York, discharged.
FREDERICK KISTLER
-
ROCKINGHAM
COUNTY, VIRGINIA ca1780-1792
Note:
Rockingham
County was
formed from Augusta in
1778. When Frederick Kistler enlisted in
1781, for the fourth time, in Staunton,
Augusta County,
he was
only a few miles from the family of his future bride which was near
Mt.Crawford
in the newly formed county. Rollers were
also from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Left totally unexplained in Frederick's
pension application is why he was in Virginia
in 1781.
1787,
3
Jan bond for marriage to
Catherine Roller in Rockingham County Virginia, daughter of Johann
Peter Roller
and Elizabeth Gring/Kring. Johann Peter
Roller was born 22 May 1730
at Staudernheim an-der-Nahe in the Pfalz, now Germany,
to
Johann Peter Rollard Sr. and his wife Anna Christina Muhlberger. Source: Mitteilungen zur
Wanderungsgeschichte der Pfalzer, 1954 Folge #10.
Johann Peter Roller Jr. emigrated to Pennsylvania
on the
ship Richard and Mary, 26
September 1752.
He and Elizabeth Gring/Kring were married 3 October 1758 at the First
Reformed
Church in Lancaster Pennsylvania. The Roller family was in Rockingham
County Virginia
by 1779.
Rockingham
County Virginia
Tax
Lists (Names are spelled as on
original lists.)
1787
Tax list #3
Roler, Peter - sons
Peter and F. Kiester plus 1 male under 21
- 6 horses
20
cattle.
(Frederick Kistler was Peter Roler's new son-in-law.)
1788,
23
May Tax list #4
Frederick Kiesler, 2
horses
(Roler men
were on list #3, dated in April.)
1789,
17
Mar Tax list
#3
Frederick Kiester -
3 horses
Roler men on same
list, same date
1792
Tax list #3 - Frederick
Kiesler - 2 horses
(This is the
last appearance for Frederick
on Virginia tax
lists.)
1792,
Oct
Frederick Kistler moved to Wilkes
County Georgia,
as
stated in court case described below.
Note:
Augusta Co VA District Court
records,
Chancery Causes Ended, File 32, detail a court case in which land given
to
Frederick Kistler at his marriage by his father-in-law Peter Roller was
to be
traded to Henry Butt in exchange for Butt's land in Georgia. The land in Georgia
did not
please Kistler, who called off the deal.
Butt protested, leading to an extended court case,
providing
detail on
Frederick Kistler's life which we would not otherwise know. (See also Roller Records by James E
Roller, page 129/130)
Note:
Surname spelling: This court
case is the
only record in Rockingham County
in which
Frederick's name
is properly spelled Kistler, and only once in that record.
Varieties found are: Keisling (marriage bond);
Kiester and Kiesler (tax lists); Kisler, Kestler, Kessler, Kistler (all
in one
court case).
We also see Kishler and other
varieties with the letter H inserted.
The German word Kist means chest - a kistler was a chest
maker. In the Pennsylvania
dialect,
the word kist was pronounced kisht- therefore Kishtler.
When our families left Pennsylvania
where
this was understood, scribes in Virginia,
Georgia,
Kentucky, Indiana
etc heard kisht and wrote Kishler.
FREDERICK KISTLER - WILKES
COUNTY, GEORGIA
RESIDENT 1792-1813
1795,
5
Sept Frederick
Kistler,
Administrator of estate of Christopher Phoenis
Administrator's bond
(with Gilbert Hay) on the estate of Christopher Phoenis. Name spelled
Keisler,
Keesler. (Wilkes County Deed Book QQ
p115+). Phoenis had married, as his
second wife, 21 Mar 1794
in Rockingham County
Virginia to
Barbara Roller, sister of Kistler's wife Catherine Roller.
[Christopher=Christian;
Phoenis=Phaenis=Fenice= Fenis=Venus in various records for this man.]
ca
1798/99 Christopher
and George
Phoenis chose Frederick Kistler as guardian.
He was appointed guardian of Solomon and Easter Phoenis.
Inferior Court
Minutes, 1798-1811, page 2. Solomon was bound to Abraham Tanner to
learn trade
of blacksmith; Easter to David Simmons, p28.
[Easter (Ester) married Christopher Poss, 26 Sept 1808 in Wilkes Co.
Petition of
Frederick Keisler, to sell 130 acres on Fishing Creek.
1805
Lottery Frederick
Keisler #2111
Wilkes, BB (2 blank draws)
Orphans of
Christopher Phanes #1216 Wilkes, B (1 blank draw)
1806,
25
July Inventory
and sale recorded,
estate of Christian Phoenis (Wilkes Co book of Inventories,
Appraisements and
Sales, page 167). Appraisers: Capt John
Talbot, Thomas Talbot and Felix Gilbert.
Children
born to Frederick and Catherine Kistler in Wilkes
County Georgia:
ca 1793
Emanuel
ca 1795
John
ca 1796
Susannah
ca 1800
possibly Frederick
ca 1803
Solomon
[Perhaps
others - estimated birth dates are
ca 1805
Samuel
from
later censuses and other records.]
Note:
No birth or baptismal
records have been
found - birth dates are estimated from later census records and other
sources. Frederick and Catherine were
married in 1787 - they may have had one or two children prior to the
ones
listed here. If daughters, they might
have been married in Georgia,
and
their identity lost to us.
SELECTED TAX RECORDS FOR FREDERICK
KISTLER IN WILKES CO GEORGIA
Tax records proved to be the
major source of information about the location Frederick Kistler in Wilkes
County.
We found no deed for him as a grantee or
grantor, but through the tax records, we were able to identify the
tract of
land where he lived, and on a trip
through Georgia
in 1999,
take photos. This was possible because
the tax lists after 1797 identify the original grantee, and the grants
and
surveys are available for research. An
aerial photograph at the courthouse showed the shape of the tract, and
ownership was traced back to the grantee.
The 200-acre tract of land is at the north
west corner of the intersection of US
Highway 378 and Norman Road,
mostly
in Wilkes County
with a
small slice of it in neighboring Lincoln
County.
When the search was made for
Frederick Kistler, it was discovered that he had land in Elbert
County
also. (Elbert was created in 1790 from
Wilkes - this may have been the land discussed in the Augusta
County VA
court
case.) Tax records for Phoenis were also
noted, since Frederick Kistler was executor of the estate of his
brother-in-law. Because Frederick's
son
John married Elizabeth Hudgens, in Wilkes
County in 1816,
the surname Hudgens/ Hudgins is also noted in the later tax list
abstracts
Source:
Wilkes
County Georgia
Tax
Records, 1785-1805, Frank Parker Hudson
LDS Library book: 975.8172,
v.1,
v.2.
Note:
The district
letter designations and tax-payer's numbers were
assigned by the author. Spelling of
names in the following records are as they were found in the sources
used. The numbered notes in this section
are quoted
just as they were in the text.
1793
District E Cap't Zimmimon's
Company
#031 Frederick
Kisler [see note #7] 200 acres 3rd
class land. Wilkes, Soap Creek, land joins
Greaves
Note #7: Frederick Kisler
found
as Keesler, Keisler, Keislar, Keslar,
Kisler and Kistler in other tax records.
He was the only one of similar surname found.
1794
District
E Cap. Zimmerman's Company
#050 Fred'k Kistler. 200
acres 3rd class land Wilkes, Soap Creek.
land joins C.
Molder.
1795
District
E Cap't Zimmerman's Company
#037 Fred'k Kesler. 200
acres, 3rd class land, Wilkes, Sope Creek, land joins C. Molder.
Note: Most of the area of this
district was put into Lincoln
County upon its
creation in February 1796. Kesler was
one of 27 persons remaining in Wilkes
County - in
District E for 1796 and added to District I in 1797.
(#036 was James Parradice, whose land joined
that of T. Florance, who later owned Kistler's tract.)
1797
District
I Captain Solomon Thornton's District
#128 Fred'k Keslar 400
acres 3rd class land Elbert, Hollow
Creek.
land joins Daniel
Human, grant to John Darden
#128A Fred'k Keslar 200
acres 3rd class land Wilkes, Soap Creek.
joins Conrod Molar,
grant to John Guice
#129 C. Phenus 130 acres
3rd class land Wilkes, Fishing Creek.
joins James Sharer,
grant to Wm Beast
note #18: Return for
Estate of C. Phenus by Fred'k Keslar, Executor
1798-1805
- Tax lists from the above source continue in a similar fashion.
1807-1816
- The following original tax lists for Wilkes
County were
read from FHL film #0177830. The
original lists are numbered, and page numbers are given.
Not all district tax lists survive for each
tax year.
1807
Wilkes Co
Ga, List #7, Capt Shelton
Wellborn's District
p1 - Thornton Hudgins,
100a Camp Creek, joins Geo Goodwin,
originally granted
to Gill
note: Thornton
Hudgins
is included here because Frederick Kistler's son John married, in 1816,
to
Elizabeth Hudgins - see John Kistler data in the third-generation
section of
this report.
p3 - Frederick Kisler,
200 acres, Soap Creek, joins Jas
Grisham,
grantee Jno Guise
1809
Wilkes Co
GA, Wellborn's list #18
p005
Frederick Kisler,
200 acres, Soap Creek, joins Goodwin,
1813
Wilkes Co
GA, Capt
Abner Wellborn's List, #17
Frederick Kesler,
200 acres, Soap Creek joins G. Goodwin, grantee J Guise.
note: This Frederick's
last appearance on Georgia
tax
lists.
Solomon Pheanis,
203 acres Camp Creek
John Kesler,
on list of delinquents and defaulters
note: John
was age 18 - defaulters could be of military age, but not yet taxable
age.)
1813/1814
during
this time, Frederick Kistler
moved his family to Harrison County, Kentucky. Frederick's
son
John married Elizabeth Hudgins in 1816 and remained in Wilkes
County until
1818 when he moved to Indiana.
1816
Wilkes Co
GA, Richard J Holiday's list
#7
p48
John
Kesler - taxed on his father Frederick's land, last
time.
p47
William
Hudgens - pole
note: In
1819, he registered for the lottery from Wilkes
County as a
Revolutionary Soldier.
p47
John
Hudgens - pole
FREDERICK KISTLER IN HARRISON
COUNTY, KENTUCKY - 1814-1817
1814
tax
list
on Harrison County Kentucky:
1 male over 21, 5 horses, $100 value.
note: there were
only 4 names between Frederick and Francis Kistler.
1815
tax
list
2 males over 21, 6 horses -
$120 value.
Second male would be
son Emanuel, born about 1793. No Francis
Kistler listed - his entry for Clark Co Indiana
land was
dated 27 July 1815.
1816
tax
list
2 males over 21, 3 horses -
$90 value. Last entry for Frederick
Kistler on Kentucky tax
lists.
1817,
Jan
Daughter Susannah Kistler married
Andrew Giltner in Harrison County - the Giltner family had been closely
associated with Francis Kistler in Kentucky.
Soon after this, Frederick
moved
his family to Indiana.
FREDERICK KISTLER IN CLARK/JEFFERSON
COUNTIES INDIANA - 1817-1836
1820 US
Census Jefferson County Indiana,
page
279A, line 4:
males - 1 over
45; 2, 16-25; 1,
16-18;
1, 10-16
females - 1 over
45 3 persons in agriculture
(same record, line 6
- Frederick's son
John Kistler:
males - 1,
16-25; 1 under 10;
1 person in agriculture
females - 1,
16-25; 2, under 10)
1830 US
Census Jefferson County Indiana,
page
85, line 7
males - 1,
60-70; 1, 20-30; females
- 1, 60-70
1831
tax
list
Jefferson County
Indiana. Frederick Kistler paid property
tax on 160
acres, the NW 1/4 of
Section 25, Township 2N, Range 9E in Saluda
Township.
This is the north half of the land entered by
Francis Kistler 23 June 1819 at the Jefferson Land Office.
No deed or other document has been found
transferring this land from Francis to Frederick,
which
might prove relationship.
1831,
fall
moved to Clark County,
"3
miles from his previous home".
Source - notice of change of location found in Frederick's
pension file from the national archives.
At this time he probably moved to the home of his daughter
Susannah and
son-in-law Andrew Giltner.
1834,
12
April Commissioners
sale of Frederick
Kistler's Jefferson County
land to
Andrew Giltner for caring for Frederick and wife. Jefferson
County Deed Book I, page 221. [Again
note: this was originally land
of Francis Kistler.]
1836,
9
March Frederick Kistler
died in Clark County
-
followed by Catherine his wife who died 20 February 1837. Both
are probably
buried in Fouts Cemetery.
FREDERICK
KISTLER - FAMILY SUMMARY
8
Frederick Kistler2
(Johannes
Niclaus1), was born 1760 in Lancaster County Pennsylvania. This report has offered evidence of Frederick's
association throughout life with a known daughter and two sons of
Johannes
Niclaus Kistler. We feel confident in
identifying him as a son, but still believe it is necessary, pending
further
proof, to identify Frederick
as a probable
son of Johannes Niclaus Kistler.
Frederick's
pension application, #S16177, describes his enlistment and service
during the
years of the Revolutionary War from 1776 to 1783. This
allows us to track him throughout his
life in the many moves described on the previous timeline.
If not for the pension application data, it
would have been virtually impossible to trace Frederick Kistler due to
the many
inventive ways of spelling his surname.
Frederick
married
Catherine Roller in Rockingham
County Virginia. The marriage bond is dated 3 January 1787.
Proof
that the marriage took place is found
in the 1787 tax list wherein Catherine's father Peter Roller lists "F.
Kiester"
as a son, and a court case dealing with land J. P. Roller gave to his
son-in-law, Frederick Kistler.
This court
case gave the date
Frederick and Catherine moved to Georgia,
along
with others from Rockingham County,
as
October of 1792. Since this was over
five years after their marriage, it is reasonable to expect one or two
children
might have been born in Virginia,
but
none have been identified. All of the
known children of Frederick and Catherine were born during the years
the family
lived in Wilkes County
Georgia, but
there are no records of the births. The
author of the volume of early Wilkes
County tax
records noted that there was no other person named Kistler in the
vicinity. No Kistler appears in other
land and courthouse records. By the time
of the first surviving Georgia
census
in 1820, our Frederick Kistler and his family had moved through Kentucky
to Indiana.
children,
all born in Georgia:
30
i
Emanuel
Kistler was born about 1793. He
moved with his father's family from Georgia
through Kentucky to Indiana. He married 23 December 1824 in Jefferson County Indiana
to Minta Jones, daughter of Joseph Jones. Their children, surnamed
Kistler,
were Josiah, born ca 1826; Archy, born ca 1828; Martha, born ca 1830,
who
married 5 October 1847 to Jeptha Stoner; and Emmaletta, born ca 1833,
who
married 6 June 1847 to Daniel Stoner.
Children are known from the probate of their grandfather
Joseph
Jones
who died August 1847 in Clark County Indiana. Emanuel and Minta
divorced in
1836, and Minta died before her father.
In 1850, Emanuel
was listed as age 57, farmer, born in Georgia,
in the
household of Nancy, widow of his deceased brother Solomon.
On 10 April 1853,
Emanuel signed, as an heir, a document relating to his
father Frederick Kistler's pension. He,
his sister Susannah Giltner and his brother Samuel all signed with
their
mark.
+31
ii John
Kistler was born about 1795. He
served in the War of 1812 from Wilkes
County Georgia
from
November of 1814 to May of 1815. He
married
29 January 1816
to
Elizabeth Hudgens. In 1818, he followed
his father to Indiana. John died 18 December 1839, in Clark County Indiana.
32
iii Susannah
Kistler was born
about
1796. She married 9 January 1817, while her family was
living briefly in Harrison County Kentucky, to Andrew Giltner. The young couple moved with other related
families to Clark County Indiana, where Andrew Giltner took up land on
the same
section as his wife's brother John Kistler.
It was Andrew and Susannah who took care of her
grandfather
Frederick
Kistler and grandmother Catherine in their later years, and ended up
with Frederick's tract
of land, the land that originally belonged to Francis Kistler. Andrew Giltner died 7 August 1852. It
is interesting that the "home place"
that he left to two of his children was the tract in section 25 of
Township 2N,
Range 9E, that belonged originally to Francis and then to Frederick
Kistler. Susannah survived her husband,
on her grandfather's "home place", at least until 1870.
Six children were born to this couple,
surnamed Giltner: Jacob K, James, Eliza who married Samuel Taff,
Christina who
married 25 December 1845
in Clark County Indiana to John Payne, Sarah, born about
1825, married Abram Taff, and Andrew Jackson who died at the battle of
Perryville In Kentucky during the civil war.
Note:
Next, we are inserting a
"probable son", a young Frederick, and will give our reasoning for
including him.
33
iv Frederick
Kistler, a possible son of Frederick Kistler Senior, was born about
1800. The 1820 census of Jefferson
County Indiana does show an extra son, age 16-25, in the household of
Frederick
Kistler (page # **** research report).
This 1820 census is the first census where the senior
Frederick
Kistler
family appears, as there is no surviving 1800 or 1810 census for Georgia. A son born to Frederick Kistler Senior around
1800 would have been born in Wilkes
County Georgia.
The first record
of young Frederick is his
marriage 24 December 1822
in St.Charles County Missouri to Sarah McCoy, daughter of
Daniel McCoy and his wife Rachel Zumwalt.
This young Frederick's
marriage place and wife's McCoy/Zumwalt family definitely places him
among the
families related to Daniel Kistler by marriage.
Daniel's daughter's both married young men named Zumwalt. If our suppositions are correct, young Frederick
would
have been a nephew of Daniel Kistler. As
a young man, he would have left his father's household in Jefferson
County
Indiana and joined his uncle Daniel in Missouri,
where
he married a relation of Daniel's daughters.
It might be thought that young Frederick
was a
son of Daniel, but no Frederick
appears
as an heir in the deeds distributing Daniel's land after his death.
The 1830 census of
Montgomery County Missouri, (created from St.Charles) page 210, lists
Frederick
Kistler and wife born 1800-1810, with 2 sons and 2 daughters, all under
ten,
next door to Sarah's sister Nancy McCoy and husband John Cain. In 1840 Frederick "Kiester" and
family is in Cuivre Township,
St.Charles County
page 31,
with three sons and 5 daughters, and near William and Daniel McCoy.
Recorded in St.Charles
County deed
book U page 102, 13 May 1848
is a deed whereby Frederick Kistler and wife Sarah of the county
of Lincoln, state
of Missouri, sell
(in consideration of a two-horse wagon and $25.00) to William McCoy
their right
in the estate of Daniel and Rachel McCoy.
Lincoln County
joins
St.Charles to the north. This land sale
is the last record found for this family.
Young Frederick
has not yet been found on the 1850 census, where it was hoped we would
learn
his birthplace. If it was found that Frederick
was born
in Georgia,
we
would be more confident about placing him in this lineage.
The only other chance of learning young Frederick's
birthplace
would be identifying his children and following them until the 1880
census,
when they would have been asked the birthplace of their father.
34
v Solomon
Kistler
was born about
1803
while his parents were living in Wilkes
County Georgia. He moved with them to Indiana
just
before 1820. Solomon married 12 March 1829 in Clark
County Indiana to
Nancy Cain, daughter of Dennis Cain and his wife Firzah Jacobs. Solomon Kistler died in August of 1833, one
of many who died that summer in a cholera epidemic.
Solomon's widow Nancy later married, in 1857,
Clark County Indiana to Henry Baker.
Solomon and Nancy had one daughter, Susannah who married 12 Sept 1849 Andrew Homer. They had one daughter, Firzah Homer, born in
1852, after which the mother Susannah died.
The father, Andrew Homer, married again shortly thereafter
to
Thursa J.
Patterson. This chronicles two
generations of Kistler descendants, Solomon and his daughter Susannah
who sadly
died too young.
35
vi Samuel
Kistler
was born about
1805 while
his parents were living in Wilkes
County Georgia. In 1850, Samuel was 45, born in Georgia,
living
with his sister Susannah, age 54, and her husband Andrew Giltner, age
67, It was noted that Samuel was blind -
apparently he never married.
Third
Generation
#31 JOHN
KISTLER - WILKES
COUNTY GEORGIA TO INDIANA
1795
Born Wilkes County
GA to Frederick
and Catherine (Roller) Kistler
1813
Tax list - Wilkes
County
GA, Capt
Abner Wellborn's list #17, end of list - listed with defaulters.
This is same list as
his father is on. John is about 18 - on
the militia list, but under-age for tax purposes.
21
Nov
1814
Drafted
for War of 1812 service in Company of Capt. Jones Kendrick, Col. David
Booth's
- 4th Regiment, Georgia
Militia,
at Washington, Wilkes
County GA. Same unit - Bartlett and Josiah Hudgens.
6
May
1815 Discharged. Sources: widows bounty-land application, 11 May 1855, Clark County
Indiana; widows pension
application #WO-10953, July 2nd 1874, Clark County
Indiana.
1816
Tax lists - Wilkes
County,
Richard
J Holliday's list, p48. John Kesler,
200 acres 3rd class land, Soap Creek, joins G Goodwin, original
grant to
J Guise. This is the same land on
which his father Frederick was previously taxed, from 1793 to 1813,
after which
Frederick moved to
Kentucky. Same
tax list, p47 - William Hudgens and John Hudgens.
29
Jan
1816
Married
in Wilkes County
GA to Elizabeth
Hudgens - by Esqr. Ashmore. Source:
bounty land application - see above. She
stated "there is no private or public record of this marriage that she
knows of".
[In pension
application filed in 1874, Elizabeth
gave
marriage date of "October 1814 by Esquire Armstrong".
This marriage date would have allowed her to
receive pension, but War Department found the 1816 date in previous
application
for bounty land. The pension was denied
because the marriage took place too late to qualify.
Either she truly had forgotten, or her sons
urged her to give 1814 marriage date in order to get the pension.]
1817
Daughter Matilda born in Wilkes
County Georgia.
1818
Daughter Martha Jane born in
Wilkes County
Georgia.
23
Dec
1818 Purchased
land at
Jeffersonville Land Office - NW quarter of Sect 21, township 2N, range
9E in
Clark County Indiana - final payment made 30 Sept 1822.
1820
US
census,
Jefferson County Indiana page 279:
1 male 16-25; 1 male
-10; 1 female 16-25; 2 females -10
Apparently, this son
under 10 was an infant who lived until 1830 census, but died before his
father's death in 1839.
1825-1837
Children born in Indiana:
William,
1825; Solomon, 1831; Elizabeth, 3
May 1837. Year-only dates are
approximated from later census records.
(Children's names were given in probate of their father.)
1830
census, Clark County
Indiana, page 15, line 24
1 male 30-40; 2
males 5-10; 1 female 30-40; 1 female
10-15
Apparently the
infant of 1820 was now 10, the second son was William.
One of the daughters must have been living
out of the household. Son Solomon was
born the next year, in 1831
18
Dec
1839
John
Kistler died in Jefferson County Indiana. (Source: Bounty
Land
application.)
Probate of John
Kistler's estate is recorded in Clark County Indiana Probate Book C,
page
528. His widow Elizabeth was executor
and petitioned the court 25 April, to sell real estate - heirs named
were James
A McClelland and Matilda his wife, and Martha Jane, William, Solomon
and
Elizabeth Kistler.
11 May
1855
Elizabeth
Kistler, widow of John Kistler applied before a justice of the peace in
Clark
county Indiana to apply for Bounty
Land to which
she was entitled. (Copy of this
document was included in the pension application packet #WO-10953.)
2
July 1874
Elizabeth
Kistler, widow of John Kistler appeared in the Circuit Court of Clark
County
Indiana to file application for pension #WO-10953.
Pension was rejected because she had no proof
of marriage prior to required date of 17 February 1815. Note
that she
became eligible to apply by an act of 14 February 1871 - 57 years after John entered
the service and 55 years
after their marriage.
JOHN
KISTLER - FAMILY SUMMARY
31 John
Kistler3,
(Frederick2,
Johannes Niclaus1) was born about 1795 in Wilkes
County Georgia. He married 29 January 1816 in Wilkes
County to
Elizabeth Hudgens. Her parents have not
been identified, but several Hudgens families lived in the vicinity
where John
was born and grew up. Elizabeth,
as
John's widow, did not become eligible to apply for her pension as a
widow of a
War of 1812 soldier until 1874. Her
surname was learned from this document, as well as John's date of death
of 18 December 1839. The names of their children who survived
their father are given in papers generated by probate of John's estate
Children:
40
i Matilda
Kistler4
(John3,
Frederick2, Johannes Niclaus1) was born about
1817 while
her parents lived in Wilkes County
Georgia.
Matilda married three and perhaps four
times. The first three marriages are
recorded in Clark County Indiana. First,
she married 16 November 1833
to Job Eldridge.
Second, as Matilda
Eldridge, she married 26
February 1842 to James McClelland.
(He was probably the James McClelland who had married Jane
Walker in May
1827.)
Third, as Matilda
McClelland, she married 11
August 1857 to James W. Thompson. By 1860, she is found on
the census
of Platte Township, Andrew County Missouri, household 617, as Matilda
Thompson
(head of household), age 43, born Georgia, with three McClelland
children born
in Indiana - William, 13, Sarah 10, and Solomon 8.
These three children were married in Andrew
County Missouri - William married 24 Dec 1876 to Mary E. McElwain, Sarah married
13 February to John
Weaver, and Solomon married 28
February 1886 to A.E. Williams.
Matilda's brother
Solomon had moved to Andrew County
about
1855/6 - perhaps she moved west with him.
At household #569 is a man named Enoch George with a
family, but
no
wife. On the 1870 census of Platt
Township is Enoch
George with wife Matilda, age 53. I
suspect she is our Matilda Kistler in her fourth marriage - in 1871,
Enoch and
Matilda were involved in real estate dealings with Matilda's brother
Solomon
Kistler.
41
ii Martha Jane
Kistler4
(John3,
Frederick2, Johannes Niclaus1) was born in about
1818
while her parents were living in Wilkes
County Georgia. She married 7 November 1845 in Jefferson County Indiana
to Joshua Taylor. He died in 1863,
leaving Martha Jane with a large family of children to raise. Martha Jane lived until 1894.
She and Joshua are buried in Marling-Reed
Cemetery, Saluda
Township,
Jefferson County Indiana. Taylor
children, with approximate birthdates from the 1860 (household #57) and
1870
(Household #200) census records of Saluda Township, are Stephen L.
(1846),
William Henry (1848), John H. (1849), James (1851), Nancy (1852),
Elizabeth
(1854), Alexander (1856), Frederick (1858, and Mary Jane (1863).
+ 42
iii William
J. Kistler4 (John3, Frederick2,
Johannes
Niclaus1) was born about June of 1825 when his parents were
living
on their land in Clark County Indiana.
He married, first, 25
October 1849 to Elizabeth Hays.
The 1850 census of Jefferson
County, just
over the county line from Clark
County shows an
interesting family group - possibly living on the land which belonged
to
Frederick Kistler at his death. Family
#631 was William Kistler, 25, and wife Elizabeth 27, born Indiana;
family
# 632 was Elizabeth 50, born Georgia, Elizabeth 15 and Solomon 19, born
Indiana.
Family #633 was Joshua Taylor 37, wife Martha
J. (Kistler) 31, born Georgia, Stephen 4, William H. 3 and John 1.,
born Indiana. In these three households we have mother
Elizabeth (Hudgens) Kistler surrounded by her children - son William
and
daughter-in-law Elizabeth (Hays), daughter Elizabeth, son Solomon, and
next
door, her daughter Martha Jane with husband Joshua Taylor and their
children. Only daughter Matilda
McClelland is elsewhere in the area.
From 1860 through 1900, census records show William
Kistler
living in Clark County
on the
land of his father. His wife Elizabeth
Hays died 12 January 1869
and is buried in Fouts cemetery in Clark
County.
William Kistler married second to Mary M.
Black "within the year" before the 1870 census. William
Kistler died 13 August 1901,
by drowning in the Ohio River.
He was buried in
Fouts cemetery three days later. William
Kistler's probate is in Clark
County book 14,
pages 128, 137, 311 and Book 15, page 487.
Account of his drowning is found in New Washington
Courier,
22 August 1901. Washington
Township, Clark
County Indiana census records for the family of William Kistler are:
1860,
#1145; 1870, #87; 1880, #226; 1900, #13.
He resided on the south half of his father's land, the NW
quarter of
section 21, township 2 north, range 9 east.
+ 43
iv Solomon
Kistler4 (John3, Frederick2,
Johannes
Niclaus1) was born May 1831 in Clark County Indiana. He married, first, 24 October 1850 in Jefferson County
Indiana
to Sarah Ann Rankins, daughter of William Rankins and Delilah Humble
who were
born and married in Bourbon County Kentucky.
Solomon married, second, 5 October 1875 in Moresville, Livingston County
Missouri to widow Eliza A.
Gobin. Solomon died 26 January 1903 while living in Ravia,
Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, Oklahoma.
44
v Elizabeth
Kistler4 (John3,
Frederick2, Johannes Niclaus1) was born 3 May 1837 in Clark County
Indiana. She married 16 June 1854 to George Davis. Elizabeth
died 5 June 1886
and is buried in Fouts cemetery in
Clark County Indiana. Birth and death
dates are from the cemetery stone.
Fourth
Generation #42 WILLIAM
J. KISTLER
OF CLARK COUNTY INDIANA
William
J. Kistler4 (John3, Frederick2,
Johannes Niclaus1) was born June 1825 when his parents were
living
on their land in Clark County Indiana.
He married, first, 25
October 1849 to Elizabeth Hays. Elizabeth
died 12 January 1869
and is buried in Fouts
cemetery in Clark County. William Kistler married second to Mary M.
Black "within the year" before the 1870 census. William
J. Kistler died 13 August 1901.
Children
born to William J. and Elizabeth
(Hays)
Kistler all born in Washington
Township, Clark
County Indiana:
50
i John T.
Kistler
was born about 1852
51
ii Samuel H.
Kistler
was born
about
1854. He married 19 September 1880 to Nancy Horner.
52
iii Worcester
J.
Kistler was born
about
1857. He married 24 August 1881 to Mary A. Black,
daughter
of George E. Black and Adelpha Loyd. He
was the only one of his father's heirs living in Indiana
in 1901,
according to William Kistler's probate papers.
53
iv Mary J.
Kistler
was born about
1859.
54
v Martha
Elizabeth
Kistler was
born about
1861. She married 3 July 1879 in Clark
County to Azor
Charles. She died before her father
William Kistler, and her son Vincent Charles was an heir of William in
her
stead.
55
vi Andrew
Jackson
Kistler was
born about
1863. His wife's name was Nettie. He is on the 1900 census of Saluda
Township,
Jefferson County Indiana, household #244, born September 1862, a
hunter,
married 12 years to Nettie with one son John aged 10.
56
vii William M.
was born about 1865. He married 29 November 1881 to Luvenia
Brandon.
57
viii Infant
Daughter
was born and
died 3 January 1867. She was buried in Fouts cemetery, where her
stone identified her brief existence.
Fourth
Generation #43 SOLOMON
KISTLER - TIMELINE
1831, May
Born in Clark County
Indiana to John
and Elizabeth (Hudgens) Kistler.
1850,
24
Oct Married
at Saluda Township.
Jefferson County Indiana to Sarah Ann Rankins, daughter of William and
Delilah
(Humble) Rankins .
1855/6
Moved his family to
Whitesville, Andrew County Missouri.
1860
census Platte
Township, Andrew
County Missouri, dwelling #869, with wife and four children age 8 to 3,
plus
his mother Elizabeth Kistler, age 61, born Georgia.
The census taker noted that Solomon, his wife
Sarah and his mother Elizabeth could not read or write.
This may partly explain why their ages vary
considerably through the census years - written records were probably
not kept
by them. Sarah's year of birth varied from 1828 to 1834. Solomon's
varied from
1830-1839 - 1831 was given on the first (1850) and last (1900) census
records
of his life, and his papers. Their
son Charles was said to have been born in both 1864 and 1867.
1862,
14
Mar Solomon
enrolled for Civil War
service at St.Joseph Missouri in Company G, 5th Regiment, Missouri
Cavalry
Volunteers.
1862
From 2nd to 30th, on Muster
rolls as Corporal; present July, August, September, October.
1862,
17
Oct Deserted
from Independence Missouri.
1862,
2
Nov Returned. Restored to duty by order of Court Martial -
fined $25.00.
1863,
Jan/Feb Present.
Pay due for use of private horse.
1863,
July
Memphis Tennessee,
Private. Contracted chronic diarrhea -
treated in hospital at Wolf River, Tennessee. At some time, had right
shoulder
and knee broken.
1863,
13
Oct Mustered
in Savannah Missouri,
Company
G, 12th Missouri
Cavalry,
Benton
Barracks. Savannah
was about
15 miles from Solomon's home of Whitesville.
1864,
2
Feb Mustered
in Benton Barracks, Missouri
-
farrier.
1864,
Sep/Oct In camp - Memphis
Tennessee.
1866,
7
Apr
Discharged
at Leavenworth Kansas.
1867,
2
Sept Last
child born - son Charles.
(Possibly 2 Sept 1864)
1868,
Nov
Wife Sarah left for a trip to Indiana
to visit
her brother - took son Charles with her.
Five older children, ages 16
to
7 were
left with Solomon.
1869,
15
Dec Solomon
petitions for divorce -
states wife has deserted her family.
1870,
1
Feb Court
ordered that Sarah be
notified - she was ordered to appear on April 11th.
1870,
14
Apr Sarah
appears in court to answer
divorce petition - states Solomon did not send money for her to return. Her brother paid for her return trip.
1870,
15
Apr Court
overrules Solomon's
petition - gives until August Court to file reply.
1870,
June
Census 1870, Platte
Township,
Andrew County
Missouri.
Sarah Kistler was head of household with six
children. Charles, the youngest, was 6.
1870,
31
Aug Solomon
comes to court and
dismisses suit - to pay $7.85 court costs.
Note:
Solomon had purchased
several tracts of
land in Andrew County,
and
after this case, some were sold by the Sheriff, on orders from the
Circuit
Court, to pay his debts. Sarah Kistler and
her family knew nothing more about Solomon Kistler after this time. The family story was that he had deserted his
family and they never heard from him again.
My grandfather, Solomon's son Charles, attempted, about
1915, to
locate
his father but was unsuccessful. As we now know, Solomon was no longer
living
in 1915. Charles had contacted the
Kistler family organization in Pennsylvania
- a
booklet sent to him was passed down in the family.
Having this contact, and knowing little about
his father's origins, Charles, in 1920, told the census taker that his
father
was born in Pennsylvania.
1880
census Sarah
Kistler was living in
the household of her son James, along with her son Charles, age 14.
1885
census State
of Colorado census
for Boulder County District 3, page 48 #520, shows Sarah Kistler
living, as
"house keeper", with her son William Frank, 26 and single listed as
head of family, and Larry Kistler age 12 listed as "brother", born Missouri,
parents
born Indiana. Larry remains a mystery, as no record of him
has yet been found before or after 1885.
1889,
7
Nov Sarah
Kistler died while
visiting or living with her son William Frank Kistler on his farm in
Weld
County, near the Boulder County line.
She is buried in the Berthoud, Larimer County Colorado
cemetery.
Returning to Solomon Kistler,
the timeline will report on what we have been able to learn about the
rest of
his life. Solomon's application for
pension as a Civil War soldier, and later, the widow's application for
Solomon's
pension after his death opened a window into his later life that Sarah
and
their children never knew.
1875,
6
Oct Solomon
Kistler of Platte
County Missouri married in Livingston County Missouri to Mrs. Eliza A.
Goben of
Livingston County Missouri, widow of Layton Goben - recorded in Book 2,
page
257.
1880
Census Moresville
Township, Livingston
County Missouri.
1883,
24
Oct Solomon
applied for Civil War
pension in Grayson County Texas. Post
Office, Pink Hill. Interesting to note,
his name is spelled correctly - Kistler - throughout the military and
pension
papers!
1890
census Chickasaw
Nation, Tishamingo County,
Mansville Post Office. Solomon Kistler
and wife with 3 male children. U S
Citizen, permitted.
1900
census Indian
Territory, Chickasaw Nation, Twp.3 south, range 4 east,
Post Office
Ravia. Solomon Kistler, head, born May
1831, age 69, married 24 years, born Indiana, parents born Georgia,
farmer,
owns house free of mortgage. Wife Eliza;
son Noah 20, born Missouri;
daughter-in-law Mollie; son Doney 14, born Texas.
1903,
26
Jan Died,
Solomon Kistler at Ravia,
Indian Territory (now Johnston
County Oklahoma). Source - his wife Eliza's application for
pension, dated 26 March 1903.
1907,
3
Aug Died,
Eliza Kistler, widow of
Solomon Kistler
SOLOMON
KISTLER - FAMILY SUMMARY
43
Solomon
Kistler4
(John3, Frederick2, Johannes Niclaus1)
was
born in May of 1831 in Clark County Indiana.
He married, first, 24
October 1850 in Jefferson County Indiana to Sarah Rankins,
daughter of
William and Delilah (Humble) Rankins, formerly of Bourbon County
Kentucky. Solomon married, second, in
Moresville,
Livingston County Missouri to Eliza Goben, widow of Layton Goben. Eliza was mother of two daughters, Unis V
Goben, born 1870, and Lodema Goben, born 1873, both born in Missouri.
Children
born to Solomon and Sarah (Rankins) Kistler:
60
i Mary Jane
Kistler
was born in
September
1851 in Saluda Township,
Jefferson County Indiana. She married 16 April 1871 to David H.
Allison, a
druggist in Whitesville, Andrew County Missouri. Their
children were Ida who married John J.
McDaniels, William who died as a small child, and Elizabeth who
married, first,
J.D. Landers, and second, as a widow, to her sister's widower, John J.
McDaniels. Mary Jane died 21 August 1904 in
Whitesville.
+
61
ii James
Risley Kistler was born
in 1853 in
Saluda Township,
Jefferson County Indiana. He married 9 Jan 1876 to Amanda J.
Faulkner n marriage
certificate, Felker on a son's death certificate.)
James died before 1900 in Colorado.
62
iii Martha Ann
Kistler was born 10
November 1855 in Saluda
Township,
Jefferson County Indiana. She married 1 January 1871 in Whitesville
Missouri to John
F Bishop. She moved with her parents to Missouri,
and on
with her husband in 1880 to Mead in Weld County Colorado.
Martha Ann died 4
May
1926 and is buried in Mountain
View Cemetery,
Longmont, Boulder
County Colorado. Her children were Eva
May Bishop who married Albert F Peters, Bertha Leona Bishop who married
Edward
J Morrison, and Roy Bishop who married Ora Hollenbeck.
+
63 iv William Frank Kistler was born
in June
of 1856 in Whitesville, Missouri. He married 22 December 1886 in Longmont,
Boulder
County Colorado to Jane Ann Clemmons.
William Frank died 19
January 1913.
64
v Elizabeth
(Lizzie)
Kistler was
born in
1861 in Whitesville Missouri. The family has a picture of Lizzie as a young
woman taken by "Hemingway the Photographer" in Cameron, Missouri,
but she
has not been identified further.
+
65 vi Charles Kistler was born 2
September,
either 1864 or 1867 in Whitesville, Platte County Missouri. He married 27 September 1893 in Longmont
Colorado to
Hattie Grace Denio.
66
vii Larry
Kistler,
born 1873 in Missouri
is a
mystery child. He is called a brother,
age 12, of William Frank Kistler on the 1885 Colorado
state
census. He has not been found on record
before or since.
Children
born to Solomon and Eliza (widow Goben) Kistler - birthdates from
pension
application of their father, marriage records from counties mentioned,
other
information from descendants of Solomon and Eliza:
67
viii Toney
(Tony)
Kistler was born 26 July
1878, in Livingston
County
Missouri. He married 11 April 1895 to Milla Simmons, both
of
Baum, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). He married, second, Hettie E Simmons, cousin
of Milla. Children of Tony and Milla
Kistler were Annie, born 1897 in Oklahoma, married 26 Sept 1912 in
Ardmore to
Ira Shores; William Alfred Kistler was born 1 July 1898 in Oklahoma,
married
Dorothy Bettes. He died 30
June 1969 in Ardmore OK. Children of Tony and Hettie, born in Utica,
Bryan County Oklahoma were Leonard Kistler, born 12 Feb 1916, married 5
July
1914 in Durant Oklahoma to Nellie B McGehee; Thelma Fay Kistler was
born 14 May
1919, and married in 1936 to Jack Brown; Marvin Kistler was born 28
October
1928, married 6 August 1949 in Dennison Texas to Billie Higgins.
68
ix Noah Kistler
was born 30 May 1880
in Livingston
County Missouri. He married 29 Sept 1899 to Mollie
Gipson, both of Baum, Carter County
Oklahoma. They had two children,
daughter Audeen born 8
December 1901 who died in 1916, and son Earl born 5 March 1910 in Portales New Mexico
who
married in 1954 to Hettie Pitman. He
died 7 April 1985.
69
x Doney
(Donnie)
Kistler was
born 12 September 1886,
probably in Grayson County
Texas. He married Nina and resided in Ardmore,
Carter
County Oklahoma
Fifth
Generation #61 JAMES
RISLEY KISTLER
James
Risley Kistler5 (Solomon4, John3,
Frederick2, Johannes Niclaus1) was born in 1853
in Saluda Township,
Jefferson County Indiana. He moved about
1856 with his father's family to Whitesville, Andrew County Missouri
where he
grew up and married 9 January
1876 to Amanda J Faulkner (also spelled Felker). In 1887, they moved to Colorado
by
covered wagon and settled in Weld County Colorado, in an area where
boundaries
of Weld County,
Boulder County
and Larimer County
meet. James Risley Kistler died prior to
1900, and is buried near his mother Sarah Kistler in a family plot in
the Greenlawn Cemetery
east of
Berthoud, Larimer County Colorado. Hers
is the only gravestone - records in the town office show Sarah
surrounded by
son James, his widow Amanda, their son Frederick, and Amanda's second
husband
Charles Johnson. No date of death is
given for James.
Amanda
Kistler, widow of James, married second, 11 February 1900 at Eaton, Weld County Colorado
to Charles Diederig Johnson
of Eaton.
Children
born to James Risley and Amanda (Faulkner) Kistler, the first three
born in
Whitesville, Andrew County Missouri:
75
i Ulla V
(Ollie)
Kistler, a son,
was born
in 1879. The 1880 census of Whitesville
calls him Ollie, a "daughter" age 11/12. A
list of school petitioners dated December
1887, gives signer's name James Kistler and his "person of school
age" Ollie, age 9. Next record
proves he was a male - Mr. Ulla V Kistler of Windsor,
Weld
County Colorado married 29
March, 1899, Miss Jane Tollman of Windsor,
recorded in Larimer County
marriage
book C, page 169. The 1900 Census of
Weld County Colorado, ED 198, sheet 7, line 53 shows Ulla Kistler, age
21, born
Missouri, parents
born Indiana and Missouri,
wife
Jane, son Charles W born January 1900.
Ulla's brother Frederick is on the same page line 96, age
15, a
farm
laborer for Dan Armstrong. The 1920
census of Weld County
shows
this family at ED 253, page 29, line 50: Ulla Kistler 40, born Missouri,
wife
Jane 41, Maurice 19, Ruby 16 and Zelma 9, all born Colorado.
76
ii Charles
Kistler
was born 8 December 1881
in
Whitesville. He died a young child, 30 June 1885 in the same
place.
77
iii Frederick
Kistler
was born 23 November 1885
in
Whitesville. He married 26 August 1907 in Eaton,
Weld County Colorado to Molly Weidenkeller. He
and Molly later separated. He died 24 June 1938 of cancer in
the State hospital in Pueblo
and is
buried in the Greenlawn cemetery near Berthoud Colorado,
near
his mother. No heirs are named.
78
iv William
Warren
Kistler was
born 5 October 1892
in Weld County
Colorado. After his mother's second
marriage, he was brought up in Eaton - newspaper articles report that
he played
on the Eaton football and basketball teams in 1910.
He served in World War I. At
his
death 11 Nov 1951,
he was residing in Gardena California,
a
widower survived by two step-daughters.
He is buried in Anaheim,
Los
Angeles County California.
Fifth
Generation #63
WILLIAM
FRANK KISTLER
William
Frank Kistler5 (Solomon4, John3,
Frederick2, Johannes Niclaus1) was born in June
1856 in
Whitesville, Andrew County Missouri. He
moved to Colorado as a
young man and married, 22
December 1886 in Longmont,
Boulder County,
to Jane
Ann Clemmons. Jane Ann, daughter of
George W and Sarah Clemmons, was born 13 September 1863 in Missouri. William Frank and Jane Ann settled on a farm
in Weld County,
just
over the Boulder County
line,
which they made their lifetime home.
William Frank died 19
January 1913 and Jane Ann 3 July 1919. Both are buried in Mountain
View Cemetery,
in Longmont, Boulder
County Colorado.
Children
born to William Frank and Jane Ann (Clemmons) Kistler, all born on
their
parents farm:
80
i Grace Kistler
was born in
November
1887. She married Walter Stewart. Grace died 15 May 1956 and is buried in the Greenlawn
cemetery near Berthoud,
Larimer County Colorado.
81
ii William
Arthur
Kistler was
born in April
1889. He married 2 August 1911 to Nina Esther Hurst. They had four children, William Robert,
Donald Arthur, Florence Esther and Thomas Franklin.
Tragedy struck this family on the 3rd of July 1919.
They
were driving from their home near Mead Colorado
on a
planned visit, when their car got stuck in sand in the bottom of a dry
creek
bed crossing. William Arthur went for
help, and before he returned, a roaring flood from a cloudburst to the
west
rushed down the draw and his wife, his mother, and all four small
children were
drowned. The family are buried in the Mountain
View Cemetery
in Longmont Colorado. After the tragedy, William Arthur left Colorado
-
perhaps he went to Texas.
82
iii George Lee
Kistler was born in
August
1891. He married 4 June 1917 in Evergreen, Colorado
to
Marion Ruth Clark, the daughter of Michael M and Missouri Ann (Smith)
Clark of
Centralia Missouri. In 1922, they bought
a ranch in Larimer County Colorado, now the site of Carter
Lake.
Here
they raised their family of
children: George Lee Jr. born 1918; Ruth
Elizabeth born 1920, died as a small child; Clark Clemmons born 1922;
Kirby
Frank born 1923; and Charles Marion born 1927.
George Kistler Sr. died in 1976 in Longmont
Colorado; his
wife Marion survived him until 27 December 1991. Both
are buried in Mountain View Cemetery
in Longmont Colorado. George Lee Kistler's widow Marion Kistler was
the main source of information on the William Frank Kistler family.
Fifth
Generation #65
CHARLES
KISTLER
Charles
Kistler5 (Solomon4, John3,
Frederick2, Johannes Niclaus1) was born 2 September 1864 or 1867 in
Whitesville,
Andrew County Missouri. After his father
left the family, Charles and his mother lived with one or another of
his older
siblings. A brother-in-law interested
Charles in becoming a pharmacist, and in October of 1888 he enrolled as
a
student in the Pharmacy Department of the University
of Kansas in Lawrence. He was the first in many generations of his
family to experience a higher education.
This course required only one year to complete. At
the time of his mother's death, 7 November 1889, in Colorado,
Charles
was with her at the home of his brother William Frank Kistler - we know
this
because it was Charles who purchased the cemetery lot.
He then returned to Missouri
to work
in a pharmacy in Savannah Missouri,
near
his hometown of Whitesville.
By
1891,
Charles Kistler had returned to Colorado. The newspaper of Longmont,
Boulder
County Colorado, announced on 28
August 1891 that Mr. Charles Kistler of Savannah
Missouri was
beginning work in Killgore's drug store.
"He is a graduate in pharmacy and has had several years
experience
as a prescription druggist." In
November it was announced that he had "passed the examination before
the
State Board of Pharmacy and received his diploma as a competent drug
mixer." Charles Kistler married 27 September 1893 in Longmont
Colorado to Grace
Denio, daughter of James Wilbur and Hattie Mariah (Taylor)
Denio. Charles died 8 March 1927, and his wife Grace died 20 October 1942. Both are buried in Mountain
View cemetery in Longmont
Colorado.
Children
born to Charles and Grace (Denio) Kistler, all born in Longmont
Colorado:
85
i Wilbur Denio
Kistler was born 16
February 1895. He married 19 August 1918 to Charlotte
Ardery.
Children born to Wilbur and Charlotte Kistler were Ardery
who
married
Keith Kirkbride and Wilbur (Bill) Kistler who never married. Wilbur Kistler Sr. died 19 December 1955 in Seattle,
Washington. Wilbur
Kistler Jr. is also deceased.
86
ii Ruth Kistler
was born 8 March 1896.
She never married, but was a beloved aunt to
her nieces and nephews. Ruth died 8 February 1949 in Port
Washington, Nassau County New York and is buried in Mountain
View cemetery in Longmont
Colorado.
87
iii Hattie
Ethel
Kistler was born 30 May
1900.
She married 31
May 1923
in Longmont Colorado
to James
Alexander St.Clair Jr. They lived for
many years in Port Washington, New
York, and thirty retirement years in Sedona
Arizona where
Jim died 7 April 1991. Hattie died 26 January 1995 in Boulder,
Boulder
County Colorado.
88
iv Charles
Aaron
Kistler was born
28 April 1903. He married 22 May 1926 to Virginia Peeples.
Charles and Virginia Kistler had one son, Charles Aaron
Kistler
Jr. who
married Maria Vaughn. Charles Kistler
Sr. died 17 September 1977
in Atlanta, Georgia. Charles Kistler Jr. died 28 November 1992, also in Georgia.
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