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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