Fred Barton Kensler

Notes:

Dean Cramer shows that he died in Mathews, Mathews County, Virginia.

Fred married Mattie Uncapher on 1 Aug 1909 in Van Wert County, Ohio. Mattie was born on 7 Oct 1885 in Ridge Township, Van Wert County, Ohio; died on 2 Aug 1977 in Urbana Twp, Champaign County, Illinois; was buried in Ridge Cemetery, Middle Point, Van Wert County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XD2K-2LW
name: Barton F. Kensler
titles & terms:
event: Marriage
event date: 01 Aug 1909
event place (standardized): Van Wert, Ohio, United States
event place (other):
age: 22
estimated birth year: 1887
birth date:
birthplace: Ridge Twp.
father: John Kensler
father's titles & terms:
mother: Irene Cramer
mother's titles & terms:
spouse: Mattie M. Uncapher
spouse's titles & terms:
spouse's age: 23
spouse's estimated birth year: 1886
spouse's birthplace: Ridge Twp.
spouse's father: James Uncapher
spouse's father's titles & terms:
spouse's mother: Libbie Ireland
spouse's mother's titles & terms:
reference number: Vol. 13 1908-1912
film number: 1015864
digital folder number: 004017438
image number: 00453
Collection: Barton F. Kensler, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1994"

Dean Cramer shows them as the parents of five children, all born in Van Wert County, Ohio: Charles Forest Kensler (b. 1911), Clifford Barton Kensler (b. 1913), Orville Austin Kensler (b. 1914), Donald J. Kensler (b. 1916(, and Isabelle Marie Kensler (b. 1922).

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Census Listings:

1900 Census
Ohio, Van Wert County, Ridge Township
Enumerated 27 Jun 1900
SD 4 ED 30 Sheet 14B
285-287
Kensler, Thomas Head W M Mar 1828 72 Wd Oh Pa Oh Farm Manager
Kensler, John Son W M Aug 1859 M 15 Oh Oh NY Farmer
Kensler, Irene Dtr-in-law W F May 1857 43 m 14 5/5 Oh Pa Oh
Kensler, Fred B Son W M Apr 1887 13 S Oh Oh Oh Farm Laborer
Kensler, Ray L Son M W Mug 1888 12 S Oh Oh Oh Farm Laborer
Kensler, Wilber C Son W M Feb 1890 10 S Oh Oh Oh
Kensler, Thomas T Son W M Mar 1892 8 S Oh Oh Oh
Kensler, Hassie/Harrie Son Jun 1894 S Oh Oh Oh

John married Irene Henrietta Cramer on 28 Dec 1884 in Van Wert County, Ohio. Irene (daughter of Johannes "John" Cramer and Ann Eve Shaffner) was born on 23 May 1857 in Bloomville, Seneca County, Ohio; died on 17 Jan 1948 in Richwood, Union County, Ohio; was buried in Ridge Cemetery, Middle Point, Van Wert County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X6LX-PNL
name: Irene Kensler
titles & terms: Mrs.
event: Death
event date: 17 Jan 1948
event place:
residence:
street address:
gender: Female
death age: 90y 7 m 25d
marital status:
race: White
occupation:
birth date: 23 May 1857
birthplace: Bloomville, Ohio
estimated birth year: 1858
burial date:
burial place:
cemetery:
father: John Cramer
father's titles & terms: Cramer
father's birthplace:
mother: Ann Eve Schaffner
mother's titles & terms:
mother's birthplace:
spouse: John Kensler
spouse's titles & terms:
reference number: Certificate
film number: 2246455
digital folder number: 4109084
image number: 00198
Collection: Irene Kensler, "Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953"

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Per BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF VAN WERT COUNTY (Ohio) "John Cramer was eighteen years of age when he accompanied his parents to Seneca County, Ohio, and had then finished his education. Until twenty-one years of age he remained on the home farm, and then engaged as a laborer in a saw-mill in Seneca County for two years, and then, in 1847, he married and bought eighty acres of land, on which he at once located and cultivated until 1864, when he came to Van Wert and bought 120 acres in Pleasant township, where he now resides and still owns 75 acres of finely improved land. The family all worship in the Methodist Episcopal faith, and in politics Mr. Cramer is a prohibitionist; he is a member of the grange No. 82, of which he was the treasurer for 14 years."

FindAGrave lists his date of birth as 9 Oct 1822, and date of death as 10 Jan 1912. A photo of an engraved double tombstone, with a second wife, Sarah J. Cramer, shows the dates as 6 Oct 1833 through 11 Jan 1912. Dean Cramer has an earlier date of death, 11 November 1905.

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Census Listings:

1850 Census
Ohio, Seneca County, Bloom Twp
Enumerated 28 Sept 1850
1305-1333
Martin and Rebecca Schaffner
1306-1334
John Cramer 28 M Laborer Pa
Ann Cramer 20 F Ohio

1860 Census
Ohio, Seneca County, Bloom Twp, PO Bloomville
Enumerated 28 Jun 1860
Page 79
600-567
John Cramer 36 M Farmer 2000 844 Pa
Anne E Crame4r 30 F O
William J Cramer 8 M O
Sarah C Cramer 6 F O
Frank A Cramer 4 M O
Irene H Cramer 3 F O
Anne E Cramer 1 F O
Charles W Cooly 17 M Laborer O

1870 Census
not located

1880 Census
Ohio, Van Wert County, Fourth Ward Van Wert
Enumerated 14 Jun 1880
Page 31 SD One ED 151
Cherry Street
3
Van Danig John B M 20 Laborer Mich Penn Oh
Cramer, John W M 57 Farmer Pa Pa Pa
Cramer, Ann W F 49 Wf Keeping House Oh Pa Pa
Cramer, Frank W M 24 Son Farmer Oh Pa Oh
Cramer, Irene H W F 23 Dtr Oh Pa Oh
Cramer, Annie W F 21 Dtr Oh Pa Oh
Cramer, Martin S W M 19 Son At School Oh Pa Oh
Cramer, Ralph A W M 14 Son At School Oh Pa Oh
Cramer, Charles W M 12 Son At School Oh Pa Oh

Johannes married Ann Eve Shaffner on 29 Dec 1847 in Seneca County, Ohio. Ann (daughter of Martin Shaffner and Ann E. Wirt) was born on 17 Sep 1830 in Crawford County, Ohio; died on 28 Mar 1901 in Van Wert County, Ohio; was buried in Woodland Union Cemetery, Van Wert, Van Wert County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Clarence E. Cramer writes that his baptismal sponsors were his maternal grandparents, Johann and Elisabetha Neidig. He was named in honor of Johann(es) Neudig. He indicated that after his marriage, he and Catharina lived near the Stone Church. He moved to Fostoria, Ohio sometime between 1837 and 1840...(with) printed records for each of these dates, as well as Family tales. (P. 57).

Edith Beard Cannon, in "Genealogical Reports for The Historical Society of York County, Vol. XXIX, p. 52, Evidence of the Cramer Families of York before the year 1850 REVISED" published 1843, cited the following deed:

(3A, 29) December 26, 1814. Johannes Cramer of Shrewsbury Township, yeoman; to John KOLLER: for $1.50: lot 18 in Shrewsbury town.

According to the "Biographical History of Van Wert County (Ohio), Volume II" John Cramer Sr came to Ohio in 1840 and settled on a farm in Seneca County, where he died June 29, 1856, his wife having departed September 16, 1854. They were both members of the German Lutheran Church, and in politics, Mr. Cramer was a democrat. He had served in the war of 1812 as a captain, and was an honored man in his community, where he left a fair fortune. (p. 154) In the book "Seneca County, Biographical Sketches" it says that John and Catherine (Slote) Cramer settled in Loudon Township, Seneca County, in 1838, and purchased 160 acres of land, most of which they cleared and improved and where they lived; here the father died in 1855, in his sixty fifth year; and the mother in 1854, in her sixty second year. (Loudon Township, p 893)

According to Dean Cramer, John donated some of his own land for the Cramer Cemetery in Fostoria, Ohio.

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Census Listings:

1850 Census
Ohio, Seneca County, Louden Twp
Enumerated 24 Sept 1850
Rome
85-85
John Cramer 59 M Farmer 3000 Pa
Cathrine Cramer 57 F Pa
Wm. Cramer 18 M Farmer
Sophis Cramer 16 F Pa
Sarah A Cramer 13 F Pa
John Hook 12 M Oh

Johannes married Catharina Schlott about 1816 in York County, Pennsylvania. Catharina (daughter of Johann Adam Schlott and Anna Maria Catharina Holder) was born on 20 Jul 1794 in York County, Pennsylvania; was christened on 21 Sep 1794 in Lower Windsor Twp, York County, Pennsylvania; died on 16 Sep 1854 in Seneca County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Settled in Crawford County, Ohio in 1829; both members of the Methodist Episcopal church. At the time of the 1850 census, a Martin and Rebecsa Schaffner were living next to Ann Shaffner and John Cramer in Bloom Township, Seneca County, Ohio. FindAGrave notes that "he became somewhat of a legendary person in the Shaffner genealogy, often noted for his "three wives and 21 children." In fact, he was widowed three times and married four times. He is also known to have had more than 125 grandchildren, many of whom were born after his death, even though he lived to be 83. He also had more than 300 great-grandchildren. "

Martin married Ann E. Wirt in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Ann was born on 10 Oct 1802 in Pennsylvania; died on 22 Sep 1831 in Crawford County, Ohio; was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bloomville, Seneca County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From FindAGrave:

Anna was Martin Shaffner's second wife. She bore him three children, one of whom, Levi Brice Shaffner, died in infancy. Anna died and was originally buried in Crawford County. Later she was re-interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery with Martin and his two other wives