Charles Jacob "Jake" Berger was born November 10, 1845 in Delaware County, Ohio. He was the son of Charles and Rebecca Hathaway Berger. He was almost five years old when his parents moved to "Hathaway Corners", Steuben County, Indiana. Their post office address was York. This is where he received his education and grew to adulthood.
In October 1864, at the age of eighteen, he took his gun and set out to join the Army. He enlisted in Co. A, 29th Indiana Infantry and served as a volunteer soldier. He marched with Sherman "from Atlanta to Savannah on the Sea". The following April, Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House and the war was over. He was discharged the following October (1865) at Marietta, Georgia.
In 1886, he came to Tama County, Iowa where his brother Jack (John A. Berger) had gone two years earlier. He came by train for by that time the Northwestern Railroad had reach Iuka. We call the town Tama today. At first he made his home with the Gain Burk family near Traer. These people had but recently come from Steuben County too. There the two families had lived across the road from each other at "Hathaway Corners". Charles worked out at farming and in the timber the first two or three years he was in Iowa, and he boarded where he worked.
While he was going about he met Miss Louisa Hockensmith, the youngest sister of his brother Jack's wife, Minerva. They were married March 4, 1869 and established their first home in Otter Creek Township. Soon, they moved to a farm in Toledo Township. Their house stood on a location called "McIntosh's Hill". It was there their first son, Frank, was born June 8, 1873. Later they lived a while a short distance west and north in Indian Village Township. Then in 1877 they moved to the farm where his wife's parents, Samuel and Elizabeth Betts Hockensmith, had come to when they came to Iowa in 1860. Here, the second son, Dan A., was born on October 9, 1882 and his sister Olive on May 10, 1895. They also had a baby girl who died in infancy in 1870.
Frank Berger was a carpenter by trade for nearly 52 years and never married. During World War I he spent a few months working in a powder plant in Nashville, Tennessee. Frank died January 5, 1957.
Olive May Berger remained on the Hockensmith homestead in Fairview community throughout her lifetime of 90 years. She passed away on May 31, 1985.
Dan A. Berger married Ethel Blanche Wise, a rural school teacher, on March 19, 1905. He spent his entire life in the Fairview neighborhood, all but three years on the farm on which he was born. Dan and Ethel were the parents of three daughters: Ruth Berger (Kenneth) Blake; Elizabeth Berger Rinehart (Gerald H.) Peterson; and Louisa (Lyle A.) Cooper.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jacob Berger were both active in community activities and especially with Fairview Methodist Church. Mr. Berger served as one of the early Trustees of the church in 1903 and Mrs. Berger was the first President of the Ladies Aid when it was organized on August 12, 1903.
Mr. Berger passed away July 12, 1904, and Mrs. Berger on May 18, 1926. Interment was made in Woodlawn Cemetery in Toledo, Iowa.
Bio info obtained from "Berger, Jacob Charles F85" written by Mary C. Blake Dvorak as included in the book titled History of Tama County Iowa, Volume I, 1987, 977.7756 HIS Iowa, as found in the Toledo, Iowa Public Library.
In October 1864, at the age of eighteen, he took his gun and set out to join the Army. He enlisted in Co. A, 29th Indiana Infantry and served as a volunteer soldier. He marched with Sherman "from Atlanta to Savannah on the Sea". The following April, Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House and the war was over. He was discharged the following October (1865) at Marietta, Georgia.
In 1886, he came to Tama County, Iowa where his brother Jack (John A. Berger) had gone two years earlier. He came by train for by that time the Northwestern Railroad had reach Iuka. We call the town Tama today. At first he made his home with the Gain Burk family near Traer. These people had but recently come from Steuben County too. There the two families had lived across the road from each other at "Hathaway Corners". Charles worked out at farming and in the timber the first two or three years he was in Iowa, and he boarded where he worked.
While he was going about he met Miss Louisa Hockensmith, the youngest sister of his brother Jack's wife, Minerva. They were married March 4, 1869 and established their first home in Otter Creek Township. Soon, they moved to a farm in Toledo Township. Their house stood on a location called "McIntosh's Hill". It was there their first son, Frank, was born June 8, 1873. Later they lived a while a short distance west and north in Indian Village Township. Then in 1877 they moved to the farm where his wife's parents, Samuel and Elizabeth Betts Hockensmith, had come to when they came to Iowa in 1860. Here, the second son, Dan A., was born on October 9, 1882 and his sister Olive on May 10, 1895. They also had a baby girl who died in infancy in 1870.
Frank Berger was a carpenter by trade for nearly 52 years and never married. During World War I he spent a few months working in a powder plant in Nashville, Tennessee. Frank died January 5, 1957.
Olive May Berger remained on the Hockensmith homestead in Fairview community throughout her lifetime of 90 years. She passed away on May 31, 1985.
Dan A. Berger married Ethel Blanche Wise, a rural school teacher, on March 19, 1905. He spent his entire life in the Fairview neighborhood, all but three years on the farm on which he was born. Dan and Ethel were the parents of three daughters: Ruth Berger (Kenneth) Blake; Elizabeth Berger Rinehart (Gerald H.) Peterson; and Louisa (Lyle A.) Cooper.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jacob Berger were both active in community activities and especially with Fairview Methodist Church. Mr. Berger served as one of the early Trustees of the church in 1903 and Mrs. Berger was the first President of the Ladies Aid when it was organized on August 12, 1903.
Mr. Berger passed away July 12, 1904, and Mrs. Berger on May 18, 1926. Interment was made in Woodlawn Cemetery in Toledo, Iowa.
Bio info obtained from "Berger, Jacob Charles F85" written by Mary C. Blake Dvorak as included in the book titled History of Tama County Iowa, Volume I, 1987, 977.7756 HIS Iowa, as found in the Toledo, Iowa Public Library.
Charles Jacob "Jake" Berger was born November 10, 1845 in Delaware County, Ohio. He was the son of Charles and Rebecca Hathaway Berger. He was almost five years old when his parents moved to "Hathaway Corners", Steuben County, Indiana. Their post office address was York. This is where he received his education and grew to adulthood.
In October 1864, at the age of eighteen, he took his gun and set out to join the Army. He enlisted in Co. A, 29th Indiana Infantry and served as a volunteer soldier. He marched with Sherman "from Atlanta to Savannah on the Sea". The following April, Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House and the war was over. He was discharged the following October (1865) at Marietta, Georgia.
In 1886, he came to Tama County, Iowa where his brother Jack (John A. Berger) had gone two years earlier. He came by train for by that time the Northwestern Railroad had reach Iuka. We call the town Tama today. At first he made his home with the Gain Burk family near Traer. These people had but recently come from Steuben County too. There the two families had lived across the road from each other at "Hathaway Corners". Charles worked out at farming and in the timber the first two or three years he was in Iowa, and he boarded where he worked.
While he was going about he met Miss Louisa Hockensmith, the youngest sister of his brother Jack's wife, Minerva. They were married March 4, 1869 and established their first home in Otter Creek Township. Soon, they moved to a farm in Toledo Township. Their house stood on a location called "McIntosh's Hill". It was there their first son, Frank, was born June 8, 1873. Later they lived a while a short distance west and north in Indian Village Township. Then in 1877 they moved to the farm where his wife's parents, Samuel and Elizabeth Betts Hockensmith, had come to when they came to Iowa in 1860. Here, the second son, Dan A., was born on October 9, 1882 and his sister Olive on May 10, 1895. They also had a baby girl who died in infancy in 1870.
Frank Berger was a carpenter by trade for nearly 52 years and never married. During World War I he spent a few months working in a powder plant in Nashville, Tennessee. Frank died January 5, 1957.
Olive May Berger remained on the Hockensmith homestead in Fairview community throughout her lifetime of 90 years. She passed away on May 31, 1985.
Dan A. Berger married Ethel Blanche Wise, a rural school teacher, on March 19, 1905. He spent his entire life in the Fairview neighborhood, all but three years on the farm on which he was born. Dan and Ethel were the parents of three daughters: Ruth Berger (Kenneth) Blake; Elizabeth Berger Rinehart (Gerald H.) Peterson; and Louisa (Lyle A.) Cooper.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jacob Berger were both active in community activities and especially with Fairview Methodist Church. Mr. Berger served as one of the early Trustees of the church in 1903 and Mrs. Berger was the first President of the Ladies Aid when it was organized on August 12, 1903.
Mr. Berger passed away July 12, 1904, and Mrs. Berger on May 18, 1926. Interment was made in Woodlawn Cemetery in Toledo, Iowa.
Bio info obtained from "Berger, Jacob Charles F85" written by Mary C. Blake Dvorak as included in the book titled History of Tama County Iowa, Volume I, 1987, 977.7756 HIS Iowa, as found in the Toledo, Iowa Public Library.
In October 1864, at the age of eighteen, he took his gun and set out to join the Army. He enlisted in Co. A, 29th Indiana Infantry and served as a volunteer soldier. He marched with Sherman "from Atlanta to Savannah on the Sea". The following April, Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House and the war was over. He was discharged the following October (1865) at Marietta, Georgia.
In 1886, he came to Tama County, Iowa where his brother Jack (John A. Berger) had gone two years earlier. He came by train for by that time the Northwestern Railroad had reach Iuka. We call the town Tama today. At first he made his home with the Gain Burk family near Traer. These people had but recently come from Steuben County too. There the two families had lived across the road from each other at "Hathaway Corners". Charles worked out at farming and in the timber the first two or three years he was in Iowa, and he boarded where he worked.
While he was going about he met Miss Louisa Hockensmith, the youngest sister of his brother Jack's wife, Minerva. They were married March 4, 1869 and established their first home in Otter Creek Township. Soon, they moved to a farm in Toledo Township. Their house stood on a location called "McIntosh's Hill". It was there their first son, Frank, was born June 8, 1873. Later they lived a while a short distance west and north in Indian Village Township. Then in 1877 they moved to the farm where his wife's parents, Samuel and Elizabeth Betts Hockensmith, had come to when they came to Iowa in 1860. Here, the second son, Dan A., was born on October 9, 1882 and his sister Olive on May 10, 1895. They also had a baby girl who died in infancy in 1870.
Frank Berger was a carpenter by trade for nearly 52 years and never married. During World War I he spent a few months working in a powder plant in Nashville, Tennessee. Frank died January 5, 1957.
Olive May Berger remained on the Hockensmith homestead in Fairview community throughout her lifetime of 90 years. She passed away on May 31, 1985.
Dan A. Berger married Ethel Blanche Wise, a rural school teacher, on March 19, 1905. He spent his entire life in the Fairview neighborhood, all but three years on the farm on which he was born. Dan and Ethel were the parents of three daughters: Ruth Berger (Kenneth) Blake; Elizabeth Berger Rinehart (Gerald H.) Peterson; and Louisa (Lyle A.) Cooper.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jacob Berger were both active in community activities and especially with Fairview Methodist Church. Mr. Berger served as one of the early Trustees of the church in 1903 and Mrs. Berger was the first President of the Ladies Aid when it was organized on August 12, 1903.
Mr. Berger passed away July 12, 1904, and Mrs. Berger on May 18, 1926. Interment was made in Woodlawn Cemetery in Toledo, Iowa.
Bio info obtained from "Berger, Jacob Charles F85" written by Mary C. Blake Dvorak as included in the book titled History of Tama County Iowa, Volume I, 1987, 977.7756 HIS Iowa, as found in the Toledo, Iowa Public Library.
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