Saturday, June 23, 1877
DIED. -On the 16th of June, after a long and painful illness, CHRISTOPHER ERNSPERGER died; canceled the debt of nature fully due, yet all who knew him grieved to see it paid. He was born in Frederick countv, Maryland, on the 24th of December, 1805, so that at his death he was in his seventy-second year. He came to Wayne Co., Ohio, the then almost unknown West with his father's family when about twenty years of age, but he never lost his affection for his native state, and often said of late years, "I would like to go back to Maryland," and sometimes expressed a determination to visit the home of his childhood and youth. In the autumn of 1858 he came from Ohio to this state, since which time he has lived in this county, a good part of the time here in Rochester, where he was respected as a citizen, and loved as a genial companion of both young and old. He was brought up a Presbvterian, but for the last forty- four vears he has been united with the Methodists .... He was second in a family of ten who lived to be grown and married, and seven of whom are now living, five brothers and two sisters. Three of the brothers, from different parts of the state attended the funeral last Sunday. The two sisters and youngest brother are residents of Sanduskii county, Ohio. On the 28th of May, 1829, the subject of this slight memoir married JULIANA ENSMINGER, and she, with three sons and seven daughters survive him
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Newspaper Excerpts - 1877
by Wendell C. Tombaugh
Saturday, June 23, 1877
DIED. -On the 16th of June, after a long and painful illness, CHRISTOPHER ERNSPERGER died; canceled the debt of nature fully due, yet all who knew him grieved to see it paid. He was born in Frederick countv, Maryland, on the 24th of December, 1805, so that at his death he was in his seventy-second year. He came to Wayne Co., Ohio, the then almost unknown West with his father's family when about twenty years of age, but he never lost his affection for his native state, and often said of late years, "I would like to go back to Maryland," and sometimes expressed a determination to visit the home of his childhood and youth. In the autumn of 1858 he came from Ohio to this state, since which time he has lived in this county, a good part of the time here in Rochester, where he was respected as a citizen, and loved as a genial companion of both young and old. He was brought up a Presbvterian, but for the last forty- four vears he has been united with the Methodists .... He was second in a family of ten who lived to be grown and married, and seven of whom are now living, five brothers and two sisters. Three of the brothers, from different parts of the state attended the funeral last Sunday. The two sisters and youngest brother are residents of Sanduskii county, Ohio. On the 28th of May, 1829, the subject of this slight memoir married JULIANA ENSMINGER, and she, with three sons and seven daughters survive him
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Newspaper Excerpts - 1877
by Wendell C. Tombaugh
Family Members
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Caroline Ernsperger Beery
1830–1918
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Catherine Ernsperger Jackson
1831–1922
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Francis Marion Ernsperger
1836–1904
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Maria E Ernsperger Keely
1843–1926
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Martha Mary V "Margaret Holmes Bates" Ernsperger Bates
1844–1927
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Melissa Ernsperger Davidson
1844–1932
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Cordelia Ernsperger Nafe
1848–1932
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Mrs Cyrenitia Ernsperger Nafe Wilson
1849–1935
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Hartly Benton Ernsperger
1851–1885
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