David was the eldest of three children from his father Josiah's first marriage to Mary-Anna 'Nancy' Drumheller (1819-1848), daughter of David Drumheller (1784-1837) and Barbara Brower (1793-1880).
David's mother died at 28 when he was six years old. Cause of death and burial site are unknown. His widowed grandmother Barbara Drumheller and her youngest daughter, David's aunt Caroline, moved in with David and his father and kept house for them until David's father re-married in Oct 1850 to Anna Hoffman (1827-1899). Over the next 14 years Anna bore David eight half-siblings.
The fate of David's two younger full-brothers, Aaron and Albert, is unknown. Age one and three at the time of their mother's death, they may have been fostered to relatives. Neither was living with David and their father when their father re-married in 1850.*
David was enrolled for the draft in the Civil War but never called up. The year the war ended, 1865, he left Pennsylvania for Clinton, Ohio, where he lived with his aunt Mary (Hartline) Clouser's family and worked as a shoemaker, his father's trade. On 11 Nov 1871 he married 18-year-old Mary Myers in Tiffin, Ohio. They bought a piece of land at the north end of Attica Township two years later and built their home on it. They had seven children: Charles, John, Ida, Jacob, Edward, Joseph, and Effinger.
In 1891 David opened his own general store and shoe-repair shop in Amsden, Ohio, and served as Amsden's postmaster from 1897 until his death in 1900. He died at home of kidney failure after a two week illness. His son Jacob is said to have slept on his grave nighty for two weeks to prevent his body being stolen by a nearby university for medical research, a concern at the time. Jacob assumed David's position as Amsden's postmaster and held it for the next 14 years.
The Kansas Cemetery was vandalized in Sep 1986. Fifty-two monuments, some dating back to the 1800's, were toppled or damaged, some beyond repair. David's original monument may have been among them, as he shares a stone with his wife and a son who died 27 and 52 years, respectively, after he did.
* In 1885, David inherited his mother Nancy's share of her brother Isaac Drumheller's estate. David is named in probate but not Aaron or Albert, which may suggest both were dead. Albert was born 19 Jan 1845 and baptized 11 May 1847. Aaron was born 27 Apr 1847 and baptized 14 May 1847. Aaron's sponsors were his uncle David Drumheller Jr and his aunt Sarah (Lease) Drumheller.
David's mother died at 28 when he was six years old. Cause of death and burial site are unknown. His widowed grandmother Barbara Drumheller and her youngest daughter, David's aunt Caroline, moved in with David and his father and kept house for them until David's father re-married in Oct 1850 to Anna Hoffman (1827-1899). Over the next 14 years Anna bore David eight half-siblings.
The fate of David's two younger full-brothers, Aaron and Albert, is unknown. Age one and three at the time of their mother's death, they may have been fostered to relatives. Neither was living with David and their father when their father re-married in 1850.*
David was enrolled for the draft in the Civil War but never called up. The year the war ended, 1865, he left Pennsylvania for Clinton, Ohio, where he lived with his aunt Mary (Hartline) Clouser's family and worked as a shoemaker, his father's trade. On 11 Nov 1871 he married 18-year-old Mary Myers in Tiffin, Ohio. They bought a piece of land at the north end of Attica Township two years later and built their home on it. They had seven children: Charles, John, Ida, Jacob, Edward, Joseph, and Effinger.
In 1891 David opened his own general store and shoe-repair shop in Amsden, Ohio, and served as Amsden's postmaster from 1897 until his death in 1900. He died at home of kidney failure after a two week illness. His son Jacob is said to have slept on his grave nighty for two weeks to prevent his body being stolen by a nearby university for medical research, a concern at the time. Jacob assumed David's position as Amsden's postmaster and held it for the next 14 years.
The Kansas Cemetery was vandalized in Sep 1986. Fifty-two monuments, some dating back to the 1800's, were toppled or damaged, some beyond repair. David's original monument may have been among them, as he shares a stone with his wife and a son who died 27 and 52 years, respectively, after he did.
* In 1885, David inherited his mother Nancy's share of her brother Isaac Drumheller's estate. David is named in probate but not Aaron or Albert, which may suggest both were dead. Albert was born 19 Jan 1845 and baptized 11 May 1847. Aaron was born 27 Apr 1847 and baptized 14 May 1847. Aaron's sponsors were his uncle David Drumheller Jr and his aunt Sarah (Lease) Drumheller.
David was the eldest of three children from his father Josiah's first marriage to Mary-Anna 'Nancy' Drumheller (1819-1848), daughter of David Drumheller (1784-1837) and Barbara Brower (1793-1880).
David's mother died at 28 when he was six years old. Cause of death and burial site are unknown. His widowed grandmother Barbara Drumheller and her youngest daughter, David's aunt Caroline, moved in with David and his father and kept house for them until David's father re-married in Oct 1850 to Anna Hoffman (1827-1899). Over the next 14 years Anna bore David eight half-siblings.
The fate of David's two younger full-brothers, Aaron and Albert, is unknown. Age one and three at the time of their mother's death, they may have been fostered to relatives. Neither was living with David and their father when their father re-married in 1850.*
David was enrolled for the draft in the Civil War but never called up. The year the war ended, 1865, he left Pennsylvania for Clinton, Ohio, where he lived with his aunt Mary (Hartline) Clouser's family and worked as a shoemaker, his father's trade. On 11 Nov 1871 he married 18-year-old Mary Myers in Tiffin, Ohio. They bought a piece of land at the north end of Attica Township two years later and built their home on it. They had seven children: Charles, John, Ida, Jacob, Edward, Joseph, and Effinger.
In 1891 David opened his own general store and shoe-repair shop in Amsden, Ohio, and served as Amsden's postmaster from 1897 until his death in 1900. He died at home of kidney failure after a two week illness. His son Jacob is said to have slept on his grave nighty for two weeks to prevent his body being stolen by a nearby university for medical research, a concern at the time. Jacob assumed David's position as Amsden's postmaster and held it for the next 14 years.
The Kansas Cemetery was vandalized in Sep 1986. Fifty-two monuments, some dating back to the 1800's, were toppled or damaged, some beyond repair. David's original monument may have been among them, as he shares a stone with his wife and a son who died 27 and 52 years, respectively, after he did.
* In 1885, David inherited his mother Nancy's share of her brother Isaac Drumheller's estate. David is named in probate but not Aaron or Albert, which may suggest both were dead. Albert was born 19 Jan 1845 and baptized 11 May 1847. Aaron was born 27 Apr 1847 and baptized 14 May 1847. Aaron's sponsors were his uncle David Drumheller Jr and his aunt Sarah (Lease) Drumheller.
David's mother died at 28 when he was six years old. Cause of death and burial site are unknown. His widowed grandmother Barbara Drumheller and her youngest daughter, David's aunt Caroline, moved in with David and his father and kept house for them until David's father re-married in Oct 1850 to Anna Hoffman (1827-1899). Over the next 14 years Anna bore David eight half-siblings.
The fate of David's two younger full-brothers, Aaron and Albert, is unknown. Age one and three at the time of their mother's death, they may have been fostered to relatives. Neither was living with David and their father when their father re-married in 1850.*
David was enrolled for the draft in the Civil War but never called up. The year the war ended, 1865, he left Pennsylvania for Clinton, Ohio, where he lived with his aunt Mary (Hartline) Clouser's family and worked as a shoemaker, his father's trade. On 11 Nov 1871 he married 18-year-old Mary Myers in Tiffin, Ohio. They bought a piece of land at the north end of Attica Township two years later and built their home on it. They had seven children: Charles, John, Ida, Jacob, Edward, Joseph, and Effinger.
In 1891 David opened his own general store and shoe-repair shop in Amsden, Ohio, and served as Amsden's postmaster from 1897 until his death in 1900. He died at home of kidney failure after a two week illness. His son Jacob is said to have slept on his grave nighty for two weeks to prevent his body being stolen by a nearby university for medical research, a concern at the time. Jacob assumed David's position as Amsden's postmaster and held it for the next 14 years.
The Kansas Cemetery was vandalized in Sep 1986. Fifty-two monuments, some dating back to the 1800's, were toppled or damaged, some beyond repair. David's original monument may have been among them, as he shares a stone with his wife and a son who died 27 and 52 years, respectively, after he did.
* In 1885, David inherited his mother Nancy's share of her brother Isaac Drumheller's estate. David is named in probate but not Aaron or Albert, which may suggest both were dead. Albert was born 19 Jan 1845 and baptized 11 May 1847. Aaron was born 27 Apr 1847 and baptized 14 May 1847. Aaron's sponsors were his uncle David Drumheller Jr and his aunt Sarah (Lease) Drumheller.
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