Christian Bixler

Shortly before the Civil War, the Bixler family moved to Davies County, Indiana. Here Christian enlisted in the war, contracted pneumonia, was sent home, and died shortly afterward.

Ragersville, Auburn Township, Ohio
1830-1980,
the Sesquicentennial Story of a Community

Civil War Veteran
Private, Co C
91st Regt IN Inf

*** buried as C Bixler

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Christian Bixler

1st married 1849 Elizabeth Hochstetler Middaugh Bixler, daughter of John P Hochstetler & his wife Catherine Hochstetler Hochstetler
& sister to his 2nd wife Margaret

Children
1 Samuel Bixler b 1851
2 Catherine "Katie" Bixler Weirich b 1853
3 Gideon Bixler b 1854
4 Simon C Bixler b 1856

Elizabeth 1st married 1840 Andrew Middaugh

Andrew 2nd or 3rd narried 1858 Mary Bair Winklepleck Middaugh

& Mary 1st married 1845 David Winklepleck

Mary is findagrave memorial 38405779
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Christian 2nd married 1857 Margaret "Peggy" Hochstetler Bixler Seibert, also a daughter of John P Hochstetler & his wife Catherine Hochstetler Hochstetler

Children
1 Delilah Bixler Smith b 1858
2 John Bixler b 1860
3 Susan Bixler Sutliff b 1861

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Margaret 2nd married & 2nd wife 1866 Peter Adam Seibert, son of Johann Seibert & his wife Marie Margarethe Haas Seibert

Children
1 Emma A Seibert Myers b 1867
2 William E Seibert b 1868
3 Daniel A Seibert b 1871
4 Ellen aka Ella Seibert Wilson b 1873
5 Edward F Seibert b 1876
6 Mabel M Seibert b 1877

Peter Adam Seibert 1st married Magdalena Elizabeth Rausch Seibert (d 1865), daughter of George Jacob Rausch & his 1st wife Mary Elizabeth Kutscher Rausch

Children
1 Peter Seibert b 1843
2 Henrietta Seibert Schaaf b 1844
3 John C Seibertb 1845
4 Mary M Seibert Axx b 1847
5 Charles Seibert b 1849
6 Catherine E Seibert b 1851
7 Caroline D Seibert b 1854
8 George Seibert b 1857
9 Henry H Seibert b 1860
10 Jacob Seibert b 1862
11 Callie Seibert b 1865