Age 61Y 9MO 21D

The Boone County IN genweb has this biography for John:
REV. JOHN KLINGLER.

Mr. Klingler was born in Pennsylvania on February 22, 1787. When young he went to Kentucky, in 1795, where he was married in Bracken County, August 11, 1808. From there they removed to Clermont County, Ohio, where twelve of the older children were born. In 1831 they came to Marion County, Indiana, where they remained until the year 1839, when they became citizens of Boone County, and where they lived the remainder of their lives. Mrs. Rachel Klingler was born in Kentucky on January 8, 1792. On coming to this county they settled on "Irishman's Run," in Eagle Township, where Mr. Klingler died, aged eighty years. The following are the names of this family: Joshua, born in Ohio June 22, 1809; John, born in Ohio November 28, 1810; Martin, born February 7, 1812, died in Kentucky, and was buried in Marion County, Indiana, October 5, 1828; George F., born November 4, 1813, resides in Eagle Township; Frederick, born June 19, 1815, died April 20, 1867 (his wife died June 23, 1969 – both buried at Salem, Cemetery); Byron; born November 25, 1816, died in infancy; Polly, born December 4, 1817, died October 25, 1879, and buried in Boone County at the Pitzer Cemetery; Francis L. was born September 11, 1819 – deceased; Catharine, born February 27, 1821, died March 8, 1823, and buried in Ohio; Samuel, born in Ohio April 30, 1824, died October 1868, and buried in Pitzer Cemetery; Elijah, born in Ohio May 21, 1826, died in Morgan County, Ind., January, 1875, and buried at Martinsville; William A. born in Kentucky June 1, 1828, resides in Eagle Township; Richard P., born in Kentucky, died November, 1870, is buried at Pleasant View Cemetery in Union Township; Joel, born in Marion County, Indiana, November 6, 1831, deceased. Mr. John Klingler, the subject of this sketch, died November 1, 1848; Mrs. Margaret Klingler, wife of John Klingler, died May 29, 1864. It will be seen that nearly all of this large family are dead. George married Miss Nancy Wolf, daughter of John Wolf, in 1849. In 1843 Elijah married Mary Stephenson. Joshua was married to Sarah Tibbets in Kentucky; John was married to Sarah Roback in 1834; Frederick to Muriney Sullivan, February 21, 1843; Polly to Anderson Gutterg, 1837; Francis L. to Polly Mullen, August, 1841; Samuel to Sarah Lanier, March 16, 1852; William A. to Mary A. Moore, August 1, 1886; Richard P. to Eliza Broahard, 1847; Joel to Margaret Ray, 1851.

Source: "Early Life and Times in Boone County, Indiana," Harden & Spahr, Lebanon, Ind., May, 1887, pp. 316-317 Transcribed by: Julie S. Townsend - June 28, 2007