The family of Daniel Kemery

This post is about Daniel Kemery, the probable son of Jacob and Ann Marie Reed Kemery.  As I mentioned in my last post, Daniel is not mentioned in Jacob's will, and I've found little in the way of documentation to cement the relationship.  However, based on the location of the men in Stark County, Ohio, and some of the same first names being used over and over, I'm going on the assumption that this is correct, while continuing to look for confirming information.

We're on firmer ground with Daniel's wife and children, however.  Even though the children's information is lacking in some aspects (names of in-laws, primarily), there are death certificates, marriage records, and census records that tie this family together.  Dawna Morton, a Kemery descendant, has ferreted out much of this information, and I am grateful to her.

Daniel was in Whitley County, Indiana by 1846.  By then, he had married Susannah Essig, daughter of George and Catherine Shollenberger (or possibly Hillenburger) Essig, and their family was well started.  

Based on the 1900 census, Solomon seems to be the first born, reporting a birth date of 1841.  The census also says he was born in Indiana, which would put the Kemery family there earlier than I can substantiate.  Solomon married Catherine Shook when he was about 46 years old.  She is the daughter of George and Margaret Pontius Shook.  Their children are Ervin, Chauncey, Anna, Chestia and Elmer.  (Chestia married, as her second husband, Logan Harshbarger, the brother of Grover Harshbarger.) The 1850 census, it should be noted, gives Solomon an age of 1, indicating a birth date of 1849, which would mean he was in his early to mid 30's when he married, which seems to be more likely.  Perhaps the 1900 census is incorrect as far as the dates go.

Joseph Kemery was 10 years old in the 1850 census, so born about 1840.  I have been unable to locate him in subsequent census or other records.  Dawna's information shows him dying in 1883, but I haven't been able to substantiate that.  

Mary Ann, the first daughter, was born in 1841.  She married George W Mosher, the son of Israel and Jerusha Salisbury Mosher.  Their children are Rubin, Emma, Albert, and Alsetta.  Mary Ann died in 1888.

Next was Daniel, born about 1844.  He married Deborah, who may be Deborah Ward, the daughter of George and Eliza Roberts Ward.  (Other trees show a possibility of Deborah Helms, the daughter of Joshua and Mahala Chritman Helms. I can find a marriage record for Adam and Deborah Ward in 1866, so this seems more likely to me.)  Their children are James, William, Mary Alice, Jacob, Benjamin (who used the name Frank, for his middle name of Franklin), and Carina. Daniel died about between 1875 and 1880.  

Harriet was born about 1846 and had died before her father wrote his will in 1876.  She married William Cox, and they have at least one child, a daughter named Maliza.  

Alexander was born in 1847.  He married Margaret Buchtel, the daughter of Benjamin and Barbara Burkholder Long Buchtel.  Their children are Barbara, Elizabeth, Anna, Lora, Nellia, John, Bertha, and Via.  Alexander died in 1922.

Adam Kemery was born in 1849.  He married Fannie Buchtel, also the daughter of Benjamin and Barbara Burkholder Long Buchtel so brothers married sisters.  (It gets more complicated: Barbaraa Burkholder Long Buchtel late in life married Daniel Kemery, the subject of this post, after her divorce from Benjamin. So Margaret and Fannie's mother was also their step mother in law!) Adam and Fannie had at least 7 children: Phebe, Avelina, Cora, Della, Benjamin, Harvey, and Sarah.  I will write more of this family in my next post.  Adam died in 1926.

Albert was born the following year, 1850, or, according to the 1910 census, 1841 or possibly 1846.  (I have located him in just the one census, which is strange.)  He married Lydia Ward, the daughter of Joseph and Susanna Roberts Ward.  They have one known child, Charles.  Albert died in 1919.

Lydia was born about 1855. Her death date is given as April 14, 1924..  She married a man named Hammond, but that is all that I have found about her.  I cannot locate her in a census or find a record of her death.  I don't know whether she had children.  She is the biggest mystery of this particular family.

Amanda was born in 1858 and married Lewis T Jones, the son of David and Margaret (maiden name not yet located) Jones.  Their children are Edith, MaryEtta, Myrtle, Lois, Bertha, Dessa, Ralph, Raymond, and James.  Amanda died in 1901.

Maranda was born in 1860, and married James T Mosher, the son of Orrin and Lucinda Smith Mosher.  Their children are Dorothea, Ransom, Millard, Erma, Delphia, and Garnet/Gertrude/Gertin, depending on which census you are looking at.  There may also have been a child Harriet. Maranda died in 1925.

Finally, there is John, born in 1862.  He married Sadie May (Sarah) Powers, who was about 16 years younger than he was, apparently late in life as he was single in the 1900 census.  As far as I can determine, there were no children born to this marriage, but I'm willing to be corrected.  John died in 1948.

Most of this Kemery family were farm workers or day laborers, in and around Whitley County, Indiana.  Most of them could not read or write.  They raised their families as well as they could, and left many, many descendants in the Whitley County area.