Henry Riner, Jr.
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I want to "float" the theory that the Henry Riner described in the biographical sketch below is Henry Riner, Jr., son of HenryRiner [1740-1836] and Elizabeth Henry Riner [? -?] of Berkeley County, West Virginia. Henry Sr. left no will, but at the apprasial and sale of his goods in 1836, "Henry Riner bought 1 lot of straw." In the Martinsburg Gazette [Berkeley County, West Virginia] in 1828 the father is listed as Henry Riner, Sr. "Henry Riner, Sr., anti-Jackson41/3/21828."
Henry Riner
Henry Riner was the father of Mrs. Cornelius Halderman, of Roann, Wabash County, Indiana. He was born in Berkeley County, Virginia, east of the Blue Ridge. He had ten children, all still living and all married, the eldest being sixty-six years old and the youngest forty-six years. Their names are these: John, born 1817, lives in Iowa, three children, farmer; William, born 1819, resides in Ohio, six children, carpenter; Julia Ann (Halderman), born 1821, Roann, eight children; Lewis, born 1823, Kansas, eight children, farmer; Harvey, born 1825, Wabash County, Indiana, eight children, saw miller and lumberman; Eliza Jane, born 1827, Germantown, Ohio, five children, husband a carriage-maker; Harriet, born 1829, Germantown, Ohio, no children, husband a blacksmith; Elizabeth, born 1831, Dayton, Ohio, five children; Henry Clark, born 1833, Kosciusko County, Indiana, three children, grocer; Sarah, born 1837, Miamisburg, Ohio, two children. Three of the above, William. Lewis and Henry Clark, were in the army during the war of 1861 – William, in a six months’ Ohio Regiment; Lewis, in a three years’ Ohio Cavalry Regiment, with Gen. Sherman in his Atlanta campaign and elsewhere; Henry Clark, with Lewis in the same regiment and company.
Source: 1884 History of Wabash County, Indiana page 432.
The companion article on Henry Riner's daughter, Julia Riner Halderman, states: "The chosen companion through life [of Cornelius Halderman] being Julia A. Riner, born in Preble County, Ohio, June 17, 1821. She is the daughter of Henry and Sarah *Fouke Riner, who were natives of Virginia, the former having been born in Berkeley County April 11, 1790, and the latter in Shepherdstown June 18, 1797."
I have an on-line copy of the will of Henrich Reiner of Linerick Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania 1734 and would be glad to send a copy to interested persons. Another researcher and I believe that Henrich is the immigrant in this line: Henrich Reiner, Henry Riner, Sr., Henry Riner, Jr.
jeanne bedwell
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