Re: Souder - Perry County, OH
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Re: Souder - Perry County, OH
Leon J. Straub 6/30/02
My ancestry includes the Souder (Sauter) family. First mention is "Helena Souder" as shown in the Lancaster County Archive. Here is what the archive says about my ancestors as they relate to the Souder family. Do any of the names seem familiar to you??
LANCASTER COUNTY
LOUIS FAULHABER, one of the most thrifty German farmers of Stockton Precinct, owns and occupies a fine estate, embracing 320 acres of land on sections 3 and 4, his residence being on the latter. The homestead is noticeable for its good improvements, and especially the large number of fruit and ornamental trees, which he has planted to the extent of about 700, besides a large quantity of grapes. Like most of the enterprising men about him, he makes a specialty of stock-raising, and has acquired a fine property, besides surrounding himself and family with all the comforts of life.
The first years of our subject were passed on the other side of the Atlantic, in the little Kingdom of Bavaria, where his birth took place Nov. 18, 1826. When a child five years of age his parents emigrated to America and settled in Seneca County, Ohio, where they spent the remainder of their lives. Louis remained on the farm until a youth of fourteen years, and was then apprenticed to learn the shoemaker's trade, which he followed for a period of nine years. In the meantime he had been married, and in June, 1850, turned his face toward the farther West, and crossing the Mississippi, accompanied by his wife, took up a tract of land in Manitowoc, Wis., where he lived until the spring of 1875. His next removal was to this county, when he took up the land which he still occupies.
The wife of our subject, to whom he was married in Tiffin, Seneca Co.. Ohio, March 1, 1848, was in her girlhood Miss Helen Sauter, a native of the same country as her husband, and born April 1, 1830. She was a little child three years of age when she came to America with her parents, and they settled first in Tiffin, Ohio. Later they removed to Wood County, that State, where the father died about 1856. The mother still survives and is living at Perrysburg, Wood Co., Ohio.
Of the thirteen children born to Mr. and Mrs, Faulhaber, the record is as follows: Their eldest son, John, died when one and one-half years old, in 1849; Louis is on the police force of the city of Lincoln; William is farming in Stockton Precinct, this county; Mary is the wife of John Lemke, and lives in Stockton Precinct; John is traveling salesman for a firm in Milwaukee; Theodore is farming in Brown County, this State; Charles and Henry are residents of Cherry County; Phillip, the youngest, is engaged in farming for himself in Stockton Precinct; Frederick and Emma are at home with their parents, and Clara, is the wife of Frederick Retzlaff, of Stevens Creek Precinct.
Mr. Faulhaber, politically, is a conscientious Democrat, and a man who keeps himself well posted upon matters of general interest. He was particularly fortunate in his choice of a wife and helpmate, having a lady who looks well to the ways of her household and those little matters which have so great an influence in the happiness of a home. They have labored industriously in acquiring their fine property, and are now in the enjoyment of the fruits of their early toils, while surrounded by hosts of friends who have learned to value them at their true worth. They were reared in the precepts of the German Lutheran Church, to which they still loyally adhere, together with their children.
Referenced: 5/18/02: NEGenWeb Project Resource Center On-Line Library
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Re: Souder - Perry County, OH
Leon J. Straub 7/02/02