Catharine SUMERLOT

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• Birth	Germany
  Gender	Female
  Died	Marion Co., Ohio
  Person ID	I143	Leonard
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2009

  
  

  Family	William LEONARD,   b. 17 Apr 1803, Washington Co. PA ,   d. 26 Oct 1881, Marion Co., Ohio (buried Waldo cemetary, Waldo)
  Married	04 Apr 1870  [1]
  Family ID	F00002	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Marion County marriage records (http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Marion/Marriages/marr7lm.htm) include William's second marriage: LEONARD, William Sumerlot, Catharine 4/4/1870 Rev. C. F. Fleiner - German Methodist ------------------------------------- Catharine apparently remarried after William's death. Accordng to Marion County marriage records (http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Marion/Marriages/marr9lm.htm): LEONARD, Mrs Catharine - 59 Myers, Elias - 47 10/25/1883 - Application Jonathan Myers Daniel Carter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marion County History 1883 biographies (http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Marion/History1883/mhm1883.htm) mentions Elias Myers (b. 1814) with a son Elias Walker Myers, who is probably Catharine's second husband: "ELIAS MYERS, (Montgomery Township) a retired farmer, born September 12, 1814, in Hampshire County, Va., is the son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Puckman) Myers who came to Licking County, Ohio, in 1816, remaining there ten years, when they moved to Franklin County, Ohio, and came to Marion County in 1829. They settled in Montgomery Township. Elizabeth, the wife, died May 12, 1829, and Jacob in 1856, in Missouri, aged seventy two years. The name of their second child is Jonathan. Having obtained a limited education, Elias Myers began when fourteen years of age to learn the tanner's trade, which he completed when twenty years old; that same year he commenced the tanning business for himself in Montgomery Township, Continuing in that avocation for twenty-five years. When a young man, he with his father, Jacob Myers, and Washington Armstrong, built the first mill, ground the first flour and sawed the first log in this township. La Rue was then a wilderness. Mr. M. married, September 18, 1836, Jane Walker, a daughter of James and Elizabeth Walker, natives of Delaware, and the parents of six children, four of whom still survive--John, Jane, Mary and Eliza Walker. Jane, the wife of Mr. Myers, died September 18, 1839, leaving one child, John, who also died aged twenty three years. Mr. Myers married again, June 24, 1.841, Parmelia, the widow of Richard Tamany, and a daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Spracklen. This family worships at the United Brethren Church. Mr. Myers was a farmer for a number of years. and in politics is a Republican." -------------------------------------------------------- German Immigrant deaths (http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Marion/germdeat1.htm), extracted from Probate records, list: Leonhardt, Catherina Mar 25, 1899 widowed 74y Waldo Twp Germany housewife ------------------------------------------ Marion County DAR records (http://genealogy.org/~smoore/marion/dar.htm) contain the following: "Volume 42 page 280 Mrs. Laura Copeland Watts. DAR ID Number: 41751 Born in Marion, Ohio. Wife of John Richard Watts. Descendant of Dr. Samuel Guild, of Massachusetts. 1. Earl Percy Copeland and Princess Olive Norton. 2. Josiah Snell Copeland and Katherine LEONARD Guild. 3. Samuel Guild and Katherine LEONARD, his second wife. Samuel Guild, (1746-1816), was a member of the Committee of Correspondence of Eaton, where he was physician through a long life. He was born in Walpole." Curious.




• Sources

  [S00221] Marion County marriage records, http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Marion/Marriages/marr7lm.htm. LEONARD, William Sumerlot, Catharine 4/4/1870 Rev. C. F. Fleiner - German Methodist