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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History
of Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Combination atlas map of Tuscarawas
County, Ohio
Strasburg, Ohio: Gordon Print.,
1875
359 pgs. L. H. Everts
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UHRS and
ANNA BARBARA AFFOLTER, of a large connection of that
name much noted for size and stature, lived in Leuzigen,
Canton Bern, Switzerland. They were the parents of
Stephen, Benedick, Andrew, John,
Uhrs and Elizabeth. The father, burn in
1765, lived until 1850. He served in the Swiss army
through the French Revolution. Benedick, being
seven feet in height and was chosen a body guard for the
King of Holland and died as a soldier in South Africa.
All the other children were married and raised large
families. John Affolter, born in 1800, was
married in 1832 to Elizabeth Affolter, born in
1800, was married in 1832 to Elizabeth Affolter, a
distant cousin, who was born in 1810. Their children
were John, Samuel and Frederick, twins,
Elizabeth, Mary, Jacob, Gottlieb, Albert, Margaret,
Alexander, and Rosanna. John Affolter and
his family, except John Jr., who died in 1854, came
to Canal Dover Dec. 31, 1855. Andrew
Affolter, with his wife and six children, came on the
same ship and settled in Canton. John Affolter, Sr.,
died Nov. 6, 1868, and Elizabeth, his wife, died July
1, 1876, both in Warwick Township. They farmed until
the Civil War. Then the four elder brothers
volunteered for the defense of their adopted country.
Frederick enlisted in the First Missouri Infantry, and
later in the One Hundred and Sixty-First Ohio.
Samuel served three years in the Forty-Seventh Illinois,
receiving severe wound at Fort Donelson. Jacob
served one year in the Fifty-First Ohio and then three years
in Battery H, Fifth United States Artillery.
Gottlieb, born Sept. 19, 1843, enlsited in Company I,
One hundred and Seventh Ohio, which was in the Eleventh Army
Corps until after the Battle of Gettysburg when the First
Division was transferred in August, 1863, to the Tenth Corps
to share in the siege of Charleston. That stern,
fierce siege forms a story seldom equalled and never
excelled in war. In February, 1864, the One hundred
and seventh Ohio, was ordered to Jacksonville, Florida,
whence many raids were made to hinder concentration against
Sherman's March upon Atlanta. That service involved
many long marches and much hard skirmishing. To aid
Sherman's famous "March to the Sea," the One hundred and
Seventh Ohio was ordered back to South Carolina to cut the
Charleston and Savannah Railroad at Pocotaligo. At a
point of attack when the regiment could neither advance nor
retreat without great loss, the troops rested all day with
nothing to eat or drink. Out of great sympathy one of
the cooks, tall, slim and brave, came up with two kettles of
coffee. Just as he came to the line, a shell struck
his head and exploding drove a piece of his skull into the
breast of another soldier who was also killed. On May
2, 1863, at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Gottlieb
Affolter was shot through the right lung and a few
minutes later a piece of shell made a severe wound on his
right hip. He was left for dead on a part of the field
that fell to the enemy who sent the more lightly wounded
southward but stretched Gottlieb in a row with the
fatally wounded who were gathered up under a flag under a
flag of truce on May 17 and taken to Camble Hospital
at Washington City, where he recovered and joined the
regiment three months later. On January 5, 1865, he
was captured near Vellucia, Florida, and taken to the
infamous Andersonville Prison. On April 2, 1868,
Gottlieb Affolter married Miss Mary Anna Waltz,
who was born April 29, 1850. Her father, Daniel
Waltz, born Feb. 12, 1810 in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania,
came to New Philadelphia in 1840, where in 1849 he was
married to Miss Sabina L. Cassler, who was born in
1831, near Nazareth, Pennsylvania, whence her parents,
Jacob and Nancy Ann Michler Cassler, came in 1838 to
Warwick Township. Daniel Waltz died May 8,
1892, and Sabina died in 1887. Gottlieb and
Mary Affolter are the parents of Minnie Leunetta,
born Nov. 23, 1869; Emma Elizabeth, born Oct. 25,
1871, and married Feb. 25, 1897, to Charles Clyde Wallace
and has four children, Margaret L., born June 6,
1899, George E., born Aug. 24, 1900, Mildred E.,
born Feb. 20, 1902, and Mary B., born Nov. 27,
1903; Mary Catherine, born Nov. 11, 1873, and married
to Daniel Austin Simmons, Oct. 3, 1895, and has three
children. Walter O., born Sept. 19, 1896,
Bessie Clara, born Oct. 17, 1904, Clifford Leroy,
born Feb. 17, 1907; Daniel Webster, mentioned below;
Sarah Sabina, born Apr. 21, 1877, and married to
Robert T. Benner, Jr., elsewhere mentioned; Harry
Franklin born Jan. 1, 1879; Maude Grace, born
Oct. 3, 1881, and married to Jesse T. Whitman June
23, 1901, and has three children, Marie Augusta,
born Apr. 10, 1902, Alemeda E., born Aug. 26,
1903, and Mary A., born Oct. 26, 1905; Roy
Frederick, born Sept. 9, 1884; Elmer Evan, born
May 20, 1888; Della May, born Jul. 18, 1889; Homer
Ronald, born July 20, 1891; and Beulah Augusta,
born Apr. 25, 1893. Daniel Webster Affolter was
born Sept. 15, 1875, on Goshen Hill where his parents were
then living. He and his brothers and sisters have had
the public schooling of Warwick Township. On Oct. 6,
1897, he married Miss Anna Baird, a daughter of
Thomas H. and Elizabeth Everhart Baird,
who were married Aug. 29, 1857. Thomas H. Baird
was born in Harrison County July 2, 1814, followed the
business of a druggist and died at Philipsburg Feb. 7, 1883.
Elizabeth Baird died Nov. 29, 1904, in her
seventy-sixth year. Daniel W. and Anna Affolter
have two children: Leo A., born June 24, 1898, and
Silva M., born July 16, 1907. The family has had
fine success in general gardening and in greenhouse culture.
(Source: Page 102 - ALSO includes Photos of Thomas
& Elizabeth Baird - Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Affolter &
Family; Residence and greenhouses of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W.
Affolter, Warwick Twp.; Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Gottlieb
Affolter, Warwick Township; Mr. and Mrs. Gottlieb Affolter
and Family.) |
JOHN ANDREAS was an
early pioneer to Tuscarawas County. He was born in
Northampton County, Pennsylvania, in the year 1789, and
settled in Uhrichsville about the year 1817. In 1824
he became the second husband of Mrs. Godfrey Haga,
whose maiden name was Catherine Uhrich, already
noticed. This union resulted in the birth of four
children, Silvester W., Hannah, John and
Catherine. Mr. Andreas died December 26, 1857.
He was a boot and shoe maker by trade, though he also
carried on a farm.
Mrs. Andreas died January 27, 1871, in her
eighty-first year. The daughter of the pioneer settler
of Uhrichsville, she was emphatically a pioneer woman,
thorough and heroic. She was reared in the Moravian
Church, but upon the organization of the Presbyterian Church
in Uhrichsville she joined the same, on account of the
inconveniences of attending the Moravian services. She
was the mother of eight children, the grandmother of
thirty-eight, and great-grandmother of forty-seven. Of
the children of Mr. Andreas, John died in infancy.
Hannah was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, October
2, 1828; married William Jeffers, of Harrison County,
Ohio, April 15, 1852. Their children were Sylvester
A., born March 9, 1853; died December 16, 1862.
Catherine J., born October 7, 1854.
Rebecca born May e, 1857; married William Tweed,
February 26, 1874; Emily E., born September 4, 1859;
Ida May, born March 1, 1868. Mr. Jeffers
was born in Carroll County, Ohio, May 28, 1825. When a
young man he taught school some, and also learned the
carpenter's trade. For some years past he has been
engaged in the grocery business in the vicinity of
Edgefield, and also in superintending the working of S.
W. Andreas's coal mine. He is a man of excellent
business tact, of correct habits, and a thorough gentleman.
Catherine married for her first husband Levi
Myers, January 21, 1848, by whom she had one daughter,
Emily E., born July 12, 1849, died in August, 1849.
Mr. Myers died March 29, 1849.
Her second marriage was to Mr. William Ely, of
Harrison County, Ohio, on June 10, 1852. Family
record: - John A., born January 15, 1854, died May
14, 1864; Silvester W., born May 16, 1856; Willie
M., born March 9, 1862, died May 1, 1869; Flora C.,
born July 12, 1865, died April 22, 1869; George L.,
born February 3, 1867, died May 3, 1869; Emerson K.,
born May 6, 1871, did August 21, 1871. Also two
unnamed children who died in infancy.
Silvester W. Andreas, oldest child of John
Andreas by his marriage to Catherine Uhrich (widow
Haga), was born on the farm upon which he now resides,
near Uhrichsville, November 24, 1825. His boyhood was
passed "in grubbing in the soil," as he terms it. He
was married on February 15, 1846, to Miss Emily Banister
of Uhrichsville, by whom he had three daughters, Mary
Ellen, born November 14, 1846, married October 20, 1864,
to John Bruner; Hannah M., born July 18, 1849,
married January 21, 1870 to Henry Kinghorn; Amelia
C., born December 14, 1853, married Oscar Caves,
May 25, 1871.
On the 3d of August, 1863, Mrs. Andreas was
instantly killed in her house by a stroke of lightning
during a storm.
On January 25, 1866, Mr. Andreas married Miss
Mary Biteler, daughter of Frederick Biteler, of
Uhrichsville. She was born February 3, 1844.
Mr. Andreas's chief business has been that of farming
and coal operations. He is an enterprising and
esteemed citizen of his community. |
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