Nathaniel [Laning]. . . married Elizabeth Stultz and lived at Cranbury, N. J. Her mother, named Ganung, was born on the water enroute from Holland to America.
John Stultz Laning was their son, the third of a family of six children. His mother had five brothers. Two of them, William and Ralph Stultz, came to Ohio in 1831 and settled on farms, near Bellevue. William soon died and his family moved to New London. Two of the children are now alive, Mrs. Libby Coleman, of New london, and Mrs. Henry Case, of Litchfield, Ohio. Ralph Stultz died in 1856, leaving seven children, one of whom, Ralph Stultz, now lives in Norwalk, and two other sons live in Bellevue.
