Person:Christian Lehman (1)

HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

LEHMAN, CHRISTIAN, was born in 1802, in Juniatta county, Pennsylvania; he was a son of Jacob Lehman; his mother's maiden name was Hannah Peterson. These pioneers came to Perry county, in 1806, with eleven of their twelve children, comprising eight sons and four daughters. He bought eighty acres of land in Jackson township, resided for several years in Rushville, and finally settled on the farm where Christian now in his eightieth year, resides, and where his father Jacob, died in the ninetieth year of his age. A sister of Christian Lehman, Betsey Turner, wife of Joseph Turner, is yet living in Rushville with her son, Abraham, in her ninety-sixth year. Christian was married in 1824, to Rebecca Siple, daughter of Frederick and Barbara Siple, then of Fairfield county. Their children are Richard, a blacksmith, Avlon postoffice, who, in 1857, was married to Eliza, daughter of Moses, a brother of Jacob Petty. Richard has two sons, Christian, a blacksmith,who is offered $14 per week for horse-shoeing in Columbus, and Clinton, younger and at home. The daughters are, Miss Eva and Martha, two sons and two daughters, from eight to twenty years of age. Hannah Lehman, wife of George Houtz, daughter of Christian and Rebecca Lehman, resides in Missouri, post office Hamburg, Iowa. John L Lehman, architect and contracting carpenter, married to Sally Vandermark, daughter of Rev. Mathias Vandermark, residence, Columbus, Ohio. Mary Levina, wife of Robert Hill, residence at the homestead of her father, where, since the death of her mother, she presides as chief of the household, post office Avlon, Ohio.