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- H. Henry Bortel1826 - 1911
m. 1857
Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Judith Milewski. Nancy Ann Heller family information, Recipient: Kristina Kuhn Krumm, Address: posting at my WorldConnect site, Author E-mail: gallamile. (December 2006).
- ↑ Ancestry's Ohio Deaths, 1908-1944 and 1958-2000, Url: www.ancestry.com
certificate: fn 33109.
- ↑ Judith Milewski. Nancy Ann Heller family information, Recipient: Kristina Kuhn Krumm, Address: posting at my WorldConnect site, Author E-mail: gallamile. (December 2006).
- ↑ United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T624)
ED#25; sheet 6B; ancestry image: 12.
- ↑ Ancestry's Ohio Deaths, 1908-1944 and 1958-2000, Url: www.ancestry.com
certificate: fn 33109.
- ↑ Ancestry's Ohio Deaths, 1908-1944 and 1958-2000, Url: www.ancestry.com
certificate: fn 33109.
- ↑ Judith Milewski. Nancy Ann Heller family information, Recipient: Kristina Kuhn Krumm, Address: posting at my WorldConnect site, Author E-mail: gallamile. (December 2006).
- ↑ Ancestry's Ohio Deaths, 1908-1944 and 1958-2000, Url: www.ancestry.com
certificate: fn 33109.
- ↑ 1910 census age 83 born in Ohio, both parents born in PA
- ↑ 3am from cancer of stomach - pyloric end of stomach -unable to take nourshment for three weeks prior to death -vomitting blood and coffee grain appearence. He had the cancer for 120 days; with contributory indigestion and history of ulcer followed by cancer for 70 days. [listed in index as Henry Bostte]. Married at time of death, the informant was Richard Bostle of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Richard did not know the name of Henry's mother
- ↑ Undertaker was J.C. Croll in Grand Rapids, Ohio
- ↑ "HENRY Bortel, a pioneer farmer of Damascus township, Henry county, was born in Pennsylvania on November 6, 1826, the son of Lewis Bortel, who was a native also of Pennsylvania, as was his wife. They came to Wood County, Ohio, in 1833, buying a tract of government land, on which they resided about ten years, then sold that and removed to Michigan, coming a year later, in 1844, to Damascus township, Henry county, Ohio, and buying eighty acres of land, where the father died in 1853; his wife had died in Wood county in 1834. They were the parents of eight children, Allen, John, George, Levi, Jeremiah, Henry, Sarah and Lewis. Lewis Bortel married for his second wife Miss Margaret Egerman [Engleman] and to them were born eight children, David, Susan, Harvey, Sophia, Catharine, Rebecca, Raymond and Uriah.
When the subject's mother died he was put in the care of Dr. (Harvey) Burrett, of Grand Rapids, Ohio, where he remained four years, when his father remarrying, he returned home and remained there until eighteen years of age. He then went to work clearing land, taking a contract to clear fifteen acres for Thomas Junkin, for which he was to receive one hundred and eighty dollars in two years. He took the amount in notes, sold one ninety-dollar note for seventy dollars, borrowed Eleven dollars more, and then walked to Lima, Ohio, where the land office was at that time located, and bought eighty acres of canal land, which constitutes his present home. He immediately entered upon its improvement and has made of it a fine farm. He is now practically retired from active business, and is resting in the enjoyment of the fruits of his former toil, secure in the respect and esteem of his fellow men.
Mr. Bortel has been twice married. He was first married in 1857 to Miss Elizabeth Guyer, a native of Athens county, Ohio, who died about 1896, and to them were born seven children, Hezekiah, deceased; Martha Jane, deceased; James S., of Damascus township; Mary E., wife of Richard Conway, of Ridgeville township; Adda, the wife of Frank Gallagher, of Wood county; Richard, and Nellie, the wife of Orland Brown, of Wood county, Ohio. In 1897 Mr. Bortel married Mrs. Nancy (Heller) Houston, who was born in Crawford county, this state, in 1840, the daughter of Joseph and Frances (Shofner) Heller, both natives of Pennsylvania who came to Crawford county, Ohio, in an early day, both being now deceased. Mrs. Bortel had been twice married before her present union. Her first husband was Henry Antony, now deceased, by whom she had ten children, as follows; George, of Mt. Clemens, Michigan; Roland, of Seattle, Washington; and Alice, Florence, Hattie and [Mary] Elizabeth, who are dead. Mrs. Bortel's second union was to the late William Houston, a native of Ashland county, Ohio. The subject and his wife have by their personal worth won a high place in the community."
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