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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Biographical and genealogical history of Wayne, Fayette, Union and Franklin Counties, Indiana. (Chicago, Illinois: Chicago : Lewis, 1899).
CHRISTIAN H. GRAVER ... his father, John Graver, was born in Germany, September 17, 1828. The latter was reared by an aunt, as death deprived him of a father's fostering care when he was but three years old, and this relative brought him to the United States. Settling in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, he passed the remainder of his youth there, and ultimately decided to take up his permanent abode in Indiana. He was married, in Lancaster county, to Miss Mary Ann Illges, in June, 1858, and brought his bride to their new home in Wayne county. She died the same year, and on the 29th of January, 1860, he married Anna, daughter of Christian and Elizabeth (Shank) Herr, early settlers of this county. ... John Graver located on an eighty-acre farm in Jackson township, when he became a citizen of Wayne county, and in the years that followed he became noted for the success which he achieved as a general agriculturist and raiser of live stock, chiefly cattle and hogs. On the first of August, 1881, he was thrown from his wagon and received injuries which resulted in his death three days later. September 10, 1885, his widow became the wife of John Zimmerman, of the same neighborhood. ...
- Jackson Township, in History of Wayne County, Indiana: together with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens, history of Indiana and the Northwest Territory, embracing accounts of the prehistoric races, aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a brief review of its civil, political and military history (1884). (Chicago : Inter-state Pub., , 1884)
2:561.
John Graver, deceased, was born Sept. 17, 1828, in Germany. His father died when he was three years old, after which he lived with his aunt, with whom he came to the United States. They went to Lancaster County, Pa., where he remained till he reached the age of maturity, when he came to Wayne County, Ind. He returned to Lancaster County, Pa., and in June, 1858, was married to Mary Ann Illges, when he came to Wayne County and bought a farm of eighty acres, where his wife died in 1858. Jan. 29, 1860, he was married to Anna Herr, a native of Lancaster County, Pa., a daughter of Christian and Elizabeth (Shank) Herr, who came to Wayne County, Ind., in an early day, where the father died March 12, 1875 and the mother three years later. They were the parents of twelve children, of whom six are still living. To Mr. and Mrs. Graver were born five children---Elizabeth H., wife of Andrew K. Zeigler; Mary E., wife of Moses E. Myers; Amanda G., Anna G. and Christian H. Mr. Graver was thrown from a wagon and received injuries which caused his death after three
days of intense suffering, Aug. 3, 1881. He was one of the most successful stock-raisers in the township, making a specialty of cattle and hogs. He had at his death a valuable farm of 400 acres, where his widow now resides in a large two-story frame dwelling.
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