Person:Marie Berger (9)

Information about Marie Magdalene is very difficult to find, and the documents we have are difficult to read!

Marie was married before Jacob Karns, and had children by that marriage. Her married name may have been Arbogast? Marie and Jacob may have met through the Zion's Congregation in Jefferson Township, where both apparently were members. They had no children from their second marriages.

Earnest Wheaton hired a local genealogist to research the Karns family in Tuscarawas County. Her name was Dorothy Keffer Glazier. They shared the results of their research with Kermit Karns, Loren Karns, Jr., and James Lower. In 1855 a "Separation Agreement" between Jacob & Marie was filed in a county courthouse. Apparently they were never officially divorced. The family researchers were given copies of the separation document, which is very difficult to read, and understand.

--White Creek 14:41, 1 August 2012 (EDT)

1.   Zion's Kirchenbuch, translated by Maxine Renner Eberle, of Sugar Creek, Ohio.