Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


Henry Benjamin Haren

From the Zanesville Times Recorder, 23 Jul 1930:
WOODSFIELD -- Mr. and Mrs. Henry Haren and son Dennis have
returned from several days spent with friends at Akron.

Henry B. Haren died in a terrible accident, as related by his great-nephew John Haren (grandson of Mary Weisent Haren). Henry Schott was the brother of John Haren's grandfather, Anthony Haren.
Henry Haren and his brothers were relocating a saw mill from one site to another; Henry was moving the steam engine. It was late in the day -- they were all tired and the engine was running low on water. They put all the coal from the coal pile on the ground in the hopper and stoked the fire box to carry it to the new location.
Rather than hauling 50 or so gallons of water to the engine they decided to water the engine at a creek they had to cross on the way to the new site. They tied a large log to the engine to use as a drag brake and decided to back it down the hill so that the water would stay over the fire box. (It was a fire tube boiler and there had to be water over the fire box or the tubes would overheat and you would have a steam explosion out through the fire box into the operator’s station.)
Just after cresting the hill, the chain slipped off of the log and the engine started to run down the hill backwards very fast. Some of the witnesses said that Henry simply could not get out from between the large wheels. Others said that he was trying to save the engine and drive it down the hill; hoping it would come to a stop after climbing the opposite bank, since he could have climbed two steps and walked along the catwalk next to the boiler and jumped off the front or the side.
In any case, the engine came to rest in the opposite bank of the stream with both rear wheels knocked off and the boiler buried into the opposite hill for half its length. After looking around, Henry's brothers concluded that he had ridden it into the hill and was dead. They had to wait several days for things to cool off, as the fire box was full of burning coal and the boiler was low on water.
Henry’s nephew Ralph Haren and his cousins told of the wheels being knocked way out of round by the impact and located many yards away. They also told of climbing into a tunnel next to the boiler that was dug all the way to the fire box which is where they dug out the body after things cooled off. (This was when Ralph Haren was in high school 1936-40. They were taken to the accident site by one of Henry Haren's brothers).
When asked how they found him, Ralph Haren was told that the boiler vented its steam out the fire box and around the side of the boiler and did most of the digging for them some time during the night. The gruesome part was removing the body, as it was cooked to past well done and came apart in their hands.
The lesson that was hammered home to family descendants as a result of this was don’t try and take shortcuts and focus on the task at hand. The Haren brothers spent as much time finding a log and chaining it to the engine as it would have taken to haul the water. Hauling water had become such a dreaded task that they would almost rather do anything than haul one more load of water up the hill and as a result lost their brother and prize piece of heavy equipment.

Obituary (from Betty Hartley):
Henry Haren of Woodsfield, aged 57 years, was killed Thursday, August
19, while at work assisting in installing a steam tractor at a saw mill near Fly,
on the Ohio River. In moving the tractor, he lost control of it and the machine
turned over, crushing and burning him fatally. He is survived by his widow, two
sons and two daughters.
Funeral services were held Saturday in the Catholic church at Woodsfield,
conducted by Rev. J.C. Mehler. Burial was made in the church cemetery.

Death record from St. Sylvester Church shows age at death as 63 yrs and ex locality as Woodsfield, Monroe Co., Ohio.

From death certificate:
Name: Henry Haren
Age: 57 years 11 months 29 days
Birth: 20 Aug 1879, Ozark, Ohio
Occupation: Common laborer
Marital status: Married
Spouse: [blank]
Father: Fred Haren, don't know
Mother: Barbara Burkhart, don't know
Informant: Mrs. L. J. Shannon, Akrond, Ohio [daughter]


Philomena Nauer

In 1900, 18 year old Philomena Nauer lived with her parents and younger siblings on the family farm in Seneca Twp., Monroe County, Ohio. She was employed as a cook.


Albert Thomas Haren

Middle initial shown as P. on 80 pg. Haren Genealogical History which was sent to Mark Haren by Mrs. Velma Horansky.

In 1930, Albert T. Haren (49) owned a farm worth $2500 in Sunsbury Twp., Monroe County, Ohio. He lived there with his wife Lucy M. (50) and children Claude (18), Bernadine (17), Lucille (13), and Elizabeth (7). Lucille and Elizabeth attended school. The family owned a radio set. Adjacent farms in the census were those of Otto Burkhart and Joseph Hopkins


Lucy Matilda Burkhart

According to the 1930 census, Lucy's father was born in Germany, her mother was born in Ohio.


Martin T. Burkhart

Martin Burkhard did not appear in the 1880 census with his parents and siblings. He would have been about 19 years old at the time. He has not been found in the 1880 census index for Ohio.

Martin is not listed as a surviving sibling in the 1940 death notice of his brother, Adolph.


Matilda Burkhardt

Sources conflict on maiden name. Researcher Michael Baker states that Martin Burkhard's wife's name was Tillie Bosham. Researchers Betty Hartley and Charlie Burkhardt state that Martin Burkhard's wife was Matilda (Tillie) Burkhart, daughter of Sebastian B. Burkhart and Catherine December Burkhart. This is confirmed by her death certificate and obituary.

In the 1900 cemsus, Tillie is listed as single (not widowed). She lived with her mother and two siblings in Sunsbury Twp., Monroe County, Ohio. Her death certificate and obituary state that Tillie Burkhart was a widow.

Tillie is remembered as the matriarch of the family by her niece Edna Kuhn Masciarelli. Tillie "kept house" for her uncle John Kuhn.

Tillie Burkhart’s obituary appeared in the Monroe County Republican on 24 Nov 1938:
DEATH OF MRS. BURKHART
Mrs. Tillie Burkhart, 68, of near Ozark, died at her
home Thursday afternoon, November 17th about 4:00
o’clock following a long illness of diabetes.
She was a daughter of Sebastian and Katherine
December Burkhart, natives of Germany, and was born
near Ozark where she spent the greater part of her life.
Her husband, Martin Burkhart, died several years ago.
The body was taken to the Blowers and Campbell
Funeral Home, Beallsville, and was returned to the late
home Friday. Funeral services were held Saturday morning
at 10:00 o’clock from the Ozark Catholic Church of which
the deceased was a member and interment was made in
the church cemetery. Rev. George Drescher, the pastor,
officiated.
Mrs. Burkhart is survived by one brother, Leo
Burkhart of Beallsville Route. Another brother, Peter
Burkhart preceded her in death about a year ago.


Diocese of Columbus, Bulletin of the Catholic Record, Society, Vol. XIV,No. .12 - December, 8, 1989: Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Ozark, Ohio:
Martin T. Burkhard, died Feb. 13, 1894, aged 33y, 3m, 4d.
Tillie Burkhard, 1870 - 1938


Sebastian Basil Burkhardt

In 1880, Sebastian Burkhard (65) and his wife Catherine (40) lived in Summit Twp., Monroe County, Ohio with their children Mary (19), Peter (16), Annie (14), Catherine (11), Matilda (9), Frederick L. (7), Philip (1), and Laura (5). Annie, Catheine, Matilda and Frederick attended school. Catherine was the only adult member of the household who could not read or write.


Catharine December

Date of birth (1 Jan 1843) obtained from death certificate.

At the time of the 1900 census, 59 year old widow Catherine Burkhart (Sept 1840) owned a farm in Sunsbury Twp., Monroe Co., Ohio with her unmarried children Ana (34 - Feb 1866), Tillie (28 - Oct 1871) and Clem (20 - Oct 1879). According to the census, Catherine had given birth to eight children, one of whom was deceased. Catherine and her parents were German, but the year of immigration and number of years in the U.S. were not recorded.


Anna Burkhardt

Anna Burkhardt never married. Her last name is spelled Burkhart on her death certificate.


Benjamin Martin Burkhart

On 1 Jan 1920, Benj. M. Burkhart (29) and his wife Martha C. (31) owned a farm in Seneca Twp., Monroe Co., Ohio. Living with them was their son, Clarence (7). Clarence did not attend school. Martha had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in late November and would die a few weeks after the census was taken.

At the time of the 1930 census, widower Benjamin M. Burkhart (38) and his son Clarence C. (16) were still living on a farm in Seneca Twp. Clarence did not attend school that year.

According to the Zanesville Signal (17 Dec 1944), Benjamin Burkhart of Seneca Twp, Monroe County owned an oil well that was operated by Wiser Oil. The well was struck on 9 Aug 1944.


Clarence C. Burkhart

Sources conflict on date of birth:
1912 -- calculated from age in 1920 and 1930 census
1 Jan 1920 -- researcher Charlie Burkhardt.


Pearl B. Lori

Pearl Lori and Roy Cunningham were divorced in July 1970. On her death certificate, Pearl Lor's surname is Wheeler. Her marital status is listed as Divorced.