1842 Solomon W. Aby was born on October 6, in Ashland County. [1]
1860 Elizabeth Gangway (age 10, born in Ohio) lived in Vermillion, Ashland County, Ohio, at post office Hayesville, with Michael Gangway (age 45), Catherine Gangway (age 35), Harriet Gangway (age 14), Sarah Gangway (age 12), Joseph Gangway (age 8), Maria Gangway (age 6), Mary A Gangway (age 4), Albert Gangway (age 3), and Reuben Gangway (age 6/12). [2]
1870 Solomon Aby and Elizabeth Gongaway were married on March 18 in Ashland County, Ohio. [3] [4]
1871 Laura Belle Aby, child of Solomon Aby and Elizabeth Gongwer, was born on April 7, 1871 in Mifflin Twp, Ashland County, Ohio. [5]
1874 Estella Aby, child of Solomon Aby and Elizabeth Gongwer, was born on January 27, 1874 in Mifflin Twp, Ashland County, Ohio. [6]
1876 Charles Aby, son of Solomon Aby and Elizabeth Gongwer, was born on December 7, in Ashland County, Ohio. [7]
1880 Solomon Abuy [Aby] (age 39) and Elizabeth Aby (age 30) lived in Mifflin, Ashland County, Ohio with Cora (age 9), Charley (age 4), Bert (age 2), and Astella (age 6). [8]
1884 Effie Aby, child of Solomon Aby and Elizabeth Gongwer, was born on January 16, 1884 in Mifflin Twp, Richland County, Ohio. [9]
1900 Solomon Aby (born in Ohio in Oct 1842, married for 30 years) and Elizabeth Aby (born in Ohio in Mar 1850) lived in Mifflin Twp, Richland County, Ohio, in a household with Esttella Aby (age 26), Charles Aby (age 24), Albeta Aby (age 22), Ella Aby (age 16), and Elta M Aby (age 10). Solomon Aby's parents were both born in Ohio. Elizabeth's parents were both born in Indiana. Elizabeth Aby had had 6 children, 6 still living. [10]
1903 Ovid W. Mitchell, age 28, and Estella M. Aby, age 28, were married on June 3, 1903 in Richland County, Ohio. Ovid W. Mitchell, child of Allen Mitchell and Nancy Craig, was born on December 14, 2017 in Richland County. Estella M. Aby, child of Solomon Aby and Libbie Gongwer, was born in Mifflin Twp County, Ashland County. [11]
1910 Elizabeth Aby (age 60, born in Ohio, married for 39 years), wife, lived in Mifflin Twp, Richland County, Ohio, in a household with Solomon Aby (age 68), Albert W Aby (age 32), Elta M Aby (age 19), and Clarence Hincler (age 22). Elizabeth Aby's parents were both born in Ohio. Elizabeth Aby could read and write. Solomon Aby's occupation was farmer. [12]
1912 Charley Aby, age 37, and Florence R. Baum, age 20, were married on January 1, 1912 in Ashland County, Ohio. Charley Aby, child of Soloman Aby and Elizabeth Gongwer, was born in 1875. Florence R. Baum was a child of Philip Baum and Sarah Roland. [13]
1914 Estella Mitchell, daughter of Solomon Aby and Elizabeth Gogawer, died on December 6, at Morrow County, Ohio. [14]
1920 Soloman Abey (age 78, born in Ohio, married) lived at Park Av East Road, in Madison Twp, Richland County, Ohio, in a household with Elizabeth Abey (age 70). [15]
1930 Elizabeth Aby, born 7 March 1850 in Ohio, daughter of Michael Gongwer and Catherine Meyer, died on March 14, in Washington Twp, Richland County, Ohio. Elizabeth Aby, daughter of Michael Gongwer and Catherine Meyer, was born on March 7, 1850 in Ohio. Her spouse was Solomon Aby. She was buried at Mt Zion cemetery. [16] [17]
1930 Elizabeth Aby died and was buried at Mount Zion cemetery, Washington Twp, Richland County, Ohio. The grave marker records 1850-1930. [18]
1937 On 17 November, Solomen Aby died in Mifflin Twp, Richland County, Ohio. He was born 6 October 1841. His father's Name was Ephrem Aby and his mother's name was Mary Vail. His spouse's name was Elizabeth Gongwer. [19]
1937 Solomon Aby died in 1937 and was buried at Mount Zion Cemetery, Lucas, Richland County, Ohio, Lot 42. Solomon Aby was born 1841. [20]
1940 On 16 February, Cora B Keefer died in Washington Twp., Richland County, Ohio. She was born daughter 7 April 1871 in Ashland County, Ohio, daughter of Solomen Aby and Elizabeth Gongwer. Her spouse was Westley Keefer. [21]
1952 Charles Aby, child of Solman Aby and Elizabeth Gongwer, died at age 75, on January 23, 1952 in Ohio. Charles Aby was born on December 7, 1876 in Ashland County, Ohio. [22]
Research Notes:
A biographical sketch [23] reports:
Solomon W. Aby This well known and highly esteemed citizen of Mifflin, Richland county, Ohio, was born in Ashland county, three miles east of his present home, October 6, 1842, and is a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of that county, his paternal grandfather, Jacob Aby, a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, being one of the early settlers. His father, Ephraim Aby, was born in Ashland county, where he continued to make his home until he started for California just prior to the Civil war, since which time nothing has been heard of him. He was united in marriage with Mary Vail on the day William Henry Harrison was elected president in 1840. His widow makes her home near our subject and is a well-preserved old lady of seventy-nine years. Her parents were James and Sarah (Copus) Vail, the latter a daughter of James Copus, who was killed by the Indians in 1812. Mrs. Vail died in 1884, at the advanced age of eighty-six years. She had four children, namely: John, who served as a captain in the war of the Rebellion, married Fannie Kisling, and from Ashland county, Ohio, moved to Missouri, where they reared ten children. Nancy married Scott McDennitt, a blacksmith of Ashland county, who died about thirty years ago, leaving three children, and a widow, who now lives in Fort Wayne. Indiana. Mary, the mother of our subject, is next in order of birth. Solomon lives on the place where his grandfather, James Copus, was shot by the Indians near a spring of water that flows from the roots of a willow tree. He married Louise Haney, and they have three children living,—John Wesley, Marida and Elizabeth,—all residents of Ashland county.
The subject of this sketch is the oldest in a family of six children, the others being as follows: Jacob, who died unmarried in Pittsburg. Pennsylvania, in 1877: he was a member of Company E, Seventy-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil war, and was wounded in the battle of Chattanooga, but never applied for a pension; Amanda, now a resident of Mansfield, Ohio, who married John Pieek, a farmer, who died about eighteen years ago, leaving four children.—Nettie, Rella, Alice and Kittie; Sarah, who married William Yoh, who died about eight years ago, and his widow and three children now live in Michigan: Fanny, who married Josiah Williams, of Michigan, and they have one child; and Mina. who married Martin Hender and lived on a farm adjoining our subject's place, where both died in the spring of 1897. only fourteen days apart: they had two children,— Clarence and Alice,—who died in June. 1896. Of Amanda's children Nettie is now the wife of William Daubenspeck, a carpenter of Mansfield; Rella is the wife of Jefferson Swengering, of Waterford, Knox county, Ohio; Alice is the wife of Burr Gettis, a bookkeeper living in Denver, Colorado; and Kittie lives with her mother in Mansfield, Ohio.
Solomon Aby, the subject of this review, was reared in his native county and educated in the common schools. He successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits in Ashland county until the spring of 1883, when he sold his place and purchased a farm of one hundred acres in Richland county, to the improvement and cultivation of which he has since devoted his energies with marked success. He is a member of the Lutheran church, and is highly respected and esteemed by all who know him.
On the 17th of March, 1870, Mr. Aby married Miss Elizabeth Gongway, a daughter of Michael Gongway, of Ashland county, who died in 1896, at about the age of eighty years. By this union six children were born, namely: Cora B., now the wife of Wesley Keefer, a farmer of Washington township, Richland county, south of Mansfield, by whom she has two children,—Leta and Boyd; and Stella, Charles, Bert, Effie and Elta, who are all at home with their parents.
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