Edmund D. Bortner married Catharine Bortner, daughter of Jared and Magdalena (Cramer) Bortner. [1]
A biosketch reports [2]:
Jared Bortner, father of Mrs. Bortner, was born Oct. 18, 1819, and married Magdalena Cramer April 21, 1846. She died March 25, 1905) aged seventy-nine years, nine months, twenty-two days. They had eleven children: Reuben, born Feb. 5, 1847; Nathaniel, July 13, 1848; Saranda, Jan. 7, 1850; Martin, Jan. 6, 1853; Edwin. Aug. 22, 1855; Mary, June 18, 1857: Catherine, April 8, 1859; Belinda, Sept. 19, 1860; Diana, Aug. 10, 1862; Chester, July 14, 1864, and Louisa. Jared Bortner followed farming and shoemaking. He was a great reader and has read his German Bible through twenty times. He still survives, and although in his eighty-seventh year is in the best of health and spirits.
[1] George R. Prowell, History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume 2 (Beers, 1907), 222, right column, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[2] George R. Prowell, History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume 2 (Beers, 1907), 223, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].