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Notes for Levi Warner and Caroline Bortner

1852 Levi Warner and Caroline Bortner were married on November 25, 1852, in Morrow County, Ohio. [1]

1860 Levi Warner (age 27) and Caroline Warner (age 32) lived in North Bloomfield Twp, Morrow County, Ohio with children Leah Warner (age 6) and Louesa Warner (age 4). [2]

1870 Levi Warner (age 35) and Caroline Warner (age 36) lived in North Bloomfield Twp, Morrow County, Ohio with children Leah Warner (age 16) and Lavina Warner (age 13), Edward Warner (age 8), and Sylvia Macemore (age 17). [3]

1880 Caroline Warner (age 52, born in Pennsylvania, married), wife, lived in Blooming Grove, Morrow County, Ohio, in a household with Levi Warner (age 49), Leah Warner (age 25), Lovina Warner (age 23), Edward Warner (age 19), and S. B. Massmore (age 28). Caroine Warner's parents were both born in Pennsylvania. [4]

1900 Carolin Warner (born in Pennsylvania in March, 1827, married for 48 years), wife, lived in North Bloomfield Twp, Morrow County, Ohio, in a household with Levi Warner (age 68). Carolin Warner's parents were both born in Pennsylvania. Carolin Warner had had 3 children, 3 still living. [5]

1903 Caroline Warner, wife of Levi Warner, died on April 11 and was buried at Bortner Cemetery, Morrow County, Ohio. Caroline was born on March 24, 1827. [6]

1906 Levi Warner, husband of Levi Warner, died on May 25 and was buried at Bortner Cemetery, Morrow County, Ohio. Levi was born on November 5, 1831. [7]

A biosketch reports [8]:

Levi Warner, farmer; P. O. Whetstone; is the eldest of a family of six children, and was born Nov. 6, 1831, in York Co., Penn., also the nativity of his parents; his father, John Warner, a farmer by occupation, emigrated to Ohio in 1834, and settled on Government land. He has always been an honest tiller of the soil, in which he has been successful. Levi commenced for himself after coming to manhood; he is also a farmer, which occupation, he considers, one of the highest callings of man. Besides farming, he has run a threshing machine ever since he was 18 years of age. He was married Nov. 25, 1853, to Caroline, daughter of Henry and Margaret Bortner. They have three children, whose names are Leah, Levina and Edward. Mr. Warner and wife are membersof the Reformed Lutheran Church, and are well respected. He is Township Treasurer, and has many friends; he has a convenient and well cultivated farm, on which he is putting good buildings, and can feel the pride and satisfaction that comes from an interesting and happy home."


Footnotes:

[1] FamilySearch.org, [FamilySearchRecord].

[2] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[3] United States Federal Census, 1870, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[4] United States Federal Census, 1880, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[5] United States Federal Census, 1900, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[6] Find A Grave Memorial 126665097, [FindAGrave].

[7] Find A Grave Memorial 126665021, [FindAGrave].

[8] William Henry Perrin, J. H. Battle, History of Morrow County and Ohio (Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1880), 631, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].