Ohio Family Group Sheet for the Alpheus STIFFLER Family

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Husband: Alpheus STIFFLER
Birthdate: 8/14/1844
Birthplace: Prospect, Marion Co., OH
Death date: 1/18/1915
Place of death: Prospect Twp., Marion Co., OH
Burial: Prospect Cemetery, Marion Co., OH
Father: Jacob Kauffman STIFFLER
Mother: Elizabeth Mary GAST

Marriage date: 12/29/1870
Marriage place: Marion, Marion Co., OH

Wife: Martha OWENS
Birthdate: 6/30/1847
Birthplace: Cardiff, Merthyr, Tydfil, Wales
Death date: 6/29/1915
Place of death: Marion Co., OH
Burial: Marion Cemetery, Marion Co., OH
Father: John D. OWENS
Mother: Ann JONES

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: John Jacob STIFFLER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 9/15/1872
Birthplace: Pleasant Twp., Marion Co., OH
Death date: 6/1947
Place of death: Marion Co., OH
Burial: Marion Cemetery, Marion Co., OH
Marriage date: 12/11/1895
Marriage place: Marion, Marion Co., OH
Spouse's name: Flora C. SIMPSON

Child No. 2: George W. STIFFLER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1/8/1873
Birthplace: Marion Co., OH
Death date: 3/9/1956
Place of death: Toledo, Lucas Co., OH
Burial: Marion Cemetery, Marion Co., OH
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouse's name:

Child No. 3: Albert Loy STIFFLER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 12/24/1881
Birthplace: Prospect Twp., Marion Co., OH
Death date: 5/19/1924
Place of death: Columbus, Franklin Co., OH
Burial: Marion Cemetery, Marion Co., OH
Marriage date: 5/14/1915
Marriage place: Ohio
Spouse's name: Lula Pearl CHRYSLER

Documentation:
1850
 * Alpheus appears on the 1850 census for Prospect Township, Marion County, Ohio, dwelling number 215, family number 217. He is 6 years old and is living with his parents.
1860
 * Alpheus appears on the 1860 census for Prospect Township, Marion County, Ohio, dwelling number 1201, family number 1205. He is 15 years old and is working as a farmer. He is living with his parents.
1870
 * Alpheus appears on the 1870 census for Prospect Township, Marion County, Ohio, dwelling number 61, family number 64. He is 26 years old and is living with his parents.
1900
 * Alfred (probably our Alpheus) and Martha appear on the 1900 census for Pleasant Township, Marion County, Ohio, dwelling number 140, family number 144. He is 55 years old and is working as a farmer. She is 52. They have been married for 30 years. There have been 3 children, all still living. Also living here is an adopted daughter, Ethel M., age 16 (12/1883).
1910
 * Alfred (probably our Alpheus) and Martha appear on the 1910 census for Prospect Township, Marion County, Ohio, dwelling number 147, family number 147. He is 69 years old and is working as a farmer. She is 62. They have been married for 39 years. There have been 3 children, all still living.
 * OBITUARY - Marion, Marion Co. Ohio "The Marion Daily Star" 18 January
1915
ALPHEUS STIFFLER DIES AT PROSPECT
 A Brother-in-Law of John D. Owens, The Funeral. Prospect, O., Jan. 18--[Special.]--Following a several months' illness of paralysis, Alpheus Stiffler died at his home east of this place, yesterday morning at 7 o'clock. The deceased was born on the old Stiffler farm, near Prospect, August 11, 1844. He was one of a family of nine children, seven of whom survive. They are Mrs. Christopher Almendinger, Mrs. Amos Hoffman, Miss Abagail Stiffler, Miss Margaret Stiffler, Christian, Amos and George Stiffler, all living in this vicinity. Mr. Stiffler was united in marriage to Miss Martha Owens, December 29, 1870. He is survived by a widow and three sons, John J. Stiffler, of Marion; George W. and Albert L. Stiffler, residing at home. He was a brother-in-law of John D. Owens. The funeral will be held at St. Paul's Lutheran church, of which he was an elder, Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. L.H. Hurrelbrink will officiate and interment will be made in the Prospect cemetery.
 * OBITUARY - Marion, Marion Co. Ohio "The Marion Daily Star" 30 June
1915
MRS. A. STIFFLER DIES LAST NIGHT
Nervous Breakdown Follows Husband's Death in January.
 Mrs. Martha Stiffler, widow of Alpheus Stiffler, who died January 17, passed away at 10:30 o'clock Tuesday night, at the home of her son, J.J. Stiffler, No. 630 Irey avenue. A nervous breakdown, which began shortly after her husband's death, was the cause of her death. Mrs. Stiffler was the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Owens. She was born in Wales June 30, 1847. She came to Marion county when six years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Stiffler were married December 29, 1870. For many years she was a member of the Prospect Lutheran church. Three sons, J.J. Stiffler, of Marion; G.W. Stiffler and A.L. Stiffler, of Prospect; a grandchild, Geneva Stiffler, of Marion; two sisters, Mrs. Mary J. Evans and Mrs. B.F. Shurz, of Marion, and a brother, John D. Owens, also of Marion, survive.
 * LDS Ancestral File AF92-108097 submitted by Daniel Stifflear Ancestry.com provides name of spouse and children BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. THE HISTORY OF MARION COUNTY, OHIO 1883 - By Leggett, Conaway & Co.
 ALPHEUS STIFFLER (Pleasant Township) (1907) was born August 11, 1844, in Prospect Township, the son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Gast) Stiffler, who came from Pennsylvania about 1830. The family is of German descent. The district school gave him his education, and in 1872 he bought the Barnum farm, where he lived until 1880, when he purchased his present residence of 125 acres, paying $73 per acre. His farm, being well drained and fenced, is valued to-day at $100 per acre. His house is finely finished, and cost $4,500, while he has an $800 barn. His marriage to Miss Martha Owens, daughter of John and Ann (Jones) Owens, occurred December 29, 1870. Their three children: are John J., George W. and Albert L. Mr. S. and family are members of the Lutheran Church. For the past sixteen years. our subject has acted as Justice of the Peace, filling that position creditably and honorably. By trade, he is a carpenter.
 * BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - Title: 1907 History of Marion County Ohio
 ALPHEUS STIFFLER, who is engaged in general farming on his well-improved and highly cultivated farm of 176 acres, located in Prospect township on the Waldo and Prospect turnpike, was born August 11, 1844, on the home farm in this township and is a son of Jacob K. and Elizabeth (Gast) Stiffler. Jacob K. Stiffler was born in Pennsylvania, where his father, who was a native of Germany, settled at a very early period. He was reared in his native State and when about 21 years old came with the Gast family, who were among the most prominent of the early settlers of the county, to what is now Prospect township, Marion County Ohio-then within the limits of Delaware County. Mr. Gast purchased a large amount of land and laid out the town of Middletown, now known as Prospect. Mr. Stiffler continued to live on his farm in this township all his life and died here in 1897 at the age of 86 years. Shortly after coming to the township he was married to Elizabeth Gast, who died August 11, 1886, aged 70 years. They were the parents of nine children, as follows: Elizabeth, who married Christopher Almendinger; Catherine, deceased, who was the wife of Samuel Siples; Christian; Alpheus; Sarah, who married Amos Hoffman; Amos W.; George A.; and Matilda and Margaret M., who live on the home place in Prospect township. Alpheus Stiffler was reared in Prospect township and attended the old cross-roads schoolhouse. While he received a good education, he gave more of his attention and time to the farm work than to his studies. He learned the carpenter's trade when a young man and followed it for several years. After his marriage, he moved to Pleasant township and purchased a farm of 100 acres, on which he resided for seven years. When he sold it he bought another farm of 125 acres in Pleasant township, on which he lived for about 21 years. This farm he sold in 1901 and purchased his present property, the old Watkins farm, from J. H. Thomas. When a young man of 21 years he worked on this same farm for Mr. Watkins. Here he has been engaged in general farming. He resides in a large 10-room house which he has remodeled. He has also spent much money in improving the farm and with the assistance of his two sons has tiled and cultivated the land until it is now worth twice what he gave for it. Mr. Stiffler was married December 29, 1870, to Martha Owens, who was born in Wales, and came to this country in 1853, when quit young, with her father, John Owens, who became a prominent lime and stone dealer of Marion County, and laid out Owens station. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Stiffler: John J., of Marion, who married Flora Simpson and has one child, Geneva Edna; and George W. and Alberta L., who live at home. While a resident of Pleasant township, Mr. Stiffler served two terms as a justice of the peace. He is a Republican politically and was unanimously elected justice of the peace in a Democratic stronghold. He also served as assessor of Pleasant township, for two terms and was for some time a member of the School Board. He has been a member of the Lutheran Church since a youth of 16 years, has served in various offices and is at present an elder.

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