Surnames: KOCHENDARFER, SLONAKER, GECKLER, WRIGHT, TRUAX, DAWSON, IMHOFF, GRISON, SAUER. From Memoirs of the Miami Valley, Vol. III, 1919: on pages 388/389: Samuel D. KOCHENDARFER, a well known and thrifty farmer, who successfully pursues his vocation in Reily township, belongs to that class of Butler county agriculturists who invest their work with enthusiasm, energy and modern enterprise. He has had to work industriously for what he hag accumulated and as his present holdings are all of his own securing he can be included among the self-made men of his community. Mr. KOCHENDARFER was born at Morning Sun, Butler county, Ohio, August 28, 1868, a son of Peter and Anna (SLONAKER) KOCHENDARFER, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Butler county. Peter KOCHENDARFER enlisted for service in the war between the States as a private in a Pennsylvania volunteer infantry regiment, and immediately following his honorable discharge came to Butler county, Ohio, and located in Milford township, where he worked at farming until his marriage. For five years he resided in Pennsylvania, but then returned to Butler county, and ! for many years was an agriculturist of Milford township, where he accumulated a good property and became one of his locality's substantial and highly respected citizens. When he retired he moved to his present home at Oxford. He and his wife are the parents of seven children: Mary Ann, the wife of Henry GECKLER, of Hamilton; Nathan, who is a resident of Texas; Samuel D., of this notice; Harvey, a resident of Hamilton; Eliza, the wife of Glen WRIGHT of Oxford; Amanda, the wife of John WRIGHT, of that place; and Lydia, the wife of Frank TRUAX, of Norwood, Ohio. Samuel D. KOCHENDARFER was educated in the public schools in his home community, and when he entered upon his own career farmed at Jericho for one year, near Somerville for three years, at Darrtown one year, and then for a number of years at different places in Reily township. In 1908 he purchased the old Conklin farm in Reily township, where he now lives, a tract of 165 acres on which he has made numerous improve! ments. He has always carried on general farming and has worked hard f or his success, combining industry with good management into a happy whole which has advanced him to a place of independence among the men of his community. He is well and favorably known in the county, where he has many warm friends. As a voter, Mr. KOCHENDARFER is a Democrat, but is not interested in politics, save as a supporter of good movements tending toward general progress. Mrs. KOCHENDARFER is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1888 Mr. KOCHENDARFER married Miss Olive DAWSON, and they are the parents of three children: Stanley, who fought as a soldier in the American Expeditionary Force during the great World war; he enlisted December 12, 1917, at Hamilton, Ohio, most of his training was obtained at Camp Greene, N. C. He set sail for France, July 15, 1918. During that time he is credited with a Victory Ribbon and two bronze stars. After the Armistice was signed he started for Germany and arrived in Coblenz, Germany, December 8, 1918, where his com! pany was made a Service Park Unit, 696, Third Army Headquarters; after staying seven and a half months there, started back for Brest, France, and set sail for Camp Merritt, arriving there August 12, 1919, and received his honorable discharge at Camp Sherman, August 27, 1919; after his discharge returned to the home of his parents and spent a joyful vacation, and later married the daughter of a prominent farmer, Mr. and Mrs. Henry IMHOFF of near Oxford, Ohio. The marriage took place December 25, 1919, and in the future he will give his time and attention to agriculture, operating a farm near Reily, Ohio; Harvey, a farmer near Millville, Ohio, who married Ethel GRISON, October 18, 1911; and Nellie, the widow of Paul SAUER. Gary King Batavia IL -----Original Message----- From: Bette McIntosh <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:19:25 -0600 Subject: Re: Imhoff, 21, 389, 764 Gary, I checked my IMHOFF data and I see that I have 1900 census information that mentions Margaret IMHOFF Welch as well as a Catharine IMHOFF so would it be possible for you to transcribe & send along all three references (Pages 21, 389 & 764) in the book? Many thanks for your help with this. Bette