Surnames: WINTERSTEEN TRUSTER FERRIS HOOD BOOMERSCHINE GROSS STOKES CONORROE RAY FRANCIS CORNTHWAITE WAGNER GERBER LINTNER CHAPIN. From Memoirs of the Miami Valley, Vol. III, 1919 page 781/782 Lewis G: Wintersteen. Of the agriculturists who have helped to sustain the farming integrity and prestige of Butler county during the past several decades, mention is due Lewis G. Wintersteen, of the Jacksonboro community. He has been a resident of this locality all of his life and has been a constructive factor in assisting in the progress of one of the most fertile and productive sections of the great Miami valley. Mr. Wintersteen was born on a farm near Jacksonboro, a son of WilIiam and Anna (Truster) Wintersteen. His father, who was a successful agriculturist, served for a number of years as the village squire of Jacksonboro, and was a man universalIy respected and esteemed. He died January 20, 1915, while his widow is still living and makes her home at Jacksonboro. Lewis G. Wintersteen was educated in the public schools and was reared in a family where honesty and industry were held in high esteem. His brothers and sisters, like himself, were given good advantages and s! trict training, and those who survive have gained places of honor in the communities in which they reside. The first child died in infancy; Frank married Cora Ferris; Lewis G. is the third in order of birth; Myrtle is now Mrs. Hood; Lizzie is deceased; May married Sam Boomerschine; and Myrtle is the wife of Earl Gross, of Camden. Lewis G. Wintersteen, on attaining his majority, engaged in agricultural pursuits on his own account, and recently purchased the Samuel Stokes farm, a tract of 160 acres near Jacksonboro, which he has placed in the finest of condition. He has modernized the home and other buildings, and has improved the land with drainage, and everything about the property shows that good management is present. He is a Democrat in politics and a good citizen, and he and the members of his family attend the Methodist church at Seven Mile. Mr. Wintersteen was married in 1905 to Myrtle, daughter of George G. and Catherine (Conorroe) Hood, of Somerville, and to this uni! on there has been borne one son: Vernon, aged twelve years, who is attending the public school. Mrs. Wintersteen's father died August 8, 1904, and her mother August 9, 1912. There were nine children in their family: Mrs. Wintersteen; Ella., who married Harry Ray; Setta, who married George Francis; Minna, who married Charles Cornthwaite; Ed Hood, who married Lola Wagner; Ralph, who married Ida Gerber; Susie, who married Henry Lintner; Harvey; and Cora, who married Ora Chapin. -- Gary KingBatavia IL     Researching in Knox, Licking, Perry Counties, OHIO: Butcher, Crotinger, Davis, McClurg, Wheatcraft, Cooperrider, Beckenbaugh, Neighbarger, Catt, WilkinIn Butler Co., Ohio: Stahlheber, Kippenberger, Beiser, Pater, KingIn Clermont Co., Ohio:    King, Bartlett, Hall, Aylward.In Botetourt Co. Virginia: King, Bean, Dooley, Mayo, Fouts/Foutz/FoutIn McLean Co., Illinois: Crotinger, Mickens, Bierbower, Jones, Buck.In Kane Co. Illinois:   Gustafson, Maier, Butcher, Keifer, LindgrenVolunteer of Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness at http://www.raogk.org/