This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1VB.2ACE/11411 Message Board Post: Looking for archival info and/or descendants of former Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry Private John Bier, Company I. His last known address was: 1006 Hancock Street, Sandusky, OH. Thank you. Janett Calland, Pres. Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry Descendants Association

Janett: Obituary for John G Bier Sandusky Register 2 Sept 1914, Page 7 Col 1 Deaths and Funerals One of the best known men in the city, John G Bier, contractor, died at 11 am Tuesday at his residence, Hancock and Scott Sts. He was aged sixty-nine years. Mr Bier was born in Germany in 1845, and came to Sandusky when but eight yers of age. He has resided in Sandusky 61 years. The deceased was a Civil War Veteran and a member of McMeens Post, GAR. In 1861 he enlisted in the Third Regiment, Ohio Cavalry volunteers, and received an honorable discharge in August 1865, at Edgefield, Tenn. Mr Bier is survived by his widow, and eight children including a son George who is in the contracting business and seven daughters, Mrs Chris Kuhn, Mrs Elizabeth Stanley, Miss Carrrie Bier, and Mrs Louis Wagner of this city and Mrs G A Meyers of Prince Albert, Canada, Mrs Otto Wendover of Port Huron, Mich and Mrs Frank Parrish of Akron, OH and also by a sister Miss Martha Bier of this city. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by LRBCG.COM, Inc.]

Birth Records from Erie County Probate Court files, children of John G and Mary C Lucal Bier: Vol 2 Page 1 No. 8 Edith Bier b. 13 Sept 1878 in Sandusky, Erie Co, OH f: John G Bier m: Mary C Lucal Vol 2 Page 57 No. 29 Florence Bier b. 8 Jan 1882 in Sandusky, Erie Co, OH f: John Bier m: Mary Lucal Vol 1 Page 10 No. 221 Infant daughter of John b. 24 Feb 1868 in Sandusky, Erie Co, OH f: John Bier m: Maria Lucal Reported by: Anna Schneider, midwife Vol 3 Page 18 No. 90 Inne W Bier 13 August 1887 in Sandusky, Erie Co, OH f: John Bier m: Mary Lucal --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by LRBCG.COM, Inc.]