This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WZB.2ACI/707.3 Message Board Post: Here is something else I have found: HENRY HOSTLER, farmer, P. O. Tiffin, was born July 9, 1816 in Lancaster County, Penn., son of Henry and Catharine (Dinger) Hostler who were also natives of Pennsylvania. Henry Hostler, Sr., came with his family to Ohio in 1831, and entered a farm in Hopewell Township, this county (Seneca), when there were but a few inhabitants in the township or county. They came here with one horse, and a wagon in which they slept at night most of the way, and had but little save health and willing hands. They made a clearing, built a cabin and began to work in earnest on the site where the beautiful dwelling of our subject now stands. On their way to this township, they stopped at the then village of Sandusky, except the father – Henry Hostler Sr., who came ahead, entered his land, and then returned for his family. Henry Sr. eventually passed away. His children all attained maturity and now the living occupy good positions in life, while their parents sleep, free from care and toil. Of their children, (four sons and two daughters) the following survive: Henry; Sarah, widow of J. Martin; Catharine (wife of Rev. J. Powell, of Sandusky County) and Henry. Our subject, the only one who resides in this county, was educated here. He married. January 20, 1840, Miss Fannie Baughman, the eldest in the family of twelve children of John Baughman, of Liberty Township, this county, and who still occupies the old home farm, the property never having changed hands. Mr. and Mrs. Hostler have been blessed with nine children: George W., married to Mary Propps; Rebecca E. wife of Issac Merchant; Moses L., married to Margaret Shaull; Silas J.; Dennis S. and David M. (twins); Stephen; A. D.; and Ira J., married to Harriet Bencoff. Mr. Hostler is one of the leading farmers of his township, and among its very successful men. He is a member of the United Brethren Church.