11850 U.S. Census, Mifflin Township, Ashland County, Ohio, page 150 (stamped), Ancestry.com.
"Dwelling 70. Family 70.
John Keiser 48 M [Occupation:] none Pa
Mary Keiser 50 F Pa
Mary Ann Keiser 24 F Ohio
Michael Keiser 20 M Ohio
John Keiser 17 M Ohio
Emanuel Keiser 15 M Ohio
Henry Keiser 12 M Ohio
B Keiser 9 M Ohio
Susan Keiser 5 F Ohio."21860 U.S. Census, Mifflin Township, Ashland County, Ohio, page 222, Ancestry.com.
Dwelling 1564. Family 1592.
"Dwelling 1564. Family 1591.
Henry Smith 43 M Miller. Value of real estate: - . Value of personal estate: 200. Germany.
Catherine 33 F Germany
Caroline Elbert 14 F "
Mary Keiser 61 F Pa."
1Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953, FamilySearch.
"name: Emanuel H Keiser
event: Death
event date: 13 Jun 1911
event place: Mansfield, Richland, Ohio
gender: Male
death age: 75y 9m 16d
marital status: Married
race: w
occupation: retired shoeman
birth date: 27 Aug 1835
birthplace: Richland Co.
estimated birth year: 1836
burial date: 15 Jun 1911
burial place: Mansfield, Ohio
father: John Keiser
father's birthplace: Pennsylvania
mother: Mary Shaubut
mother's birthplace: Pennsylvania
digital folder number: 4021107."
33. Susana Keiser
1Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953, FamilySearch.
"name: Susana Keiser Nunamaker
event: Death
event date: 03 Mar 1928
event place: Mansfield City, Richland Co., Ohio
street address: 254 Harker St.
gender: Female
death age: 83
marital status: Widowed
race: White
occupation: Housewife
birth date: 15 Dec 1844
birthplace: Mifflin Twp, Richland Co., Ohio
estimated birth year: 1845
burial date: 05 Mar 1928
cemetery: Mansfield
father: John Keiser
father's birthplace: Lancaster, Pa.
mother: Mary Shaubut
mother's birthplace: Lancaster, Pa.
spouse: John U. Nunamaker
digital folder number: 4022086."
1R_Andsager, Andsager Family Tree, Ancestry Public Member Tree.
"Susanna Shophude, birth 1801 Pennsylvania, death Hartford City, Blackford, Indiana. Spouse: John Gable (1791-1862)."2Works Progress Administration of Indiana, Blackford County, Indiana. Index of Persons and of Firms., Indianapolis [Indiana]: Indiana State Library, 1938, page 164, FamilySearch.
"Shophude, Susan, m. John Gable, S [Shinn, Benjamin G., Biographical Memoirs of Blackford County, Indiana. Bowen Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900.] 328."3Shinn, Benjamin G. (Benjamin Granville), Biographical Memoirs of Blackford County, Indiana, Indiana Memory Digital Collections, pages 328-333.
http://cdm16066.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p1819coll6/id/34091/rec/13. Website, visited on 15 Nov. 2012.
"WILLIAM H. GABLE. William Henry Gable, a retired business man and old resident of Hartford City, is a native of Stark county, Ohio, and dates his birth from the 3rd day of November, 1825. His father, John Gable, was born in Pennsylvania and there married Susan Shophude, moving shortly thereafter, about the beginning of the present century, to Ohio, locating in what is now Stark county, being one of the early pioneers of that part of the state. John Gable was a farmer by occupation, a quiet and unassuming man, and resided upon the farm where he originally settled until 1837, when he moved to Richland county, Ohio, and in 1853 sold and moved to Delaware county, Indiana, where he resided until called from the scenes of earthly labor, in the year 1862. His wife survived him many years, departing this life in Hartford City at the home of her son, the subject of this sketch, in 1895. The family of John and Susan Gable consisted of eleven children, whose names are as follows : Betsey, drowned when sixteen years old ; John, a farmer of Delaware county, Indiana; William Henry, whose name appears at the head of this article; Sarah, wife of Peter Deal, resides in the town of Parker, this state ; Maria, who married John Wolford, of Manton, Michigan; George A., a hardware merchant doing business in Hartford City; Mrs. Susan Sudworth, who died in Hartford City in 1893; Lewis, an Indianapolis druggist; Nathaniel, of Portland, Indiana, a tobacco dealer ; Emeline, deceased, and an infant that died unnamed. John Gable was an honest, hard working, God-fearing man, generous to a fault and a great social favorite in the community where he lived. Politically he was a Whig until the organization of the Republican party, when he espoused the principles of that party and continued loyal to the same during the remainder of his life. He and wife were for many years devoted members of the Lutheran church, exemplified its teachings in their daily life, instilled its pure and gentle precepts into the minds and hearts of their children and died in the hope of a future in the resurection of the just. William Henry Gable passed tfie years of his youth and early manhood on his father's farm, where he early learneI lessons of industry and frugality and at the same time was taught to appreciate the true honor and dignity of labor. In the indifferent country schools of that period in Ohio he obtained the rudiments of the English branches, but, like the majority of sturdy men who grew to maturity amid the rugged and toilsome duties of the farm, he is largely self taught, having obtained a sound practical education by coming in contact with men and circumstances during a long and active life. He attended school a few months of each year until eighteen, at which time he entered upon a three-years apprenticeship at Mansfield, Ohio, to learn cabinetmaking. Owing to the failure in business of his employer at the end of his first year's service, Mr. Gable left Mansfield and, going to Ashland, finished his trade at the latter place and began working for himself at different points in Ohio. He followed his chosen calling with encouraging success until 1848, at which time he established himself in business at Petersburg, now Mifflin, Ashland county, Ohio, where he manufactured and sold furniture until 185o, making the most of his opportunities during that period. His next move savored very much of the venturous; he went, via New York City, to California, shipping to the Shagres river, up which he proceeded by canoe to a point some sixty miles from the mouth of the stream, thence twenty-one miles further on foot to Panama, where he took ship for San Francisco. Reaching that place, he at once proceeded to the mines and with thousands of other fortune seekers began delving among hills, ravines and gulches for the yellow metal which lured so many from pleasant homes only to disappoint them in that far-away and forbidding land. Mr. Gable was one of a company of men who spent much time and the greater part of their means in prospecting for the wealth they firmly believed to be hidden somewhere among the hills and valleys of California. In order to better prosecute his search and being without the requisite amount of capital, he borrowed from certain members of the company a limited supply of money, promising if successful to repay upon his return one-half of his first year's earnings. True to his promise, he returned in due time, repaid the amount borrowed with twelve per cent interest thereon; besides this he realized about thirteen hundred dollars from his venture in the gold fields. Mr. Gable was absent from May 4, 1850, to Flay 4, 1852, two years to the day, and, aside from money realized, considered himself amply repaid by reason of interesting incidents, thrilling adventures and general information afforded him by the long and varied journey. Returning to Mifflin, Ohio, he resumed his former business, which he continued there about one year, then he removed to Hartford City, Indiana, where he again embarked in the furniture trade, to which he subsequently added undertaking, the enterprise proving very successful financially, realizing him handsome profits which he greatly increased from time to time by judicious investments in real estate. His first purchase was the lot now occupied by his large business block, at that time completely covered with a dense underbrush, with a quagmire on the present site of his residence. Mr. Gable pursued his business steadily but surely, being satisfied with substantial gains, instead of being allured, as so many have been, by the false promise of sudden wealth. His career in this city from the beginning presents a series of continued successes, and by close attention, directed by wise forethought, he succeeded in time in amassing a fortune of sufficient volume to enable him to retire from active business and spend his declining years in the enjoyment of that peace and quiet which those who have battled long and successfully with life know so well how to appreciate. Mr. Gable arranged his affairs so as to turn his back upon the world of traffic in 1893, since which date he has spent his time looking after his property interests in the city and elsewhere and, as stated above, making the most of the years which are yet spared to him. Our subject was married, in Lagrange, Indiana, in 1852, to Eliza Jane Bennett, daughter of Aquilla Bennett, of the county of Lagrange, a union blessed with the birth of six children, namely : William A., of this city, a merchant; Emerson Alfred, a tinner doing business in Hartford City; Lewis Clark, a contractor and builder of this place ; Delia A., who married Edward Bowen, of McLeansboro, Illinois; Susan 0., wife of Samuel Stafford, a retired farmer of Hartford City, and Marianetta, now Mrs. George Tait, a painter and paper hanger of Marion, Indiana. The mother of these children died in 187o, and subsequently Mr. Gable entered into the marriage relation with Mrs. Emily (Cline) Craw, widow of the late John Craw and daughter of Michael Cline, of Blackford county. The issue of the second union is two children, viz : Melbourne Albert, salesman for Weilerd & Weilerd, furniture dealers of Hartford City, and Roland Orville, a bookkeeper in the employ of E. C. Cooley. Mr. and Mrs. Gable are communicants of the Methodist Episcopal church, active in all departments of religious work and liberal in their donations to promote the financial interests of the local congregation to which they belong. Mr. Gable has been a class-leader since about 1855, a trustee for almost the same length of time, and has been a steward for some time. He has also served on the building and repairing committee and has.lieen a general, all around good helper in his church. Mr. Gable is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Odd Fellows and G. A. R., and every legitimate enterprise having for its object the good of the community finds in him a zealous supporter and liberal patron. The military career of Mr. Gable began in 1861, when the dark clouds of Rebellion portended the forthcoming storm which threatened to disrupt the Union. In that year he enlisted in Company I, Thirty-fourth Indiana Infantry, for three years or during the war, but he did not serve his full time, having been discharged at the expiration of one and a half years by reason of physical disability. Later, in 1864, he became a member of the Twenty-sixth Infantry, joining the same at Indianapolis, thence proceeding to Donaldsonville, near New Orleans, serving with his command for a period of one year. He saw considerable active service, participated in all the campaigns and battles in which his regiment was engaged and will carry to the grave the mark of a wound received in the chest at Mobile, Alabama. He was discharged at Jackson, Mississippi, and his record as a brave and gallant defender of the national union is replete with rugged, toilsome duty faithfully and uncomplainingly performed. In politics Mr. Gable is a Republican and as such has served several terms as member of the common council of Hartford City. In every relation of life he has endeavored to shape his conduct in harmony with the highest ideal of manhood, and few citizens occupy a higher place in the confidence and esteem of the public. Honest, upright, truthful, generous, a benefactor, a broad-minded, intelligent man of affairs, Mr. Gable may be taken as a representative type of a class only too rare in this rapid age -- a refined and courteous gentleman of the old school."
The book has a picture of Wm. H. Gable.4RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project, <http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com>.
Probate - Blackford Co., IN 1839-1849 Wills 1842-1895
"Source of Susannah "Susan" Shophude's year of birth (1802):
Book - Indiana Civil War Veterans Blackford County 1861-1865
Author: Orville Uggen, Jr.
Publication: February 2, 2004 2nd Edition
Note: Submitted by Max A & Judith A (Swoveland) Wiesenauer
Page: refer #305, #306
Author: Compiled by Cecil Beeson, Sr
Publication: 1982 by Selby Publishing & Printing
Note: Submitted by Max A & Judith A (Swoveland) Wiesenauer
Page: p 30."
Swoveland & Wiesenauer Families, submitter Max (J A Wiesenauer), updated 20 May 2012.5Death record, Susanna Gable, book 1882, page 57, certificate 97, Blackford Co. Health Dept., Hartford City, IN.
Rick Crume's file C1788.
"Gable, Susanna. Sex: F. Race: White. Date of death: November 26,1893. Place of birth: not given. Place of death: Blackford Co., Indiana. Age at death: 91. Cause of death: general anasarca. Physician: Wm. H. Wheeler. Manner of death: Natural. County: Blackford. Occupation: house keeper. Name of father: not given. Name of mother: not given. Cemetery: not given. Funeral director: not given. Filed date: 11/26/1893."61880 U.S. Census, Hartford, Blackford County, Indiana, FamilySearch.
"name : Susannah Gable
event: Census
event date: 1880
event place: Hartford, Blackford, Indiana, United States
gender: Female
age: 76
marital status : Widowed
occupation : Keeping House
race or color (original) : White
ethnicity (standardized) : American
relationship to head : Self
birthplace : Pennsylvania, United States
birthdate : 1804
father's birthplace : Germany
mother's birthplace : Pennsylvania, United States
page : 450
page character : C
entry number : 1892
nara film number : T9-0266
gs film number : 1254266
digital folder number: 004240574."
The census says her father was born in Bavaria.
1Shinn, Benjamin G. (Benjamin Granville), Biographical Memoirs of Blackford County, Indiana, Indiana Memory Digital Collections, pages 328-333.
http://cdm16066.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p1819coll6/id/34091/rec/13. Website, visited on 15 Nov. 2012.
"WILLIAM H. GABLE. William Henry Gable, a retired business man and old resident of Hartford City, is a native of Stark county, Ohio, and dates his birth from the 3rd day of November, 1825. His father, John Gable, was born in Pennsylvania and there married Susan Shophude, moving shortly thereafter, about the beginning of the present century, to Ohio, locating in what is now Stark county, being one of the early pioneers of that part of the state. John Gable was a farmer by occupation, a quiet and unassuming man, and resided upon the farm where he originally settled until 1837, when he moved to Richland county, Ohio, and in 1853 sold and moved to Delaware county, Indiana, where he resided until called from the scenes of earthly labor, in the year 1862. His wife survived him many years, departing this life in Hartford City at the home of her son, the subject of this sketch, in 1895. The family of John and Susan Gable consisted of eleven children, whose names are as follows : Betsey, drowned when sixteen years old ; John, a farmer of Delaware county, Indiana; William Henry, whose name appears at the head of this article; Sarah, wife of Peter Deal, resides in the town of Parker, this state ; Maria, who married John Wolford, of Manton, Michigan; George A., a hardware merchant doing business in Hartford City; Mrs. Susan Sudworth, who died in Hartford City in 1893; Lewis, an Indianapolis druggist; Nathaniel, of Portland, Indiana, a tobacco dealer ; Emeline, deceased, and an infant that died unnamed. John Gable was an honest, hard working, God-fearing man, generous to a fault and a great social favorite in the community where he lived. Politically he was a Whig until the organization of the Republican party, when he espoused the principles of that party and continued loyal to the same during the remainder of his life. He and wife were for many years devoted members of the Lutheran church, exemplified its teachings in their daily life, instilled its pure and gentle precepts into the minds and hearts of their children and died in the hope of a future in the resurection of the just. William Henry Gable passed tfie years of his youth and early manhood on his father's farm, where he early learneI lessons of industry and frugality and at the same time was taught to appreciate the true honor and dignity of labor. In the indifferent country schools of that period in Ohio he obtained the rudiments of the English branches, but, like the majority of sturdy men who grew to maturity amid the rugged and toilsome duties of the farm, he is largely self taught, having obtained a sound practical education by coming in contact with men and circumstances during a long and active life. He attended school a few months of each year until eighteen, at which time he entered upon a three-years apprenticeship at Mansfield, Ohio, to learn cabinetmaking. Owing to the failure in business of his employer at the end of his first year's service, Mr. Gable left Mansfield and, going to Ashland, finished his trade at the latter place and began working for himself at different points in Ohio. He followed his chosen calling with encouraging success until 1848, at which time he established himself in business at Petersburg, now Mifflin, Ashland county, Ohio, where he manufactured and sold furniture until 185o, making the most of his opportunities during that period. His next move savored very much of the venturous; he went, via New York City, to California, shipping to the Shagres river, up which he proceeded by canoe to a point some sixty miles from the mouth of the stream, thence twenty-one miles further on foot to Panama, where he took ship for San Francisco. Reaching that place, he at once proceeded to the mines and with thousands of other fortune seekers began delving among hills, ravines and gulches for the yellow metal which lured so many from pleasant homes only to disappoint them in that far-away and forbidding land. Mr. Gable was one of a company of men who spent much time and the greater part of their means in prospecting for the wealth they firmly believed to be hidden somewhere among the hills and valleys of California. In order to better prosecute his search and being without the requisite amount of capital, he borrowed from certain members of the company a limited supply of money, promising if successful to repay upon his return one-half of his first year's earnings. True to his promise, he returned in due time, repaid the amount borrowed with twelve per cent interest thereon; besides this he realized about thirteen hundred dollars from his venture in the gold fields. Mr. Gable was absent from May 4, 1850, to Flay 4, 1852, two years to the day, and, aside from money realized, considered himself amply repaid by reason of interesting incidents, thrilling adventures and general information afforded him by the long and varied journey. Returning to Mifflin, Ohio, he resumed his former business, which he continued there about one year, then he removed to Hartford City, Indiana, where he again embarked in the furniture trade, to which he subsequently added undertaking, the enterprise proving very successful financially, realizing him handsome profits which he greatly increased from time to time by judicious investments in real estate. His first purchase was the lot now occupied by his large business block, at that time completely covered with a dense underbrush, with a quagmire on the present site of his residence. Mr. Gable pursued his business steadily but surely, being satisfied with substantial gains, instead of being allured, as so many have been, by the false promise of sudden wealth. His career in this city from the beginning presents a series of continued successes, and by close attention, directed by wise forethought, he succeeded in time in amassing a fortune of sufficient volume to enable him to retire from active business and spend his declining years in the enjoyment of that peace and quiet which those who have battled long and successfully with life know so well how to appreciate. Mr. Gable arranged his affairs so as to turn his back upon the world of traffic in 1893, since which date he has spent his time looking after his property interests in the city and elsewhere and, as stated above, making the most of the years which are yet spared to him. Our subject was married, in Lagrange, Indiana, in 1852, to Eliza Jane Bennett, daughter of Aquilla Bennett, of the county of Lagrange, a union blessed with the birth of six children, namely : William A., of this city, a merchant; Emerson Alfred, a tinner doing business in Hartford City; Lewis Clark, a contractor and builder of this place ; Delia A., who married Edward Bowen, of McLeansboro, Illinois; Susan 0., wife of Samuel Stafford, a retired farmer of Hartford City, and Marianetta, now Mrs. George Tait, a painter and paper hanger of Marion, Indiana. The mother of these children died in 187o, and subsequently Mr. Gable entered into the marriage relation with Mrs. Emily (Cline) Craw, widow of the late John Craw and daughter of Michael Cline, of Blackford county. The issue of the second union is two children, viz : Melbourne Albert, salesman for Weilerd & Weilerd, furniture dealers of Hartford City, and Roland Orville, a bookkeeper in the employ of E. C. Cooley. Mr. and Mrs. Gable are communicants of the Methodist Episcopal church, active in all departments of religious work and liberal in their donations to promote the financial interests of the local congregation to which they belong. Mr. Gable has been a class-leader since about 1855, a trustee for almost the same length of time, and has been a steward for some time. He has also served on the building and repairing committee and has.lieen a general, all around good helper in his church. Mr. Gable is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Odd Fellows and G. A. R., and every legitimate enterprise having for its object the good of the community finds in him a zealous supporter and liberal patron. The military career of Mr. Gable began in 1861, when the dark clouds of Rebellion portended the forthcoming storm which threatened to disrupt the Union. In that year he enlisted in Company I, Thirty-fourth Indiana Infantry, for three years or during the war, but he did not serve his full time, having been discharged at the expiration of one and a half years by reason of physical disability. Later, in 1864, he became a member of the Twenty-sixth Infantry, joining the same at Indianapolis, thence proceeding to Donaldsonville, near New Orleans, serving with his command for a period of one year. He saw considerable active service, participated in all the campaigns and battles in which his regiment was engaged and will carry to the grave the mark of a wound received in the chest at Mobile, Alabama. He was discharged at Jackson, Mississippi, and his record as a brave and gallant defender of the national union is replete with rugged, toilsome duty faithfully and uncomplainingly performed. In politics Mr. Gable is a Republican and as such has served several terms as member of the common council of Hartford City. In every relation of life he has endeavored to shape his conduct in harmony with the highest ideal of manhood, and few citizens occupy a higher place in the confidence and esteem of the public. Honest, upright, truthful, generous, a benefactor, a broad-minded, intelligent man of affairs, Mr. Gable may be taken as a representative type of a class only too rare in this rapid age -- a refined and courteous gentleman of the old school."
The book has a picture of Wm. H. Gable.
35. Maria Gable
1Michigan, Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995, FamilySearch.
"name: Maria Wolford
gender: Female
death date: 16 Mar 1905
death place: Manton, Wexford, Michigan
age: 75
birth date: 1830
birthplace: Pennyslvania
race: White
marital status: Married
father: John Gable
mother: Susan Shaphande
indexing project (batch) number: B53295-4
system origin: Michigan-EASy
source film number: 966064."