Pioneer Cemetery
Trenton, Butler County, Ohio
David B. & Catherine Law Trine & Family
The
Trine Family
Of The
Ohio Frontier
Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio
ca 1832
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All the people represented on these pages have some connection with, but are not necessarily related to, Rebecca May Catherine Trine Lesher.
Rebecca May Catherine Trine married Nathan Leasure, a surname changed subsequently to Lesher, so those descendants include the children and grandchildren of Clyde & Evalyn Pollard Lesher, Transfer, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
A contingent of Rebecca Trine's ancestors, including her Grand Aunt & Uncle, Jacob & Catherine Bobenmeyer Trine, left Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 1832 and settled in Butler County, Ohio. At the time, Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio, was the frontier. Not many years prior, frontiersmen such as Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton were leading forays out of Fort Hamilton and on into "Indian Country" of northern Ohio.
Hopefully this page will become a pictorial/fact based history of what I can discover about the Trine/Bobenmeyer families.
NOTE: I am not a trained genealogist. I actually think of myself more as a "Storyteller". As I learn about my family's history, I put whatever I can into story format and post it to the internet. Everything is done in such a way that I can copy it all to a menu driven CD which I've given to my nieces and nephews. Hopefully future generations can take what I have done and add to it.
Virtually all the genealogical data I have was taken from ancestry.com and/or rootsweb.com databases. If other researchers were accurate, my data is correct. If they weren't...well....consider the source.
NOTE: since this entire project is designed to be passed on to my family's future generations, I have placed notes where applicable providing the relationship to my generation.
Lesher/Trine/Bobenmeyer Graphics
&
Miscellaneous Family History
The Schuler/Bobenmeyer graphics came from Kati McSweeney
The Lesher graphics came from Brenda Duffie Woodworth and Becky Lesher Grundei
| Omer Elza Grove | Grove-Wright | Simon & Susan Trine Goldman | Simon & Susan Trine Goldman Home |
| Trine/Bobenmeyer Legacy | |||
Copied From
The "Bobenmoyer" Family History
The following is transcribed from "Bobenmoyer and Related Families 1638-1962" by Lawrence Frederick Bobenmoyer, 1962. I got a xeroxed copy from the Garst Museum in Ohio on Friday, March 28, 2003.
Some words are politically incorrect having been written over 40 years ago, and they do not reflect my own feelings. I did not change spelling or grammatical errors. I stopped with my Great-Great-Great-Grandmother Sophia Trine as the author continues further on with his own family lineage.
I'm descended from the Bobenmoyers (AKA Bobenmyers) on my Dad's side of the family.
KATI McSWEENEY [km]
THE BOBENMOYER FAMILIES MOVE TO OHIO 1832
On May 1st, 1832 *FREDERICK III [should read *JOHN FREDERICK-km] sold the old Longswamp homestead inherited from his grandfather and turned his eyes westward.
A record of this sale is to be found on page 45, Vol. 41, Deed Book for Berks County in the court house in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Thousands from Eastern seaboard states were annually pouring into the vast Empire west of the Appalachians. The new state of Ohio was being settled by leaps and bounds, and every month brought hundreds of hardy pioneers via covered wagon or by steamboat.
To leave a region that for one hundred years had been the family home was not easy. Every tree, rock, and stream had memories both pleasant and sad. Old friends and old scenes were not easy to part with forever, but the call of the West could not be resisted.
Not one member of the immediate family remained behind in Berks County.
*FREDERICK BOBENMOYER III [should read *JOHN FREDERICK BOBENMOYER-km] his wife, *CHRISTINA, all their children, four already married, with other families made up the wagon caravan. The distance of more than five-hundred miles was like thousands of similar undertakings, wrought with hardships. I will make no attempt to describe that trip at this time. except to say that it was far from being a pleasant one.
They reached their destination in the extreme southwestern part of Ohio in mid-summer 1832. All the Bobenmoyer families located near a place called Seven Mile about thirty miles northwest of Cincinnati in what is now Butler County.
SOUTHWESTERN OHIO IN 1832
The city of Hamilton near where the Bobenmoyers located was then a rough, log frontier trading post. The region was very new and had a rich productive soil and abundance of rain.
Vast forests covered the entire landscape and in many places the trees stood so close together that it was necessary to remove some before buildings, such as, cabins or stables could be erected.
Wildflowers, fruits, berries, walnuts, and hickory nuts were to be found in profusion. Small game, such as, the raccoom and opposum were found on every hand. The forests abounded with all kinds of fowl which was a boon to the early settlers.
Only a generation had passed since General St. Clair's disastrous defeat by the Red Skins on the Upper Wabash near the present site of Fort Recovery. General Wayne's victory over the Indians near where Fort Wayne, Indiana now stands, was less than a generation in the past.
Greenville was then known as Fort Greenville and was a rough frontier trading post. The battle of Tippecanoe in neighboring Indiana had only been fought twenty years before and was still the Big Talk on the frontier.
The sound of the ax could be heard from morning until night as the frontiersmen slowly but steadily hewed the homes from the virgin forests. The woodsment rapidly and ruthlessly chopped and burned the noble trees until within a few decades the entire region resembled the prairie states farther west. Ohio passed from the ranks of the leading lumber states long, long ago.
Copied From A History & Biographical of Butler County, Ohio
William W. GRAHAM was born in the state of DE on Jun 9, 1841. He was the son of Philip GRAHAM and Ann SHORT, of English descent. When he was 23 years of age he came to OH. That was in the spring of 1863. He remained in Fairfield for some years in farming pursuits.
Jan 3, 1864, Mr. GRAHAM was married to Mrs. Sarah C. MORRIS, daughter of John BOBENMEYER. Her birth occurred on Nov 25, 1841. They are the parents of 4 (sic) children.
William Hamilton Schuler & Family
| This was posted to an ancestry.com forum by Kati McSweeney, a descendant of Catherine Bobenmeyer Trine:
TAKEN: 1888-1889; Oakwood, Paulding County, Ohio
William was of German descent and Allie was Scots-Irish and Holland Dutch. They had Sam and Bertha after this photo was taken. Note: William Hamilton Schuler was born in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio, 30 Jan 1848. He died 12 Jan 1927 in Charloe, Paulding County, Ohio. |
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Stephen & Laura Schuler Grove Family
More from Kati McSweeney
E-Mail, 9-4-08: My cousin Dixie Hodgens Russell found this photo after her Mom died. Her mom, Bessie Johnson Hodgens Keiser was granddaughter 
to Effie Jerusha Schuler Foote, Laura Schuler Grove's younger half-sister. Dixie knows they're Groves because it says so on the back, but I'm not sure who's who.
My great-great-grand-Aunt Laura Schuler Grove's family. I'm not sure who is in the photo. Laura married Stephen Grove on 26 OCT 1868. Their children:
To the Duffie, Jenny, Lesher clan: since, Laura Schuler Grove is William Hamilton Schuler's sister, she is our 2nd Cousin 4X Removed, and her children are our 3rd Cousins 3X Removed., same as the William Schuler family above.
Nathan & Rebecca May Catharine Trine Lesher, in Otter Creek Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, 1850-1870.
1850
The 1850 Salem Township, Mercer County census shows Nathan & (Rebecca May) Catharine (Trein) Leasure and their neighbors Peter & Catharine Trien.
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1870
Moving forward to the 1870 Otter Creek Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, census (1870 Census) we find Nathan & Catharine (Trine) Lesher, with Lucinda (15) and Daniel John (9).
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Daniel Lesher's Blacksmith Shop
Nathan Lesher was born Nathan Leasure. A source explained to me that the name was pronounced "Leh-zhur", rather than the pronunciation we would expect from the spelling.
At some point Nathan Leasure became Nathan Lesher, and his children were all named accordingly, probably to put a stop to the oft required, "Uh...excuse me...my name is Leh-zhur"!
Nathan Leasure/Lesher was listed as a "waggonmaker" (sic) on the 1850 census, so it stands to reason that his son, Daniel John, would follow in his father's footsteps and become a wagonmaker/blacksmith. This picture (submitted by Becky Lesher Grundei) shows Daniel John Lesher in front of his blacksmith shop in Transfer, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, ca 1890. We don't have a lot on Nathan & Catharine Lesher, so we don't know but that this was Nathan's shop, and that Daniel took over when Nathan could no longer work. We don't have any information as to when Nathan & Catharine died.
Daniel John Lesher married Anna Margaret Williman, also of Otter Creek Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Daniel & Anna had seven children:
Laura William & Martha (Trine) Schuler
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Reading & Sophia Trine Schuler's elderly children: [L-R] Laura Schuler Grove (Barb & JR's great-grandma), William Hamilton Schuler (Diana's great-granddad; Chris' and my great-great-granddad), and Martha Schuler May.
As for the Duffie, Jenny, Lesher contingent, all three are 2nd Cousins 4X Removed to our generation. |
This is Clyde & Evalyn Pollard Lesher on Clyde's 1910 gas powered "velocipede".
Clyde was a switchman for the railroad in the early 1900s, and we believe this was his transportation to and from the switch tower before the advent of the automobile. At one time there were no roads running to the Pymatuning Tower in Transfer, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, so this velocipede was his only means of getting to work.
Clyde Lesher was the grandson of Rebecca May Catharine Trine Lesher, and the 2nd Great Grand Nephew of Jacob & Catharine Bobenmeyer Trine.
This picture was taken about 1920. The baby is Shirley Evalyn Lesher Duffie.
Evalyn Pollard Lesher has her claim to fame: she is the Great Granddaughter of John B. Benninghoff, an Oil Baron from Titusville, Pennsylvania. One internet site I located claimed that John Benninghoff was making in excess of $6,000 per day from his oil wells in 1865. See:
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Laura Schuler Grove is William Hamilton Schuler's sister, she is our 2nd Cousin 4X Removed, and her children are our 3rd Cousins 3X Removed., same as the William Schuler family above.
Where We Came From
Among other interesting facets of my Family Treemaker software is the ability to print a Place Usage Report report. A Place Usage Report lists every event/location in my database. If Joe Dipstick was born in Stinking Creek, Kentucky, and died in Broken Pelvis, Montana, the report will list the event at each location.
If and when you view the following report, the locations are listed by "City, Township, County, State, Country"...contingent on how much information is available.
The report is posted to the internet at: Places Report
Marshal & Carrie McQuestion Grove
Marshal Ney Grove is a 3rd. Cousin 3 X Removed to my generation of the Trine/Lesher family.
Daniel J. Lesher, son of Nathan & Rebecca May Catharine Trine Lesher, and Anna Williman Lesher, are buried in Transfer, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, USA
Standing L-R are their older half-sisters: Martha Schuler May and her full-blooded sister Laura Schuler Grove. They are all Reading Schuler's daughters from two wives (widowed 3 times).
To the Duffie, Jenny, Lesher group, there is no direct relationship with Effie & Emeline Schuler, however, Martha & Laura Schuler are both 2nd Cousins 4X Removed to my generation.
Miltonville Cemetery, just north of Trenton, Butler County, Ohio, and at the western edge of Middletown, Butler County, Ohio, contains the graves of John F. & Sarah Trine Law, daughter of Jacob & Catherine Bobenmeyer Trine, as well as the grave of Sarah Ellen Trine, 9 month old daughter of Frederick B. and Catherine Good Trine.
(The following inscriptions were copied by Mrs. Hazel Stroup of Hamilton, Ohio, and printed by Robert D. Craig in "Butler
County Cemetery and Church Records, "Volume I, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1962, pp. 16-39.)
LAW:
David B. & Catherine Law Trine were in Trenton, Butler County, Ohio, in the 1870-80s. David, a wounded Civil War Veteran, died in 1885, and five of their children died in 1886. Below is the copy of an e-mail received from Rae Trine, a genealogist and family member who located the causes of death.
They are buried in the family plot at "Founder's Park", in the "Pioneer Cemetery", Trenton, Butler County, Ohio. I have a page of graphics at
Tim,
Good news. I just received the death records of David B. Trine's family and had to hurry and send you the information. The source of the records are the Butler County Records Center and Archives; Record of Deaths, Probate Court, In and For; Book 2; Pages 470 - 471. I've also provided a few definitions of the more archaic diseases.
A disease that occurs, generally, in the Middle States of the Union, in June or July, and continues during hot weather; hence called the 'summer complaint'. The chief symptoms are vomiting, purging of green or yellow matter, slime, or blood, attended with pain or uneasiness, and swelling of the abdomen, with some pyrexia, generally. Differs little from what is vulgarly called the Watery Gripes in England. [Dunglison1874].
A dangerous summer disease, of infants, caused by hot weather, bad air, or poor milk, and especially fatal in large cities. [Webster].
Often fatal form of gastroenteritis occurring in children; not true cholera but having similar symptoms. [Wordnet]
An eruptive fever, called by the Romans Ignis sacer; popularly , the Rose, from the color of the skin; and St. Anthony's fire, from the burning heat, or because St. Anthony was supposed to cure it miraculously. [Hoblyn1855]
Redness or inflammation of some part of the skin, with fever, inflammatory or typhoid, and, generally, vesecations on the affected part, and symptomatic fever. It is also called St. Anthony's Fire, Ignis Sacer ("Sacred Fire"), the Rose and other names. [Thomas1875]
St. Anthony's fire; a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused inflammation of the skin, which, starting usually from a single point, spreads gradually over its surface. It is usually regarded as contagious, and often occurs epidemically. [Webster1913]
An acute disease of the skin and subcutaneous tissue caused by a species of hemolytic streptococcus and marked by localized inflammation and fever. Also called Saint Anthony's fire. [Heritage].
NOTE: the "Poash" Town is actually Poastown, a community just north of Middletown in Butler County, Ohio. At the time of Laura's birth, Simon & Susan "Getta" Trine Goldman (see below) were living in Poastown, and Catherine Law Trine may well have gone to visit with Susan, her sister-in-law, at the time of Laura's birth.
This is my uncle Elza, I don't know what division or rank he obtained. I will check with his daughter.
Barb
I think this is my grandmother Goldie (nee Wright) and grandfather Omer Clyde Grove, Goldie's two younger sisters and her parents. If you look closely the three young girls have flowers on their blouses and they do look dressed up. Gert would be holding the dog, Alta is next to her. Goldie's parents were Samuel Calvin Wright and Sarah Tilitha (nee Fryman) Donnely-Dobson-Dotson Wright. I don't know who the lady is back with the small child. Enjoy, Barb
Simon & Susan Trine Goldman Home
He actually died on October 5, 1917.
He was married on September 10, 1857!
Did he die or get married...on September 10, 1857...or is that redundant?
Left: further confounding the issue, the site states that this picture of Simon Goldman was taken ca 1850.
In 1850 Simon Goldman was a wee lad of 19!
As a substitute driver for Fairfield Schools, I run various bus routes daily. As I do so, it is impossible for me to ignore the rich tradition our Trine/Bobenmeyer family has in Butler County. On some routes I pick up children on Vinnedge Avenue in the city; other routes take me north to Fairfield Township on Seward Road, Vinnedge Road, and Morris Road to the East & North Elementary Schools. And, on virtually every trip to the Morris Road schools I have the option of taking Bobenmeyer Road (currently Bobmeyer Rd.) back to the bus compound.
While the primary connection is to the Bobenmeyers, it all started when Jacob & Catherine Bobenmeyer Trine decided to move to Ohio and brought many of the Bobenmeyers with them.
Vinnedge Ave.
Several bus routes cover Vinnedge Ave. from River Rd. to Fairfield Ave. Vinnedge Ave. is in the city of Fairfield proper, as opposed to Vinnedge Rd (next) which is in Fairfield Township.
Seward Rd. & Vinnedge Rd.
Morris Rd.
Morris Rd. runs parallel to Seward Rd. and is the location of two of Fairfield's schools: Elementary East (Morris Rd & Princeton Rd) & North (Morris Rd & Millikin Rds).
The Millikin family (Millikin Road) was also prominant in the late 1800s, and they would have been contemporaries of our Bobenmeyer ancestors. What you cannot see from this limited map is how close Morris & Millikin Roads are to Trenton...the original homestead of the Trine/Bobenmeyer family. I estimate that Trenton is within three or four miles, as the crow flies, of the intersection of State Highway 4 & Millikin Road.
Bobmeyer Rd.
And...most directly related to our Trine/Bobenmeyer family...Bobmeyer Rd., originally Bobenmeyer Rd., begins at Route 4, runs parallel to the current Butler County Regional Airport, then merges with North Gilmore Rd. While I cannot locate data, I assume that there was a Bobenmeyer homestead somewhere along what is now Bobmeyer Rd. It is pretty fertile "flatland", premium land in this part of Butler County, as indicated by the fact that the airport is there.
The railroad crossing just to the east of the Rte 4 intersection was the site of a train accident in 1936 which resulted in the railroad finally putting up lights and crossing guards in Fairfield.
Other Duffy/Duffie Family Web Pages
From Barb Richmond's collection:
Anna was born after this photo was taken.
For The Grammar Teachers In Our Family
"This refusal to allow me to end a sentence with a
preposition is something up with which I will not put."
(Sir Winston Churchill)
In some instances I changed what data was available so as to be more location specific...if I was matching locations of others in the family. If one child was born in Butler, Ohio, USA, and all the others were Seven Mile, Butler, Ohio, USA...I made the change Seven Mile. That keeps all family members within one section on the report. It may not be correct, but I'm married...and this is one of the few things I can do without asking permission!
Marshal "Ney" and Carrie McQuestion Grove
From Kati McSweeney: Dixie's sister Anselee Hodgens Anderson wrote me that one of the seated females was indeed her great-grandmother Effie Jerusha Schuler Foote. I am assuming that the other seated female is her full-blooded sister Emeline "Emmy" Schuler Harvey.
Miltonville Cemetery adjoins the village of Miltonville (north of Trenton, Ohio), located on Howe Road and deeded away by Samuel Mattix and wife for cemetery purposes, has been occupied for the interment of the dead for more than 100 years. The tract contains one acre or more of land and has always been free for burial purposes. A small tract of ground adjoins the U.B. Church, and the church building stands upon the north half of this tract of land. The south half has been laid off for burial lots. The Church Building has since burned down and never rebuilt; the older records of the cemetery were burned also. One acre was donated for cemetery purposes by Peter Thomas, and two acres and a fraction of an acre of ground lying immediately west of the tract was donated by Peter Thomas. The Miltonville Cemetery Association was adopted May 20, 1882.
The following listing is the daughter of Frederick B & Lydia Catherine Good Trine.
Trenton, Butler County, Ohio
Cholera Infantum - Summer complaint. A disease of infants; indigenous to the United States; prevalent during hot weather in most of the towns of the middle and southern, and many of the western States; ordinarily characterized by excessive irritability of stomach, with purging, the stools being thin and colorless, or of various hues ofgreen and pink, but never yellow, except at the onset or during convalescences; fever of an obscurely remittent character; rapid emaciation; cold feet and hands, with preternatural heat of head and abdomen; dry, harsh and wilted skin; excessive thirst; and in the latter stages somnolency, the patient sleeping with his eyes half open; coma; the case terminating often with convulsions. [Hoblyn1855]
Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease from streptococci with vesicular and bulbous lesions.
It also says that all the kids except Laura were born in Madison Twp., Butler Co., Ohio. Laura was born in Poash? Town, Butler Co., Ohio.
Omer Elza Grove
United States Navy
Grove - Wright
Simon Goldman and his wife Susan "Jetta" Trine, pose for the camera around 1900. The Goldman's were important merchants at the time. In 1906 they had been in the dry goods business for fifty-four years.
To See Additional Graphics of the
Simon & Susan Trine Goldman Home
121 South Main Street
Middletown, Ohio
October 7, 2008
In what can best be described as a classic Freudian Slip, the Ohio Historical Society posted the above paragraph on their web site. Notice the heading states that Simon Goldman was born on May 12, 1831, and that he died on September 10, 1857.
Emma Gertrude Vinnedge married John D. Bobenmeyer. She was the niece by marriage of Catherine Bobenmeyer Trine. Emma's father, Moore P. Vinnedge, was a major influence in the formation of Fairfield's schools. He and John D. Bobenmeyer each presided over one of the many "district schools" of the late 1880s.
Not related, but rattling around in our family tree somewhere, is Albert A. Seward. Albert married into the Vinnedge family and was a contemporary to many of the Bobenmeyers at the time. Little coincidence, then, that Seward Rd., a major thoroughfare in Butler County, becomes Vinnedge Rd. northeast of the city of Fairfield in what is referred to as Fairfield Township.
Lorenzo Dow Morris married Sarah Bobenmeyer and was a nephew by marriage of Catherine Bobenmeyer Trine.
