Charles T Kleckner - I8733 - Personoplysninger - Wisconsin and Illinois Genealogy

Charles T Kleckner (I8733)

Efternavn: Kleckner
Fornavn: Charles T

Køn: Mand

Født: januar 1819
Død: 11 juli 1901

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CHARLES T. KLECKNER, retired farmer, and a resident of Davis, owns and occupies a handsome home in this thriving little city, to which he retired in the spring of 1884, after a farm life of forty-four years. He is a native of Northampton County Pa., and was born Jan. 6, 1819, and came West with his parents in 1840 when a young man. He was married in 1839 to Miss Mary Gift, who was a native of the same State as her husband. This lady remained the faithful and affectionate companion of her husband for over forty years, and departed this life at their home in Davis, March 26, 1884, a few weeks after they had taken up their residence there and prepared to spend their last days in comfort and quiet together. Mrs. Kleckner was born in what is now Snyder County, Pa., July 12, 1819, and became the mother of ten children, four now deceased.

The great-grandfather of our subject is believed to have been a native of Germany, and it is known that he was the founder of the family in the United States. He located in Pennsylvania where he married and reared a family of sons and daughters, one of whom, Solomon, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Northampton County, and was there reared and married to a Miss Hoover. He was a clock-maker by trade but later in life abandoned this occupation to take up farming. He was successful in accumulating a property and owned a large extent of land in Union County, where his death took place in August, 1837, after he had arrived at nearly threescore and ten years. His wife survived him a few years and then also passed to her long home at a ripe old age.

Among the Sons of Solomon Kieckner was John Kleckner, the father of our subject, who was the second child of his parents. Their family included Jacob, now deceased, John, already spoken of; George and Joseph, deceased; Peter, who lives in this county; and Michael, William, Susanna and Elizabeth, deceased, and Catherine, a resident of this county; John Kleckner was reared in Northampton and Union Counties, and was married in the former county to Miss Elizabeth Bender, who was born and reared not far from the home of her husband and was of German descent. Some of her relatives took part in the Revolutionary War, fighting on the side of the Colonists. Of her marriage with John Kleckner there were born five children, of whom our subject, Charles T. was the eldest; Anna became the wife of Michael Gift, of Orangeville, this county; William is a resident of Waddams Township; Thomas and Conrad died in this county after reaching manhood.

John Kleckner remained in his native State until after the birth of all his children, and then in 1840, started overland with his family for the Prairie State. They came to this county and took up their abode in Rock Grove Township, where the father secured about 700 acres of good land, upon which he built up a comfortable homestead and remained for some years. He died at the home of his daughter in Oneco, April 1, 1873. His first wife and the mother of his children, died in Rock Grove, in January, 1857. He subsequently married Miss Mary Oyer, who survived her husband a few years and died inRock Grove Township. The parents were members of the German Reformed Church, and politically, John Kleckner was a member of the Democratic party.

The boyhood and youth of our subject were spent on his father’s farms and after coming West with his parents he still followed agricultural pursuits. After a time he became owner of the larger part of the land included in the homestead which he afterward sold to his son. He was successful in his farming operations and became notable among the men of this county for his skill and industry. The record of his surviving children is as follows: Isaac F. married Miss Emma Robinson, and is a resident of Sioux City, Iowa; George A. married Miss Clara Martin, and lives on part of the old farm; Ferris married Miss Belle Martin, and is farming in Cedar County, Neb.; Martin married Miss Anna Good, and follows the profession of a teacher in the Heidelberg College at Tiffin, Ohio; Sarah is the wife of H. A. Goodrich, and they occupy the old homestead proper in Rock Grove Township; Emma married Mr. Frank Cross, who occupies a part of his father’s old homestead in Winnebago County.

Isaac Kleckner, the eldest son of our subject, was studious by nature and improved his opportunities in his youth, fitting himself for a teacher, and was for some time Superintendent of the schools of Stephenson County. He also officiated as County Clerk for a period of nine years. During the late war he served as a Union soldier in the 46th Illinois Infantry, and received a gunshot wound at Shiloh from which he lost his left arm. He is now engaged in the banking business at Sioux City, Iowa.

The present wife of our subject, to whom he was married at Dakota, in this county, in August, 1886, was formerly Mrs. Jane ‎(Reed)‎ Chambers, a native of Union County, Pa., where she was first married and whence she afterward removed with her husband to Green County, Wis. There Mr. Chambers died about 1866. Of her first marriage there were born six children, namely, William, John, Maggie, Sallie, Libbie and Georgia. They are all married except the last named, who remains with her mother. Mr. Kleckner is a liberal Democrat, politically, and religiously, belongs to the German Reformed Church.


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	Begivenheder for nære slægtninge
Født	januar 1819 2621
Moders død	24 januar 1857 (Alder 38) Elizabeth Bender (I24881) (Alder 59) - [Slægtsrelation]
Faders død	1 april 1873 (Alder 54) John J Kleckner (I24882) (Alder 80) - [Slægtsrelation]
Død	11 juli 1901 (Alder 82)
Slægtsfil nr. (Mormoner)	3MZN-HQ
Universal ID	4AE7F623CF89D511973400E02931A9518744
Sidst ændret	26 januar 2007 - 10:06:27 Sidst opdateret af: dcoplien