John Shirk
(1790-1864)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Johanna Brake

John Shirk 1

  • Born: 1790, , Lebanon, PA 1
  • Marriage (1): Johanna Brake
  • Died: 1864, Mifflin Twp., Franklin, OH at age 74 1
  • Buried: Gahanna: Peace Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Franklin, OH 1

   FamilySearch ID: GGLX-5M8.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1850 in Mifflin Twp., Franklin, OH. 1 2 The 1850 census recorded John Shick [sic], farmer, 60, living with wife Hannah, 59; and daughter Catherine, 25. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. John's real estate was valued at $5000. On the next census page is Catherine's future husband, Henry Beecher, living in his father William's home.


John married Johanna Brake. (Johanna Brake was born in 1796 in , Berks, PA,3 died on 17 Jul 1871 in Mifflin Twp., Franklin, OH 3 and was buried in Gahanna: Peace Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Franklin, OH 3.)

Sources

1 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176086010.

2 1850 United States Census, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXS1-QNN.

3 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77555753.


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