Christopher Ernsperger ^{2 3}

   Other names for Christopher were Christopher Arnsberger,⁵ Christopher Arnspiger ⁵ and Christopher Ernsberger.^{4 6}

  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1850 US Census in Ballville Township, Sandusky, OH on 8 Aug 1850. ⁷

Page 438B, Dwelling 652, Family 663
Ballville Township, Sandusky County, Ohio
Christopher Ernsberger...44..MD..Farmer
(Living with wife and 8 children.)

• He appeared on the 1860 US Census in Rochester Township, Fulton County, IN on Jun 1860. ²

Page 182, Family 1245
Rochester Township, Fulton County, Indiana
Christopher Ernsperger...55..MD
(Living with wife and 6 children.)

NOTE - If his birth date was in 1806, then his age should have been 53 or 54 instead of 55.

• He signed a will on 4 Apr 1876 in Rochester Township, Fulton County, IN.
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• He was buried after 16 Jun 1877 in the Rochester IOOF in Rochester, IN.

Plot: Section 2, Row 5
Find A Grave Memorial #44082509
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• His obituary was published in the Rochester Sentinel on 23 Jun 1877 in Rochester, IN.

³ DIED. - On the 16th of June, after a long and painful illness, Christopher Ernsperger died; canceled the debt of nature fully due, yet all who knew him grieved to see it paid. He was born in Frederick county, Maryland, on the 24th of December, 1805, so that at his death he was in his seventy-second year. He came to Wayne Co., Ohio, the then almost unknown West with his father's family when about twenty years of age, but he never lost his affection for his native state, and often said of late years, "I would like to go back to Maryland," and sometimes expressed a determination to visit the home of his childhood and youth. In the autumn of 1858 he came from Ohio to this state, since which time he has lived in this county, a good part of the time here in Rochester, where he was respected as a citizen, and loved as a genial companion of both young and old. He was brought up a Presbyterian, but for the last forty-four years he has been united with the Methodists .... He was second in a family of ten who lived to be grown and married, and seven of whom are now living, five brothers and two sisters. Three of the brothers, from different parts of the state attended the funeral last Sunday. The two sisters and youngest brother are residents of Sandusky county, Ohio. On the 28th of May, 1829, the subject of this slight memoir married Juliana Ensminger, and she, with three sons and seven daughters survive him.

(Source: Rochester Sentinel, Rochester, IN, June 23, 1877)
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Christopher married Julia Ann Ensminger on 28 May 1829 in , Wayne County, OH.¹ (Julia Ann Ensminger was born on 11 Jul 1812 in Pennsylvania,^{1 2 4 8} died on 22 Dec 1896 in Mentone, IN ^{1 5} and was buried on 26 Dec 1896 in Rochester, IN ¹.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1850 US Census in Ballville Township, Sandusky, OH on 8 Aug 1850. ⁷

Page 438B, Dwelling 652, Family 663
Ballville Township, Sandusky County, Ohio
Christopher Ernsberger...44..MD..Farmer
Julia A. Ernsberger...38..PA
Caroline Ernsberger...26..OH
Catharine Ernsberger...18..OH
Marion Ernsberger...13..OH
Franklin Ernsberger...11..OH
Martha Ernsberger...9..OH
Maria Ernsberger...7..OH
Melesa Ernsberger...5..OH
Cordelia Ernsberger...3..OH
Cyranitia Ernsberger...5M..OH

• They appeared on the 1860 US Census in Rochester Township, Fulton County, IN on Jun 1860. ²

Page 182, Family 1245
Rochester Township, Fulton County, Indiana
Christopher Ernsperger...55..MD
Julia A. Ernsperger...48..PA
Martha Ernsperger...20..OH
Mariah Ernsperger...18..OH
Malissa Ernsperger...16..OH
Cordelia Ernsperger...14..OH
Cinnetta Ernsperger...12..OH
Benton Ernsperger...10..OH