Ellen Klages

John married Helen Virginia Booze on 14 Feb 1948 in Christ Church, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Helen (daughter of Ralph Walker Booze and Rose Lenore Janeway) was born on 17 Sep 1925 in Evanston, Cook, Illinois; died on 21 Apr 1993 in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He founded (in 1912) and was the chair of the Columbus Auto Parts Company. He also served as a deputy chairman of Federal Reserve board, Cleveland district.

Reynold married Corrine Marguerite Krag on 3 Jun 1908 in Franklin County, Ohio. Corrine (daughter of Charles James Krag and Lucy E. Sanger) was born on 6 Jun 1886 in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio; died on 3 Aug 1941 in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio; was buried in Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1887, Ohio
• Alternate death: 2 Aug 1941

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1891, of Wilmette, Cook, Illinois
• Alternate death: 8 Mar 1973, Greenbrae, Marin, California

Notes:

He was a graduate of the University of Illinois, and at the time of his marriage, he was superintendent of the electric light plant at Shawnee, Oklahoma. His obituary notes that he flew in France during World War I in an unarmed plane as a spotter for artillery, and that he was later an official with the Federal Power Commission in Chicago.

Ralph married Rose Lenore Janeway on 30 Sep 1920 in Collinsville, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Rose (daughter of Dr. Daniel Fulton Janeway and Ada Victoria Moore) was born on 17 Jun 1888 in Argonia, Sumner, Kansas; died on 24 Apr 1969 in San Rafael, Marin, California; was buried on 2 May 1969 in Mount Tamalpais Cemetery, San Rafael, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1889, Kansas
• Alternate death: 30 Apr 1969, San Rafael, Marin, California

Notes:

She was a graduate of Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, and at the time of her marriage she had been teaching domestic arts at the Shawnee high school for two years.

Notes:

According to the 1900 census, his parents were born in Germany.

The 1870 census for New York City (ward 1, district 4) shows a Wm F Klages, 20, born in New York, son of August Klages, 45, and Sophie, 40, both born in Hanover.

Also in the 1870 census for New York City (ward 1, district 2), William Klages, 18, born New York, son of August Klages, 47, "merchant tailor", born Hanover, and Sophie, 48, born Prussia.

William married Martha Ann Davis. Martha was born on 14 Jun 1854 in Gomer, Allen, Ohio; died on 23 Nov 1935 in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to the 1900 census, her parents were born in Wales.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1857, Ohio
• Alternate birth: Abt 1858, Ohio

Notes:

We know his middle name from the 1860 census, where it is abbreviated "Jas."

According to the 1910 census, his father was born in Denmark and his mother was born in France. The 1910 census also calls him proprietor of a "music ware store". From the evidence of the elegant cartoon sketch attached to this entry, he must have later become a clothing merchant.

Charles married Lucy E. Sanger on 16 Sep 1880 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Lucy (daughter of Samuel A. Sanger and Hannah Maria Hooker) was born on 2 Mar 1859 in Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 12 Jan 1932 in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio; was buried in Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1860, Massachusetts

Notes:

Or Senger. According to the 1910 census, both of her parents were born in Massachusetts.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 25 May 1865, Illinois
• Alternate birth: 25 May 1866, Findlay, Hancock, Ohio
• Alternate birth: 1873, Gays, Moultrie, Illinois
• Alternate death: 12 Nov 1940, Sullivan, Moultrie, Illinois

Notes:

"He was born May 24, 1866, in Cochocton, Ohio, a son of Christopher and Talitha Booze." ["Charles Booze Funeral Today in Sullivan", citation details below]

Additionally, the will of Christopher Booze, husband of Talitha, mentions son "Chas J Booze".

His brother Solomon Tipton Booze married his wife's sister, Mac (Maxie) Walker.

Charles married Mabel Cora Walker in 1889 in Moultrie County, Illinois. Mabel (daughter of James Nathaniel Walker and Hannah Whetstone) was born on 29 Jun 1867 in Sullivan, Moultrie, Illinois; died on 22 Feb 1955 in Sullivan, Moultrie, Illinois; was buried in Green Hill Cemetery, Sullivan, Moultrie, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Gays, Moultrie, Illinois
• Alternate birth: 1868
• Alternate birth: Jun 1869, Illinois

Notes:

Her sister Mac (Maxie) Walker married her husband's brother Solomon Tipton Booze.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1854, Tennessee
• Alternate birth: 6 Jan 1854, Jefferson County, Tennessee

Notes:

He was a physician. He and his wife were second cousins once removed; he was a great-grandson, and she was a great-great granddaughter, of Isaac Hammer and Lydia Mendenhall.

Daniel married Ada Victoria Moore on 28 Jul 1881 in Chase, Rice, Kansas. Ada (daughter of Morris C. Moore and Rebecca Beals) was born on 25 Oct 1858 in Hendricks County, Indiana; died on 4 Sep 1952; was buried in Fairlawn Cemetery, Stillwater, Payne, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1859, Indiana
• Alternate death: 15 Oct 1952, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio

Notes:

The 1860 census shows her, age 1, born in Indiana, with her family in Americus, Breckenridge County, Kansas. Given her family links to abolitionist Quakers we're pretty sure which side of the "Bleeding Kansas" war this family was on.

She and her husband were second cousins once removed; he was a great-grandson, and she was a great-great granddaughter, of Isaac Hammer and Lydia Mendenhall.