My family Genealogy

Daniel Click

Samuel and Julia’s fourth child, Daniel Click, was born November 16, 1843 and baptized on December 10, 1843 at St. Jacob’s Lutheran Church. (1)   He married Catherine Strausser, June 18, 1863 in a ceremony conducted by Peter.W. Hahn. (2)  Catherine was born on Aug. 12, 1848 in Stark County, Ohio. (3)  In the 1870 Federal Census, they had 2 children and their property was worth $16,000.  In the 1900 and 1910 Federal Census reports, Daniel and Catherine lived in Elkhart County, Indiana.  Catherine died on Jan. 23, 1908. (4) Daniel died Nov. 15, 1917. (5)  They are buried in the Salem Cemetery in St. Joe, IN with their daughter Della, who died in 1903 at the age of 29. (6) They had nine children:  William, Darius, Emanuel M., John, Emma C., Della, Clara Ellen, Mary and Samuel A. (7, 8, 9)

  1. Indiana Deaths 1882-1920, ancestry.com.
  2. Norman, Lydia. According to Mrs. Norman, many of the church records are in German and were translated from German to English in the 1930s by WPA project members. The information was transcribed from baptism records onto index cards which she handcopied for us.
  3. Early Marriages of State County, Ohio, Vol. III, 1856-1870, Alliance Genealogical Society, Alliance, Ohio, Closson Press, Apollo, PA., 1995.  Marriage listed in Marriage Book 5-552.
  4. Click, Catherine, Obituary, Elkhart Truth, Jan. 23, 1908.
  5. Click, Catherine, Obituary, Elkhart Truth, Jan. 23, 1908.
  6. Click, Daniel, Obituary, Elkhart Truth, Nov. 15, 1917.
  7. Cemeteries of Elkhart County, Indiana, Vol. III, Elkhart Genealogical Society, 1991.  Online index:   http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inelkhar/Cemeteriesv3.htm.
  8. 1870 United States Census, Jackson Township, Stark County, Ohio, digitized image, ancestry.com.
  9. 1880 United States Census, Jackson Township, Stark County, Ohio, digitized image, ancestry.com.