Christian Kintner

Christian was the second youngest child. His boyhood was spent in Washington County, Pennsylvania. When a young man he came to Ohio, locating on the land his father had entered in Tuscarawas County. At the death of his father he returned to Pennsylvania, and purchased the homestead, where he remained a few years. About 1810 he married Elizabeth Moore, a native of Westmoreland County, Penn., born in 1790. In March 1816, taking a team of oxen and loading a few household effects into a covered wagon, they journeyed to Ohio, where they purchased a quarter section of land, now Center Township, Carroll County, paying for the same five dollars per acre. There, in a little cabin built of unhewn logs, with puncheon floor and clapboard roof, they began life for themselves in their new home, three years previous to the organization of the village known as Centerville, and they were among the early pioneers of this region, the county where they settled being then a portion of Stark County. Christian Kintner was a progressive, public-spirited citizen, a consistent member of the Lutheran Church, and was active in founding the first church of that denomination in Carrollton. His death occured June 7, 1860, and that of his wife in 1848; they were the parents of ten children.

1850 United States Federal Census :

Name: Christian Kintner

Age: 65

Estimated birth year: abt 1785

Birth Place: Pennsylvania

Gender: Male

Home in 1850(City,County,State): Centre, Carroll, Ohio

Family Number: 3

Household Members: Name Age

Christian Kintner 65

Abraham Kintner 20

Jonas Kintner 18

Zilpha Bennington 19