David Bechtel

From BIOGRAPHIES
Biography-Memoirs of Men and Women of Stark County.
Compiled by JOHN DANNER. B.F. Bowen, Publisher 1904. An excerpt: "David Bachtel was born June 13, 1798, and came with his parents to Stark county. In 1823 he married Polly Failor, and he thereafter carried on a small farm, which he reclaimed, while he also transacted a profitable business as a cooper, particularly after the completion of the Ohio canal. He died in this county in 1838 at the age of forty years, while his wife thereafter kept the family together and educated her children, her death occurring in 1870, at which time she was sixty-seven years of age. Of their three sons two are living at the present time, while there are quite a number of their descendants in the state of Kansas."

The marriage between Polly and David was documented with a Ohio Repository Marriage Announcement, Issue July 10, 1823, page 3... Marriages... David Bechtel to Miss Polly Failor, both of Pike township- At Petersburg, Va., by Rev Mr Cannon.

David Bachtel died on Sept 22, 1838. The Ohio Repository, Canton, Ohio, carried his Obituary: issue Sept 27, 1838, page 3, column 5... "DIED- On the 22d, Mr David Beghtle, of Pike township, died leaving a wife and family of small children to lament his loss."

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