Daniel Garnhart (4)
May 22, 1825
Son of Anna C. Esbach and Baltzer Garnhart (3), Daniel married Susan Treon, a younger sister of Lydia, wife of John Fogleman, on February 6, 1851, and of this marriage, ten children were born:
- Elizabeth Rejinah, born January 4, 1852;
- George Treon, born April 22, 1853;
- Margaret Ellen, born September 23, 1855;
- Mary Etta, born August 14, 1857;
- Levi Henry, born March 20, 1859;
- John Albert, born December 23, 1861;
- William Thomas, born March 16, 1864;
- Samuel Edwards, born May 8, 1866, died August 16, 1866;
- Susannah, born January 7, 1868, died July 18, 1895; and
- Crissa Alida May, born October 23, 1875.
“They lived and raised their large family on a subdivision
of his father’s farm, but since her death he has his home with their
daughter, Mary Etta Bergerstock, and her husband, who own and now live
on a farm adjoining. Before his wife died Daniel had become totally blind,
in some respects perhaps a greater affliction at his age than if he had
never known the inestimable blessing of good eyesight. He is now the sole
survivor of Baltzer’s household, and the last living member of the
third generation still in the neighborhood of the Sinking Springs and
the old family burying ground. He has always lived a quiet, even and unpretentious
life, and is esteemed as a good and upright citizen. I have known ‘Uncle
Dan’ for a number of years, and have always liked him for his general
manner, his uniform good nature and cheerful disposition, and his fidelity
to what he believes in. He was Overseer of the Poor upwards of seventeen
years, but could serve no longer because overtaken by the affliction of
blindness.” (from Heinrich Gernhardt and His Descendants,
published 1904, pg. 283).
