The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-15

Death of Peter Loutzenheiser of Piail
TOwnshin.


Township.
Ex-JudgePeter LOutzenheiser. of Plain
township, died June 3, 1882, at the age
of eighty-two years, one month and
twenty-five days.
Another and almost the last of the old
pioneers of this part of Stark county has
! gone to his final rest. The subject OF
| this sketch came to Plain township as
| hoy six years of age, in the year 1906,
and lived for seventy-slX years at or
within thTee-quaTterS of mile from
the place where he died. When he came
here Stark cOGnty was the frontier west
ward of the march of immigration and
settlement; one dense wilderness covered
with its lofty trees the whole country
east of this; wolves and bears, ana
| wilder men, the Indians, were the denl-
Zens of these forests; but the march OF
| civilization cannot be stayed, ana the
hardy frontier men went on cOnquer1ng
and to conquer, and the cry Is yet
| westward, HO." The present genera
| tiOn can hardly realize the fact that
| three-quarters of century have sur
| feed to change the wilderness into
| blooming garden, the like OF when can
scarcely anywhere be seen OUTSIDE OF
| old Plain; much less can we realize OF
appreciate the noble daring, the indOm-
| liable enterprise. the indefatigable labor
by which the change has been brought
| about. But the hardy men and women
| of the Olden time will soon be known
| no more save in the memory OF the past
| and in the grateful recOllectlOns or the
/ present and of succeeding generations;
| In the death of Father LOutzenheiser
another link in the chain that binds the
present with the past has been broken.
| He lived to see at least many or the
| fruits of his early deprivatiOns and Ia
bOrs. and to enjoy them. Peace to his
/ ashes.
| 1t seems from Olden records in posses
| sion of the family, that Henry, great
| grandfather of Peter LOutzenhelser,
with his son Peter, the grandfather,
| came from Germany to this country in
December, 1854. On the 14th of May,
| l77O, Peter was married with Anna Bar
| bara Schneider, somewhere in the east,
| the record does not state where. This
union was blessed with ten children,
one of whom was John Jacob LOutzen-
| heiser, father of our Peter LOutzen-
heiser. OF the earlier movements of the
family the record gives no definite in
| formation; it is only known that the
grandfather and his family came west
| ward by BraddOcks Road as early as
| 1913; in 1892 they tarried some years
near the YOughiOgheny River; and in
| 1898 settled down in Beaver county,
| Penna. The grandfather died at Beaver,
| Pa, March ), 1905. His son John Jacob
was born November l, I'LL, and died
about 1910. He. was married to Eliza
| beth Weaver, the daughter OF Rev,
William Weaver, a German Reformed
minister from Europe. He was born
| March 20, 1916, and died in 1913. Peter
was the third child born of this union,
and was born in Beaver county, Pa,
| April 13, 1900. In early infancy he was
| baptized, probably by his grandfather
| Weaver. His father removed to this
county, bringing his family with him,
| i'm 1906, when Peter was only lad of
six years. They settled down on the
| old LOutZenheiser farm, about two and
| a half miles north of Canton, and here
| and in the house in which he died he
| lived all his long and eyentful life. He
was married April 1, 1923, to Rebecca
| Kimmel, in Canton, by Rev. Anthony
Weier. After their marriage Mr.. and
Mrs. LOutzenheiser united in full COM
muniOn with the German Reformed
Church at Henry's, better known as
| WOerstler's Church, where the rites of
| funeral were paid over his dead body
last Sunday. The confirmation was by
Rev. Benz. Faust, one nf the pioneer
ministers of the region. Of this union
there were eleven children, of whom
six sons and three daughters yet sur
| vive; their old mother, now also over
80 years old, is still living. There are
also twenty nine grandchildren and
three eat-grandchildren.
| Father LOutZenheiser, of course, was
well known over the whole county. He
grew up with it and was greatly re-
| spected and hOnOred by his neighbOrs
| and friends. Under the old Constitution
| of Ohio he served two terms as Associate
| Judge of tho Common Pleas Court, was
elected Justice of the Peace seven con-
| secutive terms, served under the present
| Constitution one term as Intirmary Di-
rector, and at different times held every
position as township officer that there is.
| Honest, Just and infleXible in the light
| in his own affairs, his public admins
| tratiOns always merited and received
the plaudit, well done, good and faith
| full servant" At the time Of his death
and from it's organization some years
ago, he was President of the Stark
| County Pioneer Association. His mantle
will now probably fall upon Uncle Dan
Dewalt
Mr.. Loutzenheiser had not been very
stout for several years, and when dis
ease laid hold upon him, though he
struggled vigorously against the grim
monster death, he had at last to sue
cumb. Resigning his soul into the
hands and care of his blessed Savior, he
fell peacefully asleep on the morning of
| the Sth of June. At his funeral Rev. r.
Herlruck, who knew him well for fifty
years, made an appropriate discourse in
| German at the house, and after proceed
ing to WOerstlers Church, the under
signed held the English service there,
! preaching from Ps. 80, 1912. There was
a very large attendance as the funeral
cOrtege formed and slowly wended its
way to the church, where a still larger
crowd awaited its arrival, all desirOus
Of paying becoming respect to the yir-
tues and memory of the dead. He has
seen the last of earth and is no more.
| His aged widow tarTies on the shore Of
dren's children. May the good father
comfort her and them in their afflictiOn,
/ and nYarrnla his own dispensatiOn to