John IMEL

                   ID: I2913
Name: John Imel
Sex: M
Note:
JOHN IMEL - b. November 23, 1789, Maryland. d. May 16, 1861, SaltLick Twp., Perry Co., Ohio age 71 y, 5 m, 23 d.* Name of first wife, married ca 1810 in Fayette Co., Penna. is unknown. One son. m. (2) Sarah Skinner - b. April 23, 1788, Somerset Co., Pa. d. Oct. 12, 1847, Saltlick Twp., Perry Co., Ohio, age 59 y, 5 m, 19 d (daughter of the Reverend Nathaniel Skinner and Elizabeth Harned). Seven children. M. (3) March 24, 1850, Perry Co., Ohio to Rosanna Reynolds Henderson (widow) b. 1810, Pa. John and Rosanna had two children. John and Sarah Imel are buried in the Hazleton Cemetery, Saltlick Twp., Perry Co., Ohio.

In the Fall of 1970, Jimmie Imel and family of Ft. Wayne, Indiana, made a trip to Perry Co., Ohio to visit the Hazleton cemetery. A couple other descendents had tried to find this cemetery in Saltlick Twp., Perry Co., Ohio without success. When Jimmie and Shirley arrived and started making inquiry as to its location it seemed that none of the local people had ever heard of it. Finally, in the courthouse at New Lexington they ran across an old lawyer who knew where it was located and gave them instructions as to where to find it. It was located in a wild, overgrown section of trees and bruchwood on the summit of a large hill. As Jimmie described it: "We drove down to Saltlick Twp., and climbed through the wilderness to the top of a high hill and found the Hazleton Cemetery. There were about 40 or 50 tombstones, some standing and some knocked over, but after some digging we found the tombstones of John Imel and Sarah. The entire area has been strip-mined all around the graveyard, but someone had gotten a court order which stopped the mining company from strip-mining the graveyard area. . ."

*The inscription on the tombstone of John Imel, which Jimmie and Shirley found, was "JOHN IMEL, died May 8, 1861, aged 72 yr, 6 mo, 15 da".

ROSANNA REYNOLDS - b. 1810 in Penna. was married Nov. 22, 1838 to Samuel Henderson and had children. On March 24, 1850 she married John Imel. The 1850 census of Perry Co., Ohio lists two Henderson children living with John and Rosanna Imel: Daniel Henderson age 15 and Lydia Henderson age 13. (Perry Co., Ohio Marriages 1818-1878, p. 92). Lydia Henderson is believed to have married Joshua Skinner (1832-1907), son of James King Skinner and Elizabeth Jump. James King Skinner was a half-brother to Sara Skinner, 2nd wife of John Imel. The last record we have of Rosanna Imel is Jan. 29, 1885. She was living in Miami Co., Ohio at the time and sold for $40 a parcel of land which she still owned in Saltlick Twp., Perry Co., Ohio to William C. Schofield.

JOHN IMEL - b. 1789 was listed in the 1816 tax records of Saltlick Twp., Fayette Co., Penna. but was missing from the 1817 tax records of that area. On July 6, 1816, he bought of James and Catharine Comley, for $19, a tract of land in Fairfield County, Ohio in the town of New Lexington. This gives us the approximate time he left Penna. His two sisters, Mary Imel Bailey and Phoebe Imel Strait had gone to Ohio a few years earlier.

HIS CHILDREN: The three Bible records that I found listed only the children of SARAH SKINNER. They did not include Gabriel and Sarah Jane (children of Rosanna) nor any children of a first wife. But the DAVID IMEL listed in the 1840 census would be a son of John Imel as the 1830 census of Saltlick Twp., Perry Co., Ohio lists six sons and two daughters: 1 son under 5; 2 sons 5-10; 2 sons 10-15; and 1 son 20-30. 1 daughter 5-10 and 1 daughter 20-30. The daughter 20-30 would be Margaret, Sarah's oldest child. The son 20-30 would be an older child since Sarah had no sons of that age in 1830.

Careful research has proved that there were no other Imels in Perry Co., Ohio in those early years except John Imel in Pike and Saltlick Twps. And Paul Immel in Reading Twp. Paul was the son of a John Immel and Elizabeth Feitner of Westmoreland Co., Penna. who went to Perry Co., Ohio about the same time as our John and Sarah. However, I have been unable to find any relation between them - and they do spell their name differently. Paul apparently is descended from the Lancaster, Penna. Immels. Luckily, I have a pretty complete list of Paul's descendents and anyone not descended from Paul is surely a descendant of John. Paul had no son David.

There is the tradition in the line of Henry William Imel (Son of John and Sarah) that three brothers left Ohio for the West. One settled in Illinois, one in Missouri and one in Iowa. I found the descendants of Henry William in Illinois, a son of Samuel in Missouri, so it must have been David who went to Iowa.

DAVID IMEL is listed in the 1840 census of Saltlick Twp. He and a wife are 20-30 years of age. They have a son age between 10-15. This would be their son Nathaniel who would be just 10 years of age, since his father David was still living home in the 1830 census. David must have been married later in 1830 to have a son age 10 in the 1840 census.

The 1840 census of Saltlick Twp., lists four sons living home with John and Sarah Imel (David and Nathaniel were married). But the puzzling thing about this census is that it lists a "female under 5 yrs." Their daughter Margaret was 27 and Nancy was 15. No Bible record of Sarah Skinner's children list a third daughter. This must be a daughter of David Imel who was enumerated with the children of John and Sarah. In the 1850 census of Thom Twp., Perry Co., Ohio, there is a Barbara Imel age 16(b. ca 1835) living with the family of Samuel and Mary Chaffent. Since there is no "Barbara" of this age in the family of Paul Immel, this must be the "female under 5 yrs." listed with the family of John and Sarah Imel in 1840 - a daughter of David Imel.

WILL OF JOHN IMEL
My great, great grandfather

(On file in the courthouse at New Lexington, Ohio, County of Perry. Record of Wills, Vol. I, page 284. Made May 6, 1861. Proved July 30, 1861)

In the Name of the Benevolent Father of All, I, JOHN IMEL of the County of Perry and State of Ohio do make and Publish this my Last Will and Testament.

ITEM, That all my just debts and funeral charges be all paid.

ITEM, I give and devise to my beloved wife in Lieu of her Waiver the farm on which we now Reside, Situated in Saltlick Township, Perry County and State of Ohio, containing about one hundred and sixty acres, more or less, so long as she remains my widow, for the support of my two minor children, Gabriel Imel and Sarah Jane Imel, and if my said wife should again Remarry, then my said two minor Children is to have their Liven and Supporte of my said farm aforesaid.

ITEM, that after the maturity of my two minor Children, I wish my Estate to be Equally divided amongst my Children, except Gabriel and Sarah Jane. They are each to Receive fifty dollars more than the Rest of my Children.

ITEM, I do hereby nominate and appoint my Beloved wife guardian of my son Gabriel and my daughter Sarah Jane.

ITEM, That Henry Imel, Nathaniel Imel, Samuel Imel and Thomas K. Imel has each Received the sum of fifty dollars which is to be Deducted from their Shairs.

ITEM, I do hereby nominate and appoint my Beloved wife and my son Henry Imel and Samuel Rugg Executors of this my Last Will and Testament.

ITEM, I desire that no Appraisement and no sale of my Personal Property be made and that the Court of Probate direct the omission of the same in Pursuance of the Statute. I do also authorize and empower my Executors to Sell my Personal Property at Private Sale or otherwise as they may think best and apply the same to the Payment of my just debts, hereby authorizing and empowering them compromise (?) and adjust Release and Discharge in such manner as they may deem proper the debts and claims due me.

I do hereby Revoke all former Wills by me made. In testimony hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 6th Day of May A.D. 1861.
his
John X Imel (Seal)
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Witnesses:
Zoeth W. Hammond
Robert Ragestar

Note: The following children are not mentioned in his Will: David, John, Margaret and Nancy.

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PERRY COUNTY, OHIO LAND RECORDS - NAME IMEL:

July 6, 1816: (Vol. K, p. 157). James and Catharine Comley sold Lot #4 in the town of New Lexington, Fairfield Co., Ohio. Price $19. Sold to John Imel.

Jan. 31, 1834: (Vol. F., p. 22). Michael F. Williams sold to John Imel for $100 land in Saltlick Twp., Perry Co., Ohio. The S.E. half of W. W.  of Section 10, 14th Twp., 15th Range.

April 30, 1835: (Vol. P, p. 518) John Imel, for payment of $4 receives Certificate No. 6121 for 39-96/100 acres in N.W.  of S.W. , Section 10, Twp. 14, Range 15. Certificate signed by Andrew Jackson, President of the U.S. Located in the District of Lands subject to sale at Zanesville, Ohio.

Oct. 5, 1835: (Vol. P., p. 518, #2). John Imel received Certificate No. 6813 for 38-54/100 acres in S.W.  of S.W.  of Section 10, Twp. 14, Range 15 in the District of Lands subject to sale at Zanesville, Ohio. Certificate signed by Andrew Jackson, President of the U.S.

Dec. 1, 1858: (Vol. 3, p. 233). John and Rosanna Imel sell 1 acres of land to Curtis Rugg for $21. Part of S.W.  of Section 10, Twp. 14, Range 15.

July 12, 1862: (Vol. 5, p. 540). James McClurg, Administrator de bonis non of John Imel, deceased, sold to Samuel Travis for $920 land in which widow, Rosanna Imel and children, Gabriel and Sarah Jane have interest. Land sold at public auction. S.W.  of Section 10, Twp. 14, Range 15: 45 acres, 9 acres of timber land, and 49 acres of homestead, leaving 155 acres.
"Administrator de bonis non" is a person appointed by the court of probate to administer on the effects of a deceased which have not been included in a former administration - that is, land that was not administered by the executives of John Imel's Will.

Sept. 21, 1863: (Vol. 8, p. 4). For $500, Rosanna Imel, widow of John Imel deceased, signs a "quit claim to Samuel Travis for the land listed above, sold to Samuel Travis on July 12, 1862.

March 13, 1867: (Vol. 10, p. 435). Rosanna Imel sells 39 acres of land to Thomas S. Mains for $750. N.E.  of S.W. , Section 9, Twp. 14, Range 15. Land which Rosanna bought of Henry and Matilda Imel for $500 on Sept. 21, 1863.

April 4, 1870: (Vol. 12, p. 142). Rosanna Imel buys of Asa S. and Ruth Davis a tract of land in Pike Twp. for $250. Being a part of S.E.  of S.E.  of Section 35, Twp. 15, Range 15, Perry Co., Ohio.

Jan. 29, 1885: (Vol. 31, p. 438). Rosanna Imel, now living in Miami Co., Ohio, sells for $40 to William C. Schofield the above land which she bought of the Davises in 1870.


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Birth: 23 NOV 1789 in MD 1
Death: 16 MAY 1861 in OH, Perry Co, Salt Lick Twp 1

Father: Henry Imel b: 5 JAN 1756 in Germany
Mother: Margaret Disher b: 29 SEP 1756 in NJ

Marriage 1 [given name unknown] [surname unknown]
Married: ABT 1810 in PA, Fayette Co 1

Marriage 2 Sarah Skinner b: 23 APR 1788 in PA, Somerset Co
Married: 1
Children
   Nathaniel Imel b: 29 AUG 1815 in PA, Fayette Co
   Henry William Imel b: 28 JAN 1818 in OH, Perry Co
   Thomas King Imel b: 29 OCT 1822 in OH, Perry Co, Salt Lick Twp
   Nancy Anna Imel b: 2 MAR 1825 in OH
   John Imel b: 12 OCT 1827 in OH, Perry Co

Marriage 3 Rosanna Reynolds b: 1810 in PA
Married: 24 MAR 1850 in OH, Perry Co 1

Sources:
Author: Keller, Velma Byrum (1894-1975)
Publication: Allentown, PA: Schlechter's, 1974