1860 Jarred Bortner (age 40, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Codorus Twp, York County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Mary Magdelena Bortner (34), Ruban Bortner (13), Martin Bortner (7), Edwin Bortner (4), Mary Jane Bortner (2), Catharine A Bortner (1), and Catharine Lehman (75). Jarred Bortner was a farmer. [1]
1905 Mary Magdalena Bortner, spouse of Jared Markel Bortner, died on March 25. She was born on June 3, 1825. [2]
1913 Jared Markel Bortner, spouse of Mary Magdalena Bortner, died on May 14 in Codorus Twp, York County, Pennsylvania. He was born on October 18, 1819 in Pennsylvania, son of Michael Bortner and Catharina Bortner. [3]
A biosketch reports [4]:
Jared Bortner, father of Mrs. Bortner, was born Oct. 18, 1819, and married Magdalena Cramer April 21, 1846. She died March 25, 1905) aged seventy-nine years, nine months, twenty-two days. They had eleven children: Reuben, born Feb. 5, 1847; Nathaniel, July 13, 1848; Saranda, Jan. 7, 1850; Martin, Jan. 6, 1853; Edwin. Aug. 22, 1855; Mary, June 18, 1857: Catherine, April 8, 1859; Belinda, Sept. 19, 1860; Diana, Aug. 10, 1862; Chester, July 14, 1864, and Louisa. Jared Bortner followed farming and shoemaking. He was a great reader and has read his German Bible through twenty times. He still survives, and although in his eighty-seventh year is in the best of health and spirits.
[1] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[2] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[3] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[4] George R. Prowell, History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume 2 (Beers, 1907), 223, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].