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1892 Lydia Bortner, spouse of Charles Garver Bortner, died on May 14 in Chanceford Twp, York County, Pennsylvania. She was born on November 11, 1827 in Chanceford Township, York County, Pennsylvania, daughter of Daniel Lau and Barbara Deborah Lau. [1]

1915 Charles Garver Bortner, spouse of Lydia Bortner, died on November 11 in Shrewsbury Twp, York County, Pennsylvania. He was born on February 8, 1828 in Chanceford Township, York County, Pennsylvania, son of Jacob Bortner and Catarina Bortner. [2]

A biosketch of Charles G. Bortner reports [3]:

Charles G. Bortner, father of Dr. Edmund D. Bortner, was a son of Jacob, grandson of Ludwig, and great-grandson of George and Appolona Bortner. He received a commonschool education, and then learned the tanning trade, which he followed until 1893, since which time he has resided at Seven Valley. He married Lydia Lau, daughter of Daniel and Barbara Miller, and she died May 14, 1892, aged sixty-four years, six months, five days ; she is buried at the Stone Church in Codorus township. Her mother died at the advanced age of 103 years, and is buried at Wolf's Church, in Manchester township. Children as follows were born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Bortner : Esrom, who married Sarah Bankert; Edmund D. ; A. Milton, who married Sarah Bahn ; Emma J., the widow of Daniel Werner, who died in 1892; Frank, who married Amelia Milner, and resides in Baltimore, Md. ; Ozias, who married Cora Slyder, and died Sept. 2, 1893; Rolandes, who died Jan. 18, 1898, and was buried at Stone Church (he left a widow, Maggie Bortner) ; Eckert, who married Mrs. Clara Gladfelter, and lives at Glen Rock, Pa. ; and Jonathan, living with his brother Eckert.

1953 Daughter Emma Jane Spahr, spouse of Daniel L Warner, died on September 4 in Springettsbury Twp, York County, Pennsylvania. She was born on May 10, 1856 in Ohio, daughter of Charles Garver Bortner and Lydia Bortner. [4]

1958 Grand-Daughter Sadie Beulah Shue, spouse of Samuel Maurice Shue, died on May 3 in York, York County, Pennsylvania. She was born on December 26, 1881 in York County, Pennsylvania, daughter of Daniel L Warner and Emma Jane Spahr. [5]

1979 George Milton Shue died on December 22 in Manatee County, Florida. George Milton Shue was born on September 5, 1913 in York County, Pennsylvania, child of Samuel Maurice Shue and Sadie Beulah Shue. [6]


Footnotes:

[1] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[2] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[3] George R. Prowell, History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume 2 (Beers, 1907), 222, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[4] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[5] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[6] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].