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Untangling the Confusion on Kirtland Calvin

By Pamela Pattison Lash

I recently received an email query on the ancestry of Kirtland Calvin.  The query asked whether this Kirtland, father of Zola Fay Calvin, was really born a Calvin or was he a Bohney?  I hope this information that I found is helpful and clears up the confusion of Kirtland Calvin’s parentage.  I would welcome any new data to pass along to the researcher.

Kirtland Calvin’s paternal side

From an online source: Stephen Calvin mar Laura Palmer, 10 Nov 1830 Portage Co, OH

By 1880 he lived in Scott Twp, Steuben Co, IN

Died there on 20 Oct 1887

Stephen s/o David Calvin and Catherine McDaniel; Laura Palmer bc1813 Palmyra, Portage Co, OH – bef 1850

1850  Pulaski, Williams, Ohio; Roll: M432_741; Page: 84A; Image: 168.

h/h 251/258 Calvin, Stephen 42 OH farmer

Horace 18 OH

Jesse (m)15 OH

Amanda 13 OH

Lydia 11 OH

Horace Weston Calvin b 1832 OH (probably Portage Co, OH – Mar 1860 Jefferson Twp, Williams Co, OH – US Fed Census Mortality Schedule, 1860 Jefferson Twp 1860 “Weston Calvin”, 27 years old; died in Mar)

Kirtland Calvin’s maternal side

Liza Bohney mar Horace Weston Calvin, 3 July 1856, Williams Co, OH (Marriage V2 p167)……..Note that Liza is really Louisa Bohney, d/o Nicholas and Christina Bohney

1870 Bryan, Pulaski Twp, Williams Co, OH

h/h 14/14 Bohney, Christena 79 Wurtemburg

Martha 47 PA

Calvin, Kirtland 11 OH

Note that Kirtland’s mother had remarried and he was living with his grandmother, Christina, and aunt Martha.

Kirtland Calvin 28 July 1858/59 Williams Co, OH-6 Nov 1932 Marion, Marion Co, OH, widower; s/o Louise Bohney; spouse of Matilda Fisher

Buried Fountain Grove Cem, Bryan, Pulaski Twp, Williams Co, OH

Matilda Fisher Calvin

Bryan Dem 13 Feb 1930, p3

K M Calvin

Bryan Dem 7 Nov 1932 p1

1900 Bryan, Williams, Ohio; Roll: T623_1332; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 112.

h/h 232/236 Calvin, Kirt M (July 1860) 39 mar 18Y OH-OH-OH laborer in tile factory

Tillie F wife (Aug 1865) 34 mar 18Y 6/6 ch OH-OH-OH

Myrtle B (Jan 1883) 17 OH

Dale M (Feb 1886) 14 OH

Velema E (Sept 1888) 11 OH

Zola T (Sept 1890) 9 OH

Frank E (Sept 1893) 6 OH

Willard R (Aug 1896) 3 OH

Bohney, Marth m-in-law (Dec 1822) 77 PA-Switz-Germ

Note this Marth(a) Bohney is really a sister to Kirt Calvin’s mother, Louisa Bohney Calvin Gates

Louisa Calvin married Michael Goetz/Gates, 1868 in Williams Co, OH

Louisa Gates (25 July 1836 PA – 26 Jan 1910 Bryan, Williams Co, OH) widow, d/o Nicholas Bohney; w/o Michael Gates; buried Fountain Grove Cem

Michael Gates (1831 Austria – 23 Oct 1897 Bryan, Williams Co, OH; married; well driller

1880 Bryan, Williams, Ohio; Roll: 1078; Family History Film: 1255078; Page: 656C; Enumeration District: 12; Image: 0173.

h/h 546/571 Gates, Michael 48 Aust-Aust-Aust laborer

Louisa wife 43 PA-Switz-Germ

Franklin son 10 OH-Aust-PA

Susie dau 8 OH-Aust-PA

Michael Gates

Bryan Press 28 Oct 1897