Matthias Warble and Elizabeth Staubs

I had always believed that I had Northern blood in my veins. By 'Northern,' I mean in regards to the North and the South, that which is divided by the Mason-Dixon line. It's true, during my years of research, I had always found my ancestors to live on the northern side.

But then, I found Matthias Warble, a fifth-great-grandfather.

Mathias was born at Antietam Creek, east of Sharpsburg, Maryland, on 1 February 1785. He was one of seven children born to Johannes Warble and his wife, Maria Salome [Sarah] Trute. At the age of 22, on 20 June 1807, at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hagerstown, Maryland, Matthias married Elizabeth Staubs. Elizabeth was born in 1787, in Washington County, Maryland. I cannot find anything on her family. I have found her last name to be also recorded as Staup or Stoup.

The United States Federal Census (1810) listed a household manned by Mathias Warble in Jefferson County, West Virginia. (At the time, Jefferson County was part of Virginia; in 1863, it was annexed into West Virginia.) This is where the Southern blood comes in! This household included one male and one female, who were each between the ages of 26 and 44 -- this would be Mathias and Elizabeth. There was also one female, under the age of 10 -- this would be their daughter, Adeline.

The United States Federal Census (1820) also stated that the family lived in Jefferson County, Virginia/West Virginia, but this time adding that they lived in Lee. (This could be a reference to Leetown.). The household was made up of eleven people, three of which were slaves. (The slaves were: one male between the ages of 14 and 25, one male over the age of 45, and one female under the age of 14.)

By 1830, it appears, Mathias and his family moved to "the North." The United States Federal Census (1830) listed the "Matheas Warkle" family as living in Jefferson Township, Montgomery County, Ohio. Jefferson Township is located southwest of the city of Dayton, Ohio. I could not find the family in the 1840 census, but the United States Federal Census (1850) maintains that Mathias and Elizabeth were still in Jefferson Township, where Mathias farmed and owned $3,900 in real estate. He died 17 August 1854 in Jackson Township, which boardered Jefferson Township to its west, and was buried in Farmersville, Jackson Township, in the Slifer Cemetery.

The United States Federal Census (1860) listed Elizabeth Warble as being the head of a household located in Jefferson Township, Montgomery County. (Her Post Office was located in Liberty.) The census stated that Elizabeth was a 75-year-old widow with $6,000 in real estate and $100 in personal estate. Living with her were Henry and Catharine Apple, as well as their children, Lucinda, age 3, and Benjamin F., age 1. Catharine was likely Catherine (Meckley) Apple. The connection betwen Elizabeth and the Apple's is unknown. Was there a relation somehow?

Elizabeth survived her husband by twelve years before she died, aged 79, on 12 November 1866. She joined Mathias in the Slifer Cemetery.

Children of Matthias and Elizabeth:

1. Adeline, born 25 May 1809 in Shepherdstown, Virginia (now West Virginia). She died 18 February 1878, and was buried in Slifers Cemetery. Adeline married Henry Rentfrow (1810-1877), and they had the following children: Louise (1840-1878, Mrs. Hiram Gebhart), Margaret Emmline (1845-1928, Mrs. George Washington Gebhart), and Irena (1852-1863).
2. George W., born 25 May 1810. He died 17 May 1874. George maried Cynthia Miles.
3. A daughter, born in 1811 and died before 1830.
4. John, born 13 April 1813. He died 25 March 1905. John was married three times: first, to Elizabeth Snyder, 22 June 1839, who died in 1878, and had 10 children; then, to Mrs. Elizabeth (Wertz) Stine, 15 October 1879, the widow of Frederick Stine; and finally, to Cynthia Stephens.
5. Daniel, born 2 March 1816. He died in October 1864. Daniel married to Francis Furry/Farrow.
6. Elizabeth, born 11 November 1817 in Jefferson County, Virginia (now West Virginia). She died 3 October 1901. Elizabeth married Jacob Wertz, 16 June 1839 in Montgomery County, Ohio. They had three children: Mathias (b. 22 August 1840), John (b. 30 May 1844), and Daniel (b. 31 January 1852).