TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: KEPLINGER, ELIAS (published 1882)
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HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA
F.A. Battey & Co., 1882

        ELIAS KEPLINGER was born November 9, 1815, in Washington County,
Md., one of a family of nine sons and three daughters born to Joseph and
Catharine (Snyder) Keplinger, natives of Maryland. The parents moved to
Virginia, near Harper's Ferry, soon after their marriage, and from there,
in 1832 to Tuscarawas County, Ohio. Here the father died at the age of
eighty-four years. His widow survives him, and is eighty-six. Elias
Keplinger was brought up to farm labor. He married Miss Emily Hoverstock,
in 1842. She was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, January 25, 1825. They
had seven children, four of whom are yet living, viz.: Catharine, Mary E.,
Charles H. and Etta M. Mrs. Keplinger died February 22, 1865. Mr. Keplinger
married Miss Lydia A. Medaugh, a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, for his
second wife. She died, December 5, 1878. December 11, 1879, he was united
in marriage with Miss Lizzie Fridlie, born in the canton of Berne,
Switzerland, May 13, 1844. Mr. Keplinger came to this county in 1864, and
purchased his present farm. He began life as a poor boy, and is a self-made
man. He is a Republican, a member of the M.E. Church, and a successful
farmer and stock grower.

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