Biography of David Reinoehl, pages 580 / 581.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

David Reinoehl, deceased, one of the most esteemed pioneers of Fairfield 
Township, was born in Lebanon County, Pa., Feb. 22, 1809, the eldest of 
nine children of Michael and Catherine (Fisher) Reinoehl.  When he was 
nineteen years of age he accompanied his parents to Stark County, Ohio, and 
was there married Dec. 18, 1831, to Rebecca Weirich, who was born in Lebanon 
County, Pa., Aug. 9, 1812, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Rupe) Weirich, 
who moved to Wayne County, Ohio, in 1830.  After their marriage they lived 
on the old homestead nine years and then moved to Richland County, Ohio, 
where they lived till the fall of 1852, when they came to De Kalb County, 
and bought 152 acres of land in Fairfield Township, very little of which 
was improved.  Mr. Reinoehl was an industrious, energetic man, an soon had 
a good home where he spent the rest of his life.  He died Feb. 16, 1869.  
He, as is also his wife, was a member of the Evangelical Association.  To 
them were born seven children, five of whom are living---John, Elizabeth, 
wife of Michael Eckart; Louisa, wife of C. Wert; Mary, wife of William 
Shaffer; and Solomon, on the old homestead.  Catherine, the eldest, and 
Amos, the youngest, are deceased.

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