Johann Georg Goshorn ¹⁶⁹⁵

  Research Notes:

From: Larry Walton of Sunbury, OH Feb 2004
Elizabeth K. Truitt first married a Jacob Kocher and had four children. Then after his death in 1873, she married Johann Georg Ganshorn (Goshorn) and had one child, my grandmother Mary Jane Goshorn Zaebst.
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I have spent the majority of my genealogical effort chasing on old Germans, and their practice of being called by the middle name sometimes adds to the confusion of getting things straight. Examples are Elizabeth Truitt's second husband, actual name Johann Georg Ganshorn, always known as George, and married/buried under that name. Their daughter married George Franklin Zaebst, alway known as Frank, and his daughter, my mother, Ella Naomi Zaebst Walton, was always known as Naomi. Add to that the other old German pratice of giving a second child in the family the same name as an earlier child that had died, and it keeps it interesting. Elizabeth Truitt's first husband was named Jacob Kocher. I have wondered if her middle intial "K" might stand for Kocher. More likely it is for Katherine.
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Johann married Elizabeth K. Truitt, daughter of George P. Truitt and Mary King, after 1873.¹⁶⁹⁵ (Elizabeth K. Truitt was born on 1 Jun 1832 in Bloom Township, Seneca, Ohio, USA ¹⁶⁹⁵ and died on 30 Sep 1909 in Liberty Township, Crawford, Ohio, USA ¹⁶⁹⁵.)