Daniel Götz (1826 - 1911)

Born 15 Dec 1826 in Ichenheim, Bezirksamt Ettenheim, Großherzogtum Baden, Deutscher Bund

Ancestors

Husband of Nancy (Griffin) Gates — married 9 Oct 1849 in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States

Husband of Mary Cecilia (Aspey) Gates — married 7 Feb 1867 in Bartholomew County, Indiana, United States

Descendants

Died 10 Mar 1911 at age 84 in Flat Rock Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana, United States

Biography

Daniel Gates

Ichenheim

Son of Jakob Götz and Anna Maria Hürster,^[1] Daniel Götz was baptized on January 17, 1827 in the evangelische Kirche at Ichenheim, Baden.^[2] Daniel enlisted on April 30, 1847 at Cincinnati as a private in Co. I, 4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and saw active duty in the Mexican War. He was at the battle of Monterey and the 'triumphant march' into Mexico City,^[3] and was discharged on July 18, 1848 at Cincinnati, where he married his first wife Nancy Griffin on October 9, 1849.^[4] He was listed in the Cincinnati City Directory from 1850 to 1856, working as a cooper and machinist. In 1858 he relocated his young family to Columbus, Indiana, where he worked at the William Brinkley Furniture Factory. He later moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where his first wife Nancy died from consumption in 1866. He returned to Bartholomew County, Indiana, where he married his second wife Mary on February 7, 1867 and settled three and a half miles northwest of the town of Hope in Flat Rock Township, and was a charter member of the Hope Baptist Church. Daniel died in Flat Rock Township in 1911^[5] and was buried in the Moravian Cemetery at Hope.^[6]

Death Certificate for Daniel W. Gates, 1911

Census Appearances

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXQ4-91Q : 21 December 2020), Daniel Gates, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXX8-RR3 : 28 May 2021), Daniel Gates, 1870.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHMD-QB2 : 13 January 2022), Daniel Gate, Flat Rock Township, Bartholomew, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKLB-S2V : accessed 24 January 2022), Daniel W Gates, Flat Rock, Bartholomew, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 15, sheet 7B, family 164, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 340; FHL microfilm 1,374,353.

Sources

1. ↑ Köbele, Albert and Hans Scheer. Ortssippenbuch Ichenheim: Gemeinde Neuried, Ortenaukreis in Baden. Grafenhausen bei Lahr: Seibstverlag des Herausgebers, 1978, pp. 193-194, family 990: Birth date of Daniel Götz, with the notation "Die Familie ist nach Amerika ausgewandert."
2. ↑ "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP6H-FRW1 : 27 October 2021), Daniel Götz, 17 Jan 1827; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Baptism, Ichenheim, Lahr, Baden, Deutschland, , German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.
3. ↑ Mexican War As told by Daniel W. Gates. A typed transcript is in the possession of Todd Whitesides.
4. ↑ Hoosier Genealogist, vol. 4, no. 2, March-April 1964, p. 3. "Daniel W. Gates Family Records, Bartholomew County." Transcript of Daniel W. Gates' Family Bible. Photocopies of the originals were given by Mildred Harrod of Flat Rock, Indiana to the Bartholomew County Library in Columbus, Indiana on 26 May 1979.
5. ↑ "Indiana Death Index, 1882-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZ7Z-T1Z : 3 December 2014), Daniel W. Gates, 10 Mar 1911, Flatrock Township, Indiana; from "Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2003); citing "The source of this record is the book CSS-2 on page 113 within the series produced by the Indiana Works Progress Administration." County Health Office, Azalia.
6. ↑ The Evening Republican, Columbus, Indiana, Saturday, 11 Mar 1911, p. 4, col. 2. Daniel Gates' Obituary.