John Edward Coonrad III ¹

  General Notes:

Smithfield Twp, Dekalb Co., IN 1860 Census listed him as 34 years old

SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP DEKALB P.O.
Enumerated on 20 JUNE 1860 by A. B. Duncan Page 46
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LN# DW# FA# LAST NAME FIRST NAME AGE SEX COL OCCUPATION R/E P/P P/B
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19 335 331 Coonrad John 34 M Farmer 800 300 OH
20 335 331 Coonrad Tracy 24 F GER
21 335 331 Coonrad Allison 7 M OH
22 335 331 Coonrad Sarah J. 4 F IN
23 335 331 Coonrad Laura 2 F IN


According to the funeral obituary booklet of Charles Conrad, John and Tracy came to Indiana in 1850 by oxcart and settled near Summit.

United State Census, 1850:

Name: John Conrod
Residence: Green Creek, Sandusky, Ohio
Age: 24 years
Calculated Birth Year: 1826
Birthplace: Ohio ²

  Research Notes:

John's parents?

After his father's death, Jason Gibbs remained with his mother on the farm until his twenty-first year. On March 28, 1846, he was united in marriage with Elizabeth Conrad, who was born in Sandusky county, where she has always lived, daughter of John and Sarah (Tuttle) Conrad, who ere the parents of eleven children. John Conrad was born in Ohio in 1795, and died in Sandusky county, February 3, 1869; his wife died June 11, 1883, aged eighty-four years, nine months, sixteen days. ⁴

  Noted events in his life were:

• United States Census: Residence, 1840, Green Creek Township, Sandusky County, Ohio.

• Residence: US Census, 1850, Green Creek Township, Sandusky County, Ohio.

• Residence, 1860, Smithfield Township, DeKalb County, Indiana, USA. ⁵

John married Tracy Nye, daughter of Peter Nye and Tracy Carh Slusher, in 1846. (Tracy Nye was born on 24 Jul 1837 in Frankfurt or Bushitton, Germany,^{2 6} died on 2 Apr 1912 in Smithfield Township, DeKalb County, Indiana, USA and was buried in Barker's Chapel Cemetery, Smithfield Township, Dekalb County, Indiana, USA ³.)