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Casper Yinger (Ohio)

Re: Casper Yinger (Ohio)

Paula Wingfield (View posts)
Posted: 15 Aug 2004 2:03AM GMT
Classification: Query
My great granfather was Casper's son. His name was Bazil, but I was unsure of other siblings.

Re: Casper Yinger (Ohio)

Jon Yinger (View posts)
Posted: 15 Aug 2004 7:33AM GMT
Classification: Query
Kent: I tried to e-mail you, but the AOL address was no good.

Here's my letter:

Hi Kent.

I am looking at a posting of yours from 2000 reposted in 2003. Any new info?

So we have a Casper Yinger in Shelby County born in 1825, a son Finley, and possibly sons Bazil and W. M. and daughter Nancy born in the 1840s.

I have a tintype of my great-grandfather, Wilson Shannon Yinger, dated 1877 from Sidney, Ohio. He was born in 1851, very possibly another son of Casper's.

I notice that your middle name is LeRoy. My father's middle name was LeRoy as was his father's.

The posting from Paula Wingfield says:

I believe I am a descendent of Casper Yinger and I found some info in a book that says he came to Montgomery County (Ohio) at age 12 from Maryland & Virginia and that Casper & Nancy(Burton) Yinger had 7 children and lived on a farm in Shelby County.(Oh). Does this sound right to you?? Please e-mail me. Thanks (from Paula)

So we could bother be great-great-grandsons of Casper. What do you think?

Re: Casper Yinger (Ohio)

Paula Wingfield (View posts)
Posted: 17 Aug 2004 1:24PM GMT
Classification: Query
I have an obituary of my grandfather's sister.Nelly (Yinger) Millhouse. It list a brother Leroy. Was that his real name?

Re: yingers of york county, pa

Posted: 20 Nov 2004 10:59AM GMT
Classification: Query
Margaret, perhaps I can provide some additional background information on the Anthony Yinger who you believe to be your great great grandfather. I have been researching my Yinger family tree for about two years now.

Johan Paul Junger arrived in Philadelphia on the Palatine ship Two Brothers on September 15, 1748. I don't know at this point where he was between 1748 and 1763 but in 1763 he showed up on a tax list in Cocalico township in Lancaster county PA. In 1765 the birth of his son Johan Martin Junger is recorded at Muddy Creek Lutheran also in Cocalico township of Lancaster county.

In 1768 Paul Yenger (note spelling variation which is not uncommon among his later descendants in York county from time to time) appears on a list of taxables in Newberry township of York county. He also appears on a 1779 tax list again in Newberry township.

Paul had two other sons who were older brothers of Johan Martin. If Paul had daughters or other sons than these three, I have not detected any evidence of them so far in my reasearch. Martin's older brothers were George and Anthony. George and Anthony appear on tax lists in 1783 in Newberry township. George only had one acre of land according to that tax list and Anthony had none. George had 6 people in his houshold and Anthony had two.

George married Sophronia Provant and Anthony married Magdalena Provant. They were sisters and they were daughters of a Jacob Provant according to family resource files at the York County Heritage Trust facility in downtown York, PA. So two brothers married two sisters.

As an aside, on the 1768 tax list where Paul Yenger, dad to George, Anthony and Martin, appears nearby on the list were two Provant names both of whom paid a lot of money in taxes while Paul only paid a very meager amount in comparison. Perhaps the Provants were early large land holders in Newberry while Paul and his sons were not. Perhaps his sons George and Anthony worked on the large farm of Jacob Provant and met his daughters Sophronia and Magdalena in the process.

George died suddenly in 1790 not too long after acquiring about 135 acres near Yocumtown. His lengthy estate file is in the York county archives and provides many wonderful clues that fills in many facts about this family. At the time of his death he only had one child living, Ann (alson known as Nancy) Yinger who later grew up and married John Fetrow. George and Sophronia had no other children alive at George's death.

Anthony was the executor for his brother George's estate. Anthony had two sons and a daughter that died in young adulthood apparently without being married and, therefore with no descendants. All three are buried at the Bear family cemetary in Yocumtown with their parents Anthony and Magdalena. They were Jacob who died in 1813, Elizabeth who died in 1814, and Martin who died in 1816.

At the time of his death in 1829 Anthony listed in his will, which is in an estate file at the York county archives two sons and four daughters which were still living. His sons still living were George and John. His dautgters still living were Mary the wife of David Fetrow, Nancy, Catherine, the wife of Henry G. Kister, and Sally. Nancy and Sally never married, lived together all their lives as evidenced by census appearenes through the decades and are buried in a church yard cemetary side by side in Yocumtown.

George died in 1840. Unfortunately unlike his father Anthony, he left no will which might have sorted out his children's names. We are left to census appearances in later periods to try to back into at least who his sons were. According to the 1830 census George and Margaret Yinger had 4 sons and one daughter. In 1830 George's brother John had only one son and two daughters living with he and his wife Rebecca. John's mom Magdalena is living with him in the 1830 census shortly after Anthony died in 1829.

In 1840 Margaret, George's widdow, has only one son left at home and one daughter. John and Rebecca in 1840 have two sons and four daughters.

I have compiled a list of the probable sons of George and John from subsequent censuses beginning with 1850 where every name is first required on the census. It is challenging to determine which son belonged to George vrs. John.

The Anthony you cite as your great great grand dad is on that list.

In summary here are the uncertain male Yinger individuals that are the pool of likely sons of Anthony's only two sons who had children namely George and John: Their names and ages in 1850 and location are as follows:

Jacob Yinger 33 Newberry Township
George Yinger 27 Newberry Township
Andrew (Anthony) Yinger 24 Fairview Township
Joseph Yinger 23 New Cumberland
William Yinger 20 Fairview Township
Charles Yinger 19 Fairview Township
Henry Yinger 15 Unknown location
John Yinger 8 Unknown location


In 1850 your Anthony is in Fairview township and is married to Lydia. In later censuses they appear together in Cumberland county. They are in North Middleton township in the 1880 census. They are buried at the St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran church in Plainfield.

I am descended from Anthony's brother Jacob who appears to be the first born son of George and Margaret Yinger. He is my great, great, great grandfather.

That is a brief overview of what amounts to many hours of detective work on the internet with ancestry.com, familysearch.org and other sources as well as visits to the York county archives and York County Heritage Trust.

This is a never ending work in process. One day I hope to do a web site on this my Yinger family and/or perhaps a book for future generations to have. Who knows when or if that will ever happen. But it is my goal at least to do so.

Presently, I am doing a large amount of research trying to determine the village of origin for our immigrant Johan Paul Junger. There are clues to follow up on like the places of origin of other passengers on his ship which are documented in the research publications of professionals like Annette K. Burgert. This is the Holy Grail as far as I am concerned. Until I or someone else positively identifies Johan Paul Junger's place of origin, I feel the detective work is incomplete.


Re: yingers of york county, pa

Posted: 12 Mar 2009 6:50PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Baum ,Yinger,Brenneman,Orris
I am also desended from Anthony C. Yinger b.1827 married to Lydia,their son William Henry yinger b. 1862,his son mervin robert b. 1902, his daughter virginia marie b. 1923 I'm not sure how the line goes before anthony.Please help.

Re: yinger

Posted: 7 Nov 2014 5:13AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Yinger
My sister-in-law, is trying to get in touch with you, Paula, regarding the family of Caspar Yinger of Shelby County, Ohio. She is helping a Casper Yinger descendant, but does not have the same ancestry subscription that I have. She has asked that I contact you, in the hope that somehow she can make contact with you also. Her name and email address:
Sherrie Wieland
wielandfamily9@gmail.com
Hope this message can still reach you, as this Ancestry post is nearly 10 years old.
Laraine Clark
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