Hans Adam Sontag
and his wife Anna Elisabetha Pfaff
and Some of Their Descendants
Fourth Generation

DANIEL4 SUNDAY (Andrew3, Jacob2, Hans Adam1 ) was born at Schaefferstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on 25 March 1809 a son of Andrew Sunday and his wife Elizabeth Brugh, and died on 6 June 1872. He married CATHERINE RHEINHART.[1] She was born at Pennsylvania on 4 February 1806, a daughter of Frederick and Deborah Rheinhart. She died on 31 October 1869.[2]

The Daniel Sunday family participted in the westward migration of the United States. Daniel's journey started with his birth in 1809 in Schaefferstown, located in what would become Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. By the age of four, Daniel, with his parents and four siblings, had moved to Centre County, Pennsylvania, about 120 miles west. Here Daniel grew up, married, and in 1829 paid taxes, when he was reported as a blacksmith.[3] About 1832 Daniel, Catherine, and their first two children moved over 300 miles to the west, to Sandusky County, Ohio. At some point they moved to the adjoining Ohio county of Seneca. Sometime between 1850 and 1860, probably before 1854, the family moved another hundred miles west, to Steuben County, Indiana. Here they remained.

The 1840 Census reported the Daniel Sandy family at Jackson Township, Sandusky County, consisting of two adults and five children, corresponding in age and sex to the children we know from other sources to have composed this family. Daniel was an agriculturalist.[4] In 1850, the census found the Daniel Sunday family at Thompson Township, Seneca County, consisting of Daniel, 41, farmer; Catherine, 44; Andrew, 19, laborer, attending school; Ann, 17; Frederick, 14, attending school; John, 12, attending school; Daniel, 7; Matilda, 4; and Hannah, 1.[5] That is the only reference I have found to Hannah, who probably died in childhood. Eldest daughter, Mary Margaret, 20, had married in 1848, and lived in Scipio Township, Seneca County, with her husband, John Harpster, 22, blacksmith, and their son Amos, eleven months old.[6]

By the time of the 1860 Census, the five eldest children of Daniel and Catherine had married; four settling in Steuben County, the fifth some 70 miles away in Kosciusko County, Indiana.

That census reported Daniel and family at Salem Township, Steuben County, as follows:[7]

Line Name Age Sex Occupation R.E. P.E. Birthplace
15. Daniel Sunday 51 M farmer $1650 $400 PA
16. Catherine Sunday 54 F house keeper PA
17. Daniel Sunday 17 M farm laborer OH
18. Mary M. Sunday 13 F OH

This record further indicated that Catherine could not read or write, younger Daniel was attending school, and Mary M. was classified "idiotic."

Daniel and Catherine's eldest child, Mary, who had married in Ohio in 1848, was reported with her family in Salem Township, on the same page as her parents:[8]

Line Name Age Sex Occupation R.E. P.E. Birthplace
10. John Harpster 31 M blacksmith R.E. $2000 P.E. $500 OH
11. Mary M Harpster 30 F housekeeper PA
12. Lucinda Harpster 8 F OH
13. John Harpster 4 M IN
14. Mary Harpster 8/12 F IN

Lucinda was attending school.

John Sunday, married about three weeks before the Census, was also reported at Salem Township in this 1860 Census as follows:[9]

Line Name Age Sex Occupation R.E. P.E. Birthplace
4. John Sunday 21 M farmer $100 OH
5. Louise Sunday 19 F housekeeper IN

Andrew Sunday, son of Daniel, was reported in the adjoining township of Steuben, Steuben County (Pleasant Lake Post Office) as follows:[10]

Line Name Age Sex Occupation R.E. P.E. Birthplace
30. Andrew Sunday 28 M farmer $1800 $350 PA
31. Mary Sunday 24 F housekeeper OH
32. Levi Sunday 4 M IN
33. David Sunday 1 M IN

Frederick Sunday resided in the same Township, served by the same Post Office, as his brother Andrew:[11]

Line Name Age Sex Occupation R.E. P.E. Birthplace
26. Fred Sunday 23 M farmer $60 OH
27. Lucetta Sunday 21 F keeping house OH
28. D. C. Sunday 2 M IN
29. G. W. Sunday 1 M IN

Anna Marie and her husband, Wallace Wuchter, lived in Clay Township, Kosciusko County, with Wallace's brother, sister-in-law, and niece:[12]

Line Name Age Sex Occupation R.E. P.E. Birthplace
14. Wallace Wouchter 33 M cabinet maker $400 $200 PA
15. Ann Wouchter 26 F OH
16. Peter Wouchter 29 M $500 $325 PA
17. Catharine Wouchter 27 F OH
18. Barbrary Wouchter 11/12 F IN

This household was followed immediately by Wallace's parents, Peter and Polly Wuchter, ages 62 and 57, and their remaining children at home, Sarah and Catherine, ages 22 and 19.

Catherine (Rheinhart) Sunday died in 1869. The 1870 Census reported Daniel Sunday at Salem Township (Angola Post Office), age 61, farmer, with daughter Matilda, 23, who could not read or write.[13] They were listed immediately after the household of John Sunday.

Daniel Sunday died in 1872. The 1880 census reported Mary M[atilda] Sunday, 33, idiotic, living with her sister and brother-in-law, Wallace, 53, and Anna, 47, Wuchter, at Lake Township, Kosciusko County.[14]

Anna Maria (Sunday) Wuchter had no children, and remarried after her husband's death. Mary Matilda died about 1894-5.

Daniel Sunday and his wife Catherine Rheinhart had the following children:

  1. MARY MARGERET5 SUNDAY b. on 11 December 1829.
  2. ANDREW5 SUNDAY b. at Pennsylvania on 11 August 1831.
  3. ANNA MARIA5 SUNDAY b. at Sandusky County, Ohio about 1832-3;[15] d. at Silver Lake, Kosciusko County, on 2 May 1908;[16] m(1). at Seneca County, Ohio, on 21 November 1850 WALLACE D. WUCHTER,[17] b. at Pennsylvania on 9 February 1827, d. on 3 September 1890;[18] m(2). at Kosciusko County on 21 March 1895 CHARLES MONTIETH[19] b. at Glosgow, Scotland, on 17 August 1827, d. at Claypool, Kosciusko County, on 17 January 1905.[20]
  4. FREDERICK5 SUNDAY b. at Ohio on 3 August 1834.
  5. JOHN5 SUNDAY b. at Seneca County on 23 February 1838.
  6. DANIEL5 SUNDAY b. at Seneca County on 10 May 1843.
  7. MARY MATILDA5 SUNDAY b. at Ohio about 1845-6;[21] d. about 1894-5.[22]
  8. HANNAH5 SUNDAY b. at Ohio about 1848-9.[23]

NOTES

1Ralph W. Sunday, Genealogical Register of the Descendants of Hans Adam Sontag (Robesonia, PA: by the author, 1950).
2Mount Zion Cemetery, Steuben Township, Steuben County, Indiana, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 5 March 2019), Catherine Sunday; Created by: Kristina (Kuhn) Krumm.
3Sunday, Descendants of Hans Adam Sontag.
4Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, Jackson Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, p. 19, Daniel Sandy; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 26 February 2019); NARA microfilm publication M704, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
5Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Thompson, Seneca County, Ohio, roll 728, p. 109A, household 832, Daniel Sunday family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 February 2018); NARA Microfilm Publication M432; Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
61850 Census, Scipio, Seneca County, Ohio, roll 728, p. 38B, household 265, John Harpster family.
7Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Salem, Steuben County, Indiana, roll 298, p. 515, household 558, Daniel Sunday family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 February 2018); NARA microfilm publication M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
81860 Census, Salem, Steuben County, Indiana, roll 298, p. 515, household 557, John Harpster family.
91860 Census, Salem Township, Steuben County, Indiana, roll 298, p. 516, household 562, John Sunday family.
101860 Census, Steuben Township, Steuben County, Indiana, roll 298, p. 502, household 464, Andrew Sunday family.
111860 Census, Steuben, Steuben County, Indiana, roll 298, p. 509, household 525, Fred Sunday family.
121860 Census, Clay, Kosciusko County, Indiana, roll 273, p. 391, household 1189, Wallace Wouchter family.
13Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Salem, Steuben County, Indiana, roll 359, p. 177A, household 119, Daniel Sunday family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 February 2018); NARA microfilm publication M593, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
14Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Lake, Kosciusko County, Indiana, enumeration district (ED) 58, roll 290, p. 222D, hosehold 300, Waless Wuchter family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 31 March 2019); NARA microfilm publication T9; Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
151850 Census, Thompson, Seneca County, Ohio, roll 728, p. 109A, household 832, Daniel Sunday family.
16Indiana State Board of Health, Death Certificates, 1900–2011, Kosciusko Co., Anna Marie Monteigh, 1908; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 31 March 2019); Indiana Archives and Records Administration, Indianapolis, Indiana..
17Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013, Seneca Co., v. 4, no. 45, Wuchter-Sunday, 1850; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 4 March 2019).
18Grove Chapel Graveyard, Claypool, Kosciusko County, Indiana, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 31 March 2019), Wallace D. Wuchter; Created by: OPPSheryl, Photo added by Hoby.
19Indiana Commission on Public Records, Indianapolis, Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007, Kosciusko Co., p. 124, Montieth-Wuchter, 1895; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 31 March 2019).
20Indiana State Board of Health, Death Certificates, 1900–2011, Kosciusko Co., no. 215, Charles Montieth, 1905.
211850 Census, Thompson, Seneca County, Ohio, roll 728, p. 109A, household 832, Daniel Sunday family.
22Sunday, Descendants of Hans Adam Sontag.
231850 Census, Thompson, Seneca County, Ohio, roll 728, p. 109A, household 832, Daniel Sunday family.

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