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     Henry Oberholtzer married Hannah Detweiler.¹

     Henry H. Oberholtzer was born on 29 October 1845. He was the son of Samuel Oberholtzer and Martha Hess.

     Jacob H. Oberholtzer was born on 25 June 1826. He was the son of Samuel Oberholtzer and Martha Hess. Jacob H. Oberholtzer died on 3 August 1828 at age 2.

     John Oberholtzer was born on 2 September 1806 at Pennsylvania. He was the son of Christian Frantz Oberholtzer and Christina Funk. John Oberholtzer married Anna Fox, daughter of Martin W. Fuchs and Anna Wenger. John Oberholtzer died on 29 January 1870 at age 63. He was buried in 1870 at Fredericksburg, Lebanon Co., PA.
Note: Family Hart database online at http://midatlantic.rootsweb.ancestry.com/database/d0083/g0000063.htm#I409402.

     John H. Oberholtzer was born on 21 November 1839. He was the son of Samuel Oberholtzer and Martha Hess.

     John Henry Oberholtzer was born in 1855 at Lebanon Co., PA.¹ He was the son of Samuel Fox Oberholtzer and Catherine Wenger.¹

     Joseph H. Oberholtzer was born on 17 August 1842. He was the son of Samuel Oberholtzer and Martha Hess.

     Margaret Oberholtzer was born on 15 October 1824 at Towamencin Twp., Montgomery Co., PA. She married John Alderfer Kratz on 3 December 1848.¹ Margaret Oberholtzer died on 1 November 1909 at Montgomery Co., PA, at age 85. She was buried in November 1909 at Plains Mennonite Cemetery, Hatfield, Montgomery Co., PA, Find A Grave Memorial# 14713439.

     Martha H. Oberholtzer was born on 3 August 1828. She was the daughter of Samuel Oberholtzer and Martha Hess.

     Samuel Oberholtzer married Martha Hess, daughter of John Hess and Esther Hershey, in May 1824.

     Note: Family Hart database online at http://midatlantic.rootsweb.ancestry.com/database/d0085/g0000063.htm#I409404. Samuel Fox Oberholtzer was born in 1832. He was the son of John Oberholtzer and Anna Fox. Samuel Fox Oberholtzer married Catherine Wenger, daughter of Abraham Calvin Wenger and Barbara Light, circa 1854 at Hanover Twp., Lebanon Co., PA. Samuel Fox Oberholtzer lived in 1880 at Fredericksburg, Lebanon Co., PA.¹ He died in 1894. He was buried in 1894 at Fredericksburg, Lebanon Co., PA.

     Samuel H. Oberholtzer was born on 28 April 1836. He was the son of Samuel Oberholtzer and Martha Hess. Samuel H. Oberholtzer died on 2 November 1885 at Juniata Co., PA, at age 49.

     Susanna Oberholtzer was born on 11 August 1849. She was the daughter of Samuel Oberholtzer and Martha Hess.

     Catherine Oberholzer married Michael Ober, son of Henry Ober and Veronica Stauffer, circa 1779. Catherine Oberholzer died circa 1823.

     Catharine C. Oberle was born on 21 January 1835 at Ottenheim, Baden, Baden (now Germany).¹ She married Abraham Herter circa 1863.¹ Catharine C. Oberle died on 14 November 1918 at Bennet, Lancaster Co., NE, at age 83.

     Freddie Oberle was born in September 1889. He was the son of William Fred Oberle and Catherine Lucinda Windle. Freddie Oberle died on 22 October 1889 at Payette, Payette Co., ID.

     Minnie Flora Oberle was born on 24 August 1893 at Payette, Payette Co., ID. She was the daughter of William Fred Oberle and Catherine Lucinda Windle. Minnie Flora Oberle died on 14 December 1893 at Payette, Payette Co., ID, Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
December 14, 1893

EBERLE, MINNIE FLORA
Minnie Flora, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Eberle, born August 24, 1893; died of capilary bronchitis, at 6:30 o'clock this (Thursday) morning. Funeral services will be conducted from the family residence on Friday at 2 p.m.

     William Fred Oberle married Catherine Lucinda Windle, daughter of Jacob Windle and Tryphenia Wilcox, on 10 December 1888 at Payette, Payette Co., ID.

     Elisabethe Oblerle married Anton Keser.¹

     Audra Bell Oblisk was born on 1 July 1898 at Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas Co., OH. She was the daughter of Clemmens Oblisk and Ella Melissa Lanning. Audra Bell Oblisk died on 5 January 1921 at Massillon, Stark Co., OH, at age 22. She was buried in January 1921 at East State Street Cemetery, Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas Co., OH, Findagrave #138370231.

     Clemmens Oblisk was also known as "Clem". He was born in 1853 at Germany. He married Ella Melissa Lanning, daughter of James Lanning and Ruth Temple, on 16 February 1891 at Guernsey Co., OH. Clemmens Oblisk died on 23 July 1928 at Akron, Summit Co., OH,

Biography -- (Findagrave.com):

Clem immigrated to the U. S. in 1871-1873 based on census records. His first marriage to Sarah E McNatt (sp?) took place about 1873. Clem is identified on the 1880 US Census in Oxford Twp, Tuscarawas, OH living with his wife, Sarah, and two children, George and Clem. He was a railroad hand. Clem married Ella Melissa Lanning Wilson, daughter of James Lanning and Ruth Temple, on February 16, 1891 in Guernsey County, OH. Clem is identified on the 1900 US Census in Oxford Twp, Tuscarawas, OH living with his wife, Melissa, three children, Nelson, Inis, and Audra, and a stepdaughter, Jennie Wilson. At that time Clem was a farmer. Clem is identified on the 1910 U.S. Census in Oxford Twp, Tuscarawas, OH living with his wife, Melissa two daughters, Inez Long and Audrey Oblisk, and a grandson, Lloyd Gephart.

He was buried in July 1928 at East State Street Cemetery, Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas Co., OH, Findagrave #138350897.

     Katharina Obmann married Conrad Hiestand.

     Eleanor Ocheltree was born in 1841 at Champaign Co., OH.¹ She married Emmanuel C. Ridenour.¹ Eleanor Ocheltree died after January 1920 at Poweshiek Co. (probably), IA.

     Martha Ochletree was also known as Ochiltree. She was born in 1771 at Pennsylvania. She married William Ramsey on 28 January 1796 at Rockbridge Co., VA. Martha Ochletree died on 12 May 1842 at Preble Co., OH. She was buried in May 1842 at Hopewell Cemetery, Morning Sun, Preble Co., OH, Findagrave #13416683.

     Charles E. Ochs married Hattie M. Moore in October 1888 at Orange Co., IN.

     Elizabeth Ochs married Jesse Roeller.¹

     Flora Ochs married Ralph W. Savidge, son of Hon. Clinton R. Savidge and Louise Essick, in 1906.¹

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www.indianahistory.org/HBR/business_pdf/ochs_tetrick.pdf

Ochs-Tetrick Funeral Home Founded: 1860
Location: Corner of Jefferson and Second Streets, Orleans (1860–68); northwest corner of town square (1868–1930s); 187 East Jefferson Street (1930s– )
John Ochs, Sr., a native of Bilkeim, Germany, founded a furniture-making
enterprise on the corner of Jefferson and Second Streets in Orleans in 1860. He had
learned his trade at his father’s knee and after a five-year apprenticeship had come to
America. He had lived in New Albany from around 1856 to 1860 before settling in
Orleans. He made furniture from his home on Second and Jefferson Streets until 1868
when he purchased a frame building on the northwest corner of the Orleans town square.
The building served not only as a workshop and undertaking establishment but also as the residence for the Ochs family. John’s wife, Margaret Grauert Ochs, also a native of Germany, did not come to America until her husband sent for her in May of 1856. She arrived in New Albany carrying two children and only fifty cents and without the ability to read or speak English. She became a partner in the furniture business, responsible for the finishing and varnishing.
When a fire swept through the square in 1873 it wiped out the Ochs furniture and undertaking business and left the family of nine almost penniless. Ochs rebuilt the shop and started the business anew. Margaret died in 1891, and the Ochses’ daughter Amanda Ochs Alvis, a schoolteacher, took over the duties her mother had previously performed.
When John died at the age of eighty-six in 1906, his son, Charles Ochs, took over the family business.
Charles, born in 1863 in Orleans, had learned the cabinetmaking trade at home. In 1888 he married Hattie Moore. After attending school he started a construction company that he continued to run with the help of his two sons, Everett and Robert Ochs, until 1915. The construction firm was very successful. Charles and his sons built many of the homes in Orleans until the company ceased operation. In 1913 Charles gave the furniture business to his son Everett and son-in-law Edward Fields. Hattie, as her mother-in-law before her, was a true partner in the furniture and undertaking business. When a casket was ordered, it was her job to sew the bedding, muslin, and silk in the interior. If the order came late in the evening, she had to not only prepare the coffin but also cook breakfast for the customers before they left in the morning. According to family members, “a great part of the success of their business was attributed to her, as she went on every call . . . ministering to . . . families in many ways.”
The management of funerals was handled differently in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Around 1900 a poplar wood casket cost around $10. The average length of an Ochs-made casket was around six feet, but they sometimes made smaller ones for shorter people, children, and even pets. As was then the practice, many undertakers throughout the state, including the Ochses, prepared and embalmed bodies in the homes of the deceased, and showings did not take place in a funeral parlor.
Invitations arrived by post announcing the funeral of an individual, and horse-drawn carriages transported the deceased to cemeteries. In 1922 the East Jefferson Street site was purchased for the family residence and was transformed into a funeral home only in the 1930s. In the lot next to the home the family erected a furniture-making establishment in 1925, an operation that continued into the early 1970s.
When Hattie Ochs died on the eve of the Great Depression, her daughter Margaret and son Robert began to assist their father Charles in the businesses. Then their brother Everett, a World War I veteran, graduated from a mortuary school in 1935 and took over the funeral division from their ailing father. After Robert’s death in 1937, Margaret and Everett continued to run the furniture company and the funeral home until 1965, when Everett passed away. Margaret remained head of both operations for another eight years.
Margaret and Everett’s sisters Gretchen Ochs Jackson and Bonnie Ochs helped in the business until their deaths in 1937 and 1955, respectively. Gretchen was the only child of Hattie and Charles to have any children—one daughter, Barbara Jackson Hancock, who had two children, Patricia Hancock and J. Brent Hancock. None of the relatives claimed the 112-year-old set of companies in 1973, and they were sold.
Charles Lewis and Frank Braman bought the funeral business, keeping it for only two years before selling it to Lewis and Georgia Tetrick. Since that time, the couple has renovated the home on East Jefferson Street to provide for more spacious viewing rooms and handicapped entrances. In 1999 the Tetricks continued to operate the home, which was the fourth-oldest funeral business in the state and the oldest continuously operating enterprise in Orange County.

NOTE: This article is in error regarding the gender of Bonnie Ochs - Bonnie Ochs was a male & served in the military.

Gretchen C. Ochs was born on 1 April 1899 at Indiana. She was the daughter of Charles E. Ochs and Hattie M. Moore. Gretchen C. Ochs married James Fred Jackson, son of Zephania Jackson and Margaret Jane Jackson, on 30 August 1918 at Orange Co., IN. Gretchen C. Ochs died in April 1955 at Orleans, Orange Co., IN, OBITUARY:

MRS. GRETCHEN JACKSON
Orleans - Mrs. Gretchen Ochs Jackson, 56, died Monday night at her home in Orleans. She was part owner of the Ochs Funeral Home in partnership with a brother and sister, Everett Ochs and Miss Margaret Ochs. Other survivors are her husband, Fred; a daughter, Mrs. Eugene Hancock, and two grandchildren of New Albany and another brother, Bonnie Ochs of Indianapolis.
She was a member of the Orleans Christian Church, Tri Kappa Soroity, Easter Star lodge and the American Legion Auxiliary. Rites will be tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. at the funeral home with burial in Fairview Cemetery.

     Catherine F. Ochse was born circa 1861 at Ohio.¹ She married Orion Simon Protzman, son of John Protzman and Sarah Recher, on 24 December 1878 at Montgomery Co., OH.

     Luise Ochsner was born on 16 December 1869 at Freiburg, Germany. She married Julius Bergmann on 23 January 1892 at Berlin, Germany. Luise Ochsner died on 7 August 1940 at Köln / Deutz, Germany, at age 70.