FAMILY RECORD - TAKEN FROM THE SAMUEL BENDER FAMILY BIBLE

Contributed by: Greg Bender, glbender@erols.com

MARRIAGES:  Samuel Bender & Eliza Jane Bender, married 	      March 25th, 1875

BIRTHS:     Samuel Bender, born in Penn.,                         March 21st, 1850
            Eliza Jane Houtz, born in Wells Co., Ind.             February 6th, 1854

            Minnie Estella Bender, born in Wells Co., Ind.        March 13th,1876 
            John Henry Bender, born in Wells Co., Ind.,           March 11th, 1879
            Claude Nelson Bender, born in Wells Co., Ind., 	      February 18th, 1881 
            Nettie Barbara Bender, born in Scioto Co., Ohio,      November 9th, 1883 
            Herbert Houtz Bender, born in Bluffton, Ind.,         June 14th 1886 
            Edna Lucille Bender, born in Bluffton, Ind., 	      December 12th, 1889
            Leland S. Bender, born in Bluffton, Ind.,             March 27th, 1896

DEATHS:     Claude Nelson Bender, Died                      June 1883
            John Henry Bender, Died                         September 25th, 1895 
            Leland S. Bender, Died                          January 19th, 1897

            Samuel Bender, Died                             October 11th, 1919 
            Eliza Houtz Bender, Died                        January 23rd, 1922 
            Minnie (Bender) Driscoll , Died                 -----

NOTE:	      All entries except the last two are evidently in the hand of Eliza Houtz Bender.
            The last two entries are in the hand of Nettie (Bender) Saurer.

      Edna (Bender) Brand predeceased Nettie (Bender) Saurer who died in November 1960.
      Ernest Brand (husband of Edna) died June 1955. 
      Alfred Saurer died September 1957.  
      Roy Edward Smith, husband of Catherine Saurer Smith, born January 1901, died September 1988.  

      The above information transcribed and augmented by Robert Aldag, Jr., husband of 
      Margaret Saurer Aldag on May 5, 1998.