Amos Ressler

RESSLER, ROADS, MARGRETZ, STUMPFF, METZGER, RICE

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 5/19/2004 at 22:32:34

Amos Ressler is a son of Jacob and Esther (Roads) Ressler, and was born in Strasburg, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1828. He grew to manhood in his native county, and there learned the carpenter’s trade. In March, of the year 1856, he came west, and settle din Butler county, Iowa, and immediately began working on the steam mill at Butler Center. At this place he continued laboring for some time, and then rented a farm in Jefferson township, and took up the occupation of a “tiller of the soil.” In 1862 he purchased forty acres of land in Shell Rock township, and now owns a fine farm of 160 acres. On it are good buildings, all of which he has erected since his residence there.
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Mr. Ressler had held a number of school offices at different times. His father died in 1880, on the old homestead, in Pennsylvania, where he had lived fifty-six years. His mother, also, died there in March of the years 1838, at the age of forty-one years. Mr. Ressler was married in July, of the year 1854, to Miss Albertina Margretz, who was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1836. She is a daughter of Herman Henry and Sarah (Stumpff) Margretz. Her mother is a native of Pennsylvania, and her father, of Germany. The latter was killed on the battlefield, near Jackson, Tennessee, on December 17, 1863. Her mother still lives in Ripley township, Butler county.
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Ten children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ressler, of whom eight are now living-Adeline M., now the wife of J. W. Metzger, of Shell Rock; Amanda L., now the wife of Franklin Rice; Emma C., Mary J., Carrie A., Ellen S., Fred A., and Lottie E.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 697