Elias Ressler

RESSLER, ROADS, HORNSHER, PENNEPECKER, NETTLETON

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 5/19/2004 at 22:33:28

Elias Ressler is a son of Jacob and Esther (Roads) Ressler. He was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, August 27, 1823. He was reared on a farm, and his education was received in the common schools of his county. At the age of eighteen he began learning the blacksmith’s trade, and after his apprenticeship was served, he followed that occupation while living in that State.
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In 1865 he came west, and located at Sterling, Whiteside county, Illinois, where he remained six years. While there he worked in a machine shop. In 1871 he came to Butler county, Iowa, and settled on section 14, Shell Rock township, where he now owns forty acres of land.
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Mr. Ressler has held the office of school director. He was married, in February, 1852, to Miss Hannah Pennepecker, who is a native of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and is a daughter of Henry and Catherine (Hornsher) Pennepecker, natives of the same county. Her mother died in 1859, and her father in 1875. Seven children have been born to the, five of whom are now living-Emma, Melinda, now the wife of Roland Nettleton, of Shell Rock; Franklin J., Charles, and Minnie May. Mary Elizabeth died October 16, 1855; Thaddeus Stevens, died October 17, 1872. Mr. Ressler’s mother died in 1838, and his father in 1880.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 704