NOTES: Since Heinrich3 Arner (Heinrich2, Ulrich1) moved to Kingston, DeKalb, Illinois before he died, and is believed to have been buried at the cemetery donated by the Aurner and Dibble families, it seemed likely that most, if not all, of the five Aurner families in Sturgis, St. Joseph, Michigan and/or Kingston were sons, or at least nephews, of Heinrich. The fact that all of these Arner families, and no others, moved to the same locations in Michigan and/or Illinois would seem to indicate that they must be a family group. However, there are several other instances (in other branches of the Arner family) of cousins joining a family group in a certain location, and brothers not joining that family group. So I created a list of the main families in Sturgis and Kingston, and a worksheet of Heinrich and his brothers showing the numbers of minors that had been enumerated with each of them in all of the censuses from 1800 to 1830. I then compared that with the previously known lists of their children, just to see if it was possible to place all of the Arner men in Sturgis and Kingston into these families. As it turned out, it was not only possible, but four of them fit perfectly into Heinrich’s known family, and all of them would fit into his family, based on birthdates alone.
[Since doing this
worksheet, I found baptismal records, etc and was able to fill in the families
of Henry’s brothers. If I had found those records first, there would have been
no need for this worksheet 
; but since it was already done, I’ve
updated it and posted it anyway. It still serves to show how well the lists of
children match up to the census listings. Except that there is still a chance
that Leonard Aurner (instead of Lawrence Arner) might be the son of John
instead of Heinrich.]
Below are the Aurner heads of households in Sturgis and Kingston that I needed to place. I listed the approximate dates that they were born, and the approximate dates that they were known to have moved to different states (mainly from census records), just in case that info was needed to help find them. Then I compared their birthdates with the worksheet of Heinrich and his brothers (excluding Philip3 Arner, of Mahoning County, Ohio whose children were already well-known and accounted for).
These
are the five Aurner heads of families:
Michael Aurner Jacob Aurner Philip Aurner Leonard Aurner John B. Aurner
b. c1790-95 PA b. Sep 1800 PA b. c1805 PA b. Jul 1810 PA b. Jan 1818 PA
(widow) 1834-35 NY 1820s NY 1832-35 MI 1830s MI
1840-60 IL 1837-38 OH 1832-33 MI 1839 IL 1841-42 IL
1843-45 IL 1850s IA
These are the four possible Arner parents of the above Aurner men:
Heinrich, b. 1765, lived in Armstrong County, PA, then in Lycoming County, PA.
Wife, b. 1774.
Male 1790-1800________________________________________________________}_Henry F., Sep 1792
Male 1790-1800________________________________________________________} Male 1790-1800 (Michael)
Male 1790-1800 Male 1794-1800 Male 1794-1802____________________George, Aug 1796
Female 1790-1800 Female 1794-1800_____________________________________Catherine, Jun 1798
Male 1800-10_______________________________________}_Male 1800-10 (Jacob)
Male 1800-10_______________________________________} David, Sep 1802
Male 1800-10 Male 1804-10______________________Male 1804-10 (Philip)
Female 1804-10____________________Female 1804-10
Male 1810-20 ?Male 1815-20____Male 1810-20 } (Leonard)
} (John B.)
John, b. 1775, lived in Columbiana County, OH.
Wife, b. 1777?.
Female 1794-1804__________________Female 1794-1804
Male 1794-1802____________________Jacob, Dec 1799
Male 1794-1802____________________John, Mar 1801
Male 1802-04______________________Daniel, c1802-05
Male 1804-10 Male 1800-10_____Andrew, c1807
Female 1804-10____________________?Glory, 1804-10
Male 1804-10 Male 1800-10_____?Lawrence, c1810
Female 1810-20____________________Catherine, c1812
Male 1810-20 Male 1810-15_____Lewis, c1814
Male 1810-20 Male 1815-20_____Peter, c1815
Female 1810-20 Female 1815-20___Mary, c1817
Female 1810-20 Female 1815-20___Hannah, c1819
David, b. 1778, lived in Westmoreland County, PA, then in Mercer County, PA.
Wife, b. 1789?.
Male 1794-1802____________________Tobias, Feb 1802
Male 1804-10______________________Jacob, Mar 1804
Female 1804-10____________________Elizabeth, Oct 1806
Catharina, Oct 1809
Male 1810-20 Male 1810-15_____David, Jul 1812
Male 1810-20 Male 1810-15_____Paul, Aug 1814
Male 1810-20______________________Johannes, Dec 1816
Male 1810-20 Male 1815-20_____George, Aug 1819
Female 1820-25___Leah, Sep 1821
Female 1820-25___Sarah, 1825
Female 1825-30___Lovina, Apr 1827
Male 1825-30_____Absalom, Sep 1829
Leonard, b. 1787, lived in Westmoreland County, PA, then in Armstrong County, PA.
Wife, b. 1787?.
Female 1800-10_______________________________________Female 1800-10
Female 1800-10 Female 1804-10____________________Catharina, Mar 1807
Female 1810-20____________________Elisabetha, May 1810
Female 1810-20____________________Female 1810-20
Male 1810-20______________________John, Jul 1815
Male 1810-20 Male 1815-20_____Lewis, Sep 1817
Male 1810-20 Male 1815-20_____Philip, May 1820
Male 1820-25_____Henry, c1822
Female 1820-25___Esther, Apr 1824
Female 1825-30___Magdalena, Dec 1825
Female 1825-30___Martha, c1827
Susanna, c1828
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