Walter Gilbert Genealogy: Henry Keltner & Katherine Wirt

98–99. Henry Keltner was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, August 13, 1789, and died in West Baltimore, Preble County, Ohio, on March 3, 1840. Katherine Wirt was born on Thursday, January 22, 1795, and died on April 28, 1867. They were married in Montgomery County, Ohio, about 1815. She took the name Katherine Keltner. He is the son of Michael and Margaret (Ripplet) Keltner. She is the daughter of Peter and Anna Maria (Rex) Wirth. They had nine children:

i.	Elizabeth Keltner: She married Elijah Barnes.
ii.	Margaret Keltner was born in Preble County, Ohio, on August 29, 1815, and died in Koscuisko County, Indiana, on July 7, 1874. She is buried in Webster Cemetery
iii.	Joseph C. Keltner was born in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, on September 11, 1817, and died in Anderson, Madison County, Indiana, on May 7, 1910.
iv.	Eliza Keltner [#49]: She was born in Preble County on August 6, 1825, and died in Kosciusko County, Indiana, on December 19, 1893.
v.	Andrew J. Keltner was born in November, 1826, and died in 1904.
vi.	Sarah Keltner was born in Ohio on April 11, 1827, and died in Kosciusko County on February 5, 1858. She married Samuel Galbreath, brother of Eliza's husband, Alexander, and son of John and Elizabeth (Aikman) Galbreath. They had two children: Jackson born March 11, 1856, and Marion born February 5, 1858; Sarah died in childbirth. Sources: Biographical and Historical Record of Kosciusko County, Indiana; and Hillcrest Cemetery Records
vii.	Emeline Keltner was born on November 14, 1834. She married John Williams.
viii.	Henry Martin Keltner was born on September 30, 1836, and died in Anderson on December 1, 1908.
ix.	Catherine Keltner was born on July 15, 1840. She married Samuel Paulus.

They resided in Preble County, Ohio. His name was sometimes given as Henry Kelchner.

Note that an Abraham Keltner had a land patent of 40 acres on November 7, 1837, in Darke County. See the Bureau of Land Management database. Also, in adjoining Shelby County, Benjamin Wirt patented 67 acres on October 7, 1835.

Sources:

World Family Tree CD-ROM #46, Tree #1275: Descendants of Michael Kelchner, which includes citations:
- Roll, Charles; Indiana: 150 Years of American Development, 1931; vol. 5, p. 399
Moran, Clara Galbreath Royse, and Good, Marie Galbreath The Descendants of John and Elizabeth Aikman Galbreath 1943, (published in 198_ by J.W. Galbreath, Collinwood, TN, titled Galbraith; Library of Congress call number: CS71.G1491980; Dewey: 929/.2/0973 ED: 20)
Research of Valda L. Galbreath: The birth and death dates and places for Henry and Catherine.
Biographical and Historical Record of Kosciusko County, Indiana
Binnie, Lester, Hillcrest Cemetery Records
The International Genealogical Index (IGI): Their marriage location.