Abraham Rinehart
Abraham Rinehart, deceased, was born in Greenbrier County, Virginia, January 27, 1801. He was a son of Peter and Barbara Rinehart, who came to Ohio in 1804, and located in Fairfield County, remaining until in 1826 or '7, when they came to Shelby County and settled in Perry Township, where they passed the remainder of their days. Peter Rinehart served in the war of 1812. He was a native of Germany, and came to America with his parents a short time prior to the war of 1776. His father was killed while serving in the Continental army during the Revolutionary War. Abraham Rinehart, subject of this sketch, was brought to Ohio by his parents in 1804. In 1824 he married Miss Catharine Bretz, of Fairfield County, where she was born in 1802, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Bretz. Mr. and Mrs. Rinehart settled in Fairlield County and remained until 1831, when they came to Shelby County, and settled on a piece of land one and a half miles north of Sidney, on which he lived about one year, or until 1832, when he moved to Sidney, where his companion died in October, 1836, leaving him with a family of four small children, viz., David B., Anna, Barbara, and Elizabeth. Barbara is now deceased. Elizabeth, now Mrs. Levi Ewing, resides in Sidney. Anna, now Mrs. John Key, lives in Perry Township. David B. resides in Hardin, Shelby County. In May, 1845, Mr. Rinehart married Miss Elizabeth Consoliver, of Shelby County, by whom he had six children, three of whom are now living—Jacob F., now a citizen of Texas; John W., now a resident of Sidney; and Benjamin W., who lives in Pemberton, this county. In 1855 or ’6, he moved to Pemberton, Perry Township, where he died in November, 1877.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883