If your family has lived in Defiance County for 100 years or more, we invite you to apply for a Centennial Families designation to honor them. It's easy to apply; details follow.
These citizens have already been so named and their certificate awarded to the descendant/ researcher who applied:
Ayers, Elicum
Bayes, Catherine Holey
Bayes, Howard Leroy "Roy" and Sarah Ellen "Ella" Fickle Bayes
Bayes, Thomas
Bayes, William P.
Burgbacher, John W. and Louise Vollmer
Burgbacher, John and Catherine Hornish
Burgbacher, Herman F.
Burgbacher, Harold and Clara C. Hoch
Childs, George
Deckrosh, Christian
Dreher, Carrie E.
Durfey, Maria Iona Miller
Gorman, Bernard John
Gorman, Edmund Benedict and Eliza J. Carney
Gorman, Michael
Gorman Sophia Hovestadt
Gusler, David and Susannah
Helfrick, John
Himes, William Marion
Kistner, Jacob and John George
Kniss, John
Kurtz, Jacob
Kurtz, Louisa
Long, John Thomas
Mason, George Childs
Miller, Jacob C. and Louisa Heller Miller
Miller, Jacob and Vernia Walter Miller
NIcely, Effie
Nolan, John
Pask, Joseph George
Polter, August and Wilhelmina
Sanford, Samuel R. and Annzonetta M. "Nettie" Spencer
Scranton, James A.
Scranton, Ward E.
Smith, Anthony Bennett
Smith, John B.
Smith, Stanley Robert
Stuckman, Isaac
Swartz, Lewis/Louis
Todd, Edward and Frances
Toenjes, Henry John
Veith, Carl A.
Walter, Jacob and Vernia Walter Miller
Walter, John
Walters, Goldie Lovejoy
Walters, John and Orpha Gusler Walters
Walters, Nicholas and Elizabeth Margaret Roth Walters
Walters, Perry "Roy" and Carrie Polter Walters
Wilhelm, Harrison Henry
Wilhelm, Henry
Wilhelm, Walter and Frances
The Centennial Family designation honors those who were in Defiance County one hundred or more years ago from the present date.
To apply:
1. Fill out the application form found on our website.
2. Only Defiance County Genealogical members may apply. Join our society!
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3. Explain your connection to this family by blood or marriage, or if unrelated, present some of your research.
4. Send a copy of a document that proves the person or family has lived in Defiance County for 100 years from the present date.
When approved a Centennial Families certificate will be presented or sent to you, honoring your ancestor, and that person will be added to the Centennial Family roll.
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