Levi Rader
Levi Rader, a veteran of the Civil War and former trustee of Xenia township, was born in Xenia on July 6, 1832, last-born and now the only surviving child of Adam and Christina (Smith) Rader. natives of Pennsylvania, the former of whom was born on October 28, 1787, and the latter, May 24, 1791, who were the parents of twelve children, those besides the subject of this sketch having been the following: John M., born on March 5, 1811; Joseph, September 29, 1812: David, December 23, 1813; Susanna, July 24, 1815; William, December 31, 1816; Adam, Jr., November 15. 1818; Mary Ann, July 10, 1820: Andrew, July 5, 1823; Catherine, October 5, 1825; Julia Ann, July 14, 1827, and Washington, April 15, 1829.
Reared at Xenia, Levi Rader received his schooling in the schools of that city and early learned the trade of a bricklayer, which vocation he followed all the active days of his life. He was married in 1853 and was living in Xenia when the Civil War broke out. In 1862 Mr. Rader volunteered for service at the Greene county court house in behalf of the arms of the Union and went to the front as a member of Company H, Ninety-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, attached to the Army of the Cumberland, under General Buell, and served with that command until honorably discharged two years later, at the end of which time he returned to his home in Xenia, resumed his vocation and so continued until his retirement when the weight of advancing years rendered such a course advisable. Mr. Rader is a Republican, one of the original voters in the ranks of that party, and in 1912, he then being eighty years of age, was elected trustee of Xenia township and served a term in that office, appreciating greatly the honor the people of the township had conferred upon him in his old age. Mr. Rader was reared in the Reformed church, with which church his family has ever been affiliated.
Mr. Rader has been twice married. On December 28, 1853, he was united in marriage to Sarah E. Foreman, who was born on September 30, 1834, and to that union were born six children, namely: John A., born on October 6, 1854; Clara (deceased), May 26, 1857; Kimber, February 9, 1859; Emma D., February 8, 1863; Henry P. (deceased), May 26, 1865, and Jennie K., February 14, 1867. The mother of these children died on July 9, 1868, and on March 13, 1872, Mr. Rader married Nina L. D. Fox, who died on February 16, 1906. All of Mr. Rader's surviving children are living in Ohio with the exception of John A., the eldest, who is making his home at Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Rader has three living grandchildren.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918