George W. Warner
George W. Warner, a retired farmer of Greene county, now living at Fairfield, where he has made his residence since 1886, was born on a farm three miles south of Fairfield on February 27, 1843, son of Henry and Harriet (Cosad) Warner, the latter of whom was also born in this county, her parents having been pioneers in Bath township.
Henry Warner was born in the vicinity of the city of Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1803, son of George W. Warner and wife, who came to Ohio in 1826 with their family and settled in Bath township, this county. Henry Warner married here and continued to live on his father's farm after his marriage until 1845, when he moved to a farm on the Yellow Springs road, where he resided for two years, at the end of which time he moved to the village of Fairfield, but two years later returned to the old home farm. There his wife died in 1852. He survived her for many years, his death occurring in 1895. He and his wife were the parents of ten children, those besides the subject of this sketch being as follow: Mrs. Christina Koogler, of this county; John, who died in the days of his boyhood; Paul P., a resident of the Fairfield neighborhood; Aaron, deceased; Henry G., a resident of this county: Mrs. Sophia Dellinger, of Osborn; Mary Alice, deceased, who was the wife of Taylor Gerlaugh; Mrs. Elizabeth Nicholas, of Versailles, this state, and Mrs. Ann Walsh, who lives two and one-half miles southwest of Fairfield. Henry Warner, the father of these children, had bought the old home place after the death of his father and there developed a fine piece of property. His parents, George W. and Christina (Harshman) Warner, came to Ohio in 1826 and the Warners are thus one of the old famihes in Greene county.
George W. Warner, who was given his name in honor of his father's father, was reared on the home farm in Bath township and received his schooling in the neighborhood schools. After his marriage in 1866 he continued to make his home on the home place and there resided for ten years. He then moved to a farm a mile and a half west and there lived for nineteen years, or until his retirement from the farm in 1886 and removal to Fairfield, where he has since made his home. Mr. Warner is a Democrat and. fraternally, is affiliated with the local lodge of the Independent Order o{ Odd Fellows. He owned two hundred acres of land that the Conservancy Board bought, and he then went across into Clark and Montgomery counties and bought 136 acres which he used for small grain production and potatoes.
On February 6, 1866, George W. Warner was united in marriage to Elizabeth Kreider, who was born on a farm on the banks of Mad river, in the extreme northwestern part of this county, a daughter of Henry and Susan (Kirkwood) Kreider. Mr. Kreider, a blacksmith, came from Pennsylvania to Ohio in an early day and located in Montgomery county, later coming to Greene county and moving from here to Springfield, where he died. His wife died while living in Greene county. They had three children, Elizabeth, who married Mr. Warner; Susan, deceased, and Mary, who married Frank Miller. The family belonged to the Reformed church.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918