According to cemetery records, he served in the Civil War.
7/30./1870 Timochee Twp, near Carey, Wyandot Co, OH. The censustaker f ound the family there that year and recorded Theodore at 31, apainter, w ith property worth $300/200. Elsie was 26 and they hadonly daughter E ffie, 3, at the time and living with them as adomestic servant was The odore's sister Maria, 28.
6/21/1880 Sycamore Twp, Wyandot Co, OH. Listed as a cabinet maker int he census, Theodore was 41 years old, "Elcy" M was 38. Theirchildren w ere Effie, 13, John M, 5, and Jennie L, 8 mo.
6/5/1900 Sycamore Twp, Wyandot Co, OH. The census recorded Theodorea t age 65 and apparently retired, Elsie was 59. They had beenmarried f or 39 years with 5 children, of which only 2 were stillliving. Living w ith them was divorced daughter, Effie Rogers, 32, andher two children, E lsie, 8, and Harry E, 1.
4/27/1910 Perkins Twp, Erie Co, OH. By the next census, 75 yearoldTh eodore was a widower and living in the Ohio Soldiers & SailorsHome.
Ohio Obituary Index, 1830s-2009, Rutherford B. Hayes PresidentialCente r
Name: Theodore Vangundy
[Theodore Van Gundy]
Birth Date: abt 1836
Death Date: 27 Apr 1911
Age at Death: 75
Death Place: Sandusky, Ohio
Newspaper: Sandusky (Oh) (Daily) Register; Seneca Advertiser; TiffinDa ily Tribune, Sandusky; Tiffin, Ohio
Newspaper Date: 03;04;29;04;29 Apr;May 1911
Newspaper Page: p. 10;5;8, col. 3;4
Years Indexed: 1842-1919;1860's-1932, 1980's, 2000-current;1887-1937
Newspaper Repository: Hayes Presidential Library - Fremont, Oh; TiffinS eneca Public Library - Tiffin, Oh; Hayes Presidential Library -Fremont , Oh; Tiffin Seneca Public Library - Tiffin, Oh
