Prof. Holtzclaw had some information on the later generations of Riners, most of it from correspondents. We are now in the fourth generation from Johann Dietrich, the immigrant, who is the first generation.
Simeon Reiner (John, Christian, Johann Dietrich) was born in 1799 (by the census), and died after 1850 in Monroe Co., now a part of WV. It is said that he went to WV with his mother and seven sisters. He married, first, Mary Thompson and, second, Jane Brown in 1847. By the first marriage he had eleven children. One of these, a girl, married Allen Fleshman. By the second marriage there were three children. In the 1850 census, the family was:
Other children were Jureta, who married Allen Fleshman (John, Peter, Peter, Cyriacus), and three more from the first marriage, whose names are unknown. From the second marriage, there were Henry and two others, names unknown.
John Reiner (Daniel, Christian, Johann Dietrich) was born 8 Jul 1789, in Madison Co., VA, and died 4 Oct 1872, in Franklin Co., KY. He served in the War of 1812. He married, first, in Orange Co., VA, Frances Ann Overton (14 Aug 1798), on 12 Dec 1817. She was the daughter of Obadiah and Eleanor (Crow) Overton. John married, second, in Franklin Co., KY, Mrs. Elizabeth Kephart, a widow formerly of Maryland, by whom he had no children. Issue of John Reiner and Frances Ann Overton:
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