Margaret (Deitsch) Kable, St. Paul Liberty Cemetery, Mercer County, Ohio. (2025 photo by Karen)

This is the tombstone of Margaret (Deitsch) Kable, located in row 5 of St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery, Liberty Township, Mercer County, Ohio. The marker is inscribed:

Margaret Kable
1845-1925

Margaret Martha Deitsch was born in Liberty Township, Mercer County, Ohio, on 6 March 1845, the daughter of John Jacob Deitsch (1814-1859) and Catharine (Deitsch) Deitsch (1821-1900). [1]

The John Jacob Deitsch family in 1850: Jacob, 37; wife Catharine, 39; children Susan, 9; Elizabeth, 8; Michael [sic], 5; Philip, 4; Catharine, 2; and William, 1 month. Margaret was enumerated as Michael in this census. Her father Jacob was a farmer. [2]

Margaret’s father died in 1859, leaving behind a widow and 10 children. Margaret was 15 years old and the third oldest child in the family. [3]

Margaret Deitsch married John Kable in Mercer County on 4 February 1869, married by St. Paul Liberty’s pastor Rev. George Heintz. [4] 

The groom John Kable was born in Bavaria on 1 December 1843 and was the son of Christian Kable (Sr) (1814-1885) and Dorothea (Maurer) Kable (1815-1904). The Kables also attended St. Paul Lutheran, Liberty Township church.

A year later John and Margaret had a baby son. The John Kable family in 1870: John, 26, Prussia; Margaret, 25, Ohio; John Kable, 2 mo, Ohio; Emma Gibson, 8, Illinois. John Kable was a farm renter. [5]

By 1880 John Kable and wife Margaret had five children: John P, 10; Sophia, 8; Christian H, 6; Jacob, 4; and William, 9 months. John was a farmer and his oldest son helped on the farm. [6]

John Kable died on 12 November 1881, at the age of 37. He was survived by his widow Margaret and 5 children under 15 years of age.

In 1900 and 1910, widow Margaret Kable’s two youngest sons, Jacob and Willie H, both single, lived with her. Both censuses indicate that Margaret had given birth to 5 children and all of them were living. [7] [8]

By 1920 widow Margaret Kable, 74, lived with her son William H, age 40, who was a farmer and single. [9]

Margaret (Deitsch) Kable never remarried and she died in Liberty Township on 6 September 1925, aged 80 years. She was buried on the 9^th in what they called Deitsch Cemetery. [1]

Margaret’s husband John is also buried in row 5, a few stones away from Margaret.

John and Margaret (Deitsch) Kable had the following children:
John P Kable (1870-1961), married Anna D. Weitz
Sophia Kable (1872-1977), married William A Bock
Christian Henry Kable (1874-1941), married Luvella “Lula” Fredericka Schmidt
Jacob Kable (1876-1970), married Bertha Helen Linn
William Henry Kable (1879-1948), married Elizabeth Katharine Anselman

[1] Ohio Death Certificates, 1925, Mercer County, Margaret Deitsch Kable, 6 Sep 1925; FamilySearch.org.

[2] 1850 U.S. Census, Ohio, Mercer, Liberty, p.287A, dwelling, family, Jacob Deistch [sic]; Ancestry.com.

[3] 1860 U.S. Census, Ohio, Mercer, Liberty, p.356, dwelling 970, family 975, Catharine Deitch [sic]; Ancestry.com.  

[4] Ohio, U.S. County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Mercer, Vol. 1861-1887, p. 212, John Kable & Martha [sic] Deitsch, 4 Feb 1869; Ancestry.com.  

[5] 1870 U.S. Census, Ohio, Mercer, Liberty, p.146A, dwelling 63, family 58, John Kable, Ancestry.com.

[6] 1880 U.S. Census, Ohio, Mercer, Liberty, ED 188, p.481A, dwelling 175, family 183, John Kable; Ancestry.com.

[7] 1900 U.S. Census, Ohio, Mercer, Liberty, ED 85, p.13, dwelling 240, family 246, Marguret [sic] Kable; Ancestry.com.

[8] 1910 U.S. Census, Ohio, Mercer, Liberty, ED 119, p.8B, dwelling 147, family 148, Margeret Kabler [sic]; Ancestry.com.

[9] 1920 U.S. Census, Ohio, Mercer, Liberty, ED 140, p.5A, dwelling 89, family 93, Wm H Kable; Ancestry.com.