From The Somerset Press, Somerset Ohio, Friday, January 7, 1876

OBITUARY
ADAM KLINGLER
Died near Somerset, O., on the 1st day of January, 1876, ADAM KLINGLER, aged 81 years, 3 months and 2 days
In Father Klingler we have lost another of the few links in the chain that binds us to the early history of northern Perry. Soon the last of our fathers will have fallen asleep and the chain that brings us in contact with that most interesting period in the history of our country, when our fathers through much toil and many privations, began to subdue the forest, and lay the foundation stones for future homes for themselves and their children, will be forever broken. There is something in the thought of being cut loose from the past by the death of our fathers and mothers that always makes us feel sad, when we think of it. Who does not love to hear from the lips of those relics of the past, the story of their emigration from the East, of their arrival in the then far western forest, the building of the first cabin, and sad privations of frontier life; as well as a thousand other stories connected with their early history in developing the resources of their early forest homes. No man can write these things as they can tell them, and therefore our children will be deprived of the richest source of historical knowledge so far as the early settlement of this part of our State is concerned.
Father Klingler, the subject of this notice, was born in Center county, Pa., September 19, 1794. He was married to Miss Eve Feidler in 1815 with whom he had twelve children. In the year 1817, with seventeen others, he left his native State, and came west to Ohio-locating on the farm where he ended the journey of his life, after a residence of nearly sixty years. He was possessed of characteristics which endeared him to all who made his acquaintance. He did not live for himself only but, for others also. He was the kindest of fathers, the best of neighbors, and no one ever appealed to him when in want, without fiinding a friend in him. In his dealing with others he was most honorable, in fact few men cling so closely to the golden rule, as he did, in his relations to others. At the age of sixteen years he was instructed in the doctrines and duties of our holy religion according to the custom of the Reformed church, after which he was received into full communion with the Reformed church. After coming to the west to find for himself and family a temporal home, he with others at once began the work, of building for themselves a spiritual home. He was one of the first in the organization of the Zion's Reformed congregation, which he was a faithful member for nearly sixty years, much of the time an active elder. To advance the interest of the church, he did not spare his time, his counsel, nor his money. He saw all his children who lived to proper age, active workers in the church, which to him was a source of the greatest pleasure. His last struggle in life was but a short duration, but he was by no means off his guard. A few days pervious to his death he contracted a cold which immediately involved his lungs to such extent that he was speedily brought to the end of his journey in life. For several days it was difficult to tell whether he or his aged companion in life would first be called to their eternal home,(she being seriously ill for several weeks, and is now trembling between life and death). It was a sad sight, yet pleasing to see how these aged parents clung together to the very last. They could not bear to be out of each other's sight, even to the last, and the comfort of the mother of four score years is that she will soon join her husband in a better home. His funeral services were conducted by his pastor, Rev. C.W. Hoyman, assisted by Rev. Jacob Klingler of Stoutsville, O., at Zion's church, in the presence of a large concourse of people on the first Sunday in January.

1860 Somerset Post Office, Hopewell Twp., Perry Co., Oh.
Klingler, Adam, 65, farmer, born in Pa.
Elizabeth, 63, born in Pa.
Hannah, 19, born in Oh.
Binkley, B. Franklin, 13, born in Oh.

1870 Thornville Post Office, Hopewell Twp., Perry Co., Oh.
Klingler, Adam, 75, Farmer, born in Pa.
Elizabeth, 74, keeping house, born in Pa.