Stephen L MINNER
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[14459] [S221] Personal notes of Cheryl Bertelsen
Stephen L MINNER 
Josephine S MINNER
Mary E MINNER
John Wesley MINNER
+William H. MINNER
Edgar (Edward) MINNER
+Eugene MINNER
Authur N MINNER
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1840 Census Stephen Minnon Mispillion Kent Co DE
1850 Census Two Stephen Minners Kent Co DE this Stephen and the Stephen married to Nancy McNatt
1850 Census Dover, Kent Co, p170 #1266
Samuel KIMMEY 47 DE
Mary 32 DE
Fanny 8 DE
Mary3 DE
Stephen MINNER 23 DE (BORN 1827)
POSSIBLE THEORY ON FATHER OF THIS STEPHEN one of the sons of Stephen and Nancy McNatt:
William or Hezekial. Since there is a strong linage of Williams in the Minner family, I will target William Minner as the possible father of Stephen buried in Byron Zion Kenton DE
1853 Named as son in his father's will and is bequeathed $5 [unsure of this connection]
1860 Census Dover, Kent Co, p46 #319
Stephen is 32 $1000, Eliza 22, Josephine 8, John 3, Willie 2 Living with them is a Pat Woodall 32 Seamstress, Julia Woodall 7, Henry Woodall, 5, Walter Woodall 3, Peter Steel 22 Labor, Eliza Steel 18 labor, John Johnson 11 Labor, Violetta White 11 FB
1880Name: Stephen MINNER
Age: 54
Estimated birth year: <1826>
Birthplace: Delaware
Occupation: Farmer
Relationship to head-of-household: Self
Home in 1880: Kenton, Kent, Delaware
Marital status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Spouse's name: Eliza MINNER
Father's birthplace: DE
Mother's birthplace: DE
Cannot read/write: View Image
Blind: View Image
Deaf and dumb: View Image
Otherwise disabled: View Image
Idiotic or insane: View Image
Image Source: Year: 1880; Census Place: Kenton, Kent, Delaware; Roll: T9_117; Family History Film: 1254117; Page: 332A; Enumeration District: 43; Image: 0386.
1882 Stephen Minner listed in Peninsular Director Kenton DE
1884 Sept 10 Q6 112: Stephen buys 163 acres from Charles Lecompt for the sum of $187.50 begins at the public road leaving from Blackistons Cross Roads to Masseys Cross Roads and the road running from the above named road to what is known as Thomas Corner near lands of the late John German.
1901,September 20 The estate of Stephen Minner was filed in Kent Co DE. Wife Eliza Minner is administratrix of the probate for her husband. The following children signed the probate Josephine S. Minner, Mary E. Middleton, Eugene Minner (all of Kent Co, DE), Author N Minner of NC Co DE, William Minner of Kent Co MD, Edgar Minner of town of Palmyra NJ.
It lists the siblings, the name of his wife, and signatures of the entire family. The estate totaled out at $1804.42. Most of his outstanding bills were legal fees and burial. $90 to Faries and Son Undertakers, $11.36 Kent Co Insurance Company, $119 to James Luvleott mortgage up to Aug 30,1900.
The Minner gravesite in Bryn Zion Cemetery Kenton DE is at the far-left back near some trees bordering a field. There is a large center monument (round column) and three head stones, far left "Stephen" next to that "Eliza" two spaces and then a "John Wesley" their son.
Look up the Kent Mutual Insurance record on Stephen Minner Dover 1461 18640101 y n St Jones Neck at the Dover State Archives. This record has been miss labeled at the Archives in Dover.
Historical Marker at Bryn Zion site states that the Old School Baptist Church was established in 1733, Build the church in 1771, rebuilt in 1871 and destroyed by storm in 1942.
Starves page 1125-"The oldest church in the hundred is the Old Duck Creek of Bryn Zion Church, about three-quarters of a mile northeast of the town of Kenton. About 1733 eight or nine families (chiefly members of Welsh Track Church) made a settlement at Duck Creek, in Kent County, from whence the same religion spread south ward to Cowmarsh and Mispillion, westward to Georgetown in Maryland and eastward to Fast Landing. Services were held by these settlers, and occasionally a minister from the Welsh Tract would preach to them." [Look into the Welsh Track information]
1900 September 29 Smyrna Times: "Death of Stephen Minner:--A well known resident of the vicinity, Stephen Minner, died on his farm near Blackiston Cross Road on Thursday last after a weeks illness, in the 73rd year of his age. He had been a sufferer for some time with chronic diarrhea but the sudden carrying off was from an attack of paralysis. Mr. Minner was held in high esteem in his neighborhood, was a good and successful farmer and would the popular wish have been regarded, it would have been for him to round up his four score of years before taking his departure. The remains were interred Sunday morning in the family burying lot at Bryn Zion Church, Rev G R Ellis officiating. He leaves besides his widow, six children-Miss Josephine, Mrs. B F Middleton, W H., Edwin, Eugene, and Arthur Minner. Eugene remains home with his mother and will most likely succeed his father on the farm."
The best information I have found is the first MINNER immigrant is Samuel MINOR. He came to Maryland from England in 1661. Thomas Taylor was awarded 700 acres Patent L8F507 along Nanticoke River and Taylor's Creek in Dorchester County. 300 of those acres were for transporting John Taylor, his son, Francis Taylor, Samuel Minor, Margaret Vanmerssa, Arthur Nuthall and Mary (another servant). Descendents have spelled the surname with many variations (Minner, Minners, Miner, Miners, Minor, Minors, Minish, and Minich). I have linked my family back to Peter MINNERS, who is mentioned as living adjacent to Peter Taylor, Thomas Taylor, and John Taylor in land records 1707-1710. The close connection of Peter Minners and his sons to the Taylors strengthens the probability that Samuel MINOR is either Peter Minners' father or grandfather. In 1725, an indenture was signed by John MINNERS to Peter Taylor for land along the Great Choptank River. This John is very likely the son of Peter MINNERS. I have only sketchy data on MINNER descendents mostly from land and indenture records. None of them seemed to have had enough earthly belongings to bother with a WILL and I have not even found a probate record until 1767. So the MINNER family came from very humble beginnings and stayed in the Eastern Shore Maryland and Delaware 200 years before migrating west. In fact, the surname MINNER, though rare, is still more common in Delaware than in any other state in the US.
Cheryl Berthelsen
[1207] [S42] Personal notes Leslie Minner Walls
[1204] [S5] Tatnal Tombstone microfilm records 1930
[1205] [S63] Tombstone Bryn Zion Cemetery Rt 300 east of Kenton DE
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| _William Lewis STONESIFER ______________________+
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| _George Washington STONESIFER carpenter near Mayberry_|
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| | |_Rachel BANKERT lived with her sister Susanna B_+
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