Mahala Catharine Heath was the daughter of Armstead Mason Heath and Sarah Jane Miller originally from Champaign Co OH who moved to Grant Co. Indiana. Mahala married Elijah Fansler on 4 July 1866 in Grant Co. Indiana . After marriage they farmed in Franklin, Grant Co IN enumerated there in the Aug 10 1870 census but misspelled as Fancier, the census was very faded and difficult to read that year.
On the 1870 census they had two children: Sarah , age 3 and Melissa age 1 and both Elijah and Mahala said they were each 26. Known children:
Sarah Dianna Fansler b. 1867 Grant Co IN m. Morton Monroe Pritchett b. 1865 IN
Lawrence M. Fansler b. 1870 IN
Florence Melissa Fansler b. 1872 IN d. 1925 Blytheville, Mississippi Co Arkansas m. ca. 1896 Isaac W Lotridge (her birth yr given on death cert is most likely off since she was age 1 in the Aug 10 1870 census).
Flora Bell Fansler b. 1874
Charles Marion Fansler b.22 June 1878 Grant Co IN d. 1 Nov 1947 Springfield, Greene Co MO
Delbert Albertus Fansler b. 13 May 1881 Indiana m. first 29 May 1898 Tippecanoe, Indiana, Emma Landes daughter of Francis Landes and Almira Burkhalter. They had one son: Alfred E. Fansler b. 1900 IND d 17 Apr 1957 Malheur OR, buried with his mother (Emma Ellen Brown) in Idaho.
Elijah and Mahala are farming in the 1880 census for Franklin, Grant Co Indiana with the following children in the household:
Sarah D, 13
Lawrence M 11
Flora Bell 6
Charles M 2
After the death of 1st wife Mahala, Elijah remarried 7 Dec 1896 Lucinda Priscilla Kesner.
On the 1870 census they had two children: Sarah , age 3 and Melissa age 1 and both Elijah and Mahala said they were each 26. Known children:
Sarah Dianna Fansler b. 1867 Grant Co IN m. Morton Monroe Pritchett b. 1865 IN
Lawrence M. Fansler b. 1870 IN
Florence Melissa Fansler b. 1872 IN d. 1925 Blytheville, Mississippi Co Arkansas m. ca. 1896 Isaac W Lotridge (her birth yr given on death cert is most likely off since she was age 1 in the Aug 10 1870 census).
Flora Bell Fansler b. 1874
Charles Marion Fansler b.22 June 1878 Grant Co IN d. 1 Nov 1947 Springfield, Greene Co MO
Delbert Albertus Fansler b. 13 May 1881 Indiana m. first 29 May 1898 Tippecanoe, Indiana, Emma Landes daughter of Francis Landes and Almira Burkhalter. They had one son: Alfred E. Fansler b. 1900 IND d 17 Apr 1957 Malheur OR, buried with his mother (Emma Ellen Brown) in Idaho.
Elijah and Mahala are farming in the 1880 census for Franklin, Grant Co Indiana with the following children in the household:
Sarah D, 13
Lawrence M 11
Flora Bell 6
Charles M 2
After the death of 1st wife Mahala, Elijah remarried 7 Dec 1896 Lucinda Priscilla Kesner.
Mahala Catharine Heath was the daughter of Armstead Mason Heath and Sarah Jane Miller originally from Champaign Co OH who moved to Grant Co. Indiana. Mahala married Elijah Fansler on 4 July 1866 in Grant Co. Indiana . After marriage they farmed in Franklin, Grant Co IN enumerated there in the Aug 10 1870 census but misspelled as Fancier, the census was very faded and difficult to read that year.
On the 1870 census they had two children: Sarah , age 3 and Melissa age 1 and both Elijah and Mahala said they were each 26. Known children:
Sarah Dianna Fansler b. 1867 Grant Co IN m. Morton Monroe Pritchett b. 1865 IN
Lawrence M. Fansler b. 1870 IN
Florence Melissa Fansler b. 1872 IN d. 1925 Blytheville, Mississippi Co Arkansas m. ca. 1896 Isaac W Lotridge (her birth yr given on death cert is most likely off since she was age 1 in the Aug 10 1870 census).
Flora Bell Fansler b. 1874
Charles Marion Fansler b.22 June 1878 Grant Co IN d. 1 Nov 1947 Springfield, Greene Co MO
Delbert Albertus Fansler b. 13 May 1881 Indiana m. first 29 May 1898 Tippecanoe, Indiana, Emma Landes daughter of Francis Landes and Almira Burkhalter. They had one son: Alfred E. Fansler b. 1900 IND d 17 Apr 1957 Malheur OR, buried with his mother (Emma Ellen Brown) in Idaho.
Elijah and Mahala are farming in the 1880 census for Franklin, Grant Co Indiana with the following children in the household:
Sarah D, 13
Lawrence M 11
Flora Bell 6
Charles M 2
After the death of 1st wife Mahala, Elijah remarried 7 Dec 1896 Lucinda Priscilla Kesner.
On the 1870 census they had two children: Sarah , age 3 and Melissa age 1 and both Elijah and Mahala said they were each 26. Known children:
Sarah Dianna Fansler b. 1867 Grant Co IN m. Morton Monroe Pritchett b. 1865 IN
Lawrence M. Fansler b. 1870 IN
Florence Melissa Fansler b. 1872 IN d. 1925 Blytheville, Mississippi Co Arkansas m. ca. 1896 Isaac W Lotridge (her birth yr given on death cert is most likely off since she was age 1 in the Aug 10 1870 census).
Flora Bell Fansler b. 1874
Charles Marion Fansler b.22 June 1878 Grant Co IN d. 1 Nov 1947 Springfield, Greene Co MO
Delbert Albertus Fansler b. 13 May 1881 Indiana m. first 29 May 1898 Tippecanoe, Indiana, Emma Landes daughter of Francis Landes and Almira Burkhalter. They had one son: Alfred E. Fansler b. 1900 IND d 17 Apr 1957 Malheur OR, buried with his mother (Emma Ellen Brown) in Idaho.
Elijah and Mahala are farming in the 1880 census for Franklin, Grant Co Indiana with the following children in the household:
Sarah D, 13
Lawrence M 11
Flora Bell 6
Charles M 2
After the death of 1st wife Mahala, Elijah remarried 7 Dec 1896 Lucinda Priscilla Kesner.
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