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Subject: [OHFAIRFI-L] Re: Stultz marriage / ca. 1885
Date: 19 Oct 2003 16:17:11 -0600
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The Stultz family entry in the 1880 census confuses me. Both Noah and his older brother, Peter, were returned as married, but they have no wives in the household. Their mother is listed as a widow, so if their wives were dead, why weren't they listed as being widowers?
Noah Stultz did marry on 1 Dec. 1877 to Melvina Zeigler, in Fairfield County - so was she dead in 1880 or just not living in the Stultz household? I quess a census search for Melvina Stultz is in order.
If Noah did not marry until 1877, then 7 year old John (of the 1880 census return) would not be his son, but probably the son of his older brother, Peter.
In 1870 Peter was not a part of the paternal Stoltz household (Noah's father Samuel, his mother, Elizabeth, Noah, Lewis and sister, Emily). I am assuming he was the head of his own household with a wife, and possibly children.
Jesse Ricketts was at least 30 years older than Ophelia, and she wasn't yet 20 years old when she married. Knowing human nature, it is easy to see how she may have been taken by a man more her own age, who lived close by.
Thank you for replying to my query.
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