Martha Elizabeth (Minteer) Huston (1843 - 1897)

Born 15 Aug 1843 in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, USA

Ancestors

Died 3 Jun 1897 at age 53 in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

From the memoirs of Frank Dumm:

"The first of the second part of the James Minteer family, Jane Clark's children, was a daughter, Eliza, who was born in 1842. She married Robert Huston about 1870. They had the following children: Samuel, James, Clara, Ella, and Virginia. Clara had a twin brother who died in infancy. 'Aunt Ella Huston' died in the fall of 1897. Her husband 'Uncle Robert Huston' died two or three years later. They are buried in the cemetery at Worthington. Their home had been three miles south of Worthington on the Slatelick Road."

In 1850 she lived with her parents, six brothers and sisters, and cousins Elijah and James Calvin. As mentioned elsewhere, their new house was either done or almost done.

In 1860 she still lived there with her parents and six brothers and sisters. They weren't the same six as in 1850, however. John Young was married with two children and living across the field to the west in the half of the old log house that he had moved there and fixed up. And her youngest brother Joseph was there by then--the only one of her father's eight children to be born in the new house.

In 1870 she and her parents and her brother Joseph and their brother James' daughter Margaret B "Maggie" lived in the big house where all her siblings and several cousins had grown up. Her father owned real property worth $9000 and personal property worth $2555.

In 1880 she and her husband and their four children lived on a farm in West Franklin Township, Armstrong County, PA--three miles south of Worthington on the Slate Lick Road, as Frank Dumm wrote. Also living with them were two farm hands, James Ruffner, 20, and Wesley Edwards, 24.

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62800326/martha-elizabeth-huston