Margaret (Slusher) Bennett (1797 - 1883)

Born 12 Jan 1797 in Amwell Township, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Wife of William H Bennett Jr — married 18 Jan 1817 in Washington Co., PA

Descendants

Died 16 May 1883 at age 86 in Richland Township, Guernsey, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Margaret (Slusher) Bennett was a settler in Ohio.

Margaret (Slusher) Bennett lived in Appalachia, in Ohio.

Margaret Slusher or Schlosser was born in Washington County, Pennslyvania, the daughter of Christoffel and Christina Schlosser.^[1] She married William H Bennett.

Margaret and William settled in Guernsey County, Ohio, where Margaret can be found living with William and her family in 1850 and 1870.^[2][3]

By 1880, Margaret was widowed, although she remained in Richland Township, Guernsey County, Ohio. There, she was listed as an 83 year old widow, born in Pennsylvania, and living with her daughter, M.J., then 41 years old and born in Ohio. According to the census, her father was born in Virginia and her mother in Maryland, and M. J.'s father was born in Maryland and her mother in Virginia.^[4]

She is burried in Kennonsburg Methodist Church Cemetery in Kennonsburg, Noble County, Ohio.^[5]

Margaret was born about 1795. She passed away about 1883.

Sources

1. ↑ "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6CTY-96DT : 11 January 2021), Margareta Schlosser, 1799.
2. ↑ 1850 US Census, population schedule, Wright Township, Guernsey County, Ohio, Page ID: 323, Line 10, Household ID: 2516, Margaret Bennett; digital image, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX3M-WQ6 : accessed 7 July 2022); NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ United States Census, 1870, population schedule, Richland Township, Guernsey County, Ohio, Page ID: 5, Line No. 2, Household ID: 29, Margaret Bennett, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6VV-2D2: 7 July 2022); The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
4. ↑ United States Census, 1880, population schedule, Richland Township, Guernsey County, Ohio, Page ID: 226C, Line No.: 18, Household ID: 68, Margret Bennett; database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8MK-W8V : 14 January 2022); NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm.
5. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110815519/margaret-bennett : accessed 07 July 2022), memorial page for Margaret Slusher Bennett (28 Dec 1796–16 May 1883), Find A Grave: Memorial #110815519, citing Kennonsburg Methodist Church Cemetery, Kennonsburg, Noble County, Ohio, USA ; Maintained by Find a Grave.

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