Luranah (Young) Hough (1813 - 1907)

Born 28 Feb 1813 in New Hampshire, United States

Wife of John H. Hough — married 21 Mar 1836 in Dover, New Hampshire

Died 13 Sep 1907 at age 94 in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States

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Biography

Luranah was born in New Hampshire in 1813, the daughter of Joseph Young.

She was living in Dover, New Hampshire in 1833, when she married Nathaniel Hobbs there on July 14, 1833.^[1] They had one child, a son named Nathaniel Jr., in 1834.

She remarried in 1836 to John Hough. ^[2] They remained in Dover for some years before removing to Malden, Massachusetts, by 1850. ^[3] Her death record says she was the mother of 14 children.

After the death of her husband, she moved to Chicago, Illinois, where she was living with her grandson Harry in 1900. She died in 1907, at the Women's Hospital in Grand Falls, Michigan, at the age of 93 years. ^[4] She was buried at the Salem Street Cemetery in Malden with her husband.

Sources

1. ↑ "New Hampshire Marriages, 1720-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDLS-FB2 : 31 December 2014), Nathaniel Hobbs and Susanah Young, 14 Jul 1833
2. ↑ "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL6L-FL3 : 12 December 2014), John Hough and Luraina Hobbs, 31 Mar 1826
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MD91-RR7 : 9 November 2014), Lurana Hough in household of John Hough, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
4. ↑ State of Michigan Death Records, “Seeking Michigan”, online database

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MH6Y-BWP : 11 August 2016), Lurana Hough in household of John Hough, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
• 1900 United States Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1900; Census Place: Chicago Ward 4, Cook, Illinois; Roll: T623_248; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 101.
• “Collections of the Dover, N.H. Historical Society”, 1894, transcribed by Maggie Coleman (http://genealogytrails.com/newham/strafford/oldbookmarriages.html)