Heirology

Ancestors

Mary Patterson

b. 1817
Born 1817, Pennsylvania
Children include Lucien

Mary Patterson married Smiley Harbaugh on 14 March 1839 in Warwick Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and was alive at Coshocton in 1850, aged thirty three and born in Pennsylvania.

Two other Pattersons were in that house with her: Ellen, eighteen, and Olivia, twelve. Nobody says who they were, and the 1850 census does not ask, but two young women of a bride's surname living in her husband's house are most likely her sisters.

The household came apart within two years. Her daughter Janietta died on 17 March 1851, aged five, and her son Denis on 9 July 1851. Their stones in Oak Ridge Cemetery at Coshocton call them a daughter and a son "of S. & M. Harbaugh." Mary herself was dead by March 1852, when Smiley married again. Her eldest, Lucian, was about eleven, and a family history says he was raised from that age by a John Dayton.

Her name survives on her own marriage record, on her children's stones as M., and in the mouth of her son, who gave it as Mary Patterson on one licence and as Ellen Patterson on the next one thirteen months later. He was seventy six by then. A Harbaugh family history of 1947 joined the two and called her Mary Ellen Patterson, 1817 to 1850. That may be right, or it may be the history combining his two answers.

Sources

Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016, Smiley Harbaugh and Mary Patterson, Warwick Township, Tuscarawas County, 14 March 1839. Ohio, County Marriages, Smiley Harbaugh and Margarett F. Willett, Coshocton County, 21 March 1852. Ohio, Marriages, 1800-1958, Smiley Harbaugh and Rachel Stockman, Coshocton County, 2 February 1864.
United States Census, 1850, Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio, dwelling 88, household of Smiley Harbaugh, line 26.
Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016, Lucien Harbaugh and Missouri Eveline Anness, Hamilton County, 5 August 1914, page 249. Indiana, Marriages, 1811-2019, Lucian Harbaugh and Ella S. Woodruff, Dearborn County, 8 October 1915.
Coshocton County, Ohio, Probate Administrator Records 1869-1883; Probate Records 1866-1872 (sales and inventories); Deeds 1869-1870 and Deeds 1860-1861. Found through FamilySearch full text.
Ohio county marriages, Tuscarawas County, 1839; 1850 census, Coshocton, dwelling 88; Lucien Harbaugh's marriages, Hamilton County, Ohio, 1914, and Dearborn County, Indiana, 1915; Find a Grave memorials 274459214 and 274459270, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Coshocton; Cora Bell Harbaugh Cooprider, Harbaugh History: A Directory, Genealogy and Source Book of Family Records (1947), archive.org harbaughhistoryd00coop, family 2085, page 363

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