Mary S. Kraamer
Mary S. Kraamer was born in Pennsylvania on 30 October 1825. Her parents were Michael Kraamer and Susan Shiley, both of Pennsylvania. Her grave memorial gives her name as Mary Sarah Kramer.
On 1 January 1841, near Wooster, Ohio, she married Jacob Wohlford, a farm laborer from York County, Pennsylvania. She was fifteen. They came west to Indiana and settled in Jackson Township, Huntington County.
She bore nine children: Benjamin F., Thomas J., John M., James A., Mary E., Jacob H., William F., Samuel P. and Harriet. Her three eldest sons went to the Civil War. In the autumn of 1862 she lost two children in five weeks. Benjamin died in the army at Helena, Arkansas, on 4 October. Her daughter Mary Emeline died at home on 7 November, aged twelve, and was buried at Zion under a stone naming her the daughter of J. and M. S. Wohlford.
Mary and Jacob were members of the United Brethren Church. Jacob died in 1901. Mary died in 1903 and is buried beside him at Zion Cemetery.
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Cite: Heirology, "Mary S. Kraamer (1825-1903)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/mary-s-kraamer-1825-1903-d5f871.