Susanah Lantz

1828-1908 · Virginia

Born 1828, Rockingham County, Virginia

Died 1908

Children include Anna

Susanah Lantz was born on 19 May 1828, in Rockingham County, Virginia, as her memorial gives it. On 28 January 1847, at 18, she married Moses R. Keplinger in Hardy County. The minister Benjamin Stickley listed their wedding in his return to the county clerk, among the couples he married that winter.

They farmed near Maysville, in the part of Hardy County that became Grant County, West Virginia. Their children were Mary Ann (1847), Martin (1849), Jonathan Matthew (1852), Wilson (1855), Anna (1858), Sarah (1861) and Mahala (1863). Consumption, the old name for tuberculosis, went through the family. Sarah died in 1879, Mahala in 1884, Wilson in 1885 and Jonathan in 1891. Moses died of blood poisoning in January 1892, and Martin died of consumption three months later. In 1903 Anna died of it too, at 45.

Susan lived on as a widow at Maysville. She died there of cancer of the stomach on 10 November 1908, aged 80 years, 5 months and 21 days. She is buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery, Maysville, under a stone that reads "Susan, wife of Moses Keplinger".

Children

Anna Keplinger 1858-1903

Sources

Find a Grave, memorials 37480292 and 37480373, photograph captioned "Susan Lantz and Moses Keplinger", added by Sharon Shockey Wetzel

Grant County, West Virginia, Register of Marriages, page 29, 1882; West Virginia Archives and History, Vital Research Records, film 810250, image 49

Grant County, West Virginia, Register of Deaths, page 59, 1903; West Virginia Archives and History, Vital Research Records, film 809857, image 88

Grant County, West Virginia, Register of Deaths, page 38, 1892; West Virginia Archives and History, Vital Research Records, film 809857, image 65

Hardy County, Virginia, marriage returns, minister's return of Benjamin Stickley, 1847; West Virginia Archives and History, Vital Research Records, film 1846255, image 60

Find a Grave, memorial 37480373, Susan Lantz Keplinger, Mount Hebron Cemetery, Maysville, photograph added by hmoore, 2009

Hardy County minister's return of Benjamin Stickley, 1847 (West Virginia Archives and History, film 1846255, image 60); Grant County Register of Deaths 1903, page 59, line 39 (film 809857, image 88), and 1908, page 71 (film 809857, image 101); Find a Grave memorial 37480373

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