Malinda Catherine Smith ^{1 2 3 4 5}

  General Notes:

First husband, Francis Jefferson Fast; 9 Feb 1823-1877, Second husband, Jacob R. Zent.
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  Noted events in her life were:

1. 1850 US Census, 12 August 1850, Springfield Township, Jefferson, Ohio, United States. ² 1850 US Census
Page 430B, Roll 699, Dwelling 722, Family 748
Springfield Township, Jefferson County, Ohio
Marunda Fast..20..OH
(Living with husband and daughter.)

NOTE - If her birth date was 10 Aug 1830, then her age should have been 19 instead of 20.

2. 1860 US Census, 22 June 1860, Jackson Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States. ³ 1860 US Census
Page 91, Roll 267, Dwelling 614, Family 613
Jackson Township, Huntington County, Indiana
Melinda J. Fast..30..OH
(Living with husband and 6 children.)

NOTE - If her birth date was 10 Aug 1830, then her age should have been 29 instead of 30.

3. 1880 US Census, 5 June 1880, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States. ⁴ 1880 US Census
Page 85C, District 225, Dwelling 104, Roll 0608
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan
North University Avenue
Melinde Fast..49..OH..Farmer..Disease of eye
(Widowed and staying at 6th Ward of the University Hospital)

4. Cemetery: Glenwood Cemetery, 27 December 1901, Roanoke, Huntington, Indiana, United States. ⁵ Plot Sec. J, Lot 18
Find A Grave Memorial 26527485

Malinda married Francis Jefferson Fast, son of John George Fast and Susannah Shough, on 6 January 1848 in Jefferson, Ohio, United States.¹ (Francis Jefferson Fast was born on 9 February 1823 in Ohio, United States,^{3 6} died on 3 October 1877 ⁶ and was buried after 3 October 1877 in Roanoke, Huntington, Indiana, United States ⁶.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

1. 1850 US Census, 12 August 1850, Springfield Township, Jefferson, Ohio, United States. ² 1850 US Census
Page 430B, Roll 699, Dwelling 722, Family 748
Springfield Township, Jefferson County, Ohio
Francis Fast..30..OH..Farmer
Marunda Fast..20..OH
Susan Fast..1..OH

2. 1860 US Census, 22 June 1860, Jackson Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States. ³ 1860 US Census
Page 91, Roll 267, Dwelling 614, Family 613
Jackson Township, Huntington County, Indiana
Francis J. Fast..37..OH
Melinda J. Fast..30..OH
Susanna C. Fast..11..OH
Alice C. Fast..9..IN
Cordelia A. Fast..6..IN
Arthur C. Fast..4..IN
Carrie S. Fast..3..IN
Lester B. D. Fast..3m..OH
John Shafner..19..PA..Farm Laborer

  Marriage Notes:

When the father, Francis Jefferson Fast, died in 1877, the mother apparently suffered severe mental anguish and was hospitalized at the University Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan (although the 1880 US Census notes her condition as "disease of eye"). Arthur, at age 21, was the oldest son still living at home in Huntington County, Indiana and he maintained a household with his sister, Katie, and his brother Lester. For some strange reason, young William, at age 11, was sent to live with J. B. and Eliza Shaffer, an elderly couple living nearby.
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