Martha Elizabeth Edgar

Martha Elizabeth Edgar
(1851-After 1870)

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Spouses/Children:
1. Cornelius Hatfield

Martha Elizabeth Edgar ² ³ ⁴

Born: 22 May 1851, Lincoln, IL ² ⁴ ⁵
Marriage (1): Cornelius Hatfield on 30 August 1868 in , Logan County, IL ¹
Died: After 16 June 1870

bullet Other names for Martha were "Mattie" Edgar and Mary Elizabeth Edgar.⁵

bullet Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1870 US Census in Petersburg, IL on 16 June 1870. ⁴

1870 US Census
Page 14, Dwelling 110, Family 109
Petersburg, Menard County, Illinois
Martha Hatfield..19..IL..Keeping House
(Living with husband.)
.

Martha married Cornelius Hatfield, son of Aaron Hatfield and Martha, on 30 August 1868 in , Logan County, IL.¹ (Cornelius Hatfield was born in 1846 in Illinois ⁴ ⁶ and died after 1 June 1880.)

bullet Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1870 US Census in Petersburg, IL on 16 June 1870. ⁴

1870 US Census
Page 14, Dwelling 110, Family 109
Petersburg, Menard County, Illinois
Cornelius Hatfield..24..IL..Dry Goods Merchant
Martha Hatfield..19..IL..Keeping House
Lydia M. Hatfield..10m..IL..At Home..Born in Aug
.

bullet Marriage Notes:

There were multiple Hatfield families living in Logan County, Illinois around 1870 when Cornelius and Martha "Mattie" were first married. Apparently Cornelius was from Menard County, Illinois and soon after his marriage, they moved to Menard county where they appear in the 1870 census.

I do not know what happened to Martha but by the census of 1880, Cornelius was living with his two children back in the home of his parents. His marital status was not indicated as divorced or widowed but still as married. I have no idea where Martha was at the time.

By June of 1900, the census shows their son, Edgar, living back with Martha's parents in Logan County, Illinois but without either of his parents being present. The daughter, Lula, is found living with her paternal grandmother who was widowed by this time. Neither parent of Lula is found in the household. With the evidence that one son was sent to his mother's parents and the other daughter was sent to her father's widowed mother, I would think it might be easy to assume that both Cornelius and Martha had died by 1900.
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1 Illinois State Archives, "Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900," database(https://cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases/marriage.html : accessed 21 Oct 2009), Hatfield, Cornelius L. and Edgar, Mattie E.

2 Jean M. Cuevas, World Family Tree Vol. 007, Ed. 1, Tree #2478 (Brøderbund Software, Inc., Release date: October 17, 1996).

3 Dr. W.W. Houser, Genealogy of the Houser, Rhorer, Dillman, Hoover Families (1910), 89.

4 1870 U.S. census, population schedule, Petersburg, Menard County, Illinois, p. 14, dwelling 110, family 109, Cornelius Hatfield and Martha Elizabeth Edgar; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 21 Oct 2009); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M593.

5 Joyce A. Phipps, World Family Tree Vol. 099, Ed. 1, Tree #0261 (Genealogy.com, LLC, Release date: May-2002).

6 1880 U.S. census, population schedule, Petersburg, Menard County, Illinois, enumeration district (ED) 138, p. 211B, dwelling 261, family 279, Cornelius Hatfield; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 13 Apr 2018); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9, roll 236.

7 Personal knowledge of Brian L. Lightfoot, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE]; Includes all genealogy research papers done by Iris Geraldine Sharer during the 1960s and 1970s which incorported family history documents relating to the Lightfoot and Arnsberger families. Also includes all previous research done by Jack Drugan and siblings during the 1960s.

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