Robert Emmett Sutton ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7}

   Cause of his death was Pneumoia.⁷

  Noted events in his life were:

• He has alternate birth information of 1858. ⁸

• He appeared on the 1860 US Census in Rich Hill Township, Muskingum, Ohio, United States on June 1860. ²

1860 US Census
Page 104, Family 738
Rich Hill Township, Muskingum, Ohio, United States
Farm rented
Robert Sutton..6..OH

(Living with parents.)
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• He appeared on the 1870 US Census in Rich Hill Township, Muskingum, Ohio, United States on July 1870. ³

1870 US Census
Page 2, Family 11
Rich Hill Township, Muskingum, Ohio, United States
Robert E. Sutton..15..OH..Works on Farm

(Living with parents.)

NOTE - If his birthdate was 20 May 1854, then his age should have been 16 instead of 15.
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• He appeared on the 1880 US Census in Perry Township, Muskingum County, OH on 10 June 1880. ⁴

1880 US Census
Page 250C, Family 103, District 168, Roll 1054
Perry Township, Muskingum, Ohio, United States
Robert Sutton..Son..25..OH..Farm Laborer

(Living with parents.)

NOTE - If his birthdate was 20 May 1854, then his age should have been 26 instead of 25.
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• He appeared on the 1900 US Census in Licking Township, Muskingum County, OH on 5 June 1900. ¹

1900 US Census
Sheet 1B, District 52, Family 21
Licking Township, Muskingum County, Ohio
Farm Rented
Married 19 years
Robert E. Sutton..Head..May 1854..46..OH..Farmer

(Living with wife, 2 children, and widowed mother.)
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• He appeared on the 1910 US Census in Zanesville, OH on April 1910. ⁵

1910 US Census
Sheet 7B, District 100, Family 173
Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio
Robert E. Sutton..Father-in-law..56..OH..Widowed (?)

(Living with married daughter, Alice, and her family.)

NOTE - Although his marital status says widowed, I think it probably should have been divorced. His wife, Margaret Darner, was later married to Reddington Shields and she lived until 1944.
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• He appeared on the 1920 US Census in Zanesville, OH on January 1920. ⁶

1920 US Census
Sheet 2B, District 119, Family 65
Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio
Robert Suttan..Father..65..OH..Widowed

(Living with widowed daughter and granddaughter.)
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• His occupation in November 1922 was a Baker in Zanesville, OH. ⁷

• He resided at 101-1/2 Main in November 1922 in Zanesville, OH.
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• He was buried after 2 November 1922 in the Greenwood Cemetery in Greenwood Cemetery, Zanesville, Muskingum, Ohio, United States.

Find A Grave Memorial #7440662
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Robert married Margaret Jane Darner, daughter of Isaac Darner and Periann Wisecarver, on 30 April 1881 in , Muskingum County, OH.¹ The marriage ended in divorce. (Margaret Jane Darner was born on 19 April 1861 in , Muskingum County, OH,^{1 10 11 12 13 14} died on 3 June 1944 in Newark, OH ^{13 14} and was buried on 5 June 1944 in Newark, OH ^{13 14}.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1900 US Census in Licking Township, Muskingum County, OH on 5 June 1900. ¹

1900 US Census
Sheet 1B, District 52, Family 21
Licking Township, Muskingum County, Ohio
Farm Rented
Married 19 years
Robert E. Sutton..Head..May 1854..46..OH..Farmer
Maggie J. Sutton..Wife..Apr 1861..39..OH..2/2
Allie M. Sutton..Daughter..Mar 1882..18..OH
Milo Sutton..Son..Jul 1886..13..OH..At School
Elizabeth Sutton..Mother..Apr 1832..68..OH..Widowed
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• Divorced: Bef 1922. On the death certificate of her husband, it indicated that he was divorced.

  Marriage Notes:

The breakup of the marriage and ultimate divorce between Robert Sutton and Margaret "Maggie" Darner is ambiguous and difficult to understand. They were shown living together in the 1900 US Census in Muskingum County, Ohio with their two children. They were married on 30 Apr 1881 but that date is not confirmed. Their daughter, Alice, was born in March 1881. Their son, Milo, was born about 5 years later in 1886.

Margaret was also enumerated in the 1900 US Census as being married to and living with Redington Jefferson Shields in Anderson County, Kansas. The census form indicates that they were married about 1884 which was 2 years before she gave birth to Milo Sutton back in Muskingum County, Ohio. The census in Kansas was enumerated only 3 days before the census enumeration in Ohio so the close timeframe between those 2 events might suggest that the 2 wives were not the same person.

I can't figure out how she could have been married to two different men for a number of years, living hundreds of miles apart, and having a child with one of them without the other one even knowing that she was pregnant. Or maybe they did known; I have no info that they were Mormons still practicing polygamy.

In the 1910 and 1920 Census, Robert Sutton lived with his married daughter, Alice, and continued to list his marital status as "widowed" yet there is no record of a death of a Margaret Sutton in that area between 1900 and 1910. His daughter continued to live in or around Muskingum County, Ohio except for her 4th and final marriage when she relocated to Franklin County, Ohio which was adjacent to where her brother, Milo, had moved following his marriage in Muskingum County, Ohio.

The death certificate for Margaret Shields in 1944 clearly indicate that she was the daughter of Isaac and Periann Darner. Both she and her 2nd husband, Redington Shields, had moved to Newark, Licking County, Ohio which just happened to be where her son, Milo Sutton, and grandchildren from her 1st marriage were living. And her daughter, Alice, was living just one county away. This move to Newark, Ohio seems to definitely tie the married Margaret Shields as the same Margaret Darner that had previously married Robert Sutton. But the overlapping years of marriage to both men compounded with a birth of a child to one of the husbands during those overlapping years is difficult to understand.

Since there is proof that the Margaret who married Redington Shields was the daughter of Isaac Darner (via her death certificate), then one needs to question the validity that the Margaret who married Robert Sutton was the same. Unfortunately there is no direct evidence from a marriage application which might have listed the names of the parents but there is some indirect evidence from the birth certificates for their two children which lists their mother's name as "Maggie J. Darner". The other evidence comes from the fact of why else would the Margaret Darner-Shields living in Kansas move to Licking County, Ohio in her elderly years other than to be near her children and grandchildren. Unless I find evidence of another "Maggie J. Darner" in Muskingum County that could have married Robert Sutton, I am going to assume that she was the daughter of Isaac Darner and the same Margaret that married Redington Shields in Kansas.

Finally, the real proof that it was the same Margaret that was married to both Robert Sutton and Redington Shields come from the 1910 US Census of Redington and Maggie Shields. Redington's name has been erroneous transcribed to "Realgiter" but living with him and his wife Maggie was Myrtle Sutton born about 1886 in Ohio. It is the surname of Sutton that ties this Maggie back to Robert Sutton. Unfortunately there are a few errors on that 1910 US Census such as Myrtle's relationship to the head of household was shown as daughter instead of stepdaughter. In addition, her age of 24 places her birth at the same time as that of Margaret's son, Milo. Milo's exact birth date of 30 Aug 1886 is shown on country records so I am sure that the age of Myrtle is "about 1886" which means it was probably the year before or the year afterwards. Interestingly, her birth still falls within the time that Margaret supposedly was married to Redington. I wonder who the biological father was.

Both Margaret and her 2nd husband, Redington Shields, are buried in the Cedar Hill Cemetery in Newark, Licking County, Ohio while her 1st husband, Robert Sutton, was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Zanesville, Ohio.
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