Ann E. Darner ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9}

  Noted events in her life were:

1. 1850 US Census, 13 December 1850, Adams Township, Muskingum, Ohio, United States. ⁵ 1850 US Census
Page 318A, Dwelling 637, Family 637
Adams Township, Muskingum County, Ohio
Ann Darner..5M..OH
(Living with parents.)

2. 1860 US Census, 9 July 1860, Adams Township, Muskingum, Ohio, United States. ⁶ 1860 US Census
Page 20, Roll 1019, Dwelling 146, Family 134
Adams Township, Muskingum County, Ohio
Ann Darner..10..OH
(Living with parents.)

3. 1880 US Census, 8 June 1880, Hamilton Township, Butte, California, United States. ² 1880 US Census
Sheet 279A, Roll 0063, District 9, Dwelling 87, Family 88
Hamilton Township, Butte County, California, United States
Anna E. Sutton..Wife..30..OH..Keeping House
(Living with husband and 3 children.)

4. 1895 Iowa State Census, 1895, Franklin Township, Clarke, Iowa, United States. ⁷ 1895 Iowa State Census
Page 64, Family 105, Line 8
Franklin Township, Clarke County, Iowa, United States
Ann Sutton..45..OH
(Living with husband and 2 children.)

5. 1900 US Census, 20 June 1900, Franklin Township, Clarke, Iowa, United States. ³ 1900 US Census
Sheet 12B, District 30, Family 232
Franklin Township, Clarke County, Iowa, United States
farm owned, no mortgage
Married 34 years
Annie Sotton..Wife..Feb 1850..50..OH..5/4
(Living with husband and daughter.)

6. 1910 US Census, April 1910, Garden Grove, Decatur, Iowa, United States. ⁴ 1910 US Census
Sheet 8A, District 50, Family 1
Garden Grove, Decatur County, Iowa, United States
Anna E. Sutton..Wife..61..Ohio
(Living with husband.)

NOTE - If her birth date was 4 Feb 1850, then her age should have been 60 instead of 61.

7. Cemetery: Garden Grove Cemetery, After 24 December 1910, Garden Grove, Decatur, Iowa, United States. ⁹ Find A Grave Memorial #115661369

NOTE - Her gravestone is engraved with a middle initial of C but marriage and birth records show it to be E.

Ann married William Harrison Sutton on 15 September 1867 in Muskingum, Ohio, United States.^{1 2 3 4} (William Harrison Sutton was born on 21 December 1842 in Muskingum, Ohio, United States,^{3 4 10} died on 1 December 1922 in Le Roy, Decatur, Iowa, United States ¹⁰ and was buried after 1 December 1922 in Garden Grove, Decatur, Iowa, United States ¹⁰.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

1. 1880 US Census, 8 June 1880, Hamilton Township, Butte, California, United States. ² 1880 US Census
Sheet 279A, District 9, Dwelling 87, Family 88, Roll 0063
Hamilton Township, Butte County, California, United States
William H. Sutton..Self..38..OH..Farmer
Anna E. Sutton..Wife..30..OH..Keeping House
Ella M. Sutton..Daughter..12..OH..At Home
Burwell H. Sutton..Son..9..OH..At Home
William H. Sutton..Son..7..CO..At Home

2. 1895 Iowa State Census, 1895, Franklin Township, Clarke, Iowa, United States. ⁷ 1895 Iowa State Census
Page 64, Family 105, Line 8
Franklin Township, Clarke County, Iowa, United States
Wm. Sutton..53..OH
Ann Sutton..45..OH
Burwell Sutton..25..OH
Stella Sutton..9..Lucas County, IA

3. 1900 US Census, 20 June 1900, Franklin Township, Clarke, Iowa, United States. ³ 1900 US Census
Sheet 12B, District 30, Family 232
Franklin Township, Clarke County, Iowa, United States
farm owned, no mortgage
Married 34 year
William H. Sotton..Head..Dec 1842..59..OH..Farmer
Annie Sotton..Wife..Feb 1850..50..OH..5/4
Stella Sotton..Daughter..Jul 1885..14..IA..At School

4. 1910 US Census, April 1910, Garden Grove, Decatur, Iowa, United States. ⁴ 1910 US Census
Sheet 8A, District 50, Family 1
Garden Grove, Decatur County, Iowa, United States
William H. Sutton Sr..Head..67..Ohio
Anna E. Sutton..Wife..61..Ohio

  Marriage Notes:

There are 1870 and 1880 Census reports of a William and Ann Sutton living in Clinton County, Iowa and then Jackson County, Iowa but they are NOT the correct persons.

As proof that they were not the correct persons, the marriage documents from Muskingum County, Ohio are very clear in that William H. Sutton and Ann E. Darner were married in Sept 1867. And this was the correct Ann E. Darner because her age was only 17 at the time and the marriage license references that she had the permission of her father, Jacob Darner. The first problem is that the 1870 Census in Clinton County, Iowa and the 1880 Census in Jackson County, Iowa for a William and Ann Sutton show that their first son was born in Iowa in 1866 about 1 year before the parents were married in Ohio. Those same census records also show a daughter born in Iowa in 1867. In addition, those 1870 and 1880 Census records show that the birth location of Ann or Anna was listed as Indiana instead of the expected Ohio.

Even additional proof that the Ann Sutton living in Jackson County, Iowa was NOT the correct person comes from a 1900 Census, which showed Ann as being widowed yet the real William Harrison Sutton, her husband, did not die until 1922 according to the gravestone photograph shown on Find-A-Grave.

There is only one minor problem with the identity of the real Ann E. Darner, the wife of William Harrison Sutton. Her middle initial appears as "E" on not only the marriage license but on the marriage records of at least two of her children, Burwell Howard Sutton, and William H. Sutton, Jr. Yet the gravestone shows her name as Ann C. Sutton, wife of W. H. Sutton. I suspect that the gravestone merely has her middle initial incorrectly engraved.
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Knowing their locations through the years and their children's names and birth dates has proven a little difficult to determine. William and Ann appear to have been missed in the 1870 census, then recorded in the 1880 census in California. They they re-appeared in the 1895, 1900, and 1910 Census in Iowa. Following Annie's death late in 1910, William was missed once again in the 1920 Census.

The only dates and locations that are known are as follows:

1867 - married in Muskingum County, Ohio
1868 - daughter, Ella May Sutton, born in Muskingum County, Ohio
1870 - son, Burwell, born in Muskingum County, Ohio
1880 - census in Butte County, California
1894 - son William Jr. married in Decatur County, Iowa
1895 - census in Clarke County, Iowa
1900 - census in Clarke County, Iowa
1910 - census in Decatur County, Iowa
1910 - Ann buried in Decatur County, Iowa
1922 - William buried in Decatur County, Iowa
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