Susannah Lightfoot ^{1 2 3 4 5 6}

  Burial Notes:

No visible gravestone
PLOT Block L, Lot 161
Find a Grave Memorial 179694703
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  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1850 US Census in Brady Township, Williams, OH on 28 August 1850. ²

1850 US Census
Page 4, Family 64, Roll 741
Brady Township, Williams, Ohio, United States
Susannah Tuttle..17..Ohio

(Living with husband.)

NOTE - If her birth date was 4 Aug 1830, then her age should have been 19 instead of 17.
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• She appeared on the 1870 US Census in Springfield Township, Williams County, OH on 27 June 1870. ³

1870 US Census
Page 45, Family 343
Springfield Township, Williams, Ohio, United States
Susannah Tuttle..39..Pennsylvania..Keeping House

(Living with husband and 4 daughters.)
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• She appeared on the 1880 US Census in Stryker, OH on 2 June 1880. ¹

1880 US Census
Page 664C, District 13, Family 65, Roll 1078
Stryker, Williams, Ohio, United States
Susanna Tuttle..Wife..48..Pennsylvania..Keeping House

(Living with husband and daughter.)

NOTE - If her birth date was 4 Aug 1830, then her age should have been 49 instead of 48.
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• She appeared on the 1900 US Census in Elkhart, IN on 2 June 1900. ⁴

1900 US Census
Sheet 2B and 3A, District 16, Family 51
Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, United States
508 Virginia Avenue; Home rented
Susan Tuttle..Mother-in-law..Aug 1832..67..Pennsylvania..Widowed

(Living at the home of her married daughter, Lillian, and her family.)

NOTE - Her birth date is believed to be 4 Aug 1830 instead of in Aug 1832. Therefore, her age should have been 69 instead of 67.
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• She appeared on the 1910 US Census in Elkhart, IN on 21 April 1910. ⁵

1910 US Census
Sheet 8B, District 10, Family 207, Roll 347
Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, United States
407 Sherman Street; Home rented
Susan Tuttle..Mother-in-law..79..Pennsylvania..Widowed

(Living at the home of her widowed daughter, Lillian, and her children.)
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• Her obituary was published in the Elkhart Daily Review on 13 March 1916 in Elkhart, IN.

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Mrs. Susanna Tuttle, 85, died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. B. W. Hunt, 812 Willard Street, this morning. Death was due to the infirmities of age. Mrs. Tuttle had been remarkably active until about two months ago and had been confined to the house for the last month, only.

Funeral services will be held at the Hunt home with Rev. R. A. Morrison officiating. Interment will be made in Gracelawn Cemetery.

Mrs. Tuttle was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, on August 4, 1830. When she was fourteen years old her parents moved to West Unity, Ohio. It was one of Mrs. Tuttle's recollections she often recounted that she walked all of the way from Westmoreland County to West Unity, sometimes preceding the wagons which hauled the household goods, and some times following them.

It was at West Unity that she met Henry Tuttle, to whom she was married on July 3, 1848. Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle went to Stryker, Ohio, where they were pioneers, living in a tent until their log cabin was built. A daughter born to them was the first child born in Stryker. Twenty-two years ago Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle came to Elkhart. The next year Mr. Tuttle died on March 4 at the age of 74. After her husband's death, Mrs. Tuttle made her home with a daughter, Mrs. Lillian Boone of this city, until three years ago, when she was taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hunt. In early life Mrs. Tuttle was a member of the Unitarian church.

Daughters surviving Mrs. Tuttle besides Mrs. Hunt, Mrs. Boone and Mrs. Lucinda Luscomb of this city, are Mrs. Malissa Sprague of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Mrs. Elizabeth Bohner of Hudson, Ind. Three sisters, Mrs. Margaret Crisher and Mrs. Lydia Ridenour of Detroit, and Mrs. Mary Weyrick of Waldron, Ohio; and twenty grandchildren and twenty-two great grandchildren are living.

(Source: Elkhart Daily Review, Elkhart, IN, 13 March 1916)
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• Her obituary was published in the Elkhart Truth on 13 March 1916 in Elkhart, IN.

⁶ Mrs. Susanna Tuttle, 85, a pioneer of northwestern Ohio who came across the Alleghenies in a "prairie schooner" in the forties, died this morning at the home of a daughter, Mrs. D. W. Hunt, 812 Willard Street, from the effects of old age. She had lived in Elkhart for twenty two years.

Mrs. Tuttle's maiden name was Susanna Lightfoot. She was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., August 4, 1830, and when fourteen years old, moved overland with her parents to West Unity, Ohio. A covered wagon carried the household effects of the family, while she, her parents and her elder sister, Margaret, trudged along on foot. Four years after settling in Ohio, she married Henry Tuttle. Twenty two years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle moved to Elkhart from Stryker, Ohio, but Mr. Tuttle died the following year. Since that time, Mrs. Tuttle had been living with her children.

Mrs. Tuttle is survived by five daughters, Mrs. Millsia Spregue of Oklahoma City, Mrs. Elizabeth Bohner of Hudson, Ind., and Mrs. Lucinda Luscomb, Mrs. D. W. Hunt and Mrs. Lillian Boone of Elkhart; three sisters, Mrs. Margaret Crisher and Mrs. Lydia Ridnour, both of Detroit, and Mrs. Mary Wyrick of Waldron, Ohio; thirteen grandchildren and twenty-one great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at the Hunt home with Rev. R. A. Morrison officiating. Interment will be made in Gracelawn Cemetery.

(Source: Elkhart Truth, Elkhart, Indiana, 13 March 1916)
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Susannah married Henry Tuttle, son of Isaiah C. Tuttle and Mary Swift, on 3 July 1848 in West Unity, OH.¹ (Henry Tuttle was born in 1823 in Ohio ^{1 2} and died on 4 March 1895 in , Elkhart County, IN.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1850 US Census in Brady Township, Williams, OH on 28 August 1850. ²

1850 US Census
Page 4, Family 64, Roll 741
Brady Township, Williams, Ohio, United States
Henry Tuttle..26..Ohio..Carpenter
Susannah Tuttle..17..Ohio
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• They appeared on the 1870 US Census in Springfield Township, Williams County, OH on 27 June 1870. ³

1870 US Census
Page 45, Family 343
Springfield Township, Williams, Ohio, United States
Henry Tuttle..45..Ohio..Carpenter
Susannah Tuttle..39..Pennsylvania..Keeping House
Melissa Tuttle..19..Ohio..Domestic Servant
Elizabeth Tuttle..18..Ohio..Domestic Servant
Lucinda Tuttle..16..Ohio..At Home
Orphea Tuttle..10..Ohio..At Home
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• They appeared on the 1880 US Census in Stryker, OH on 2 June 1880. ¹

1880 US Census
Page 664C, District 13, Family 65, Roll 1078
Stryker, Williams, Ohio, United States
Henry Tuttle..Self..57..Ohio..Carpenter
Susanna Tuttle..Wife..48..Pennsylvania..Keeping House
Lilly B. Tuttle..Daughter..9..Ohio
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