Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameMary Elizabeth King
Birth16 Apr 1865, Middlebury Twp, Knox Co, OH
Census3 Jun 1880, Middlebury Twp, Knox Co, OH
Memoroll#1038, pg 40
Census4 Jun 1900, Mansfield, Richland Co, OH
Memoroll#1316, pg 4
Census28 Apr 1910, Mansfield, Richland Co, OH
Memoroll#1225, pg 10
Census19 Jan 1920, Middlebury Twp, Knox Co, OH
Memoroll#1403, pg 5
CensusApr 1930, Middlebury Twp, Knox Co, OH
Memoroll#1825, pg 3
Death1950, Knox Co, OH
BurialForest Cem, Fredericktown, Knox Co, OH
Misc. Notes
Her maiden name is King, and her parents were Jesse King and Samantha Searls (1839-1923). But her father must have died in the Civil War, since her mother was remarried to Elias C. Craft (b. 1820) in 1869. So she was listed with them as Mary Craft (15, OH) in the 1880 census.
Mary was married on 3 Oct 1883 to James E. Burkholder (22, PA) in Knox Co, with whom she had 3 children. It is unknown whether he died or they were divorced; for on 6 Sep 1895 Mary was wed to John Roth in Richland County.
By 1900 Mary is listed as the wife of John Roth (Mar 1870, OH) a fish peddler. They had been married 5 yrs and it shows Mary as having 3 children, with only 1 surviving - her son John Logan Burkholder (22 May 1885, OH) who was living with them.
They were still in Mansfield in 1910, where John Roth was working for an express company, and John Burkholder was a stove polisher.
She is then listed as Mary Roth (54, OH) and widowed in 1920, living with her widowed mother Samantha Craft (1839-1923, OH).
Mary was subsequently married to Joseph Miller Wells on 28 Aug 1923 in Knox County, until his death in 1929.
She was remarried to Harvey Bemiller (1875-1956) on 27 Nov 1929 in Knox Co, OH. And listed as Mary E. Bemiller (64, OH) in the 1930 census with Harvey (57, OH) a foundry worker and his children from the former marriage Beatrice (17), Vernard (12), and Evelyn (9). It also states that Mary was first married at age 18.
Spouses
Birth30 Jul 1859, Middlebury Twp, Knox Co, OH
Death5 Mar 1929, Fredericktown, Knox Co, OH
Burial7 Mar 1929, North Fork Cem, Chesterville, Morrow Co, OH
Memoinfo = 2 newspaper obituaries & tombstone
ReligionThe Waterford Church of Christ was the family faith, where he and his brothers & sisters were christened as adults
FatherJoseph Wells (1830-1872)
Misc. Notes
His obituary, father's pension papers, marriage licenses to Mary(3) and Mary(4), as well as his daughter Josie's birth record (1941) all state that he was born in Fredericktown on July 30, 1859. However, the "History of Knox Co, Ohio" erroneously says he was born Aug 30, 1860; while the 1900 census says it was Jul 1858.
In 1881 he was living with his mother in Knox Co. He and Ida were married by Rev J. S. Roundwell on Feb 8, 1883 in Mansfield.
The 1900 census shows him as Miller J. Wells, born Jul 1858 and says that he had been married 16 years and was renting his farm in Perry Twp, Morrow Co. On June 22,1908 he bought his own 80 acre farm in Perry Twp, Richland Co. from G.J. Ewers (vol#133, pg 475) on Painter Rd for $2,500. For some reason the Mansfield News lists a property transfer the next day, the date of Ida’s death, of the 80 acres from Ida E. Wells to G. J. Ewers for $1, followed by the transfer of 80 acres from G. J. Ewers to J. M. Wells for $1. (Clarence's family later lived on the adjoining farm.) After Ida died, Josie helped to keep the children together as a family and acted as a mother to them. In 1910 he is listed as Millard Wells, age 51, a widower with children Josie, Frank, Oliver, and Robert. He owned his own (mortgaged) farm. He also lived on a farm south of Batemantown in Knox Co.
He was married to Mary E. (Stafer) Lake, a widow with 3 children from Mt Vernon in 1913. He was living in Middlebury Twp at the time and listed as a farmer. He sued for divorce in 1917, based on cruelty and gross neglect, which was granted on 18 Oct 1917.
In 1920 he was living in the home he owned on Grant St in Fredericktown, age 56 and listed as Millard J. Wells. He was widowed, working as a laborer in a Foundry.
He married again to Mary Elizabeth (Zolman) Silliman, a widow of Fredericktown in Jan 1920, right after the census. He was listed as a laborer living in Fredericktown. They didn’t stay together long and in September separated. In 1922 he filed for divorce based on incompatability, and it was granted 11 Oct 1922.
He retired in Fredericktown, doing odd jobs and yard work. Clarence said that he was short and had only one eye (can be seen in family photo), but didn't know why.
He subsequently married Mary Elizabeth (King) Roth on 28 Aug 1923. Their marriage license says that he had been married 3 times previously and was divorced.
He wrote a first will on 28 Aug 1923 when he remarried, which I have a copy of, in addition to the last one written 20 Nov 1928.
Died of Bronchial Pneumonia after 5 years of Myocarditis. Death Cert says he lived in Fredericktown 10 years prior to his death and was buried in North Fork Cem, near Waterford. His tombstone there also shows 1859 -1929. An obituary says that he had 2 brothers, which was confirmed in the pension papers of his father and the Melva Bradrick family bible. The Waterford Church of Christ was the family faith.
Marriage28 Aug 1923, Knox Co, OH
Marr MemoRev. Hugh Wayt
No Children
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