Notes:
Data source is David Coulon Burns. E-mail dcb1995@comcast.net
Elizabeth was then only member of the family to leave Pennsylvania to come to Ohio in approximately 1882. She was a hired girl for Koppenhafer's, near Osborn and met Sam Kissnger there. Her father died when she was very young. It appears that her mother may have had a difficult time after her husband died, so this may have been a practical solution. All the girls worked as hired girls. Elizabeth became pregnant with Mabel before marriage, which is not all that uncommon in my research on many of the family lines at the time. After her marriage to Sam, her sisters Harriet and Mary would sometimes come to Ohio for a visit. Mary was blind. None of the rest of her immediate family ever relocated to Ohio. Elizabeth and Sam were living at 2227 E. 3rd St., Ward 10, in Dayton, OH at the time of her death. She had lived there 4 years. Morris & Jackson, undertakers. The family chartered a traction car for the casket and family to go up to the Medway cemetery for the burial. The funeral service was performed at the house by a Methodist minister, and Harriet Rettew (a Mennonite) went upstairs rather than be present for the service.