Person:Elinor Bartlett (1)

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Elinor Bartlett
d.5 May 1879 Madison Co., IN
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Name[1] Elinor Bartlett
Gender Female
Birth? 1820 New Market, Shenandoah Co., VA
Marriage 27 Nov 1837 Hancock Co., INto Reverend Jonathon Dipboye
Death? 5 May 1879 Madison Co., IN
Burial? Prewett cemetery, Pipecreek Twp., Madison Co., IN
Reference Number? 1926

Jonathon Dipboye was born in New Market, VA in 1819, and remained under the parental roof until 1838, two years after the death of his father. In 1837 he married Miss Eleanor Bartlett, a native of Old Dominion, but who came to Indiana with her father Robert Bartlett, when but a girl. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Dipboye moved to a cabin in the woods and cleared a farm of seventy acres. There, this enterprising couple lived for twenty years, after which they sold out and moved to Frankton. There, they bought and improved a farm of 195 acres, and there Eleanor's death occurred. She was an intelligent, Christian woman, and her death which occured in 1877, was a sad blow to family and friends.

References
  1. Portrait & Biographical Record of Madison and Hamilton Counties IN; Chicago. (Biographical Publishing Company, 1893).