"... born in Muskingum county, Ohio, daughter of John and Jane Hartford, the father being a native of New York state and the mother of Virginia. After the death of her father she, together with her mother and family, in 1844 came to Illinois and settled in Kendall county, where two of her uncles, George and Clarke Hollenback, had settled in 1829, and who were pioneers of that county."
↑Dr. George G. Raddin, Jr. The Hollenback Family. (Based upon a decade of research by Edward Welles (1832-1914), ending about 1885, and upon original sources. Completed Wilkes-Barre, Pa., December 1963.) 97, Volume I.
