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Facts and Events
Elizabeth Sutton was the widow of Benjamin Sutton, of Preble Co, OH, mother of Jonathan and James Sutton. The constituted a family and lived on the northwest quarter of Section 33, Twp 14 North, Range 3 East, until Jonathan Sutton died, in the year 1826. They had emigrated only 2 yrs before. He left a wife and 1 child. James Sutton died also, a few yrs after his borther, on the same farm. Also a son-in-law of Elizabeth Sutton, named Miner, and several of his children, died about the year 1926 on the same land. The widow continued to reside in the neighborhood for many yrs after their death. She was an excellent woman, and full of religious fervor. She was a skillful and efficient female doctor, and was of great service in nursing the sick.
References
- ↑ International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008)
Middle name Hannah, married to Benjamin in 1790 in , Fayette, Pensylvania. - B.J.Hughes, bjhughes@erols.com. Sutton Documentation
"A Historical Sketch of Johnson County Indiana", by D D Banta, 1881, pp 141-142.
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