Person:Mary Fenner (9)

"A few days after his graduation, Mr. Thresher was married to Miss Elizabeth Fenner. Born in Canterbury, England, and bereaved of her mother in infancy, she and her older sister had been brought by their father to this country when she was three years old. They then settled near Poughkeepsie, New York. The father died soon after, leaving his young daughters provided with means of support, but among comparative strangers. They were kindly received into a family of Friends by the name of Draper, who were without children, who tenderly cared for them and whose memory was affectionately cherished by them through life. They became members of the Dutch Reformed Church in Poughkeepsie, then under the pastoral care of Rev. Dr. Cuyler, who afterward became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. They were residing in Washington with their brother, who was acting as chaplain in the United States Navy Yard, when Mr. Thresher first made their acquaintance. He was then a student in Columbian College, and Miss Fenner was on of the teachers in a colored mission-school, of which he was the superintendent. She became engaged to him when she was on a visit to friends in Providence in the summer of 1826... Their marriage took place in the city of New York on the thirteenth day of September, 1827. Either before or soon after their marriage, Mrs. Thresher became a member of the Baptist Church, and heartily joined her husband in the chosen work of his life. Miss Sarah Fenner never married, but after twice visiting England, and spending some years there each time with an aged aunt, made her home in the family of her sister, Mrs. Thresher, and afterward in that of her niece, Mrs. Charles H. Crawford, and lived to an advanced age, surviving her sister, and affectionately known for 'the good works and alms-deeds which she did'." (Colby, pp. 32-33).

1.   Thresher family, and McCann family. Thresher-McCann Collection.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432).
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Woodland Cemetery & Arboretum. Woodland Cemetery Records Database.
4. ↑ United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653).
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Colby, Henry F. A Tribute to the Memory of Ebenezer Thresher. (Dayton, OH: United Brethren Publishing House, 1886).