... The son Hiel, who and his immediate family will exclusively be the subject of the remainder of this sketch, always having been of a very social nature-both his parents also being of a social temperament—early sought a companion to share his joys and sorrows at a fireside of their own, and his choice fell on Miss Susannah Mellor, whom he married in 1827, when he was about nineteen and a half years of age. She was a daughter of Samuel MellOr, who came from England when about nineteen years of age and lived — a farmer — near Waterford, Washington County, Ohio. "His domestic comforts in this marriage was all that could be desired." They had five children, all of whom lived to marry. ...
... The remorseless hand of consumption was also lain on Susannah —Mr. Dunsmoor's wife and she died, November 1st, 1853. ...