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one of the 1st cousins of my gt-grandmother, Mary Magdalene (Hockett)
Albertson, was Lydia Caroline Hartley, the daughter of Rebecca's
brother, Norton Daniel Hartley. I find it interesting that Rebecca
named her oldest son Norton and her daughter who was just 2 years
older than Mary Magdalene she named Lydia Caroline. So my
gt-grandmother had a 1st cousin named Lydia as well as a sister named
Lydia. Lydia Hartley was my 1st cousin 3 times removed.
Cousin
Lydia was born 15 Jan 1846 in Preble County Ohio to Norton Daniel and
Deborah Ann (Jones) Hartley. Lydia was the 6th of 12 children. They
family had moved to Indiana by 1852 and then to Iowa by 1855. The
family was listed in Cedar Township, Lee County, Iowa on the 1856
Iowa state census and the 1860 and 1870 US census. Lydia was listed
as Lydia in 1856 and 1860 and as Caroline in 1870. Also in the 1870
household was E. Mendenhall, a 20 year old farm laborer. Mendenhall
was a well known Quaker name.
It
was the next year, 8 Jan 1871, when Lydia Caroline Hartley married
Evin Mendenhall. They soon moved to Kansas as their oldest daughter
was born there in December of 1872. They were listed on the 1880
census in Crawford Township, Cherokee County Kansas and she was back
to Lydia again. The family was found on the 1900 census in Harrison
Township, Franklin County Kansas, with their 7 living children, 5
girls and 2 boys. Franklin County is almost to the eastern edge of
Kansas and my gt-grandmother lived in Sherman County Kansas which is
at the western edge. The Mendenhalls were still in Franklin County on
the 1910 census. Lydia Caroline was listed as Line or Lina. Two
unmarried daughters were still living with them. Lydia died there 15
Apr 1916 and was buried in Highland Cemetery, Ottawa, Franklin
County, Kansas. Her husband Evin died in 1922 and was buried in the
same Cemetery and they have a double gravestone.
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