Eighth Generation

4804. Mary Elizabeth THRASHER was born on 12 May 1817 in Deerfield, Rockingham, New Hampshire.⁷⁹ She died on 6 February 1901 at the age of 83.⁷⁹

Mary Elizabeth THRASHER and Delos MUNFORD were married on 14 April 1841 in Geauga County, Ohio.⁷⁹

Carol Del Mar says that Mary Elizabeth may have been married to Hon. John P. Converse. She gets this from the following exerpt from History of Geauga County, Ohio:
in 1849, a "Plank Road" epidemic passed over this region, and Troy caught the infection. The chief mischief-maker in causing the malaria to spread, was Hon. John P. Converse, of Parkman. His scheme was to build a road from Parkman to Chagrin Falls, passing, of course, through Troy, and which was carried so far as to have the route surveyed and the gradient stakes set. The project met with more or less favor along the proposed line of location. The judge had appointed days on which to solicit stock subscriptions, one of the first being set for this township. Dr. Thrasher, who had heretofore kept aloof while the wind work was in progress, made it in his way to be present, and in his blunt sarcastic manner, set at naught John P's fine drawn theory, and ended by saying that "but one man lived in Troy who had any business to fool away his money in such an undertaking, and if he did, he (the Doctor) would disown him as a son-in-law." Men who had before thought to take stock reconsidered, and the result was, none was taken. This severed the chain, and the judge retired to recuperate his energies against the coming of the "Clinton Line R.R." scheme, when he once more took the field as the champion of that ultimate failure, this time drawing Troy somewhat into the net, although protested against in this case by his former antagonist, Dr. Thrasher. p. 623

Delos MUNFORD was born on 4 April 1818 in New York.⁷⁹ He died on 28 November 1885 at the age of 67.⁷⁹

According to the 1880 Census of Troy, Geauga Co., Ohio:
Delos Munford is 62 years old, born in new york, farmer, both parents born in New York. His wife Mary E. is 63 years old, born in New Hampshire, keeping house, both parents born in New Hampshire. There is one daughter living with them: Mary A., age 22, born in Ohio, School Teacher.