Picture of Mary Elizabeth
Baker-Laughery

 

 

The picture above and the text that follows could be in interest to anyone who is researching the surnames: Baker, Mellott, Laughery, or Hartman

 

This photo and the attached family tree information was provided by Judy Hartman-Hamann e-mail address: jquiltmaker@yahoo.com . Judy Hartman - Hamann, the author of the family tree material that follows, wishes to advise readers that not all this information has been verified. [It is the guess of the webmaster that this photo was taken around the time of Mary Elizabeth Baker Laughery s wedding, or around 1906.]

 

PENINA CATHERINE MELLOTT-BAKER AND WILLIAM PERRY BAKER (Both Pennina and William Baker are buried in East Sunsbury Baptist Church Cemetery)

Parents of Penina Mellott: Levi Mellott b. 1818 Monroe Co., Ohio d. 09 Jan 1879 Monroe Co., Ohio and wife, Sarah Elizabeth Harlan-Mellott b. 20 Jan 1825 Belmont Co., Ohio d. 10 Jan 1910 Monroe Co., Ohio

Penina Catherine Mellott-Baker b. 18 Dec. 1866, Monroe Co., OH d. Nov or Dec of 1936, married William Perry Baker  b. 17 June 1863 (no family info) d. 1950---on tombstone) [My (Judy Hartman-Hamann) brother told me that William Perry Baker was a farmer and gave each of his children a piece of farm land when they married.]

Children of Penina and William:

1. Mary Elizabeth Baker: b. 7 Mar 1886, Beallsville, Ohio d. 23 May 1966 Toledo, Ohio (in the home of her daughter, Bessie Grace Laughery-Hartman, mother of the author, Judy Hartman-Hamann) Mary Elizabeth Baker married William Elza Laughery 6 Jan 1906 in Parkersburg, WV. She met him when she went to visit her Aunt and Uncle. They owned an Ice   House and William was employed by them. Not sure if this Aunt and Uncle were Bakers or Mellotts. Sometime soon after they were married, they moved to OK and William worked on the Oil Lines. While there they lived on an Indian Res. in a rooming house owned or ran by a family named Keiffer (spelling??). By 1910 they were back in Ohio where their first child was born in.

 

. .. + William Elza Laughery b. 22 Dec 1884, Sistersville, Tyler Co., WV d. 29 May 1963, Jeannette, PA


Parents of William Elza Laughery = ? Laughery (possibly also William) and Ruhama Liston-Laughery (2nd marriage Of Ruhama Liston Laughery was to Charles Clark. [I (Judy Hartman-Hamann) have some info on this family.]

  Children of Mary Elizabeth Baker and William Elza Laughery:

 

1. Dorothy Bell Laughery b. 17 May 1910 Ohio d. 31 July 1988; Husband #1 Emmett Schmidt; Husband #2 Clarence Aultz

. .. 2. Bessie Grace Laughery b. 17 June 1913, Westmoreland County, in Burrow of Jeanette, PA d. 4 July 1998, Oregon, Ohio; husband Norman Ross Hartman b. 22 Sept 1910, in Vandergrift Heights, Westmoreland Co., PA d. 18 Jan 1979, Toledo, Ohio [Parents of Norman are: Alfred J. Hartman (1884 - 1942) & Lilly Caroline Ramaley b. 13 Oct 1888, d. 19 Oct 1918]

 

Children of Bessie Grace Laughery and Norman Ross Hartman:

.. . 1. Norman Ross Hartman Jr. b. 16 Oct 1933

.. . 2. Emma Jean Hartman b. 31 May 1936

.. . 3. Delores Marie Hartman b. 23 Oct 1937

.. . 4. Dorothy Jean Hartman b. 10 Jan 1939

.. . 5. William Alfred Hartman b. 16 Dec 1943

... ... . 6. Sandra Lee Hartman b. 20 Sept 1945

.. . 7. Karen Sue Hartman b. 20 Oct 1947

.. . 8. Martha Ann Hartman b. 24 June 1950

.. . 9. Judy Colene Hartman b. 14 Sept 1952

 

3. William Edward Laughery b. 26 Nov. 1915 d. 22 Apr 1999 m. Bertha Haubrich

4. Laura Leona Laughery b. 14 May 1918 d. 14 May 1988 m. John Greenawalt (adopted - real name was James ?) b. 3 July 1918 d. 24 Nov 1987

 

5. Kenneth Fredrick Laughery b. 3 May 1927 d. 9 Mar 1997 m. Alice Faroux b. 13 Feb 1926 d. 1 Jan 1996

 

6. Charles Roy Laughery b. 14 Nov 1928 d. 23 Oct 1999 1st m. Carrie; 2nd m. Nancy; 3rd m. Caroline; 4th m. Eva

 

2. Perry Baker married  Irene ?.

 

3. William Baker married Cora ?.

 

4. Ida Baker b. abt. 1895 married: Charles Henthorn  16 Jan 1917

 

.. 1. Child of Charles and Ida Baker Henthorn = Matha MaryBell Baker b. 7 Sept 1918 Sunsbury Twp, Monroe Co, OH d. 9 Dec 1982 Lewisville, Monroe Co, OH married: 28 Jul 1943 Monroe Co. Dewey Griffith Baker b. abt 1910 (parents of Dewey Griffith: H J Baker and Nettie Jackson)

 

.. 2nd husband of Ida Baker on 3 May 1947 Monroe, Co to Roy Ed Koontz b. abt 1914 d. 1975 [parents of Roy Ed Koontz = H. W. Koontz & Susan Connor] Daughter of Roy Ed and Ida Baker Koontz = Donna Koontz. Donna Koontz married ? Carpenter and had two children.

 

5. Alice Baker married a blacksmith by the name of Jim Mellott--possible cousin?

 

6. Clara Baker married Burt Howell

 

7. Laura Baker married ? O'Connell

Photograph provided by Judy C. Hartman-Hamann, e-mail address: jquiltmaker@yahoo.com

 

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