Ellen Beolia Tefft

Person/Family

Spouse 1

Hiram Raymond Cunning (son of Hiram Cunning and Keziah Raymond)

1.	Ora Anna Cunning

+2.	Hiram T. Cunning, Jr.

+3.	Flavilla ‘Lilly’ Cunning

+4.	Irene Myrtle Cunning

Sources

1. Find a Grave (website). Plain Township Cemetery, Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio, Ellen Beolia Tefft Cunning, born: 1854; died: 1935 in Wood County, Ohio (from record, which provides the names and links for her spouse and three children [the individual named Flavilla is actually her husband’s sister]).
2. Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001, Cunning, Ellen, died: 18 December 1935 in Haskins, Ohio; born: 20 January 1954 in Ohio; father: Palmer Tefft, born in Mass.; mother; no record, born in Mass. [the parents’ birthplaces are not correct]; informant: Hiram Cunning, Haskins, Ohio; burial: Plain Cem.
3. U.S. Federal Census, 1860, Ohio, Wood County, Perrysburg, Page 133, Loren P. Tift, 31, New York, miller; Phebe A. Tift, 24, New York; Ellen Tift, 6, Ohio. Living next door are Loren’s parents: Ezekiel Tift, 61, Rhode Island, miller; Mercy Tift, 58, Rhode Island; Nathan Tift, 21, Ohio; Mercy Tift, 7, Ohio [Nathan is Ezekiel’s son, but the identity of Marcy is uncertain. She is likely Ezekiel’s granddaughter, and the son of Gardner Tefft, although Gardner’s daughter Marcy is enumerated with Gardner and the rest of his family in another 1860 census entry. Marcy may have been visiting Ezekiel when this census entry was made.]
4. U.S. Federal Census, 1870, Ohio, Wood County, Washington Township, Page No. 23, John N. Adams, 24, New York, farmer; Flavilla Adams, 25, Ohio; Hiram Cumming, 28, Ohio, farm laborer; Ella Teft, 16, Ohio, school teacher. Living next door are: Andrew Adams, 60, Mass., farmer; Hanna Adams, 58, New York. Living next door are: Phebe Ann Teft, 34, New York; Lorain Teft, 6, Ohio.
5. U.S. Federal Census, 1880, Ohio, Wood County, Washington, E.D. 103, Page No. XX [20], Hiram Cunning, 38, Ohio, farmer; wife Ellen Cunning, 36, Ohio; daughter Orianna Cunning, 6, Ohio; son Hiram J. Cunning, 4, Ohio; daughter Lilly Cunning, 1, Ohio; mother-in-law Marcie Teft, 79, New York, widow [sic, she is actually Ellen’s grandmother].
6. U.S. Federal Census, 1900, Ohio, Wood County, Tontogany, E.D. 161, Sheet No. 11A, Ellen Cunning, 46, Ohio, Jan. 1854, widow, 4 children, 3 living; son Hiram Cunning, 24, Ohio, Dec. 1875, farmer; daughter Irene M. Cunning, 16, Ohio, July 1883. Living next door is: E. D. Daniels, 21, Ohio, Dec. 1878, farm laborer; wife of 2 years Flavilla Daniels, 21, Ohio, Mch. 1879; daughter Beolia E. Daniels, 7/12, Ohio, Oct. 1899.
7. U.S. Federal Census, 1910, Ohio, Wood County, Haskins Village, E.D. 195, Sheet No. 2B, Ellen B. Cumming, 56, Ohio, widow, 4 children, 2 living; daughter Irene M. Cumming, 26, Ohio; grand dau. Veiolia E. Daniels, 10, Ohio; grand dau. Beatrice E. Daniels, 8, Ohio; grand son Clarence E. Daniels, 5, Ohio.
8. U.S. Federal Census, 1920, Ohio, Wood County, E.D. 162, Sheet No. 8A, Ellen B. Cunning, 65, Ohio, widow; grand daughter Beatrice E. Daniels, 18, Ohio.
9. U.S. Federal Census, 1930, Ohio, Wood County, Haskins, E.D. 87-24, Sheet No. 4B, Ellen B. Cunning, 76, Ohio, widow.
10. Commemorative Historical and Biographical Record of Wood County, Ohio. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1897 (available at archive.com). Page 625-26, biographical sketch of Hiram Cunning, who married Ella Tefft, daughter of L. P. and Phoebe Ann (Adams) Tefft. The sketch provides vital and biographical details and the names of Hiram’s parents (Hiram and Keziah (Raymond) Cunning), Hiram and Ella’s children (Oreanna, Hiram T., Flavilla, and Irene Myrtle), Phoebe’s three siblings (an infant child, Florence G., and Lorin P.).
11. Ohio, County Marriages 1789-2013/2016, Wood County, Page 355, marriage license affidavit and return, Hiram Cunning and Ellen Tefft, married on 22 February 1872.
12. Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953, Certificate of Death, File No. 76933, Cunning, Ellen, died: 18 December 1935 in Haskins, Wood County, Ohio; widowed; wife of Hiram Cunning; born: 20 January 1954 in Perrysville, Ohio; age 81 years 10 months 28 days; father: Palmer Tefft, born in Mass.; mother; [blank], born in Mass. [the parents’ birthplaces are not correct]; informant: Hiram Cunning, Haskins, Ohio; burial: Plain Cemetery.