Life Events
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Migration | Ontario --> Michigan --> Kansas. |
Birth | Elizabeth (-?-) was born circa 1802 in Ontario, Canada.1 |
Marriage | She married David Teal.1 |
1850 Census | David and Elizabeth Teal appeared on the 1850 Federal Census of Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan, enumerated 12 Jul 1850. David was 55 and born in New York. Elizabeth was 48 and born in Canada. Neither of them could read or write. With them were Matilda (19), Henry (13), Catharine (11), Charles (9), and Michael (6), all born in Canada. Henry, Catharine, and Charles attended school. Also in the household was John Fridenburg, age 85, born New York.2  |
Research Note | John Fredenburg could be Elizabeth's father. |
1860 Census | David and Elizabeth Teel [sic] appeared on the 1860 Federal Census of Raisinville Township, enumerated 7 Jul 1860. David was 61, a farmer with real estate valued at $400 and personal estate of $195 [modest amounts], and was born in New York. Elizabeth was 59, born in Pennsylvania, and could not read or write. With them were Catharine, 19, and Michael, 21. Their nearest post office was the City of Monroe.3  |
1870 Census | David and Elizabeth Teal appeared on the 1870 Federal Census of Raisinville Township, enumerated 7 Jul 1870. David was 75, a farmer owning land worth $1200 and personal goods worth $350 [these were fairly low values], and was born in New York. Elizabeth was 68, keeping house, unable to read or write, born in U.C. [Upper Canada - now Ontario], and her parents were foreign born. With them was Michael Teal age 26. Their nearest post office was Ida.1  |
(Other) 1880 Census | Elizabeth Teal appeared on the 1880 Federal Census of Brookdale, Rush County, Kansas, in the household of her daughter Catharine Isbell. Elizabeth was 89 [sic], a widow, and could not read or write. She was born in Canada and her parents were born in New York.4 |
Death | Elizabeth died after 1880. |