Relationship Record 798

Male/Husband}   Bird, Elisha Hudson		Family History} Hancock
Female/Wife}    Franklin, Mary Catherine		Relationship Type} Marriage
Marriage: Date} Fam       Feb 1867	Place}   , Kenton?, Kentucky
Ended: On Date} Fam 21 Nov 1900                      By} Death of husband		Source 1} 1266=Birth record Source 2} 1259=1870 USA cen Source 3} 1265=1880 USA cen Source 4} 1260=1900 USA cen Source 5} 1250=Family history Source 6}   Source 7}
1st Household No.}
Photo} See below
Last Updated         by} Dan Hancock Date Updated}   2 Oct 2010 Date Created}  19 Sep 2010
Notes:  Elisha was a 39 years old widower and Mary was 23 years old when they married.  (Elisha's first wife was Mary Catherine's aunt, Mary Messic Franklin.)  Elisha and Mary Catherine married six months after Mary Messic's death.  Their Feb 1867 wedding probably occurred in Kenton County. From the beginning of her married life, Mary Catherine had a very heavy workload with the seven children she inherited from Mary Messic:  six boys ranging in age from 7 to 15, and a girl age 5. Mary Catherine gave birth to their first child in Dec 1867.  She would bear a total of nine children of her own before their family was completed. Elisha and Mary Catherine moved to Trimble County, Kentucky, by 1870 — where they remained for the rest of their married life.  Elisha was a farmer, owning his own farmland in Trimble County.  They both lived and worked the farm as did their neighbors, as Trimble was an agrarian county.  Later, about 1890, Elisha sold much of his property to his "older" children. The photo above right was taken circa Oct 1900 and shows Elisha and Mary Catherine's four sons then living:  Morton Colfax Bird, Thomas Vernon Bird, Elisha Henry Bird, and Ira Walker Bird.  The women seated left to right are Mary Messic Bird Bennett, Mary Catherine Franklin Bird (their mother), and Minnesota (Minnie) Bird Turner.  Not shown are the three children who predeceased Elisha and Mary Catherine.
Children:	Total # of Children} 9	Seq. # of Primary}
1st Child} Bird, Robert Seymour b. Cal  1867 2nd Child} Bird, Morton Colfax b. Cal  1869 3rd Child} Bird, Thomas Vernon b. Cal  1871 4th Child} Bird, Mary Messic b. Cal  1874 5th Child} Bird, Minnesota (Minnie) S. b. Cal  1875 6th Child} Bird, Oliver R. b. Exa 1878 7th Child} Bird, Ollie (a daughter) b. Exa 1800 8th Child} Bird, Elisha Henry b. Cal  1882 9th Child} Bird, Ira Walker b. Cal  1885
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