Elizabeth Glenn b. 1794

/ Kirstin Miller

Elizabeth Glenn, my 3rd great grandma on RootsMagic tree.

Elizabeth Glenn was born in 1794 in Adams County, Pennsylvania. Her dad was Thomas, her mom Elizabeth- last name unknown. By 1803 the Glenn family lived in Ohio. On April 13, 1818 at age 24, Elizabeth married William Speedy in Jefferson County, Ohio.  Elizabeth and William settled in Island Creek Township near the Ohio River on the eastern edge of Ohio. They had 6 children and farmed.

William Speedy and Betsy Glenn of Jefferson County, Ohio marry on the 13th of April 1818.


In Ohio and the USA, from 1829 to 1851 there was a ‘Second Cholera Pandemic’. President Polk died in 1849 and at least 150,000 other Americans died of cholera. The first Ohio State Fair and the Ohio Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851 were postponed because of the pandemic.

Elizabeth and her dad Thomas Glenn both died of cholera in 1850. Elizabeth was 55, her dad was 82. Elizabeth’s son Manford was 12 at her death. Manford left for Shell Rock, Iowa in 1856 where Elizabeth’s brother Alexander Glenn lived.

Elizabeth Glenn Speedy is buried in Island Creek Cemetery, Jefferson County, Ohio.

Sources

  • Ohio county marriages 1789-2013 at FamilySerch.org.
  • United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850-1880 at FamilySerch.org