Della
Watson (Miner) Avery
(1863-1890s)
Della Watson (Miner) Avery was born on Oct. 9, 1863 at Hebron, OH, the daughter of Frederick and Catherine (Miller) Miner Jr. Much of the information on her and her family is found in the 1912 book, The Groton Avery Clan, Volume II, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catharine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery.
When Della was age 10, her mother died. Her
father married again, to Emma Moore, who then became Della's step-mother.
On April 14, 1883, at Hebron, Della married Oscar Eugene Avery (1858-1933), of Luray, OH, son of Milton Herman and Mamie (Lewis) Avery. Oscar was a farmer.
Their children were Clarence Keorcycle Avery (born 1885), Lawrence Eugene Avery (1888) and Ada May Avery (1891).
Tragically, sometime in the 1890s, Della passed away. Her widower remarried in September 1899 to Anna May Justice at Columbus, OH. Oscar and Anna May had a daughter, Anna Vietta Avery (born 1900).
Oscar may have married a third time, to Mamie (?). She was his wife at the time of his death in 1933. He may have had other children Ernest Avery, Milton Avery, Albert Avery and Clyde Avery, and stepchildren Wilson Payne, Elliott Payne and Mary Mountain.
Later in life, Oscar moved to Ironton,
Lawrence County, OH, where two of his stepsons lived. In April 1933, at age 74, he
began to suffer from gangrene of the foot, and died four months later, on Aug. 22,
1933. He was buried in Wilgus Cemetery.
Circa 1933, son 'Kensel' resided in Texas, and daughter Ada lived in Columbus.
Della and Oscar are mentioned in the book, The Groton Avery Clan, published in Cleveland in 1912 by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catharine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery.
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