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Eliza
(Miner) Guessman |
Ella
(Miner) Guessman (also spelled Gessaman) was born in 1857 near Champion,
Trumbull County, OH, one of 13 children of Joseph
and Elizabeth (Forney) Miner.
A newspaper once remarked that she was "a lifelong resident of Champion township," Trumbull County, OH.
On Oct. 7, 1897, at the age of 41, Ella married Henry B. Guessman (1857-1931). Henry was age 42, and a resident of nearby Warren, Trumbull County. He was the son of Jonathan and Katherine (Brant) Guessman and a native of Lebanon County, PA. The ceremony was performed by Henry A. Hensel, a minister of the gospel.
They had no known children.
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Corner of Warren's Park Avenue and Market Street, early 1900s |
The Guessmans
were farmers, and resided near Champion. Henry
was a member of the English Lutheran Church in Youngstown, OH, and Ella belonged
to the Delightful Evangelical Church for a half-century, according to the Warren
(OH) Tribune Chronicle.
When the federal census was taken in 1900, Ella's 46-year-old bachelor brother Cornelius was residing in their home, and helped on the farm.
Henry passed away on March 13, 1931, at the age of 74. His pallbearers, said the Tribune Chronicle, were "Grant Ohl, Ralph Ohl, Henry Guessman, Evan Edwards, Grant Guessman and Meade Porter."
Ella outlived
him by just three years. She became ill just after the New Year’s holiday of
1933-1934. Five weeks later, at the
age of 77, she
passed away, on Feb. 7, 1934. Her grave marker is seen here.
Ella and Henry are buried near her parents in the German & Reformed Lutheran Cemetery near Southington, Trumbull County.
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