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Hester A. Minerd |
Hester A. Minerd born
in about 1854 in Fayette County, PA, the daughter of Andrew
and Sarah (Devan) Minerd. Little about her life is known.
The censuses of 1860 and 1870 show her living with her parents in Dunbar, Fayette County.
In 1880, when she was 26 and unmarried, she resided in the home of her married brother David E. Minerd. Her name is on the census record of that year in Dunbar Twp. No. 1.
Circa 1905, Hester resided with her aged, widowed father, and relied upon his monthly Civil War pension check for support. Official documents state that she was "unmarried and an invalid."
Her photographic image seen on this page was found in the collection of a relative in Washington State, the granddaughter of Hester's sister Mary Belle (Minerd) Beggs Walls.
Nothing about her is known.
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