HULDAH DORRELL, farming; P. 0. Easton; widow of Francis Dorrell, deceased; he was born in McKeysport, Penn., Feb. I, 1808. and moved to Hamilton Co., Ohio, with his parents, in 1822, and married Huldah Denman Feb. 23, 1832; she was born in Hamilton Co., Ohio, Sept. 30, 1806; her father, Nathaniel Deninan, was born in New Jersey Aug. 29, 1780, and married Susanna Crow in June, 1802; she was born in Pennsylvania in 1782, and died Feb. 11, 1811; he died March 16, 1836, in Hamilton Co., Ohio., Mr. Dorrell was subject to heart disease and consumption, but was called to the sick bed of his son, who was in the U. S. Army Hospital, at Bolivar, Tenn.; he arrived there only in time to close his eyes in death; attended his funeral, and on his return, himself worn by excitement and overcome by grief, succumbed to the inevitable, in Havana, even before he reached his home; they have had eight children:  Susanna C., born Nov. 20,1832; Sarah H., Aug. 18, 1835; Mary A., Aug. 26, 1837; John M., Sept, 22, 1839—enlisted in the Federal army, in 1861, and died of camp disease, at Bolivar, Tenu., Dec. 6, 1862; Charles C., born Oct. 30, 1841; David D., Sept. 27, 1844; Rebecca, April 11,1847, died April 5, following; Lauretta, born March 24, 1848, died July 5, following. Susanna C. married William C. Thompson io December, 1860; he was born in England Aug. 10, 1821, died July 29, 1873, in Wyoming Territory; they had four children:  Francis D., born Oct. 13, 1861; Caroline, Jan. 16, 1865, died Aug. 4, following; Andrew, born Aug. 23, 1867, died at the age of 3 weeks and 3 days; and Richard, born Aug. 15,1872. Mrs. Dorrell owns 160 acres of excellent prairie land, of which she has been sole and successful manager since her husband's decease; now at the age of 73, in the possession of good health and remarkable vigor and wonderful memory of every event in her eventful life.



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