This is the final Fearless Female Blogging Prompts that I have been using to commemorate Women's History Month in 2017. The original post with all the prompts can be found on The Accidental Genealogist's blog post HERE. And the final prompt is:
March 31 — Pick one female ancestor and write a mini-profile (500 words or less).
My great great grandmother's cousin, on my father's side, was Eliza Jane Zimmerman. She was born in 1847 in a log cabin in Stark County Ohio and was the daughter of George Beck and Christina Bair. At the end of the Civil War, the family moved to Miami County Indiana and in June of 1878 Eliza Jane married Jacob Zimmerman in Richvalley, Indiana. She gave birth to four children and two of them out lived her. Her marriage only lasted eleven years because Jacob died in 1889. Eliza Jane lived to age 94. At her 90th birthday she was able to recall seeing President Lincoln's funeral train car passing through Indiana. She also was visiting family in Canton Ohio when funeral services took place for President William McKinley. She was a member or the United Brethren Church and the minister that officiated at Eliza Jane's funeral also officiated at my parent's wedding. The minister was also my mother's grandmother's uncle. Eliza Jane's father had a sister named Sarah. Sarah married William Stair and had a daughter named Mahala who married Oscar Rohrer and was my father's grandmother.
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