Eli CUMPSTON & Margaret Jane DUNGAN

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Eli CUMPSTON
Margaret Jane DUNGAN

Husband: Eli CUMSTON / CUMPSTON / COMPTON
Birth: 1832/3, Aid Twp., Lawrence Co., OH
First Cousin: Enos CUMPSTON, b. 1825/6, OH
Father: Joseph CUMPSTON, b. 1798/9, VA
Mother: Marie / Mary "Polly" CANAAN, b. 1798/9, OH

Marriage: 22 Aug 1855, Massac Co., IL

Wife: Margaret Jane DUNGAN
Birth: 19 May 1835, IN
Death: 25 Oct 1918, Unionville, Massac Co., IL
Other Spouse: m2. 21 Nov 1862, Massac Co., IL, Lorenzo Dow SOPHLET
Father: Benjamin DUNGAN, b. 1802/3, Twin Creek, Harrison Co., KY
Mother: Margaret __?__, b. 1805/6, KY

Children:

1. Mary M. CUMPSTON / CUMSTON, b. 1858/9, Massac Co., IL

Keywords for search engines: genealogy; USA, US, United States, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia

Sources (n.b., Lawrence Co., OH, and Massac Co., IL, are both on the north bank of the Ohio River):

1. Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900 (online at the Illinois State Archives web site):

COMPTON, ELI DUNGAN, MARGARET J 1855-08-22 OMB, p. 16 Massac Co.

2. 1850 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): Eli CUMPSTON (æ 17, b. OH) is living in Aid Twp., Lawrence Co., OH (p. 346B), with his parents, Joseph CUMPSTON (æ 51, b. VA) & Polly (æ 51, b. OH), plus siblings. Margaret J. DUNGAN (æ 15, b. IN) is living in Massac Co., IL (p. 238B), with her parents, Benjamin DUNGAN (æ 47, b. KY) & Margaret (æ 44, b. KY), plus siblings.

3a. 1860 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #8-9 of 15): Pellona P.O., "Township 15 S R 6 East" [= T15S.R6E], Massac Co., IL, Roll, pp. 872-873, PN 76-77, 570/570, enumerated 29 Jun 1860, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Lavina Clark 34 F Seamstress 25 Tennessee

James R? Clark 8 M Illinois

Wm W Clark 7 M Illinois

Mary Beeley 40 F Seamstress Tenneessee

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Eli Cumston 24 M Tenant Ohio

Mary M Cumston 1 F Illinois

I see no obvious genealogical relationship between our subject and Lavinia (BAILEY) CLARK. I suspect Widow CLARK was simply taking in boarders to make ends meet.

3b. 1860 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): Margaret J. CUMPSTON (æ 23, b. IN) is living in T15S.R6E, Massac Co., IL (p. 876), with Eli's first cousin, Enos CUMSTON (æ 34, b. OH), and his family.

4. 1870 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): can't find Eli or Mary. Margaret has remarried and is living with her second husband.

5. Public Member Trees (online at Ancestry.com).

6. WorldConnect / WorldTree (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com).

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