• General Notes

  REFN: 580
  The following is taken from obituary In the Marengo Republican, Marengo,
  IA, dated June 28, 1927:
  "DEATH TAKES IOWA COUNTY WOMAN
  Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Slaymaker, one of the oldest members of the
  Slaymaker-Shedenhelm families, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
  N.T. Wyant, southeast of Marengo early Saturday morning at the age of 81
  years, 1 month and 23 days.  Funeral services were held at the Methodist
  church Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Fred Evans,
  Jr.  A quartet composed of Mrs. Maude Bishop, Mrs. Milton Brown, Richard
  Bryant and A.H. Turner, sang "Rock of Ages,", Nearer My God to Thee" and
  "In the Sweet Bye and Bye," songs which Mrs. Slaymaker had selected
  before her death.  Members of the Rebekah lodge attended the services in
  a body.  Burial was made in the Ladora cemetery.
  On May 2, 1846 in the beautiful Pleasant valley, near Fredericktown,
  Knox county, Ohio, in the home of Samuel and Mary Ann Walter, a girl was
  born, who was named Mary Elizabeth.  Her childhood was spent in that
  community, and a part of her girlhood was lived at Harper's Ferry, Md. 
  On Oct. 1, 1872, she was married to Francis A. Slaymaker, of Seneca
  county, Ohio, living the first 11 years of their married life near Green
  Springs.  During this time two daughters and two sons were born:  Ida L.,
  now Mrs. S.K. Rosenberger of Ladora; Sadie M., now Mrs. N.T. Wyant of
  Marengo; Orson Bernard of Ladora; and Rufus Earl of Murray.
  In the spring of 1883 this Slaymaker family moved to Iowa county,
  arriving in Marengo on April 26.  The greater part of the time since that
  date was lived in Sumner township.  In the year 1913 Mrs. and Mrs.
  Slaymaker retired from the farm and moved to Marengo where the husband
  and father died Oct. 8, 1917.  Since that time "Aunt Mary" as she was
  familiarly known, lived alone until four years ago when failing health
  compelled her to close her home and live with her daughter and
  son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. N.T. Wyant, where she passed away peacefully
  early in the morning of June 25.
  Early in life she became a member of the Baptist church, but after
  coming to Iowa she united with the Methodist church at Sumner Centre and
  later transferred to Marengo, where she enjoyed both the church services
  and the Sunday school, and helped at times with the work of the Ladies'
  Aid society.  She was also a member of the Rebeckah lodge of this place.
  Of the immediate family, her four children, 11 grandchildren and
  eight great-grandchildren remain to mourn the loss of a loved one."

Details of Mary E.'s family with Francis A. Slaymaker