Cornelia DUNSMORE

Father: Edmund DUNSMORE
Mother: Belinda MALLORY

Family 1: Eliphalet T. PRIEST

(1) Wheeler, John H. comp., History of Wexford County, Michigan. NOTE: There is something odd about the relationship between Eliphalet and Cornelia [DUNSMORE] PRIEST. Eliphalet seems to have spent much of his time wandering and the census records show someone with a similar name -- but without sufficient evidence to tie it to him -- in various places such as a lumberjack in the woods of northern Michigan. They even lived with the same child as they grew older, but not at the same time! This may have been a marriage in name only in an age when divorce was less acceptable.

  1. Lewis E. PRIEST
  2. Frances Melvina PRIEST
  3. Melinda PRIEST
  4. James PRIEST
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 _Edmund DUNSMORE_|
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|--Cornelia DUNSMORE
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|_Belinda MALLORY_|
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Notes

Updated May 3, 2014. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) 1850 United States Census for Michigan, Eaton Co., Eaton Rapids: September 7, 1850.

Cornelia DUNSMOOR is the daughter of Edward and Melinda DUNSMOOR. She is 6 years old and born in New York. She is attending school.

(2) 1860 United States Census for Michigan, Ionia Co., Orange Twp. (Orange Post Office): Page 361; September 22, 1860.

Eliphalet PRIEST is head of household, married to Sarah C. [maiden surname unknown] PRIEST. Is "C" an abbreviation for Cornelia? Is Sarah PRIEST a completely different person? There is conflicting evidence and this bears further research. The only clues for "Sarah C. PRIEST" in this census record are that she is 17 years old and born in New York.

(3) 1870 United States Census for Michigan, Ionia Co., Orange Twp., Ionia Post Office: page 13; June 4, 1870.

Cornelia [DUNSMORE] PRIEST is keeping house in Thomas HARRIS household. She is 27 years old and born in New York. Two of her children, Lewis and Malvina, are listed in the Edward DUNSMORE family just five households away. Belinda PRIEST, her 2-year-old daughter, is in the Hiram ROGERS household on page 23 of the census record.

(4) 1880 United States Census for Michigan, Montcalm Co., Township of Reynolds: Supervisor's District 3; Enumeration District 244; page 17; June 5, 1880.

Cornelia [DUNSMORE] PRIEST is married to Eliphalet T. PRIEST, head of household. She is 37 years old and keeping house. She was born in New York as were her parents. Children in the household are Lewis E., Melvina, Belinda and James PRIEST.

(5) 1900 United States Census for Michigan, Wexford Co., Cedar Creek Twp.: Supervisor's District 9; Enumeration District 120; Sheet 14A; June 21, 1900.

Cornelia [DUNSMORE] PRIEST resides with the family of her son-in-law and daughter, Nelson and Melinda [PRIEST] McBRIAN. She was born in October 1843 and is 56 years old. She has been married for 39 years and has had 4 children, all presently living. She was born in New York with her father from Vermont and her mother from Canada (English).

(6) Michigan, Death Records via Ancestry.com

- Name: Mrs Cornelia PRIEST
- Birthdate: August 12, 1843
- Place of Birth: New York
- Father: Edmund DUNSMORE (Vermont)
- Mother: Belinda MALLORY (Canada)
- Death Date: 15 Feb 1914
- Death Place: Springville, Wexford, Michigan, USA
- Age: 70 years
- Occupation: House Wife
- Information Provider: Linnie McBRIAN

(7) Wheeler, John H. comp., History of Wexford County, Michigan, embracing a concise review of its early settlement, industrial development and present conditions, comp. by John H. Wheeler, to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography and life sketches of well-known citizens of the county. B.F. Bowen & Co.[Logansport, Ind.], 1903. Pages 403-404. Via University of Michigan Digital Library Text Collections.

"... Miss Linnie PRIEST, a native of Orange, Ionia county, Michigan, born August 22, 1867. Her parents were Eliphalet and Cornelia (DUNSMORE) PRIEST, natives of New York, who were among the early pioneers of the state of Michigan. Of the four children born to Mr. and Mrs. PRIEST, Mrs. McBRIAN was the third."