Monday Is for Mothers: Elizabeth "Betsy" Mrs. Taylor (About 1805 - After June 1, 1850)

This page of the 1850 U.S. Census for Washington Township in Johnson County, Iowa, is literally the only record we've found that names this maternal great great great grandmother and all this tells us is that she was born about 1805 in Ohio.

[Year: 1850; Census Place: Washington, Johnson, Iowa; Roll: M432_185; Page: 130B; Image: 267

Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.]

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Her husband Job died in August of 1850 and there's some evidence that a neighbor Jacob Hull became the children's guardian after that.

Here's how I'm related to her:

[Ancestry.com]

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Monday Is for Mothers: Blanch Mrs Hull (About 1625 - After 1670)

We know very little about this maternal tenth great grandmother except that her given name was Blanch(e). She and her first husband, Tristram Hull, lived in Barnstable on Cape Cod where they had five children* and after his death in 1666 she remarried an older man, which didn''t work out well.

[Genealogical notes of Barnstable families by Amos Otis, 1801-1875; rev. by Charles Francis Swift.

Published 1888, page 28. Source: Internet Archive, Original: Cornell University Library.**]

*Their daughter Mary married Joseph Holley/Holway and their granddaughter Hopestill Holway married Samuel Worden.
**Note that Tristram Hull died in 1666 and Blanch married Capt. Hedge after his death, not in 1655 as this source declares.
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