Susannah Whitmire
- Born: 1803, Pennsylvania, USA
- Marriage (1): Jacob Moser Jr on 11 Jul 1826 in Fairfield, Oho
- Died: Etter 1870, Indiana, USA at age 67
Other names for Susannah were Richel and Whitameyer.
General Notes:
1850 she is a widow in Vermillion, Ashland, Ohio, seven children living at home.
1860 she is in Washington, Adams, Indiana with three children, Abner, Catharine and William H.
In the 1870 census she is living with her daughter Catherine and husband Thomas C/Kearney (Irish) in Peru Ward 4, Miami, Indiana.
When her husband died, Susannah moved her family with an ox team to the farm south of Decatur. They cleared most of the land. There were many hardships. Game was plentiful and there were wolves, bears and wild hogs. One time a bear killed two of their fat hogs and boys pursued the bear all night. They finally killed it at what is now the White Bridge, two miles east of Bluffton, Indiana.
Susannah changed the name from Moser to Mosure to aviod mix-ups with the many Mosers around Decatur, Indiana.
Jonathan Mosure 15.8.1836 died may 4, 1912 born in Ashland, Ohio, d. in Indiana.
Susannah married Jacob Moser Jr, son of Jacob Moser and Unknown, on 11 Jul 1826 in Fairfield, Oho. (Jacob Moser Jr was born circa 1800 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA and died in Aug 1850 in Lorian, Ohio, USA.)
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