Elizabeth Shoemaker
ID # 8863, (1836-1912)
| Birth | Elizabeth Shoemaker was born on 11 November 1836 at Canada. |
| Marriage | She married William Cosens Tilt, son of William Tilt and Jane Cosens. |
| Death | She died on 6 September 1912 at Lincoln Twp., Huron Co., Michigan, at age 75. |
| Burial | She was buried on 8 September 1912 at Bad Axe Cemetery, Huron Co., Michigan. |
| Note | Ezra Eby in volume 2 of his Waterloo Township biographies has it that Elizabeth Shoemaker was the daughter of Daniel Shoemaker and Nancy Miller. Nancy is said to have died May 20th, 1846, apparently in Waterloo County, though this is not directly stated. Eby's volume was written in the mid 1890s and says that Daniel went to Filion, Michigan, with one of his children where he died August 23rd, 1892. Eby then lists the children and he dates Elizabeth Shoemaker's birth to November 11, 1836, which agrees with her death registration, below. (Find-a-Grave locates Nancy's gravestone in Section C of First Mennonite Cemetery in Kitchener. Her name as shown on the gravestone is Schumacher. The researcher who provided the information for Nancy did an excellent job.) What doesn't precisely agree is that Eby has Elizabeth's father as Daniel; her death registration, which is a transcription, has it that her father was David. With handwriting, the two given names, Daniel and David, can look remarkably alike. State of Michigan, Certificate of Death Huron Co., Lincoln Twp. Elizabeth Tilt died September 6th, 1912. Widowed. Born November 11, 1836, in Canada. Age 79 yrs., 9 mos., 25 dys. Parents David Shoemaker, born Pennsylvania; mother Nancy Miller, place of birth unknown. Physician D. D. Munro. Informant Henry S. Tilt, Filion, Michigan. Burial September 8th, 1912, at Bad Axe Cemetery. One more comment. The 1900 U.S. census in Lincoln Township of Huron County, Michigan, shows Elizabeth with her son Henry (both of whom are said to have come to the U.S. in 1888). Elizabeth is shown as having had 7 children of whom 5 are still living. Census information provides us with the names of six children. Daughter Rosina died in 1896. We are left to believe that there was another children for whom we do not have a listing. Wherever the child was buried the location won't be in the United States, but somewhere in Canada. There is probably a stone. It has yet to be found. It may well be that when Elizabeth's husband William died in 1888 he was buried with the child. A guess at best. |
Children of Elizabeth Shoemaker and William Cosens Tilt |
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| Last Edited | 10 Nov 2021 |