Eli Tift (b. 1837)

TIFT, GILDER, ROBINSON, CARUNIK

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 7/4/2002 at 13:26:51

Tift, Eli, farmer, Section 27 (Fremont township); PO Mill; born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, April 2, 1837; came to Iowa, settling in Buchanan Co., in 1855, and to this county in 1876. Married twice; first wife, Betsy D. Gilder, whom he married on the 27th of August, 1861, was born in Ashtabula Co., Ohio, November 4, 1840, and died in this State, October 14, 1876; by first marriage there were six children -- Ella E, deceased; John F., deceased; Harry Allen; Laura, Louis, and Charles, deceased; second wife. Helen -- the widow of Edmond Robinson; he married April 8, 1877; her maiden name was Carunik; she was born in Milford, Otsego Co., NY, April 3, 1833; she married her first husband, the late Mr. R., on January 4, 1852, in Oneida Co., NY, where he was born, March 30, 1827; he arriving to this State in 1854, settling in Jackson Co., he lived there seven years, when he moved to this county where he departed this life, June 20, 1876; he was the father of six children --- Julia, William M., Milo J., Charles H., John B., deceased; and Minnie D.

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