Mary Elizabeth Wenger

1843 - 1930  (86 years)

• Name	Mary Elizabeth Wenger  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	15 Nov 1843	Hermitage, Augusta, Virginia, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Relocated	1848	Washington, Tazewell, Illinois, USA   [3]
  Family Search ID	LZNK-8KZ
  Residence	1850	Tazewell County, Illinois, USA   [2]
  Burial	1930	Washington, Tazewell, Illinois, USA   [1, 4]
  Death	11 Jan 1930  [1, 4]
  Person ID	I20452	Woodworth Ancestry
  Last Modified	30 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Dr Elias Grove Wenger,   b. 16 Apr 1821, Hermitage, Augusta, Virginia, USA d. 28 Aug 1887, Gilman, Iroquois, Illinois, USA (Age 66 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Eliza Jane Smith,   b. 10 Dec 1824, Virginia, USA d. 18 Jan 1879, Illinois, USA (Age 54 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	19 Apr 1842	Virginia, USA   [3]
  Family ID	F11065	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Henry Rupert Danforth,   b. Abt 1842
  Family ID	F11070	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Mar 2026

  
  

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  Birth - 15 Nov 1843 - Hermitage, Augusta, Virginia, USA Relocated - 1848 - Washington, Tazewell, Illinois, USA Residence - 1850 - Tazewell County, Illinois, USA Burial - 1930 - Washington, Tazewell, Illinois, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  [S198] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). Record for Dr Elias Wenger https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60525&h=72604238&indiv=try [S432] Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1850; Census Place: Tazewell, Illinois; Roll: 129; Page: 10a. Record for Mary Wanger https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=8054&h=16617120&indiv=try [S523] Wenger, Jonas G and others, History of the Descendants of Christian Wenger, (Name: Mennonite Publishing Company; Location: Elkhart, Indiana, USA; Date: 1903;), No 075 Pages 049-050 Elias Grove Wenger Book found at FamilySearch.org. historyDescendantsChristianWenger.pdf https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/157780?availability=Family%20History%20Library https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/157780?availability=Family%20History%20Library [S123] Ancestry.com, Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). Record for Mary E. Danforth https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=2542&h=1252906&indiv=try