Elias H. Wurts
(1821-1890)

 

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1. Mary Burkholder

Elias H. Wurts

  • Born: 17 Apr 1821, Markham, Ontario, Canada
  • Marriage (1): Mary Burkholder on 28 Dec 1840 in Ontario, Canada
  • Died: 12 Jun 1890, Michigan at age 69
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The Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson
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Elias H. Wurts, of Saginaw, Michigan, son of John Wurts by his second wife, Barbara (Brook) Marr, was b. 17 April 1821 (according to the Wurts family bible), and d. in Michigan shortly before 12 June 1890, when his death was reported by the Markham Economist.[156] He m. 28 Dec. 1843 in Ontario, Mary Burkholder,[157] b. 17 Feb. 1827, still alive in 1849, and also in 1865, assuming that she was the mother of all of her husband's children. In 1845 and 1846 he was a witness to land sales by his half-brother, John Marr (Jr.).[158] He farmed most of his father's land, and appears beside him in the 1852 census, in which he is called a yeoman, of no religion.[159] In a directory of 1846 and on a map compiled in 1853-54, he is shown as the owner of his father's original homestead, lot 13 of the tenth concession; but by 1854 the far eastern quarter of the lot was in other hands. The same map shows Elias Wurts on the east half of his father's second homestead on lot 12, the other half having been previously sold to the Reesor family.[160] In March 1853 he took out a lease from the Crown of the east half of lot 28, concession 2, Uxbridge Tp., Ontario Co.[161] In 1856 his name appears in a list of the members of Loyal Orange Lodge no. 548.[162] In 1857 he followed John Marr II to Michigan.[163] The Markham Economist of 4 June 1857 reported that "Elias Worts of Markham had deserted his wife, children, and mother," but as Steve Marshall has pointed out, "his desertion of his family was either shortlived or reported in error," as his obituary states that he "went to Saginaw, Michigan, with his family in August 1863."[164] Evidently he sold his homestead when he left, for by 1878 none of it belonged to any member of the Wurts family.[165] "Elias H. Worts," widower, a dealer in cattle, is found in the household of his daughter, Adeline (Wurts) Straw, in 1880.
Harriette E. (Marr) Wheeler, daughter of Douglas Marr, granddaughter of Jesse Marr, and great-granddaughter of John Marr (Jr.), who was a uterine half-brother of Elias Wurts, has recorded the following mention of the latter:
The compiler's father remembers Elias as a "half uncle" who visited the Marr farm in Howell, Michigan, a number of times. He was a dashing figure and travelled about trading horses, chickens and other live stock. One anecdote has it that he had operated a hotel in Niagara Falls, Ontario, but lost it gambling.


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Elias married Mary Burkholder on 28 Dec 1840 in Ontario, Canada. (Mary Burkholder was born on 17 Feb 1827 and died after 1865.)




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