I traced her name from the death certificates of two of her kids and later found her in the census. My grandma, Minnie Casey, would have grown up in the same neighborhood in Litchfield, IL as her grandma Ellen, but I never heard her talk about Ellen. The maiden name on the death certificates were Maiden and Maisden, so it took a while for me to think: Marsden. A distant cousin on the internet connected, writing that his Ellen had married Davis and Pullen. So now we know about Grandma Ellen.
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England is in north central England, and that's where Ellen's family had lived for several generations. She came to America as a young woman, went to St. Louis, married Louis Davis and had a boy and a girl. Louis died early in their marriage, and she married Charles Pullen, also from Derbyshire who had come to America the same year as Ellen. Perhaps they knew each other back there. He was 7 or 8 years younger and had children from a previous marriage.
Some of Ellen's family were Mormon. Many siblings and her mother came to the US, mostly settling in Salt Lake City. Nothing I've seen in records shows that Ellen was a practicing Mormon.
Ellen and Charles lived in Litchfield, IL in the 1880's according to the census. Charles was a coal miner as was her first husband, Louis Davis. I've often wondered if Grandpa Louis was killed in a mining accident, but have found no evidence. Ellen died when she was 77.
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A reader said his ancestor told that Ellen had a beautiful singing voice and sang in the church choir.
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