Hannah Murray

The photograph shown above was found on Ancestry.com along with another photo (which is shown under the Media Tab above) which depicts Hannah and her horse and carriage. Supposedly she was famous in her family for her driving abilities. And I guess if she spent the money to document them in a large scale photograph the stories must be true.

In 1850, Hannah was 12 years old and living with her parents and siblings in Mill, Grant County, Indiana. Listed in the census record were her parents, Nathan, 37, and Guly, 36, and siblings: Mary, 18, Anna, 16, Eli, 9, Elizabeth, 6, Sarah, 3, and Lucy, two months old. Her father, Nathan, was working as a farmer with his real estate valued at $1,300, and he was born in North Carolina. Nathan's wife, Guly, and all of their children were born in Indiana.

Hannah married William H. Price on April 13, 1856, in Grant County, Indiana. In the 1860 census for Franklin, Grant, Indiana, Hannah, 22, William, 28, and their children were listed as Arena, 3, and Sarah, 1. Also in the home was William's mother, Barbara, 65. William was working as a farmer and his real estate was valued at $2,000 and his personal estate at $600. William was born in Maryland. Sadly, William passed away six years later on April 10, 1866 in Marion, Grant, Indiana. He was buried in the Estates of Serenity Cemetery in Marion, Grant, Indiana, Plot: BB L11 G5. At the time of William's death, his youngest son, Henry Solomon, was less than one month old, having been born March 17, 1866.

After William passed away, Hannah married Henry Murray, and in 1870 they were living in Franklin, Grant, Indiana, near the Roseburg post office. They were listed in the census record as: Henry, 41, Hannah, 32, Arena, 14, Sarah, 11, Oliver, 8, "Solomon", 5, (not Henry Solomon), and Hannah's husband, Henry, was a farmer with real estate valued at $3,000 and personal estate at $600. Henry was born in Ohio. By 1877, Hannah's daughter, Arena, had married Robert Lindsey Smith.

In 1880 Hannah and Henry were living with her three youngest children, Sarah, 21, Oliver, 17, and Solomon, 14, in Franklin, and Henry was farming, Sarah was teaching school, and Oliver and Solomon were working on the family farm. Hannah's mother, Guly Coggeshall, born June 4, 1814, passed away at the age of 66 on October 29, 1880, and was buried in the Mississinewa Friends Cemetery in Grant County, Indiana, Plot: L "A2" G4.

Sadly, just two years later, Hannah's son Oliver B. Price, born June 15, 1862, passed away at the young age of 19 on February 13, 1882. He was buried in the Estates of Serenity Cemetery in Marion, Grant County, Indiana, Plot: B8 L11 G10. It must have been a hard time for the family. Hannah's father, Nathan, was born on February 14th, so his birthday that year must have been tough, having lost his wife two years earlier in 1880, and his 19 year old grandson the day before his birthday in 1882.

Previous to her death, Hannah's mother, Guly, had been living in Marion, Grant, Indiana, with her husband Nathan Coggeshall, and in the 1870 census, Nathan was 57, Guly (listed as Julia in the census), 56, and their daughter Sarah, 23, and son William, 18. Nathan was farming, and his real estate was valued at $16,000 and his personal estate at $7,000. Guly was keeping house and both of their two children were school teachers. Considering Nathan's property was valued at $23,000 I'm sure he was considered quite prosperous in the year 1870, because that was quite a lot of money at that time.

Hannah's second husband, Henry Murray, passed away at the age of 64 on February 17, 1893, and was buried in Marion, Grant, Indiana, at the Estates of Serenity Cemetery in Marion, Plot: BB L11 G1.

By 1900, Hannah, a 62-year old widow, was living with her father, Nathan, an 87-year old widower. Hannah had given birth to six children, three of whom were still living. Hannah and Nathan were both listed as landlords for their occupation. They owned their home free from a mortgage. Nathan and his mother were born in North Carolina and his father in Massachusetts. Hannah and her mother, Guly, were born in Indiana.

Hannah's father, Nathan, passed away two years later at the age of 89 on April 8, 1902. He had been born on Valentine's Day in 1813. He was buried in the Mississinewa Friends Cemetery in Grant County, Indiana, Plot: L "A2" G5.

Nathan Coggeshall had served as a Private in the Civil War, and enlisted on August 8, 1862, in company E, Indiana 69th Infantry Regiment, and was promoted to full second lieutenant on February, 1865. He mustered out on July 5, 1865 at Mobile, Alabama, according to a report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana. Per an Indiana Marriage Collection Record, Nathan was married on April 9, 1883, in Howard County, three years after the death of his wife, Guly, when he was 72 years old, but there is no mention of his wife's name. The record lists his father as Tristan Coggeshall and his mother as Elizabeth Cardner.

I don't know where Hannah lived after 1900, but she passed away 18 years later at the age of 80 years old. Maybe she was living with one of her children at the time of her death, which may have been her daughter, Sarah, who married John W. Harvey (1859-1939) on October 5, 1882, in Grant County, Indiana. They had the following children, Hershel (1886-1887), Thurlow Weed Harvey (1888-1968), and Horace Man Harvey, (1892-1961).

Sarah passed away in 1920, just a couple of years after her mother, Hannah, in 1918. I know that Hannah was not living with her daughter, Arena, in 1900, because the census record shows Arena and her husband, Robert Linsey Smith, living with their two daughters, Irma Delight Smith and Lodie Reed Smith at that time.

Hannah's son Henry Solomon Price, born in 1866, passed away March 18, 1909, in Franklin, Grant, Indiana, so Hannah survived another son by 9 years. Besides her son Oliver, who died at the age of 19, Hannah also had a son named Oldway Price, who was born in July of 1864 and died in January of 1865, so she had a lot of heartache in her life!