Harriet Dewitt

On the 1860 census Harriet is shown as Harriet Motlesson, age 25, born England, living with her husband Thomas and her mother-in-law in Austin Village, Mower County, MN. After Thomas was killed in the U.S. Civil War, Harriet married Daniel S. Dewitt on Oct. 31, 1863 at Oakland, Michigan. Daniel (also known as Samuel) was born Nov. 23, 1808, Warren, New Jersey. Harriet had at least one child, a daughter Clara, with Thomas Mollison. In 1870, the family is shown at Independence, KS., Montgonery City, D.S. Dewitt, age 61, farmer b. NJ, with real estate vallued at $1,000. and personal assets valued at $4,000., Harriet, age 34, b. England, Joseph, age 16, (D.S.'s son from first marriage), b. MO, works on farm and Irwin, age 1, b. ? (no mention of Clara) In 1880 Harriet is listed on the U.S. census as age 45, b. England, living at Louisburg, Montgomery, Kansas, (other census transcriptions give address as Village of Elk City, Lewisburg Twp., Montgomery Co., Kansas) along with her second husband Daniel, age 71, in hotel, and their son Irwin W., age 11, born Missouri. The Missouri State Records indicate Harriet died of calarrhal pneumonia on Oct. 19, 1897 in Jackson Co., MO, at the age of 62 years. Her second husband Daniel S. died of haemorrhage May 6, 1893 in Jackson Co., MO at the age of 84 years.

Harriet's son from her second marriage, Irwin born abt 1869, later became an insurance agent first in Kansas City, MO and later in Atchison, Kansas. By 1930, he was back in Kansas City, MO, working as a real estate agent.