Martin Dunn Updegraff

M, (16 May 1806 - 28 March 1880)
     Martin Dunn Updegraff was born on 16 May 1806 at Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.1 He was the son of Martin Updegraff and Mary Dunn. Martin Dunn Updegraff married, at age 23, Eliza Ann Conwell, age 20, daughter of James Conwell and Mary Hughes, on Tuesday, 16 March 1830.1 Martin Dunn Updegraff died on 28 March 1880 at Indiana at age 73 years, 10 months and 12 days.1
     He and his father came to Fayette County, Indiana about 1830, from Williamsport, Pennsylvania. They lived on a farm about 3 miles south of Connersville, Indiana, after Martin's death, his wife Eliza went to Kansas City, Missouri to live with her daughters. This family is listed in the 1840 and 1850 census for Connersville Township, Fayette County, Indiana.

Reference: Clyde Shank's History/Index, Vol. #2, Mrs. Homer Terry, and Frank
A. Updegraff of Topeka, Kansas.

Children of Martin Dunn Updegraff and Eliza Ann Conwell

Last Edited=6 Jul 2004

Citations

  1. [S15] June (Shaull) Lutz, History of the Op Den Graef / Updegraff Family (Grand Rapids, Michigan; 1433 Elderwood Ct. N.W.: J. S. Lutz, 1988), p. U-23.