Elizabeth Wentz
The COMMERCIAL GAZETTE the other day, among its pioneer sketches, printed a portrait and biographical item of Mrs. Elizabeth Wentz, --, of Shelby, wherein it was stated that she was born near Landisburg, Perry county, Pa., February 24, 1803. Mrs. Wentz was united in marriage to Henry Wentz, Sr., November 7, 1822, in Perry county, Pa. The fruits of this union were thirteen children, two of whom died in infancy, and one, Mrs. Lydia A. Bloom, last October, aged fifty-seven years. Ten children -- five sons and five daughters -- remain to cheer her declining years, the youngest of whom has passed her forty-second year and the eldest her sixty-fourth. Her husband preceded her to the other world ten years ago, aged seventy-nine years. Mr. and Mrs. Wentz, with their family, then consisting of five children, moved from Pennsylvania to Shelby, Richland county, O., by wagon, in the spring of 1834, and settled on the farm now owned by the youngest son, with whom Mrs. Wentz made her home, she having lived on the same farm fifty six years. Mrs. Wentz met with a very severe accident from a fall about two years ago, from which she never recovered. Mrs. Wentz comes from a family of long-lived people. One brother reached the age of eighty-two years, one sister seventy-eight, and another eighty-eight. An uncle, now living, has reached the age of ninety-one years.
From The Mansfield Herald, March 13, 1890