ISAAC FRAVEL, SON OF GEORGE FRAVEL SR. & ELIZABETH BUSHONG CHILDREN OF ISAAC FRAVEL & CATHERINE REESE ----------------------- Part 5 of 6 6. MARY ANN FRAVEL Born: 30 December 1829, Harrison County, Indiana Died: 29 November 1850, Jefferson County, Kentucky Married: 16 April 1848, Harrison County, Indiana to Hiram Kessinger HIRAM KESSINGER Born: 23 February 1823, Washington County, Maryland, s/o Jacob Kessinger and Margaret Beard Died: After 1900, Pulaski County, Indiana Married Four Times M/1: 10 December 1844, Harrison County, Indiana to Martha Harriet Glasgow, died 15 December 1847 2 children: John L. Kessinger, Born 31 October 1845 Mary Kessinger, Born 1846 M/2: 16 April 1848, Harrison County, Indiana to Mary Ann Fravel, died 29 November 1850 1 child: Laura L. Kessinger, Born 23 February 1850, Died before 1860 M/3: 19 January 1851, Floyd County, Indiana to Mrs. Clarissa (Newman) Bailey, died 8 June 1858 2 children: Cornelia B. Kessinger, Born 13 December 1853 Hiram Newman Kessinger, Born 28 September 1855 M/4: 17 July 1860, Harrison County, Indiana to Rowena Eads Gaither 4 children: Thomas Gilmore Kessinger, Born 21 June 1860 Cornelia Armilda Kessinger, Born 11 February 1867 Walter Scott Kessinger, Born 3 September 1868 Margaret Virginia Kessinger, Born 8 March 1872, Died 26 March 1873 -------- 1850 Federal Census: Kentucky Louisville, Ward 8, Jefferson County Enumerated 30 September 1850 Page 446B Lines 3-7, HH 958/1088 Hiram Kissinger 27/Male/Grocer/$800/Maryland Mary Kissinger 21/Female/IN {Mary Ann Fravel} John Kissinger 5/Male/IN Mary Kissinger 6/Female/IN George Kissinger 16/Male/Clerk/IN -------- His wife Mary Ann Fravel died 29 November 1850. I could not find a place of burial. By 1860 Hiram Kessinger was back in Indiana and remarried to Rowena Eads Gaither. ---------- 1860 Federal Census: Indiana Posey Township, PO Elizabeth, Harrison County Enumerated 11 June 1860 Page 18 Lines 16-18, HH 117/117 Hiram Kessinger 38/Male/Merchant/$8000-$7100/MarriedWithinYear/Maryland Rowena Kessinger 34/Female/HouseKeeper/IN John L. Kessinger 14/Male/AttendedSchool/IN ----------- 1870 Federal Census: Indiana Posey Township, PO Elizabeth, Harrison County Enumerated 16 June 1870 Page 177A Lines 12-17, HH 179/172 Hiram Kessinger 47/Male/White/HouseCarpenter/$3000-$1000/Maryland Rowena Kessinger 43/Female/White/KeepingHouse/IN John L. Kessinger 22/Male/White/FarmLaborer/IN Thomas G. Kessinger 10/Male/White/AttendedSchool/IN Carolina A. Kessinger 2/Female/White/IN Walter S. Kessinger 1/Male/White/IN --------- 1880 Federal Census: Indiana White Post Township, ED 149, Pulaski County Enumerated 14 June 1880 Page 258B Lines 16-20, HH 14/14 Hiram Kessinger White/Male/56/Farrier/Maryland/Maryland/Maryland Rowena Kessinger White/Female/52/Wife/KeepingHouse/IN/IN/KY Thomas Kessinger White/Male/19/Son/Single/WorksOnFarm/AttendedSchool/IN/MD/IN Carolina Kessinger White/Female/13/Dau/AtHome/AttendedSchool/IN/MD/IN Walter S. Kessinger White/Male/12/Son/WorksOnFarm/AttendedSchool/IN/MD/IN ------------ 1900 Federal Census: Indiana White Post Township, ED 94, Pulaski County Enumerated 12 June 1900 Page 85B, Sheet 9 Lines 58-62, HH 193/193 Hiram Kessinger Head/W/M/Feb1823/77/Md41yrs/FarmerOwnsFarmFree/MD/Unknown/Unknown Rowena Kessinger Wife/W/F/Jan1833/67/IN/Unknown/Unknown Thomas Kessinger Son/W/M/June1860/39/Single/Farmer/IN/MD/IN Walter Kessinger Son/W/M/Sept1869/30/Md1yr/Farmer/IN/MD/IN Anna Kessinger DauInLaw/W/F/June1875/24/OH/Ireland/Ireland ------------ Sources: Biographical sketch from copied from BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF TIPPECANOE, WHITE, JASPER, NEWTON, BENTON, PULASKI COUNTY, VOLUME 2, Pages 899-902, Published 2009 Biographical sketch was copied from the book "HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY COUN TIES OF WHITE AND PULASKI, INDIANA. Historical and Biographical. Illustrated. Chicago; F.A. Battey & Co., Publishers. 1883. page 729, White Post Township, Pulaski County, Indiana. "HIRAM KESSINGER was born in Washington County, Maryland, February 2, 1823, and is one of the nine children of JACOB and MARGARET (BEARD) KESSINGER, named as follows: JACOB, THEODORE, BENJAMIN, HIRAM, LUTHER, MARY (deceased), MARGARET, LUCINDA and GEORGE. The father was born in Maryland, took part in the war of 1812, and was engaged in a variety of occupations during life, such as tanner, merchant, manufacturer of earthenware, tinner and farmer. He was well educated, and was quite a linguist; he died in Harrison County, Indiana, in 1838. HIRAM KESSINGER came to Harrison County with his father in 1837, and he there was engaged in farming and merchandising. In January, 1870, he came to this township. He was married July 17, 1859, to ROWENA GAITHER, and has had born to him four children - THOMAS, CAROLINE, WALTER, and MARGARET, the last named deceased. In February, 1862, he enlisted in the Fifty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Two months later, he became Ward Master in the hospital, and then Steward, holding the last-named position until mustered out in July, 1865. He was present at the sieges of Corinth, Vicksburg and Jackson; at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, at the siege of Atlanta, at Jonesboro, with Sherman on his renowned march, at Savannah, Columbia, Raleigh, and other points. He owns a fine farm of 100 acres, two and a half miles south of Medarysville, raises a variety of crops, and has a neat residence and commodious outbuildings." ----------------------------------------- TO BE CONTINUED: Researched and Submitted by Gloria Bushong