Alderton, Mary Francis Feasel, 1851-1932.

Mary Francis Feasel, born May 22, 1851, grew up near Kansas, Ohio--a small rural community in Seneca County. Mary Francis lived a seemingly uneventful childhood and adolescence among what could be characterized as an extended family of grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters (eight), and uncles, aunts, and cousins, all of whom were relatively prosperous farmers. Mary Francis married farm laborer and occasional preacher Archibald E. Alderton, on March 15, 1877. In 1895, they moved to Saginaw, Michigan, where Archie's relatives resided. Archie died on April 23, 1911, from complications after having his leg amputated, a result of being hit by a runaway horse. Mary Francis became the ward of Archie's brother G. A. Alderton, until she moved back to Kansas in June 1912. At this time she became the ward of her brother-in-law, Louis Glick, and was declared an imbecile by the Seneca County Probate Judge. Her land, inherited from her father, was sold and she was moved to a home in Tiffin, Ohio. In 1920 she became a ward of the county and was moved to the Seneca County Home where she died on April 9, 1932.