Doctor Grandma

Another one traced back to Germany. To my kids:

Fremont and Romelia Black are Chet’s grandparents, parents of Earl Black. They marry on May 4, 1879.
Romelia had a twin sister, Rosalia. Romelia and Rosalia, the twins, were born Feb. 4, 1861 in Clark County, Illinois.
 
Romelia and Rosalia’s parents were: Pheneas (or Phineas) and Mary Ann Orndorf (sometimes spelled with 2 Fs).
 
Phineas is first married to Catherine Jennings (mar. date 1836). Catherine dies in 1854, perhaps in giving birth to George (below).
 
Phineas and Mary Ann Richardson get married, on June 22, 1856, he is either 44 or 50 years old, Mary Ann is 22.
 
In 1860, they are listed in the census in Illinois, with all these children.
John age 16, born in OHIO
William, 13
Margaret Ann, 10
Sarah C, 7
George, age 6      — From JOHN to GEORGE they are born in OHIO, probably children of Catherine Jennings.
 
James P., age 5, b. in ILLINOIS 
(Perhaps Phineas marries Mary Ann after this birth above.)……
Henry, age 3
Ida Virginia, 2
The twin girls Romelia and Rosalia are born the following year in 1861. Perhaps Pheneas and Mary got together and came to Illinois, having James, Henry, Ida and the twins………..
 
By 1870, Pheneas is gone, and Mary’s name in the census with children James (now age 15), Henry, Ida, Romelia and Rosalia, is MARY MULLEN.
 
There is a marriage record for Mary Ann Orndorff and Commodore Perry Mullen in 1866, but even PERRY is not in the household by the 1870 census. (Mary Mullen is head of the household.) 
 
Phineas is listed as born in Virginia. his father, LEVI ORNDORF was born in Virginia in 1791. He lived his entire life in   , Virginia. LEVI’s FATHER WAS:
Johannes Peter “John” Ohrndorff Orndorff (different spellings)
He immigrated from Burbach, Nordhein, Westfalen GERMANY arriving in Philadelphia at the age of 9, in 1753! 
 
Time line for the twin girls:
Born Feb. 04, 1861.
 
Romelia marries Fremont Black in 1879,
Rosalia marries William hoesman in 1880.
 
Romelia dies in the home of Earl Black in Dc. 1937.
Her twin sister Rosalia dies in Oct. 1938.
 
Romelia and Fremont are YOUR great-great grandparents. They are buried in West Lebanon, Indiana.

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