Margaret Emaline Rebecca Fennell

Margaret Emaline Rebecca Fennell

• Father: Isham Harrison Fennell b. 9 December 1806, d. 23 July 1880
• Mother: Margaret Bedford Fennell b. say 1808, d. 31 May 1846

• Margaret Emaline Rebecca Fennell was born in 1845 in Alabama.
• She was known as Emma.
• Isham Harrison Fennell and Sarah Delia Key appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Marshall County, Alabama, and also laborer John Taylor.. Other members of the household included Margaret Emaline Rebecca Fennell, Dr. Francis Marion Fennell, Isham Harrison Fennell Jr., William P. Fennell and Martin Key.
• Isham Harrison Fennell and Sarah Delia Key appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Seguin, Guadalupe County, Texas, and although the 16-year-old is identified as Francis M. Harrison, it appears that this was actually Isham Jr., born ten years after Francis in about 1843.. Other members of the household included Margaret Emaline Rebecca Fennell, Isham Harrison Fennell Jr., William P. Fennell, Elizabeth N. Fennell, Pleasant G. Fennell, Andrew J. Fennell, Hubbard Fennell, Thomas Fennell and Mary J. Fennell.
• She married John Keener Boring, son of Jesse Boring and Harriet Eveline Howard, on 19 March 1868 in Guadalupe County, Texas.
• John Keener Boring and Margaret Emaline Rebecca Fennell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Seguin, Guadalupe County, Texas. Other members of the household included James Boring.
• John Keener Boring and Margaret Emaline Rebecca Fennell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Guadalupe County, Texas. Other members of the household included Isham Jesse Boring, George Fennell Boring, Isaac Walter Boring, Margaret E. Boring and James Marion Boring.
• Margaret Emaline Rebecca Fennell became a widow at the 1897 death of her husband John Keener Boring.
• Margaret Emaline Rebecca Fennell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Guadalupe County, Texas, It is worthy of note that the birth information for everyone in the household seems to be quite inaccurate.. Other members of the household included John Francis Boring, Clement Howard Boring, David Thomas Boring and Margaret E. Boring.
• She was a farmer, according to the 1900 census.
• Margaret Emaline Rebecca Fennell died on 8 November 1900 in Guadalupe County, Texas.
• She was interred at Geronimo Cemetery, Seguin, Guadalupe County, Texas.
• The following appeared on 16 November 1900 in the Seguin Enterprise: We regret to chronicle the death of another aged lady in in the person of Mrs. H. Boring, a sister of Dr. Jas. Fennell. She died on the 8th inst. at her home in the eastern part of the county and was buried in the Geronimo Cemetery on the 9th inst. May she rest in peace.
• John Francis Boring registered for the draft on 10 September 1918 in Guadalupe County, Texas, while living with his wife in Seguin, and self-employed there as a farmer.

• Last Edited: 6 Aug 2015