Article from the Maumee Mirror newspaper(Maumee, OH) 03 Oct 2014: “While the final resting place of the Eleanor Ireland, who passed away in the mid-1800s, remains a mystery, her cemetery marker has been placed at the Maumee Museum. Mary Wittman, whose family owned and operated Lloyd Brothers, a prominent monument company, donated the marker to the museum after learning that her family’s business once operated in Maumee sometime in the 1840s before it moved to Toledo. For many years, Eleanor’s cemetery marker had been at the Lloyd business, but Mary isn’t sure how it got there. After closing the business in 2012, she moved the marker, which was broken in two, to her home. Upon researching Eleanor’s records, Maumee Valley Historical Society executive director Jack Hiles found that she was married to Michael Ireland and had five children when she passed away at age 35 on January 26, 1848. After her death, Michael married Mary Housen, with whom he had six more children. Michael eventually moved to Bowling Green, where he lived with his son, Michael Jr., until he passed away in 1904 at the age of 103. At the time, he was the oldest person living in Wood County. Jack believes that sometime in the 1950s, the stone may have been moved to Lloyd Brothers in downtown Toledo for repair work. He found a picture of city worker Sylvester Dennis with the broken marker. “I talked to Sylvester’s daughter-in-law Barbara Dennis, but she didn’t know anything about it,” Jack said. “It may have been coincidental that he was holding the marker when the picture was taken.” Jack enlisted the help of Lou Boehk to frame the stone marker in order to keep it intact. For now, it will remain at the Maumee Museum, which Mary believes is a better place than at her house. “This is a perfect place for it – I think it’s finally back home,” she said. Becky Visser, a writer and historian, learned about the marker during an interview with Mary that she was conducting for a book she is writing, and she suggested that Mary donate the marker to the museum. “Trying to figure out where Eleanor is and how her marker ended up at the Lloyd monument business is one of the great local history mysteries,” Becky said. “I guess Maumee will be the keeper of the stone and if we ever find out where she is buried, we’ll return it. Until then, we have a good story to tell and we can remember her that way.””