Daughter of Porter and Alice (Brainard) Brush.
She married to Nathan DeMass, Jr in 1866.
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NATHAN DEMASS was born August 4, 1840, in Akron, Ohio. He is one of eight children born to Nathan and Elizabeth (Nye) Demass, both natives of New York. The elder Demass was in the battle of Sackett's Harbor, in the war of 1812. In 1853, the family moved to Chicago and Nathan began his trade of carpenter, working at it until 1857, when they came to (Old Porter), now Porter, Porter County, and bought 80 acres of land; Nathan stayed on the farm until 1862, when he enlisted in the Seventy-third Indiana; he was with his regiment during all its experience, through to Lexington, Nashville, Alabama, on the Col. Straight raid, captured, exchanged, kept at Belle Isle, City Point, guarding prisoners at Indianapolis, building forts at Nashville, about a year on a Government cotton farm in Alabama, being mustered out 1865.
He now returned to Chesterton, engaged in his trade, and was married in January 24, 1866, to Marcia Brush, a native of Vermillion, Ohio, and daughter of a ship-builder. He began carpentering, increasing his business constantly, hiring two men, then three or four, and so on until he has under his supervision from seventeen to twenty men constantly, also five horses for teaming; he contracts for anything in the carpenter line, such as bridge building, schoolhouses, churches, house-moving, etc. His residence is one of the best in Chesterton, and finely situated. He is a member of the Odd Fellows' fraternity. Mr. Demass has always been a stanch Republican.
He has five children - Charles, Elmer, Gracie, Ray and Bessie.
Source: Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana, 1882
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Nathan and Marcia were parents of -
Charles Wheeler DeMass 1868-1922
Perry "Elmer" Demass 1870-1932 South Bend
Elsie 1872-1873
Ella 1874-1874
Grace 1876-1953 m Anton Haglund 1872-1949
Ray 1878 - 1965
Bessie Mae 1880-1968 m Ray Tucker 1879-1960
Vernon 1883-1855 Michigan City
Perl 1885-1954
She married to Nathan DeMass, Jr in 1866.
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NATHAN DEMASS was born August 4, 1840, in Akron, Ohio. He is one of eight children born to Nathan and Elizabeth (Nye) Demass, both natives of New York. The elder Demass was in the battle of Sackett's Harbor, in the war of 1812. In 1853, the family moved to Chicago and Nathan began his trade of carpenter, working at it until 1857, when they came to (Old Porter), now Porter, Porter County, and bought 80 acres of land; Nathan stayed on the farm until 1862, when he enlisted in the Seventy-third Indiana; he was with his regiment during all its experience, through to Lexington, Nashville, Alabama, on the Col. Straight raid, captured, exchanged, kept at Belle Isle, City Point, guarding prisoners at Indianapolis, building forts at Nashville, about a year on a Government cotton farm in Alabama, being mustered out 1865.
He now returned to Chesterton, engaged in his trade, and was married in January 24, 1866, to Marcia Brush, a native of Vermillion, Ohio, and daughter of a ship-builder. He began carpentering, increasing his business constantly, hiring two men, then three or four, and so on until he has under his supervision from seventeen to twenty men constantly, also five horses for teaming; he contracts for anything in the carpenter line, such as bridge building, schoolhouses, churches, house-moving, etc. His residence is one of the best in Chesterton, and finely situated. He is a member of the Odd Fellows' fraternity. Mr. Demass has always been a stanch Republican.
He has five children - Charles, Elmer, Gracie, Ray and Bessie.
Source: Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana, 1882
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Nathan and Marcia were parents of -
Charles Wheeler DeMass 1868-1922
Perry "Elmer" Demass 1870-1932 South Bend
Elsie 1872-1873
Ella 1874-1874
Grace 1876-1953 m Anton Haglund 1872-1949
Ray 1878 - 1965
Bessie Mae 1880-1968 m Ray Tucker 1879-1960
Vernon 1883-1855 Michigan City
Perl 1885-1954
Daughter of Porter and Alice (Brainard) Brush.
She married to Nathan DeMass, Jr in 1866.
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NATHAN DEMASS was born August 4, 1840, in Akron, Ohio. He is one of eight children born to Nathan and Elizabeth (Nye) Demass, both natives of New York. The elder Demass was in the battle of Sackett's Harbor, in the war of 1812. In 1853, the family moved to Chicago and Nathan began his trade of carpenter, working at it until 1857, when they came to (Old Porter), now Porter, Porter County, and bought 80 acres of land; Nathan stayed on the farm until 1862, when he enlisted in the Seventy-third Indiana; he was with his regiment during all its experience, through to Lexington, Nashville, Alabama, on the Col. Straight raid, captured, exchanged, kept at Belle Isle, City Point, guarding prisoners at Indianapolis, building forts at Nashville, about a year on a Government cotton farm in Alabama, being mustered out 1865.
He now returned to Chesterton, engaged in his trade, and was married in January 24, 1866, to Marcia Brush, a native of Vermillion, Ohio, and daughter of a ship-builder. He began carpentering, increasing his business constantly, hiring two men, then three or four, and so on until he has under his supervision from seventeen to twenty men constantly, also five horses for teaming; he contracts for anything in the carpenter line, such as bridge building, schoolhouses, churches, house-moving, etc. His residence is one of the best in Chesterton, and finely situated. He is a member of the Odd Fellows' fraternity. Mr. Demass has always been a stanch Republican.
He has five children - Charles, Elmer, Gracie, Ray and Bessie.
Source: Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana, 1882
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Nathan and Marcia were parents of -
Charles Wheeler DeMass 1868-1922
Perry "Elmer" Demass 1870-1932 South Bend
Elsie 1872-1873
Ella 1874-1874
Grace 1876-1953 m Anton Haglund 1872-1949
Ray 1878 - 1965
Bessie Mae 1880-1968 m Ray Tucker 1879-1960
Vernon 1883-1855 Michigan City
Perl 1885-1954
She married to Nathan DeMass, Jr in 1866.
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NATHAN DEMASS was born August 4, 1840, in Akron, Ohio. He is one of eight children born to Nathan and Elizabeth (Nye) Demass, both natives of New York. The elder Demass was in the battle of Sackett's Harbor, in the war of 1812. In 1853, the family moved to Chicago and Nathan began his trade of carpenter, working at it until 1857, when they came to (Old Porter), now Porter, Porter County, and bought 80 acres of land; Nathan stayed on the farm until 1862, when he enlisted in the Seventy-third Indiana; he was with his regiment during all its experience, through to Lexington, Nashville, Alabama, on the Col. Straight raid, captured, exchanged, kept at Belle Isle, City Point, guarding prisoners at Indianapolis, building forts at Nashville, about a year on a Government cotton farm in Alabama, being mustered out 1865.
He now returned to Chesterton, engaged in his trade, and was married in January 24, 1866, to Marcia Brush, a native of Vermillion, Ohio, and daughter of a ship-builder. He began carpentering, increasing his business constantly, hiring two men, then three or four, and so on until he has under his supervision from seventeen to twenty men constantly, also five horses for teaming; he contracts for anything in the carpenter line, such as bridge building, schoolhouses, churches, house-moving, etc. His residence is one of the best in Chesterton, and finely situated. He is a member of the Odd Fellows' fraternity. Mr. Demass has always been a stanch Republican.
He has five children - Charles, Elmer, Gracie, Ray and Bessie.
Source: Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana, 1882
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Nathan and Marcia were parents of -
Charles Wheeler DeMass 1868-1922
Perry "Elmer" Demass 1870-1932 South Bend
Elsie 1872-1873
Ella 1874-1874
Grace 1876-1953 m Anton Haglund 1872-1949
Ray 1878 - 1965
Bessie Mae 1880-1968 m Ray Tucker 1879-1960
Vernon 1883-1855 Michigan City
Perl 1885-1954
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